Lazaro, E, Zhang, S, Zhang, M, Martinez, S, Heckerman, D, Walker, BD, ...
No abstract available.
Mapping requirement models to mathematical models in control system development (2009)
Schmitz, D., Zhang, M., Rose, T., Jarke, M., Polzer, A., Palczynski, J., ...
Reactive nitrogen in atmospheric emission inventories – a review (2009)
S. Reis, R. W. Pinder, M. Zhang, G. Lijie, M. A. Sutton
Excess reactive Nitrogen (Nr) has become one of the most pressing environmental problems leading to air pollution, acidification and eutrophication of ecosystems, biodiversity impacts, leaching of...
Disperse--a software system for design of selector probes for exon resequencing applications (2009)
Stenberg, J., Zhang, M., Ji, H.
Summary:Selector probes enable the amplification of many selected regions of the genome in multiplex. Disperse is a software pipeline that automates the procedure of designing selector probes for...
M. Zhang, ...
Clouds can significantly affect carbon uptake of forest ecosystems by affecting incoming solar radiation on the ground, temperature and other environmental factors. In this study, we analyzed the...
Reactive nitrogen in atmospheric emission inventories (2009)
S. Reis, R. W. Pinder, M. Zhang, G. Lijie, M. A. Sutton
Excess reactive Nitrogen (Nr) has become one of the most pressing environmental problems leading to air pollution, acidification and eutrophication of ecosystems, biodiversity impacts, leaching of...
SENSING AND CONTROL FOR AUTONOMOUS GRASPING IN DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS. (2008)
M. Zhang, J. Damianakis, M. Buehler
Autonomous grasping in dynamic environments where the object, the robot or both are moving is an increasingly common task in manufacturing. Since the environment is partially or completely known,...
Architecture for Integrated Mems Resonators Quality Factor Measurement (2008)
Mathias, H., Parrain, F., Megherbi, S., Zhang, M., Coste, Ph., ...
In this paper, an architecture designed for electrical measurement of the quality factor of MEMS resonators is proposed. An estimation of the measurement performance is made using PSPICE simulations...
M. Zhang, M. Yudasaka, Y. Miyauchi, S. Maruyama, S. Iijima
Through fluorescence-spectrum measurements, we investigated the effects of light-assisted oxidation with H2O2 (LAOx) on single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) that were individually dispersed in an...
Zhang, K., Wan, H., Zhang, M., Wang, B.
The radioactive species radon (222Rn) has long been used as a test tracer for the numerical simulation of large scale transport processes. In this study, radon transport experiments are carried out...
Zhang, K., Wan, H., Zhang, M., Wang, B.
The radioactive species radon (222Rn) has long been used as a test tracer for the numerical simulation of large scale transport processes. In this study, radon transport experiments are carried out...
Zhang, K., Wan, H., Zhang, M., Wang, B.
The radioactive species radon (222Rn) has long been used as a test tracer for the numerical simulation of large scale transport processes. In this study, radon transport experiments are carried out...
Zhang, K., Wan, H., Zhang, M., Wang, B.
The radioactive species radon (222Rn) has long been used as a test tracer for the numerical simulation of large scale transport processes. In this study, radon transport experiments are carried out...
Cimetidine does not appear to influence the distribution of metformin into human milk (2008)
Gardiner, S. J., Kirkpatrick, C. M.J., Zhang, M., Begg, E. J.
K. Zhang, H. Wan, M. Zhang, B. Wang
The radioactive species radon (<sup>222</sup>Rn) has long been used as a test tracer for the numerical simulation of large scale transport processes. In this study, radon transport...
K. Zhang, H. Wan, M. Zhang, B. Wang
The radioactive species radon (<sup>222</sup>Rn) has long been used as a test tracer for the numerical simulation of large scale transport processes. In this study, radon transport...
[30] P.-A. Raymond. Performance analysis of cellular networks. IEEE (2007)
M. Zhang, Paul E. Wright, T Bell Labs, K. Sallberg, B. Staenow
assignment and reuse partitioning in a cellular mobile telephone
Introducing KINDs to C++ (2007)
Scheyen Yu Zhang, S. Yu, M. Zhang, Q. Zhuang
Kind-C++ has been a on-going project since Fall, 1992. In the project, we introduce a new level of entities, kinds, to C++ 1 . In this paper, we show that by using kinds, C++ templates are more...
Sensing And Control For Autonomous Grasping In Dynamic Environments. (2007)
M. Zhang, J. Damianakis, M. Buehler
Autonomous grasping in dynamic environments where the object, the robot or both are moving is an increasingly common task in manufacturing. Since the environment is partially or completely known,...
Physics of ultrathin-body silicon-on-insulator Schottky-barrier field-effect transistors (2007)
Knoch, Joachim, Zhang, M, Appenzeller, Joerg, Mantl, S
In this article we give an overview over the physical mechanisms involved in the electronic transport in ultrathin-body SOI Schottky-barrier MOSFETs. A strong impact of the SOI and gate oxide...
Improved carrier injection in ultrathin-body SOI Schottky-barrier MOSFETs (2007)
Zhang, M, Knoch, Joachim, Appenzeller, Joerg, Mantl, S
The impact of the gate oxide and the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) body thickness on the electrical performance of SOI Schottky-barrier (SB) MOSFETs with fully nickel silicided source and drain contacts...
ARCHITECTURE FOR INTEGRATED MEMS RESONATORS QUALITY FACTOR MEASUREMENT (2007)
Mathias, H., Parrain, F., Megherbi, S., Zhang, M., Coste, Ph., ...
In this paper, an architecture designed for electrical measurement of the quality factor of MEMS resonators is proposed. An estimation of the measurement performance is made using PSPICE simulations...
Xu, F., Yin, X. M., Zhang, M., Ware, R., Leslie, E., Owen, N.
Abstract Socio-economic status (SES) has a strong influence on cigarette smoking behaviour. However, as a more sensitive and realistic index of SES, family average income (FAI) has little studied...
A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Partner Selection in Multi-Agent Systems (2007)
Traditional negotiation approaches pay intensive attention to decision making models in order to reach the optimal agreements, while placing insufficient efforts on the problem of partner selection....
We propose a new neural network model – Neuron-Adaptive artificial neural Network (NAN) – is developed. A learning algorithm is derived to tune both the neuron activation function free parameters...
Synthesis and low-temperature photoluminescence properties of SnO2 nanowires and nanobelts (2006)
Luo, S. H., Fan, J. Y., Liu, W. L., Zhang, M, Song, Z. T., Lin, C. L., ...
Ultra-long rutile tin dioxide nanowires and nanobelts are synthesized by thermal oxidation of tin powder using gold film as the catalyst. Nanowire or nanobelts can be selectively produced by tuning...
Severe discrepancies between experiment and theory in the superconducting proximity effect (2006)
Zhang, M., Tateishi, G., Bergmann, G.
The superconducting proximity effect is investigated for SN double layers in a regime where the resulting transition temperature T_{c} does not depend on the mean free paths of the films and, within...
Application of Higher-Order Neural Networks to Financial Time-Series Prediction (2006)
Financial time series data is characterized by non-linearities, discontinuities and high frequency, multi-polynomial components. Not surprisingly, conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have...
The edge-to-edge matching model, which was originally developed for predicting crystallographic features in diffusional phase transformations in solids, has been used to understand the formation of...
In situ observation of bainite growth during isothermal holding (2006)
The mechanism of bainite growth has been investigated using in situ transmission electron microscopy observations. It was found that, in a number of alloys studied, a bainitic embryo is made of basic...
Crystallography of carbide-free bainite in a hard bainitic steel (2006)
The convergent beam Kikuchi line diffraction technique has been used to accurately determine the orientation relationships between bainitic ferrite and retained austenite in a hard bainitic steel. A...
Nielsen, I, Nyland, B, Nyland, C, Smyth, R, Zhang, M
Across the developing world education is seen as a means of raising levels of everyday wellbeing and is being linked to improved measures of productivity and economic growth. This paper employs a...
Bonnitcha, P. D., Hall, M. D., Underwood, C. K., Foran, G. J., Zhang, M., Beale, P. J., ...
XANES spectroscopy has been used to investigate whether it is possible to determine the oxidation state and coordination environment of Co complexes following treatment of cancer cells with Co(III)...
Application of Higher-Order Neural Networks to Financial Time-Series Prediction (2006)
Financial time series data is characterized by non-linearities, discontinuities and high frequency, multi-polynomial components. Not surprisingly, conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have...
Crystallography of grain refinement in Mg-Al based alloys (2005)
Zhang, M., Kelly, P. M., Qian, M., Taylor, J. A.
An edge-to-edge matching model has been used to analyze the crystallographic features between magnesium matrix and three commonly accepted heterogeneous nucleants for magnesium grains, Al4C3, Al2CO...
Zhang, M., Kelly, P. M., Easton, M., Taylor, J. A.
The edge-to-edge matching model for describing the interfacial crystallographic characteristics between two phases that are related by reproducible orientation relationships has been applied to the...
Feature selection with adjustable criteria (2005)
Abstract. We present a study on a rough set based approach for feature selection. Instead of using significance or support, Parameterized Average Support Heuristic (PASH) considers the overall...
A Coloured Petri Net Based Strategy for Multi-Agent Scheduling (2005)
In the last decade, the focus of agent research has shifted from single agent systems to multi-agent systems (MASs). Dynamic agent coordination is one of the challenge problems of multi-agent...
Ontology-based resource descriptions for distributed information sources (2005)
Content-based resource description is the key to find appropriate information sources that are most likely to contain the relevant documents for a given user query. However, semantic heterogeneity...
An Agent-based Peer-to-Peer Grid Computing Architecture (2005)
We propose a multi-agent based peer-to-peer grid computing architecture in this paper to solves the issues that the conventional grid architecture is limited in modeling computer systems with highly...
In vitro response of tumour cells to non-uniform irradiation (2005)
Suchowerska, N., Ebert, Martin A., Zhang, M., Jackson, M.
This study examines differences in tumour cellular response using clonogenic cell survival between uniform and non-uniform irradiation. Cells were irradiated with a 6 MV x-ray intensity-modulated...
Geisler, T., Salje, Ekhard K. H., Zhang, M., Daniel, Philippe
We report a near-infrared Fourier-transform (FT) Raman spectroscopic method to characterize the electronic transitions of U ions and the alpha-decay damage in natural zircon. The application is...
The Superconducting Proximity Effect as a Tool to Investigate Metal Films and Interfaces (2004)
Garrett, D., Zhang, M., Bergmann, G.
052The superconducting proximity effect is measured in sandwiches of thin Pb films and the alkali metals Cs, Rb, K and Na. The $T_{c}$-dependence provides information about the interface barriers...
The XML Algebra for Data Mining (2004)
The XML is a new standard for data representation and exchange on the Internet. There are studies on XML query languages as well as XML algebras in literature. However, attention has not been paid to...
Identifying and breaking necessary constraints to web-based metacomputing (2004)
Metacomputing aims at using the computing power of computers linked by networks for various applications, which used to be tackled by dedicated supercomputers a few years ago. Web-based metacomputing...
Delay in solar energetic particle onsets at high heliographic latitudes (2003)
Dalla, S., Balogh, A., Krucker, S., Posner, A., Müller-Mellin, R., Anglin, J. D., ...
Ulysses observations have shown that solar energetic particles (SEPs) can easily reach high heliographic latitudes. To obtain information on the release and propagation of SEPs prior to their arrival...
Mckibben, R. B., Connell, J. J., Lopate, C., Zhang, M., Anglin, J. D., Balogh, A., ...
In 2000?2001 Ulysses passed from the south to the north polar regions of the Sun in the inner heliosphere, providing a snapshot of the latitudinal structure of cosmic ray modulation and solar...
Delay in solar energetic particle onsets at high heliographic latitudes (2003)
Dalla, S., Balogh, A., Krucker, S., Posner, A., Müller-Mellin, R., Anglin, J. D., ...
Ulysses observations have shown that solar energetic particles (SEPs) can easily reach high heliographic latitudes. To obtain information on the release and propagation of SEPs prior to their arrival...
Mckibben, R. B., Connell, J. J., Lopate, C., Zhang, M., Anglin, J. D., Balogh, A., ...
In 2000?2001 Ulysses passed from the south to the north polar regions of the Sun in the inner heliosphere, providing a snapshot of the latitudinal structure of cosmic ray modulation and solar...
Modeling and verifying a Lego car using hybrid I/O automata (2003)
A. Fehnker, F. W. Va, M. Zhang, Ansgar Fehnker, Frits Vaandrager
Abstract. We illustrate the application of the hybrid I/O automata framework of Lynch, Segala & Vaandrager by using it to model and analyze the behavior of a simple Lego car with caterpillar...
RR-TCP: A Reordering-Robust TCP with DSACK (2003)
M. Zhang, B. Karp, S. Floyd, L. Peterson, Ming Zhang, Brad Karp
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IgE dependent mast cell activation potentiates airway responses in murine asthma models (2002)
Zuberi, RI, Zhang, M, Ngo, K, Kuwabara, Y, ...
We have studied murine models of asthma using FcepsilonRIalpha-chain-deficient (FcepsilonRIalpha(-/-)) mice to investigate the role of IgE-dependent mast cell activation in these models. When mice...
Spectra associated with stacking faults in 4H-SiC grown in a hot-wall CVD reactor (2002)
Bai, S, Wagner, G, Shishkin, E, Choyke, WJ, Devaty, RP, Zhang, M, ...
A model for stress-induced martensitic transformation, which was successfully used in an Fe-Ni-C alloy in compression conditions, has been further studied and extended to investigate the...
Neuron-adaptive higher order neural-network models for automated financial data modeling (2002)
Zhang, M., Xu, S., Fulcher, J.
Real-world financial data is often nonlinear, comprises high-frequency multipolynomial components, and is discontinuous (piecewise continuous). Not surprisingly, it is hard to model such data....
Structural imperfection of {beta}-Si3N4 crystals associated with nucleation (2001)
F-Xu, F-F, Bando, Y, Zhang, M, C-Wang, C-M, Mitomo, M
Some kinds of dense strain contrast in [bgr]-Si3N4 have been considered as dislocation tangles formed during mechanical milling. However, our present electron microscopic analyses indicate that the...
Zhang, M., Salje, Ekhard K. H., Farnan, Ian, Ríos, S, Schlüter, Jochen, ...
α-decay damage and recrystallization in natural zircon (with dose ranging from 0.06 to 23.3×1018 α-events g -1) were studied using polarized reflection infrared spectroscopy. The experimental...
Amorphization in zircon: evidence for direct impact damage (2000)
Ríos, S, Salje, Ekhard K. H., Zhang, M.
X-ray diffraction has been used to characterize the amorphous phase present in a series of radiation-damaged natural zircons with radiation doses ranging from 0.06 to 16 × 1018 -decay events g-1 ....
Alvarez, AM, Fidalgo, EG, Sexton, RJ, Zhang, M
This study presents a conceptual and empirical analysis of buyer oligopsony power in a spatial markets setting. The conceptual model analyses behaviour in a market with uniform spatial prices and...
Chirgadze, NY, Sall, DJ, Briggs, SL, Clawson, DK, Zhang, M, Smith, GF, ...
Effect of nimesulide on glucocorticoid receptor activity in human synovial fibroblasts (1999)
Pelletier, JP, Di Battista, JA, Zhang, M, Fernandes, J, Alaaeddine, N
Global Processes that Determine Cosmic Ray Modulation (1998)
Fisk, Len A., Balogh, A., Burger, R. A., Cummings, A. C., Evenson, P., ...
The global processes that determine cosmic ray modulation are reviewed. The essential elements of the theory which describes cosmic ray behavior in the heliosphere are summarized, and a series of...
Hybrid Dixon resultants (1998)
M. Zhang, E. Chionh, R. N. Goldman
Dixon [1908] describes three distinct homogeneous determinant representations for the resultant of three bivariate polynomials of bidegree (m; n). These Dixon resultants are the determinants of...
Avidin targeting of intraperitoneal tumor xenografts (1998)
Yao, Z, Zhang, M, Sakahara, H, Saga, T, Arano, Y, Konishi, J
Ferrite-Capsulated Porous Silica Microspheres for Ultrasonic Contrast Agents (1997)
Zhang, M., Kitamoto, Y., Abe, M.
Porous silica microspheres, ~2.2 µm in average diameter, were encapsulated with magnetite (Fe3O4) by ferrite plating in an aqueous solution of FeCl2 at 65°C. Using the resultant ferrite-capsulated...
Ultrasound Enhanced Ferrite Plating (1997)
Kitamoto, Y., Zhang, M., Haijima, S., Matsumoto, K., Abe, M.
This paper is the first report of sonochemistry (or application of power ultrasound to stimulate chemical processes in liquids) combined with ferrite plating - a wet chemical method to synthesize...
Sensor-Based Online Trajectory Generation for Smoothly Grasping Moving Objects (1994)
We present a new approach to online trajectory planning for target tracking, dynamic grasping and catching. The robot executes a geometric controller -- it simply evaluates a nonlinear function which...
Splice junction mutations in factor IX gene resulting in severe hemophilia B (1991)
Chen, S.H., Zhang, M., Thompson, A.R., Bray, G.L., Scott, C.R.
Yield Mapping in Precision Farming (1970)
M. Zhang, M. Z. Li, Gang Liu, M. H. Wang
Spatial variability of yield is very important in precision farming. With a yield monitor system installed on combine harvester, the yield data can be collected automatically while harvesting. In...
Disperse—a software system for design of selector probes for exon resequencing applications
Stenberg, J., Zhang, M., Ji, H.
Summary:Selector probes enable the amplification of many selected regions of the genome in multiplex. Disperse is a software pipeline that automates the procedure of designing selector probes for...
Possible protective effect of green tea intake on risk of adult leukaemia
Zhang, M, Zhao, X, Zhang, X, Holman, C D'Arcy J
In a case–control study of 107 adults with leukaemia and 110 orthopaedic controls in China, a reduced risk was found with longer duration, higher quantity, and frequency of green tea intake.
Gong, Y, Deng, S, Zhang, M, Wang, G, Minuk, G Y, Burczynski, F
p21WAF1/CIP1 is a universal cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor. To investigate the role of p21WAF1/CIP1 in proliferation of human liver cancer cells, we examined the expression of p53, p21WAF1/CIP1,...
Diet and ovarian cancer risk: a case–control study in China
Zhang, M, Yang, Z Y, Binns, C W, Lee, A H
This case–control study, conducted in Zhejiang, China during 1999–2000, investigated whether dietary factors have an aetiological association with ovarian cancer. Cases were 254 patients with...