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Li, Meng (author), Chen, Yifei (author), Zhu, Liehaung (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Ni, Jianbing (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author)Many regions are in urgent need of facial masks for slowing down the spread of COVID-19. To fight the pandemic, people are contributing masks through donation systems. Most existing systems are built on a centralized architecture which is prone to the single point of failure and lack of transparency. Blockchain-based solutions neglect...journal article 2023
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Ren, Jie (author), Zhang, Lihai (author), Zhu, Yingcan (author), Li, Z. (author), San Nicolas, Rackel (author)This study compares the degradation behavior of the alkali-activated slag/fly ash (AASF) and ordinary Portland cement (OPC) mortars exposed to phosphoric acid with different pH values. The experimental results show that AASF mortars exhibit better resistance than OPC mortars against surface damage, although both systems get white deposits on the...journal article 2022
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Rabiee, Hesamoddin (author), Ge, Lei (author), Zhao, Jing (author), Zhang, Xueqin (author), Li, Mengran (author), Hu, Shihu (author), Smart, Simon (author), Rufford, Thomas E. (author), Zhu, Zhonghua (author)Regulating the rational wettability on gas-diffusion electrodes (GDEs) plays a pivotal role to improve the efficiency of CO<sub>2</sub>RR via fine-tuning the reaction zone and boosting the formation of triple-phase interfaces. Herein, we present a wettability regulation strategy that modulates the triple-phase reaction zone in the catalyst...journal article 2022
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Mi, Jie (author), Zhang, Min (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), Vuik, V. (author), Wen, Jiahong (author), Gao, Hongkai (author), Bouma, Tjeerd J. (author)The risk of coastal storm flooding is deteriorating under global warming, especially for the heavily urbanized deltaic cities, like Shanghai. The Nature-Based Flood Defense (NBFD), as an eco-friendly design alternative for hard infrastructure against coastal flooding, is gaining attention. Nevertheless, the vulnerability of saltmarsh due to...journal article 2022
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Liu, Mingqiang (author), Zhu, Yongsong (author), Wei, Jianjun (author), Le, Yun (author), Zhang, X. (author)External program manager involvement can provide professional and systematic management services to owners. It can help to manage and coordinate different subprojects and ensure the achievement of the overall strategic goals of large projects. The promotion of external program manager involvement is not only efficiency-driven, but the...journal article 2022
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Gao, Hanyan (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Zhu, Yingcan (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Liu, Pan (author)With the trend of miniaturization and the increasing power density, the operating temperature of electronic devices keeps climbing, especially for wide band-gap semiconductors such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride. The high operating temperature up to 250℃ brings challenges to encapsulation materials since traditional encapsulation...conference paper 2022
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Ahvanooey, Milad Taleby (author), Zhu, Mark Xuefang (author), Mazurczyk, Wojciech (author), Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond (author), Conti, M. (author), Zhang, Jing (author)It is increasingly challenging to deal with the volume,variety, velocity, and veracity of misinformation (e.g., dissemination of fake news contents, spurious posts, and fabricated images/videos) from different online platforms. In this article, we present an overview of existing machine learning and information hiding-based misinformation...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Traffic monitoring services collect traffic reports and respond to users' traffic queries. However, the reports and queries may reveal the user's identity and location. Although different anonymization techniques have been applied to protect user privacy, a new security threat arises, namely, n-by-1 jamming attack, in which an anonymous...journal article 2022
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He, Daojing (author), Du, Runmeng (author), Zhu, Shanshan (author), Zhang, Min (author), Liang, K. (author), Chan, Sammy (author)Data island effectively blocks the practical application of machine learning. To meet this challenge, a new framework known as federated learning was created. It allows model training on a large amount of scattered data owned by different data providers. This article presents a parallel solution for computing logistic regression based on...journal article 2022
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Qi, Jiaming (author), Ma, Guangfu (author), Zhu, J. (author), Zhou, Peng (author), Lyu, Yueyong (author), Zhang, Haibo (author), Navarro-Alarcon, David (author)The robotic manipulation of composite rigid-deformable objects (i.e., those with mixed nonhomogeneous stiffness properties) is a challenging problem with clear practical applications that, despite the recent progress in the field, it has not been sufficiently studied in the literature. To deal with this issue, in this article, we propose a...journal article 2022
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Ma, Xinwei (author), Zhang, Shuai (author), Jin, Yuchuan (author), Zhu, Minqing (author), Yuan, Y. (author)Metro-bikeshare integration, an important way of improving the efficiency of public transportation, has grown rapidly during the last decades in many countries. However, most previous analysis of metro-bikeshare transfer trips were based on limited sample size and the number of recognized metro-bikeshare trips were not sufficient. The primary...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Ride-Hailing Service (RHS) has drawn plenty of attention as it provides transportation convenience for riders and financial incentives for drivers. Despite these benefits, riders risk the exposure of sensitive location data during ride requesting to an untrusted Ride-Hailing Service Provider (RHSP). Our motivation arises from repetitive...journal article 2022
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Zhu, Liang (author), Guo, Mingxing (author), Li, G. (author), Zhang, Jishan (author)The intergranular corrosion (IGC) resistance of age-hardening Al–Mg–Si–Cu alloys is closely related to the precipitation behavior adjacent to grain boundaries. In this study, we proposed to regulate the interaction of solute atoms and solute partitioning of Zn-containing Al–Mg–xSi–Cu alloys by introducing dislocations, which can...journal article 2022
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Chen, Jiaqi (author), Dan, Hancheng (author), Ding, Yongjie (author), Gao, Y. (author), Guo, Meng (author), Guo, Shuaicheng (author), Han, Bingye (author), Hong, Bin (author), Hou, Yue (author), Hu, Chichun (author), Hu, Jing (author), Huyan, Ju (author), Jiang, Jiwang (author), Jiang, Wei (author), Li, Cheng (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Liu, Yu (author), Liu, Zhuangzhuang (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Ouyang, Jian (author), Qu, Xin (author), Ren, Dongya (author), Wang, Chao (author), Wang, Chaohui (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Wang, Di (author), Wang, Hainian (author), Wang, Haopeng (author), Xiao, Yue (author), Xing, Chao (author), Xu, Huining (author), Yan, Yu (author), Yang, Xu (author), You, Lingyun (author), You, Zhanping (author), Yu, Bin (author), Yu, Huayang (author), Yu, Huanan (author), Zhang, Henglong (author), Zhang, Jizhe (author), Zhou, Changhong (author), Zhou, Changjun (author), Zhu, Xingyi (author)Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly supports the rapid development of the global social economy. New theories, new methods, new technologies and new materials related to pavement engineering are emerging....review 2021
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Li, Meng (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Martinelli, Fabio (author)Vehicular networks allow billions of vehicular users to be connected to report and exchange real-time data for offering various services, such as navigation, ride-hailing, smart parking, traffic monitoring, and vehicular digital forensics. Fifth generation (5G) is a new radio access technology with greater coverage, accessibility, and higher...journal article 2021
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Guo, Leicheng (author), Zhu, C. (author), Xie, Weiming (author), Xu, Fan (author), Wu, Hui (author), Wan, Yuanyang (author), Wang, Zhanghua (author), Zhang, Weiguo (author), Shen, Jian (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), He, Qing (author)The Changjiang Delta (CD) is one of well-studied large deltas of critical socio-economical and ecological importance regionally and global representativeness. Cumulated field data and numerical modeling has facilitated scientific understanding of its hydro-morphodynamics at multiple spatial and time scales, but the changing boundary forcing...review 2021
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Zhang, Shuoshuo (author), Zhang, Yuquan (author), Fu, Yanan (author), Zhu, Z. (author), Man, Zhongsheng (author), Bu, Jing (author), Fang, Hui (author), Min, Changjun (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)Single molecule detection and analysis play important roles in many current biomedical researches. The deep-nanoscale hotspots, being excited and confined in a plasmonic nanocavity, make it possible to simultaneously enhance the nonlinear light-matter interactions and molecular Raman scattering for label-free detections. Here, we...journal article 2021
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Cao, Haobing (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), van Belzen, Jim (author), Gourgue, Olivier (author), van de Koppel, J. (author), Temmerman, O. Stijn (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), Zhang, Liquan (author), Yuan, Lin (author), Bouma, Tjeerd J. (author)Conservation and restoration of salt marsh ecosystems are becoming increasingly important because of the many ecosystem services they provide. However, the processes controlling salt marsh establishment and persistence, especially on bare tidal flats in muddy areas, remain unclear. As muddy sediments typically experience a restriction of soil...journal article 2021
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Li, Meng (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)E-commerce platforms incorporate reputation systems that allow customers to rate suppliers following financial transactions. Existing reputation systems cannot defend the centralized server against arbitrarily tampering with the supplier’s reputation. Furthermore, they do not offer reputation access across platforms. Rates are faced with privacy...journal article 2021
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Cao, Haobing (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), Herman, P.M.J. (author), Temmerman, Stijn (author), de Smit, Jaco (author), Zhang, Liquan (author), Yuan, Lin (author), Bouma, Tjeerd J. (author)Despite the well-recognized importance of plant traits for biogeomorphic development of landscapes, our understanding remains limited of how species-specific plant traits respond to and serve as drivers for the sedimentary dynamics within a biogeomorphic landscape. By manipulating a series of laboratory experiments, using mesocosms and a...journal article 2021