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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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Xie, Qiuxia (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author)Surface Soil Moisture (SSM) information is needed for agricultural water resource management, hydrology and climate analysis applications. Temporal and spatial sampling by the space-borne instruments designed to retrieve SSM is, however, limited by the orbit and sensors of the satellites. We produced a Global Daily-scale Soil Moisture Fusion...journal article 2022
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Zhou, J. (author), Liu, Xuan (author), Xiong, Xuqian (author), Jia, Li (author), Lu, Jing (author), Cui, Yilin (author)Satellite-based Earth Observation systems archived a variety of vegetation products during the last 50 years, which can reveal regional to global ecosystem dynamics across diverse spatiotemporal scales. The anomaly metrics such as Vegetation Condition Index (VCI) defined by comparing the current vegetation growth condition to historical...conference paper 2022
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Asenso Barnieh, Beatrice (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jiang, Min (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Lv, Yunzhe (author), Zeng, Yelong (author), Bennour, Ali (author)Past Land Use Land Cover (LULC) transitions analysis at the sub-continental scale of West Africa revealed spatial reallocation, i.e., simultaneous losses and gains of the LULC categories at different locations. We applied the component analysis approach to separate the total change into three major components, i.e., quantity (net change),...journal article 2022
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Hussain, M.Z. (author), Yang, Zhuxian (author), van der Linden, B. (author), Heinz, Werner R. (author), Bahri, Mounib (author), Ersen, Ovidiu (author), Jia, Quanli (author), Fischer, Roland A. (author), Zhu, Yanqiu (author), Xia, Yongde (author)Bimetal-organic-framework (Bi-MOF) NH2-MIL-125(Ti/Cu)-derived nanocomposites are systematically investigated to elucidate the role of individual species TiO2, CuxO and the porous carbon matrix in photocatalytic activity. Among the studied samples, the TiO2/CuxO/C nanocomposite derived from heat processing NH2-MIL-125(Ti/Cu) under Ar/H2O vapor...journal article 2022
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Lam, K.L. (author), Solon, Kimberly (author), Jia, Mingsheng (author), Volcke, Eveline I. P. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Recovering phosphorus from wastewater in more concentrated forms has potential to sustainably recirculate phosphorus from cities to agriculture. The environmental sustainability of wastewater-based phosphorus recovery processes or wastewater-derived phosphorus products can be evaluated using life cycle assessment (LCA). Many LCA studies used a...journal article 2022
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Yuan, Xiaotian (author), Jia, L. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jiang, Min (author)Human activities modulate the impact of environmental forcing in general and of climate in particular. Information on the spatial and temporal patterns of human activities is in high demand, but scarce in sparsely populated and data-poor regions such as Northern Africa. The intensity and spatial distribution of nighttime lights provide useful...journal article 2022
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Wang, Xiaolu (author), Jia, Q. (author), Ma, Liyi (author), Zhai, Xuejiao (author), Liu, Yuxin (author), Liao, Xianquan (author), Zhou, Jing (author)Information storage in vivo will lead to next-generation identification and security authentication. Here, an information storage method was proposed for in vivo application by using a pair of lanthanide-doped nanoprobes (NdNPs and ErNPs) with orthogonal emissions in the second near-infrared window. The information is stored in different...journal article 2022
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Jing, Guoqing (author), Aela, Peyman (author), Zhou, Qiang (author), Jia, W. (author)The use of recycled materials is a new tendency in the field of railway engineering. Steel slag aggregates (SSA) are one of the recycled materials derived from the steel industry. The application of SSA in ballasted railway tracks requires mechanical examination. In the present paper, the shear behavior of the ballast layer constructed by SSA...conference paper 2022
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Bennour, Ali (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zheng, Chaolei (author), Zeng, Yelong (author), Barnieh, Beatrice Asenso (author), Jiang, Min (author)Model calibration and validation are challenging in poorly gauged basins. We developed and applied a new approach to calibrate hydrological models using distributed geospatial remote sensing data. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was calibrated using only twelve months of remote sensing data on actual evapotranspiration (ETa)...journal article 2022
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Siskins, M. (author), Kurdi, S. (author), Lee, M. (author), Slotboom, Benjamin J.M. (author), Xing, Wenyu (author), Mañas-Valero, Samuel (author), Coronado, Eugenio (author), Jia, Shuang (author), Han, Wei (author), van der Sar, T. (author), van der Zant, H.S.J. (author), Steeneken, P.G. (author)Two-dimensional magnetic materials with strong magnetostriction are attractive systems for realizing strain-tuning of the magnetization in spintronic and nanomagnetic devices. This requires an understanding of the magneto-mechanical coupling in these materials. In this work, we suspend thin Cr<sub>2</sub>Ge<sub>2</sub>Te<sub>6</sub> layers...journal article 2022
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Delle Monache, S. (author), Jia, Doudou (author), Kamphuis, Daan (author), Ozcan Vieira, E. (author)Music as a low-cost sleep aid is a promising way to improve the sleep quality of people. However, most available sleep music playlists are limited to generic, soothing songs, which do not take in account personalisation. In collaboration with the Neurology Department of the Reinier de Graaf hospital (Delft, The Netherlands), we explored a...conference paper 2022
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Jia, L. (author)To speed up residential energy retrofitting in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter(HSCW) zone, the barriers to retrofitting projects need elimination. Energy retrofitting contributes to improving building quality and living comfort, but has not been accepted by the public. It stems from poor project performance in quality, time, costs, etc. The risk...doctoral thesis 2021
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Zhang, Z. (author), Duan, X. (author), Jia, Dechang (author), Zhou, Y. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author)MAX phases are a family of ternary carbide or nitride ceramics possessing a layered crystal structure and, due to their chemical bonds having a mixed covalent-ionic-metallic nature, have unique properties combining those of metals and ceramics. In this review, the formation mechanisms of MAX phases from elemental and compound powders are...review 2021
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Jia, W. (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author)Under the high requirement of ballast materials and the frequent maintenance of high-speed and heavy-haul railway, the maintenance cost and material consumption become an important problem. Several methods are used to increase the stability and service life of railway structure, also using recycled materials in ballast bed construction can be a...journal article 2021
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Li, Shuguang (author), Jia, Jinsheng (author), Xu, Yaoqun (author), Zhai, Xiangjun (author), Li, Xiulin (author), Chen, Gaixin (author)In order to evaluate the aging status of the dam concrete for a 25-years-old concrete dam, the internal concrete and surface layer of the dam were tested by elastic wave computerized tomography (CT) and spectral analysis of surface wave (SASW). Also mechanical strength and elastic wave velocity were tested for the concrete cores from the dam....conference paper 2021
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Zhang, Jing (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Ren, Shaoting (author)Glacier and snow are sensitive indicators of regional climate variability. In the early 21st century, glaciers in the West Kunlun and Pamir regions showed stable or even slightly positive mass budgets, and this is anomalous in a worldwide context of glacier recession. We studied the evolution of snow cover to understand whether it could...journal article 2021
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Hussain, Mian Zahid (author), van der Linden, B. (author), Yang, Zhuxian (author), Jia, Quanli (author), Chang, Hong (author), Fischer, Roland A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Zhu, Yanqiu (author), Xia, Yongde (author)In situformation of p-n heterojunctions between TiO<sub>2</sub>and Cu<sub>x</sub>O in heteroatom-doped carbon nanocomposites and their applications in photocatalytic H<sub>2</sub>evolution were demonstrated. One-step pyrolysis of bimetal-organic-frameworks NH<sub>2</sub>-MIL-125(Ti/Cu) in steam at 700 °C forms a p-n heterojunction between TiO...journal article 2021
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Hussain, Mian Zahid (author), Yang, Zhuxian (author), van der Linden, B. (author), Huang, Zheng (author), Jia, Quanli (author), Cerrato, Erik (author), Fischer, Roland A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Zhu, Yanqiu (author), Xia, Yongde (author)Surface-functionalized nitrogen/carbon co-doped polymorphic TiO<sub>2</sub> phase junction nanoparticles uniformly distributed in porous carbon matrix were synthesized by a simple one-step pyrolysis of titanium based metal–organic framework (MOF), NH<sub>2</sub>-MIL-125(Ti) at 700 °C under water vapour atmosphere. Introducing water vapour...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Qingzhou (author), Zheng, Feifei (author), Jia, Yueyi (author), Savic, Dragan (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)Real-time hydraulic modelling can be used to address a wide range of issues in a foul sewer system and hence can help improve its daily operation and maintenance. However, the current bottleneck within real-time FSS modelling is the lack of spatio-temporal inflow data. To address the problem, this paper proposes a new method to develop real...journal article 2021