Hong Liu

Publication List Details

Period

1990 - 2009

Number

409

Co-Authors

Information, Expected Utility, and Portfolio Choice (2009)

Ehud Peleg, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Heber Farnsworth, Jack Hughes, Hong Liu, Venkatesh Panchapagesan, ...

at the University of Michigan, for valuable comments and/or discussions. Any remaining Information, Expected Utility, and Portfolio Choice We study the consumption-investment problem of an agent with...

Differentiation of neurons from neural precursors generated in floating spheres from embryonic stem cells (2009)

Li, Huawei, Liu, Hong, Corrales, C Eduardo, Risner, Jessica R, Forrester, Jeff, Holt, Jeffrey R, ...

Abstract Background Neural differentiation of embryonic stem (ES) cells is usually achieved by induction of ectoderm in embryoid bodies followed by the enrichment of neuronal progenitors using a...

Iterative Frequency-Domain Channel Estimation and Equalization for Single-Carrier Transmissions without Cyclic-Pre�x (2009)

Hong Liu, Philip Schniter

Abstract—Compared to conventional time-domain equalization, frequency-domain equalization (FDE) presents a computationally ef�cient alternative for the reception of single carrier (SC)...

Emergent quantum criticality, Fermi surfaces, and AdS2 (2009)

Faulkner, Thomas, Liu, Hong, McGreevy, John, Vegh, David

Gravity solutions dual to d-dimensional field theories at finite charge density have a near-horizon region which is AdS_2 x R^{d-1}. The scale invariance of the AdS_2 region implies that at low...

Profile calculation of gold nanostructures by dispersed-nanosphere lithography through oblique etching for LSPR applications (2009)

Zhou, Xiaodong, Knoll, Wolfgang, Zhang, Nan, Liu, Hong

Nanosphere lithography is an inexpensive method used to fabricate gold nanostructures on a substrate. Using dispersed-nanosphere lithography, in which the nanospheres are dispersed on a substrate, 2D...

Complete sequence determination of a novel reptile iridovirus isolated from soft-shelled turtle and evolutionary analysis of Iridoviridae (2009)

Huang, Youhua, Huang, Xiaohong, Liu, Hong, Gong, Jie, Ouyang, Zhengliang, Cui, Huachun, ...

Abstract Background Soft-shelled turtle iridovirus (STIV) is the causative agent of severe systemic diseases in cultured soft-shelled turtles ( Trionyx sinensis ). To our knowledge, the only...

Transforming growth factor-β1 impairs neuropathic pain through pleiotropic effects (2009)

Echeverry, Stefania, Shi, Xiang, Haw, Alexandra, Liu, Hong, Zhang, Zhong-wei, Zhang, Ji

Abstract Background Understanding the underlying mechanisms of neuropathic pain caused by damage to the peripheral nervous system remains challenging and could lead to significantly improved...

Non-Fermi liquids from holography (2009)

Liu, Hong, McGreevy, John, Vegh, David

We report on a potentially new class of non-Fermi liquids in (2+1)-dimensions. They are identified via the response functions of composite fermionic operators in a class of strongly interacting...

Real-time response in AdS/CFT with application to spinors (2009)

Iqbal, Nabil, Liu, Hong

We discuss a simple derivation of the real-time AdS/CFT prescription as an analytic continuation of the corresponding problem in Euclidean signature. We then extend the formalism to spinor operators...

Line-Source Based X-Ray Tomography (2009)

Deepak Bharkhada, Hengyong Yu, Hong Liu, Robert Plemmons, Ge Wang

Current computed tomography (CT) scanners, including micro-CT scanners, utilize a point x-ray source. As we target higher and higher spatial resolutions, the reduced x-ray focal spot size limits the...

Line-Source Based X-Ray Tomography (2009)

Deepak Bharkhada, Hengyong Yu, Hong Liu, Robert Plemmons, Ge Wang

Current computed tomography (CT) scanners, including micro-CT scanners, utilize a point x-ray source. As we target higher and higher spatial resolutions, the reduced x-ray focal spot size limits the...

Information, Expected Utility, and Portfolio Choice (2009)

Jun Liu, Ehud Peleg, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Kerry Back, Michael Brennan, ...

at the University of Michigan, for valuable comments and/or discussions. Any remaining Information, Expected Utility, and Portfolio Choice We study the consumption-investment problem of an agent with...

Approved by Adviser (2008)

Prof Randolph, L. Moses, Hong Liu, B. Sc, M. Sc

Wireless communication systems targeting at broadband and mobile data trans-missions commonly face the challenge of fading channels which are both time and frequency selective. Therefore, the design...

Condensed matter physics of a strongly coupled gauge theory with quarks: some novel features of the phase diagram (2008)

Faulkner, Thomas, Liu, Hong

We revisit the phase diagram of the N=4 SU(N_c) super-Yang-Mills theory coupled to N_f fundamental "quarks" at strong coupling using the gauge-gravity correspondence. We show that in the plane of...

A Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization formula for quasinormal frequencies of AdS black holes (2008)

Festuccia, Guido, Liu, Hong

We derive a quantization formula of Bohr-Sommerfeld type for computing quasinormal frequencies for scalar perturbations in an AdS black hole in the limit of large scalar mass or spatial momentum. We...

Differential Soil Seed Bank Longevity of Paederia foetida L., An Invasive Woody Vine, Across Three Habitats in Florida1 (2008)

Hong Liu, Robert W Pemberton

Knowledge on seed bank longevity is especially important in understanding population dynamics of invasive species and critical in determining the intensity and length of control efforts. In this...

Quality assessment parameters for EST-derived SNPs from catfish (2008)

Wang, Shaolin, Sha, Zhenxia, Sonstegard, Tad S, Liu, Hong, Xu, Peng, Somridhivej, Benjaporn, ...

Abstract Background SNPs are abundant, codominantly inherited, and sequence-tagged markers. They are highly adaptable to large-scale automated genotyping, and therefore, are most suitable for...

Universality of the hydrodynamic limit in AdS/CFT and the membrane paradigm (2008)

Iqbal, Nabil, Liu, Hong

We show that at the level of linear response the low frequency limit of a strongly coupled field theory at finite temperature is determined by the horizon geometry of its gravity dual, i.e. by the...

Stirring Strongly Coupled Plasma (2008)

Fadafan, Kazem Bitaghsir, Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Wiedemann, Urs Achim

We determine the energy it takes to move a test quark along a circle of radius L with angular frequency w through the strongly coupled plasma of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. We find...

Stirring Strongly Coupled Plasma (2008)

Fadafan, Kazem Bitaghsir, Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Wiedemann, Urs Achim

We determine the energy it takes to move a test quark along a circle of radius L with angular frequency w through the strongly coupled plasma of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. We find...

FREQUENCY DOMAIN TURBO EQUALIZATION FOR VESTIGIAL SIDEBAND MODULATION WITH PUNCTURED TRELLIS CODING (2008)

Hong Liu, Philip Schniter

This work proposes a frequency domain turbo equalization (FDTE) scheme for the reception of transmissions that employ vestigial sideband modulation and punctured trellis coding, as specified by the...

Iterative Equalization for Single-Carrier Cyclic-Prefix in Doubly-Dispersive Channels (2008)

Philip Schniter, Hong Liu

Abstract — Single-carrier cyclic prefix (SCCP) has been proposed as an alternative to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). While the implementation complexity of the two schemes are...

Antennal Sensilla in the Genus Lysmata (Caridea) (2008)

Dong Zhang, Shengli Cai, Hong Liu, Junda Lin

Our previous studies have found that euhermaphrodite-phase shrimp of Lysmata secrete both distance and contact sex pheromones, unique among the shrimp. To gain a better understanding of the...

Meson widths from string worldsheet instantons (2008)

Faulkner, Thomas, Liu, Hong

We show that open strings living on a D-brane which lies outside an AdS black hole can tunnel into the black hole through worldsheet instantons. These instantons have a simple interpretation in terms...

© World Scientific Publishing Company A SYSTEM FOR HUMAN FACE AND FACIAL FEATURE LOCATION (2008)

Jun Miao, Hong Liu, Wen Gao, Hongming Zhang, Gang Deng, Xilin Chen

This paper presents an implementation of a system designed for location of human faces and facial features such as pupils, eyes, nose and mouth. The kernel of the system is an integration of several...

A New Real-time Collision Prediction Model for Soccer Robots (2008)

Hong Liu, Hongbin Zha, Keming Chen, Peng Wang

Based on analyses of multi-agent motions in robot soccer games, a new collision prediction model is presented. We also propose a new idea of making the collision action as a central issue of robot...

Eye States Detection from Color Facial Image Sequence. Proceeding of SPIE. 2002, 4875, 693. WJMS email for subscription: publishing@WAU.org.uk Q. Wang, et al: Eye Location and Eye State Detection in Facial Images with Unconstrained Background (2008)

Hong Liu, Yuwen Wu, Hongbin Zha

In this paper, an automatic and real time method for detecting eye states is proposed. The method is based on the fact that the regions of iris and white regions of an eyeball can be detected when it...

Calibrating human hand for teleoperating the hit/dlr hand (2008)

Haiying Hu, Xiaohui Gao, Jiawei Li, Jie Wang, Hong Liu

Abstract- Using human action to guide robot execution can greatly reduce the planning complexity. We calibrate a human hand model and map its motion to a four-finger dexterous robot hand. The...

A Training Method for Robust Recognition of Color Uniforms of Soccer Robots Abstract (2008)

Hong Liu, Hongbin Zha, Suoqian Feng

A training method for robust recognition of color uniforms of soccer robots is proposed in this paper. Surface illuminative conditions of playground in competition environment are tested by training...

Improved Construction for Universality of Determinant and Permanent Abstract (2008)

Hong Liu, Kenneth W. Regan

Valiant (1979) proved that every polynomial of formula size e is a projection of the (e + 2) × (e + 2) determinant polynomial. We improve “e + 2 ” to “e + 1”, also for a definition of...

REAL-TIME MULTI-AUCTIONS AND THE AGENT SUPPORT (2008)

Hong Liu, Shouhong Wang, Fei Teng

Electronic auctions have become popular. Recently, multicast technology is changing the Internet environment for e-commerce, and will make available more forms of auctions than were ever practical in...

Robustness and Infrared Sensitivity of Various Observables in the Application of AdS/CFT to Heavy Ion Collisions (2008)

Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Shi, Yeming

We investigate the robustness with respect to nonconformality of five properties of strongly coupled plasmas that have been calculated in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory at nonzero...

Naturalization of the Oil Collecting Bee Centris nitida (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Centrini), a Potential Pollinator of Selected Native, Ornamental, and Invasive Plants in Florida (2008)

Robert W. Pemberton, Hong Liu

The neotropical bee Centris nitida Smith has naturalized in southeastern Florida and in Sarasota on the Gulf coast. This furry yellow and black bee has been confused with the closely related C....

Viscosity Bound and Causality Violation (2008)

Brigante, Mauro, Liu, Hong, Myers, Robert C., Shenker, Stephen, Yaida, Sho

In recent work we showed that, for a class of conformal field theories (CFT) with Gauss-Bonnet gravity dual, the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio, $\eta/s$, could violate the conjectured...

Velocity Dependence of Baryon Screening in a Hot Strongly Coupled Plasma (2008)

Athanasiou, Christiana, Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna

The L-dependence of the static potential between Nc quarks arranged in a circle of radius L (a "baryon") immersed in the hot plasma of a gauge theory with Nc colors defines a screening length Ls. We...

Adenoviral protein E3-19K and immune system evasion-the relationship between E3-19K and MHC class I (2008)

Liu, Hong

The E3-19K protein from human adenoviruses retains class I MHC molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum. As a consequence, the cell surface expression of class I molecules is suppressed, allowing Ads...

Viscosity Bound Violation in Higher Derivative Gravity (2007)

Brigante, Mauro, Liu, Hong, Myers, Robert C., Shenker, Stephen, Yaida, Sho

Motivated by the vast string landscape, we consider the shear viscosity to entropy density ratio in conformal field theories dual to Einstein gravity with curvature square corrections. After field...

A limiting velocity for quarkonium propagation in a strongly coupled plasma via AdS/CFT (2007)

Ejaz, Qudsia J, Faulkner, Thomas, Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Wiedemann, Urs Achim

We study the dispersion relations of mesons in a particular hot strongly coupled supersymmetric gauge theory plasma. We find that at large momentum k the dispersion relations become omega = v_0 k + a...

A limiting velocity for quarkonium propagation in a strongly coupled plasma via AdS/CFT (2007)

Ejaz, Qudsia J., Faulkner, Thomas, Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Wiedemann, Urs Achim

We study the dispersion relations of mesons in a particular hot strongly coupled supersymmetric gauge theory plasma. We find that at large momentum k the dispersion relations become omega = v_0 k + a...

An Analysis and Strategic Study of Quality Management in Chinese Manufacturing Industry (2007)

Zhen He, Hong Liu

Based on the surveys and investigation of 62 manufacturing companies in China, the paper analyzes the current status of quality management in Chinese manufacturing industry and probes the problems...

A Comparative Study of Product Liability of the United States and China (2007)

Zhen He, Hong Liu

The paper makes a comprehensive study of the product liability system of the United States and China. The comparative study includes the scope of product, definition of defect, liability principles...

Security moddelling for e-learning (2007)

Yong, Jianming, Liu, Hong, Hu, Bin, Zheng, Xiangwei

[Abstract]:As more and more organisations and institutions aremoving towards the e-learning strategy, the securityissue becomes a big challenge. This paper addressesthis challenge and works out a new...

Security modelling for e-learning (2007)

Yong, Jianming, Liu, Hong, Hu, Bin, Zheng, Xiangwei

[Abstract]:As more and more organisations and institutions aremoving towards the e-learning strategy, the securityissue becomes a big challenge. This paper addressesthis challenge and works out a new...

From Fake Supergravity to Superstars (2007)

Elvang, Henriette, Freedman, Daniel Z., Liu, Hong

The fake supergravity method is applied to 5-dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetimes containing gravity coupled to a real scalar and an abelian gauge field. The motivation is to obtain bulk...

Heavy ion collisions and AdS/CFT (2007)

Liu, Hong

We review some recent applications of the AdS/CFT correspondence to heavy ion collisions including a calculation of the jet quenching parameter in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory and quarkonium...

Expression and localization of estrogenic type 12 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase in the cynomolgus monkey (2007)

Liu, Hong, Zheng, ShuFang, Bellemare, Véronique, Pelletier, Georges, Labrie, Fernand, Luu-The, Van

Abstract Background We have recently discovered that human type 12 17β-HSD (h17β-HSD12), a homolog of type 3 17β-HSD, is a new estrogen-specific 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase involved in the...

Hagedorn divergences and tachyon potential (2007)

Brigante, Mauro, Festuccia, Guido, Liu, Hong

We consider the critical behavior for a string theory near the Hagedorn temperature. We use the factorization of the worldsheet to isolate the Hagedorn divergences at all genera. We show that the...

Frequency-domain equalization of single carrier transmissions over doubly selective channels (2007)

Liu, Hong

Wireless communication systems targeting at broadband and mobile transmissions commonly face the challenge of fading channels that are both time and frequency selective. Therefore, design of...

Fast ignition by laser driven particle beams of very high intensity (2007)

Badziak, J., Read, M. N., Li, Yu-Tong, ...

Anomalous observations using the fast ignition for laser driven fusion energy are interpreted and experimental and theoretical results are reported which are in contrast to the very numerous effects...

Fast ignition by laser driven particle beams of very high intensity (2007)

Badziak, Jan, Read, M. N., Li, Yu-Tong, ...

Anomalous observations using the fast ignition for laser driven fusion energy are interpreted and experimental and theoretical results are reported which are in contrast to the very numerous effects...

Wilson loops in heavy ion collisions and their calculation in AdS/CFT (2006)

Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Wiedemann, Urs Achim

Expectation values of Wilson loops define the nonperturbative properties of the hot medium produced in heavy ion collisions that arise in the analysis of both radiative parton energy loss and...

The arrow of time, black holes, and quantum mixing of large N Yang-Mills theories (2006)

Festuccia, Guido, Liu, Hong

Quantum gravity in an AdS spacetime is described by an SU(N) Yang-Mills theory on a sphere, a bounded many-body system. We argue that in the high temperature phase the theory is intrinsically...

The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions (2006)

Florent E. Angly, Ben Felts, Mya Breitbart, Peter Salamon, Robert A. Edwards, Craig Carlson, ...

Viruses are the most common biological entities in the marine environment. There has not been a global survey of these viruses, and consequently, it is not known what types of viruses are in Earth's...

The Development on a New Biomechatronic Prosthetic Hand Based on Under-actuated Mechanism. (2006)

Huang, H., Jiang, L., D.W., Zhao, J.D., Zhao, Cai, H.G., Liu, Hong, ...

Based on under-actuated mechanism and coupling principle, a five-fingered, multi-sensory and biomechatronic prosthetic hand has been designed. The multi- DOF hand comprises 13 joints and is...

Development of the Chinese Intelligent Space Robotic System. (2006)

Gao, X.H., Jin, M.H., Xie, Z.W., Jiang, L., Ni, F.L., Shi, Sh.C., ...

This paper gives an overview of the Chinese Intelligent Space Robotic System. The system consists of a 6 DOF robot arm, a large-error tolerated gripper with two stereo cameras and onboard computer....

High Fidelity Distributed Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulation For Space Robot on CAN-based Network. (2006)

Wei, R., Jin, M.H., Xia, J.J., Xie, Z.W., Shi, J.X., Liu, Hong

This paper gives an overview of the Chinese Intelligent Space Robotic System. The system consists of a 6 DOF robot arm, a large-error tolerated gripper with two stereo cameras and onboard computer....

EMG Control for a Five-fingered Underactuated Prosthetic Hand Based on Wavelet Transform and Sample Entropy. (2006)

Zhoa, Jingdong, Xie, Zongwu, Jiang, Li, Cai, Hegao, Liu, Hong, Hirzinger, Gerhard

A new five-fingered underactuated prosthetic hand control system is presented in this paper. The prosthetic hand control part is based on an EMG motion pattern classifier which combines VLR (variable...

Bulk-cone singularities & signatures of horizon formation in AdS/CFT (2006)

Hubeny, Veronika E, Liu, Hong, Rangamani, Mukund

We discuss the relation between singularities of correlation functions and causal properties of the bulk spacetime in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In particular, we argue that the...

An AdS/CFT Calculation of Screening in a Hot Wind (2006)

Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Wiedemann, Urs Achim

One of the challenges in relating experimental measurements of the suppression in the number of J/\psi mesons produced in heavy ion collisions to lattice QCD calculations is that whereas the lattice...

Composite-hydroxide-mediated approach for the synthesis of nanostructures of complex functional-oxides (2006)

Liu, Hong, Hu, Chenguo, Wang, Zhong Lin

We demonstrate a generic approach for the synthesis of single-crystal complex oxide nanostructures of various structure types, such as perovskites, spinels, monoclinic, corundum, CaF2 structured,...

Calculating the Jet Quenching Parameter from AdS/CFT (2006)

Liu, Hong, Rajagopal, Krishna, Wiedemann, Urs Achim

Models of medium-induced radiative parton energy loss account for the strong suppression of high-pT hadron spectra in $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV Au-Au collisions at RHIC in terms of a single "jet...

Impacts of Filtration on Contrast-Detail Detectability of an X-ray Imaging System (2006)

Qirong Zhang, John Rong, Xizeng Wu, Yuhua Li, Wei R. Chen, Hong Liu

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of added filtration on the contrast-detail detectability of a digital X-ray imaging system for small animal studies. A digital X-ray imaging...

Role of P13 Kinase Signaling Pathways in Polarity Determination of Human Mammary Epithelial Cells Grown in Three-Dimensional Extracellular Matrix (2006)

Liu, Hong, Bissell, Mina J.

Metastasis is one of the major characteristics of malignancy, a process by which cancer cells acquire aberrant ability to undergo a complex process in order to become invasive and ultimately...

The modular mulitsensory DLR-HIT-hand: Hardware and software architecture (2006)

Liu, Hong, Meusel, Peter, Willberg, Bertram, Hirzinger, Gerd, Jin, M.H., Liu, Y.W., ...

The development of dexterous robot hand is a very challenging endeavor, which has been pursued by many researchers. Many dexterous robot hands have been built over the past three decades. These...

Impacts of Filtration on Contrast-Detail Detectability of an X-ray Imaging System (2006)

Qirong Zhang, John Rong, Xizeng Wu, Yuhua Li, Wei R. Chen, Hong Liu

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of added filtration on the contrast-detail detectability of a digital X-ray imaging system for small animal studies. A digital X-ray imaging...

So What Orders Do Informed Traders Use? (2006)

Ron Kaniel, Hong Liu

Informed trading significantly affects market price and transaction dynamics and has thus become one of the most important issues considered in the microstructure

Impacts of Filtration on Contrast-Detail Detectability of an X-ray Imaging System (2006)

Qirong Zhang, John Rong, Xizeng Wu, Yuhua Li, Wei R. Chen, Hong Liu

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of added filtration on the contrast-detail detectability of a digital X-ray imaging system for small animal studies. A digital X-ray imaging...

Engineering mammalian cytochrome P450 2B1 by directed evolution for enhanced catalytic tolerance to temperature and dimethyl sulfoxide (2006)

Kumar, Santosh, Sun, Ling, Liu, Hong, Muralidhara, B.K., Halpert, James R.

The previously laboratory-evolved cytochrome P450 2B1 quadruple mutant V183L/F202L/L209A/S334P (QM), which showed enhanced H2O2-mediated substrate oxidation, has now been shown to exhibit a >3.0-fold...

Effects of mutation at the D-JH junction on affinity, specificity, and idiotypy of anti-progesterone antibody DB3 (2006)

He, Mingyue, Hamon, Maureen, Liu, Hong, Corper, Adam L., Taussig, Michael J.

The crystal structures of the Fab′ fragment of the anti-progesterone monoclonal antibody DB3 and its complexes with steroid haptens have shown that the D-JH junctional residue TrpH100 is a key...

Effects of mutation at the D-JH junction on affinity, specificity, and idiotypy of anti-progesterone antibody DB3 (2006)

He, Mingyue, Hamon, Maureen, Liu, Hong, Corper, Adam L., Taussig, Michael J.

The crystal structures of the Fab' fragment of the anti-progesterone monoclonal antibody DB3 and its complexes with steroid haptens have shown that the D-JH junctional residue TrpH100 is a key...

Enhanced cell-free protein expression by fusion with immunoglobulin C{kappa} domain (2006)

Palmer, Elizabeth, Liu, Hong, Khan, Farid, Taussig, Michael J., He, Mingyue

While cell-free systems are increasingly used for protein expression in structural and functional studies, several proteins are difficult to express or expressed only at low levels in cell-free...

Engineering mammalian cytochrome P450 2B1 by directed evolution for enhanced catalytic tolerance to temperature and dimethyl sulfoxide (2006)

Kumar, Santosh, Sun, Ling, Liu, Hong, Muralidhara, B. K., Halpert, James R.

The previously laboratory-evolved cytochrome P450 2B1 quadruple mutant V183L/F202L/L209A/S334P (QM), which showed enhanced H2O2-mediated substrate oxidation, has now been shown to exhibit a >3.0-fold...

Effects of mutation at the D-JH junction on affinity, specificity, and idiotypy of anti-progesterone antibody DB3 (2006)

He, Mingyue, Hamon, Maureen, Liu, Hong, Corper, Adam L., Taussig, Michael J.

The crystal structures of the Fab' fragment of the anti-progesterone monoclonal antibody DB3 and its complexes with steroid haptens have shown that the D-JH junctional residue TrpH100 is a key...

Inheritance principle and Non-renormalization theorems at finite temperature (2005)

Brigante, Mauro, Festuccia, Guido, Liu, Hong

We present a general proof of an ``inheritance principle'' satisfied by a weakly coupled SU(N) gauge theory with adjoint matter on a class of compact manifolds (like $S^3$). In the large $N$ limit,...

BMP4 signaling is involved in the generation of inner ear sensory epithelia (2005)

Li, Huawei, Corrales, Carleton E, Wang, Zhengmin, Zhao, Yanling, Wang, Yucheng, Liu, Hong, ...

Abstract Background The robust expression of BMP4 in the incipient sensory organs of the inner ear suggests possible roles for this signaling protein during induction and development of auditory and...

Excursions beyond the horizon: Black hole singularities in Yang-Mills theories (I) (2005)

Festuccia, Guido, Liu, Hong

We study black hole singularities in the AdS/CFT correspondence. These singularities show up in CFT in the behavior of finite-temperature correlation functions. We first establish a direct relation...

Proliferation and Polarity in Breast Cancer: Untying the Gordian Knot (2005)

Liu, Hong, Radisky, Derek C., Bissell, Mina J.

Epithelial cancers are associated with genomic instability and alterations in signaling pathways that affect proliferation, apoptosis, and integrity of tissue structure. Overexpression of a number of...

Structural and electronic properties of the metal-metal intramolecular junctions of single-walled carbon nanotubes (2005)

Fa, Wei, Chen, Jiangwei, Liu, Hong, Dong, Jinming

Several intramolecular junctions (IMJs) connecting two metallic (11, 8) and (9, 6) carbon nanotubes along their common axis have been realized by using a layer-divided technique to the nanotubes and...

Finite temperature effective action, AdS_5 black holes, and 1/N expansion (2005)

Alvarez-Gaume, Luis, Gomez, Cesar, Liu, Hong, Wadia, Spenta

We propose a phenomenological matrix model to study string theory in AdS_5 \times S_5 in the canonical ensemble. The model reproduces all the known qualitative features of the theory. In particular,...

Enhancement of Laser Cancer Treatment by a Chitosan-derived Immunoadjuvant¶ (2005)

Wei R. Chen, Mladen Korbelik, Kenneth E. Bartels, Hong Liu, Jinghai Sun, Robert E. Nordquist

A chitosan derivative, glycated chitosan (GC), has been used as an immunostimulant for cancer treatment in laser immunotherapy. The function of GC is to enhance the host immune response after direct...

Modeling facial expression space for recognition”. Intelligent Robots and Systems (2005)

Yuwen Wu, Hong Liu, Hongbin Zha

Abstract – In this paper, we present a method of modeling facial expression space for facial expression recognition by fuzzy integral. In traditional expression recognition methods using shape...

Lifetime Consumption and Investment: Retirement and Constrained Borrowing ∗ (2005)

Philip H. Dybvig, Hong Liu

Endogenous choice of when to retire has an interesting impact on optimal portfolio choice and consumption, whether or not it is possible to borrow against labor income. When retirement is voluntary,...

Genetic Structure of the Endangered Plant Neolitsea sericea (Lauraceae) from the Zhoushan Archipelago Using RAPD Markers (2005)

WANG, ZHONG-SHENG, AN, SHU-QING, LIU, HONG, LENG, XIN, ZHENG, JIAN-WEI, LIU, YU-HONG

• Background and Aims The Zhoushan archipelago is the largest archipelago in China. It separated from the mainland about 9000 years ago due to rising sea levels and climate change. Because of the...

Particle acceleration through the resonance of high magnetic field and high frequency electromagnetic wave (2004)

Liu, Hong, He, X. T., Chen, S. G., Zhang, W. Y.

We propose a new particle acceleration mechanism. Electron can be accelerated to relativistic energy within a few electromagnetic wave cycles through the mechanism which is named electromagnetic and...

Additional acceleration and collimation of relativistic electron beams by magnetic field resonance at very high intensity laser interaction (2004)

Liu, Hong, He, X. T., Hora, Heinrich

In addition to the ponderomotive acceleration of highly relativistic electrons at interaction of very short and very intense laser pulses, a further acceleration is derived from the interaction of...

Polyadenylation of ribosomal RNA by Candida albicansalso involves the small subunit (2004)

Fleischmann, Jacob, Liu, Hong, Wu, Chieh-Pin

Abstract Background Candida albicans is a polymorphic fungus causing serious infections in immunocompromised patients. It is capable of shifting from yeast to germinating forms such as hypha and...

Fine structure of Hagedorn transitions (2004)

Liu, Hong

We study non-perturbative aspects of the Hagedorn transition for IIB string theory in an anti-de Sitter spacetime in the limit that the string length goes to infinity. The theory has a holographic...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

Additional acceleration and collimation of relativistic electron beams by magnetic field resonance at very high intensity laser interaction (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., Hora, Heinrich

In addition to the ponderomotive acceleration of highly relativistic electrons at interaction of very short and very intense laser pulses, a further acceleration is derived from the interaction of...

Particle acceleration through the resonance of high magnetic field and high frequzncy electromagnetic wave (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., G. Chen, S., Zhang, W.Y.

We propose a new particle acceleration mechanism. Electron can be accelerated to relativistic energy within a few electromagnetic wave cycles through the mechanism which is named electromagnetic and...

Additional acceleration and collimation of relativistic electron beams by magnetic field resonance at very high intensity laser interaction (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., Hora, Heinrich

In addition to the ponderomotive acceleration of highly relativistic electrons at interaction of very short and very intense laser pulses, a further acceleration is derived from the interaction of...

Particle acceleration through the resonance of high magnetic field and high frequzncy electromagnetic wave (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., G. Chen, S., Zhang, W.Y.

We propose a new particle acceleration mechanism. Electron can be accelerated to relativistic energy within a few electromagnetic wave cycles through the mechanism which is named electromagnetic and...

Rapid synthesis of YAG nano-sized powders by a novel method (2004)

Li, Xia, Liu, Hong, Wang, Ji-yang, Cui, Hong-mei, Han, Feng, Zhang, Xu-dong, ...

Nano-sized powders of aluminum yttrium garnet (YAG) have been successfully synthesized by a mixed solvo-thermal method at low temperature (300 °C) and low pressure (10 MPa). The phase...

Comparing gene discovery from Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays and Clontech PCR-select cDNA subtraction: a case study (2004)

Cao, Wuxiong, Epstein, Charles, Liu, Hong, DeLoughery, Craig, Ge, Nanxiang, Lin, Jieyi, ...

Abstract Background Several high throughput technologies have been employed to identify differentially regulated genes that may be molecular targets for drug discovery. Here we compared the sets of...

Additional acceleration and collimation of relativistic electron beams by magnetic field resonance at very high intensity laser interaction (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., Hora, Heinrich

In addition to the ponderomotive acceleration of highly relativistic electrons at interaction of very short and very intense laser pulses, a further acceleration is derived from the interaction of...

Particle acceleration through the resonance of high magnetic field and high frequzncy electromagnetic wave (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., G. Chen, S., Zhang, W.Y.

We propose a new particle acceleration mechanism. Electron can be accelerated to relativistic energy within a few electromagnetic wave cycles through the mechanism which is named electromagnetic and...

Additional acceleration and collimation of relativistic electron beams by magnetic field resonance at very high intensity laser interaction (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., Hora, Heinrich

In addition to the ponderomotive acceleration of highly relativistic electrons at interaction of very short and very intense laser pulses, a further acceleration is derived from the interaction of...

Particle acceleration through the resonance of high magnetic field and high frequzncy electromagnetic wave (2004)

Liu, Hong, T. He, X., G. Chen, S., Zhang, W.Y.

We propose a new particle acceleration mechanism. Electron can be accelerated to relativistic energy within a few electromagnetic wave cycles through the mechanism which is named electromagnetic and...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

Skin depth plasma front interaction mechanism with prepulse suppression to avoid relativistic self-focusing for high-gain laser fusion (2004)

Cang, Yu, Cao, Li-Hua, Liu, Hong, ...

Measurements of the ion emission from targets irradiated with neodymium glass and iodine lasers were analyzed and a very significant anomaly observed. The fastest ions with high charge number Z,...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

4. Title and Subtitle GIS-BASED CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ASSESSMENT 7. Author(s) (2004)

Brian Blaser, Hong Liu, Dennis Mcdermott, Fred Nuszdorfer, Nguyet Thi Phan, Ulziisaikhan Vanchindorj, ...

The contents of this report reflect the views of the authors, who are responsible for the facts and accuracy of the data presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views...

• Options: (2004)

Phil Schniter, Hong Liu

• Consider communication over doubly-dispersive channels.

Periodic and solitary waves of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (2004)

Liu, Hong, Beech, Robert, Osman, Frederick, He, Xiantu, ...

This paper presents the possible periodic solutions and the solitons of the cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Corresponding to five types of different structures of the...

Generation of nonlinear force driven blocks from skin layer interaction of Petawatt-Picosecond laser pulses for ICF (2004)

Cang, Yu, He, Xiantu, Zhang, Jie, ...

The discovery of the essential difference of maximum ion energy for TW-ps laser plasma interaction compared with the 100 ns laser pulses[lI led to the theory of a skin layer model ['I where the...

H (2004) Iterative frequency-domain equalization for single-carrier systems in doubly-dispersive channels (2004)

Philip Schniter, Hong Liu

Abstract — Frequency-domain equalization (FDE) offers an attractive alternative to time-domain equalization in systems that communicate over large-delay-spread channels. Traditionally, FDE...

Skin depth plasma front interaction mechanism with prepulse suppression to avoid relativistic self-focusing for high-gain laser fusion (2004)

Osman, Frederick, Cang, Yu, Cao, Li-Hua, Liu, Hong, ...

Measurements of the ion emission from targets irradiated with neodymium glass and iodine lasers were analyzed and a very significant anomaly observed. The fastest ions with high charge number Z,...

Periodic and solitary waves of the cubic-quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation (2004)

Liu, Hong, Beech, Robert, Osman, Frederick, He, Xiantu, ...

This paper presents the possible periodic solutions and the solitons of the cubic–quintic nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Corresponding to five types of different structures of the...

Generation of nonlinear force driven blocks from skin layer interaction of Petawatt-Picosecond laser pulses for ICF (2004)

Cang, Yu, He, Xiantu, Zhang, Jie, ...

The discovery of the essential difference of maximum ion energy for TW-ps laser plasma interaction compared with the 100 ns laser pulses[lI led to the theory of a skin layer model ['I where the...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

Genetic Structure of the Endangered Plant Neolitsea sericea (Lauraceae) from the Zhoushan Archipelago Using RAPD Markers (2004)

WANG, ZHONG-SHENG, AN, SHU-QING, LIU, HONG, LENG, XIN, ZHENG, JIAN-WEI, LIU, YU-HONG

• Background and Aims The Zhoushan archipelago is the largest archipelago in China. It separated from the mainland about 9000 years ago due to rising sea levels and climate change. Because of the...

Genetic Structure of the Endangered Plant Neolitsea sericea (Lauraceae) from the Zhoushan Archipelago Using RAPD Markers (2004)

WANG, ZHONG-SHENG, AN, SHU-QING, LIU, HONG, LENG, XIN, ZHENG, JIAN-WEI, LIU, YU-HONG

• Background and Aims The Zhoushan archipelago is the largest archipelago in China. It separated from the mainland about 9000 years ago due to rising sea levels and climate change. Because of the...

BMC Genomics BioMed Central Methodology article Comparing gene discovery from Affymetrix GeneChip microarrays (2004)

Wuxiong Cao, Charles Epstein, Hong Liu, Craig Deloughery, Nanxiang Ge, Jieyi Lin, ...

© 2004 Cao et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is...

Supporting Dynamic Management in a Multi-Agent Collaborative Design System (2004)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

In this paper, we propose a multi-agent collaborative design system in which human designers and software agents interact with each other, exchange design information and keep track of state...

UV Finite Brane Decay (2003)

Karczmarek, Joanna L., Liu, Hong, Maldacena, Juan, Strominger, Andrew

The decay of an unstable D-brane via closed string emission and open string pair production is considered in subcritical string theory with a spacelike linear dilaton. The decay rate is given by the...

Closed strings from decaying D-branes (2003)

Lambert, Neil, Liu, Hong, Maldacena, Juan

We compute the emission of closed string radiation from homogeneous rolling tachyons. For an unstable decaying D$p$-brane the radiated energy is infinite to leading order for $p\leq 2$ and finite for...

Population viability analyses of Chamaecrista keyensis (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae), a narrowly endemic herb of the lower Florida Keys: Effects of seasonal timing of fires and the urban-wildland interface (2003)

Liu, Hong

This research first evaluated the effects of urban wildland interface on reproductive biology of the Big Pine Partridge Pea, Chamaecrista keyensis , an understory herb that is endemic to Big Pine...

A new algorithm for three-finger force-closure grasp of polygonal objects (2003)

Jia-wei Li, Ming-he Jin, Hong Liu

Abstract—We prove a new necessary and sufficient condition for 2D three-finger equilibrium grasps and implement a geometrical algorithm for computing force-closure grasps of polygonal objects in...

A Genetic Semi-supervised Fuzzy Clustering Approach to Text Classification (2003)

Hong Liu, Shang-teng Huang

A genetic semi-supervised fuzzy clustering algorithm is proposed, which can learn text classifier from labeled and unlabeled documents.

ATIDB: Arabidopsis thaliana insertion database (2003)

Pan, Xiaokang, Liu, Hong, Clarke, Jonathan, Jones, Jonathan, Bevan, Mike, Stein, Lincoln

Insertional mutagenesis techniques, including transposon‐ and T‐DNA‐mediated mutagenesis, are key resources for systematic identification of gene function in the model plant species...

Apoptotic Action of 17-Estradiol in Raloxifene-Resistant MCF-7 Cells In Vitro and In Vivo (2003)

Liu, Hong, Lee, Eun-Sook, Gajdos, Csaba, Pearce, Sandra Timm, Chen, Bin, Osipo, Clodia, ...

Background: Resistance to tamoxifen, a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERM), involves changes that prevent apoptosis and enhance cell proliferation and survival. Paradoxically, estrogen...

Paradoxical Action of Fulvestrant in Estradiol-Induced Regression of Tamoxifen-Stimulated Breast Cancer (2003)

Osipo, Clodia, Gajdos, Csaba, Liu, Hong, Chen, Bin, Jordan, V. Craig

Background: Long-term tamoxifen treatment of breast cancer can result in tamoxifen-stimulated breast cancer, in which estrogen inhibits tumor growth after tamoxifen withdrawal. We investigated the...

The Challenging Cosmic Singularity (2002)

Liu, Hong, Moore, Gregory, Seiberg, Nathan

In this talk we discuss the cosmic singularity. We motivate the need to correct general relativity in the study of singularities, and mention the kind of corrections provided by string theory. We...

Department of Defense Era of Hope Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA, 25–28 September 2002 (2002)

Novaro, Virginia, Bascom, Jamie L, Liu, Hong, Mott, Joni D

Abstract The Era of Hope meeting addressed with a multidisciplinary approach the most critical issues in breast carcinogenesis. The issues that we summarize here include: a) the use of rodent models...

Strings in Time-Dependent Orbifolds (2002)

Liu, Hong, Moore, Gregory, Seiberg, Nathan

We continue and extend our earlier investigation ``Strings in a Time-Dependent Orbifold'' (hep-th/0204168). We formulate conditions for an orbifold to be amenable to perturbative string analysis and...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Strings in a Time-Dependent Orbifold (2002)

Liu, Hong, Moore, Gregory, Seiberg, Nathan

We consider string theory in a time dependent orbifold with a null singularity. The singularity separates a contracting universe from an expanding universe, thus constituting a big crunch followed by...

Open String Star as a Continuous Moyal Product (2002)

Douglas, Michael R., Liu, Hong, Moore, Gregory, Zwiebach, Barton

We establish that the open string star product in the zero momentum sector can be described as a continuous tensor product of mutually commuting two dimensional Moyal star products. Let the...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Optimal Portfolio Selection with Transaction Costs and Finite Horizons (2002)

Liu, Hong, Loewenstein, Mark

We examine the optimal trading strategy for a CRRA investor who maximizes the expected utility of wealth on a finite date and faces transaction costs. Closed‐form solutions are obtained when...

Distinct proteins encoded by alternative transcripts of the PURG gene, located contrapodal to WRN on chromosome 8, determined by differential termination/polyadenylation (2002)

Liu, Hong, Johnson, Edward M.

A gene encoding a new member of the Pur protein family, Pur&ggr;, has been detected upstream of, and contrapodal to, the gene encoding the Werner syndrome helicase, Wrn, at human chromosome band...

Genome sequence of Shigella flexneri 2a: insights into pathogenicity through comparison with genomes of Escherichia coli K12 and O157 (2002)

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...

Supporting Evolution in a Multi-Agent Cooperative Design Environment (2002)

Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.

New architectures for next-generation of computer-aided design environments need to be distributed, evolutive, and cooperative. This paper presents a multi-agent design environment that supports...

Social Capital and Business Networking : A Case Study of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (2001)

Liu, Hong

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*-Trek III: The Search for Ramond-Ramond Couplings (2001)

Liu, Hong, Michelson, Jeremy

We give a detailed discussion of the disk amplitudes with one closed string insertion, which we used to construct the supergravity couplings of noncommutative D-branes to the RR potentials, given in...

Ramond-Ramond Couplings of Noncommutative D-branes (2001)

Liu, Hong, Michelson, Jeremy

We propose the leading couplings, in an alpha' expansion, of noncommutative D-branes to RR potentials in a constant NSNS B-field for an arbitrary choice of noncommutative parameter. The proposal is...

Supergravity Couplings of Noncommutative D-branes (2001)

Liu, Hong, Michelson, Jeremy

We discuss the supergravity couplings of noncommutative D-branes by considering the disk amplitudes with one closed string insertion. The result confirms a recent proposal for the general form of the...

*-Trek II: *_n Operations, Open Wilson Lines and the Seiberg-Witten Map (2000)

Liu, Hong

Generalizations of the *-product (e.g. n-ary *_n operations) appear in various places in the discussion of noncommutative gauge theories. These include the one-loop effective action of noncommutative...

*-TREK: The One-Loop N=4 Noncommutative SYM Action (2000)

Liu, Hong, Michelson, Jeremy

We investigate N=4 noncommutative super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory. We compute the one-loop four gauge boson scattering amplitude on parallel Dp-branes, and find the corresponding contribution to the...

Modulation of various stepping movement parameters during perturbed walking at specific periods of the gait cycle (2000)

Liu, Hong

This study investigated the corrective responses of the healthy adults in both sagittal and frontal planes during unexpected disturbances while walking. The purpose of the study was to examine which...

Modulation of various stepping movement parameters during perturbed walking at specific periods of the gait cycle (2000)

Liu, Hong

This study investigated the corrective responses of the healthy adults in both sagittal and frontal planes during unexpected disturbances while walking. The purpose of the study was to examine which...

Modulation of various stepping movement parameters during perturbed walking at specific periods of the gait cycle (2000)

Liu, Hong

This study investigated the corrective responses of the healthy adults in both sagittal and frontal planes during unexpected disturbances while walking. The purpose of the study was to examine which...

Modulation of various stepping movement parameters during perturbed walking at specific periods of the gait cycle (2000)

Liu, Hong

This study investigated the corrective responses of the healthy adults in both sagittal and frontal planes during unexpected disturbances while walking. The purpose of the study was to examine which...

Modulation of various stepping movement parameters during perturbed walking at specific periods of the gait cycle (2000)

Liu, Hong

This study investigated the corrective responses of the healthy adults in both sagittal and frontal planes during unexpected disturbances while walking. The purpose of the study was to examine which...

Modulation of various stepping movement parameters during perturbed walking at specific periods of the gait cycle (2000)

Liu, Hong

This study investigated the corrective responses of the healthy adults in both sagittal and frontal planes during unexpected disturbances while walking. The purpose of the study was to examine which...

Stretched Strings in Noncommutative Field Theory (2000)

Liu, Hong, Michelson, Jeremy

Motivated by recent discussions of IR/UV mixing in noncommutative field theories, we perform a detailed analysis of the non-planar amplitudes of the bosonic open string in the presence of an external...

TEQ design in the frequency domain / (2000)

Liu, Hong.

Thesis (M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering)--University of California, Irvine, 2000.

The Clifford analysis techniques for spherical PDE / (2000)

Liu, Hong.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2000.

Dilaton - fixed scalar correlators and AdS_5 x S^5 - SYM correspondence (1999)

Liu, Hong, Tseytlin, A. A.

We address the question of AdS/CFT correspondence in the case of the 3-point function . O_4 and O_8 are particular primary states represented by F^2 + ... and F^4 + ... operators in \N=4 SYM theory...

D3-brane - D-instanton configuration and N=4 super YM theory in constant self-dual background (1999)

Liu, Hong, Tseytlin, A. A.

We consider SO(4) x SO(6) invariant type IIB string solution describing D3-branes superposed with D-instantons homogeneously distributed over D3-brane world-volume. In the near D3-brane horizon limit...

Parameter estimation of DS-CDMA mobile communication / (1999)

Liu, Hong.

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1999.

Attenuation of ischemia induced increases in sodium and calcium by the aldose reductase inhibitor Zopolrestat (1999)

Ramasamy, Ravichandran, Liu, Hong, Oates, Peter J, Schaefer, Saul

Objective: We have previously demonstrated that zopolrestat, an inhibitor of the enzyme aldose reductase, reduces ischemic injury in hearts from diabetic and non-diabetic rats. To further explore...

Scattering in Anti-de Sitter Space and Operator Product Expansion (1998)

Liu, Hong

We develop a formalism to evaluate generic scalar exchange diagrams in AdS_{d+1} relevant for the calculation of four-point functions in AdS/CFT correspondence. The result may be written as an...

Estrogen Receptor-Mediated Transcription In Vitro (1998)

Liu, Hong, Brown, Myles

Estrogen receptor (ER) is a ligand activated transcription activator. The detailed mechanism of ER mediated transcription is unclear. We demonstrated that ER mediated transcription in cell free...

Estrogen Receptor-Mediated Transcription In Vitro (1998)

Liu, Hong, Jordan, Virgil C.

Estrogen receptor (ER) is a ligand-activated transcription activator. To elucidate the mechanism of ER-mediated transcription in detail, we studied transcriptional activity of the ER in vitro. We...

Estrogen Receptor-Mediated Transcription in Vitro (1998)

Liu, Hong

Estrogen receptor (ER) is a ligand-activated transcription activator. To elucidate the mechanism of ER-mediated transcription in detail, we studied transcriptional activity of the ER in vitro. We...

Role of P13 Kinase Signaling Pathways in Polarity Determination of Human Mammary Epithelial Cells Grown in Three-Dimensional Extracellular Matrix (1998)

Liu, Hong

Loss of tissue polarity and increased proliferation are the characteristic alterations of the breast tumor phenotype. To investigate these processes, we have used a three-dimensional (3D) culture...

On Four-point Functions in the CFT/AdS Correspondence (1998)

Liu, Hong, Tseytlin, A. A.

We discuss the properties of four-point functions in the context of the correspondence between a classical supergravity theory in the bulk of the Anti de Sitter space and quantum conformal field...

D=4 Super Yang Mills, D=5 gauged supergravity and D=4 conformal supergravity (1998)

Liu, Hong, Tseytlin, A. A.

We consider the role of N=4 conformal supergravity in the relation between N=4 SYM theory and D=5 gauged supergravity expanded near the Anti de Sitter background. We discuss the structure of the SYM...

Optimal consumption and investment with market frictions (1998)

Liu, Hong

The significant effects of market frictions on optimal consumption and investment have been widely documented throughout the literature. This dissertation devotes to address the issue when there are...

Regulation of leukotriene A(4) hydrolase in human endothelial cells by phosphorylation at Ser-415 (1998)

Liu, Hong

Leukotriene (LT) A$/sb4$ hydrolase is one of the enzymes involved in the metabolism of arachidonic acid via the 5-lipoxygenase pathway. It possesses dual activities: first as the catalyst of...

Sweeping Away the Monopole Problem (1997)

Dvali, G., Liu, Hong, Vachaspati, Tanmay

We propose a new solution to the cosmological monopole problem in which domain walls sweep away the magnetic monopoles and subsequently decay. The solution does not require extensive fine tuning or...

Hybrid Inflation and Particle Physics (1997)

Dvali, Gia, Krauss, Lawrence M., Liu, Hong

The prototype hybrid SUSY SU(5) inflation models, while well motivated from particle physics, and while allowing an acceptable inflationary phase with little or no fine tuning, are shown to have two...

Time domain characterization of VLSI interconnects (1997)

Liu, Hong

In today's VLSI technology with high clock rates, high integration density and small feature sizes, interconnects play a more dominant role in the performance of VLSI systems. Accurate modeling and...

Validating Protocol Composition for Progress by Parallel Step Reachability Analysis (1997)

Gurdip Singh, Hong Liu

In this paper, we propose a parallel step exploration technique for protocol validation in the context of protocol composition. A protocol is modeled as a network of extended communicating finite...

A Formal AIN Service Creation, Feature Interactions Analysis and Management . . . (1997)

Jane Cameron, Kong Cheng, F. Joe Lin, Hong Liu, Bob Pinheiro

. Some of the major difficulties in developing practical tools using formal methods to analyze and manage feature interactions include: . the significant upfront investment that is required to...

Regulated expression system for GD3 synthase cDNA and induction of differentiation in Neuro2a cells (1997)

Liu, Hong, Kojima, Naoya, Kurosawa, Nobuyuki, Tsuji, Shuichi

It was reported recently by our group that the transfection of GD3 synthase cDNA into Neuro2a cells, a neuroblastoma cell line, caused cell differentiation with neurite sprouting (Kojima et al, 1994;...

Quantum Hair, Instantons, and Black Hole Thermodynamics: Some New Results (1996)

Krauss, Lawrence M., Liu, Hong

We present results obtained by a consideration of the non-classical energy momentum tensor associated with Euclidean Instantons outside the event horizon of black holes. We demonstrate here how this...

Family Replication in the Dual Standard Model (1996)

Liu, Hong, Starkman, Glenn D., Vachaspati, Tanmay

The family replication problem is addressed in the context of the dual standard model. The breaking of a simple grand unified group to $[G_{low} \times H_1 \times H_2 \times H_3]/Z_5^3$ and then...

Dirty Black Holes and Hairy Black Holes (1996)

Krauss, Lawrence M., Liu, Hong, Heo, Junseong

An approach based on considerations of the non-classical energy momentum tensor outside the event horizon of a black hole provides additional physical insight into the nature of discrete quantum hair...

SU(5) Monopoles and the Dual Standard Model (1996)

Liu, Hong, Vachaspati, Tanmay

We find the spectrum of magnetic monopoles produced in the symmetry breaking SU(5) to [SU(3)\times SU(2)\times U(1)']/Z_6 by constructing classical bound states of the fundamental monopoles. The...

On Hybrid Synthesis for Hierarchical Structured Petri Nets (1996)

Liu, Hong, Park, Jun-Cheol, Miller, Raymond E.

We propose a hybrid method for synthesis of hierarchical structured Petri nets. In a top-down manner, we decompose a system into a set of subsystems at each level of abstraction, each of these is...

On Hybrid Synthesis for Hierarchical Structured Petri Nets (1996)

Liu, Hong, Park, Jun-Cheol, Miller, Raymond E.

We propose a hybrid method for synthesis of hierarchical structured Petri nets. In a top-down manner, we decompose a system into a set of subsystems at each level of abstraction, each of these is...

Multiple presentation Mosaic : a World Wide Web browser with enhanced presentation / (1996)

Liu, Hong.

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1996.

Utility planning and demand-side management / (1996)

Liu, Hong.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 1996.

Subband-domain optimal filtering : a thesis / (1996)

Liu, Hong.

Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Generalized fair reachability analysis for cyclic protocols (1996)

Hong Liu, Raymond E. Miller

In this paper, we extend the generalized fair reachability notion to cyclic protocols with nondeterminism and internal transitions. By properly incorporating internal transitions into the formulation...

Generalized fair reachability analysis for cyclic protocols (1996)

Hong Liu, Raymond E. Miller

In this paper, the notion of fair reachability is generalized to cyclic protocols with n 2 machines. Substantial state reduction can be achieved via fair progress state exploration. It is shown that...

Deadlock Detection by Fair Reachability Analysis: from Cyclic to Multi-Cyclic Protocols (and beyond?) (1996)

Hong Liu, Raymond E. Miller, Hasan Ural

In this paper, we generalize the technique of fair reachability analysis to multi-cyclic protocols modeled as networks of communicating finite state machines, where a number of cyclic protocols are...

Perturbed Electroweak Strings and Fermion Zero Modes (1995)

Liu, Hong, Vachaspati, Tanmay

The effect of perturbations of electroweak strings on quark zero modes is studied in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. As first discovered by Naculich, it is found that the bosonic perturbations that...

Generalized Fair Reachability Analysis for Cyclic Protocols (1995)

Liu, Hong, Miller, Raymond E.

In this paper, the notion of fair reachability is generalized to cyclic protocols with $n\geq 2$ machines. Substantial state reduction can be achieved via fair progress state exploration. It is shown...

Generalized Fair Reachability Analysis for Cyclic Protocols with Nondeterminism and Internal Transitions (1995)

Liu, Hong, Miller, Raymond E.

In this paper, we extend the generalized fair reachability notion to cyclic protocols with nondeterminism and internal transitions. By properly incorporating internal transitions into the formulation...

Generalized Fair Reachability Analysis for Cyclic Protocols (1995)

Liu, Hong, Miller, Raymond E.

In this paper, the notion of fair reachability is generalized to cyclic protocols with $n\geq 2$ machines. Substantial state reduction can be achieved via fair progress state exploration. It is shown...

Generalized Fair Reachability Analysis for Cyclic Protocols with Nondeterminism and Internal Transitions (1995)

Liu, Hong, Miller, Raymond E.

In this paper, we extend the generalized fair reachability notion to cyclic protocols with nondeterminism and internal transitions. By properly incorporating internal transitions into the formulation...

Indolo[3, 2-b]carbazole: a Dietary-Derived Factor That Exhibits Both Antiestrogenic and Estrogenic Activity (1994)

Liu, Hong, Wormke, Mark, Safe, Stephen H.

Background: Indole-3-carbinol (I3C) and related compounds have been identified in vegetables of the Brassica genus. I3C and its acid-derived condensation product, indolo[3, 2-b]car-bazole (ICZ), bind...

Imprecise Computations (1994)

Hong Liu, Jintao Li, Qun Liu, Yueliang Qian

Shadow detection is critical for robust and reliable vision-based systems for traffic vision analysis. Shadow points are often misclassified as object points causing errors in localization,...

The effects of carbon black and stress-induced crystallization on the crack growth resistance of natural rubber (1990)

Liu, Hong

J-integral and tearing energy concepts were used to measure the fracture resistance of carbon black filled natural rubber. The J line integral around the crack tip of the non-elastic material was...

The effects of carbon black and stress-induced crystallization on the crack growth resistance of natural rubber (1990)

Liu, Hong

J-integral and tearing energy concepts were used to measure the fracture resistance of carbon black filled natural rubber. The J line integral around the crack tip of the non-elastic material was...

Activation of Apoptosis Signal-Regulating Kinase 1 (ASK1) by Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Factor 2 Requires Prior Dissociation of the ASK1 Inhibitor Thioredoxin†

Liu, Hong, Nishitoh, Hideki, Ichijo, Hidenori, Kyriakis, John M.

The stress-activated protein kinases (SAPKs, also called c-Jun NH2-terminal kinases) and the p38s, two mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) subgroups activated by cytokines of the tumor necrosis...

Distinct proteins encoded by alternative transcripts of the PURG gene, located contrapodal to WRN on chromosome 8, determined by differential termination/polyadenylation

Liu, Hong, Johnson, Edward M.

A gene encoding a new member of the Pur protein family, Purγ, has been detected upstream of, and contrapodal to, the gene encoding the Werner syndrome helicase, Wrn, at human chromosome band...

Maximal Induction of a Subset of Interferon Target Genes Requires the Chromatin-Remodeling Activity of the BAF Complex

Liu, Hong, Kang, Hyeog, Liu, Rui, Chen, Xin, Zhao, Keji

The mammalian SWI/SNF-like chromatin-remodeling BAF complex plays several important roles in controlling cell proliferation and differentiation. Interferons (IFNs) are key mediators of cellular...

Genome sequence of Shigella flexneri 2a: insights into pathogenicity through comparison with genomes of Escherichia coli K12 and O157

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...

ATIDB: Arabidopsis thaliana insertion database

Pan, Xiaokang, Liu, Hong, Clarke, Jonathan, Jones, Jonathan, Bevan, Mike, Stein, Lincoln

Insertional mutagenesis techniques, including transposon- and T-DNA-mediated mutagenesis, are key resources for systematic identification of gene function in the model plant species Arabidopsis...

Department of Defense Era of Hope Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA, 25–28 September 2002

Novaro, Virginia, Bascom, Jamie L, Liu, Hong, Mott, Joni D

The Era of Hope meeting addressed with a multidisciplinary approach the most critical issues in breast carcinogenesis. The issues that we summarize here include: a) the use of rodent models for the...

Maize-targeted mutagenesis: A knockout resource for maize

May, Bruce P., Liu, Hong, Vollbrecht, Erik, Senior, Lynn, Rabinowicz, Pablo D., Roh, Donna, ...

We describe an efficient system for site-selected transposon mutagenesis in maize. A total of 43,776 F1 plants were generated by using Robertson's Mutator (Mu) pollen parents and self-pollinated to...

An Alphavirus Replicon Particle Chimera Derived from Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and Sindbis Viruses Is a Potent Gene-Based Vaccine Delivery Vector

Perri, Silvia, Greer, Catherine E., Thudium, Kent, Doe, Barbara, Legg, Harold, Liu, Hong, ...

Alphavirus replicon particle-based vaccine vectors derived from Sindbis virus (SIN), Semliki Forest virus, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE) have been shown to induce robust...

Generation of hair cells by stepwise differentiation of embryonic stem cells

Li, Huawei, Roblin, Graham, Liu, Hong, Heller, Stefan

The increase in life expectancy is accompanied by the growing burden of chronic diseases. Hearing loss is perhaps the most prevalent of all chronic diseases. In addition to age-related hearing loss,...

Comparative Genomics Between Rice and Arabidopsis Shows Scant Collinearity in Gene Order

Liu, Hong, Sachidanandam, Ravi, Stein, Lincoln

We have investigated possible collinearity between the genomes of rice and Arabidopsis by comparing 126 annotated and mapped rice BAC sequences (∼20 Mb of sequence) with the annotated and complete...

The molecular response to reductive stress in LLC-PK1 renal epithelial cells: coordinate transcriptional regulation of gadd153 and grp78 genes by thiols

Halleck, Margaretann M., Holbrook, Nikki J., Skinner, Jeffrey, Liu, Hong, Stevens, James L.

Organic thiols are toxic to eukaryotic cells. Treatment of cells with thiols activates exporession of grp78, but it is not known if, like other forms of strees, there is a battery of stress response...

Bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in fibrinogen-null mice

Hattori, Noboru, Degen, Jay L., Sisson, Thomas H., Liu, Hong, Moore, Bethany B., Pandrangi, Raj G., ...

Mice deleted for the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) gene are relatively protected from developing pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycin. We hypothesized that PAI-1 deficiency reduces...

The Chromatin-Remodeling BAF Complex Mediates Cellular Antiviral Activities by Promoter Priming

Cui, Kairong, Tailor, Prafullakumar, Liu, Hong, Chen, Xin, Ozato, Keiko, Zhao, Keji

The elicitation of cellular antiviral activities is dependent on the rapid transcriptional activation of interferon (IFN) target genes. It is not clear how the interferon target promoters, which are...

Protein Profiling of Mouse Livers with Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α Activation

Chu, Ruiyin, Lim, Hanjo, Brumfield, Laura, Liu, Hong, Herring, Chris, Ulintz, Peter, ...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) is important in the induction of cell-specific pleiotropic responses, including the development of liver tumors, when it is chronically...

Transcriptional Adaptation of Shigella flexneri during Infection of Macrophages and Epithelial Cells: Insights into the Strategies of a Cytosolic Bacterial Pathogen

Lucchini, Sacha, Liu, Hong, Jin, Qi, Hinton, Jay C. D., Yu, Jun

Shigella flexneri, the etiologic agent of bacillary dysentery, invades epithelial cells as well as macrophages and dendritic cells and escapes into the cytosol soon after invasion. Dissection of the...

Outbreak of Infection Caused by Enterobacter cloacae Producing the Novel VEB-3 Beta-Lactamase in China

Jiang, Xiaofei, Ni, Yuxing, Jiang, Yanqun, Yuan, Feiyi, Han, Lizhong, Li, Ming, ...

Over a 4-month period from November 2002 to February 2003, 27 ceftazidime-resistant or cefotaxime-resistant nonrepetitive Enterobacter cloacae isolates were collected from 27 patients hospitalized at...

Enhanced Potency of Plasmid DNA Microparticle Human Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccines in Rhesus Macaques by Using a Priming-Boosting Regimen with Recombinant Proteins

Otten, Gillis R., Schaefer, Mary, Doe, Barbara, Liu, Hong, Srivastava, Indresh, Zur Megede, Jan, ...

DNA vaccines have been used widely in experimental primate models of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but their effectiveness has been limited. In this study, we evaluated three technologies for...

Dedifferentiation of Adult Human Myoblasts Induced by Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor In Vitro

Chen, Xiaoping, Mao, Zebin, Liu, Shuhong, Liu, Hong, Wang, Xuan, Wu, Haitao, ...

Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) is primarily known for its important cellular effects within the nervous system. However, recent studies indicate that its receptor can be highly expressed in...

The Endoplasmic Reticulum Lumenal Domain of the Adenovirus Type 2 E3-19K Protein Binds to Peptide-Filled and Peptide-Deficient HLA-A*1101 Molecules

Liu, Hong, Stafford, Walter F., Bouvier, Marlene

E3-19K is a type I membrane glycoprotein expressed by adenoviruses (Ads) to modulate host antiviral immune responses. We have developed an expression system for the endoplasmic reticulum lumenal...

Interleukin-21 Receptor Gene Induction in Human T Cells Is Mediated by T-Cell Receptor-Induced Sp1 Activity

Wu, Zheng, Kim, Hyoung-Pyo, Xue, Hai-Hui, Liu, Hong, Zhao, Keji, Leonard, Warren J.

Interleukin-21 (IL-21) plays important roles in regulating the immune response. IL-21 receptor (IL-21R) mRNA is expressed at a low level in human resting T cells but is rapidly induced by mitogenic...

Computational Simulations of Interactions of Scorpion Toxins with the Voltage-Gated Potassium Ion Channel

Yu, Kunqian, Fu, Wei, Liu, Hong, Luo, Xiaomin, Chen, Kai Xian, Ding, Jianping, ...

Based on a homology model of the Kv1.3 potassium channel, the recognitions of the six scorpion toxins, viz. agitoxin2, charybdotoxin, kaliotoxin, margatoxin, noxiustoxin, and Pandinus toxin, to the...

Expression and Immunogenicity of Sequence-Modified Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtype B pol and gagpol DNA Vaccines

Zur Megede, Jan, Otten, Gillis R., Doe, Barbara, Liu, Hong, Leung, Louisa, Ulmer, Jeffrey B., ...

Control of the worldwide AIDS pandemic may require not only preventive but also therapeutic immunization strategies. To meet this challenge, the next generation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1...

Conversion of Sphingobium chlorophenolicum ATCC 39723 to a Hexachlorobenzene Degrader by Metabolic Engineering

Yan, Da-Zhong, Liu, Hong, Zhou, Ning-Yi

The gene cassette (camA+ camB+ camC) encoding a cytochrome P-450cam variant was integrated into the nonessential gene pcpM of the pentachlorophenol degrader Sphingobium chlorophenolicum ATCC 39723 by...

Cooperative Activity of BRG1 and Z-DNA Formation in Chromatin Remodeling

Liu, Hong, Mulholland, Niveen, Fu, Haiqing, Zhao, Keji

The mammalian genome contains tens of thousands of CG and TG repeat sequences that have high potential to form the nonclassical left-handed double-helical Z-DNA structure. Previously we showed that...

The Function and Regulation of Budding Yeast Swe1 in Response to Interrupted DNA Synthesis

Liu, Hong, Wang, Yanchang

Periodically regulated cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) is required for DNA synthesis and mitosis. Hydroxyurea (HU) inhibits DNA synthesis by depleting dNTPs, the basic unit for DNA synthesis. HU...

Mechanism of Akt1 inhibition of breast cancer cell invasion reveals a protumorigenic role for TSC2

Liu, Hong, Radisky, Derek C., Nelson, Celeste M., Zhang, Hui, Fata, Jimmie E., Roth, Richard A., ...

Akt1 is frequently up-regulated in human tumors and has been shown to accelerate cell proliferation and to suppress programmed cell death; consequently, inhibition of the activity of Akt1 has been...

RNA interference in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

Liu, Hong, Cottrell, Tricia R, Pierini, Lynda M, Goldman, William E, Doering, Tamara L

Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic fungus responsible for serious disease in immunocompromised individuals. This organism has recently been developed as an experimental system, with initiation...

The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions

Angly, Florent E, Felts, Ben, Breitbart, Mya, Salamon, Peter, Edwards, Robert A, Carlson, Craig, ...

Viruses are the most common biological entities in the marine environment. There has not been a global survey of these viruses, and consequently, it is not known what types of viruses are in Earth's...

Inactivation of a Two-Component Signal Transduction System, SaeRS, Eliminates Adherence and Attenuates Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus

Liang, Xudong, Yu, Chuanxin, Sun, Junsong, Liu, Hong, Landwehr, Christina, Holmes, David, ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and animal pathogen. During infection, this organism not only is able to attach to and enter host cells by using its cell surface-associated factors but also...

Activation of Apoptosis Signal-Regulating Kinase 1 (ASK1) by Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor-Associated Factor 2 Requires Prior Dissociation of the ASK1 Inhibitor Thioredoxin†

Liu, Hong, Nishitoh, Hideki, Ichijo, Hidenori, Kyriakis, John M.

The stress-activated protein kinases (SAPKs, also called c-Jun NH2-terminal kinases) and the p38s, two mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) subgroups activated by cytokines of the tumor necrosis...

Distinct proteins encoded by alternative transcripts of the PURG gene, located contrapodal to WRN on chromosome 8, determined by differential termination/polyadenylation

Liu, Hong, Johnson, Edward M.

A gene encoding a new member of the Pur protein family, Purγ, has been detected upstream of, and contrapodal to, the gene encoding the Werner syndrome helicase, Wrn, at human chromosome band...

Maximal Induction of a Subset of Interferon Target Genes Requires the Chromatin-Remodeling Activity of the BAF Complex

Liu, Hong, Kang, Hyeog, Liu, Rui, Chen, Xin, Zhao, Keji

The mammalian SWI/SNF-like chromatin-remodeling BAF complex plays several important roles in controlling cell proliferation and differentiation. Interferons (IFNs) are key mediators of cellular...

Genome sequence of Shigella flexneri 2a: insights into pathogenicity through comparison with genomes of Escherichia coli K12 and O157

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...

ATIDB: Arabidopsis thaliana insertion database

Pan, Xiaokang, Liu, Hong, Clarke, Jonathan, Jones, Jonathan, Bevan, Mike, Stein, Lincoln

Insertional mutagenesis techniques, including transposon- and T-DNA-mediated mutagenesis, are key resources for systematic identification of gene function in the model plant species Arabidopsis...

Department of Defense Era of Hope Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA, 25–28 September 2002

Novaro, Virginia, Bascom, Jamie L, Liu, Hong, Mott, Joni D

The Era of Hope meeting addressed with a multidisciplinary approach the most critical issues in breast carcinogenesis. The issues that we summarize here include: a) the use of rodent models for the...

Expression and Immunogenicity of Sequence-Modified Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Subtype B pol and gagpol DNA Vaccines

Zur Megede, Jan, Otten, Gillis R., Doe, Barbara, Liu, Hong, Leung, Louisa, Ulmer, Jeffrey B., ...

Control of the worldwide AIDS pandemic may require not only preventive but also therapeutic immunization strategies. To meet this challenge, the next generation of human immunodeficiency virus type 1...

Maize-targeted mutagenesis: A knockout resource for maize

May, Bruce P., Liu, Hong, Vollbrecht, Erik, Senior, Lynn, Rabinowicz, Pablo D., Roh, Donna, ...

We describe an efficient system for site-selected transposon mutagenesis in maize. A total of 43,776 F1 plants were generated by using Robertson's Mutator (Mu) pollen parents and self-pollinated to...

An Alphavirus Replicon Particle Chimera Derived from Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and Sindbis Viruses Is a Potent Gene-Based Vaccine Delivery Vector

Perri, Silvia, Greer, Catherine E., Thudium, Kent, Doe, Barbara, Legg, Harold, Liu, Hong, ...

Alphavirus replicon particle-based vaccine vectors derived from Sindbis virus (SIN), Semliki Forest virus, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus (VEE) have been shown to induce robust...

Generation of hair cells by stepwise differentiation of embryonic stem cells

Li, Huawei, Roblin, Graham, Liu, Hong, Heller, Stefan

The increase in life expectancy is accompanied by the growing burden of chronic diseases. Hearing loss is perhaps the most prevalent of all chronic diseases. In addition to age-related hearing loss,...

Comparative Genomics Between Rice and Arabidopsis Shows Scant Collinearity in Gene Order

Liu, Hong, Sachidanandam, Ravi, Stein, Lincoln

We have investigated possible collinearity between the genomes of rice and Arabidopsis by comparing 126 annotated and mapped rice BAC sequences (∼20 Mb of sequence) with the annotated and complete...

The molecular response to reductive stress in LLC-PK1 renal epithelial cells: coordinate transcriptional regulation of gadd153 and grp78 genes by thiols

Halleck, Margaretann M., Holbrook, Nikki J., Skinner, Jeffrey, Liu, Hong, Stevens, James L.

Organic thiols are toxic to eukaryotic cells. Treatment of cells with thiols activates exporession of grp78, but it is not known if, like other forms of strees, there is a battery of stress response...

Bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in fibrinogen-null mice

Hattori, Noboru, Degen, Jay L., Sisson, Thomas H., Liu, Hong, Moore, Bethany B., Pandrangi, Raj G., ...

Mice deleted for the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) gene are relatively protected from developing pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycin. We hypothesized that PAI-1 deficiency reduces...

The Chromatin-Remodeling BAF Complex Mediates Cellular Antiviral Activities by Promoter Priming

Cui, Kairong, Tailor, Prafullakumar, Liu, Hong, Chen, Xin, Ozato, Keiko, Zhao, Keji

The elicitation of cellular antiviral activities is dependent on the rapid transcriptional activation of interferon (IFN) target genes. It is not clear how the interferon target promoters, which are...

Protein Profiling of Mouse Livers with Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α Activation

Chu, Ruiyin, Lim, Hanjo, Brumfield, Laura, Liu, Hong, Herring, Chris, Ulintz, Peter, ...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α (PPARα) is important in the induction of cell-specific pleiotropic responses, including the development of liver tumors, when it is chronically...

Transcriptional Adaptation of Shigella flexneri during Infection of Macrophages and Epithelial Cells: Insights into the Strategies of a Cytosolic Bacterial Pathogen

Lucchini, Sacha, Liu, Hong, Jin, Qi, Hinton, Jay C. D., Yu, Jun

Shigella flexneri, the etiologic agent of bacillary dysentery, invades epithelial cells as well as macrophages and dendritic cells and escapes into the cytosol soon after invasion. Dissection of the...

Outbreak of Infection Caused by Enterobacter cloacae Producing the Novel VEB-3 Beta-Lactamase in China

Jiang, Xiaofei, Ni, Yuxing, Jiang, Yanqun, Yuan, Feiyi, Han, Lizhong, Li, Ming, ...

Over a 4-month period from November 2002 to February 2003, 27 ceftazidime-resistant or cefotaxime-resistant nonrepetitive Enterobacter cloacae isolates were collected from 27 patients hospitalized at...

Enhanced Potency of Plasmid DNA Microparticle Human Immunodeficiency Virus Vaccines in Rhesus Macaques by Using a Priming-Boosting Regimen with Recombinant Proteins

Otten, Gillis R., Schaefer, Mary, Doe, Barbara, Liu, Hong, Srivastava, Indresh, Zur Megede, Jan, ...

DNA vaccines have been used widely in experimental primate models of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but their effectiveness has been limited. In this study, we evaluated three technologies for...

Dedifferentiation of Adult Human Myoblasts Induced by Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor In Vitro

Chen, Xiaoping, Mao, Zebin, Liu, Shuhong, Liu, Hong, Wang, Xuan, Wu, Haitao, ...

Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) is primarily known for its important cellular effects within the nervous system. However, recent studies indicate that its receptor can be highly expressed in...

The Endoplasmic Reticulum Lumenal Domain of the Adenovirus Type 2 E3-19K Protein Binds to Peptide-Filled and Peptide-Deficient HLA-A*1101 Molecules

Liu, Hong, Stafford, Walter F., Bouvier, Marlene

E3-19K is a type I membrane glycoprotein expressed by adenoviruses (Ads) to modulate host antiviral immune responses. We have developed an expression system for the endoplasmic reticulum lumenal...

Interleukin-21 Receptor Gene Induction in Human T Cells Is Mediated by T-Cell Receptor-Induced Sp1 Activity

Wu, Zheng, Kim, Hyoung-Pyo, Xue, Hai-Hui, Liu, Hong, Zhao, Keji, Leonard, Warren J.

Interleukin-21 (IL-21) plays important roles in regulating the immune response. IL-21 receptor (IL-21R) mRNA is expressed at a low level in human resting T cells but is rapidly induced by mitogenic...

Computational Simulations of Interactions of Scorpion Toxins with the Voltage-Gated Potassium Ion Channel

Yu, Kunqian, Fu, Wei, Liu, Hong, Luo, Xiaomin, Chen, Kai Xian, Ding, Jianping, ...

Based on a homology model of the Kv1.3 potassium channel, the recognitions of the six scorpion toxins, viz. agitoxin2, charybdotoxin, kaliotoxin, margatoxin, noxiustoxin, and Pandinus toxin, to the...

Mechanism of Akt1 inhibition of breast cancer cell invasion reveals a protumorigenic role for TSC2

Liu, Hong, Radisky, Derek C., Nelson, Celeste M., Zhang, Hui, Fata, Jimmie E., Roth, Richard A., ...

Akt1 is frequently up-regulated in human tumors and has been shown to accelerate cell proliferation and to suppress programmed cell death; consequently, inhibition of the activity of Akt1 has been...

Conversion of Sphingobium chlorophenolicum ATCC 39723 to a Hexachlorobenzene Degrader by Metabolic Engineering

Yan, Da-Zhong, Liu, Hong, Zhou, Ning-Yi

The gene cassette (camA+ camB+ camC) encoding a cytochrome P-450cam variant was integrated into the nonessential gene pcpM of the pentachlorophenol degrader Sphingobium chlorophenolicum ATCC 39723 by...

Cooperative Activity of BRG1 and Z-DNA Formation in Chromatin Remodeling

Liu, Hong, Mulholland, Niveen, Fu, Haiqing, Zhao, Keji

The mammalian genome contains tens of thousands of CG and TG repeat sequences that have high potential to form the nonclassical left-handed double-helical Z-DNA structure. Previously we showed that...

RNA interference in the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.

Liu, Hong, Cottrell, Tricia R, Pierini, Lynda M, Goldman, William E, Doering, Tamara L

Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic fungus responsible for serious disease in immunocompromised individuals. This organism has recently been developed as an experimental system, with initiation...

The Function and Regulation of Budding Yeast Swe1 in Response to Interrupted DNA Synthesis

Liu, Hong, Wang, Yanchang

Periodically regulated cyclin-dependent kinase (Cdk) is required for DNA synthesis and mitosis. Hydroxyurea (HU) inhibits DNA synthesis by depleting dNTPs, the basic unit for DNA synthesis. HU...

Inactivation of a Two-Component Signal Transduction System, SaeRS, Eliminates Adherence and Attenuates Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus

Liang, Xudong, Yu, Chuanxin, Sun, Junsong, Liu, Hong, Landwehr, Christina, Holmes, David, ...

Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and animal pathogen. During infection, this organism not only is able to attach to and enter host cells by using its cell surface-associated factors but also...

The Marine Viromes of Four Oceanic Regions

Angly, Florent E, Felts, Ben, Breitbart, Mya, Salamon, Peter, Edwards, Robert A, Carlson, Craig, ...

Viruses are the most common biological entities in the marine environment. There has not been a global survey of these viruses, and consequently, it is not known what types of viruses are in Earth's...

So What Orders Do Informed Traders Use?

Ron Kaniel, Hong Liu

We analyze informed traders' equilibrium choice of limit or market orders. We show that even after incorporating an order's price impact, not only may informed traders prefer to use limit orders, but...

Managerial Preferences, Corporate Governance, and Financial Structure

Hong Liu, Jianjun Miao

Conflicts of interest between insiders (e.g, controlling shareholders) and outsiders (e.g., minority shareholders) are central to the analysis of modern corporation. In an integrated continuous-time...

The Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans Expresses Two Functional GDP-Mannose Transporters with Distinct Expression Patterns and Roles in Capsule Synthesis▿

Cottrell, Tricia R., Griffith, Cara L., Liu, Hong, Nenninger, Ashley A., Doering, Tamara L.

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen that is responsible for life-threatening disease, particularly in the context of compromised immunity. This organism makes extensive use of mannose in...

Frequency-domain equalization of single carrier transmissions over doubly selective channels

Liu, Hong

Wireless communication systems targeting at broadband and mobile transmissions commonly face the challenge of fading channels that are both time and frequency selective. Therefore, design of...

Molecular Characterization of a Novel ortho-Nitrophenol Catabolic Gene Cluster in Alcaligenes sp. Strain NyZ215▿

Xiao, Yi, Zhang, Jun-Jie, Liu, Hong, Zhou, Ning-Yi

Alcaligenes sp. strain NyZ215 was isolated for its ability to grow on ortho-nitrophenol (ONP) as the sole source of carbon, nitrogen, and energy and was shown to degrade ONP via a catechol...

New Locus Important for Myxococcus Social Motility and Development▿

Zhang, Cui-ying, Cai, Ke, Liu, Hong, Zhang, Yong, Pan, Hong-wei, Wang, Bing, ...

The mts locus in salt-tolerant Myxococcus fulvus HW-1 was found to be critical for gliding motility, fruiting-body formation, and sporulation. The homologous genes in Myxococcus xanthus are also...

A novel acylglycerol kinase that produces lysophosphatidic acid modulates cross talk with EGFR in prostate cancer cells

Bektas, Meryem, Payne, Shawn G., Liu, Hong, Goparaju, Sravan, Milstien, Sheldon, Spiegel, Sarah

The bioactive phospholipids, lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) and phosphatidic acid (PA), regulate pivotal processes related to the pathogenesis of cancer. Here, we report characterization of a novel...

Polarity and proliferation are controlled by distinct signaling pathways downstream of PI3-kinase in breast epithelial tumor cells

Liu, Hong, Radisky, Derek C., Wang, Fei, Bissell, Mina J.

Loss of tissue polarity and increased proliferation are the characteristic alterations of the breast tumor phenotype. To investigate these processes, we used a three-dimensional (3D) culture system...

Enhanced cell-free protein expression by fusion with immunoglobulin Cκ domain

Palmer, Elizabeth, Liu, Hong, Khan, Farid, Taussig, Michael J., He, Mingyue

While cell-free systems are increasingly used for protein expression in structural and functional studies, several proteins are difficult to express or expressed only at low levels in cell-free...

Effects of mutation at the D-JH junction on affinity, specificity, and idiotypy of anti-progesterone antibody DB3

He, Mingyue, Hamon, Maureen, Liu, Hong, Corper, Adam L., Taussig, Michael J.

The crystal structures of the Fab′ fragment of the anti-progesterone monoclonal antibody DB3 and its complexes with steroid haptens have shown that the D-JH junctional residue TrpH100 is a key...

Impacts of Filtration on Contrast-Detail Detectability of an X-ray Imaging System

Zhang, Qirong, Rong, John, Wu, Xizeng, Li, Yuhua, Chen, Wei R., Liu, Hong

The purpose of this study is to investigate the impacts of added filtration on the contrast-detail detectability of a digital X-ray imaging system for small animal studies. A digital X-ray imaging...

Optimal Consumption and Investment with Transaction Costs and Multiple Risky Assets

Hong Liu

We consider the optimal intertemporal consumption and investment policy of a constant absolute risk aversion (CARA) investor who faces fixed and proportional transaction costs when trading multiple...

Rational Inattention and Portfolio Selection

LIXIN HUANG, HONG LIU

Costly information acquisition makes it rational for investors to obtain important economic news with only limited frequency or limited accuracy. We show that this rational inattention to important...

Liquidity Premia and Transaction Costs

BONG-GYU JANG, HYENG KEUN KOO, HONG LIU, MARK LOEWENSTEIN

Standard literature concludes that transaction costs only have a "second-order" effect on liquidity premia. We show that this conclusion depends crucially on the assumption of a constant investment...

Optimal Portfolio Selection with Transaction Costs and Finite Horizons

Hong Liu, Mark Loewenstein

We examine the optimal trading strategy for a CRRA investor who maximizes the expected utility of wealth on a finite date and faces transaction costs. Closed-form solutions are obtained when this...

Structure-Activity Relationship and Substrate-Dependent Phenomena in Effects of Ginsenosides on Activities of Drug-Metabolizing P450 Enzymes

Hao, Miao, Zhao, Yuqing, Chen, Peizhan, Huang, He, Liu, Hong, Jiang, Hualiang, ...

Ginseng, a traditional herbal medicine, may interact with several co-administered drugs in clinical settings, and ginsenosides, the major active components of ginseng, may be responsible for these...

The Coordination of Centromere Replication, Spindle Formation, and Kinetochore–Microtubule Interaction in Budding Yeast

Liu, Hong, Liang, Fengshan, Jin, Fengzhi, Wang, Yanchang

The kinetochore is a protein complex that assembles on centromeric DNA to mediate chromosome–microtubule interaction. Most eukaryotic cells form the spindle and establish kinetochore–microtubule...

In Vivo Analysis of Aspergillus fumigatus Developmental Gene Expression Determined by Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR▿

Gravelat, Fabrice N., Doedt, Thomas, Chiang, Lisa Y., Liu, Hong, Filler, Scott G., Patterson, Thomas F., ...

Very little is known about the developmental stages of Aspergillus fumigatus during invasive aspergillosis. We performed real-time reverse transcription-PCR analysis on lung samples from mice with...

Association of a Functional Cytochrome P450 4F2 Haplotype with Urinary 20-HETE and Hypertension

Liu, Hong, Zhao, Yanyan, Nie, Dong, Shi, Jingpu, Fu, Lingyu, Li, Yan, ...

Cytochrome P450 4F2 (CYP4F2) catalyzes the ω-hydroxylation of arachidonic acid to 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE), a natriuretic and vasoactive eicosanoid that participates in the...

Temporal control of the dephosphorylation of Cdk substrates by mitotic exit pathways in budding yeast

Jin, Fengzhi, Liu, Hong, Liang, Fengshan, Rizkallah, Raed, Hurt, Myra M., Wang, Yanchang

The temporal phosphorylation of cell cycle-related proteins by cyclin-dependent kinases (Cdks) is critical for the correct order of cell cycle events. In budding yeast, CDC28 encodes the only Cdk and...

Line-Source Based X-Ray Tomography

Bharkhada, Deepak, Yu, Hengyong, Liu, Hong, Plemmons, Robert, Wang, Ge

Current computed tomography (CT) scanners, including micro-CT scanners, utilize a point x-ray source. As we target higher and higher spatial resolutions, the reduced x-ray focal spot size limits the...

Metagenomic analysis indicates that stressors induce production of herpes-like viruses in the coral Porites compressa

Vega Thurber, Rebecca L., Barott, Katie L., Hall, Dana, Liu, Hong, Rodriguez-Mueller, Beltran, Desnues, Christelle, ...

During the last several decades corals have been in decline and at least one-third of all coral species are now threatened with extinction. Coral disease has been a major contributor to this threat,...

Has the use of physician gatekeepers declined among HMOs? Evidence from the United States

Hai Fang, Hong Liu, John Rizzo

Physician gatekeeper, Health maintenance organization, Physician behavior, I11, I18,

Managerial Preferences, Corporate Governance, and Financial Structure

Hong Liu, Jianjun Miao

Conflicts of interest between insiders (e.g, controlling shareholders) and outsiders (e.g., minority shareholders) are central to the analysis of modern corporation. In an integrated continuous-time...

Construction of Genetic Linkage Maps and Comparative Genome Analysis of Catfish Using Gene-Associated Markers

Kucuktas, Huseyin, Wang, Shaolin, Li, Ping, He, Chongbo, Xu, Peng, Sha, Zhenxia, ...

A genetic linkage map of the channel catfish genome (N = 29) was constructed using EST-based microsatellite and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers in an interspecific reference family. A...

Transcriptional activation of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 6 by 17β-estradiol in SaOS-2 cells

Zhao, Yu-yan, Guo, Lei, Zhao, Xiao-juan, Liu, Hong, Lei, Tian, Ma, Dong-jie, ...

Osteoblasts can synthesize the insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) and the IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs), which may either enhance or attenuate IGF-stimulated bone cell proliferation. Since estrogen...

Identification and characterization of 27 conserved microRNAs in citrus

Song, Changnian, Fang, Jinggui, Li, Xiaoying, Liu, Hong, Thomas Chao, C.

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of non-protein-coding small RNAs. Considering the conservation of many miRNA genes in different plant genomes, the identification of miRNAs from non-model organisms is...

Spontaneous Diabetes in Hemizygous Human Amylin Transgenic Mice That Developed Neither Islet Amyloid nor Peripheral Insulin Resistance

Wong, Winifred P.S., Scott, David W., Chuang, Chia-Lin, Zhang, Shaoping, Liu, Hong, Ferreira, Athena, ...

OBJECTIVES—We sought to 1) Determine whether soluble-misfolded amylin or insoluble-fibrillar amylin may cause or result from diabetes in human amylin transgenic mice and 2) determine the role, if...

Seawater-Regulated Genes for Two-Component Systems and Outer Membrane Proteins in Myxococcus▿ †

Pan, Hong-wei, Liu, Hong, Liu, Ting, Li, Cheng-yun, Li, Zhi-feng, Cai, Ke, ...

When salt-tolerant Myxococcus cells are moved to a seawater environment, they change their growth, morphology, and developmental behavior. Outer membrane proteins and signal transduction pathways may...

Identification and Characterization of Catabolic para-Nitrophenol 4-Monooxygenase and para-Benzoquinone Reductase from Pseudomonas sp. Strain WBC-3▿

Zhang, Jun-Jie, Liu, Hong, Xiao, Yi, Zhang, Xian-En, Zhou, Ning-Yi

Pseudomonas sp. strain WBC-3 utilizes para-nitrophenol (PNP) as a sole source of carbon, nitrogen, and energy. In order to identify the genes involved in this utilization, we cloned and sequenced a...

A convenient alignment approach for x-ray imaging experiments based on laser positioning devices

Zhang, Da, Donovan, Molly, Wu, Xizeng, Liu, Hong

This study presents a two-laser alignment approach for facilitating the precise alignment of various imaging and measuring components with respect to the x-ray beam. The first laser constantly...

The Molecular Function of the Yeast Polo-like Kinase Cdc5 in Cdc14 Release during Early Anaphase

Liang, Fengshan, Jin, Fengzhi, Liu, Hong, Wang, Yanchang

In the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cdc14 is sequestered within the nucleolus before anaphase entry through its association with Net1/Cfi1, a nucleolar protein. Protein phosphatase...