Security and Agent Based Computing Environments (2009)
Feng Zhang, Markus Kaiser, Hien Nguyen, Shu Wang
The objective of this project is to address the security issues of agents in the existing java-based Multi-Agent Distributed Goal Satisfaction system (MADGS)[2][3]. It supports distributed mission...
Variation at the ANP32A gene is associated with risk of hip osteoarthritis in women (2009)
Van Meurs, Joyce B, Kerkhof, Hanneke, Doherty, Sally, Hofman, Albert, ...
OBJECTIVE: The ANP32A gene encodes a tumor suppressor molecule that plays a regulatory role in apoptosis and interferes with canonical Wnt signaling in vitro. We undertook this study to test whether...
Feng Zhang, Li-ping Wang, Edward S Boyden, Karl Deisseroth
Channelrhodopsin-2 and optical control
Increased LIS1 expression affects human and mouse brain development (2009)
Bi, Weimin, Sapir, Tamar, Shchelochkov, Oleg A., Zhang, Feng, Withers, Marjorie A., Hunter, Jill V., ...
10 pages, 7 figures.-- Supplementary information (Suppl. data, 17 pages, and suppl. movies S1-S2) available at: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/suppinfo/ng.302_S1.html
Tetraspanins and vascular functions (2009)
Zhang, Feng, Kotha, Jayaprakash, Jennings, Lisa K., Zhang, Xin A.
Tetraspanins are multiple membrane-spanning proteins that likely function as the organizers of membrane microdomains. Tetraspanins associate with other membrane-bound molecules such as cell-adhesion...
Carvalho, Claudia M.B., Zhang, Feng, Liu, Pengfei, Patel, Ankita, Sahoo, Trilochan, Bacino, Carlos A., ...
Duplication at the Xq28 band including the MECP2 gene is one of the most common genomic rearrangements identified in neurodevelopmentally delayed males. Such duplications are non-recurrent and can be...
Lu, Chuncheng, Zhang, Jie, Li, Yingchun, Xia, Yankai, Zhang, Feng, Wu, Bin, ...
Microdeletions in the azoospermia factor (AZF) regions on the long arm of the human Y chromosome are known to be associated with spermatogenic failure. Although AZFc is recurrently deleted in...
Absence of Immunogenicity of Diaspirin Cross-Linked Hemoglobin in Humans (2008)
J. Patel, Edwin J. Webb, Tina E. Shelbourn, Cynthia Mattia-goldberg, Feng Zhang, ...
Diaspirin cross-linked hemoglobin (DCLHb) is an intramolecularly cross-linked hemoglobin-based oxygen carrier being developed as a therapy for acute blood loss. We report here the absence of...
Technical and Support Staff (2008)
Prof Karl Berggren, Mark K. Mondol, Dr. Euclid Moon, L. Schattenburg, Prof Henry I, ...
Nanostructures and Nanofabrication) and Dr. Mark L. Schattenburg (the Space Nanotechnology Lab, SNL) as well as the Scanning-Electron-Beam Lithography (SEBL) Facility and the Facilities
Dr. Jong-Ho Yun Graduate Students (2008)
James M. Carter, Robert C. Fleming, Dr. Ralf Heilmann, Mark K. Mondol, J. D. Carter, ...
lithography system.
Mechanisms for human genomic rearrangements (2008)
Gu, Wenli, Zhang, Feng, Lupski, James R
Abstract Genomic rearrangements describe gross DNA changes of the size ranging from a couple of hundred base pairs, the size of an average exon, to megabases (Mb). When greater than 3 to 5 Mb, such...
HAPSIMU: a genetic simulation platform for population-based association studies (2008)
Zhang, Feng, Liu, Jianfeng, Chen, Jie, Deng, Hong-Wen
Abstract Background Population structure is an important cause leading to inconsistent results in population-based association studies (PBAS) of human diseases. Various statistical methods have been...
Fan, Hong, Zhang, Feng, Hu, Jiabo, Liu, Dongsheng, Zhao, Zhujiang
Abstract Background DNA-methyltransferase-3B (DNMT3B), which plays a role in DNA methylation, is usually aberrant expression involved in carcinogenesis. Polymorphisms of the DNMT3B gene may influence...
Wavelength Shifters for Water Cherenkov Detectors (2008)
Dai, Xiongxin, Rollin, Etienne, Bellerive, Alain, Hargrove, Cliff, Sinclair, David, Mifflin, Cathy, ...
The light yield of a water-based Cherenkov detector can be significantly improved by adding a wavelength shifter. Wavelength shifter (WLS) molecules absorb ultraviolet photons and re-emit them at...
Loughlin, John, Timms, Kirsten M, Southam, Lorraine, Wilson, Scott G, ...
Osteoarthritis (OA), the most prevalent form of arthritis in the elderly, is characterized by the degradation of articular cartilage and has a strong genetic component. Our aim was to identify...
Modelling Restricted Processor Sharing (2008)
In principle unrestricted processor sharing can be very useful when jobs with widely varying CPU requirements are competing for the same processor. Even if there are several processors available,...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of Hypericum perforatum on growth and brain monoamine neurotransmitters in chronic－stressed rats. Fifteen individuals were divided into three groups...
Sazio, Pier J.A., Amezcua-Correa, Adrian, Finlayson, Chris E., Hayes, John R., Scheidemantel, Thomas J., Baril, Neil F., ...
Functional materials such as bulk crystalline semiconductor structures inside MOF waveguides could lead to fibre devices with radically new electronic and photonic degrees of freedom. We report the...
Sazio, Pier J.A., Amezcua-Correa, Adrian, Finlayson, Chris E., Hayes, John R., Scheidemantel, Thomas J., Baril, Neil F., ...
Functional optoelectronic materials such as bulk crystalline semiconductors and plasmonic materials such as metals inside optical waveguides could lead to fiber devices with radically new electronic...
Experiences on Mobile-ATM Deployment in a Developing Country (2008)
Karunanayake, Amila, De Zoysa, Kausn, Muftic, Sead, Zhang, Feng
Jiping Sun And, Jiping Sun, Feng Zhang
This paper describes some of the ongoing work carried out within the NLP group of Otago University for speech synthesis from diphone audio databases which are prepared from human voice recording. A...
Martin Purvis, Nikola Kasabov, George Benwell, Qingqing Zhou, Feng Zhang
this paper are not necessarily those of the department as a whole. The accuracy of the information presented in this paper is the sole responsibility of the authors
Modeling restricted processor sharing in a computer system with non-exponential service times (2007)
A computer system often has to handle computational jobs with highly varying CPU service time requirements. In principle, unrestricted processor sharing can be useful in handling such demands. In...
Multimodal fast optical interrogation of neural circuitry (2007)
Zhang, Feng, Wang, Li-Ping, Brauner, Martin, Liewald, Jana F., Kay, Kenneth, Watzke, Natalie, ...
Transposition of Reversed Ac Element Ends Generates Novel Chimeric Genes in Maize (2006)
Jianbo Zhang, Feng Zhang, Thomas Peterson
The maize Activator/Dissociation (Ac/Ds) elements are members of the hAT (hobo, Ac, and Tam3) superfamily of type II (DNA) transposons that transpose through a “cut-and-paste” mechanism....
Transposition of Reversed Ac Element Ends Generates Novel Chimeric Genes in Maize (2006)
Jianbo Zhang, Feng Zhang, Thomas Peterson
The maize Activator/Dissociation (Ac/Ds) elements are members of the hAT (hobo, Ac, and Tam3) superfamily of type II (DNA) transposons that transpose through a "cut-and-paste" mechanism. Previously...
Microstructured optical fibers as high-pressure microfluidic reactors (2006)
Sazio, Pier J.A., Amezcua-Correa, Adrian, Finlayson, Chris E., Hayes, John R., Scheidemantel, Thomas J., Baril, Neil F., ...
Deposition of semiconductors and metals from chemical precursors onto planar substrates is a well-developed science and technology for microelectronics. Optical fibers are an established platform for...
High pressure CVD inside microstructured optical fibres (2006)
Sazio, Pier J.A., Amezcua-Correa, Adrian, Finlayson, Chris E., Hayes, John R., Scheidemantel, Thomas J., Baril, Neil F., ...
We report the fabrication of semiconductor structures within holey fibres via a pressure driven microfluidic chemical vapour deposition process, demonstrating templated growth of crystalline Group IV...
Potential theory for subordinate killed Brownian motion in some unbounded domains / (2006)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.
Yue, Chong-Xing, Zhang, Feng, Wang, Li-Na, Zhou, Li
In the framework of the littlest Higgs($LH$) model, we study single production of the standard model($SM$) gauge boson $W_{s}^{-}$ and the heavy gauge boson $W_{H}^{-}$ via polarized $e^{-}\gamma$...
Yue, Chong-Xing, Wang, Wei, Zong, Zheng-Jun, Zhang, Feng
In the framework of the littlest Higgs($LH$) model, we consider the processes $e^{+}e^{-}\to\nu\bar{\nu}H^{0}$ and $e^{+}e^{-}\to W^{*}W^{*}\nu\bar{\nu}\to\nu\bar{\nu}t\bar{t}$, and calculate the...
Yue, Chong-Xing, Wang, Wei, Zhang, Feng
In the parameter space allowed by the electroweak precision measurement data, we consider the contributions of the new particles predicted by the littlest Higgs($LH$) model to the Higgs boson...
Search for the vector-like top quark $T$ at the future linac-ring type $ep$ collider (2005)
Yue, Chong-Xing, Zhang, Feng, Wang, Wei
The little Higgs models typically contain a new vector-like top quark $T$, which plays a key role in breaking the electroweak symmetry. In the context of the littlest Higgs (LH) model, we study...
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications (2005)
Jun Yu, Jun Wang, Wei Lin, Songgang Li, Heng Li, Jun Zhou, ...
Comparative genome sequencing of indica and japonica rice reveals that duplication of genes and genomic regions has played a major part in the evolution of grass genomes.
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications (2005)
Jun Yu, Jun Wang, Wei Lin, Songgang Li, Heng Li, Jun Zhou, ...
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...
Millisecond-timescale, genetically targeted optical control of neural activity (2005)
Boyden, Edward S., Zhang, Feng, Bamberg, Ernst, Nagel, Georg, Deisseroth, Karl
Events reconstruction in 3-D position sensitive CdZnTe GAMMA ray spectrometers. (2005)
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan.
Organ-specific regulation and molecular evolution of the maize pericarp color1 gene / (2005)
The maize pericarp color 1 (p1) gene encodes an R2R3 Myb-like transcription factor that regulates the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway in floral organs, most notably kernel pericarp and cob. Alleles of...
Organ-specific regulation and molecular evolution of the maize pericarp color1 gene / (2005)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Iowa State University, 2005.
Pan LIN, Chongxun ZHENG, Feng ZHANG, Yong YANG
Skeletal age assessment is one of the important applications of hand radiography in the area of pediatric radiology. Feature analysis of the carpal-bones can reveal the important information for...
Wen, Bo, Li, Hui, Gao, Song, Mao, Xianyun, Gao, Yang, Li, Feng, ...
Hmong-Mien (H-M) is a major language family in East Asia, and its speakers distribute primarily in southern China and Southeast Asia. To date, genetic studies on H-M speaking populations are...
Carpal-Bone Feature Extraction Analysis in Skeletal Age Assessment Based on Deformable Model (2004)
Pan, Lin, Zhang, Feng, Yang, Yong, Zheng, Chong-Xun
Skeletal age assessment is one of the important applications of hand radiography in the area of pediatric radiology. Features analysis of the carpal bones can reveal the important information for...
Carpal-Bone Feature Extraction Analysis in Skeletal Age Assessment Based on Deformable Model (2004)
Pan, Lin, Zhang, Feng, Yang, Yong, Zheng, Chong-Xun
Skeletal age assessment is one of the important applications of hand radiography in the area of pediatric radiology. Features analysis of the carpal bones can reveal the important information for...
Yue, Chongxing, Wang, Wei, Zhang, Feng
The littlest Higgs (LH) model predicts the existence of the new gauge bosons $Z'$ and $B'$. We calculate the contributions of these new particles to the processes $e^{+}e^{-}\to\bar{f}f$ with...
Price Behavior of Paper and Paperboard Industry (2004)
This paper presents a model of the probability of price response to the previous periods inventory absolute and relative level for U.S. paper and paperboard industry. The initial part of the paper...
Price Behavior of Paper and Paperboard Industry (2004)
This paper presents a model of the probability of price response to the previous periods inventory absolute and relative level for U.S. paper and paperboard industry. The initial part of the paper...
Price Behavior of Paper and Paperboard Industry (2004)
This paper presents a model of the probability of price response to the previous periods inventory absolute and relative level for U.S. paper and paperboard industry. The initial part of the paper...
Price Behavior of Paper and Paperboard Industry (2004)
This paper presents a model of the probability of price response to the previous periods inventory absolute and relative level for U.S. paper and paperboard industry. The initial part of the paper...
The neutral top-pion and the lepton flavor violating $Z$ decays $Z\to l_{i}l_{j}$ (2004)
Yue, Chongxing, Wang, Wei, Zhang, Feng
Taking into account the constraints of the present experimental limit of the process $\mu\to e\gamma$ on the free parameters of topcolor-assisted technicolor(TC2) models, we calculate the...
The phase stability of nanocrystalline ceria, zirconia, and their binary system (2004)
Chapter 1. Introduction. A general introduction to the physical properties, redox reactions, and various applications of ceria is presented, highlighting that the nanocrystalline CeO2 shows different...
XIANG-DONG WANG, TETSUO SUGIYAMA, FENG ZHANG
Based on 137 specimens examined, the new species Commutia exoleta is characterized by a small, slightly scolecoid shape with 21 septa at a mean maximum corallite diameter of 6 mm (range 3 to 10.5...
Price behavior of paper and paperboard industry [electronic resource] / (2004)
This paper presents a model of the probability of price response to the previous period's inventory absolute and relative level for U.S. paper and paperboard industry. The initial part of the paper...
Power saving access points for IEEE 802.11 wireless network infrastructure / (2004)
Thesis (M.A.Sc.) -- McMaster University, 2004.
Multifidus vibration alters proprioception in the low back / (2004)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Kansas, Mechanical Engineering, 2004.
Price behavior of paper and paperboard industry (2004)
Thesis (M. S.)--Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005.
Pan Lin, Feng Zhang, Yong Yang, Chong-xun Zheng
Skeletal age assessment is one of the important applications of hand radiography in the area of pediatric radiology. Features analysis of the carpal bones can reveal the important information for...
Robin Roundy, Feng Zhang, Metin C Akanyldrm
We consider a discrete-time capacity expansion problem involving multiple product families, multiple machine types, and non-stationary stochastic demand. Capacity expansion decisions are made to...
Related or unrelated diversification : a dilemma for Haier / (2004)
Cheung, Ngai., Zhang, Feng., Zhang, Jiong.
Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.
The phase stability of nanocrystalline ceria, zirconia, and their binary system (2004)
Department: Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics.
Wen, Bo, Li, Hui, Gao, Song, Mao, Xianyun, Gao, Yang, Li, Feng, ...
Hmong-Mien (H-M) is a major language family in East Asia, and its speakers distribute primarily in southern China and Southeast Asia. To date, genetic studies on H-M speaking populations are...
Wen, Bo, Li, Hui, Gao, Song, Mao, Xianyun, Gao, Yang, Li, Feng, ...
Hmong-Mien (H-M) is a major language family in East Asia, and its speakers distribute primarily in southern China and Southeast Asia. To date, genetic studies on H-M speaking populations are...
(M.S.)--University of Delaware, 2004.
"Madelung model" prediction for dependence of lattice parameter on nanocrystal size (2002)
Perebeinos, Vasili, Chan, Siu-Wai, Zhang, Feng
The competition between the long range Coulomb attractive and the short range repulsive interaction in ionic nanocrystals creates an effective negative pressure, which causes the lattice parameter a...
Signal representation and analysis using time-frequency transforms / (2002)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2002.
Web mining for Web image retrieval (2001)
Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Feng Zhang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang
The popularity of digital images is rapidly increasing due to improving digital imaging technologies and convenient availability facilitated by the Internet. However, how to find user-intended images...
Multi-agent logistics management (2001)
Eugene Santos, Feng Zhang, Peter B. Luh
Compared to inter-organizational logistics management, the goal of intra-organizational logistics management is to maximize the outcome of the whole company rather than individual benets. While many...
Feng, Tai-Fu, Li, Xue-Qian, Ma, Wen-Gan, Zhang, Feng
We present a complete next-to-leading-order calculation of the QCD corrections to $B^0-\bar{B}^0$ ($K^0-\bar{K}^0$) mixing in the framework of the minimal flavor violating (MFV) supersymmetry. We...
A new heart failure model in rat by an end-to-side femoral vessel anastomosis (1998)
Ozek, Cuneyt, Zhang, Feng, Lineaweaver, William C, Chin, Brian T, Eiman, Thomas, Newlin, Leonard, ...
Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a new shunting procedure for producing heart failure in the rat incorporating microvascular techniques and avoiding an abdominal operation. Method: We...
ZHANG, FENG, DASHTI, NARJES, HYNES, R. K., SMITH, DONALD L.
Application of plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) has been shown to increase legume growth and development under optimal temperature conditions, and specifically to increase nodulation and...
Manual of Experimental Muscle Flap and Organ Transplantation Models in the Rat (1996)
Zhang, Feng, Lineaweaver, William C., Kao, Samuel D., Walker, Richard, Tonken, Heidi P.
No abstract.
Risk and return of Pacific Rim equity markets /--by Feng Zhang. (1996)
Thesis (Ph. D., Administration)--University of California, Irvine, 1996.
Risk and return of Pacific Rim equity markets /--by Feng Zhang. (1996)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Irvine, 1996.
Neuro-Fuzzy Engineering for Spatial Information Processing (1996)
Te Whare, Wananga Otago, Nikola K. Kasabov, Martin K. Purvis, Feng Zhang, George L. Benwell
This paper proposes neuro-fuzzy engineering as a novel approach to spatial data analysis and for building decision making systems based on spatial information processing, and the development of this...
ZHANG, FENG, DASHTI, NARJES, HYNES, R. K., SMITH, DONALD L.
Co-inoculation of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) withBradyrhizobium has been shown to increase legume nodulation and nitrogen fixation at optimal soil temperatures. Nine rhizobacteria...
Genistein, as a plant-to-bacteria signal, plays an important role in the establishment of the soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr.)-Bradyrhizobium japonicum nitrogen-fixing symbiosis. It is essential to...
Typescript.
It is known that low root zone temperatures (RZT) have more effect on infection and early nodule development than on nitrogen fixation by soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. However, there have been no...
An Empirical Study of Factors Related to Consumer Complaint Behavior (1970)
This paper focuses on factors related to consumer complaint behavior tendency in Internet. Current literatures from home and abroad focus on how to improve consumers satisfaction and loyalty, while...
Recherches sur les os du Ho-nan et quelques caractères de l'écriture ancienne (1925)
Title also in Chinese:
fan mounted as an album leaf, ink and gold on paper; Inscription of artist in upper left: Painted for Mr. Li-yüan (Chou Liang-kung, 1612-1672, from K'ai-feng) in the spring of 1662. Chang Fêng...
Kurebayashi, Shogo, Ueda, Eiichiro, Sakaue, Morito, Patel, Dhavalkumar D., Medvedev, Alex, Zhang, Feng, ...
To identify the physiological functions of the retinoid-related orphan receptor γ (RORγ), a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, mice deficient in RORγ function were generated by targeted...
Nitric Oxide Functions as a Signal in Salt Resistance in the Calluses from Two Ecotypes of Reed1
Zhao, Liqun, Zhang, Feng, Guo, Jinkui, Yang, Yingli, Li, Beibei, Zhang, Lixin
Calluses from two ecotypes of reed (Phragmites communis Trin.) plant (dune reed [DR] and swamp reed [SR]), which show different sensitivity to salinity, were used to study plant adaptations to salt...
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications
Yu, Jun, Wang, Jun, Lin, Wei, Li, Songgang, Li, Heng, Zhou, Jun, ...
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...
The maize (Zea mays) p1 (for pericarp color1) gene encodes an R2R3 Myb-like transcription factor that regulates the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway in floral organs, most notably kernel pericarp and...
Vascular Endothelium Growth Factor, Surgical Delay, and Skin Flap Survival
Lineaweaver, William C., Lei, Man-Ping, Mustain, William, Oswald, Tanya M., Cui, Dongmei, Zhang, Feng
Surgical delay is a clinical strategy that can improve flap survival by prior partial flap elevation. Cytokine up-regulation may play roles in initiating vasodilation and angiogenesis in the delay...
Transposition of Reversed Ac Element Ends Generates Novel Chimeric Genes in Maize
Zhang, Jianbo, Zhang, Feng, Peterson, Thomas
The maize Activator/Dissociation (Ac/Ds) elements are members of the hAT (hobo, Ac, and Tam3) superfamily of type II (DNA) transposons that transpose through a “cut-and-paste” mechanism....
Kurebayashi, Shogo, Ueda, Eiichiro, Sakaue, Morito, Patel, Dhavalkumar D., Medvedev, Alex, Zhang, Feng, ...
To identify the physiological functions of the retinoid-related orphan receptor γ (RORγ), a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily, mice deficient in RORγ function were generated by targeted...
Nitric Oxide Functions as a Signal in Salt Resistance in the Calluses from Two Ecotypes of Reed1
Zhao, Liqun, Zhang, Feng, Guo, Jinkui, Yang, Yingli, Li, Beibei, Zhang, Lixin
Calluses from two ecotypes of reed (Phragmites communis Trin.) plant (dune reed [DR] and swamp reed [SR]), which show different sensitivity to salinity, were used to study plant adaptations to salt...
The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications
Yu, Jun, Wang, Jun, Lin, Wei, Li, Songgang, Li, Heng, Zhou, Jun, ...
We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...
The maize (Zea mays) p1 (for pericarp color1) gene encodes an R2R3 Myb-like transcription factor that regulates the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway in floral organs, most notably kernel pericarp and...
Vascular Endothelium Growth Factor, Surgical Delay, and Skin Flap Survival
Lineaweaver, William C., Lei, Man-Ping, Mustain, William, Oswald, Tanya M., Cui, Dongmei, Zhang, Feng
Surgical delay is a clinical strategy that can improve flap survival by prior partial flap elevation. Cytokine up-regulation may play roles in initiating vasodilation and angiogenesis in the delay...
Transposition of Reversed Ac Element Ends Generates Novel Chimeric Genes in Maize
Zhang, Jianbo, Zhang, Feng, Peterson, Thomas
The maize Activator/Dissociation (Ac/Ds) elements are members of the hAT (hobo, Ac, and Tam3) superfamily of type II (DNA) transposons that transpose through a “cut-and-paste” mechanism....
While evolution of coding sequences has been intensively studied, diversification of noncoding regulatory regions remains poorly understood. In this study, we investigated the molecular evolution of...
Yang, Guojun, Zhang, Feng, Hancock, C. Nathan, Wessler, Susan R.
An active miniature inverted repeat transposable element (MITE), mPing, was discovered by computer-assisted analysis of rice genome sequence. The mPing element is mobile in rice cell culture and in a...
Regulation of α5β1 integrin conformation and function by urokinase receptor binding
Wei, Ying, Czekay, Ralf-Peter, Robillard, Liliane, Kugler, Matthias C., Zhang, Feng, Kim, Kevin K., ...
Urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptors (uPARs), up-regulated during tumor progression, associate with β1 integrins, localizing urokinase to sites of cell attachment. Binding of uPAR to the...
Distinct ligand binding sites in integrin α3β1 regulate matrix adhesion and cell–cell contact
Zhang, Feng, Tom, Clifford C., Kugler, Matthias C., Ching, Tsui-Ting, Kreidberg, Jordan A., Wei, Ying, ...
The integrin α3β1 mediates cellular adhesion to the matrix ligand laminin-5. A second integrin ligand, the urokinase receptor (uPAR), associates with α3β1 via a surface loop within the α3...
Wallace, Chris, Newhouse, Stephen J., Braund, Peter, Zhang, Feng, Tobin, Martin, Falchi, Mario, ...
Many common diseases are accompanied by disturbances in biochemical traits. Identifying the genetic determinants could provide novel insights into disease mechanisms and reveal avenues for developing...
Genetic studies of human diversity in East Asia
Zhang, Feng, Su, Bing, Zhang, Ya-ping, Jin, Li
East Asia is one of the most important regions for studying evolution and genetic diversity of human populations. Recognizing the relevance of characterizing the genetic diversity and structure of...
Xu, Yule, Guan, Ning, Xu, Jun, Yang, Xiufen, Ma, Kai, Zhou, Haiying, ...
Promoter polymorphisms of DNMT3B and the risk of colorectal cancer in Chinese: a case-control study
Fan, Hong, Zhang, Feng, Hu, Jiabo, Liu, Dongsheng, Zhao, Zhujiang
INVESTIGATION ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF PRECIPITATED CHEMICALS FROM TE BUFFER ON SOLID SUBSTRATES
HUABIN WANG, LIJUAN ZHANG, FENG ZHANG, HONGJIE AN, SHIMOU CHEN, HAI LI, ...
Buffer is often involved in the biological studies on a surface with the scanning probe microscopy and the remnant of the salts of buffer may affect the correct interpretation of the experimental...
PEPTIDE NANOFILAMENTS USED FOR REPLICA-MOLDING: A COMBINATION OF "BOTTOM-UP" AND "TOP-DOWN"
YUZHAO TANG, XIAODONG ZHANG, JIELIN SUN, JUN HU, FENG ZHANG, JIANHUA HE
A novel nanofabrication method that combines both "bottom-up" (template-assisted peptide self-assembling) and "top-down" (replica molding) techniques is introduced. A designer peptide, GAV-9...
Risk and Return of Value Stocks.
The authors find that value stocks are riskier because they are usually firms under distress, have high financial leverages, and face substantial uncertainty in future earnings. These risk...
Comparison of Population-Based Association Study Methods Correcting for Population Stratification
Zhang, Feng, Wang, Yuping, Deng, Hong-Wen
Population stratification can cause spurious associations in population–based association studies. Several statistical methods have been proposed to reduce the impact of population stratification...
Land-use changes in a pro-smart-growth state: Maryland, USA
In this paper we present a study of the effectiveness of the smart-growth initiatives in Maryland, USA, for shaping the spatial pattern of urban growth in the state by channeling development into...
NATIONAL DEMAND FOR FRESH ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL VEGETABLES: SCANNER DATA EVIDENCE
Zhang, Feng, Huang, Chung L., Lin, Biing-Hwan, Epperson, James E.
Using AC Nielsen scanner data on U.S. household consumption of selected fresh vegetables from 1999 to 2003, this study provides an overview of the organic fresh vegetable market by investigating...
COMPUTER ADOPTION PATTERNS OF U.S. SMALL BUSINESSES
This paper analyzes computer adoption patterns of U.S. small businesses. First, the association between computer use and firm performance is investigated with a linear model while controlling for...
Mechanisms for human genomic rearrangements
Gu, Wenli, Zhang, Feng, Lupski, James R
Genomic rearrangements describe gross DNA changes of the size ranging from a couple of hundred base pairs, the size of an average exon, to megabases (Mb). When greater than 3 to 5 Mb, such changes...
PROFITABILITY AND RISK OF U.S. AGRICULTURAL BANKS
Epperson, James E., Zhang, Feng
Study of profitability and risk of agricultural banks is very important in assessing the ability to adequately finance agricultural production and rural development. A recursive system of...
MODELING LIVE CATTLE SUPPLY WITH DIFFERENT PRICE EXPECTATIONS
Zhang, Feng, Epperson, James E., Houston, Jack E.
Using live cattle production data from 1995 to 2001, we investigated live cattle supply represented by both net placement and marketings with two price expectation models, naïve and futures. The...
MODELING FRESH ORGANIC PRODUCE CONSUMPTION: A GENERALIZED DOUBLE-HURDLE MODEL APPROACH
Zhang, Feng, Huang, Chung L., Lin, Biing-Hwan
Using actual retail data, this study is intended to profile consumers’ social economic characteristics related to the growth of the fresh organic produce market with a generalized double-hurdle...
Zhang, Wei, Chen, Xiao-Ping, Zhang, Wan-Guang, Zhang, Feng, Xiang, Shuai, Dong, Han-Hua, ...
AIM: To elucidate the interaction between non-parenchymal cells, extracellular matrix and oval cells during the restituting process of liver injury induced by partial hepatectomy (PH).
Zimmermann, Gregor, Wang, Li-ping, Vaughan, Alexander G., Manoli, Devanand S., Zhang, Feng, Deisseroth, Karl, ...
Valdes, Ana M., Loughlin, John, Timms, Kirsten M., Southam, Lorraine, Wilson, Scott G., ...
Osteoarthritis (OA), the most prevalent form of arthritis in the elderly, is characterized by the degradation of articular cartilage and has a strong genetic component. Our aim was to identify...
Molecular mechanism for the umami taste synergism
Zhang, Feng, Klebansky, Boris, Fine, Richard M., Xu, Hong, Pronin, Alexey, Liu, Haitian, ...
Umami is one of the 5 basic taste qualities. The umami taste of L-glutamate can be drastically enhanced by 5′ ribonucleotides and the synergy is a hallmark of this taste quality. The umami taste...
Role of Nitric Oxide and Hydrogen Peroxide During the Salt Resistance Response
Zhang, Feng, Wang, Yuping, Wang, Di
Ion homeostasis is essential for plant cell resistance to salt stress. Under salt stress, to avoid cellular damage and nutrient deficiency, plant cells need to maintain adequate K nutrition and a...
DNMT3B 579 G>T promoter polymorphism and risk of esophagus carcinoma in Chinese
Fan, Hong, Liu, Dong-Sheng, Zhang, Shu-Hong, Hu, Jia-Bo, Zhang, Feng, Zhao, Zhu-Jiang
AIM: To investigate the relationship between 579 G>T polymorphisms in the DNMT3B gene, which is involved in de novo methylation and associated with the risk of esophagus cancer (EC) in Chinese.
Bari, Rafijul, Zhang, Yanhui H., Zhang, Feng, Wang, Nick X., Stipp, Christopher S., Zheng, Jie J., ...
In transmembrane (TM) domains, tetraspanin KAI1/CD82 contains an Asn, a Gln, and a Glu polar residue. A mutation of all three polar residues largely disrupts the migration-, invasion-, and...
Shu, Run-Zhe, Zhang, Feng, Liu, Xue-Song, Li, Chun-Liang, Wang, Long, Tai, Yi-Lin, ...
Palladin is an actin cytoskeleton–associated protein which is crucial for cell morphogenesis and motility. Previous studies have shown that palladin is localized to the axonal growth cone in...
Liver transplantation for polycystic liver with massive hepatomegaly: A case report
Jiang, Wei-Wei, Zhang, Feng, Pu, Li-Yong, Wang, Xue-Hao, Kong, Lian-Bao
A previous study has shown that liver or combined liver-kidney transplantation can be a valuable surgical technique for the treatment of polycystic liver disease. Herein, we present the case of a...
Lu, Ling, Zhang, Feng, Li, Xiang-Cheng, Li, Guo-Qiang, Zhang, Chuan-Yong, Wang, Xue-Hao
Portopulmonary hypertension (PPH) is clinically defined as the development of pulmonary arterial hypertension complicated by portal hypertension, with or without advanced hepatic disease. Physical...