Jun Liu

Publication List Details

Period

1986 - 2009

Number

439

Co-Authors

2007, Liquidity and the law of one price: The case of the futures/cash basis (2009)

Richard Roll, Eduardo Schwartz, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Andrew Karolyi, Er Kempf, Olaf Korn, ...

Deviations from no-arbitrage relations should be related to market liquidity, because liquidity facilitates arbitrage. Further, a wide futures/cash basis may trigger arbitrage trades and affect...

Jiang Wang for providing the MiniCRSP database used in the paper's empirical work, the UCLA Academic (2009)

Mark Grinblatt, Bing Han Y, Shlomo Benartzi, Steve Cauley, Bhagwan Chowdhry, Mark Garmaise, ...

Prior experimental and empirical research documents that many investors have a lower propensity to sell those stocks on which they have a capital loss. This behavioral phenomenon, known as \the...

Classification and Feature Selection Algorithms for Multi-class CGH data (2009)

Jun Liu, Sanjay Ranka, Tamer Kahveci

Recurrent chromosomal alterations provide cytological and molecular positions for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) has been useful in understanding these...

Transcriptome analysis of the venom gland of the scorpion Scorpiops jendeki: implication for the evolution of the scorpion venom arsenal (2009)

Ma, Yibao, Zhao, Ruiming, He, Yawen, Li, Songryong, Liu, Jun, Wu, Yingliang, ...

Abstract Background The family Euscorpiidae, which covers Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, is one of the most widely distributed scorpion groups. However, no studies have been conducted on the...

Insular cortex involvement in declarative memory deficits in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (2009)

Chen, Shulin, Li, Lingjiang, Xu, Baihua, Liu, Jun

Abstract Background Neuroimaging studies have proved that hippocampus relate to the deficient of memory in patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Many studies in healthy subjects also...

Belief rule-based inference methodology to improve nuclear safeguards information evaluation (2009)

Ruan, Da, Carchon, Roland, Van Der Meer, Klaas, Liu, Jun, Wang, Hui, Martinez, Luis

A framework for modeling, analyzing and synthesizing nuclear safeguards information with various uncertainties is proposed by using a newly developed belief rule-base inference methodology (RIMER)....

Effects of Cold Storage and Different Pulsing Treatments on Postharvest Quality of Cut OT Lily 'Mantissa' Flowers (2009)

Geng, Xing Min, Liu, Jun, Lu, Jian Guo, Hu, Feng Rong, Okubo, Hiroshi, 大久保, 敬

Effects of the pulsing solution containing silver thiosulphate (STS) or spermidine on postharvest quality of cut OT Lily 'Mantissa' (an Oriental x Trumpet hybrid) flowers were investigated. The...

MyBASE: a database for genome polymorphism and gene function studies of Mycobacterium (2009)

Zhu, Xinxing, Chang, Suhua, Fang, Kechi, Cui, Sijia, Liu, Jun, Wu, Zuowei, ...

Abstract Background Mycobacterial pathogens are a major threat to humans. With the increasing availability of functional genomic data, research on mycobacterial pathogenesis and subsequent control...

Does the left leg know what the right leg is doing? (2009)

Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Lu, Zhen, Li, Xia, Cao, Longjun, Yu, Junhai, ...

It is known that unilateral resistance exercise or electromyostimulation (EMS) training can increase muscular strength not only in the trained limb, but also in the homologous muscle of the...

Self-assembled materials for catalysis (2009)

Zhu, Kake, Wang, Donghai, Liu, Jun

The purpose of this review is to highlight developments in self-assembled nanostructured materials (i.e., mesoporous and nanoparticle-based materials) and their catalytic applications. Since there...

cAMP/PKA Signaling Inhibits Osteogenic Differentiation and Bone Formation in Rodent Models (2009)

Siddappa, Ramakrishnaiah, Mulder, Winfried, Steeghs, Ilse, Klundert Van De, Christine, Fernandes, Hugo, Liu, Jun, ...

We previously demonstrated that cAMP-mediated protein kinase A (PKA) activation induces in vitro osteogenesis and in vivo bone formation by human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). To analyze the...

Does the left leg know what the right leg is doing? (2009)

Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Lu, Zhen, Li, Xia, Cao, Longjun, Yu, Junhai, ...

It is known that unilateral resistance exercise or electromyostimulation (EMS) training can increase muscular strength not only in the trained limb, but also in the homologous muscle of the...

Inferring progression models for CGH data (2009)

Liu, Jun, Bandyopadhyay, Nirmalya, Ranka, Sanjay, Baudis, M., Kahveci, Tamer

Motivation: One of the mutational processes that has been monitored genome-wide is the occurrence of regional DNA copy number alterations (CNAs), which may lead to deletion or over-expression of...

Effects of Tobacco Ethylene Receptor Mutations on Receptor Kinase Activity, Plant Growth and Stress Responses (2009)

Chen, Tao, Liu, Jun, Lei, Gang, Liu, Yun-Feng, Li, Zhi-Gang, Tao, Jian-Jun, ...

Ethylene receptor is the first component of ethylene signaling that regulates plant growth, development and stress responses. Previously, we have demonstrated that tobacco subfamily 2 ethylene...

Does the left leg know what the right leg is doing? (2009)

Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Lu, Zhen, Li, Xia, Cao, Longjun, Yu, Junhai, ...

It is known that unilateral resistance exercise or electromyostimulation (EMS) training can increase muscular strength not only in the trained limb, but also in the homologous muscle of the...

Bioluminescent imaging in bone tissue engineering (2009)

Liu, Jun

This thesis contains two parts. The first part is to study the effect of a signalling pathway of protein kinase C (PKC) on human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) commitment to osteogenesis (chapter...

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...

Evidence on Behavioral Biases in Trading Activity JEL Classification: G14 (2008)

Laura Frieder, In Particular, Amit Goyal, Mark Grinblatt, Guido Imbens, ...

insights. Finally, many thanks to Tarun Chordia for providing the imbalance data. Evidence on Behavioral Biases in Trading Activity This paper is concerned with how the psychological biases of...

Performance Evaluation of Anonymous Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (2008)

Jun Liu, Jiejun Kong, Xiaoyan Hong, Mario Gerla

Mobile ad hoc networks require anonymous communications in order to thwart new wireless passive attacks; and to protect new assets of information such as nodes ’ locations, motion patterns, network...

BIOINFORMATICS Feature selection algorithms for CGH data (2008)

Jun Liu, Sanjay Ranka, Tamer Kahveci

losses of DNA segments) of a large number of genomic intervals. Selecting a small number of discriminative intervals from these genomic intervals is an important problem, known as feature selection,...

Printed in U.S.A. Cell Wall Structure of a Mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis Defective in the Biosynthesis of Mycolic Acids* (2008)

Linda Wang, Richard A. Slayden, Jun Liu

A mutant strain of Mycobacterium smegmatis defective in the biosynthesis of mycolic acids was recently isolated (Liu, J., and Nikaido, H. (1999) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 96, 4011–4016). This...

Impact of viral replication inhibition by entecavir on peripheral T lymphocyte subpopulations in chronic hepatitis B patients (2008)

You, Jing, Sriplung, Hutcha, Geater, Alan, Chongsuvivatwong, Virasakdi, Zhuang, Lin, Li, Yun-Li, ...

Abstract Background To investigate dynamic fluctuations of serum viral load and peripheral T-lymphocyte subpopulations of chronic hepatitis B patients and their correlation during entecavir therapy....

Novel genome polymorphisms in BCG vaccine strains and impact on efficacy (2008)

Leung, Andrea S, Tran, Vanessa, Wu, Zuowei, Yu, Xuping, Alexander, David C, Gao, George, ...

Abstract Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis currently used as a vaccine against tuberculosis. Global distribution and propagation of BCG has contributed to...

A Safety-Cost Based Design-Decision Support Framework Using Fuzzy Evidential Reasoning Approach (2008)

Jun Liu, Jian-bo Yang, Jin Wang, How-sing Sii

This paper illustrates a subjective safety-cost based design-decision support framework using fuzzy logic and evidential reasoning approaches. The framework is divided into three parts. The first one...

NONLINEAR TRANSPORT IN BALLISTIC SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES WITH NEGATIVE EFFECTIVE MASS CARRIERS (2008)

B. R. Perkins, Jun Liu, A. Zaslavsky, Z. S. Gribnikov, V. V. Mitin, ...

We are pursuing a new class of solid-state devices capable of generating highfrequency radiation: short ballistic semiconductor diodes in which the current flow is due to carriers injected into a...

GRK5 deficiency exaggerates inflammatory changes in TgAPPsw mice (2008)

Li, Longxuan, Liu, Jun, Suo, William Z

Abstract Background Deficiency of membrane G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) kinase-5 (GRK5) recently has been linked to early AD pathogenesis, and has been suggested to contribute to augmented...

High performance In2O3 nanowire transistors using organic gate nanodielectrics (2008)

Ju, Sanghyun, Ishikawa, Fumiaki, Chen, Pochiang, Chang, Hsiao-Kang, Zhou, Chongwu, Ha, Young-geun, ...

We report the fabrication of high performance nanowire transistors (NWTs) using In2O3 nanowires as the active channel and a self-assembled nanodielectric (SAND) as the gate insulator. The SAND-based...

Molecular dynamics study on nanoparticle diffusion in polymer melts: A test of the Stokes-Einstein law (2008)

Liu, Jun, Cao, Dapeng, Zhang, Liqun

Molecular dynamics simulations are used to investigate the diffusion process of nanoparticles in polymer melts. The effects of size, concentration, and mass of the particle, chain length, and...

R.: Automatic camera calibration and scene reconstruction with scale-invariant features (2008)

Jun Liu, Roger Hubbold

Abstract. The goal of our research is to robustly reconstruct general 3D scenes from 2D images, with application to automatic model generation in computer graphics and virtual reality. In this paper...

Mesh Optimisation Using Edge Information In Feature-Based Surface Reconstruction (2008)

Jun Liu, Roger Hubbold

Abstract. One of the most challenging and fundamental problems in computer vision is to reconstruct a surface model given a set of uncalibrated 2D images. Well-established Structure from Motion (SfM)...

3D Model Compression For Collaborative Design (2008)

Jun Liu, Qifu Wang, Zhengdong Huang, Liping Chen, Yunhua Liu

The compression of CAD models is a key technology for realizing Internet-based collaborative product development because big model sizes often prohibit us to achieve a rapid product information...

Smooth Streaming Support for Time-Critical Streaming Media Applications (2008)

Jun Liu

Streaming media is becoming increasingly important to many applications. Timely delivery of streaming media at the required rates is crucial to the correct functioning of applications relying on...

Abstract: As an extension to 2DPCA, Generalized Low Rank Approximation of Matrices (GLRAM) (2008)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen

applies two-sided (i.e., the left and right) rather than single-sided (i.e., the left or the right alone) linear projecting transform(s) to each 2D image for compression and feature extraction. Its...

The Mediating Role of Leadership Behavior and Organizational Culture (2008)

Pingping Fu, Anne Tsui, Jun Liu, Jiwen Song, Yan Jiang, Liangding Jia, ...

The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants

SYNTHESIS AND EVALUATION ANALYSIS OF THE INDICATOR INFORMATION IN NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS APPLICATIONS BY COMPUTING WITH WORDS (2008)

Jun Liu, Da Ruan, Roland Carchon

This paper aims at the handling and treatment of nuclear safeguard relevant information by using a linguistic assessment approach. This is based on a hierarchical analysis of a State’s nuclear...

Discriminant common vecotors versus neighbourhood components analysis and laplacianfaces: A comparative study in small sample size problem (2008)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen

and Laplacianfaces (LAP) are three recently proposed methods which can effectively learn linear projection matrices for dimensionality reduction in face recognition, where the dimension of the sample...

Performance Evaluation of Anonymous Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (2008)

Jun Liu, Jiejun Kong, Xiaoyan Hong, Mario Gerla

Mobile ad hoc networks require anonymous communications in order to thwart new wireless passive attacks; and to protect new assets of information such as nodes ’ locations, motion patterns, network...

Single Image Subspace for Face Recognition (2008)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen, Zhi-hua Zhou, Xiaoyang Tan

Abstract. Small sample size and severe facial variation are two challenging problems for face recognition. In this paper, we propose the SIS (Single Image Subspace) approach to address these two...

ABSTRACT A Secure Ad-hoc Routing Approach using Localized Self-healing Communities ∗ (2008)

Jiejun Kong, Xiaoyan Hong, Yunjung Yi, Joon-sang Park, Jun Liu, Mario Gerla

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are vulnerable to routing attacks, especially attacks launched by non-cooperative (selfish or compromised) network members and appear to be protocol compliant. For...

On Pseudo-synchronizing Clocks in Distributed Applications (2008)

Jun Liu, Jun Liu

Many distributed applications demand the underlying distributed systems to accommodate their needs. Matching requirements of distributed applications compels the prompt identification of momentary...

The Market Price of Risk in Interest (2008)

Jun Liu, Francis A. Longstaff, Ravit E. Mandell

One of the most fundamental issues in finance is how the market compensates investors for bearing credit risk. This issue is complicated by the fact that credit spreads may actually consist of both...

Comments on “Efficient and Robust Feature Extraction by Maximum Margin Criterion” (2008)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen, Xiaoyang Tan, Daoqiang Zhang

Abstract—The goal of this comment is to first point out two loopholes in the paper by Li et al. (2006): 1) so-designed efficient maximal margin criterion (MMC) algorithm for small sample size (SSS)...

Progressive Principal Component Analysis (2008)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen, Zhi-hua Zhou

Abstract. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a feature extraction approach directly based on a whole vector pattern and acquires a set of projections that can realize the best reconstruction for...

Transparent active matrix organic light-emitting diode displays driven by nanowire transistor circuitry (2008)

Ju, Sanghyun, Li, Jianfeng, Liu, Jun, Chen, Po-Chiang, Ha, Young-Geun, Ishikawa, Fumiaki, ...

Optically transparent, mechanically flexible displays are attractive for next-generation visual technologies and portable electronics. In principle, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) satisfy key...

Self-tuning of fuzzy belief rule bases for engineering system safety analysis (2008)

Liu, Jun, Yang, Jian-Bo, Ruan, Da, Martinez, Luis, Wang, Jin

A framework for modelling the safety of an engineering system using a fuzzy rule-based evidential reasoning (FURBER) approach has been recently proposed, where a fuzzy rule-base designed on the basis...

A Phase-Coupled Compiler Backend for a New VLIW Processor Architecture Using Two-step Register Allocation (2008)

Jie Guo, Jun Liu, Björn Mennenga, Gerhard P. Fettweis

This paper starts with the introduction of the Synchronous Transfer Architecture (STA), a new variant of VLIW architecture which can be viewed as a version of Transport-Triggered Architectures (TTA)....

Cryoelectron Tomographic Analysis of an HIV-neutralizing Protein and Its Complex with Native Viral gp120 *□S (2008)

Adam Bennett, Jun Liu, Donald Van Ryk, Donald Bliss, James Arthos, Robert M. Henderson, ...

Identifying structural determinants of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) neutralization is an important component of rational drug and vaccine design. We used cryoelectron tomography and atomic...

CONSIDERATIONS ON UNCERTAIN SPATIO-TEMPORAL REASONING IN SMART HOME SYSTEMS (2008)

Jun Liu, Juan C. Augusto, Hui Wang

Smart Homes are the subject of intensive research to explore different ways in which they can be used to provide home-based preventive and assistive technology to patients and other vulnerable...

Synthesis and Characterization of HPMC Derivatives as Novel Duodenum-Specific Coating Agents (2008)

Huang, Yuan, Zheng, Ling Ii, Liu, Jun, Zhang, Zhi Rong

HPMC (Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose) was chemically modified, using maleic anhydrides, to obtain pH-sensitive HPMCAM (Hydroxypropyl methylcellulose acetate maleate) polymers for use as novel...

Ethyl 4-nitrophenylacetate (2008)

Ji Li, Jun Liu, Hui-Qing Peng

In the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C10H11NO4, there are two crystallographically independent molecules, which are connected via a C—H...O hydrogen bond. The crystal structure is...

Screening for proteins interacting with MCM7 in human lung cancer library using yeast two hybrid system (2008)

Yuchen HAN, Zhongyan GUAN, Hongmei DUAN, Na TANG, Jun LIU, Yanling HAN

Background and objective MCM7 is a subunit of the MCM complex that plays a key role in DNA replication initiation. But little is known about its interaction proteins. In this study yeast two hybrid...

The value of mediastinoscopy in the staging of lung cancer with clinical N2 disease (2008)

Hui ZHAO, Jun WANG, Jun LIU, Jianfeng LI, Guanchao JIANG, Yun LI, ...

Background and objective To determine the value of mediastinoscopy in the mediastinal staging of lung cancer with clinical N2 disease. Methods We retrospectively reviewed 87 patients received...

The role of filament-packing dynamics in powering amoeboid cell motility (2008)

Miao, Long, Vanderlinde, Orion, Liu, Jun, Grant, Richard P., Wouterse, A., Shimabukuro, Katsuya, ...

Although several models have been proposed to account for how cytoskeleton polymerization drives protrusion in cell motility, the precise mechanism remains controversial. Here, we show that, in...

Lsr2 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a DNA-bridging protein (2008)

Chen, Jeffrey M., Ren, Huiping, Shaw, James E., Wang, Yu Jing, Li, Ming, Leung, Andrea S., ...

Lsr2 is a small, basic protein present in Mycobacterium and related actinomycetes. Recent studies suggest that Lsr2 is a regulatory protein involved in multiple cellular processes including cell wall...

Nuclear Trafficking During Plant Innate Immunity (2008)

Liu, Jun, Coaker, Gitta

Land plants possess innate immune systems that can control resistance against pathogen infection. Conceptually, there are two branches of the plant innate immune system. One branch recognizes...

Interaction of the cytochrome P4501A2, SULT1A1 and NAT gene polymorphisms with smoking and dietary mutagen intake in modification of the risk of pancreatic cancer (2008)

Suzuki, Hideo, Morris, Jeffrey S., Li, Yanan, Doll, Mark A., Hein, David W., Liu, Jun, ...

Aromatic amines, N-nitroso compounds and heterocyclic amines are suspected human pancreatic carcinogens. Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 1A2, N-acetyltransferase (NAT) 1, NAT2 and sulfotransferase (SULT) are...

Classification and feature selection algorithms for multi-class CGH data (2008)

Liu, Jun, Ranka, Sanjay, Kahveci, Tamer

Recurrent chromosomal alterations provide cytological and molecular positions for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) has been useful in understanding these...

The use of multiple displacement amplification to amplify complex DNA libraries (2008)

Fullwood, Melissa J., Tan, Jack J. S., Ng, Patrick W. P., Chiu, Kuo Ping, Liu, Jun, Wei, Chia Lin, ...

Complex libraries for genomic DNA and cDNA sequencing analyses are typically amplified using bacterial propagation. To reduce biases, large numbers of colonies are plated and scraped from...

Special thanks are due to Jim Ohlson for helpful discussions and insights. We also received useful (2008)

John Hughes, Jing Liu, Jun Liu, Ruihao Ke, Jake Thomas, ...

Abstract: In this study, we examine the relation between implied cost of capital and expected returns under an assumption that expected returns are stochastic, a property supported by theory and...

Transparent active matrix organic light-emitting diode displays driven by nanowire transistor circuitry (2007)

Ju, Sanghyun, Li, Jianfeng, Liu, Jun, Chen, Po-Chiang, Ha, Young-Geun, Ishikawa, Fumiaki, ...

Optically transparent, mechanically flexible displays are attractive for next-generation visual technologies and portable electronics. In principle, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) satisfy key...

A linguistic lattice-valued approach for fuzzy multi-objective decision making (2007)

Li, Xiaobing, Ruan, Da, Liu, Jun, Xu, Yang

Most of the present methods for multi-objective decision making can only deal with linearly ordered preference information. In this paper, we focus on investigating methods for multi-objective...

MRMRF-based Texture Classification (2007)

Lei Wang, Jun Liu, Stan Z. Li

In this paper, we present a new scheme to classify different textures. We propose a scheme to use wavelet decomposition with Markov random field modeling to classify textures which we called...

1 End-to-End Inference of Loss Nature in a Hybrid Wired/Wireless Environment (2007)

Jun Liu, Ibrahim Matta, Mark Crovella

Abstract--- End-to-End differentiation between wireless and congestion loss can equip TCP control so it operates effectively in a hybrid wired/wireless environment. Our approach integrates two...

MRF parameter estimation by MCMC method (2007)

Lei Wang, Jun Liu, Stan Z. Li

Markov random "eld (MRF) modeling is a popular pattern analysis method and MRF parameter estimation plays an important role in MRF modeling. In this paper, a method based on Markov Chain...

Electron tunneling spectroscopy of a quantum antidot in the quantum Hall regime (2007)

Goldman, V. J., Liu, Jun, Zaslavsky, A.

Quantum antidot, a small potential hill introduced into a two-dimensional electron system, presents an attractive tool to study quantum mechanics of interacting electrons.Here, we report experiments...

Range-based attacks on links in random scale-free networks (2007)

Gong, Baihua, Liu, Jun, Huang, Liang, Yang, Kongqing

$Range$ and $load$ play keys on the problem of attacking on links in random scale-free (RSF) networks. In this Brief Report we obtain the relation between $range$ and $load$ in RSF networks...

Osmotic responses and tolerance limits to changes in external osmolalities, and oolemma permeability characteristics, of human in vitro matured MII oocytes (2007)

Van Den Abbeel, Etienne, Schneider, Ulrich, Liu, Jun, Agca, Yuksel, Critser, John K, Van Steirteghem, André

BACKGROUND Oocyte cryopreservation remains a realistic objective, provided that more systematic approaches are applied, such as thorough analysis of the oocyte oolemma permeability to water and...

Fusion transcripts and transcribed retrotransposed loci discovered through comprehensive transcriptome analysis using Paired-End diTags (PETs) (2007)

Ruan, Yijun, Ooi, Hong Sain, Choo, Siew Woh, Chiu, Kuo Ping, Zhao, Xiao Dong, Srinivasan, K.G., ...

Identification of unconventional functional features such as fusion transcripts is a challenging task in the effort to annotate all functional DNA elements in the human genome. Paired-End diTag (PET)...

Fabrication of fully transparent nanowire transistors for transparent and flexible electronics (2007)

Ju, Sanghyun, Facchetti, Antonio, XUAN, Xi, Liu, Jun, Ishikawa, Fumaiki, Ye, P. D., ...

The development of optically transparent and mechanically flexible electronic circuitry is an essential step in the effort to develop next-generation display technologies, including 'see-through' and...

Fabrication of fully transparent nanowire transistors for transparent and flexible electronics (2007)

Ju, Sanghyun, Facchetti, Antonio, Xuan, Yi, Liu, Jun, Ishikawa, Fumaiki, Ye, P. D., ...

The development of optically transparent and mechanically flexible electronic circuitry is an essential step in the effort to develop next-generation display technologies, including 'see-through' and...

Handling Linguistic web Information Based on A Multi-agent System (2007)

Pei, Zheng, Ruan, Da, Xu, Yang, Liu, Jun

Much information over the Internet is expressed by natural languages. The management of linguistic information involves an operation of comparison and aggregation. Based on the Ordered Weighted...

Dealing with heterogeneous information in engineering evaluation processes (2007)

Martinez, Luis, Liu, Jun, Ruan, Da, Yang, Jian-Bo

Before selecting a design for a large engineering system several design proposals are evaluated studying different key aspects. In such a design assessment process, different criteria need to be...

Synergetic effects of nanoporous support and urea on enzyme activity (2007)

Lei, Chenghong, Shin, Yongsoon, Liu, Jun, Ackerman, Eric J.

We report synergetic effects of functionalized mesoporous silica (FMS) and urea to promote favorable protein conformational changes. The specific activity of glucose isomerase (GI) entrapped in FMS...

Quantum phases in a doped Mott insulator on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice (2007)

Liu, Jun, Trivedi, Nandini, Lee, Yongbin, Harmon, B. N., Schmalian, Joerg

We propose the projected BCS wave function as the ground state for the doped Mott insulator SrCu2(BO3)2 on the Shastry-Sutherland lattice. At half filling this wave function yields the exact ground...

Prostaglandin E2receptor subtype 2 (EP2) regulates microglial activation and associated neurotoxicity induced by aggregated α-synuclein (2007)

Jin, Jinghua, Shie, Feng-Shiun, Liu, Jun, Wang, Yan, Davis, Jeanne, Schantz, Aimee M, ...

Abstract Background The pathogenesis of idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) remains elusive, although evidence has suggested that neuroinflammation characterized by activation of resident microglia...

New traversodontid materials from North Carolina, United States and the taxonomy, phylogeny of Traversodontidae (Synapsida: Cynodontia) (2007)

Liu, Jun

This thesis analyzes the interrelationships of known traversodontid cynodonts. Some specimens of Boreogomphodon from North Carolina, USA are described and recognized as a new species based on the...

Assessment of muscle activation with twitch interpolation technique in a unilateral electromyostimulation training program (2007)

Yu, Junhai, Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Cao, Longjun, Liu, Jun, Hu, Xilian

The twitch interpolation refers to a technique that applies a brief electrical stimulation to a muscle or the nerve trunk that innervates the muscle during a maximal voluntary contraction, and uses...

Bilateral effects of six-week unilateral electromyostimulation or voluntary isometric training on dorsiflexion strength and muscle activation (Presentation) (2007)

Yu, Junhai, Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Liu, Jun, Cao, Longjun

This study aimed to investigate the bilateral effect of unilateral training on isometric dorsiflexion strength and capacity in muscle activation as detected using twitch interpolation technique....

A Modified Adaptive Stochastic Resonance for Detecting Faint Signal in Sensors (2007)

Qi Huang, Jun Liu, Hengwei Li

In this paper, an approach is presented to detect faint signals with strong noises in sensors by stochastic resonance (SR). We adopt the power spectrum as the evaluation tool of SR, which can be...

Fractional order singular value decomposition representation for face recognition (2007)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen, Xiaoyang Tan

Face Representation (FR) plays a typically important role in face recognition and methods such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) have been received wide...

Efficient pseudo-inverse linear discriminant analysis and its nonlinear form for face recognition (2007)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen, Daoqiang Zhang, Xiaoyang Tan

Abstract. Pseudoinverse Linear Discriminant Analysis (PLDA) is a classical and pioneer method that deals with the Small Sample Size (SSS) problem in LDA when applied to such application as face...

Bilateral effects of six-week unilateral electromyostimulation or voluntary isometric training on dorsiflexion strength and muscle activation (Presentation) (2007)

Yu, Junhai, Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Liu, Jun, Cao, Longjun

This study aimed to investigate the bilateral effect of unilateral training on isometric dorsiflexion strength and capacity in muscle activation as detected using twitch interpolation technique....

Assessment of muscle activation with twitch interpolation technique in a unilateral electromyostimulation training program (2007)

Yu, Junhai, Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Cao, Longjun, Liu, Jun, Hu, Xilian

The twitch interpolation refers to a technique that applies a brief electrical stimulation to a muscle or the nerve trunk that innervates the muscle during a maximal voluntary contraction, and uses...

Portfolio Selection in Stochastic Environments (2007)

Liu, Jun

In this article, I explicitly solve dynamic portfolio choice problems, up to the solution of an ordinary differential equation (ODE), when the asset returns are quadratic and the agent has a constant...

Markers improve clustering of CGH data (2007)

Liu, Jun, Ranka, Sanjay, Kahveci, Tamer

Motivation: We consider the problem of clustering a population of Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) data samples using similarity based clustering methods. A key requirement for clustering is...

Assessment of muscle activation with twitch interpolation technique in a unilateral electromyostimulation training program (2007)

Yu, Junhai, Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Cao, Longjun, Liu, Jun, Hu, Xilian

The twitch interpolation refers to a technique that applies a brief electrical stimulation to a muscle or the nerve trunk that innervates the muscle during a maximal voluntary contraction, and uses...

Bilateral effects of six-week unilateral electromyostimulation or voluntary isometric training on dorsiflexion strength and muscle activation (Presentation) (2007)

Yu, Junhai, Zhou, Shi, Huang, Liping, Liu, Jun, Cao, Longjun

This study aimed to investigate the bilateral effect of unilateral training on isometric dorsiflexion strength and capacity in muscle activation as detected using twitch interpolation technique....

Revisiting controlled quantum secure direct communication using a non-symmetric quantum channel with quantum superdense coding (2006)

Liu, Jun, Zhang, Zhan-jun

Recently Xia and Song [Phys. Lett. A (In press)] have proposed a controlled quantum secure direct communication (CQSDC) protocol. They claimed that in their protocol only with the help of the...

Improving Digital Handoff in Tabletop Shared Workspaces (2006)

Liu, Jun

Handoff is a synchronous object transfer technique in face-to-face collaborative work and is one of the low-level actions of collaboration that is smooth and natural in physical settings; however, in...

Improving Digital Handoff in Tabletop Shared Workspaces (2006)

Liu, Jun

Handoff is a synchronous object transfer technique in face-to-face collaborative work and is one of the low-level actions of collaboration that is smooth and natural in physical settings; however, in...

Improving Digital Handoff in Tabletop Shared Workspaces (2006)

Liu, Jun

Handoff is a synchronous object transfer technique in face-to-face collaborative work and is one of the low-level actions of collaboration that is smooth and natural in physical settings; however, in...

On the Consistency of Rule-Bases Based on Lattice-Valued First-Order Logic LF(X) (2006)

Xu, Yang, Liu, Jun, Ruan, Da, Lee, Tsu-Tian

The consistency of a rule-base is an essential issue for the rule-based intelligent information processing. In the framework of the lattice-valued first-order logic system LF(X) which is in the...

不連続ばね特性を利用した回転機械の不安定領域の除去 (2006)

石田, 幸男, ISHIDA, Yukio, 劉, 軍, LIU, Jun

Unstable vibration occurs in the vicinities of the major critical speeds of an asymmetrical shaft system. It also occurs in a wide speed range above the major critical speed of a shaft with a hollow...

非定常振動によるロータのクラックの検出 (不つりあいの方向による非定常振動の最大振幅の変化) (2006)

石田, 幸男, ISHIDA, Yukio, 劉, 軍, LIU, Jun, 井上, 剛志, INOUE, Tsuyoshi, ...

In order to detect a transverse crack due to fatigue, most of the researches have so far paid attention to resonances of steady-state oscillations due to a crack and proposed diagnosis systems...

Association between Multi-level Inorganic Arsenic Exposure from Drinking Water and Skin Lesions in China (2006)

Xiaojuan Guo, Yoshihisa Fujino, Xiaolei Ye, Jun Liu, Takesumi Yoshimura

Arsenic is one of the most important toxicants in the environment. In Inner Mongolia of China, 300,000 residents are believed to be drinking water containing >50μg/liter. Skin lesions have...

Simulation Study of Nano Aqueous Flow Sensor Based on Amperometric Measurement (2006)

Jian Wu, Qingli Zhou, Jun Liu, Zhengguo Lou

In this paper, a novel nano aqueous flow sensor which consists of two closelyspaced amperometric sensors is investigated by digital simulation. The simulation resultsindicate that the ratio of the...

Markers improve clustering of CGH data (2006)

Jun Liu, Sanjay Ranka, Tamer Kahveci

Motivation: We consider the problem of clustering a population of Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) data samples using similarity based clustering methods. A key requirement for clustering is...

Characterizing The Load of A Single-Server System (2006)

Jun Liu, Jun Liu

The load of a computer is an important metric and is useful in many applications, such as balancing load across heterogeneous computers. In this paper, a new metric for characterizing the load of a...

A generic rule-base inference methodology using the evidential reasoning approach (2006)

Jian-bo Yang, Jun Liu, Jin Wang, How-sing Sii, Hong-wei Wang, Associate Member

Abstract—In this paper, a generic rule-base inference methodology using the evidential reasoning (RIMER) approach is proposed. Existing knowledge-base structures are first examined, and knowledge...

Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling (2006)

Sudha Ram, Jun Liu

Abstract: Data Provenance refers to the lineage of data including its origin, key events that occur over the course of its lifecycle, and other details associated with data creation, processing, and...

Tnt: improved rotation and translation on digital tables (2006)

Jun Liu, David Pinelle, Samer Sallam, Sriram Subramanian, Carl Gutwin

Digital tabletop systems allow users to work on computational objects in a flexible and natural setting. Since users can easily move to different positions around a table, systems must allow people...

TNT: improved rotation and translation on digital tables. Graphics interface (2006)

Jun Liu, David Pinelle, Samer Sallam, Sriram Subramanian, Carl Gutwin

Digital tabletop systems allow users to work on computational objects in a flexible and natural setting. Since users can easily move to different positions around a table, systems must allow people...

Understanding the Semantics of Data Provenance to Support Active Conceptual Modeling (2006)

Sudha Ram, Jun Liu

Abstract: Data Provenance refers to the lineage of data including its origin, key events that occur over the course of its lifecycle, and other details associated with data creation, processing, and...

A Variable-Length Encoding Method to Prevent the Error Propagation Effect in Video Communication (2006)

MA, Linhua, CHANG, Yilin, LIU, Jun, DU, Xinmin

A novel variable-length code (VLC), called alternate VLC (AVLC), is proposed, which employs two types of VLC to encode source symbols alternately. Its advantage is that it can not only stop the...

Distance-based clustering of CGH data (2006)

Liu, Jun, Mohammed, Jaaved, Carter, James, Ranka, Sanjay, Kahveci, Tamer, Baudis, Michael

Motivation: We consider the problem of clustering a population of Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH) data samples. The goal is to develop a systematic way of placing patients with similar CGH...

Portfolio Selection In Stochastic Environments (2006)

Liu, Jun

In this paper, I explicitly solve dynamic portfolio choice problems, up to the solution of an ordinary differential equation (ODE), when the asset returns are quadratic and the agent has a constant...

RUSSIA AND CHINA IN TRANSITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR HRD RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN GLOBAL COMMUNITY (2005)

Liu, Jun, Niemi, John

In recent years, both Russia and China have attempted to move toward a market economy from a centralized, tightly controlled economic and political system that had held sway for many decades. In...

RUSSIA AND CHINA IN TRANSITION: IMPLICATIONS FOR HRD RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN GLOBAL COMMUNITY (2005)

Liu, Jun, Niemi, John

In recent years, both Russia and China have attempted to move toward a market economy from a centralized, tightly controlled economic and political system that had held sway for many decades. In...

Restudy of Anshunsaurus huangguoshuensis (Reptilia: Thalattosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China (2005)

JUN LIU, OLIVIER RIEPPEL

We here describe the complete skeletal anatomy of Anshunsaurus huangguoshuensis that previously remained unknown. The description includes a review of the dorsal side of the skull as well as the...

Cost Estimations for Large Scale Engineering Projects under Uncertainties (2005)

Ruan, Da, Maes, Dirk, Aït Abderrahim, Hamid, Liu, Jun, Xu, Ling, Yang, Jian-Bo

Cost estimation for large projects can be difficult because of many complex factors and uncertainties involved. It is often the case that only very rough guesses of actual costs may be provided. In...

Self-tuning fuzzy rule bases with Belief structure (2005)

Ruan, Da, Liu, Jun, Yang, Jian-Bo, Martinez, Luis

A fuzzy rule-based evidential reasoning (FURBER) approach has been proposed recently, where a fuzzy rule-base designed on the basis of a belief structure (called a belief rule base) forms a basis in...

Self-organized Boolean game on networks (2005)

Zhou, Tao, Wang, Bing-Hong, Zhou, Pei-Ling, Yang, Chun-Xia, Liu, Jun

A model of Boolean game with only one free parameter $p$ that denotes the strength of herd behavior is proposed where each agent acts according to the information obtained from his neighbors in...

Risk, Return and Dividends (2005)

Ang, Andrew, Liu, Jun

We characterize the joint dynamics of expected returns, stochastic volatility, and prices. In particular, with a given dividend process, one of the processes of the expected return, the stock...

Information, Diversification, and Cost of Capital (2005)

Hughes, John S, Liu, Jing, Liu, Jun

We investigate the effects of information and diversification on cost of capital in a noisy rational expectations model. Assuming a factor structure for risky asset payoffs and two classes of...

Corruption, Firm Governance, and the Cost of Capital (2005)

Garmaise, Mark J, Liu, Jun

We develop a model of a firm owned by shareholders and administered by managers who may be either honest or dishonest. When managers have an informational advantage but shareholders retain control,...

外乱オブザーバを用いた非線形回転軸系の振動制御と不つりあい推定 (2005)

井上, 剛志, INOUE, Tsuyoshi, 劉, 軍, LIU, Jun, 吉村, 祐亮, YOSHIMURA, Yusuke, ...

In rotating machinery, the unbalance of the rotor causes many resonances at the critical speeds corresponding to various modes. In this paper, a method of vibration control for rotor systems...

Molecular cloning and functional analysis of chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase (rat) in relation to post-traumatic nerve regeneration (2005)

Liu, Jun

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled Molecular Cloning and Functional Analysis of Chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase (rat) in Relation to Post-Traumatic Nerve Regeneration Submitted by Liu Jun...

Molecular cloning and functional analysis of chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase (rat) in relation to post-traumatic nerve regeneration (2005)

Liu, Jun

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled Molecular Cloning and Functional Analysis of Chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase (rat) in Relation to Post-Traumatic Nerve Regeneration Submitted by Liu Jun...

Molecular cloning and functional analysis of chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase (rat) in relation to post-traumatic nerve regeneration (2005)

Liu, Jun

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled Molecular Cloning and Functional Analysis of Chondroitin 6-sulfotransferase (rat) in Relation to Post-Traumatic Nerve Regeneration Submitted by Liu Jun...

Classification of Chinese Yellow Wines by ChemometricAnalysis of Cyclic Voltammogram of Copper Electrodes (2005)

Jian Wu, Jun Liu, Min Fu, Guang Li, Zhengguo Lou

A Chinese yellow wine classification method is proposed based on chemometricanalysis of voltammogram of copper electrode. The main components in Chinese yellowwine are alcohol, amino acids and carbon...

Effective Probabilistic Approach Protecting Sensor Traffic (2005)

Xiaoyan Hong, Pu Wang, Jiejun Kong, Qunwei Zheng, Jun Liu

Abstract — Sensor networks are often deployed in environments where malicious nodes present. Among all possible forms of the attacks threatening the sensor networks, in this work, we focus on...

Resampling lda/qr and pca+lda for face recognition (2005)

Jun Liu, Songcan Chen

Abstract. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) plus Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) (PCA+LDA) and LDA/QR are both two-stage methods that deal with the small sample size (SSS) problem in traditional...

Evaluation of Inventory Policies with Unidirectional Substitutions (2005)

Jun Liu, Chi-guhn Lee

We propose evaluation approaches to multi-item base-stock inventory policies where uni-directional substitutions are allowed among part types. The problems in the paper are in the context of spare...

Nonparametric transfer function model / (2005)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (Ph.D. in Business Administration)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005.

Detailed placement for stand-cell circuits / (2005)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (M.S. in Engineering)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005.

An Equilibrium Model of Rare-Event Premia and Its Implication for Option Smirks (2005)

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun, Wang, Tan

This article studies the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices...

Guiding principles for effective peer response (2005)

Hansen, Jette G., Liu, Jun

This article presents guiding principles teachers can utilize in their own planning and student training for effective peer response. As the principles illustrate, teacher planning and student...

Irregular Low-Density Convolutional Codes (2005)

MA, Linhua, LIU, Jun, CHANG, Yilin

A method for constructing low-density convolutional (LDC) codes with the degree distribution optimized for block low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is presented. If the degree distribution is...

Pairing and superconductivity driven by strong quasiparticle renormalization in two-dimensional organic charge transfer salts (2004)

Liu, Jun, Schmalian, Joerg, Trivedi, Nandini

We introduce and analyze a variational wave function for quasi two-dimensional kappa-ET organic salts containing strong local and nonlocal correlation effects. We find an unconventional...

The Value of Private Information (2004)

Liu, Jun, Peleg, Ehud, Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar

We study the consumption-investment problem of a CRRA agent who possesses private information about the future prospects of a stock. We compute the value of the information to the agent by comparing...

不連続ばね特性を利用した回転機械の制振 (2004)

石田, 幸男, ISHIDA, Yukio, 劉, 軍, LIU, Jun

In rotating machinery, resonance phenomena occur with large amplitude in the vicinities of the major critical speeds. In this paper, a new vibration suppression method utilizing the discontinuous...

BAK overexpression mediates p53-independent apoptosis inducing effects on human gastric cancer cells (2004)

Tong, Qiang-Song, Zheng, Li-Duan, Wang, Liang, Liu, Jun, Qian, Wei

Abstract Background BAK (Bcl-2 homologous antagonist/killer) is a novel pro-apoptotic gene of the Bcl-2 family. It has been reported that gastric tumors have reduced BAK levels when compared with the...

Neo--- A new perspective on STM capacity (2004)

Liu, Jun

Exploring the word length effect from the perspective of information density, the current research extended previous findings on cross-linguistic differences in STM capacity with the development of a...

Neo--- A new perspective on STM capacity (2004)

Liu, Jun

Exploring the word length effect from the perspective of information density, the current research extended previous findings on cross-linguistic differences in STM capacity with the development of a...

Neo--- A new perspective on STM capacity (2004)

Liu, Jun

Exploring the word length effect from the perspective of information density, the current research extended previous findings on cross-linguistic differences in STM capacity with the development of a...

Neo--- A new perspective on STM capacity (2004)

Liu, Jun

Exploring the word length effect from the perspective of information density, the current research extended previous findings on cross-linguistic differences in STM capacity with the development of a...

Modeling Stock Market Based on Genetic Cellular Automata (2004)

Zhou, Tao, Zhou, Pei-Ling, Wang, Bing-Hong, Tang, Zi-Nan, Liu, Jun

An artificial stock market is established with the modeling method and ideas of cellular automata. Cells are used to represent stockholders, who have the capability of self-teaching and are affected...

Study on Evolvement Complexity in an Artificial Stock Market (2004)

Yang, Chun-Xia, Zhou, Tao, Zhou, Pei-Ling, Liu, Jun, Tang, Zi-Nan

An artificial stock market is established based on multi-agent . Each agent has a limit memory of the history of stock price, and will choose an action according to his memory and trading strategy....

THE MARKET PRICE OF RISK IN INTEREST RATE SWAPS: THE ROLES OF DEFAULT AND LIQUIDITY RISKS (2004)

Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis A., Mandell, Ravit E.

We study how the market prices the default and liquidity risks incorporated into one of the most important credit spreads in the financial markets-interest rate swap spreads. Our approach consists of...

Neo--- a new perspective on STM capacity (2004)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (M.S.)--School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. Directed by David Robertson.

Neo--- a new perspective on STM capacity [electronic resource] / (2004)

Liu, Jun.

Exploring the word length effect from the perspective of information density, the current research extended previous findings on cross-linguistic differences in STM capacity with the development of a...

Neo--- a new perspective on STM capacity (2004)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (M.S.)--School of Psychology, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005. Directed by David Robertson.

siRNAs targeting an intronic transposon in the regulation of natural flowering behavior in Arabidopsis (2004)

Liu, Jun, He, Yuehui, Amasino, Richard, Chen, Xuemei

Allelic variation in FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a central repressor of flowering, contributes to natural differences in flowering behavior among Arabidopsis accessions. The weak nature of the FLC...

An Equilibrium Model of Rare-Event Premia and Its Implication for Option Smirks* (2004)

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun, Wang, Tan

This paper studies the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices...

siRNAs targeting an intronic transposon in the regulation of natural flowering behavior in Arabidopsis (2004)

Liu, Jun, He, Yuehui, Amasino, Richard, Chen, Xuemei

Allelic variation in FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a central repressor of flowering, contributes to natural differences in flowering behavior among Arabidopsis accessions. The weak nature of the FLC...

Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels (2004)

Bekaert, Geert, Liu, Jun

Gallant, Hansen, and Tauchen (1990) show how to use conditioning information optimally to construct a sharper unconditional variance bound (the GHT bound) on pricing kernels. The literature...

An Equilibrium Model of Rare-Event Premia and Its Implication for Option Smirks* (2004)

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun, Wang, Tan

This paper studies the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices...

siRNAs targeting an intronic transposon in the regulation of natural flowering behavior in Arabidopsis (2004)

Liu, Jun, He, Yuehui, Amasino, Richard, Chen, Xuemei

Allelic variation in FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a central repressor of flowering, contributes to natural differences in flowering behavior among Arabidopsis accessions. The weak nature of the FLC...

Dynamic Derivative Strategies (2003)

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun

This paper studies the optimal investment strategy of an investor who can access not only the bond and the stock markets, but also the derivatives market. We consider the investment situation where,...

Dynamic Derivative Strategies (2003)

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun

This paper studies the optimal investment strategy of an investor who can access not only the bond and the stock markets, but also the derivatives market. We consider the investment situation where,...

In Vitro Parthenogenetic Development of Mouse Oocytes Following Reciprocal Transfer of the Chromosome Spindle Between In Vivo-Matured Oocytes and In Vitro-Matured Oocytes1 (2003)

Jun Liu, Marc Dhont

Mouse follicles grown in vitro from preantral to mature stages yield oocytes that can be fertilized in vitro, but embryonic development is poor. To investigate whether this poor development is due to...

Development of Viterbi decoder in VHDL / (2003)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (M. Sc. (Comm. Eng.))--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2003.

Strain-induced quantization in Si/SiGe vertical quantum dots and rings / (2003)

Liu, Jun.

Available in film copy from University Microfilms International.

End-to-End Inference of Loss Nature in a Hybrid Wired/Wireless Environment (2003)

Jun Liu, Ibrahim Matta, Mark Crovella

Abstract — In a hybrid wired/wireless environment, an effective classification technique that identifies the type of a packet loss, i.e., a loss due to wireless link errors or a loss due to...

Nonlinear optical switching matrix (2003)

Gang Jun Liu, Jun Liu, Bin Ming Liang, Qu Li, Guo Liang Jin

We show that nonlinear directional couplers with variable coupling coefficients can be used to compose a special kind of switching matrix. The switching matrix can be controlled by the signal itself...

End-to-End Inference of Loss Nature in a Hybrid Wired/Wireless Environment (2003)

Jun Liu, Ibrahim Matta, Mark Crovella

Abstract — In a hybrid wired/wireless environment, an effective classification technique that identifies the type of a packet loss, i.e., a loss due to wireless link errors or a loss due to...

End-to-End Inference of Loss Nature in a Hybrid Wired/Wireless Environment (2003)

Jun Liu, Ibrahim Matta, Mark Crovella

Abstract — End-to-End differentiation between wireless and congestion loss can equip TCP control so it operates effectively in a hybrid wired/wireless environment. Our approach integrates two...

End-to-End Inference of Loss Nature in a Hybrid (2003)

Wired Wireless Environment, Jun Liu, Ibrahim Matta, Mark Crovella

In a hybrid wired/wireless environment, an effective classification technique that identifies the type of a packet loss, i.e., a loss due to wireless link errors or a loss due to congestion, is...

Dynamic Derivative Strategies (2003)

Jun Liu, Jun Pan

This paper studies the optimal investment strategy of an investor who can access not only the bond and the stock markets, but also the derivatives market. We consider the investment situation where,...

End-to-End Inference of Loss Nature in a Hybrid Wired/Wireless Environment (2003)

Jun Liu, Ibrahim Matta, Mark Crovella

Abstract — In a hybrid wired/wireless environment, an effective classification technique that identifies the type of a packet loss, i.e., a loss due to wireless link errors or a loss due to...

Losing Money on Arbitrage: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities (2003)

Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis A.

We derive the optimal investment policy of a risk-averse investor in a market where there is a textbook arbitrage opportunity, but where liabilities must be secured by collateral. We find that it is...

Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels (2003)

Bekaert, Geert, Liu, Jun

Gallant, Hansen and Tauchen (1990) show how to use conditioning information optimally to construct a sharper unconditional variance bound (the GHT bound) on pricing kernels. The literature...

Role of cysteine amino acid residues on the RNA binding activity of human thymidylate synthase (2003)

Lin, Xiukun, Liu, Jun, Maley, Frank, Chu, Edward

The role of cysteine sulfhydryl residues on the RNA binding activity of human thymidylate synthase (TS) was investigated by mutating each cysteine residue on human TS to a corresponding alanine...

Losing Money on Arbitrage: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities (2003)

Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis A.

We derive the optimal investment policy of a risk-averse investor in a market where there is a textbook arbitrage opportunity, but where liabilities must be secured by collateral. We find that it is...

Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels (2003)

Bekaert, Geert, Liu, Jun

Gallant, Hansen and Tauchen (1990) show how to use conditioning information optimally to construct a sharper unconditional variance bound (the GHT bound) on pricing kernels. The literature...

Debt Policy, Corporate Taxes, and Discount Rates (2002)

Grinblatt, Mark, Liu, Jun

This paper studies the valuation of assets with debt tax shields when debt policy is a general time-dependent function of the asset's unlevered cash flows, value, and history. In a continuous-time...

Osmotic Characteristics of Mouse Spermatozoa in the Presence of Extenders and Sugars1 (2002)

Yuksel Agca, Julie Gilmore, Michael Byers, Erik J. Woods, Jun Liu, John K. Critser

Successful cryopreservation requires cells to tolerate volume excursions experienced during permeating cryoprotectant equilibration and during cooling and warming. However, prior studies have...

An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia (2002)

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun, Wang, Tan

In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset...

An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia (2002)

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun, Wang, Tan

In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset...

Strain-induced quantum ring hole states in a gated vertical quantum dot (2002)

Liu, Jun, Zaslavsky, A., Freund, L. B.

We have experimentally investigated the hole states in a gated vertical strained Si/SiGe quantum dot. We demonstrate the inhomogeneous strain relaxation on the lateral surface creates a ring-like...

重力の作用を受ける偏平軸および真円軸の非線形振動 (2002)

劉, 軍, LIU, Jun

名古屋大学博士学位論文 学位の種類:博士(工学) (課程) 学位授与年月日:平成14年3月25日

重力の作用を受ける偏平軸および真円軸の非線形振動 (2002)

劉, 軍, LIU, Jun

名古屋大学博士学位論文 学位の種類:博士(工学) (課程) 学位授与年月日:平成14年3月25日

Spectroscopy of Inhomogeneous Strain in Silicon-Based Quantum Dots (2002)

Zaslavsky, A., Liu, Jun, Perkins, B. R., Freund, L. B.

Resonant tunneling is employed to probe the inhomogeneous strain in silicon-based quantum dots. When submicron structures are etched from a p-Si/SiGe/Si double-barrier heterostructure, the resonant I...

Early massive follicle loss and apoptosis in heterotopically grafted newborn mouse ovaries (2002)

Liu, Jun, Van Der Elst, Josiane, Van Den Broecke, Rudy, Dhont, Marc

BACKGROUND: Ovarian tissue cryopreservation and transplantation can be used to restore fertility to sterile females. A question that warrants further investigation is whether the follicular content...

Debt policy, corporate taxes, and discount rates (2002)

Mark Grinblatt, Jun Liu

This paper studies the valuation of assets with debt tax shields when debt policy is a general time-dependent function of the asset’s unlevered cash flows, value, and history. In a continuous-time...

Paper Millionaires: How Valuable is Stock to a Stockholder Who is Restricted from Selling it? (2001)

Kahl, Matthias, Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis

Many firms have stockholders who face severe restrictions on their ability to sell their shares and diversify the risk of their personal wealth. We study the costs of these liquidity restrictions on...

幾何学的非線形ばね特性をもつ連続偏平軸の強制振動 (主危険速度と二次的危険速度付近) (2001)

長坂, 今夫, NAGASAKA, Imao, 石田, 幸男, ISHIDA, Yukio, 劉, 軍, LIU, Jun, ...

Forced oscillations in the vicinities of the major critical speed and the secondary critical speed of a continuous asymmetrical rotor with the geometric nonlinearity are discussed. When both ends of...

重力と非線形ばね特性の作用を受ける偏平軸の振動 (内部共振の影響) (2001)

石田, 幸男, ISHIDA, Yukio, 井上, 剛志, INOUE, Tsuyoshi, 劉, 軍, LIU, Jun, ...

When an asymmetrical shaft is supported horizontally by single row deep groove ball bearings, a difference in shaft stiffnesses, that of support stiffnesses, and nonlinear spring characteristics...

Paper Millionaires: How Valuable is Stock to a Stockholder Who is Restricted from Selling it? (2001)

Kahl, Matthias, Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis A

Many firms have stockholders who face severe restrictions on their ability to sell their shares and diversify the risk of their personal wealth. We study the costs of these liquidity restrictions on...

Dynamic Asset Allocation with Event Risk (2001)

Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis, Pan, Jun

An inherent risk facing investors in financial markets is that a major event may trigger a large abrupt change in stock prices and market volatility. This paper studies the implications of jumps in...

Dynamic Choice and Risk Aversion (2001)

Liu, Jun

This paper explicitly solves a dynamic portfolio choice problem in which an investor allocates his wealth between a riskless and a risky asset. The solution shows that insights gained from studying...

Conditioning Information and Variance on Pricing Kernals (2001)

Bekaert, Geert, Liu, Jun

Gallant, Hansen and Tauchen (1990) show how to use conditioning information optimally to construct a sharper unconditional variance bound on pricing kernels. The literature predominantly resorts to a...

重力と非線形ばね特性の作用を受ける偏平軸の振動 (調和型振動と超和差型振動) (2001)

石田, 幸男, ISHIDA, Yukio, 井上, 剛志, INOUE, Tsuyoshi, 劉, 軍, LIU, Jun, ...

When an asymmetrical shaft is supported by single-row deep groove ball bearings, nonlinear spring characteristics appear due to clearance of bearings and the stiffness of support at the shaft end...

The regulation of beta-catenin turnover. (2001)

Liu, Jun;

The adenomatous polyposis coli APC tumor suppressor protein, together with Axin protein, forms a Wnt-regulated signaling complex that mediates GSK-3β-dependent degradation of β-catenin by the...

The regulation of beta-catenin turnover. (2001)

Liu, Jun;

The adenomatous polyposis coli APC tumor suppressor protein, together with Axin protein, forms a Wnt-regulated signaling complex that mediates GSK-3?-dependent degradation of ?-catenin by the...

The regulation of beta-catenin turnover /--by Jun Liu. (2001)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah, 2001.

Using loss pairs to discover network properties (2001)

Jun Liu, Mark Crovella

Abstract--- Accurate estimation of network characteristics based on endpoint measurements is a challenging and important problem. In this paper we propose and evaluate a new tool for the discovery of...

Using loss pairs to discover network properties (2001)

Jun Liu, Mark Crovella

Abstract — Accurate estimation of network characteristics based on endpoint measurements is a challenging and important problem. In this paper we propose and evaluate a new tool for the discovery...

The female-to-male transsexual patient: a source of human ovarian cortical tissue for experimental use (2001)

Van Den Broecke, Rudy, Van Der Elst, Josiane, Liu, Jun, Hovatta, Outi, Dhont, Marc

We demonstrated that ovaries removed from female-to-male transsexuals can be used as research material for ovarian cryopreservation, grafting and culture studies. A 21 year old female-to-male...

Invariance of Charge of Laughlin Quasiparticles (2000)

Goldman, V. J., Karakurt, I., Liu, Jun, Zaslavsky, A.

A Quantum Antidot electrometer has been used in the first direct observation of the fractionally quantized electric charge. In this paper we report experiments performed on the integer i = 1, 2 and...

The Market Price of Credit Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Interest Rate Swap Spreads (2000)

Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis A., Mandell, Ravit E.

This paper studies the market price of credit risk incorporated into one of the most important credit spreads in the financial markets: interestrate swap spreads. Our approach consists of jointly...

Losing Money on Arbitrages: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities (2000)

Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis A

In theory, an investor can make infinite profits by taking unlimited positions in an arbitrage. In reality, however, investors must satisfy margin requirements which completely change the economics...

Losing Money on Arbitrages: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities (2000)

Liu, Jun, Longstaff, Francis

In theory, an investor can make infinite profits by taking unlimited positions in an arbitrage. In reality, however, investors must satisfy margin requirements which completely change the nature of...

Model-based clustering algorithms, performance and application (2000)

Liu, Jun

The main contributions of this thesis are the development of new clustering algorithms (with cluster validation) both off-line and on-line, the performance analysis of the new algorithms and their...

Low-resistance ohmic contacts to p-type SiC /--by Jun Liu. (2000)

Liu, Jun.

Principal faculty adviser: Johnson O. Olowolafe, Dept. of Electrical Engineering.

The power of Readers Theater: from reading to writing (2000)

Liu, Jun

Although using Readers Theater (RT) in various educational settings is not a new idea, few studies have been conducted to address both its theoretical and pedagogical issues in language classrooms....

In vitro selection of an RNA sequence that interacts with high affinity with thymidylate synthase (2000)

Lin, Xiukun, Mizunuma, Nobuyuki, Chen, Tian-men, Copur, Sitki M., Maley, Gladys F., Liu, Jun, ...

Previous studies have shown that the repressive effect of thymidylate synthase (TS) mRNA translation is mediated by direct binding of TS itself to two cis-acting elements on its cognate mRNA. To...

MRF Parameter Estimation by MCMC Method (1999)

Lei Wang, Jun Liu, Stan Z. Li

Markov random fields (MRFs) have been used in image restoration, texture classification and segmentation as a prior model of pattern distributions. An important issue in MRF modeling is MRF parameter...

MRMRF Texture Classification and MCMC Parameter Estimation (1999)

Jun Liu, Lei Wang, Stan Z. Li

Texture classification is an important area in the field of texture analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel stochastic approach--multiresolution Markov Random Field (MRMRF) model to represent...

Portfolio selection in stochastic environments, Working Paper (1999)

Jun Liu, Mark Ferguson, Mark Garmaise, Steven Grenadier, Harrison Hong

In this article, I explicitly solve dynamic portfolio choice problems, up to the solution of an ordinary differential equation (ODE), when the asset returns are quadratic and the agent has a constant...

Unique Signature Detection Program (1998)

Raymer, James H., Liu, Jun, Hu, Ye, Michael, Larry, Wu, Shiying

An approach to quantitatively describe the relationship between the volatile organic chemical profile associated with human emanations, as measured by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, and...

Development of Fundamental Research of SiCw/Al Composites in HIT. Part II: Mechanical Behaviour of Squeeze-Cast SiCw/Al Composites. (1998)

Liu, Jun, Wang, Dezun, Yao, Congkai

This paper concerned mmc in some important way and contained information about, utilized, or discussed these subjects: basic topics:, data, dr mmc, experimental, mmc, mmc data materials and material...

Extensive Scaling and Nonuniformity of the Karhunen-Lo\`eve Decomposition for the Spiral-Defect Chaos State (1998)

Zoldi, Scott M., Liu, Jun, Bajaj, Kapil M. S., Greenside, Henry S., Ahlers, Guenter

By analyzing large-aspect-ratio spiral-defect-chaos (SDC) convection images, we show that the Karhunen-Lo\`eve decomposition (KLD) scales extensively for subsystem-sizes larger than 4d (d is the...

Square patterns in Rayleigh-Benard convection with rotation about a vertical axis (1998)

Bajaj, Kapil M. S., Liu, Jun, Naberhuis, Brian, Ahlers, Guenter

We present experimental results for Rayleigh-Benard convection with rotation about a vertical axis at dimensionless rotation rates in the range 0 to 250 and upto 20% above the onset. Critical...

Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures (1998)

Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Martin

To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in distributed Web servers is the need to direct...

Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures (1998)

Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Martin

To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in distributed Web servers is the need to direct...

Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures (1998)

Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Martin

To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in such designs is the need to direct incoming...

Distributed Packet Rewriting - and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures (1998)

Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Martin

To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in such designs is the need to direct incoming...

Distributed Packet Rewriting (1998)

And Its, Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Martin

To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in such designs is the need to direct incoming...

Distributed Packet Rewriting and its Application to Scalable Server Architectures (1998)

Azer Bestavros, Mark Crovella, Jun Liu, David Martin

To construct high performance Web servers, system builders are increasingly turning to distributed designs. An important challenge that arises in distributed Web servers is the need to direct...

High pressure-high temperature studies on superhard materials /--by Jun Liu. (1996)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1996.

Perceptions of Selected International Graduate Students Towards Oral Classroom Participation in Their Academic Content Courses in a U.S. University (1996)

Liu, Jun

A problem of growing concern in U.S. higher education and foreign language education is the inability of international graduate students in English as a Second Language (ESL) settings to adequately...

Perceptions of Selected International Graduate Students Towards Oral Classroom Participation in Their Academic Content Courses in a U.S. University (1996)

Liu, Jun

A problem of growing concern in U.S. higher education and foreign language education is the inability of international graduate students in English as a Second Language (ESL) settings to adequately...

Handskizzeneingabe von Freiformgeometrien für CAD-Modelle / (1995)

Liu, Jun.

Zugl.: Berlin, Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 1995.

Next-to-leading Order Parton Model Calculations in the Massless Schwinger Model (1994)

Dai, Jin, Hughes, James, Liu, Jun

We carry out next-to-leading order (NLO) parton model calculations for the standard hard ``QCD'' processes in the massless Schwinger model. The asymptotic expansion of the exact result for the deep...

Nonlinear dynamics of wavy film flows (1994)

Liu, Jun

We present an extensive experimental investigation of the stability and nonlinear dynamics of thin liquid films flowing down an incline. Interfacial waves resulting from unstable flowing films show a...

Design of soft x-ray focusing reflector based on etched film/substrate structure / (1994)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.

Evolution of Pure States into Mixed States (1993)

Liu, Jun

In the formulation of Banks, Peskin and Susskind, we show that one can construct evolution equations for the quantum mechanical density matrix $\rho$ with operators which do not commute with...

Studies on hydrogen aggregation phenomena in semiconductor silicon [microform] / (1993)

Liu, Jun.

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- The University at Albany, State University of New York, Dept. of Physics, 1993

Losing Money on Arbitrage: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities

Jun Liu

We derive the optimal investment policy of a risk-averse investor in a market where there is a textbook arbitrage opportunity, but where liabilities must be secured by collateral. We find that it is...

An Equilibrium Model of Rare-Event Premia and Its Implication for Option Smirks

Jun Liu

This article studies the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset prices...

C. elegans Nuclear Envelope Proteins Emerin, MAN1, Lamin, and Nucleoporins Reveal Unique Timing of Nuclear Envelope Breakdown during Mitosis

Lee, Kenneth K., Gruenbaum, Yosef, Spann, Perah, Liu, Jun, Wilson, Katherine L.

Emerin, MAN1, and LAP2 are integral membrane proteins of the vertebrate nuclear envelope. They share a 43-residue N-terminal motif termed the LEM domain. We found three putative LEM domain genes in...

Essential Roles for Caenorhabditis elegans Lamin Gene in Nuclear Organization, Cell Cycle Progression, and Spatial Organization of Nuclear Pore Complexes

Liu, Jun, Ben-Shahar, Tom Rolef, Riemer, Dieter, Treinin, Millet, Spann, Perah, Weber, Klaus, ...

Caenorhabditis elegans has a single lamin gene, designated lmn-1 (previously termed CeLam-1). Antibodies raised against the lmn-1 product (Ce-lamin) detected a 64-kDa nuclear envelope protein....

A mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis defective in the biosynthesis of mycolic acids accumulates meromycolates

Liu, Jun, Nikaido, Hiroshi

Mycolic acids are a major constituent of the mycobacterial cell wall, and they form an effective permeability barrier to protect mycobacteria from antimicrobial agents. Although the chemical...

Phosphorylation and microtubule association of the Opitz syndrome protein mid-1 is regulated by protein phosphatase 2A via binding to the regulatory subunit α4

Liu, Jun, Prickett, Todd D., Elliott, Elizabeth, Meroni, Germana, Brautigan, David L.

Opitz syndrome (OS) is a human genetic disease characterized by deformities such as cleft palate that are attributable to defects in embryonic development at the midline. Gene mapping has identified...

Caveolin-1 Expression Negatively Regulates Cell Cycle Progression by Inducing G0/G1 Arrest via a p53/p21WAF1/Cip1-dependent Mechanism

Galbiati, Ferruccio, Volonte', Daniela, Liu, Jun, Capozza, Franco, Frank, Philippe G., Zhu, Liang, ...

Caveolin-1 is a principal component of caveolae membranes in vivo. Caveolin-1 mRNA and protein expression are lost or reduced during cell transformation by activated oncogenes. Interestingly, the...

Functional Importance and Local Environments of the Cysteines in the Tetracycline Resistance Protein Encoded by Plasmid pBR322

Jewell, Jean E., Orwick, Jill, Liu, Jun, Miller, Kurt W.

The properties of the cysteines in the pBR322-encoded tetracycline resistance protein have been examined. Cysteines are important but not essential for tetracycline transport activity. None of the...

Lamin-dependent Localization of UNC-84, A Protein Required for Nuclear Migration in Caenorhabditis elegans

Lee, Kenneth K., Starr, Daniel, Cohen, Merav, Liu, Jun, Han, Min, Wilson, Katherine L., ...

Mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans unc-84 gene cause defects in nuclear migration and anchoring. We show that endogenous UNC-84 protein colocalizes with Ce-lamin at the nuclear envelope and that...

In vitro selection of an RNA sequence that interacts with high affinity with thymidylate synthase

Lin, Xiukun, Mizunuma, Nobuyuki, Chen, Tian-men, Copur, Sitki M., Maley, Gladys F., Liu, Jun, ...

Previous studies have shown that the repressive effect of thymidylate synthase (TS) mRNA translation is mediated by direct binding of TS itself to two cis-acting elements on its cognate mRNA. To...

Four plasmepsins are active in the Plasmodium falciparum food vacuole, including a protease with an active-site histidine

Banerjee, Ritu, Liu, Jun, Beatty, Wandy, Pelosof, Lorraine, Klemba, Michael, Goldberg, Daniel E.

Hemoglobin degradation is a metabolic process that is central to the growth and maturation of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Two aspartic proteases that initiate degradation, plasmepsins...

Functional Dissection of YA, an Essential, Developmentally Regulated Nuclear Lamina Protein in Drosophila melanogaster

Liu, Jun, Wolfner, Mariana F.

The Drosophila YA protein is a nuclear lamina component whose function is essential to initiate embryonic development. To identify regions of YA required for its action in its normal cellular...

APS Facilitates c-Cbl Tyrosine Phosphorylation and GLUT4 Translocation in Response to Insulin in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes

Liu, Jun, Kimura, Akiko, Baumann, Christian A., Saltiel, Alan R.

APS is a Cbl-binding protein that is tyrosine phosphorylated by the insulin receptor kinase. Insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of tyrosine 618 in APS is necessary for its association with c-Cbl and...

Mycobacterium bovis BCG Vaccines Exhibit Defects in Alanine and Serine Catabolism

Chen, Jeffrey M., Alexander, David C., Behr, Marcel A., Liu, Jun

Mycobacterium bovis BCG is the only accepted vaccine for the prevention of tuberculosis (TB) in humans. BCG is a live vaccine, and induction of immunity to TB requires productive infection of the...

MAN1 and emerin have overlapping function(s) essential for chromosome segregation and cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans

Liu, Jun, Lee, Kenneth K., Segura-Totten, Miriam, Neufeld, Ester, Wilson, Katherine L., Gruenbaum, Yosef

Emerin and MAN1 are LEM domain-containing integral membrane proteins of the vertebrate nuclear envelope. The function of MAN1 is unknown, whereas emerin is known to interact with nuclear lamins,...

Role of cysteine amino acid residues on the RNA binding activity of human thymidylate synthase

Lin, Xiukun, Liu, Jun, Maley, Frank, Chu, Edward

The role of cysteine sulfhydryl residues on the RNA binding activity of human thymidylate synthase (TS) was investigated by mutating each cysteine residue on human TS to a corresponding alanine...

A Rifampin-Hypersensitive Mutant Reveals Differences between Strains of Mycobacterium smegmatis and Presence of a Novel Transposon, IS1623

Alexander, David C., Jones, Joses R. W., Liu, Jun

Rifampin is a front-line antibiotic for the treatment of tuberculosis. Infections caused by rifampin- and multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains are difficult to treat and contribute...

Electron tomography analysis of envelope glycoprotein trimers on HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus virions

Zhu, Ping, Chertova, Elena, Bess, Julian, Lifson, Jeffrey D., Arthur, Larry O., Liu, Jun, ...

We used electron tomography to directly visualize trilobed presumptive envelope (env) glycoprotein structures on the surface of negatively stained HIV type 1 (HIV-1) and simian immunodeficiency virus...

An approach to genomewide screens of expressed small interfering RNAs in mammalian cells

Zheng, Lianxing, Liu, Jun, Batalov, Sergei, Zhou, Demin, Orth, Anthony, Ding, Sheng, ...

To facilitate the construction of large genomewide libraries of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), we have developed a dual promoter system (pDual) in which a synthetic DNA encoding a gene-specific...

Analysis of a Caenorhabditis elegans Twist homolog identifies conserved and divergent aspects of mesodermal patterning

Harfe, Brian D., Gomes, Ana Vaz, Kenyon, Cynthia, Liu, Jun, Krause, Michael, Fire, Andrew

Mesodermal development is a multistep process in which cells become increasingly specialized to form specific tissue types. In Drosophila and mammals, proper segregation and patterning of the...

Impact of Methoxymycolic Acid Production by Mycobacterium bovis BCG Vaccines

Belley, Adam, Alexander, David, Di Pietrantonio, Tania, Girard, Manon, Jones, Joses, Schurr, Erwin, ...

BCG vaccines are a family of closely related daughter strains of an attenuated isolate of Mycobacterium bovis derived by in vitro passage from 1908 to 1921. During subsequent laboratory propagation...

Acquisition of Hrs, an Essential Component of Phagosomal Maturation, Is Impaired by Mycobacteria

Vieira, Otilia V., Harrison, Rene E., Scott, Cameron C., Stenmark, Harald, Alexander, David, Liu, Jun, ...

Pathogenic mycobacteria survive within macrophages by precluding the fusion of phagosomes with late endosomes or lysosomes. Because the molecular determinants of normal phagolysosome formation are...

siRNAs targeting an intronic transposon in the regulation of natural flowering behavior in Arabidopsis

Liu, Jun, He, Yuehui, Amasino, Richard, Chen, Xuemei

Allelic variation in FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a central repressor of flowering, contributes to natural differences in flowering behavior among Arabidopsis accessions. The weak nature of the FLC...

Identification of the Wnt signaling activator leucine-rich repeat in Flightless interaction protein 2 by a genome-wide functional analysis

Liu, Jun, Bang, Anne G., Kintner, Chris, Orth, Anthony P., Chanda, Sumit K., Ding, Sheng, ...

The Wnt signaling pathway acts ubiquitously in metazoans to control various aspects of embryonic development. Wnt ligands bind their receptors Frizzled and low-density lipoprotein receptor-related...

Molecular cloning and expression of two HSP70 genes in the prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Liu, Jun, Yang, Wei-Jun, Zhu, Xiao-Jing, Karouna-Renier, Natalie K., Rao, Ranga K.

Two complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) clones encoding 2 different 70-kDa heat shock proteins (HSPs) were isolated from the prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii. The cDNA clones were 2448 and 2173...

The Activity Profile of the NhaD-Type Na+(Li+)/H+ Antiporter from the Soda Lake Haloalkaliphile Alkalimonas amylolytica Is Adaptive for the Extreme Environment

Liu, Jun, Xue, Yanfen, Wang, Quanhui, Wei, Yi, Swartz, Talia H., Hicks, David B., ...

In extreme alkaliphiles, Na+/H+ antiporters play a central role in the Na+ cycle that supports pH homeostasis, Na+ resistance, solute uptake, and motility. Properties of individual antiporters have...

AsnB Is Involved in Natural Resistance of Mycobacterium smegmatis to Multiple Drugs

Ren, Huiping, Liu, Jun

Mycobacteria are naturally resistant to most common antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents. The underlying molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. In this paper, we describe a hypersensitive...

Roles of Lsr2 in Colony Morphology and Biofilm Formation of Mycobacterium smegmatis

Chen, Jeffrey M., German, Greg J., Alexander, David C., Ren, Huiping, Tan, Tracy, Liu, Jun

The lipid-rich cell wall is a defining feature of Mycobacterium species. Individual cell wall components affect diverse mycobacterial phenotypes including colony morphology, biofilm formation,...

Age-related changes of nuclear architecture in Caenorhabditis elegans

Haithcock, Erin, Dayani, Yaron, Neufeld, Ester, Zahand, Adam J., Feinstein, Naomi, Mattout, Anna, ...

Mutations in lamins cause premature aging syndromes in humans, including the Hutchinson–Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) and Atypical Werner Syndrome. It has been shown that HGPS cells in culture...

Antimalarial Effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Protease Inhibitors Differ from Those of the Aspartic Protease Inhibitor Pepstatin

Parikh, Sunil, Liu, Jun, Sijwali, Puran, Gut, Jiri, Goldberg, Daniel E., Rosenthal, Philip J.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease inhibitors (HIVPIs) and pepstatin are aspartic protease inhibitors with antimalarial activity. In contrast to pepstatin, HIVPIs were not synergistic with...

Plasmodium falciparum ensures its amino acid supply with multiple acquisition pathways and redundant proteolytic enzyme systems

Liu, Jun, Istvan, Eva S., Gluzman, Ilya Y., Gross, Julia, Goldberg, Daniel E.

Degradation of host hemoglobin by the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is a massive metabolic process. What role this degradation plays and whether it is essential for parasite survival...

C. elegans Nuclear Envelope Proteins Emerin, MAN1, Lamin, and Nucleoporins Reveal Unique Timing of Nuclear Envelope Breakdown during Mitosis

Lee, Kenneth K., Gruenbaum, Yosef, Spann, Perah, Liu, Jun, Wilson, Katherine L.

Emerin, MAN1, and LAP2 are integral membrane proteins of the vertebrate nuclear envelope. They share a 43-residue N-terminal motif termed the LEM domain. We found three putative LEM domain genes in...

Essential Roles for Caenorhabditis elegans Lamin Gene in Nuclear Organization, Cell Cycle Progression, and Spatial Organization of Nuclear Pore Complexes

Liu, Jun, Ben-Shahar, Tom Rolef, Riemer, Dieter, Treinin, Millet, Spann, Perah, Weber, Klaus, ...

Caenorhabditis elegans has a single lamin gene, designated lmn-1 (previously termed CeLam-1). Antibodies raised against the lmn-1 product (Ce-lamin) detected a 64-kDa nuclear envelope protein....

A mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis defective in the biosynthesis of mycolic acids accumulates meromycolates

Liu, Jun, Nikaido, Hiroshi

Mycolic acids are a major constituent of the mycobacterial cell wall, and they form an effective permeability barrier to protect mycobacteria from antimicrobial agents. Although the chemical...

Phosphorylation and microtubule association of the Opitz syndrome protein mid-1 is regulated by protein phosphatase 2A via binding to the regulatory subunit α4

Liu, Jun, Prickett, Todd D., Elliott, Elizabeth, Meroni, Germana, Brautigan, David L.

Opitz syndrome (OS) is a human genetic disease characterized by deformities such as cleft palate that are attributable to defects in embryonic development at the midline. Gene mapping has identified...

Caveolin-1 Expression Negatively Regulates Cell Cycle Progression by Inducing G0/G1 Arrest via a p53/p21WAF1/Cip1-dependent Mechanism

Galbiati, Ferruccio, Volonte', Daniela, Liu, Jun, Capozza, Franco, Frank, Philippe G., Zhu, Liang, ...

Caveolin-1 is a principal component of caveolae membranes in vivo. Caveolin-1 mRNA and protein expression are lost or reduced during cell transformation by activated oncogenes. Interestingly, the...

Functional Importance and Local Environments of the Cysteines in the Tetracycline Resistance Protein Encoded by Plasmid pBR322

Jewell, Jean E., Orwick, Jill, Liu, Jun, Miller, Kurt W.

The properties of the cysteines in the pBR322-encoded tetracycline resistance protein have been examined. Cysteines are important but not essential for tetracycline transport activity. None of the...

Lamin-dependent Localization of UNC-84, A Protein Required for Nuclear Migration in Caenorhabditis elegans

Lee, Kenneth K., Starr, Daniel, Cohen, Merav, Liu, Jun, Han, Min, Wilson, Katherine L., ...

Mutations in the Caenorhabditis elegans unc-84 gene cause defects in nuclear migration and anchoring. We show that endogenous UNC-84 protein colocalizes with Ce-lamin at the nuclear envelope and that...

In vitro selection of an RNA sequence that interacts with high affinity with thymidylate synthase

Lin, Xiukun, Mizunuma, Nobuyuki, Chen, Tian-men, Copur, Sitki M., Maley, Gladys F., Liu, Jun, ...

Previous studies have shown that the repressive effect of thymidylate synthase (TS) mRNA translation is mediated by direct binding of TS itself to two cis-acting elements on its cognate mRNA. To...

Four plasmepsins are active in the Plasmodium falciparum food vacuole, including a protease with an active-site histidine

Banerjee, Ritu, Liu, Jun, Beatty, Wandy, Pelosof, Lorraine, Klemba, Michael, Goldberg, Daniel E.

Hemoglobin degradation is a metabolic process that is central to the growth and maturation of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Two aspartic proteases that initiate degradation, plasmepsins...

Functional Dissection of YA, an Essential, Developmentally Regulated Nuclear Lamina Protein in Drosophila melanogaster

Liu, Jun, Wolfner, Mariana F.

The Drosophila YA protein is a nuclear lamina component whose function is essential to initiate embryonic development. To identify regions of YA required for its action in its normal cellular...

APS Facilitates c-Cbl Tyrosine Phosphorylation and GLUT4 Translocation in Response to Insulin in 3T3-L1 Adipocytes

Liu, Jun, Kimura, Akiko, Baumann, Christian A., Saltiel, Alan R.

APS is a Cbl-binding protein that is tyrosine phosphorylated by the insulin receptor kinase. Insulin-stimulated phosphorylation of tyrosine 618 in APS is necessary for its association with c-Cbl and...

Mycobacterium bovis BCG Vaccines Exhibit Defects in Alanine and Serine Catabolism

Chen, Jeffrey M., Alexander, David C., Behr, Marcel A., Liu, Jun

Mycobacterium bovis BCG is the only accepted vaccine for the prevention of tuberculosis (TB) in humans. BCG is a live vaccine, and induction of immunity to TB requires productive infection of the...

MAN1 and emerin have overlapping function(s) essential for chromosome segregation and cell division in Caenorhabditis elegans

Liu, Jun, Lee, Kenneth K., Segura-Totten, Miriam, Neufeld, Ester, Wilson, Katherine L., Gruenbaum, Yosef

Emerin and MAN1 are LEM domain-containing integral membrane proteins of the vertebrate nuclear envelope. The function of MAN1 is unknown, whereas emerin is known to interact with nuclear lamins,...

Role of cysteine amino acid residues on the RNA binding activity of human thymidylate synthase

Lin, Xiukun, Liu, Jun, Maley, Frank, Chu, Edward

The role of cysteine sulfhydryl residues on the RNA binding activity of human thymidylate synthase (TS) was investigated by mutating each cysteine residue on human TS to a corresponding alanine...

A Rifampin-Hypersensitive Mutant Reveals Differences between Strains of Mycobacterium smegmatis and Presence of a Novel Transposon, IS1623

Alexander, David C., Jones, Joses R. W., Liu, Jun

Rifampin is a front-line antibiotic for the treatment of tuberculosis. Infections caused by rifampin- and multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains are difficult to treat and contribute...

Electron tomography analysis of envelope glycoprotein trimers on HIV and simian immunodeficiency virus virions

Zhu, Ping, Chertova, Elena, Bess, Julian, Lifson, Jeffrey D., Arthur, Larry O., Liu, Jun, ...

We used electron tomography to directly visualize trilobed presumptive envelope (env) glycoprotein structures on the surface of negatively stained HIV type 1 (HIV-1) and simian immunodeficiency virus...

An approach to genomewide screens of expressed small interfering RNAs in mammalian cells

Zheng, Lianxing, Liu, Jun, Batalov, Sergei, Zhou, Demin, Orth, Anthony, Ding, Sheng, ...

To facilitate the construction of large genomewide libraries of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), we have developed a dual promoter system (pDual) in which a synthetic DNA encoding a gene-specific...

Analysis of a Caenorhabditis elegans Twist homolog identifies conserved and divergent aspects of mesodermal patterning

Harfe, Brian D., Gomes, Ana Vaz, Kenyon, Cynthia, Liu, Jun, Krause, Michael, Fire, Andrew

Mesodermal development is a multistep process in which cells become increasingly specialized to form specific tissue types. In Drosophila and mammals, proper segregation and patterning of the...

Impact of Methoxymycolic Acid Production by Mycobacterium bovis BCG Vaccines

Belley, Adam, Alexander, David, Di Pietrantonio, Tania, Girard, Manon, Jones, Joses, Schurr, Erwin, ...

BCG vaccines are a family of closely related daughter strains of an attenuated isolate of Mycobacterium bovis derived by in vitro passage from 1908 to 1921. During subsequent laboratory propagation...

Acquisition of Hrs, an Essential Component of Phagosomal Maturation, Is Impaired by Mycobacteria

Vieira, Otilia V., Harrison, Rene E., Scott, Cameron C., Stenmark, Harald, Alexander, David, Liu, Jun, ...

Pathogenic mycobacteria survive within macrophages by precluding the fusion of phagosomes with late endosomes or lysosomes. Because the molecular determinants of normal phagolysosome formation are...

siRNAs targeting an intronic transposon in the regulation of natural flowering behavior in Arabidopsis

Liu, Jun, He, Yuehui, Amasino, Richard, Chen, Xuemei

Allelic variation in FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a central repressor of flowering, contributes to natural differences in flowering behavior among Arabidopsis accessions. The weak nature of the FLC...

Identification of the Wnt signaling activator leucine-rich repeat in Flightless interaction protein 2 by a genome-wide functional analysis

Liu, Jun, Bang, Anne G., Kintner, Chris, Orth, Anthony P., Chanda, Sumit K., Ding, Sheng, ...

The Wnt signaling pathway acts ubiquitously in metazoans to control various aspects of embryonic development. Wnt ligands bind their receptors Frizzled and low-density lipoprotein receptor-related...

Molecular cloning and expression of two HSP70 genes in the prawn, Macrobrachium rosenbergii

Liu, Jun, Yang, Wei-Jun, Zhu, Xiao-Jing, Karouna-Renier, Natalie K., Rao, Ranga K.

Two complementary deoxyribonucleic acid (cDNA) clones encoding 2 different 70-kDa heat shock proteins (HSPs) were isolated from the prawn Macrobrachium rosenbergii. The cDNA clones were 2448 and 2173...

The Activity Profile of the NhaD-Type Na+(Li+)/H+ Antiporter from the Soda Lake Haloalkaliphile Alkalimonas amylolytica Is Adaptive for the Extreme Environment

Liu, Jun, Xue, Yanfen, Wang, Quanhui, Wei, Yi, Swartz, Talia H., Hicks, David B., ...

In extreme alkaliphiles, Na+/H+ antiporters play a central role in the Na+ cycle that supports pH homeostasis, Na+ resistance, solute uptake, and motility. Properties of individual antiporters have...

Age-related changes of nuclear architecture in Caenorhabditis elegans

Haithcock, Erin, Dayani, Yaron, Neufeld, Ester, Zahand, Adam J., Feinstein, Naomi, Mattout, Anna, ...

Mutations in lamins cause premature aging syndromes in humans, including the Hutchinson–Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS) and Atypical Werner Syndrome. It has been shown that HGPS cells in culture...

AsnB Is Involved in Natural Resistance of Mycobacterium smegmatis to Multiple Drugs

Ren, Huiping, Liu, Jun

Mycobacteria are naturally resistant to most common antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents. The underlying molecular mechanisms are not fully understood. In this paper, we describe a hypersensitive...

Roles of Lsr2 in Colony Morphology and Biofilm Formation of Mycobacterium smegmatis

Chen, Jeffrey M., German, Greg J., Alexander, David C., Ren, Huiping, Tan, Tracy, Liu, Jun

The lipid-rich cell wall is a defining feature of Mycobacterium species. Individual cell wall components affect diverse mycobacterial phenotypes including colony morphology, biofilm formation,...

Plasmodium falciparum ensures its amino acid supply with multiple acquisition pathways and redundant proteolytic enzyme systems

Liu, Jun, Istvan, Eva S., Gluzman, Ilya Y., Gross, Julia, Goldberg, Daniel E.

Degradation of host hemoglobin by the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is a massive metabolic process. What role this degradation plays and whether it is essential for parasite survival...

Antimalarial Effects of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Protease Inhibitors Differ from Those of the Aspartic Protease Inhibitor Pepstatin

Parikh, Sunil, Liu, Jun, Sijwali, Puran, Gut, Jiri, Goldberg, Daniel E., Rosenthal, Philip J.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 protease inhibitors (HIVPIs) and pepstatin are aspartic protease inhibitors with antimalarial activity. In contrast to pepstatin, HIVPIs were not synergistic with...

ROR1/RPA2A, a Putative Replication Protein A2, Functions in Epigenetic Gene Silencing and in Regulation of Meristem Development in ArabidopsisW⃞

Xia, Ran, Wang, Junguo, Liu, Chunyan, Wang, Yu, Wang, Youqun, Zhai, Jixian, ...

We screened for suppressors of repressor of silencing1 (ros1) using the silenced 35S promoter-neomycin phosphotransferase II (Pro35S:NPTII) gene as a marker and identified two allelic mutants, ror1-1...

定流量供給型不飽和透水係数測定装置のためのディフューザー(予報)

雨宮, 悠, アメミヤ, ユウ, Amemiya, Yū, Amemiya, Yu, 劉, 軍, Liu, Jun, ...

土壌試料両端に接続する多孔質フィルタ間に一定差圧を加える従来の不飽和透水係数測定法では,...

定流量供給型不飽和透水係数測定装置のためのディフューザー(予報)

雨宮, 悠, アメミヤ, ユウ, Amemiya, Yū, Amemiya, Yu, 劉, 軍, Liu, Jun, ...

土壌試料両端に接続する多孔質フィルタ間に一定差圧を加える従来の不飽和透水係数測定法では,...

赤玉の保水特性に関する研究

劉, 軍, Liu, Jun, 雨宮, 悠, アメミヤ, ユウ, Amemiya, Yū, Amemiya, Yu, ...

植物根の水分吸収と密接な関係のある各種土壌の水分特性は土壌構造の違いにより左右される.代表的な園芸用土である「赤玉」は典型的な団粒構造...

赤玉の保水特性に関する研究

劉, 軍, Liu, Jun, 雨宮, 悠, アメミヤ, ユウ, Amemiya, Yū, Amemiya, Yu, ...

植物根の水分吸収と密接な関係のある各種土壌の水分特性は土壌構造の違いにより左右される.代表的な園芸用土である「赤玉」は典型的な団粒構造...

Substitution Mapping in Dahl Rats Identifies Two Distinct Blood Pressure Quantitative Trait Loci Within 1.12- and 1.25-Mb Intervals on Chromosome 3

Lee, Soon Jin, Liu, Jun, Westcott, Allison M., Vieth, Joshua A., DeRaedt, Sarah J., Yang, Siming, ...

Substitution mapping was used to refine the localization of blood pressure (BP) quantitative trait loci (QTL) within the congenic region of S.R-Edn3 rats located at the q terminus of rat chromosome 3...

The Market Price of Risk in Interest Rate Swaps: The Roles of Default and Liquidity Risks

Jun Liu, Francis A. Longstaff, Ravit E. Mandell

We study how the market prices the default and liquidity risks incorporated into interest rate swap spreads. We jointly model the Treasury, repo, and swap term structures using a five-factor affine...

Mechanism of metal-independent decomposition of organic hydroperoxides and formation of alkoxyl radicals by halogenated quinones

Zhu, Ben-Zhan, Zhao, Hong-Tao, Kalyanaraman, Balaraman, Liu, Jun, Shan, Guo-Qiang, Du, Yu-Guo, ...

The metal-independent decomposition of organic hydroperoxides and the formation of organic alkoxyl radicals in the absence or presence of halogenated quinones were studied with electron spin...

CAP interacts with cytoskeletal proteins and regulates adhesion-mediated ERK activation and motility

Zhang, Mei, Liu, Jun, Cheng, Alan, DeYoung, Stephanie M, Chen, Xiaowei, Dold, Lisa H, ...

CAP/Ponsin belongs to the SoHo family of adaptor molecules that includes ArgBP2 and Vinexin. These proteins possess an N-terminal sorbin homology (SoHo) domain and three C-terminal SH3 domains that...

Fusion transcripts and transcribed retrotransposed loci discovered through comprehensive transcriptome analysis using Paired-End diTags (PETs)

Ruan, Yijun, Ooi, Hong Sain, Choo, Siew Woh, Chiu, Kuo Ping, Zhao, Xiao Dong, Srinivasan, K.G., ...

Identification of unconventional functional features such as fusion transcripts is a challenging task in the effort to annotate all functional DNA elements in the human genome. Paired-End diTag (PET)...

Evidence for sigma-1-like receptors in isolated rat liver mitochondrial membranes

Klouz, Anis, Sapena, Rosa, Liu, Jun, Maurice, Tangui, Tillement, Jean-Paul, Papadopoulos, Vassilios, ...

Sigma (σ) receptors have generated a great deal of interest on the basis of their possible roles in various pathologies, including cytoprotection. Although the exact function of sigma-1 (σ1)...

The protein kinase TOUSLED is required for maintenance of transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis

Wang, Yu, Liu, Jun, Xia, Ran, Wang, Junguo, Shen, Jie, Cao, Rui, ...

TOUSLED-like kinases (TLKs) are highly conserved in plants and animals, but direct evidence linking TLKs and transcriptional gene silencing is lacking. We isolated two new alleles of TOUSLED (TSL)....

Modulation of Ethylene Responses Affects Plant Salt-Stress Responses1[OA]

Cao, Wan-Hong, Liu, Jun, He, Xin-Jian, Mu, Rui-Ling, Zhou, Hua-Lin, Chen, Shou-Yi, ...

Ethylene signaling plays important roles in multiple aspects of plant growth and development. Its functions in abiotic stress responses remain largely unknown. Here, we report that alteration of...

Identification of CAP as a Costameric Protein that Interacts with Filamin C

Zhang, Mei, Liu, Jun, Cheng, Alan, DeYoung, Stephanie M., Saltiel, Alan R.

Cbl-associated protein (CAP) is an adaptor protein that interacts with both signaling and cytoskeletal proteins. Here, we characterize the expression, localization and potential function of CAP in...

Cell Surface Filaments of the Gliding Bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae Revealed by Cryo-Electron Tomography▿ †

Liu, Jun, McBride, Mark J., Subramaniam, Sriram

Flavobacterium johnsoniae cells glide rapidly over surfaces by an as-yet-unknown mechanism. Using cryo-electron tomography, we show that wild-type cells display tufts of ∼5-nm-wide cell surface...

Feeling trusted by business leaders in China: Antecedents and the mediating role of value congruence

Dora Lau, Jun Liu, Ping Fu

This paper examines the antecedents of felt trust, an under-explored area in the trust literature. We hypothesized that subordinates’ felt trust would relate positively with their leaders’ moral...

Systematic Analysis of Pleiotropy in C. elegans Early Embryogenesis

Zou, Lihua, Sriswasdi, Sira, Ross, Brian, Missiuro, Patrycja V., Liu, Jun, Ge, Hui

Pleiotropy refers to the phenomenon in which a single gene controls several distinct, and seemingly unrelated, phenotypic effects. We use C. elegans early embryogenesis as a model to conduct...

The use of multiple displacement amplification to amplify complex DNA libraries

Fullwood, Melissa J., Tan, Jack J. S., Ng, Patrick W. P., Chiu, Kuo Ping, Liu, Jun, Wei, Chia Lin, ...

Complex libraries for genomic DNA and cDNA sequencing analyses are typically amplified using bacterial propagation. To reduce biases, large numbers of colonies are plated and scraped from...

Small RNA-Directed Epigenetic Natural Variation in Arabidopsis thaliana

Zhai, Jixian, Liu, Jun, Liu, Bin, Li, Pingchuan, Meyers, Blake C., Chen, Xuemei, ...

Progress in epigenetics has revealed mechanisms that can heritably regulate gene function independent of genetic alterations. Nevertheless, little is known about the role of epigenetics in evolution....

Dynamic Asset Allocation with Event Risk

Jun Liu, Francis A. Longstaff, Jun Pan

Major events often trigger abrupt changes in stock prices and volatility. We study the implications of jumps in prices and volatility on investment strategies. Using the event-risk framework of...

How to Discount Cashflows with Time-Varying Expected Returns

ANDREW ANG, JUN LIU

While many studies document that the market risk premium is predictable and that betas are not constant, the dividend discount model ignores time-varying risk premiums and betas. We develop a model...

Cultural and leadership predictors of corporate social responsibility values of top management: a GLOBE study of 15 countries

David A Waldman, Nathan Washburn, Robert J House, Bolanle Adetoun, Angel Barrasa, ...

This paper examines cultural and leadership variables associated with corporate social responsibility values that managers apply to their decision-making. In this longitudinal study, we analyze data...

An Rgd Sequence in the P2y2 Receptor Interacts with αVβ3 Integrins and Is Required for Go-Mediated Signal Transduction

Erb, Laurie, Liu, Jun, Ockerhausen, Jonathan, Kong, Qiongman, Garrad, Richard C., Griffin, Korey, ...

The P2Y2 nucleotide receptor (P2Y2R) contains the integrin-binding domain arginine-glycine-aspartic acid (RGD) in its first extracellular loop, raising the possibility that this G protein–coupled...

Debt Policy, Corporate Taxes, and Discount Rates

Mark Grinblatt, Jun Liu

This paper studies the valuation of assets with debt tax shields when debt policy is a general time-dependent function of the asset's unlevered cash flows, value, and history. In a continuous-time...

Dynamic Asset Allocation with Event Risk

Jun Liu, Francis Longstaff, Jun Pan

An inherent risk facing investors in financial markets is that a major event may trigger a large abrupt change in stock prices and market volatility. This paper studies the implications of jumps in...

Dynamic Choice and Risk Aversion

Jun Liu

This paper explicitly solves a dynamic portfolio choice problem in which an investor allocates his wealth between a riskless and a risky asset. The solution shows that insights gained from studying...

Conditioning Information and Variance on Pricing Kernals

Geert Bekaert, Jun Liu

Gallant, Hansen and Tauchen (1990) show how to use conditioning information optimally to construct a sharper unconditional variance bound on pricing kernels. The literature predominantly resorts to a...

The Market Price of Credit Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Interest Rate Swap Spreads

Jun Liu, Francis Longstaff, Ravit Mandell

This paper studies the market price of credit risk incorporated into one of the most important credit spreads in the financial markets: interestrate swap spreads. Our approach consists of jointly...

Losing Money on Arbitrages: Optimal Dynamic Portfolio Choice in Markets with Arbitrage Opportunities

Jun Liu, Francis Longstaff

In theory, an investor can make infinite profits by taking unlimited positions in an arbitrage. In reality, however, investors must satisfy margin requirements which completely change the nature of...

Portfolio Selection in Stochastic Environments

Jun Liu

In this article, I explicitly solve dynamic portfolio choice problems, up to the solution of an ordinary differential equation (ODE), when the asset returns are quadratic and the agent has a constant...

Statistical inference and Monte Carlo algorithms

George Casella, Juan Ferrándiz, Daniel Peña, David Insua, José Bernardo, P. García-López, ...

Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Gibbs sampling, Accept-reject algorithm, Rao-Blackwell theorem, Improper priors, Decision theory,

An Equilibrium Model of Rare Event Premia

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun, Wang, Tan

In this paper, we study the asset pricing implication of imprecise knowledge about rare events. Modeling rare events as jumps in the aggregate endowment, we explicitly solve the equilibrium asset...

Dynamic Derivative Strategies

Liu, Jun, Pan, Jun

This paper studies the optimal investment strategy of an investor who can access not only the bond and the stock markets, but also the derivatives market. We consider the investment situation where,...

Lsr2 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a DNA-bridging protein

Chen, Jeffrey M., Ren, Huiping, Shaw, James E., Wang, Yu Jing, Li, Ming, Leung, Andrea S., ...

Lsr2 is a small, basic protein present in Mycobacterium and related actinomycetes. Recent studies suggest that Lsr2 is a regulatory protein involved in multiple cellular processes including cell wall...

AVALANCHE DYNAMICS OF THE FINANCIAL MARKET

PEI-LING ZHOU, CHUN-XIA YANG, TAO ZHOU, MIN XU, JUN LIU, BING-HONG WANG

A parsimonious percolation model for stock market is proposed, of which the avalanche dynamics agree with the real-life one as well. We have also investigated how the interaction parameter p affects...

Novel genome polymorphisms in BCG vaccine strains and impact on efficacy

Leung, Andrea S, Tran, Vanessa, Wu, Zuowei, Yu, Xuping, Alexander, David C, Gao, George Fu, ...

Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis currently used as a vaccine against tuberculosis. Global distribution and propagation of BCG has contributed to the in...

Debt policy, corporate taxes, and discount rates

Grinblatt, Mark, Liu, Jun

This paper applies the standard risk-neutral valuation framework to tax shields generated by dynamic debt policies. We derive a partial differential equation (PDE) for the value of the debt tax...

Conditioning Information and Variance Bounds on Pricing Kernels

Geert Bekaert, Jun Liu

We show how to use conditioning information optimally to construct a sharper unconditional Hansen-Jagannathan (1991) bound. The approach in this paper is different from that of Gallant, Hansen and...

Why Stocks May Disappoint

Andrew Ang, Geert Bekaert, Jun Liu

Recently much progress has been made in developing optimal portfolio choice models accomodating time-varying opportunity sets, but unless investors are unreasonably risk averse, optimal holdings...

Paper millionaires: How valuable is stock to a stockholder who is restricted from selling it?

Matthias Kahl, Jun Liu, Francis A. Longstaff

Many firms have stockholders who face severe restrictions on their ability to sell their shares and diversify the risk of their personal wealth. We study the costs of these liquidity restrictions on...

The Market Price of Credit Risk: An Empirical Analysis of Interest Rate Swap Spreads

Jun Liu, Francis A. Longstaff, Ravit E. Mandell

This paper studies the market price of credit risk incorporated into one of the most important credit spreads in the financial markets: interest rate swap spreads. Our approach consists of jointly...

Dynamic Asset Allocation With Event Risk

Jun Liu, Francis A. Longstaff, Jun Pan

Major events often trigger abrupt changes in stock prices and volatility. We study the implications of jumps in prices and volatility on investment strategies. Using the event-risk framework of...

Debt Policy, Corporate Taxes, and Discount Rates

Mark Grinblatt, Jun Liu

This paper studies the valuation of assets with debt tax shields when debt policy is a general time-dependent function of the asset's unlevered cash flows, value, and history. In a continuous-time...

How to Discount Cashflows with Time-Varying Expected Returns

Andrew Ang, Jun Liu

While many studies document that the market risk premium is predictable and that betas are not constant, the dividend discount model ignores time-varying risk premiums and betas. We develop a model...

Risk, Return and Dividends

Andrew Ang, Jun Liu

We characterize the joint dynamics of dividends, expected returns, stochastic volatility, and prices. In particular, with a given dividend process, one of the processes of the expected return, the...

The role of filament-packing dynamics in powering amoeboid cell motility

Miao, Long, Vanderlinde, Orion, Liu, Jun, Grant, Richard P., Wouterse, Alan, Shimabukuro, Katsuya, ...

Although several models have been proposed to account for how cytoskeleton polymerization drives protrusion in cell motility, the precise mechanism remains controversial. Here, we show that, in...

Interaction of the cytochrome P4501A2, SULT1A1 and NAT gene polymorphisms with smoking and dietary mutagen intake in modification of the risk of pancreatic cancer

Suzuki, Hideo, Morris, Jeffrey S., Li, Yanan, Doll, Mark A., Hein, David W., Liu, Jun, ...

Aromatic amines, N-nitroso compounds and heterocyclic amines are suspected human pancreatic carcinogens. Cytochrome P450 (CYP) 1A2, N-acetyltransferase (NAT) 1, NAT2 and sulfotransferase (SULT) are...

Penn State Worry Questionnaire: structure and psychometric properties of the Chinese version*

Zhong, Jie, Wang, Chun, Li, Jie, Liu, Jun

The Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ) is a measure of worry phenomena and has been demonstrated valid in cross-cultural populations. The present study examined the factor structure and...

Risky Arbitrage Strategies: Optimal Portfolio Choice and Economic Implications

Liu, Jun, Timmermann, Allan G

We define risky arbitrages as self-financing trading strategies that have a strictly positive market price but a zero expected cumulative payoff. A continuous time cointegrated system is used to...

Intrapancreatic accessory spleen: A case report and review of the literature

Guo, Wei, Han, Wei, Liu, Jun, Jin, Lan, Li, Jian-She, Zhang, Zhong-Tao, ...

Here, we report a case of intrapancreatic accessory spleen confirmed by pathologic diagnosis and discuss its differential diagnosis and surgical management with a review of the literature.

Portfolio selection in stochastic environments / by Jun Liu.

Liu, Jun.

Submitted to the Graudate School of Business.

Membrane proteomics of phagosomes suggests a connection to autophagy

Shui, Wenqing, Sheu, Leslie, Liu, Jun, Smart, Brian, Petzold, Christopher J., Hsieh, Tsung-yen, ...

Phagocytosis is the central process by which macrophage cells internalize and eliminate infectious microbes as well as apoptotic cells. During maturation, phagosomes containing engulfed particles...

Caveolin-1 Up-regulation during Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition Is Mediated by Focal Adhesion Kinase*

Bailey, Kelly M., Liu, Jun

Emerging evidence has shown that caveolin-1 is up-regulated in a number of metastatic cancers and can influence various aspects of cell migration. However, in general, the role of caveolin-1 in...

Lsr2 of Mycobacterium Represents a Novel Class of H-NS-Like Proteins▿

Gordon, Blair R. G., Imperial, Robin, Wang, Linru, Navarre, William Wiley, Liu, Jun

Lsr2 is a small, basic protein present in Mycobacterium and related actinomycetes. Our previous in vitro biochemical studies showed that Lsr2 is a DNA-bridging protein, a property shared by H-NS-like...

Effect of Lianshu preparation on lipopolysaccharide-induced diarrhea in rats

Liu, Jun, Wan, Rong, Xu, Xuan-Fu, Wang, Xing-Peng, Yang, Wen-Juan, Xia, Yu-Jing, ...

AIM: To investigate the effect of Lianshu preparation on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced diarrhea in rats.

Efficacy of β-adrenergic blocker plus 5-isosorbide mononitrate and endoscopic band ligation for prophylaxis of esophageal variceal rebleeding: A meta-analysis

Ding, Shi-Hua, Liu, Jun, Wang, Jian-Ping

AIM: To systematically assess the efficacy and safety of β-adrenergic blocker plus 5-isosorbide mononitrate (BB + ISMN) and endoscopic band ligation (EBL) on prophylaxis of esophageal variceal...

Evidence for Pore Formation in Host Cell Membranes by ESX-1-Secreted ESAT-6 and Its Role in Mycobacterium marinum Escape from the Vacuole▿

Smith, Jennifer, Manoranjan, Joanna, Pan, Miao, Bohsali, Amro, Xu, Junjie, Liu, Jun, ...

The ESX-1 secretion system plays a critical role in the virulence of M. tuberculosis and M. marinum, but the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms are not clearly defined. Virulent M. marinum is...

Epigenetic Regulation, Somatic Homologous Recombination, and Abscisic Acid Signaling Are Influenced by DNA Polymerase ε Mutation in Arabidopsis[W][OA]

Yin, Haibo, Zhang, Xia, Liu, Jun, Wang, Youqun, He, Junna, Yang, Tao, ...

Based on abscisic acid (ABA) inhibition of seed germination and seedling growth assays, we isolated an ABA overly sensitive mutant (abo4-1) caused by a mutation in the Arabidopsis thaliana...

RIN4 Functions with Plasma Membrane H+-ATPases to Regulate Stomatal Apertures during Pathogen Attack

Liu, Jun, Elmore, James M., Fuglsang, Anja T., Palmgren, Michael G., Staskawicz, Brian J., Coaker, Gitta

In plants, the protein Rin4 acts with the plasma membrane H+-ATPase to regulate pathogen entry and the innate immune response, in part, through the regulation of stomatal closure.

Classification and feature selection algorithms for multi-class CGH data

Liu, Jun, Ranka, Sanjay, Kahveci, Tamer

Recurrent chromosomal alterations provide cytological and molecular positions for the diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. Comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) has been useful in understanding these...

Transcriptional Gene Silencing Mediated by a Plastid Inner Envelope Phosphoenolpyruvate/Phosphate Translocator CUE1 in Arabidopsis1[OA]

Shen, Jie, Ren, Xiaozhi, Cao, Rui, Liu, Jun, Gong, Zhizhong

Mutations in REPRESSOR OF SILENCING1 (ROS1) lead to the transcriptional gene silencing (TGS) of ProRD29A:LUC (LUCIFERASE) and Pro35S:NPTII (Neomycin Phosphotransferase II) reporter genes. We...

Study on Evolvement Complexity in an Artificial Stock Market

Chun-Xia Yang, Tao Zhou, Pei-Ling Zhou, Jun Liu, Zi-Nan Tang

An artificial stock market is established based on multi-agent . Each agent has a limit memory of the history of stock price, and will choose an action according to his memory and trading strategy....

Metabolomics analysis reveals large effects of gut microflora on mammalian blood metabolites

Wikoff, William R., Anfora, Andrew T., Liu, Jun, Schultz, Peter G., Lesley, Scott A., Peters, Eric C., ...

Although it has long been recognized that the enteric community of bacteria that inhabit the human distal intestinal track broadly impacts human health, the biochemical details that underlie these...

A Stochastic Inventory Model with Price Quotation

Liu, Jun

This thesis studies a single item periodic review inventory problem with stochastic demand, random price and quotation cost. It differs from the traditional inventory model in that at the beginning...

Cortical thinning in persons at increased familial risk for major depression

Peterson, Bradley S., Warner, Virginia, Bansal, Ravi, Zhu, Hongtu, Hao, Xuejun, Liu, Jun, ...

The brain disturbances that place a person at risk for developing depression are unknown. We imaged the brains of 131 individuals, ages 6 to 54 years, who were biological descendants (children or...

A critical review of analytical ultracentrifugation and field flow fractionation methods for measuring protein aggregation

Liu, Jun, Andya, James D., Shire, Steven J.

Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) and field flow fractionation (FFF) are 2 important biophysical methods for measuring protein aggregates. Both methods can separate protein monomer from its...

Systematic identification and characterization of chicken (Gallus gallus) ncRNAs

Zhang, Yong, Wang, Jie, Huang, Shoujun, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Liu, Jun, Yang, Ning, ...

Recent studies have demonstrated that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play important roles during development and evolution. Chicken, the first genome-sequenced non-mammalian amniote, possesses unique...