42 Result(s)

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Adaptive radio map reconstruction via adversarial wireless fingerprint learning

Wi-Fi signals play an essential role in indoor location-based services. However, the Wi-Fi radio map is vulnerable to deployment changes, leading to significant localization errors. Therefore, surveyors must r...

Weina Jiang, Qun Niu, Suining He, Ning Liu in Neural Computing and Applications (2023)

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Dynamic Vertical Climbing Mechanism of Chinese Dragon-Li Cats Based on the Linear Inverted Pendulum Model

Humans have long desired but never achieved the capacity to climb walls. The fundamental reason is that human hands and feet cannot climb vertical walls like geckos and bees. Animals lacking an adhesive struct...

Qun Niu, Jieliang Zhao, Lulu Liang, ** **ng in Journal of Bionic Engineering (2023)

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WNT5A Enhances LH-Mediated Expression of HAS2 in Granulosa Cells

In adult ovary, WNT5A is involved in follicular responses to gonadotropins and necessary for ovarian follicle development. However, the mechanism by which gonadotropins regulate WNT5A and the role of WNT5A in ...

Qun Niu, **g**g Shi, Qing Gao, Jiang Fu in Reproductive Sciences (2022)

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Tanshinone IIA prevents LPS-induced inflammatory responses in mice via inactivation of succinate dehydrogenase in macrophages

Metabolic reprogramming is associated with NLRP3 inflammasome activation in activated macrophages, contributing to inflammatory responses. Tanshinone IIA (Tan-IIA) is a major constituent from Salvia miltiorrhiza ...

Qiu-yan Liu, Yu Zhuang, **an-rui Song, Qun Niu… in Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (2021)

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Racial disparities in survival outcomes among breast cancer patients by molecular subtypes

Differences in tumor biology, genomic architecture, and health care delivery patterns contribute to the breast cancer mortality gap between White and Black patients in the US. Although this gap has been well d...

Fangyuan Zhao, Brenda Copley, Qun Niu, Fang Liu… in Breast Cancer Research and Treatment (2021)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Fusing Directional and Omnidirectional Wi-Fi Antennas for Accurate Indoor Localization

Wi-Fi fingerprint-based indoor localization has attracted much attention due to the pervasiveness of Wi-Fi access points (APs). However, the localization accuracy could be degraded due to signal fluctuations a...

Kunxin Zhu, Yongxin Hu, Ning Liu, Qun Niu in Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (2021)

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A novel binary/real-valued pigeon-inspired optimization for economic/environment unit commitment with renewables and plug-in vehicles

Zhile Yang, Kailong Liu, Jian** Fan, Yuanjun Guo… in Science China Information Sciences (2019)

Chapter and Conference Paper

A Fast Hybrid Meta-Heuristic Algorithm for Economic/Environment Unit Commitment with Renewables and Plug-In Electric Vehicles

To tackle with the urgent scenario of significant green house gas and air pollution emissions, it is pressing for modern power system operators to consider environmental issues in conventional economic based p...

Zhile Yang, Qun Niu, Yuanjun Guo, Hai** Ma, Boyang Qu in Advances in Swarm Intelligence (2018)

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Laser-Based Bidirectional Pedestrian Counting via Height Map Guided Regression and Voting

Pedestrian counting is valuable for business decisions and public safety, but it remains a challenging task in dynamic environments with illumination changes, shadows, background clutter, etc. In this paper, w...

Qun Niu, Hefeng Wu, Chengying Gao, **aonan Luo in Signal, Image and Video Processing (2017)

Chapter and Conference Paper

An Improved Multi-objective Bare-Bones PSO for Optimal Design of Solar Dish Stirling Engine Systems

An improved bare-bones multi-objective particle swarm optimization, namely IMOBBPSO is proposed to optimize the solar-dish Stirling engine systems. A new simple strategy for updating particle’s velocity is dev...

Qun Niu, Ziyuan Sun, Dandan Hua in Advanced Computational Methods in Energy, … (2017)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Unit Commitment with Wind Power and Pumped Hydro Energy Storage

Pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) can relieve the variability and fluctuation of wind energy in power system. Introducing PHES and wind power into unit commitment (UC) has great significance in the control an...

Qun Niu, Dandan Hua, Letian Zhang, Chao Wang in Theory, Methodology, Tools and Application… (2016)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Learning-Based Evolutionary Optimization for Optimal Power Flow

This paper proposes a learning-based evolutionary optimization (LBEO) for solving optimal power flow (OPF) problem. The LBEO is a simple and effective algorithm, which simplifies the structure of teaching-lear...

Qun Niu, Wenjun Peng, Letian Zhang in Intelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies (2015)

Chapter and Conference Paper

Unit Commitment with Electric Vehicles Based on an Improved Harmony Search Algorithm

This paper presents an intelligent economic operation of unit commitment (UC) incorporated with electric vehicles (EV) problem. The model of UC with EV is formulated, which includes constraints of power balanc...

Qun Niu, Chao Wang, Letian Zhang in Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence (2015)