Sun, Xin, Briel, Matthias, Busse, Jason W, Akl, Elie A, You, John J, Mejza, Filip, ...
Abstract Background Subgroup analyses in randomized trials examine whether effects of interventions differ between subgroups of study populations according to characteristics of patients or...
Fluctuation limits of the super-Brownian motion with a single point catalyst (2009)
We prove a fluctuating limit theorem of a sequence of super-Brownian motions over $\mbb{R}$ with a single point catalyst. The weak convergence of the processes on the space of Schwarz distributions...
To Cooperate or Not: A Capacity Perspective (2009)
Wang, Li, Kong, Lingkun, Ng, Soon, Hanzo, Lajos
It is widely recognized that differential decode-and-forward (DDF) cooperative transmission scheme is capable of providing a superior performance compared to classic direct transmissions employing...
Chen, Bei, Cao, Shanshan, Zhang, Yingqi, Wang, Xin, Liu, Jie, Hui, Xiaoli, ...
Abstract Background The discovery of the importance of angiogenesis in tumor growth has emphasized the need to find specific vascular targets for tumor-targeted therapies. Previously, using phage...
Wang, Li, Tu, Zhidong, Sun, Fengzhu
Abstract Background The recently developed RNA interference (RNAi) technology has created an unprecedented opportunity which allows the function of individual genes in whole organisms or cell lines...
Wang, Li, Gu, Shi-Jian, Chen, Shu
In this article, we study the high order term of the fidelity of the Heisenberg chain with next-nearest-neighbor interaction and analyze its connection with quantum phase transition of...
Multiple-Symbol Differential Sphere Detection for the Amplify-and-Forward Cooperative Uplink (2009)
It is widely recognized that the differential amplify-and-forward (DAF) transmission scheme is capable of providing a superior performance compared to classic direct transmissions employing...
Appourchaux, Thierry, Burston, Raymond, Chen, Yanbei, Cruise, Michael, Dittus, Hansjörg, Foulon, Bernard, ...
ASTROD I is a planned interplanetary space mission with multiple goals. The primary aims are: to test general relativity with an improvement in sensitivity of over three orders of magnitude,...
Risk factors of earthquake inpatient death: a case control study (2009)
Wen, Jin, Shi, Ying Kang, Li, You Ping, Wang, Li, Cheng, Lan, Gao, Zhan, ...
Abstract Introduction At 2:28 p.m. on 12 May, 2008, a devastating earthquake measuring 8.0 on the Richter scale hit Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province in southwest China, and resulted in the deaths of...
Matthew French, Paul Graham, Michael Wirthlin, Li Wang
project is focused on creating a set of design tools that facilitate and automate design techniques for reconfigurable computing in space, using SRAM-based field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA)...
BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER Systems biology (2009)
Xiaotu Ma, Hyunju Lee, Li Wang, Fengzhu Sun
Vol. 23 no. 2 2007, pages 215–221 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl569 CGI: a new approach for prioritizing genes by combining gene expression and protein–protein interaction data
In situ processing and properties of nanostructured hydroxyapatite/alginate composite (2009)
Wang, Li, Li, Yue, Li, Chunzhong
A series of hydroxyapatite/alginate (HA/Alg) nanocomposites with alginate amounts varying from 10 to 40 wt% were prepared through in situ hybridization technique. The inorganic phase in the...
The dissertation consists of two major components on the topic of environmental valuation using spatial hedonic pricing models. The first component deals with the specification of a spatial hedonic...
Appourchaux, Thierry, Burston, Raymond, Chen, Yanbei, Cruise, Michael, Dittus, Hansjoerg, Foulon, Bernard, ...
ASTROD I is a planned interplanetary space mission with multiple goals. The primary aims are: to test general relativity with an improvement in sensitivity of over three orders of magnitude,...
The spectrum containment of almost periodic solution of second-order neutral delay differential equations with piecewise constant of argument (EPCA, for short) of the form...
How to obtain Marketing Advantage for Corporation? : A case study of SuperMap Europe (2009)
This master’s thesis was carried out at SuperMap.SuparMap is a Chinese company supplying the Geographic Information System (GIS)software and service. It is leading the way in GIS research. The...
Poly[diaqua(μ3-8-oxidoquinoline-5-sulfonato-κ4N,O8:O5:O8)nickel(II)] (2009)
Ying Wang, Li Wang, Jianing Xu, Guangshan Zhu
In title compound, [Ni(C9H5NO4S)(H2O)2]n, the NiII atom is coordinated by one N atom and two bridging O atoms from two 8-oxidoquinoline-5-sulfonate ligands, one sulfonate O atom from a third ligand,...
How well does collaboration work in engineering project curriculum design (2009)
Hulse, Patsy, St George, John, Wang, Li
Conference Details: ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition. June 14 - 17, 2009 Austin Convention Center Austin, TX. http://www.asee.org/conferences/annual/2009/index.cfm
The spectrum containment of almost periodic solution of second-order neutral delay differential equations with piecewise constant of argument (EPCA, for short) of the form...
Xiang, Bo, Yi, Mei, Wang, Li, Liu, Wei, Zhang, Wenling, Ouyang, Jue, ...
Oxidored-nitro domain containing protein 1 (NOR1) gene is a novel nitroreductase gene first isolated from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). It plays an important role in the formation of chemical...
How to obtain Marketing Advantage for Corporation? : A case study of SuperMap Europe (2009)
This master’s thesis was carried out at SuperMap.SuparMap is a Chinese company supplying the Geographic Information System (GIS)software and service. It is leading the way in GIS research. The...
1,3-Bis[(4-nitrobenzylidene)aminooxy]propane (2009)
Wen-Kui Dong, Yin-Xia Sun, Jun-Feng Tong, Hai-Hong Zhao, Li Wang
The complete molecule of title compound, C17H16N4O6, is generated by a crystallographic twofold axis. Within the molecule, the two benzene units are approximately perpendicular, making a dihedral...
Similar expression of oxidative genes following interval and continuous exercise. (2009)
Wang, Li, Psilander, Niklas, Tonkonogi, Michail, Ding, Shuzhe, Sahlin, Kent
Wang, Li, Sun, Fengzhu, Chen, Ting
Abstract We have developed a global strategy based on the Bayesian network framework to prioritize the functional modules mediating genetic perturbations and their phenotypic effects among a set of...
Prevalence of tuberculosis drug resistance in 10 provinces of China (2008)
He, Guang, Zhao, Yan, Jiang, Guang, Liu, Yu, Xia, Hui, Wang, Sheng, ...
Abstract Background The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) hampers TB control. Ten provinces in China performed drug resistance surveys among tuberculosis (TB) patients in 1996–2004 to...
Autonomy- vs. connectedness-oriented parenting behaviours in Chinese and Canadian mothers (2008)
Mowei Liu, Xinyin Chen, Kenneth H. Rubin, Shujie Zheng, Liying Cui, Dan Li, ...
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Neurotensin Receptor-1 mRNA Analysis in Normal Pancreas and Pancreatic Disease (2008)
Li Wang, Helmut Friess, Zhaowen Zhu, Hans Graber, Arthur Zimmermann, Murray Korc, ...
By autoradiography, neurotensin (NT) binding is specifically detectable in pancreatic cancer, but not in the normal pancreas, chronic pancreatitis (CP), or other pancreatic disorders. In the present...
Quantitative finance analyst (summer research associate): • Designing and developing novel time-series based data mining methodology � Involved Techniques: time-series analysis, functional data...
An almost sure limit theorem for super-Brownian motion (2008)
We establish an almost sure scaling limit theorem for super-Brownian motion on $\mathbb{R}^d$ associated with the semi-linear equation $u_t = {1/2}\Delta u +\beta u-\alpha u^2$, where $\alpha$ and...
Tripeptide tyroserleutide plus doxorubicin: therapeutic synergy and side effect attenuation (2008)
Zhu, Zhi-feng, Chen, Li-juan, Lu, Rong, Jia, Jing, Liang, Yu, Xu, Qiong, ...
Abstract Background Tripeptide tyroserleutide (YSL) is a novel small molecule anti-tumor polypeptide that has been shown to inhibit the growth of human liver cancer cells. In this study, we...
Promoter Hypermethylation-mediated Inactivation of LRRC4in Gliomas (2008)
Zhang, Zuping, Li, Dan, Wu, Minghua, Xiang, Bo, Wang, Li, Zhou, Ming, ...
Abstract Background Leucine-rich repeat C4 protein ( LRRC4 ) is a new member of the leucine-rich repeat (LRR) superfamily. It is not only a brain-specific gene but also a novel candidate for tumor...
Maxwell electromagnetic theory from a viewpoint of differential forms (2008)
Du, Shenghua, Hao, Cheng, Hu, Yueke, Hui, Yuming, Shi, Quan, Wang, Li, ...
In this paper, we discuss the Maxwell equations in terms of differential forms, both in the 3-dimensional space and in the 4-dimensional space-time manifold. Further, we view the classical...
Director of eEducation Group (2008)
Jon J. Denton, Ben L. Smith, Francis E. Clark, Trina J. Davis, R. Arlen Strader, Li Wang
This multi-year program was based on the premise a digital divide exists between the technology skill levels of public school faculties compared to those of undergraduate teacher education...
The Global Synthetical Processing of Network Security Events (2008)
Yang-ming Ma, Zhi-tang Li, Jie Lei, Li Wang, Dong Li
This paper presents the global synthetical processing of network security events in Network Security Intelligent Centralized Management System, which aims to build up an integrated management...
In many channel decoding applications, redundancy is left in the channel coded data. A new method for utilizing this redundancy in channel decoding is proposed. The method is based on the...
Wang, Li, Xu, Lei, Chen, Sheng, Hanzo, Lajos
Based on an EXtrinsic Information Transfer (EXIT) chart-assisted receiver design, a low-complexity near-Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) detector is constructed for high-throughput systems. A high...
Content-aware Trust Statement for semantic Grid (2008)
Li Wang, Wenli Wu, Yingjie Li, Xueli Yu
Grid computing is a dynamic system and trust changes over time. A kind of flexible trust management is urgently required that could obtain new, not foreseen trust value by computing or reasoning....
VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track Report (2008)
Rui Yang, Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, ...
This year, we participated in the Web Track in addition to the Robust Track. We submitted results on both topic distillation and home page/named page finding tasks. As our time and human resources...
Can We Get A Better Retrieval Function From Machine? (2008)
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collection. Documents are...
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval (2008)
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, ...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on experience,...
TITLE: Generating Indexed Formal Software Documents (2008)
ii Precise software documentation can be written as a set of mathematical expressions, but in practice, people require a mixture of informal (English) material and formal mathematical expressions....
Appourchaux, Thierry, Burston, Raymond, Chen, Yanbei, Cruise, Michael, Dittus, Hansjoerg, Foulon, Bernard, ...
ASTROD I is a planned interplanetary space mission with multiple goals. The primary aims are: to test General Relativity with an improvement in sensitivity of over 3 orders of magnitude, improving...
9-(Dimethoxymethyl)anthracene (2008)
Li Wang, Wei You, Wei Huang, Jue-Chao Jiang, Cheng Yao
In the title compound, C17H16O2, a dimethyl acetal of 9-anthraldehyde, the anthracene skeleton is planar and the two methoxy groups attached to the C atom at position 9 of the aromatic ring system...
Guofeng Yu, Yu Ding, Li Wang, Zhengbing Fu, Xinliang Hu
The title compound, [Cu2(C20H14N2O2)2]·2C3H7NO, consists of a centrosymmetric dimer composed of two copper(II) ions and two tetradentate salphen ligands {H2salphen is...
4-(Methylsulfanyl)-2-(p-toluenesulfonamido)butanoic acid (2008)
Li Wang, Zheng Liu, Yong Liao Wang
In the title compound, C12H17NO4S2, the carboxyl groups link the molecules into centrosymmetric dimers through O—H...O hydrogen bonds. An N—H...O hydrogen bond between the NH group of the...
We investigate the existence of almost-periodic weak solutions of second-order neutral delay-differential equations with piecewise constant argument of the form...
Baoyu Zong, Guchang Han, Jinjun Qiu, Zaibing Guo, Li Wang, Wee-Kay Yeo, ...
A methodology to fabricate ultrasoft CoFe nano-/microfilms directly via electrodeposition from a semineutral iron sulfate solution is demonstrated. Using boron-reducer as the additive, the CoFe films...
Nuclear localization of Cdk5 is a key determinant in the postmitotic state of neurons. (2008)
Zhang, Jie, Cicero, Samantha A., Wang, Li, Romito-DiGiacomo, Rita R., Yang, Yan, Herrup, Karl
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) is a nontraditional Cdk that is primarily active in postmitotic neurons. Its best known substrates are cytoskeletal proteins. Less appreciated is its role in the...
3,3′-Dibromo-1,1′-[(propane-1,3-diyldioxy)bis(nitrilomethylidyne)]dibenzene (2008)
Wen-Kui Dong, Yu-Jie Ding, Ya-Ling Luo, Zhong-Wu Lv, Li Wang
The molecule of the title compound, C17H16Br2N2O2, lies on a twofold axis that passes through the middle atom of the three-atom trimethylene unit. The two aromatic rings are aligned at an angle of...
3,3′-Dibromo-1,1′-[ethylenedioxybis(nitrilomethylidyne)]dibenzene (2008)
Wen-Kui Dong, Yu-Jie Ding, Ya-Ling Luo, Hai-Bo Yan, Li Wang
In the centrosymmetric title compound, C16H14Br2N2O2, the intramolecular interplanar distance between the parallel benzene rings is 1.305 (3) Å, while the intermolecular interplanar...
In the title compound, [Ca(NO3)(C34H32N10)]NO3·3CH4O, the CaII ion is coordinated by six N atoms of the EDTB ligand {EDTB is...
3,3′-Dibromo-1,1′-[(propane-1,3-diyldioxy)bis(nitrilomethylidyne)]dibenzene (2008)
Wen-Kui Dong, Yu-Jie Ding, Ya-Ling Luo, Zhong-Wu Lv, Li Wang
The molecule of the title compound, C17H16Br2N2O2, lies on a twofold axis that passes through the middle atom of the three-atom trimethylene unit. The two aromatic rings are aligned at an angle of...
Yi, Zhaohua, Li, Guangyu, Heinzel, Gerhard, Rüdiger, Albrecht, Jennrich, Oliver, Wang, Li, ...
On the basis of many coorbital phenomena in astronomy and spacecraft motion, a dynamics model is proposed in this paper - treating the coorbital restricted problem together with method for obtaining...
Methods for orbit optimization for the LISA gravitational wave observatory (2008)
Li, Guangyu, Yi, Zhaohua, Heinzel, Gerhard, Rüdiger, Albrecht, Jennrich, Oliver, Wang, Li, ...
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission is a joint ESA-NASA mission for detecting low-frequency gravitational waves in the frequency range from 0.1mHz to 1Hz, by using accurate distance...
MOS Capacitor Characteristics of 3C-SiC Films Deposited on Si Substrates at 1270°C (2008)
Wang, Li, Dimitrijev, Sima, Hold, Leonie Katharina, Kong, Frederick Chung Jeng, Tanner, Philip, Han, Jisheng, ...
SiC films were deposited on Si substrate by low pressure hot-wall CVD using C3H8 (5% in H2)-SiH4 (2.5% in H2)-H2 gas system at 1270°C and 1370°C. MOS capacitors were fabricated on the grown 3C-SiC...
MOS Capacitor Characteristics of 3C-SiC Films Deposited on Si Substrates at 1270°C (2008)
Wang, Li, Dimitrijev, Sima, Hold, Leonie Katharina, Kong, Frederick Chung Jeng, Tanner, Philip, Han, Jisheng, ...
SiC films were deposited on Si substrate by low pressure hot-wall CVD using C3H8 (5% in H2)-SiH4 (2.5% in H2)-H2 gas system at 1270°C and 1370°C. MOS capacitors were fabricated on the grown 3C-SiC...
MOS Capacitor Characteristics of 3C-SiC Films Deposited on Si Substrates at 1270°C (2008)
Wang, Li, Dimitrijev, Sima, Hold, Leonie Katharina, Kong, Frederick Chung Jeng, Tanner, Philip, Han, Jisheng, ...
SiC films were deposited on Si substrate by low pressure hot-wall CVD using C3H8 (5% in H2)-SiH4 (2.5% in H2)-H2 gas system at 1270°C and 1370°C. MOS capacitors were fabricated on the grown 3C-SiC...
Sun, Ling V., Jin, Ke, Liu, Yiming, Yang, Wenwei, Xie, Xing, Ye, Lin, ...
DNA transposon piggyBac (PB) is a newly established mutagen for large-scale mutagenesis in mice. We have designed and implemented an integrated database system called PBmice (PB Mutagenesis...
Liu, Xiaohong, Wang, Li, Zhang, Shuhui, Lin, Jing, Zhang, Shunmin, Feitelson, Mark A., ...
Background: The hepatitis B virus x gene (HBx) is a promiscuous transactivator implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The present study was designed to investigate the...
MicroRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) are genomically encoded small ∼22 nt RNA molecules that have been shown to mediate translational repression of target mRNAs involved in cellular proliferation,...
Baoyu Zong, Guchang Han, Jinjun Qiu, Zaibing Guo, Li Wang, Wee-Kay Yeo, ...
A methodology to fabricate ultrasoft CoFe nano-/microfilms directly via electrodeposition from a semineutral iron sulfate solution is demonstrated. Using boron-reducer as the additive, the CoFe films...
We investigate the existence of almost-periodic weak solutions of second-order neutral delay-differential equations with piecewise constant argument of the form...
Hybrid huberized support vector machines for microarray classification and gene selection (2008)
Motivation: The standard L2-norm support vector machine (SVM) is a widely used tool for microarray classification. Previous studies have demonstrated its superior performance in terms of...
Proteasome activation during cardiac hypertrophy by the chaperone H11 Kinase/Hsp22 (2008)
Hedhli, Nadia, Wang, Li, Wang, Qian, Rashed, Eman, Tian, Yimin, Sui, Xiangzhen, ...
Aims The regulation of protein degradation by the proteasome during cardiac hypertrophy remains largely unknown. Also, the proteasome translocates to the nuclear periphery in response to cellular...
Chen, Shu, Wang, Li, Hao, Yajiang, Wang, Yupeng
The notion of fidelity in quantum information science has been recently applied to analyze quantum phase transitions from the viewpoint of the ground state (GS) overlap for various many-body systems....
Chemistry with Lithium Amide: Enantiotopic Group & Face Selective Reactions (2007)
The accomplishment of the γ-alkylation reaction from β-keto esters of tropinone and the enantioselective aziridine formation from nortropinone is first reported. This opened two new paths to...
An Object-Oriented Design Pattern For Distributed Replication Systems (2007)
Replication is a key to providing good performance, high availability, and fault tolerance in distributed systems. However, designing and implementing a replication system is a very di#cult task....
Automating the Construction of Service Replication systems (2007)
Service replication is a key to providing high availability, fault tolerance and good performance in distributed systems. However, building a service replication system is a di#cult and complex task....
An Architecture for Building Reliable Distributed Object-Based Systems (2007)
This paper proposes an architecture for designing fault-tolerant distributed object systems. The proposed architecture attempts to bring advances in client-server, remote procedure call, reliable...
TITLE: Generating Indexed Formal Software Documents (2007)
ii Precise software documentation can be written as a set of mathematical expressions, but in practice, people require a mixture of informal (English) material and formal mathematical expressions....
Crawling on the World Wide Web (2007)
As the World Wide Web grows rapidly, a web search engine is needed for people to search through the Web. The crawler is an important module of a web search engine. The quality of a crawler directly...
Li Wang, Yu-kwong Kwok, Wing-cheong Lau
are critical building blocks of future high performance wireless and mobile computing systems. While CDMA systems are very mature for voice services, their potentials in delivering high quality data...
On Channel-Adaptive Fair Multiple Access Control (2007)
Li Wang, Yu-kwong Kwok, Wing-cheong Lau
Abstract—Multiple access control (MAC) of the uplink in a wireless mobile computing system is one of the most important resource allocation problems in that the response time and throughput of user...
This report presents a method of detecting branching structure, such as blood vessels from retinal images, using a Gaussian Intensity model. Features are modelled with a Gaussian function...
Wei, Hui, Li, Peicai, Wang, Li, Sun, Lanlan, ...
A novel electrochemical H2O2 biosensor was constructed by embedding horseradish peroxide (HRP) in a 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate doped DNA network casting on a gold electrode. The...
Wang, Li, Liu, YanShan, Jiang, Xi, Qin, DongHuan, Cao, Yong
Multiarmed CdS nanorods have been used as the electron acceptors to fabricate efficient hybrid solar cells. It was demonstrated that when pyridine was used as a solvent for spin coating an active...
Wang, Li, Sun, Lanlan, Wei, Gang, Liu, Zhiguo, Wang, Li, ...
Large-scale, uniform plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) network has been successfully constructed on 11-mercaptoundecanoic acid modified gold (111) surface using a self-assembly technique. The...
Chen, Shu, Wang, Li, Gu, Shi-Jian, Wang, Yupeng
In this paper, we investigate the fidelity for the Heisenberg chain with the next-nearest-neighbor interaction (or the $J_1-J_2$ model) and analyze its connections with quantum phase transition. We...
Library Evaluation and Online booking system at the University of Auckland (2007)
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the...
Wang, Li, Sun, Lanlan, Sun, Yujing, Guo, Cunlan, ...
We reported a simple method to synthesize gold nanoparticles (NPs) by photoreducing HAuCl4 in acetic acid solution in the presence of type I collagen. It was found that the collagen takes an...
Quantum dynamics of repulsively bound atom pairs in the Bose-Hubbard model (2007)
Wang, Li, Hao, Yajiang, Chen, Shu
We investigate the quantum dynamics of repulsively bound atom pairs in an optical lattice described by the periodic Bose-Hubbard model both analytically and numerically. In the strongly repulsive...
Ma, Xiaotu, Lee, Hyunju, Wang, Li, Sun, Fengzhu
Motivation: Identifying candidate genes associated with a given phenotype or trait is an important problem in biological and biomedical studies. Prioritizing genes based on the accumulated...
Self-assembled gold nanoparticle chains in presence of silver ions (2007)
Wei, Gang, Wang, Li, Guo, Cunlan, Sun, Yujing, ...
A simple method has been developed to assemble gold nanoparticles to generate 1D assemblies by the assistance of silver ions. The lengths of nanoparticle chains can be controlled by adjusting the...
Effects of bridge ions, DNA species, and developing temperature on flat-lying DNA monolayers (2007)
Guo, Cunlan, Sun, Lanlan, Wei, Gang, Peng, Chongyang, Wang, Li, ...
Recently, we have successfully constructed flat-lying DNA monolayers on a mica surface (J. Phys. Chem. B 2006, 110, 10792-10798). In this work, the effects of various factors including bridge ions,...
CELL CYCLE REGULATION IN THE POST-MITOTIC NEURONAL CELLS (2007)
A normal cell cycle is essential for cell proliferation in embryonic development. Once the appropriate numbers of cells are generated, however, there are various populations, e.g. neurons, which will...
Hybrid huberized support vector machines for microarray classification (2007)
The large number of genes and the relatively small number of samples are typical characteristics for microarray data. These characteristics pose challenges for both sample classification and relevant...
PBmice: an integrated database system of (2007)
Ling V. Sun, Ke Jin, Yiming Liu, Wenwei Yang, Xing Xie, Lin Ye, ...
doi:10.1093/nar/gkm790
Deep void formation mechanism in Si(100) during its carbonization reaction with C2H2 (2007)
Wang, Li, Dimitrijev, Sima, Han, Jisheng, Zou, Jin
Deep silicon voids, located several hundreds of nm below the Si–SiC interface, were observed in Si(100) crystal after its reaction with C2H2 at 1200 °C. Interface voids are commonly observed...
Iyoda, Masayuki, Hudkins, Kelly L., Wietecha, Tomasz A., Banas, Miriam C., Guo, Shunhua, Liu, Gang, ...
Background. Transgenic (tg) mice overexpressing thymic stromal lymphopoietin (TSLP) develop mixed cryoglobulinaemia with renal disease closely resembling human cryoglobulinaemic membranoproliferative...
Proteasome Activation7during Cardiac Hypertrophy by the chaperone H11 Kinase/Hsp22 (2007)
Hedhli, Nadia, Wang, Li, Wang, Qian, Rashed, Eman, Tian, Yimin, Sui, Xiangzhen, ...
Aims The regulation of protein degradation by the proteasome during cardiac hypertrophy remains largely unknown. Also, the proteasome translocates to the nuclear periphery in response to cellular...
Proteasome activation during cardiac hypertrophy by the chaperone H11 Kinase/Hsp22 (2007)
Hedhli, Nadia, Wang, Li, Wang, Qian, Rashed, Eman, Tian, Yimin, Sui, Xiangzhen, ...
Aims The regulation of protein degradation by the proteasome during cardiac hypertrophy remains largely unknown. Also, the proteasome translocates to the nuclear periphery in response to cellular...
The paper presented at 4th International Lifelong Learning Conference : Partners, Pathways, and Pedagogies, 13-16 June, 2006, Yeppoon, Queensland, Australia, 350-354.
Expression of EphA receptors and ligands in rat brain following status epilepticus (2006)
The Eph family of receptor tyrosine kinases and their ligands, ephrins, serve as molecular guidance cues for axonal patterning during CNS development. Several members of the Eph receptor family are...
FPGA Dynamic Power Minimization through Placement and Routing Constraints (2006)
Li Wang, Matthew French, Azadeh Davoodi, Deepak Agarwal
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are pervasive in embedded systems requiring low-power utilization. A novel power optimization methodology for reducing the dynamic power consumed by the routing...
Zeqing Liu, Li Wang, Jeong Sheok Ume, Shin Min Kang
We investigate the equivalence between the convergences of the Mann iteration method and the Ishikawa iteration method with errors for demicontinuous Æ-strongly accretive operators in...
An integrative approach for causal gene identification and gene regulatory pathway inference (2006)
Zhidong Tu, Li Wang, Michelle N. Arbeitman, Ting Chen, Fengzhu Sun
doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl234
Collaborative learning improves student learning therefore to enhance students’ lifelong learning skills. This paper describes how the generic information-literacy courses at the University of...
FPGA Dynamic Power Minimization through Placement and Routing Constraints (2006)
Li Wang, Matthew French, Azadeh Davoodi, Deepak Agarwal
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are pervasive in embedded systems requiring low-power utilization. A novel power optimization methodology for reducing the dynamic power consumed by the routing...
Hypericum sampsonii induces apoptosis and nuclear export of retinoid X receptor-alpha (2006)
Zeng, Jin-Zhang, Sun, De-Fu, Wang, Li, Cao, Xihua, Qi, Jian-Bin, Yang, Ting, ...
Natural products derived from plants provide a rich source for development of new anticancer drugs. Recent studies suggest that modulation of subcellular localization of retinoid X receptor-alpha...
Hypericum sampsonii induces apoptosis and nuclear export of retinoid X receptor-alpha (2006)
Zeng, Jin-zhang, Sun, De-fu, Wang, Li, Cao, Xihua, Qi, Jian-bin, Yang, Ting, ...
Natural products derived from plants provide a rich source for development of new anti-cancer drugs. Recent studies suggest that modulation of subcellular localization of retinoid X receptor-alpha...
Wang, Liming, Bhattacharyya, Nandan, Rabi, Thangaiyan, Wang, Li, Banerjee, Sipra
DNA polymerase β (polβ) is a major contributor to mammalian DNA damage repair through its gap-filling DNA synthesis and 5/-deoxyribose phosphate lyase activities. In this way, polβ plays pivotal...
Zeqing Liu, Li Wang, Jeong Sheok Ume, Shin Min Kang
We investigate the equivalence between the convergences of the Mann iteration method and the Ishikawa iteration method with errors for demicontinuous φ-strongly accretive operators in uniformly...
An integrative approach for causal gene identification and gene regulatory pathway inference (2006)
Tu, Zhidong, Wang, Li, Arbeitman, Michelle N., Chen, Ting, Sun, Fengzhu
Motivation: Gene expression variation can often be linked to certain chromosomal regions and are tightly associated with phenotypic variation such as disease conditions. Inferring the causal genes...
A modular power-aware microsensor with 1000x dynamic power range (2005)
Brian Schott, Michael Bajura, Joe Czarnaski, Jaroslav Flidr, Tam Tho, Li Wang
We introduce a power-aware microsensor architecture supporting a wide operational power range (from <1mW to>10W). The platform consists of a family of modules that follow a common set of design...
Tan, Wen, Miao, Xiaoping, Wang, Li, Yu, Chunyuan, Xiong, Ping, Liang, Gang, ...
Thymidylate synthase (TS) catalyzes the 5,10-methylene-tetrahydrofolate-mediated conversion of deoxyuridine monophosphate to deoxythymydine monophosphate, a nucleotide required for DNA synthesis and...
Detecting horizontal gene transfer with T-REX and RHOM programs (2005)
Li, Zuofeng, Wang, Li, Zhong, Yang
As the Human Genome Project and other genome projects experience remarkable success and a flood of biological data is produced by means of high-throughout sequencing techniques, detection of...
Tan, Wen, Miao, Xiaoping, Wang, Li, Yu, Chunyuan, Xiong, Ping, Liang, Gang, ...
Thymidylate synthase (TS) catalyzes the 5, 10-methylene-THF-mediated conversion of dUMP to dTMP, a nucleotide required for DNA synthesis and repair. The impaired TS expression has been shown to be...
A good mix or far from ideal? Information literacy at the University of Auckland (2004)
The University of Auckland Library consists of 12 subject specialist libraries and three Information Commons across four campuses. Multiple information skills programmes are offered at the University...
Complete genome sequence of Yersinia pestis strain 91001, an isolate avirulent to humans (2004)
Tong, Zongzhong, Wang, Jin, Wang, Li, Guo, Zhaobiao, Han, Yanpin, ...
Genomics provides an unprecedented opportunity to probe in minute detail into the genomes of the world's most deadly pathogenic bacteria- Yersinia pestis. Here we report the complete genome sequence...
Robust Modelling of Local Image Structures (2004)
And Its Application, Li Wang, Abhir Bhalerao
A robust modelling method for detecting and measuring isotropic, linear features and bifurcations is described and applied to analysing 2d eletrophoresis and retinal images. Features are modelled as...
Li Wang, Yu-kwong Kwok, Wing-cheong Lau
Abstract. In a distributed mobile computing system, an efficient packet scheduling policy is a crucial component to achieve a high utilization of the precious bandwidth resources while satisfying...
Bile acids lower triglyceride levels via a pathway involving FXR, SHP, and SREBP-1c. (2004)
Watanabe, Mitsuhiro, Houten, Sander M, Wang, Li, Moschetta, Antonio, Mangelsdorf, David J, Heyman, Richard A, ...
We explored the effects of bile acids on triglyceride (TG) homeostasis using a combination of molecular, cellular, and animal models. Cholic acid (CA) prevents hepatic TG accumulation, VLDL...
Complete Genome Sequence of Yersinia pestis Strain 91001, an Isolate Avirulent to Humans (2004)
Song, Yajun, Tong, Zongzhong, Wang, Jin, Wang, Li, Guo, Zhaobiao, Han, Yanpin, ...
Genomics provides an unprecedented opportunity to probe in minute detail into the genomes of the world's most deadly pathogenic bacteria-Yersinia pestis. Here we report the complete genome sequence...
TPatternHunter: Gapped, fast and sensitive translated homology search (2004)
Kisman, Derek, Li, Ming, Ma, Bin, Wang, Li
Summary: New ideas, spaced seeds and gapped alignment before 6-frame translation, are implemented for translated homology search in tPatternHunter. The new software compares favorably over tBLASTx....
An analysis of update ordering in distributed replication systems (2004)
Zhou, Wanlei, Wang, Li, Jia, Weijia
This paper analyses update ordering and its impact on the performance of a distributed replication system. We propose a model for update orderings and constraints and develop a number of algorithms...
TPatternHunter: Gapped, fast and sensitive translated homology search (2004)
Kisman, Derek, Li, Ming, Ma, Bin, Wang, Li
Summary: New ideas, spaced seeds and gapped alignment before 6-frame translation, are implemented for translated homology search in tPatternHunter. The new software compares favorably over tBLASTx....
On the fundamentals of research and development (R&D) spillovers in competitive markets (2003)
Rivals may voluntarily share Research and Development (R&D) results even in the absence of any binding agreements or collusion. In a model where rival firms engage in non-cooperative independent R&D...
Simulation of soil water movement model (SWaMM) using the Spider Distributed System / (2003)
This project implements a real application on the Spider II, which is a simulation of Soil Water Movement Model. The main objectives of this project were to develop a parallel and distributed...
Excavator: a computer program for efficiently mining gene expression data (2003)
Dong Xu, Victor Olman, Li Wang, Ying Xu
Massive gene-expression data are generated using microarrays, and clustering gene-expression data is useful for studying functional relationship among genes in a biological process. We have developed...
Model Based Segmentation for (2003)
Retinal Fundus Images, Li Wang, Abhir Bhalerao
This paper presents a method for detecting and measuring the vascular structures of retinal images. Features are modelled as a superposition of Gaussian functions in a local region. The parameters...
Dong, Deli, Duan, Yanjun, Guo, Jiqing, Roach, Dan E, Swirp, Shauni L, Wang, Li, ...
Background: Overexpression of calcineurin in transgenic (TG) mice results in cardiac hypertrophy and unexpected deaths. Methods and results: None of the TG survived beyond 24 weeks (n=38) whereas all...
EXCAVATOR: a computer program for efficiently mining gene expression data (2003)
Xu, Dong, Olman, Victor, Wang, Li, Xu, Ying
Massive amounts of gene expression data are generated using microarrays for functional studies of genes and gene expression data clustering is a useful tool for studying the functional relationship...
Depre, Christophe, Wang, Li, Tomlinson, James E., Gaussin, Vinciane, Abdellatif, Maha, Topper, James N., ...
Background: Previously, we showed by subtractive hybridization in a swine model of ischemia/reperfusion that an upregulation of genes participating in mechanisms of cell survival is a potential...
A computational pipeline for protein structure prediction and analysis at genome scale (2003)
Shah, Manesh, Passovets, Sergei, Kim, Dongsup, Ellrott, Kyle, Wang, Li, Vokler, Inna, ...
Motivation: Experimental techniques alone cannot keep up with the production rate of protein sequences, while computational techniques for protein structure predictions have matured to such a level...
Analysis of update ordering in a cluster of replicated servers (2002)
This paper analyses update ordering and its impact on the performance of a cluster of replicated servers. We propose a model for update orderings and constraints and develop a number of algorithms...
Detecting Branching Structures Using Local Gaussian Models (2002)
We present a method for modelling and estimating branching structures, such as blood vessel bifurcations, from medical images. Branches are modelled as a superposition of Gaussian functions in a...
Channel Capacity Fair Queueing in Wireless Networks: Issues and A New Algorithm (2002)
Li Wang, Yu-kwong Kwok, Wing-cheong Lau
Abstract-- Wireless fair queueing algorithms have been extensively studied recently. However, a major drawback in existing approaches is that the channel model is overly simplified—a two states...
Fixed point theorems for densifying mappings and compact mappings (2002)
Zeqing Liu, Li Wang, Shin Min Kang, Yong Soo Kim
The purpose of this note is to establish fixed point theorems for densifying mappings and compact mappings which are contractive in metric spaces and to investigate the existence of fixed points for...
An analysis of update ordering in a cluster of replicated servers (2002)
This paper analyses update ordering and its impact on the performance of a cluster of replicated servers. We propose a model for update orderings and constraints and develop a number of algorithms...
Wang, Li, Zhou, Wanlei, Jia, Weijia
Replication is the key to providing high availability, fault tolerance, and enhanced performance in a cluster of workstations (COWs). However, building such a system remains as a difficult and...
Acquisition of grammatical morphemes [microform] : a case study of Lan. (2001)
Thesis (M. Ed.)--University of Regina, 2000.
Automating the construction of replicated objects in a cluster of workstations (2001)
This paper describes a tool that mimics the design of the remote procedure call (RPC) system to support the building of replicated objects in a cluster of workstations (COW). The tool includes an...
Wang, Li, Zhou, Wanlei, Jia, Weijia
Replication is the key to providing high availability, fault tolerance, and enhanced performance in a cluster of workstations (COWs). However, building such a system remains as a difficult and...
Image Denoising And Segmentation Via Nonlinear Diffusion (2000)
Yunmei Chen, Baba C. Vemuri, Li Wang
. Image dnoising and segmentation are fundamental problems in the field of image processing and computer vision with numerous applications. In this paper we present a novel nonlinear diffusion model...
Wang, Li, Oota, Hiroki, Saitou, Naruya, Jin, Feng, Matsushita, Takayuki, Ueda, Shintaroh
To examine temporal changes in population genetic structure, we compared the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of three populations that lived in the same location, Linzi, China, in different...
Park, Jae-II, Kim, Wan-Ju, Wang, Li, Park, Hyun-Jeong, Lee, Jin, Park, Jeong-Hoh, ...
The present study was designed to determine whether progesterone might have a role in gonadotrophin-induced pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (Pacap) gene expression in rat ovary....
A Tool for Constructing Service Replication Systems (1999)
Service replication is a key to providing high availability, fault tolerance and good performance in distributed systems. However, building a service replication system is a di#cult and complex task....
Primary-Backup Object Replications in Java (1998)
Servicereplication is a key to providing high availability, fault tolerance, and good performance in distributed systems. Various replication schemes have been proposed, they are based on two streams...
Nonlocal Control of the Ball and Beam System: Regulation and Tracking (1998)
Li Wang, J. Li, H. O. Wang, D. Niemann, L. Bushnell
For nonlinear control, two problems are usually involved: regulation and tracking. By regulation, we mean make the system stable at the equilibrium point. By tracking, we mean to let the system...
This thesis focuses on the further development of a thin film coating on the internal surface of polypropylene microfiltration membrane. A modified interfacial polymerization of 1,6-naphthalene...
Structural and functional analysis of human beta-galactoside-binding protein (1996)
Galectin-3 is a $\beta$-galactoside-binding protein and plays an important role in cellular physiological and pathological processes. Galectin-3 consists of two structurally distinct domains: the...
Parallel Recovery in a Replicated Object Environment (1996)
Wanlei Zhou And, Wanlei Zhou, Li Wang
A parallel recovery algorithm is proposed in this paper. It detects the parallelity between the recovery operations and executes them in parallel to achieve fast recovery for a network partition...
A Framework for Parallel Map Recognition Based on Blackboard Model (1996)
Li Wang, Koichi Asakura, Toyohide Watanabe
Recently, the studies about parallel image processing have been performed extensively. Many systems adopt the data parallel processing for their parallelizing strategies. In the data parallel...
A Modular Extension to Z for Specification, Reasoning and Refinement (1995)
Peter Kearney, Ed. Kazmierczak, Ed Kazmierczak, Owen Traynor, Owen Traynor, Li Wang, ...
We introduce the concept of modules for the Cogito specification language, SL1 (a variant of Z). An outline of the module reference mechanism, parameterisation and access methods is presented. Some...
Target sequence-specific inhibition of Hiv- replication by ribozymes directed to tatRNA (1995)
Sun, Lun Quan, Wang, Li, Gerlach, Wayne L., Symonds, Geoff
The structural motif formed between a hammerhead ribozyme and its substrate consists of three RNA double helices In which the sequence 5′ to the XUY is termed helix I and the sequence 3′ to the...
Xu, Jiang, Tong, He, Wang, Li, Hurt, Carl M, Pelleg, Amir
Objective: The aim was to study the mechanism of global hypoxia induced atrioventricular (AV) nodal conduction block in vivo using a guinea pig model. Methods: Animals subjected to 10 min periods of...
Somatic Embryogenesis and Its Hormonal Regulation in Tissue Cultures of Freesia refracta (1990)
WANG, LI, HUANG, BAICHU, HE, MENGYUAN, HAO, SHUI
Somatic embryogenesis can be induced in tissue cultures of Freesia refracta either directly from the epidermal cells of explants, or indirectly via intervening callus. These two pathways of somatic...
A computational pipeline for protein structure prediction and analysis at genome scale (1985)
Manesh Shah, Sergei Passovets, Dongsup Kim, Kyle Ellrott, Li Wang, Inna Vokler, ...
The tertiary (3D) structure of a protein contains the essential information for understanding the biological function of the protein at the molecular and cellular levels. Traditionally, protein 3D...
The SOA-Based Knowledge Management in the VROs (1970)
Li Wang, Jiaguyue Xu, Junzhi Li, Guoping Xia
We analyze the features of knowledge management in the Virtual R&D Organizations (VROs) and the features about the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in this paper. The application of SOA in...
Inequity in a market-based health system: evidence from Canada's dental sector
Michel Grignon, Jeremiah Hurley, Li Wang, Sara Allin
We study the extent and drivers of income-related inequity in utilization of dental services in Canada using the concentration-index approach that has been widely applied to study equity in physician...
Promoter Hypermethylation-mediated Inactivation of LRRC4 in Gliomas
Zhang, Zuping, Li, Dan, Wu, Minghua, Xiang, Bo, Wang, Li, Zhou, Ming, ...
Tripeptide tyroserleutide plus doxorubicin: therapeutic synergy and side effect attenuation
Zhu, Zhi-feng, Chen, Li-juan, Lu, Rong, Jia, Jing, Liang, Yu, Xu, Qiong, ...
Song, Guisheng, Park, Kyungtae, Wang, Li
Orphan receptor small heterodimer partner (SHP, NROB2) has been shown to be a metabolic regulator in pathways associated with several major aspects of the metabolic syndrome. However, the...
Nuclear localization of Cdk5 is a key determinant in the postmitotic state of neurons
Zhang, Jie, Cicero, Samantha A., Wang, Li, Romito-DiGiacomo, Rita R., Yang, Yan, Herrup, Karl
Cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) is a nontraditional Cdk that is primarily active in postmitotic neurons. Its best known substrates are cytoskeletal proteins. Less appreciated is its role in the...
Wang, Li, Pino-Lagos, Karina, De Vries, Victor C., Guleria, Indira, Sayegh, Mohamed H., Noelle, Randolph J.
Although mature dendritic cells (DCs) are potent initiators of adaptive immune response, immature steady-state DCs contribute to immune tolerance. In this study, we show that ex vivo splenic DCs are...
Transcriptional mechanism for the paired miR-433 and miR-127 genes by nuclear receptors SHP and ERRγ
MicroRNAs (miRNAs, miRs) are genomically encoded small ∼22 nt RNA molecules that have been shown to mediate translational repression of target mRNAs involved in cellular proliferation,...
Liu, Xiaohong, Wang, Li, Zhang, Shuhui, Lin, Jing, Zhang, Shunmin, Feitelson, Mark A., ...
Background: The hepatitis B virus x gene (HBx) is a promiscuous transactivator implicated in the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The present study was designed to investigate the...
Wang, Li, Sun, Fengzhu, Chen, Ting
A strategy is presented to prioritize the functional modules that mediate genetic perturbations and their phenotypic effects among candidate modules.
Wang, Li, Di, Li-Jun, Lv, Xiang, Zheng, Wei, Xue, Zheng, Guo, Zhi-Chen, ...
Matrix attachment regions (MARs) are important in chromatin organization and gene regulation. Although it is known that there are a number of MAR elements in the β-globin gene cluster, it is unclear...
Xu, Hong, Yan, Jun, Huang, Yiming, Chilton, Paula M., Ding, Chuanlin, Schanie, Carrie L., ...
Sensitization is a critical unresolved challenge in transplantation. We show for the first time that blockade of CD154 alone or combined with T-cell depletion prevents sensitization. Allogeneic skin...
Wang, Li, Pal, Sharmistha, Sif, Saïd
The proper epigenetic modification of chromatin by protein arginine methyltransferases (PRMTs) is crucial for normal cell growth and health. The human SWI/SNF-associated PRMT5 is involved in the...
Macular corneal dystrophy in a Chinese family related with novel mutations of CHST6
Dang, Xiuhong, Zhu, Qingguo, Wang, Li, Su, Hong, Lin, Hui, Zhou, Nan, ...
Orthogonal blocking of response surface split-plot designs
Li Wang, Scott Kowalski, G. Geoffrey Vining
When all experimental runs cannot be performed under homogeneous conditions, blocking can be used to increase the power for testing the treatment effects. Orthogonal blocking provides the same...
Risk factors of earthquake inpatient death: a case control study
Wen, Jin, Shi, Ying Kang, Li, You Ping, Wang, Li, Cheng, Lan, Gao, Zhan, ...
Liu, Huaying, Li, Xiaoling, Niu, Zhaoxia, Zhang, Liming, Zhou, Ming, Huang, He, ...
BRD7 is a novel bromodomain gene. It plays critical role in cell growth, cell cycle progression, and signal-dependent gene expression. Overexpression of the BRD7 gene in nasopharyngeal carcinoma...
Renin-Angiotensin System Blockade Is Renoprotective in Immune Complex–Mediated Glomerulonephritis
Guo, Shunhua, Kowalewska, Jolanta, Wietecha, Tomasz A., Iyoda, Masayuki, Wang, Li, Yi, Kenneth, ...
Blockade of the renin-angiotensin system is renoprotective in a variety of chronic nephropathies, but the direct effect of such treatment in active, immune complex–mediated glomerulonephritis is...
Boule Is Present in Fish and Bisexually Expressed in Adult and Embryonic Germ Cells of Medaka
Xu, Hongyan, Li, Zhendong, Li, Mingyou, Wang, Li, Hong, Yunhan
Cubillos-Ruiz, Juan R., Engle, Xavier, Scarlett, Uciane K., Martinez, Diana, Barber, Amorette, Elgueta, Raul, ...
The success of clinically relevant immunotherapies requires reversing tumor-induced immunosuppression. Here we demonstrated that linear polyethylenimine-based (PEI-based) nanoparticles encapsulating...
Outbreak of Acute Respiratory Disease in China Caused by B2 Species of Adenovirus Type 11▿
Zhu, Zhen, Zhang, Yong, Xu, Songtao, Yu, Pengbo, Tian, Xiaoping, Wang, Li, ...
An outbreak of acute respiratory tract infection occurred in Shanxi Province, China, from March to April 2006. Of the 254 patients affected by this outbreak, 247 patients were students of a senior...
Nuclear Receptor SHP Activates miR-206 Expression via a Cascade Dual Inhibitory Mechanism
MicroRNAs play a critical role in many essential cellular functions in the mammalian species. However, limited information is available regarding the regulation of miRNAs gene transcription....
Probing Lymphocyte Responses to Modulation of F0F1-ATPase by BZ-423.
Bz-423 is an immunomodulatory 1,4-benzodiazepine that binds to the oligomycin sensitivity conferring protein (OSCP) of the mitochondrial F0F1-ATPase and modulates its activity. Inhibition of the...
Ding, Chuanlin, Wang, Li, Marroquin, Jose, Yan, Jun
B cells are antibody (Ab)–secreting cells as well as potent antigen (Ag)–presenting cells that prime T-cell activation, which evokes great interest in their use for vaccine development. Here, we...