1. HiRes 

   Jipa, Andrei; Lydon, Gearóid; Yoo, Angela; et al. (2024)

   Scalable Disruptors ~ Scalable Disruptors

   Concrete floors produce significant carbon emissions during construction, operation, and decommissioning. Optimised designs featuring ribs and voids can minimise material use and integrate highly efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. However, such designs are rarely used in practice due to the fabrication challenges associated with complex shapes. Therefore, floor slabs are usually oversized, monolithic ...

   Conference Paper

2. Applying kitchen compost promoted soil chrysene degradation by optimizing microbial community structure 

   Kou, Bing; Huo, Lin; Cao, Minyi; et al. (2024)

   Journal of Environmental Management

   Chrysene, as a high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), has become an important factor in degrading soil quality and constraining the safe production of food crops. Compost has been widely used to amend contaminated soil. However, to date, the main components of kitchen compost that enhance the biodegradation of chrysene in the soil remain unidentified. Thus, in this study, the enhancing effect and mechanisms of kitchen ...

   Journal Article

3. Insights into the critical roles of water-soluble organic matter and humic acid within kitchen compost in influencing cadmium bioavailability 

   Kou, Bing; Huo, Lin; Cao, Minyi; et al. (2024)

   Journal of Environmental Management

   Compost has demonstrated potential as a cadmium (Cd) remediation agent, while it still remains unclear about the core components in driving the bioactive transformation of Cd. To address this issue, this study isolated three components—kitchen compost powder (KC), humic acid (HA), and water-soluble organic matter (DOM)—from kitchen compost to regulate soil properties, bacterial community structures and functions, and Cd migration risks. ...

   Journal Article

4. Vitamin D status of pregnant women with obesity in the UK and its association with pregnancy outcomes: a secondary analysis of the UK Pregnancies Better Eating and Activity Trial (UPBEAT) study 

   O’Callaghan, Karen M.; Nowak, Katarzyna G.; Dalrymple, Kathryn V.; et al. (2024)

   British Journal of Nutrition

   Prenatal vitamin D deficiency is widely reported and may affect perinatal outcomes. In this secondary analysis of the UK Pregnancies Better Eating and Activity Trial, we examined vitamin D status and its relationship with selected pregnancy outcomes in women with obesity (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) from multi-ethnic inner-city settings in the UK. Determinants of vitamin D status at a mean of 17 ± 1 weeks’ gestation were assessed using multivariable ...

   Journal Article

5. Unified View Empirical Study for Large Pretrained Model on Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning 

   Zhuo, Linhai; Fu, Yuqian; Chen, Jingjing; et al. (2024)

   ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications

   The challenge of cross-domain few-shot learning (CD-FSL) stems from the substantial distribution disparities between target and source domain images, necessitating a model with robust generalization capabilities. In this work, we posit that large-scale pretrained models are pivotal in addressing the CD-FSL task owing to their exceptional representational and generalization prowess. To our knowledge, no existing research comprehensively ...

   Journal Article

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