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A New Quantitative Method for Studying the Vulnerability of Civil Aviation Network System to Spatially Localized Hazards

Li, H. (author), Hu, Xiao Bing (author), Guo, Xiaomei (author), Xu, Z. (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)

As an important infrastructure system, civil aviation network system can be severely affected by natural hazards. Although a natural hazard is usually local, its impact, through the network topology, can become global. Inspired by Wilkinson’s work in 2012, this article proposes a new quantitative spatial vulnerability model for network...

journal article 2016

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Assessment of Water Use in Pan-Eurasian and African Continents by ETMonitor with Multi-Source Satellite Data

Zheng, Chaolei (author), Jia, L. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author), Menenti, M. (author), Lu, Jing (author), Zhou, J. (author), Wang, Kun (author), Li, Zhansheng (author)

The Pan-Eurasian and African Continents are characterized by large ranges of climates varying from humid, semi-humid, semi-arid and arid regions, and great challenges exist in water allocation for different sectors that related to water resource and food security, which depends strongly on the water use information. Quantitative information...

journal article 2017

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Size and Topology Optimization for Trusses with Discrete Design Variables by Improved Firefly Algorithm

Wu, Yue (author), Li, Q. (author), Hu, Qingjie (author), Borgart, A. (author)

Firefly Algorithm (FA, for short) is inspired by the social behavior of fireflies and their phenomenon of bioluminescent communication. Based on the fundamentals of FA, two improved strategies are proposed to conduct size and topology optimization for trusses with discrete design variables. Firstly, development of structural topology...

journal article 2017

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Deriving vegetation drag coefficients in combined wave-current flows by calibration and direct measurement methods

Chen, Hui (author), Ni, Yan (author), Li, Yulong (author), Liu, Feng (author), Ou, Suying (author), Su, Min (author), Peng, Yisheng (author), Hu, Zhan (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author), Suzuki, T. (author)

Coastal vegetation is efficient in damping incident waves even in storm events, thus providing valuable protections to coastal communities. However, large uncertainties lie in determining vegetation drag coefficients (C_D), which are directly related to the wave damping capacity of a certain vegetated area. One major uncertainty is...

journal article 2018

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Modeling and Analyzing Impacts of Drifting Anisotropic Ionospheric Irregularities on Inclined Geosynchronous SAR

Dong, Xichao (author), Hu, Jiaqi (author), Hu, Cheng (author), Li, Y. (author), Sun, Shiyu (author)

The sub-satellite track of geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) presents the figure "8" or "O", which causes the great changes of platform motion direction and the different projection of anisotropic irregularities along the line-of-sight (LOS) direction. Due to the almost equal angle velocity to that of Earth, the GEO SAR has...

journal article 2019

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Modeling and quantitative analysis of tropospheric impact on inclined geosynchronous SAR imaging

Dong, Xichao (author), Hu, Jiaqi (author), Hu, Cheng (author), Long, Teng (author), Li, Y. (author), Tian, Ye (author)

Geosynchronous orbit synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) has a long integration time and a large imaging scene. Therefore, various nonideal factors are easily accumulated, introducing phase errors and degrading the imaging quality. Within the long integration time, tropospheric status changes with time and space, which will result in image shifts...

journal article 2019

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Formation design for single-pass GEO InSAR considering earth rotation based on coordinate rotational transformation

Chen, Zhiyang (author), Dong, Xichao (author), Li, Y. (author), Hu, Cheng (author)

The single-pass geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar interferometry (GEO InSAR) adopts the formation of a slave satellite accompanying the master satellite, which can reduce the temporal decorrelation caused by atmospheric disturbance and observation time gap between repeated tracks. Current formation design methods for spaceborne SAR are...

journal article 2020

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Geosynchronous spaceborne-airborne bistatic moving target indication system: Performance analysis and configuration design

Dong, Xichao (author), Cui, Chang (author), Li, Y. (author), Hu, Cheng (author)

Geosynchronous spaceborne-airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar (GEO SA-BSAR), consisting of GEO transmitter and airborne receiver, has stable coverage for a long time and benefits moving target detection. However, the performance of GEO SA-BSAR moving target indication (MTI) system varies widely between bistatic configurations. The...

journal article 2020

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Hypericin: Source, Determination, Separation, and Properties

Zhang, Jie (author), Gao, Ling (author), Hu, Jie (author), Wang, Chongjun (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Li, Ning (author), Zhou, Xing (author)

Hypericin is a naturally occurring compound synthesized by certain species of the genus Hypericum, with various pharmacological effects. It is used as a natural photosensitizing agent with great potential in photodynamic therapy. This review discusses the latest results about the biosynthetic pathways and chemical synthetic routes to obtain...

journal article 2020

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Research progress on geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar

Hu, Cheng (author), Chen, Zhiyang (author), Li, Y. (author), Dong, Xichao (author), Hobbs, Stephen (author)

Based on its ability to obtain two-dimensional (2D) high-resolution images in all-time and all-weather conditions, spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has become an important remote sensing technique and the study of such systems has entered a period of vigorous development. Advanced imaging modes such as radar interferometry,...

review 2021

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Study on the aging resistance of polyurethane precursor modified bitumen and its mechanism

Zhang, Liang (author), Li, Pengfei (author), Hu, Guanfeng (author), Zhang, Sufeng (author), Hong, Bin (author), Wang, H. (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Oeser, Markus (author)

As an environmentally friendly alternative for the production of high-performance modified asphalt by chemical reactions, a liquid-state polyurethane-precursor-based reactive modifier (PRM) was developed and employed in the asphalt modification. In contrast to the traditional solid bitumen modifier, for example, rubber and thermoplastic...

journal article 2021

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Laboratory data on wave propagation through vegetation with following and opposing currents

Hu, Zhan (author), Lian, Simei (author), Wei, Huaiyu (author), Li, Yulong (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author), Suzuki, T. (author)

Coastal vegetation has been increasingly recognized as an effective buffer against wind waves. Recent laboratory studies have considered realistic vegetation traits and hydrodynamic conditions, which advanced our understanding of the wave dissipation process in vegetation (WDV) in field conditions. In intertidal environments, waves commonly...

journal article 2021

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New innovations in pavement materials and engineering: A review on pavement engineering research 2021

Chen, Jiaqi (author), Dan, Hancheng (author), Ding, Yongjie (author), Gao, Y. (author), Guo, Meng (author), Guo, Shuaicheng (author), Han, Bingye (author), Hong, Bin (author), Hou, Yue (author), Hu, Chichun (author), Hu, Jing (author), Huyan, Ju (author), Jiang, Jiwang (author), Jiang, Wei (author), Li, Cheng (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Liu, Yu (author), Liu, Zhuangzhuang (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Ouyang, Jian (author), Qu, Xin (author), Ren, Dongya (author), Wang, Chao (author), Wang, Chaohui (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Wang, Di (author), Wang, Hainian (author), Wang, Haopeng (author), Xiao, Yue (author), Xing, Chao (author), Xu, Huining (author), Yan, Yu (author), Yang, Xu (author), You, Lingyun (author), You, Zhanping (author), Yu, Bin (author), Yu, Huayang (author), Yu, Huanan (author), Zhang, Henglong (author), Zhang, Jizhe (author), Zhou, Changhong (author), Zhou, Changjun (author), Zhu, Xingyi (author)

Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly supports the rapid development of the global social economy. New theories, new methods, new technologies and new materials related to pavement engineering are emerging....

review 2021

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Moving Target Detection and Parameter Estimation via a Modified Imaging STAP with a Large Baseline in Multistatic GEO SAR

Dong, Xichao (author), Cui, Chang (author), Tian, Weiming (author), Li, Y. (author), Mounir, Melzi (author), Hu, Cheng (author)

With the development trends of multistatic spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR), geosynchronous SAR (GEO SAR) employing several formation-flying small satellites also has great potential for remote sensing. The small satellites can cooperate to acquire multi-channel data for moving target detection and parameter estimation in strong...

journal article 2021

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Morphodynamic changes in the Yangtze Estuary under the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, estuarine engineering interventions and climate-induced sea level rise

Cheng, H. Q. (author), Chen, W. (author), Li, J. F. (author), Jiang, Y. H. (author), Hu, X. (author), Zhang, X. L. (author), Zhou, F. N. (author), Hu, F. X. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)

The estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) in the Yangtze Estuary Delta (YED) is muddy by definition and lacks bottom undulations. However, since 2013, a remarkable change has occurred in the YED. Recent images detected by a multibeam echosounder system, SeaBat 7125, for the first time have confirmed widespread regions of subaqueous dunes in the...

journal article 2022

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Rapid Surface Large-Change Monitoring by Repeat-Pass GEO SAR Multibaseline Interferometry

Li, Y. (author), Hu, Cheng (author), Ao, Dongyang (author)

Fast observations of rapid surface large-changes are demanded in disaster evaluations and scientific studies. Digital elevation model (DEM) differencing before and after the events is an effective way to retrieve the changes. Owing to a short repeat cycle, geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) systems can quickly obtain repeat...

journal article 2022

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China's transportation sector carbon dioxide emissions efficiency and its influencing factors based on the EBM DEA model with undesirable outputs and spatial Durbin model

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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Improve the long-term property of heat-cured mortars blended with fly ash by internal curing

Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lu (author), Li, Z. (author), Nie, Shuai (author), Hu, Chuanlin (author), Wang, Fazhou (author)

Due to the satisfactory property and high productivity, heat-cured concretes have been widely used in engineering practice. However, heat curing process also brings some drawbacks that are detrimental to the long-term property of this material. To address this issue, lightweight fine aggregate (LWFA) was employed to provide internal curing ...

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Regulating the reaction zone of electrochemical CO₂ reduction on gas-diffusion electrodes by distinctive hydrophilic-hydrophobic catalyst layers

Rabiee, Hesamoddin (author), Ge, Lei (author), Zhao, Jing (author), Zhang, Xueqin (author), Li, Mengran (author), Hu, Shihu (author), Smart, Simon (author), Rufford, Thomas E. (author), Zhu, Zhonghua (author)

Regulating the rational wettability on gas-diffusion electrodes (GDEs) plays a pivotal role to improve the efficiency of CO₂RR via fine-tuning the reaction zone and boosting the formation of triple-phase interfaces. Herein, we present a wettability regulation strategy that modulates the triple-phase reaction zone in the catalyst...

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The Effect of Phenotype and Genotype on the Plasma Proteome in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Bourgonje, Arno R. (author), Hu, Shixian (author), Spekhorst, Lieke M. (author), Zhernakova, Daria V. (author), Vila, Arnau Vich (author), Li, Yanni (author), Charrout, M. (author), Mahfouz, A.M.E.T.A. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author)

Background and Aims: Protein profiling in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases [IBD] for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes is underexplored. This study analysed the association between phenotype, genotype, and the plasma proteome in IBD. Methods: A total of 92 inflammation-related proteins were quantified in plasma of 1028 patients...

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