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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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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
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Dou, X. (author), Pereira, S.F. (author), Min, Changjun (author), Zhang, Yuquan (author), Meng, P. (author), Urbach, Paul (author), Yuan, Xiaocong (author)The sidewall angle (SWA) of a nanostructure exerts influence on the performance of the nanostructure and plays an important role in processing nano-structural chips. It is still a great challenge to determine steep SWAs from far field measurements especially when the SWAs are close to 90°. Here, we propose a far-field detection system to...journal article 2021
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Wu, Jiansong (author), Cai, Jitao (author), Yuan, S. (author), Zhang, Xiaole (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)As a kind of clean fuel, increasing quantities of natural gas have been transported as liquefied natural gas (LNG) worldwide. The safety of LNG storage has gained the concerns from the public due to the potential severe consequences that may arise from LNG leakage. In this paper, a three-dimensional model with the combination of computational...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Yuan, Huaqiang (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Wu, Jiajie (author), Fang, Cheng (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Clay brick is one of the major components of demolition waste, which is generally landfilled. Effective and new uses of recycled clay brick may provide sustainability benefits in terms of landfill reduction. Therefore, this research aims at applying Recycled fine clay brick aggregates (RFCBA) with sizes from 0.075 mm–4.75 mm to prepare Self...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Junhong (author), Liu, Zhiyuan (author), Dai, Huwei (author), Hedayati, R. (author), Yuan, Y. (author), Zhang, Guichang (author)Bird impact on fan blades poses a serious threat to the operational safety of aircraft engines.In this study, a real bird model of mallard duck was developed using the smooth particle hydrodynamics method based on a CT scan of a mallard duck.The accuracy of the real bird model was verified by comparing the simulation results of the impact on...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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Yuan, Bo (author), Mahor, Durga (author), Fei, Qiang (author), Wever, Ron (author), Alcalde, Miguel (author), Zhang, Wuyuan (author), Hollmann, F. (author)Peroxyzymes simply use H2O2 as a cosubstrate to oxidize a broad range of inert C-H bonds. The lability of many peroxyzymes against H2O2 can be addressed by a controlled supply of H2O2, ideally in situ. Here, we report a simple, robust, and water-soluble anthraquinone sulfonate (SAS) as a promising organophotocatalyst to drive both...journal article 2020
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Yuan, S. (author), Zhang, Lixian (author), Baldi, S. (author)In the presence of discontinuous time-varying delays, neither Krasovskii nor Razumikhin techniques can be successfully applied to adaptive stabilization of uncertain switched time-delay systems. This paper develops a new adaptive control scheme for switched time-delay systems that can handle impulsive behavior in both states and time-varying...journal article 2019
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Li, Bo (author), Zhang, Shizhe (author), Li, Qiu (author), Li, Neng (author), Yuan, Bo (author), Chen, Wei (author), Brouwers, H.J.H. (author), Yu, Qingliang (author)The uptake mechanism of heavy metal ions in layered double hydroxides (LDHs) is investigated in this paper via solid-solution exchange experiments and first principle study. The uptake capacities of C-LDHs for heavy metal ions from solutions are experimentally investigated and the structures of LDHs doped with various heavy metal ions are...journal article 2019
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Yuan, Ye (author), Tang, Xiuchuan (author), Zhou, Wei (author), Pan, W. (author), Li, Xiuting (author), Zhang, Hai Tao (author), Ding, Han (author), Goncalves, Jorge (author)Cyber-physical systems embed software into the physical world. They appear in a wide range of applications such as smart grids, robotics, and intelligent manufacturing. Cyber-physical systems have proved resistant to modeling due to their intrinsic complexity arising from the combination of physical and cyber components and the interaction...journal article 2019
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Zhang, Baocheng (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author), Yuan, Yunbin (author), Zhang, Xiao (author), Li, Min (author)Sensing the ionosphere with the global positioning system involves two sequential tasks, namely the ionospheric observable retrieval and the ionospheric parameter estimation. A prominent source of error has long been identified as short-term variability in receiver differential code bias (rDCB). We modify the carrier-to-code leveling (CCL), a...journal article 2018
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Zhang, Baocheng (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author), Yuan, Yunbin (author), Zhang, Hongxing (author), Li, Min (author)Vertical total electron content (VTEC) parameters estimated using global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data are of great interest for ionosphere sensing. Satellite differential code biases (SDCBs) account for one source of error which, if left uncorrected, can deteriorate performance of positioning, timing and other applications. The...journal article 2018
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Yuan, S. (author), Zhang, Lixian (author), Holub, Ondrej (author), Baldi, S. (author)This letter introduces a new switched adaptive control mechanism that can cope with parametric uncertainty while using discrete and saturated actuators. Control of air handling units (AHUs), where air and water supply have discrete and saturated characteristics, is the motivational drive behind this letter. We show that the cheap actuation...journal article 2018
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Yuan, S. (author), Zhang, Lixian (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Baldi, S. (author)In this paper, a novel Lyapunov function is proposed to study switched linear systems with a switching delay between activation of system modes and activation of candidate controller modes. The novelty consists in continuity of the Lyapunov function at the switching instants and discontinuity when the system modes and controller modes are...journal article 2018
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Yuan, S. (author), Zhang, F. (author), Baldi, S. (author)In this paper, adaptive tracking control of switched nonlinear systems in the parametric strict-feedback form is investigated. After defining a reparametrisation lemma in the presence of a non-zero reference signal, we propose a new adaptive backstepping design of the virtual controllers that can handle the extra terms arising from the...journal article 2017
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Wang, Wei (author), Yang, Kai (author), Muñoz Sierra, Julian (author), Zhang, X. (author), Yuan, Shoujun (author), Hu, Zhenhu (author)Methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) as a solvent is extensively used for the phenols extraction from the wastewater, so it is unavoidable to expose in the effluent due to the solubility and leakage problem. The present study evaluated the impact of MIBK on phenols degradation in an UASB reactor and analyzed its degradation properties. The results...journal article 2017
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Zhang, Y. (author), Shi, W. (author), Shen, Z. (author), Man, Z. (author), Min, C. (author), Shen, J. (author), Zhu, S. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author), Yuan, X. (author)Typically, metal particles are difficult to manipulate with conventional optical vortex (OV) tweezers, because of their strong absorption and scattering. However, it has been shown that the vortex field of surface plasmonic polaritons, called plasmonic vortex (PV), is capable of stable trapping and dynamic rotation of metal particles, especially...journal article 2015
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Man, Z. (author), Du, L. (author), Min, C. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Zhang, C. (author), Zhu, S. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author), Yuan, X.C. (author)Vector beams, which have space-variant state of polarization (SOP) comparing with scalar beams with spatially homogeneous SOP, are used to manipulate surface plasmon polarizations (SPPs). We find that the excitation, orientation, and distribution of the focused SPPs excited in a high numerical aperture microscopic configuration highly depend on...journal article 2014
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Zhang, Y. (author), Wu, X. (author), Min, C. (author), Zhu, S. (author), Urbach, H.P. (author), Yuan, X. (author)Monitoring the cells’ apoptosis progression could provide a valuable insight into the temporal events that initiate cell death as well as the potential for rescue of apoptotic cells. In this paper, we engineered a novel and robust method for monitoring apoptosis of tumor cells based on dynamic laser tweezers, using A549 and HeLa cell line as...journal article 2014