Rajaseger, Ganapathy, Lim, Chin, Wui, Lee, Saravanan, Padmanabhan, Tang, Kai, Gopalakrishnakone, Ponnampalam, ...
Abstract Background Heat stress (HS) and related illnesses are a major concern in military, sports, and fire brigadiers. HS results in physiologic responses of increased temperature, heart rate and...
A Novel Method for Detecting p53 Autoantibodies in Sera of Patients with NSCLC (2009)
Kai TANG, Wentao YUE, Yue WANG, Lina ZHANG, Shaofa XU
Background and objective Serum autoantibody detection is useful means for the early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. So our objective was to synthesize peptide array to analyse p53 autoantibodies...
Charlie C. L. Wang Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering, (2008)
Ruled surfaces are widely used in computer-aided design and manufacturing �CAD/CAM � and computer graphics applications. For example, they are utilized to approximate freeform surfaces so that...
Geometric Optimization Algorithms in Manufacturing (2008)
In this paper we review the recent progress in the design of efficient algorithms for several geometric optimization problems in manufacturing processes. We first describe the strong geometric...
Reduce the stretch in surface flattening by finding cutting paths to the
Reliable Haptic System for Collision-free 5-axis Tool Path Generation (2008)
This paper presents a collision-free 5-axis tool path generation system that uses a haptic device to perform reliable man-machine interactions. The system is based on commercial haptic devices which...
Fitting a Woven Fabric Model onto a Surface Based on Energy Minimization (2008)
Surface flattening is applied in many applications, such as in the aircraft, shoe, and garment industries. In this paper, a surface flattening algorithm based on the energy-minimization on the 3D...
Geometric Optimization Algorithms in Manufacturing (2008)
In this paper we review the recent progress in the design of efficient algorithms for several geometric optimization problems in manufacturing processes. We first describe the strong geometric...
Developable Triangulations of a Strip (2008)
This paper presents a modeling algorithm that helps automatically generate a “most ” developable triangulated surface interpolating a given closed 3D boundary curve. The boundary curve is given...
A Surface Development Method with Application in Footwear CAD/CAM (2008)
Angela Tam, A. Joneja, Kai Tang, Z. Yao
Surface development is the process of mapping a given 3D surface into a 2D shape. The usual objective is to achieve this mapping while preserving isometry, or, for non-developable surfaces, to...
New Decomposition Scheme of Canal Surfaces for Planar Sections Computing (2008)
Jinyuan Jia, Ajay Joneja, Kai Tang
Canal surfaces are applied widely in CAD and graphics. Subdivision scheme plays an important role in many geometric operations on canal surfaces. This paper develops a new quadric-based subdivision...
Discovering Protein Sequence-Structure Motifs and Two Applications to Structural Prediction (2008)
I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be...
Abstract Integrating Claim Quality and Risk into a Usability Engineering Tool (2008)
Mathew Davis, Kai Tang, Jamie L. Smith, D. Scott Mccrickard
This paper described the instantiation of claim quality to allow a repository system to rate usability claims, helping designers establish up front the credibility of a claim in a library. In so...
Many geometric optimization problems in CAD/CAM can be reduced to a maximal intersection problem on the sphere: given a set of N simple spherical polygons on the unit sphere and a real number...
A Comparison of Long Versus Short Spreading Sequences in Coded Asynchronous DS-CDMA Systems (2007)
Kai Tang, Student Member, Paul H. Siegel, Laurence B. Milstein
Abstract—The performance of turbo-coded asynchronous direct sequence code division multiple access (DS-CDMA) using long and short spreading sequences is compared by both analysis and simulation....
Combined MMSE Interference Suppression and Turbo Coding for a Coherent DS-CDMA System (2007)
Kai Tang, Student Member, Laurence B. Milstein, Paul H. Siegel
Abstract—The performance of a turbo-coded code division multiaccess system with a minimum mean-square error (MMSE) receiver for interference suppression is analyzed on a Rayleigh fading channel. In...
Generating strictly non-self-overlapping structured quadrilateral grids (2007)
Lin, Hongwei, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay, Bao, Hujun
In this paper, we present a BPM (Bézier Patch Mapping) algorithm which generates a strictly non-self-overlapping structured quadrilateral grid in a given four-sided planar region. Given four pieces...
Nan Wang, Kai Tang, Nan Wang, Kai Tang
Please cite this article as: Wang N, Tang K. Automatic generation of gouge-free and angular-velocity-compliant 5-axis toolpath. Computer-Aided Design (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cad.2007.04.003 This is a...
Freeform surface flattening based on fitting a woven mesh model (2005)
Tang, Kai, Wang, Charlie C. L., Yeung, Ming Lok
This paper presents a robust and efficient surface flattening approach based on fitting a woven-like mesh model on a 3D freeform surface. The fitting algorithm is based on tendon node mapping (TNM)...
Modeling developable folds on a strip (2005)
A common operation in clothing and shoe design is to design a folding pattern over a narrow strip and then superimpose it with a smooth surface; the shape of the folding pattern is controlled by the...
Bi-conic subdivision of surfaces of revolution and its applications in intersection problems (2004)
Jia, Jinyuan, Tang, Kai, Joneja, Ajay
This paper presents a novel method for subdivision of surfaces of revolutions. Such surfaces occur in a wide variety of applications. Our method approximates the surface by a series of revolute...
Modeling wrinkles on smooth surfaces for footwear design (2004)
Jing, Fu, Joneja, Ajay, Tang, Kai
We describe two new shape operators that superimpose wrinkles on top of a smooth NURBS surface. Previous research studying wrinkles focused mostly on cloth modeling or in animations, which are driven...
Wang, Charlie C. L., Tang, Kai
This paper addresses the problem of constructing a structured quadrilateral grid inside a given four-sided 2D region by a particular boundary-conforming mapping scheme – Hermite Interpolation...
Tang, Kai, Wang, Charlie C. L.
Surface developability is required in a variety of applications in product design, such as clothing, ship hulls, automobile parts, etc. However, most current geometric modeling systems using...
In this paper we investigate how to topologically and geometrically characterize the intersection relations between a movable convex polygon A and a set Ξ of possibly overlapping polygons fixed in...
Coding and interference suppression for CDMA systems on fading channels / (2001)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2001.
Kwon, Young-Soo, Tang, Kai, Cantor, Charles R., Köster, Hubert, Kang, Changwon
Sets of RNA ladders can be synthesized by transcription of a bacteriophage-encoded RNA polymerase using 3′-deoxynucleotides as chain terminators. These ladders can be used for sequencing of DNA....
Shahgholi, Mona, Garcia, Benjamin A., Chiu, Norman H. L., Heaney, Paul J., Tang, Kai
Sample preparation for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS) of DNA is critical for obtaining high quality mass spectra. Sample impurity, solvent content,...
Two site contact of elongating transcripts to phage T7 RNA polymerase at C-terminal regions (2001)
Kwon, Young-Soo, Tang, Kai, Cantor, Charles R., Köster, Hubert, Kang, Changwon
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/29/3/e11
Chiu, Norman H. L., Tang, Kai, Yip, Ping, Braun, Andreas, Koster, Hubert, Cantor, Charles R.
In this report, we describe a simple and accurate method to analyze restriction fragments using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The two complementary...
Ringing effects in high speed pyroelectric detectors using lithium niobate /--by Kai Tang. (1999)
Thesis (M.S.)--UCLA, 1999.
The Role of Valence-Band Excitation in Laser Ablation of KCl. (1998)
Tang, Kai, Bunton, Patrick H., Wang, Ling-Jun
We present recent measurements of excited-atom and ion emission from KCl surfaces illuminated by vacuum-ultraviolet synchrotron radiation (hv = 8-28 eV) and ultraviolet laser light (hv = 4 eV). At...
Micromagnetic structure in Co-alloy thin films and its correlation with microstructure / (1998)
Submitted to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
On Computing Contact Configurations of a Curved Chain (1998)
Given a simple generalized polygon A of line segments and arcs that is free to move and rotate and an oriented monotone chain B composed of smooth parametric curved edges, the positions and...
Micromagnetic structure in C-alloy thin films and its correlation with microstructure / (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Stanford University.
Tang, Kai, Fu, Dongjing, Kötter, Sven, Cotter, Robert J., Cantor, Charles R., Köster, Hubert
Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionizatlon (MALDI) tlme-of-flight (TOF) mass spectrometry was used to analyze short DNA duplex probes with one strand immobilized on solid supports...
Scallop hull and its offset (1994)
Chou, Shuo-Yan, Woo, Tony C., Chen, Lin-Lin, Tang, Kai, Shin, Sung Yong
A linear-time algorithm that computes the envelope of the offset of a monotone chain is presented. The scallop hull, an extended notion of the convex hull, of the monotone chain is first computed by...
Thesis (Ph. D. in Physics)--Vanderbilt University, 1994.
Rectangle layout optimization (1990)
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/7879/5/bam0412.0001.001.pdf
Algorithmic aspects of alternating sum of volumes ; Part II: Non-convergence and its remedy. (1990)
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/7881/5/bam0413.0002.001.pdf
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/7880/5/bam0413.0001.001.pdf
Many problems of computational geometry are inherently found within continuous or infinite domains. The so called convex skull problem, for example, is concerned with finding the largest convex...
On the intersection of a set of direction cones (1989)
A new method is suggested to compute the intersection of a set of direction cones encountered in the problem of passing a convex polyhedron through a window. The time requirement of this method is...
http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/7882/5/bam0414.0001.001.pdf
Algebraic grid generation on trimmed parametric surface using non-self-overlapping planar Coons patch
Chip-based genotyping by mass spectrometry
Tang, Kai, Fu, Dong-Jing, Julien, Dominique, Braun, Andreas, Cantor, Charles R., Köster, Hubert
Silicon chips with immobilized target DNAs were used for accurate genotyping by mass spectrometry. Genomic DNAs were amplified with PCR, and the amplified products were covalently attached to chip...
Kwon, Young-Soo, Tang, Kai, Cantor, Charles R., Köster, Hubert, Kang, Changwon
Sets of RNA ladders can be synthesized by transcription of a bacteriophage-encoded RNA polymerase using 3′-deoxynucleotides as chain terminators. These ladders can be used for sequencing of DNA....
Shahgholi, Mona, Garcia, Benjamin A., Chiu, Norman H. L., Heaney, Paul J., Tang, Kai
Sample preparation for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS) of DNA is critical for obtaining high quality mass spectra. Sample impurity, solvent content,...
Chiu, Norman H. L., Tang, Kai, Yip, Ping, Braun, Andreas, Koster, Hubert, Cantor, Charles R.
In this report, we describe a simple and accurate method to analyze restriction fragments using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The two complementary...
Chip-based genotyping by mass spectrometry
Tang, Kai, Fu, Dong-Jing, Julien, Dominique, Braun, Andreas, Cantor, Charles R., Köster, Hubert
Silicon chips with immobilized target DNAs were used for accurate genotyping by mass spectrometry. Genomic DNAs were amplified with PCR, and the amplified products were covalently attached to chip...
Kwon, Young-Soo, Tang, Kai, Cantor, Charles R., Köster, Hubert, Kang, Changwon
Sets of RNA ladders can be synthesized by transcription of a bacteriophage-encoded RNA polymerase using 3′-deoxynucleotides as chain terminators. These ladders can be used for sequencing of DNA....
Shahgholi, Mona, Garcia, Benjamin A., Chiu, Norman H. L., Heaney, Paul J., Tang, Kai
Sample preparation for matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometry (MS) of DNA is critical for obtaining high quality mass spectra. Sample impurity, solvent content,...
Chiu, Norman H. L., Tang, Kai, Yip, Ping, Braun, Andreas, Koster, Hubert, Cantor, Charles R.
In this report, we describe a simple and accurate method to analyze restriction fragments using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry. The two complementary...
Rajaseger, Ganapathy, Lim, Chin Leong, Wui, Lee Koon, Saravanan, Padmanabhan, Tang, Kai, Gopalakrishnakone, Ponnampalam, ...
Combined MMSE Interference Suppression and Turbo Coding for a Coherent DS-CDMA System
Kai Tang, Laurence B. Milstein, Paul H. Siegel
The performance of a turbo-coded CDMA system with a MMSE receiver for interference suppression is analyzed on a Rayleigh fading channel. In order to accurately estimate the performance of turbo...