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Yang, H. F. (author), Yang, S. L. (author), Xu, K. H. (author), Wu, H. (author), Shi, B. W. (author), Zhu, Q. (author), Zhang, W. X. (author), Yang, Z. (author)Deltas are widely threatened by sediment starvation and climate change. Erosion potential is an important indicator of delta vulnerability. Here, we investigate the erosion potential of the Yangtze Delta. We found that over the past half century the Yangtze's sediment discharge has decreased by 80% due to the construction of >50,000 dams...journal article 2017
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Yang, G. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)Highest conversion efficiency in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells can be enabled by quenching minority carriers' recombination at c-Si/contact interface owing to carrier-selective passivating contacts. With the semi-insulating poly-crystalline silicon (SIPOS, poly-Si) a very good passivation of c-Si surfaces was obtained. We have...journal article 2017
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Yang, Z. (author), Polder, R.B. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)Owing to the unique molecular structure and high ion exchange capacity, hydrotalcites are believed to have a potential to be modified and tailor-made as an active corrosion protective component of reinforced concrete. In this paper, two types of modified hydrotalcites (MHT-pAB and MHT-NO2) were tested both in alkaline solution and mortar for...journal article 2017
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Sun, Wei (author), Poot, D.H.J. (author), Smal, Ihor (author), Yang, Xuan (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Klein, S. (author)Image registration is typically formulated as an optimization process, which aims to find the optimal transformation parameters of a given transformation model by minimizing a cost function. Local minima may exist in the optimization landscape, which could hamper the optimization process. To eliminate local minima, smoothing the cost function...journal article 2017
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Zhu, Q. (author), van Prooijen, Bram (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Yang, SL (author)Short-term bed-level variability in tidal wetlands has important implication both for ecology and engineering. In this study, we combined in situ measurements with model simulations to quantify short-term bed-level changes on a meso-macrotidal wetland in the Yangtze River Delta. On the middle flat, we observed erosion during neap-to-mean tides...journal article 2017
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Yang, Xian (author), Pan, W. (author), Guo, Yike (author)Classification models built on biological expression data are increasingly used to predict distinct disease subtypes. Selected features that separate sample groups can be the candidates of biomarkers, helping us to discover biological functions/pathways. However, three challenges are associated with building a robust classification and...journal article 2017
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Yang, F. (author)Both propositional dependence logic and inquisitive logic are expressively complete. As a consequence, every formula in the language of inquisitive logic with intuitionistic disjunction or intuitionistic implication can be translated equivalently into a formula in the language of propositional dependence logic without these two connectives....journal article 2017
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Schrama, F.N.H. (author), Beunder, E.M. (author), van den Berg, B (author), Yang, Y. (author), Boom, R. (author)Sulphur removal in the ironmaking and oxygen steelmaking process is reviewed. A sulphur balance is made for the steelmaking process of Tata Steel IJmuiden, the Netherlands. There are four stages where sulphur can be removed: in the blast furnace (BF), during hot metal (HM) pretreatment, in the converter and during the secondary metallurgy (SM...journal article 2017
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Han, Haoya (author), Li, Li (author), Tian, Yuchuan (author), Wang, Yunwei (author), Ye, Zhishuang (author), Yang, Qingsong (author), Wang, Y. (author), Von Klitzing, Regine (author), Guo, Xuhong (author)Hollow silica nanoparticles were prepared through generating a silica layer in spherical polyelectrolyte nanogels (SPN), which consisted of a solid core of polystyrene (PS) and a shell of crosslinked poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), followed by removing the PS core via solvent dissolution. Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) in combination with TEM...journal article 2017
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Wang, Wei (author), Yang, Kai (author), Muñoz Sierra, Julian (author), Zhang, X. (author), Yuan, Shoujun (author), Hu, Zhenhu (author)Methyl isobutyl ketone (MIBK) as a solvent is extensively used for the phenols extraction from the wastewater, so it is unavoidable to expose in the effluent due to the solubility and leakage problem. The present study evaluated the impact of MIBK on phenols degradation in an UASB reactor and analyzed its degradation properties. The results...journal article 2017
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Huang, L. (author), Ai, Tinghua (author), van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author), Yan, Xiongfeng (author), Yang, Min (author)The representation of vector data at variable scales has been widely applied in geographic information systems and map-based services. When the scale changes across a wide range, a complex generalization that involves multiple operations is required to transform the data. To present such complex generalization, we proposed a matrix model to...journal article 2017
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Cai, H. (author), Savenije, H.H.G. (author), Jiang, C. (author), Zhao, L. (author), Yang, Q. (author)The mean water level in estuaries rises in the landward direction due to a combination of the density gradient, the tidal asymmetry, and the backwater effect. This phenomenon is more prominent under an increase of the fresh water discharge, which strongly intensifies both the tidal asymmetry and the backwater effect. However, the interactions...journal article 2016
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Yang, G. (author), Ingenito, A. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)Ion-implanted poly-crystalline silicon (poly-Si), in combination with a tunnel oxide layer, is investigated as a carrier-selective passivating contact in c-Si solar cells based on an interdigitated back contact (IBC) architecture. The optimized poly-Si passivating contacts enable low interface recombination, resulting in implied VOC (iVOC) of...journal article 2016
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Wang, H. (author), Yang, Jun (author), Liao, Hui (author), Chen, Xianhua (author)Electrically conductive asphalt concrete has the potential to satisfy multifunctional applications. Designing such asphalt concrete needs to balance the electrical and mechanical performance of asphalt concrete. The objective of this study is to design electrically conductive asphalt concrete without compromising on the mechanical properties...journal article 2016
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Yang, Z. (author), Li, Z. (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author)By considering real wheel and track geometry and structures, as well as their coupled interaction, an explicit finite element method is applied to simulate the transition of wheel–rail rolling from single-point tread contact to two-point tread-flange contact. The evolutions of the contact position, stress magnitude and direction, adhesion–slip...journal article 2016
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Yang, S. (author), Trajanovski, S. (author), Kuipers, F.A. (author)Background Solving the shortest path and min-cut problems are key in achieving high-performance and robust communication networks. Those problems have often been studied in deterministic and uncorrelated networks both in their original formulations as well as in several constrained variants. However, in real-world networks, link weights (e.g.,...journal article 2016
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Jeong, Minseok (author), Yang, Chuneun (author), You, Heecheon (author), Park, Kwangae (author), Lee, W. (author)An online suit-customizing system for the special accessibility needs of wheelchair users should be developed because the demand for business suits by wheelchair users involved in economic activities has increased. This study<br/>develops a user interface an online customizing system for men's suits specialized for wheelchair users. This study...journal article 2016
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Yang, Xiaofan (author), Zhu, Yuanrui (author), Hong, Jing (author), Yang, L. (author), Wu, Yingbo (author), Tang, Yuan Yan (author)There are quite a number of different metrics of network robustness. This paper addresses the rationality of four metrics of network robustness (the algebraic connectivity, the effective resistance, the average edge betweenness, and the efficiency) by investigating the robust growth of generalized meshes (GMs). First, a heuristic growth...journal article 2016
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Dhiratara, Arkka (author), Yang, J. (author), Bozzon, A. (author), Houben, G.J.P.M. (author)Social media data are increasingly used as the source of research in a variety of domains. A typical example is urban analytics, which aims at solving urban problems by analyzing data from different sources including social media. The potential value of social media data in tourism studies, which is one of the key topics in urban research,...journal article 2016
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Liu, Zhigang (author), Wang, H. (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author), Yang, S. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Zhang, J. (author)This paper explores the use of pantograph-catenary contact force (PCCF) for monitoring of the current collection quality and detection of anomalies in the interaction between pantograph and catenary. The concept of catenary structure wavelength (CSW) is proposed as the dominant component of PCCF. It describes the signal components caused by the...journal article 2016