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You, Kairui (author), Yu, Yanhui (author), Cai, Weiguang (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)The CO<sub>2</sub> emission mitigation of the commercial and public building sector (P&C) is critical for achieving China's carbon peak and carbon neutrality. Analyzing changes in CO<sub>2</sub> emissions and their driving factors from temporal and spatial perspective provides insights for developing equitable and effective...journal article 2023
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Wang, L. (author), Li, Erlei (author), Zhou, Zongyan (author), Zhang, Baicheng (author), Yu, Aibing (author)Powder bed fusion additive manufacturing has been applied to the fabrication of functionally graded materials. A new design that allows the material composition to change along the direction perpendicular to the powder spreading has been reported in the literature. Based on this design, this work examines the quality of the graded spread...journal article 2023
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Huang, R. (author), Zhao, Xuan (author), Yuan, Y. (author), Yu, Qiang (author), Liu, Chengqing (author), Daamen, W. (author)Pedestrian tactical choices and operational movement in evacuations essentially pertain to decision-making under risk and uncertainty. However, in microscopic evacuation models, this attribute has been greatly overlooked, even lacking a methodology to delineate the related decision characteristics (bounded rationality and risk attitudes), let...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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Zhang, Xunhui (author), Yu, Yue (author), Gousios, G. (author), Rastogi, A. (author)Context: The pull-based development model is widely used in open source projects, leading to the emergence of trends in distributed software development. One aspect that has garnered significant attention concerning pull request decisions is the identification of explanatory factors. Objective: This study builds on a decade of research on...journal article 2023
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Damianakis, Nikolaos (author), Chandra Mouli, G.R. (author), Bauer, P. (author), Yu, Y. (author)Low Carbon Technologies (LCTs), such as Photovoltaics (PVs), Electric Vehicles (EVs), and Heat Pumps (HPs), are expected to cause a huge electric load in future distribution grids. This paper investigates the grid impact in terms of over-loading and nodal voltage deviations in different distribution grids due to increasing LCT penetrations....journal article 2023
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Zeng, Shangheng (author), Mao, Sanpeng (author), Xu, S. (author), He, Yanheng (author), Yu, Jianying (author)Asphalt fumes released during pavement construction posed a threat to human health and environment. In this study, 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphorophenanthrene-10-oxide (DOPO) was used as a reactive fumes suppressant to reduce the asphalt fumes emission. The volatilization behavior of DOPO modified asphalt (DOPO-Asphalt) was investigated...journal article 2023
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Wang, Y. (author), Farah, H. (author), Yu, Rongjie (author), Qiu, Shuhan (author), van Arem, B. (author)Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are being introduced to the traffic system with the promise of improving current traffic status. However, the empirical data also indicate contrary effects with estimated higher crash rate and change of crash patterns. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the driving behavior of AVs and human-driven vehicles ...journal article 2023
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Yu, G. (author), Ye, P. (author), Grazian, F. (author), Dong, J. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Bauer, P. (author)The pursuit of battery charging technology for electric vehicle (EV) has led to extensive research on the inductive-based wireless power transfer (WPT) systems. In this paper, the compensation component (including coils) stresses will be studied in two commonly adopted compensation topologies, namely S-S and LCC-S compensations. Due to the peak...conference paper 2023
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Guo, R. (author), Chen, C. (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Wang, H. (author), Liu, Haozhe (author), Yu, Minghao (author), Sofer, Zdenek (author), Lei, Zhibin (author), Wang, Xuehang (author)Limited Li resources, high cost, and safety risks of using organic electrolytes have stimulated a strong motivation to develop non-Li aqueous batteries. Aqueous Zn-ion storage (ZIS) devices offer low-cost and high-safety solutions. However, their practical applications are at the moment restricted by their short cycle life arising mainly from...review 2023
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Yu, Y. (author), Oser, D.J.H. (author), Da Prato, G. (author), Urbinati, E. (author), Ávila, Javier Carrasco (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Remy, Patrick (author), Marzban, S. (author), Groeblacher, S. (author), Tittel, W. (author)Single quantum emitters embedded in solid-state hosts are an ideal platform for realizing quantum information processors and quantum network nodes. Among the currently investigated candidates, Er3+ ions are particularly appealing due to their 1.5 μm optical transition in the telecom band as well as their long spin coherence times. However,...journal article 2023
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Oliveira, Filipa M. (author), Azadmanjiri, Jalal (author), Wang, Xuehang (author), Yu, Minghao (author), Sofer, Zdeněk (author)The development of new materials for electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding is an important area of research, as it allows for the creation of more effective and high-efficient shielding solutions. In this sense, MXenes, a class of 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides have exhibited promising performances as EMI shielding materials...review 2023
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Cong, Yangfan (author), Yu, Suihuai (author), Chu, Jianjie (author), Su, Zhaojing (author), Huang, Y. (author), Li, Feilong (author)Eliciting user needs from mass online reviews is playing a significant role in the product iteration process. Efficient user needs elicitation does achieve considerable benefits for maintaining higher competitiveness and a speedier lifecycle. However, there is inevitably an online review scarcity about new products due to the short time on...journal article 2023
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Wen, Weijie (author), Lyu, Rui (author), Li, Botong (author), Cao, Hong (author), Yu, Jiali (author), Li, Bin (author), Popov, M. (author)For the black start-up of DC micro-grids, three-phase charging resistors are required to limit the uncontrollable surge current. The main drawback of this start-up method is the difficulty in determining the appropriate resistance value to achieve a rapid start-up and limit the surge current with the change of grid parameters. To address this...journal article 2023
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Liu, Huanhuan (author), Wang, R. (author), Gao, Haiyan (author), Chen, Lijuan (author), Li, Xiaochen (author), Yu, Xuan (author), Wu, Yaping (author), Bai, Yan (author), Wei, W. (author), Wang, Meiyun (author)The development of clinical imaging techniques significantly improves diagnostic accuracy and provides guidance for personalized treatment of individuals. However, every single imaging modality has its distinct drawbacks that cannot fully fulfil the diagnosis requirement. Thus, rational combination of different imaging modalities can achieve...review 2023
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Pan, S. (author), An, Xiaomeng (author), Yu, Zheru (author), Jiang, H. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)This article presents the design and implementation of a compact CMOS RC frequency reference. It consists of a frequency-locked loop (FLL) that locks the period of a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) to the time an RC network takes to charge to a reference voltage. Conventionally, an RC time constant with a near-zero temperature coefficient...journal article 2023
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Yu, Zhuangzhuang (author)Background & Objective<br/>Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause for death globally nowadays. Pulse wave velocity (PWV), a marker of arterial stiffness, is an important predictor of CVD risk. In precedent work, carotid artery data was collected with ultrasound to estimate the PWV with a digital signal processing (DSP) pipeline...master thesis 2022
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Yu, Beiyang (author)The need of shear strength measurements of soil in the design phase of geotechnical engineering is almost indispensable. Many methods have been applied to estimate the shear strength of soil, including various laboratory test, in-situ test and analytical methods. As an in-situ test method, cone penetration test (CPT) is a powerful and cost...master thesis 2022
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Yu, Quanhao (author)With the replacements of coal and nuclear plants with renewable energy sources such as Type-3 and Type-4 wind turbines and photovoltaic system, the fault current levels of the electrical power system become lower. This leads to a weakened ability of the commercial distance relays to detect fault currents. Therefore, new fault detection...master thesis 2022
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Yu, Hanshu (author)We are living in a connected world and failures can occur anywhere at any time probabilistically. In this thesis, we consider networked systems whose links are perfectly reliable and nodes are subject to failure. The probability of a network subjecting to failure to remain connected is named the node reliability of a graph. The node reliability...master thesis 2022