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Giasin, Khaled (author), Atif, Muhammad (author), Ma, Yuan (author), Jiang, Chulin (author), Koklu, Ugur (author), Sinke, J. (author)GLARE laminates are multi-layered metal-composite materials created from bonding sheets of metallic alloys with carbon or glass fibre layers. The application of hybrid-conventional machining processes such as ultrasonic-assisted drilling (UAD) is becoming of great interest to the aerospace industry due to its capability in reducing the...journal article 2022
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Yang, Liu (author), Ma, Yunjian (author), Chen, Yebao (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Wang, Yonghua (author)Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) are widely used as plastic additives to increase the flexibility and durability of plastics. Constantly leaching out from plastics, PAEs are ubiquitously found in the environment. As PAEs exhibit biological activities such as being endocrine disruptive, the quest for efficient degradation strategies continues. Here...journal article 2022
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Wang, Ye (author), Ren, Genkuan (author), Jiang, Bing (author), Yang, Lin (author), Zhang, Zhiye (author), Wang, Xinlong (author), Zhong, Yanjun (author), Chen, Z. (author), Yang, Xiushan (author), Morita, Kazuki (author), Ma, Wenhui (author)Nanometer-sized hematite was prepared via a two-step process. In the first step, FeSO<sub>4</sub>·7H<sub>2</sub>O was oxidized to Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> by oxygen in an acidic solution. In the second step, the Fe<sub>2</sub>(SO<sub>4</sub>)<sub>3</sub> was reduced to nanosize hematite with sulfur vapor at 550 °C. The...journal article 2022
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Shao, Pengfei (author), Ma, C. (author), Han, Daoyang (author), Liu, Kun (author), Li, Mingliang (author), Liang, Yi (author), Yao, Meng (author), Wang, Hailong (author), Zhang, Rui (author), Shao, Gang (author)Temperature sensors that can operate in high-temperature and harsh environments are highly desired. However, this is a great challenge for sensing materials to operate under extreme working conditions because of oxidation and/or corrosion at high temperature. In this study, polymer-derived SiAlCN ceramics were prepared as sensing materials to...journal article 2022
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Achterberg, M.A. (author), Prasse, B. (author), Ma, L. (author), Trajanovski, S. (author), Kitsak, M.A. (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author)Researchers from various scientific disciplines have attempted to forecast the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The proposed epidemic prediction methods range from basic curve fitting methods and traffic interaction models to machine-learning approaches. If we combine all these approaches, we obtain the Network Inference-based...journal article 2022
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Liu, Zhou (author), Mirhosseini, S.S. (author), Liu, L. (author), Popov, M. (author), Ma, Kaiqi (author), Hu, Weihao (author), Jamali, Sadegh (author), Palensky, P. (author), Chen, Zhe (author)To promote the integration of renewable energy resources into modern energy systems, high-voltage dc (HVdc) and circuit breaker (CB) technologies have become critical to achieving secure and efficient energy transmission. This article reviews the technical development of the related areas, compares diverse breaker concepts and topologies,...journal article 2022
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Zhao, Jian (author), Xu, Shenyu (author), Chandrasegaran, R.S.K. (author), Bryan, Christopher James (author), Du, Fan (author), Mishra, Aditi (author), Qian, Xin (author), Li, Yiran (author), Ma, Kwan Liu (author)Visual data storytelling is gaining importance as a means of presenting data-driven information or analysis results, especially to the general public. This has resulted in design principles being proposed for data-driven storytelling, and new authoring tools being created to aid such storytelling. However, data analysts typically lack...journal article 2022
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Cheng, Long (author), Zhang, Lei (author), Liu, X. (author), Yuan, Fang (author), Ma, Yang (author), Sun, Yinqing (author)Reliable assessment of the fatigue resistance of asphalt pavement with a long-term service is critically crucial for the rational formulation of original pavement utilization strategies in reconstruction and expansion projects. Currently, the pavement performance evaluation indicators are mainly used to guide pavement preventive maintenance,...journal article 2022
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Qi, Jiaming (author), Ma, Guangfu (author), Zhu, J. (author), Zhou, Peng (author), Lyu, Yueyong (author), Zhang, Haibo (author), Navarro-Alarcon, David (author)The robotic manipulation of composite rigid-deformable objects (i.e., those with mixed nonhomogeneous stiffness properties) is a challenging problem with clear practical applications that, despite the recent progress in the field, it has not been sufficiently studied in the literature. To deal with this issue, in this article, we propose a...journal article 2022
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Ma, Xinwei (author), Zhang, Shuai (author), Jin, Yuchuan (author), Zhu, Minqing (author), Yuan, Y. (author)Metro-bikeshare integration, an important way of improving the efficiency of public transportation, has grown rapidly during the last decades in many countries. However, most previous analysis of metro-bikeshare transfer trips were based on limited sample size and the number of recognized metro-bikeshare trips were not sufficient. The primary...journal article 2022
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Ma, L. (author), Kitsak, M.A. (author), Van Mieghem, P.F.A. (author)Despite many studies on the transmission mechanism of the Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), it remains still challenging to efficiently reduce mortality. In this work, we apply a two-population Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model to investigate the COVID-19 spreading when contacts between elderly and non...conference paper 2022
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Draganov, D.S. (author), Ma, X. (author), Heller, H.K.J. (author), Kirichek, Alex (author)Knowledge about the characteristics of fluid mud in ports and waterways would allow safer navigating through fluid mud. The properties of the fluid mud determine the feasibility of navigating vessels through the fluid mud. Seismic waves have the potential to help characterize the fluid-mud layers, especially when both P- and S-waves are used....conference paper 2022
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Quan, D. (author), Yue, Dongsheng (author), Ma, Yannan (author), Zhao, Guoqun (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author)This work studied the mix mode-I/II fracture behaviour of an aerospace-grade carbon fibre/epoxy composite that was interlayer-toughened by Polyamide-12 (PA), Polyphenylene-sulphide (PPS), Polyimide (PI), Polyethersulfone (PES) and Polyethylenimine (PEI) fibres. During the laminate curing process, the PA fibres melted, the PPS and PI fibres...journal article 2022
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Ma, Z. (author), Smeur, E.J.J. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author)Tailsitters have complex aerodynamics that make them hard to control throughout the entire flight envelope, especially at very high angle of attack (AoA) and reverse flow conditions. The development of controllers for these vehicles is hampered by the absence of publicly available data on forces and moments experienced in such conditions. In...journal article 2022
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Liu, Lian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Ma, Yaoming (author)Meteorological variables (e.g., air temperature (T2), radiation flux, and precipitation) determine the evolution of glacier mass and characteristics. Observations of these variables are not available with adequate spatial coverage and spatiotemporal resolution over the Tibetan Plateau. Albedo is the key factor of net radiation and is determined...journal article 2022
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Ma, C. (author), Liu, H. (author), Wolterbeek, H.T. (author), Denkova, A.G. (author), Serra Crespo, P. (author)Four different MOFs were exposed to γrays by a cobalt-60 source reaching a maximum dose of 5 MGy. The results showed that the MIL-100 (Cr) and MIL-100 (Fe) did not exhibit obvious structural damage, suggesting their excellent radiation stability. MIL-101 (Cr) showed good radiation stability up to 4 MGy, but its structure started degrading...journal article 2022
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Ahmad, T. (author), Ma, Chengxin (author), Al-Ars, Z. (author), Hofstee, H.P. (author)Current cluster scaled genomics data processing solutions rely on big data frameworks like Apache Spark, Hadoop and HDFS for data scheduling, processing and storage. These frameworks come with additional computation and memory overheads by default. It has been observed that scaling genomics dataset processing beyond 32 nodes is not efficient on...conference paper 2022
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Huang, N. (author), Ma, Yutao (author)We use tridiagonal models to study the limiting behavior of β-Laguerre and β-Jacobi ensembles, focusing on the limiting behavior of the extremal eigenvalues and the central limit theorem for the two ensembles. For the central limit theorem of β-Laguerre ensembles, we follow the idea in [1] while giving a modified version for the generalized...journal article 2022
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Tao, Y. (author), Ma, Jing (author), Shen, Yue (author), Chai, Yanwei (author)With great concern over the health-promoting environment worldwide, there is a growing body of research into the neighborhood effects on health beyond the sole focus on individual socioeconomic disadvantages and lifestyle risks. Our study contributes to neighborhood health research by investigating the combined effects of multi-dimensional...journal article 2022
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Xu, Jingyi (author), Li, Z. (author), Gao, Li (author), Ma, Junyi (author), Liu, Qi (author), Zhao, Yanan (author)The deep reinforcement learning-based energy management strategies (EMS) have become a promising solution for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). When driving cycles are changed, the neural network will be retrained, which is a time-consuming and laborious task. A more efficient way of choosing EMS is to combine deep reinforcement learning (DRL)...conference paper 2022