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Zhu, P. (author)Questions are critical for information-seeking and learning. Automatic Question Generation (AQG) involves the subjects of Information Retrieval (IR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), and focuses on automatically creating questions for various applications, subjects which have been studied for decades. In this thesis, we study how to create...doctoral thesis 2024
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Zhu, C. (author), Klapwijk, R.M. (author), Silva-Ordaz, Miroslava (author), Spandaw, J.G. (author), de Vries, M.J. (author)Spatial thinking is ubiquitous in design. Design education across all age groups encompasses a range of spatially challenging activities, such as forming and modifying mental representations of ideas, and visualizing the scenarios of design prototypes being used. While extensive research has examined the cognitive processes of spatial...journal article 2024
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Jiang, Xi (author), Zhu, Hehua (author), Yan, Zhiguo (author), Zhang, Fengshou (author), Huang, Xinyan (author), Leng, Zhen (author), Yan, Chuanqi (author), Hua, Nan (author), Zhang, X. (author)With the rapid urbanization and development of metropolises, urban road tunnels have been constructed at an increasing rate, significantly alleviating urban traffic pressure, and improving urban resilience. Fire hazards have become a major threat to modern road tunnels due to the growing popularity of electric vehicles and high-density...journal article 2024
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Zhu, P. (author), Câmara, Arthur (author), Roy, N. (author), Maxwell, D.M. (author), Hauff, C. (author)Actively engaging learners with learning materials has been shown to be very important in the Search as Learning (SAL) setting. One active reading strategy relies on asking so-called adjunct questions, i.e., manually curated questions geared towards essential concepts of the target material. However, manual question creation is impractical...conference paper 2024
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Chen, Wei (author), Liu, Xu (author), Yang, Zhoudong (author), Liu, X. (author), Hu, D. (author), Zhu, Xi (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)The power semiconductor joining technology through sintering of copper nanoparticles is well-suited for die attachment in wide bandgap (WBG) semiconductors, offering high electrical, thermal, and mechanical performances. However, sintered nanocopper will be prone to degradation resulting from corrosion in sulfur-containing corrosive...journal article 2024
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Long, Jianjun (author), Wei, Xuejiao (author), Dong, Yiting (author), Cheng, Xixi (author), Li, Hao (author), Xu, X. (author), Zhu, Minhao (author)A systematic experimental investigation concerning the fretting-induced tribo-chemical state and its effect on the fretting wear behavior of titanium alloys under the vacuum atmospheres (4 × 10<sup>–3</sup> Pa and 4 × 10<sup>–1</sup> Pa) in different fretting regimes is reported. An in situ XPS analysis tester was developed to capture the...journal article 2024
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Zhu, Sicong (author), Yuan, Y. (author), Peng, Wenjie (author), Wu, Hangbin (author), Yu, Lei (author), Lan, Qing (author)This article presents an integrated educational module for undergraduate traffic engineering at the microscale level. When dealing with a complex transportation system, the education program should cultivate students’ acquisition of both in-depth traffic specialization and breadth of engineering knowledge. For the educational instruction of...journal article 2024
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Brownjohn, James (author), Raby, Alison (author), Bassitt, James (author), Antonini, A. (author), Zhu, Zuo (author), Dobson, Peter (author)Wolf Rock Lighthouse is a Victorian era masonry structure located in an extreme environment facing the fiercest Atlantic storms off the southwest coast of England whose dynamic behaviour has been studied since 2016. Initially, a modal test was used to determine modal parameters; then, in 2017, a monitoring system was installed that has...journal article 2024
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Gu, Lipeng (author), Yan, Xuefeng (author), Nan, L. (author), Zhu, Dingkun (author), Chen, Honghua (author), Wang, Weiming (author), Wei, Mingqiang (author)The conventional wisdom in point cloud analysis predominantly explores 3D geometries. It is often achieved through the introduction of intricate learnable geometric extractors in the encoder or by deepening networks with repeated blocks. However, these methods contain a significant number of learnable parameters, resulting in substantial...journal article 2024
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Zhu, J. (author), Gienger, Michael (author), Franzese, G. (author), Kober, J. (author)Developing physically assistive robots capable of dressing assistance has the potential to significantly improve the lives of the elderly and disabled population. However, most robotics dressing strategies considered a single robot only, which greatly limited the performance of the dressing assistance. In fact, healthcare professionals...journal article 2024
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Gao, Weilun (author), Shao, Dongdong (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), Yang, Zhifeng (author)Deltaic channel networks are important conduits for water and material supplies to the fluvial and coastal communities. However, increasing human interventions in river deltas have altered the topology and geometry of channel networks as well as their long-term evolution. While the morphological evolution of a single channel has received...journal article 2024
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Zhu, R. (author), Van Den Abeele, Maxim (author), Beysens, Jona (author), Yang, J. (author), Wang, Q. (author)Visible light positioning (VLP) based on the received signal strength (RSS) can leverage a dense deployment of LEDs in future lighting infrastructure to provide accurate and energy-efficient indoor positioning. However, its positioning accuracy heavily depends on the density of collected fingerprints, which is labor-intensive. In this work,...journal article 2024
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Zhu, P. (author), Simón Grau, I. (author), Kokalari, I. (author), Kohane, Daniel S. (author), Rwei, A.Y. (author)Ultrasound is a promising technology to address challenges in drug delivery, including limited drug penetration across physiological barriers and ineffective targeting. Here we provide an overview of the significant advances made in recent years in overcoming technical and pharmacological barriers using ultrasound-assisted drug delivery to...review 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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Li, Meng (author), Shen, Yanzhe (author), Ye, Guixin (author), He, Jialing (author), Zheng, Xin (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Conti, M. (author)Digital forensics is crucial to fight crimes around the world. Decentralized Digital Forensics (DDF) promotes it to another level by channeling the power of blockchain into digital investigations. In this work, we focus on the privacy and security of DDF. Our motivations arise from (1) how to track an anonymous- and-malicious data user who...journal article 2024
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Lv, Leyang (author), Zhang, Xiangyu (author), Šavija, B. (author), Zhang, Mingzhong (author), Han, Kaihang (author), Zhang, Honghzhi (author), Pei, Chun (author), Zhu, Jihua (author), Xing, Feng (author)Self-healing concrete using encapsulated healing agent has shown great potential in enhancing concrete durability. However, the capsules are expensive to make and can lower the mechanical properties of concrete. In this study, a new type of manufactured aggregate that employs waste-derived fly ash cenosphere as a carrier of healing agent (SH...journal article 2024
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Wang, T. (author), Zhu, Haiou (author), Qian, S. (author), Giunti, Guido (author), Goossens, R.H.M. (author), Melles, M. (author)Background Digital health (DH) brings considerable benefits, but it comes with potential risks. Human Factors (HF) play a critical role in providing high-quality and acceptable DH solutions. Consultation with designers is crucial for reflecting on and improving current DH design practices. Objectives We investigated the general DH design...journal article 2024
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Zhao, Pengcheng (author), Guo, W. (author), Gui, Zhipeng (author), Jiang, Jie (author), Zhu, Zhihua (author), Li, Jin Jin (author), Zhao, Ling (author), Zhou, Jian (author), Xi, Zhenhao (author)Upcycling of waste plastics into value-added chemicals and fuels represents a promising orientation toward a more sustainable chemical industry. We present a selective process for hydrocracking waste polyolefins into a spectrum of branched gasoline-range C<sub>5-12</sub> hydrocarbons, utilizing a cerium-promoted Pt/HY as a metal-acid...journal article 2024