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Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Xing, Chaojie (author), Zeng, Chao (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author)Geothermal energy (GE), as an ideal renewable resource for building cooling/heating with stability and abundance in energy supply, has been widely exploited in developing countries. The common utilization forms of GE mainly include the ground source heat pump (GSHP), underground duct system (UDS), and abandoned wells energy (AWE) system....book chapter 2022
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Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Xing, Chaojie (author)The large thermal potentials with geothermal gradient of abandoned wells provide the possibility and opportunity for carbon-neutrality transition of district heating systems, whereas energy harvesting from abandoned geothermal wells is full of challenges, due to the considerable initial investment in economic cost, system performance...book chapter 2022
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Zhou, C. (author), Liu, X. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author)Low Temperature Asphalt (LTA) technologies are utilized in asphalt pavement industry to lower energy demands and greenhouse gas emission during mixing and construction processes. Although these technologies are currently available and hope to demonstrate similar performance with Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) mixes, LTA shows more sensitive than HMA to...conference paper 2017
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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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Chen, Hang (author), Zhou, Hengshun (author), Du, Jun (author), Lee, Chin-Hui (author), Chen, Jingdong (author), Watanabe, Shinji (author), Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Liu, Di-Yuan (author)In this paper we discuss the rational of the Multi-model Information based Speech Processing (MISP) Challenge, and provide a detailed description of the data recorded, the two evaluation tasks and the corresponding baselines, followed by a summary of submitted systems and evaluation results. The MISP Challenge aims at tack-ling speech processing...conference paper 2022
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Chen, Yong (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Liu, Zongcheng (author), Zhang, Wenqian (author), Zhou, Yang (author)This work focuses on adaptive neural dynamic surface control (DSC) for an extended class of nonlinear MIMO strict-feedback systems whose control gain functions are continuous and possibly unbounded. The method is based on introducing a compact set which is eventually proved to be an invariant set: thanks to this set, the restrictive...conference paper 2019
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Zhou, Y.L. (author), Ma, S.Y. (author), Liu, R.S. (author), Luehr, H. (author), Doornbos, E. (author)The controls of merging electrical field, Em, and IMF (interplanetary magnetic field) magnitude, B, on the storm-time changes in upper thermospheric mass density are statistically investigated using GRACE accelerometer observations and the OMNI data of solar wind and IMF for 35 great storms during 2002–2006. It reveals the following: (1) The...journal article 2013
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Liu, Y. (author), Visser, P. (author), Zhou, X. (author), Lyon, S.B. (author), Hashimoto, T. (author), Curioni, M. (author), Gholinia, A. (author), Thompson, G.E. (author), Smyth, G. (author), Gibbon, S.R. (author), Graham, D. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Terryn, H.A. (author)An investigation into corrosion inhibition properties of a primer coating containing lithium carbonate as corrosion inhibitive pigment for AA2024 aluminum alloy was conducted. It was found that, during neutral salt spray exposure, a protective film of about 0.2 to 1.5 ?m thickness formed within the area where an artificial defect was introduced...journal article 2015
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Tan, C. (author), Zhou, Quan (author), Liu, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Ye, H. (author), Wu, Qibao (author)Combining the first principles calculations and the non-equilibrium Green’s function formalisms, we decipher the structural, electronic, and transport properties of boron phosphide (BP) with hydrogenation. Hydrogenated BP monolayer is an indirect semiconductor with a wide-bandgap of 3.76 eV that is favorable in power devices. We find that the...journal article 2022
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Zhou, J. (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Liu, Xuan (author)Terrestrial remote sensing data products retrieved from radiometric measurements in the optical and thermal infrared spectrum such as vegetation spectral indices can be heavily contaminated by atmospheric conditions, including cloud and aerosol layers. This contamination results in gaps or noisy observations. The harmonic analysis of time series...journal article 2021
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Liu, S. (author), Zhou, Yangxiao (author), Xie, Mingzhao (author), McClain, M.E. (author), Wang, Xu Sheng (author)A coupled regional and local model is required when groundwater flow and solute transport are to be simulated in local areas of interest with a finer grid while regional aquifer boundary and major stresses should be retained with a coarser grid. The coupled model should also maintain interactions between the regional and local flow systems. In...journal article 2021
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Jiang, Jing (author), Wang, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Liu, Jianhui (author), Li, Jun (author), Zhou, Dexiang (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Ye, H. (author), Tan, C. (author)High electric-field stress is an effective solution to the recovery of irradiated devices. In this paper, the dependence of the recovery level on the magnitude of gate voltage and duration is investigated. Compared with the scheme of high gate-bias voltage with a short stress time, the transfer characteristics are significantly recovered by...journal article 2022
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Yang, Yapin (author), Sun, Ying (author), Chen, Mingsi (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Wang, Ran (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)Fire at a construction site usually results in serious accidents. Therefore, fire management at the construction site is critical to decreasing possible accidents. However, conventional fire safety management can be problematic in many aspects, such as visualization, multi-stage alarm systems, and dynamic escape route optimization. To solve...journal article 2022
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Chen, Yangkang (author), Huang, Weilin (author), Zhou, Yatong (author), Liu, Wei (author), Zhang, D. (author)The journal is publishing this Expression of Concern to alert readers while we investigate to determine whether further action is required.journal article 2021
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Zhou, Longyu (author), Leng, Supeng (author), Liu, Qiang (author), Wang, Q. (author)With the advantages of easy deployment and flexible usage, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has advanced the Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) applications. The UAV-MTT system has great potentials to execute dull, dangerous, and critical missions for frontier defense and security. A key challenge in UAV-MTT is how to coordinate multiple UAVs to track...journal article 2021
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Liu, G. (author), Yan, Qun (author), Zhou, Yanan (author), Zhang, X. (author), Spanjers, H. (author)2D-g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> nanosheet was prepared and employed for the adsorption of elemental mercury (Hg<sup>0</sup>). The g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> was analyzed through X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) methods, and the results showed that the prepared...journal article 2021
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Guo, Z. (author), Qiu, Jingping (author), Kirichek, Alex (author), Zhou, Hao (author), Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lei (author)The increasing amount of solid waste, e.g., waste tyres from car industry and tailings from mine operations, causes substantial environmental and societal issues. The recycled tyre polymer fibre (RTPF) reinforced cemented tailings backfill (CTB) is a kind of composite that can treat waste tyres and tailings simultaneously and realize green...journal article 2023
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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