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A Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting System Assisted by A Piezoelectric Transducer Achieving 10-mV Cold-Startup and 82.7% Peak Efficiency

Lu, T. (author), Wang, Ruizhi (author), Tang, Z. (author), Zou, Yiwei (author), Yue, X. (author), Liang, Yansong (author), Gong, Haoran (author), Liu, Shurui (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Liu, Xun (author), Du, S. (author)

This article presents a 10mV-startup-voltage thermoelectric energy harvesting system, assisted by a piezoelectric generator (PEG) as a cold starter. It exploits the fact that when a thermoelectric energy harvesting system is implemented in a place where kinetic energy is also present, the PEG starter can provide a clock signal to start the...

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Examining the efficacy of promising antioxidants to mitigate asphalt binder oxidation: insights from a worldwide interlaboratory investigation

Adwani, Dheeraj (author), Pipintakos, Georgios (author), Mirwald, Johannes (author), Wang, Yudi (author), Hajj, Ramez (author), Guo, Meng (author), Liang, Meichen (author), Jing, R. (author), Varveri, Aikaterini (author)

Oxidative aging induces significant stiffening of asphalt binders that leads to a pronounced reduction in the overall durability of asphalt pavements. The strategic implementation of antioxidant additives provides a potential solution to alleviate this issue. This work presents results from the second phase of the global consortium for...

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HPAKE: Honey Password-authenticated Key Exchange for Fast and Safer Online Authentication

Li, Wenting (author), Wang, Ping (author), Liang, K. (author)

Password-only authentication is one of the most popular secure mechanisms for real-world online applications. But it easily suffers from a practical threat - password leakage, incurred by external and internal attackers. The external attacker may compromise the password file stored on the authentication server, and the insider may...

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Experimental Simulation of Larger Quantum Circuits with Fewer Superconducting Qubits

Ying, Chong (author), Cheng, Bin (author), Zhao, Youwei (author), Huang, He Liang (author), Zhang, Y.N. (author), Gong, Ming (author), Wu, Yulin (author), Wang, S. (author), Liang, Futian (author)

Although near-term quantum computing devices are still limited by the quantity and quality of qubits in the so-called NISQ era, quantum computational advantage has been experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, hybrid architectures of quantum and classical computing have become the main paradigm for exhibiting NISQ applications, where low-depth...

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A novel unspecific peroxygenase from Agaricus bisporus var. bisporus for biocatalytic oxyfunctionalisation reactions

Li, Tiantian (author), Liang, Hongjing (author), Wu, Bin (author), Lan, Dongming (author), Ma, Yunjian (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Wang, Yonghua (author)

Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs) represent an emerging class of catalysts for the selective oxyfunctionalisation of C–H- and C = C groups. Until now, only a few UPOs have been characterised. In this study, we report a new peroxygenase identified from the Unspecific Peroxygenase Database. The UPO from Agaricus bisporus var. bisporus (AbvbUPO)...

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The mental health of rural older adults: the role of the built environment in Jintang County

Liang, Ping (author), Wang, Yan (author), Wang, T. (author)

The mental health of older adults has become one of the major health challenges facing society today, which has attracted wide concerns from scholars in urban areas, but research in rural areas has been neglected. Therefore, this paper took rural older adult residents of 11 sample villages in Jintang County, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, as...

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Keyword Search Shareable Encryption for Fast and Secure Data Replication

Wang, Wei (author), Liu, Dongli (author), Xu, Peng (author), Yang, Laurence Tianruo (author), Liang, K. (author)

It has become a trend for clients to outsource their encrypted databases to remote servers and then leverage the Searchable Encryption technique to perform secure data retrieval. However, the method has yet to be considered a crucial need for replication on searchable encrypted data. It calls for challenging works on Dynamic Searchable...

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Large-Area and Visible-Light-Driven Heterojunctions of In₂O₃/Graphene Built for ppb-Level Formaldehyde Detection at Room Temperature

Guo, Lanpeng (author), Liang, Hongping (author), Hu, Huiyun (author), Shi, Shenbin (author), Wang, Chenxu (author), Li, Hao (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, Yao (author)

Achieving convenient and accurate detection of indoor ppb-level formaldehyde is an urgent requirement to ensure a healthy working and living environment for people. Herein, ultrasmall In₂O₃ nanorods and supramolecularly functionalized reduced graphene oxide are selected as hybrid components of visible-light-driven (VLD)...

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FABRIC: Fast and secure unbounded cross-system encrypted data sharing in cloud computing

Wang, Lili (author), Lin, Ye (author), Yao, Ting (author), Xiong, Hu (author), Liang, K. (author)

Existing proxy re-encryption (PRE) schemes to secure cloud data sharing raise challenges such as supporting the heterogeneous system efficiently and achieving the unbounded feature. To address this problem, we proposed a fast and secure unbounded cross-domain proxy re-encryption scheme, named FABRIC, which enables the delegator to authorize...

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PIVODL: Privacy-Preserving Vertical Federated Learning Over Distributed Labels

Zhu, Hangyu (author), Wang, R. (author), Jin, Yaochu (author), Liang, K. (author)

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging privacy preserving machine learning protocol that allows multiple devices to collaboratively train a shared global model without revealing their private local data. Nonparametric models like gradient boosting decision trees (GBDTs) have been commonly used in FL for vertically partitioned data. However,...

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A Plant-inspired Light Transducer for High-performance Near-infrared Light Mediated Gas Sensing

Liang, Hongping (author), Guo, Xin (author), Guo, Lanpeng (author), Liu, Siying (author), Zhan, Qiuqiang (author), Yang, Haihong (author), Li, Hao (author), de Rooij, Nicolaas Frans (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, Yao (author), Zhou, Guofu (author)

Constructing near-infrared light (NIR) light-enhanced room temperature gas sensors is becoming more promising for practical application. In this study, learning from the structure and photosynthetic process of chlorophyll thylakoid membranes in plants, the first “Thylakoid membrane” structural formaldehyde (HCHO) sensor is constructed by...

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ROSE: Robust Searchable Encryption with Forward and Backward Security

Xu, Peng (author), Susilo, Willy (author), Wang, Wei (author), Chen, Tianyang (author), Wu, Qianhong (author), Liang, K. (author), Jin, Hai (author)

Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) has been widely recognized as a promising technique to delegate update and search queries over an outsourced database to an untrusted server while guaranteeing the privacy of data. Many efforts on DSSE have been devoted to obtaining a good tradeoff between security and performance. However, it...

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A Novel Unspecific Peroxygenase from Galatian marginata for Biocatalytic Oxyfunctionalization Reactions

Ma, Yunjian (author), Liang, Hongjing (author), Zhao, Zexin (author), Wu, Bin (author), Lan, Dongming (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Wang, Yonghua (author)

Unspecific peroxygenases (UPOs, EC 1.11.2.1) are promising oxyfunctionalization catalysts because of their unique stereoselectivity. However, so far only a few UPOs have been reported. In this study, gene mining was used to identify a gene from Galerina marginata that coded for a novel UPO (GmaUPO). GmaUPO was expressed in Pichia pastoris X...

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Astronomical forcing of meter-scale organic-rich mudstone–limestone cyclicity in the Eocene Dongying sag, China: Implications for shale reservoir exploration

Zhang, Jianguo (author), Jiang, Zaixing (author), Liang, Chao (author), Baars, T.F. (author), Wang, Y. (author), Abels, H.A. (author)

The middle Eocene Dongying sag in the Bohai Bay Basin of China has an estimated shale oil resource of approximately 1.1 billion t (8.06 billion bbl); flows of shale oil have been produced in the succession from tens of wells, where the daily production of a single well generally varies between 10 and 100 t (73.3–733 bbl). Therein, the mudrock...

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Temperature-sensing performance of polymer-derived SiAlCN ceramics up to 1000 °C

Shao, Pengfei (author), Ma, C. (author), Han, Daoyang (author), Liu, Kun (author), Li, Mingliang (author), Liang, Yi (author), Yao, Meng (author), Wang, Hailong (author), Zhang, Rui (author), Shao, Gang (author)

Temperature sensors that can operate in high-temperature and harsh environments are highly desired. However, this is a great challenge for sensing materials to operate under extreme working conditions because of oxidation and/or corrosion at high temperature. In this study, polymer-derived SiAlCN ceramics were prepared as sensing materials to...

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Mapping key features and dimensions of the inclusive city: A systematic bibliometric analysis and literature study

Liang, Danni (author), de Jong, Martin (author), Schraven, D.F.J. (author), Wang, Lili (author)

Many local governments engaging in sustainable urban development also have a growing interest in becoming inclusive too, brand themselves as such and develop policies to become inclusive cities. However, knowing what exactly this entails and how it can be achieved is not always quite straightforward and requires thorough theoretical and...

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Practical Threshold Multi-Factor Authentication

Li, Wenting (author), Cheng, Haibo (author), Wang, Ping (author), Liang, K. (author)

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been widely used to safeguard high-value assets. Unlike single-factor authentication (e.g., password-only login), t-factor authentication (tFA) requires a user always to carry and present t specified factors so as to strengthen the security of login. Nevertheless, this may restrict user experience in...

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Influence of wheel polygonal wear on wheel-rail dynamic contact in a heavy-haul locomotive under traction conditions

Liang, Hongqin (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Wang, Tianlong (author), Wang, Haoyu (author), Zhang, Kailong (author), Cao, Yunqiang (author), An, Dong (author)

For a heavy-haul locomotive within a wheel repairing period, wheel polygonal wear with different operating mileages is obtained by field testing. The test results show that the maximum radial runout of the wheel can increase to 0.87 mm and accompany with the typical damage of wheel tread shelling. Taking the wheel polygons as input excitation...

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Effect of CaO content in raw material on the mineral composition of ferric-rich sulfoaluminate clinker

Yao, X. (author), Yang, Shizhao (author), Dong, H. (author), Wu, Shuang (author), Liang, X. (author), Wang, Wenlong (author)

Ferric-rich calcium sulfoaluminate (FR-CSA) cement is an eco-friendly cement. Fe₂O₃ exists in different minerals of FR-CSA clinker, e.g., Ca₄Al₂Fe₂O₁₀ (C₄AF), Ca₂Fe₂O₅ (C₂F), and Ca₄Al_6-2_xFe...

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Constructing dataset of classified drainage areas based on surface water-supply patterns in High Mountain Asia

Lu, Jieyu (author), Qiu, Yubao (author), Wang, Xingxing (author), Liang, Wenshan (author), Xie, Pengfei (author), Shi, Lijuan (author), Menenti, M. (author), Zhang, Dongshui (author)

The High Mountain Asia (HMA) region, ranging from the Hindu Kush and Tien Shan in the west to the Himalaya in the south with an altitude between 2000 and 8844 m, holds the largest reservoir of glaciers and snow outside Earth Polar Regions. In the last decades, numerous glaciers and lake areas there have undergone tremendous changes with water...

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