Ethyl pyruvate reduces mortality in an endotoxin-induced severe acute lung injury mouse model (2009)
Shang, Guan-Hong, Lin, Dian-Jie, Xiao, Wei, Jia, Chong-Qi, Li, Yu, Wang, Ai-Hua, ...
Abstract Background Ethyl pyruvate (EP) was recently identified as an experimental therapeutic agent in a wide variety of model systems for inflammation-mediated tissue and cellular injury. Objective...
Simulation of MIMO Channel Capacity With Antenna Polarization Diversity (2008)
Liang Dong, Hosung Choo, Robert W. Heath, Hao Ling
Abstract—A simulation study of the channel capacity of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system exploiting multiple polarizations is carried out. We focus on a simple yet realistic...
Electromagnetic Characterization of MIMO Communication Systems (2008)
Kapil R. D, Sumant Kawale, Liang Dong, Robert W. Heath
The increasing demand for high-speed, high-quality mobile communication has fueled interest in spectrumefficient multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless communication links.Designing,...
Jian-Ying Guo, Fang-Hao Wan, Liang Dong, Gábor L. Lövei, Zhao-Jun Han
Tri-trophic impacts of transgenic Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) cotton GK12 and NuCOTN 99B were studied using a predator, the great lacewing Chrysopa pallens (Rambur), and its prey, the cotton aphid...
Liang Dong, Shujuan Wang, Ming Chen, Hongjia Li, Wenxiang Bi
To study the activation of macrophage and upregulation of costimulatory molecule of CD40 in lipopolysaccharide- (LPS-) induced acute lung injury (ALI) model, and to investigate the pathogenecy of...
Fan Yi-Zheng, Shuang-Dong Li, Liang Dong
A generalized Bethe tree is a rooted tree for which the vertices in each level having equal degree. Let Bk be a generalized Bethe tree of k level, and let T r be a connected transitive graph on r...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
Liang Dong, Shujuan Wang, Ming Chen, Hongjia Li, Wenxiang Bi
To study the activation of macrophage and upregulation of costimulatory molecule of CD40 in lipopolysaccharide- (LPS-) induced acute lung injury (ALI) model, and to investigate the pathogenecy of...
Liang Dong, Junfei Li, Prof Faouzi Kossentini
Introduction In wireless communication environment, multipath propagation and mobile user motion result in a dispersive time-varying communication channel [4] [5]. Local scatterers in the vicinity of...
Benko Zsigmond, Liang Dong, Agbottah Emmanuel, Hou Jason, Taricani Lorena, Young Paul, ...
Abstract Background Expression of the HIV-1 vpr gene in human and fission yeast cells displays multiple highly conserved activities, which include induction of cell cycle G2 arrest and cell death. We...
A Hybrid HMM/Kalman Filter for Tracking Hip Angle in Gait Cycle (2006)
DONG, Liang, WU, Jiankang, BAO, Xiaoming
Movement of the thighs is an important factor for studying gait cycle. In this paper, a hybrid hidden Markov model (HMM)/Kalman filter (KF) scheme is proposed to track the hip angle during gait...
A Two-Channel Training Algorithm for Hidden Markov Model and Its Application to Lip Reading (2005)
Liang Dong, Say Wei Foo, Yong Lian
Hidden Markov model (HMM) has been a popular mathematical approach for sequence classification such as speech recognition since 1980s. In this paper, a novel two-channel training strategy is proposed...
Say Wei Foo, Yong Lian, Liang Dong
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is a machine learning problem. Hidden Markov models are widely used in ASR. Visual speech (lip reading) can be used to improve robustness of speech recognizers....
A Two-Channel Training Algorithm for Hidden Markov Model and Its Application to Lip Reading (2005)
Liang Dong, Say Wei Foo, Yong Lian
Hidden Markov model (HMM) has been a popular mathematical approach for sequence classification such as speech recognition since 1980s. In this paper, a novel two-channel training strategy is proposed...
Monthly Report of Baseband Receiver Software A. System Model of Simplex Voice Communication (2004)
Liang Dong, Wand Lab, I. Accomplished
The transmitter and receiver software can carry a simplex digital voice communication between two PCs (Fig. 1). The sound card is the front-end of the baseband signal, where it servers as the A/D D/A...
Recognition of visual speech elements using adaptively boosted hidden Markov models. (2004)
Foo, Say Wei., Lian, Yong., Dong, Liang.
The performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) system can be significantly enhanced with additional information from visual speech elements such as the movement of lips, tongue, and teeth,...
Opportunistic transmission scheduling for multiuser MIMO systems (2003)
Liang Dong, Teng Li, Yih-fang Huang
An opportunistic transmission scheduling scheme is proposed to make better use of the multiuser diversity gain in a MIMO system. The performance of a MIMO link is quantified by its...
A boosted multi-HMM classifier for recognition of visual speech elements. (2003)
A novel boosted classifier using multiple Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) is reported in this paper. The composite HMMs are specially trained to highlight certain group of training samples with the...
A two-channel training algorithm for hidden Markov model to identify visual speech elements. (2003)
Foo, Say Wei., Yong, Lian., Dong, Liang.
A novel two-channel algorithm is proposed in this paper for discriminative training of Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). It adjusts the symbol emission coefficients of an existing HMM to maximize the...
Cross-speaker viseme mapping using hidden Markov models. (2003)
Dong, Liang., Foo, Say Wei., Yong, Lian.
In this paper, a method of mapping visual speech between different speakers is proposed. This approach adopts Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to model the basic visual speech element – viseme. Some...
Modeling continuous visual speech using boosted viseme models. (2003)
Dong, Liang., Foo, Say Wei., Yong, Lian.
In this paper, a novel connected-viseme approach for modeling continuous visual speech is presented. The approach adopts AdaBoost-HMMs as the viseme models. Continuous visual speech is modeled by...
Adaptive antenna systems for mobile broadband communications (2002)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
Adaptive antenna systems for mobile broadband communications [electronic resource] (2002)
Mobile broadband communication is experiencing rapid growth in technology, markets and range of services. This rapid growth has driven the recent surge of research and development activities for...
Adaptive antenna systems for mobile broadband communications [electronic resource] / (2002)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
Adaptive antenna systems for mobile broadband communications (2002)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002.
Multiple-input multiple-output wireless communication systems using antenna pattern diversity (2002)
Liang Dong, Hao Ling, Robert W. Heath
Abstract- Multipleinput multipleoutpnt (MIMO) wireless cialize our results to the case where the antennas are collocated communication systems employ mnitiple transmit and multiple re-ceive antennas...
In this paper, a novel two-channel learning method for hidden Markov model (HMM) is proposed. This method is specially designed to train HMMs for fine recognition from similar observations. The...
Molecular dynamics study of texture control under ion beam assisted deposition. (2000)
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan
Fabrication & characterisation of Yb3+:Er3+ phosphosilicate fibres for lasers (1998)
Vienne, Guillaume G., Caplen, Julie E., Dong, Liang, Minelly, John D., Nilsson, Johan, Payne, David N.
Fabrication process of efficient Yb codoped fiber. We explain how we evaluate the fibers and discuss the effect of the ytterbium to erbium concentration ratio on the laser characteristics. Finally,...
Role of drawing induced defects in photosensitivity of Sn/Ge and B/Ge - codoped core fibers (1998)
Ky, Nguyen Hong, Limberger, Hans Georg, Salathé, René Paul, Cochet, François, Dong, Liang
Novel optical fibre devices based on MCVD method. (1992)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southampton, 1992.
Dong, Liang, Wang, Jian-an, Jiang, Chen-yang
Objective: To compare a new device (Innocor) for non-invasive measurement of cardiac output (CO) by foreign gas rebreathing method with conventional techniques used in the measurements of cardiac...
Dong, Liang, Wang, Jian-an, Jiang, Chen-yang
Objective: To compare a new device (Innocor) for non-invasive measurement of cardiac output (CO) by foreign gas rebreathing method with conventional techniques used in the measurements of cardiac...
Dong, Liang, Wang, Shujuan, Chen, Ming, Li, Hongjia, Bi, Wenxiang
To study the activation of macrophage and upregulation of costimulatory molecule of CD40 in lipopolysaccharide- (LPS-) induced acute lung injury (ALI) model, and to investigate the pathogenecy of...