Towards Real-time Performance of Data Value Hiding for Frequent Data Updates (2009)
Jie Wang, Justin Zhan, Jun Zhang
Abstract—Hiding data values in privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM) protects information against unauthorized attacks while maintaining analytical data properties. The most popular models are...
Dynamically forced cells of a viscoelastic fluid over an array of rollers (2009)
Liu, Bin, Zhang, Jun, Shelley, Michael
Our fluid dynamics video shows the response of a layer of viscoelastic fluid to an array of four-roll mills steadily rotating underneath. When the relaxation time of the fluid is sufficiently long,...
Dynamically forced cells of a viscoelastic fluid over an array of rollers (2009)
Liu, Bin, Zhang, Jun, Shelley, Michael
Our fluid dynamics video shows the response of a layer of viscoelastic fluid to an array of four-roll mills steadily rotating underneath. When the relaxation time of the fluid is sufficiently long,...
Vortex shedding and hovering of a rigid body in an oscillating flow (2009)
Liu, Bin, Weathers, Annie, Childress, Stephen, Zhang, Jun
The fluid dynamics video shows rigid, spatially asymmetric bodies interacting with oscillating background flows. A free rigid object, here a hollow ``pyramid," can hover quite stably against gravity...
Vortex shedding and hovering of a rigid body in an oscillating flow (2009)
Liu, Bin, Weathers, Annie, Childress, Stephen, Zhang, Jun
The fluid dynamics video shows rigid, spatially asymmetric bodies interacting with oscillating background flows. A free rigid object, here a hollow "pyramid," can hover quite stably against gravity...
Dynamically forced cells of a viscoelastic fluid over an array of rollers (2009)
Liu, Bin, Zhang, Jun, Shelley, Michael
Our fluid dynamics video shows the response of a layer of viscoelastic fluid to an array of four-roll mills steadily rotating underneath. When the relaxation time of the fluid is sufficiently long,...
Statistics of Flares Sweeping across Sunspots (2009)
Flare ribbons are always dynamic, and sometimes sweep across sunspots. Examining 588 (513 M-class and 75 X-class) flare events observed by Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) satellite and...
Jun Zhang, Prof Dr, Joachim W. Schmidt, Dipl Inform, Rainer Marrone
I declare that: this work has been prepared by myself, all literally or content-related quotations from other sources are clearly referenced, and no other sources or aids out of the declared...
Adaptive Spatial Intercell Interference Cancellation in Multicell Wireless Networks (2009)
Zhang, Jun, Andrews, Jeffrey G.
Downlink spatial intercell interference cancellation (ICIC) is considered for mitigating other-cell interference using multiple transmit antennas. A principle question we explore is whether it is...
Practical fast gate rate InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche photodiodes (2009)
Zhang, Jun, Thew, Rob, Barreiro, Claudio, Zbinden, Hugo
We present a practical and easy-to-implement method for high-speed near infrared single-photon detection based on InGaAs/InP single-photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs), combining aspects of both...
Dipolar Evolution in a Coronal Hole Region (2009)
Yang, Shuhong, Zhang, Jun, Borrero, Juan Manuel
Using observations from the SOHO, STEREO and Hinode, we investigate magnetic field evolution in an equatorial coronal hole region. Two dipoles emerge one by one. The negative element of the first...
Observations of The Magnetic Reconnection Signature of An M2 Flare on 2000 March 23 (2009)
Multi-wavelength observations of an M 2.0 flare event on 2000 March 23 in NOAA active region 8910 provide us a good chance to study the detailed structure and dynamics of the magnetic reconnection...
Soft and Supersoft X-ray Sources in Symbiotic Stars (2009)
Zhu, Chunhua, Lu, Guoliang, Wang, Zhaojun, Zhang, Jun
Assuming that soft X-ray sources in symbiotic stars result from strong thermonuclear runaways, and supersoft X-ray sources from weak thermonuclear runaways or steady hydrogen burning symbiotic stars,...
Is the Radial Profile of the Phase-Space Density of Dark Matter Halos a Power-Law? (2009)
Ma, Chung-Pei, Chang, Philip, Zhang, Jun
The latest cosmological N-body simulations find two intriguing properties for dark matter haloes: (1) their radial density profile, rho, is better fit by a form that flattens to a constant at the...
Magnetic and transport properties of n-type Fe-doped In2O3 ferromagnetic thin films (2009)
Xu, Xiao-Hong, Jiang, Feng-Xian, Zhang, Jun, Fan, Xiao-Chen, Wu, Hai-Shun, Gehring, G. A.
Room temperature ferromagnetism was observed in n-type Fe-doped In2O3 thin films deposited on c-cut sapphire substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Structure, magnetism, composition, and transport...
Interaction between Granulation and Small-Scale Magnetic Flux Observed by Hinode (2009)
Zhang, Jun, Yang, Shuhong, Jin, Chunlan
We study the relationship between granular development and magnetic field evolution in the quiet Sun. 6 typical cases are displayed to exhibit interaction between granules and magnetic elements, and...
Chaotic Time Series Prediction Using a Neuro-Fuzzy System with Time-Delay Coordinates (2009)
Jun Zhang, Senior Member, Wai-lun Lo
Abstract—This paper presents an investigation into the use of the delay coordinate embedding technique in the multi-inputmultioutput-adaptive-network-based fuzzy inference system (MANFIS) for...
Ant Colony System for Optimizing Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) (2009)
Xuan Tan, Xiaolan Zhuo, Jun Zhang
Abstract. Research on the optimization of Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows (VRPTW) is a significant investigation area of ant colony system (ACS). This paper proposes an enhanced ACS, which...
A pseudo parallel ant algorithm with an adaptive migration controller (2009)
Ying Lin, Jun Zhang, Jing Xiao
This article appeared in a journal published by Elsevier. The attached copy is furnished to the author for internal non-commercial research and education use, including for instruction at the authors...
Numerical Model and Analysis on Dynamics of Composites for Active Damage Detection (2009)
Zhi Wei, Minqiao Lu, Jun Zhang
Abstract. This paper presents a study on active detection of internal damage based on numerical analysis of vibration dynamics in composites. Damageinduced variations of dynamic parameters are...
Adaptive Crossover and Mutation in Genetic Algorithms Based on Clustering Technique (2009)
Instead of having fixed px and pm, this paper presents the use of fuzzy logic to adaptively tune px and pm for optimization of power electronic circuits throughout the process. By applying the Kmeans...
Wei-neng Chen, Student Member, Jun Zhang, Senior Member
Abstract—Grid computing is increasingly considered as a promising next-generation computational platform that supports wide-area parallel and distributed computing. In grid environments,...
NN-Based Damage Detection in Multilayer Composites (2009)
Zhi Wei, Xiaomin Hu, Muhui Fan, Jun Zhang, D. Bi
Abstract. The discrete-time system of multilayer composite plate is modeled using neural network (NN) to produce a nonlinear exogenous autoregressive moving-average model (NARMAX). The model is...
Extended Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Power Electronic Circuit Design (2009)
Jun Zhang, Senior Member, Senior Member, Tao Huang, ...
Abstract—Ant colony optimization (ACO) is typically used to search paths through graphs. The concept is based on simulating the behavior of ants in finding paths from the colony to food. Its...
Abstract. Presetting control parameters of algorithms are important to ant colony optimization (ACO). This paper presents an investigation into the relationship of algorithms performance and the...
Swarm Intelligence Inspired Multicast Routing: an Ant Colony Optimization Approach ⋆ (2009)
Xiao-min Hu, Jun Zhang, Li-ming Zhang
Abstract. The advancement of network induces great demands on a series of applications such as the multicast routing. This paper firstly makes a brief review on the algorithms in solving routing...
Discrete Particle Swarm Optimization for Multiple Destination Routing Problems ⋆ (2009)
Abstract. This paper proposes a discrete particle swarm optimization (DPSO) to solve the multiple destination routing (MDR) problems. The problem has been proven to be NP-complete and the traditional...
Jun Zhang, Weiwei Dai, Muhui Fan, Henry Chung, Zhi Wei, D. Bi, ...
Abstract. This paper presents an investigation into the use of the delay coordinate embedding technique with multi-input multi-output (MIMO) adaptivenetwork-based-fuzzy-inference system (ANFIS) to...
Jun Zhang, Senior Member, W. L. Lo
Abstract—This correspondence presents pseudocoevolutionary genetic algorithms (GAs) for power electronic circuit (PEC) optimization. Circuit parameters are optimized through two parallel coadapted...
A Novel Genetic Algorithm with Orthogonal Prediction for Global Numerical Optimization (2009)
Jun Zhang, Jing-hui Zhong, Xiao-min Hu
Abstract. This paper proposes a novel orthogonal predictive local search (OPLS) to enhance the performance of the conventional genetic algorithms. OPLS operation predicts the most promising direction...
Comparison of Distance Measures in Evolutionary Time Series Segmentation 1 (2009)
Jingwen Yu, Jian Yin, Jun Zhang
Time series segmentation is a fundamental component in the process of analyzing and mining time series data. Given a set of pattern templates, evolutionary computation is an appropriate tool to...
A Quantum-inspired Genetic Algorithm for Data Clustering (2009)
Jing Xiao, Yuping Yan, Ying Lin, Ling Yuan, Jun Zhang
Abstract—The conventional K-Means clustering algorithm must know the number of clusters in advance and the clustering result is sensitive to the selection of the initial cluster centroids. The...
Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization ⋆ (2009)
Abstract. This paper proposes an adaptive particle swarm optimization (APSO) with adaptive parameters and elitist learning strategy (ELS) based on the evolutionary state estimation (ESE) approach....
Jun Zhang, Wei-neng Chen, Jing-hui Zhong, Xuan Tan, Yun Li
Abstract. A hybrid Orthogonal Scheme Ant Colony Optimization (OSACO) algorithm for continuous function optimization (CFO) is presented in this paper. The methodology integrates the advantages of Ant...
Power Electronic Circuits Design: A Particle Swarm Optimization Approach * (2009)
Jun Zhang, Yuan Shi, Zhi-hui Zhan
Abstract. The development of power electronics results in a growing need for automatic design and optimization for power electronic circuits (PECs). This paper presents a particle swarm optimization...
Associative Classification in Text Categorization (2009)
Jian Chen, Jian Yin, Jun Zhang, Jin Huang
Abstract. Text categorization has become one of the key techniques for handling and organizing text data. This model is used to classify new article to its most relevant category. In this paper, we...
A Pattern Distance-Based Evolutionary Approach to Time Series Segmentation* (2009)
Jingwen Yu, Jian Yin, Duanning Zhou, Jun Zhang
Abstract. Time series segmentation is a fundamental component in the process of analyzing and mining time series data. Given a set of pattern templates, evolutionary computation is an appropriate...
Jun Zhang, Wai-lun Lo, Senior Member
Abstract—This paper presents an implementation of a decoupled optimization technique for design of switching regulators using genetic algorithms (GAs). The optimization process entails the...
Jun Zhang, Wei-neng Chen, Xuan Tan
Abstract. Ant colony optimization has been one of the most promising meta-heuristics since its appearance in early 1990s but it is specialized in discrete space optimization problems. To explore the...
Optimization of Power Electronic Circuits Using Ant Colony System (2009)
Jun Zhang, Senior Member, Tao Huang
Abstract—Ant colony optimization (ACO) is typically used to search paths through graphs. The concept is based on simulating the behavior of ants in finding paths from the colony to food. Its...
Branching ratio and CP violation of $B_c \to D K$ decays in the perturbative QCD approach (2009)
In this paper, we calculate the branching ratio and direct CP asymmetry parameter of $B_c^{\pm}\to D^{0}K^{\pm}$ in the framework of perturbative QCD approach based on $k_T$ factorization. Besides...
May 2008 Optimal Dynamic Hedging of Cliquets (2009)
Andrea Petrelli, Jun Zhang, Olivia Siu, Rupak Chatterjee, Vivek Kapoor
Abstract. Analyzed here is a Cliquet put option (ratchet put option) defined as a resettable strike put with a payout triggered by the reference asset falling below a specified fraction of its value...
Zhang, Jun, Kountouris, Marios, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Heath Jr, Robert W.
This paper proposes a multi-mode transmission strategy to improve the spectral efficiency achieved by the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with delayed and quantized channel...
Shi, Linan, Zhang, Jun, Wu, Peng, Feng, Kai, Li, Jing, Xie, Zhensheng, ...
Abstract Background Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a common form of cancer in children. Currently, bone marrow biopsy is used for diagnosis. Noninvasive biomarkers for the early diagnosis of...
Collaboration in Contingent Capacities with Information Asymmetry (2009)
Amiya K. Chakravarty, Jun Zhang
Abstract: We study the optimal contracting problem between two firms collaborating on capacity investment with information asymmetry. Without a contract, system efficiency is lost due to the...
DOI 10.1007/s10115-006-0001-2 REGULAR PAPER (2009)
Shuting Xu, Jun Zhang, Dianwei Han, Jie Wang
Singular value decomposition based data
Simple Treatments of the Photon Noise and the Pixelation Effect in Weak Lensing (2009)
We propose easy ways of correcting for the systematic errors caused by the photon noise and the pixelation effect in cosmic shear measurements. Our treatment of noise can reliably remove the noise...
Daily reservoir inflow forecasting combining QPF into ANNs model (2009)
Jun Zhang, Chun-tian Cheng, Sheng-li Liao, Xin-yu Wu, Jian-jian Shen
Daily reservoir inflow predictions with lead-times of several days are essential to the operational planning and scheduling of hydroelectric power system. The demand for quantitative precipitation...
Jun Zhang, Robert W. Heath, Marios Kountouris, Jeffrey G. Andrews
Imperfect channel state information degrades the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications; its effects on single-user (SU) and multiuser (MU) MIMO transmissions are quite...
Guo, Manman, Feng, Hui, Zhang, Jun, Wang, Wenqin, Wang, Yi, Li, Yuqing, ...
Sequence-specific DNA-binding transcription factors have widespread biological significance in the regulation of gene expression. However, in lower prokaryotes and eukaryotic metazoans, it is usually...
Cao, Feng, Sun, Dongdong, Li, Chengxiang, Narsinh, Kazim, Zhao, Li, Li, Xue, ...
Aims To evaluate the safety profile and efficacy of bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNC) transplantation for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) by assessing patients and their left...
Jun Zhang, Marios Kountouris, Jeffrey G. Andrews
Imperfect channel state information degrades the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications; its effects on single-user (SU) and multiuser (MU) MIMO transmissions are quite...
Bis{μ-2-[1-(2-Pyridylmethylimino)ethyl]phenolato}bis[azidocopper(II)] (2009)
Jun Zhang, Xiao-Dan Chen, Huai-Hong Zhang, Bai-Wang Sun
The title compound, [Cu2(C14H13N2O)2(N3)2], was synthesized by the reaction of Cu(NO3)2·3H2O with the Schiff base 2-[1-(2-pyridylmethylimino)ethyl]phenol (HL) in methanol–water solution,...
ZHANG JIE HUANG, XIAO GUO WANG, JUN ZHANG
The synthesis and application of 4-rhodanineazo benzoic acid (4-BARA) as a new chromogenic reagent for the determination of gold is des¬cribed. A highly sensitive, selective, and fast method for the...
Cai, Gang, Wang, Huaizhou, Qin, Qin, Zhang, Jun, Zhu, Zhi, Liu, Menglei, ...
Aims Herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) is considered to be a molecular ‘switch’ for immune responses, and a role in immune modification has been reported. The aim of this study was to assess...
Key Element-Context Model: An Approach to Efficient Web Metadata Maintenance (2008)
Ba-quy Vuong, Ee-peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Chew-hung Chang, Kalyani Chatterjea, ...
Abstract. In this paper, we study the problem of maintaining metadata for open Web content. In digital libraries such as DLESE, NSDL and G-Portal, metadata records are created for some good quality...
Support Vector Machine Approach for Partner Selection of Virtual Enterprises * (2008)
Jie Wang, Weijun Zhong, Jun Zhang
Abstract. With the rapidly increasing competitiveness in global market, dynamic alliances and virtual enterprises are becoming essential components of the economy in order to meet the market...
A Formal Paradigm for Heterogeneous Modeling' (2008)
Karl Henrik Johansson, John Lygeros, Jun Zhang, Shankar Sastry
A hybrid automaton is a model of a system with inter-acting continuous and discrete dynamics. It has been successfully employed in emerging applications on the border between computer science and...
Mode Switching for MIMO Broadcast Channel Based on Delay and Channel Quantization (2008)
Zhang, Jun, Heath Jr., Robert W., Kountouris, Marios, Andrews, Jeffrey G.
Imperfect channel state information degrades the performance of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communications; its effect on single-user (SU) and multi-user (MU) MIMO transmissions are quite...
Achievable Throughput of Multi-mode Multiuser MIMO with Imperfect CSI Constraints (2008)
Zhang, Jun, Kountouris, Marios, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Heath Jr, Robert W.
For the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) broadcast channel with imperfect channel state information (CSI), neither the capacity nor the optimal transmission technique have been fully discovered....
Zhang, Jun, Thew, Rob, Gautier, Jean-Daniel, Gisin, Nicolas, Zbinden, Hugo
We present an active quenching application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), for use in conjunction with InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiodes (APDs), for 1550 nm single-photon detection. To evaluate...
CDC01 REG1606 Continuity and Invariance in Hybrid Automata (2008)
John Lygeros, Karl Henrik Johansson, Slobodann. Simić, Jun Zhang, Shankar Sastry
Hybrid automata have been proposed as a language for modelling and analysing the interaction of digital and analogue dynamics in embedded computer systems. In this paper, hybrid automata are studied...
Yin-leng Theng, Kuah-li Tan, Ee-peng Lim, Jun Zhang, Chew Hung Chang, ...
Integrated with G-Portal, a Web-based geospatial digital library of geography resources, this paper describes the implementation of Mobile G-Portal, a group of mobile devices as learning assistant...
Coordinated Multi-cell MIMO Systems with Cellular (2008)
Block Diagonalization, Jun Zhang, Runhua Chen, Jeffrey G. Andrews, Robert W. Heath
Abstract — A clustered base transceiver station (BTS) coordination strategy is proposed to realize the gains of multiuser MIMO communication in interference-limited cellular systems. In the...
Experimental high-intensity three-photon entangled source (2008)
Lu, Huai-Xin, Zhang, Jun, Wang, Xiao-Qin, Li, Ying-De, Wang, Chun-Yan
We experimentally realize a high-intensity three-photon Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entanglement source directly following the proposal by Rarity and Tapster [J. G. Rarity and P. R. Tapster,...
On the Brightening Propagation of Post-Flare Loops Observed by TRACE (2008)
Examining flare data observed by TRACE satellite from May 1998 to December 2006, we choose 190 (151 M-class and 39 X-class) flare events which display post-flare loops (PFLs), observed by 171 \AA and...
Networked MIMO with Clustered Linear Precoding (2008)
Zhang, Jun, Chen, Runhua, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Ghosh, Arunabha, Heath Jr, Robert W.
A clustered base transceiver station (BTS) coordination strategy is proposed for a large cellular MIMO network, which includes full intra-cluster coordination to enhance the sum rate and limited...
Ning Kang, Jun Zhang, Eric S. Carlson, Daniel Gembris
Abstract—A novel approach to noninvasively tracing brain white matter fiber tracts is presented using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). This technique is based on successive...
DTI Fiber Tract-Oriented Quantitative and Visual Analysis of White Matter Integrity ⋆ (2008)
Xuwei Liang, Ning Cao, Jun Zhang
Abstract. A new fiber tract-oriented quantitative and visual analysis scheme using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is developed to study the regional micro structural white matter changes along major...
Baoqin Yu, Taiyong Wang, Jun Zhang, Guoqin Li
Abstract. The cost budget of distributed enterprises depends on large quantities of operating data and aggregates data. Policymakers of these enterprise groups work out their cost budget according to...
Abstract- Research on adjusting the probabilities of crossover pI and mutation p. in genetic algorithms (GA’s) is one of the most significant and promising areas of investigation in evolutionary...
Wenju Zhang, Jun Zhang, Yan Chang, Shudong Chen, Xuefeng Du, Fei Liu, ...
This paper discusses the design and implementation of drug discovery grid in details. The purpose of the Drug Discovery Grid (DDGrid) is to set up a grid environment with aggregated compute and data...
Mode Switching for MIMO Communication Based on Delay and Channel Quantization (2008)
Zhang, Jun, Andrews, Jeffrey G., Heath Jr, Robert W.
This paper has been withdrawn by the author as a major revision is made and a new version is uploaded at arXiv:0812.3120
Visibility study of graphene multilayer structures (2008)
Teo, Guoquan, Wang, Haomin, Wu, Yihong, Zhang, Jun, Guo, Zaibing, Ni, Zhenhua, ...
The visibility of graphene sheets on different types of substrates has been investigated both theoretically and experimentally. Although single layer graphene is observable on various types of...
How to Grow a Healthy Merger Tree (2008)
Zhang, Jun, Fakhouri, Onsi, Ma, Chung-Pei
We investigate seven Monte Carlo algorithms -- four old and three new -- for constructing merger histories of dark matter halos using the extended Press-Schechter (EPS) formalism based on both the...
On Recovery of Sparse Signals via $\ell_1$ Minimization (2008)
Cai, T. Tony, Xu, Guangwu, Zhang, Jun
This article considers constrained $\ell_1$ minimization methods for the recovery of high dimensional sparse signals in three settings: noiseless, bounded error and Gaussian noise. A unified and...
Kopetzki, Erhard, Jekle, Andreas, Ji, Changhua, Rao, Eileen, Zhang, Jun, Fischer, Stephan, ...
Abstract We describe a novel strategy in which two inhibitors of HIV viral entry were incorporated into a single molecule. This bifunctional fusion inhibitor consists of an antibody blocking the...
A new data mining approach to predicting matrix condition numbers (2008)
Condition Numbers, Shuting Xu, Jun Zhang
Abstract. Condition number of a matrix is an important measure in numerical analysis and linear algebra. The general approach to obtaining it is through direct computation or estimation. The time and...
SISN: A Toolkit for Augmenting Expertise Sharing via Social Networks (2008)
Jun Zhang, Yang Ye, Mark S. Ackerman, Yan Qu
Abstract. The current study attempts to address the social-technical gap by developing a toolkit that can help information seekers to search for expertise and seek information via their social...
Abstract. We investigate the use of the multistep successive preconditioning strategies (MSP) to construct a class of parallel multilevel sparse approximate inverse (SAI) preconditioners. We do not...
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Jun Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis, Qiongmao Shen, Jimeng Sun, ...
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Bursty Feature Representation for Clustering Text Streams (2008)
Qi He, Kuiyu Chang, Ee-peng Lim, Jun Zhang
Text representation plays a crucial role in classical text mining, where the primary focus was on static text. Nevertheless, well-studied static text representations including TFIDF are not optimized...
Haplotype Tagging using Support Vector Machines (2008)
Jingwu He, Jun Zhang, Gulsah Altun, Er Zelikovsky, Yanqing Zhang
Abstract — Constructing a complete human haplotype map can help in associating complex diseases with SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms). Unfortunately, the number of SNPs is very large and it...
Learning Classifiers from Distributed, Ontology-Extended Data Sources (2008)
Doina Caragea, Jun Zhang, Jyotishman Pathak, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. There is an urgent need for sound approaches to integrative and collaborative analysis of large, autonomous (and hence, inevitably semantically heterogeneous) data sources in several...
Ubiquitous, Flexible and Distributed Computing (2008)
Abstract-Motivated by the observation that there exists a lot of cheap and networked computing power and the inflexibility of Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in the context of mobility, this...
Integration of Wikipedia and a Geography Digital Library (2008)
Ee-peng Lim, Zhe Wang, Darwin Sadeli, Yuanyuan Li, Chew-hung Chang, Kalyani Chatterjea, ...
Abstract. In this paper, we address the problem of integrating Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, and G-Portal, a web-based digital library, in the geography domain. The integration facilitates the...
Web-based communities have become an important place for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other online networks...
A Study in Modeling Low-Conservation Protein (2008)
Chang Wang, Student Member, Stephen D. Scott, Jun Zhang, Qingping Tao, Dmitri E. Fomenko, ...
We present several algorithms for identification of new proteins in superfamilies with low primary sequence conservation. The low conservation of primary sequence in protein superfamilies such as...
Addressing Accuracy Issues in Privacy Preserving Data Mining through Matrix Factorization (2008)
Abstract — Maintaining data mining accuracy on distorted datasets is an important issue in privacy preserving data mining. Using matrix approximation, we propose several efficient and flexible...
Learning Hierarchical Classifiers with Class (2008)
Feihong Wu, Jun Zhang, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. As more and more data with class taxonomies emerge in diverse fields, such as pattern recognition, text classification and gene function prediction, we need to extend traditional machine...
eTree: A Browse and Query Interface for Online Communities (2008)
We use a life-like tree ecosystem metaphor to represent the people, activities and artifacts created by members of an online community. The resulting system, eTree, provides a social visualization...
Abstract Extended Checker for FindBugs (2008)
FindBugs is a static analysis tool that examines your class or JAR files looking for potential problems by matching your bytecodes against a list of bug patterns. Although it has displayed valuable...
Knowledge sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone knows something (2008)
Adamic, Lada A., Zhang, Jun, Bakshy, Eytan, Ackerman, Mark S.
Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather opinions, and satisfy...
Learning Classifiers from Distributed, Ontology-Extended Data Sources (2008)
Doina Caragea, Jun Zhang, Jyotishman Pathak, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. There is an urgent need for sound approaches to integrative and collaborative analysis of large, autonomous (and hence, inevitably semantically heterogeneous) data sources in several...
Web-based communities have become important places for people to seek and share expertise. We find that networks in these communities typically differ in their topology from other online networks...
[Research Article Query processing in spatial databases containing obstacles (2008)
Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Zhu Manli
Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing assumes that points in space are directly reachable and utilizes the Euclidean distance metric....
Data Pattern Maintenance by Matrix Approximation: An Application to Information Security (2008)
Abstract — Maintaining data mining accuracy on distorted datasets is an important issue in privacy preserving data mining. Using matrix approximation, we propose several efficient and flexible...
Jun Zhang, Y An, L. Pardhanani, Graham F. Careyx
Abstract Preconditioning strategies based on incomplete factorization using thresholding with dual dropping (ILUT) are investigated for iterative solution of sparse linear systems arising in...
Spatial Queries in the Presence of Obstacles (2008)
Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Manli Zhu
Abstract. Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are directly...
Selective Data Distortion via Structural Partition and SSVD for Privacy Preservation (2008)
Jie Wang, Weijun Zhong, Shuting Xu, Jun Zhang
Abstract — Accurate information extracted from datasets is required for making reasonable decisions using data mining algorithms. Privacy preservation has become one of the top priorities in the...
NNMF-Based Techniques for High-Accuracy Privacy Protection on Non-negative-valued Datasets (2008)
Abstract — Powerful modern access to a huge amount of various data having high or low level of privacy brings out a concurrent increasing demand for preserving data privacy. The challenge is how to...
Computing White Matter Fiber Orientations in High Angular Resolution Diffusion-Weighted MRI (2008)
Ning Cao, Qi Zhuang, Xuwei Liang, Ruiwang Huang, Jun Zhang
Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DTI) can resolve white matter fiber orientations within voxels in which the diffusion is characterized by Gaussian diffusion process. High angular...
Xuwei Liang, Ning Kang, Stephen E. Rose, Jonathan B. Chalk, Jun Zhang, Dr. Jun Zhang
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) based tractography enables selective reconstruction of specific white matter (WM) pathways. The cingulum tracts, connecting hippocampal, thalamic and association...
and Mapping (WTUSM), P.R. China, and then (2008)
Liwen Dai, Jun Zhang, Chris Rizos, Shaowei Han, Jingling Wang
1998. Since the start of 2000 he has been a fulltime Ph.D. student at UNSW where his current research interests are software and algorithm development for rapid static and kinematic positioning (and...
Zhang, Jun, Ma, Chung-Pei, Fakhouri, Onsi
Analytic models based on spherical and ellipsoidal gravitational collapse have been used to derive the mass functions of dark matter halos and their progenitors (the conditional mass function). The...
Measuring the cosmic shear in Fourier space (2008)
We propose to measure the weak cosmic shear using the spatial derivatives of the galaxy surface brightness field. The measurement should be carried out in Fourier space, in which the point spread...
Time-Frequency Characterization and Receiver Waveform Design for Shallow Water Environments (2008)
Zhang, Jun, Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia, Gottin, Bertrand, Ioana, Cornel
The shallow water environment can be considered as a time-dispersive system whose time-varying impulse response can be expressed as a superposition of time-frequency components with dispersive...
Time-Frequency Characterization and Receiver Waveform Design for Shallow Water Environments (2008)
Zhang, Jun, Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia, Gottin, Bertrand, Ioana, Cornel
The shallow water environment can be considered as a time-dispersive system whose time-varying impulse response can be expressed as a superposition of time-frequency components with dispersive...
Qun Qian, Jun Zhang, Min Zhang, Xiang He, YiBen Xia
In the title compound, C29H27Cl2N5O2·C4H8O, the polycyclic system is composed of three parts: one central pyridine ring substituted by two functionalized pyrazoline rings. The dihedral angles...
3,5-Bis[1-acetyl-5-(4-chlorophenyl)-4,5-dihydro-1H-pyrazol-3-yl]-2,6-dimethylpyridine (2008)
Qun Qian, Jun Zhang, Min Zhang, Xiang He, Yi-Ben Xia
The title compound, C29H27Cl2N5O2, contains a central pyridine ring and two functionalized pyrazoline rings. The pyridine ring and the two attached pyrazoline rings are nearly coplanar, whereas the...
Knowledge sharing and Yahoo Answers: Everyone knows something (2008)
Lada A. Adamic, Jun Zhang, Eytan Bakshy, Mark S. Ackerman
Yahoo Answers (YA) is a large and diverse question-answer forum, acting not only as a medium for sharing technical knowledge, but as a place where one can seek advice, gather opinions, and satisfy...
Spatial trend prefetching for online maps mashups (2008)
Mashups try to merge some specific information together with online maps application by displaying related markers onto maps. Sometimes markers will be displayed very slowly. In this thesis, we have...
Zhou, Yuzhao, Vaidya, Vishal S., Brown, Ronald P., Zhang, Jun, Rosenzweig, Barry A., Thompson, Karol L., ...
Sensitive biomarkers are needed to detect kidney injury at the earliest stages. The objective of this study was to determine whether the appearance of kidney injury molecule-1 (Kim-1) protein...
Effects of Interpregnancy Interval on Blood Pressure in Consecutive Pregnancies (2008)
Mikolajczyk, Rafael T., Zhang, Jun, Ford, Jessie, Grewal, Jagteshwar
The lower risk of preeclampsia observed in parous women has prompted a hypothesis that cardiovascular adaptation from a first pregnancy has ongoing benefits which contribute to a reduced risk of...
Ness, Roberta B., Zhang, Jun, Bass, Debra, Klebanoff, Mark A.
Cigarette smoking protects against preeclampsia but increases the risk of small-for-gestational-age birth (SGA). Regarding body weight, the converse is true: obesity elevates rates of preeclampsia...
Zhang, Jun, Li, Pei-qiong, Yu, Qi-hong, Chen, Hua-yun, Li, Juan, He, Yun-shao
The azoospermia factor b (AZFb) and azoospermia factor c (AZFc) regions in the human Y chromosome consist of five palindromes constructed from six distinct families of amplicons and are prone to...
Brotman, Rebecca M., Klebanoff, Mark A., Nansel, Tonja R., Andrews, William W., Schwebke, Jane R., Zhang, Jun, ...
The etiology of bacterial vaginosis is unknown, and there are no long-term therapies for preventing this frequently recurring condition. Vaginal douching has been reported to be associated with...
As part of the ONR sponsored Coupled Boundary Layer/Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) experiment, data from the NOAA WP-3D research aircraft measurements into major Hurricanes in the 2002-2004 seasons are...
Determination of Topology Skeleton of Magnetic Fields in a Solar Active Region (2007)
Zhao, Hui, Wang, Jing-Xiu, Zhang, Jun, Xiao, Chi-Jie, Wang, Hai-Min
The knowledge of magnetic topology is the key to understand magnetic energy release in astrophysics. Based on observed vector magnetograms, we have determined threedimensional (3D) topology skeleton...
An integrated genome-wide association analysis on rheumatoid arthritis data (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Cooper, Richard S
Abstract We propose a nonparametric association analysis combining both family and unrelated case-control genotype data. Under the assumption of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, we formed an affected...
A double Ore extension is a natural generalization of the Ore extension. We prove that a connected graded double Ore extension of an Artin-Schelter regular algebra is Artin-Schelter regular. Some...
Double Extension Regular Algebras of Type (14641) (2007)
We construct several families of Artin-Schelter regular algebras of global dimension four using double Ore extension and then prove that all these algebras are strongly noetherian, Auslander regular,...
Pushout Artin-Schelter Regular Algebras (2007)
Take $k$ a field and $A, B, C$ $k$-algebras with $C \subset A, B$ as subalgebra, then there is the pushout $D=A\cup_C B$, which is again a $k$-algebra. We would like to know when is $D$ an...
Acceleration and stabilization properties of minimal residual smoothing technique (2007)
We analyze the standard multigrid method accelerated by a minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique. We show that MRS can accelerate the convergence of the slow residual components, thus accelerates...
This paper introduces several strategies to deal with pivot blocks in multi-level block incomplete LU factorization (BILUM) preconditioning techniques. These techniques are aimed at increasing the...
We investigate the use of sparse approximate inverse techniques (SAI) in a grid based multilevel ILU preconditioner (GILUM) to design a robust parallelizable preconditioner for solving general sparse...
We show that the decreasing dimension method proposed by Wang and Jiang in "Solution of the System of Linear Algebraic Equations by Decreasing Dimension", Appl. Math. Comput, 109...
We employ multi-level minimal residual smoothing (MRS) as a pre-optimization technique to accelerate standard multigrid convergence. The MRS method is used to improve the current multigrid iterate by...
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We employ multi-level minimal residual smoothing (MRS) as a pre-optimization technique to accelerate standard multigrid convergence. The MRS method is used to improve the current multigrid iterate by...
in Multigrid for Poisson Equation (2007)
Abstract: A new relaxation analysis and two acceleration schemes are proposed for the five-point Red-Black Gauss-Seidel smoothing in multigrid for solving two dimensional Poisson equation. For a...
We introduce virtual multi-level iterative methods (VML) which attempt to remove the low frequency errors by conducting some special smoothing (residual norm minimization) procedure with respect to...
We employ multi-level minimal residual smoothing (MRS) as a pre-optimization technique to accelerate standard multigrid convergence. The MRS method is used to improve the current multigrid iterate by...
Abstract A RECONFIGURABLE ROBOTIC SYSTEM TO SUPPORT PLANETARY SURFACE OPERATIONS (2007)
This paper presents a study of a re-configurable robotic system to support surface exploration of the Moon and Mars. For these missions a wide variety of tasks, requiring a large variation in robot...
Abstract A METHOD TO EVALUATE ROBOT CONFIGURATIONS IN TASK-BASED MODULAR DESIGN (2007)
Re-configurable robots can be assembled in different ways for different tasks. A method is needed to determine how well a configuration is suited for a given task. This often depends on complex...
A MODULAR ROBOTIC INFRASTRUCTURE TO SUPPORT PLANETARY SURFACE OPERATIONS (2007)
This paper presents a study of a Planetary Surface Modular Robotic System (PSMRS) to support surface exploration of the Moon and Mars. For these missions a wide variety of tasks, requiring large a...
Proteome analysis of human gastric cardia adenocarcinoma by laser capture microdissection (2007)
Cheng, Yan, Zhang, Jun, Li, Yang, Wang, Yan, Gong, Jun
Abstract Background The incidence of gastric cardiac adenocarcinoma (GCA) has been increasing in the past two decades in China, but the molecular changes relating to carcinogenesis have not been well...
The Utility of a Rodent Model in Detecting Pediatric Drug-Induced Nephrotoxicity (2007)
Espandiari, Parvaneh, Zhang, Jun, Rosenzweig, Barry A., Vaidya, Vishal S., Sun, Jinchun, Schnackenberg, Laura, ...
A multi-age rat model was used to identify potential age-related differences in renal injury following exposure to gentamicin (GM). In this study, 10-, 25-, 40-, and 80-day-old Sprague-Dawley rats...
Sarikaya, Ismet, Povoski, Stephen P, Al-Saif, Osama H, Kocak, Ergun, Bloomston, Mark, Marsh, Steven, ...
Abstract Background The purpose of this study was to combine intraoperative gamma probe (GP) detection with preoperative fluorine 18-fluoro-2-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography ( 18 F...
Temperature-dependent orbital-moment anisotropy in dilute magnetic oxides (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Skomski, Ralph, Lu, Yongfeng, Sellmyer, David J.
A striking magnetization anisotropy in thin films of vanadium-doped stannic oxide is reported and investigated. The single-crystalline Sn1-xVxO2 (0≤x≤0.1) thin films, grown on Al2O3 substrate,...
Sarikaya, Ismet, Bloomston, Mark, Povoski, Stephen P, Zhang, Jun, Hall, Nathan C, Knopp, Michael V, ...
Abstract Background Although frequently used for tumor surveillance, the sensitivity of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) to detect recurrent colorectal cancer (CRC) is not optimal. Fluorine...
Structure and magnetism of V-doped SnO2 thin films: effect of the substrate (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Skomski, Ralph, Yue, L. P., Lu, Yongfeng, Sellmyer, David J.
We report on the structure and magnetism of V-doped SnO2 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition. The structure and magnetic properties of the films strongly depend on the substrates on which the...
Xu, Dongsheng, Zhang, Jun, Coleman, Tricia, Fagot, Ashley, Kotalik, Catherine, Zhao, Lingjun, ...
The majority of AIDS-associated primary effusion lymphomas (PEL) are latently infected with both Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). PELs harboring two...
Zhang, Jun, Solanki, S. K., Woch, J., Wang, Jingxiu
Using data recorded by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) instrument on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), we have traced 123 pairs of opposite magnetic polarity moving magnetic features...
Comparison of Magnetic Flux Distribution between a Coronal Hole and a Quiet Region (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Ma, Jun, Wang, Haimin
Employing Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) deep magnetograms and H${\alpha}$ images in a quiet region and a coronal hole, observed on September 14 and 16, 2004, respectively, we have explored the...
Magnetic Evolution and Temperature Variation in a Coronal Hole (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Zhou, Guiping, Wang, Jingxiu, Wang, Haimin
We have explored the magnetic flux evolution and temperature variation in a coronal-hole region, using Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) deep magnetograms and {\it SOHO}/EIT images observed from 2005...
Discovery of inward moving magnetic enhancements in sunspot penumbrae (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Solanki, S., Woch, J.
Sunspot penumbrae show a fine structure in continuum intensity that displays considerable dynamics. The magnetic field, in contrast, although also highly structured, has appeared to be relatively...
Zhang, Jun, Li, Leping, Song, Qiao
The major solar event on 2006 December 13 is characterized by the approximately simultaneous occurrence of a heap of hot ejecta, a great two-ribbon flare and an extended Earth-directed coronal mass...
Suppression of 1/f noise in one-qubit systems (2007)
Kuopanportti, Pekko, Mottonen, Mikko, Bergholm, Ville, Saira, Olli-Pentti, Zhang, Jun, Whaley, K. Birgitta
We investigate the generation of quantum operations for one-qubit systems under classical noise with 1/f^\alpha power spectrum, where 2>\alpha > 0. We present an efficient way to approximate the...
Experimental quantum "Guess my Number" protocol using multiphoton entanglement (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Bao, Xiao-Hui, Chen, Teng-Yun, Yang, Tao, Cabello, Adan, Pan, Jian-Wei
We present an experimental demonstration of a modified version of the entanglement-assisted "Guess my Number" protocol for the reduction of communication complexity among three separated parties. The...
In vitro and in vivo toxicity of CdTe nanoparticles (2007)
Zhang, Yongbin, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Jun, Liu, Jing, Chen, Guangping, Pope, Carey
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) nanoparticles exhibit strong and stable fluorescence that is attractive for many applications such;as biological probing and solid state lighting. The evaluation of...
In vitro and in vivo toxicity of CdTe nanoparticles (2007)
Zhang, Yongbin, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Jun, Liu, Jing, Chen, Guangping, Pope, Carey
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) nanoparticles exhibit strong and stable fluorescence that is attractive for many applications such;as biological probing and solid state lighting. The evaluation of...
Structure and magnetic properties of Mn-doped ZnO thin films (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Li, Xingzhong, Shi, J., Lu, Yongfeng, Sellmyer, David J.
We report the structure and magnetic properties of Zn1-xMnxO thin films grown on Si(001) substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Structure and phase evolution with Mn doping has been studied using...
Statement of problem . Poor School Performance (PSP) among Low Birth Weight (LBW) survivors has been found to be a prevalent public health problem. The phenomenon can be substantially attributed to...
Yamazaki, Hiroshi, Fujita, Haruka, Gunji, Takaaki, Zhang, Jun, Kamataki, Tetsuya, Cashman, John R., ...
The reduced capacity of flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3) to N-oxidize trimethylamine (TMA) is believed to cause a metabolic disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the...
Yamazaki, Hiroshi, Fujita, Haruka, Gunji, Takaaki, Zhang, Jun, Kamataki, Tetsuya, Cashman, John R., ...
The reduced capacity of flavin-containing monooxygenase 3 (FMO3) to N-oxidize trimethylamine (TMA) is believed to cause a metabolic disorder. The aim of this study was to investigate the...
Direct torque controlled induction machines for integrated starter/alternator system (2007)
An integrated starter/alternator (ISA) has been proposed for the future 42 V PowerNet, which combines both starter and alternator functions into a single electrical machine with bidirectional power...
Power control in wireless ad hoc networks (2007)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007
Direct torque controlled induction machines for integrated starter/alternator system (2007)
An integrated starter/alternator (ISA) has been proposed for the future 42 V PowerNet, which combines both starter and alternator functions into a single electrical machine with bidirectional power...
Power control in wireless ad hoc networks / (2007)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007.
Direct torque controlled induction machines for integrated starter/alternator system (2007)
An integrated starter/alternator (ISA) has been proposed for the future 42 V PowerNet, which combines both starter and alternator functions into a single electrical machine with bidirectional power...
Direct torque controlled induction machines for integrated starter/alternator system (2007)
An integrated starter/alternator (ISA) has been proposed for the future 42 V PowerNet, which combines both starter and alternator functions into a single electrical machine with bidirectional power...
Direct torque controlled induction machines for integrated starter/alternator system (2007)
An integrated starter/alternator (ISA) has been proposed for the future 42 V PowerNet, which combines both starter and alternator functions into a single electrical machine with bidirectional power...
An integrated genome-wide association analysis on rheumatoid arthritis data. (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Cooper, Richard S
ABSTRACT : We propose a nonparametric association analysis combining both family and unrelated case-control genotype data. Under the assumption of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, we formed an affected...
Diversity in Shallow Water Environments Using Blind Time-Frequency Separation Techniques (2007)
Gottin, Bertrand, Zhang, Jun, Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia, Ioana, Cornel
The shallow water environment can be characterized as a time-dispersive system whose time-varying impulse response can be expressed as a superposition of time-frequency components with dispersive...
Time-frequency modeling of shallow water environment: rigid vs. fluid seabed (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Gottin, Bertrand, Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia, Ioana, Cornel
When the ocean seabed is considered to be rigid, the ideal waveguide model can be used to model the shallow water environment. However, a more realistic ocean waveguide model treats the ocean floor...
Diversity in Shallow Water Environments Using Blind Time-Frequency Separation Techniques (2007)
Gottin, Bertrand, Zhang, Jun, Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia, Ioana, Cornel
The shallow water environment can be characterized as a time-dispersive system whose time-varying impulse response can be expressed as a superposition of time-frequency components with dispersive...
Time-frequency modeling of shallow water environment: rigid vs. fluid seabed (2007)
Zhang, Jun, Gottin, Bertrand, Papandreou-Suppappola, Antonia, Ioana, Cornel
When the ocean seabed is considered to be rigid, the ideal waveguide model can be used to model the shallow water environment. However, a more realistic ocean waveguide model treats the ocean floor...
Direct torque controlled induction machines for integrated starter/alternator system (2007)
An integrated starter/alternator (ISA) has been proposed for the future 42 V PowerNet, which combines both starter and alternator functions into a single electrical machine with bidirectional power...
Understanding the sharing of rival information: A simulation approach (2007)
In this preliminary study, we proposed a mathematical information sharing model for rival information and simulated the information sharing behaviors in systems confronting the social dilemma. The...
Direct torque controlled induction machines for integrated starter/alternator system (2007)
An integrated starter/alternator (ISA) has been proposed for the future 42 V PowerNet, which combines both starter and alternator functions into a single electrical machine with bidirectional power...
Jun Zhang, Mark S. Ackerman, Lada Adamic
Help-seeking communities have been playing an increasingly critical role the way people seek and share information online, forming the basis for knowledge dissemination and accumulation. Consider:...
Matrix decompositionbased data distortion techniques for privacy preservation in data mining (2007)
Shuting Xu, Jun Zhang, Jun Zhang, Jie Wang, Jie Wang
Data mining technologies have now been used in commercial, industrial, and governmental businesses, for various purposes, ranging from increasing profitability to enhancing national security. The...
Abstract Wavelet-Based Data Distortion for Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Analysis (2007)
Lian Liu, Jie Wang, Zhenmin Lin, Jun Zhang
With the rapid development of modern data collection and data warehouse technologies, data mining is becoming more and more a standard practice. Accompanying this trend, preserving privacy in certain...
Clustering-based adaptive crossover and mutation (2007)
Jun Zhang, Senior Member, Wai-lun Lo
Abstract—Research into adjusting the probabilities of crossover and mutation � � in genetic algorithms (GAs) is one of the most significant and promising areas in evolutionary computation. �...
Wang, Jun, Guo, Lingli, Zhang, Jun, Lee, Celine S. L., Li, Xiangdong, Jones, Kevin C., ...
The Pearl River Delta (PRD) is one of the largest fast-developing economic zones in China. Hong Kong and the mainland part of the PRD differed in socio-economic development history and chemical...
Security of decoy-state quantum key distribution with inexactly controlled source (2006)
Wang, Xiang-Bin, Peng, Cheng-Zhi, Zhang, Jun, Pan, Jian-Wei
We show the unconditional security of decoy-state method quantum cryptography with whatever intensity error pattern provided that the error is not too large. Our result immediately applies to the...
Structural study of Mn-doped ZnO fi lms by TEM (2006)
Li, Xingzhong, Zhang, Jun, Sellmyer, David J.
The structural study of diluted magnetic semiconductors is important for interpreting the ferromagnetic behavior associated with the materials. In the present work, a series of low concentration...
Measuring the Cosmic Shear in Fourier Space (2006)
We propose to measure the weak cosmic shear using the spatial derivatives of the galaxy surface brightness field. The measurement should be carried out in Fourier space, in which the point spread...
Surface Waves on a Semi-toroidal Water Ring (2006)
Jung, Sunghwan, Kim, Erica, Shelley, Michael, Zhang, Jun
We study the dynamics of surface waves on a semi-toroidal ring of water that is excited by vertical vibration. We create this specific fluid volume by patterning a glass plate with a hydrophobic...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
Ferromagnetic properties of epitaxial manganite films on SrTiO3/Si heterostructures (2006)
Pradhan, A.K., Dadson, J.B., Hunter, D., Zhang, K., Mohanty, S., Jackson, E.M., ...
We report on the magnetic properties of epitaxial La0.7Ba0.3MnO3 and La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 films on Si (100) and Si (111) substrates using SrTiO3 template layer, which demonstrate magnetic and electrical...
A Linear Perturbation Theory of Inhomogeneous Reionization (2006)
Zhang, Jun, Hui, Lam, Haiman, Zoltan
We develop an analytic approach to study inhomogeneous reionization on large scales by solving the equations of ionization balance and radiative transfer to first order in perturbations. Given the...
Peng, Cheng-Zhi, Zhang, Jun, Yang, Dong, Gao, Wei-Bo, Ma, Huai-Xin, Yin, Hao, ...
We demonstrate the decoy-state quantum key distribution (QKD) with one-way quantum communication in polarization space over 102km. Further, we simplify the experimental setup and use only one...
Dynamics of a deformable body in a fast flowing soap film (2006)
Jung, Sunghwan, Mareck, Kathleen, Shelley, Michael, Zhang, Jun
We study the behavior of an elastic loop embedded in a flowing soap film. This deformable loop is wetted into the film and is held fixed at a single point against the oncoming flow. We interpret this...
Experimental Quantum Communication without a Shared Reference Frame (2006)
Chen, Teng-Yun, Zhang, Jun, Jin, Xian-Min, Yang, Bin, Zhang, Qiang, ...
We present an experimental realization of a robust quantum communication scheme [Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 220501 (2004)] using pairs of photons entangled in polarization and time. Our method overcomes...
Nioka, Shoko, Kime, Ryotaro, Sunar, Ulas, Im, Joohee, Izzetoglu, Meltem, Zhang, Jun, ...
Abstract Background This article introduces a novel method to continuously monitor regional muscle blood flow by using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). We demonstrate the feasibility of the new...
Indirect exchange in dilute magnetic semiconductors (2006)
Skomski, Ralph, Zhou, J., Zhang, Jun, Sellmyer, David J.
A generalized Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) approach is used to calculate indirect exchange interactions between localized spins in doped magnetic semiconductors. The exchange is mediated by...
Ferromagnetic resonance studies in ZnMnO dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors (2006)
Lasley-Hunter, B., Hunter, D., Noginov, Maxim, Dadson, J.B., Zhang, K., Rakhimov, R.R., ...
We report on the ferromagnetic resonance studies on ZnMnO films grown by the pulsed-laser deposition technique. ZnMnO films were annealed in different atmospheres. The films grown and annealed in...
Self-assembled nanocrystalline epitaxial manganite films on SrTiO3/Si heterostructures (2006)
Hunter, D., Dadson, J.B., Zhang, K., Lasley, B., Lord, K., Williams, T.M., ...
We report the growth and magnetic characterizations of La0.7Ba0.3MnO3 and La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 films on SrTiO3-buffered Si (100) and Si (111) substrates by pulsed-laser deposition. The structural studies...
Oxide-based dilute ferromagnetic semiconductors: ZnMnO and Co:TiO2 (2006)
Pradhan, A.K., Hunter, D., Lasley-Hunter, B., Dadson, J.B., Zhang, Kai, Rakhimov, R.R., ...
We report on ferromagnetic properties of ZnMnO and Co:TiO2 films grown by pulsed laser deposition with varying growth conditions. We have demonstrated that ZnMnO films show ferromagnetic properties...
Random walks in cosmology: Weak lensing, the halo model, and reionization (2006)
This thesis discusses theoretical problems in three areas of cosmology: weak lensing, the halo model, and reionization. In weak lensing, we investigate the impact of the intrinsic alignment on the...
Production planning for biomaterial manufacturing systems (2006)
This dissertation focuses on production/operation control and planning in biomaterial manufacturing systems (BMS). This research studies the characterisctics of BMS, and develops a dynamic production...
On unidirectional flight of a free flapping wing (2006)
Vandenberghe, Nicolas, Zhang, Jun, Childress, Stephen
We study the dynamics of a rigid, symmetric wing that is flapped vertically in a fluid. The motion of the wing in the horizontal direction is not constrained. Above a critical flapping frequency,...
Handheld tumor scanner for breast cancer detection (2006)
Zhao, Zhongyao, Zhang, Jun, Du, Juan, Nioka, Shoko, Chance, Britton
Item from the Biomedical Technology Showcase held July 20, 2006 at Drexel University's Bossone Research Enterprise Center.
Tujia yu yu yin yan jiu (2006)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006
Solution-grown method of CdS film by ultrasonical colloid chemistry deposition technique (2006)
Hai-Ning Cui, Manuel F. Costa, V. Teixeira, Jun Zhang
A technique called ultrasonical colloid chemistry deposition (UCCD) has been used to produce bar-shaped ultrafine particles (UFP) cadmium sulphide films. UV-visible spectra and electron micrographic...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
Supra-assembly of siliceous vesicles (2006)
Wang, Hongning, Zhou, Xufeng, Yu, Meihua, Wang, Yunhua, Han, Lu, Zhang, Jun, ...
We report a new approach to produce macroporous (110 nm in diameter) ordered siliceous foams (MOSF) by using block copolymers as templates in the absence of any organic cosolvent. The fine...
Investigating self-assembly of functionalized nanotubes and peptides by tunneling microscopy (2006)
Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is an ideal tool for probing the chemistry and physics of these types of nanostructures. Building upon on our previous carbon nanotube research, we have...
Supra-assembly of siliceous vesicles (2006)
Wang, Hongning, Zhou, Xufeng, Yu, Meihua, Wang, Yunhua, Han, Lu, Zhang, Jun, ...
We report a new approach to produce macroporous (110 nm in diameter) ordered siliceous foams (MOSF) by using block copolymers as templates in the absence of any organic cosolvent. The fine...
Economics Of Security Patch Management (2006)
Huseyin Cavusoglu Hasan, Hasan Cavusoglu, Jun Zhang
Patch management is a crucial component of IT security programs. An important problem within this context is to determine how often to update the systems with necessary patches. Keeping the systems...
NUITS: A novel user interface for efficient keyword search over databases (2006)
Shan Wang, Zhaohui Peng, Jun Zhang, Lu Qin, Sheng Wang
The integration of database and information retrieval techniques provides users with a wide range of high quality services. We present a prototype system, called NUITS, for efficiently processing...
Optimal Static Hedging of Defaults in CDOs (2006)
Andrea Petrelli, Olivia Siu, Jun Zhang, Vivek Kapoor
The optimal static hedging of a CDO tranche position with a portfolio of bonds that constitute the CDO reference pool is addressed here. The hedge ratio and tranche pricing that result in a fair bet...
J.H.: An Enhanced Genetic Algorithm with Orthogonal Design (2006)
Xiaomin Hu, Jun Zhang, Mieee (corresponding, Jinghui Zhong
Abstract--This paper presents an enhanced Latin Square Genetic Algorithm (LSGA). It makes the chromosomes to be more sensible to their surrounding regions. The algorithm applies orthogonal design...
Random walks in cosmology : weak lensing, the halo model, and reionization (2006)
Department: Physics.
Solution-grown method of CdS film by ultrasonical colloid chemistry deposition technique (2006)
Hai-Ning Cui, Manuel F. Costa, V. Teixeira, Jun Zhang
A technique called ultrasonical colloid chemistry deposition (UCCD) has been used to produce bar-shaped ultrafine particles (UFP) cadmium sulphide films. UV-visible spectra and electron micrographic...
Integration of Wikipedia and a geography digital library. (2006)
Lim, Ee Peng., Wang, Zhe., Darwin Sadeli., Li, Yuanyuan., Chang, Chew Hung., Kalyani Chatterjea., ...
In this paper, we address the problem of integrating Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, and G-Portal, a web-based digital library, in the geography domain. The integration facilitates the sharing of...
Understanding user perceptions on usefulness and usability of an integrated Wiki-G-portal. (2006)
Theng, Yin Leng., Li, Yuanyuan., Lim, Ee Peng., Wang, Zhe., Goh, Dion Hoe Lian., Chang, Chew Hung., ...
This paper describes briefly the design rationale and philosophy of our implementation of a Wiki-G-Portal project, integrating Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, into G-Portal, a Web-based digital...
Magnetic and spectroscopic characteristics of ZnMnO system (2005)
Hunter, D., Zhang, Kai, Dadson, J.B., Mohanty, S., Williams, T.M., ...
We report on the observation of room-temperature ferromagnetism in epitaxial (Zn,Mn)O films grown by a pulsed-laser deposition technique using high-density targets. The X-ray, microscopic,...
[Study on the metabolic health risks of body mass index and waist circumference] (2005)
Guo, Zhi-Rong, Zhang, Jun, Sun, Guo-Xiang, Zhou, Zheng-Yuan, ...
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) on metabolic health risks (MHR). METHODS: Based on data from two community populations (Suzhou city and...
Hu, Xiao-shu, Guo, Zhi-rong, Zhang, Jun, Sun, Guo-xiang, ...
OBJECTIVE: To study the relation between blood pressure level in prehypertensives and multiple metabolic disorders. METHODS: Based on the populations in Jiangsu province from the project of Multiple...
The coadsorption and interaction of molecular icosahedra with mercury (2005)
Ilie, C.C., Balaz, S., Rosa, L.G., Zhang, Jun, Lunca-Popa, P., Bianchetti, C., ...
We have investigated the changes in the electronic structure of molecularly adsorbed orthocarborane films, as a function of Hg co-adsorption, using photo emission. The interaction between Hg and...
On Random Walks with a General Moving Barrier (2005)
Random walks with a general, nonlinear barrier have found recent applications ranging from reionization topology to refinements in the excursion set theory of halos. Here, we derive the...
High fidelity one-qubit operations under random telegraph noise (2005)
Mottonen, Mikko, De Sousa, Rogerio, Zhang, Jun, Whaley, K. Birgitta
We address the problem of implementing high fidelity one-qubit operations subject to time dependent noise in the qubit energy splitting. We show with explicit numerical results that high fidelity bit...
Zhang, Jun, Bensaou, Brahim, Hei, Xiaojun, Tsang, Danny H. K.
In this paper, we consider the sparse placement of full-range wavelength converters on circuit-switched WDM optical networks. There are two problems to be considered: i) optimally placing a given...
Ferromagnetism in nanocrystalline epitaxial Co:TiO2 thin films (2005)
Pradhan, A.K., Hunter, D., Dadson, J.B., Williams, T.M., Zhang, Kai, Lord, K., ...
We report on the observation of remarkable room-temperature ferromagnetism in nanocrystalline epitaxial Co:TiO2 films grown on sapphire (0001) substrates by a pulsed-laser deposition technique using...
Zhang, Jun, Li, X. Z., Xu, B., Sellmyer, David J.
We report the magnetic properties of Cr-doped AlN thin films grown by reactive magnetron sputtering under various nitrogen pressures. Ferromagnetism is observed up to the highest temperature...
Sample preparation and annealing effects on the ferromagnetism in Mn-doped ZnO (2005)
Zhang, Jun, Skomski, Ralph, Sellmyer, David J.
Magnetic properties of Mn-doped ZnO strongly depend on sample preparation and annealing. While the samples sintered in air at 500 °C show ferromagnetism at room temperature, those sintered at 900...
Epitaxial growth and magnetic properties of Cr-doped AlN thin films (2005)
Zhang, Jun, Liou, Sy_Hwang, Sellmyer, David J.
Cr-doped AlN thin films were epitaxially grown on Al2O3(001) substrates at low temperature by reactive magnetron sputtering,and their magnetic properties were investigated. Extensive x-ray...
Magnetic and electrical properties of single-phase multiferroic BiFeO3 (2005)
Pradhan, A.K., Zhang, Kai, Hunter, D., Dadson, J.B., Loiutts, G.B., Bhattacharya, P., ...
We have reported the structural, thermal, microscopic, magnetization, polarization, and dielectric properties of BiFeO3 ceramics synthesized by a rapid liquid-phase sintering technique. Optimum...
Zhang, Jun, Wang, Jinzhang, Wood, Charles, Xu, Dongsheng, Zhang, Luwen
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (also called human herpesvirus 8 [HHV-8]) replication and transcription activator (RTA) is apparently necessary and sufficient for the switch from viral...
Zhang, Jun, Whaley, K. Birgitta
We present a direct algebraic decoupling approach to generate arbitrary single-qubit operations in the presence of a constant interaction by applying local control signals. To overcome the difficulty...
Pradhan, A.K., Zhang, Kai, Mohanty, S., Dadson, J.B., Hunter, D., Zhang, Jun, ...
We report on the observation of remarkable room-temperature ferromagnetism in epitaxial (Zn,Mn)O films grown by a pulsed-laser deposition technique using high-density targets. The optimum growth...
MONEY AND FINANCE IN DYNAMIC MODELS WITH SEARCH FOR INFORMATIONAL FRICTIONS (2005)
The presence of severe search frictions undermines technological development since the long waiting period for the subsequent trade would discourage the selectiveness of product qualities. The...
MONEY AND FINANCE IN DYNAMIC MODELS WITH SEARCH FOR INFORMATIONAL FRICTIONS (2005)
The presence of severe search frictions undermines technological development since the long waiting period for the subsequent trade would discourage the selectiveness of product qualities. The...
Zhu, Manli, Papadias, Dimitris, Zhang, Jun, Lee, Dik Lun
Given two spatial datasets A and B, a top-k spatial join retrieves the k objects from A or B that intersect the largest number of objects from the other dataset. Depending on the application...
A note on ROC analysis and non-parametric estimate of sensitivity (2005)
In the signal detection paradigm, the non-parametric index of sensitivity A ′, as first introduced by Pollack and Norman (1964), is a popular alternative to the more traditional d ′ measure of...
All-Versus-Nothing Violation of Local Realism by Two-Photon, Four-Dimensional Entanglement (2005)
Yang, Tao, Zhang, Qiang, Zhang, Jun, Yin, Juan, Zhao, Zhi, Zukowski, Marek, ...
We develop and exploit a source of two-photon four-dimensional entanglement to report the first two-particle all-versus-nothing test of local realism with a linear optics setup, but without resorting...
Wang, Jinzhang, Zhang, Jun, Harrington, William, West, John T., Wood, Charles
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)/Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection goes through lytic and latent phases that are regulated by viral gene products, but very little is known about the...
Pradhan, A.K., Mohanty, S., Zhang, Kai, Dadson, J.B., Jackson, E.M., Hunter, D., ...
We report on the integration of epitaxial colossal magnetoresistive La0.67Ba0.33MnO films on Si(100) semiconductor using SrTiO3 template layer by pulsed-laser deposition. X-ray diffraction reveals...
Heavy flags undergo spontaneous oscillations in flowing water (2005)
Shelley, Michael, Vandenberghe, Nicolas, Zhang, Jun
By immersing a compliant yet self-supporting sheet into flowing water, we study a heavy, streamlined, and elastic body interacting with a fluid. We find that above a critical flow velocity a sheet...
Maintenance planning and cost effective replacement strategies / (2005)
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Engineering Management, Dept. of Mechanical...
Degradation kinetics of taxol using mass spectroscopy / (2005)
Paclitaxel is a very important anticancer drug commonly called Taxol®. We know from previous work (Hoffman, et al., 1998) that Taxol exists in filbert, Corylus avellana L. material. Quantification...
Degradation kinetics of taxol using mass spectroscopy / (2005)
Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2006.
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
Geometric compactification of moduli space of cubic surfaces and Kirwan blowup (2005)
We compactify the moduli space of cubic surfaces by constructing a moduli stack of stable cubic and triploid surfaces, together with a projective coarse moduli space. We also give a detailed...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
V.: Multinomial event model based abstraction for sequence and text classification (2005)
Dae-ki Kang, Jun Zhang, Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. In many machine learning applications that deal with sequences, there is a need for learning algorithms that can effectively utilize the hierarchical grouping of words. We introduce Word...
Data distortion for privacy protection in a terrorist analysis system (2005)
Shuting Xu, Jun Zhang, Dianwei Han, Jie Wang
Abstract. Data distortion is a critical component to preserve privacy in security-related data mining applications, such as in data miningbased terrorist analysis systems. We propose a sparsified...
Jun Zhang, Ning Kang, Stephen E. Rose
Abstract. We present a new technique for noninvasively tracing brain white matter fiber tracts using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). This technique is based on performing...
Doina Caragea, Jun Zhang, Jie Bao, Jyotishman Pathak, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. Development of high throughput data acquisition technologies, together with advances in computing, and communications have resulted in an explosive growth in the number, size, and diversity...
Learning Classifiers from Distributed, Ontology-Extended Data Sources (2005)
Doina Caragea, Jun Zhang, Jyotishman Pathak, Vasant Honavar
There is an urgent need for sound approaches to integrative and collaborative analysis of large, autonomous (and hence, inevitably semantically heterogeneous) data sources in several increasingly...
Learning Classifiers Using Hierarchically Structured Class Taxonomies (2005)
Feihong Wu, Jun Zhang, Vasant Honavar
We consider classification problems in which the class labels are organized into an abstraction hierarchy in the form of a class taxonomy.
An Information Extraction Engine for (2005)
Web Discussion Forums, Hanny Yulius Limanto, Nguyen Ngoc Giang, Vo Tan Trung, Nguyen Quang Huy, Jun Zhang, ...
In this poster, we present an information extraction engine for web-based forums. The engine analyzes the HTML files crawled from web forums, deduces the wrapper (template) of the pages and extracts...
Doina Caragea, Jun Zhang, Jie Bao, Jyotishman Pathak, Vasant Honavar
Development of high throughput data acquisition technologies, together with advances in computing, and communications have resulted in an explosive growth in the number, size, and diversity of...
Learning Ontology-Aware Classifiers (2005)
Jun Zhang Doina, Jun Zhang, Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar
Many practical applications of machine learning in datadriven scientific discovery commonly call for the exploration of data from multiple points of view that correspond to explicitly specified...
V.: Multinomial event model based abstraction for sequence and text classification (2005)
Dae-ki Kang, Jun Zhang, Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. In many machine learning applications that deal with sequences, there is a need for learning algorithms that can effectively utilize the hierarchical grouping of words. We introduce Word...
V.: Multinomial event model based abstraction for sequence and text classification (2005)
Dae-ki Kang, Jun Zhang, Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. In many machine learning applications that deal with sequences, there is a need for learning algorithms that can effectively utilize the hierarchical grouping of words. We introduce Word...
Fiber Tractography in Diffusion Tensor Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Survey and Beyond (2005)
Jun Zhang, Hao Ji, Ning Kang, Ning Cao
Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI) is the first noninvasive in vivo imaging modality with the potential to generate fiber tract trajectories in soft fibrous tissues, such as the...
*Address for correspondence: (2005)
Yong-gang Lv, Jing Liu, Jun Zhang, Dr. Jing Liu
Theoretical evaluation on burn injury of human respiratory tract due to inhalation of hot gas at the early stage of fires 1
Clustered SVD strategies in latent semantic indexing (2005)
The text retrieval method using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) technique with truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) has been intensively studied in recent years. The SVD reduces the noise...
V.: Learning ontology-aware classifiers (2005)
Jun Zhang, Doina Caragea, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. Many practical applications of machine learning in datadriven scientific discovery commonly call for the exploration of data from multiple points of view that correspond to explicitly...
Searching For Expertise in Social Networks: A Simulation of Potential Strategies (2005)
People search for people with suitable expertise all of the time in their social networks – to answer questions or provide help. Recently, efforts have been made to augment this searching. However,...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
Yang, Jia-Hui, Zhang, Jun, Cai, Qing, Zhao, Dang-Bao, Wang, Jian, Guo, Ping-E., ...
Objective. To investigate the role of inducible costimulator (ICOS) in the pathogenesis of SLE, we assessed its expression on peripheral blood CD4 and CD8 T cells and functional roles in patients...
Mason, Douglas X., Keppler, Daniel, Zhang, Jun, Jackson, Tonya J., Seger, Yvette R., Matsui, Seiichi, ...
In contrast to rodent cells, normal human fibroblasts are generally resistant to neoplastic transformation in vitro. Here, we report the derivation and characterization of a spontaneously transformed...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
Generation of quantum logic operations from physical Hamiltonians (2004)
Zhang, Jun, Whaley, K. Birgitta
We provide a systematic analysis of the physical generation of single- and two-qubit quantum operations from Hamiltonians available in various quantum systems for scalable quantum information...
Zhang, Luwen, Zhang, Jun, Lambert, Que, Der, Channing J., Del Valle, Luis, Miklossy, Judith, ...
EBV transforms primary B cells, and the major EBV oncoprotein, latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1), is required for the process. LMP-1 both induces the expression of IRF-7 and activates the IRF-7...
Zhang, Jun, Das, Subash C., Kotalik, Catherine, Pattnaik, Asit K., Zhang, Luwen
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is associated with several human cancers. Latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) is one of the key viral proteins required for transformation of primary B cells in vitro...
Tao, Yufei, Zhang, Jun, Papadias, Dimitris, Mamoulis, Nikos
Existing models for nearest neighbor search in multi-dimensional spaces are not appropriate for query optimization because they either lead to erroneous estimation, or involve complex equations that...
All-nearest-neighbors queries in spatial databases (2004)
Zhang, Jun, Papadias, Dimitris, Mamoulis, Nikos, Tao, Yufei
Given two sets A and B of multidimensional objects, the all-nearest-neighbors (ANN) query retrieves for each object in A its nearest neighbor in B. Although this operation is common in several...
Multiple signal transducers and activators of transcription are induced by EBV LMP-1 (2004)
Zhang, Luwen, Hong, Ke, Zhang, Jun, Pagano, Joseph S.
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latent membrane protein 1 (LMP-1) is required for EBV immortalization of primary B cells in vitro. Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) play a pivotal...
Hei, Xiaojun, Zhang, Jun, Cheung, Chi-Chung, Bensaou, Brahim
In this paper we study the routing and wavelength converter placement problems in optical networks with sparse wavelength conversion. We propose a new dynamic routing algorithm with two new path cost...
Spatial queries in the presence of obstacles (2004)
Zhang, Jun, Papadias, Dimitris, Mouratidis, Kyriakos, Zhu, Manli
Despite the existence of obstacles in many database applications, traditional spatial query processing utilizes the Euclidean distance metric assuming that points in space are directly reachable. In...
A Study in Modeling Low-Conservation Protein Superfamilies (2004)
Wang, Chang, Scott, Stephen, Zhang, Jun, Tao, Qingping, Fomenko, Dmitri E., Gladyshev, Vadim N.
We present several algorithms for identification of new proteins in superfamilies with low primary sequence conservation. The low conservation of primary sequence in protein superfamilies such as...
Knowledge Maintenance on Data Streams with Concept Drifting (2004)
Natwichai, Juggapong, Li, Xue, Zhang, Jun, He, Ji-Huan, Fu, Yuxi
In this paper, we propose a method of hiding sensitive classification rules from data mining algorithms. Our idea is to reconstruct a dataset according to the classification rules that have been...
A Study in Modeling Low-Conservation Protein Superfamilies (2004)
Wang, Chang, Scott, Stephen, Zhang, Jun, Tao, Qingping, Fomenko, Dmitri E., Gladyshev, Vadim N.
We present several algorithms for identification of new proteins in superfamilies with low primary sequence conservation. The low conservation of primary sequence in protein superfamilies such as...
A New Data Mining Approach to Predicting Matrix Condition Numbers\ (2004)
Condition number of a matrix is an important measure in numerical analysis and linear algebra. The general approach to obtaining it is through direct computation or estimation. The time and memory...
Genetische Assoziation des Gens CST3 mit der sporadischen Alzheimer-Krankheit / (2004)
Hamburg, Univ., Diss., 2004.
Similarity search for web services (2004)
Xin Dong, Alon Halevy, Jayant Madhavan, Ema Nemes, Jun Zhang
Web services are loosely coupled software components, published, located, and invoked across the web. The growing number of web services available within an organization and on the Web raises a new...
Similarity search for web services (2004)
Xin Dong, Alon Halevy, Jayant Madhavan, Ema Nemes, Jun Zhang
Web services are loosely coupled software components, published, located, and invoked across the web. The growing number of web services available within an organization and on the Web raises a new...
Yufei Tao, Dimitris Papadias, Jun Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis
Existing models for nearest neighbor search in multi-dimensional spaces are not appropriate for query optimization because they either lead to erroneous estimation, or involve complex equations that...
White matter fiber tractography via anisotropic diffusion simulation in the human brain (2004)
Ning Kang, Jun Zhang, Eric S. Carlson, Daniel Gembris
Abstract—A novel approach to noninvasively tracing brain white matter fiber tracts is presented using diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging (DT-MRI). This technique is based on successive...
Dae-ki Kang, Adrian Silvescu, Jun Zhang, Vasant Honavar
Attribute Value Taxonomies (AVT) have been shown to be useful in constructing compact, robust, and comprehensible classifiers. However, in many application domains, human-designed AVTs are...
Generation of Attribute Value Taxonomies from Data (2004)
And Their Use, Dae-ki Kang, Adrian Silvescu, Jun Zhang, Vasant Honavar
Attribute Value Taxonomies (AVT) have been shown to be useful in constructing compact and robust classifiers. However, in many application domains, human-designed AVTs are unavailable. For this...
Generation of Attribute Value Taxonomies from Data for Data-Driven (2004)
Construction Of Accurate, Dae-ki Kang, Adrian Silvescu, Jun Zhang, Vasant Honavar
Attribute Value Taxonomies (AVT) have been shown to be useful in constructing compact, robust, and comprehensible classifiers. However, in many application domains, human-designed AVTs are...
Generation of Attribute Value Taxonomies from Data for Data-Driven (2004)
Construction Of Accurate, Dae-ki Kang, Adrian Silvescu, Jun Zhang, Vasant Honavar
Attribute Value Taxonomies (AVT) have been shown to be useful in constructing compact, robust, and comprehensible classifiers. However, in many application domains, human-designed AVTs are...
Three-dimensional model of thermal response of skin subject to laser heating (2004)
Wensheng Shen, Jun Zhang, Fuqian Yang
x Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering,
All-nearest-neighbors queries in spatial databases (2004)
Given two sets A and B of multidimensional objects, the all-nearest-neighbors (ANN) query retrieves for each object in A its nearest neighbor in B. Although this operation is common in several...
Yufei Tao, Jun Zhang, Dimitris Papadias, Nikos Mamoulis
Abstract—Existing models for nearest neighbor search in multidimensional spaces are not appropriate for query optimization because they either lead to erroneous estimation or involve complex...
A study in modeling low-conservation protein superfamilies (2004)
Chang Wang, Student Member, Stephen D. Scott, Jun Zhang, Qingping Tao, Dmitri E. Fomenko, ...
We present several algorithms for identification of new proteins in superfamilies with low primary sequence conservation. The low conservation of primary sequence in protein superfamilies such as...
Minimum construction of two-qubit quantum operations (2003)
Zhang, Jun, Vala, Jiri, Sastry, Shankar, Whaley, K. Birgitta
Optimal construction of quantum operations is a fundamental problem in the realization of quantum computation. We here introduce a newly discovered quantum gate, B, that can implement any arbitrary...
Isolating Geometry in Weak Lensing Measurements (2003)
Zhang, Jun, Hui, Lam, Stebbins, Albert
Given a foreground galaxy-density field or shear field, its cross-correlation with the shear field from a background population of source galaxies scales with the source redshift in a way that is...
Optimal quantum circuit synthesis from Controlled-U gates (2003)
Zhang, Jun, Vala, Jiri, Sastry, Shankar, Whaley, K. Birgitta
From a geometric approach, we derive the minimum number of applications needed for an arbitrary Controlled-Unitary gate to construct a universal quantum circuit. A new analytic construction procedure...
On Generalized Multiple-Instance Learning (2003)
Scott, Stephen, Zhang, Jun, Brown, Joshua
We describe a generalization of the multiple-instance learning model in which a bag's label is not based on a single instance's proximity to a single target point. Rather, a bag is positive if and...
Nearest neighbor queries in spatial and spatio-temporal databases / (2003)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2003.
Query processing in spatial network databases (2003)
Papadias, Dimitris, Zhang, Jun, Mamoulis, Nikos, Tao, Yufei
Despite the importance of spatial networks in real-life applications, most of the spatial database literature focuses on Euclidean spaces. In this paper we propose an architecture that integrates...
Location-based spatial queries (2003)
Zhang, Jun, Zhu, Manli, Papadias, Dimitris, Tao, Yufei, Lee, Dik Lun
In this paper we propose an approach that enables mobile clients to determine the validity of previous queries based on their current locations. In order to make this possible, the server returns in...
Nearest neighbor queries in spatial and spatio-temporal databases (2003)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2003
Therefore, this dissertation is focused on the characterization of PKC[epsilon] subproteome and signaling modules within, as well as their regulation during cardioprotection. PKC[epsilon]-Akt-eNOS...
A fast algorithm for GMIL and its application to protein super-family identification / (2003)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2003.
Thesis (M. Arch..)--Pennsylvania State University, 2003.
Regulation of xenobiotic and endobiotic metabolism by the nuclear receptor CAR / (2003)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Baylor College of Medicine. Dept. of Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2003.
Web information management with database and XML / (2003)
Thesis (M.S.)--Kent State University, 2003.
Therefore, this dissertation is focused on the characterization of PKC[epsilon] subproteome and signaling modules within, as well as their regulation during cardioprotection. PKC[epsilon]-Akt-eNOS...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Louisville, 2003.
Nearest neighbor queries in spatial and spatio-temporal databases / (2003)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2003.
Actions in a repeated game can in principle depend on all previous outcomes. Given this vast policy space, human players may often be forced to use heuristics that base actions on incomplete...
Detection of outbreaks from time series data using wavelet transform (2003)
In this paper, we developed a new approach to detection of disease outbreaks based on wavelet transform. It is capable of dealing with two problems found in real-world time series data, namely,...
On generalized multiple-instance learning (2003)
Stephen Scott, Jun Zhang, Joshua Brown
Abstract. We describe a generalization of the multiple-instance learning model in which a bag’s label is not based on a single instance’s proximity to a single target point. Rather, a bag is...
SUPER-FAMILY IDENTIFICATION (2003)
We develop an algorithm for a generalization of the multiple-instance learning model in which a bag’s label is not based on a single instance’s proximity to a single target point. Rather, a bag...
We consider the problem of learning to classify partially specified instances i.e., instances that are described in terms of attribute values at different levels of precision, using user-supplied...
Location-based spatial queries (2003)
Jun Zhang, Manli Zhu, Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Dik Lun Lee
In this paper we propose an approach that enables mobile clients to determine the validity of previous queries based on their current locations. In order to make this possible, the server returns in...
Dynamical Properties of Hybrid Automata (2003)
John Lygeros, Karl Henrik Johansson, Slobodan N. Simic, Jun Zhang, S. Shankar Sastry
Hybrid automata provide a language for modeling and analyzing digital and analogue computations in real-time systems. Hybrid automata are studied here from a dynamical systems perspective. Necessary...
A Fully Parallel Block Independent Set Algorithm for Distributed Sparse Matrices (2003)
We present a fully parallel algorithm for constructing block independent set for general sparse matrices in a distributed environment. The block independent set is used in the construction of...
Ning Kang, Jun Zhang, Laboratory High, Performance Scienti Computing, Computer Simulation, Eric S. Carlson
We conduct simulations for the 3D unsteady state anisotropic diffusion process in the human brain by discretizing the governing diffusion equation on Cartesian grid and adopting a high performance...
Sparsification strategies in latent semantic indexing (2003)
The text retrieval method using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) with the truncated Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) has been intensively studied in recent years. The term-document matrices after SVD...
Preliminary Results of the Carrier-Smoothed Code- (2003)
E. K. Poh, Joel Barnes, Hung-kyu Lee, Jun Zhang, Hyung-keun Lee, ...
With the full GPS operational capability in the mid-1990s, it has been used as a stand-alone system for many land applications that require fast and precise positioning such as mining, heavy...
We consider the problem of learning to classify partially specified instances i.e., instances that are described in terms of attribute values at different levels of precision, using user-supplied...
Location-based spatial queries (2003)
Jun Zhang, Manli Zhu, Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Dik Lun Lee
In this paper we propose an approach that enables mobile clients to determine the validity of previous queries based on their current locations. In order to make this possible, the server returns in...
Abstract Clustered SVD strategies in latent semantic indexing q (2003)
The text retrieval method using latent semantic indexing (LSI) technique with truncated singular value decomposition (SVD) has been intensively studied in recent years. The SVD reduces the noise...
Thompson, Karol L., Rosenzweig, Barry A., Weaver, James L., Zhang, Jun, Lin, Karl K., Sistare, Frank D.
Understanding the strengths and limitations of alternative models, such as the Tg.AC assay, for evaluation of the potential carcinogenicity of pharmaceuticals requires assessment of assay specificity...
Thompson, Karol L., Rosenzweig, Barry A., Weaver, James L., Zhang, Jun, Lin, Karl K., Sistare, Frank D.
Understanding the strengths and limitations of alternative models, such as the Tg.AC assay, for evaluation of the potential carcinogenicity of pharmaceuticals requires assessment of assay specificity...
Thompson, Karol L., Rosenzweig, Barry A., Weaver, James L., Zhang, Jun, Lin, Karl K., Sistare, Frank D.
Understanding the strengths and limitations of alternative models, such as the Tg.AC assay, for evaluation of the potential carcinogenicity of pharmaceuticals requires assessment of assay specificity...
Exact two-qubit universal quantum circuit (2002)
Zhang, Jun, Vala, Jiri, Sastry, Shankar, Whaley, K. Birgitta
We provide an analytic way to implement any arbitrary two-qubit unitary operation, given an entangling two-qubit gate together with local gates. This is shown to provide explicit construction of a...
A geometric theory of non-local two-qubit operations (2002)
Zhang, Jun, Vala, Jiri, Whaley, K. Birgitta, Sastry, Shankar
We study non-local two-qubit operations from a geometric perspective. By applying a Cartan decomposition to su(4), we find that the geometric structure of non-local gates is a 3-Torus. We derive the...
Intrinsic/Extrinsic Density-Ellipticity Correlations and Galaxy-Galaxy Lensing (2002)
We compute both extrinsic (lensing) and intrinsic contributions to the (galaxy-)density-ellipticity correlation function, the latter done using current analytic theories of tidal alignment. The...
Aggregate processing of planar points (2002)
Tao, Yufei, Papadias, Dimitris, Zhang, Jun
Aggregate window queries return summarized information about objects that fall inside a query rectangle (e.g., the number of objects instead of their concrete ids). Traditional approaches for...
Cost models for overlapping and multi-version B-trees (2002)
Tao, Yufei, Papadias, Dimitris, Zhang, Jun
Overlapping and multi-version techniques are two popular frameworks that transform an ephemeral index into a multiple logical-tree structure in order to support versioning databases. Although both...
Indexing spatio-temporal data warehouses (2002)
Papadias, Dimitris, Tao, Yufei, Kalnis, Panagiotis, Zhang, Jun
Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication systems, only...
Cost models for overlapping and multi-version structures (2002)
Tao, Yufei, Papadias, Dimitris, Zhang, Jun
Overlapping and multi-version techniques are two popular frameworks that transform an ephemeral index into a multiple logical-tree structure in order to support versioning databases. Although both...
Indexing and retrieval of historical aggregate information about moving objects (2002)
Papadias, Dimitris, Tao, Yufei, Zhang, Jun, Mamoulis, Nikos, Shen, Qiongmao, Sun, Jimeng
Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication systems, only...
Control of ZnO Morhpology by Solution Route (2002)
Sun, Lingdong, Zhang, Jun, Liao, Chunsheng, Yan, Chunhua
In this paper, ZnO with a rich variety of well-defined morphologies have been achieved by solution route using different kind of precursors, which can prepare particles by only one step without...
Secure multicast communications / (2002)
Thesis (M.Sc. (Comm. Software & Networks))--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2002.
Ontology-driven induction of decision trees at multiple levels of abstraction (2002)
Jun Zhang, Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. Most learning algorithms for data-driven induction of pattern classifiers (e.g., the decision tree algorithm), typically represent input patterns at a single level of abstraction- usually...
Aggregation of utility and social choice:A topological characterization (2002)
Matt Jones, Jun Zhang, Gilberto Simpson B
We study the topological properties of aggregation maps combining individuals ’ preferences over n alternatives, with preference expressed by a real-valued, n-dimensional utility vector u defined...
Aggregate processing of planar points (2002)
Yufei Tao, Dimitris Papadias, Jun Zhang
Abstract. Aggregate window queries return summarized information about objects that fall inside a query rectangle (e.g., the number of objects instead of their concrete ids). Traditional approaches...
Aggregate processing of planar points (2002)
Yufei Tao, Dimitris Papadias, Jun Zhang
Aggregate window queries return summarized information about objects that fall inside a query rectangle (e.g., the number of objects instead of their concrete ids). Traditional approaches for...
Indexing Spatio-temporal Data Warehouses (2002)
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Panos Kalnis, Jun Zhang
Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication systems, only...
Kai Wang, Sangbae Kim, Jun Zhang
Sparse approximate inverse (SAI) techniques have recently emerged as a new class of parallel preconditioning techniques for solving large sparse linear systems on high performance computers. The...
Kai Wang, Sang-Bae Kim, Jun Zhang, Kengo Nakajima
We investigate and compare a few parallel preconditioning techniques in the iterative solution of large sparse linear systems arising from solid Earth simulation with and without using contact...
Jiangchuan Liu, Qian Zhang, Bo Li, Wenwu Zhu, Jun Zhang
With the rising popularity of network-based applications and the potential use of mobile ad hoc networks in civilian life, an efficient resource discovery service is needed in such networks for...
Ontology-driven induction of decision trees at multiple levels of abstraction (2002)
Jun Zhang, Adrian Silvescu, Vasant Honavar
Abstract. Most learning algorithms for data-driven induction of pattern classifiers (e.g., the decision tree algorithm), typically represent input patterns at a single level of abstraction –...
Abstract. We develop a class of parallel multistep successive preconditioning strategies to enhance efficiency and robustness of standard sparse approximate inverse preconditioning techniques. The...
Indexing and Retrieval of Historical Aggregate Information about Moving Objects (2002)
Dimitris Papadias Yufei, Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Jun Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis, Qiongmao Shen, ...
Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication systems, only...
Jeonghwa Lee, Jun Zhang, Cai-cheng Lu, Senior Member
Abstract—In computational electromagnetics, the multilevel fast multipole algorithm (MLFMA) is used to reduce the computational complexity of the matrix vector product operations. In iteratively...
Indexing and retrieval of historical aggregate information about moving objects (2002)
Dimitris Papadias, Yufei Tao, Jun Zhang, Nikos Mamoulis, Qiongmao Shen, Jimeng Sun
Spatio-temporal databases store information about the positions of individual objects over time. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communication systems, only...
Efficient OLAP operations in spatial data warehouses (2001)
Papadias, Dimitris, Kalnis, Panagiotis, Zhang, Jun, Tao, Yufei
Spatial databases store information about the position of individual objects in space. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communications, only summarized data, like...
Algorithms for series coefficients (2001)
The expansion of Taylor series is a very old topic in both pure and applied mathematics. It plays a crucial role in fundamental theory and applications. Computer algebra systems provide an...
The software simulation of AlGaN/GaN HFET /--by Jun Zhang. (2001)
Thesis (M.S.)--Kansas State University, 2001.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Kansas, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 2001.
"May 2001."
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2001.
Computational robot design /--by Jun Zhang. (2001)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2001.
Abstract. A dual reordering strategy based on both threshold and graph reorderings is introduced to construct robust incomplete LU (ILU) factorization of indefinite matrices. The ILU matrix is...
substitution, stochastic demand and setup costs (2001)
Uday S. Rao, Jayashankar M. Swaminathan, Jun Zhang
Multi-product inventory planning with downward
Efficient OLAP Operations in Spatial Data Warehouses (2001)
Dimitris Papadias, Panos Kalnis, Jun Zhang, Yufei Tao
Spatial databases store information about the position of individual objects in space. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communications, only summarized data, like...
Influence Of Supporting Base Characteristics On (2001)
This paper presents an analytical model for prediction of shrinkage-induced stresses and displacements in concrete pavements due to the restraint of the supporting base. The model relies upon the...
Truncation Error and Oscillation Property of the Combined Compact Difference Scheme (2001)
We derive truncation error representation for the sixth order combined compact difference (CCD) scheme for discretizing a one dimensional partial differential equation.
Manli Zhu, Dimitris Papadias, Jun Zhang, Dik Lun Lee
Abstract—Given two spatial data sets A and B, a top-k spatial join retrieves the k objects from A or B that intersect the largest number of objects from the other data set. Depending on the...
Efficient olap operations in spatial data warehouses (2001)
Dimitris Papadias, Panos Kalnis, Jun Zhang, Yufei Tao
Abstract. Spatial databases store information about the position of individual objects in space. In many applications however, such as traffic supervision or mobile communications, only summarized...
Zhang, Jun, Clatterbuck, Richard E., Rigamonti, Daniele, Chang, David D., Dietz, Harry C.
Cerebral cavernous malformation (CCM) is a common autosomal dominant disorder characterized by venous sinusoids that predispose to intracranial hemorrhage. CCM is genetically heterogeneous, with loci...
Tian, Tain, Zhang, Jun, Gao, Lin, Qian, Xiao Ping, Chen, Wei-Feng
The functional maturation process of medullary-type CD4–CD8+ [CD8 single-positive (SP)] thymocytes remains largely uncharacterized. We describe a phenotypic analysis of CD8 SP...
Low Blood Pressure During Pregnancy and Poor Perinatal Outcomes: An Obstetric Paradox (2001)
Zhang, Jun, Klebanoff, Mark A.
Low blood pressure during pregnancy has been associated with poor perinatal outcomes. However, whether this association is causal or is due to confounding has never been carefully assessed. The...
Differences in Birth Weight and Blood Pressure at Age 7 Years among Twins (2001)
Zhang, Jun, Brenner, Ruth A., Klebanoff, Mark A.
Blood pressure later in life has been inversely associated with birth weight. However, concerns have been raised about whether this association merely reflects common environmental risk factors for...
McAvoy, T., Zhang, Jun, Waldfried, C., McIlroy, D.N., Dowben, Peter A., Zeybek, O., ...
The experimental band structure of Mo(112) and the effects by temperature and adsorbate are presented. A surface resonance, identified as crossing the Fermi level at about 1/3 from Γ̅ to Χ̅ of...
Essays on pricing fixed income derivatives and risk management (2000)
This dissertation consists of four essays on pricing fixed income derivatives and risk management. The first essay presents pricing and duration formulas for floating rate bonds and interest rate...
A kinetics and mechanism study of the thermal decomposition of energetic materials (2000)
The thermal decomposition rates and product distributions have been studied for two groups of compounds: nitro- and difluoramino-substituted six-membered rings and...
Essays on pricing fixed income derivatives and risk management (2000)
This dissertation consists of four essays on pricing fixed income derivatives and risk management. The first essay presents pricing and duration formulas for floating rate bonds and interest rate...
"August 2000."
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Dynamical systems revisited: Hybrid systems with zeno executions (2000)
Jun Zhang, Karl Henrik Johansson, John Lygeros, Shankar Sastry
Abstract. Results from classical dynamical systems are generalized to hybrid dynamical systems. The concept of ω limit set is introduced for hybrid systems and is used to prove new results on...
Dynamical systems revisited: Hybrid systems with zeno executions (2000)
Jun Zhang, Karl Henrik, Johansson John Lygeros, Shankar Sastry
fzhangjun�johans�lygeros�sastryg�eecs.berkeley.edu Results from classical dynamical systems are generalized to hybrid dynamical systems. The con� cept of � limit set is introduced for...
Dynamical systems revisited: Hybrid systems with zeno executions (2000)
Jun Zhang, Karl Henrik Johansson, John Lygeros, Shankar Sastry
httr://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~{zhangjtm,johans,lygeros,sastry} Abstract. Results from classical dynamical systems are generalized to hybrid dynamical systems. The concept of o hmit set is introduced...
Jun Zhang, Anand L. Pardhanani, Graham F. Carey
Preconditioning strategies based on incomplete LU factorization using thresholding with dual dropping (ILUT) are investigated for iterative solution of sparse linear systems arising in semiconductor...
Fourth order compact finite difference schemes are employed with multigrid techniques to simulate the two dimensional square driven cavity flow with small to large Reynolds numbers. The governing...
Jun Zhang, Lixin Ge, Jules Kouatchou
A new fourth order compact difference scheme for the three dimensional convection diffusion equation with variable coefficients is presented. The novelty of this new difference scheme is that it only...
We discuss issues related to domain decomposition and multilevel preconditioning techniques which are often employed for solving large sparse linear systems in parallel computations. We introduce a...
Jun Zhang, Lixin Ge, Murli M. Gupta
We present a fourth order compact finite difference scheme for a general three dimensional convection diffusion equation with variable coefficients on a uniform cubic grid. This high order compact...
High Accuracy Stable Numerical Solution of 1D Microscale Heat Transport Equation (2000)
We investigate the use of a fourth order compact finite difference scheme for solving an one dimensional heat transport equation at the microscale. The fourth order compact scheme is used with a...
We present a symbolic computation procedure for deriving various high order compact difference approximation schemes for certain three dimensional linear elliptic partial differential equations with...
A two dimensional time dependent heat transport equation at the microscale is derived. A second order finite difference scheme in both time and space is introduced and the unconditional stability of...
On Preconditioning Schur Complement And Schur Complement Preconditioning (2000)
We study two implementation strategies to utilize Schur complement technique in multilevel recursive incomplete LU preconditioning techniques (RILUM) for solving general sparse matrices. The first...
We present a new strategy to accelerate the convergence rate of a high accuracy multigrid method for the numerical solution of convection-diffusion equation at the high Reynolds number limit. We...
Interactions of copper-amine preservatives with southern pine / (1999)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Forestry, 1999.
Yousef Saad, Jun Zhang, Pii Sx
Abstract. We introduce block versions of the multielimination incomplete LU (ILUM) factorization preconditioning technique for solving general sparse unstructured linear systems. These...
A dual reordering strategy based on both threshold and graph reorderings is introduced to construct robust incomplete LU (ILU) factorization of indefinite matrices. The ILU matrix is constructed as a...
We present a multigrid solution of the three dimensional Poisson equation with a fourth order 19-point compact finite difference scheme. Using a red-black ordering of the grid points and some...
A fourth order compact finite difference scheme and a multigrid method are employed to solve the two dimensional convection diffusion equations with boundary layers. The computational domain is first...
We conduct experimental study on the behavior of several preconditioned iterative methods to solve nonsymmetric matrices arising from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. The...
On Cyclic Reduction and Finite Difference Schemes (1999)
Jun Zhang, Jules Kouatchou, Mohamed Othman
We investigate a family of finite difference schemes for discretizing the two dimensional Poisson equation on both the standard and the reduced grids. We study the relation between the cyclic...
We design a grid based multilevel incomplete LU preconditioner (GILUM) for solving general sparse matrices. This preconditioner combines a high accuracy ILU factorization with an algebraic multilevel...
A dual reordering strategy based on both threshold and graph reorderings is introduced to construct robust incomplete LU (ILU) factorization of indefinite matrices. The ILU matrix is constructed as a...
We introduce a general framework for constructing multilevel recursive incomplete LU preconditioning techniques (RILUM) for solving general sparse matrices. This technique is based on a recursive two...
BILUTM: a domain-based multilevel block ILUT preconditioner for general sparse matrices (1999)
Abstract. This paper describes a domain-based multilevel block ILU preconditioner (BILUTM) for solving general sparse linear systems. This preconditioner combines a high accuracy incomplete LU...
BILUTM: a domain-based multilevel block ILUT preconditioner for general sparse matrices (1999)
Abstract. This paper describes a domain-based multilevel block ILU preconditioner (BILUTM) for solving general sparse linear systems. This preconditioner combines a high accuracy incomplete LU...
Evaluation of the CERC Formula Using Large-Scale Model Data (1998)
Smith, Ernest R., Wang, Ping, Zhang, Jun
Longshore transport experiments were conducted in a large-scale physical model to evaluate predictions of the CERC formula with measured longshore sediment transport rates. It was found that the CERC...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Technical University of Denmark, 1998.
Constitutive modeling and optimal design of polymeric foams for crashworthiness. (1998)
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan
Domain Decomposition and Multi-Level Type Techniques for General Sparse Linear Systems (1998)
Yousef Saad, Maria Sosonkina, Jun Zhang
Domain-decomposition and multi-level techniques are often formulated for linear systems that arise from the solution of elliptic-type Partial Differential Equations. In this paper, generalizations of...
BILUTM: A Domain-Based Multi-Level Block ILUT Preconditioner for General Sparse Matrices (1998)
Yousef Saad And, Yousef Saad, Jun Zhang
This paper describes a domain-based multi-level block ILU preconditioner (BILUTM) for solving general sparse linear systems. This preconditioner combines a high accuracy incomplete LU factorization...
Preconditioned Iterative Methods and Finite Difference Schemes for Convection-Diffusion (1998)
We conduct experimental study on numerical solution of the two dimensional convectiondiffusion equation discretized by three finite difference schemes: the traditional central difference scheme, the...
Fast and High Accuracy Multigrid Solution of the Three Dimensional Poisson Equation (1998)
We employ a fourth-order compact finite difference scheme (FOS) with the multigrid algorithm to solve the three dimensional Poisson equation. We test the influence of different orderings of the grid...
Yousef Saad And, Yousef Saad, Jun Zhang
This paper introduces techniques based on diagonal threshold tolerance when developing multi-elimination and multi-level incomplete LU (ILUM) factorization preconditioners for solving general sparse...
A multi-level preconditioned iterative method based on a multi-level block ILU factorization preconditioning technique is introduced and is applied to the solution of unstructured sparse linear...
On Convergence and Performance of Iterative Methods with Fourth-Order Compact Schemes (1998)
We study the convergence and performance of iterative methods with the fourthorder compact discretization schemes for the one and two dimensional convectiondiffusion equations. For the one...
Comments on "Analysis of A Fourth-Order Compact Scheme for Convection-Diffusion" (1998)
this paper to point out the many positive research results on the fourth-order compact schemes and their relative advantages and disadvantages with respect to the well-known central difference scheme...
High Accuracy Multigrid Solution of the 3D Convection-Diffusion Equation (1998)
We present an explicit fourth-order compact finite difference scheme for approximating the three dimensional convection-diffusion equation with variable coefficients. This 19-point formula is defined...
High Accuracy Multigrid Solution of the 3D Convection-Diffusion Equation (1998)
We present an explicit fourth-order compact finite difference scheme for approximating the three dimensional convection-diffusion equation with variable coefficients. This 19-point formula is defined...
We introduce block versions of the multi-elimination incomplete LU (ILUM) factorization preconditioning technique for solving general sparse unstructured linear systems. These preconditioners have a...
BILUTM: A Domain-Based Multi-Level Block ILUT Preconditioner for General Sparse Matrices (1998)
This paper describes a domain-based multi-level block ILU preconditioner (BILUTM) for solving general sparse linear systems. This preconditioner combines a high accuracy incomplete LU factorization...
Enhanced Multi-Level Block ILU Preconditioning Strategies for General Sparse Linear Systems (1998)
This paper introduces several strategies to deal with pivot blocks in multi-level block incomplete LU factorization (BILUM) preconditioning techniques. These techniques are aimed at increasing the...
We investigate the use of sparse approximate inverse techniques in a multi-level block ILU preconditioner to design a robust and efficient parallelizable preconditioner for solving general sparse...
We conduct experimental study on the behavior of several preconditioned iterative methods to solve nonsymmetric matrices arising from computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. The...
We analyze the standard multigrid method accelerated by a minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique. We show that MRS can accelerate the convergence of the slow residual components, thus accelerates...
This paper introduces techniques based on diagonal threshold tolerance when developing multi-elimination and multi-level incomplete LU (ILUM) factorization preconditioners for solving general sparse...
BILUTM: A Domain-Based Multi-Level Block ILUT Preconditioner for General Sparse Matrices (1998)
This paper describes a domain-based multi-level block ILU preconditioner (BILUTM) for solving general sparse linear systems. This preconditioner combines a high accuracy incomplete LU factorization...
A sparse approximate inverse technique is introduced to solve general sparse linear systems. The sparse approximate inverse is computed as a factored form and used as a preconditioner to work with...
We investigate the use of sparse approximate inverse techniques in a multilevel block ILU preconditioner to design a robust and efficient parallelizable preconditioner for solving general sparse...
We conduct an experimental study on the behavior of several preconditioned iterative methods to solve nonsymmetric matrices arising from computational ¯uid dynamics (CFD) applications. The...
Constitutive modeling and optimal design of polymeric foams for crashworthiness / (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Michigan, 1998.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Old Dominion University, 1997.
Yousef Saad And, Yousef Saad, Jun Zhang
We introduce block versions of the multi-elimination incomplete LU (ILUM) factorization preconditioning technique for solving general sparse unstructured linear systems. These preconditioners have a...
Minimal Residual Smoothing in Multi-Level Iterative Method (1997)
A minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique is employed to accelerate the convergence of the multi-level iterative method by smoothing the residuals of the original iterative sequence. The sequence...
Multigrid with Inexact Minimal Residual Smoothing Acceleration (1997)
We introduce some inexact versions of the minimal residual smoothing (IMRS) technique to accelerate the standard multigrid convergence. These are modified versions of the minimal residual smoothing...
Multigrid with Inexact Minimal Residual Smoothing Acceleration (1997)
We introduce some inexact versions of the minimal residual smoothing (IMRS) technique to accelerate the standard multigrid convergence. These are modified versions of the minimal residual smoothing...
On Convergence of Iterative Methods for a Fourth-Order Discretization Scheme (1997)
We prove that, under certain conditions, some classical iterative methods converge for the linear system resulting from a fourth-order compact discretization of the convection-diffusion equation. Key...
On Convergence of Iterative Methods for a Fourth-Order Discretization Scheme (1997)
We prove that, under certain conditions, some classical iterative methods converge for the linear system resulting from a fourth-order compact discretization of the convection-diffusion equation. Key...
We present an explicit fourth-order compact finite difference scheme for approximating the three dimensional convection-diffusion equation with variable coefficients. This 19-point formula is defined...
A fourth-order compact finite difference scheme is employed with the multigrid algorithm to obtain highly accurate numerical solution of the convection-diffusion equation with very high Reynolds...
. We introduce block versions of the multi-elimination incomplete LU (ILUM) factorization preconditioning technique for solving general sparse unstructured linear systems. These preconditioners have...
. We introduce block versions of the multi-elimination incomplete LU (ILUM) factorization preconditioning technique for solving general sparse unstructured linear systems. These preconditioners have...
A fourth-order compact finite difference scheme is employed with the multigrid algorithm to obtain highly accurate numerical solution of the convection-diffusion equation with very high Reynolds...
We conduct experimental study on issues of computing numerical solution of the two dimensional convection-diffusion equation discretized by three finite difference schemes: the traditional central...
Two-Grid Analysis of Minimal Residual Smoothing as a Multigrid Acceleration Technique (1997)
We analyze the two-level method accelerated by a minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique. The two-grid analysis is sufficient for our purpose because our MRS acceleration scheme is only applied on...
Domain Decomposition and Multi-Level Type Techniques for General Sparse Linear Systems (1997)
Yousef Saad, Maria Sosonkina, Jun Zhang
this paper, generalizations of these techniques for irregularly structured sparse linear systems are considered. An interesting common approach used to derive successful preconditioners is to resort...
We employ a fourth-order compact finite difference scheme (FOS) with the multigrid algorithm to solve the three dimensional Poisson equation. We test the influence of different orderings of the grid...
Epidemiology of Pregnancy-induced Hypertension (1997)
Zhang, Jun, Zeisler, Jonathan, Hatch, Maureen C., Berkowitz, Gertrud
Brillouin Scattering Determination of the Elastic Constants in Supported Ge Films. (1996)
Xia, Hua, Zhang, Wei, Qu, X. X., Zhang, Jun, Jiang, J. G.
Brillouin scattering from supported Ge films, prepared by rapid thermal processing chemical vapor deposition (RTPCVD) and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) techniques, is carried out...
Comparison of 2nd and 4th Order Discretizations for Multigrid Poisson Solvers (1996)
Murli M. Gupta, Jules Kouatchou, Jun Zhang
We combine a compact high-order difference approximation with multigrid V-cycle algorithm to solve the two dimensional Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This scheme, along with...
Multigrid Solution of the Convection-Diffusion Equation with High-Reynolds Number (1996)
A fourth-order compact finite difference scheme is employed with the multigrid technique to solve the variable coefficient convection-diffusion equation with high-Reynolds number. Scaled inter-grid...
A Note on the Tau-Method Approximations for the Bessel Functions Y 0 (z) and Y 1 (z) (1996)
This paper is to complete and improve the work reported in [1, 2], using the Lanczos ø-method (in Coleman's version) to approximate the Bessel functions Y 0 (z) and Y 1 (z). We introduce...
The Lanczos ø-method, with perturbations proportional to Faber polynomials, is employed to approximate the Bessel functions of the first kind J (z) and the second kind Y (z), the Hankel functions of...
Symbolic Computation on Complex Polynomial Solution of Differential Equations (1996)
This paper has been accepted for publication in Journal of Symbolic Computation.
A Cost-Effective Multigrid Projection Operator (1996)
A novel heuristic residual analysis is proposed to derive a computationally cost-effective residual projection operator in multigrid with the five-point Red-Black Gauss-Seidel relaxation for solving...
Minimal Residual Smoothing in Multi-Level Iterative Method (1996)
A minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique is employed to accelerate the convergence of the multi-level iterative method by smoothing the residuals of the original iterative sequence. The sequence...
Residual Scaling Techniques in Multigrid, I: Equivalence Proof (1996)
This paper addresses the residual scaling techniques (coarse-grid-correction optimization techniques) in multigrid methods. We survey recent developments in this area and prove the equivalence of the...
A Cost-Effective Multigrid Projection Operator (1996)
A novel heuristic residual analysis is proposed to derive a computationally cost-effective residual projection operator in multigrid with the five-point Red-Black Gauss-Seidel relaxation for solving...
Residual Scaling Techniques in Multigrid, II: Practical Applications (1996)
This paper focuses on the practical applications of the multigrid residual scaling techniques and is the continuation of a companion paper: Residual scaling techniques in multigrid, I: equivalence...
Analysis of Minimal Residual Smoothing in Multigrid (1996)
We analyze the multigrid method accelerated by a minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique. We prove that the MRS acceleration scheme is a semi-iterative method with respect to the original...
On Convergence and Performance of Iterative Methods with Fourth-Order Compact Schemes (1996)
We study the convergence and performance of iterative methods with the fourthorder compact discretization schemes for the one and two dimensional convectiondiffusion equations. For the one...
Chebyshev Series Approximations for the Bessel Function Y n (z) of Complex Argument (1996)
We employ the truncated Chebyshev series to approximate the Bessel function of the second kind Yn (z) for jzj 8. Detailed manipulations and discussions for Y 0 (z) and Y 1 (z) are given. Results of...
Multigrid Solution of the Convection-Diffusion Equation with High-Reynolds Number (1996)
A fourth-order compact finite difference scheme is employed with the multigrid technique to solve the variable coefficient convection-diffusion equation with high-Reynolds number. Scaled inter-grid...
On Convergence of Iterative Methods for a Fourth-Order Discretization Scheme (1996)
We prove that, under certain conditions, some classical iterative methods converge for the linear system resulting from a fourth-order compact discretization of the convection-diffusion equation. Key...
Residual Scaling Techniques in Multigrid, I: Equivalence Proof (1996)
This paper addresses the residual scaling techniques (coarse-grid-correction optimization techniques) in multigrid methods. We survey recent developments in this area and prove the equivalence of the...
Murli M. Gupta, Jules Kouatchou, Jun Zhang
In Section 2 we present the N P F difference scheme to solve the convection-diffusion equation (1), describe its We introduce a multigrid algorithm to solve the convectiondiffusion equations using a...
Murli M. Gupta, Jules Kouatchou, Jun Zhang
In Section 2 we present the N P F difference scheme We introduce a multigrid algorithm to solve the convection- to solve the convection-diffusion equation (1), describe its diffusion equations using...
Zhang, Jun, Sung, Yung-Eun, Rikvold, P. A., Wieckowski, A.
We study the underpotential deposition of Cu on single-crystal Au(111) electrodes in sulfate-containing electrolytes by a combination of computational statistical-mechanics based lattice-gas modeling...
Murli M. Gupta, Jules Kouatchou, Jun Zhang
Abstract: A high order compact finite difference scheme is employed in conjunction with the multigrid algorithm to solve the convection-diffusion equations with variable coefficients. Special...
Comparison of 2nd and 4th Order Discretizations for Multigrid Poisson Solvers (1995)
Murli M. Gupta, Jules Kouatchou, Jun Zhang
We combine a compact high-order difference approximation with multigrid V-cycle algorithm to solve the two dimensional Poisson equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions. This scheme, along with...
An Accurate and Stable Multigrid Method for Convection-Diffusion Equations (1995)
Murli M. Gupta, Jules Kouatchou, Jun Zhang
: We introduce a high-order compact difference scheme with multigrid algorithm to solve the convection-diffusion equations with constant coefficients. This high-order discretization scheme is shown...
Acceleration of Five-point Red-Black Gauss-Seidel in Multigrid for Poisson Equation (1995)
: A new relaxation analysis and two acceleration schemes are proposed for the five-point Red-Black Gauss-Seidel smoothing in multigrid for solving two dimensional Poisson equation. For a multigrid V...
A study of economic feasibility of United States kenaf markets (1994)
Scope and method of study. The economic feasibility of integrating kenaf into the U.S. farm economy was investigated using an aggregate quadratic programming (QP) model. Eleven states were included...
Stochastic finite element-based structural analysis and reliability assessment [microform] / (1994)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1995.
Stochastic finite element-based structural analysis and reliability assessment /--Jun Zhang. (1994)
"UMI number: 9523890"--T.p. verso.
Oxide film studies at Pd and Pd-containing amorphous alloy electrodes (1994)
Bibliography: p. 192-198.
"Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences."
Oxide film studies at Pd and Pd-containing amorphous alloy electrodes (1994)
Bibliography: p. 192-198.
Central effect of serotonergic drugs on suckling of weaning rats /--by Jun Zhang. (1993)
"June, 1993."
Exercise during pregnancy and pregnancy outcome--[microform] /--by Jun Zhang. (1993)
"... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Epidemiology."
RE: "PREGNANCY AND LACTATION AS DETERMINANTS OF BONE MINERAL DENSITY IN POSTMENOPAUSAL WOMEN" (1993)
The flammability of acrylic polymers and fibres. (1992)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Bolton Institute of Higher Education, 1992.
A Case-Control Study of Paternal Smoking and Birth Defects (1992)
ZHANG, JUN, SAVITZ, DAVID A, SCHWINGL, PAMELA J, CAI, WEN-WEI
Although the influence of paternal smoking on birth defects is of great public interest, epidemiological evidence concerning this potential relationship is extremely limited. A stratified random...
Perinatal Mortality in Shanghai: 1986-1987 (1991)
ZHANG, JUN, CAI, WENWEI, CHEN, HUA
The incidence of, and risk factors associated with, perinatal mortality in Shanghai during 1986–1987 are examined using data from a multi-site study conducted in 29 hospitals. The overall perinatal...
Two dimensional stochastic model-based image analysis / (1988)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rensselaer Polytechnic, 1988.
Nonlinear interaction between surface water waves / (1987)
Supervised by W. Kendall Melville.
Markov random fields with applications to texture classification and discrimination / (1985)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, 1985.
A Neural Network Model for Predicting Cotton Yields (1970)
Jun Zhang, Yiming Wang, Jinping Li, Ping Yang
Predicting a realistic target yield is one of the critical problems in precision farming. An artificial neural network was employed to model the nonlinear relationship between cotton yield and the...
The Cia5 gene controls formation of the carbon concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Xiang, Youbin, Zhang, Jun, Weeks, Donald P.
Wild-type Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells shifted from high concentrations (5%) of CO2 to low, ambient levels (0.03%) rapidly increase transcription of mRNAs from several CO2-responsive genes....
Pro-B-Cell-Specific Transcription and Proapoptotic Function of Protein Kinase Cη
Morrow, Theresa A., Muljo, Stefan A., Zhang, Jun, Hardwick, J. Marie, Schlissel, Mark S.
Using a subtractive cloning scheme on cDNA prepared from primary pro-B and pre-B cells, we identified several genes whose products regulate apoptosis. We further characterized one of these genes,...
Formation of protein kinase Cε-Lck signaling modules confers cardioprotection
Ping, Peipei, Song, Changxu, Zhang, Jun, Guo, Yiru, Cao, Xinan, Li, Richard C.X., ...
The ε isoform of protein kinase C (PKCε) is a member of the PKC family of serine/threonine kinases and plays a critical role in protection against ischemic injury in multiple organs. Functional...
Induction of bilirubin clearance by the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR)
Huang, Wendong, Zhang, Jun, Chua, Steven S., Qatanani, Mohammed, Han, Yunqing, Granata, Riccarda, ...
Bilirubin clearance is one of the numerous important functions of the liver. Defects in this process result in jaundice, which is particularly common in neonates. Elevated bilirubin levels can be...
Zhang, Jun, Li, Shihe, Fischer, Reinhard, Xiang, Xin
The mechanism(s) by which microtubule plus-end tracking proteins are targeted is unknown. In the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans, both cytoplasmic dynein and NUDF, the homolog of the LIS1...
Zhang, Jun, Yang, Jinbo, Roy, Sanjit K., Tininini, Silvia, Hu, Jiadi, Bromberg, Jacqueline F., ...
GRIM-19 (gene associated with retinoid-IFN-induced mortality 19), isolated as a cell death activator in a genetic screen used to define mechanisms involved in IFN-β- and retinoic acid-induced cell...
Modulation of T-cell responses to alloantigens by TR6/DcR3
Zhang, Jun, Salcedo, Theodora W., Wan, Xiaochun, Ullrich, Stephen, Hu, Bugen, Gregorio, Theresa, ...
TR6 (DcR3) is a new member of the TNF receptor (TNFR) family that lacks a transmembrane domain in its sequence, indicating that it is a secreted molecule. TR6 can bind to FasL and prevent...
A traditional herbal medicine enhances bilirubin clearance by activating the nuclear receptor CAR
Huang, Wendong, Zhang, Jun, Moore, David D.
Yin Zhi Huang, a decoction of Yin Chin (Artemisia capillaris) and three other herbs, is widely used in Asia to prevent and treat neonatal jaundice. We recently identified the constitutive androstane...
Markers for Detergent-resistant Lipid Rafts Occupy Distinct and Dynamic Domains in Native Membranes
Wilson, Bridget S., Steinberg, Stanly L., Liederman, Karin, Pfeiffer, Janet R., Surviladze, Zurab, Zhang, Jun, ...
Lipid rafts isolated by detergent extraction and sucrose gradient fractionation from mast cells are enriched for the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked protein Thy-1, the ganglioside GM1,...
Zhang, Luwen, Zhang, Jun, Lambert, Que, Der, Channing J., Del Valle, Luis, Miklossy, Judith, ...
Interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF-7) is implicated in the regulation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency. EBV transforms primary B cells, and the major EBV oncoprotein, latent membrane protein 1...
Wang, Jinzhong, Zhang, Jun, Zhang, Luwen, Harrington, William, West, John T., Wood, Charles
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)/Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection goes through lytic and latent phases that are regulated by viral gene products, but very little is known about the...
Zhang, Jun, Wang, Jinzhong, Wood, Charles, Xu, Dongsheng, Zhang, Luwen
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (also called human herpesvirus 8 [HHV-8]) replication and transcription activator (RTA) is apparently necessary and sufficient for the switch from viral...
A critical role for the Calcium-promoted Ras Inactivator in Fcγ receptor-mediated phagocytosis
Zhang, Jun, Guo, Jian, Dzhagalov, Ivan, He, You-Wen
Fc receptor (FcR)-mediated phagocytosis requires activation of the Rho GTPases Cdc42 and Rac1, but how they are recruited to the FcR is unknown. Here we show that the Ca2+-promoted Ras inactivator...
CLIP-170 Homologue and NUDE Play Overlapping Roles in NUDF Localization in Aspergillus nidulansV⃞
Efimov, Vladimir P., Zhang, Jun, Xiang, Xin
Proteins in the cytoplasmic dynein pathway accumulate at the microtubule plus end, giving the appearance of comets when observed in live cells. The targeting mechanism for NUDF (LIS1/Pac1) of...
A novel method to measure regional muscle blood flow continuously using NIRS kinetics information
Nioka, Shoko, Kime, Ryotaro, Sunar, Ulas, Im, Joohee, Izzetoglu, Meltem, Zhang, Jun, ...
Detection of Outbreaks from Time Series Data Using Wavelet Transform
Zhang, Jun, Tsui, Fu-Chiang, Wagner, Michael M., Hogan, William R.
In this paper, we developed a new approach to detection of disease outbreaks based on wavelet transform. It is capable of dealing with two problems found in real-world time series data, namely,...
He, Hua-Wei, Zhang, Jun, Zhou, Hai-Meng, Yan, Yong-Bin
Protein conformational changes may be associated with particular properties such as its function, transportation, assembly, tendency to aggregate, and potential cytotoxicity. In this research, the...
Ji, Qiongmei, Hashmi, Sarwar, Liu, Zhi, Zhang, Jun, Chen, Ying, Huang, Cheng-Han
Rhesus (Rh) proteins share a conserved 12-transmembrane topology and specify a family of putative CO2 channels found in diverse species from microbes to human, but their functional essentiality and...
Zhang, Jun, Stirling, Brigid, Temmerman, Stephane T., Ma, Chi A., Fuss, Ivan J., Derry, Jonathan M.J., ...
Cylindromatosis (CYLD) is a deubiquitinating enzyme that is altered in patients with familial cylindromatosis, a condition characterized by numerous benign adnexal tumors. However, the regulatory...
The Cia5 gene controls formation of the carbon concentrating mechanism in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Xiang, Youbin, Zhang, Jun, Weeks, Donald P.
Wild-type Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells shifted from high concentrations (5%) of CO2 to low, ambient levels (0.03%) rapidly increase transcription of mRNAs from several CO2-responsive genes....
Pro-B-Cell-Specific Transcription and Proapoptotic Function of Protein Kinase Cη
Morrow, Theresa A., Muljo, Stefan A., Zhang, Jun, Hardwick, J. Marie, Schlissel, Mark S.
Using a subtractive cloning scheme on cDNA prepared from primary pro-B and pre-B cells, we identified several genes whose products regulate apoptosis. We further characterized one of these genes,...
Formation of protein kinase Cε-Lck signaling modules confers cardioprotection
Ping, Peipei, Song, Changxu, Zhang, Jun, Guo, Yiru, Cao, Xinan, Li, Richard C.X., ...
The ε isoform of protein kinase C (PKCε) is a member of the PKC family of serine/threonine kinases and plays a critical role in protection against ischemic injury in multiple organs. Functional...
Induction of bilirubin clearance by the constitutive androstane receptor (CAR)
Huang, Wendong, Zhang, Jun, Chua, Steven S., Qatanani, Mohammed, Han, Yunqing, Granata, Riccarda, ...
Bilirubin clearance is one of the numerous important functions of the liver. Defects in this process result in jaundice, which is particularly common in neonates. Elevated bilirubin levels can be...
Zhang, Jun, Li, Shihe, Fischer, Reinhard, Xiang, Xin
The mechanism(s) by which microtubule plus-end tracking proteins are targeted is unknown. In the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans, both cytoplasmic dynein and NUDF, the homolog of the LIS1...
Zhang, Jun, Yang, Jinbo, Roy, Sanjit K., Tininini, Silvia, Hu, Jiadi, Bromberg, Jacqueline F., ...
GRIM-19 (gene associated with retinoid-IFN-induced mortality 19), isolated as a cell death activator in a genetic screen used to define mechanisms involved in IFN-β- and retinoic acid-induced cell...
Modulation of T-cell responses to alloantigens by TR6/DcR3
Zhang, Jun, Salcedo, Theodora W., Wan, Xiaochun, Ullrich, Stephen, Hu, Bugen, Gregorio, Theresa, ...
TR6 (DcR3) is a new member of the TNF receptor (TNFR) family that lacks a transmembrane domain in its sequence, indicating that it is a secreted molecule. TR6 can bind to FasL and prevent...
A traditional herbal medicine enhances bilirubin clearance by activating the nuclear receptor CAR
Huang, Wendong, Zhang, Jun, Moore, David D.
Yin Zhi Huang, a decoction of Yin Chin (Artemisia capillaris) and three other herbs, is widely used in Asia to prevent and treat neonatal jaundice. We recently identified the constitutive androstane...
Markers for Detergent-resistant Lipid Rafts Occupy Distinct and Dynamic Domains in Native Membranes
Wilson, Bridget S., Steinberg, Stanly L., Liederman, Karin, Pfeiffer, Janet R., Surviladze, Zurab, Zhang, Jun, ...
Lipid rafts isolated by detergent extraction and sucrose gradient fractionation from mast cells are enriched for the glycosylphosphatidylinositol-linked protein Thy-1, the ganglioside GM1,...
Zhang, Luwen, Zhang, Jun, Lambert, Que, Der, Channing J., Del Valle, Luis, Miklossy, Judith, ...
Interferon regulatory factor 7 (IRF-7) is implicated in the regulation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) latency. EBV transforms primary B cells, and the major EBV oncoprotein, latent membrane protein 1...
Wang, Jinzhong, Zhang, Jun, Zhang, Luwen, Harrington, William, West, John T., Wood, Charles
Human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8)/Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection goes through lytic and latent phases that are regulated by viral gene products, but very little is known about the...
Zhang, Jun, Wang, Jinzhong, Wood, Charles, Xu, Dongsheng, Zhang, Luwen
Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (also called human herpesvirus 8 [HHV-8]) replication and transcription activator (RTA) is apparently necessary and sufficient for the switch from viral...
He, Hua-Wei, Zhang, Jun, Zhou, Hai-Meng, Yan, Yong-Bin
Protein conformational changes may be associated with particular properties such as its function, transportation, assembly, tendency to aggregate, and potential cytotoxicity. In this research, the...
CLIP-170 Homologue and NUDE Play Overlapping Roles in NUDF Localization in Aspergillus nidulansV⃞
Efimov, Vladimir P., Zhang, Jun, Xiang, Xin
Proteins in the cytoplasmic dynein pathway accumulate at the microtubule plus end, giving the appearance of comets when observed in live cells. The targeting mechanism for NUDF (LIS1/Pac1) of...
Ji, Qiongmei, Hashmi, Sarwar, Liu, Zhi, Zhang, Jun, Chen, Ying, Huang, Cheng-Han
Rhesus (Rh) proteins share a conserved 12-transmembrane topology and specify a family of putative CO2 channels found in diverse species from microbes to human, but their functional essentiality and...
Detection of Outbreaks from Time Series Data Using Wavelet Transform
Zhang, Jun, Tsui, Fu-Chiang, Wagner, Michael M., Hogan, William R.
In this paper, we developed a new approach to detection of disease outbreaks based on wavelet transform. It is capable of dealing with two problems found in real-world time series data, namely,...
A novel method to measure regional muscle blood flow continuously using NIRS kinetics information
Nioka, Shoko, Kime, Ryotaro, Sunar, Ulas, Im, Joohee, Izzetoglu, Meltem, Zhang, Jun, ...
Zhang, Jun, Stirling, Brigid, Temmerman, Stephane T., Ma, Chi A., Fuss, Ivan J., Derry, Jonathan M.J., ...
Cylindromatosis (CYLD) is a deubiquitinating enzyme that is altered in patients with familial cylindromatosis, a condition characterized by numerous benign adnexal tumors. However, the regulatory...
Genetics of human hydrocephalus
Zhang, Jun, Williams, Michael A., Rigamonti, Daniele
Human hydrocephalus is a common medical condition that is characterized by abnormalities in the flow or resorption of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), resulting in ventricular dilatation. Human...
Shamay, Meir, Krithivas, Anita, Zhang, Jun, Hayward, S. Diane
The Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus LANA protein is expressed in all Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-infected cells, including the tumor cells of endemic and AIDS-associated Kaposi...
Yan, Yong-Bin, Zhang, Jun, He, Hua-Wei, Zhou, Hai-Meng
Nonnative protein aggregation, which is a common feature in biotechnology, is also a clinical feature in more than 20 serious degenerative diseases. We studied the specific events of bovine...
Zhuang, Lei, Zhang, Jun, Xiang, Xin
Cytoplasmic dynein performs multiple cellular tasks but its regulation remains unclear. The dynein heavy chain has a N-terminal stem that binds to other subunits and a C-terminal motor unit that...
Sarikaya, Ismet, Bloomston, Mark, Povoski, Stephen P, Zhang, Jun, Hall, Nathan C, Knopp, Michael V, ...
Kim, Sung-Hye, Zhang, Jun, Jiang, Yan, Zhou, Hai-Meng, Yan, Yong-Bin
Cyclodextrin is a water-soluble circular oligosaccharide with a cylinder shape characterized by exterior hydrophilic rims and an interior hydrophobic cavity, which makes it an ideal additive to...
Zhang, Jun, Rao, Eileen, Dioszegi, Marianna, Kondru, Rama, DeRosier, Andre, Chan, Eva, ...
Six mouse anti-human CCR5 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that showed potent antiviral activities were identified from over 26,000 mouse hybridomas. The epitopes for these mAbs were determined by using...
Deng, Qiang, Zhai, Jian-wei, Michel, Marie-Louise, Zhang, Jun, Qin, Jun, Kong, Yu-ying, ...
A direct involvement of the PreS domain of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) large envelope protein, and in particular amino acid residues 21 to 47, in virus attachment to hepatocytes has been suggested by...
Sarikaya, Ismet, Povoski, Stephen P, Al-Saif, Osama H, Kocak, Ergun, Bloomston, Mark, Marsh, Steven, ...
Thirty-One Flavors of Drosophila Rab Proteins
Zhang, Jun, Schulze, Karen L., Hiesinger, P. Robin, Suyama, Kaye, Wang, Stream, Fish, Matthew, ...
Rab proteins are small GTPases that play important roles in transport of vesicle cargo and recruitment, association of motor and other proteins with vesicles, and docking and fusion of vesicles at...
Xu, Dongsheng, Coleman, Tricia, Zhang, Jun, Fagot, Ashley, Kotalik, Catherine, Zhao, Lingjun, ...
The majority of AIDS-associated primary effusion lymphomas (PEL) are latently infected with both Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). PELs harboring two...
Enhanced surveillance of acute hepatitis B and C in four health regions in Canada, 1998 to 1999
Zou, Shimian, Zhang, Jun, Tepper, Martin, Giulivi, Antonio, Baptiste, Beverley, Predy, Gerry, ...
Money, Technology Choice and Pattern of Exchange in Search Equilibrium
This paper examines the production aspect of money to bridge between the search-theoretic models and the canonical Walrasian growth models. In this paper, we argue that money can generate real...
Schuger, Lucia, Skubitz, Amy P.N., Zhang, Jun, Sorokin, Lydia, He, Li
Laminins, the main components of basement membranes, are heterotrimers consisting of α, β, and γ polypeptide chains linked together by disulfide bonds. Laminins-1 and -2 are both composed of β1...
Understanding and Augmenting Expertise Networks.
This thesis investigates large scale knowledge searching and sharing processes in online communities and organizations. It focuses on understanding the relationship between social networks and...
An integrated genome-wide association analysis on rheumatoid arthritis data
Zhang, Jun, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Cooper, Richard S
We propose a nonparametric association analysis combining both family and unrelated case-control genotype data. Under the assumption of Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, we formed an affected group to...
Li, Juan, Li, Yan, Yao, Jin-Yan, Jin, Rong, Zhu, Ming-Zhao, Qian, Xiao-Ping, ...
The newly generated single-positive (SP) thymocytes undergo further maturation in the thymic medulla before their emigration to the periphery. The present study was undertaken to validate a...
Kopetzki, Erhard, Jekle, Andreas, Ji, Changhua, Rao, Eileen, Zhang, Jun, Fischer, Stephan, ...
We describe a novel strategy in which two inhibitors of HIV viral entry were incorporated into a single molecule. This bifunctional fusion inhibitor consists of an antibody blocking the binding of...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
This thesis presents an e-learning solution to facilitate formative assessment of electronically submitted open-ended written assignments.It is widely accepted that formative assessment is highly...
Estimation of China's provincial capital stock (1952-2004) with applications
Construction of physical capital stock data is a key element for estimating production functions, measuring total factor productivity growth, and for growth accounting. Existing literature, however,...
China?s Economic Growth: Trajectories and Evolving Institutions
This paper investigates the institutional reason underlying the change in the trajectory of economic growth in post-reform China, and argues that the trajectory of growth was much more normal during...
A note on ROC analysis and non-parametric estimate of sensitivity
signal detection theory, A′, non-parametric estimate of sensitivity, likelihood-ratio,
A note on curvature of α-connections of a statistical manifold
Equiaffine connections, Parallel volume form, Ricci tensor, Cubic/skewness form,
Xu, Zhi, Zhang, Fan, Xu, Bosong, Tan, Jingze, Li, Shilin, Li, Chunxiang, ...
Variant studies on ancient DNA have attempted to reveal individual origin. Here, based on cloning sequencing and polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphisms, we analyzed...
Simultaneous Signaling in Elimination Contests
This paper analyzes the signaling effect of bidding in a two-round elimination contest. Before the final round, bids in the preliminary round are revealed and act as signals of the contestants'...
The Financial Deepening-Productivity Nexus in China: 1987-2001
Zhang, Jun, Wan, Guanghua, Jin, Yu
The financial intermediation-growth nexus is a widely studied topic in the literature of development economics. Deepening financial intermediation may promote economic growth by mobilizing more...
Ford, Louise, Zhang, Jun, Liu, Jing, Hashmi, Sarwar, Fuhrman, Juliet A., Oksov, Yelena, ...
Filarial nematodes are an important group of human pathogens, causing lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis, and infecting around 150 million people throughout the tropics with more than 1.5...
Two-Grid Analysis of Minimal Residual Smoothing as a Multigrid Acceleration Technique
We analyze the two-level method accelerated by a minimal residual smoothing (MRS) technique. The two-grid analysis is sufficient for our purpose because our MRS acceleration scheme is only applied on...
Residual Scaling Techniques in Multigrid, I: Equivalence Proof
This paper addresses the residual scaling techniques (coarse-grid-correction optimization techniques) in multigrid methods. We survey recent developments in this area and prove the equivalence of the...
Residual Scaling Techniques in Multigrid, II: Practical Applications
This paper focuses on the practical applications of the multigrid residual scaling techniques and is the continuation of a companion paper: Residual scaling techniques in multigrid, I: equivalence...
Liu, Guang-Chao, Zhang, Jun, Liu, Shi-Gui, Gao, Rong, Long, Zhang-Fu, Tao, Ke, ...
AIM: To investigate the effect of detachment of esophageal cancer cells from extracellular matrix on the localization of death receptor 5 (DR5) and apoptosis.
Discovery and identification of potential biomarkers of pediatric Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Shi, Linan, Zhang, Jun, Wu, Peng, Feng, Kai, Li, Jing, Xie, Zhensheng, ...
Ujwal, Rachna, Cascio, Duilio, Colletier, Jacques-Philippe, Faham, Salem, Zhang, Jun, Toro, Ligia, ...
The voltage-dependent anion channel (VDAC) constitutes the major pathway for the entry and exit of metabolites across the outer membrane of the mitochondria and can serve as a scaffold for molecules...
Zhang, Jun, Planey, Sonia L., Ceballos, Carolina, Stevens, Stanley M., Keay, Susan K., Zacharias, David A.
Protein palmitoylation is the post-translational addition of the 16-carbon fatty acid palmitate to specific cysteine residues by a labile thioester linkage. Palmitoylation is mediated by a family of...
A Neural Computational Model of Incentive Salience
Zhang, Jun, Berridge, Kent C., Tindell, Amy J., Smith, Kyle S., Aldridge, J. Wayne
Incentive salience is a motivational property with ‘magnet-like’ qualities. When attributed to reward-predicting stimuli (cues), incentive salience triggers a pulse of ‘wanting’ and an...
Combining insights from the theory of fields to markets and recent geographic literature on regional innovation, I conceptualize regional industry building as a contested process of market building...
Dimerization of Hepatitis E Virus Capsid Protein E2s Domain Is Essential for Virus–Host Interaction
Li, Shaowei, Tang, Xuhua, Seetharaman, J., Yang, Chunyan, Gu, Ying, Zhang, Jun, ...
Hepatitis E virus (HEV), a non-enveloped, positive-stranded RNA virus, is transmitted in a faecal-oral manner, and causes acute liver diseases in humans. The HEV capsid is made up of capsomeres...
Effects of Interpregnancy Interval on Blood Pressure in Consecutive Pregnancies
Mikolajczyk, Rafael T., Zhang, Jun, Ford, Jessie, Grewal, Jagteshwar
The lower risk of preeclampsia observed in parous women has prompted a hypothesis that cardiovascular adaptation from a first pregnancy has ongoing benefits which contribute to a reduced risk of...
Fetal Growth and Timing of Parturition in Humans
Zhang, Jun, Sundaram, Rajeshwari, Sun, Wenyu, Troendle, James
Animal studies indicate that either the fetus or the intrauterine environment, both of which set the pattern for fetal growth, may affect the timing of parturition. The authors examined the...
Protein Array Identification of Substrates of the Epstein-Barr Virus Protein Kinase BGLF4▿ †
Zhu, Jian, Liao, Gangling, Shan, Liang, Zhang, Jun, Chen, Mei-Ru, Hayward, Gary S., ...
A conserved family of herpesvirus protein kinases plays a crucial role in herpesvirus DNA replication and virion production. However, despite the fact that these kinases are potential therapeutic...