An Architecture for Supporting Network Fault Recovery Management (2009)
Feng Liu, Antonis M. Hadjiantonis, Ha Manh Tran, Mina Amin
Abstract. Highly available and resilient networks play a decisive role in today’s networked world. As network faults are inevitable and networks are becoming constantly intricate, finding effective...
Efficient Schemes for Monte Carlo Markov Chain Algorithms in Global Illumination (2009)
Yu-chi Lai, Feng Liu, Li Zhang, Charles Dyer
Abstract. Current MCMC algorithms are limited from achieving high rendering efficiency due to possibly high failure rates in caustics perturbations and stratified exploration of the image plane. In...
Germanium-catalyzed hierarchical Al2O3 and SiO2 nanowire bunch arrays (2009)
Gu, Zhanjun, Liu, Feng, Howe, Jane Y., Paranthaman, M. Parans, Zhengwei, Pan
Germanium (Ge), a Group IV semiconductor, was recently used as an effective catalyst to grow individual, single-crystalline ZnO nanowires through a vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) process [Pan et al.,...
SP1 enhances Zbtb7A gene expression via direct binding to GC box in HePG2 cells (2009)
Zu, Xuyu, Yu, Lingling, Sun, Qinsheng, Liu, Feng, Wang, Jue, Xie, Zhenhua, ...
Abstract Background Zbtb7A is a proto-oncogenic transcriptional regulator that plays an important role in adipogenesis, osteogenesis and oncogenesis, but little is known about the regulation of...
Intentionally and Unintentionally. On Both, A and Non-A, in Neutrosophy (2009)
Feng Liu, Florentin Smarandache
Abstract: The paper presents a fresh new start on the neutrality of neutrosophy in that “both A and Non-A ” as an alternative to describe Neuter-A in that we conceptualize things in both...
Effect of next-nearest neighbor coupling on the optical spectra in bilayer graphene (2009)
Wright, A. R., Liu, Feng, Zhang, C.
We investigate the dependence of the optical conductivity of bilayer graphene (BLG) on the intra- and inter-layer interactions using the most complete model to date. We show that the next...
XM-flow: An Extensible Micro-flow for Multimodal Interaction (2009)
Abstract—This paper presents a synchronization module in multimodal dialogue system architecture based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern for human-computer interaction. The MVC pattern is...
Liu, Feng, Husson, Steven J, Gaede, Gerd, ...
In mammals, hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a neuropeptide that stimulates the release of gonadotropins from the anterior pituitary. The existence of a putative functional...
A Self-Supervised Learning Framework for Classifying Microarray Gene Expression Data (2008)
Yijuan Lu, Qi Tian, Feng Liu, Maribel Sanchez, Yufeng Wang
Abstract. It is important to develop computational methods that can effectively resolve two intrinsic problems in microarray data: high dimensionality and small sample size. In this paper, we propose...
Coherent transport on Apollonian networks and continuous-time quantum walks (2008)
Xu, Xinping, Li, Wei, Liu, Feng
We study the coherent exciton transport on Apollonian networks generated by simple iterative rules. The coherent exciton dynamics is modeled by continuous-time quantum walks and we calculate the...
Charmless Three-body $B$ Decays at BABAR (2008)
We present Dalitz-plot analyses of $B^+\to K^+\pi^-\pi^+$ and $B^0\to K^+\pi^-\pi^0$ using the data sample collected at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ by the BABAR detector. We have found evidence for direct...
Overview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition (2008)
Smith, Larry, Tanabe, Lorraine K, Ando, Rie, Kuo, Cheng-Ju, Chung, I-Fang, Hsu, Chun-Nan, ...
Abstract Nineteen teams presented results for the Gene Mention Task at the BioCreative II Workshop. In this task participants designed systems to identify substrings in sentences corresponding to...
1 Parallel Implementations of Local Sequence Alignment: Hardware and Software (2008)
Vipin Chaudhary, Feng Liu, Vijay Matta, Laurence T. Yang, Ganesh Yadav, ...
With the progress in computer science and raw computational power available today, human quest to learn and understand the complex relationships within the subsets of biology, e.g., biological...
Liu, Feng, Chen, Ping, Cui, Shu-Jian, Wang, Zhi-Qin, Han, Ze-Guang
Abstract Background Schistosoma japonicum is one of the three major blood fluke species, the etiological agents of schistosomiasis which remains a serious public health problem with an estimated 200...
Lv, Sa, Wang, Jiang-hua, Liu, Feng, Gao, Yan, Fei, Ran, Du, Shao-cai, ...
Abstract Background Our previous proteomic study showed that the senescence marker protein (SMP30) is selectively present in the plasma of a murine model of acute liver failure (ALF). The aim of this...
ABSTRACT Video Retargeting: Automating Pan and Scan (2008)
When a video is displayed on a smaller display than originally intended, some of the information in the video is necessarily lost. In this paper, we introduce Video Retargeting that adapts video to...
Application of Distributed Interactive Simulation in Army Combat Simulation (2008)
Yuan Song, Gaogui Lian, Wei Lu, Feng Liu
Abstract: This paper briefs the architecture, characteristics, key technology of distributed interactive simulation, and the research and application of distributed interactive simulation in US armed...
Phase space patterns of quantum transport on ordered and disordered networks (2008)
In this paper, we consider the quantum-mechanical phase space patterns on ordered and disordered networks. For ordered networks in which each node is connected to its 2m nearest neighbors (m on...
Continuous-time quantum walks on one-dimension regular networks (2008)
In this paper, we consider continuous-time quantum walks (CTQWs) on one-dimension ring lattice of N nodes in which every node is connected to its 2m nearest neighbors (m on either side). In the...
Clinical analysis of surgical treatment results in 13 patients with primary trachea tumor (2008)
Feng SHAO, Dongsheng XU, Wei ZOU, Rusong YANG, Keping WANG, Feng LIU, ...
Xiaohua HU, Feng LIU, Bin JIANG, Yajie WANG
Background and objective S-phase kinase-associated protein 2 (Skp2) is one of the positive regulators of the cell cycle that promote Ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis of the cyclin-dependent kinase...
Assessment of a PML Boundary Condition for Simulating an MRI Radio Frequency Coil (2008)
Yunsuo Duan, Tamer S. Ibrahim, Bradley S. Peterson, Feng Liu, Alayar Kangarlu
Computational methods such as the finite difference time domain (FDTD) play an important role in simulating radiofrequency (RF) coils used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The choice of absorbing...
Conformational Mobility of GOx Coenzyme Complex on Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes (2008)
Feng Liu, Xue-song Ye, Tao Wu, Chang-Tao Wang, Jia-wei Shen, Yu Kang
A critical issue in bioelectrochemical applications that use electrodes modified by Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes (SWCNTs) is to ensure high activity of the catalytic site of an immobilized enzyme...
Antifungal Activities and Components of VOCs Produced by Bacillus subtilis G8 (2008)
Weiwei Liu, Wei Mu, Bingyu Zhu, Feng Liu
Bacillus subtilis G8, isolated from soil in China, produced antifungal volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Bioassay in sealed dishes revealed that these volatiles significantly inhibited the mycelial...
The pharmacogenetics and pharmacogenomics knowledge base: accentuating the knowledge (2008)
Hernandez-Boussard, Tina, Whirl-Carrillo, Michelle, Hebert, Joan M., Gong, Li, Owen, Ryan, Gong, Mei, ...
PharmGKB is a knowledge base that captures the relationships between drugs, diseases/phenotypes and genes involved in pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD). This information includes...
Hua Wang, Adnan Trakic, Feng Liu, Bing Keong Li, Ewald Weber, Stuart Crozier
With the movement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology towards higher field (and therefore frequency) systems, the interaction of the fields generated by the system with patients,...
Assessment of a PML Boundary Condition for Simulating an MRI Radio Frequency Coil (2008)
Yunsuo Duan, Tamer S. Ibrahim, Bradley S. Peterson, Feng Liu, Alayar Kangarlu
Computational methods such as the finite difference time domain (FDTD) play an important role in simulating radiofrequency (RF) coils used in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The choice of absorbing...
Turbulent Transition Simulation by Using a Two-Equation Model (2007)
Xiaoqing Zheng, Chaoqun Liu, Feng Liu
This paper describes a novel approach in simulating laminar to turbulent transition by using two-equation models. The Total Stresses Limitation(TSL) concept is used to make the two-equation model...
Jixian Yao, Shanhong Ji, Feng Liu, Ian K. Jennions
This paper extends a third-order accurate ENO scheme with implicit LU-SGS time-stepping to calculate flow in a multiple blade row environment. The flow is considered steady relative to each blade row...
In this paper, an information theoretic approach for using word clusters in natural language call routing (NLCR) is proposed. This approach utilizes an automatic word class clustering algorithm to...
A DISTRIBUTED MULTIMODAL DIALOGUE SYSTEM BASED ON DIALOGUE SYSTEM AND WEB CONVERGENCE (2007)
Feng Liu, Antoine Saad, Li Li, Wu Chou
In this paper, we describe a distributed multimodal dialogue system architecture based on the concept of hybrid-VoiceXML. It utilizes a special hybrid-construct to integrate multiple multimedia,...
Intr aday Pr edictability of Market Micr ostr uctur e Statistics and Technical Trading Rules (2007)
Lawrence Kryzanowski, Feng Liu
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Making a field effect transistor on a single graphene nanoribbon by selective doping (2007)
Huang, Bing, Yan, Qimin, Zhou, Gang, Wu, Jian, Liu, Feng, Gu, Bing-Lin, ...
Using first-principle electronic structure calculations, we show a metal- semiconductor transition of a metallic graphene nanoribbon with zigzag edges induced by substitutional doping of Nitrogen or...
We investigate the bending of nanometer thick Si cantilevers induced by chemisorption of H atoms and acetylene molecules, using atomistic simulations and continuum theories. We show that the bending...
Joint MMSE Vector Precoding Based on GMD Method for MIMO Systems (2007)
LIU, Feng, JIANG, Ling-ge, HE, Chen
We propose a geometric mean decomposition (GMD) based vector precoding (VP) for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. Minimum mean square error (MMSE) criterion is used for the joint VP...
Suppression of spin-polarization in graphene nanoribbon by edge defect and impurity (2007)
Huang, Bing, Liu, Feng, Wu, Jian, Gu, Bing-Lin, Duan, Wenhui
We investigate the effect of edge defects (vacancies) and impurities (substitutional dopants) on the robustness of spin-polarization in graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with zigzag edges, using...
Lattice-Reduction-Aided MMSE Tomlinson-Harashima Precoding for MIMO Systems (2007)
LIU, Feng, JIANG, Ling-ge, HE, Chen
In this letter, a lattice-reduction-aided (LRA) minimum mean square error (MMSE) Tomlinson-Harashima precoding (THP) is proposed for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems. The extended...
Tumor cell adhesion to endothelium is an essential and crucial step for metastasis. Instead of a negative barrier between the blood flow and the vascular, vascular endothelium is a dynamic metabolic...
Weiming Wang, Feng Liu, Nan Chen
Background. Studies have shown that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) agonists could ameliorate renal fibrotic lesions in both diabetic nephropathy and nondiabetic...
Tumor cell adhesion to endothelium is an essential and crucial step for metastasis. Instead of a negative barrier between the blood flow and the vascular, vascular endothelium is a dynamic metabolic...
14:30-15:00 I1-2 First-principles methods applicable to the excited states of materials (2007)
Session Nano-devices, Spintronics I, G. P. Das, K. Sato, H. Katayama-yoshida, Seung-cheol Lee, ...
11:00-11:15 O2-1 First-principles simulation of magnetoresistance of magnetic tunnel junctions
Modelling regulatory compliance of occupationally exposed MRI workers during gradient pulsing (2007)
Modelling regulatory compliance of occupationally exposed MRI workers during gradient pulsing (2007)
FDTD Investigations into UWB Radar Technique of Breast Tumor Detection and Location (2007)
WANG, Hua, BIALKOWSKI, Marek E, LIU, Feng, CROZIER, Stuart
In this paper, a finite difference time domain (FDTD) method is applied to investigate capabilities of an ultrawide band (UWB) radar system to detect and locate a breast tumor. The first part of...
Weiming Wang, Feng Liu, Nan Chen
Background. Studies have shown that peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ (PPAR-γ) agonists could ameliorate renal fibrotic lesions in both diabetic nephropathy and nondiabetic chronic...
Feng Liu, Jiong Lu, Wei Hu, Sheng-Yue Wang, Shu-Jian Cui, Ming Chi, ...
Schistosomiasis remains a serious public health problem with an estimated 200 million people infected in 76 countries. Here we isolated ~ 8,400 potential protein-encoding cDNA contigs from...
In silico identification of new secretory peptide genes in Drosophila melanogaster (2006)
LIU, Feng, Baggerman, G., D'Hertog, W., Verleyen, P., Schoofs, L., WETS, Geert
Bioactive peptides play critical roles in regulating most biological processes in animals. The elucidation of the amino acid sequence of these regulatory peptides is crucial for our understanding of...
Uncovering conserved patterns in bioactive peptides in Metazoa (2006)
LIU, Feng, Baggerman, G., Schoofs, L., WETS, Geert
Bioactive (neuro)peptides play critical roles in regulating most biological processes in animals. Peptides belonging to the same family are characterized by a typical sequence pattern that is...
Wei, Qing, Liu, Feng, Appleton, Ben, Xia, Ling, Liu, Nianjun, Wilson, Stephen, ...
This paper describes an electrical model of cardiac ventricles incorporating real geometry and motion. The heart anatomy and its motion through the cardiac cycle are obtained from segmentations of...
Xia, Ling, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Henggui, Wei, Qing, Liu, Feng, Crozier, Stuart
Brugada syndrome (BS) is a genetic disease identified by an abnormal electrocardiogram ( ECG) ( mainly abnormal ECGs associated with right bundle branch block and ST-elevation in right precordial...
Wei, Qing, Liu, Feng, Appleton, Ben, Xia, Ling, Liu, Nianjun, Wilson, Stephen, ...
This paper describes an electrical model of cardiac ventricles incorporating real geometry and motion. The heart anatomy and its motion through the cardiac cycle are obtained from segmentations of...
Xia, Ling, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Henggui, Wei, Qing, Liu, Feng, Crozier, Stuart
Brugada syndrome (BS) is a genetic disease identified by an abnormal electrocardiogram ( ECG) ( mainly abnormal ECGs associated with right bundle branch block and ST-elevation in right precordial...
Subspace-Based Blind Detection of Space-Time Coding (2006)
GONG, Zhengwei, ZHANG, Taiyi, LIU, Haiyuan, LIU, Feng
Space-time coding (STC) schemes for communication systems employing multiple transmit and receive antennas have received considerable interest recently. On space-time coding, some algorithms with...
Wideband Signal DOA Estimation Based on Modified Quantum Genetic Algorithm (2006)
LIU, Feng, LI, Shaoqian, LIANG, Min, HU, Laizhao
A new wideband signal DOA estimation algorithm based on modified quantum genetic algorithm (MQGA) is proposed in the presence of the errors and the mutual coupling between array elements. In the...
Constant Modulus Based Blind Channel Estimation for OFDM Systems (2006)
CHEN, Zhigang, ZHANG, Taiyi, ZHOU, Yatong, LIU, Feng
A novel blind channel estimation scheme is proposed for OFDM systems employing PSK modulation. This scheme minimizes the number of possible channels by exploiting the constant modulus property,...
Xia, Ling, Huo, Meimei M., Wei, Qing, Liu, Feng, Crozier, Stuart
This paper describes a biventricular model, which couples the electrical and mechanical properties of the heart, and computer simulations of ventricular wall motion and deformation by means of a...
11T MRI and numerical analysis of the excised, fixed human head (2005)
Feng Liu, BARBARA L. BECK, Bin Xu, JEFFREY R. FITZSIMMONS, STEPHEN J. BLACKBAND, STUART CROZIER, ...
Xia, Ling, Huo, Meimei M., Wei, Qing, Liu, Feng, Crozier, Stuart
This paper describes a biventricular model, which couples the electrical and mechanical properties of the heart, and computer simulations of ventricular wall motion and deformation by means of a...
Weighted Kernel Functions for SVM Learning in String Domains: A Distance Function Viewpoint (2005)
Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Feng Liu, Bernard Manderick
This paper extends the idea of weighted distance functions to kernels and support vector machines. Here, we focus on applications that rely on sliding a window over a sequence of string data. For...
APPLICATIONS IN BIOINFORMATICS VISUALIZATION (2005)
Feng Liu, Under Direction, Scott Owen, Feng Liu
Since the introduction of programmable Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and procedural shaders, hardware vendors have each developed their own individual real-time shading language standard. None of...
Excited state electron transfer to nanocrystalline semiconductor thin films [microform] / (2005)
Vita.
A Wavelets Network Interpolation Algorithm for OFDM Channel Estimation Systems (2005)
LIU, Haiyuan, ZHANG, Taiyi, ZHANG, Ruiping, LIU, Feng
For the performance deficiency of the pilot symbol aided channel estimation in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems, the wavelets network interpolation channel estimator is...
CHEN, Zhigang, ZHANG, Taiyi, LIU, Feng
A new data-aided carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation technique is presented for correlative coded OFDM systems in the presence of strong multipath. Different from traditional data-aided...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 2004.
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Alberta.
Vapor growth and characterization of single crystal silicon carbide / (2004)
Thesis (M.S.)--Stony Brook University, 2004.
Compensating wage differentials for workplace risk and background risk / (2003)
Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2003.
A high definition, finite difference time domain method (2003)
Zhao, Huawei W., Crozier, Stuart, Liu, Feng
A high definition, finite difference time domain (HD-FDTD) method is presented in this paper. This new method allows the FDTD method to be efficiently applied over a very large frequency range...
A high definition, finite difference time domain method (2003)
Zhao, Huawei W., Crozier, Stuart, Liu, Feng
A high definition, finite difference time domain (HD-FDTD) method is presented in this paper. This new method allows the FDTD method to be efficiently applied over a very large frequency range...
Thesis (M.S.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2003.
Lo, Jane, Lee, Sorcheng, Xu, Min, Liu, Feng, Ruan, Hua, Eun, Alvin, ...
A total of 15,590 unique zebrafish EST clusters from two cDNA libraries have been identified. Most significantly, only 22% (3437) of the 15,590 unique clusters matched 2805 (of 15,200)...
Wang, Hang, Liu, Feng, Millette, Clarke F., Kilpatrick, Daniel L.
Cholesterol biosynthesis in somatic cells is controlled at the transcriptional level by a homeostatic feedback pathway involving sterol regulatory element binding proteins (SREBPs). These basic...
Evaluating advertising creativity : a comparison of practitioners and target readers / (2002)
Thesis (M.A. in Mass Communication)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2002.
Liu, Feng, Crozier, Stuart, Zhao, Huawei, Lawrence, Ben
In modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), patients are exposed to strong, rapidly switching magnetic gradient fields that, in extreme cases, may be able to elicit nerve stimulation. This paper...
Liu, Feng, Crozier, Stuart, Zhao, Huawei, Lawrence, Ben
In modern magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), patients are exposed to strong, rapidly switching magnetic gradient fields that, in extreme cases, may be able to elicit nerve stimulation. This paper...
Turbulence modelling of buoyancy-driven and fire-induced flows. (2000)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--South Bank University, Mar 2000.
Level Set Based Deformation Methods for Adaptive Grids (2000)
Guojun Liao, Feng Liu, Danping Peng, Stanley Osher
Methods for generating adaptive grids are developed in this paper. Included is the static deformation method which generates a final grid by Supported by NSF under Grant DMS-9732742 y Supported by...
Scheduling and coordination of distributed design projects (1999)
A short product design cycle is critical to the success of companies in the era of time-based competition. To cut short design time, project managers tend to start downstream tasks as early as...
Advisor: Chen rong hui.
Scheduling of Design Projects with Uncertain Number of Iterations (1998)
Peter B. Luh, Feng Liu, Bryan Moser
A short product design cycle is critical to the success of companies in the era of timebased competition. The underlying design activities, however, are often interlinked and quite uncertain. For...
Regulation of TATA-box binding protein gene expression in ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII / (1994)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Vermont, 1994.
We have characterized a positive-acting element In the upstream portion of the Acanthamoeba TBP gene promoter. The 27 bp element (TPE), located within the promoter between -97 and -70, stimulates...
Wong, Jie Min, Liu, Feng, Baterman, Erik
We have isolated a genomic clone encoding Acanthamoeba castellanii TFIID. The clone contains the entire TFIID gene, 300 bp of 5′ promoter sequences and several hundred base pairs of 3′ non-coding...
Logic: A Misleading Concept. A Contradiction Study toward Agent's Logic (1986)
Feng Liu, Florentin Smarandache
Abstract: The paper presents a fresh new comprehensive ideology on Neutrosophic Logic based on contradiction study in a broad sense: general critics on conventional logic by examining the essence of...
Lv, Sa, Wang, Jiang-hua, Liu, Feng, Gao, Yan, Fei, Ran, Du, Shao-cai, ...
An experimental survey of the transition between two-state and downhill protein folding scenarios
Liu, Feng, Du, Deguo, Fuller, Amelia A., Davoren, Jennifer E., Wipf, Peter, Kelly, Jeffery W., ...
A kinetic and thermodynamic survey of 35 WW domain sequences is used in combination with a model to discern the energetic requirements for the transition from two-state folding to downhill folding....
Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A Search for Mechanisms in Time Use Data
Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with an increased risk of childhood obesity. This paper explores mechanisms for that correlation. We estimate models of instrumental...
Mechanisms for the Association Between Maternal Employment and Child Cognitive Development
Recent research has found that maternal employment is associated with worse child performance on tests of cognitive ability. This paper explores mechanisms for that correlation. We estimate models of...
Overview of BioCreative II gene mention recognition
Smith, Larry, Tanabe, Lorraine K, Ando, Rie Johnson Nee, Kuo, Cheng-Ju, Chung, I-Fang, Hsu, Chun-Nan, ...
Nineteen teams presented results for the Gene Mention Task at the BioCreative II Workshop. In this task participants designed systems to identify substrings in sentences corresponding to gene name...
Hu, Xuemei, Wang, Zhizhong, Liu, Feng
Varying-coefficient partially linear models, as extensions of partially linear models and varying-coefficient models, are frequently used in statistical modeling. This paper proposes an empirical...
Sun, Lina, Lu, Xiuhua, Li, Chuan, Wang, Min, Liu, Qinzhi, Li, Zi, ...
Ten-Microsecond Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Fast-Folding WW Domain
Freddolino, Peter L., Liu, Feng, Gruebele, Martin, Schulten, Klaus
All-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein folding allow analysis of the folding process at an unprecedented level of detail. Unfortunately, such simulations have not yet reached their...
Dexmethylphenidate hydrochloride in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Liu, Feng, Minami, Haruka, Silva, Raul R
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) affects a large number of children. For decades, the stimulants have been the mainstay of pharmacological treatment for ADHD. Dexmethylphenidate...
A paradox: Insulin inhibits expression and secretion of resistin which induces insulin resistance
Liu, Feng, Fan, Hong-Qi, Qiu, Jie, Wang, Bin, Zhang, Min, Gu, Nan, ...
AIM: To confirm whether insulin regulates resistin expression and secretion during differentiation of 3T3-L1 preadipocytes and the relationship of resistin with insulin resistance both in vivo and in...
A disulfide-bond A oxidoreductase-like protein (DsbA-L) regulates adiponectin multimerization
Liu, Meilian, Zhou, Lijun, Xu, Aimin, Lam, Karen S. L., Wetzel, Michael D., Xiang, Ruihua, ...
Impairments in adiponectin multimerization lead to defects in adiponectin secretion and function and are associated with diabetes, yet the underlying mechanisms remain largely unknown. We have...
Lindemans, Marleen, Liu, Feng, Janssen, Tom, Husson, Steven J., Mertens, Inge, Gäde, Gerd, ...
In mammals, hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a neuropeptide that stimulates the release of gonadotropins from the anterior pituitary. The existence of a putative functional...
Evaluating β-turn mimics as β-sheet folding nucleators
Fuller, Amelia A., Du, Deguo, Liu, Feng, Davoren, Jennifer E., Bhabha, Gira, Kroon, Gerard, ...
β-Turns are common conformations that enable proteins to adopt globular structures, and their formation is often rate limiting for folding. β-Turn mimics, molecules that replace the i + 1 and i + 2...
An analysis of life-course smoking behavior in China
Don Kenkel, Dean R. Lillard, Feng Liu
With a total population of more than 1.3 billion people where more than 31% of adults smoke, China has become the world's largest producer and consumer of cigarettes. We adopt a life-course...
Cell fate decision mediated by p53 pulses
Zhang, Xiao-Peng, Liu, Feng, Cheng, Zhang, Wang, Wei
The tumor suppressor p53 plays a crucial role in cellular response to various stresses. Recent experiments have shown that p53 level exhibits a series of pulses after DNA damage caused by ionizing...
Inhibition of RIG-I and MDA5-dependent antiviral response by gC1qR at mitochondria
Xu, Lijuan, Xiao, Nengming, Liu, Feng, Ren, Hongwei, Gu, Jun
gC1qR is one of the C1q receptors implicated in the regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. We found that gC1qR inhibits RIG-I and MDA5-dependent antiviral signaling. Double stranded RNA and...
Empirical likelihood based diagnostics for heteroscedasticity in partial linear models
Wong, Heung, Liu, Feng, Chen, Min, Ip, Wai Cheung
In this paper, we propose a diagnostic technique for checking heteroscedasticity based on empirical likelihood for the partial linear models. We construct an empirical likelihood ratio test for...
Papatla, Purushottam, Liu, Feng (Oliver)
Recent trends in online retailing suggest that "33% of buyers often or sometimes make unplanned purchases" [Annual Retail Consumer Survey Report. Jupiter Research 2003.]. Findings based on online...