Nan Liu

Publication List Details

Period

1990 - 2009

Number

54

Co-Authors

Superposition Encoding and Partial Decoding Is Optimal for a Class of Z-interference Channels (2009)

Nan Liu, Andrea Goldsmith

Abstract — We apply a technique introduced by Korner and Marton to the converse of a class of Z-interference channels. This class has the properties that, for the transmitter-receiver pair that...

Capacity Regions and Bounds for a Class of Z-interference Channels ∗ (2009)

Nan Liu, Andrea Goldsmith

We define a class of Z-interference channels for which we obtain a new upper bound on the capacity region. The bound exploits a technique first introduced by Korner and Marton. A channel in this...

Expression and Significance of Stem Cell Markers CK19, Notch3, CD133, P75NTR, STRO-1 and ABCG2 in Pulmonary Squamous Carcinomas (2009)

Shuli LIU, Nan LIU, Xiaoshi YANG, Hongtao XU, Enhua WANG

Background and objective Increasing reports showed that some tumor stem cells were selfrenewal and multi-lineage differentiated in tumors, similar to the normal stem cells in human body. The aim of...

http://www.lungca.org/index.php?journal=01&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=10.3779%2Fj.issn.1009-3419.2009.05.018&path%5B%5D=813 (2009)

Shuli LIU, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Enhua WANG

Background and objective p120-catenin (p120ctn), a member of the Armadillo gene family, hasemerged as an important modulator of small GTPase activities. Therefore, it plays novel roles in tumor...

Meta Analysis of Association between Polymorphisms in Promoter Region of MMPs gene and (2009)

Shuli LIU, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Enhua WANG

Background and objective p120-catenin (p120ctn), a member of the Armadillo gene family, has emerged as an important modulator of small GTPase activities. Therefore, it plays novel roles in tumor...

Ablation of p120-Catenin Altering the Activity of Small GTPase in Human Lung Cancer Cells (2009)

Shuli LIU, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Enhua WANG

Background and objective p120-catenin (p120ctn), a member of the Armadillo gene family, has emerged as an important modulator of small GTPase activities. Therefore, it plays novel roles in tumor...

N-Ethyl-N-phenyl-N′-tosylformamidine (2009)

Heng-Shui Shen, Nan Liu, Zi-Cheng Li, Wen-Cai Huang

The title compound, C16H18N2O2S, was obtained as an unexpected product while attempting to form carbon–nitrogen bonds by catalytic amidation. The molecule displays an E conformation about the...

P120-catenin Isoforms 1A and 3A Differently Affect the Expression of E-cadherin and β-catenin in Lung Cancer Cells (2009)

Changqing FANG, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Yong ZHANG, Enhua WANG

Background and objective Different isoforms of p120-catenin (p120ctn), the members of catenin family, are variably expressed in different tissues and cells. These isoforms may confer different...

Cloning, expression, and characterization of a novel diketoreductase from Acinetobacter baylyi (2009)

Wu, Xuri, Liu, Nan, He, Yunmian, Chen, Yijun

Reductions of carbonyl groups catalyzed by oxidoreductases are involved in all biological processes and are often a class of important biocatalyst. In this article, we report a novel enzyme...

ABSTRACT Title of dissertation: CAPACITY RESULTS FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS: EFFECTS OF CORRELATION, COOPERATION, AND INTERFERENCE (2008)

Nan Liu

Wireless communications has gained great popularity over the past decades. The wireless medium has many unique characteristics, which create new challenges as well as new opportunities in the...

The Capacity Region of the Cognitive Z-interference Channel with One Noiseless Component (2008)

Liu, Nan, Maric, Ivana, Goldsmith, Andrea, Shamai, Shlomo

We study the discrete memoryless Z-interference channel (ZIC) where the transmitter of the pair that suffers from interference is cognitive. We first provide upper and lower bounds on the capacity of...

Interference Channels with Correlated Receiver Side Information (2008)

Liu, Nan, Gunduz, Deniz, Goldsmith, Andrea J., Poor, H. Vincent

The problem of joint source-channel coding in transmitting independent sources over interference channels with correlated receiver side information is studied. When each receiver has side information...

Capacity Regions and Bounds for a Class of Z-interference Channels (2008)

Liu, Nan, Goldsmith, Andrea

We define a class of Z-interference channels for which we obtain a new upper bound on the capacity region. The bound exploits a technique first introduced by Korner and Marton. A channel in this...

BJTU TRECVID 2006 Video Retrieval System (2008)

Shikui Wei, Yao Zhao, Zhenfeng Zhu, Nan Liu, Yufeng Zhao, Liang Zhang, ...

In this paper, we describe our experiments of search task for TRECVID 2006. This year we participated in the automatic video search subtask and the interactive video search subtask, and submitted two...

BJTU TRECVID 2007 Video Search (2008)

Shikui Wei, Yao Zhao, Zhenfeng Zhu, Nan Liu, Yufeng Zhao, Fang Wang, ...

In this paper, we describe our experiments of search task for TRECVID 2007. This year we participated in the automatic video search subtask, and submitted six runs with different combination of...

Analyzing the Terrorist Social Networks with Visualization Tools (2008)

Christopher C. Yang, Nan Liu, Marc Sageman

Abstract. Analysis of terrorist social networks is essential for discovering knowledge about the structure of terrorist organizations. Such knowledge is important for developing effective combating...

A Bacterial Enzyme Catalyzing Double Reduction of a β,δ-Diketo Ester with Unprecedented Stereoselectivity (2008)

Xuri Wu, Nan Liu, Yunmian He, Yijun Chen

Various ketoreductases exclusively participate in all common biological events, and they are a class of important biocatalysts for the production of chiral alcohols. While many types of ketoreductase...

Yang: A link classification based approach to website topic hierarchy generation (2008)

Nan Liu

Hierarchical models are commonly used to organize a Website’s content. A Website’s content structure can be represented by a topic hierarchy, a directed tree rooted at a Website’s homepage in...

High Expression of TCF-4 Positively Correlated with Lung Cancer Progression (2008)

Lianhe YANG, Hongtao XU, Yan WANG, Yang LIU, Yue ZHAO, Shundong DAI, ...

Background and objective TCF-4 is an important downstream molecule of Wnt signaling pathway, but studies on the expression level and significance of TCF-4 in lung cancer were still limited. The aim...

Secrecy capacity of the 2-2-1 Gaussian MIMO wire-tap channel (2008)

Shabnam Shafiee, Nan Liu, Sennur Ulukus

Abstract—We find the secrecy capacity of the 2-2-1 Gaussian MIMO wire-tap channel, which consists of a transmitter and a receiver with two antennas each, and an eavesdropper with a single antenna....

Contents (2007)

In Advance, Nan Liu, Ashish Sen

The contents of this report strictly reflect the views of the authors who are responsible for the facts and the accuracy presented herein. The contents do not necessarily reflect the official views...

Towards the Secrecy Capacity of the Gaussian MIMO Wire-tap Channel: The 2-2-1 Channel (2007)

Shafiee, Shabnam, Liu, Nan, Ulukus, Sennur

We find the secrecy capacity of the 2-2-1 Gaussian MIMO wire-tap channel, which consists of a transmitter and a receiver with two antennas each, and an eavesdropper with a single antenna. We...

Capacity Results for Wireless Networks: Effects of Correlation, Cooperation and Interference (2007)

Liu, Nan

Wireless communications has gained great popularity over the past decades. The wireless medium has many unique characteristics, which create new challenges as well as new opportunities in the...

Capacity Results for Wireless Networks: Effects of Correlation, Cooperation and Interference (2007)

Liu, Nan

Wireless communications has gained great popularity over the past decades. The wireless medium has many unique characteristics, which create new challenges as well as new opportunities in the...

Scaling laws for dense gaussian sensor networks and the order optimality of separation (2007)

Nan Liu, Student Member, Sennur Ulukus

Abstract—We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source–channel coding problem. There are x uniformly spaced sensor nodes sampling noiselessly a...

Towards the secrecy capacity of the Gaussian MIMO wire-tap channel: The 2-2-1 channel (2007)

Shabnam Shafiee, Nan Liu, Sennur Ulukus

We find the secrecy capacity of the 2-2-1 Gaussian MIMO wire-tap channel, which consists of a transmitter and a receiver with two antennas each, and an eavesdropper with a single antenna. We...

Dense Gaussian Sensor Networks: Minimum Achievable Distortion and the Order Optimality of Separation (2006)

Liu, Nan, Ulukus, Sennur

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying...

The Capacity Region of a Class of Discrete Degraded Interference Channels (2006)

Liu, Nan, Ulukus, Sennur

We provide a single-letter characterization for the capacity region of a class of discrete degraded interference channels (DDICs). The class of DDICs considered includes the discrete additive...

Optimal Distortion-Power Tradeoffs in Gaussian Sensor Networks (2006)

Liu, Nan, Ulukus, Sennur

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying...

Optimal Distortion-Power Tradeoffs in Sensor Networks: Gauss-Markov Random Processes (2006)

Liu, Nan, Ulukus, Sennur

We investigate the optimal performance of dense sensor networks by studying the joint source-channel coding problem. The overall goal of the sensor network is to take measurements from an underlying...

Mining web site’s topic hierarchy (2005)

Nan Liu

Searching and navigating a Web site is a tedious task and the hierarchical models, such as site maps, are frequently used for organizing the Web site’s content. In this work, we propose to model a...

Ergodic capacity region of fading Gaussian multiple access channels with common data (2004)

Nan Liu, Sennur Ulukus

A Gaussian multiple access channel with common data is considered. Capacity region when there is no fading is known [1]. We give a characterization of the ergodic capacity region when there is...

Analytical modeling of serrated chip formation in high-speed machining of aluminum alloys / (2003)

Liu, Nan.

Thesis (M.S.)--Utah State University, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2003.

XRCC2 is Required for the Formation of Rad51 Foci Induced by Ionizing Radiation and DNA Cross-Linking Agent Mitomycin C (2002)

Nan Liu

XRCC2 protein shares weak amino acid sequence similarity with Rad51, which is a central player in homologous recombinational repair (HRR). Rad51 proteins assemble at the sites of HRR and form visible...

Involvement of Rad51C in two distinct protein complexes of Rad51 paralogs in human cells (2002)

Liu, Nan, Schild, David, Thelen, Michael P., Thompson, Larry H.

Genetic studies in rodent and chicken mutant cell lines have suggested that Rad51 paralogs (XRCC2, XRCC3, Rad51B/Rad51L1, Rad51C/Rad51L2 and Rad51D/Rad51L3) play important roles in...

Response of ataxia telangiectasia cells to restriction endonuclease induced DNA double-strand breaks: I. Cytogenetic characterization (1993)

Liu, Nan, Bryant, Peter E.

Ataxia telangiectasia (AT) and normal human lymphoblastoid cell lines have been treated with either X-rays or the restriction endonucleases PvuII and BamHI using streptolysin-O poration, and the...

Radiosensitive Chinese hamster irs2 cells show enhanced chromosomal sensitivity to ionizing radiation and restriction endonuclease induced blunt-ended double-strand breaks (1993)

Bryant, Peter E., Jones, Nigel J., Liu, Nan

The Chinese hamster irs2 cell line shows cellular hypersensitivity to ionizing radiation although the induction and repair of double-strand breaks (dsb) in bulk DNA is normal. Here we report that...

State estimation algorithms for frequency relaying in power systems / (1990)

Liu, Nan.

Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfulment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Department of Electrical Engineering.

The distribution and copy number of copia-like retrotransposons in rice (Oryza sativa L.) and their implications in the organization and evolution of the rice genome

Wang, Shiping, Liu, Nan, Peng, Kaiman, Zhang, Qifa

We used 22 fragments corresponding to the reverse transcriptase domain of copia-like retrotransposons as representatives to study the organization and distribution of these elements in the rice...

The human XRCC9 gene corrects chromosomal instability and mutagen sensitivities in CHO UV40 cells

Liu, Nan, Lamerdin, Jane E., Tucker, James D., Zhou, Zi-Q., Walter, Christi A., Albala, Joanna S., ...

The Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) mutant UV40 cell line is hypersensitive to UV and ionizing radiation, simple alkylating agents, and DNA cross-linking agents. The mutant cells also have a high level...

Involvement of Rad51C in two distinct protein complexes of Rad51 paralogs in human cells

Liu, Nan, Schild, David, Thelen, Michael P., Thompson, Larry H.

Genetic studies in rodent and chicken mutant cell lines have suggested that Rad51 paralogs (XRCC2, XRCC3, Rad51B/Rad51L1, Rad51C/Rad51L2 and Rad51D/Rad51L3) play important roles in homologous...

XRCC2 Is Required for the Formation of Rad51 Foci Induced by Ionizing Radiation and DNA Cross-Linking Agent Mitomycin C

Liu, Nan

XRCC2 protein shares weak amino acid sequence similarity with Rad51, which is a central player in homologous recombinational repair (HRR). Rad51 proteins assemble at the sites of HRR and form visible...

Selective stimulation of VEGFR-1 prevents oxygen-induced retinal vascular degeneration in retinopathy of prematurity

Shih, Shu-Ching, Ju, Meihua, Liu, Nan, Smith, Lois E.H.

Oxygen administration to immature neonates suppresses VEGF-A expression in the retina, resulting in the catastrophic vessel loss that initiates retinopathy of prematurity. To investigate the...

Transforming growth factor β1 induction of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1: Mechanism of pericyte-induced vascular survival in vivo

Shih, Shu-Ching, Ju, Meihua, Liu, Nan, Mo, Jan-Rung, Ney, Joshua J., Smith, Lois E. H.

Degeneration of vessels precedes and precipitates the devastating ischemia of many diseases, including retinopathy of prematurity and diabetic retinopathy. Ischemia then leads to proliferative...

The distribution and copy number of copia-like retrotransposons in rice (Oryza sativa L.) and their implications in the organization and evolution of the rice genome

Wang, Shiping, Liu, Nan, Peng, Kaiman, Zhang, Qifa

We used 22 fragments corresponding to the reverse transcriptase domain of copia-like retrotransposons as representatives to study the organization and distribution of these elements in the rice...

The human XRCC9 gene corrects chromosomal instability and mutagen sensitivities in CHO UV40 cells

Liu, Nan, Lamerdin, Jane E., Tucker, James D., Zhou, Zi-Q., Walter, Christi A., Albala, Joanna S., ...

The Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) mutant UV40 cell line is hypersensitive to UV and ionizing radiation, simple alkylating agents, and DNA cross-linking agents. The mutant cells also have a high level...

Involvement of Rad51C in two distinct protein complexes of Rad51 paralogs in human cells

Liu, Nan, Schild, David, Thelen, Michael P., Thompson, Larry H.

Genetic studies in rodent and chicken mutant cell lines have suggested that Rad51 paralogs (XRCC2, XRCC3, Rad51B/Rad51L1, Rad51C/Rad51L2 and Rad51D/Rad51L3) play important roles in homologous...

XRCC2 Is Required for the Formation of Rad51 Foci Induced by Ionizing Radiation and DNA Cross-Linking Agent Mitomycin C

Liu, Nan

XRCC2 protein shares weak amino acid sequence similarity with Rad51, which is a central player in homologous recombinational repair (HRR). Rad51 proteins assemble at the sites of HRR and form visible...

Selective stimulation of VEGFR-1 prevents oxygen-induced retinal vascular degeneration in retinopathy of prematurity

Shih, Shu-Ching, Ju, Meihua, Liu, Nan, Smith, Lois E.H.

Oxygen administration to immature neonates suppresses VEGF-A expression in the retina, resulting in the catastrophic vessel loss that initiates retinopathy of prematurity. To investigate the...

Transforming growth factor β1 induction of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1: Mechanism of pericyte-induced vascular survival in vivo

Shih, Shu-Ching, Ju, Meihua, Liu, Nan, Mo, Jan-Rung, Ney, Joshua J., Smith, Lois E. H.

Degeneration of vessels precedes and precipitates the devastating ischemia of many diseases, including retinopathy of prematurity and diabetic retinopathy. Ischemia then leads to proliferative...

IGFBP3 suppresses retinopathy through suppression of oxygen-induced vessel loss and promotion of vascular regrowth

Lofqvist, Chatarina, Chen, Jing, Connor, Kip M., Smith, Alexandra C. H., Aderman, Christopher M., Liu, Nan, ...

Vessel loss precipitates many diseases. In particular, vessel loss resulting in hypoxia induces retinal neovascularization in diabetic retinopathy and in retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), major...