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Occurrence of microplastics in natural and farmland soil in the Qilian Mountains of the Northern Tibetan Plateau
Microplastics (MPs) become ubiquitous in soil and are an environmental and public health concern worldwide. However, the status of MPs in natural and farmland soils in remote areas remains poorly understood. I...
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Open AccessHydrocarbon generation and expulsion process in the deepwater area of the Qiongdongnan Basin of China: insights from artificial thermal maturation experiments
A series of natural gas fields have been discovered in the deepwater area of the Qiongdongnan Basin (QDNB) of China. However, the natural gas generation process and mechanism still exist controversy. Hence, tw...
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Characterizations of a Novel Structure of Fault-Tolerant HTS Cable
This paper presents a type of high temperature superconducting (HTS) cable, which is fabricated by winding the second generation (2G) HTS tapes on round former consisting of stranded stainless steel (SS) wires...
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Benchmarking in-memory database
We have witnessed exciting development of RAM technology in the past decade. The memory size grows rapidly and the price continues to decrease, so that it is feasible to deploy large amounts of RAM in a comput...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Scalable Framework for Universal Data Generation in Parallel
Nowadays, more and more companies, such as Amazon, Twitter and etc., are facing the big data problem, which requires higher performance to manage tremendous large data sets. Data management systems with a new ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MemTest: A Novel Benchmark for In-memory Database
With the rapid development of hardware, a stand-alone computer can employ a memory which has large amounts of volumes. Several industries and research institutions have devoted more resources to develop severa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Probabilistic Reverse Top-k Queries
Ranking-aware query is one of the most fundamental queries in the database management field. The ranking query that returns top-k elements with maximal ranking scores according to a ranking function has been wide...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Product-Customer Matching Framework for Web 2.0 Applications
Finding matching customers for a product is critical in many applications, especially in the e-commerce field. In this paper, we propose a novel product-customer matching framework to handle this issue, which ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Bichromatic Reverse Ranking Query in Two Dimensions
Capturing potential customers for a given product based on individual preferences is very important in many personalized applications. Reverse ranking queries are widely employed in this scenario from the pers...