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Optimizing Operational and Sustainable Decisions for GASC
This study delves into the operational decision-making and sustainability dynamics within a two-tier green agricultural supply chain (GASC), comprising a manufacturer and a retailer. By developing decision models for the...
Published by: IGI Global Scientific Publishing
Graph Empirical Mode Decomposition-Based Data Augmentation Applied to Gifted Children MRI Analysis.
Xuning Chen, Binghua Li, Hao Jia, Fan Feng, Feng Duan, Zhe Sun, Cesar F Caiafa, Jordi Solé-Casals
Jul 19, 2022
Gifted children and normal controls can be distinguished by analyzing the structural connectivity (SC) extracted from MRI data. Previous studies have improved classification accuracy by extracting several features of the brain...
Graph Empirical Mode Decomposition-Based Data Augmentation Applied to Gifted Children MRI Analysis.
Xuning Chen, Binghua Li, Hao Jia, Fan Feng, Feng Duan, Zhe Sun, Cesar F Caiafa, Jordi Solé-Casals
Aug 21, 2022
Gifted children and normal controls can be distinguished by analyzing the structural connectivity (SC) extracted from MRI data. Previous studies have improved classification accuracy by extracting several features of the brain...
Increased Connexin36 Phosphorylation in AII Amacrine Cell Coupling of the Mouse Myopic Retina.
Seema Banerjee, Qin Wang, Fuxin Zhao, George Tang, Chunghim So, Dennis Tse, Chi-Ho To, Yun Feng, Xiangtian Zhou, Feng Pan
Jun 15, 2020
Myopia is a substantial public health problem worldwide. In the myopic retina, distant images are focused in front of the photoreceptors. The cells and mechanisms for retinal signaling that account either for emmetropization...
Pyroelectric energy harvesting for water splitting
Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising energy conversion technology due to its high energy density and zero greenhouse gas emission. As a result, the production of hydrogen from renewable and alternative resources has gained...
Pyroelectric energy harvesting for water splitting
Hydrogen fuel cells are a promising energy conversion technology due to its high energy density and zero greenhouse gas emission. As a result, the production of hydrogen from renewable and alternative resources has gained...
A combination of chitooligosaccharide and lipochitooligosaccharide recognition promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in Medicago truncatula.
Feng Feng, Jongho Sun, Guru V Radhakrishnan, Tak Lee, Zoltán Bozsóki, Sébastien Fort, Aleksander Gavrin, Kira Gysel, Mikkel B Thygesen, Kasper Røjkjær Andersen, Simona Radutoiu, Jens Stougaard, Giles ED Oldroyd
Nov 09, 2020
Plants associate with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi facilitating nutrient acquisition. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi produce chitooligosaccharides (COs) and lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs), that promote symbiosis...
Control of electro-chemical processes using energy harvesting materials and devices
Energy harvesting is a topic of intense interest that aims to convert ambient forms of energy such as mechanical motion, light and heat, which are otherwise wasted, into useful energy. In many cases the energy harvester or...
High piezoelectric sensitivity and hydrostatic figures of merit in unidirectional porous ferroelectric ceramics fabricated by freeze casting
High performance lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics with aligned porosity for sensing applications were fabricated by an ice-templating method. To demonstrate the enhanced properties of these materials and their potential...
Wind-driven pyroelectric energy harvesting device
Pyroelectric materials have recently received attention for harvesting waste heat owing to their potential to convert temperature fluctuations into useful electrical energy. One of the main challenges in designing...
Fine-Tuning the Energy Levels of a Nonfullerene Small-Molecule Acceptor to Achieve a High Short-Circuit Current and a Power Conversion Efficiency over 12% in Organic Solar Cells.
Bin Kan, Jiangbin Zhang, Feng Liu, Xiangjian Wan, Chenxi Li, Xin Ke, Yunchuang Wang, Huanran Feng, Yamin Zhang, Guankui Long, Richard H Friend, Artem A Bakulin, Yongsheng Chen
Feb 23, 2018
Organic solar cell optimization requires careful balancing of current-voltage output of the materials system. Here, such optimization using ultrafast spectroscopy as a tool to optimize the material bandgap without altering...
Dielectric and piezoelectric properties of porous lead-free 0.5Ba(Ca<sub>0.8</sub>Zr<sub>0.2</sub>)O<sub>3</sub>-0.5(Ba<sub>0.7</sub>Ca <sub>0.3</sub>)TiO<sub>3</sub> ceramics
Porous barium calcium zirconate titanate 0.5Ba(Ca0.8Zr0.2)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BCZT) lead-free ferroelectric ceramics were fabricated via a burnt polymer...
dielectrics Lead-free ceramic Piezoelectrics porous /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2500 name=General Materials Science /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3104 name=Condensed Matter Physics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2211 name=Mechanics of Materials /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2210 name=Mechanical Engineering
Dielectric and piezoelectric properties of porous lead-free 0.5Ba(Ca<sub>0.8</sub>Zr<sub>0.2</sub>)O<sub>3</sub>-0.5(Ba<sub>0.7</sub>Ca <sub>0.3</sub>)TiO<sub>3</sub> ceramics
Porous barium calcium zirconate titanate 0.5Ba(Ca0.8Zr0.2)O3-0.5(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BCZT) lead-free ferroelectric ceramics were fabricated via a burnt polymer...
dielectrics Lead-free ceramic Piezoelectrics porous /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2500 name=General Materials Science /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3104 name=Condensed Matter Physics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2211 name=Mechanics of Materials /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2210 name=Mechanical Engineering
High piezoelectric sensitivity and hydrostatic figures of merit in unidirectional porous ferroelectric ceramics fabricated by freeze casting
High performance lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics with aligned porosity for sensing applications were fabricated by an ice-templating method. To demonstrate the enhanced properties of these materials and their potential...
Control of electro-chemical processes using energy harvesting materials and devices
Energy harvesting is a topic of intense interest that aims to convert ambient forms of energy such as mechanical motion, light and heat, which are otherwise wasted, into useful energy. In many cases the energy harvester or...
A combination of chitooligosaccharide and lipochitooligosaccharide recognition promotes arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in Medicago truncatula.
Feng Feng, Jongho Sun, Guru V Radhakrishnan, Tak Lee, Zoltán Bozsóki, Sébastien Fort, Aleksander Gavrin, Kira Gysel, Mikkel B Thygesen, Kasper Røjkjær Andersen, Simona Radutoiu, Jens Stougaard, Giles E D Oldroyd
Dec 10, 2019
Plants associate with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi facilitating nutrient acquisition. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi produce chitooligosaccharides (COs) and lipo-chitooligosaccharides (LCOs), that promote symbiosis...
Wind-driven pyroelectric energy harvesting device
Pyroelectric materials have recently received attention for harvesting waste heat owing to their potential to convert temperature fluctuations into useful electrical energy. One of the main challenges in designing...
Energy harvesting from coupled bending-twisting oscillations in carbon-fibre reinforced polymer laminates
Mengying Xie, Yan Zhang, Marcin Jan Krasny, Andrew Rhead, Christopher Bowen, Mustafa Arafa
Jul 01, 2018
The energy harvesting capability of resonant harvesting structures, such as piezoelectric cantilever beams, can be improved by utilizing coupled oscillations that generate favourable strain mode distributions. In this work, we...
Negotiating Participation in the Local English-speaking Community
Feng Gao
Mar 27, 2018
This article reports on a qualitative multiple case study that explored six Chinese learners’ experiences of negotiating participation in the local English-speaking community in Britain. Drawing on a variety of sources...
Published by: Cambridge Journal of China Studies
Energy harvesting from coupled bending-twisting oscillations in carbon-fibre reinforced polymer laminates
Mengying Xie, Yan Zhang, Marcin Jan Krasny, Andrew Rhead, Christopher Bowen, Mustafa Arafa
Jul 01, 2018
The energy harvesting capability of resonant harvesting structures, such as piezoelectric cantilever beams, can be improved by utilizing coupled oscillations that generate favourable strain mode distributions. In this work, we...
The uncertainty estimation of feature-based forecast combinations
Forecasting is an indispensable element of operational research (OR) and an important aid to planning. The accurate estimation of the forecast uncertainty facilitates several operations management activities, predominantly in...
Understanding the effect of porosity on the polarisation-field response of ferroelectric materials
Yan Zhang, James Roscow, Rhodri Lewis, Hamideh Khanbareh, Vitaly Yu Topolov, Mengying Xie, Chris R. Bowen
Aug 01, 2018
This paper combines experimental and modelling studies to provide a detailed examination of the influence of porosity volume fraction and morphology on the polarisation-electric field response of ferroelectric materials. The...
Coercive field External electric field ferroelectric morphology Porosity /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2504 name=Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2503 name=Ceramics and Composites /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2507 name=Polymers and Plastics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2506 name=Metals and Alloys
Flexible Multifunctional Sensors for Wearable and Robotic Applications
Mengying Xie, Kyohei Hisano, Mingzhu Zhu, Takuya Toyoshi, Min Pan, Shima Okada, Osamu Tsutsumi, Sadao Kawamura, Christopher Bowen
Mar 01, 2019
This review provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art of the emerging field of flexible multifunctional sensors for wearable and robotic applications. In these application sectors, there is a demand for high...
flexible electronics multifunctional sensors optical sensors piezoelectric sensors piezoresistive sensors /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2500 name=General Materials Science /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2211 name=Mechanics of Materials /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2209 name=Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_being name=SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Diversification and Desynchronicity
Xue-Feng Shao, Kostas Gouliamos, Ben Nan-Feng Luo, Shigeyuki Hamori, Stephen Satchell, Xiao-Guang Yue, Jane Qiu
May 23, 2020
A longstanding objective of managers is to reduce risk to their businesses. The conventional strategy for risk reduction is diversification; however, evidence for the effectiveness of diversification remains inconclusive....
Simulation of multistage compressor at off-design conditions
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been widely used for compressor design, yet the prediction of performance and stage matching for multistage, high-speed machines remains challenging. This paper presents the authors'...
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