Drop weight impact on hybrid-fiber ECC blast/shelter panels (2009)
J. Zhang, M. Maalej, S. T. Quek, Y. Y. Teo, Dr Jing Zhang
This paper presents the results of an experimental study to evaluate the damage and failure mode of hybrid-fiber engineered cementitious composite (ECC) panels caused by large projectiles or...
Development of FTK architecture: a fast hardware track trigger for the ATLAS detector (2009)
Annovi, A., Beretta, M., Bossini, E., Boveia, A., Brubaker, E., Canelli, F., ...
The Fast Tracker (FTK) is a proposed upgrade to the ATLAS trigger system that will operate at full Level-1 output rates and provide high quality tracks reconstructed over the entire detector by the...
High expression of the circadian gene mPer2 diminishes the radiosensitivity f NIH 3T3 cells (2009)
Chang,L., Liu,Y.Y., Zhu,B., Li,Y., Hua,H., Wang,Y.H., ...
Period2 is a core circadian gene, which not only maintains the circadian rhythm of cells but also regulates some organic functions. We investigated the effects of mPeriod2 (mPer2) expression on...
First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We report on a matched-filter search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic string cusps using LIGO data from the fourth science run (S4) which took place in February and March 2005. No...
Adaptive particle swarm optimization (2009)
Zhan, Z-H., Zhang, J., Li, Y., Chung, H.S-H.
An adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) that features better search efficiency than classical particle swarm optimization (PSO) is presented. More importantly, it can perform a global search...
Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with S5 LIGO data (2009)
Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific, Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., ...
We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search ephemerides overlapping the run...
D. Ackley, G. Hinton, T. Sejnowski, E. Farguell, F. Mazzanti, E. Gómez-ramírez, ...
HOD process. Therefore, there is a tradeoff between memory and computing time. HOD provides a direct solution for the learning algorithm. In comparison, tuning the MC algorithm to provide lower error...
Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
According to general relativity a perturbed black hole will settle to a stationary configuration by the emission of gravitational radiation. Such a perturbation will occur, for example, in the...
Denyer, Morgan C.T., Jamil, M.M. Abdul, Twigg, Peter C., Youseffi, M., Britland, Stephen T., Liu, S., ...
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Two Types of Dynamic Cool Coronal Structures Observed with STEREO and HINODE (2009)
Solar coronal loops show significant plasma motions during their formation and eruption stages. Dynamic cool coronal structures, on the other hand, are often observed to propagate along coronal...
Sessi, V., Kuhnke, K., Enders, A., Zhang, J., Bencok, P., Bornemann, S., ...
The growth dynamics of submonolayer coverages of Cobalt during buffer layer assisted growth on Ag(111) and Pt(111) substrates is investigated by variable temperature scanning tunneling microscopy in...
Hyperfine Interactions and Spin Transport in Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Heterostructures (2009)
Chan, M. K., Hu, Q. O., Zhang, J., Kondo, T., Palmstrøm, C. J., Crowell, P. A.
Measurements and modeling of electron spin transport and dynamics are used to characterize hyperfine interactions in Fe/GaAs devices with $n$-GaAs channels. Ga and As nuclei are polarized by...
Collaboration, LIGO Scientific, Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., ...
We present the results of a search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with 137 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were detected by satellite-based gamma-ray experiments during the fifth LIGO science...
Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 Storm (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We present the results of a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with the 2006 March 29 SGR 1900+14 storm. A new search method is used, "stacking" the GW data around...
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith , P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, of total mass between 2 and 35M_☉, using LIGO observations between November 14, 2006 and May 18, 2007. No...
Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
This paper reports on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from sources such as deformed isolated rapidly spinning neutron stars. The analysis uses 840 hours of data from 66 days of the...
Do Surfactant Proteins Have Prognostic Value in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease? (2009)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an important problem of public health worldwide, with high morbidity and mortality, and with huge health economic burdens. There is a paucity of...
Intense high contrast femtosecond K-shell x-ray source from laser-driven Ar clusters (2009)
Chen, L. M., Liu, F., Wang, W. M., Kando, M., Lin, X. X., Ma, J. L., ...
Bright Ar K-shell x-ray with very little background has been generated using an Ar clustering gas jet target irradiated with an 800 mJ, 30 fs ultra-high contrast laser, with the measured flux of 1.1...
Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state (2009)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen , B., Allen, G., ...
We introduce a novel cooling technique capable of approaching the quantum ground state of a kilogram-scale system—an interferometric gravitational wave detector. The detectors of the Laser...
LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P, Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and study gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of GWs holds the promise of...
Statistical Properties of a 2D Granular Material Subjected to Cyclic Shear (2009)
Zhang, J., Majmudar, T. S., Tordesillas, A., Behringer, R. P.
This work focuses on the evolution of structure and stress for an experimental system of 2D photoelastic particles that is subjected to multiple cycles of pure shear. Throughout this process, we...
Jin, H. Y., Zhang, J., Zhang, Z. F.
The SU(3)-symmetry breaking effects in mass splitting in $J^{P}=0^{-}$ as well as in $J^{P}=0^{+}$ channel of $D$ multiplet are analyzed by QCD sum rule approach. We find the splitting in...
Fuzzy Virtual Coupling Design for High Performance Haptic Display (2009)
Abstract. Conventional virtual coupling is designed mainly for stabilizing the virtual environment (VE) and it thus may have poor performances. This paper proposes a novel adaptive virtual coupling...
Adrian Ioinovici, Senior Member, J. Zhang
Abstract—This paper presents a technique for calculating the ac line-to-output and control-to-output transfer characteristics of dc/dc converters, in which the time instants switching from one...
Novel Leaning Feed-Forward Controller for Accurate Robot Trajectory Tracking (2009)
D. Bi, G. L. Wang, J. Zhang, Q. Xue
Abstract. This paper presents a novel learning feed-forward controller design approach for accurate robotics trajectory tracking. Based on the joint nonlinear dynamics characteristics, a model-free...
The CMS barrel calorimeter response to particle beams from 2 to 350 GeV/c (2009)
Abdullin, S., Abramov, V., Acharya, B., Adam, N., Adams, M., Adzic, P., ...
Sub-hertz frequency stabilization of a commercial diode laser (2009)
Zhao, Y. N., Zhang, J., Stuhler, J., Schuricht, G., Lison, F., Lu, Z. H., ...
We report ultra-stable locking of a commercially available extended cavity diode laser to a vibration-insensitive high finesse Fabry-Perot cavity. A servo bandwidth of 2 MHz is demonstrated. The...
Response of the solar atmosphere to magnetic field evolution in a coronal hole region (2009)
Yang, S. H., Zhang, J., Jin, C. L., Li, L. P., Duan, H. Y.
Methods. We study an equatorial CH observed simultaneously by HINODE and STEREO on July 27, 2007. The HINODE/SP maps are adopted to derive the physical parameters of the photosphere and to research...
View-Oriented Parallel Programming on CMT processors (2009)
J. Zhang, W. Chen, W. Zheng, Z. Huang, Q. Huang, J. Zhang, ...
View-Oriented Parallel Programming (VOPP) is a novel parallel programming model which uses views for communication between multiple processes. With the introduction of views, mutual exclusion and...
A vibration-insensitive optical cavity and absolute determination of its ultrahigh stability (2009)
Zhao, Y. N., Zhang, J., Stejskal, A., Liu, T., Elman, V., Lu, Z. H., ...
We use the three-cornered-hat method to evaluate the absolute frequency stabilities of three different ultrastable reference cavities, one of which has a vibration-insensitive design that does not...
The CMS barrel calorimeter response to particle beams from 2 to 350 GeV/c (2009)
Abdullin, S., Abramov, V., Acharya, B., Adam, N., Adams, M., Adzic, P., ...
The response of the CMS barrel calorimeter (electromagnetic plus hadronic) to hadrons, electrons and muons over a wide momentum range from 2 to 350 GeV/c has been measured. To our knowledge, this is...
Light scalar mesons in QCD sum rules with inclusion of instantons (2009)
Zhang, J., Jin, H. Y., Zhang, Z. F., Steele, T. G., Lu, D. H.
The light scalar meson nonet above 1 GeV ({\it i.e.\}the $a_{0}$, $K^{\ast}_{0}$ and $f_{0}$) are studied within the framework of QCD sum rules. In conventional QCD sum rules, the calculated masses...
All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50–1100 Hz and with the frequency’s time derivative in the range -5 x 10^(-9)–0...
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
The ZZ production cross section is measured from a data sample corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 452 pb−1, collected by the ALEPH experiment at LEP at centre-of-mass energies from...
Inferring Climate System Properties Using a Computer Model (2009)
B. Sansó, C. E. Forest, D. Zantedeschi, J. Gattiker, I. Jeliazkov, D. J. Poirier, ...
Abstract. A method is presented to estimate the probability distributions of climate system properties based on a hierarchical Bayesian model. At the base of the model, we use simulations of a...
Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data (2009)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P, Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
A search for periodic gravitational waves, from sources such as isolated rapidly spinning neutron stars, was carried out using 510 h of data from the fourth LIGO science run (S4). The search was for...
Cumming, S.A., Chuen-Im, T., Zhang, J., Graham, S.V.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) L1 and L2 capsid protein expression is restricted to the granular layer of infected, stratified epithelia and is regulated at least partly at post-transcriptional levels....
Cumming, S.A., Chuen-Im, T., Zhang, J., Graham, S.V.
Human papillomavirus (HPV) L1 and L2 capsid protein expression is restricted to the granular layer of infected, stratified epithelia and is regulated at least partly at post-transcriptional levels....
The Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data (2009)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
A search for periodic gravitational waves, from sources such as isolated rapidly-spinning neutron stars, was carried out using 510 hours of data from the fourth LIGO science run (S4). The search was...
Automatic link-detection in Encoded Archival Descriptions (2009)
Zhang, J., Fachry, K.N., Kamps, J.
In this paper we investigate how currently emerging link detection methods can help enrich encoded archival descriptions. We discuss link detection methods in general, and evaluate the identification...
Link detection in XML documents: What about repeated links? (2009)
Link detection is a special case of focused retrieval where potential links between documents have to be detected automatically. The use case, as studied at INEX's Link the Wiki track, is that of a...
Using and detecting links in Wikipedia (2009)
Fachry, K.N., Kamps, J., Koolen, M., Zhang, J.
In this paper, we document our efforts at INEX 2007 where we participated in the Ad Hoc Track, the Link the Wiki Track, and the Interactive Track that continued from INEX 2006. Our main aims at INEX...
Access to archival finding aids: Context matters (2009)
Zhang, J., Fachry, K.N., Kamps, J.
We detail the design of a search engine for archival finding aids based on an XML database system. The resulting system shows results—which can vary in granularity from individual archival items to...
Access to archival material in context (2009)
Fachry, K.N., Kamps, J., Zhang, J.
Archival finding aids are long and complexly structured documents describing archival material---the paper trails of the lives of corporate bodies, persons, and families. Currently, finding aids are...
Fachry, K.N., Kamps, J., Kaptein, R., Koolen, M., Zhang, J.
This paper documents our experiments in six of the INEX 2008 tracks: Ad Hoc, Book Search, Entity Ranking, Interactive, Link the Wiki, and XML Mining. We discuss our aims, experiments, results and...
Starink, M.J., Qiao, X.G., Zhang, J., Gao, N.
The grain refinement during severe plastic deformation (SPD) is predicted using volume averaged amount of dislocations generated. The model incorporates a new expansion of a model for hardening in...
Ordered nanostructures written directly by laser interference (2009)
Tan, C, Peng, C S, Pakarinen, J, Pessa, M, Petryakov, V N, Verevkin, Yu K, ...
We present a simplified method to employ laser interference lithography for the fabrication of ordered nanostructures. Neither resist, nor an elaborate fabrication process was needed. Four-beam...
Detecting hydrologic deformation using GRACE and GPS (2009)
Tregoning, P, Watson, CS, Ramillien, G, McQueen, H, Zhang, J
Hydrological processes cause variations in gravitationalpotential and surface deformations, both of which are de-tectable using space geodetic techniques. We computed elas-tic deformation using...
Nutrient budgets for large Chinese estuaries and embayment (2009)
S. M. Liu, X. W. Ye, J. Zhang, X. L. Jiang
Nutrient concentrations among the Chinese rivers and bays vary 10–75 fold depending on nutrient elements. The silicic acid levels in South China rivers are higher than those from North China rivers...
Historical records of coastal eutrophication-induced hypoxia (2009)
A. J. Gooday, F. Jorissen, L. A. Levin, J. J. Middelburg, N. N. Rabalais, ...
Under certain conditions, sediment cores from coastal settings subject to hypoxia can yield records of environmental changes over time scales ranging from decades to millennia, sometimes with a...
Effects of natural and human-induced hypoxia on coastal benthos (2009)
L. A. Levin, W. Ekau, A. J. Gooday, F. Jorissen, J. J. Middelburg, W. Naqvi, ...
Coastal hypoxia (<1.42 ml L<sup>−1</sup>; 62.5 μM; 2 mg L<sup>−1</sup>, approx. 30% oxygen saturation) occurs seasonally in many estuaries, fjords, and along...
Surface soil moisture estimates from AMSR-E observations over an arid area, Northwest China (2009)
L. Wang, J. Wen, T. Zhang, Y. Zhao, H. Tian, X. Shi, ...
In this paper, 7 years (during the growing season (April–October) of 2002–2008) of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) data taken at a frequency of 6.9 GHz for night observations...
Global-scale analysis of river flow alterations due to water withdrawals and reservoirs (2009)
Global-scale information on natural river flows and anthropogenic river flow alterations is required to identify areas where aqueous ecosystems are expected to be strongly degraded. Such information...
Tebas, P., Zhang, J., Hafner, R., Tashima, K., Shevitz, A., Yarasheski, K., ...
Background Switching a thymidine analogue to a non-thymidine analogue or changing to a nucleoside-sparing regimen has been shown to partially reverse peripheral lipoatrophy. The current study...
PRMT5 is required for cell-cycle progression and p53 tumor suppressor function (2009)
Scoumanne, A., Zhang, J., Chen, X.
Protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) mediate the transfer of methyl groups to arginines in proteins involved in signal transduction, transcriptional regulation and RNA processing. Tumor...
All-sky LIGO search for periodic gravitational waves in the early fifth-science-run data. (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50-1100 Hz and with the frequency's time derivative in the range -5 x 10{-9}-0 Hz s{-1}....
An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., ...
A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmological origin. It should...
LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and study gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of GWs holds the promise of...
Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state (2009)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We introduce a novel cooling technique capable of approaching the quantum ground state of a kilogram-scale system-an interferometric gravitational wave detector. The detectors of the Laser...
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We have searched for gravitational waves from coalescing low mass compact binary systems with a total mass between 2M(circle dot) and 35M(circle dot) and a minimum component mass of 1M(circle dot)...
Stacked Search for Gravitational Waves from the 2006 SGR 1900+14 Storm (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We present the results of a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with the 2006 March 29 SGR 1900+14 storm. A new search method is used, "stacking" the GW data around...
Historical records of coastal eutrophication-induced hypoxia (2009)
A. J. Gooday, F. Jorissen, L. A. Levin, J. J. Middelburg, N. N. Rabalais, ...
Under certain conditions, sediment cores from coastal settings subject to hypoxia can yield records of environmental changes over time scales ranging from decades to millennia, sometimes with a...
Stress-induced large Curie temperature enhancement in Fe64Ni36 Invar alloy (2009)
Gorria, P, Martinez-Blanco, D, Perez, MJ, Blanco, J, Hernando, A, Laguna-Marco, MA, ...
We have succeeded in increasing up to 150 K the Curie temperature in the Fe64Ni36 invar alloy by means of a severe mechanical treatment followed by a heating up to 1073 K. The invar behavior is still...
Metal-Free Phenanthrenequinone Cyclotrimer as an Effective Heterogeneous Catalyst (2009)
Zhang, J., Wang, X., Su, Q., Zhi, L. J., Thomas, A., Feng, X. L., ...
Ternary Pt/Rh/SnO2 electrocatalysts for oxidizing ethanol to CO2 (2009)
A. Kowal, M. Li, M. Shao, K. Sasaki, M. B. Vukmirovic, J. Zhang, ...
Ethanol, with its high energy density, likely production from renewable sources and ease of storage and transportation, is almost the ideal combustible for fuel cells wherein its chemical energy can...
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We have searched for gravitational waves from coalescing low mass compact binary systems with a total mass between 2M/sub o/ and 35M/sub o/ and a minimum component mass of 1M/sub o/ using data from...
The Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data (2009)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
This paper reports on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from sources such as deformed isolated rapidly spinning neutron stars. The analysis uses 840 hours of data from 66 days of the...
Reiners, R., Zimmermann, A., Jentzsch, A., Zhang, J.
In the Hydra Middleware project context awareness, among many other aspects plays an important role. Context is not only defined by the user's presence but also by identifying available devices and...
Historical records of coastal eutrophication-induced hypoxia (2009)
Gooday, A.J., Jorissen, F., Levin, L.A., Middelburg, J.J., Naqvi, S.W.A., Rabalais, N.N., ...
Under certain conditions, sediment cores from coastal settings subject to hypoxia can yield records of environmental changes over time scales ranging from decades to millennia, sometimes with a...
Reiners, R., Zimmermann, A., Jentzsch, A., Zhang, J.
In the Hydra Middleware project context awareness, among many other aspects plays an important role. Context is not only defined by the user's presence but also by identifying available devices and...
Effects of natural and human-induced hypoxia on coastal benthos (2009)
Levin, L.A., Ekau, W., Gooday, A.J., Jorissen, F., Middelburg, J.J., Naqvi, S.W.A., ...
Coastal hypoxia (defined here as
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We have searched for gravitational waves from coalescing low mass compact binary systems with a total mass between 2M_([sun]) and 35Mz-([sun]) and a minimum component mass of 1M_([sun]) using data...
Xu, Y., Zhang, J., Hahn, H., Li, J.
Frühjahrstagung DPG, Fachverband Metall- und Materialphysik, Dresden, 22.-27.März 2009
Mechanisms of electron injection into laser wakefields by a weak counter-propagating pulse (2009)
Sheng, ZM, Wang, WM, Trines, R, Norreys, P, Chen, M, Zhang, J
B. Pellom, W. Ward, J. Hansen, K. Hacioglu, J. Zhang, X. Yu, ...
This paper presents recent improvements in the development of the University of Colorado “CU Communicator ” and “CU-Move ” spoken dialog systems. First, we describe the CU Communicator system...
ABSTRACT Toward An Adaptive Web: The State of the Art and Science (2008)
M. Kilfoil, A. Ghorbani, W. Xing, Z. Lei, J. Lu, J. Zhang, ...
As the World Wide Web matures, it makes leaps forward in both size and complexity. In this expanding environment, the needs and interests of individual users become buried under the sheer weight of...
O. Ozdemir, P. Ray, C. Isik, C. K. Mohan, P. K. Varshney, H. Khalifa, ...
A Built Environmental System (BES), illustrated in Figure 1, typically consists of several subsystems that interact with each other and with the surrounding environment through...
Expected Performance of the ATLAS Experiment - Detector, Trigger and Physics (2008)
Abat, E., Abbott, B., Abdallah, J., Abdelalim, A. A., Abdesselam, A., ...
A detailed study is presented of the expected performance of the ATLAS detector. The reconstruction of tracks, leptons, photons, missing energy and jets is investigated, together with the performance...
Optimal electron entangler and single electron source at low temperatures (2008)
Sherkunov, Y., Zhang, J., D'Ambrumenil, N., Muzykantskii, B.
Electron transport in mesoscopic contacts at low temperatures is accompanied by logarithmically divergent equilibrium noise. We show that this equilibrium noise can be dramatically suppressed in the...
2005: The thinning of the Arctic sea ice, 1988-2003: Have we passed a tipping point (2008)
Recent observations of summer Arctic sea ice over the satellite era show that record or near-record lows for the ice extent occurred in the years 2002–05. To determine the physical processes...
C. Lau, D. Tjondronegoro, J. Zhang, S. Geva, Y. Liu
Abstract. This paper presents an experimental study that examines the performance of various combination techniques for content-based image retrieval using a fusion of visual and textual search...
Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
We present a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with soft gamma ray repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first search sensitive to neutron star f modes, usually...
Intercalibration of the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at start-up (2008)
Adzic, P., Alemany-Fernandez, R., Almeida, N., Anagnostou, G., Andelin, D., Anfreville, M., ...
Calibration of the relative response of the individual channels of the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS detector was accomplished, before installation, with cosmic ray muons and test...
Intercalibration of the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS experiment at start-up (2008)
Adzic, P, Alemany-Fernandez, R, Almeida, N, Anagnostou, G, Andelin, D, Anfreville, M, ...
Calibration of the relative response of the individual channels of the barrel electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS detector was accomplished before installation with cosmic ray muons and test...
Flexible protein folding by ant colony optimization (2008)
Protein structure prediction is one of the most challenging topics in bioinformatics. As the protein structure is found to be closely related to its functions, predicting the folding structure of a...
X. P. Liu, J. Zhang, Centre For Nanotechnology
Abstract. A novel measurement system, the multi-functional Tribological Probe Microscope (TPM), has been developed to provide multi-function measurements of surface and surface properties. These...
THE DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONCEPT PROTOTYPE FOR BEIJING 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES (2008)
J. Zhang, J. Liu, M. Li, J. Pan, J. Han, L. Tuo, ...
This paper presents current research activities for developing a Concept Prototype for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (CPBOG) at the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The System is...
Dielectrophoretic manipulation of nano-materials and its application to micro/nano-sensors (2008)
Liu, W. J., Zhang, J., Wan, L. J., Jiang, K. W., Tao, B. R., Li, H. L., ...
Dielectrophoresis is a potential technique which can be employed to align and manipulate nano-structured materials to the preset locations in fluid for electronic device applications in...
Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., ...
We analyzed the available LIGO data coincident with GRB 070201, a short-duration, hard-spectrum γ-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral arms...
Hu, X-M., Zhang, J., Xiao, J., Li, Y.
This paper proposes a flexible ant colony (FAC) algorithm for solving protein folding problems based on the hydrophobic-polar square lattice model. Collaborations of novel pheromone and heuristic...
Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from γ-ray...
A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO (2008)
Baggio, L., Bignotto, M., Bonaldi, M., Cerdonio, M., De Rosa, M., Falferi, P., ...
The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector and the LIGO observatory was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of gravitational wave...
A module sensor microsystem utilizing a universal interface circuit (2008)
A. Mason, N. Yazdi, J. Zhang, Z. Sainudeen
The performance features of MEMS transducers allow the development of a new class of small, low-power sensor microsystems which utilize a suite of sensors to support a wide range of applications....
Internet Electronic Journal of Molecular Design (2008)
Ovidiu Ivanciuc, Douglas J. Klein, Jin Xu, Biochem Press, Z. Yin, J. Zhang, ...
BioChem Press
Running head: Myths about correlation and dependence in risk analysis (2008)
Scott Ferson, Roger Nelsen, Janos Hajagos, Daniel Berleant, J. Zhang, W. Troy Tucker, ...
12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 This paper summarizes several of the most pervasive and pernicious myths about correlations and dependencies that interfere with conducting good assessments. Some of...
M. D. Adams, J. M. Kelley, J. D. Gocayne, M. Dubnick, M. H. Polymeropoulos, H. Xiao, ...
response factor is essential for mesoderm formation during mouse embryogenesis.
The MONK's Problems APerformance Comparison of Di erent Learning Algorithms (2008)
S. B. Thrun, J. Bala, E. Bloedorn, I. Bratko, B. Cestnik, J. Cheng, ...
Once upon a time, in July 1991, the monks of Corsendonk Priory were faced with a school held in their priory, namely the 2 nd European Summer School on Machine Learning. After listening more than one...
Integration of the Trigger and Data Acquisition Systems in ATLAS (2008)
Abolins, M, Adragna, P, Aleksandrov, E, Aleksandrov, I, Amorim, A, Anderson, K, ...
During 2006 and the first half of 2007, the installation, integration and commissioning of trigger and data acquisition (TDAQ) equipment in the ATLAS experimental area have progressed. There have...
Machine Vision and Applications manuscript No. (will be inserted by the editor) (2008)
Kaleem Siddiqi, Juan Zhang, Diego Macrini, Ali Shokouf, Eh Sylvain Bouix, Sven Dickinson, ...
Abstract We consider the use of medial surfaces to represent symmetries of 3-D objects. This allows for a qualitative abstraction based on a directed acyclic graph of components and also a degree of...
Time-Optimal Visibility-Related Algorithms on Meshes with Multiple Broadcasting (2008)
D. Bhagavathiy, V. Bokkaz, H. Gurlaz, S. Olariuz, J. L. Schwingz, J. Zhang
An approximate method for scattering by thin structures (2008)
S. Moskow, F. Santosa, J. Zhang
Abstract. Scattering of waves by a thin structure is considered in this work. The Helmholtz equation with variable coefficient models the wave phenomena. The scatterer is assumed to have a high index...
Learning Accurate and Concise Nave Bayes Classifiers from Attribute Value Taxonomies and Data (2008)
J. Zhang, A. Silvescu, V. Honavar, Computational Biology Program
In many application domains, there is a need for learning algorithms that can e#ectively exploit attribute value taxonomies (AVT) - hierarchical groupings of attribute values - to learn compact,...
Performance of RAKE Reception for Ultra Wideband Signals in a Lognormal-fading Channel (2008)
J. Zhang, R. A. Kennedy, T. D. Abhayapala
RAKE reception for Ultra Wideband is crucial as the radiated power is restricted to be very low and there exist many resolvable multipath components. In this paper, the effectiveness of RAKE...
Under consideration for publication in Knowledge and Information (2008)
Systems Learning Accurate, J. Zhang, A. Silvescu, V. Honavar, Computational Biology Program
In many application domains, there is a need for learning algorithms that can e#ectively exploit attribute value taxonomies (AVT) - hierarchical groupings of attribute values - to learn compact,...
Cheunim, T., Zhang, J., Milligan, S.G., McPhillips, M.G., Graham, S.V.
Human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) infects anogenital epithelia and is the etiological agent of cervical cancer. We showed previously that HPV16 infection regulates the key splicing/alternative...
Ordered Layers of Co Clusters on BN Template Layers (2008)
Zhang, J., Sessi, V., MIchaelis, C. H., Brihuega, I., Honolka, J., Kern, K., ...
The synthesis of highly ordered monolayers of metallic nanoclusters by a buffer-layer assisted growth (BLAG) route is introduced and investigated. The focus is on clusters of Co deposited onto...
Orthogonal methods based ant colony search for solving continuous optimization problems (2008)
Research into ant colony algorithms for solving continuous optimization problems forms one of the most significant and promising areas in swarm computation. Although traditional ant algorithms are...
Zhang, J., Wang, T., Chameides, W. L., Cardelino, C., Blake, D. R., Streets, D. G.
Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) are analyzed to characterize the sources impacting the Hong Kong area. The ratios of different VOC species, m,p-xylenes-to-ethylbenzene,...
Zhang, J., Wang, T., Chameides, W. L., Cardelino, C., Blake, D. R., Streets, D. G.
Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) are analyzed to characterize the sources impacting the Hong Kong area. The ratios of different VOC species, m,p-xylenes-to-ethylbenzene,...
Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We analyzed the available LIGO data coincident with GRB 070201, a short-duration, hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral...
Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e. g. from...
A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO (2008)
Baggio, L., Bignotto, M., Bonaldi, M., Cerdonio, M., De Rosa, M., Falferi, P., ...
The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector(63) and the LIGO observatory(64) was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by gamma-ray satellite experiments during LIGO's S2, S3, and S4...
Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries during the third and fourth LIGO science runs. The search focused on gravitational waves generated during the...
All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50-1000 Hz and with the frequency's time derivative in the range -1 x 10(-8) Hz s(-1) to...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We report on the methods and results of the first dedicated search for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compact binaries with spinning component bodies. We analyze 788 hours of data...
Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
We present direct upper limits on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar using data from the first 9 months of the fifth science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave...
He, M, Wang, D, Zheng, Y, Zhang, J, Yin, Q, Huang, W, ...
PURPOSE: To assess the heritability of anterior chamber depth (ACD) and relative anterior chamber depth (ACD/axial length, rACD) in Chinese in a classic twin study. METHODS: Twins aged 7 to 15 years...
He, M, Ge, J, Wang, D, Zhang, J, Hewitt, AW, Hur, Y, ...
PURPOSE: To estimate the heritability of the iridotrabecular angle width measured by anterior segment optical coherence tomography (ASOCT) in a classic twin study. METHODS: Twins aged 8 to 16 years...
He, Y, Zhai, F., Ma, G., Feskens, E.J.M., Zhang, J., Fu, P., ...
Objective: To assess the association of indicators of general and abdominal obesity with the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and intermediate hyperglycaemia (IHG) in the Chinese population....
Zhang, J., Kallen, C.J., Schiffers, P.M., Feskens, E.J.M., Bruin, T.W.
Abstract Background: Genetic dissection of complex diseases requires innovative approaches for identification of disease-predisposing genes. A well-known example of a human complex disease with a...
Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in Chinese adolescents (2008)
Li, Y., Yang, X., Zhai, F., Kok, F.J., Piao, J., Zhang, J., ...
Since national figures on the occurrence of metabolic syndrome among Chinese adolescents are lacking, this study aims to estimate its prevalence and distribution among Chinese youngsters. The 2002...
Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
We present a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with soft gamma ray repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first search sensitive to neutron star f modes, usually...
First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
We present the results of the first joint search for gravitational-wave bursts by the LIGO and GEO 600 detectors. We search for bursts with characteristic central frequencies in the band 768-2048 Hz...
Kinoshita, Y., Chen, J., Rapee, R.M., Bögels, S., Schneier, F.R., Choy, Y., ...
Conviction subtype Taijin-Kyofu (c-TK) is a subgroup of mental disorder characterized by conviction and strong fear of offending others in social situations. Although the concept of c-TK overlaps...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., ...
We report in the methods and results of the first dedicated search for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compact binaries with spinning component bodies. We analyze 788 hours of data...
Polarized Positrons and Electrons at the Linear Collider. (2008)
G. Moortgat-Pick, DESY Maschinenphysik, T. Abe, G. Alexander, B. Ananthanarayan, A.A. Babich, ...
Journal article
In-Situ Calibration at the Bass Strait Site, Australia (2008)
Watson, CS, White, N, Zhang, J, Coleman, R, Tregoning, P, Church, J
The partial inverse minimum spanning tree problem when weight increase is forbidden (2008)
Cai, M-C., Duin, C.W., Yang, X., Zhang, J.
In a partial inverse optimization problem there is an underlying optimization problem with a partially given solution. The objective is to find a minimal perturbation of some of the problem’s...
Li, Z., Feng, W., Xu, X., Cross, P., Zhang, J.
The 1998 Mw 5.7 Zhangbei-Shangyi (China) earthquake is the largest to have occurred in northern China since the large 1976 Ms 7.8 Tangshan earthquake. Due to its proximity to Beijing, the capital of...
Polarized positrons and electrons at the linear collider (2008)
Moortgat-Pick, G, Abe, T, Alexander, G, Ananthanarayan, B, Babich, AA, Bharadwaj, V, ...
The proposed International Linear Collider (ILC) is well-suited for discovering physics beyond the Standard Model and for precisely unraveling the structure of the underlying physics. The physics...
As China's economy booms, increasing water use has significantly affected hydro-geomorphic processes and thus the ecology of surface waters. A large variety of hydrological changes arising from...
J. Zhang, T. Wang, W. L. Chameides, C. Cardelino, D. R. Blake, D. G. Streets
Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) are analyzed to characterize the sources impacting the Hong Kong area. The ratios of different VOC species, m,p-xylenes-to-ethylbenzene,...
J. Zhang, T. Wang, W. L. Chameides, C. Cardelino, D. R. Blake, D. G. Streets
Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) are analyzed to characterize the sources impacting the Hong Kong area. The ratios of different VOC species, m,p-xylenes-to-ethylbenzene,...
Cadusch, Peter J., Todd, B. D., Zhang, J., Daivis, Peter J.
We present a detailed analysis of a hydrodynamic constitutive model recently applied to study the non-local viscosity of highly confined inhomogeneous fluids (Zhang et al 2004 J. Chem. Phys. 121...
An emerging cyberinfrastructure for biodefense pathogen and pathogen host data (2008)
Zhang, C., Crasta, O., Cammer, S., Will, R., Kenyon, R., Sullivan, D., ...
The NIAID-funded Biodefense Proteomics Resource Center (RC) provides storage, dissemination, visualization and analysis capabilities for the experimental data deposited by seven Proteomics Research...
A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO (2008)
Baggio, L., Bignotto, M., Bonaldi, M., Cerdonio, M., De Rosa, M., Falferi, P., ...
The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector(63) and the LIGO observatory(64) was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of...
Study of B meson decays with excited eta and eta ` mesons (2008)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, ...
A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO (2008)
Baggio, L, Bignotto, M, Bonaldi, M, Cerdonio, M, Rosa, M De, Falferi, P, ...
"The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector and the LIGO observatory was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of gravitational...
Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects (2008)
Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R, Ajith, P, Allen, B, Allen, G, ...
"In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from g-ray...
First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data (2008)
Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R, Ajith, P, Allen, B, Allen, G, ...
"We present the results of the first joint search for gravitational-wave bursts by the LIGO and GEO 600 detectors. We search for bursts with characteristic central frequencies in the band 768-2048 Hz...
Anson, C.E., Eichhöfer, A., Issac, I., Fenske, D., Fuhr, O., Sevillano, P., ...
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 47(2008) S.1326-31
Review of particle physics (2008)
Particle Data Group, Amsler, C, Doser, M, Antonelli, M, Asner, DM, Babu, KS, ...
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...
8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000251987200002.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1549
The branch structure of embedded trapped modes in two-dimensional (2007)
M. Mciver, C. M. Linton, J. Zhang
waveguides
Interval Graph Problems on Reconfigurable Meshes (2007)
S. Olariu, J. L. Schwing, J. Zhang
A graph G is an interval graph if there is a one-one correspondence between its vertices and a family I of intervals, such that two vertices in G are adjacent if and only if their corresponding...
Time- and Cost-Optimal Parallel Algorithms for the Dominance and Visibility Graphs (2007)
D. Bhagavathi, H. Gurla, S. Olariu, J. L. Schwing, J. Zhang
The compaction step of integrated circuit design motivates associating several kinds of graphs with a collection of non-overlapping rectangles in the plane. These graphs are intended to capture...
Time- and VLSI-optimal Sorting on Enhanced Meshes (2007)
D. Bhagavathi, H. Gurl, S. Olariu, J. L. Schwing, L. Wilson, J. Zhang
Sorting is a fundamental problem with applications in all areas of computer science and engineering. In this work we address the problem of sorting on mesh connected computers enhanced by endowing...
Sorting in O(1) time on an n × n reconfigurable mesh (2007)
R. Lin, S. Olariu, J. L. Schwing, J. Zhang
Sorting is, unquestionably, one of the most extensively investigated topics in computer science. In this work we propose two sorting algorithms on reconfigurable meshes. Our first algorithm takes...
A New Type of Fuzzy Logic System for Adaptive Modelling and Control (2007)
. We present a new type of fuzzy controller constructed with the B-spline model and its applications in modelling and control. Unlike the other normalised parameterised set functions for defining...
An Adaptive Model for Vision-Based Localisation (2007)
Vision-based Localisation, J. Zhang, V. Schwert, A. Knoll
Introduction One important issue of studying natural life is the localisation mechanism of animals through observing the environment. For such a task, human-beings rely to a great extent on reading...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run (2007)
Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R, Agresti, J, Ajith, P, Allen, B, ...
The fourth science run of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational-wave detectors, carried out in early 2005, collected data with significantly lower noise than previous science runs. We report on a search...
J. Zhang, K. P. Dere, R. A. Howard, M. R. Kundu, S. M. White
The temporal relationship between coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and associated solar Ñares is of great importance to understanding the origin of CMEs, but it has been difficult to study owing to the...
Investigation of the Corrosion-Sensing Behavior of an Acrylic-Based Coating System (2007)
Paint systems containing color-change or fluorescing compounds were found to be sensitive to underlying corrosion processes by reacting to the pH increase associated with the cathodic reaction that...
Prepared under Task No. PV706101 (2007)
P. Chaudhuri, J. Dubard, K. Emery, F. Nagamine, R. Shimokawa, Y. X. Wang, ...
under contract No. DE-AC36-83CH10093
F. Bergadano, F. Bergadano, S. Matwin, S. Matwin, R. S. Michaiski, R. S. Michaiski, ...
by
A GENERAL CRITERION FOR MEASURING (2007)
F. Bergadano, S. Matwin, R. S. Michalski, J. Zhang, Francesco Bergadano, Stan Matwin, ...
An important aspect of any learning method is an evaluation of the learned knowledge, in particular, an evaluation of the plausibility and usefulness of concept descriptions that are being created....
F. Bergadano, F. Bergadano, S. Matwin, S. Matwin, R. S. Michalski, R. S. Michalski, ...
A method for learning flexible concepts is described, that is concepts that are imprecise and context dependent. The method is based on a two-tiered concept representation. In such a representation...
Submitted for publication in Machine Learning Journal, 1991 LEARNING TWO-TIERED DESCRIPTIONS (2007)
R. Michalski, F. Bergadano, F. Bergadano, F. Bergadano, S. Matwin, S. Matwin, ...
email: jzhang @ gmuvax2.gmu.edu Machine learning research has so far been primarily concerned with learning crisp concepts, that is concepts that are well-defined and context-independent. Most...
LEARNING FLEXIBLE CONCEPTS USING A TWO-TIERED REPRESENTATION (2007)
R. S. Michalski, R. S. Michalski, F. Bergadano, F. Bergadano, S. Matwin, S. Matwin, ...
'Most human concepts are flexible in the sense that they inherently lack: precise boundaries, and these boundaries are often contextdependent. This chapter describes 'a method for...
R. Michalski, F. Bergadano, F. Bergadano, S. Matwin, R. S. Michalski, J. Zhang, ...
This paper describes a method for learning flexible concepts, by which are meant concepts that lack precise definition and are context-dependent. To describe such concepts, the method employs a...
The Height Structure of the Solar Atmosphere from the EUV Perspective (2007)
J. Zhang, S. M. White, M. R. Kundu
We investigate the structure of the solar chromosphere and transition region using full Sun images obtained with the Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric...
TWO-TEMPERATURE CORONAL MODELS FROM SOHO/EIT OBSERVATIONS (2007)
J. Zhang, S. M. White, M. R. Kundu
We present a method for deriving a twothermal-component approximation to the di+erential emission measure distribution of plasma in the Suns corona in the temperature range to which the...
Polarity Dependent Reliability of Advanced MOSFET (2007)
Using Mocvd Nitrided, J. Zhang, E. Zhao, Q. Xiang, J. Chan, J. Jeon, ...
We report reliability of MOSFETs with MOCVD nitrided Hfsilicate (HfSiON) high-k gate dielectric. HfSiON has shown superior electrical characteristics, such as low leakage relative to SiO 2 and high...
Quantifying Transmission Reliability Margin (2007)
Zhang Dobson Alvarado, J. Zhang, I. Dobson, F. L. Alvarado
In bulk electric power transfer capability computations, the transmission reliability margin accounts for uncertainties related to the transmission system conditions, contingencies, and parameter...
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...
9 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000251327200002.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2798
Measurements of CP-Violating asymmetries in the decay B-0 -> K+ K- K-0 (2007)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...
7 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000250296000017.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3885
Search for B+ -> tau(+)nu (2007)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...
12 pages, 7 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.20.-v; 13.25.Hw.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000249786800009.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1820
Trends in pancreatic cancer incidence in nine SEER Cancer Registries, 1973 2002 (2007)
Zhang, J, Dhakal, I, Yan, H, Phillips, M, Kesteloot, H
Background: The evolution of pancreatic cancer incidence in the last three decades in the United States remains unclear. This study was conducted to investigate this problem, using data from the nine...
Search for the rare decay B -> πl(+)l(-) (2007)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...
7 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables.-- PACS nrs.: 13.20.He.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000248597500008.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0703018
Coherently driven non-classical light emission from a quantum dot (2007)
Muller, A., Flagg, E. B., Bianucci, P., Deppe, D. G., Ma, W., Zhang, J., ...
Narrow line-widths and the possibility of enhanced spontaneous emission via coupling to microcavities make semiconductor quantum dots ideal for harnessing coherent quantum phenomena at the single...
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...
8 pages, 1 figure.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000248544300003.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0702043
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
Inclusive \beauty-quark production in two-photon collisions has been measured at LEP using an integrated luminosity of $698\mathrm{pb}^{-1}\,$ collected by the ALEPH detector with $\sqrt{s}$ between...
Zhang, J., Drinkwater, B.W., Dwyer-Joyce, R.S.
The performance of ultrasonic oil-film thickness measurement in a ball bearing is quantified. A range of different viscosity oils (Shell T68, VG15, and VG5) are used to explore the lowest reflection...
Chang, S., Zhang, J., Bordelon, D., Schreiber, E., Cox, A., Zhou, O.
A novel single cell irradiation system using carbon nanotube (CNT) based field emission technology is proposed. The system can produce electron microbeam at a large range of pulsation frequencies and...
Branching fraction measurements of B+ -> ρ(+)γ, B(0) -> ρ(0)γ, and B(0) -> ω^γ (2007)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...
7 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables.-- PACS nrs.: 13.20.He; 12.15.Hh; 14.40.Nd.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000245691400015.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0612017
Pan, L. A., Zhang, J., Zhang, L. H.
Flow cytometry (FCM) was used to examine the abundances and distributions of different picophytoplankton groups (i.e. Synechococcus, Prochlorococcus and picoeukaryotes), nanophytoplankton,...
The Solar Flare of the 14th of July 2000 (L3+C detector results) (2007)
Achard, P, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Alcaraz, J, Alemanni, G, ...
Several experiments have reported observations on possible correlations between the flux of high energy muons and intense solar flares. If confirmed, these observations would have significant...
Califano, Marco, Vinh, N. Q., Phillips, P. J., Ikonić, Z., Kelsall, R. W., Harrison, P., ...
We report the direct determination of nonradiative lifetimes in Si/SiGe asymmetric quantum well structures designed to access spatially indirect (diagonal) interwell transitions between heavy-hole...
Energy Resolution of the Barrel of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter (2007)
Adzic, P, Alemany-Fernandez, R, Almeida, C B, Almeida, N M, Anagnostou, G, Anfreville, M G, ...
The energy resolution of the barrel part of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter has been studied using electrons of 20 to 250 GeV in a test beam. The incident electron's energy was reconstructed by...
Califano, M, Vinh, N Q, Phillips, P J, Ikonic, Z, Kelsall, R W, Harrison, P, ...
We report the direct determination of nonradiative lifetimes in Si/SiGe asymmetric quantum well structures designed to access spatially indirect (diagonal) interwell transitions between heavy-hole...
Califano, M., Vinh, N.Q., Phillips, P.J., Ikonić, Z., Kelsall, R.W., Harrison, P., ...
We report the direct determination of nonradiative lifetimes in Si∕SiGe asymmetric quantum well structures designed to access spatially indirect (diagonal) interwell transitions between heavy-hole...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Boschi, V., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
Data from the LIGO Livingston interferometer and the ALLEGRO resonant bar detector, taken during LIGO's fourth science run, were examined for cross-correlations indicative of a stochastic...
Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves (2007)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We searched for an anisotropic background of gravitational waves using data from the LIGO S4 science run and a method that is optimized for point sources. This is appropriate if, for example, the...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We carry out two searches for periodic gravitational waves using the most sensitive few hours of data from the second LIGO science run. Both searches exploit fully coherent matched filtering and...
Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars (2007)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run (2007)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
The fourth science run of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational-wave detectors, carried out in early 2005, collected data with significantly lower noise than previous science runs. We report on a search...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational‐Wave Observatory (LIGO) has performed the fourth science run, S4, with significantly improved interferometer sensitivities with respect to previous runs....
Cloud microphysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2007)
Lohmann, U., Stier, P., Hoose, C., Ferrachat, S., Roeckner, E., Zhang, J.
The double-moment cloud microphysics scheme from ECHAM4 has been coupled to the size-resolved aerosol scheme ECHAM5-HAM. ECHAM5-HAM predicts the aerosol mass and number concentrations and the aerosol...
Cloud microphysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2007)
Lohmann, U., Stier, P., Hoose, C., Ferrachat, S., Kloster, S., Roeckner, E., ...
The double-moment cloud microphysics scheme from ECHAM4 that predicts both the mass mixing ratios and number concentrations of cloud droplets and ice crystals has been coupled to the size-resolved...
Ozone production and hydrocarbon reactivity in Hong Kong, Southern China (2007)
Zhang, J., Wang, T., Chameides, W. L., Cardelino, C., Kwok, J., Blake, D. R., ...
Data obtained in Hong Kong during the Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Pilot Air Monitoring Study in autumn 2002 are analyzed to unravel the relationship between ground-level ozone (O3),...
Cloud microphysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2007)
Lohmann, U., Stier, P., Hoose, C., Ferrachat, S., Roeckner, E., Zhang, J.
The double-moment cloud microphysics scheme from ECHAM4 has been coupled to the size-resolved aerosol scheme ECHAM5-HAM. ECHAM5-HAM predicts the aerosol mass and number concentrations and the aerosol...
Cloud microphysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2007)
Lohmann, U., Stier, P., Hoose, C., Ferrachat, S., Kloster, S., Roeckner, E., ...
The double-moment cloud microphysics scheme from ECHAM4 that predicts both the mass mixing ratios and number concentrations of cloud droplets and ice crystals has been coupled to the size-resolved...
Ozone production and hydrocarbon reactivity in Hong Kong, Southern China (2007)
Zhang, J., Wang, T., Chameides, W. L., Cardelino, C., Kwok, J., Blake, D. R., ...
Data obtained in Hong Kong during the Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Pilot Air Monitoring Study in autumn 2002 are analyzed to unravel the relationship between ground-level ozone (O3),...
STRING-MAN: Wire-robot technology for safe, flexible and human-friendly gait rehabilitation (2007)
Surdilovic, D., Bernhardt, R., Zhang, J.
The paper presents a novel concept of lightweight and inherently safe robotic systems for assisting the locomotion recovery therapy and training. This concept, referred to as STRING-MAN, is...
EELS Investigation of Carbon Nanotubes in the Role of Catalysts (2007)
Hébert, C., Schuster, M., Zhang, J., Wang, D., Pongratz, P., Su, D.
EELS/TEM investigation of carbon nanotubes for catalytic applications (2007)
Schuster, M., Hebert, C., Zhang, J., Wang, D., Su, D., Pongratz, P.
Tidal deformation of the Earth is normally calculated using the analytical solution with some simplified assumptions, such as the Earth is a perfect sphere of continuous media. This paper proposes an...
This paper studies optimal pay-as-you-go social security with investment externalities, positive bequests and endogenous fertility. With an investment externality, a competitive solution without...
Inflation taxation and welfare with externalities and leisure (2007)
Ho, W.M., Zeng, J.L., Zhang, J.
This paper examines how inflation taxation affects resource allocation and welfare in a neoclassical growth model with leisure, a production externality and money in the utility function. Switching...
Li, H.B., Zhang, J., Zhang, J.S.
While earlier empirical studies found a negative saving effect of old-age dependency rates without considering longevity, recent studies have found that longevity has a positive effect on growth...
Health, education, and life cycle savings in the development process (2007)
This paper studies investment in health and human capital in a life cycle model. Health investment enhances survival to old age by improving health from its endowed level. The model predicts two...
J. Zhang, S. Lazebnik, C. Schmid
Recently, methods based on local image features have shown promise for texture and object recognition tasks. This paper presents a large-scale evaluation of an approach that represents images as...
Structural and dynamical properties for confined polymers undergoing planar Poiseuille flow (2007)
Zhang, J, Hansen, J, Todd, B, Daivis, P
The authors present the results from nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations for the structural and dynamical properties of highly confined linear polymer fluids undergoing planar Poiseuille...
SiGeC HBTs: impact of carbon on performance (2007)
Mitrovic, I.Z., Buiu, O., Hall, S., Ashburn, P., Zhang, J.
A UK consortium has recently reported advanced RF platform technology, which includes SiGe Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors (HBT) on Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI). The study in this paper is the...
Illumination methods for optical wear detection (2007)
The paper presents some results of a study on optical wear detection. The focus of the paper is on the illumination, to optimize the contrast of the images. Various illumination methods are compared:...
Illumination methods for optical wear detection (2007)
The paper presents some results of a study on optical wear detection. The focus of the paper is on the illumination, to optimize the contrast of the images. Various illumination methods are compared:...
Cloud microphysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2007)
U. Lohmann, P. Stier, C. Hoose, S. Ferrachat, S. Kloster, E. Roeckner, ...
The double-moment cloud microphysics scheme from ECHAM4 that predicts both the mass mixing ratios and number concentrations of cloud droplets and ice crystals has been coupled to the size-resolved...
Cloud microphysics and aerosol indirect effects in the global climate model ECHAM5-HAM (2007)
U. Lohmann, P. Stier, C. Hoose, S. Ferrachat, E. Roeckner, J. Zhang
The double-moment cloud microphysics scheme from ECHAM4 has been coupled to the size-resolved aerosol scheme ECHAM5-HAM. ECHAM5-HAM predicts the aerosol mass and number concentrations and the aerosol...
Influence of Timing Offset in Multiband OFDM Systems (2007)
Yuan, X, Zhang, J, Jayalath, D, Abhayapala, T
In Cyclix Prefix OFDM (CP) systems, synchronization to the maximal multipath signal generally causes no problem, however, inter carrier interference (ICI) will be introduced in Zero-padding OFDM...
Auto-calibration of ultrasonic lubricant-film thickness measurements (2007)
Reddyhoff, T., Dwyer-Joyce, R.S., Zhang, J., Drinkwater, B.W.
The measurement of oil film thickness in a lubricated component is essential information for performance monitoring and design. It is well established that such measurements can be made...
Chang, S., Zhang, J., Bordelon, D., Schreiber, E., Cox, A., Zhou, O.
A novel single cell irradiation system using carbon nanotube (CNT) based field emission technology is proposed. The system can produce electron microbeam at a large range of pulsation frequencies and...
Jing, W, Liu, K, Zhang, J, Zhang, H, Zhang, Y, ...
The nonlinearity of a piezo-electrical transducer (PZT) driven tunable optical filter (TOF) is investigated and evaluated using FBG optical fibre sensing system including a broadband optical source...
Electrical Detection of Spin Transport in Lateral Ferromagnet-Semiconductor Devices (2006)
Lou, X., Adelmann, C., Crooker, S. A., Garlid, E. S., Zhang, J., Reddy, S. M., ...
A longstanding goal of research in semiconductor spintronics is the ability to inject, modulate, and detect electron spin in a single device. A simple prototype consists of a lateral semiconductor...
Rapid and label-free nanomechanical detection of biomarker transcripts in human RNA (2006)
Zhang, J, Lang, H. P., Huber, F, Bietsch, A, Grange, W, Certa, U, ...
The availability of entire genome sequences has triggered the development of microarrays for clinical diagnostics that measure the expression levels of specific genes. Methods that involve labelling...
Zhang, J., Chen, W., Zhong, J., Tan, X., Li, Y.
A hybrid Orthogonal Scheme Ant Colony Optimization (OSACO) algorithm for continuous function optimization (CFO) is presented in this paper. The methodology integrates the advantages of Ant Colony...
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
Cross sections, angular distributions and forward-backward asymmetries are presented, of two-fermion events produced in e+e- collisions at centre-of-mass energies from 189 to 209 GeV at LEP, measured...
IVF with clomiphene citrate stimulation produces high pregnancy rates (2006)
Zhang, J, Zhan, Qingfeng; U0053046, Okimura, T, Kuwayama, M, Silber, S, Acosta, C, ...
Search for Higgs bosons decaying to WW in $e^{+}e^{-}$ collisions at LEP (2006)
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
A search for Higgs bosons produced in association with a fermion pair, and decaying to WW, is performed with the data collected by the ALEPH detector at centre-of-mass energies ranging from 191 to...
Deuteron and Anti-deuteron Production in $e^{+}e^{-}$ Collisions at the Z resonance (2006)
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
Deuteron and anti-deuteron production in Z decays has been observed in the ALEPH experiment at LEP. The production rate of anti-deuterons is measured to be (5.9+-1.8+-0.5) 10^-6 per hadronic Z decay...
Towards Autonomous Service Level Agreement Negotiation for Adaptive Service Composition (2006)
Yan, J., Zhang, J., Lin, J., Chhetri, M. B., Goh, S. K., Kowalczyk, R.
This paper reports innovative research aiming at supporting autonomous establishment and maintenance of service level agreements in order to guarantee end-to-end quality of service requirements for...
Regulation with anticipated learning about environmental damages (2006)
A regulator anticipates learning about the relation between environmental stocks and economic damages. For a model with linear-quadratic abatement costs and environmental damages, and a general...
Test of Colour Reconnection Models using Three-Jet Events in Hadronic Z Decays (2006)
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
Hadronic Z decays into three jets are used to test QCD models of colour reconnection (CR). A sensitive quantity is the rate of gluon jets with a gap in the particle rapidity distribution and zero jet...
This paper describes research into a new approach to cancer treatment through a combination of radiation and photodynamic therapies. The assumption is that supplementing conventional radiation...
Measurement of the W boson Mass and Width in $e^{+}e^{-}$ Collisions at LEP (2006)
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
The mass of the W boson is determined from the direct reconstruction of its decays into purely hadronic and semi-leptonic events in e+e- collisions at LEP. The data sample corresponds to an...
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP (2006)
Schael, S, Barate, R, Brunelière, R, De Bonis, I, Décamp, D, Goy, C, ...
The four LEP collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have searched for the neutral Higgs bosons which are predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The data of the four...
Acoustic measurement of lubricant-film thickness distribution in ball bearings (2006)
Zhang, J., Drinkwater, B.W., Dwyer-Joyce, R.S.
An oil-film thickness monitoring system capable of providing an early warning of lubrication failure in rolling element bearings has been developed. The system is used to measure the lubricant-film...
Characterization of localized laser assisted eutectic bonds (2006)
Tan, A. W. Y., Tay, F. E. H., Zhang, J.
An innovative bonding process for silicon and single crystal quartz has been developed and investigated using various material science characterization methods, such as TOF-SIMS, SEM, EDX and XRD....
A model of direct and intermediated sales (2006)
We examine a model in which an upstream firm can sell directly online and through heterogeneous intermediaries to heterogeneous consumers engaging in time-consuming search. Direct online sales may be...
Toward Silicon-Based Lasers for Terahertz Sources (2006)
Lynch, S A, Paul, D J, Townsend, P, Matmon, G, Suet, Z, Kelsall, R W, ...
Producing an electrically pumped silicon-based laser at terahertz frequencies is gaining increased attention these days. This paper reviews the recent advances in the search for a silicon-based...
Mamdouh, W, Miura, A, Zhang, J, Jonkheijm, P, ...
The liquid/solid interface provides an ideal environment to investigate self-assembly phenomena, and scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) is one of the preferred methodologies to probe the structure...
On unidirectional flight of a free flapping wing (2006)
Vandenberghe, N, Childress, S, Zhang, J
We study the dynamics of a rigid, symmetric wing that is flapped vertically in a fluid. The motion of the wing in the horizontal direction is not constrained. Above a critical flapping frequency,...
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP (2006)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benítez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
The four LEP collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have searched for the neutral Higgs bosons which are predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The data of the four...
The solar flare of the 14th of July 2000 : L3+C detector results (2006)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Aims.Several experiments have reported observations on possible correlations between the flux of high energy muons and intense solar flares. If confirmed, these observations would have significant...
Status of the LIGO detectors (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., ...
Copyright © Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2006.
The solar flare of the 14th of July 2000 : L3+C detector results (2006)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Aims.Several experiments have reported observations on possible correlations between the flux of high energy muons and intense solar flares. If confirmed, these observations would have significant...
Search for neutral MSSM Higgs bosons at LEP (2006)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benítez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., ...
The four LEP collaborations, ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL, have searched for the neutral Higgs bosons which are predicted by the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). The data of the four...
Status of the LIGO detectors (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., ...
Copyright © Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2006.
Ozone production and hydrocarbon reactivity in Hong Kong, Southern China (2006)
Zhang, J., Wang, T., Chameides, W. L., Cardelino, C., Kwok, J., Blake, D. R., ...
Data obtained in Hong Kong during the Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Pilot Air Monitoring Study in autumn 2002 are analyzed to unravel the relationship between ground-level ozone (O3),...
Ozone production and hydrocarbon reactivity in Hong Kong, Southern China (2006)
Zhang, J., Wang, T., Chameides, W. L., Cardelino, C., Kwok, J., Blake, D. R., ...
Data obtained in Hong Kong during the Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Pilot Air Monitoring Study in autumn 2002 are analyzed to unravel the relationship between ground-level ozone (O3),...
The solar flare of the 14th of July 2000 : L3+C detector results (2006)
Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., ...
Aims.Several experiments have reported observations on possible correlations between the flux of high energy muons and intense solar flares. If confirmed, these observations would have significant...