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Zhang, Z.H. (author), Andrade, Bruno (author), Wang, Xiaoqiong (author), Aburabee, Ibrahim (author), Yuan, Sinan (author)Traditional Chinese villages act as the essential carriers of China’s rural heritage. Such villages are considered to retain living practices of intangible heritage through know-how, artistic and folk customs, as well as a well-preserved architectural appearance. However, their conservation is at stake due to degradation, abandonment, and...journal article 2024
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Wang, Ranran (author), Zhang, Jun (author), Lu, Yijun (author), Ren, S. (author), Huang, Jiandong (author)The design of geopolymer concrete must meet more stringent requirements for the landscape, so understanding and designing geopolymer concrete with a higher compressive strength challenging. In the performance prediction of geopolymer concrete compressive strength, machine learning models have the advantage of being more accurate and faster....journal article 2024
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Hsiao, T. (author), Cova Fariña, P. (author), Oosterhout, S.D. (author), Jirovec, D. (author), Zhang, X. (author), van Diepen, C.J. (author), Lawrie, W.I.L. (author), Wang, C.A. (author), Sammak, A. (author), Scappucci, G. (author), Veldhorst, M. (author), Vandersypen, L.M.K. (author)Quantum systems with engineered Hamiltonians can be used to study many-body physics problems to provide insights beyond the capabilities of classical computers. Semiconductor gate-defined quantum dot arrays have emerged as a versatile platform for realizing generalized Fermi-Hubbard physics, one of the richest playgrounds in condensed matter...journal article 2024
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Jiang, Nengdong (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Wang, Zhiyuan (author), Gao, Tianming (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ling, Yifeng (author), Šavija, B. (author)This study investigates the size effect on the compressive strength of foamed concrete at the mesoscale level combining X-ray computed tomography (X-CT) and a discrete lattice model. Image segmentation techniques and X-CT were employed to obtain virtual specimens comprising hydrated cement paste and air voids. The lineal-path function and...journal article 2024
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Wang, Shaochun (author), Xu, Lei (author), Zhang, X. (author), Long, Luyuan (author), Zhuang, Xiaoying (author)This study demonstrates the design and field implementation of an innovative servo concrete bracing system in foundation pit excavation. The bracing system comprises concrete struts, revised purlins, and hydraulic jacks, and its field performance is evaluated in a deep foundation pit project in Shanghai, China. The field measurements demonstrate...journal article 2024
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Zuo, Xiaojiang (author), Luopan, Yaxin (author), Han, Rui (author), Zhang, Qinglong (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been ubiquitously adopted in internet of things and are becoming an integral part of our daily life. When tackling the evolving learning tasks in real world, such as classifying different types of objects, DNNs face the challenge to continually retrain themselves according to the tasks on different edge...journal article 2024
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Plastic particles affect N2O release via altering core microbial metabolisms in constructed wetlandsYang, X. (author), Chen, Yi (author), Liu, Tao (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Wang, Hui (author), Chen, Mengli (author), He, Qiang (author), Liu, G. (author), Ju, Feng (author)Constructed wetlands (CWs) have been proven to effectively immobilize plastic particles. However, little is known about the differences in the impact of varying sized plastic particles on nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O) release, as well as the intervention mechanisms in CWs. Here, we built a lab-scale wetland model and introduced plastic...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Qinglong (author), Han, Rui (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Executing deep neural networks (DNN) based vision tasks on edge devices encounters challenging scenarios of significant and continually evolving data domains (e.g. background or subpopulation shift). With limited resources, the state-of-the-art domain adaptation (DA) methods either cause high training overheads on large DNN models, or incur...journal article 2024
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Zhang, F. (author), Wu, Z. (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Wu, Zhenduo (author), Zhao, C. (author), Eijt, S.W.H. (author), Schut, H. (author), van Dijk, N.H. (author), Brück, E.H. (author)Recently, the all-d-metal Ni(Co)MnTi based Heusler compounds are found to have a giant magnetocaloric effect (GMCE) near room temperature and manifest different functionalities like multicaloric effects, which can be employed for solid-state refrigeration. However, in comparison to other traditional Heusler compounds, the relatively large...journal article 2024
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Wang, Xinyue (author), Chen, Haixue (author), Yang, Zhoudong (author), Liu, Wenting (author), Zeng, Zejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Fan, Jiajie (author), Liu, Pan (author)With the increased deployment of power modules in demanding conditions, sintering materials, especially composite sintering materials, have raised growing interest due to their cost-effectiveness and suitability. Therefore, this study explores the viability of Cu–Ag composite sintering material, focusing on solvent influence through...journal article 2024
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Wang, Ran (author), Wang, Tongbing (author), Lee, Chia-Jung (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Zhang, G. (author)To explore factors that influence the likelihood of committing fraud in the construction industry, this study concentrated on senior executives and tested whether some characteristics at the individual and firm levels have impacts on the likelihood of fraud committed by top management. Based on social network theory, this study first proposes...journal article 2024
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Wang, Ningzhen (author), Zhang, He (author), Qiu, Xunlin (author), Gerhard, Reimund (author), van Turnhout, J. (author), Cressotti, Jason (author), Zhao, Dong (author), Tang, Liang (author), Cao, Yang (author)The growing demand for wearable devices has sparked a significant interest in ferroelectret films. They possess flexibility and exceptional piezoelectric properties due to strong macroscopic dipoles formed by charges trapped at the interface of their internal cavities. This review of ferroelectrets focuses on the latest progress in...review 2024
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Li, Zirui (author), Gong, Jianwei (author), Zhang, Zheyu (author), Lu, Chao (author), Knoop, V.L. (author), Wang, M. (author)The deep understanding of the behaviors of traffic participants is essential to guarantee the safety of automated vehicles (AV) in mixed traffic with vulnerable road users (VRUs). Precise trajectory prediction of traffic participants can provide reasonable solution space for motion planning of AV. Early works mainly focused on handcrafting...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Jingping (author), Luo, Houcai (author), Wu, Huan (author), Zheng, Bofeng (author), Chen, Xianping (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, S. (author)With the increase in voltage level and current capacity of the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), the avalanche effect has become an important factor limiting the safe operating area (SOA) of the device. The hole injection into the p/n junction on the backside of the IGBT after avalanche is the main feature that distinguishes the...journal article 2024
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Chang, Yanwei (author), Zhang, Jingxing (author), Lu, Ruofei (author), Li, W. (author), Feng, Yuchen (author), Gao, Yixun (author), Yang, Haihong (author), Wang, Fengnan (author), French, P.J. (author)Fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) can be used to describe inflammatory processes in the respiratory tract. Directly detecting ppb-level nitric oxide (NO) with chemiresistive sensors at room temperature faces the challenges of simultaneously obtaining high sensitivity and high stability for sensors. We aimed to improve the stability and...journal article 2024
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Wang, Feifei (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Pan, Jiazheng (author), Zhang, Haiting (author), He, Chiquan (author), Duan, Xiaodi (author), Hofman, Jan (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Nitrate concentrations exceed standards in many drinking water sources. Solid carbon source (SCS) is usually used to increase the biological denitrification in waters with a low carbon‑nitrogen ratio. However, there is a lack of research on the enhanced denitrification in drinking water sources with nitrate exceeding limits by the...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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Zhang, Yanxu (author), Wu, Peipei (author), Xu, Ruochong (author), Wang, Xuantong (author), Lei, Lili (author), Schartup, Amina T. (author), Peng, Yiming (author), Pang, Qiaotong (author), Luijendijk, Arjen (author)Correction to: Nature Communications, published online 13 March 2023 The original version of this Article contained an error in Fig. 2, in which c was incorrectly described as “middle scenario” where it should have been described as “low scenario”. The correct version of Fig. 2 is: (Figure presented.) which replaces the previous incorrect...journal article 2023
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Wang, Xueling (author), Wang, Man (author), Chen, M. (author), Zhang, Yatao (author)Ceramic membranes have been increasingly employed in water treatment owing to their merits such as high-stability, anti-oxidation, long lifespan and environmental friendliness. The application of ceramic membranes mainly focuses on microfiltration and ultrafiltration processes, and some precise separation can be achieved by introducing novel...journal article 2023