[EN] In this work, a sol-gel method was used to load TiO2 nanoparticles on three clays (kaolinite, halloysite and palygorskite) with different morphologies (plates, tubes, and rods with micro tunnels), and then the ...
Xu, Teng; Gómez-Hernández, J. Jaime; Chen, Zi; Lu, Chunhui(Elsevier, 2021-04)
[EN] Understanding a contaminant source may help in a better management and risk assessment of a polluted aquifer. However, contaminant source information may not be available when a pollutant is detected in a drinking ...
[EN] Bag-of-Tasks (BoT) workflows are widespread in many big data analysis fields. However, there are very few cloud resource provisioning and scheduling algorithms tailored for BoT workflows. Furthermore, existing algorithms ...
[EN] Isophthalic acid (IPA) has been considered to build metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), owing to its facile availability, unique connection angle-mode, and a wide range of functional groups attached. Constructing ...
[EN] With increasingly stringent environmental regulations on emission standards, enterprises and investigators are looking for effective ways to decrease GHG emission from products. As an important method for reducing GHG ...
[EN] New stricter environmental regulations and consumer rising issues are making greenhouse gases (GHG) emission an increasing and urgent concern for manufacturing companies. Companies and researchers are seeking appropriate ...
Chen, Yueling; Liu, Tao; García Gil, Pedro José; Albertos Pérez, Pedro(Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), 2016-05-16)
In this study, the problem of controlling integrating and unstable systems with long time delay is analysed in the discrete-time domain for digital implementation. Based on a generalised predictor-based control structure, ...
Cooperative communication has attracted many research interests in recent years because it can take advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless communications and spatial diversity to improve the network performance. ...
Gómez-Hernández, J. Jaime; Xu, Teng(Springer-Verlag, 2022-02)
[EN] Forty years and 157 papers later, research on contaminant source identification has grown exponentially in number but seems to be stalled concerning advancement towards the problem solution and its field application. ...
Chen, Zi; Xu, Teng; Gómez-Hernández, J. Jaime; Zanini, Andrea(Springer-Verlag, 2021-10)
[EN] The joint identification of the parameters defining a contaminant source and the heterogeneous distribution of the hydraulic conductivities of the aquifer where the contamination took place is a difficult task. Previous ...
Wan, Jiafu; Zhang, Daqiang; Zhao, Shengjie; Yang, Laurence T.; Lloret, Jaime(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-08)
[EN] The advances in wireless communication techniques, mobile cloud computing, and context-aware technologies boost a growing interest in the design, development, and deployment of vehicular networks for emerging applications. ...
[EN] The ability to target epigenetic marks like DNA methylation to specific loci is important in both basic research and in crop plant engineering. However, heritability of targeted DNA methylation, how it impacts gene ...
[EN] A total of 144 weaned hybrid HYLA rabbits (40-day-old) were randomly divided into 4 groups, to investigate the effects of the intensity of one week’s feed restriction on short- and medium-term growth performance, blood ...
Chen, Jia; Yu, Feng; Liu, Ying; Du, Changqing; Li, Xiushan; Zhu, Sirui; Wang, Xianchun; Lan, Wenzhi; Rodríguez Egea, Pedro Luís; Liu, Xuanming; Li, Dongping; Chen, Liangbi; Luan, Sheng(National Academy of Sciences, 2016-08-13)
[EN] Receptor-like kinase FERONIA (FER) plays a crucial role in plant response to small molecule hormones [e.g., auxin and abscisic acid (ABA)] and peptide signals [e.g., rapid alkalinization factor (RALF)]. It remains ...
[EN] Apricot pretreated with RF and then dried with convective hot air at 65℃, 3.0m/s in this research. RF pretreatment time of 20, 30, 40 and 50min were chosen. Results showed that, there is only falling rate period during ...
[EN] In this paper, hot air drying (HAD) was applied when moisture content of apple slices range from 50% to 86%, and then vacuum-filling nitrogen drying (VFND) was used till moisture content reaching 7%. Results showed ...
Zhu, Chuan; Wang, Yao; Han, Guangjie; Rodrigues, Joel J. P. C.; Lloret, Jaime(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2014)
This paper exploits sink mobility to prolong the lifetime of sensor networks while maintaining the data transmission delay relatively low. A location predictive and time adaptive data gathering scheme is proposed. In this ...
[EN] Manufacturing enterprises nowadays face huge environmental challenges because of energy consumption and associated environmental impacts. One of the effective strategies to reduce energy consumption is by employing ...
[EN] Proper identification of groundwater contaminant sources is vital to assess groundwater contamination. However, the majority of previous studies focuses on point source identification; only a few works have been ...
[EN] A new analytical model is proposed to evaluate the performance of two-tier cellular networks composed of macrocells (MCs) and small cells (SCs), where terminals roam across the service area. Calls being serviced by ...