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Bai, Q. (author), Mestdagh, S.M.F. (author), Snellen, M. (author), Amiri Simkooei, A. (author)Acoustic classification using single-beam and multi-beam echosounders has been widely applied in characterizing seabed sediments. Although previous studies have shown a better discrimination of fine and coarse sediments using multi-spectral echosounder data, analysis regarding comprehensive seabed sediment properties is still needed. In this...conference paper 2023
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Liu, Huanhuan (author), Wang, R. (author), Gao, Haiyan (author), Chen, Lijuan (author), Li, Xiaochen (author), Yu, Xuan (author), Wu, Yaping (author), Bai, Yan (author), Wei, W. (author), Wang, Meiyun (author)The development of clinical imaging techniques significantly improves diagnostic accuracy and provides guidance for personalized treatment of individuals. However, every single imaging modality has its distinct drawbacks that cannot fully fulfil the diagnosis requirement. Thus, rational combination of different imaging modalities can achieve...review 2023
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Ma, Yuanxing (author), Shi, Baobin (author), Ali, Liaqat (author), Bai, Yong (author), Fang, P. (author)Wire ropes are widely observed in many industries such as marine engineering and civil engineering, as a type of structure that can bear huge axial force. There are various kinds of wire ropes in practical engineering, corresponding to different usage scenarios. This paper focuses on 6 × 36SW + 1WR with a diameter of 16 mm. The axial...journal article 2023
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Mestdagh, S.M.F. (author), Bai, Q. (author), Snellen, M. (author)Detailed knowledge of both the sedimentological and ecological characteristics of the seafloor is essential when undertaking bottom-disturbing activities, but can be a challenge to obtain. Through backscatter data at different frequencies, collected with a multi-spectral multi-beam sonar, information on the structure of both the sediment...conference paper 2023
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Jiang, Xi (author), Zhu, Hehua (author), Yan, Zhiguo (author), Zhang, Fengshou (author), Ye, Fei (author), Li, Peinan (author), Zhang, X. (author), Dai, Zhiren (author), Bai, Yun (author), Huang, Baoshan (author)Backfill grouting plays a vital role in shield tunneling. This paper aims to present a comprehensive review of the development and progress of backfill grouting materials specifically designed for shield tunneling. Initially, the various components of grouts, such as pozzolanic materials, filling fine aggregates, and chemical additives, are...journal article 2023
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Luo, Maoyi (author), Wang, Hang (author), Zheng, Xiaohui (author), Wüthrich, D. (author), Bai, Ruidi (author), Liu, Shanjun (author)In high dam construction projects in China, stilling basin design with an abrupt bottom drop is sometimes introduced to reduce the bottom velocity and pressure loads by generating A-type hydraulic jumps. Although the stilling basin design is not new, A-type hydraulic jumps have not been studied taking into account the air entrainment and...journal article 2023
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Forman, Jack (author), Pataranutaporn, Pat (author), Gough, Phillip (author), Kim, Raphael (author), Bell, Fiona (author), Ofer, Netta (author), Lu, Jasmine (author), Vujic, Angela (author), Bai, Muqing (author)As knowledge around bio-digital interaction continues to unfold, there are new opportunities for HCI researchers to integrate biology as a design and computational material. Our motivation for the workshop is to bring together interdisciplinary researchers with interest in exploring the next generation of biological HCI and exploring novel...conference paper 2023
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Bai, X. (author), Fielbaum, Andres (author), Kronmüller, M. (author), Knödler, L. (author), Alonso-Mora, J. (author)This paper studies the multi-robot task assignment problem in which a fleet of dispersed robots needs to efficiently transport a set of dynamically appearing packages from their initial locations to corresponding destinations within prescribed time-windows. Each robot can carry multiple packages simultaneously within its capacity. Given a...journal article 2023
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Li, Mengyu (author), Bai, Yahan (author), Zhuang, Wei (author), Liu, Jinle (author), Wang, Zhi (author), Rao, Yuan (author), Li, Mengran (author), Ying, Hanjie (author), Ouyang, Pingkai (author)A novel magnetic 2D/2D heterogeneous structure MXene@NiFe-LDH@Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> was prepared for immobilization of laccase. In this work, two-dimensional MXene nanosheets with abundant surface functional groups were heterogeneously assembled with layered double hydroxide (LDH) by in situ co-precipitation method, and magnetic...journal article 2023
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Bai, C. (author), Yan, Peng (author), Yu, Xiaoqiang (author), Guo, Jifeng (author)Unmanned and intelligent technologies are the future development trend in the business field. It is of great significance for the connotation analysis and application characterization of massive interactive data. Particularly, during major epidemics or disasters, how to provide business services safely and securely is crucial. Specifically,...journal article 2022
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Bai, Ying (author), Wang, Zongzhi (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Agricultural activities can be important source of organic pollution. In agricultural intensive areas, organic chemicals have a high possibility of entering the water cycle, which could pose a potential risk to human health. Low-cost and high efficiency in-situ techniques instead of energy and money consuming ones to control agricultural organic...review 2022
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Bai, N. (author), Nourian, Pirouz (author), Luo, Renqian (author), Pereira Roders, A. (author)Values (why to conserve) and Attributes (what to conserve) are essential concepts of cultural heritage. Recent studies have been using social media to map values and attributes conveyed by the public to cultural heritage. However, it is rare to connect heterogeneous modalities of images, texts, geo-locations, timestamps, and social network...journal article 2022
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Wu, Jiansong (author), Zhang, Linlin (author), Bai, Yiping (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author)In recent years, frequent large-scale power grid accidents have caused serious economic losses and bad social impact, which has drawn great attention from power grid enterprises. As one of the key elements of production, safety investment plays an important role in improving the safety level and reducing accident loss. In this paper, System...journal article 2022
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Motalifu, Mailidan (author), Tian, Yue (author), Liu, Yi (author), Zhao, Dongfeng (author), Bai, Mingqi (author), Kan, Yufeng (author), Qi, Meng (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Roy, Nitin (author)The chemical process industry (CPI) in China is developing rapidly with installations becoming more complicated and integrated to meet people's rising demands for chemical-related products. However, the fast-growing CPI has caused catastrophic consequences and bad social influence due to accidents occurred in the last decades, which has...journal article 2022
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Fang, P. (author), Xu, Yuxin (author), Gao, Yifan (author), Ali, Liaqat (author), Bai, Yong (author)Composite structures, such as the fiberglass reinforced structure studied in this paper, have been normally treated in previous research as homogeneous anisotropic laminated plates regarding the investigation of their mechanical properties. Throughout this paper, this specific structure is considered in a different way in which the fiberglass...journal article 2022
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Yi, Jinming (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Bai, Tao (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Gao, Y. (author), Wu, Fan (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Liu, Quantao (author), Li, Chuangmin (author)To meet the needs of the road industry for maintenance operations, a new cement emulsified bitumen mixture (CEBM) with early-strength, self-compacting, and room-temperature construction characteristics was designed. The strength formation mechanism of CEBM was revealed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the surface free energy (SFE...journal article 2022
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Jia, Jinhao (author), Li, Cong (author), Chen, Qiang (author), Bai, Shuxin (author), Chang, J. (author), Xiong, Degan (author), Gao, Mingqi (author), Li, Shun (author), Xiao, Jin (author)3D C<sub>f</sub>/SiC–Al composites were achieved through the pressure infiltration of liquid Al–Si alloy into porous 3D C<sub>f</sub>/SiC preform, which was produced by different cycles of precursor infiltration and pyrolysis. The effect of silicon carbide volume fraction on the microstructure, anisotropic mechanical response, and...journal article 2022
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Li, Yuanyuan (author), Li, Jun (author), Li, Chao (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Bai, Tao (author), Tang, Shimin (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Gao, Y. (author), Zhu, Hongbin (author), Feng, Jianlin (author)A self-compacting steel slag epoxy resin concrete (SERC) was designed with steel slag as aggregate and epoxy resin as binder for rapid repair of road expansion joints and pavement. At the same time, a group of self-compacting basalt epoxy resin concrete (BERC) with basalt as coarse aggregate and limestone as fine aggregate was set up as the...journal article 2022
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Bai, Y. (author), Wu, Jiansong (author), Yuan, S. (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Yang, M. (author), Cai, Jitao (author)As a kind of critical infrastructure of energy transportation, so-called ‘utility tunnels’ have been developed around the world. Hosting a natural gas pipeline inside the natural gas compartment of a utility tunnel facilitates its maintenance but also brings potential explosion concerns due to the confined space. Although some work focuses on...journal article 2022
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Bai, C. (author), Yan, Peng (author), Pan, W. (author), Guo, Jifeng (author)Multi-robot formation control has been intensively studied in recent years. In practical applications, the multi-robot system's ability to independently change the formation to avoid collision among the robots or with obstacles is critical. In this study, a multi-robot adaptive formation control framework based on deep reinforcement learning...journal article 2022