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Zhong, Shaohong (author), Scarinci, Andrea (author), Cicirello, A. (author)The design of complex engineering systems is an often long and articulated process that highly relies on engineers’ expertise and professional judgment. As such, the typical pitfalls of activities involving the human factor often manifest themselves in terms of lack of completeness or exhaustiveness of the analysis, inconsistencies across...journal article 2023
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Wang, Shimin (author), Zhang, Hongwei (author), Baldi, S. (author), Zhong, Renxin (author)This article studies the leaderless consensus problem of heterogeneous multiple networked Euler-Lagrange systems subject to persistent disturbances with unknown constant biases, amplitudes, initial phases, and frequencies. The main characteristic of this study is that none of the agents has information of a common reference model or of a...journal article 2023
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Qin, Xi (author), Zhong, Cheng (author), Lin, H.X. (author)Influence maximization (IM) is a very important issue in social network diffusion analysis. The topology of real social network is large-scale, dynamic, and heterogeneous. The heterogeneity, and continuous expansion and evolution of social network pose a challenge to find influential users. Existing IM algorithms usually assume that social...journal article 2023
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Joseph, G. (author), Zhong, Chen (author), Gursoy, M. Cenk (author), Velipasalar, Senem (author), Varshney, Pramod (author)We address the problem of sequentially selecting and observing processes from a given set to find the anomalies among them. The decision-maker observes a subset of the processes at any given time instant and obtains a noisy binary indicator of whether or not the corresponding process is anomalous. We develop an anomaly detection algorithm that...journal article 2023
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Wang, Hucheng (author), Fu, Xiaoming (author), Gu, Guanyao (author), Bai, Shengyu (author), Li, Runlai (author), Zhong, Weimin (author), Guo, Xuhong (author), Eelkema, R. (author), van Esch, J.H. (author), Cao, Zhixing (author), Wang, Yiming (author)Living organisms are capable of dynamically changing their structures for adaptive functions through sophisticated reaction-diffusion processes. Here we show how active supramolecular hydrogels with programmable lifetimes and macroscopic structures can be created by relying on a simple reaction-diffusion strategy. Two hydrogel precursors ...journal article 2023
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Zhong, Haobai (author), Huang, Weidong (author), Lin, P. (author), Zhou, L. (author), Lv, Quan (author)With the increasing shortage of resources, the reuse of recycled asphalt pavements (RAP) in pavement engineering is considered as a sustainable technology. Challenges posed by common extraction and recovery methods may result in misjudgment of asphalt pavement performance. In this study, we investigate the optimization of extraction and...journal article 2023
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Ma, Yunjian (author), Zhong, Xuanru (author), Wu, Bin (author), Lan, Dongming (author), Zhang, Hao (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Wang, Yonghua (author)Hydrocarbons are essential base chemicals as energy carriers and starting materials for chemical manufacture. So-called fatty acid photodecarboxylases (FAPs) represent interesting catalysts for the conversion of natural fatty acids into hydrocarbons thereby giving access to alkanes from renewable feedstock. Today, however, only few FAPs are...journal article 2023
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Tukker, Arnold (author), Behrens, Paul (author), Deetman, Sebastiaan (author), Hu, Mingming (author), Migoni Alejandre, E. (author), van der Meide, Marc (author), Zhong, Xiaoyang (author), Zhang, Chunbo (author)In terms of mass, construction materials and construction and demolition waste make up the largest part of humankind's material and waste footprints, particularly after an energy transition has largely phased out fossil energy. However, a circular use of building and construction materials is fraught with challenges.journal article 2023
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Zhao, Lei (author), Zhou, Sifan (author), Zhong, Jinglin (author), Ao, Yibin (author), Wang, Yan (author), Wang, T. (author), Chen, Yunfeng (author)Earthquakes occur frequently in rural areas of Sichuan, China, causing huge damage and high mortality. The built environment plays a significant role in providing residents with safe and resilient settlements in such areas. There is yet little research on how rural families in developing countries cope with geological disasters like earthquakes,...journal article 2022
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Ao, Yibin (author), Tan, Liyao (author), Zhong, Jinglin (author), Zhang, Hongying (author), Wang, Yan (author), Wang, T. (author)Earthquake is one of the most serious natural disasters. Taking scientific and reasonable earthquake preparedness measures can effectively reduce casualties and economic losses caused by earthquakes. It is important to understand how residents choose such earthquake preparedness measures to guide them accordingly. However, the current research...journal article 2022
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Wang, Xiao Lin (author), Zhong, Yuanguang (author), Li, L. (author), Xie, Wei (author), Ye, Zhi Sheng (author)Problem definition: Warranty reserves are funds used to fulfill future warranty obligations for a product. In this paper, we investigate the warranty reserve planning problem faced by a manufacturing firm who manages warranties for multiple products. Academic/practical relevance: It is nontrivial to determine a proper amount of reserves to...journal article 2022
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Chen, Zhijun (author), Lu, Zhe (author), Chen, Qiushi (author), Zhong, Hongliang (author), Zhang, Yishi (author), Xue, J. (author), Wu, Chaozhong (author)Short-term traffic flow prediction is a core branch of intelligent traffic systems (ITS) and plays an important role in traffic management. The graph convolution network (GCN) is widely used in traffic prediction models to efficiently handle the graphical structural data of road networks. However, the influence weights among different road...journal article 2022
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Zhong, Xuanru (author), Ma, Yunjian (author), Zhang, Xizhen (author), Zhang, Jiahui (author), Wu, Bin (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Wang, Yonghua (author)Hydrocarbon synthesis from (waste)oils enabled by a cascade of lipase-catalysed hydrolysis and decarboxylase-catalysed decarboxylation has become an active area of research en route to alternative, biobased fuels. However, Poor substrate transport efficiency is a major issue causing low reaction rates. This study focused on a protein self...journal article 2022
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Lu, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Jiang, Min (author), Zhong, Yulong (author), Menenti, M. (author)A drought-induced water storage deficit index (D-WSDI) is proposed to quantify the response of GRACE-based terrestrial water storage change to meteorological drought and the impact of drought on water storage deficit. D-WSDI is defined as the normalized residual component of GRACE time-series data after removing the long-term trend and...journal article 2022
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Wang, Ye (author), Ren, Genkuan (author), Jiang, Bing (author), Yang, Lin (author), Zhang, Zhiye (author), Wang, Xinlong (author), Zhong, Yanjun (author), Chen, Z. (author), Yang, Xiushan (author), Morita, Kazuki (author), Ma, Wenhui (author)Nanometer-sized hematite was prepared via a two-step process. In the first step, FeSO<sub>4</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O was oxidized to Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> by oxygen in an acidic solution. In the second step, the Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> was reduced to nanosize hematite with sulfur vapor at 550 °C. The...journal article 2022
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Ao, Yibin (author), Zhong, Jinglin (author), Zhang, Zijun (author), Han, Lili (author), Wang, Yan (author), Chen, Yunfeng (author), Wang, T. (author)Residents’ satisfaction with post-disaster reconstruction in earthquake-stricken areas directly affects their quality of life, which cannot be ignored in post-disaster reconstruction. More than 10 years after the Wenchuan earthquake, we took ten randomly selected villages in the five areas hardest-hit by the Wenchuan earthquake as research...journal article 2022
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Zhong, Junping (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Wang, H. (author), Liu, Wenqiang (author), Yang, Cheng (author), Han, Zhiwei (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author)Brace sleeve (BS) fasteners, i.e., nut and bolt, are small components but play essential roles in fixing BS and cantilever in railway catenary system. They are commonly inspected by onboard cameras using computer vision to ensure the safety of railway operation. However, most BS fasteners cannot be directly localized because they are too...journal article 2021
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Zhong, Xiaoyang (author), Hu, Mingming (author), Deetman, Sebastiaan (author), Rodrigues, João F. D. (author), Lin, H.X. (author), Tukker, Arnold (author), Behrens, Paul (author)Energy efficiency plays an essential role in energy conservation and emissions mitigation efforts in the building sector. This is especially important considering that the global building stock is expected to rapidly expand in the years to come. In this study, a global-scale modeling framework is developed to analyze the evolution of building...journal article 2021
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Classification of airborne laser scanning point cloud using point-based convolutional neural networkZhu, Jianfeng (author), Sui, Lichun (author), Zang, Y. (author), Zheng, He (author), Jiang, Wei (author), Zhong, Mianqing (author), Ma, Fei (author)In various applications of airborne laser scanning (ALS), the classification of the point cloud is a basic and key step. It requires assigning category labels to each point, such as ground, building or vegetation. Convolutional neural networks have achieved great success in image classification and semantic segmentation, but they cannot be...journal article 2021
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Zheng, Zhenqi (author), Xiao, Xiongwu (author), Zhong, Zhi Chao (author), Zang, Y. (author), Yang, Nan (author), Tu, Jianguang (author), Li, Deren (author)Digital Elevation Model (DEM)-based mountain vertex extraction is one of the most useful DEM applications, providing important information to properly characterize topographic features. Current vertex-extraction techniques have considerable limitations, such as yielding low-accuracy results and generating false mountain vertices. To overcome...journal article 2021