Integrating ride-hailing services with public transport: a stochastic user equilibrium model for multimodal transport systems

Public transport (PT) agencies are increasingly keen on integrating ride-hailing (RH) services with PT to improve overall mobility. Understanding the traffic flow distribution in the integrated system is vital for the policy decision-making and services design of such a system. We propose a stochastic user equilibrium (SUE) model for...

Co-woven carbon and nylon fibres for manufacturing thermoplastic composite plaques

Thermoplastic composites are in high demand and continually growing in use due to their inherent properties. Commingled fibre is one of the recent solutions developed for thermoplastic composites, but has not yet ready for weaving. An alternative to commingling approach, co-weaving of reinforcing and thermoplastic fibres is investigated in this...

Multi-resolution modeling based on quotient space and DEVS

As simulation systems get more and more complex, the study of multi-resolution modeling (MRM) remains an exciting and fertile area of research. Contrasting its abundant successful use cases, a rigorous mathematical foundation is still lacking in MRM. In this paper, we propose a quotient space based multi-resolution modeling (QMRM) theory...

Whole Body Activity Retentions in the Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy with Lu-177

The patients with the neuroendocrine tumours (liver, spleen, etc.) often need treatment by the Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy with 177Lu. The amount of 177Lu activity in the body of patients has to be known accurately for assessment of the dosimetry and for evaluation of the effectiveness of the therapy. Whole-body activities at the given...

Singlet oxygen luminescence detection with a fiber-coupled superconducting nanowire single-photon detector

Direct monitoring of singlet oxygen (1O2) luminescence is a particularly challenging infrared photodetection problem. 1O2, an excited state of the oxygen molecule, is a crucial intermediate in many biological processes. We employ a low noise superconducting nanowire single-photon detector to record 1O2 luminescence at 1270 nm wavelength from a...

Flexible and Adaptable Service Provisioning for Federated Personal Networks

Personal network and their federations (called Fednet) are considered as one of the promising future concepts regarding the personal communication. In this thesis, we first studies the state of the art of Fednet, from which we know there are two approaches for providing the services in Fednet, one is overlay and the other is proxy-based. Each of...