Background: The current nursing shortage is a growing public concern and threatens the quality of patient care in American hospitals. Unrealistic workloads are one of the top reasons for hospital...
Parallel Job Scheduling with Overhead: A Benchmark Study (2009)
Richard A. Dutton, Weizhen Mao, Jie Chen, William Watson
We study parallel job scheduling, where each job may be scheduled on any number of available processors in a given parallel system. We propose a mathematical model to estimate a job’s execution...
Liu, Hongbo, Tang, Zhifeng, Yang, Yongli, Weng, Dong, Sun, Gao, Duan, Zhiwen, ...
Abstract Background Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) is a preventable, but not fully curable occupational lung disease. More and more coal miners are likely to be at risk of developing CWP owing to...
A Measure of the Connection Strengths between Graph Vertices with Applications (2009)
We present a simple iterative strategy for measuring the connection strength between a pair of vertices in a graph. The method is attractive in that it has a linear complexity and can be easily...
Clinical research of Olanzapine for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (2009)
Tan, Lijun, Liu, Jiangtao, Liu, Xiuli, Chen, Jie, Yan, Zhijun, Yang, Huifen, ...
Abstract Background This study was designed to mainly evaluate the activity and safety of olanzapine compared with 5-hydroxytryptamine3(5-HT 3 ) receptor antagonists for prevention of...
Electronic structure in gapped graphene with a Coulomb potential (2009)
Zhu, Wei, Wang, Zhengfei, Shi, Qinwei, Szeto, Kwok-Yip, Chen, Jie, Hou, J. G.
In this paper, we numerically study bound electron states induced by long-range Coulomb impurities in gapped graphene and quasibound states in the supercritical region based on the lattice model. We...
Sun, Yu, Chen, Jie, Rigas, Basil
Chemopreventive agents generate oxidative stress, which culminates in cell death and may be part of a general mechanism of chemoprevention. The redox-responsive cyclooxygenase (COX)-2, overexpressed...
On the Stopping Distance and Stopping Redundancy of Finite Geometry LDPC Codes (2008)
LIU, Hai-yang, LIN, Xiao-yan, MA, Lian-rong, CHEN, Jie
The stopping distance and stopping redundancy of a linear code are important concepts in the analysis of the performance and complexity of the code under iterative decoding on a binary erasure...
Jie Chen, Haw-ren Fang, Yousef Saad
Nearest neighbor graphs are widely used in data mining and machine learning. The brute-force method to compute the exact kNN graph takes Θ(dn 2) time for n data points in the d dimensional Euclidean...
Mining unexpected temporal associations: Applications in detecting adverse drug reactions (2008)
Jin, Huidong, Chen, Jie, He, Hongxing, Williams, G. J., Kelman, Chris, O'Keefe, Christine Margaret
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Mining unexpected temporal associations: Applications in detecting adverse drug reactions (2008)
Jin, Huidong, Chen, Jie, He, Hongxing, Williams, G. J., Kelman, Chris, O'Keefe, Christine Margaret
Copyright © 2008 IEEE
MMDB: annotating protein sequences with Entrez's 3D-structure database (2007)
Wang, Yanli, Addess, Kenneth J., Chen, Jie, Geer, Lewis Y., He, Jane, He, Siqian, ...
Three-dimensional (3D) structure is now known for a large fraction of all protein families. Thus, it has become rather likely that one will find a homolog with known 3D structure when searching a...
Xie, Linglin, Jiang, Yu, Ouyang, Ping, Chen, Jie, Doan, Hieu, Herndon, Betty, ...
Weight control by exercise and dietary calorie restriction (DCR) has been associated with reduced cancer risk, but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. This study was designed to...
ONG chinoises, société civile transnationale et pratiques démocratiques (2006)
Cet article examine les relations entre les organisations non gouvernementales et la société transnationale en Chine ainsi que leurs effets quant à l’adoption de pratiques démocratiques. Pour...
Atm-haploinsufficiency enhances susceptibility to carcinogen-induced mammary tumors (2006)
Lu, Shu, Shen, Kate, Wang, Yaolin, Santner, Steven J., Chen, Jie, Brooks, S.C., ...
Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), which is due to mutations in the ATM gene, is a rare autosomal recessive genomic instability syndrome characterized by radiosensitivity and predisposition to cancer....
Atm-haploinsufficiency enhances susceptibility to carcinogen-induced mammary tumors (2006)
Lu, Shu, Shen, Kate, Wang, Yaolin, Santner, Steven J., Chen, Jie, Brooks, S. C., ...
Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T), which is due to mutations in the ATM gene, is a rare autosomal recessive genomic instability syndrome characterized by radiosensitivity and predisposition to cancer....
Glynn, Earl F., Chen, Jie, Mushegian, Arcady R.
Motivation: Periodic patterns in time series resulting from biological experiments are of great interest. The commonly used Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm is applicable only when data are...
Automatic Digital Modulation Recognition Based on Euclidean Distance in Hyperspace (2006)
LI, Ji, HE, Chen, CHEN, Jie, WANG, Dongjian
The recognition vector of the decision-theoretic approach and that of cumulant-based classification are combined to compose a higher dimension hyperspace to get the benefits of both methods. The...
Analysis of breast feeding data using data mining methods (2006)
He, Hongxing, Jin, Huidong, Chen, Jie, McAullay, Damien, Li, Jiuyong, Fallon, Anthony Bruce
The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the benefit of using common data mining techniques on survey data where statistical analysis is routinely applied. The statistical survey is commonly used...
Joint Cross-Layer Design for Wireless QoS Content Delivery (2005)
Jie Chen, Tiejun Lv, Haitao Zheng
In this paper, we propose a joint cross-layer design for wireless quality-of-service (QoS) content delivery. Central to our proposed cross-layer design is the concept of adaptation. Adaptation...
Low-Complexity Blind Symbol Timing Offset Estimation in OFDM Systems (2005)
A low-complexity blind timing algorithm is proposed to estimate timing offset in OFDM systems when multiple symbols are received (the timing offset estimation is independent of the frequency offset...
Fast Frequency Estimation by Zero Crossings of Differential Spline Wavelet Transform (2005)
Yu-Ping Wang, Jie Chen, Qiang Wu, Kenneth R. Castleman
Zero crossings or extrema of a wavelet transform constitute important signatures for signal analysis with the advantage of great simplicity. In this paper, we introduce a fast frequency-estimation...
Glynn, Earl F., Chen, Jie, Mushegian, Arcady R.
Motivation: Periodic patterns in time series resulting from biological experiments are of great interest. The commonly used Fast Fourier Transform algorithm is applicable only when data are evenly...
Overcoming communications challenges in software for monitoring and controlling power systems (2005)
Kenneth P. Birman, Jie Chen, Ken Hopkinson, Bob Thomas, Jim Thorp, Robbert Van Renesse, ...
The restructuring of the electric power grid has created new control and monitoring requirements for which classical technologies may be inadequate. The most obvious way of building such systems,...
A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (2004)
Liu, Bin, Wang, Jun, Zhang, Yong, Yang, Xu, Zhang, Zengjin, ...
We describe a genetic variation map for the chicken genome containing 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). This map is based on a comparison of the sequences of three domestic chicken...
Macronutrient consumption behavior of Chinese urban one-child households / (2004)
Thesis (M.S.)--Cornell University, Jan., 2004.
Rapid transmission of hepatitis C virus among young injecting heroin users in Southern China (2004)
Garten, Rebecca J, Lai, Shenghan, Zhang, Jinbing, Liu, Wei, Chen, Jie, Vlahov, David, ...
Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is quickly spread through injection drug use. The prevalence and incidence of HCV in Chinese heroin users has been rarely reported. Methods A longitudinal cohort of...
Chen, Jie, Röcken, Christoph, Lofton-Day, Cathy, Schulz, Hans-Ulrich, Müller, Oliver, Kutzner, Nadine, ...
APC (adenomatous polyposis coli) promoter methylation has been linked to the early development of colorectal cancers. However, the role of APC methylation and its effect on protein expression in...
Nickel-Induced Histone Hypoacetylation: The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species (2003)
Kang, Jiuhong, Zhang, Yuntao, Chen, Jie, Chen, Haifeng, Lin, Changjun, Wang, Qin, ...
The carcinogenicity of specific insoluble nickel compounds is mainly due to their intracellular generation of Ni2+ ion and its suppression on gene transcription, while the inhibition of Ni2+ on...
MMDB: Entrez's 3D-structure database (2003)
Chen, Jie, Anderson, John B., DeWeese-Scott, Carol, Fedorova, Natalie D., Geer, Lewis Y., He, Siqian, ...
Three-dimensional structures are now known within most protein families and it is likely, when searching a sequence database, that one will identify a homolog of known structure. The goal of Entrez's...
Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction Analysis of CYP1B1 Gene Expression in Human Liver (2003)
Chang, Thomas K. H., Chen, Jie, Pillay, Vincent, Ho, Jeong-Yau, Bandiera, Stelvio M.
Procarcinogen-activating cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes such as CYP1B1, CYP1A1, and CYP1A2 are considered to play an important role in chemical carcinogenesis. However, conflicting data exist with...
This thesis addresses problems in robustness analysis and design of linear multivariable feedback systems with several sources of modelling uncertainty. The problem of maintaining stability and...
Clinical research of Olanzapine for prevention of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting
Tan, Lijun, Liu, Jiangtao, Liu, Xiuli, Chen, Jie, Yan, Zhijun, Yang, Huifen, ...
Experimental study on fibrogenic effect of fur dust on rat lung
Chen, Jie, Cui, Yongli, Sun, Yingchun, Lou, Jiezhi, Liu, Zhenlin
Mizuguchi, Yasunori, Chen, Jie, Seshan, Surya V., Poppas, Dix P., Szeto, Hazel H., Felsen, Diane
Unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) is characterized by decreases in renal function, increased interstitial fibrosis, tubular apoptosis, and cellular infiltration. It has been suggested that...
Zhou, Xiao-Jian, Pietropaolo, Keith, Damphousse, David, Belanger, Bruce, Chen, Jie, Sullivan-Bólyai, John, ...
IDX899 is a novel nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) with potent in vitro activity against wild-type and NNRTI-resistant strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) and...
Zhou, Jiaxi, Su, Pei, Wang, Lu, Chen, Joanna, Zimmermann, Maike, Genbacev, Olga, ...
Despite the recent identification of the transcriptional regulatory circuitry involving SOX2, NANOG, and OCT-4, the intracellular signaling networks that control pluripotency of human embryonic stem...