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Chen, Hang (author), Zhou, Hengshun (author), Du, Jun (author), Lee, Chin-Hui (author), Chen, Jingdong (author), Watanabe, Shinji (author), Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Liu, Di-Yuan (author)In this paper we discuss the rational of the Multi-model Information based Speech Processing (MISP) Challenge, and provide a detailed description of the data recorded, the two evaluation tasks and the corresponding baselines, followed by a summary of submitted systems and evaluation results. The MISP Challenge aims at tack-ling speech processing...conference paper 2022
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Fan, Liyuan (author), Li, Chao'en (author), van Biert, L. (author), Zhou, Shou Han (author), Tabish, Asif Nadeem (author), Mokhov, Anatoli (author), Aravind, Purushothaman Vellayani (author), Cai, Weiwei (author)With the demand for anticipated green hydrogen and power production, novel and upgraded catalytic processes are desired for more effective utilization of precious natural resources. Methane steam reforming is an advanced and matured technology for converting methane to hydrogen and syngas. As a renewable energy resource containing a large...review 2022
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Zhang, Jie (author), Tan, Lirong (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Wang, Ruiqi (author), Wen, Li (author), Wu, Siwei (author), Tan, Xuemei (author), Xu, Hui (author), Zhou, Xing (author)Bisphenols are important industrial materials for example for the production of plastics, but are also well known for their adverse health effects, in particular bisphenol A (BPA) is an endocrine disruptor. The widespread use of plastics has raised concerns. Therefore, the removal of bisphenols from wastewater has sparked the interest of the...journal article 2022
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Zhou, Jianchao (author), Laumann, S.J. (author), Heimovaara, T.J. (author)This study presents a novel geotechnical engineering approach that utilizes naturally occurring processes to reduce soil permeability in-situ. This approach is inspired by a soil stratification process (Podzolization), where a low permeability layer is formed by metal-organic matter precipitates. In a field experiment, a direct aluminum...journal article 2022
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Baldi, S. (author), Sun, Danping (author), Xia, Xin (author), Zhou, Guopeng (author), Liu, Di (author)This article presents an adaptive method for ArduPilot-based autopilots of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ArduPilot is a popular open-source unmanned vehicle software suite. We explore how to augment the PID loops embedded inside ArduPilot with a model-free adaptive control method. The adaptive augmentation, adopted for both...journal article 2022
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Zheng, Yonglai (author), Wen, Yuan (author), Pan, Tanbo (author), Liu, Yongcheng (author), Zhou, Yujue (author), Li, Ruizhi (author), Zhou, Y. (author)This study investigated the relationship between the acoustic emission (AE) signals parameter sequence fractal characteristics and the damage evolution information of corroded reinforced concrete (RC) beams under four-point bending. Strength deterioration behavior and AE data can be obtained by coupling the four-point bending test and the AE...journal article 2022
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Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Moosabeiki, Vahid (author), Rajaai, S.M. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)Additive manufacturing (AM, also known as 3D printing) is an advanced manufacturing technique that has enabled progress in the design and fabrication of customised or patient-specific (meta-)biomaterials and biomedical devices (e.g., implants, prosthetics, and orthotics) with complex internal microstructures and tuneable properties. In the past...review 2022
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Zhan, Y.J. (author), Aarninkhof, S.G.J. (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Zhou, Yunxuan (author)Research on the expansion pattern of pioneer vegetation in tidal flats is important, because this pattern affects the development of both topography and ecology. This study aimed to determine the monthly expansion patterns of seedlings and tussocks by using terrestrial laser scanning (TLS). Overall change process research and spatial analyses...journal article 2022
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Zhou, Liangbin (author), Guo, Peng (author), D'Este, Matteo (author), Tong, Wenxue (author), Xu, Jiankun (author), Yao, Hao (author), Stoddart, Martin J. (author), van Osch, G.J.V.M. (author), Ho, Kevin Ki Wai (author), Li, Zhen (author), Qin, Ling (author)Articular cartilage (AC) is an avascular and flexible connective tissue located on the bone surface in the diarthrodial joints. AC defects are common in the knees of young and physically active individuals. Because of the lack of suitable tissue-engineered artificial matrices, current therapies for AC defects, especially full-thickness AC...review 2022
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Zhou, Hengshun (author), Du, Jun (author), Zou, Gongzhen (author), Nian, Zhaoxu (author), Lee, Chin Hui (author), Siniscalchi, Sabato Marco (author), Watanabe, Shinji (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author), Chen, Jingdong (author)In this paper, we describe and release publicly the audio-visual wake word spotting (WWS) database in the MISP2021 Challenge, which covers a range of scenarios of audio and video data collected by near-, mid-, and far-field microphone arrays, and cameras, to create a shared and publicly available database for WWS. The database and the code ...journal article 2022
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Zhang, Mengru (author), Han, Fei (author), Liu, Zhe (author), Han, Yufei (author), Li, L. (author), Zhou, Weizhi (author)The contradiction between theoretical metabolism of ammonium assimilation and experiential understanding of conventional biosystems makes the rational optimization of the ammonium-assimilating microbiome through carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratios perplexing. The effect of different C/N ratios on ammonium-assimilating biosystems was investigated...journal article 2022
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Zhan, Teng (author), Sun, J. (author), Feng, Tao (author), Zhang, Yulong (author), Zhou, Binru (author), Zhang, Banghong (author), Wang, Junxi (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Recent research focusing on wide-bandgap and two-dimensional materials with a Schottky junction has provided a new concept for ultraviolet photodetectors. However, the working mechanism of the Schottky junction-based detector varies depending on the photosensitive materials used and the device structure. We demonstrated a TiO<sub>2</sub>...journal article 2022
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Wang, Shuo (author), Xu, Youkui (author), Wang, Qian (author), Zhou, Xufeng (author), Li, ZhenHua (author), Wang, Meng (author), Lei, Yutian (author), Zhang, Hong (author), Wang, H. (author), Jin, Zhiwen (author)Iodine vacancies and uncoordinated iodide ions of CsPbI<sub>3</sub> films are mainly responsible for nonradiative recombination. Here, we report a composition-engineering passivation method that through guanidium (GA<sup>+</sup>) and I<sup>−</sup> forms strong hydrogen bonds to passivate iodine vacancies and reduce defects. Both experimental...journal article 2022
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Jing, Guoqing (author), Aela, Peyman (author), Zhou, Qiang (author), Jia, W. (author)The use of recycled materials is a new tendency in the field of railway engineering. Steel slag aggregates (SSA) are one of the recycled materials derived from the steel industry. The application of SSA in ballasted railway tracks requires mechanical examination. In the present paper, the shear behavior of the ballast layer constructed by SSA...conference paper 2022
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Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Xing, Chaojie (author), Zeng, Chao (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author)Geothermal energy (GE), as an ideal renewable resource for building cooling/heating with stability and abundance in energy supply, has been widely exploited in developing countries. The common utilization forms of GE mainly include the ground source heat pump (GSHP), underground duct system (UDS), and abandoned wells energy (AWE) system....book chapter 2022
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Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Xing, Chaojie (author)The large thermal potentials with geothermal gradient of abandoned wells provide the possibility and opportunity for carbon-neutrality transition of district heating systems, whereas energy harvesting from abandoned geothermal wells is full of challenges, due to the considerable initial investment in economic cost, system performance...book chapter 2022
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Zhou, Z. (author)Estuaries are partially enclosed water bodies where river water mixes with sea water. Estuaries provide important ecological functions which are strongly regulated by estuarine hydrodynamics and sediment dynamics, and also by human interventions. Sustainable management of such systems therefore requires a thorough understanding of the interplay...doctoral thesis 2021
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Zhang, Z. (author), Duan, X. (author), Jia, Dechang (author), Zhou, Y. (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author)MAX phases are a family of ternary carbide or nitride ceramics possessing a layered crystal structure and, due to their chemical bonds having a mixed covalent-ionic-metallic nature, have unique properties combining those of metals and ceramics. In this review, the formation mechanisms of MAX phases from elemental and compound powders are...review 2021
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Zhou, F. (author)Ground-penetrating radar (GPR), usually working in the frequency from tens of megahertz to several gigahertz, is widely applied in mapping near-surface applications. In recent decades, GPR is frequently utilized for fluid-related applications, such as groundwater assessment, contaminant monitoring, and water-filled fracture detection, based on...doctoral thesis 2021
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Eivani, A.R. (author), Mirghasemi, S. M. (author), Seyedein, S. H. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Jafarian, H. R. (author)The present research was aimed at lowering the deformation temperature by applying cover tube casing (CTC) to AZ31 magnesium alloy samples subjected to equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) without triggering surface defects and/or fracture. The Cockcroft-Latham (C & L) fracture model was incorporated into finite element simulation and...journal article 2021