• A comparative study on the operational performance of four-leg intersections by control type 

      Arshi A.N.; Alhajyaseen W.K.M.; Nakamura H.; Zhang X. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      The selection of proper control types at intersections at the planning stage is an important concern considering the difficulty in comparing the performance of different control types. Therefore, several manuals proposed ...
    • A comparison between the effectiveness of PBL and LBL on improving problem-solving abilities of medical students using questioning 

      He Y.; Du X.; Toft E.; Zhang X.; Qu B.; ... more authors ( Routledge , 2018 , Article)
      In daily patient-history taking and diagnosis practice, doctors ask questions to gather information from patients and narrow down diagnostic hypotheses. Training medical students to be efficient problem solvers through the ...
    • A Heuristic Statistical Testing Based Approach for Encrypted Network Traffic Identification 

      Niu W.; Zhuo Z.; Zhang X.; Du X.; Yang G.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      In recent years, malware with strong concealment uses encrypted protocol to evade detection. Thus, encrypted traffic identification can help security analysts to be more effective in narrowing down those encrypted network ...
    • Adversarial samples on android malware detection systems for IoT systems 

      Liu X.; Du X.; Zhang X.; Zhu Q.; Wang H.; ... more authors ( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article)
      Many IoT (Internet of Things) systems run Android systems or Android-like systems. With the continuous development of machine learning algorithms, the learning-based Android malware detection system for IoT devices has ...
    • Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990-2016: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 

      Griswold M.G.; Fullman N.; Hawley C.; Arian N.; Zimsen S.R.M.; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Background Alcohol use is a leading risk factor for death and disability, but its overall association with health remains complex given the possible protective effects of moderate alcohol consumption on some conditions. ...
    • Chemically synthesized carbon nanorods with dual polarized emission 

      Xiong Y.; Zhang X.; Richter A.F.; Li Y.; Döring A.; ... more authors ( American Chemical Society , 2019 , Article)
      We realized the synthesis of carbon nanorods—monodisperse colloidal particles with a length of 50 nm and a width of 20 nm—which can be considered an addition to the family of light-emitting carbon-based nanostructures. ...
    • Confined Interfacial Monomicelle Assembly for Precisely Controlled Coating of Single-Layered Titania Mesopores 

      Lan K.; Xia Y.; Wang R.; Zhao Z.; Zhang W.; ... more authors ( Cell Press , 2019 , Article)
      The development of core-shell structures has been in great demand recently owing to their integrated functionalities. However, the progress in reliable coating of porous semiconductors remains unproductive. Here, we have ...
    • Evolution-algorithm-based unmanned aerial vehicles path planning in complex environment 

      Liu X.; Du X.; Zhang X.; Zhu Q.; Guizani M. ( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      With the wide application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in production and life, more and more attention has been paid to the autonomous track planning of UAVs. When UAV path planning algorithm is dealing with flying ...
    • Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality and life expectancy, 1950-2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 

      Dicker D.; Nguyen G.; Abate D.; Abate K.H.; Abay S.M.; ... more authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2018 , Article)
      Background Assessments of age-specific mortality and life expectancy have been done by the UN Population Division, Department of Economics and Social Affairs (UNPOP), the United States Census Bureau, WHO, and as part of ...
    • Indacenodithiazole-Ladder-Type Bridged Di(thiophene)-Difluoro-Benzothiadiazole-Conjugated Copolymers as Ambipolar Organic Field-Effect Transistors 

      Barłóg M.; Zhang X.; Kulai I.; Yang D.S.; Sredojevic D.N.; ... more authors ( American Chemical Society , 2019 , Article)
      A series of four donor-acceptor conjugated copolymers P1-P4 with linear and branched side chains based on a ladder-type indacenodithiazole (IDTz) moiety containing an electron-deficient thiazole unit are copolymerized with ...
    • Mesoporous TiO2 Microspheres with Precisely Controlled Crystallites and Architectures 

      Lan K.; Wang R.; Zhang W.; Zhao Z.; Elzatahry A.; ... more authors ( Elsevier Inc , 2018 , Article)
      Mesoporous TiO2 nanomaterials have been investigated for decades; however, most endeavors have been focused on the exploration of their potentials in various applications, and the fundamental research for preparing mesoporous ...
    • On hierarchical network coding versus opportunistic user selection for two-way relay channels with asymmetric data rates 

      Zhang X.; Ghrayeb A.; Hasna , Mazen ( IEEE , 2013 , Article)
      We address in this paper the challenge of coping with asymmetric data rates in two-way relay channels. We consider a relay network comprising two sources and one relay. The sources communicate at different rates through ...
    • On relay assignment in network-coded cooperative systems 

      Zhang X.; Ghrayeb A.; Hasna , Mazen ( IEEE , 2011 , Article)
      We consider in this paper relay assignment for cooperative systems with multiple two-way relay channels. The nodes corresponding to one two-way relay channel (henceforth referred to as pair) communicate with each other ...
    • Performance analysis of relay assignment schemes for cooperative networks with multiple source-destination pairs 

      Zhang X.; Hasna , Mazen; Ghrayeb A. ( IEEE , 2012 , Article)
      In this paper, we consider two relay assignment schemes for cooperative networks comprising multiple source-destination pairs. Both schemes are based on the max-min criterion and aim at achieving the maximum spatial diversity ...
    • Reducing energy consumption of CO2 desorption in CO2-loaded aqueous amine solution using Al2O3/HZSM-5 bifunctional catalysts 

      Zhang X.; Liu H.; Liang Z.; Idem R.; Tontiwachwuthikul P.; ... more authors ( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)
      The aim of this work is to find a potential way for great decrease in CO2 capture energy requirement. Here, for the first time, a series of bifunctional Al2O3/HZSM-5 catalysts (Al-ZSM) were prepared by the combined ...
    • Relay assignment in multiple source-destination cooperative networks with limited feedback 

      Zhang, X.; Jafarkhani, H.; Ghrayeb, A.; Hasna, M.O. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Article)
      We consider in this paper relay assignment for cooperative systems with mutiple source-destination pairs. The objective here is to assign relays to the source-destination pairs in such a way that all pairs achieve the ...
    • Relay assignment in network-coded cooperative systems with M-PSK modulation over asymmetric channels 

      Zhang X.; Ghrayeb A.; Hasna , Mazen ( IEEE , 2010 , Conference Paper)
      We consider in this paper relay assignment for cooperative systems with multiple two-way relay channels. The nodes corresponding to one two-way relay channel (henceforth referred to as pair) communicate with each other ...
    • Structure, nanomechanics, and dynamics of dispersed surfactant-free clay nanocomposite films 

      Zhang X.; Zhao J.; Snyder C.R.; Al-Enizi A.; Eltazahry A.; ... more authors ( John Wiley and Sons Inc. , 2018 , Article)
      The current work presents a new approach to achieve high quality dispersion of surfactant-free nanoclay tactoid particles in sub-micron thin films despite the absence of organic modifier. Natural Montmorillonite particles, ...