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An Optimized XGBoost Model for Predicting Tunneling-Induced Ground Settlement
Accurate prediction of ground settlement is vital to guarantee the safety and efficiency of subway tunnel digging. In this study, to accurately predict the tunneling-induced ground settlement, the extreme grad...
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Improved sugar recovery from enzymatic hydrolysis of Miscanthus sinensis by surfactant-mediated alkaline pretreatment
Surfactants play a vital role in the removal of lignin and subsequent enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass. In this work, a surfactant-mediated alkaline pretreatment (SMAP) with short residenc...
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A smart MXene-copolymeric molecularly imprinted hydrogel with dual-response and photothermal conversion performance for specific recognition of cis-diol compounds
In this work, a novel MXene-copolymeric molecularly imprinted hydrogel (FMMIH) with temperature/pH dual response and photothermal conversion performance for selective recognition of cis-diol compounds is succe...
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D2HNet: Joint Denoising and Deblurring with Hierarchical Network for Robust Night Image Restoration
Night imaging with modern smartphone cameras is troublesome due to low photon count and unavoidable noise in the imaging system. Directly adjusting exposure time and ISO ratings cannot obtain sharp and noise-f...
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FAST-VQA: Efficient End-to-End Video Quality Assessment with Fragment Sampling
Current deep video quality assessment (VQA) methods are usually with high computational costs when evaluating high-resolution videos. This cost hinders them from learning better video-quality-related represent...
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Open AccessNovel symmetrical bifacial flexible CZTSSe thin film solar cells for indoor photovoltaic applications
Environment-friendly flexible Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 (CZTSSe) solar cells show great potentials for indoor photovoltaic market. Indoor lighting is weak and multi-directional, thus the researches of photovoltaic device st...
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Open AccessAn assessment of sensitivity biomarkers for urinary cadmium burden
Excess cadmium (Cd) intake poses a general risk to health and to the kidneys in particular. Among indices of renal dysfunction under Cd burden measures are the urinary N-acetyl-β-D-glucosidase (UNAG) and urina...
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Candesartan ameliorates vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation via regulating miR-301b/STAT3 axis
Excessive vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation contributes to vascular remodeling and stroke during hypertension. Blockade of Angiotensin (AngII) type 1 receptor (AT1R) is shown to effectively attenua...
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Information modeling for cyber-physical production system based on digital twin and AutomationML
Production systems play an important role in intelligent manufacturing. A large number of manufacturing resources are designed and developed with virtual (digital) ones, which will be associated with the physi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Guided Collaborative Training for Pixel-Wise Semi-Supervised Learning
We investigate the generalization of semi-supervised learning (SSL) to diverse pixel-wise tasks. Although SSL methods have achieved impressive results in image classification, the performances of applying them...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
AIM 2020 Challenge on Efficient Super-Resolution: Methods and Results
This paper reviews the AIM 2020 challenge on efficient single image super-resolution with focus on the proposed solutions and results. The challenge task was to super-resolve an input image with a magnificatio...
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Digital twin-driven cyber-physical production system towards smart shop-floor
Smart manufacturing is the core in the 4th industrial revolution. Smart shop-floor is one of the basic units of smart manufacturing. With the development of the advanced technologies (e.g. cloud computing, int...
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Open AccessChanging epidemiological patterns of HIV and AIDS in China in the post-SARS era identified by the nationwide surveillance system
China has made substantial progress in tackling its HIV and AIDS epidemic. But the changing patterns of HIV and AIDS incidence based on the longitudinal observation data were rarely studied.
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Open AccessThe moderating roles of bedtime activities and anxiety/depression in the relationship between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms and sleep problems in children
Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience sleep problems, but the comorbidity mechanism has not been sufficiently studied. This study aimed to determine the comorbidity of ...
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Open AccessThe Prevalence of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder among Chinese Children and Adolescents
Updating the worldwide prevalence estimates of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has significant applications for the further study of ADHD. However, previous reviews included few samples of Chin...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Research on 3D Modelling and Visualization of the Quaternary in Tongzhou Area, Bei**g
Urban 3D geological modeling is a typical application of 3D information technology in urban geological area, which significantly promotes expression of result of urban geological investigation, upgrades capabi...
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Analyzing the role of soil and rice cadmium pollution on human renal dysfunction by correlation and path analysis
The aim of this study was to investigate the role of soil and rice pollution on human renal dysfunction. The participants were 97 inhabitants (46 men and 51 women) who are aged 50 to 60 years old and have been...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Chaotic Differential Evolution Algorithm for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling
To solve the flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSP), a chaotic differential evolution algorithm (CDEA) is proposed with makespan minimization criterion. In the CDEA, logistic map** is used to generate c...
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Cadmium contamination of rice from various polluted areas of China and its potential risks to human health
A total of 484 rice samples were collected from five polluted areas in China to investigate the cadmium (Cd) contamination of rice and its potential health risks. The mean Cd contents of analyzed rice samples ...
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Modeling of tanshinone synthesis and phase distribution under the combined effect of elicitation and in situ adsorption in Salvia miltiorrhiza hairy root cultures
Modeling of tanshinone synthesis and phase distribution under the combined effect of elicitation and adsorption was studied. The simulated results showed that enhancement of tanshinone production was mainly du...
