Hilda: A high-level language for data-drivenweb applications (2009)
Fan Yang, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Mirek Riedewald, Johannes Gehrke, Alan Demers
We propose Hilda, a high-level language for developing data-driven web applications. The primary benefits of Hilda over existing development platforms are: (a) it uses a unified data model for all...
A Scalable Data Platform for a Large Number of Small Applications (2009)
As a growing number of websites open up their APIs to external application developers (e.g., Facebook, Yahoo! Widgets, Google Gadgets), these websites are facing an intriguing scalability problem:...
Zhang, An-Sheng, Yang, Fan, Wang, Jiaohong, Tsukamoto, Hidekazu, Enns, Caroline A.
Hemojuvelin (HJV) is a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked protein and binds both bone morphogenic proteins (BMPs) and neogenin. Cellular HJV acts as a BMP co-receptor to enhance the transcription of...
WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications (2009)
Fan Yang, Nitin Gupta, Chavdar Botev, Elizabeth F Churchill, George Levchenko, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
An emerging trend in Social Networking sites and Web portals is the opening up of their APIs to external application developers. For example, the Facebook Platform, Google Gadgets and Yahoo! Widgets...
Switching to Real-Time Tasks in Multi-Tasking Dialogue (2009)
Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Andrew Kun
In this paper we describe an empirical study of human-human multi-tasking dialogues (MTD), where people perform multiple verbal tasks overlapped in time. We examined how conversants switch from the...
Avoiding and Resolving Initiative Conflicts in Dialogue ∗ (2009)
In this paper, we report on an empirical study on initiative conflicts in human-human conversation. We examined these conflicts in two corpora of task-oriented dialogues. The results show that...
WYSIWYG Development of Data Driven Web Applications ABSTRACT (2009)
Fan Yang, Nitin Gupta, Chavdar Botev, Elizabeth F Churchill, George Levchenko, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
An emerging trend in Social Networking sites and Web portals is the opening up of their APIs to external application developers. For example, the Facebook Platform, Google Gadgets and Yahoo! Widgets...
Wu, Yuan, Yang, Jian, Yang, Fan, Liu, Tao, Leng, Wenchuan, Chu, Yonglie, ...
Abstract Background Dermatophytes are fungi that cause superficial infections of the skin, hair, and nails. They are the most common agents of fungal infections worldwide. Dermatophytic fungi...
A high temperature high pressure pressure cell was built for neutron time-of-flight experiments which provides temperatures up to 1500 K under a pressure up to 200 MPa at the sample position. The...
Variational study of the neutron resonance mode in the cuprate superconductors (2009)
A Gutzwiller-type variational wave function is proposed for the neutron resonance mode in the cuprate superconductors. An efficient re-weighting technique is devised to perform variational Monte...
Synthesis, characterization and fluorescence performance of LaF3:Ce3+ nanocrystals (2009)
Fluorescent labeling agents have greatly affected many biological applications in recent years. Among different types of labeling agents, Cerium-doped LaF3 nanocrystals (NCs) are considered to be a...
An Electroscope System Based on Electric Field Measurement Method for UHV Transmission Lines (2009)
Yang, Fan, He, Wei, Chen, Tao, Luo, Xiaochu, Fu, Yongchang
The paper describes an electric field measurement method based electroscope system to check the electrification state of ultra-high voltage transmission lines, which is composed of three parts: 1)...
An Electroscope System Based on Electric Field Measurement Method for UHV Transmission Lines (2009)
Yang, Fan, He, Wei, Chen, Tao, Luo, Xiaochu, Fu, Yongchang
The paper describes an electric field measurement method based electroscope system to check the electrification state of ultra-high voltage transmission lines, which is composed of three parts: 1)...
An Electroscope System Based on Electric Field Measurement Method for UHV Transmission Lines (2009)
Yang, Fan, He, Wei, Chen, Tao, Luo, Xiaochu, Fu, Yongchang
The paper describes an electric field measurement method based electroscope system to check the electrification state of ultra-high voltage transmission lines, which is composed of three parts: 1)...
An Electroscope System Based on Electric Field Measurement Method for UHV Transmission Lines (2009)
Yang, Fan, He, Wei, Chen, Tao, Luo, Xiaochu, Fu, Yongchang
The paper describes an electric field measurement method based electroscope system to check the electrification state of ultra-high voltage transmission lines, which is composed of three parts: 1)...
On Improving the Throughput of Media Delivery Applications in Heterogenous Overlay Network (2009)
Jin Zhao, Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Zhensheng Zhang
Abstract —Overlay multicast is becoming increasingly popular for multimedia delivery over Internet. The available bandwidths between sender and different receivers are generally heterogeneous. In...
Yang, Fan, Wang, Hua-zhen, Mi, Hong, Lin, Cheng-de, Cai, Wei-wen
Abstract Background Most machine-learning classifiers output label predictions for new instances without indicating how reliable the predictions are. The applicability of these classifiers is limited...
Design of a Real-Time Face Detection Parallel Architecture Using High-Level Synthesis (2009)
Nicolas Farrugia, Franck Mamalet, Sébastien Roux, Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine
We describe a High-Level Synthesis implementation of a parallel architecture for face detection. The chosen face detection method is the well-known Convolutional Face Finder (CFF) algorithm, which...
Jin, Tienan, Yang, Fan, Yamamoto, Yoshinori
N-Unsubstituted indazoles 3 and 1-arylindazoles 4 are readily available in good to high yields through [3+2] cycloaddition of 2-(trimethylsilyl)aryl triflates 1 and diazo compounds in the presence of...
Thin film solar cells grown by organic vapor phase deposition (2009)
Thin film solar cells grown by organic vapor phase deposition
Thin film solar cells grown by organic vapor phase deposition (2009)
Thin film solar cells grown by organic vapor phase deposition
Optimal Sensor Location Design for Reliable Fault Detection in Presence of False Alarms (2009)
Fan Yang, Deyun Xiao, Sirish L. Shah
To improve fault detection reliability, sensor location should be designed according to an optimization criterion with constraints imposed by issues of detectability and identifiability. Reliability...
Fusion de biométries sans contact: paume et visage (2009)
POINSOT, Audrey, FAN YANG, PAINDAVOINE, Michel
La biométrie est une application majeure de la reconnaissance de forme. Dans cet article, une chaîne de reconnaissance biométrique basée sur la paume et le visage est présentée. Les traitements...
ABSTRACT Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views (2008)
Feng Shao, Lin Guo, Chavdar Botev, Muthiah Chettiar, Fan Yang
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional information retrieval...
ABSTRACT OPTIMIZATION USING TAGUCHI METHOD FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC APPLICATIONS (2008)
Wei-chung Weng, Fan Yang, Veysel Demir, Atef Elsherbeni
This paper presents a novel electromagnetic optimization technique based on Taguchi method. Using the concept of the orthogonal array (OA), Taguchi method effectively reduces the number of tests...
Fan Yang, Advisor Prof, Peter A Heeman, Advisor Prof, Ruqian Lu, Advisor Prof, ...
Objective: Research staff position or postdoc position in the field of dialogue processing, natural language processing, and speech processing. Education:
Fan Yang, Ruimin Shen, Peng Han
Abstract. Nowadays, the most prevailing issue in the e-learning environment is that it is not easy to monitor students ’ learning behaviors instantly, which is becoming the mainly obstacle of...
The Application of Case Based Reasoning on Q&A System (2008)
Peng Han, Rui-min Shen, Fan Yang, Qiang Yang
system is an important aiding tool for people to obtain knowledge and information from the Internet. In this paper, we introduce CBR (Case Based Reasoning) into traditional Q&A system to increase...
On Improving the Throughput of Media Delivery Applications in Heterogenous Overlay Network (2008)
Abstract—Overlay multicast is becoming increasingly popular for multimedia delivery over Internet. The available bandwidths between sender and different receivers are generally heterogeneous. In...
A Data Driven Approach to Relevancy Recognition for Contextual Question Answering (2008)
Contextual question answering (QA), in which users ’ information needs are satisfied through an interactive QA dialogue, has recently attracted more research attention. One challenge of engaging...
Panoramic face mosaicing and recognition using multi-cameras (2008)
Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine, Hervé Abdi, Dominique Arnoult
applications such as human expression categorization using movement estimation or real-time applications. Also, In this article, we present some development results their cost can easily make these...
Developing, Optimizing and Hosting Data-Driven Web Applications (2008)
Building web applications using current systems is not an easy task and we face the following challenges: (1) It is difficult to program web applications on top of the standard three-tier...
Developing, Optimizing and Hosting Data-Driven Web Applications (2008)
Building web applications using current systems is not an easy task and we face the following challenges: (1) It is difficult to program web applications on top of the standard three-tier...
Yang, Fan, Zhou, Xiaoji, Li, Juntao, Chen, Yuankai, Xia, Lin, Chen, Xuzong
We study sequential scattering in superradiance from a Bose-Einstein condensate pumped by a two-frequency laser beam. We find that the distribution of atomic side modes presents highly different...
Zhang, An-Sheng, Yang, Fan, Meyer, Kathrin, Hernandez, Catalina, Chapman-Arvedson, Tara, Bjorkman, Pamela J., ...
Hemochromatosis type 2 gene (HFE2) is highly expressed in skeletal muscle and liver hepatocytes. Its encoded protein, hemojuvelin (HJV), is a co-receptor for the bone morphogenetic proteins 2 and 4...
The effective modulus of super carbon nanotubes predicted by molecular structure mechanics (2008)
Li, Ying, Qiu, XinMing, Yang, Fan, Wang, Xi-Shu, Yin, Yajun
A super carbon nanotube (ST) is a kind of hierarchical structure constructed from carbon nanotubes (named as CNT arm tubes). With the detailed construction of a Y-junction considered, the effective...
Photocurrent generation in nanostructured organic solar cells (2008)
Yang, Fan, Forrest, Stephen R.
Photocurrent generation in nanostructured organic solar cells is simulated using a dynamical Monte Carlo model that includes the generation and transport properties of both excitons and free charges....
Multiple-Signal Duplicate Detection for Search Evaluation ABSTRACT (2008)
Scott Huffman, April Lehman, Alexei Stolboushkin, Howard Wong-toi, Fan Yang, Hein Roehrig
We consider the problem of duplicate document detection for search evaluation. Given a query and a small number of web results for that query, we show how to detect duplicate web documents with...
Summary The Performance Evaluation Process Algebra, PEPA, is introduced by Jane (2008)
Fan Yang, Kongens Lyngby, Fan Yang
Hillston as a stochastic process algebra for modelling distributed systems and especially suitable for performance evaluation. A range of tools has already been developed that apply this algebra to...
A Simple Anti-Aliasing Method For Straight Line Drawing Based On DSP Platform (2008)
Dusheng Wang, Hock Lye Toh, Xiang Chen, Fan Yang
A simple and practical anti-aliasing method for a color straight line drawing is presented in this paper. The method has been applied in a DSP-based display system to remove the undesired jaggies...
Ultra-high sensitivity of super carbon-nanotube-based mass and strain sensors (2008)
Li, Ying, Qiu, XinMing, Yang, Fan, Wang, Xi-Shu, Yin, Yajun
Based on the molecular structure mechanics method, the dynamic properties of super carbon nanotubes ( STs), together with ST-based mass and strain sensors, are investigated. The following results are...
Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine, Member Spie, Hervé Abdi, Anthony Monopoli, ...
Biometry is currently a very active area of research, which comprises several subdisciplines such as image processing, pattern recognition, and computer vision �see, e.g., Ref. 1�. The main goal...
Panoramic face mosaicing and recognition using multi-cameras (2008)
Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine, Hervé Abdi, Dominique Arnoult
applications such as human expression categorization using movement estimation or real-time applications. Also, In this article, we present some development results their cost can easily make these...
Chapter # Reconciling Control and Discourse Structure (2008)
Susan E. Strayer, Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang
Abstract: In this paper we consider how control (initiative) is managed in taskoriented dialogues. We propose that control is subordinate to discourse structure. The initiator of a discourse...
Challenges in Search and Usage of Multi-media Learning Objects (2008)
Erica Melis, Ruimin Shen, Jörg Siekmann, Carsten Ullrich, Fan Yang, Peng Han
Abstract. The definition, assembly and manipulation of learning objects is becoming more and more popular in learning environments. But despite standardization efforts their appropriate markup and...
Design Languages Performance (2008)
Fan Yang, Nitin Gupta, Nicholas Gerner, Xin Qi, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, ...
Data-driven web applications are usually structured in three tiers with different programming models at each tier. This division forces developers to manually partition application functionality...
ABSTRACT Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views (2008)
Feng Shao, Lin Guo, Chavdar Botev, Muthiah Chettiar, Fan Yang
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional information retrieval...
An Annotation Scheme for Agreement Analysis (2008)
Siew Leng Toh, Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman
To accomplish a task that requires collaboration, people would first agree on a strategy and then together carry it out [1]. Our research interest lies in understanding how people explore different...
The inherent fluctuations of the pulsed atom laser in F=2 manifold of 87Rb atoms (2008)
Xia, Lin, Yang, Fan, Zhou, Xiaoji, Chen, Xuzong
We have observed the intensity fluctuations of the F=2 87Rb atom laser at low output coupling rate. Theoretically, we find that the atom loss of the condensate due to the output of atom laser leads...
Fast Image Mosaicing for Panoramic Face Recognition (2008)
Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine, Hervé Abdi, Dominique Arnoult
Abstract — In this article, we present some development results of a system that performs mosaicing (or mosaicking) of panoramic faces. Our objective is to study the feasibility of panoramic face...
In this paper, we explore the conventions that people use in managing multiple dialogue threads. In particular, we focus on where in a thread people interrupt when switching to another thread. We...
Using Infeasibility to Improve Abstraction-Based Heuristics (2008)
Fan Yang, Joseph Culberson, Robert Holte
The contribution of our research is to show that the accuracy of the heuristics generated by abstraction can be improved by checking for infeasibility. What do we mean by infeasible heuristics? For a...
Challenges in Search and Usage of Multi-media Learning Objects (2008)
Erica Melis, Ruimin Shen, Jörg Siekmann, Carsten Ullrich, Fan Yang, Peng Han
Abstract. The definition, assembly and manipulation of learning objects is becoming more and more popular in learning environments. But despite standardization efforts their appropriate markup and...
1,1′-Dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium bis(tetrafluoridoborate) (2008)
Fan Yang, Jian-Cheng Deng, Zhi-Gang Li, Jing-Wei Xu
In the title compound, C12H14N22+·2BF4−, the cation has a centre of symmetry at the mid-point of the central C—C bond. π–π interactions, with a shortest atom-to-atom...
Quantitative Study Of Precipitate Growth In Ti-6al-4v Using The Phase Field Method (2008)
Microstrucures play an important role in determining the properties of titanium alloys. This work employs the phase field method to study diffusional phase transformation and the accompanying...
The value of mediastinoscopy in the staging of lung cancer with clinical N2 disease (2008)
Hui ZHAO, Jun WANG, Jun LIU, Jianfeng LI, Guanchao JIANG, Yun LI, ...
Background and objective To determine the value of mediastinoscopy in the mediastinal staging of lung cancer with clinical N2 disease. Methods We retrospectively reviewed 87 patients received...
Quantitative Study Of Precipitate Growth In Ti-6al-4v Using The Phase Field Method (2008)
Microstrucures play an important role in determining the properties of titanium alloys. This work employs the phase field method to study diffusional phase transformation and the accompanying...
Design of a Real-Time Face Detection Parallel Architecture Using High-Level Synthesis (2008)
Nicolas Farrugia, Franck Mamalet, Sébastien Roux, Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine
We describe a High-Level Synthesis implementation of a parallel architecture for face detection. The chosen face detection method is the well-known Convolutional Face Finder (CFF) algorithm, which...
Data Value Prediction Methods and Performance (2007)
Rushan Chen, Zhaohua Qin, Fan Yang
Elimination of data dependencies through value prediction can help to extract more parallelism. High accuracy value prediction is thus essential in achieving significant performance improvement by...
Chen-Zhuo Feng, Xia Ding, Ye Li, Su Chen, Fan Yang, Wei-Jun Yang
DNA methylation plays important roles in eukaryotic development. However, studies of DNA methylation in Crustacea are very limited. In the present study, we isolated and identified a DNA...
Recommendation model based on opinion diffusion (2007)
Zhang, Yi-Cheng, Medo, Matus, Ren, Jie, Zhou, Tao, Li, Tao, Yang, Fan
Information overload in the modern society calls for highly efficient recommendation algorithms. In this letter we present a novel diffusion based recommendation model, with users' ratings built into...
Wu, Ting, Hu, Yonghua, Chen, Changzhong, Yang, Fan, Li, Zhiping, Fang, Zhian, ...
The authors investigated whether polymorphisms in two maternal metabolic genes, cytochrome P-450 1A1 (CYP1A1) MspI and epoxide hydrolase 1 (EPHX1) Tyr113His, affect the association of maternal...
Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views (2007)
Shao, Feng, Guo, Lin, Botev, Chavdar, Bhaskar, Anand, Chettiah, Muthiah, Yang, Fan, ...
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional information retrieval...
Efficient Keyword Search over Virtual XML Views (2007)
Shao, Feng, Guo, Lin, Botev, Chavdar, Bhaskar, Anand, Chettiah, Muthiah, Yang, Fan, ...
Emerging applications such as personalized portals, enterprise search and web integration systems often require keyword search over semi-structured views. However, traditional information retrieval...
Bruit en 1/f de films minces de manganite La0,7Sr0,3MnO3 pour application en bolométrie (2007)
Les films minces de manganites ont un fort de coefficient de température à température ambiante et sont donc potentiellement intéressants pour la réalisation de microbolomètres non refroidis....
Implantation parallèle de la detection de visages : Méthodologie et implantation sur FPGA (2007)
FARRUGIA, Nicolas, MAMALET, Franck, ROUX, Sébastien, PAINDAVOINE, Michel, YANG, Fan
Nous présentons dans ce papier une méthodologie d'exploration du parallélisme d'un algorithme de detection de visages et son implantation sur FPGA . L'algorithme choisi est le Convolutional Face...
Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril and some pyridine derivates (2007)
Cong, Hang, Tao, Long-Ling, Yu, Yi-Hua, Tao, Zhu, Yang, Fan, Zhao, Yun-Jie, ...
Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6], host) with hydrochloride salts of 2-phenylpridine (G1), 2-benzylpyridine (G2), and 4-benzylpyridine (G3) (guests) have been investigated by...
Distributed Cooperative Rate Adaptation for Energy Efficiency (2007)
Kun Wang, Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Dapeng Oliver Wu, Yinlong Xu
Abstract 1 — In this paper we study the problem of using the rate adaptation technique to achieve energy efficiency in an IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop network. Specifically, we formulate it as an...
Distributed Cooperative Rate Adaptation for Energy Efficiency (2007)
Kun Wang, Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Senior Member, Dapeng Oliver Wu, Yinlong Xu
Abstract — In this paper we study the problem of using the rate adaptation technique to achieve energy efficiency in an IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop network. Specifically, we formulate it as an...
Distributed Cooperative Rate Adaptation for Energy Efficiency (2007)
Kun Wang, Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Dapeng Oliver Wu, Yinlong Xu
Abstract — In this paper we study the problem of using the rate adaptation technique to achieve energy efficiency in an IEEE 802.11-based multi-hop network. Specifically, we formulate it as an...
Modeling Path Capacity in Multi-hop IEEE 802.11 Networks for QoS Services (2007)
Kun Wang, Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Yinlong Xu
Abstract- We propose an analytical model for multi-hop IEEE 802.11 networks to calculate how much bandwidth can be utilized along a path without violating the QoS requirements of existing...
A unified platform for data driven web applictions with automatic client-server partitioning (2007)
Fan Yang, Nitin Gupta, Nicholas Gerner, Xin Qi, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, ...
Data-driven web applications are usually structured in three tiers with different programming models at each tier. This division forces developers to manually partition application functionality...
On HS = SH and Duality Theorems of Intuitionistic Descriptive Frames (2007)
The variety of Heyting algebras has a nice property that HS = SH. Heyting algebras are the algebraic dual of intuitionistic descriptive frames. The goal of this paper is to define proper dual notions...
Distributed Cooperative Rate Adaptation for Energy Efficiency (2007)
Kun Wang, Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Senior Member, Dapeng Oliver Wu, Senior Member, ...
Abstract—In this paper, we study the problem of using the rate adaptation technique to achieve energy efficiency in an IEEE 802.11-based multihop network. Specifically, we formulate it as an...
Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril and some pyridine derivates (2007)
Cong, Hang, Tao, Long-Ling, Yu, Yi-Hua, Tao, Zhu, Yang, Fan, Zhao, Yun-Jie, ...
Interaction between tetramethylcucurbit[6]uril (TMeQ[6], host) with hydrochloride salts of 2-phenylpridine (G1), 2-benzylpyridine (G2), and 4-benzylpyridine (G3) (guests) have been investigated by...
Manipulation of the quantum state by Majorana transition in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates (2006)
Xia, Lin, Xu, Xu, Yang, Fan, Xiong, Wei, Li, Juntao, Ma, Qianli, ...
Manipulation of the quantum state by the Majorana transition in spinor BEC system has been realized by altering the rotation frequency of the magnetic field's direction. This kind of manipulation...
On improving the throughput of media delivery applications in heterogenous overlay network (2006)
Zhao, Jin, Yang, Fan, Zhang, Qian, Zhang, Zhensheng
Overlay multicast is becoming increasingly popular for multimedia delivery over Internet. The available bandwidths between sender and different receivers are generally heterogeneous. In this paper,...
Application of Ultraviolet Detector in Discharge Detection (2006)
Liu, Jungang, He, Wei, Zhou, Liang, Yang, Fan
The aging of insulators often results in corona discharge, and the measurement of the ultraviolet light (UV-light) can be used to detect insulator defects. This paper introduces a new tester, the...
Application of Ultraviolet Detector in Discharge Detection (2006)
Liu, Jungang, He, Wei, Zhou, Liang, Yang, Fan
The aging of insulators often results in corona discharge, and the measurement of the ultraviolet light (UV-light) can be used to detect insulator defects. This paper introduces a new tester, the...
Application of Ultraviolet Detector in Discharge Detection (2006)
Liu, Jungang, He, Wei, Zhou, Liang, Yang, Fan
The aging of insulators often results in corona discharge, and the measurement of the ultraviolet light (UV-light) can be used to detect insulator defects. This paper introduces a new tester, the...
Application of Ultraviolet Detector in Discharge Detection (2006)
Liu, Jungang, He, Wei, Zhou, Liang, Yang, Fan
The aging of insulators often results in corona discharge, and the measurement of the ultraviolet light (UV-light) can be used to detect insulator defects. This paper introduces a new tester, the...
Complete genome sequence of Shigella flexneri5b and comparison with Shigella flexneri2a (2006)
Nie, Huan, Yang, Fan, Zhang, Xiaobing, Yang, Jian, Chen, Lihong, Wang, Jing, ...
Abstract Background Shigella bacteria cause dysentery, which remains a significant threat to public health. Shigella flexneri is the most common species in both developing and developed countries....
Korrelation des Ödem-Zeichens bei Mammalösionen in der MR Mammographie (2006)
This is a retrospective study based on the MR Mammography (MRM) case review from 1994 to 2003, together 1010 patients with 1129 lesions were included and all these patients were confirmed by...
Yang, Hong-Yu, Yang, Fan, Jiang, Yong-Jin, Li, Tao
Through variational Monte Carlo calculation on Gutzwiller projected wave functions, we study the quasiparticle(qp) weight for adding and removing an electron from a high temperature superconductor....
Why a local moment induces an antiferromagnetic ordering: An RVB picture (2006)
Li, Tao, Wang, Qiang-Hua, Weng, Zheng-Yu, Yang, Fan, Zhang, Fu-Chun
Based on a Gutzwiller projected BCS wavefunction, it is shown that a local S=1/2 moment is present around a vacancy site (zinc impurity) in a form of staggered magnetic moments, which is a direct...
Tissue engineering for evaluation and treatment of craniofacial abnormalities [microform] / (2006)
Vita.
Mahler, Stephen M., Leong, Sharon, Gilbert, Andrew, Yang, Fan, Van Dyk, Derek, Gray, Peter P., ...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are used extensively for analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The purification of mAbs from cell culture supernatants typically consists of protein A, G...
Mahler, Stephen M., Leong, Sharon, Gilbert, Andrew, Yang, Fan, Van Dyk, Derek, Gray, Peter P., ...
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are used extensively for analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The purification of mAbs from cell culture supernatants typically consists of protein A, G...
Quark: an efficient xquery full-text implementation (2006)
Chavdar Botev, Lin Guo, Feng Shao, Fan Yang
has been developed by the W3C to extend XQuery and XPath with full-text search capabilities. XQFT allows users to specify a mix of structured and complex full-text predicates, and also allows users...
Impact of power and rate selection on the throughput of ad hoc networks (2006)
Cong Peng, Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Dapeng Wu, Ming Zhao, Yan Yao
Abstract — With the advance of wireless technology, wireless devices are capable of adjusting transmit power and physical (PHY) layer data-rate. In this paper, we investigate the problem of how to...
Automatic clientserver partitioning of data driven web applications (2006)
Nicholas Gerner, Fan Yang, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Mirek Riedewald, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
An important class of applications are data-driven web applications, i.e., web applications that run on top of a back-end database system. Examples of such applications include online shopping sites,...
Hilda: A high-level language for data-driven web applications (2006)
Fan Yang, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Mirek Riedewald, Johannes Gehrke, Alan Demers
We propose Hilda, a high-level language for developing data-driven web applications. The primary benefits of Hilda over existing development platforms are: (a) it uses a unified data model for all...
Hilda: A high-level language for data-driven web applications (2006)
Fan Yang, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Mirek Riedewald, Johannes Gehrke, Alan Demers
We propose Hilda, a high-level language for developing data-driven web applications. The primary benefits of Hilda over existing development platforms are: (a) it uses a unified data model for all...
Automatic clientserver partitioning of data driven web applications (2006)
Nicholas Gerner, Fan Yang, Alan Demers, Johannes Gehrke, Mirek Riedewald, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram
Current application development tools provide completely different programming models for the application server (e.g., Java and J2EE) and the client web browser (e.g., JavaScript and HTML)....
Quark: an efficient xquery full-text implementation (2006)
Chavdar Botev, Lin Guo, Jayavel Shanmugasundaram, Feng Shao, Fan Yang
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Full-text (XQFT) has been recently developed and proposed for extending XQuery and XPath with full-text search. While there have been many previous proposals to integrate XML...
Hyperhomocysteinemia inhibits post-injury reendothelialization in mice (2006)
Tan, Hongmei, Jiang, Xiaohua, Yang, Fan, Li, Zhaohui, Liao, Dan, Trial, JoAnn, ...
Objective: Hyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and has been reported to inhibit endothelial cell (EC) growth. Notwithstanding, precisely how HHcy regulates EC...
Venners, Scott A., Liu, Xue, Perry, Melissa J., Korrick, Susan A., Li, Zhiping, Yang, Fan, ...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge is limited of how estrogen and progesterone variability in fertile women are associated with achieving pregnancy. METHODS: From 1996 to 1998, we enrolled 347 textile workers...
Venners, Scott A., Liu, Xue, Perry, Melissa J., Korrick, Susan A., Li, Zhiping, Yang, Fan, ...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge is limited of how estrogen and progesterone variability in fertile women are associated with achieving pregnancy. METHODS: From 1996 to 1998, we enrolled 347 textile workers...
Venners, Scott A., Liu, Xue, Perry, Melissa J., Korrick, Susan A., Li, Zhiping, Yang, Fan, ...
BACKGROUND: Knowledge is limited of how estrogen and progesterone variability in fertile women are associated with achieving pregnancy. METHODS: From 1996 to 1998, we enrolled 347 textile workers...
Uncooled bolometer response of a low noise La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin film (2005)
Mechin, Laurence, Routoure, Jean-Marc, Guillet, Bruno, Yang, Fan, Flament, Stephane, Robbes, Didier, ...
We report measurements of the optical responses of a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) sample at a wavelength of 533 nm in the 300-400 K range. The 200 nm thick film was grown by pulsed laser deposition on (100)...
Uncooled bolometer response of a low noise La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin film (2005)
Mechin, Laurence, Routoure, Jean-Marc, Guillet, Bruno, Yang, Fan, Flament, Stephane, Robbes, Didier, ...
We report measurements of the optical responses of a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) sample at a wavelength of 533 nm in the 300-400 K range. The 200 nm thick film was grown by pulsed laser deposition on (100)...
Uncooled bolometer response of a low noise La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin film (2005)
Mechin, Laurence, Routoure, Jean-Marc, Guillet, Bruno, Yang, Fan, Flament, Stephane, Robbes, Didier, ...
We report measurements of the optical responses of a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) sample at a wavelength of 533 nm in the 300-400 K range. The 200 nm thick film was grown by pulsed laser deposition on (100)...
Uncooled bolometer response of a low noise La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin film (2005)
Mechin, Laurence, Routoure, Jean-Marc, Guillet, Bruno, Yang, Fan, Flament, Stephane, Robbes, Didier, ...
We report measurements of the optical responses of a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) sample at a wavelength of 533 nm in the 300-400 K range. The 200 nm thick film was grown by pulsed laser deposition on (100)...
Bruit en 1/f de films minces de manganite La0,7Sr0,3MnO3 pour application en bolométrie (2005)
Les films minces de manganites ont un fort de coefficient de température à température ambiante et sont donc potentiellement intéressants pour la réalisation de microbolomètres non refroidis....
Bruit en 1/f de films minces de manganite La0,7Sr0,3MnO3 pour application en bolométrie (2005)
Les films minces de manganites ont un fort de coefficient de température à température ambiante et sont donc potentiellement intéressants pour la réalisation de microbolomètres non refroidis....
Bruit en 1/f de films minces de manganite La0,7Sr0,3MnO3 pour application en bolométrie (2005)
Les films minces de manganites ont un fort de coefficient de température à température ambiante et sont donc potentiellement intéressants pour la réalisation de microbolomètres non refroidis....
Cross-layer QoS Support for Multimedia Delivery over Wireless Internet (2005)
Qian Zhang, Fan Yang, Wenwu Zhu
Delivering multimedia over wireless Internet is a very challenging task. Multimedia delivery inherently has strict quality of service (QoS) requirement on bandwidth, delay, and delay jitter. However,...
Fast panoramic face mosaicing and recognition (2005)
Fan Yang, Michel Paindavoine, Hervé Abdi
In this article, we present some development results of a system that performs mosaicing (or mosaicking) of panoramic faces. Our objective is to study the feasibility of panoramic face construction...
3 DialogueView: annotating dialogues in multiple views with abstraction† (2005)
Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Kristy Hollingshead, Susan E. Strayer
This paper describes DialogueView, a tool for annotating dialogues with utterance boundaries, speech repairs, speech act tags, and hierarchical discourse blocks. The tool provides three views of a...
Cross-layer QoS Support for Multimedia Delivery over Wireless Internet (2005)
Qian Zhang, Fan Yang, Wenwu Zhu
Delivering multimedia over wireless Internet is a very challenging task. Multimedia delivery inherently has strict quality of service (QoS) requirement on bandwidth, delay, and delay jitter. However,...
Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, Zhang, Xiaobing, Chen, Lihong, Jiang, Yan, Yan, Yongliang, ...
The Shigella bacteria cause bacillary dysentery, which remains a significant threat to public health. The genus status and species classification appear no longer valid, as compelling evidence...
The road from one hole to the stripe phase (2004)
In this paper, it is shown how a single stripe and a stripe phase grow from individual holes in low doping regime. In an effective low-energy description of the t-J model, {\em i.e.,} the phase...
On the Origin of the Tunneling Asymmetry in the Cuprate Superconductors (2004)
Li, Tao, Yang, Fan, Jiang, Yong-Jin
We argue the coherent part of the spectral weight always contribute symmetrically to the STM spectrum at sufficiently low energy and the tunneling asymmetry is a manifestation of the incoherent part...
Magnetic phases of $t-J$ model on triangular lattice (2004)
Jiang, YongJin, Yang, Fan, Li, Tao
We study the magnetic properties of the $t-J$ model on triangular lattice in light of the recently discovered superconductivity in Na$_{x}$CoO$_{2}$ system. We formulate the problem in the Schwinger...
Fabrication and characterization of a micro electroporation cell chip / (2004)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.
Fabrication and characterization of a micro electroporation cell chip / (2004)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.
Fabrication and characterization of a micro electroporation cell chip / (2004)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004.
Evaluation of "Clean Display" in DialogueView (2004)
Fan Yang, Peter A. Heeman, Susan E. Strayer
Spoken dialogue includes an abundance of speech repairs and abandoned utterances. We built in a special display style to our dialogue annotation tool (DialogueView), which cleans up these phenomena....
Bit allocation for scalable video streaming over mobile wireless internet (2004)
Fan Yang, Qian Zhang, Wenwu Zhu, Ya-qin Zhang
Abstract—With the convergence of wired line Internet and mobile wireless networks as well as tremendous demand on video application in mobile wireless Internet, it’s essential to design an...
Fabrication and characterization of a micro electroporation cell chip (2004)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004
Firm-Specific Variation and Openness in Emerging Markets (2003)
Li, Kan, Morck, Randall K., Yang, Fan, Yeung, Bernard
This paper compares the comovement of individual stock returns across emerging markets. Campbell et al. (2001) and Morck et al. (2000) show that the US in the post war period saw rising firm specific...
Control in task-oriented dialogues (2003)
Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang, Susan E. Strayer
In this paper, we explore the mechanisms by which conversants control the direction of a dialogue. We find further evidence that control in task-oriented dialogues is subordinate to discourse...
Acoustically Verifying Speech Repair Annotations (2003)
Identifying speech repairs is a critical part of annotating spontaneous speech. DialogueView is an annotation tool that provides visual and audio supports for directly annotating speech repairs. In...
Control in Task-Oriented Dialogues (2003)
Peter A. Heeman, Fan Yang, Susan E. Strayer
In this paper, we explore the mechanisms by which conversants control the direction of a dialogue. We find further evidence that control in task-oriented dialogues is subordinate to discourse...
Jiang, Guanchao, Yang, Fan, Vedanarayanan, Vettaikorumakankav, Van Der Maarel, Silvere, Ehrlich, Melanie
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a unique dominant disorder involving shortening of an array of tandem 3.3-kb repeats. This copy-number polymorphic repeat, D4Z4, is present in arrays...
Jiang, Guanchao, Yang, Fan, Vedanarayanan, Vettaikorumakankav, Van Der Maarel, Silvere, Ehrlich, Melanie
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a unique dominant disorder involving shortening of an array of tandem 3.3 kb repeats. This copy-number polymorphic repeat, D4Z4, is present in...
Jiang, Guanchao, Yang, Fan, Vedanarayanan, Vettaikorumakankav, Van Der Maarel, Silvere, Ehrlich, Melanie
Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) is a unique dominant disorder involving shortening of an array of tandem 3.3-kb repeats. This copy-number polymorphic repeat, D4Z4, is present in arrays...
Marshall, Kriste E, Godden, Elizabeth L, Yang, Fan, Burgers, Sonya, Buck, Kari J, Sikela, James M
Abstract Background The identification of genes underlying complex traits has been aided by quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping approaches, which in turn have benefited from advances in mammalian...
Bi-Level Formulation for Optimal Traffic Information Dissemination (2002)
Yang, Fan, Liu, Henry X., Ban, Xuegang, Ran, Bin
With the fast-growing telematics market and maturing traffic information services, the pervasive use of telematics devices provides a feasible means of more efficiently managing traffic. Providing...
Experimental Study on the Sensitivity Analysis for Dynamic Traffic Assignment (2002)
Ban, Xuegang, Liu, Henry X., Yang, Fan, Ran, Bin
Dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) has received much attention over the last several decades. A variety of methodologies and techniques have been developed and deployed into modeling and solution...
Vision-based target tracking and navigation system for autonomous underwater vehicles / (2002)
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2002.
An open framework for smart and personalized distance learning (2002)
Ruimin Shen, Peng Han, Fan Yang, Qiang Yang, Joshua Zhexue Huang
Abstract. Web based learning enables more students to have access to the distance-learning environment and provides students and teachers with unprecedented flexibility and convenience. However, the...
ACT: a graphical dialogue annotation comparison tool (2002)
Fan Yang, Susan E. Strayer, Peter A. Heeman
Although there are a number of tools for annotating dialogue, little work has been done in visualizing differences among annotations. Visualization of differences in annotation should help in doing...
trait loci using strain-specific genome (2002)
Kriste E Marshall, Elizabeth L Godden, Fan Yang, Sonya Burgers, Kari J Buck, James M Sikela
In silico discovery of gene-coding variants in murine quantitative
Jin, Qi, Yuan, Zhenghong, Xu, Jianguo, Wang, Yu, Shen, Yan, Lu, Weichuan, ...
We have sequenced the genome of Shigella flexneri serotype 2a, the most prevalent species and serotype that causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis in man. The whole genome is composed of a...
MALASNE, Nicolas, YANG, Fan, PAINDAVOINE, Michel, GINHAC, Dominique
Nous présentons dans cet article un système de localisation et de reconnaissance de visages sur un FPGA. Dans un premier temps, nous discutons notre choix algorithmique. Ensuite, nous décrivons...
Functional analysis of the Moloney Murine leukemia virus integrase / (2001)
"Graduate Program in Biochemistry."
Xiaojun Shen, Associate Member, Fan Yang, Yi Pan, Senior Member
Abstract—Because signals carried by two waveguides entering a common switch element would generate crosstalk, a regular multistage interconnection network (MIN) cannot be directly used as an...
to the source. The Mysterious Growing Value of S&P 500 Membership (2001)
Randall Morck, Fan Yang, All Morck, Fan Yang, Randall Morck, Fan Yang
We are grateful for comments, suggestions and other help by Stephane Chretien, Andras Marosi, Andrei Shleifer, Harry White, and Jeff Wurgler, as well as to participants in the University of Alberta...
TIGRFAMs: a protein family resource for the functional identification of proteins (2001)
Haft, Daniel H., Loftus, Brendan J., Richardson, Delwood L., Yang, Fan, Eisen, Jonathan A., Paulsen, Ian T., ...
TIGRFAMs is a collection of protein families featuring curated multiple sequence alignments, hidden Markov models and associated information designed to support the automated functional...
Reprogrammable Recognition Codes in Bicoid Homeodomain-DNA Interaction (2000)
Vrushank Dave, Chen Zhao, Fan Yang, Chang-shung Tung, Jun Ma
We describe experiments to determine how the homeodomain of the Drosophila morphogenetic protein Bicoid recognizes different types of DNA sequences found in natural enhancers. Our chemical footprint...
(In Press, 2000, Optical Engineering) In order to improve the performance of a linear auto-associator (which is a neural network model), we explore the use of several pre-processing techniques. The...
Includes abstract.
YANG, Fan, PAINDAVOINE, Michel, ABDI, Hervé
Cette étude a été menée dans le cadre de l'élaboration d'un réseau de neurones multi-couches utilisé pour l'identification automatique de visages humains. Nous avons porté l'algorithme...
Pinning of slidding collective charge state in a 1D attractive fermion system (1998)
Chen, Shu, Wang, Yupeng, Yang, Fan, Pu, Fu-Cho
We investigate an interacting fermion model with boundary potential by using Bethe ansatz method. The ground state properties of the system and the boundary effect are discussed. It is found that...
Electron transfer cofactors in Photosystem I (PS I) of cyanobacteria and the reaction center of green sulfur bacteria have been studied by a combination of biochemical and biophysical techniques. The...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 1998.
Parallélisation et implantation d'un algorithme de reconnaissance de mots chinois (1997)
FAN YANG, PAINDAVOINE, Michel, ABDI, Hervé
Nous présentons une parallélisation et une implantation d'un algorithme de reconnaissance de mots chinois ; cet algorithme est basé sur une approche neuronale utilisant une mémoire...
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Minnesota, 1997.
The molecular structure of green fluorescent protein (1997)
The crystal structure of recombinant wild-type green fluorescent protein (GFP) has been solved to a resolution of 1.9 A by multiwavelength anomalous dispersion phasing methods using selenomethionyl...
Worked on speech synthesis using FESTIVAL (1997)
Fan Yang, Advisor Prof, Peter A. Heeman, Advisor Prof, Ruqian Lu, Nextit Corp, ...
R&D on dialogue systems and multi-lingual question answering
Ph.D.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1993.
Photocopy of typescript.
Lubkowski, Jacek, Yang, Fan, Alexandratos, Jerry, Wlodawer, Alexander, Zhao, He, Burke, Terrence R., ...
The x-ray structures of an inhibitor complex of the catalytic core domain of avian sarcoma virus integrase (ASV IN) were solved at 1.9- to 2.0-Å resolution at two pH values, with and without Mn2+...
Specific atomic groups and RNA helix geometry in acceptor stem recognition by a tRNA synthetase
Beuning, Penny J., Yang, Fan, Schimmel, Paul, Musier-Forsyth, Karin
Oligonucleotides that recapitulate the acceptor stems of tRNAs are substrates for aminoacylation by many tRNA synthetases in vitro, even though these substrates are missing the anticodon...
TIGRFAMs: a protein family resource for the functional identification of proteins
Haft, Daniel H., Loftus, Brendan J., Richardson, Delwood L., Yang, Fan, Eisen, Jonathan A., Paulsen, Ian T., ...
TIGRFAMs is a collection of protein families featuring curated multiple sequence alignments, hidden Markov models and associated information designed to support the automated functional...
Reprogrammable Recognition Codes in Bicoid Homeodomain-DNA Interaction
Dave, Vrushank, Zhao, Chen, Yang, Fan, Tung, Chang-Shung, Ma, Jun
We describe experiments to determine how the homeodomain of the Drosophila morphogenetic protein Bicoid recognizes different types of DNA sequences found in natural enhancers. Our chemical footprint...
Zhao, Chen, Dave, Vrushank, Yang, Fan, Scarborough, Tom, Ma, Jun
We describe experiments to compare the activities of two Drosophila homeodomain proteins, Bicoid (Bcd) and an altered-specificity mutant of Fushi tarazu, Ftz(Q50K). Although the homeodomains of these...
Yang, Fan, Leon, Oscar, Greenfield, Norma J., Roth, Monica J.
The retroviral integrase (IN) is required for the integration of viral DNA into the host genome. The N terminus of IN contains an HHCC zinc finger-like motif, which is conserved among all...
Retroviral integration results in the stable and coordinated insertion of the two termini of the linear viral DNA into the host genome. An in vitro concerted two-end integration reaction catalyzed by...
Eisen, Jonathan A., Nelson, Karen E., Paulsen, Ian T., Heidelberg, John F., Wu, Martin, Dodson, Robert J., ...
The complete genome of the green-sulfur eubacterium Chlorobium tepidum TLS was determined to be a single circular chromosome of 2,154,946 bp. This represents the first genome sequence from the phylum...
Jin, Qi, Yuan, Zhenghong, Xu, Jianguo, Wang, Yu, Shen, Yan, Lu, Weichuan, ...
We have sequenced the genome of Shigella flexneri serotype 2a, the most prevalent species and serotype that causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis in man. The whole genome is composed of a...
Marshall, Kriste E, Godden, Elizabeth L, Yang, Fan, Burgers, Sonya, Buck, Kari J, Sikela, James M
The identification of genes underlying complex traits has been aided by quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping approaches, which in turn have benefited from advances in mammalian genome research....
Liu, Dongfang, Xu, Liang, Yang, Fan, Li, Dongdong, Gong, Feili, Xu, Tao
Natural killer (NK) cells play important roles in defense against tumor, viral infection, and cell-mediated xenograft rejection through secretion of secretory lysosomes. In this study, we used high...
Effect of Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Levels of Urinary Hormone Markers
Chen, Changzhong, Wang, Xiaobin, Wang, Lihua, Yang, Fan, Tang, Genfu, Xing, Houxun, ...
Our recent study showed a dose–response relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the risk of early pregnancy loss. Smoking is known to affect female reproductive hormones. We...
Genome dynamics and diversity of Shigella species, the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery
Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, Zhang, Xiaobing, Chen, Lihong, Jiang, Yan, Yan, Yongliang, ...
The Shigella bacteria cause bacillary dysentery, which remains a significant threat to public health. The genus status and species classification appear no longer valid, as compelling evidence...
Ehrlich, Melanie, Woods, Christian B., Yu, Mimi C., Dubeau, Louis, Yang, Fan, Campan, Mihaela, ...
How hypermethylation and hypomethylation of different parts of the genome in cancer are related to each other and to DNA methyltransferase (DNMT) gene expression is ill defined. We used ovarian...
Yang, Yu, Xiong, Zeyu, Zhang, Sheng, Yan, Yan, Nguyen, Justin, Ng, Bernard, ...
One of the hallmark findings in patients suffering from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) is lymphopenia, which is the result of massive lymphocyte death. SARS-CoV (SARS coronavirus), a novel...
Complete genome sequence of Shigella flexneri 5b and comparison with Shigella flexneri 2a
Nie, Huan, Yang, Fan, Zhang, Xiaobing, Yang, Jian, Chen, Lihong, Wang, Jing, ...
Lubkowski, Jacek, Yang, Fan, Alexandratos, Jerry, Wlodawer, Alexander, Zhao, He, Burke, Terrence R., ...
The x-ray structures of an inhibitor complex of the catalytic core domain of avian sarcoma virus integrase (ASV IN) were solved at 1.9- to 2.0-Å resolution at two pH values, with and without Mn2+...
Specific atomic groups and RNA helix geometry in acceptor stem recognition by a tRNA synthetase
Beuning, Penny J., Yang, Fan, Schimmel, Paul, Musier-Forsyth, Karin
Oligonucleotides that recapitulate the acceptor stems of tRNAs are substrates for aminoacylation by many tRNA synthetases in vitro, even though these substrates are missing the anticodon...
TIGRFAMs: a protein family resource for the functional identification of proteins
Haft, Daniel H., Loftus, Brendan J., Richardson, Delwood L., Yang, Fan, Eisen, Jonathan A., Paulsen, Ian T., ...
TIGRFAMs is a collection of protein families featuring curated multiple sequence alignments, hidden Markov models and associated information designed to support the automated functional...
Reprogrammable Recognition Codes in Bicoid Homeodomain-DNA Interaction
Dave, Vrushank, Zhao, Chen, Yang, Fan, Tung, Chang-Shung, Ma, Jun
We describe experiments to determine how the homeodomain of the Drosophila morphogenetic protein Bicoid recognizes different types of DNA sequences found in natural enhancers. Our chemical footprint...
Zhao, Chen, Dave, Vrushank, Yang, Fan, Scarborough, Tom, Ma, Jun
We describe experiments to compare the activities of two Drosophila homeodomain proteins, Bicoid (Bcd) and an altered-specificity mutant of Fushi tarazu, Ftz(Q50K). Although the homeodomains of these...
Yang, Fan, Leon, Oscar, Greenfield, Norma J., Roth, Monica J.
The retroviral integrase (IN) is required for the integration of viral DNA into the host genome. The N terminus of IN contains an HHCC zinc finger-like motif, which is conserved among all...
Retroviral integration results in the stable and coordinated insertion of the two termini of the linear viral DNA into the host genome. An in vitro concerted two-end integration reaction catalyzed by...
Eisen, Jonathan A., Nelson, Karen E., Paulsen, Ian T., Heidelberg, John F., Wu, Martin, Dodson, Robert J., ...
The complete genome of the green-sulfur eubacterium Chlorobium tepidum TLS was determined to be a single circular chromosome of 2,154,946 bp. This represents the first genome sequence from the phylum...
Jin, Qi, Yuan, Zhenghong, Xu, Jianguo, Wang, Yu, Shen, Yan, Lu, Weichuan, ...
We have sequenced the genome of Shigella flexneri serotype 2a, the most prevalent species and serotype that causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis in man. The whole genome is composed of a...
Marshall, Kriste E, Godden, Elizabeth L, Yang, Fan, Burgers, Sonya, Buck, Kari J, Sikela, James M
The identification of genes underlying complex traits has been aided by quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping approaches, which in turn have benefited from advances in mammalian genome research....
Liu, Dongfang, Xu, Liang, Yang, Fan, Li, Dongdong, Gong, Feili, Xu, Tao
Natural killer (NK) cells play important roles in defense against tumor, viral infection, and cell-mediated xenograft rejection through secretion of secretory lysosomes. In this study, we used high...
Effect of Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Levels of Urinary Hormone Markers
Chen, Changzhong, Wang, Xiaobin, Wang, Lihua, Yang, Fan, Tang, Genfu, Xing, Houxun, ...
Our recent study showed a dose–response relationship between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and the risk of early pregnancy loss. Smoking is known to affect female reproductive hormones. We...
Genome dynamics and diversity of Shigella species, the etiologic agents of bacillary dysentery
Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, Zhang, Xiaobing, Chen, Lihong, Jiang, Yan, Yan, Yongliang, ...
The Shigella bacteria cause bacillary dysentery, which remains a significant threat to public health. The genus status and species classification appear no longer valid, as compelling evidence...
Yang, Yu, Xiong, Zeyu, Zhang, Sheng, Yan, Yan, Nguyen, Justin, Ng, Bernard, ...
One of the hallmark findings in patients suffering from SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) is lymphopenia, which is the result of massive lymphocyte death. SARS-CoV (SARS coronavirus), a novel...
Complete genome sequence of Shigella flexneri 5b and comparison with Shigella flexneri 2a
Nie, Huan, Yang, Fan, Zhang, Xiaobing, Yang, Jian, Chen, Lihong, Wang, Jing, ...
Manga, Prashiela, Sheyn, David, Yang, Fan, Sarangarajan, Rangaprasad, Boissy, Raymond E.
Vitiligo presents with depigmented cutaneous lesions following localized melanocyte death. Multiple factors contribute to cell death, including genetically determined susceptibility to trauma, and...
Lipid defect underlies selective skin barrier impairment of an epidermal-specific deletion of Gata-3
De Guzman Strong, Cristina, Wertz, Philip W., Wang, Chenwei, Yang, Fan, Meltzer, Paul S., Andl, Thomas, ...
Skin lies at the interface between the complex physiology of the body and the external environment. This essential epidermal barrier, composed of cornified proteins encased in lipids, prevents both...
Zhang, Chao, Yang, Fan, Zhang, Xiong-Wen, Wang, Shun-Chun, Li, Mei-Hong, Lin, Li-Ping, ...
The antiangiogenic and antitumor properties of Grateloupia longifolia polysaccharide (GLP), a new type of polysaccharide isolated from the marine alga, were investigated with several in vitro and in...
Cheng, Wei, Yang, Fan, Takanishi, Christina L., Zheng, Jie
Heat-sensitive transient receptor potential (TRP) channels (TRPV1–4) form the major cellular sensors for detecting temperature increases. Homomeric channels formed by thermosensitive TRPV subunits...
Firm-Specific Variation and Openness in Emerging Markets
Kan Li, Randall Morck, Fan Yang, Bernard Yeung
This paper compares the comovement of individual stock returns across emerging markets. Campbell et al. (2001) and Morck et al. (2000) show that the US in the post war period saw rising firm specific...
Firm-Specific Variation and Openness in Emerging Markets
Kan Li, Randall Morck, Fan Yang, Bernard Yeung
This paper compares the comovement of individual stock returns across emerging markets. Campbell et al. and Morck et al. have shown that the United States saw rising firm-specific stock return...
The Mysterious Growing Value of S&P 500 Membership
The efficient markets hypothesis implies that passive indexing should generate as high a return as active fund management. Indexing has been a very successful strategy. We document a large value...
Homocysteine inhibits endothelial cell growth via DNA hypomethylation of the cyclin Agene
Jamaluddin, Md S., Chen, Irene, Yang, Fan, Jiang, Xiaohua, Jan, Michael, Liu, Xiaoming, ...
We reported previously that homocysteine (Hcy) inhibits endothelial cell (EC) growth by transcriptional inhibition of the cyclin A gene via a hypomethylation-related mechanism. In this study, we...
Yan, Yongliang, Yang, Jian, Dou, Yuetan, Chen, Ming, Ping, Shuzhen, Peng, Junping, ...
The capacity to fix nitrogen is widely distributed in phyla of Bacteria and Archaea but has long been considered to be absent from the Pseudomonas genus. We report here the complete genome sequencing...
Day-to-day stationary link flow pattern
Day-to-day traffic dynamics aim at modeling driver's day-to-day learning and behavior adjustment process and providing insight on how the traffic flow pattern evolves over time. A number of...
Using random forest for reliable classification and cost-sensitive learning for medical diagnosis
Yang, Fan, Wang, Hua-zhen, Mi, Hong, Lin, Cheng-de, Cai, Wei-wen
Jiang, Chen Chen, Yang, Fan, Thorne, Rick F, Zhu, Bi Ke, Hersey, Peter, Zhang, Xu Dong
Past studies have shown that melanoma cells have largely adapted to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. In this study, we report that melanoma cells under ER stress are more resistant to apoptosis...
Neogenin-mediated Hemojuvelin Shedding Occurs after Hemojuvelin Traffics to the Plasma Membrane*
Zhang, An-Sheng, Yang, Fan, Meyer, Kathrin, Hernandez, Catalina, Chapman-Arvedson, Tara, Bjorkman, Pamela J., ...
HFE2 (hemochromatosis type 2 gene) is highly expressed in skeletal muscle and liver hepatocytes. Its encoded protein, hemojuvelin (HJV), is a co-receptor for the bone morphogenetic proteins 2 and 4...
Complete Genome Sequence of Haemophilus parasuis SH0165▿
Yue, Min, Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, Bei, Weicheng, Cai, Xuwang, Chen, Lihong, ...
Haemophilus parasuis is the causative agent of Glässer's disease, which produces big losses in swine populations worldwide. H. parasuis SH0165, belonging to the dominant serovar 5 in China, is a...
Xiong, Zhaohui, Jiang, Yan, Qi, Danhua, Lu, Huaibao, Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, ...
Bacillus cereus strain Q1 was isolated from a deep-subsurface oil reservoir in the Daqing oil field in northeastern China. This strain is able to produce biosurfactants and to survive in extreme...
Jiang, Chen Chen, Wroblewski, David, Yang, Fan, Hersey, Peter, Zhang, Xu Dong
Past studies have shown that melanoma cells have largely adapted to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, and this is associated with up-regulation of the antiapoptotic proteins Bcl-2 and Mcl-1. In this...