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Zuo, Hui (author), Yan, Gaowei (author), Lu, Ruochen (author), Li, Rong (author), Xiao, Shuyi (author), Pang, Y. (author)Accurately predicting runoff is crucial for managing water resources, preventing and mitigating floods, scheduling hydropower plant operations, and protecting the environment. The hydrological dynamic composite system that forms runoff is complex and random, and seemingly random behavior may be caused by nonlinear variables in a simple...journal article 2023
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Liu, Shurui (author), Lu, T. (author), Tang, Z. (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Jiang, Junmin (author), Zhao, Bo (author), Du, S. (author)In this article, we propose a reconfigurable regulating rectifier with a wide operational range for wireless power transfer. The proposed three-mode rectifier achieves a broad range voltage regulation without global loop control to minimize the chip area occupation. Compared with previous work, more working modes and greater voltage gain...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Pengjun (author), Zeng, Liangen (author), Li, Peilin (author), Lu, Haiyan (author), Hu, Haoyu (author), Li, Chengming (author), Zheng, Mengyuan (author), Li, Haitao (author), Yu, Zhao (author), Qi, Y. (author)The threat of global climate change has caused the international community to pay close attention to atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Transportation sector carbon dioxide emissions efficiency (TSCDEE) is a key indicator used to prioritize sustainable development in the transportation sector. In this paper, the...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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Guo, R. (author), Yuan, Peng (author), Han, Xiying (author), He, Xuexia (author), Lu, Jiangbo (author), Li, Qi (author), Dang, Liqin (author), Sun, Jie (author), Liu, Zonghuai (author), Lei, Zhibin (author)The Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub> film with metallic conductivity and high pseudo-capacitance holds profound promise in flexible high-rate supercapacitors. However, the restacking of Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub> sheets hinders ion access to thick film electrodes. Herein, a mild yet green route has been developed to...journal article 2022
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Tang, Zhen (author), Li, Z. (author), Hua, Jiang (author), Lu, Shuang (author), Chi, Lin (author)Pretreated coconut fibers can be applied as renewable damping components in fiber-reinforced cement mortars to reduce the adverse effects of vibration and promote the recycling of waste fibers. In this study, FT-IR, TG, XRD, and SEM measurements were performed to analyze the morphologies and physicochemical properties of the coconut fibers...journal article 2022
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Sun, Renjuan (author), Lu, Wei (author), Tawfek, Abdullah M. (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Hu, Xinlei (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ling, Yifeng (author), Šavija, B. (author)The resistance of cracked ECC against chloride ingress is mainly governed by the accumulated crack width of all the cracks rather than the maximum width of multiple cracks. However, most studies focus on the influence of a single fine crackjournal article 2022
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Yaphary, Yohannes L. (author), Leng, Zhen (author), Wang, Haopeng (author), Ren, S. (author), Lu, Guoyang (author)Low-temperature cracking is a major concern to improve the utilization of recycled asphalt mixture (RAM). A mechanism by which the crack propagates can provide a basis for advanced technological mitigation. Microcrack formations in the interfacial proximity of the virgin and aged binders have been identified from electron microscopy tests....journal article 2022
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Lu, Hai (author), Yu, Ruyun (author), Zhu, Yan (author), He, Xiao (author), Liang, K. (author), Chu, William Cheng-Chung (author)Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) plays an important role in current secure data sharing through fine-grained customizable policies. However, the existing ABE schemes only support simple predicates, = and ≠, but cannot express a more general membership predicates, ∈ and ∉, in policies. The low expressivity of ABE will enlarge the ciphertext...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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Zhang, Yingyu (author), Yang, Juan (author), van Haaften, M.A. (author), Li, Linyi (author), Lu, Shenglian (author), Wen, Weiliang (author), Zheng, Xiuguo (author), Pan, Jian (author), Qian, Tingting (author)Plant photosynthesis and biomass production are associated with the amount of intercepted light, especially the light distribution inside the canopy. Three virtual canopies (n = 80, 3.25 plants/m2) were constructed based on average leaf size of the digitized plant structures: ‘small leaf’ (98.1 cm2), ‘medium leaf’ (163.0 cm2) and ‘big leaf’ (241...journal article 2022
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Wei, Zilong (author), Sun, Xianfu (author), Yang, Fei (author), Ke, Zaitian (author), Lu, Tao (author), Zhang, P. (author), Shen, C. (author)The presence of rail corrugation enlarges the wheel-rail impact and exacerbates the failure of track components, and the situation becomes even worse under high train speed, which promotes the urgent need for an efficient and easily accessible inspection method. Conventional diagnosis approaches such as axle box acceleration (ABA) and image...journal article 2022
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Fang, B. (author), Lu, T. (author), Cheng, Liwei (author), Wang, Dongdong (author), Ni, Yang (author), Fan, Bowen (author), Meng, Jiuling (author), Vlugt, T.J.H. (author), Ning, Fulong (author)Methane hydrate dissociation kinetics can be inhibited in NaCl solutions; however, this effect is reversed by promoting bubble formation that enhances dissociation. The negative and positive effects of inorganic salt injection on gas production from hydrate-bearing sediments are still controversial. Here, molecular dynamics simulations were...journal article 2022
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Chen, Jiazhou (author), Xu, Yanghui (author), Lu, Shufang (author), Liang, Ronghua (author), Nan, L. (author)We present a novel 3-D instance segmentation framework for multiview stereo (MVS) buildings in urban scenes. Unlike existing works focusing on semantic segmentation of urban scenes, the emphasis of this work lies in detecting and segmenting 3-D building instances even if they are attached and embedded in a large and imprecise 3-D surface model....journal article 2022
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Chi, Lin (author), Li, Wenda (author), Li, Z. (author), Wang, Zheng (author), Lu, Shuang (author), Liu, Qi (author)Alternative current impedance spectroscopy (ACIS) is a promising non-destructive testing method to monitor long-term change and assess the durability of concrete. This study investigates the influences of Ethylene Diamine Tetraacetic Acid (EDTA) on the hydration of hardening cement by ACIS. It is found that EDTA retards the early-age...journal article 2022
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Cai, Liying (author), Lu, Zhenghao (author), Tang, Z. (author), Yu, Xiaopeng (author)This letter presents a low-power dB-linear variable gain amplifier (VGA) with a small linear-in-dB error over a wide gain tuning range. An exponential current ratio is realized in the linear-in-dB control circuit based on the subthreshold I-V characteristic. The VGA is built with subthreshold common-gate transistors as current steering,...journal article 2022
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Fang, Zigeng (author), Liu, Y. (author), Lu, Qiuchen (author), Pitt, Michael (author), Hanna, Sean (author), Tian, Zhichao (author)A building's strategic asset management (SAM) capability has traditionally been limited by its site-based management. With the emergence of needs from clients about delivering a long-term portfolio-based building asset management plan that minimizes the asset risk and optimizes the value of their asset portfolios, SAM Units have emerged as a...journal article 2022
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Liu, Gang (author), Du, Zhao (author), Xiao, Tian (author), Guo, Junfei (author), Lu, Liu (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author), Hooman, K. (author)Solar energy, as a kind of renewable energy, offers a large reserve to be harvested at a reasonably low cost for engineering applications. To decouple the temporal and spatial relevance of the continuous energy supply of solar energy, latent heat thermal energy storage can deal with this problem at different temperatures. Aiming to improve...journal article 2022
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Wang, H. (author), Liu, X. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Wang, Di (author), Leng, Zhen (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Erkens, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Rubberized asphaltic materials have been frequently combined with warm-mix asphalt technologies to tackle the issues of high energy consumptions and emissions during construction. Effective and accurate characterization of binder properties is conducive to the improvement of long-term pavement performance. The current study aims to quantify...journal article 2021
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Rao, Ziyuan (author), Dutta, B. (author), Körmann, F.H.W. (author), Lu, Wenjun (author), Zhou, Xuyang (author), Liu, Chang (author), da Silva, Alisson Kwiatkowski (author), Wiedwald, Ulf (author), Spasova, Marina (author), Farle, Michael (author), Ponge, Dirk (author), Gault, Baptiste (author), Neugebauer, Jörg (author), Raabe, Dierk (author), Li, Zhiming (author)Since its first emergence in 2004, the high-entropy alloy (HEA) concept has aimed at stabilizing single- or dual-phase multi-element solid solutions through high mixing entropy. Here, this strategy is changed and renders such massive solid solutions metastable, to trigger spinodal decomposition for improving the alloys’ magnetic properties....journal article 2021