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Feng, S. (author), Halpern, B.M. (author), Kudina, O. (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)Practice and recent evidence show that state-of-the-art (SotA) automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems do not perform equally well for all speaker groups. Many factors can cause this bias against different speaker groups. This paper, for the first time, systematically quantifies and finds speech recognition bias against gender, age, regional...journal article 2023
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Mai, Zhijian (author), Cao, Nengjie (author), Cheng, Erzhuo (author), Zeng, Zhiwen (author), Feng, Yancong (author), Wang, Yao (author), French, P.J. (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), Yang, Haihong (author)To develop multifunctional small-molecule prodrugs is highly desirable for cancer treatment but remains challenging in intrinsic traceability. As an acid-cleavable linkage, a Schiff bases benefiting from its distinctive fluorescence quenching ability was selected to prepare a small-molecule prodrug with cancer-targeted and self-indicating. In...journal article 2023
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Xu, Yaowen (author), Liang, X. (author), Wan, Chaojun (author), Yang, Hongyu (author), Feng, Xiaming (author)This paper develops a kind of molded disc samples to investigate the carbonation and related behaviors of hardened cement pastes under different previous hydration degrees. Weight and length changes of cement pastes over time are monitored during a multistep process including carbonation, drying, rewetting, and redrying. The combination of X...journal article 2023
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Wang, Bin (author), Wang, Di (author), Hicks, M.A. (author), Feng, Xia Ting (author)Retrogressive failures occur in slopes consisting of sensitive materials such as snow or quick clay. They can be triggered by a small disturbance at the slope toe, but can cause propagated failure spreading miles away. Understanding the physical mechanism and predicting the retrogressive failure process are particularly important. Previous...journal article 2023
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Feng, H. (author), Gao, Zhiwei (author), van Ostayen, R.A.J. (author), Zhang, Xiaofeng (author)This paper aims to investigate the combined effects of working condition and structural parameters of groove texture on the dynamic characteristics, stability and unbalance response of a water-lubricated hydrodynamic bearing–rotor system to avoid instability and excessive vibration of the rotor. The Navier–Stokes equation, standard K-ε model...journal article 2023
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Lu, Jing (author), Zhang, Min (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Gao, Y. (author), Yang, Ye (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Li, Linglin (author)The special environment conditions in high altitude areas leads to serious cracking and peeling of road hot-melt marking coatings. In order to improve the durability of marking paint, a durable hot-melt marking paint was designed by modifying the paint with toughening-agent, rheological agent, and anti-aging agent. The modification mechanism...journal article 2023
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Yang, J. (author), Chen, Xiaohong (author), Sun, Yuanxi (author), Feng, Chen (author), Yang, Zheng (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author), Bai, Long (author)The advent of additive manufacturing has facilitated the design and fabrication of hybrid lattice structures with multiple morphologies. These structures combine multiple distinct architectures into a single structure with an exceptional performance that far exceeds that of each constituting architecture. However, combining strut-based...journal article 2023
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Mastrucci, Alessio (author), Niamir, Leila (author), Boza-Kiss, Benigna (author), Bento, Nuno (author), Wiedenhofer, Dominik (author), Streeck, Jan (author), Pachauri, Shonali (author), Wilson, Charlie (author), Chatterjee, Souran (author), Creutzig, Felix (author), Dukkipati, Srihari (author), Feng, Wei (author), Grubler, Arnulf (author), Jupesta, Joni (author), Kumar, Poornima (author), Marangoni, G. (author), Saheb, Yamina (author), Shimoda, Yoshiyuki (author), Shoai-Tehrani, Bianka (author), Yamaguchi, Yohei (author), van Ruijven, Bas (author)Buildings are key in supporting human activities and well-being by providing shelter and other important services to their users. Buildings are, however, also responsible for major energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during their life cycle. Improving the quality of services provided by buildings while reaching low energy demand ...review 2023
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Feng, W. (author), Moreira Arouche, M. (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)Hybrid bi-material concepts in engineering structures where fibre-polymer composites are used together with steel structural members have potential to reduce material usage, extend fatigue life and improve structural reliability. The bond performance of the bi-material composite-to-steel interface is of crucial importance and highly relies on...journal article 2023
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Halpern, B.M. (author), Feng, S. (author), van Son, Rob (author), van den Brekel, Michiel (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)In this paper, we build and compare multiple speech systems for the automatic evaluation of the severity of a speech impairment due to oral cancer, based on spontaneous speech. To be able to build and evaluate such systems, we collected a new spontaneous oral cancer speech corpus from YouTube consisting of 124 utterances rated by 100 non...journal article 2023
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Feng, Y. (author)This dissertation is focused on using Virtual Reality to study pedestrian wayfinding behaviour in buildings during both normal and emergency situations, from simple scenarios to complex scenarios. In particular, various empirical datasets featuring pedestrian wayfinding and evacuation behaviour were collected using different VR technologies to...doctoral thesis 2022
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Li, Bo (author), Liu, Qiuhong (author), Wang, T. (author), He, He (author), Peng, You (author), Feng, Tao (author)Outdoor physical activities can promote public health and they are largely influenced by the built environment in different urban settings. Understanding the association between outdoor physical activities and the built environment is important for promoting a high quality of life. Existing studies typically focus on one type of outdoor activity...journal article 2022
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Feng, Y. (author), Duives, D.C. (author), Hoogendoorn, S.P. (author)Although understanding wayfinding behaviour in complex buildings is important to ensure pedestrian safety, the state of the art predominantly investigated pedestrian movement in simplified environments. This paper presents a Virtual Reality tool – WayR, that is designed to investigate pedestrian wayfinding behaviour in a multi-story building...journal article 2022
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Feng, W. (author), He, P. (author), Koetsier, M. (author), Pavlovic, M. (author)Wrapped composite joint is an innovative technique which connects steel hollow sections through bonding such that the fatigue performance is improved compared to welded joint. In this paper, a DIC-based method of monitoring surface strains is proposed to quantify the debonding crack propagation within the composite wrap layers during high cycle...conference paper 2022
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Wang, J. (author), Meeprasert, J. (author), Han, Z. (author), Wang, H. (author), Feng, Z. (author), Tang, C. (author), Sha, F. (author), Tang, S. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author)The conversion of CO2 with high activity and high selectivity to methanol remains challenging because of both the kinetics and thermodynamics difficulties associated with the chemical reactivity of CO2. Herein, we report a new catalyst of Cd/TiO2 enabling 81% methanol selectivity at 15.8% CO2 conversion with the CH4 selectivity below 0.7%. The...journal article 2022
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Pei, Zhongshi (author), Xu, Meng (author), Cao, Jiwei (author), Feng, Decheng (author), Hu, Wei (author), Ren, Junda (author), Jing, R. (author), Yi, Junyan (author)Asphalt aging often leads to rapid degradation of road performance, which seriously affects the service life of asphalt pavement. Exploring the influence of asphalt oil sources, asphalt grades, and filler types on asphalt microcharacteristics in the asphalt aging process can provide an essential reference to guide asphalt pavement maintenance...journal article 2022
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Wang, Fu (author), Zhu, Hongbin (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Gu, Dengjun (author), Gao, Y. (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Shu, Benan (author), Li, Chao (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author)Conventional asphalt mixture has poor microwave absorbing performance and microwave heating efficiency. Based on the characteristics of dielectric loss of scrap tire pyrolysis carbon black (PCB), it is proposed to improve the microwave absorbing performance and self-healing rate of bitumen. The phase composition and electromagnetic parameters...journal article 2022
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Frozen soil hydrological modeling for a mountainous catchment northeast of the Qinghai-Tibet PlateauGao, Hongkai (author), Han, Chuntan (author), Chen, Rensheng (author), Feng, Zijing (author), Wang, Kang (author), Fenicia, Fabrizio (author), Savenije, Hubert (author)Increased attention directed at frozen soil hydrology has been prompted by climate change. In spite of an increasing number of field measurements and modeling studies, the impact of frozen soil on hydrological processes at the catchment scale is still unclear. However, frozen soil hydrology models have mostly been developed based on a bottom...journal article 2022
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Wang, Fu (author), Zhu, Hongbin (author), Shu, Benan (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Gu, Dengjun (author), Gao, Y. (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author)Traditional asphalt mixtures can't absorb microwave energy efficiently, which limits the development of microwave heating technology in the field of road maintenance. Based on the microwave heating characteristics of basalt aggregates, the overall microwave self-healing rate of the asphalt mixture can be enhanced. The basalt was tested by XRF,...journal article 2022