Dimension reduction for nonelliptically distributed predictors (2009)
Sufficient dimension reduction methods often require stringent conditions on the joint distribution of the predictor, or, when such conditions are not satisfied, rely on marginal transformation or...
Zhu, Shan-Ying, Yi, Jian-Ping, Shen, Wei-De, Wang, Li-Qun, He, Hua-Gang, Wang, Yong, ...
Abstract Background Baculoviruses are well known for their potential as biological agents for controlling agricultural and forest pests. They are also widely used as expression vectors in molecular...
Structural Changes of Malt Proteins During Boiling (2009)
Bei Jin, Lin Li, Guo-Qin Liu, Bing Li, Yu-Kui Zhu, Liao-Ning Liao
Changes in the physicochemical properties and structure of proteins derived from two malt varieties (Baudin and Guangmai) during wort boiling were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry,...
Child health insurance coverage: a survey among temporary and permanent residents in Shanghai (2008)
Lu, Mingshan, Zhang, Jing, Ma, Jin, Li, Bing, Quan, Hude
Abstract Background Under the current healthcare system in China, there is no government-sponsored health insurance program for children. Children from families who move from rural and interior...
VECTOR FIELD CONVOLUTION FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING SNAKES (2008)
Snakes, or active contours, have been widely used in image processing applications. Typical roadblocks to consistent performance include limited capture range, noise sensitivity, and poor convergence...
Research on Semantic-Based Web Services Registry Federation * (2008)
Bing Li, Fei He, Wudong Liu, Keqing He, Jin Liu
Abstract. Meta modeling is an effective approach to implement interoperability among distributed and heterogeneous information sources on Web. MMFI (Framework for Metamodel Interoperability) is a set...
Abstract. In this paper, we study the dissipativity and existence of a global attracting set for neural networks models with continuously distributed delays. We use nonnegative matrix and...
Bing Li, Chao Wang, Fabio Somenzi
Abstract We present an abstraction refinement algorithm for model checking of safety properties that relies exclusively counterexamples on the concrete model, and refinement. Model checking of the...
Maojun Yang, Bing Li, Chyong-Jy Liu, Diana R. Tomchick, Mischa Machius, Josep Rizo, ...
In response to misaligned sister chromatids during mitosis, the spindle checkpoint protein Mad2 inhibits the anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C) through binding to its mitotic activator...
Projected partial likelihood and its application to longitudinal data
Li, Bing, Evans, Dewey, Faris, Peter, Dean, Stafford, Quan, Hude
Abstract Background The performance of the Charlson and Elixhauser comorbidity measures in predicting patient outcomes have been well validated with ICD-9 data but not with ICD-10 data, especially in...
Poly[[diaqua-μ2-4,4′-bipyridyl-μ2-o-phthalato-nickel(II)] dihydrate] (2008)
Xiao Zhang, ZhiHui Yi, Wujiong Xia, Chao Yang, Bing Li
In the title layer complex, {[Ni(C8H4O4)(C10H8N2)(H2O)2]·2H2O}n, the Ni atom has a distorted octahedral environment, defined by the phthalate and 4,4′-bipyridyl ligands which link the Ni...
Color Constancy Based on Image Similarity (2008)
LI, Bing, XU, De, WANG, Jin-Hua, LU, Rui
Computational color constancy is a classical problem in computer vision. It is an under-constrained problem, which can be solved based on some constraint. Existing algorithms can be divided into two...
Xu, Yuanyuan, Wang, Yi, Zheng, Quanmei, Li, Bing, Li, Xin, Jin, Yaping, ...
One hundred and four workers ingested excessive levels of arsenic in an accident caused by leakage of pipeline in a copper-smelting factory. Clinical examinations were performed by physicians in a...
Color Constancy Based on Effective Regions (2008)
LU, Rui, XU, De, YANG, Xinbin, LI, Bing
None of the existing color constancy algorithms can be considered universal. Furthermore, they use all the image pixels, although actually not all of the pixels are effective in illumination...
FENG, Song-He, XU, De, LI, Bing
The manifold-ranking algorithm has been successfully adopted in content-based image retrieval (CBIR) in recent years. However, while the global low-level features are widely utilized in current...
permanent residents in Shanghai (2008)
Mingshan Lu, Jing Zhang, Jin Ma, Bing Li, Hude Quan, Open Access, ...
Research article Child health insurance coverage: a survey among temporary and
On surrogate dimension reduction for measurement error regression: An invariance law (2007)
We consider a general nonlinear regression problem where the predictors contain measurement error. It has been recently discovered that several well-known dimension reduction methods, such as OLS,...
Zou, Yonggang, Liu, Bingbing, Yao, Mingguang, Hou, Yuanyuan, Wang, Lin, Yu, Shidan, ...
A resonant Raman spectroscopy study has been carried out under high pressure, using a diamond anvil cell, on carbon nanotube peapods (C-60@SWNT) synthesized in high yield in our laboratory. The Raman...
Myers, Robert P, Leung, Yvette, Shaheen, Abdel, Li, Bing
Abstract Background Acetaminophen overdose is the most common cause of acute liver failure (ALF). Our objective was to develop coding algorithms using administrative data for identifying patients...
Dimension reduction in regression without matrix inversion (2007)
Cook, R. Dennis, Li, Bing, Chiaromonte, Francesca
Regressions in which the fixed number of predictors p exceeds the number of independent observational units n occur in a variety of scientific fields. Sufficient dimension reduction provides a...
Comment: Fisher Lecture: Dimension Reduction in Regression (2007)
Comment: Fisher Lecture: Dimension Reduction in Regression [arXiv:0708.3774]
A Multi-Scale Adaptive Grey World Algorithm (2007)
LI, Bing, XU, De, LEE, Moon Ho, FENG, Song-He
Grey world algorithm is a well-known color constancy algorithm. It is based on the Grey-World assumption i.e., the average reflectance of surfaces in the world is achromatic. This algorithm is simple...
Myers, Robert P, Li, Bing, Fong, Andrew, Shaheen, Abdel, Quan, Hude
Abstract Background Acetaminophen overdose (AO) is the most common cause of acute liver failure. We examined temporal trends and sociodemographic risk factors for AO in a large Canadian health...
Li, Bing, Gogol, Madelaine, Carey, Mike, Pattenden, Samantha G., Seidel, Chris, Workman, Jerry L.
The presence of Set2-mediated methylation of H3K36 (K36me) correlates with transcription frequency throughout the yeast genome. K36me targets the Rpd3S complex to deacetylate transcribed regions and...
Current Research Problems of Chronic Arsenicosis in China (2007)
Guifan Sun, Xin Li, Jingbo Pi, Yang Sun, Bing Li, Yaping Jin, ...
Chronic arsenicosis is a newly-emerged public-health issue in China and many other Asian countries. Over 200 million people are estimated to be at the risk of high arsenic exposure from...
CHARACTERIZING THE STRUCTURAL QUALITY OF GENERAL COMPLEX SOFTWARE NETWORKS (2007)
Jing Liu, Jinhu Lü, Bing Li, Chi K. Tse
Software systems can be modeled as complex networks in which software components are abstract nodes and their interactions are abstract edges. This paper attempts to characterize the structural...
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan, ...
Abstract not available.
Industrial concentration in China, 1992-2002 / (2006)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006.
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Industrial concentration in China, 1992-2002 / (2006)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006.
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Industrial concentration in China, 1992-2002 (2006)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006
Hutchinson, Graham L., Collier, Philip, Duffield, Colin F., Gad, Emad F., Li, Bing, Mendis, Priyan
Abstract not available.
Shia, Wei-Jong, Li, Bing, Workman, Jerry L.
The yeast SAS (Something About Silencing) complex and the histone variant H2A.Z have both previously been linked to an antisilencing function at the subtelomeric regions. SAS is an H4 Lys 16-specific...
Determining the dimension of iterative Hessian transformation (2005)
The central mean subspace (CMS) and iterative Hessian transformation (IHT) have been introduced recently for dimension reduction when the conditional mean is of interest. Suppose that X is a...
Contour regression: A general approach to dimension reduction (2005)
Li, Bing, Zha, Hongyuan, Chiaromonte, Francesca
We propose a novel approach to sufficient dimension reduction in regression, based on estimating contour directions of small variation in the response. These directions span the orthogonal complement...
Multiassignment interacting multiple model for multiple target tracking / (2005)
Thesis (M.S.E.E.)--University of Virginia, 2005.
A study and comparison of adaptive beamforming algorithms / (2004)
Thesis (M. Sc. (Comp. Contr. & Autom.))--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2004.
Li, Bing, Liu, Hong-Tao, Sun, Da-Ye, Zhou, Ren-Gang
DNA-binding activity of a maize heat shock transcription factor (HSF) was induced by heat shock of a whole cell extract at 44°C. Addition of the calcium ion chelator EGTA reduced the binding of the...
"MQ-87326."
Oil price shocks and macroeconomic activity : an application of hidden cointegration (2003)
Bibliography: p. 38-44
Improving ariadne’s bundle by following multiple threads in abstraction refinement (2003)
Chao Wang, Bing Li, Hoonsang Jin, Gary D. Hachtel, Fabio Somenzi
We propose an abstraction refinement method for invariant checking, counter examples of shortest length in the current abstraction. The algorithm is focused on an improved Ariadne’s Bundle 1 of...
A satisfiability-based approach to abstraction refinement in model checking (2003)
Bing Li, Chao Wang, Fabio Somenzi
We present an abstraction refinement algorithm for model checking of safety properties that relies exclusively on a SAT solver for checking the abstract model, testing abstract counterexamples on the...
Spritzbetonverstärkte Stahlbetonstützen / (2002)
Dortmund, Universiẗat, Diss., 2002 (Nicht für den Austausch).
Spritzbetonverstärkte Stahlbetonstützen (2001)
Die nachträgliche Verstärkung von Stahlbetonbauteilen gewinnt weltweit zunehmend an Bedeutung. Verstärkungsmaßnahmen können erforderlich werden, wenn Umnutzungen mit vergrößerten Nutzlasten...
Risk management of international construction joint ventures / (2000)
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Civil and Structural Engineering, 2000.
Nonparametric Estimating Equations Based on a Penalized Information Criterion (2000)
It has recently been observed that, given the mean-variance relation, one can improve on the accuracy of the quasi-likelihood estimator by the adaptive estimator based on the estimation of the higher...
Improving generalised estimating equations using quadratic inference functions (2000)
Qu, Annie, Lindsay, Bruce G., Li, Bing
Generalised estimating equations enable one to estimate regression parameters consistently in longitudinal data analysis even when the correlation structure is misspecified. However, under such...
The RDP (Ribosomal Database Project) continues (2000)
Maidak, Bonnie L., Cole, James R., Lilburn, Timothy G., Parker, Charles T., Saxman, Paul R., Stredwick, Jason M., ...
The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP-II), previously described by Maidak et al., continued during the past year to add new rRNA sequences to the aligned data and to improve the analysis commands....
A Hybrid Parallel Execution Model for Logic Based Requirement Specifications (Invited Paper) (1999)
It is well known that undiscovered errors in a requirements specification is extremely expensive to be fixed when discovered in the software maintenance phase. Errors in the requirement phase can be...
A Hybrid Parallel Execution Model for Logic Based Requirement Specifications (Invited Paper) (1999)
It is well known that undiscovered errors in a requirements specification is extremely expensive to be fixed when discovered in the software maintenance phase. Errors in the requirement phase can be...
A Hybrid Parallel Execution Model for Logic Based Requirement Specifications (Invited Paper) (1999)
It is well known that undiscovered errors in a requirements specification is extremely expensive to be fixed when discovered in the software maintenance phase. Errors in the requirement phase can be...
An optimal estimating equation based on the first three cumulants (1998)
For improving on quasilikelihood estimation two types of quadratic estimating equations have been proposed, one based on the Edgeworth expansion, the other on the generalisation of the quasi-score....
Tungusic vowel harmony : description and analysis / (1996)
Proefschrift (doctoral)--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1996.
Mark, Steven D., Wang, Wen, Fraumeni, Joseph F., Li, Jun-Yao, Taylor, Philip R., Wang, Guo-Qing, ...
A total of 3,318 men and women from a region in rural China were randomized to receive daily either a multiple vitamin/mineral supplement or a placebo. Deaths that occurred in the participants...
Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Department of Physiology.
Projected Partial Likelihood and Its Application to Longitudinal Data (1995)
this paper we provide a method for constructing such estimating functions. When applied to longitudinal data, this handles covariates and random drop-out satisfactorily, as does partial likelihood;...
Projected partial likelihood and its application to longitudinal data (1995)
An estimating equation, which we call the projected partial score, is introduced for longitudinal data analysis. The estimating equation is obtained by projecting the partial likelihood score...
GUO, WANDE, BLOT, WILLIAM J, LI, JUN-YAO, TAYLOR, PHILIP R, LIU, BO QI, WANG, WEN, ...
Background. Rates of oesophageal/gastric cardia cancer in Linxian, a rural county in north central China, are among the world's highest, but the risk factors are not well understood. Methods. A...
Blot, William J., Li, Jun-Yao, Taylor, Philip R., Guo, Wande, Dawsey, Sanford, Wang, Guo-Qing, ...
Background Epidemiologic evidence indicates that diets high in fruits and vegetables are associated with a reduced risk of several cancers, including cancers of the esophagus and stomach. Vitamins...
Li, Jun-Yao, Taylor, Philip R., Li, Bing, Dawsey, Sanford, Wang, Guo-Qing, Ershow, Abby G., ...
Background A number of vitamins and minerals have been shown to influence carcinogenesis in experimental animals. In humans, epidemiologic evidence suggests that intake of fruits and vegetables may...
A deviance function for the quasi-likelihood method (1993)
We introduce a deviance function that can be used in conjunction with the quasi-likelihood method. The need for such functions arises when the quasi-log likelihood function is not uniquely defined....
Laplace expansion for posterior densities of nonlinear functions of parameters (1992)
An asymptotic expansion for marginal posterior densities of nonlinear functions of parameters is derived. The density in question is proportional to an integral over a lower dimensional manifold...
Critical success factors for PPP/PFI projects in the UK construction industry
Bing Li, A. Akintoye, P. J. Edwards, C. Hardcastle
Public--private partnerships (PPPs) are increasingly used in the United Kingdom's public facilities and services provision through the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). Despite some casualties,...
Muller, Yves A., Li, Bing, Christinger, Hans W., Wells, James A., Cunningham, Brian C., De Vos, Abraham M.
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a homodimeric member of the cystine knot family of growth factors, with limited sequence homology to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and...
Tang, Zhanyun, Li, Bing, Bharadwaj, Rajnish, Zhu, Haizhen, Özkan, Engin, Hakala, Kevin, ...
In mitosis, the anaphase-promoting complex (APC) regulates the onset of sister-chromatid separation and exit from mitosis by mediating the ubiquitination and degradation of the securin protein and...
The RDP (Ribosomal Database Project) continues
Maidak, Bonnie L., Cole, James R., Lilburn, Timothy G., Parker Jr, Charles T., Saxman, Paul R., Stredwick, Jason M., ...
The Ribosomal Database Project (RDP-II), previously described by Maidak et al., continued during the past year to add new rRNA sequences to the aligned data and to improve the analysis commands....
Calmodulin Is Involved in Heat Shock Signal Transduction in Wheat1
Liu, Hong-Tao, Li, Bing, Shang, Zhong-Lin, Li, Xiao-Zhi, Mu, Rui-Ling, Sun, Da-Ye, ...
The involvement of calcium and calcium-activated calmodulin (Ca2+-CaM) in heat shock (HS) signal transduction in wheat (Triticum aestivum) was investigated. Using Fluo-3/acetoxymethyl esters and...
Sharma, Vishva Mitra, Li, Bing, Reese, Joseph C.
Gene expression requires the recruitment of chromatin remodeling activities and general transcription factors (GTFs) to promoters. Whereas the role of activators in recruiting chromatin remodeling...
Derepression of DNA damage-regulated genes requires yeast TAFIIs
The general transcription factor TFIID and its individual subunits (TAFIIs) have been the focus of many studies, yet their functions in vivo are not well established. Here we characterize the...
Histones: should I stay or should I go?
Li, Bing, Ruan, Chun, Workman, Jerry L
A report on the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology symposium 'Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin and RNA polymerase II', Lake Tahoe, USA, 29 October-1 November 2004.
Li, Bing, Pattenden, Samantha G., Lee, Daeyoup, Gutiérrez, José, Chen, Jie, Seidel, Chris, ...
The yeast histone variant H2AZ (Htz1) is implicated in transcription activation, prevention of the ectopic spread of heterochromatin, and genome integrity. Our genome-wide localization analysis...
Pretreatment of coking wastewater using anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR)*
Li, Bing, Sun, Ying-lan, Li, Yu-ying
A laboratory-scale anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR) was used to pretreat coking wastewater. Inoculated anaerobic granular biomass was acclimated for 225 d to the coking wastewater, and then...
Li, Bing, Decker, Julie M., Johnson, Roy W., Bibollet-Ruche, Frederic, Wei, Xiping, Mulenga, Joseph, ...
Information about neutralizing antibody responses in subtype C-infected individuals is limited, even though this viral subtype causes the majority of AIDS cases worldwide. Here we compared the course...
Shia, Wei-Jong, Li, Bing, Workman, Jerry L.
The yeast SAS (Something About Silencing) complex and the histone variant H2A.Z have both previously been linked to an antisilencing function at the subtelomeric regions. SAS is an H4 Lys 16-specific...
β-Glucan enhances complement-mediated hematopoietic recovery after bone marrow injury
Cramer, Daniel E., Allendorf, Daniel J., Baran, Jarek T., Hansen, Richard, Marroquin, Jose, Li, Bing, ...
Myelotoxic injury in the bone marrow (BM) as a consequence of total body irradiation (TBI) or granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) mobilization results in the deposition of iC3b on BM stroma...
Hospitalizations for acetaminophen overdose: a Canadian population-based study from 1995 to 2004
Myers, Robert P, Li, Bing, Fong, Andrew, Shaheen, Abdel Aziz M, Quan, Hude
Gerber, Hans-Peter, Wu, Xiumin, Yu, Lanlan, Wiesmann, Christian, Liang, Xiao Huan, Lee, Chingwei V., ...
VEGF-A is important in tumor angiogenesis, and a humanized anti-VEGF-A monoclonal antibody (bevacizumab) has been approved by the FDA as a treatment for metastatic colorectal and nonsquamous,...
Infrequently transcribed long genes depend on the Set2/Rpd3S pathway for accurate transcription
Li, Bing, Gogol, Madelaine, Carey, Mike, Pattenden, Samantha G., Seidel, Chris, Workman, Jerry L.
The presence of Set2-mediated methylation of H3K36 (K36me) correlates with transcription frequency throughout the yeast genome. K36me targets the Rpd3S complex to deacetylate transcribed regions and...
Polycomb protein Cbx4 promotes SUMO modification of de novo DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a
Li, Bing, Zhou, Jing, Liu, Peng, Hu, Jialei, Jin, Hong, Shimono, Yohei, ...
The ‘de novo methyltransferase’ Dnmt3a (DNA methyltransferase 3a) has been shown to mediate transcriptional repression. Post-translational modification of Dnmt3a by SUMOylation affects its...
Li, Bing, Decker, Julie M., Johnson, Roy W., Bibollet-Ruche, Frederic, Wei, Xiping, Mulenga, Joseph, ...
Yang, Maojun, Li, Bing, Liu, Chyong-Jy, Tomchick, Diana R, Machius, Mischa, Rizo, Josep, ...
In response to misaligned sister chromatids during mitosis, the spindle checkpoint protein Mad2 inhibits the anaphase-promoting complex or cyclosome (APC/C) through binding to its mitotic activator...
Correlated variations in EEG pattern and visual responsiveness of cat lateral geniculate relay cells
Li, Bing, Funke, Klaus, Wörgötter, Florentin, Eysel, Ulf T
Simultaneous recordings of the EEG and the visual activity of cat dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus (dLGN) relay cells were analysed for covariance. Sliding time-window analyses were performed in...
S-antigen specific T helper type 1 response is present in Behcet’s disease
Zhao, Changlin, Yang, Peizeng, He, Hao, Lin, Xiaomin, Li, Bing, Zhou, Hongyan, ...
Dimension reduction in regression without matrix inversion
Bing Li, Francesca Chiaromonte
Regressions in which the fixed number of predictors p exceeds the number of independent observational units n occur in a variety of scientific fields. Sufficient dimension reduction provides a...
Nonparametric tests for bounds on the derivative of a regression function
Derivative of a regression function, convexity, divided differences,
Min-max asymptotic variance of M-estimates of location when scale is unknown
This paper extends Huber's (1964) min-max result to the case when the scale parameter is unknown and must be estimated along with the location parameter. A min-max problem in which nature chooses F...
Successive direction extraction for estimating the central subspace in a multiple-index regression
Yin, Xiangrong, Li, Bing, Cook, R. Dennis
In this paper we propose a dimension reduction method for estimating the directions in a multiple-index regression based on information extraction. This extends the recent work of Yin and Cook [X....
Multiple Anaphase-promoting Complex/Cyclosome Degrons Mediate the Degradation of Human Sgo1*
Karamysheva, Zemfira, Diaz-Martinez, Laura A., Crow, Sara E., Li, Bing, Yu, Hongtao
Shugoshin 1 (Sgo1) protects centromeric sister-chromatid cohesion in early mitosis and, thus, prevents premature sister-chromatid separation. The protein level of Sgo1 is regulated during the cell...
Goldsmith, Peter, Li, Bing, Fruin, Jerry, Hirsch, Rodolfo
Tremendous shifts are occurring in the location of agro-industrial capital around the globe. To focus discussion on this topic a session was convened at the annual meeting of the International Food...
To estimate a single-equation scal policy rule by Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) method has been one of the common approaches to identify scal policy behavior. However, OLS regression on the scal...
Rong, Rong, Li, Bing, Lynch, Rebecca M., Haaland, Richard E., Murphy, Megan K., Mulenga, Joseph, ...
One aim for an HIV vaccine is to elicit neutralizing antibodies (Nab) that can limit replication of genetically diverse viruses and prevent establishment of a new infection. Thus, identifying the...
Sardiu, Mihaela E., Gilmore, Joshua M., Carrozza, Michael J., Li, Bing, Workman, Jerry L., Florens, Laurence, ...
Protein complexes are key molecular machines executing a variety of essential cellular processes. Despite the availability of genome-wide protein-protein interaction studies, determining the...
Sampling Theory of Food Safety System
Li, Bing, Chen, Guohua, Zhu, Ning
We introduce the stratified sampling method, and put forward theoretical unbiased estimation of stratified sampling program, as well as the model and statistics of experimental design test. We also...