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Li, Xuan (author), Liu, Huan (author), Gao, Li (author), Sherchan, Samendra P. (author), Zhou, Ting (author), Khan, Stuart J. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Wang, Qilin (author)Although the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) emergency status is easing, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect healthcare systems globally. It is crucial to have a reliable and population-wide prediction tool for estimating COVID-19-induced hospital admissions. We evaluated the feasibility of using wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) to...journal article 2023
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Singh, Sukhvinder (author), Abelmann, L. (author), Gao, Haibin (author), Hartmann, Uwe (author)Well-defined and technically relevant domain configurations are sought in patterned magnetic thin films. We used Magnetic Force Microscopy to investigate these in square-patterned Permalloy films. The films were prepared using dc sputter deposition by varying the Argon pressure from 1.5×10−3 to 30.0×10−3 mbar. The Landau domain configuration was...journal article 2023
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Shuang, F.S. (author), Ji, Rigelesaiyin (author), Xiong, Liming (author), Gao, Wei (author)Periodic boundary condition along a dislocation line is commonly used in computing activation barriers or formation energies of kink pair of screw dislocation in BCC metals. Although the effect of periodic image interactions on the computation results is obvious, there had been no comprehensive analysis on such effect. In this work, we...journal article 2023
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Clarinval, Antoine (author), Simonofski, Anthony (author), Castiaux, Annick (author), Gao, Yingying (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)The publication of Open Government Data (OGD) is expected to deliver economic value creation through innovation. In any OGD-based value creation, it is essential to formulate a value proposition (VP). However, previous literature has devoted little attention to the tools that support the formulation of OGD-based VP, and none has evaluated the...conference paper 2023
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Guo, Hao (author), Zhao, C. (author), Gao, Jianxiang (author), Yang, Wenyun (author), Hu, Xufeng (author), Ma, Xiaobai (author), Jiao, Xuesheng (author), Yang, Jinbo (author), Sun, Kai (author), Chen, Dongfeng (author)To realize concurrently the high-energy density and excellent cycling stability, maximum utilization of redox couple, minimization of detrimental phase transition, and structural degradation of O3-type layered oxide cathodes are critical for developing Na-ion batteries. Ni<sup>2+</sup>/Ni<sup>4+</sup> redox couple showing multielectron...journal article 2023
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Chen, Qinyu (author), Chang, Yaoxing (author), Kim, Kwantae (author), Gao, C. (author), Liu, Shih Chii (author)Keyword spotting (KWS) is an important task on edge low-power audio devices. A typical edge KWS system consists of a front-end feature extractor which outputs mel-scale frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) features followed by a back-end neural network classifier. KWS edge designs aim for the best power-performance-area metrics. This work...conference paper 2023
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Chen, Siyu (author), Chen, Can (author), Ma, Tao (author), Han, Chengjia (author), Luo, Haoyuan (author), Wang, Siqi (author), Gao, Y. (author), Yang, Yaowen (author)Usage of asphalt mixture with poor gradation will most likely lead to pavement deficiency. There is a growing need for rapid and non-destructive methods to extract pavement aggregate gradation. In this study, a deep learning-based method that utilizes point clouds data for gradation extraction was proposed. Firstly, a data enhancement...journal article 2023
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Gao, Yixuan (author), Song, Duanshu (author), Liu, Li (author), Huang, Y. (author)Affordances serve as design cues, facilitating users in effortlessly identifying the intended use of objects. However, due to the phenomenological nature of the affordance concept, its application and understanding in the human-computer interaction (HCI) domain remain uncertain, resulting in limited utilization in design practice. This study...journal article 2023
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Shi, Baocun (author), Liu, Quan (author), Gao, Y. (author), Wu, Jiantao (author), Chen, Jingya (author)The occurrence of cohesive/adhesive hybrid failure at the bitumen-aggregate interface is widely acknowledged, however, the quantitative evaluation of the cohesion/adhesion proportion is relatively weak. This study explored cohesive/adhesive hybrid failure and provided a quantitative analysis of the proportion between cohesion and adhesion....journal article 2023
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Zhang, Bin (author), Gao, Xu (author), Xu, S. (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Tian, Qin (author), Liu, Jiayi (author)Microwave heating is an effective method to achieve autonomic crack healing in asphalt mixtures, and the use of microwave-absorbing materials can largely improve this healing efficiency. As a solid waste, coal gangue contains metal oxides, which shows the possibility of microwave heating. In order to further promote the application of coal...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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Gao, Q. (author), Yang, Haoyu (author), Shanbhag, S.M. (author), Schweidtmann, A.M. (author)Process design is a creative task that is currently performed manually by engineers. Artificial intelligence provides new potential to facilitate process design. Specifically, reinforcement learning (RL) has shown some success in automating process design by integrating data-driven models that learn to build process flowsheets with process...book chapter 2023
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Yang, Y. (author), Jia, Bin (author), Yan, Xiao Yong (author), Zhi, Danyue (author), Song, Dongdong (author), Chen, Yan (author), de Bok, M.A. (author), Tavasszy, Lorant (author), Gao, Ziyou (author)Knowledge of the hierarchical organization of urban heavy truck flows is important for understanding the structure of urban freight system and underlying interactions dynamics, providing insights to assess and develop freight policies. The complexity and dynamic nature of urban freight system pose significant challenges in comprehensively...journal article 2023
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Jing, R. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author)Two types of elastomer/plastic compound-modified bitumen were developed by means of incorporating the reactive elastomeric terpolymer (RET) into the plastic (high-density polyethylene HDPE or recycled polyethylene RPE) modified bitumen and adding the wax residue (WR) into the bitumen/elastomer (crumb rubber CR or styrene–butadiene–styrene SBS)...journal article 2023
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Vaccaro, D. (author), Gottardi, L. (author), Akamatsu, H. (author), van der Kuur, J. (author), Nagayoshi, K. (author), Taralli, E. (author), de Wit, M. (author), Ravensberg, K. (author), Gao, J.R. (author), den Herder, J. W.A. (author)We report on the x-ray background rate measured with transition-edge sensors (TES) micro-calorimeters under frequency-domain multiplexing (FDM) readout as a possible technology for future experiments aiming at a direct detection of axion-like particles. Future axion helioscopes will make use of large magnets to convert axions into photons in...journal article 2023
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Bergman, Gil (author), Ballas, Elad (author), Gao, Qiang (author), Nimkar, Amey (author), Gavriel, Bar (author), Levi, Mikhael D. (author), Sharon, Daniel (author), Malchik, Fyodor (author), Wang, Xuehang (author)The discovery of the Ti<sub>3</sub>C<sub>2</sub>T<sub>x</sub> compounds (MXenes) a decade ago opened new research directions and valuable opportunities for high-rate energy storage applications. The unique ability of the MXenes to host various mono- and multivalent cations and their high stability in different electrolyte environments...review 2023
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Chen, Honghao (author), Lu, Ruofei (author), Gao, Yixun (author), Yue, Xiaorui (author), Yang, Haihong (author), Li, Hao (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, Yao (author), Zhou, Guofu (author)Inspired by the CO<sub>2</sub>-induced reversible activation mechanism of the slow anion channel 1 (SLAC1) in plant stomatal guard cells during plant photosynthesis, we designed and prepared a CO<sub>2</sub>- switchable H<sup>+</sup>/OH<sup>−</sup> ion channel (CSPH ion channel). A high-performance chemiresistive room temperature CO<sub>2<...journal article 2023
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Chen, Qinyu (author), Wang, Zuowen (author), Liu, Shih Chii (author), Gao, C. (author)This paper presents a sparse Change-Based Convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (CB-ConvLSTM) model for event-based eye tracking, key for next-generation wearable healthcare technology such as AR/VR headsets. We leverage the benefits of retina-inspired event cameras, namely their low-latency response and sparse output event stream, over...conference paper 2023
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Wang, S. (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Zong, Qihang (author), Huang, Qianming (author), Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), French, P.J. (author)In recent years, metal crack-based stretchable flexible strain sensors have attracted significant attention in wearable device applications due to their extremely high sensitivity. However, the tradeoff between sensitivity and detection range has been an intractable dilemma, severely limiting their practical applications. Herein, we propose a...journal article 2023
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Li, Jiayu (author), Xu, Yunbo (author), Jing, Yi (author), Gao, Yijing (author), Liu, Hongliang (author), Yu, Yongmei (author), Banis, Alexandros (author), Kestens, L.A.I. (author), Petrov, R.H. (author)The phase transformations, microstructure and properties of two Medium-Mn processed via quenching and partitioning steels were compared in this contribution and a new strategy for controlling mechanical properties by introducing and controlling cold-worked ferrite prior to heat treatment is proposed. It was found that during heating, the...journal article 2023