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Song, Dongdong (author), Yang, Xiaobao (author), Ch. Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis (author), Zu, Xingshui (author), Yue, Xianfei (author), Yang, Y. (author)Traffic barrier crashes have been a major concern in many prior studies in traffic safety literature, especially in the crash-prone sections of mountainous regions. However, the effect of factors affecting the injury-severities resulting from crashes involving different types of traffic barriers may be different. This paper provides an...journal article 2023
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Ariana, Ramin (author)Swarm robotics (SR) is an emerging field of research that utilizes a swarm of robots that work together as a team to solve complex problems. One such challenge in SR is the exploration of unknown environments to find multiple targets. This problem finds applications in various domains, such as archaeology, underground exploration, signal source...master thesis 2023
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Mishra, Pooja (author)The thesis challenges conventional notions of the social and explores the intricate relationship between humans and the imminent commons. It confronts the consequences of neglecting the imminent commons (water, earth, air) in urban environments, urging a re-evaluation of design principles. The research reveals ecological risks from prioritizing...master thesis 2023
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Bijl, Robin (author)The ever-increasing demand for computing has led to the need for specialized heterogeneous hardware, and the frameworks required to utilize them. Besides the traditional central processing units, more and more programs will make use of specialized hardware to accelerate computations. However, the increase in computing also leads to shorter mean...master thesis 2023
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Geel, Patrick (author)The demand for implementing neural networks on edge devices has rapidly increased as they allow designers to move away from expensive server-grade hardware. However, due to the limited resources available on edge devices, it is challenging to implement complex neural networks. This study selected the Kria SoM KV260 hardware platform due to its...master thesis 2023
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Wang, Quanyi (author)Car-following behaviour is a fundamental element for vehicle manoeuvre. The heterogeneity among driving behaviour has gained significant importance since some researchers argued that it might be relevant to capacity drop and traffic oscillations. Driver space is an area around a vehicle, and drivers will feel a rapid increase in discomfort when...student report 2023
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Pourgholamali, Mohammadhosein (author), Correia, Gonçalo (author), Tarighati Tabesh, Mahmood (author), Esmaeilzadeh Seilabi, Sania (author), Miralinaghi, Mohammad (author), Labi, Samuel (author)The rising demand for electric vehicles (EVs), motivated by their environmental benefits, is generating an increased need for EV charging infrastructure. Also, it has been recognized that the adequacy of such infrastructure helps promote EV use. Therefore, to facilitate EV adoption, governments seek guidance on continued investments in EV...journal article 2023
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Chen, Qiting (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author), Wang, Kun (author), Yi, Zhiwei (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Peng, Fei (author), Ma, Shaoxiu (author)Information on crop yield is important for food security, in particular under the conditions of climate change and growing population worldwide. We developed a new fully distributed, high spatial resolution, model of biomass accumulation and crop yield applicable to a highly heterogeneous desert-oasis agroecosystem. The bulk of required input...journal article 2023
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Huang, J. (author), Zhao, Z. (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Roos, S. (author)Attacks on Federated Learning (FL) can severely reduce the quality of the generated models and limit the usefulness of this emerging learning paradigm that enables on-premise decentralized learning. However, existing untargeted attacks are not practical for many scenarios as they assume that i) the attacker knows every update of benign...conference paper 2023
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Bahadur, Jitendra (author), Chandra, D. (author), Das, Avik (author), Vishal, Vikram (author), Agrawal, Ashish Kumar (author), Sen, Debasis (author)Pore orientation in shale governs the fluid transport properties that are key to hydrocarbon production and potential CO<sub>2</sub> sequestration. The present work deals with the detailed study of nano-heterogeneities in shales, across the bedding plane, of varying thermal maturity and total organic carbon content using scanning small-angle...journal article 2023
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Li, Mengyu (author), Bai, Yahan (author), Zhuang, Wei (author), Liu, Jinle (author), Wang, Zhi (author), Rao, Yuan (author), Li, Mengran (author), Ying, Hanjie (author), Ouyang, Pingkai (author)A novel magnetic 2D/2D heterogeneous structure MXene@NiFe-LDH@Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> was prepared for immobilization of laccase. In this work, two-dimensional MXene nanosheets with abundant surface functional groups were heterogeneously assembled with layered double hydroxide (LDH) by in situ co-precipitation method, and magnetic...journal article 2023
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Song, Dongdong (author), Yang, Xiaobao (author), Yang, Y. (author), Cui, Pengfei (author), Zhu, Guangyu (author)Truck-involved crashes, especially truck-car crashes, are associated with serious and even fatal injuries, thus necessitating an in-depth analysis. Prior research focused solely on examining the injury severity of truck drivers or developed separate performance models for truck and car drivers. However, the severity of injuries to both...journal article 2023
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Pluymakers, Anne (author), Bakker, R.R. (author), Ter Steege, F.B. (author), Versluis, B. (author), Barnhoorn, A. (author)Many rocks contain planar heterogeneities, in the form of open fractures, veins and/or stylolites, but scarce data exist on how strength and fracture pattern formation is affected by the presence of a singular planar heterogeneity in an otherwise uniform matrix. The mechanics of stylolite-bearing and/or fractured limestone is of interest to...journal article 2023
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van Leer, Martijn D. (author), Zaadnoordijk, Willem (author), Zech, Alraune (author), Griffioen, Jasper (author), Bierkens, Marc F.P. (author)Aquitards are common hydrogeological features in the subsurface. Typically, pumping tests are used to parameterize the hydraulic conductivity of heterogeneous aquitards. However, they do not take spatial variability and uncertainty into account. Alternatively, core-scale measurements of hydraulic conductivity are used in geostatistical...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Guofeng (author), Moulijn, J.A. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Dautzenberg, Frits M. (author), Xu, Bin (author), Lu, Yong (author)Heterogeneous catalysis plays a pivotal role in the current chemical and energy vectors production. Notably, to fully utilize the intrinsic activity and selectivity of a catalyst, the chemical reactor has to be designed and operated optimally to achieve enhanced heat/mass transfer, well-defined contact time of reactants, uniform flow pattern,...journal article 2023
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Subhan, Fazle (author), Ali, Y. (author), Zhao, Shengchuan (author), Oviedo-Trespalacios, O. (author)Evaluating road safety improvements becomes important because it can assist policymakers in allocating economic resources to improve safety and implementing effective policy interventions. As such, this study aims to estimate the value of road safety risk measures using a new modeling approach for willingness-to-pay (WTP). Specifically, this...journal article 2023
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Hu, L. (author), Pinto, D. (author), Urakawa, A. (author)Direct valorization of methane via oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) is an encouraging alternative to conventional oil-based processes for the production of light hydrocarbons (ethane and ethylene). Abundant, inexpensive simple oxides such as MgO and La<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> possess the ability to selectively activate methane. However,...journal article 2023
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Zhong, Haobai (author), Huang, Weidong (author), Lin, P. (author), Zhou, L. (author), Lv, Quan (author)With the increasing shortage of resources, the reuse of recycled asphalt pavements (RAP) in pavement engineering is considered as a sustainable technology. Challenges posed by common extraction and recovery methods may result in misjudgment of asphalt pavement performance. In this study, we investigate the optimization of extraction and...journal article 2023
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Pinto, D. (author), Hu, L. (author), Urakawa, A. (author)Dynamic coke-mediated dry reforming of methane (DC-DRM) is an unsteady-state strategy to overcome the limitations of co-feed operation, including the fast deactivation of the catalysts and the loss of valuable H<sub>2</sub> in the reverse water gas-shift reaction. This paper proves the feasibility of DC-DRM on Ni-based catalytic systems,...journal article 2023
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Mundaca, Luis (author), Rotmann, Sea (author), Ashby, Kira (author), Karlin, Beth (author), Butler, Danielle (author), Sequeira, Miguel Macias (author), Gouveia, João Pedro (author), Palma, Pedro (author), Realini, Anna (author), Maggiore, Simone (author), Feenstra, M.H. (author)Hard-to-reach (HTR) energy users encompass individuals who are physically difficult to reach, underserved, or challenging to engage and motivate in demand-side energy programmes. Given a mix of societal challenges (e.g. inequity, energy poverty, decarbonisation, the COVID-19 pandemic), HTR energy users are receiving increasing attention. However...journal article 2023