P17-27. Development of recombinant adenovirus 28 vectors for HIV vaccines (2009)
Ko, S, Wang, L, Cheng, C, Kong, W, Gall, J, King, R, ...
No abstract available.
A new boundary element approach of modeling singular stress fields of plane V-notch problems (2009)
Niu, Z., Cheng, C., Ye, J., Recho, N.
In this paper, a new boundary element (BE) approach is proposed to determine the singular stress field in plane V-notch structures. The method is based on an asymptotic expansion of the stresses in a...
Evaluation of the stress singularities of plane V-notches in bonded dissimilar materials (2009)
Niu, Z., Ge, D., Cheng, C., Ye, J., Recho, N.
According to the linear theory of elasticity, there exists a combination of different orders of stress singularity at a V-notch tip of bonded dissimilar materials. The singularity reflects a strong...
Cheng, C., Lam, K. M., Demirbilek, Nur
Wind-induced natural ventilation plays an important role in the fire and smoke safety of a refuge floor. This paper reports a computational fluid dynamics study to investigate the effect of building...
Cheng, C., Lam, K. M., Demirbilek, Nur
Wind-induced natural ventilation plays an important role in the fire and smoke safety of a refuge floor. This paper reports a computational fluid dynamics study to investigate the effect of building...
Cheng, C., Lam, K. M., Demirbilek, Nur
Wind-induced natural ventilation plays an important role in the fire and smoke safety of a refuge floor. This paper reports a computational fluid dynamics study to investigate the effect of building...
Cheng, C., Lam, K. M., Demirbilek, Nur
Wind-induced natural ventilation plays an important role in the fire and smoke safety of a refuge floor. This paper reports a computational fluid dynamics study to investigate the effect of building...
Opnet In An Education Environment: The Simon Fraser University Experience (2007)
C. Cheng, M. Jiang, E. Lo, Lj. Trajkovic
In this paper we discuss the network systems support for the OPNET (version 5.1.D) application at the School of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University (SFU), we describe a research project in...
Study of CP-violating asymmetries in $B^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-, K^+\pi^-$ decays (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to the $\pi^+\pi^-$ CP eigenstate, and an updated measurement of the charge asymmetry in $B^0\to K^+\pi^-$...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present the results of searches for B decays to charmless two-body final states containing $\eta^\prime$ or $\omega$ mesons, based on 20.7 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the BABAR detector. We...
Radiation damage studies for the BABAR silicon vertex tracker (2005)
Re, V., Kirkby, D., Bruinsma, M., Berryhill, J., Burke, S., Callahan, D., ...
The Silicon Vertex Tracker of the BABAR experiment is a five-layer, double-sided AC-coupled silicon microstrip detector operating on the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center....
Radiation damage studies for the BABAR silicon vertex tracker (2005)
Re, V., Kirkby, D., Bruinsma, M., Berryhill, J., Burke, S., Callahan, D., ...
The Silicon Vertex Tracker of the BABAR experiment is a five-layer, double-sided AC-coupled silicon microstrip detector operating on the PEP-II storage ring at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center....
Von Hippel, W, Von Hippel, FA, Chan, N, Cheng, C
Recently, conservationists have debated whether consumers of animal and plant potency products used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) might be switching to...
Von Hippel, W, Von Hippel, FA, Chan, N, Cheng, C
Recently, conservationists have debated whether consumers of animal and plant potency products used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) might be switching to...
Computer mediated-communication has become an integral feature of modern society; furthermore, it has become a fundamental driving force behind many of the social anges of the 21st century. However,...
Visual Utility for the Localization of Corona-Accelerated Nuclei (2004)
Spagnuolo, J. Jr., Cheng, C., Schwuttke, U. M., Hervias, F.
There is considerable controversy as to whether flares are the sole producers of energetic protons or whether coronal mass ejections play a central role. We note that the system described in this...
Holleman, A., Cheng, C., Pui, C.H., Evans, W.E., Relling, M.V., Pieters, R., ...
BACKGROUND: Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is curable with chemotherapy in approximately 80 percent of patients. However, the cause of treatment failure in the remaining 20 percent of...
Haperen, R. Van, Crom, R. De, Cheng, C., Mees, B.M., Deel, E. Van, Waard, M. De, ...
The activity of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) is subject to complex transcriptional and post-translational regulation including the association with several proteins and variations in...
Cloning, expression and characterization of a novel human VMP gene (2002)
Cheng, C, Xu, J, Ye, X, Dai, JF, Wu, QH, Zeng, L, ...
We report here cloning and characterization of a novel human gene, termed VMP, which is a vesicular membrane protein. RT-PCR analysis shows that VMP is expressed exclusively in brain of the 16...
Uniaxial Phase Transition in Si : Ab initio Calculations (2002)
Based on a previously proposed thermodynamic analysis, we study the relative stabilities of five Si phases under uniaxial compression using ab initio methods. The five phases are diamond, beta-tin,...
Study of CP-violating asymmetries in $B^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-, K^+\pi^-$ decays (2002)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to the $\pi^+\pi^-$ CP eigenstate, and an updated measurement of the charge asymmetry in $B^0\to K^+\pi^-$...
Study of CP-violating asymmetries in $B^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-, K^+\pi^-$ decays (2002)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to the $\pi^+\pi^-$ CP eigenstate, and an updated measurement of the charge asymmetry in $B^0\to K^+\pi^-$...
High critical current density in Ti-doped MgB2/Ta/Cu tape by powder-in-tube process (2002)
Fu, B, Feng, Y, Yan, G, Pradhan, A, Cheng, C, ...
Ti-doped MgB2/Cu tapes with Ta as a buffer layer were prepared through the in situ powder in tube method by using Mg, Ti, and B powders. The phase compositions, microstructure features, and...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present the results of searches for B decays to charmless two-body final states containing $\eta^\prime$ or $\omega$ mesons, based on 20.7 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the BABAR detector. We...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present the results of searches for B decays to charmless two-body final states containing $\eta^\prime$ or $\omega$ mesons, based on 20.7 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the BABAR detector. We...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The production of $J/\psi$ mesons in continuum $e^+e^-$ annihilations has been studied with the BABAR detector at energies near the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance, approximately 10.6 GeV. The mesons are...
Shell-Model Interpolation of Frozen Phonons in Cubic Silicon Carbide. (1998)
Cheng, C., Kunc, K., Heine, V.
The results of ab initio calculations based on the density-functional method and using the norm-conserving pseudopotentials for the phonon frequencies and eigenvectors at the L point in cubic SiC are...
The Origin of Polytypes in SiC and ZnS. (1998)
Heine, Volker, Cheng, C., Engel, G. E., Needs, R. J.
Both SiC and ZnS exist in the cubic diamond-like (zinc blende) structure. A polytype is derived from the cubic stacking of atomic double layers by having a regularly repeated pattern of stacking...
Pieters, Jan, SANSEVERINO, J, WRIGHT, C, ROBINSON, K, CHENG, C, LIU, K, ...
WRIGHT, L, CHENG, C, LIU, K, ROBINSON, K, COX, C, ...
Comparison of Some Butadiene-Based Impact Modifiers for Polycarbonate. (1996)
Cheng, C., Peduto, N., Hiltner, A., Baer, E., Soskey, P. R.
The relationship of blend morphology to deformation mechanisms and notched Izod impact strength was studied with three butadiene-based impact modifiers for polycarbonate (PC). The impact modifiers...
Uniform consistency of generalized kernel estimators of quantile density (1995)
Various smoothing methods for quantile density estimation are unified into a generalized kernel smoothing. Based on a stochastic upper bound of the derivatives sequence for a sequence of smoothed...
Chen, L. Z., Hochwald, G. M., Huang, C., Dakin, G., Tao, H., Cheng, C., ...
A myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific BALB/c T helper 1 (Th1) clone was transduced with cDNA for murine latent transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) by coculture with fibroblasts producing a...
Characterization of an ATP-dependent DNA ligase encoded by Haemophilus influenzae.
We report that Haemophilus influenzae encodes a 268 amino acid ATP-dependent DNA ligase. The specificity of Haemophilus DNA ligase was investigated using recombinant protein produced in Escherichia...
Hadlock, K G, Rowe, J, Perkins, S, Bradshaw, P, Song, G Y, Cheng, C, ...
Ten human monoclonal antibodies derived from peripheral B cells of a patient with human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-associated myelopathy are described. One monoclonal antibody recognized a...
Cheng, C, Mu, J, Farkas, I, Huang, D, Goebl, M G, Roach, P J
Glycogen, a branched polymer of glucose, is a storage molecule whose accumulation is under rigorous nutritional control in many cells. We report the identification of two Saccharomyces cerevisiae...
Identification of hepatitis C viruses with a nonconserved sequence of the 5' untranslated region.
Lee, C H, Cheng, C, Wang, J, Lumeng, L
The nucleotide sequence of the 5' untranslated region of hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been shown to be conserved. In contrast, we have detected more sequence variation in this region in several HCV...
Cheng, C, Kacherovsky, N, Dombek, K M, Camier, S, Thukral, S K, Rhim, E, ...
Adr1p is a regulatory protein in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that binds to and activates transcription from two sites in a perfect 22-bp inverted repeat, UAS1, in the ADH2 promoter. Binding...
Lolait, S J, Clements, J A, Markwick, A J, Cheng, C, McNally, M, Smith, A I, ...
We have previously demonstrated low levels of immunoreactive (ir)-beta-endorphin (beta-EP) and ir-ACTH in a subpopulation of mouse spleen macrophages, which is consistent with an involvement of...
Meta-analysis of benzodiazepine use in the treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the evidence for the efficacy and potential harmful effects of benzodiazepines compared with other therapies in the treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE...
Diagnosis and management of acute alcohol withdrawal
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
Alcohol abuse produces a considerable burden of illness in the Canadian population. The diagnosis of alcohol dependence and withdrawal can be difficult, particularly in the setting of covert intake...
The diagnosis and management of insomnia in clinical practice: a practical evidence-based approach
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
Insomnia, or the dissatisfaction with the quantity, quality or timing of sleep, is a common complaint. Because the definition of "normal" sleep is not well established, the estimates of the...
Meta-analysis of benzodiazepine use in the treatment of insomnia
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the benefits and risks associated with the use of benzodiazepines to treat insomnia in adults. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry...
Yuspa, S H, Kilkenny, A, Cheng, C, Roop, D, Hennings, H, Kruszewski, F, ...
The induction of cancer on mouse skin by initiation-promotion protocols occurs through stages in which a benign squamous papilloma is an obligate precursor of squamous cell carcinoma. Activation of...
Shareholder rights, financial disclosure and the cost of equity capital
C. Cheng, Denton Collins, Henry Huang
This study extends research into whether shareholder rights and disclosures of financial-related attributes are associated with firms' costs of equity capital. Using cost-of-equity-capital estimates...
Chen, L. Z., Hochwald, G. M., Huang, C., Dakin, G., Tao, H., Cheng, C., ...
A myelin basic protein (MBP)-specific BALB/c T helper 1 (Th1) clone was transduced with cDNA for murine latent transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) by coculture with fibroblasts producing a...
Characterization of an ATP-dependent DNA ligase encoded by Haemophilus influenzae.
We report that Haemophilus influenzae encodes a 268 amino acid ATP-dependent DNA ligase. The specificity of Haemophilus DNA ligase was investigated using recombinant protein produced in Escherichia...
Hadlock, K G, Rowe, J, Perkins, S, Bradshaw, P, Song, G Y, Cheng, C, ...
Ten human monoclonal antibodies derived from peripheral B cells of a patient with human T-cell lymphotropic virus (HTLV)-associated myelopathy are described. One monoclonal antibody recognized a...
Cheng, C, Mu, J, Farkas, I, Huang, D, Goebl, M G, Roach, P J
Glycogen, a branched polymer of glucose, is a storage molecule whose accumulation is under rigorous nutritional control in many cells. We report the identification of two Saccharomyces cerevisiae...
Identification of hepatitis C viruses with a nonconserved sequence of the 5' untranslated region.
Lee, C H, Cheng, C, Wang, J, Lumeng, L
The nucleotide sequence of the 5' untranslated region of hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been shown to be conserved. In contrast, we have detected more sequence variation in this region in several HCV...
Cheng, C, Kacherovsky, N, Dombek, K M, Camier, S, Thukral, S K, Rhim, E, ...
Adr1p is a regulatory protein in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that binds to and activates transcription from two sites in a perfect 22-bp inverted repeat, UAS1, in the ADH2 promoter. Binding...
Lolait, S J, Clements, J A, Markwick, A J, Cheng, C, McNally, M, Smith, A I, ...
We have previously demonstrated low levels of immunoreactive (ir)-beta-endorphin (beta-EP) and ir-ACTH in a subpopulation of mouse spleen macrophages, which is consistent with an involvement of...
Meta-analysis of benzodiazepine use in the treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the evidence for the efficacy and potential harmful effects of benzodiazepines compared with other therapies in the treatment of acute alcohol withdrawal. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE...
Diagnosis and management of acute alcohol withdrawal
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
Alcohol abuse produces a considerable burden of illness in the Canadian population. The diagnosis of alcohol dependence and withdrawal can be difficult, particularly in the setting of covert intake...
The diagnosis and management of insomnia in clinical practice: a practical evidence-based approach
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
Insomnia, or the dissatisfaction with the quantity, quality or timing of sleep, is a common complaint. Because the definition of "normal" sleep is not well established, the estimates of the...
Meta-analysis of benzodiazepine use in the treatment of insomnia
Holbrook, A M, Crowther, R, Lotter, A, Cheng, C, King, D
OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the benefits and risks associated with the use of benzodiazepines to treat insomnia in adults. DATA SOURCES: MEDLINE and the Cochrane Controlled Trials Registry...
Yuspa, S H, Kilkenny, A, Cheng, C, Roop, D, Hennings, H, Kruszewski, F, ...
The induction of cancer on mouse skin by initiation-promotion protocols occurs through stages in which a benign squamous papilloma is an obligate precursor of squamous cell carcinoma. Activation of...
Von Hippel, W, Von Hippel, FA, Chan, N, Cheng, C
Recently, conservationists have debated whether consumers of animal and plant potency products used to treat erectile dysfunction (ED) in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) might be switching to...
Pulsatile ocular blood flow in asymmetric exudative age related macular degeneration
Chen, S., Cheng, C., Lee, A., Lee, F., Chou, J. C., Hsu, W., ...
BACKGROUND/AIMS—Decreased perfusion or increased vascular resistance of the choroidal vessels had been proposed as the vascular pathogenesis for age related macular degeneration (AMD). This study...
Cash flows, Cash flow prediction, Core cash flows, Cash flow variability, G29, M41,
Knowledge-based visualization of time-oriented clinical data.
We describe a domain-independent framework (KNAVE) specific to the task of interpretation, summarization, visualization, explanation, and interactive exploration in a context-sensitive manner through...
Penetrance of adrenocortical tumours associated with the germline TP53 R337H mutation
Figueiredo, B C, Sandrini, R, Zambetti, G P, Pereira, R M, Cheng, C, Liu, W, ...
Enomoto, T., Fujita, M., Cheng, C., Nakashima, R., Ozaki, M., Inoue, M., ...
In order to identify the possible role of the DCC gene in neoplasms of the human female reproductive tract, messenger RNA expression of the DCC gene was examined by reverse transcriptase-polymerase...