Framework for Analyzing Effects of Spring Load Restrictions (2009)
David Levinson, Ning Li, Xi Zou, Brian Smalkoski, Maryam Hashami
Spring load restrictions (SLR) impose restrictions on heavy trucks during the spring thaw period. Although the policies have been implemented for many years, their economic effects on truckers remain...
Liquid Lead-Bismuth Materials Test Loop (2009)
Valentina Tcharnotskaia, Curtt Ammerman, Timothy Darling, Joe King, Ning Li, Don Shaw, ...
We designed and built the Liquid Lead-Bismuth Materials Test Loop (MTL) to study the materials behavior in a flow of molten lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE). In this paper we present a description of the...
Comparison of 2 Lead-Bismuth Spallation Neutron Targets (2009)
Keith Woloshun, Curtt Ammerman, Xiaoyi He, Michael James, Ning Li, Tcharnotskaia Steve Wender
In this paper, the results of a preliminary investigation of two liquid lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) spallation target designs for accelerator transmutation of waste are presented and compared: 1) A...
Curtt Ammerman, Keith Woloshun, Xiaoyi He, Michael James, Ning Li, Valentina Tcharnotskaia, ...
Abstract- This paper presents the results of a preliminary investigation of a spallation target constructed of a helium-cooled, packed bed of tungsten particles. Two packed bed target designs for...
Li, Ning, Long, Yunzhu, Fan, Xuegong, Liu, Hongbo, Li, Cui, Chen, Lizhang, ...
Abstract Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a major cause of cancer death in China, is preceded by chronic hepatitis and liver cirrhosis (LC). Although hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been...
Li, Jian, Gao, Fei, Li, Ning, Li, Shengting, Yin, Guangliang, Tian, Geng, ...
Abstract Background DNA methylation is a widely studied epigenetic mechanism known to correlate with gene repression and genomic stability. Development of sensitive methods for global detection of...
Janghoo Lim, Tong Hao, Chad Shaw, Akash J. Patel, Gábor Szabó, Jean-françois Rual, ...
Many human inherited neurodegenerative disorders are characterized by loss of balance due to cerebellar Purkinje cell (PC) degeneration. Although the disease-causing mutations have been identified...
Corporate Reporting of the Largest Forest Industrial Companies in North America (2009)
Forest products marketing
Simonis, Nicolas, Rual, Jean-Francois, Carvunis, Anne-Ruxandra, Tasan, Murat, Lemmens, Irma, Hirozane-Kishikawa, Tomoko, ...
Abstract: To provide accurate biological hypotheses and elucidate global properties of cellular networks, systematic identification of protein-protein interactions must meet high quality standards....
Qing, Dong-Jin, Lu, Hai-Feng, Li, Ning, Dong, Hai-Tao, Dong, Deng-Feng, Li, You-Zhi
We studied the transcriptional profiles of leaves and roots of three-leaf stage seedlings of the maize inbred line YQ7-96 under conditions of salt stress (100 mM NaCl) and removal of salt stress...
Cryopreservation of porcine oocytes: recent advances (2009)
Successful cryopreservation of porcine gametes and embryos has been very challenging due to their sensitivity to cryoinjuries. Although considerable improvements have been achieved in the...
Genome-wide colonization of gene regulatory elements by G4 DNA motifs (2009)
Du, Zhuo, Zhao, Yiqiang, Li, Ning
G-quadruplex (or G4 DNA), a stable four-stranded structure found in guanine-rich regions, is implicated in the transcriptional regulation of genes involved in growth and development. Previous studies...
Topology construction and maintenance in wireless sensor networks (2008)
Jennifer C. Hou, Ning Li, Ivan Stojmenović
Energy efficiency and network capacity are two of the most important issues in wireless sensor networks. Topology-control algorithms have been proposed to maintain network connectivity while reducing...
ABSTRACT FLSS: A Fault-Tolerant Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Networks ∗ (2008)
Topology control algorithms usually reduce the number of links in a wireless network, which in turn decreases the degree of connectivity. The resulting network topology is more susceptible to system...
Hubble: An Advanced Dynamic Folder System for XML (2008)
Ning Li, Joshua Hui, Hui-i Hsiao, Kevin Beyer
Organizing large document collections for finding information easily and quickly has always been an important user requirement. This paper describes a flexible and powerful dynamic folder technology,...
Evaluation of the 17-kDa Prenyl-binding Protein as a Regulatory (2008)
Protein For Phototransduction, Angela W. Norton, Suzanne Hosier, Jennifer M. Terew, Ning Li, Anuradha Dhingra, ...
this report as prenyl-binding protein/# (PrBP/#)) with PDE6 is at the prenylated, carboxymethylated C terminus of the catalytic subunits (6, 7). Based on peptide competition experiments, PrBP/#...
Antibacterial Constituents from Fruit Bodies of Ascomyce Bulgaria inquinans (2008)
Zhang, Peng, Li, Xian, Li, Ning, Xu, Jing, Li, Zhan-Lin, Wang, Yi, ...
Two ergosterins and two triterpenoids were isolated from the dried fruit bodies of Ascomyce Bulgaria inquinans. By means of chemical (hydrolysis) and spectroscopic methods (NMR, EIMS), their...
Antioxidant Phenolic Compounds from Rhizomes of Curculigo crassifolia (2008)
A pair of new phenolic glycosides, crassifoside G (5) and isocrassifoside G (6), along with five known phenolic compounds (1-4 and 7), were isolated from the ethanolic extract of the rhizomes of...
Megens, Hendrik-Jan, Crooijmans, Richard PMA, Cristobal, Magali, Hui, Xiao, Li, Ning, Groenen, Martien AM
Abstract Microsatellite diversity in European and Chinese pigs was assessed using a pooled sampling method on 52 European and 46 Chinese pig populations. A Neighbor Joining analysis on genetic...
Wang, Yan-Lin, Zhang, Hong, Li, Ning, Wang, Xiaohu, Hao, Ji-Fang, Zhao, Wei-Ping
We investigated the mechanisms of apoptosis resistance and the roles of the phosphorylation of BRCA1, p21, the Bax/Bcl-2 protein ratio and cell cycle arrest induced by irradiation in MCF-7 cells....
Wang, Yan-Lin, Zhang, Hong, Li, Ning, Wang, Xiaohu, Hao, Ji-Fang, Zhao, Wei-Ping
We investigated the mechanisms of apoptosis resistance and the roles of the phosphorylation of BRCA1, p21, the Bax/Bcl-2 protein ratio and cell cycle arrest induced by irradiation in MCF-7 cells....
A Case Study of Core Vector Machines in Corporate Data Mining (2008)
Stefan Nessman, Ning Li, Stefan Voß
The core vector machine (CVM) has been introduced as an extremely fast classifier which is demonstrably superior to standard support vector machines (SVMs) on very large datasets. However, only...
New Gradient-Based Variable Step Size LMS Algorithms (2008)
Yonggang Zhang, Ning Li, Jonathon A. Chambers, Yanling Hao
Two new gradient-based variable step size least-mean-square (VSSLMS) algorithms are proposed on the basis of a concise assessment of the weaknesses of previous VSSLMS algorithms in high-measurement...
Analysis of CMOS Transconductance Amplifiers for Sampling Mixers (2008)
LI, Ning, CHAIVIPAS, Win, OKADA, Kenichi, MATSUZAWA, Akira
In this paper the transfer function of a system with windowed current integration is discussed. This kind of integration is usually used in a sampling mixer and the current is generated by a...
Genome-wide analysis reveals regulatory role of G4 DNA in gene transcription (2008)
Du, Zhuo, Zhao, Yiqiang, Li, Ning
G-quadruplex or G4 DNA, a four-stranded DNA structure formed in G-rich sequences, has been hypothesized to be a structural motif involved in gene regulation. In this study, we examined the regulatory...
Modeling Bottom-Up Visual Attention for Color Images (2008)
LANG, Congyan, XU, De, LI, Ning
Modeling visual attention provides an alternative methodology to image description in many applications such as adaptive content delivery and image retrieval. In this paper, we propose a robust...
Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction From Non-Equidistantly Sampled Data (2007)
Ning Li, Tulay Adali, Moriel Nessaiver
In this paper, we consider the problem of magnetic resonance (MR) image reconstruction from non-uniformly sampled data acquired by echo-planar imaging (EPI) and spiral scan imaging (SSI) techniques....
An Implementation of OCR System Based on Skeleton Matching (2007)
This report gives a general review of the development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), about its key problems and various of the techniques used. An implementation based on skeleton matching...
Dirksen, Wessel P., Lacombe, Veronique A., Chi, Mei, Kalyanasundaram, Anuradha, Viatchenko-Karpinski, Serge, Terentyev, Dmitry, ...
Objective A naturally-occurring mutation in cardiac calsequestrin (CASQ2) at amino acid 307 was discovered in a highly inbred family and hypothesized to cause Catecholaminergic Polymorphic...
James J. Sienicki, Anton Moisseytsev, Won Sik Yang, David C. Wade, Pierre Hanania, Ho Jin Ryu, ...
report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor UChicago Argonne, LLC, nor any of...
Wang, Shi, Bao, Zhenmin, Zhang, Lingling, Li, Ning, Zhan, Aibin, Guo, Wenbo, ...
Planktonic survey is important for understanding the dynamics and structure of populations or communities. However, the small size of early planktonic larvae, usually less than 500µm, make it...
Sun, Zheng, Sood, Sandeep, Li, Ning, Ramji, Divya, Yang, Peiying, Newman, Robert A., ...
Previous studies have shown that aberrant arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism, especially cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-Lox) pathways, are activated during oral carcinogenesis, and can...
Wang, Shi, Bao, Zhenmin, Zhang, Lingling, Li, Ning, Zhan, Aibin, Guo, Wenbo, ...
Planktonic survey is important for understanding the dynamics and structure of populations or communities. However, the small size of early planktonic larvae, usually
Sun, Zheng, Sood, Sandeep, Li, Ning, Ramji, Divya, Yang, Peiying, Newman, Robert A., ...
Previous studies have shown that aberrant arachidonic acid (AA) metabolism, especially cyclooxygenase-2 (Cox-2) and 5-lipoxygenase (5-Lox) pathways, are activated during oral carcinogenesis, and can...
Wang, Shi, Bao, Zhenmin, Zhang, Lingling, Li, Ning, Zhan, Aibin, Guo, Wenbo, ...
Planktonic survey is important for understanding the dynamics and structure of populations or communities. However, the small size of early planktonic larvae, usually less than 500µm, make it...
Li, Ning, Johnson, Chaline, Manfioletti, Guidalberto, ...
Histological separation of synovial sarcomas from malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors can be difficult and available immunohistochemical markers sometimes give rise to overlapping staining...
Huang, Yinhua, Tu, Jianfeng, Cheng, Xuebo, Tang, Bo, Hu, Xiaoxiang, Liu, Zhaoliang, ...
Abstract In order to study duck microsatellites, we constructed a library enriched for (CA)n, (CAG)n, (GCC)n and (TTTC)n. A total of 35 pairs of primers from these microsatellites were developed and...
J-Sim: A simulation and emulation environment for wireless sensor networks (2005)
Ahmed Sobeih, Wei-peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lu-chuan Kung, Ning Li, Hyuk Lim, ...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained considerable attention in the past few years. They have found application domains in battlefield communication, homeland security, pollution sensing and...
Optimizing aggregate array computations in loops (2005)
Yanhong A. Liu, Scott D. Stoller, Ning Li, Tom Rothamel
An aggregate array computation is a loop that computes accumulated quantities over array elements. Such computations are common in programs that use arrays, and the array elements involved in such...
J-Sim: A Simulation and Emulation Environment for Wireless Sensor Networks (2005)
Ahmed Sobeih, Wei-Peng Chen, Jennifer C. Hou, Lu-Chuan Kung, Ning Li, Hyuk Lim, ...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained considerable attention in the past few years. They have found application domains in battlefield communication, homeland security, pollution sensing and...
Hubble: An Advanced Dynamic Folder Technology for XML (2005)
Ning Li, Joshua Hui, Hui-i Hsiao, Kevin S. Beyer
A significant amount of information is stored in computer systems today, but people are struggling to manage their documents such that the information is easily found. XML is a de-facto standard for...
Parametric Design Analysis and Shape Optimization of Coronary Arteries Stent Structure * (2005)
The stent implantation, stenting, is one of the angioplasties to treat atherosclerosis. The success of the stenting is largely determined by the shape design of stents. As objects of analysis and...
Wang, Ning Ning, Shih, Ming-Che, Li, Ning
Ethylene biosynthesis in higher plants is regulated developmentally and environmentally. To investigate the regulation of ACC synthase gene expression, the promoters of Arabidopsis ACS genes, AtACS4,...
Tyr152 plays a central role in the catalysis of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase (2005)
Li, Jian-Feng, Qu, Liang-Hu, Li, Ning
1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase is a key enzyme in the regulation of ethylene biosynthesis in higher plants. To investigate the catalytic significances of two conserved tyrosine...
Tyr152 plays a central role in the catalysis of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase (2005)
Li, Jian-Feng, Qu, Liang-Hu, Li, Ning
1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase is a key enzyme in the regulation of ethylene biosynthesis in higher plants. To investigate the catalytic significances of two conserved tyrosine...
Organic anion transporting polypeptide 4 (Oatp4; Slc21a10) is expressed almost exclusively in liver, where it mediates uptake of a variety of compounds, including bile acids, as well as other endo-...
Wang, Ning Ning, Shih, Ming-Che, Li, Ning
Ethylene biosynthesis in higher plants is regulated developmentally and environmentally. To investigate the regulation of ACC synthase gene expression, the promoters of Arabidopsis ACS genes, AtACS4,...
Wang, Ning Ning, Shih, Ming-Che, Li, Ning
Ethylene biosynthesis in higher plants is regulated developmentally and environmentally. To investigate the regulation of ACC synthase gene expression, the promoters of Arabidopsis ACS genes, AtACS4,...
Tyr152 plays a central role in the catalysis of 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase (2005)
Li, Jian-Feng, Qu, Liang-Hu, Li, Ning
1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase is a key enzyme in the regulation of ethylene biosynthesis in higher plants. To investigate the catalytic significances of two conserved tyrosine...
A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (2004)
Liu, Bin, Wang, Jun, Zhang, Yong, Yang, Xu, Zhang, Zengjin, ...
We describe a genetic variation map for the chicken genome containing 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). This map is based on a comparison of the sequences of three domestic chicken...
Power management and power control in wireless networks (2004)
Rong Zheng, Jennifer C. Hou, Ning Li
With the proliferation of portable computing platforms and small wireless devices, wireless networks have received more and more attention as a means for providing data communications among devices...
Hsiao, W. L. Wendy, Li, You Quan, Lee, Tin Lap, Li, Ning, You, Marilyn M., Chang, Shu-ting
Previously, we developed a simple Rat 6 (R6) cell system by which the inhibitory effects of non-cytotoxic chemicals can be assessed by focus formation assay upon transfection of ras oncogene to the...
Organic anion transporting polypeptide 4 (Oatp4; Slc21a10) is expressed almost exclusively in liver, where it mediates uptake of a variety of compounds, including bile acids, as well as other endo-...
Lamesch, Philippe, Milstein, Stuart, Hao, Tong, Rosenberg, Jennifer, Li, Ning, Sequerra, Reynaldo, ...
The first version of the Caenorhabditis elegans ORFeome cloning project, based on release WS9 of Wormbase (August 1999), provided experimental verifications for ∼55% of predicted protein-encoding...
Human ORFeome Version 1.1: A Platform for Reverse Proteomics (2004)
Rual, Jean-François, Hirozane-Kishikawa, Tomoko, Hao, Tong, Bertin, Nicolas, Li, Siming, Dricot, Amélie, ...
The advent of systems biology necessitates the cloning of nearly entire sets of protein-encoding open reading frames (ORFs), or ORFeomes, to allow functional studies of the corresponding proteomes....
Chen, Xiaoxin, Li, Ning, Wang, Su, Wu, Nan, Hong, Jungil, Jiao, Xiaolong, ...
Background: Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is increasing at the most rapid rate of any cancer in the United States. An esophagogastroduodenal anastomosis (EGDA) surgical model in rats mimics human...
Li, Ning, Chen, Xiaoxin, Liao, Jie, Yang, Guangyu, Wang, Su, Josephson, Youssef, ...
Tea is one of the most popular beverages consumed in the world. Curcumin, the major yellow pigment in turmeric, is used widely as a spice and food-coloring agent. In this study, we studied the...
Solving regular tree grammar based constraints (2001)
Yanhong A. Liu, Ning Li, Scott D. Stoller
This paper describes the precise specication, design, analysis, implementation, and measurements of an ecient algorithm for solving regular tree grammar based constraints. The particular constraints...
Solving regular tree grammar based constraints (2001)
Yanhong A. Liu, Ning Li, Scott D. Stoller
Abstract. This paper describes the precise specication, design, analysis, implementation, and measurements of an ecient algorithm for solving regular tree grammar based constraints. The particular...
Solving regular tree grammar based constraints (2001)
Yanhong A. Liu, Ning Li, Scott D. Stoller
This paper describes the precise speci cation, design, analysis, implementation, and measurements of an e cient algorithm for solving regular tree grammar based constraints. The particular...
Chen, Kefei, Li, Ning, Huang, Lusheng, Zhang, Qin, Zhang, Jiansheng, Sun, Shiquan, ...
Copyright 2008 by Chinese Science Bulletin
Chen, Kefei, Li, Ning, Huang, Lusheng, Zhang, Qin, Zhang, Jiansheng, Sun, Shiquan, ...
Copyright 2008 by Chinese Science Bulletin
Solving Regular Tree Grammar Based Constraints (2000)
Yanhong A. Liu, Ning Li, Scott D. Stoller
This paper describes the precise specification, design, analysis, implementation, and measurements of an efficient algorithm for solving regular tree grammar based constraints. The particular...
To study polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) accumulation and PHA regulation in Bacillus megaterium, transposon mutagenesis with Tn917-LTV1 was carried out and seventy two mutants that produce more or less...
THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF (1998)
ii The motivation behind Computer Augmented Reality (CAR) is to effectively merge real video images and computer generated images to enhance the usefulness of the two sources of information. To...
Typescript (photocopy).
Identification of two mutant alleles of transcobalamin II in an affected family (1994)
Li, Ning, Rosenblatt, David S., Kamen, Barton A., Seetharam, Shakuntla, Seetharam, Bellur
Transcobalamin II (TC II) deficiency is a rare autosomal recessive disease leading to cobalamin (Cbl; Vitamin B12) deficiency characterized by failure to thrive, megaloblastic anemia, impaired...
Computational Research of Chinese Writing System--Han4-Zi4 (1994)
Han4-Zi4 is one of the most ancient writing systems, which has been used over 5000 years by a large population in the world. Although research into Han4-Zi4 started a long time ago, modern...
Liu, Derong, Li, Ning, Dube, Shyam, Kalinski, Andrew, Herman, Eliot, Mattoo, Autar K.
A complementary DNA clone, designated GMACS1, encoding an mRNA for soybean 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) synthase was isolated from a leaf cDNA library, and its nucleotide sequence was...
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Botany, 1960.
Treatment of chronic proliferative cholangitis with c-myc shRNA
Li, Fu-Yu, Cheng, Nan-Sheng, Cheng, Jing-Qiu, Mao, Hui, Jiang, Li-Sheng, Li, Ning, ...
AIM: To investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of c-myc shRNA in inhibiting the hyperplastic behavior and lithogenic potentiality of chronic proliferative cholangitis (CPC), in order to...
Megens, Hendrik-Jan, Crooijmans, Richard PMA, Cristobal, Magali San, Hui, Xiao, Li, Ning, Groenen, Martien AM
Microsatellite diversity in European and Chinese pigs was assessed using a pooled sampling method on 52 European and 46 Chinese pig populations. A Neighbor Joining analysis on genetic distances...
Xuan, Shi-Ying, Xin, Yong-Ning, Chen, An-Jin, Dong, Quan-Jiang, Qiang, Xin, Li, Ning, ...
AIM: To evaluate the arguments for and against the possible roles of H pylori in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).
Effect of spectral resolution on the intelligibility of ideal binary masked speech
Most binary-mask studies assume a fine time–frequency representation of the signal that may not be available in some applications (e.g., cochlear implants). This study assesses the effect of...
A glimpsing account for the benefit of simulated combined acoustic and electric hearing
The benefits of combined electric and acoustic stimulation (EAS) in terms of speech recognition in noise are well established; however the underlying factors responsible for this benefit are not...
Huang, Yinhua, Tu, Jianfeng, Cheng, Xuebo, Tang, Bo, Hu, Xiaoxiang, Liu, Zhaoliang, ...
In order to study duck microsatellites, we constructed a library enriched for (CA)n, (CAG)n, (GCC)n and (TTTC)n. A total of 35 pairs of primers from these microsatellites were developed and used to...
Chen, Chao-Yin, Chow, Drin, Chiamvimonvat, Nipavan, Glatter, Kathryn A., Li, Ning, He, Yuxia, ...
Exposure to secondhand smoke (SHS), a major indoor air pollutant, is linked to increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, including cardiac arrhythmias. However, the mechanisms underlying the...
Li, Ning, Wang, Meiying, Bramble, Lori A., Schmitz, Debra A., Schauer, James J., Sioutas, Constantinos, ...
Compression anastomosis clip for gastrointestinal anastomosis
Liu, Pi-Chu, Jiang, Zhi-Wei, Zhu, Xiao-Lin, Wang, Zhi-Ming, Diao, Yan-Qing, Li, Ning, ...
AIM: To investigate the feasibility of compression anastomosis clip (CAC) for gastrointestinal anastomosis proximal to the ileocecal junction.
Effects of recombinant human growth hormone on enterocutaneous fistula patients
Gu, Guo-Sheng, Ren, Jian-An, Li, Ning, Li, Jie-Shou
AIM: To explore the effects of recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) on intestinal mucosal epithelial cell proliferation and nutritional status in patients with enterocutaneous fistula.
Genome-wide colonization of gene regulatory elements by G4 DNA motifs
Du, Zhuo, Zhao, Yiqiang, Li, Ning
G-quadruplex (or G4 DNA), a stable four-stranded structure found in guanine-rich regions, is implicated in the transcriptional regulation of genes involved in growth and development. Previous studies...