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Liang, Yansong (author), Wang, Ruizhi (author), Chen, Zhongsheng (author), Du, S. (author)This paper presents a boost converter for thermo-electric energy harvesting with photovoltaic (PV)-assisted startup. The converter employs a new two-phase startup architecture and the PV cell is used in the first phase to provide an initial high voltage for startup. This high voltage drives the boost converter to charge a startup capacitor,...conference paper 2022
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Wang, Jianqiang (author), Gao, Yixun (author), Chen, Fengjia (author), Zhang, Lulu (author), Li, Hao (author), De Rooij, Nicolaas Frans (author), Umar, Ahmad (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author)Implementing parts per billion-level nitric oxide (NO) sensing at room temperature (RT) is still in extreme demand for monitoring inflammatory respiratory diseases. Herein, we have prepared a kind of core-shell structural Hemin-based nanospheres (Abbr.: Hemin-nanospheres, defined as HNSs) with the core of amorphous Hemin and the shell of...journal article 2022
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Wang, L. (author), Golfier, Fabrice (author), Tinet, Anne-Julie (author), Chen, Weizhong (author), Vuik, Cornelis (author)This work investigates numerical method and equivalent continuum approach (ECA) of fluid flow in fractured porous media. The commonly used discrete fracture model (DFM) without upscaling needs full discretization of all fractures. It enjoys the merit of capturing each fracture accurately but will get in trouble with mesh partition and low...journal article 2022
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Frozen soil hydrological modeling for a mountainous catchment northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet PlateauGao, Hongkai (author), Han, Chuntan (author), Chen, Rensheng (author), Feng, Zijing (author), Wang, Kang (author), Fenicia, Fabrizio (author), Savenije, Hubert (author)Increased attention directed at frozen soil hydrology has been prompted by climate change. In spite of an increasing number of field measurements and modeling studies, the impact of frozen soil on hydrological processes at the catchment scale is still unclear. However, frozen soil hydrology models have mostly been developed based on a bottom...journal article 2022
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Fan, Guangpeng (author), Xu, Zhenyu (author), Wang, Jinhu (author), Nan, L. (author), Xiao, Huijie (author), Xin, Zhiming (author), Chen, Feixiang (author)Complexity of forest structure is an important factor contributing to uncertainty in aboveground biomass estimates. In this study, we present a new method for reducing uncertainty in forest aboveground biomass (AGB) estimation based on plot-level terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) point clouds reconstruction. The method estimates the total AGB...journal article 2022
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Han, Rui (author), Wen, Shilin (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Yuan, Ye (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Edge-cloud jobs are rapidly prevailing in many application domains, posing the challenge of using both resource-strenuous edge devices and elastic cloud resources. Efficient resource allocation on such jobs via scheduling algorithms is essential to guarantee their performance, e.g. latency. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is increasingly...conference paper 2022
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Wang, Fu (author), Zhu, Hongbin (author), Shu, Benan (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Gu, Dengjun (author), Gao, Y. (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author)Traditional asphalt mixtures can't absorb microwave energy efficiently, which limits the development of microwave heating technology in the field of road maintenance. Based on the microwave heating characteristics of basalt aggregates, the overall microwave self-healing rate of the asphalt mixture can be enhanced. The basalt was tested by XRF,...journal article 2022
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Li, Mingyang (author), Ao, Yibin (author), Deng, Shulin (author), Peng, Panyu (author), Chen, Shuangzhou (author), Wang, T. (author), Martek, Igor (author), Bahmani, Homa (author)Under circumstances of pervasive global aging combined with weakened traditional family elder care, an incremental demand for institutional elder care is generated. This has led to a surge in research regarding institutional elder care. Rural residents’ institutional elder care is receiving more attention as a major theme in social sciences and...journal article 2022
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Wang, L. (author), Li, S. (author), Wang, Ping (author), Chen, Rong (author), Li, Z. (author)The continuous homogeneous rail constraint of embedded rail system (ERS) is realized by the encapsulation of rails with the elastic poured compound (EPC) which is a composite material. Previous treatment of EPC as linear elastic material was insufficient in the failure analysis of ERS. In this work, a hyperelastic model is developed to...journal article 2022
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Yang, Liu (author), Ma, Yunjian (author), Chen, Yebao (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Wang, Yonghua (author)Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are widely used as plastic additives to increase the flexibility and durability of plastics. Constantly leaching out from plastics, PAEs are ubiquitously found in the environment. As PAEs exhibit biological activities such as being endocrine disruptive, the quest for efficient degradation strategies continues. Here...journal article 2022
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Wang, Ye (author), Ren, Genkuan (author), Jiang, Bing (author), Yang, Lin (author), Zhang, Zhiye (author), Wang, Xinlong (author), Zhong, Yanjun (author), Chen, Z. (author), Yang, Xiushan (author), Morita, Kazuki (author), Ma, Wenhui (author)Nanometer-sized hematite was prepared via a two-step process. In the first step, FeSO<sub>4</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O was oxidized to Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> by oxygen in an acidic solution. In the second step, the Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> was reduced to nanosize hematite with sulfur vapor at 550 °C. The...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Qinglong (author), Han, Rui (author), Xin, Gaofeng (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been showing significant success in various anomaly detection applications such as smart surveillance and industrial quality control. It is increasingly important to detect anomalies directly on edge devices, because of high responsiveness requirements and tight latency constraints. The accuracy of DNN-based...journal article 2022
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Ao, Yibin (author), Zhong, Jinglin (author), Zhang, Zijun (author), Han, Lili (author), Wang, Yan (author), Chen, Yunfeng (author), Wang, T. (author)Residents’ satisfaction with post-disaster reconstruction in earthquake-stricken areas directly affects their quality of life, which cannot be ignored in post-disaster reconstruction. More than 10 years after the Wenchuan earthquake, we took ten randomly selected villages in the five areas hardest-hit by the Wenchuan earthquake as research...journal article 2022
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Gu, Guanjie (author), Yang, Changgui (author), Li, Zhuhao (author), Feng, Xiangdong (author), Chang, Ziyi (author), Wang, Ting-Hsun (author), Zhang, Yunshan (author), Luo, Yuxuan (author), Zhang, Hong (author), Wang, Ping (author), Du, S. (author), Chen, Yong (author), Zhao, Bo (author)Body Channel Communication (BCC) offers a low-loss signal transmission medium for ultra-low-power wearable devices on human body [1]. However, the effective communication range on human body is limited to less than 1m in the state-of-the-art BCC transceivers [2], where the signal loss at the interface of body surface and BCC receiver remains to...conference paper 2022
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Wu, Guohua (author), Luo, Qizhang (author), Du, Xiao (author), Chen, Yingguo (author), Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam (author), Wang, X. (author)Satellite observation scheduling plays a significant role in improving the efficiency of Earth observation systems. To solve the large-scale multisatellite observation scheduling problem, this article proposes an ensemble of metaheuristic and exact algorithms based on a divide-And-conquer framework (EHE-DCF), including a task allocation phase...journal article 2022
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Ma, Xiaochuan (author), Wang, L. (author), Xu, Jinhui (author), Feng, Qingsong (author), Liu, Linya (author), Chen, Huapeng (author)Based on ordinary state-based peridynamic theory, a 2D peridynamic model has been established to investigate fatigue crack propagation in railheads. The proposed model is verified in terms of rail deformation under a quasi-static load and the ductile material-related fatigue failure model. Good agreements have been achieved between a finite...journal article 2022
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Ding, Wenlong (author), Wang, Y. (author), Chu, Pengzi (author), Chen, Feng (author), Song, Yongchao (author), Zhang, Ning (author), Lin, Dong (author)The rapid development of the economy has promoted the growth of freight transportation. The truck service areas on expressways, as the main places for truck drivers to rest, play an important role in ensuring the driving safety of trucks. If these service areas are constructed densely or provide a plentiful supply of parking areas, they are...journal article 2022
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Liu, Suhui (author), Chen, Liquan (author), Wang, Huaqun (author), Fu, S. (author), Shi, Lin (author)Wireless body area networks (WBAN) enable ubiquitous monitoring of patients, which can change the future of healthcare services overwhelmingly. As the collected data of patients usually contain sensitive information, how to collect, transfer, store and share data securely and properly has become a concerning issue. Attribute-based encryption ...journal article 2022
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Hou, Jue (author), Liu, Zhou (author), Wang, Shaorong (author), Chen, Zhe (author), Xie, Wei (author), Fang, Cheng (author), Wei, Xinchi (author), Popov, M. (author)Supplementary control (SC) technology is widely leveraged by power supply companies in active distribution networks (ADNs) to improve their stability and dynamic characteristics. Yet, the existed SCs are generally implemented from inside the converter controllers of distributed generators (DGs) or active loads, so there is a need to redesign...journal article 2022
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Chen, Haiqiang (author), Lei, Yutian (author), Yao, Huanhuan (author), Li, Zhizai (author), Peng, Guoqiang (author), Zhou, Xufeng (author), Wang, H. (author), Wang, Qian (author), Jin, Zhiwen (author)Two-dimensional (2D) Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) CsPbI3 exhibits enhanced phase stability compared with 3D CsPbI3. However, the issue of the uncontrollable crystallization process limits its photovoltaic performance. Here, the influence of a binary mixed solvent on the film quality and photovoltaic properties of (PEA)2Cs4Pb5I16 (n = 5) is studied...journal article 2022