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Gao, Weilun (author), Shao, Dongdong (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), Yang, Zhifeng (author)Deltaic channel networks are important conduits for water and material supplies to the fluvial and coastal communities. However, increasing human interventions in river deltas have altered the topology and geometry of channel networks as well as their long-term evolution. While the morphological evolution of a single channel has received...journal article 2024
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Zhu, R. (author), Van Den Abeele, Maxim (author), Beysens, Jona (author), Yang, J. (author), Wang, Q. (author)Visible light positioning (VLP) based on the received signal strength (RSS) can leverage a dense deployment of LEDs in future lighting infrastructure to provide accurate and energy-efficient indoor positioning. However, its positioning accuracy heavily depends on the density of collected fingerprints, which is labor-intensive. In this work,...journal article 2024
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Zhu, P. (author), Simón Grau, I. (author), Kokalari, I. (author), Kohane, Daniel S. (author), Rwei, A.Y. (author)Ultrasound is a promising technology to address challenges in drug delivery, including limited drug penetration across physiological barriers and ineffective targeting. Here we provide an overview of the significant advances made in recent years in overcoming technical and pharmacological barriers using ultrasound-assisted drug delivery to...review 2024
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Wang, Bin (author), Zio, Enrico (author), Chen, X. (author), Zhu, Hanhua (author), Guo, Yunhua (author), Fan, Shidong (author)In the dredging industry, the automation and accuracy of the Dredging Perception System (DPS) are vital for operational efficiency and environmental safety. Current DPS implementations face challenges with sensor fault tolerance, leading to system unreliability and increased false alarm rates that can disrupt dredging operations. We propose a...journal article 2024
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Li, Meng (author), Shen, Yanzhe (author), Ye, Guixin (author), He, Jialing (author), Zheng, Xin (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Conti, M. (author)Digital forensics is crucial to fight crimes around the world. Decentralized Digital Forensics (DDF) promotes it to another level by channeling the power of blockchain into digital investigations. In this work, we focus on the privacy and security of DDF. Our motivations arise from (1) how to track an anonymous- and-malicious data user who...journal article 2024
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Lv, Leyang (author), Zhang, Xiangyu (author), Šavija, B. (author), Zhang, Mingzhong (author), Han, Kaihang (author), Zhang, Honghzhi (author), Pei, Chun (author), Zhu, Jihua (author), Xing, Feng (author)Self-healing concrete using encapsulated healing agent has shown great potential in enhancing concrete durability. However, the capsules are expensive to make and can lower the mechanical properties of concrete. In this study, a new type of manufactured aggregate that employs waste-derived fly ash cenosphere as a carrier of healing agent (SH...journal article 2024
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Wang, T. (author), Zhu, Haiou (author), Qian, S. (author), Giunti, Guido (author), Goossens, R.H.M. (author), Melles, M. (author)Background Digital health (DH) brings considerable benefits, but it comes with potential risks. Human Factors (HF) play a critical role in providing high-quality and acceptable DH solutions. Consultation with designers is crucial for reflecting on and improving current DH design practices. Objectives We investigated the general DH design...journal article 2024
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Zhao, Pengcheng (author), Guo, W. (author), Gui, Zhipeng (author), Jiang, Jie (author), Zhu, Zhihua (author), Li, Jin Jin (author), Zhao, Ling (author), Zhou, Jian (author), Xi, Zhenhao (author)Upcycling of waste plastics into value-added chemicals and fuels represents a promising orientation toward a more sustainable chemical industry. We present a selective process for hydrocracking waste polyolefins into a spectrum of branched gasoline-range C<sub>5-12</sub> hydrocarbons, utilizing a cerium-promoted Pt/HY as a metal-acid...journal article 2024
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Zhu, Z. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Min, Changjun (author), Adam, A.J.L. (author), Urbach, Paul (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Optical tweezers have proved to be a powerful tool with a wide range of applications. The gradient force plays a vital role in the stable optical trapping of nano-objects. The scalar method is convenient and effective for analyzing the gradient force in traditional optical trapping. However, when the third-order nonlinear effect of the nano...journal article 2024
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Wang, X. (author), Corzo, Gerald (author), Lü, Haishen (author), Zhou, Shiliang (author), Mao, K. (author), Zhu, Yonghua (author), Duarte Prieto, F.S. (author), Liu, Mingwen (author), Su, Jianbin (author)Sub-seasonal drought forecasting is crucial for early warning in estimating agricultural production and optimizing irrigation management, as forecasting skills are relatively weak during this period. Soil moisture exhibits stronger persistence compared to other climate system quantities, which makes it especially influential in shaping land...journal article 2024
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Wang, S. (author), Zhu, Xiaoning (author), Shang, Pan (author), Lin, X. (author), Yang, Liya (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author)The considerable increase in parcel deliveries has negatively impacted the accessibility and livability of cities. One solution strategy is to decouple short-distance from long-distance shipping so that last-mile transport can be performed with low-footprint vehicles. Such solutions are referred to in the literature as multi-echelon...journal article 2024
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Zhu, P. (author), Wang, Zhen (author), Okumura, Manabu (author), Yang, J. (author)Textbook question answering is challenging as it aims to automatically answer various questions on textbook lessons with long text and complex diagrams, requiring reasoning across modalities. In this work, we propose MRHF, a novel framework that incorporates dense passage re-ranking and the mixture-of-experts architecture for TQA. MRHF...conference paper 2024
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Cheibas, Ina (author), Laot, Mathilde (author), Rich, Belinda (author), Fu, J. (author), Zhu, Jia-Ning (author), Popovich, V. (author)This study investigated the feasibility of in-situ manufacturing of a functionally graded metallic-regolith multimaterial. To fabricate the gradient, digital light processing, an additive manufacturing technique, and spark plasma sintering were selected due to their compatibility with metallic-ceramic processing in a space environment. The...book chapter 2024
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Zhu, Qi (author), Guo, Huadong (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Liang, Dong (author), Wu, Zherong (author), de Roda Husman, S. (author), Du, Xiaobing (author)Surface melt plays a vital role in impacting the polar mass balance and global sea level rise. Over the past decades, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery has garnered considerable attention due to its capacity to provide high-precision and long-term information. However, the traditional SAR-based large-scale surface melt detection methods...journal article 2024
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Zhu, R. (author), Yang, M. (author), Wang, Q. (author)Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving paradigm for collaborative deep learning model training across distributed data silos. Despite its importance, FL faces challenges such as high latency and less effective global models. In this paper, we propose ShuffleFL, an innovative framework stemming from the hierarchical FL, which...journal article 2024
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Yu, Fuyang (author), Wang, Zhen (author), Li, Dongyuan (author), Zhu, P. (author), Liang, Xiaohui (author), Wang, Xiaochuan (author), Okumura, Manabu (author)Cross-modal retrieval, as an important emerging foundational information retrieval task, benefits from recent advances in multimodal technologies. However, current cross-modal retrieval methods mainly focus on the interaction between textual information and 2D images, lacking research on 3D data, especially point clouds at scene level,...conference paper 2024
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Wang, T. (author), Qian, S. (author), Zhu, Haiou (author), Goossens, R.H.M. (author), Giunti, Guido (author), Melles, M. (author)Design is expanding its influence on shaping future healthcare. Ideally, designers apply human-centered design and human factors that introduce theory, principles, and methods to design to optimize people’s healthcare experiences in both digital and non-digital environments. To discuss and implement experience design in healthcare, consensus...book chapter 2024
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Zhu, H. (author), Liu, E. (author), You, Fangzhou (author), de Bont, Cees (author), Gruber, Thorsten (author), Dong, Hua (author), Melles, M. (author)Economic studies have shown that living in poverty may produce a subjective feeling of scarcity, which affects people's cognitive functions and decision-making. Understanding this mechanism could inform healthcare designers on designing inclusive health interventions by considering the psychological scarcity and limited cognitive resources of...book chapter 2024
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Zhu, Jia-Ning (author)Shape memory alloys (SMAs), such as nickel-titanium (NiTi) alloys or Nitinol, possess remarkable properties, including superelasticity and shape memory effects, which are attributed to the reversible martensitic transformation. However, traditional manufacturing of NiTi SMAs is challenging due to its high ductility and reactivity, which limits...doctoral thesis 2023
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Zhu, K. (author)This thesis investigates the introduction, adaption, and implementation of the modern concept of heritage conservation in modern China after the opening of its treaty ports. Through an analysis of the different layers of disseminating and receiving knowledge in transnational exchanges, it explicitly points out the divergence between the...doctoral thesis 2023