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Zhang, Liang (author), Li, Guang (author), Chen, Huang (author), Tang, Jingtian (author), Yang, Guanci (author), Yu, Mingbiao (author), Hu, Yong (author), Xu, Jun (author), Sun, J. (author)Audio magnetotelluric (AMT) is commonly used in mineral resource exploration. However, the weak energy of AMT signals makes them susceptible to being overwhelmed by noise, leading to erroneous geophysical interpretations. In recent years, deep learning has been applied to AMT denoising and has shown better denoising performance compared to...journal article 2024
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Zou, Yingxue (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Liu, Quantao (author), Amirkhanian, Serji (author), Xu, S. (author), Yang, Chao (author), Wan, Pei (author), Xu, Haiqin (author), Lu, Ziyu (author)This study characterized the morphology, high-temperature property, rheological property, adhesion, cohesion, and chemical component of asphalt binder under aqueous solutions of different pH values. Then the physicochemical properties of asphalt binder were comprehensively evaluated by the improved radar chart. The properties of asphalt...journal article 2024
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Zhou, Yimin (author), Gillavry, Merlijn Mac (author), Yang, Pengzhi (author), Xu, Zihao (author), Zhang, Baitian (author), Bidarra, Rafael (author)As one of the most disruptive human-computer interaction techniques, Virtual Reality (VR) provides a novel way to examine human movements, e.g. when investigating Body Ownership (BO) in the field of cognitive sciences, especially when the visual output diverges from real-world actions. Previous research in BO uses questionnaires and brain...conference paper 2024
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Dianyu, E. (author), Su, Zhongfang (author), Zeng, Jia (author), Yang, Liuyimei (author), Li, Jing (author), Xu, Qiang (author), Wang, L. (author), Cui, Jiaxin (author)Ionic rare earth ore is a type of featured rare earth ore in China. Its mining process suffers from a long leaching cycle and considerable consumption of leaching agents. Improving mining efficiency requires a sound physical understanding of the leaching process. In this study, the CFD-based numerical model is used to analyze the physical...journal article 2023
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Luo, Yifan (author), Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Xu, Yong (author), Menenti, M. (author), Wong, Man Sing (author)The urban heat island effect poses a growing threat to human society, especially in densely populated and developed megacities. With the introduction of the Local Climate Zones (LCZ) framework, new perspectives and findings have been brought to urban heat island studies. This study investigated the cooling effect of vegetation and albedo on the...journal article 2023
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Xu, Y. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Chen, Chao (author)Domino accidents are typical low-frequency and high-consequence events in chemical process industries. Applying quantitative risk assessment (QRA) in domino accident assessment is challenging due to the uncertainties in the escalation process. Meanwhile, the outcomes of QRA are subject to a certain degree of unreliability due to the...journal article 2023
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Tu, Botao (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Xu, S. (author), Zhao, Zenggang (author), Zhou, Yuheng (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)As a kind of solid waste, using Prestressed High-Strength Concrete Pile Waste Concrete (PPWC) as the replacement for limestone filler in asphalt concrete can not only reduce the accumulation of PPWC and increase its utilization but also avoid the increased road construction costs and environmental degradation associated with limestone mining....journal article 2023
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Tu, Botao (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Xu, S. (author), Liang, X. (author), Liu, C. (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)Using solid waste to replace limestone filler in asphalt concrete can not only reduce the cost of road construction, but also improve the utilization rate of solid waste. In this study, PHC pile waste concrete (PPWC) was innovatively used to replace limestone filler in asphalt mixture and its effect on the physical and rheological properties...journal article 2023
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Yang, Xinkui (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Xu, S. (author), Chen, B. (author), Chen, Dongyu (author), Wang, Fusong (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)Aimed to address the low utilization rate of steel slag (SS) and its challenge in resource utilization in China, this study developed ternary geopolymers made by high-content (50%) SS together with fly ash (FA) and granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS). The effects of GBFS content (0–40%) and curing methods (water curing, standard curing,...journal article 2023
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Yao, X. (author), Yang, Y. (author), Vledder, G. (author), Xu, J. (author), Song, Y. (author), Vink, P. (author)Wearables are used to recognize human activities in various applications. However, there is limited evidence on the comfort feelings in using wearables, which is crucial for the adoption and long-term engagement of users in those applications. In this paper, we propose the concept of comfort wearables in the context of in-flight posture...journal article 2023
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Yang, Huiru (author), Wang, S. (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Xu, Siyuan (author), Ye, Huaiyu (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Flexible strain sensors based on nanomaterials have sparked a lot of interest in the field of wearable smart electronics. Laser induced graphene (LIG) based sensors in particular stand out due to their straightforward fabrication procedure, three-dimensional porous structures, and exceptional electromechanical capabilities. Recent studies...journal article 2023
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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...journal article 2023
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Huang, Qian Ming (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Wang, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Tan, C. (author), Luo, Anxin (author), Xu, Siyuan (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Ye, H. (author)Laser-induced graphene (LIG) has aroused a wide range of research interests ranging from micro-nano energy devices to the Internet of Things (IoT). Nevertheless, the non-degradability of most-used synthetic polymer carbon sources poses a serious threat to the environment. In this work, ecofriendly chitosan-based derivatives, including...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Bin (author), Gao, Xu (author), Xu, S. (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Tian, Qin (author), Liu, Jiayi (author)Microwave heating is an effective method to achieve autonomic crack healing in asphalt mixtures, and the use of microwave-absorbing materials can largely improve this healing efficiency. As a solid waste, coal gangue contains metal oxides, which shows the possibility of microwave heating. In order to further promote the application of coal...journal article 2023
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Duan, Di (author), Yang, Huanqi (author), Lan, G. (author), Li, Tianxing (author), Jia, Xiaohua (author), Xu, Weitao (author)This paper presents EMGSense, a low-effort self-supervised domain adaptation framework for sensing applications based on Electromyography (EMG). EMGSense addresses one of the fundamental challenges in EMG cross-user sensing—the significant performance degradation caused by time-varying biological heterogeneity—in a low-effort (data-efficient and...conference paper 2023
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Xu, Yaowen (author), Liang, X. (author), Wan, Chaojun (author), Yang, Hongyu (author), Feng, Xiaming (author)This paper develops a kind of molded disc samples to investigate the carbonation and related behaviors of hardened cement pastes under different previous hydration degrees. Weight and length changes of cement pastes over time are monitored during a multistep process including carbonation, drying, rewetting, and redrying. The combination of X...journal article 2023
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Wang, Xufei (author), Yang, Z. (author), Cheng, Xiaojun (author), Stoter, J.E. (author), Xu, Wenbing (author), Wu, Zhenlun (author), Nan, L. (author)Registering point clouds of forest environments is an essential prerequisite for LiDAR applications in precision forestry. State-of-the-art methods for forest point cloud registration require the extraction of individual tree attributes, and they have an efficiency bottleneck when dealing with point clouds of real-world forests with dense...journal article 2023
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Yang, Yueming (author), Wang, Xurong (author), Hooman, K. (author), Han, Kuihua (author), Xu, Jinliang (author), He, Suoying (author), Qi, Jianhui (author)Recently, the supercritical carbon dioxide (SCO<sub>2</sub>) power cycle has become a hotspot in the field of energy-efficient utilization. The utilization of additives in the power cycle has been proven to be an effective way to improve the SCO<sub>2</sub> power cycle efficiency. As one of the core components of the system, the influence of...journal article 2023
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Xu, Y. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Yuan, S. (author), Chen, C. (author)Data uncertainties caused by the lack of knowledge and nature variation or randomness present vital challenges to domino effects modelling. To improve the assessment of the propagation probabilities and consequences of the domino-effect accidents, the influence of various types of uncertainties on risk assessment results needs to be investigated...journal article 2022