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Li, Jinmei (author), Zhang, Shuting (author), Guo, Lizheng (author), Chen, L. (author), Yu, Zhisheng (author)The generation and dissemination of antibiotic resistance bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment has become a critical risk to human health. This study is based on a pilot-scale simulated water distribution system to understand the effects of chlorine disinfection treatment (without free chlorine) on ARB and...journal article 2021
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Dai, Hanqing (author), Xu, Wenqian (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Gu, Jing (author), Xie, Fengxian (author), Wei, Wei (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)NaTi2(PO4)3 (NTP), a well-known anode material, could be used as a solid wide-band gap electrolyte. Herein, a novel solid-state sodium-ion battery (SSIB) with the thickness of electrolyte up to the millimeter level is proposed. The results of the difference in charge density investigated by the first-principles calculations imply that using...journal article 2021
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Dai, Hanqing (author), Xu, Wenqian (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Gu, Jing (author), Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Wei, Wei (author)Previously, α-Fe2O3 nanocrystals are recognized as anode materials owing to their high capacity and multiple properties. Now, this work provides high-voltage α-Fe2O3 nanoceramics cathodes fabricated by the solvothermal and calcination processes for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). Then, their structure and electrical conductivity were...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Xinyue (author), Le, Yun (author), Liu, Y. (author), Chen, Xiaoyan (author)In emerging economies, infrastructure projects are in full swing. There is a wealth of replicable experience for exploitation. Simultaneously, more technologies and methodologies require further exploration. This makes fostering ambidextrous innovation strategies (i.e., the tradeoff between exploitative and exploratory innovation strategies) a...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Cheng-lin (author), Chen, Wei-kang (author), Mu, Song (author), Šavija, B. (author), Liu, Qing-feng (author)Reinforced concrete (RC) structures may suffer from serious durability problems during long-term service. To investigate the deterioration of RC structures subjected to the dual attacks of chlorides and sulfates, this study proposes a coupled model for external sulfate attack (ESA) and its effect on chloride binding and diffusion. To account for...journal article 2021
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Liu, Yubo (author), Zhang, Chi (author), Tang, Qiuhong (author), Hosseini-Moghari, Seyed Mohammad (author), Haile, Gebremedhin Gebremeskel (author), Li, Laifang (author), Li, Wenhong (author), Yang, Kun (author), van der Ent, R.J. (author), Chen, Deliang (author)Rainfall is one of the most influential climatic factors on regional development and environment, and changes in rainfall intensity are of specific concern. In the Huaihe River Valley (HRV), heavy rainfall is a primary trigger of floods. However, the difference in the origin of moisture contributed to heavy rainfall and light rainfall is...journal article 2021
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Liu, Z. (author), Han, Xingjian (author), Zhang, Yuchen (author), Chen, Xiangjia (author), Lai, Y. (author), Doubrovski, E.L. (author), Whiting, Emily (author), Wang, C.C. (author)In this paper, we present a new computational pipeline for designing and fabricating 4D garments as knitwear that considers comfort during body movement. This is achieved by careful control of elasticity distribution to reduce uncomfortable pressure and unwanted sliding caused by body motion. We exploit the ability to knit patterns in...journal article 2021
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Chen, Y. (author), He, S. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Wan, Z. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author), Schlangen, E. (author)This paper aims to investigate the influences of high Portland cement substitutions (>60 wt%) by low-grade calcined clay (CC) and limestone (LF) on 3D concrete printability, stiffness evolution and early-age hydration. Results show that, with the same dosage of admixtures (superplasticizer and viscosity modifier), increasing LF and CC...journal article 2021
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Early dengue outbreak detection modeling based on dengue incidences in Singapore during 2012 to 2017Chen, P. (author), Fu, Xiuju (author), Ma, Stefan (author), Xu, Hai Yan (author), Zhang, Wanbing (author), Xiao, Gaoxi (author), Siow Mong Goh, Rick (author), Xu, George (author), Ching Ng, Lee (author)Dengue has been as an endemic with year-round presence in Singapore. In the recent years 2013, 2014, and 2016, there were several severe dengue outbreaks, posing serious threat to the public health. To proactively control and mitigate the disease spread, early warnings of dengue outbreaks, at which there are rapid and large-scale spread of...journal article 2020
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Fan, J. (author), Chen, Wei (author), Yuan, Weiyi (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Light-emitting diode (LED) arrays have attracted increased attention in the area of high power intelligent automotive headlamps because of their superiority in disposing of the power limit of an individual LED package and controllably luminous intensity and illumination pattern. The optical and chromatic performances of an LED array do not...journal article 2020
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Hou, F. (author), Wang, Qidong (author), Chen, Min (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Ferreira, Jan Abraham (author), Wang, Wenbo (author), Ma, R. (author), Su, Meiying (author), Song, Yang (author)In this article, a novel fan-out panel-level printed circuit board (PCB)-embedded package for phase-leg silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) power module is presented. Electro-thermo-mechanical co-design was conducted, and the maximum package parasitic inductance was found to be about 1.24 nH at 100...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Qingzhou (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Chen, Qiuwen (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Diao, Kegong (author), Zhang, Kejia (author), Huang, Yuan (author)Improving the resilience of water distribution systems (WDSs) to handle natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes) is a critical step toward sustainable urban water management. This requires the water utility to be able to respond quickly to such disaster events, and in an organized manner, to prioritize the use of available resources to restore...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Hua (author), Yu, Li (author), Liu, Tao (author), Ni, Hongwei (author), Li, Y. (author), Chen, Z. (author), Yang, Y. (author)Decreasing the preheating temperature is an effective step to control the energy consumption in the hot rolling process. In order to obtain the lowest preheating temperature to prepare enough thickness of oxide scale in the hot rolling process, the oxidation resistance of commercial steel samples with different Al and Si contents were...journal article 2020
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Wu, Juan (author), Bai, Min (author), Zhang, D. (author), Wang, Hang (author), Huang, Guangtan (author), Chen, Yangkang (author)Five-dimensional (5D) seismic data reconstruction becomes more appealing in recent years because it takes advantage of five physical dimensions of the seismic data and can reconstruct data with large gap. The low-rank approximation approach is one of the most effective methods for reconstructing 5D dataset. However, the main disadvantage of...journal article 2020
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Pang, Xiongqi (author), Jia, Chengzao (author), Zhang, Kun (author), Li, Maowen (author), Wang, Y. (author), Peng, Junwen (author), Li, Boyuan (author), Chen, Junqing (author)Fossil fuel resources are invaluable to economic growth and social development. Understanding the formation and distribution of fossil fuel resources is critical for the search and exploration of them. Until now, the vertical distribution depth of fossil fuel resources has not been confirmed due to different understandings of their origins...journal article 2020
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Tu, Huawei (author), Wang, Xiekang (author), Zhang, Wanshun (author), Peng, Hong (author), Ke, Q. (author), Chen, Xiaomin (author)Flash floods in mountainous areas have become more severe and frequent as a result of climate change and are a threat to public safety and social development. This study explores the application of distributed hydrological models in flash floods risk management in a small watershed in Sichuan Province, China, and aims to increase early...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Jiayun (author), Chen, Yang (author), Gong, Qingyuan (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Xiao, Yu (author), Wang, Xin (author), Hui, Pan (author)We identified three temporal patterns shown in commit activities among Chinese and American companies and found that Chinese businesses are more likely to follow long work hours than American ones. We also conducted a survey on the trends of, reasons for, and results of overtime work. Our study could provide references for developers to...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Wei (author), Qiao, Tiezhu (author), Pang, Y. (author), Yang, Yi (author), Chen, Hong (author), Hao, Guirong (author)When sapphire crystal is prepared with Kyropoulos method, the necking-down growth process is a key stage. Sapphire growth defect is a big problem in this stage. However, diagnosing growth defects is subject to the interference of workers subjectivity and accuracy always goes down. To address the problem, a novel defect diagnosis method is...journal article 2020
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Wu, Miao (author), Chen, Ang (author), Zhang, Xingnan (author), McClain, M.E. (author)The rapid economic development of river basins depends on the excessive use of water resources. China experienced a rapid development of hydropower projects in the last two decades and thus faces many ecological and environmental issues, especially in ecologically sensitive areas. Environmental flow is an important management tool that...journal article 2020
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Chen, Y. (author), Jansen, K. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Romero Rodriguez, C. (author), Gan, Y. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author), Schlangen, E. (author)For a single batch material, time intervals and nozzle standoff distances between two subsequent layers are two critical printing parameters that influence the mechanical performance of the printed concrete. This paper presents an experimental and numerical study to investigate the impacts of these printing parameters on the interlayer bond...journal article 2020