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...
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...
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...
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...
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)
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...
Can radiographic measurements of degenerative lumbar scoliosis predict clinical symptoms? (2009)
Ploumi, Avraam, Liu, Hong, Mehbod, Amir, Transfeldt, Ensor
No abstract available.
Bioaugmentation of a 4-chloronitrobenzene contaminated soil with Pseudomonas putida ZWL73 (2009)
Niu, Gui-Lan, Zhang, Jun-Jie, Zhao, Shuo, Liu, Hong, Boon, Nico, Zhou, Ning-Yi
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...
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...
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...
Statistical Methods for Joint Data Mining of Gene Expression and DNA Sequence Database (2008)
Marla D. Curran, Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Hong Liu, Aventis Pharmaceuticals
com
A Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization formula for quasinormal frequencies of AdS black holes (2008)
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...
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)
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...
Multisensory Five-Finger Dexterous Hand: The DLR/HIT Hand II (2008)
Liu, Hong, Wu, K., Meusel, Peter, Seitz, Nikolaus, Hirzinger, Gerd, Jin, M.H., ...
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...
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)
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...
The Modular Multisensory DLR-HIT-Hand: Hardware and Software Architecture (2008)
Liu, Hong, Meusel, Peter, Hirzinger, Gerd, Jin, Minghe, Liu, Yiwei, Xie, Zongwu
Meson widths from string worldsheet instantons (2008)
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...
Segmental Duplications Containing Tandem Repeated Genes Encoding (2008)
Putative Deubiquitinating Enzymes, Hong Liu, Li Li, Asher Zilberstein, Chang S Hahn
enzyme
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...
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)
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...
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...
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...
The Journal of Cell Biology JCB Article (2008)
Hong Liu, Derek C. Radisky, Fei Wang, Mina J. Bissell
this article contains supplemental material
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...
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)
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)
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)
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...
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)
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)
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....
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....
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...
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...
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...
Application of p-adic cyclic codes in error-correction coding / (2006)
Thesis (M.S.) - Towson University, 2006.
Mingyue He, Maureen Hamon, Hong Liu, Adam L. Corper, Michael J. Taussig, Email Alerting, ...
junction on affinity, specificity, and
So What Orders Do Informed Traders Use? (2006)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)
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...
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...
Thesis (Ph.D. in Comparative Biochemistry)--University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2005.
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)
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,...
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...
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...
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)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Abstract — Frequency-domain equalization (FDE) offers an attractive alternative to time-domain equalization in systems that communicate over large-delay-spread channels. Traditionally, FDE...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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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...
Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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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)
A genetic semi-supervised fuzzy clustering algorithm is proposed, which can learn text classifier from labeled and unlabeled documents.
Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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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...
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...
Supporting Creative Configuration Design in a Computer Aided Design Environment (2003)
Liu, Hong, Liu, Xiyu, Frazer, John H.
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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...
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Knowledge Based Collaborative Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Knowledge Based Collaborative Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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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...
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Knowledge Based Collaborative Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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Separation of advanced glycation end products (AGES) formed by human serum with glucosamine / (2002)
Typescript.
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Knowledge Based Collaborative Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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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...
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Knowledge Based Collaborative Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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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...
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Knowledge Based Collaborative Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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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...
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Knowledge Based Collaborative Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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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...
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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Optimal Portfolio Selection with Transaction Costs and Finite Horizons (2002)
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...
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...
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...
Evolutionary Design in a Multi-Agent Design Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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A Kind of Evolutionary Design Approach in Distributed Environment (2002)
Liu, Hong, Tang, Ming Xi, Frazer, John H.
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Social Capital and Business Networking : A Case Study of Modern Chinese Transnationalism (2001)
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*-Trek III: The Search for Ramond-Ramond Couplings (2001)
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)
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)
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...
Rate-distortion optimization of H.263 video encoder. (2001)
Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Ottawa, 2001.
Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering.
Titre de la microfiche: Cloning and characterization of two forms of type 7 17 beta-...
Thèse (M.Sc.)--Université Laval, 2001.
*-Trek II: *_n Operations, Open Wilson Lines and the Seiberg-Witten Map (2000)
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)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)
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)
Thesis (M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering)--University of California, Irvine, 2000.
Molecular dynamics studies of polymers in solution and at interfaces / (2000)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Kansas State University, 2000.
The Clifford analysis techniques for spherical PDE / (2000)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2000.
Synthesis of "Imidacene" and exploratory study of its properties and potential applications / (2000)
Thesis (M.S.)--East Carolina University, 2000.
この論文は国立情報学研究所の学術雑誌公開支援事業により電子化されました。
Dilaton - fixed scalar correlators and AdS_5 x S^5 - SYM correspondence (1999)
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)
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)
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 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)
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)
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)
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)
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...
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)
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)
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)
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...
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...
Department: Pharmacology.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University, 1998.
Static distortions in uniaxial and biaxial nematics /--by Hong Liu. (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Kent State University, 1998.
Static distortions in uniaxial and biaxial nematics--[microform] /--by Hong Liu. (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Kent State University, 1998.
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Vita.
Lagrangian modelling of chemical reaction in homogeneous turbulence / (1998)
Submitted to the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Toledo, 1998.
Department: Pharmacology.
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)
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...
Time domain characterization of VLSI interconnects /--Hong Liu. (1997)
Department: Electrical Engineering.
Time domain characterization of VLSI interconnects--[microform] /--Hong Liu. (1997)
Department: Electrical Engineering.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Clarkson University, 1997.
Ecological consequences of seed aging and inbreeding in Hibiscus moscheutos /--Hong Liu. (1997)
Thesis (M.S.)--Clemson University, 1997
Agricultural fibers as coalescing agents in oily water treatment / (1997)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Houston, 1997.
Validating Protocol Composition for Progress by Parallel Step Reachability Analysis (1997)
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...
Time domain characterization of VLSI interconnects (1997)
Department: Electrical Engineering.
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)
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)
Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 1996.
Utility planning and demand-side management / (1996)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cincinnati, 1996.
Subband-domain optimal filtering : a thesis / (1996)
Graduate School of Engineering, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Generalized fair reachability analysis for cyclic protocols (1996)
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)
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...
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)
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)
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...
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)
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...
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...
The China metaphor : Indonesian intellectuals and the PRC, 1945-1965. (1995)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio University, August, 1995.
User-oriented congestion control method in B-ISDN/ATM network /--by Hong Liu. (1995)
Degree granted by Dept. of Computer Science.
The China metaphor : Indonesian intellectuals and the PRC, 1949-1965 / (1995)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio University, 1995.
Industrial relations in the four newly industrializing countries in East Asia /--by Hong Liu. (1994)
Vita.
Typescript.
Thesis (M.S.)--Arizona State University, 1994.
Industrial relations in the four newly industrializing countries in East Asia /--by Hong Liu. (1994)
Vita.
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...
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,...
Buddistische und christliche Ideen im Siddhartha von Hermann Hesse /--by Hong Liu. (1993)
Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Tech University, 1993.
Thesis (M.A.)--Colorado State University, 1993.
Digital fluorscopy with an optically coupled charge-coupled device. (1992)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Medical University of South Carolina, 1992.
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...
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 measurement of the contractile force of fibroblasts cultured in a collagen gel / (1990)
Typescript.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BMP4 signaling is involved in the generation of inner ear sensory epithelia
Li, Huawei, Corrales, Carleton E, Wang, Zhengmin, Zhao, Yanling, Wang, Yucheng, Liu, Hong, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
BMP4 signaling is involved in the generation of inner ear sensory epithelia
Li, Huawei, Corrales, Carleton E, Wang, Zhengmin, Zhao, Yanling, Wang, Yucheng, Liu, Hong, ...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
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?
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
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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
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
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...
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...
Quality assessment parameters for EST-derived SNPs from catfish
Wang, Shaolin, Sha, Zhenxia, Sonstegard, Tad S, Liu, Hong, Xu, Peng, Somridhivej, Benjaporn, ...
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...
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...
Transforming growth factor-β1 impairs neuropathic pain through pleiotropic effects
Echeverry, Stefania, Shi, Xiang Qun, Haw, Alexandra, Liu, Hong, Zhang, Zhong-wei, Zhang, Ji
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Li, Huawei, Liu, Hong, Corrales, C Eduardo, Risner, Jessica R, Forrester, Jeff, Holt, Jeffrey R, ...
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...