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Cosmi, V. (author), Wang, B. (author), Goorden, M.C. (author), Beekman, F.J. (author)Background: Gamma camera imaging, including single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), is crucial for research, diagnostics, and radionuclide therapy. Gamma cameras are predominantly based on arrays of photon multipliers tubes (PMTs) that read out NaI(Tl) scintillation crystals. In this way, standard gamma cameras can localize ɣ-rays...journal article 2024
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Guo, Xiaoyang (author), van de Kleut, Dick (author), Zhang, J. (author), Chen, C. (author), Wang, Xuehang (author), Zheng, Tianye (author), Boles, Steven (author)Activated carbon has long been recognized as a promising electrode material for energy storage devices. The extraordinarily high specific area makes it challenging to replace in supercapacitors since electrical double-layer capacitors need such surfaces but also porous networks to enable electrolyte penetration. As a raw material for...journal article 2024
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Wang, Li (author), Schuster, Mathieu (author), Xin, Shi Wei (author), Zainescu, Florin (author), Xue, X. (author), Storms, J.E.A. (author), May, Jan Hendrik (author), Nutz, Alexis (author), van der Vegt, Helena (author), Bozetti, Guilherme (author), Jiang, Zai Xing (author)Two rectangular-shaped lakes, Lake Hulun and Lake Buir, located at the boundary between China and Mongolia, only c. 75 km apart and therefore experiencing similar wind fields, have been studied based on satellite images and field surveys in order to compare their geomorphological and sedimentological characteristics. The wind-driven...journal article 2024
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Wang, Jianyun (author), Zhang, Rui (author), Hou, Fuxing (author), Ye, G. (author)Microbial induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) technology has been successfully used to enhance the properties of recycled concrete aggregates. However, the complex source and varied physical and chemical properties of recycled aggregates may have influence on the modification efficiency since microbes are often sensitive to the...journal article 2024
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Xu, Yingfu (author), Shidqi, Kevin (author), van Schaik, Gert-Jan (author), Bilgic, Refik (author), Dobrita, Alexandra (author), Wang, Shenqi (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Yousefzadeh, Amirreza (author)Neuromorphic processors promise low-latency and energy-efficient processing by adopting novel brain-inspired design methodologies. Yet, current neuromorphic solutions still struggle to rival conventional deep learning accelerators' performance and area efficiency in practical applications. Event-driven data-flow processing and near/in-memory...journal article 2024
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Wang, X. (author), Xiao, Y. (author), Rans, C.D. (author), Benedictus, R. (author), Groves, R.M. (author)Nanoparticle- (NP-) doped optical fibres show the potential to increase the signal-to-noise ratio and thus the sensitivity of optical fibre strain detection for structural health monitoring. In this paper, our previous experimental/simulation study is extended to a design study for strain monitoring. 100 nm spherical gold NPs were randomly...journal article 2024
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Wang, Bin (author), Zio, Enrico (author), Chen, X. (author), Zhu, Hanhua (author), Guo, Yunhua (author), Fan, Shidong (author)In the dredging industry, the automation and accuracy of the Dredging Perception System (DPS) are vital for operational efficiency and environmental safety. Current DPS implementations face challenges with sensor fault tolerance, leading to system unreliability and increased false alarm rates that can disrupt dredging operations. We propose a...journal article 2024
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Qin, Guojin (author), Zhang, Zhenwei (author), Hou, Xiangqin (author), Lu, Hongfang (author), Huang, Y. (author), Wang, Yihuan (author)In this work, a 3D finite element (FE) based model was developed to assess the condition of an underground hydrogen transmission pipeline containing a corrosion defect under combined internal pressure and soil movement-induced axial compression. The use of mechanical properties of X100 pipeline steel under different hydrogen charging time...journal article 2023
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Dai, Pengcheng (author), Yu, Wenwu (author), Wang, He (author), Baldi, S. (author)Actor-critic (AC) cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) over directed graphs is studied in this article. The goal of the agents in MARL is to maximize the globally averaged return in a distributed way, i.e., each agent can only exchange information with its neighboring agents. AC methods proposed in the literature require the...journal article 2023
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Lv, Maolong (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Wang, Ying (author), Shen, Di (author)This article attempts to realize zero-error constrained tracking for hypersonic flight vehicles (HFVs) subject to unknown control directions and asymmetric flight state constraints. The main challenges of reaching such goals consist in that addressing multiple unknown control directions requires novel conditional inequalities encompassing the...journal article 2023
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Li, Wanda (author), Xu, Zhiwei (author), Sun, Yi (author), Gong, Qingyuan (author), Chen, Y. (author), Ding, Aaron Yi (author), Wang, Xin (author), Hui, Pan (author)Outstanding users (OUs) denote the influential, 'core' or 'bridge' users in online social networks. How to accurately detect and rank them is an important problem for third-party online service providers and researchers. Conventional efforts, ranging from early graph-based algorithms to recent machine learning-based approaches, typically rely on...journal article 2023
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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...journal article 2023
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Wang, X. (author), Xie, Qicong (author), Xie, Lei (author), Zhu, Jihua (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)Automatically generating videos in which synthesized speech is synchronized with lip movements in a talking head has great potential in many human-computer interaction scenarios. In this paper, we present an automatic method to generate synchronized speech and talking-head videos on the basis of text and a single face image of an arbitrary...journal article 2023
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Wang, Yixia (author), Lin, Shu (author), Wang, Yibing (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Xu, Jungang (author)Currently, with the development of driving technologies, driverless vehicles gradually are becoming more and more available. Therefore, there would be a long period of time during which self-driving vehicles and human-driven vehicles coexist. However, for a mixed platoon, it is hard to control the formation due to the existence of the manual...journal article 2023
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Wang, Junpeng (author), Westermann, Rüdiger (author), Wu, J. (author)We present a novel dehomogenization approach for the efficient design of high-resolution load-bearing structures. The proposed approach builds upon a streamline-based parametrization of the design domain, using a set of space-filling and evenly spaced streamlines in the two mutually orthogonal direction fields that are obtained from...journal article 2023
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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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Kuai, Y. (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author)Intertidal flats are of great socio-economic and ecological importance in defending the coastal cities from flooding, providing resources for land reclamations and habits for wildlife. On the intertidal flats, milder profiles are usually featured with finer sediment. However, we find the opposite relationship between the alongshore variation in...journal article 2023
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Wang, Xia (author), Yuan, Jiachen (author), You, K. (author), Ma, Xianrui (author), Li, Zhaoji (author)The International Energy Agency (IEA) emphasizes that using real building energy use data (RBEUD) to reflect the actual condition of buildings and inform policy-making is the most effective way to reduce buildings’ carbon emissions. However, based on IEA’s evaluation, regional and national building stock data are limited and lacking. Especially...journal article 2023
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Li, Bo (author), Ouyang, Hao (author), Wang, T. (author), Dong, Tian (author)Exploring the influence of settlement patterns on the landscape fragmentation in woodlands and biological reserves is key to achieving ecologically sustainable development. In this research, we chose the Nanshan National Park in Hunan Province, China, as a case study, to explore the influence mechanisms. First, we identified the biological...journal article 2023
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Unsiwilai, S. (author), Wang, L. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Li, Z. (author)This paper presents a methodology for monitoring transition zones using responses of multiple-axle box acceleration (multi-ABA) measurements. The time–frequency characteristics of the vertical ABA signals from four wheelsets are analyzed. The major contributions are as follows. (1) We propose four key performance indicators (KPIs) to quantify...journal article 2023