Min Wang

Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2009)

Kong, Xu, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Min

Using a simple color selection based on B-, z- and K-band photometry, BzK= (z-K)_AB-(B-z)_AB>-0.2, we picked out 52 star-forming galaxies at 1.4

Classification of Extremely Red Objects in the COSMOS Field (2009)

Kong, Xu, Fang, Guanwen, Arimoto, Nobuo, Wang, Min

We present a study of the classification of z ~1 extremely red objects (EROs), using a combination of HST/ACS, Spitzer/IRAC, and ground-based images of the COSMOS field. Our sample includes about...

LinkedCT: A Linked Data Space for Clinical Trials (2009)

Hassanzadeh, Oktie, Kementsietsidis, Anastasios, Lim, Lipyeow, Miller, Renee J., Wang, Min

The Linked Clinical Trials (LinkedCT) project aims at publishing the first open semantic web data source for clinical trials data. The database exposed by LinkedCT is generated by (1) transforming...

C671 Ying Liu Threshold-Style Processing Threshold-Style Processing of Chinese Characters for Adult Second Language Learners (2009)

Ying Liu, Ying Liu, Min Wang, Charles A. Perfetti

To assess the learning of word form and meaning in an unfamiliar writing system, we carried out primed naming experiments with learners of Chinese at the end of their first and second terms of...

Synthesis of Tapered CdS Nanobelts and CdSe Nanowires with Good Optical Property by Hydrogen-Assisted Thermal Evaporation (2009)

Wang, Min, Fei, Guang Tao

The tapered CdS nanobelts and CdSe nanowires were prepared by hydrogen-assisted thermal evaporation method. Different supersaturation leads to two different kinds of 1D nanostructures. The PL...

Regulation of dopamine transporter activity by carboxypeptidase E (2009)

Zhang, Heping, Li, Shupeng, Wang, Min, Vukusic, Brian, Pristupa, Zdenek B, Liu, Fang

Abstract Background The dopamine transporter (DAT) plays a critical role in terminating the action of dopamine by rapid reuptake into the presynaptic neuron. Previous studies have revealed that the...

Classification of Extremely Red Objects in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2009)

Fang, Guan-Wen, Kong, Xu, Wang, Min

In this paper we present a quantitative study of the classification of Extremely Red Objects (EROs). The analysis is based on the multi-band spatial- and ground-based observations (HST/ACS-$BViz$,...

The signal transduction pathway of PKC/NF-κB/c-fos may be involved in the influence of high glucose on the cardiomyocytes of neonatal rats (2009)

Min Wang, Bin Zhang, Quan Zhou, Hui Zhu, Sheng Fu

Abstract Background High glucose could induce structure and function change in cardiomyocytes, PKC plays a core effect in the onset and progression of diabetic cardiomyopathy, but its underlying...

[(1R,3S)-3-(1,3-Dithian-2-yl)-2,2-dimethylcyclopropyl]diphenylmethanol (2009)

Risong Na, Min Wang

In the title compound, C22H26OS2, prepared from (–)-1R-cis-caronaldehyde, the 1,3-dithiane ring adopts a chair conformation. An intramolecular O—H...S hydrogen bond influences the...

neural (2008)

Min Wang, Piotr Ochenkowski, Alexander Mamishev

Classification of power quality disturbances

E cient Roll-Up and Drill-Down Analysis in Relational Databases Abstract (2008)

Min Wang

Large collections of data, e.g. archives of POS (pointof-sale) in the consumer packaged goods as well as in prescription drugs, are typically iteratively classi ed by a hierarchy [6] on the members...

DesignCon 2006 A Co-design Methodology of Signal Integrity and Power Integrity (2008)

Woong Hwan Ryu, Intel Corporation, Min Wang, Intel Corporation

As PCB interconnection density and channel data rate are getting increasingly higher, various 3D effects, crosstalk, and discontinuity-induced ISI are playing a much more important role, for both...

Abstract (2008)

Yossi Matias, Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation. Given a query P, we need to estimate the fraction...

Puzzle J in Abstract (2008)

Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we need to estimate the...

Seeking Multi-Thresholds Directly From Support Vectors for Image Segmentation (2008)

Songcan Chen, Min Wang

Abstract: Threshold selection is an important topic and also a critical preprocessing step for image analysis, pattern recognition and computer vision. In this letter, a novel automatic image...

A neural network approach of Ultrawideband Nearfield Adaptive Beamforming (2008)

Min Wang, Shuyuan Yang, Shunjun Wu

Abstract. An adaptive beamforming method for ultrawide-band (UWB) array in the case of nearfield is proposed based on the radical basis function neural network (RBFNN) in this paper. The desired...

UWB radar target identification based on linear RBFNN (2008)

Min Wang, Shuyuan Yang, Shunjun Wu

Abstract. In this paper, a radical-basis-function neural network(RBFNN) with efficient linear learning algorithm is presented for the identification on target profiles of Ultra Wideband(UWB) radar....

A Ridgelet Kernel Regression Model using Genetic Algorithm (2008)

Shuyuan Yang, Min Wang, Licheng Jiao

Abstract. In this paper, a ridgelet kernel regression model is proposed for approximation of high dimensional functions. It is based on ridgelet theory, kernel and regularization technology from...

Efficient Update of Indexes for Dynamically Changing Web Documents (2008)

Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Lipyeow Lim, Sriram Padmanabhan, Ramesh Agarwal

Recent work on incremental crawling has enabled the indexed document collection of a search engine to be more synchronized with the changing World Wide Web. However, this synchronized collection is...

Scalable Mining for Classi cation Rules in Relational Databases (2008)

Min Wang, Bala Iyer, Je Scott Vitter

Classi cation is a key function of many \business intelligence " toolkits and a fundamental building block in data mining. Immense data may be needed totrain a classi er for good accuracy....

The molecular ridge close to 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2008)

Ott, Jürgen, Wong, Tony, Pineda, Jorge L., Hughes, Annie, Muller, Erik, Li, Zhi-Yun, ...

With the ATNF Mopra telescope we are performing a survey in the ^(12)CO(1–0) line to map the molecular gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. For some regions we also obtained interferometric maps of...

The molecular ridge close to 30 Doradus in the Large Magellanic Cloud (2008)

Ott, Jurgen, Wong, Tony, Pineda, Jorge L., Hughes, Annie, Muller, Erik, Li, Zhi-Yun, ...

With the ATNF Mopra telescope we are performing a survey in the 12CO(1-0) line to map the molecular gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud. For some regions we also obtained interferometric maps of the...

How Well Are High-End DSPs Suited for the AES Algorithms? (2007)

Aes Algorithms On, Thomas J. Wollinger, Min Wang, Jorge Guajardo, Christof Paar

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that one of the design criteria for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm was the ability to e#ciently implement it...

Dynamic Maintenance of Web Indexes Using Landmarks (2007)

Lipyeow Li M, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Ramesh Agarwal

Recent work on incremental crawling has enabled a search engine to keep its indexed document collection more synchronized with the changing World Wide Web. However, the information in this...

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Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang

In this paper, we introduce an efficient method for the dynamic maintenance of wavelet-based histograms (and other transform-based histograms). Previous work has shown that wavelet-based histograms...

2 (2007)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Jerey Scott Vitter, Ronald Parr

The extensible mark-up language (XML) is gaining widespread use as a format for data exchange and storage on the World Wide Web. Queries over XML data require accurate selectivity estimation of path...

Supporting Efficient Parametric Search of E-Commerce Data: a Loosely-Coupled Solution (2007)

Min Wang, Yuan-chi Chang, Sriram Padmanabhan

Electronic commerce is emerging as a major application area for database systems. A large number of e-commerce sites provide electronic product catalogs that allow users to search products of...

c-Abl Tyrosine Kinase Activates p21 Transcription Via Interaction with p53 (2007)

Jing, Yuqi, Wang, Min, Tang, Wen, Qi, Tianyang, Gu, Chunsheng, Hao, Shui, ...

c-Abl non-receptor tyrosine kinase has been implicated in many cellular processes including cell differentiation, stress response and regulating gene transcription. The mechanism by which c-Abl is...

Supporting ranking and clustering as generalized order-by and group-by (2007)

Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang

The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the “fuzzy ” preferences and “soft ” criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applications. One way to solve this...

c-Abl tyrosine kinase activates p21 transcription via interaction with p53 (2007)

Jing, Yuqi, Wang, Min, Tang, Wen, Qi, Tianyang, Gu, Chunsheng, Hao, Shui, ...

c-Abl non-receptor tyrosine kinase has been implicated in many cellular processes including cell differentiation, stress response and regulating gene transcription. The mechanism by which c-Abl is...

BAF53 Interacts with p53 and Functions in p53-mediated p21-gene Transcription (2007)

Wang, Min, Gu, Chunsheng, Qi, Tianyang, Tang, Wen, Wang, Ling, Wang, Shuyan, ...

BAF53, a component of chromatin remodelling and histone acetyltransferase complexes, has been shown to be essential for cell survival in human cells and plays roles in p53-mediated gene...

c-Abl tyrosine kinase activates p21 transcription via interaction with p53 (2007)

Jing, Yuqi, Wang, Min, Tang, Wen, Qi, Tianyang, Gu, Chunsheng, Hao, Shui, ...

c-Abl non-receptor tyrosine kinase has been implicated in many cellular processes including cell differentiation, stress response and regulating gene transcription. The mechanism by which c-Abl is...

Sulfation of Tibolone Metabolites by Human Postmenopausal Liver and Small Intestinal Sulfotransferases (SULTs) (2006)

Wang, Min, Ebmeier, Christopher C., Olin, John R., Anderson, Robert J.

Sulfation is a major pathway in humans for the biotransformation of steroid hormones and structurally related therapeutic agents. Tibolone is a synthetic steroid used for the treatment for...

Boolean + ranking: Querying a database by k-constrained optimization (2006)

Zhen Zhang, Seung-won Hwang, Min Wang, Christian A. Lang, Yuan-chi Chang

The wide spread of databases for managing structured data, compounded with the expanded reach of the Internet, has brought forward interesting data retrieval and analysis scenarios to RDBMS. In such...

Th1/Th2 Functional Imbalance After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Coronary Arterial Inflammation or Myocardial Inflammation (2005)

Zhang, Lanjing, Chen, Jing, Liao, Yu-Hua, Guo, Zhangqiang, Liu, Ying, Zhang, Jinying, ...

Objectives: The study clarified whether the T-helper (Th)1/Th2 imbalance existed only in coronary arterial inflammation or in both coronary arterial inflammation and myocardial inflammation and...

A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION OF DSMT IN SONAR GRID MAP BUILDING AND COMPARISON WITH DST-BASED APPROACH (2005)

Xinde Li, Xinhan Huang, Jean Dezert, Li Duan, Min Wang

Abstract. Robot perception is becoming more and more popular with the development of artificial intelligence in computer science. Many sensors are usually involved to get a better perception of the...

Team Phoenix (2005)

Jinhee Lee, Luis D. Maya, Chris Metcalf, Prasanth Ramanand, Soumya Simanta, Min Wang

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Enhanced fmam based on empirical kernel map (2005)

Min Wang, Songcan Chen

Abstract—The existing morphological auto-associative memory models based on the morphological operations, typically including Morphological auto-Associative Memories (auto-MAM) proposed by Ritter...

CXHist: An On-line Classification-Based Histogram for XML String Selectivity Estimation (2005)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Query optimization in IBM's System RX, the first truly relational-XML hybrid data management system, requires accurate selectivity estimation of path-value pairs, i.e., the number of nodes in...

Quality-driven evaluation of trigger conditions on streaming time series (2004)

Min Wang, X. Sean Wang

Abstract: For many applications, it is important to evaluate trigger conditions on streaming time series. In a resource constrained environment, users ’ needs should ultimately decide how the...

Expressing and optimizing similarity-based queries in SQL (2004)

Like Gao, Min Wang, X. Sean Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan

Abstract. Searching for similar objects (in terms of near and nearest neighbors) of a given query object from a large set is an essential task in many applications. Recent years have seen great...

Quality-driven evaluation of trigger conditions on streaming time series (2004)

Like Gao, Min Wang, X. Sean Wang

Abstract: For many applications, it is important to evaluate trigger conditions on streaming time series. In a resource constrained environment, users ’ needs should ultimately decide how the...

The implicit and explicit learning of orthographic structure and function of a new writing system (2004)

Min Wang, Ying Liu, Charles A. Perfetti

Two experiments were carried out to examine how adult readers of English learn to acquire the orthographic structure and function of Chinese characters selected from reading material in their...

Efficient evaluation of composite correlations for streaming time series (2003)

Min Wang, X. Sean Wang

Abstract. In applications ranging from stock trading to space mission operations, it is important to monitor the correlations among multiple streaming time series efficiently in order to make timely...

A Flexible, Low-Overhead Ubiquitous System for Medication Monitoring (2003)

Ken Fishkin, Min Wang, Kenneth P. Fishkin, Min Wang

Abstract. For ubiquitous computing systems to gain acceptance, they must be functional, flexible, robust, easy to use, and meet demonstrated user needs within actual user physical contexts and usage...

Dynamic maintenance of web indexes using landmarks (2003)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Ramesh Agarwal

Recent work on incremental crawling has enabled the indexed document collection of a search engine to be more synchronized with the changing World Wide Web. However, this synchronized collection is...

A Learning-Based Approach to Estimate Statistics of Operators in Continuous Queries: a Case Study (2003)

Like Gao, Min Wang, X. Sean Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan

Statistic estimation such as output size estimation of operators is a well-studied subject in the database research community, mainly for the purpose of query optimization. The assumption, however,...

SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set for Dynamically Changing Workloads (2003)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Most RDBMSs maintain a set of histograms for estimating the selectivities of given queries.

SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set For Dynamically Changing Workloads (2003)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Most RDBMSs maintain a set of histograms for estimating the selectivities of given queries. These selectivities are typically used for costbased query optimization. While the problem of building an...

SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set for Dynamically Changing Workloads (2003)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Most RDBMSs maintain a set of histograms for estimating the selectivities of given queries.

Efficient Evaluation of Composite Correlations for Streaming Time Series (2003)

Min Wang, X. Sean Wang

In applications ranging from stock trading to space mission operations, it is important to monitor the correlations among multiple streaming time series efficiently in order to make timely decisions....

SASH: A Self-Adaptive Histogram Set For Dynamically Changing Workloads (2003)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Most RDBMSs maintain a set of histograms for estimating the selectivities of given queries. These selectivities are typically used for costbased query optimization. While the problem of building an...

XPathLearner: An On-Line Self-Tuning Markov Histogram for XML Path Selectivity Estimation (2002)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Jei'ey Scott Vitter, Ronald Parr I

The extensible mark-up language (XML) is gaining widespread use as a format for data exchange and storage on the World Wide Web. Queries over XML data require accurate selectivity estimation of path...

Bleomycin hydrolase and a genetic locus within the MHC affect risk for pulmonary fibrosis in mice (2002)

Haston, Christina K., Wang, Min, Dejournett, Robert E., Zhou, Xinhui, Ni, Dan, Gu, Xiangjun, ...

Susceptibility to pulmonary fibrosis following environmental insults or cytotoxic cancer therapies has a genetic component. In mouse strains differing in susceptibility to bleomycin-induced lung...

Wavelet-based cost estimation for spatial queries (2001)

Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Lipyeow Lim, Sriram Padmanabhan

Abstract. Query cost estimation is an important and well-studied problem in relational database systems. In this paper we study the cost estimation problem in the context of spatial database systems....

Characterizing Web document change (2001)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Ramesh Agarwal

The World Wide Web is growing and changing at an astonishing rate. For the information in the web to be useful, web information systems such as search engines have to keep up with the growth and...

A Hardware Assisted Ldi Building Algorithm With Application To Hybrid Volume Rendering (2001)

Wei Chen, Wenli Cai, Evelyn Firle, Min Wang, Q. Peng, Qunsheng Peng

This paper proposes a new hardware-assisted LDI Building algorithm with application to hybrid volume rendering. It works by creating Layered Depth Image (LDI) using OpenGL. Together with LDI, the...

Characterizing Web document change (2001)

Lipyeow Lim, Min Wang, Sriram Padmanabhan, Ramesh Agarwal

Abstract. The World Wide Web is growing and changing at an astonishing rate. For the information in the web to be useful, web information systems such as search engines have to keep up with the...

Wavelet-based cost estimation for spatial queries (2001)

Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Sriram Padmanabhan

Abstract. Query cost estimation is an important and well-studied problem in relational database systems. In this paper we study the cost estimation problem in the context of spatial database systems....

Dynamic Maintenance of Wavelet-Based Histograms (2000)

Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang

In this paper, we introduce an efficient method for the dynamic maintenance of wavelet-based histograms (and other transform-based histograms). Previous work has shown that wavelet-based histograms...

How Well Are High-End DSPs Suited for the AES Algorithms? (2000)

Thomas J. Wollinger, Min Wang, Jorge Guajardo, Christof Paar

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that one of the design criteria for the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm was the ability to e#ciently implement it...

Approximate Computation of Multidimensional Aggregates of Sparse Data Using Wavelets (1999)

Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang

Computing multidimensional aggregates in high dimensions is a performance bottleneck for many OLAP applications. Obtaining the exact answer to an aggregation query can be prohibitively expensive in...

Detection of EWS/FLI-1 by Immunostaining. An Adjunctive Tool in Diagnosis of Ewing's Sarcoma and Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumour on Cytological Samples and Paraffin-Embedded Archival Material (1999)

Gunnar Nilsson, Min Wang, Johan Wejde, Andris Kreicbergs, Olle Larsson

Purpose. Recently we showed that the 68-kDa fusion protein derived from the EWS/FLI1 hybrid gene can be specifically detected by Western blotting using a polyclonal antibody to the C-terminal of FLI1...

Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation (1998)

Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang

Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we need to estimate the...

Data Cube Approximation and Histograms via Wavelets (Extended Abstract) (1998)

Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang, Bala Iyer

) Jeffrey Scott Vitter Center for Geometric Computing and Department of Computer Science Duke University Durham, NC 27708--0129 USA jsv@cs.duke.edu Min Wang y Center for Geometric Computing and...

Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation (1998)

Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang

Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P , we need to estimate...

Scalable Mining for Classification Rules in Relational Databases (1998)

Min Wang, Bala Iyer, Jeffrey Scott Vitter

Classification is a key function of many "business intelligence" toolkits and a fundamental building block in data mining. Immense data may be needed to train a classifier for good...

Efficient Roll-Up and Drill-Down Analysis in Relational Databases (1997)

Min Wang, Bala Iyer

Large collections of data, e.g. archives of POS (point-of-sale) in the consumer packaged goods as well as in prescription drugs, are typically iteratively classified by a hierarchy [6] on the members...

Selectivity Estimation in the Presence of Alphanumeric Correlations (1997)

Min Wang, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Bala Iyer

Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P , we need to estimate...

Ethnic differences in the prevalence of the homozygous deleted genotype of glutathione S-transferase theta (1995)

Nelson, Heather H., Wiencke, John K., Christiani, David C., Cheng, T.J., Zuo, Zheng-Fa, Schwartz, Brian S., ...

In humans the glutathione S-transferase (GST) genes encode four classes of proteins (GST) important in the detoxification of reactive electrophiles. Recently, a gene deletion polymorphism was...

Supporting Ontology-based Keyword Search over Medical Databases

Kementsietsidis, Anastasios, Lim, Lipyeow, Wang, Min

The proliferation of medical terms poses a number of challenges in the sharing of medical information among different stakeholders. Ontologies are commonly used to establish relationships between...

Discovery of Fully Human Anti-MET Monoclonal Antibodies with Antitumor Activity against Colon Cancer Tumor Models In Vivo1

Van Der Horst, Edward Htun, Chinn, Lawrence, Wang, Min, Velilla, Timothy, Tran, Hoang, Madrona, Yarrow, ...

The receptor tyrosine kinase MET is a major component controlling the invasive growth program in embryonic development and in invasive malignancies. The discovery of therapeutic antibodies against...

Analysis of the 16S–23S rRNA Gene Internal Transcribed Spacer Region in Klebsiella Species▿

Wang, Min, Cao, Boyang, Yu, Qunfang, Liu, Lei, Gao, Qili, Wang, Lei, ...

The 16S-23S rRNA gene internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions of Klebsiella spp., including Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae subsp. ozaenae, Klebsiella pneumoniae...

The altered expression of glucose-regulated proteins 78 in different phase of streptozotocin-affected pancreatic beta-cells

Wang, Min, Wang, Ping, Peng, Ji-Lin, Wu, Sha, Zhao, Xiao-Ping, Li, Li, ...

Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress-mediated apoptosis plays an important role in the destruction of pancreatic beta-cells and contributes to the development of type 1 diabetes. The chaperone molecule,...

High-throughput sequence-based epigenomic analysis of Alu repeats in human cerebellum

Xie, Hehuang, Wang, Min, De F. Bonaldo, Maria, Smith, Christina, Rajaram, Veena, Goldman, Stewart, ...

DNA methylation, the only known covalent modification of mammalian DNA, occurs primarily in CpG dinucleotides. 51% of CpGs in the human genome reside within repeats, and 25% within Alu elements....