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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Li, Mingliang (author), Fan, Weiyu (author), Xu, Jian (author), Erkens, S. (author)It is well known that crumb rubber (CR) and styrene–butadienestyrene (SBS) composite modified asphalt has better rheological and engineering performance. However, it always presents very poor compatibility and storage stability. Meanwhile, Trans-polyoctenamer (TOR) can effectively improve the compatibility and thermal stability of rubber...journal article 2020
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Wang, H. (author), Fan, Weiyu (author), Erkens, S. (author)Recycling technology is widely used in the asphalt road construction due to its environmental and economic effects. Many efforts have focused on the performance restoration of aged base asphalt by adding light oil, but the possibility of recycling the aged asphalt using low-viscosity asphalt and polymers has been few explored. Therefore, the...journal article 2020
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Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Jiang, Zhiyu (author), Ren, Zhengru (author), Gao, Zhen (author), Vedvik, Nils Petter (author)Most wind turbine blades are assembled piece-by-piece onto the hub of a monopile-type offshore wind turbine using jack-up crane vessels. Despite the stable foundation of the lifting cranes, the mating process exhibits substantial relative responses amidst blade root and hub. These relative motions are combined effects of wave-induced monopile...journal article 2020
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Ahmed, N. (author), Lévy, Jonathan (author), Ren, S. (author), Mushtaq, Hamid (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author)Following publication of the original article [1], the author requested changes to the figures 4, 7, 8, 9, 12 and 14 to align these with the text. The corrected figures are supplied below. The original article [1] has been corrected. [Typesetter, please insert new supplied figure in package].journal article 2019
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Ahmed, N. (author), Lévy, Jonathan (author), Ren, S. (author), Mushtaq, Hamid (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author)BACKGROUND: Due the computational complexity of sequence alignment algorithms, various accelerated solutions have been proposed to speedup this analysis. NVBIO is the only available GPU library that accelerates sequence alignment of high-throughput NGS data, but has limited performance. In this article we present GASAL2, a GPU library for...journal article 2019
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Ren, J. (author), Marxen, Olaf (author), Pecnik, Rene (author)We investigate the hydrodynamic stability of compressible boundary layers over adiabatic walls with fluids at supercritical pressure in the proximity of the Widom line (also known as the pseudo-critical line). Depending on the free-stream temperature and the Eckert number that determines the viscous heating, the boundary-layer temperature...journal article 2019
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Ren, S. (author), Ahmed, N. (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author)Background: Pairwise sequence alignment is widely used in many biological tools and applications. Existing GPU accelerated implementations mainly focus on calculating optimal alignment score and omit identifying the optimal alignment itself. In GATK HaplotypeCaller (HC), the semi-global pairwise sequence alignment with traceback has so far<br/...journal article 2019
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Fan, Weiyu (author), Wang, H. (author), Erkens, S. (author)A styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) latex modifier can be used for asphalt modification due to the fact of its energy-saving, construction convenience, and economic advantages. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of asphalt type and SBS latex dosage on the rheological properties, compatibility, and storage stability of...journal article 2019
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Ren, J. (author), Fu, Song (author), Pecnik, Rene (author)The objective of this work is to investigate linear modal and algebraic instability in Poiseuille flows with fluids close to their vapour-liquid critical point. Close to this critical point, the ideal gas assumption does not hold and large non-ideal fluid behaviours occur. As a representative non-ideal fluid, we consider supercritical carbon...journal article 2019
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Ren, M. (author), Wang, Shuzhong (author), Yang, Chuang (author), Xu, Haitao (author), Guo, Yang (author), Roekaerts, D.J.E.M. (author)This work reports an experimental study on supercritical water oxidation of quinoline. Moderate preheat temperature (420 °C–510 °C) and initial concentration (1 wt%–10 wt%) are selected to address the possibility of utilizing the heat released during the reaction, in order to realize high conversion rate at relatively low preheat temperature....journal article 2019
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Ren, M. (author), Wang, Shuzhong (author), Roekaerts, D.J.E.M. (author)Counterflow diffusion flames of methanol hydrothermal combustion are investigated to improve the understanding of hydrothermal flames. It is indicated that the thermodynamic properties by the Peng-Robinson equation of state and the modified transport properties can reduce the flame temperature by about 500 K. The Takahashi correlation for...journal article 2019
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Wang, Xu (author), Daigger, Glen (author), Lee, Duu Jong (author), Liu, Junxin (author), Ren, Nan Qi (author), Qu, Jiuhui (author), Liu, G. (author), Butler, David (author)Restoring and improving harmony between human activities and nature are essential to human well-being and survival. The role of wastewater infrastructure is evolving toward resource recovery to address this challenge. Yet, existing design approaches for wastewater systems focus merely on technological aspects of these systems. If system...journal article 2018
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Ren, Dongya (author), Houben, L.J.M. (author)Prediction of the temperature development at an early age is a good starting point to assess the development of the restrained thermal stress and thermal cracking in rigid pavements. This paper presents a numerical early age concrete pavement temperature prediction model. It enables to evaluate the effect of various paving conditions, such as...journal article 2018
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Ma, Y. (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Ahad Mashal, Abdul (author), Ren, Mingfa (author)Over the past few years, a number of implicit/explicit finite element models have been introduced for the purpose of tackling the problems of wheel–rail interaction. Yet, most of those finite element models encounter common numerical difficulties. For instance, initial gaps/penetrations between two contact bodies, which easily occur when...journal article 2018
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Ren, S. (author), Bertels, K.L.M. (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author)GATK HaplotypeCaller (HC) is a popular variant caller, which is widely used to identify variants in complex genomes. However, due to its high variants detection accuracy, it suffers from long execution time. In GATK HC, the pair-HMMs forward algorithm accounts for a large percentage of the total execution time. This article proposes to...journal article 2018
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Ma, Y. (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Ahad Mashal, Abdul (author), Ren, Mingfa (author)It is widely recognized that the accuracy of explicit finite element simulations is sensitive to the choice of interface parameters (i.e. contact stiffness/damping, mesh generation, etc.) and time step sizes. Yet, the effect of these interface parameters on the explicit finite element based solutions of wheel–rail interaction has not been...journal article 2018
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Yang, D. (author), Ren, Shibo (author), Turrin, M. (author), Sariyildiz, I.S. (author), Sun, Y. (author)The benefits of applying multi-objective optimization (MOO) in building design have been increasingly recognized in recent decades. The existing or traditional computational design optimization (CDO) approaches mostly focus on optimization problem solving (OPS), as they often conduct optimizations directly by assuming the optimization...journal article 2018
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Ma, Y. (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Mashal, AA (author), Ren, M (author)Verification of the explicit finite element (FE) model with realistic wheel-rail profiles against the CONTACT model, which has not been sufficiently discussed, is performed by comparing the resulting shear stress, slip-adhesion area, etc., obtained from the two models. The follow-up studies using the verified FE model on the influence of the...journal article 2017
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Bai, Shunwen (author), Wang, Xiuheng (author), Zhang, X. (author), Zhao, Xinyue (author), Ren, Nanqi (author)This present study aims to analyze the differences in results of different site-directional life cycle assessment<br/>(LCA) methods applied in the field of wastewater treatment. Site-generic methods were employed and<br/>compared with China-specific methods on a full-scale wastewater treatment case. A set of Chinese<br/>normalized factors were...journal article 2017
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Nechemia-Arbely, Yael (author), Fachinetti, Daniele (author), Miga, Karen H. (author), Sekulic, Nikolina (author), Soni, G.V. (author), Kim, Dong Hyun (author), Wong, Adeline K. (author), Lee, Ah Young (author), Nguyen, Kristen (author), Dekker, C. (author), Ren, Bing (author), Black, Ben E. (author), Cleveland, Don W. (author)Chromatin assembled with centromere protein A (CENP-A) is the epigenetic mark of centromere identity. Using new reference models, we now identify sites of CENP-A and histone H3.1 binding within the megabase, α-satellite repeat-containing centromeres of 23 human chromosomes. The overwhelming majority (97%) of α-satellite DNA is found to be...journal article 2017