Sun, Bo, She, Jun, Zhang, Bing, Mao, Ya-Jun, Ma, Bo-Qiang
We analyze the left-right asymmetry in the semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (SIDIS) process without introducing any weighting functions. With the current theoretical understanding, we find...
A Unified Mixed Effects Model for Gene Set Analysis of Time Course Microarray Experiments (2009)
Wang, Lily, Chen, Xi, Wolfinger, Russell D, Franklin, Jeffrey L, Coffey, Robert J, Zhang, Bing
Methods for gene set analysis test for coordinated changes of a group of genes involved in the same biological process or molecular pathway. Higher statistical power is gained for gene set analysis...
A Unified Mixed Effects Model for Gene Set Analysis of Time Course Microarray Experiments (2009)
Wang, Lily, Chen, Xi, Wolfinger, Russell D, Franklin, Jeffrey L, Coffey, Robert J, Zhang, Bing
Methods for gene set analysis test for coordinated changes of a group of genes involved in the same biological process or molecular pathway. Higher statistical power is gained for gene set analysis...
A Unified Mixed Effects Model for Gene Set Analysis of Time Course Microarray Experiments (2009)
Wang, Lily, Chen, Xi, Wolfinger, Russell D, Franklin, Jeffrey L, Coffey, Robert J, Zhang, Bing
Methods for gene set analysis test for coordinated changes of a group of genes involved in the same biological process or molecular pathway. Higher statistical power is gained for gene set analysis...
A Unified Mixed Effects Model for Gene Set Analysis of Time Course Microarray Experiments (2009)
Wang, Lily, Chen, Xi, Wolfinger, Russell D, Franklin, Jeffrey L, Coffey, Robert J, Zhang, Bing
Methods for gene set analysis test for coordinated changes of a group of genes involved in the same biological process or molecular pathway. Higher statistical power is gained for gene set analysis...
Modeling Gamma-Ray Burst X-Ray Flares within the Internal Shock Model (2009)
X-ray afterglow light curves have been collected for over 400 Swift gamma-ray bursts with nearly half of them having X-ray flares superimposed on the regular afterglow decay. Evidence suggests that...
Astrophysics: Most distant cosmic blast seen (2009)
The most distant -ray burst yet sighted is the earliest astronomical object ever observed in cosmic history. This ancient beacon offers a glimpse of the little-known cosmic dark ages.
Are all short-hard gamma-ray bursts produced from mergers of compact stellar objects? (2009)
Virgili, Francisco J., Zhang, Bing, O'Brien, Paul, Troja, Eleonora
Abridged: The origin and progenitors of short-hard gamma-ray bursts remain a puzzle and a highly debated topic. The most popular model to interpret short-hard bursts is the merger of two compact...
Prompt optical emission and synchrotron self-absorption constraints on emission site of GRBs (2009)
We constrain the distance of the Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) prompt emission site from the explosion centre, R, by determining the location of the electron's self absorption frequency in the GRB prompt...
Evidence of an initially magnetically dominated outflow in GRB 080916C (2009)
The composition of gamma-ray burst (GRB) ejecta is still a mystery. The standard model invokes an initially hot ``fireball'' composed of baryonic matter. Here we analyze the broad band spectra of GRB...
Probing the birth of fast rotating magnetars through high-energy neutrinos (2009)
Murase, Kohta, Meszaros, Peter, Zhang, Bing
We investigate the high-energy neutrino emission expected from newly born magnetars surrounded by their stellar ejecta. Protons might be accelerated up to 0.1-100 EeV energies possibly by, e.g., the...
Grupe, Dirk, Burrows, David N., Wang, Xiang-Yu, Zhang, Bing, Garmire, Gordon, ...
We report on 5 Chandra observations of the X-ray afterglow of the Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 060729 performed between 2007 March and 2008 May. In all five observations the afterglow is clearly detected. The...
Liang, En-Wei, Lv, Hou-Jun, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Zhang, Bing
By analyzing the Swift/XRT lightcurves detected before 2008 October, we find 17 cases that decay as a single power law (SPL) from tens of seconds to ~10^5 seconds post the GRB trigger. They are...
Zhang, Bing, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Virgili, Francisco J., Liang, En-Wei, Kann, D. Alexander, Wu, Xue-Feng, ...
(Abridged) The highest redshift (z=6.7) gamma-ray burst (GRB) 080913 recently detected by Swift is an intrinsically short, hard GRB. It would be recognized by BATSE as a short/hard GRB should it have...
Naked-eye optical flash from GRB 080319B: Tracing the decaying neutrons in the outflow (2009)
Fan, Yi-Zhong, Zhang, Bing, Wei, Da-Ming
For an unsteady baryonic gamma-ray burst (GRB) outflow, the fast and slow proton shells collide with each other and produce energetic soft gamma-ray emission. If the outflow has a significant neutron...
Mizuno, Yosuke, Zhang, Bing, Giacomazzo, Bruno, Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi, Hardee, Philip E., Nagataki, Shigehiro, ...
We solve the Riemann problem for the deceleration of an arbitrarily magnetized relativistic flow injected into a static unmagnetized medium in one dimension. We find that for the same initial Lorentz...
Bo Liu, Lifu Zhang, Xia Zhang, Bing Zhang, Qingxi Tong
Data simulation is widely used in remote sensing to produce imagery for a new sensor in the design stage, for scale issues of some special applications, or for testing of novel algorithms....
Ball, Heather L., Zhang, Bing, Riches, J. Jacob, Gandhi, Rikesh, Li, Jing, Rommens, Johanna M., ...
Shwachman-Diamond syndrome (SDS; OMIM 260400 ) results from loss-of-function mutations in the Shwachman-Bodian Diamond syndrome (SBDS) gene. It is a multi-system disorder with clinical features of...
Jing-Chun Xing, Yu-Long Bo, Bing Zhang, Wen-Zhi Li
In the title complex, [CuEr(C19H20N2O4)(NO3)3]·CH3COCH3, the CuII ion is coordinated in a square-planar environment by two O atoms and two N atoms of a Schiff base ligand. The ErIII ion is...
Statistical Properties of Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization (2008)
Toma, Kenji, Sakamoto, Takanori, Zhang, Bing, Hill, Joanne E., McConnell, Mark L., Bloser, Peter F., ...
The emission mechanism and the origin and structure of magnetic fields in gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets are among the most important open questions concerning the nature of the central engine of GRBs....
Possible Effects of Pair Echoes on Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Emission (2008)
Murase, Kohta, Zhang, Bing, Takahashi, Keitaro, Nagataki, Shigehiro
High-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is widely expected but had been sparsely observed until recently when the Fermi satellite was launched. If >TeV gamma rays are produced in GRBs and...
Mizuno, Yosuke, Zhang, Bing, Giacomazzo, Bruno, Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi, Hardee, Philip E., Nagataki, Shigehiro, ...
We solve the Riemann problem for the deceleration of an arbitrarily magnetized relativistic flow injected into a static unmagnetized medium in one dimension. We find that for the same initial Lorentz...
Geppert, Ulrich, Gil, Janusz, Haberl, Frank, Melikidze, Georgi, Zhang, Bing
We report the X-ray observations of two radio pulsars with drifting subpulses, B0834+06 and B0826-34, using XMM-Newton. PSR B0834+06 was detected with a total of 70 counts from the three EPIC...
Curvature Effect of a Non-Power-Law Spectrum and Spectral Evolution of GRB X-Ray Tails (2008)
Zhang, Bin-Bin, Zhang, Bing, Liang, En-Wei, Wang, Xiang-Yu
The apparent spectral evolution observed in the steep decay phase of many GRB early afterglows raises a great concern of the high-latitude "curvature effect" interpretation of this phase. However,...
Luo, Yingfeng, Xu, Xiaoli, Ding, Zonghui, Liu, Zhen, Zhang, Bing, Yan, Zhiyu, ...
Abstract Background Phenylobacterium zucineum is a recently identified facultative intracellular species isolated from the human leukemia cell line K562. Unlike the known intracellular pathogens, P....
Chakravarty, Suvobrata, Godbole, Sucheta, Zhang, Bing, Berger, Seth, Sanchez, Roberto
Abstract Background Although multiple templates are frequently used in comparative modeling, the effect of inclusion of additional template(s) on model accuracy (when compared to that of...
$\cos 2 \phi$ asymmetries in unpolarized semi-inclusive DIS (2008)
Zhang, Bing, Lu, Zhun, Ma, Bo-Qiang, Schmidt, Ivan
We use the Boer-Mulders functions parameterized from unpolarized $p+D$ Drell-Yan data by the FNAL E866/NuSea Collaboration combined with recently extracted Collins functions to calculate the $\cos 2...
Incidence Rate of GRB-host-DLAs at High Redshift (2008)
Nagamine, Kentaro, Zhang, Bing, Hernquist, Lars
We study the incidence rate of damped Ly-a systems associated with the host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts (GRB-host-DLAs) as functions of neutral hydrogen column density (N_HI) and projected star...
Luo, Xinjing, Zuo, Xiaoxia, Zhou, Yaou, Zhang, Bing, Shi, Yongzhong, Liu, Meidong, ...
Abstract Introduction It was recently suggested that heat shock protein (HSP)70, an intracellular protein, is a potential mediator of inflammatory disease when it is released into the extracellular...
Extracting Boer-Mulders functions from $p+D$ Drell-Yan processes (2008)
Zhang, Bing, Lu, Zhun, Ma, Bo-Qiang, Schmidt, Ivan
We extract the Boer-Mulders functions of valence and sea quarks in the proton from unpolarized $p+D$ Drell-Yan data measured by the FNAL E866 Collaboration. Using these Boer-Mulders functions, we...
By drawing on the new institutional economics, this paper presents the hypothesis that the rules-of-law specified by the World Trade Organization (WTO), as an exogenous institution for the Member...
Virgili, Francisco, Liang, Enwei, Zhang, Bing
The intriguing observations of Swift/BAT X-ray flash XRF 060218 and the BATSE-BeppoSAX gamma-ray burst GRB 980425, both with much lower luminosity and redshift compared to other observed bursts,...
Objective: To observe the effect of active component in Cichorii (N3) on lipid metabolism of rat with hypertriglyceridemia complicated by hyperuricemia and hyperglycemia.Methods: Hypertriglyceridemia...
Chai, Andrea, Withers, James, Koh, Young Ho, Parry, Katherine, Bao, Hong, Zhang, Bing, ...
Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are progressive neurodegenerative disorders characterized by selective death of motor neurons leading to spasticity, muscle wasting and paralysis. Human VAMP-associated...
From pull-down data to protein interaction networks and complexes with biological relevance (2008)
Zhang, Bing, Park, Byung-Hoon, Karpinets, Tatiana, Samatova, Nagiza F.
Motivation: Recent improvements in high-throughput Mass Spectrometry (MS) technology have expedited genome-wide discovery of protein–protein interactions by providing a capability of detecting...
Chen, Xi, Wang, Lily, Smith, Jonathan D., Zhang, Bing
Motivation: Gene set analysis allows formal testing of subtle but coordinated changes in a group of genes, such as those defined by Gene Ontology (GO) or KEGG Pathway databases. We propose a new...
Akt phosphorylates the TR3 orphan receptor and blocks its targeting to the mitochondria (2008)
Chen, Hang-Zi, Zhao, Bi-Xing, Zhao, Wen-Xiu, Li, Li, Zhang, Bing, Wu, Qiao
Acutely transforming retrovirus AKT8 in rodent T cell lymphoma (Akt) phosphorylates and regulates the function of many cellular proteins involved in processes such as metabolism, apoptosis and...
BMC Structural Biology BioMed Central (2008)
Suvobrata Chakravarty, Sucheta Godbole, Bing Zhang, Seth Berger
Research article Systematic analysis of the effect of multiple templates on the accuracy of comparative models of protein structure
Who will be more active in sustainable consumption? Evidence from China (2007)
Economic growth in China improves the quality of life and income-driven levels of consumption. However, environmental behaviours with regard to water and energy consumption, as well as wastes...
Who will be more active in sustainable consumption? Evidence from China (2007)
Economic growth in China improves the quality of life and income-driven levels of consumption. However, environmental behaviours with regard to water and energy consumption, as well as wastes...
Hideki Noda, Mehdi N. Shirazi, Bing Zhang, Nobuteru Takao, Eiji Kawag Chi
SUMMARY This paper proposes a Markov random field (MRF) model-based method for unsupervised segmentation of multispectral images consisting of multiple textures. To model such textured images, a...
Delay-Based Priority Control over Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks (2007)
ZHANG, Bing, SHAGDAR, Oyunchimeg, TANG, Suhua, KADO, Youiti, NOZAKI, Masanori, SHIRAZI, Mehdad N.
Wireless mesh networks are attracting more and more attention as a promising technology for the next generation access infrastructure. QoS support is a unavoidable task given the rising popularity of...
A Magnetohydrodynamic Boost for Relativistic Jets (2007)
Mizuno, Yosuke, Hardee, Philip, Hartmann, Dieter H., Nishikawa, Ken-Ichi, Zhang, Bing
We performed relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the hydrodynamic boosting mechanism for relativistic jets explored by Aloy & Rezzolla (2006) using the RAISHIN code. Simulation results...
The dynamic modelling of one-dimensional jointed structures is relevant to many engineering applications, such as pipe systems and beam networks in constructions. Currently available techniques are...
Diagnosing GRB Prompt Emission Site with Spectral Cut-Off Energy (2007)
The site and mechanism of gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt emission is still unknown. Although internal shocks have been widely discussed as the emission site of GRBs, evidence supporting other emission...
Liang, En-Wei, Racusin, Judith L., Zhang, Bing, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Burrows, David N.
The Swift/XRT data of 179 GRBs (from 050124 to 070129) and the optical afterglow data of 57 pre- and post-Swift GRBs are analyzed, in order to systematically investigate the jet-like breaks in the...
ZHANG, Bing, SHIRAZI, Mehdad N., HATTORI, Kiyohiko
Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are gaining significant momentum as a promising technology for the next-coming state-of-the-art wireless networking. Among many factors, the performance of WMNs would be...
Digital Test of Composite Material Using X-Ray Tomography and Finite Element Simulation (2007)
Characterization of composite materials, such as Asphalt Concrete (AC) and other engineering materials is required to provide data for design and construction. This is usually carried out through...
Digital Test of Composite Material Using X-Ray Tomography and Finite Element Simulation (2007)
Characterization of composite materials, such as Asphalt Concrete (AC) and other engineering materials is required to provide data for design and construction. This is usually carried out through...
Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (2007)
Zhang, Yawei, Holford, Theodore R., Leaderer, Brian, Boyle, Peter, Zhu, Yong, Wang, Rong, ...
Sun exposure has been suggested to increase the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The authors analyzed data from a population-based, case-control study of Connecticut women between 1996 and 2000 to...
Liang, En-Wei, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Zhang, Bing
We analyze the properties of the shallow decay segment with a sample of 53 long Swift GRBs. We show that the distributions of its characteristics are log-normal or normal, and its isotropic X-ray...
Prompt Emission of High Energy Photons from Gamma Ray Bursts (2007)
Within the internal shock scenario we consider different mechanisms of high energy ($>1$ MeV) photon production inside a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) fireball and derive the expected high energy photon...
Robert D. Lagow, Hong Bao, Evan N. Cohen, Richard W. Daniels, Aleksej Zuzek, Wade H. Williams, ...
Both constitutive secretion and Ca2+-regulated exocytosis require the assembly of the soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complexes. At present, little is...
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (2007)
Since the successful launch of NASA's dedicated gamma-ray burst (GRB) mission, Swift, the study of cosmological GRBs has entered a new era. Here I review the rapid observational and theoretical...
Digital test of composite material using X-ray tomography and finite element simulation (2007)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2007.
Xu, Jian, Zhang, Bing, Yang, Tao, Gobe, Glenda, Wei, Ming Q., West, Malcolm J.
Objective: Hypertension is a worldwide health problem. The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is considered to be the major regulator of blood pressure, and the key factor in most essential hypertension....
BioMed Central Open Access (2007)
Bmc Genomics, Yingfeng Luo, Xiaoli Xu, Zonghui Ding, Zhen Liu, Bing Zhang, ...
Research article Complete genome of Phenylobacterium zucineum – a novel facultative intracellular bacterium isolated from human erythroleukemia cell line K562
Characterization of composite materials, such as Asphalt Concrete (AC) and other engineering materials is required to provide data for design and construction. This is usually carried out through...
A Reservation-Based Enhancement of IEEE 802.11 DCF Protocol (2007)
SHIRAZI, Mehdad N., SHAGDAR, Oyunchimeg, TANG, Suhua, NOZAKI, Masanori, KADO, Youiti, ZHANG, Bing
IEEE 802.11 DCF is an asynchronous and distributed MAC protocol which does not require the existence of a central controller for medium access coordination. This flexibility, which is due to DCF's...
Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure and Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (2007)
Zhang, Yawei, Holford, Theodore R., Leaderer, Brian, Boyle, Peter, Zhu, Yong, Wang, Rong, ...
Sun exposure has been suggested to increase the risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. The authors analyzed data from a population-based, case-control study of Connecticut women between 1996 and 2000 to...
Thermal radiation from hot polar cap in pulsars (2006)
Gil, Janusz, Melikidze, George, Zhang, Bing
Thermal radiation from hot polar caps is examined in radio pulsars with drifting subpulses. It is argued that if these subpulses correspond to sparking discharges of the inner acceleration region...
Astrophysics: A burst of new ideas (2006)
Gigantic cosmological gamma-ray bursts have fallen into a dichotomy of long and short bursts, each with a very different origin. The discovery of an oddball burst calls for a rethink of that...
A comprehensive analysis of Swift/XRT data: I. Apparent spectral evolution of GRB X-ray tails (2006)
Zhang, Bin-Bin, Liang, En-Wei, Zhang, Bing
An early steep decay component following the prompt GRBs is commonly observed in {\em Swift} XRT light curves, which is regarded as the tail emission of the prompt gamma-rays. Prompted by the...
Making a Short Gamma-Ray Burst from a Long one: Implications for the Nature of GRB 060614 (2006)
Zhang, Bing, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Liang, En-Wei, Gehrels, Neil, Burrows, David N., Meszaros, Peter
The absence of a supernova accompanying the nearby long GRB 060614 poses a great puzzle about the progenitor of this event and challenges the current GRB classification scheme. This burst displays a...
Gamma-ray burst afterglows (2006)
Extended, fading emissions in multi-wavelength are observed following Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Recent broad-band observational campaigns led by the Swift Observatory reveal rich features of these GRB...
Grupe, Dirk, Gronwall, Caryl, Wang, Xiang-Yu, Roming, Peter, Cummings, Jay, Zhang, Bing, ...
We report the results of the Swift and XMM observations of the Swift-discovered long Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 060729 ($T_{90}$=115s). The afterglow of this burst was exceptionally bright in X-rays as well...
Temporal Profiles and Spectral Lags of XRF 060218 (2006)
Liang, En-Wei, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Stamatikos, Mike, Zhang, Bing, Norris, Jay, Gehrels, Neil, ...
The spectral and temporal properties of the non-thermal emission ofthe nearby XRF 060218 in 0.3-150 keV band are studied. We show that both the spectral energy distribution and the light curve...
Constraining Galactic $p\gamma$ Interactions with Cosmic Ray Electron and Positron Spectra (2006)
High energy protons produced by various sources of cosmic rays, {\it e.g.} supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, active galactic nuclei and gamma-ray bursts participate in $p\gamma$ and $pp$...
GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs vs. XRFs, Long vs. Short (2006)
Zhang, Bing, Liang, Enwei, Page, Kim L., Grupe, Dirk, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Barthelmy, Scott D., ...
We systematically analyze the prompt emission and the early afterglow data of a sample of 31 GRBs detected by {\em Swift} before September 2005, and estimate the GRB radiative efficiency. BAT's...
The Onset of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow (2006)
We discuss the reference time t_0 of afterglow light curves in the context of the standard internal-external shock model. The decay index of early afterglow is very sensitive to the reference time...
Neutrino Spectra from Low and High Luminosity Populations of Gamma Ray Bursts (2006)
The detection of GRB 060218 at z=0.033 by {\em Swift} within 1.5 years of operation, together with the detection of GRB 980425 at $z=0.0085$ by BeppoSAX, suggest that these low-luminosity (LL) GRBs...
Contribution of GRB Emission to the GeV Extragalactic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Flux (2006)
Casanova, S., Dingus, B. L., Zhang, Bing
TeV gamma rays emitted by GRBs are converted into electron-positron pairs via interactions with the extragalactic infrared radiation fields. In turn the pairs produced, whose trajectories are...
Thermal Emission from a Hot Cocoon Surrounding the Jet of XRF 060218 (2006)
Liang, Enwei, Zhang, Bing, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Dai, Z. G.
It is long speculated that long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate froma relativistic jet emerging from a collapsing massive star progenitor. Although associations of core-collapsing...
The Planets-Capture Model of V838 Monocerotis (2006)
Retter, Alon, Zhang, Bing, Siess, Lionel, Levinson, Amir, Marom, Ariel
The planets capture model for the eruption of V838 Mon is discussed. We used three methods to estimate the location where the planets were consumed. There is a nice consistency for the results of the...
Zhang, Bing, Liu, Qinghua, Yin, Wei, Zhang, Xiaowei, Huang, Yijun, Luo, Yingfeng, ...
Abstract Background The snake venom gland is a specialized organ, which synthesizes and secretes the complex and abundant toxin proteins. Though gene expression in the snake venom gland has been...
Synchrotron emission is believed to be a major radiation mechanism during gamma-ray bursts' (GRBs) prompt emission phase. A significant drawback of this assumption is that the theoretical predicted...
Retter, Alon, Zhang, Bing, Siess, Lionel, Levinson, Amir
V838 Mon is the prototype of a new class of objects. Understanding the nature of its multi-stage outburst and similar systems is challenging. So far, several scenarios have been invoked to explain...
In this thesis two contributions are made to the area of mathematical finance. First, in order to explain the non-trivial skewness and kurtosis that is observed in the time series data of constant...
Liang, Enwei, Zhang, Bing, Virgili, Francisco, Dai, Z. G.
Swift/BAT has detected ~ 200 long-duration GRBs, with redshift measurements for ~50 of them. We derive the luminosity function (Phi^{HL}) and the local event rate (rho_0^{HL}) of the conventional...
In this thesis two contributions are made to the area of mathematical finance. First, in order to explain the non-trivial skewness and kurtosis that is observed in the time series data of constant...
GRB 060313: A New Paradigm for Short-Hard Bursts? (2006)
Roming, Peter W. A., Berk, Daniel Vanden, Palshin, Valentin, Pagani, Claudio, Norris, Jay, Kumar, Pawan, ...
We report the simultaneous observations of the prompt emission in the gamma-ray and hard X-ray bands by the Swift-BAT and the KONUS-Wind instruments of the short-hard burst, GRB 060313. The...
Dai, Z. G., Zhang, Bing, Liang, E. W.
The gamma-ray burst (GRB) 060218/SN 2006aj is a peculiar event, with the second lowest redshift, low luminosity, long duration, chromatic lightcurve features, and in particular, the presence of a...
Jet Breaks in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts. II: The Collimated Afterglow of GRB 051221A (2006)
Burrows, David N., Grupe, Dirk, Capalbi, Milvia, Panaitescu, Alin, Patel, Sandeep K., Kouveliotou, Chryssa, ...
We report the best evidence to date of a jet break in a short Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) afterglow, using Chandra and Swift XRT observations of the X-ray afterglow of GRB 051221A. The combined X-ray light...
Swift XRT Observations of the Afterglow of XRF 050416A (2006)
Mangano, Vanessa, La Parola, Valentina, Cusumano, Giancarlo, Mineo, Teresa, Malesani, Daniele, Dyks, Jaroslaw, ...
Swift discovered XRF 050416A with the BAT and began observing it with its narrow field instruments only 64.5 s after the burst onset. Its very soft spectrum classifies this event as an X-ray flash....
Swift Observations of GRB 050603: An afterglow with a steep late time decay slope (2006)
Grupe, Dirk, Brown, Peter, Cummings, Jay, Zhang, Bing, Retter, Alon, Burrows, David N., ...
We report the results of Swift observations of the Gamma Ray Burst GRB 050603. With a V magnitude V=18.2 about 10 hours after the burst the optical afterglow was the brightest so far detected by...
Gil, Janusz, Melikidze, George, Zhang, Bing
The subpulse drifting phenomenon in pulsar radio emission is considered within the partially screened inner gap model, in which the sub-Goldreich-Julian thermionic flow of iron ions or electrons...
The late time evolution of Gamma-Ray Bursts: ending hyperaccretion and producing flares (2006)
We consider the properties of a hyperaccretion model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at the late time when the mass supply rate is expected to decrease with time. We point out that the region in the...
On the origins of part-time radio pulsars (2006)
Zhang, Bing, Gil, Janusz, Dyks, Jaroslaw
Growing evidence suggests that some radio pulsars only act sporadically. These "part-time'' pulsars include long-term nulls, quasi-periodic radio flares in PSR B1931+24, as well as the so-called...
Cao, Yang, Zhang, Bing, Croll, Tristan I., Rolfe, Barbara E., Campbell, Julie H., Campbell, Gordon R., ...
Cao, Yang, Zhang, Bing, Croll, Tristan I., Rolfe, Barbara E., Campbell, Julie H., Campbell, Gordon R., ...
Interrelation between radio and X-ray signatures of drifting subpulses in pulsars (2005)
Gil, Janusz, Melikidze, George, Zhang, Bing
We examined a model of partially screened gap region above the polar cap, in which the electron-positron plasma generated by sparking discharges coexists with thermionic flow ejected by the...
Calibration of Gamma-Ray Burst Luminosity Indicators (2005)
Several gamma-ray burst (GRB) luminosity indicators (LIs)have been proposed. Unlike SNe Ia, calibration of GRB LIs using a low-redshift sample is difficult. Based on the Bayesian theory, here we...
Curvature effect in structured GRB jets (2005)
Dyks, J., Zhang, Bing, Fan, Y. Z.
We study the influence of jet structure on the curvature effect in a GRB-lightcurve. Using a simple model of jet emissivity, we numerically calculate lightcurves for a short flash from a relativistic...
Flares in long and short Gamma-Ray Bursts: a common origin in a hyperaccreting accretion disk (2005)
Perna, Rosalba, Armitage, Philip J., Zhang, Bing
Early-time X-ray observations of GRBs with the Swift satellite have revealed a more complicated phenomenology than was known before. In particular, the presence of flaring activity on a wide range of...
Gamma-Ray Burst Early Afterglows (2005)
The successful launch and operation of NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer open a new era for the multi-wavelength study of the very early afterglow phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). GRB early...
Linearly polarized X-ray flares following short gamma-ray bursts (2005)
Fan, Y. Z., Zhang, Bing, Proga, Daniel
Soft X-ray flares were detected to follow the short-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 050724. The temporal properties of the flares suggest that they are likely due to the late time activity of the...
Identification of Two categories of optically bright gamma-ray bursts (2005)
We present the results of a systematical analysis of the intrinsic optical afterglow light curves for a complete sample of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed in the period from Feb. 1997 to Aug. 2005....
Zhang, Bing, Fan, Y. Z., Dyks, Jaroslaw, Kobayashi, Shiho, Meszaros, Peter, Burrows, David N., ...
(Abridged) The Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT) reveals some interesting features of early X-ray afterglows, including a distinct rapidly decaying component preceding the conventional afterglow component...
GCRT J1745-3009 as a Transient White Dwarf Pulsar (2005)
A transient radio source in the direction of the Galactic Center, GCRT J1745-3009, exhibited 5 peculiar consecutive outbursts at 0.33 GHz with a period of 77.13 minutes and a duration of ~10 minutes...
A Two-Component Explosion Model for the Giant Flare and Radio Afterglow from SGR1806-20 (2005)
Dai, Z. G., Wu, X. F., Wang, X. Y., Huang, Y. F., Zhang, Bing
The brightest giant flare from the soft $\gamma$-ray repeater (SGR) 1806-20 was detected on 2004 December 27. The isotropic-equivalent energy release of this burst is at least one order of magnitude...
Inverse Compton X-ray Flare from GRB Reverse Shock (2005)
Kobayashi, Shiho, Zhang, Bing, Meszaros, Peter, Burrows, David N.
We study synchrotron self-inverse Compton radiation from a reverse-shocked fireball. If the inverse Compton process dominates the cooling of shocked electrons, an X-ray flare produced by the first...
Fan, Y. Z., Zhang, Bing, Wei, D. M.
We discuss the high enegry afterglow emission (including high energy photons, neutrinos and cosmic rays) following the 2004 December 27 Giant Flare from SGR 1806-20. If the initial outflow is...
Reply to Lyutikov's comments on Zhang & Kobayashi (2005) (2005)
Lyutikov (astro-ph/0503505) raised a valid point that for shock deceleration of a highly magnetized outflow, the fate of the magnetic fields after shock crossing should be considered. However, his...
We present a multi-variable regression analysis to several observable quantities for a sample of 15 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The observables used in the analysis includes the isotropic gamma-ray...
Fan, Y. Z., Zhang, Bing, Wei, D. M.
Very early optical and near infrared (IR) emission was discovered accompanying the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 041219a. We show that the optical/IR flash tracking the gamma-ray lightcurve during the...
Fan, Y. Z., Zhang, Bing, Wei, D. M.
For gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) born in a stellar wind, as the reverse shock crosses the ejecta, usually the shocked regions are still precipitated by the prompt MeV \gamma-ray emission. Because of the...
Reversals of radio emission direction in PSR B1822-09 (2005)
Dyks, J., Zhang, Bing, Gil, J.
The pulse profile of pulsar B1822-09 exhibits a very peculiar kind of mode changing: a "precursor" appearing just in front of the Main-Pulse (MP) exhibits periods of nulling, during which an...
XMM-Newton observation of the drifting pulsar B0943+10 (2005)
Zhang, Bing, Sanwal, Divas, Pavlov, George G.
Radio pulsar subpulse drifting has been interpreted as rotation of sub-beams (sparks) of pair plasma produced by intermittent breakdowns of an inner vacuum gap above the pulsar polar cap. This model...
Pulsar shadow as the origin of double notches in radio pulse profiles (2005)
Dyks, J., Frackowiak, M., Slowikowska, Agnieszka, Rudak, B., Zhang, Bing
We present the model of eclipsing a rotating, spatially extended source of directional emission by a central absorber, and apply it to the pulsar magnetosphere. The model assumes the radially...
The very early optical afterglow of GRBs, revealing the nature of the ejecta (2005)
Fan, Y. Z., Zhang, Bing, Wei, D. M.
We show that if the GRB ejecta itself is magnetized or neutron-rich, the very early afterglow of GRBs is very different from that powered by a pure ion fireball. In the Swift era, with the well...
Swift XRT and VLT Observations of the Afterglow of GRB 041223 (2005)
Burrows, David N., Hill, Joanne E., Chincarini, Guido, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Campana, Sergio, Moretti, Alberto, ...
The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, launched on 2004 November 20, is a multiwavelength, autonomous, rapid-slewing observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. On 2004 December 23, during the...
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications (2005)
Jun Yu, Jun Wang, Wei Lin, Songgang Li, Heng Li, Jun Zhou, ...
Comparative genome sequencing of indica and japonica rice reveals that duplication of genes and genomic regions has played a major part in the evolution of grass genomes.
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications (2005)
Jun Yu, Jun Wang, Wei Lin, Songgang Li, Heng Li, Jun Zhou, ...
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...
Moon Draper, Nigel S. Atkinson, Alan Lloyd, S. Martin Shankland, Harold Zakon, Bing Zhang, ...
version of the following dissertation:
Nicole E. Baldwin, Elissa J. Chesler, Stefan Kirov, Michael A. Langston, Jay R. Snoddy, Robert W. Williams, ...
Abstract. Gene expression microarray data can be used for the assembly of genetic co-expression network graphs. Using mRNA samples obtained from recombinant inbred Mus musculus strains, it is...
Michael A. Langston, Lan Lin, Xinxia Peng, Nicole E. Baldwin, Christopher T. Symons, Bing Zhang, ...
Abstract: Combinatorial methods are studied in an effort to gauge their potential utility in the analysis of differential gene expression data. Patient and gene relationships are modeled using...
Nicole E. Baldwin, Elissa J. Chesler, Stefan Kirov, Michael A. Langston, Jay R. Snoddy, Robert W. Williams, ...
Gene expression microarray data is being increasingly used for the assembly of gene network graphs. Using mRNA samples obtained from recombinant inbred Mus musculus strains, it is possible to study...
WebGestalt: an integrated system for exploring gene sets in various biological contexts (2005)
Bing Zhang, Stefan Kirov, Jay Snoddy
High-throughput technologies have led to the rapid generation of large-scale datasets about genes and gene products. These technologies have also shifted our research focus from ‘single genes ’...
Nicole E. Baldwin, Elissa J. Chesler, Stefan Kirov, Michael A. Langston, Jay R. Snoddy, Robert W. Williams, ...
Gene expression microarray data can be used for the assembly of genetic coexpression network graphs. Using mRNA samples obtained from recombinant inbred Mus musculus strains, it is possible to...
WebGestalt: an integrated system for exploring gene sets in various biological contexts (2005)
Zhang, Bing, Kirov, Stefan, Snoddy, Jay
High-throughput technologies have led to the rapid generation of large-scale datasets about genes and gene products. These technologies have also shifted our research focus from ‘single genes’ to...
A Putative Exonic Splicing Polymorphism in the BCL6 Gene and the Risk of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (2005)
Zhang, Yawei, Lan, Qing, Rothman, Nathaniel, Zhu, Yong, Zahm, Shelia Hoar, Wang, Sophia S., ...
Recent studies have shown that the B-cell lymphoma 6 gene (BCL6) is an oncogene that contributes to lymphomagenesis. Exon 6 of BCL6 contains a common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (−195 C>T;...
Sherwood, Nina Tang, Sun, Qi, Xue, Mingshan, Zhang, Bing, Zinn, Kai
The most common form of human autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP) is caused by mutations in the SPG4 (spastin) gene, which encodes an AAA ATPase closely related in sequence to...
Nina Tang Sherwood, Qi Sun, Mingshan Xue, Bing Zhang, Kai Zinn
Kai Zinn and colleagues use loss- and gain-of function mutations to study the Drosophila homologue of a gene mutated in human autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia.
Nina Tang Sherwood, Qi Sun, Mingshan Xue, Bing Zhang, Kai Zinn
The most common form of human autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP) is caused by mutations in the SPG4 (spastin) gene, which encodes an AAA ATPase closely related in sequence to...
Optical afterglows of short Gamma-ray Bursts and GRB 040924 (2004)
Fan, Y. Z., Zhang, Bing, Kobayashi, Shiho, Meszaros, Peter
Short-duration Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) (\leq 2{\rm s}) have remained a mystery due to the lack of afterglow detection until recently. The models to interpret short GRBs invoke distinct progenitor...
Ioka, Kunihito, Kobayashi, Shiho, Zhang, Bing
We show that simple kinematic arguments can give limits on the timescale and amplitude of variabilities in gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows, especially when the variability timescale is shorter than...
Zhang, Bing, Metharom, Pat, Jullie, Howard, Ellem, Kay AO, Cleghorn, Geoff, West, Malcolm J, ...
Abstract Background Although lentiviral vectors have been widely used for in vitro and in vivo gene therapy researches, there have been few studies systematically examining various conditions that...
Gamma-ray burst internal shocks with magnetization (2004)
Fan, Y. Z., Wei, D. M., Zhang, Bing
(Please note that the abstract has been significantly shorted) We investigate Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) internal shocks with moderate magnetization, with the magnetization parameter $\sigma$ ranging from...
Global Test of a Quasi-Universal Gamma-Ray Burst Jet Model Through Monte-Carlo Simulations (2004)
The possibility that long gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets are structured receives growing attention recently, and we have suggested that most GRBs and their softer, less energetic fraternity, X-ray...
A model for the flaring radio emission in the double pulsar system J0737-3039 (2004)
The binary J0737-3039 A & B includes two pulsars in a highly relativistic orbit. The pulsed radio flux from pulsar B brightens considerably during two portions of each orbit. This phenomenon cannot...
Evidence suggests that the gamma-ray burst (GRB) ejecta is likely magnetized, although the degree of magnetization of the ejecta is unknown. We derive a rigorous analytical solution for the...
On the Kinetic Energy and Radiative Efficiency of Gamma-Ray Bursts (2004)
Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole M., Zhang, Bing
Using measured X-ray luminosities to 17 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) during the afterglow phase and accounting for radiative losses, we calculate the kinetic energy of these bursts and investigate its...
GeV and higher energy photon interactions in gamma-ray burst fireballs and surroundings (2004)
Razzaque, Soebur, Meszaros, Peter, Zhang, Bing
We have calculated the opacities and secondary production mechanisms of high energy photons arising in gamma-ray burst internal shocks, using exact cross-sections for the relevant processes. We find...
Zhang, Bing, Schmoyer, Denise, Kirov, Stefan, Snoddy, Jay
Abstract Background Microarray and other high-throughput technologies are producing large sets of interesting genes that are difficult to analyze directly. Bioinformatics tools are needed to...
Lentiviral vector-mediated gene transfer in vitro and in vivo / (2004)
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2004.
Lentiviral vector-mediated gene transfer in vitro and in vivo / (2004)
Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2004.
Menstrual and Reproductive Factors and Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma among Connecticut Women (2004)
Zhang, Yawei, Holford, Theodore R., Leaderer, Brian, Boyle, Peter, Zahm, Shelia Hoar, Zhang, Bing, ...
Several recent studies have suggested a potential role of menstrual and reproductive factors in the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. To further examine the relation, the authors analyzed data from a...
Zhang, Yawei, Wise, John Piece, Holford, Theodore R., Xie, Hong, Boyle, Peter, Zahm, Shelia Hoar, ...
Recent epidemiologic studies have suggested that genetic polymorphisms in the cytochrome P-450 1A1 gene (CYP1A1) may affect the relation between environmental exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls...
Blood Transfusion and Risk of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Connecticut Women (2004)
Zhang, Yawei, Holford, Theodore R., Leaderer, Brian, Boyle, Peter, Zahm, Shelia Hoar, Owens, Patricia H., ...
The incidence and mortality rates of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma have been increasing worldwide. Allogeneic blood transfusion has been suggested as a risk factor for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, but the...
sets of interesting genes using (2004)
Bmc Bioinformatics, Bing Zhang, Denise Schmoyer, Stefan Kirov, Jay Snoddy, Jay Snoddy
Software GOTree Machine (GOTM): a web-based platform for interpreting
Zhang, Bing, Kobayashi, Shiho, Meszaros, Peter, Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole M., Dai, Xinyu
Two separate topics are discussed. (1) We describe the classifications of the long GRB early afterglow lightcurves within the framework of the fireball shock model, focusing on the interplay between...
Planetary Collisions: Electromagnetic Signals (2003)
Zhang, Bing, Sigurdsson, Steinn
We investigate the electromagnetic signals accompanied with planetary collisions and their event rate, and explore the possibility of directly detecting such events. A typical Earth--Jupiter...
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Progress, Problems & Prospects (2003)
The cosmological gamma-ray burst (GRB) phenomenon is reviewed. The broad observational facts and empirical phenomenological relations of the GRB prompt emission and afterglow are outlined. A...
Quasi-universal Gaussian jets: a unified picture for gamma-ray bursts and X-ray flashes (2003)
Zhang, Bing, Dai, Xinyu, Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole M., Meszaros, Peter
An observed correlation Ep \propto (E_{iso})^{1/2} extending from Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) to X-ray flashes (XRFs) poses problems both for a power-law universal jet model where the energy per solid...
On the Structure of Quasi-Universal Jets for Gamma-Ray Bursts (2003)
Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole, Dai, Xinyu, Zhang, Bing
The idea that GRBs originate from uniform jets has been used to explain numerous observations of breaks in the GRB afterglow lightcurves. We explore the possibility that GRBs instead originate from a...
A Characteristic Dense Environment or Wind Signature in Prompt GRB Afterglows (2003)
Kobayashi, Shiho, Meszaros, Peter, Zhang, Bing
We discuss the effects of synchrotron self-absorption in the prompt emission from the reverse shock of GRB afterglows occurring in a dense environment, such as the wind of a massive stellar...
Electromagnetic signals from planetary collisions (2003)
Zhang, Bing, Sigurdsson, Steinn
Planet-planet collisions are expected during the early stages of the formation of extra-solar planets, and are also possible in mature planetary systems through secular planet-planet perturbations....
Early Optical Afterglows from Wind-Type Gamma-Ray Bursts (2003)
We study prompt optical emission from reverse shocks in the wind-type gamma-ray bursts. The emission is evaluated in both the thick and thin shell regimes. We discuss the angular time delay effect...
Zhang, Bing, Kobayashi, Shiho, Meszaros, Peter
Early optical afterglows have been observed from GRB 990123, GRB 021004, and GRB 021211, which reveal rich emission features attributed to reverse shocks. It is expected that Swift will discover many...
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2003.
Some recent developments in gamma-ray burst afterglow and prompt emission models (2002)
Zhang, Bing, Meszaros, Peter, Wang, Junfeng
Extensive observational campaigns of afterglow hunting have greatly enriched our understanding of the gamma-ray burst (GRB) phenomenon. Efforts have been made recently to explore some afterglow...
Magnetars and pulsars: a missing link (2002)
There is growing evidence that soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are isolated neutron stars with superstrong magnetic fields, i.e., magnetars, marking them a...
GRB 021004: Reverse Shock Emission (2002)
We show that the re-brightening in the GRB 021004 optical afterglow light curve around ~ 0.1 day can be explained within the framework of the standard fireball model. The superposition of a forward...
High energy neutrinos from magnetars (2002)
Zhang, Bing, Dai, Z. G., Meszaros, P., Waxman, E., Harding, A. K.
Magnetars can accelerate cosmic rays to high energies through the unipolar effect, and are also copious soft photon emitters. We show that young, fast-rotating magnetars whose spin and magnetic...
Pulsar radio emission is believed to be originated from the electron-positron pairs streaming out from the polar cap region. Pair formation, an essential condition for pulsar radio emission, is...
An analysis of gamma-ray burst spectral break models (2002)
Typical gamma-ray burst spectra are characterized by a spectral break, Ep, which for bright BATSE bursts is found to be narrowly clustered around 300 keV. Recently identified X-ray flashes, which may...
Regimes of Pulsar Pair Formation and Particle Energetics (2002)
Harding, Alice K., Muslimov, Alexander G., Zhang, Bing
We investigate the conditions required for the production of electron-positron pairs above a pulsar polar cap (PC) and the influence of pair production on the energetics of the primary particle...
The Dynamical Evolution of Substructure (2002)
Zhang, Bing, Wyse, Rosemary F. G., Stiavelli, Massimo, Silk, Joseph
The evolution of substructure embedded in non-dissipative dark halos is studied through N-body simulations of isolated systems, both in and out of initial equilibrium, complementing cosmological...
Cluster-based input/output trace synthesis (2002)
Bo Hong, Tara M. Madhyastha, Bing Zhang
hongbo,tara,bing£ I/O traces are crucial for understanding the performance of new storage architectures. Unfortunately, traces are extremely bursty and difficult to characterize. They are large,...
Cluster-based input/output trace synthesis (2002)
Bo Hong, Tara M. Madhyastha, Bing Zhang
I/O traces are crucial for understanding the performance of new storage architectures. Unfortunately, traces are extremely bursty and difficult to characterize. They are large, difficult to obtain,...
Cluster-based input/output trace synthesis (2002)
Bo Hong, Tara M. Madhyastha, Bing Zhang
hongbo,tara,bing£ I/O traces are crucial for understanding the performance of new storage architectures. Unfortunately, traces are extremely bursty and difficult to characterize. They are large,...
Childhood Asthma in Beijing, China: A Population-based Case-Control Study (2002)
Zheng, Tongzhang, Niu, Shiru, Lu, Baoyu, Fan, Xiue, Sun, Fengying, Wang, Jinping, ...
China is the most populous country in the world. Few studies, however, have been conducted there to investigate the risk factors for childhood asthma. A population-based case-control study was...
Gamma-ray burst beaming: a universal configuration with a standard energy reservoir? (2001)
We consider a gamma-ray burst (GRB) model based on an anisotropic fireball with an axisymmetric power-law distribution of the energy per solid angle with index -k, and allow for the observer's...
Bing Zhang, HQ Xia, Geoffrey Cleghorn, Glenda Gobe, Malcolm West, Ming Wei
The paper reported the original finding of harvesting gene therapy vector from supernatant using poly-L-lysine (PLL). The new method provides a convenient means for harvesting large volumes of...
On Radio Quiescence of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (2001)
In the hot environments of the anomalous X-ray pulsars and the soft gamma-ray repeaters, as indicated by their luminous, pulsed, quiescent X-ray emission, $\gamma$-rays generated from the inner gaps...
Gamma-ray bursts with continuous energy injection and their afterglow signature (2001)
(Abridged) We discuss a Gamma-ray burst (GRB) fireball with an additional energy injection, either in the form of a Poynting-flux-dominated outflow or a kinetic-energy-dominated matter shell injected...
High Energy Spectral Components in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows (2001)
We investigate two high energy radiation mechanisms, the proton synchrotron and the electron inverse Compton emission, and explore their possible signatures in the broad-band spectra and in the keV...
Inner magnetospheric accelerators in high magnetic field pulsars (2001)
Zhang, Bing, Harding, Alice K.
Photon splitting is a QED process that can potentially suppress pair production in the inner magnetosphere of a pulsar with a super-strong magnetic field, and hence, may quench radio emission from...
On the nature of soft Gamma-ray repeaters (2001)
Soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) and Anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are generally accepted to be magnetars. Recently, Zhang, Xu & Qiao (2000, ApJ, 545, L127) proposed an alternative viewpoint about...
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"[S]ubmitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Pharmaceutical Science, Faculty of Pharmacy &...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2001.
Bing Zhang, HQ Xia, Geoffrey Cleghorn, Glenda Gobe, Malcolm West, Ming Wei
The paper reported the original finding of harvesting gene therapy vector from supernatant using poly-L-lysine (PLL). The new method provides a convenient means for harvesting large volumes of...
Off-Beam Gamma-Ray Pulsars and Unidentified EGRET Sources in the Gould Belt (2000)
Harding, Alice K., Zhang, Bing
We investigate whether gamma-ray pulsars viewed at a large angle to the neutron star magnetic pole could contribute to the new population of galactic unidentified EGRET sources associated with the...
We investigate the consequences of a continuously injecting central engine on the gamma-ray burst afterglow emission, focusing more specifically on a highly-magnetized millisecond pulsar engine. For...
Nature and Nurture: a model for soft gamma-ray repeaters (2000)
Zhang, Bing, Xu, R. X., Qiao, G. J.
During supernova explosions, strange stars with almost bare quark surfaces may be formed. Under certain conditions, these stars could be rapidly spun down by the torque exerted by the fossil disks...
What if pulsars are born as strange stars? (2000)
Xu, R. X., Zhang, Bing, Qiao, G. J.
The possibility and the implications of the idea, that pulsars are born as strange stars, are explored. Strange stars are very likely to have atmospheres with typical mass of $\sim 5\times...
High magnetic field pulsars and magnetars: a unified picture (2000)
Zhang, Bing, Harding, Alice K.
We propose a unified picture of high magnetic field radio pulsars and magnetars by arguing that they are all rotating high-field neutron stars, but have different orientations of their magnetic axes...
The Formation of the Hubble Sequence of Disk Galaxies: The Effects of Early Viscous Evolution (2000)
Zhang, Bing, Wyse, Rosemary F. G.
We investigate a model of disk galaxies whereby viscous evolution of the gaseous disk drives material inwards to form a proto-bulge. We start from the standard picture of disk formation through the...
Radio Pulsar Death Line Revisited: Is PSR J2144-3933 Anomalous? (2000)
Zhang, Bing, Harding, Alice K., Muslimov, Alexander G.
We reinvestigate the radio pulsar ``death lines'' within the framework of two different types of polar cap acceleration models, i.e., the vacuum gap model and the space-charge-limited flow model,...
Thesis (M.Med.Sc.) - University of Queensland.
Detection and modulation of nitric oxide in renal ischaemia-reperfusion injury (2000)
Includes bibliographical references.
Lactation Reduces Breast Cancer Risk in Shandong Province, China (2000)
Zheng, Tongzhang, Duan, Li, Liu, Yi, Zhang, Bing, Wang, Yan, Chen, Yongxiang, ...
Results from studies of western populations investigating lactation and breast cancer risk have been inconsistent. To examine this issue, the authors conducted a hospital-based case-control study in...
Zheng, Tongzhang, Holford, Theodore R., Mayne, Susan Taylor, Owens, Patricia Hansen, Zhang, Bing, Boyle, Peter, ...
Exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs) from use of electric blankets and other in-home electrical appliances has been hypothesized to increase breast cancer risk. To test the hypothesis, the...
Zhang, Bing, Harding, Alice K.
We modify the conventional curvature radiation (inverse Compton scattering) + synchrotron radiation polar cap cascade model by including the inverse Compton scattering of the higher generation pairs....
Zhang, Bing, Harding, Alice K.
We modify polar cap cascade picture to include the ICS of the higher generation pairs. In such a ``full-cascade'' scenario, not only the perpendicular portion of the energy of the pairs goes to high...
PSR 0943+10: a bare strange star? (1999)
Recent work by Rankin & Deshpande strongly suggests that there exist strong ``micro-storms'' rotating around the magnetic axis of the 1.1s pulsar PSR 0943+10. Such a feature hints that most probably...
Is Coherence Essential to Account for Pulsar Radio Emission? (1999)
Zhang, Bing, Hong, B. H., Qiao, G. J.
Based on definitions, two joint-criteria, namely, the optical-thin constraint and the energy budget constraint, are proposed to judge whether the emission nature of radio pulsars is incoherent or...
Prostate cancer is now the second highest cause of cancer death in men in Western society. New treatments are needed for late stage disease that has become refractory to hormone removal. We are using...
Zhang, Bing, Russell, Pamela J.
Prostate cancer is now the second highest cause of cancer death in men in Western society. New treatments are needed for late stage disease that has become refractory to hormone removal. We are using...
Two-photon annihilation in the pair formation cascades in pulsar polar caps (1998)
The importance of the photon-photon pair production process ($\gamma+ \gamma^{\prime}\to e^{+}+e^{-}$) to form pair production cascades in pulsar polar caps is investigated within the framework of...
Is Gamma-ray Absorption by Induced Electric Fields Important in the Pulsar Magnetospheres? (1998)
Zheng, Zheng, Zhang, Bing, Qiao, G. J.
Although the unified formula for gamma-ray absorption process involving both the magnetic field and a perpendicular electric field derived by Daugherty & Lerche (1975) is correct, we argued in this...
Optimizing computations in weather and climate prediction models (1998)
F. Baer, Banglin Zhang, Bing Zhang
To meet the challenge of developing a comprehensive weather and climate prediction model which can give realistic scenarios for many time scales, more computer power than is currently available will...
Clinical Diagnostic Accuracy of Faecal Occult Blood Test for Anal Diseases (1997)
NAKAMA, HIDENORI, KAMIJO, NOBORU, FUJIMORI, KAZUYA, HORIUCHI, AKIRA, ZHANG, BING
Purpose: To investigate the diagnostic accuracy of faecal occult blood test (FOBT) for anal diseases and to evaluate the relationship of this disorder to the results of FOBT. Methods: In a...
Photogeneration of cationic initiators. (1996)
Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Experiments in learning control using neural networks. (1991)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Strathclyde, 1991.
Study of Corn Optimization Irrigation Model by Genetic Algorithms (1970)
Bing Zhang, ShouQi Yuan, JianSheng Zhang, Hong Li
Many factors affecting irrigation model, including irrigation water volume, crop water requirement, production function of irrigation water, rainfall, soil water balance, water sensitive index in...
Vitamin C Is a Kinase Inhibitor: Dehydroascorbic Acid Inhibits IκBα Kinase β
Cárcamo, Juan M., Pedraza, Alicia, Bórquez-Ojeda, Oriana, Zhang, Bing, Sanchez, Roberto, Golde, David W.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key intermediates in cellular signal transduction pathways whose function may be counterbalanced by antioxidants. Acting as an antioxidant, ascorbic acid (AA)...
Drosophila Spastin Regulates Synaptic Microtubule Networks and Is Required for Normal Motor Function
Sherwood, Nina Tang, Sun, Qi, Xue, Mingshan, Zhang, Bing, Zinn, Kai
The most common form of human autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP) is caused by mutations in the SPG4 (spastin) gene, which encodes an AAA ATPase closely related in sequence to...
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications
Yu, Jun, Wang, Jun, Lin, Wei, Li, Songgang, Li, Heng, Zhou, Jun, ...
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...
WebGestalt: an integrated system for exploring gene sets in various biological contexts
Zhang, Bing, Kirov, Stefan, Snoddy, Jay
High-throughput technologies have led to the rapid generation of large-scale datasets about genes and gene products. These technologies have also shifted our research focus from ‘single genes’ to...
Baldwin, Nicole E., Chesler, Elissa J., Kirov, Stefan, Langston, Michael A., Snoddy, Jay R., Williams, Robert W., ...
Gene expression microarray data can be used for the assembly of genetic coexpression network graphs. Using mRNA samples obtained from recombinant inbred Mus musculus strains, it is possible to...
Chen, Xin, Zhang, Bing, Fischer, Janice A.
Eukaryotic genomes encode large families of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). Genetic data suggest that Fat facets (Faf), a Drosophila DUB essential for patterning the compound eye, might have a novel...
Chen, Xin, Zhang, Bing, Fischer, Janice A.
Eukaryotic genomes encode large families of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs). Genetic data suggest that Fat facets (Faf), a Drosophila DUB essential for patterning the compound eye, might have a novel...
Vitamin C Is a Kinase Inhibitor: Dehydroascorbic Acid Inhibits IκBα Kinase β
Cárcamo, Juan M., Pedraza, Alicia, Bórquez-Ojeda, Oriana, Zhang, Bing, Sanchez, Roberto, Golde, David W.
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are key intermediates in cellular signal transduction pathways whose function may be counterbalanced by antioxidants. Acting as an antioxidant, ascorbic acid (AA)...
Drosophila Spastin Regulates Synaptic Microtubule Networks and Is Required for Normal Motor Function
Sherwood, Nina Tang, Sun, Qi, Xue, Mingshan, Zhang, Bing, Zinn, Kai
The most common form of human autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegia (AD-HSP) is caused by mutations in the SPG4 (spastin) gene, which encodes an AAA ATPase closely related in sequence to...
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications
Yu, Jun, Wang, Jun, Lin, Wei, Li, Songgang, Li, Heng, Zhou, Jun, ...
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...
WebGestalt: an integrated system for exploring gene sets in various biological contexts
Zhang, Bing, Kirov, Stefan, Snoddy, Jay
High-throughput technologies have led to the rapid generation of large-scale datasets about genes and gene products. These technologies have also shifted our research focus from ‘single genes’ to...
Baldwin, Nicole E., Chesler, Elissa J., Kirov, Stefan, Langston, Michael A., Snoddy, Jay R., Williams, Robert W., ...
Gene expression microarray data can be used for the assembly of genetic coexpression network graphs. Using mRNA samples obtained from recombinant inbred Mus musculus strains, it is possible to...
Zou, Li-fang, Wang, Xing-ping, Xiang, Yong, Zhang, Bing, Li, Yu-Rong, Xiao, You-lun, ...
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola, the cause of bacterial leaf streak in rice, possesses clusters of hrp genes that determine its ability to elicit a hypersensitive response (HR) in nonhost tobacco...
Lagow, Robert D, Bao, Hong, Cohen, Evan N, Daniels, Richard W, Zuzek, Aleksej, Williams, Wade H, ...
Both constitutive secretion and Ca2+-regulated exocytosis require the assembly of the soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complexes. At present, little is...
Cytokine polymorphisms in the Th1/Th2 pathway and susceptibility to non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Lan, Qing, Zheng, Tongzhang, Rothman, Nathaniel, Zhang, Yawei, Wang, Sophia S., Shen, Min, ...
Studies have demonstrated that common polymorphisms in Th1 and Th2 cytokine genes can alter gene expression, modulate the balance between Th1/Th2 responsiveness, and influence susceptibility for...
Lagow, Robert D, Bao, Hong, Cohen, Evan N, Daniels, Richard W, Zuzek, Aleksej, Williams, Wade H, ...
Wang, Fengping, Wang, Jianbin, Jian, Huahua, Zhang, Bing, Li, Shengkang, Wang, Feng, ...
Shewanella species are widespread in various environments. Here, the genome sequence of Shewanella piezotolerans WP3, a piezotolerant and psychrotolerant iron reducing bacterium from deep-sea...
Do Calendar Effects Still Exist in the Chinese Stock Markets?
The paper uses rolling sample tests to investigate time-varying calendar effects in the Chinese stock market, based on the GARCH (1, 1)-GED model. The Friday effect existed with low volatility at the...
A variance ratio test of the behaviour of Chinese stock indices
This study utilizes tests based on ranks and signs suggested by Wright (2000) together with the traditional variance ratio test to examine the behaviour of some Chinese stock indices. The results...
Duration dependence test for rational bubbles in Chinese stock market
This article applies duration dependence tests to analyse the rational speculative bubbles in Chinese stock market. The results show that the probability of ending a run of positive excess returns...
An Integrated Approach for the Analysis of Biological Pathways using Mixed Models
Wang, Lily, Zhang, Bing, Wolfinger, Russell D., Chen, Xi
Gene class, ontology, or pathway testing analysis has become increasingly popular in microarray data analysis. Such approaches allow the integration of gene annotation databases, such as Gene...
The asymmetric behaviour of stock returns and volatilities: evidence from Chinese stock market
This article investigates the partial adjustment process with asymmetries on Chinese stock index returns and volatilities. Rolling sample windows method is proper to capture evolving asymmetric...
Eco-efficiency analysis of industrial system in China: A data envelopment analysis approach
Zhang, Bing, Bi, Jun, Fan, Ziying, Yuan, Zengwei, Ge, Junjie
Eco-efficiency is an instrument for sustainability analysis, indicating how efficient the economic activity is with regard to nature's goods and services. This paper conducts an eco-efficiency...
A Drosophila Model for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Reveals Motor Neuron Damage by Human SOD1*♦
Watson, Melanie R., Lagow, Robert D., Xu, Kexiang, Zhang, Bing, Bonini, Nancy M.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a motor neuron disease that leads to loss of motor function and early death. About 5% of cases are inherited, with the majority of identified linkages in the...
Price linkages between Chinese and world copper futures markets
price linkage, copper futures, rolling test, G13, G15, F36, 价格联系, 铜期货, 滚动样本检验,
A Novel Antiapoptotic Role for α1-Antitrypsin in the Prevention of Pulmonary Emphysema
Petrache, Irina, Fijalkowska, Iwona, Zhen, Lijie, Medler, Terry R., Brown, Emile, Cruz, Pedro, ...
Rationale: There is growing evidence that alveolar cell apoptosis plays an important role in emphysema pathogenesis, a chronic inflammatory lung disease characterized by alveolar destruction. The...
Luo, Xinjing, Zuo, Xiaoxia, Zhang, Bing, Song, Lan, Wei, Xing, Zhou, Yaou, ...
It has recently been suggested that heat shock protein (Hsp) 70, an intracellular protein, can be released into the extracellular compartment and exert important immunomodulatory functions. Although...
Global Analysis of Protein Damage by the Lipid Electrophile 4-Hydroxy-2-nonenal*S⃞
Codreanu, Simona G., Zhang, Bing, Sobecki, Scott M., Billheimer, Dean D., Liebler, Daniel C.
Lipid peroxidation yields a variety of electrophiles, which are thought to contribute to the molecular pathogenesis of diseases involving oxidative stress, yet little is known of the scope of protein...
Network-assisted protein identification and data interpretation in shotgun proteomics
Li, Jing, Zimmerman, Lisa J, Park, Byung-Hoon, Tabb, David L, Liebler, Daniel C, Zhang, Bing
Protein assembly and biological interpretation of the assembled protein lists are critical steps in shotgun proteomics data analysis. Although most biological functions arise from interactions among...
Chen, Xi, Wang, Lily, Smith, Jonathan D., Zhang, Bing
Motivation: Gene set analysis allows formal testing of subtle but coordinated changes in a group of genes, such as those defined by Gene Ontology (GO) or KEGG Pathway databases. We propose a new...
Price discovery for copper futures in informationally linked markets
The purpose of this article is to contribute to the research on informationally linked markets by investigating the relationships between the Chinese copper futures market and its London...