Ping Wang

Divergence of exonic splicing elements after gene duplication and the impact on gene structures (2009)

Zhang, Zhenguo, Zhou, Li, Wang, Ping, Liu, Yang, Chen, Xianfeng, Hu, Landian, ...

Abstract Background The origin of new genes and their contribution to functional novelty has been the subject of considerable interest. There has been much progress in understanding the mechanisms by...

Effects of Disability-Based Underwriting Prohibitions on the Labor Market (2009)

Wang, Ping

In the U.S., a majority of the non-elderly population obtains health insurance coverage through an employer. State governments enacted regulations that prohibit the use of a variety of underwriting...

Effects of Disability-Based Underwriting Prohibitions on the Labor Market (2009)

Wang, Ping

In the U.S., a majority of the non-elderly population obtains health insurance coverage through an employer. State governments enacted regulations that prohibit the use of a variety of underwriting...

Effects of Disability-Based Underwriting Prohibitions on the Labor Market (2009)

Wang, Ping

In the U.S., a majority of the non-elderly population obtains health insurance coverage through an employer. State governments enacted regulations that prohibit the use of a variety of underwriting...

Effects of Disability-Based Underwriting Prohibitions on the Labor Market (2009)

Wang, Ping

In the U.S., a majority of the non-elderly population obtains health insurance coverage through an employer. State governments enacted regulations that prohibit the use of a variety of underwriting...

Jamming III: Characterizing Randomness via the Entropy of Jammed Matter (2009)

Briscoe, Christopher, Song, Chaoming, Wang, Ping, Makse, Hernan A.

The nature of randomness in disordered packings of frictional and frictionless spheres is investigated using theory and simulations of identical spherical grains. The entropy of the packings is...

VX-166: a novel potent small molecule caspase inhibitor as a potential therapy for sepsis (2009)

Weber, Peter, Wang, Ping, Maddens, Stephane, Wang, Paul SH, Wu, Rongqian, Miksa, Michael, ...

Abstract Introduction Prevention of lymphocyte apoptosis by caspase inhibition has been proposed as a novel treatment approach in sepsis. However, it has not been clearly demonstrated that caspase...

The drug-resistance to gefitinib in PTEN low expression cancer cells is reversed by irradiation in vitro (2009)

Zhuang, Hong-Qing, Wang, Jun, Yuan, Zhi-Yong, Zhao, Lu-Jun, Wang, Ping, Wang, Chang-Li

Abstract Background Despite of the recent success of EGFR inhibitory agents, the primary drug-resistant becomes a major challenge for EGFR inhibitor therapies. PTEN gene is an important positive...

Semiclassical Approach to Survival Probability at Quantum Phase Transitions (2009)

Wang, Wen-ge, Qin, Pinquan, He, Lewei, Wang, Ping

We study the decay of survival probability at quantum phase transitions (QPT). The semiclassical theory is found applicable in the vicinities of critical points with infinite degeneracy. The theory...

Dosage compensation on the active X chromosome minimizes transcriptional noise of X-linked genes in mammals (2009)

Yin, Shanye, Wang, Ping, Deng, Wenjun, Zheng, Hancheng, Hu, Landian, Hurst, Laurence D, ...

Abstract Background Theory predicts that haploid-expressed genes should have noisier expression than comparable diploid-expressed ones with the same expression level. However, in mammals there are...

Noisy splicing, more than expression regulation, explains why some exons are subject to nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (2009)

Zhang, Zhenguo, Xin, Dedong, Wang, Ping, Zhou, Li, Hu, Landian, Kong, Xiangyin, ...

Abstract Background Nonsense-mediated decay is a mechanism that degrades mRNAs with a premature termination codon. That some exons have premature termination codons at fixation is paradoxical: why...

Functional Evolution of Odorant Binding Proteins Genes in Drosophila melanogaster (2009)

Wang, Ping

Adaptive evolution of animals depends on behaviors that are essential for their survival and reproduction. Adaptive evolution has resulted in diverse chemoreceptor families, in which polymorphisms...

PARALLEL COMPUTATION OF THE REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM (2009)

Ping Wang, Y. Tony Song, Yi Chao, Hongchun Zhang, Ping Wang, Y. Tony Song, ...

The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) is a regional ocean general circulation modeling system solving the free surface, hydrostatic, primitive equations over varying topography. It is free...

Climate Ocean Modeling on Parallel Computers (2009)

Ping Wang, Benny N. Cheng, Yi Chao

Ocean modeling plays an important role in both understanding the current climatic conditions and predicting future climate change. However, modeling the ocean circulation at various spatial and...

Lithium-catalyzed dehydrogenation of ammonia borane within mesoporous carbon framework for chemical hydrogen storage (2009)

Li, Li, Yao, Xiangdong, Sun, Chenghua, Du, Aijun, Cheng, Lina, Zhu, Zhonghua, ...

Ammonia borane (AB) has attracted tremendous interest for on-board hydrogen storage due to its low molecular weight and high gravimetric hydrogen capacity below a moderate temperature. However, the...

Lithium-catalyzed dehydrogenation of ammonia borane within mesoporous carbon framework for chemical hydrogen storage (2009)

Li, Li, Yao, Xiangdong, Sun, Chenghua, Du, Aijun, Cheng, Lina, Zhu, Zhonghua, ...

Ammonia borane (AB) has attracted tremendous interest for on-board hydrogen storage due to its low molecular weight and high gravimetric hydrogen capacity below a moderate temperature. However, the...

Lithium-catalyzed dehydrogenation of ammonia borane within mesoporous carbon framework for chemical hydrogen storage (2009)

Li, Li, Yao, Xiangdong, Sun, Chenghua, Du, Aijun, Cheng, Lina, Zhu, Zhonghua, ...

Ammonia borane (AB) has attracted tremendous interest for on-board hydrogen storage due to its low molecular weight and high gravimetric hydrogen capacity below a moderate temperature. However, the...

Poly[diaqua-μ2-oxalato-di-μ4-succinato-diyttrium(III)] (2009)

Zhi-Feng Li, Chun-Xiang Wang, Ping Wang

In the title compound, [Y2(C4H4O4)2(C2O4)(H2O)2]n, the flexible succinate anion assumes a gauche conformation and bridges the eight-coordinated Y atoms, generating two-dimensional layers parallel to...

Approximation of Second-Order Moment Processes from Local Averages (2009)

Zhanjie Song, Ping Wang, Weisong Xie

We use local averages to approximate processes that have finite second-order moments and are continuous in quadratic mean. We also provide some insight and generalization of the connection between...

Approximation of Second-Order Moment Processes from Local Averages (2009)

Zhanjie Song, Ping Wang, Weisong Xie

We use local averages to approximate processes that have finite second-order moments and are continuous in quadratic mean. We also provide some insight and generalization of the connection between...

Research on Postoperative Radiotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer of Stage IIIA (N2) according to the Failure Patterns after Pulmonary Resection (2009)

Peiyan QIN, Zhiyong YUAN, Jun WANG, Lujun ZHAO, Yanjun SU, Liqun GONG, ...

Background and objective Postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) after complete resection of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has been introduced in order to reduce locoregional recurrence, but it...

Lithium-catalyzed dehydrogenation of ammonia borane within mesoporous carbon framework for chemical hydrogen storage (2009)

Li, Li, Yao, Xiangdong, Sun, Chenghua, Du, Aijun, Cheng, Lina, Zhu, Zhonghua, ...

Ammonia borane (AB) has attracted tremendous interest for on-board hydrogen storage due to its low molecular weight and high gravimetric hydrogen capacity below a moderate temperature. However, the...

The Role of Postoperative Radiotherapy on Stage N2 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (2009)

Fangfang DU, Zhiyong YUAN, Jun WANG, Lujun ZHAO, Qingsong PANG, Liqun GONG, ...

Background and objective The clinical value of postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) in stage N2 nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is controversy. The aim of this study is to analyze the efficacy of PORT...

An Interference Aware Distributed Resource Management Scheme for CDMA-Based Wireless Mesh Backbone (2008)

Hai Jiang, Ping Wang, Weihua Zhuang, Senior Member, Xuemin (sherman Shen, Senior Member

Abstract — In this paper, with a cross-layer design principle, we propose an interference aware distributed resource management scheme for a code-division multiple access (CDMA)-based wireless mesh...

Mapping iso-orientation columns by contrast agent-enhanced functional MRI: reproducibility, specificity and evaluation by optical imaging of intrinsic signal (2008)

Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Chan-hong Moon, Ping Wang, Seong-gi Kim

Activation resembling ocular dominance or orientation columns has been mapped with high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). However, the neuronal interpretation of these...

Abstract (2008)

Ping Wang, Dongryeol Lee

Mean shift is a powerful but computationally expensive method for nonparametric clustering and optimization. It iteratively moves each data point to its local mean until convergence. We introduce a...

ACCEPTED FROM OPEN CALL Differentiated Services for Wireless Mesh Backbone (2008)

Hai Jiang, Weihua Zhuang, Xuemin (sherman Shen, Atef Abdrabou, Ping Wang

although the mobility of wireless routers is not significant, the mobility of MSs in the access networks connected to the wireless mesh backbone may still lead to challenging problems. This issue is...

Evidence for common short natural transsense-antisense pairing between transcripts from protein coding genes (2008)

Wang, Ping, Yin, Shanye, Zhang, Zhenguo, Xin, Dedong, Hu, Landian, Kong, Xiangyin, ...

Abstract Background There is increasing realization that regulation of genes is done partly at the RNA level by sense-antisense binding. Studies typically concentrate on the role of non-coding RNAs...

Phylotyping and Functional Analysis of Two Ancient Human Microbiomes (2008)

Tito, Raúl Y., Macmil, Simone, Wiley, Graham, Najar, Fares, Cleeland, Lauren, Qu, Chunmei, ...

Background: The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) is one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research. Primary interests of the HMP include the distinctiveness of different gut...

Thermal bubble behaviour in liquid nitrogen under electric fields (2008)

Wang, Ping

This thesis describes thermally induced bubble behaviour changes in liquid nitrogen (LN2) under electric fields. Cryogenic liquids such as LN2 have been used not only as the coolant but also as the...

Investigating the effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence in northeast China using ridge regression and hierarchical cluster analysis (2008)

Huang, Desheng, Guan, Peng, Guo, Junqiao, Wang, Ping, Zhou, Baosen

Abstract Background The effects of climate variations on bacillary dysentery incidence have gained more recent concern. However, the multi-collinearity among meteorological factors affects the...

Dynamic Failure Mechanics Investigation on the Advanced Materials with Interfaces (2008)

Wang, Ping

Fracture and failure mechanics of advanced materials and structures with interfaces was investigated both experimentally and numerically. Dynamic fracture mechanics was used to model the phenomena...

Dynamic Failure Mechanics Investigation on the Advanced Materials with Interfaces (2008)

Wang, Ping

Fracture and failure mechanics of advanced materials and structures with interfaces was investigated both experimentally and numerically. Dynamic fracture mechanics was used to model the phenomena...

From force distribution to average coordination number in frictional granular matter (2008)

Wang, Ping, Song, Chaoming, Briscoe, Christopher, Wang, Kun, Makse, Hernan A.

We study the joint probability distribution of normal and tangential frictional forces in jammed granular media, $P_{\mu}(f_t, f_n)$, for various friction coefficient $\mu$, especially when $\mu =...

Jamming I: A volume function for jammed matter (2008)

Song, Chaoming, Wang, Ping, Makse, Hernan A.

We introduce a "Hamiltonian"-like function, called the volume function, indispensable to describe the ensemble of jammed matter such as granular materials and emulsions from a geometrical point of...

Jamming III: Entropy of jammed matter (2008)

Briscoe, Christopher, Song, Chaoming, Wang, Ping, Makse, Hernan A.

We investigate the nature of randomness in disordered packings of frictional spheres. We calculate the entropy of 3D packings through the force and volume ensemble of jammed matter, a mesoscopic...

Jamming II: A phase diagram for jammed matter (2008)

Wang, Ping, Song, Chaoming, Makse, Hernan A.

The problem of finding the most efficient way to pack spheres has an illustrious history, dating back to the crystalline arrays conjectured by Kepler and the random geometries explored by Bernal in...

Jamming IV: Distribution of volumes and coordination number in jammed matter: mesoscopic ensemble (2008)

Wang, Ping, Song, Chaoming, Jin, Yuliang, Makse, Hernan A.

We investigate the distribution of the volume and coordination number associated to each particle in a jammed packing of monodisperse hard sphere using the mesoscopic ensemble developed in Nature...

Differentiated Services for Wireless Mesh Backbone (2008)

Hai Jiang, Weihua Zhuang, Xuemin (sherman Shen, Atef Abdrabou, Ping Wang

This article addresses the quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning issues in the wireless mesh backbone for broadband wireless access. Differentiated services (DiffServ) over the wireless mesh backbone...

Downregulation of protein disulfide isomerase in sepsis and its role in tumor necrosis factor-alpha release (2008)

Zhou, Mian, Jacob, Asha, Ho, Natalie, Miksa, Michael, Wu, Rongqian, Maitra, Subir R, ...

Abstract Introduction Protein disulfide isomerase ( PDI ) is an important factor for the protein modification step in the post-translational event. PDI plays an essential role in cell survival under...

GEOLOGY AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN EASTERN BLUE RIDGE COVER SEQUENCE IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA (2008)

Wang, Ping

The Late Precambrian cover sequence in the Blue Ridge of central Virginia includes rocks of the Moneta Formation and the overlying Lynchburg Group. The Moneta Formation comprises arnphibolites,...

GEOLOGY AND TECTONIC SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LATE PRECAMBRIAN EASTERN BLUE RIDGE COVER SEQUENCE IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA (2008)

Wang, Ping

The Late Precambrian cover sequence in the Blue Ridge of central Virginia includes rocks of the Moneta Formation and the overlying Lynchburg Group. The Moneta Formation comprises arnphibolites,...

Distributed Medium Access Control for QoS Support in Wireless Networks (2008)

Wang, Ping

With the rapid growth of multimedia applications and the advances of wireless communication technologies, quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning for multimedia services in heterogeneous wireless...

Coulomb gauge approach to scalar hadrons (2008)

Cotanch, Stephen R., General, Ignacio J., Wang, Ping, Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J.

The Coulomb gauge model, involving an effective QCD Hamiltonian in the Coulomb gauge, is applied to scalar hadrons. Mass predictions are presented for both conventional q-qbar meson and q-qbar-q-qbar...

Major Advisor Tamper Resistance for Software Protection (2008)

Ping Wang, Ping Wang, Ping Wang

We certify that this work has passed the scholastic standards

AIAA 2001-4718 THE USE OF CLUSTER COMPUTER SYSTEMS FOR NASA/JPL APPLICATIONS ∗ ∗ Copyright © (2008)

Tom Cwik, Gerhard Klimeck, Charles Norton, Thomas Sterling, Frank Villegas, Ping Wang

The application of cluster computer systems has escalated dramatically over the last several years. Driven by a range of applications that need relatively low-cost access to high performance...

Particle dynamics and effective temperature of jammed granular matter in a slowly sheared 3D Couette cell (2008)

Wang, Ping, Song, Chaoming, Briscoe, Christopher, Makse, Hernan A.

We report experimental measurements of particle dynamics on slowly sheared granular matter in a three-dimensional (3D) Couette cell. A closely-packed ensemble of transparent spherical beads is...

A Modular Approach to the Analysis and Evaluation of Particle Filters for Figure Tracking (2008)

Ping Wang, James M. Rehg

This paper presents the first systematic empirical study of the particle filter (PF) algorithms for human figure tracking in video. Our analysis and evaluation follows a modular approach which is...

Line Edge Roughness Becoming Variability Issue (2008)

Ray Heald, Ping Wang, Sun Microsystems, Ray Heald, Ping Wang, Iccad Variability, ...

– Background: Quick review of what is varying – SRAM cell variability analysis

Franck-Condon principle for heavy-quark hadron decays (2008)

Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J., Cotanch, Stephen R., General, Ignacio G., Wang, Ping

The Franck-Condon principle governing molecular electronic transitions is utilized to study heavy-quark hadron decays. This provides a direct assessment of the wavefunction of the parent hadron if...

Meson and tetra-quark mixing (2008)

Wang, Ping, Cotanch, Stephen R., General, Ignacio J.

The mixing between q-qbar meson and qqbar-qqbar tetra-quark states is examined within an effective QCD Coulomb gauge Hamiltonian model. Mixing matrix elements of the Hamiltonian are computed and then...

Ashkin-Teller formalism for elastic response of DNA molecule to external force and torque (2008)

Chang, Zhe, Wang, Ping, Zheng, Ying-Hong

We propose an Ashkin-Teller like model for elastic response of DNA molecule to external force and torque. The base-stacking interaction is described in a simple and uniform way. We obtain the phase...

Topology Changes and Quantum Phase Transition in Spin-Chain System (2008)

Chang, Zhe, Wang, Ping

The standard Landau-Ginzburg scenario of phase transition is broken down for quantum phase transition. It is difficult to find an order parameter to indicate different phases for quantum...

Mechanism of the Anti-inflammatory Effect of Curcumin: PPAR-γ Activation (2008)

Asha Jacob, Rongqian Wu, Mian Zhou, Ping Wang

Curcumin, the phytochemical component in turmeric, is used as a dietary spice and a topical ointment for the treatment of inflammation in India for centuries. Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) is...

Tetrakis(μ-propanoato-κ2O:O′)bis[(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′)(propanoato-κ2O,O′)samarium(III)] (2008)

Chun-Xiang Wang, Zhi-Feng Li, Shu-Hua Xiong, Ping Wang

The title complex, [Sm2(C3H5O2)6(C12H8N2)2], is a dinuclear centrosymmetric molecule, in which two crystallographically equivalent Sm atoms, separated by 3.9502 (2) Å, are bridged by...

Real convergence and regime-switching among EU accession countries (2008)

Holmes, Mark J., Wang, Ping

Real convergence among the ten EU 2004 accession economies is investigated with respect to long-run real interest parity. We employ a novel approach where unitroot tests for real interest...

Evaluation of the human transmission risk of an atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion strain. (2008)

Kong, Qingzhong, Zheng, Mengjie, Casalone, Cristina, Qing, Liuting, Huang, Shenghai, Chakraborty, Bikram, ...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the prion disease in cattle, was widely believed to be caused by only one strain, BSE-C. BSE-C causes the fatal prion disease named new variant...

{alpha}1,4GlcNAc-capped mucin-type O-glycan inhibits cholesterol {alpha}-glucosyltransferase from Helicobacter pylori and suppresses H. pylori growth (2008)

Lee, Heeseob, Wang, Ping, Hoshino, Hitomi, Ito, Yuki, Kobayashi, Motohiro, Nakayama, Jun, ...

Helicobacter pylori infects over half of the world's population and is thought to be a leading cause of gastric ulcer, gastric carcinoma, and gastric malignant lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid...

A gene expression network model of type 2 diabetes links cell cycle regulation in islets with diabetes susceptibility (2008)

Keller, Mark P., Choi, YounJeong, Wang, Ping, Belt Davis, Dawn, Rabaglia, Mary E., Oler, Angie T., ...

Insulin resistance is necessary but not sufficient for the development of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes results when pancreatic beta-cells fail to compensate for insulin resistance by increasing insulin...

Structure dissection of human progranulin identifies well-folded granulin/epithelin modules with unique functional activities (2008)

Tolkatchev, Dmitri, Malik, Suneil, Vinogradova, Anna, Wang, Ping, Chen, Zhigang, Xu, Ping, ...

Progranulin is a secreted protein with important functions in several physiological and pathological processes, such as embryonic development, host defense, and wound repair. Autosomal dominant...

An improved trust model in agent-mediated E-commerce (2008)

Zhang, Zili, Zhou, Min, Wang, Ping

Trust is a fundamental issue in multiagent systems, especially in agent-mediated e-commence. The trust model plays an important role in determining who and how to interact in open and dynamic...

Working Paper Series Inflation, Trade Frictions, and Productive Activity in a Multiple-Matching Model of Money (2007)

Derek Laing, Derek Laing, Victor E. Li, Victor E. Li, Ping Wang, Ping Wang

Abstract: This paper investigates the relationship between money growth, inflation, and productive activity in a general equilibrium model of search. The use of a multiple-matching technique, where...

mu!flw~ TM Authors Sessions Abstracts PostScript Optimization of a Parallel Ocean General Circulation Model (2007)

Ping Wang, D~niei S. Kbti

Global climate modeling is one of the grand challenges of computational science, and ocean modeling plays an important role in both understanding the current climatic conditions and predicting the...

Working Paper Series Financial Matchmakers in Credit Markets with Heterogeneous Borrowers (2007)

Zsolt Becsi, Zsolt Becsi, Victor Li, Victor Li, Ping Wang, Ping Wang

Abstract: What happens when liquidity increases in credit markets and more funds are channeled from borrowers to lenders? We examine this question in a general equilibrium model where financial...

Climate Ocean Modeling on a Beowulf Class System (2007)

Benny N. Cheng, Ping Wang, Yi Chao, Michael Bondarenko

With the growing power and shrinking cost of personal computers, the availability of fast ethernet interconnections, and public domain software packages, it is now possible to combine them to build...

An Estimation Technique for Cell Loss Ratio in ATM Networks with Bursty Multiclass Sources (2007)

Ping Wang Byung, Ping Wang, Byung G. Kim

Estimation of cell loss ratios in a multiclass ATM network turns out to be a computationally intensive problem. In this paper, a computationally efficient algorithm is developed through a series of...

2 (2007)

Ping Wang, Baoguang Xu, Jianfang Wang

A (k; g)-graph is a k-regular graph with girth g. A (k; g)-cage is a (k; g)-graph with the smallest possible number of vertices. In this paper we prove that (k; g)-cages are k-edge-connected if k 3...

Pulse Modulation Techniques for UMTS Handset Transmitters (2007)

Ping Wang, Hans A. Hegt

Abstract — UMTS transmitters in handsets, based on W-CDMA, have to fulfill contradicting requirements. On the one hand, they should operate in a highly power efficient way because battery lifetime...

A note on the edge-connectivity of cages (2007)

Ping Wang, Baoguang Xu, Jianfang Wang

A(k; g)-graph is a k-regular graph with girth g. A (k; g)-cage is a (k; g)-graph with the smallest possible number of vertices. In this paper we prove that (k; g)cages are k-edge-connected if k ≥...

Voice Service Support in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2007)

Jiang, Hai, Wang, Ping, Poor, H. Vincent, Zhuang, Weihua

Mobile ad hoc networks are expected to support voice traffic. The requirement for small delay and jitter of voice traffic poses a significant challenge for medium access control (MAC) in such...

Light 1-+ exotics: molecular resonances (2007)

General, Ignacio J., Wang, Ping, Cotanch, Stephen R., Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J.

Highlights in the search for nonconventional (non qqbar) meson states are the pi_1(1400) and pi_1(1600) exotic candidates. Should they exist, mounting theoretical arguments suggest that they are...

Urban growth and subcenter formation: A trolley ride from the Staples Center to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl (2007)

Berliant, Marcus, Wang, Ping

The long-term trends of urbanization suggest: not only have more cities formed, but the leading metropolises have grown larger, with a number of peripheral subcenters developing over time....

Short-N characteristic radiative transfer method in 2D cylindrical RZ coordinates (2007)

Pereyra, Nicolas A., MacFarlane, Joseph J., Woodruff, Pamela R., Golovkin, Igor E., Wang, Ping

We present a new radiative transfer method Short-N Characteristics that is a hybrid between the standard long characteristic methods and the standard short characteristic methods. We have implemented...

Curricular Ethics in Early Childhood Education Programming: A challenge to the Ontario Kindergarten Program (2007)

Rachel M. Heydon; University Of Western Ontario, Ping Wang; Utahloy International School - Zeng Chen

ABSTRACT. Through a case study of a key Canadian early childhood education program, The Kindergarten Program (Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, 1998a), we explore the relationship between...

Curricular Ethics in Early Childhood Education Programming: A challenge to the Ontario Kindergarten Program (2007)

Rachel M. Heydon; University Of Western Ontario, Ping Wang; Utahloy International School - Zeng Chen

ABSTRACT. Through a case study of a key Canadian early childhood education program, The Kindergarten Program (Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, 1998a), we explore the relationship between...

Curricular Ethics in Early Childhood Education Programming: A challenge to the Ontario Kindergarten Program (2007)

Rachel M. Heydon; University Of Western Ontario, Ping Wang; Utahloy International School - Zeng Chen

ABSTRACT. Through a case study of a key Canadian early childhood education program, The Kindergarten Program (Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, 1998a), we explore the relationship between...

Curricular Ethics in Early Childhood Education Programming: A challenge to the Ontario Kindergarten Program (2007)

Rachel M. Heydon; University Of Western Ontario, Ping Wang; Utahloy International School - Zeng Chen

ABSTRACT. Through a case study of a key Canadian early childhood education program, The Kindergarten Program (Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, 1998a), we explore the relationship between...

On Potentially $(K_5-H)$-graphic Sequences (2007)

Hu, Lili, Lai, Chunhui, Wang, Ping

Let $K_m-H$ be the graph obtained from $K_m$ by removing the edges set $E(H)$ of $H$ where $H$ is a subgraph of $K_m$. In this paper, we characterize the potentially $K_5-P_4$ and $K_5-Y_4$-graphic...

Temporal and Spatial Variations of Surf-Zone Currents and Suspended Sediment Concentration (2007)

Wang, Ping, Ebersole, Bruce A., Smith, Ernest R., Johnson, Bradley D.

Temporal and spatial variations of surf-zone currents and suspended sediment concentrations were investigated at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Large-scale Sediment...

Managing suppliers beyond tier 1: An exploration of motivations and strategies leading to a normative model (2007)

Wang, Ping

The purpose of this research was to determine how the decision to manage suppliers beyond Tier 1 was made in a supply chain context. This research explored the reasons for managing suppliers beyond...

Electrokinetic pumping and spraying at micro/nano level (2007)

Wang, Ping.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007.

Phase transition from hadronic matter to quark matter (2007)

Wang, Ping, Thomas, Anthony William, Williams, Anthony Gordon

Copyright © 2007 The American Physical Society. Submitted to Cornell University's online archive at www.arXiv.org in 2007 by Ping Wang. Post-print sourced from www.arxiv.org.

Inducible overexpression of wild-type prion protein in the muscles leads to a primary myopathy in transgenic mice. (2007)

Huang, Shenghai, Liang, Jingjing, Zheng, Mengjie, Li, Xinyi, Wang, Meiling, Wang, Ping, ...

The prion protein (PrP) level in muscle has been reported to be elevated in patients with inclusion-body myositis, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and neurogenic muscle atrophy, but it is not clear...

Applying Semi-Order Preference Model in Content-Based Service Discovery (2007)

Chun-Lung Huang, Chi-Chun Lo, Ping Wang, Kuo-Ming Chao, Yinsheng Li

Efficient service discovery is a crucial process for Web service utilization. Most existing service discovery approaches, based on either functional or non-functional attributes, do not address the...

CIDA: An integrated software for the design, characterisation and global comparison of microarrays (2007)

Khalid, Sabah, Khan, Mohsin, Symonds, Alistair, Fraser, Karl, Wang, Ping, Liu, Xiaohui, ...

Microarray technology has had a significant impact in the field of systems biology involving the investigation into the biological systems that regulate human life. Identifying genes of significant...

Managing suppliers beyond tier 1 [electronic resource] : an exploration of motivations and strategies leading to a normative model / (2007)

Wang, Ping.

Abstract: The purpose of this research was to determine how the decision to manage suppliers beyond Tier 1 was made in a supply chain context. This research explored the reasons for managing...

Mechanism of the Anti-inflammatory Effect of Curcumin: PPAR-γ Activation (2007)

Asha Jacob, Rongqian Wu, Mian Zhou, Ping Wang

Curcumin, the phytochemical component in turmeric, is used as a dietary spice and a topical ointment for the treatment of inflammation in India for centuries. Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) is...

Cellular Toxicity Induced by SRF-Mediated Transcriptional Squelching (2007)

Lin, Huey, McGrath, Jami, Wang, Ping, Lee, Techung

The transcriptional activator serum response factor (SRF) is a member of the immediate early gene family known to promote embryonic development, cell growth, and myogenesis through interaction with...

A User-Habit Property: Haunting of Users in IP Networks (2007)

WANG, Ping, FANG, Binxing, YUN, Xiaochun, ZHENG, Jun

We focus on the overall representation of network user behavior and observe that the number of destinations accessed by a network user is limited, which means users have certain preferential haunts...

Relationship between Neural, Vascular, and BOLD Signals in Isoflurane-Anesthetized Rat Somatosensory Cortex (2007)

Masamoto, Kazuto, Kim, Tae, Fukuda, Mitsuhiro, Wang, Ping, Kim, Seong-Gi

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in anesthetized rodents has been commonly performed with α-chloralose, which can be used only for terminal experiments. To develop a survival fMRI...

QCD Coulomb Gauge Approach to Exotic Hadrons (2006)

Cotanch, Stephen R., General, Ignacio J., Wang, Ping

The Coulomb gauge Hamiltonian model is used to calculate masses for selected J^{PC} states consisting of exotic combinations of quarks and gluons: ggg glueballs (oddballs), q bar{q} g hybrid mesons...

Po-210 and Pb-210 in the Planktons of the Northern South China Sea and the Luzon Strait: Distribution and radioactive Disequilibrium (2006)

Wang, Ping

Pb-210 and Po-210, a parent-daughter pair, are particle-reactive radionuclides. Pb-210 tends to be associated with inorganic particles but Po-210 prefers organic particles. In the context of these...

Dynamic particle tracking reveals the aging temperature of a colloidal glass (2006)

Wang, Ping, Song, Chaoming, Makse, Hernan A.

Understanding glasses is considered to be one of the most fundamental problems in statistical physics. A theoretical approach to unravel their universal properties is to consider the validity of...

Corn Response to Compost and Manure Amendments Combined with No-Till or Plow Tillage (2006)

Durkalski, J., Wang, Ping, Hoitink, H.A., Dick, W.A.

Poster presented at the ASA/CSSA/SSSA annual meetings in Indianapolis, Indiana in Nov. 2006

Production-based large scale construction simulation modeling / (2006)

Wang, Ping.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Construction Engineering and Management, Dept. of...

Analysing Microarray Data using the Multi-functional Immune Ontologiser (2006)

Khalid, Sabah, Fraser, Karl, Khan, Mohsin, Wang, Ping, Liu, Xiaohui, Li, Suling

Gene expression microarrays are a prominent experimental tool in functional genomics allowing researchers to gain a deeper understanding of biological processes. To date, no such tool has been...

Asymmetric adjustment towards long-run PPP: Some new evidence for Asian economies (2006)

Holmes, Mark J., Wang, Ping

This paper investigates relative purchasing power parity for a sample of nine Asian economies during the post-Bretton Woods floating exchange rate era. While most existing studies of purchasing power...

Effects of Guben Hutan Tongmai Recipe on expressions of macrophages and cell adhesion molecules of aortic endothelia in rats with syndrome of phlegm blocking blood vessel (2006)

Ping WANG

Objective: To observe the effects of Guben Huatan Tongmai Recipe (GBHTTMR), a compound Chinese herbal recipe, on expressions of macrophages and cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) of aortic endothelia in...

2 Hierarchical Mixture Models for Expression Profiles (2006)

Michael A. Newton, Ping Wang, Christina Kendziorski

A class of probability models for inference about alterations in gene expression is reviewed. The class entails discrete mixing over patterns of equivalent and differential expression among different...

Relationship between Neural, Vascular, and BOLD Signals in Isoflurane-Anesthetized Rat Somatosensory Cortex (2006)

Masamoto, Kazuto, Kim, Tae, Fukuda, Mitsuhiro, Wang, Ping, Kim, Seong-Gi

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in anesthetized rodents has been commonly performed with α-chloralose, which can be used only for terminal experiments. To develop a survival fMRI...

Relationship between Neural, Vascular, and BOLD Signals in Isoflurane-Anesthetized Rat Somatosensory Cortex (2006)

Masamoto, Kazuto, Kim, Tae, Fukuda, Mitsuhiro, Wang, Ping, Kim, Seong-Gi

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in anesthetized rodents has been commonly performed with α-chloralose, which can be used only for terminal experiments. To develop a survival fMRI...

Granular dynamics in compaction and stress relaxation (2005)

Brujic, Jasna, Wang, Ping, Song, Chaoming, Johnson, David L., Sindt, Olivier, Makse, Hernan A.

Elastic and dissipative properties of granular assemblies under uniaxial compression are studied both experimentally and by numerical simulations. Following a novel compaction procedure at varying...

The cyclophilins (2005)

Wang, Ping, Heitman, Joseph

Abstract Summary Cyclophilins (Enzyme Commission (EC) number 5.1.2.8) belong to a group of proteins that have peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerase activity; such proteins are collectively known as...

Experimental and computational studies of jamming (2005)

Song, Chaoming, Wang, Ping, Potiguar, Fabricio, Makse, Hernan A.

Jamming is a common feature of out of equilibrium systems showing slow relaxation dynamics. Here we review our efforts in understanding jamming in granular materials using experiments and computer...

Experimental measurement of an effective temperature for jammed granular materials (2005)

Song, Chaoming, Wang, Ping, Makse, Hernan A.

A densely packed granular system is an example of an out-of-equilibrium system in the jammed state. It has been a longstanding problem to determine whether this class of systems can be described by...

Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Swirling Flows and Turbulent Premixed Combustion (2005)

Wang, Ping

With the increasing concerns about our environment and human health, more and more stringent emission limits have been specified. These adopted and still coming emission limits require and promote...

INTERACTIONS OF PEPTIDES WITH SIMPLE LEWIS ACIDS AND FRAGMENTATION MECHANISMS OF ADDUCTS STUDIED BY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY (2005)

Wang, Ping

The dissociations of [Cu(II)AA(AA-H)]+ complexes with the amino acids (AA) Gly, Ala, Val, Leu, Ile, t-Leu, and Phe (no heteroatoms in the side chain) have been examined in the gas phase by tandem...

Sampling the Top-K representative data for classification (2005)

Wang, Ping

(Computing Science) Thesis (M.Sc.) - School of Computing Science - Simon Fraser University

INTERACTIONS OF PEPTIDES WITH SIMPLE LEWIS ACIDS AND FRAGMENTATION MECHANISMS OF ADDUCTS STUDIED BY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY (2005)

Wang, Ping

The dissociations of [Cu(II)AA(AA-H)]+ complexes with the amino acids (AA) Gly, Ala, Val, Leu, Ile, t-Leu, and Phe (no heteroatoms in the side chain) have been examined in the gas phase by tandem...

Liquid-gas phase transition and Coulomb instability of asymmetric nuclear systems (2005)

Wang, Ping, Leinweber, Derek Bruce, Thomas, A. W., Williams, Anthony Gordon

Copyright © 2005. Nuclear Physics. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Submitted to Cornell University’s online archive www.arXiv.org in 2005 by Ping Wang. Post-print sourced from www.arxiv.org.

Interactions of peptides with simple Lewis acids and fragmentation mechanisms of adducts studied by tandem mass spectrometry [electronic resource] / (2005)

Wang, Ping., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.

"The dissociations of [Cu(II)AA(AA-H)]+ complexes with the amino acids (AA) Gly, Ala, Val, Leu, Ile, t-Leu, and Phe (no heteroatoms in the side chain) have been examined in the gas phase by tandem...

Interactions of peptides with simple Lewis acids and fragmentation mechanisms of adducts studied by tandem mass spectrometry / (2005)

Wang, Ping.

"The dissociations of [Cu(II)AA(AA-H)]+ complexes with the amino acids (AA) Gly, Ala, Val, Leu, Ile, t-Leu, and Phe (no heteroatoms in the side chain) have been examined in the gas phase by tandem...

Liquid-gas phase transition and Coulomb instability of asymmetric nuclear systems (2005)

Wang, Ping, Leinweber, Derek Bruce, Thomas, A. W., Williams, Anthony Gordon

Copyright © 2005. Nuclear Physics. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Submitted to Cornell University’s online archive www.arXiv.org in 2005 by Ping Wang. Post-print sourced from www.arxiv.org.

Ghrelin improves tissue perfusion in severe sepsis via downregulation of endothelin-1 (2005)

Wu, Rongqian, Dong, Weifeng, Zhou, Mian, Cui, Xiaoxuan, Hank Simms, H., Wang, Ping

Objectives: Severe sepsis is associated with increased total peripheral resistance (TPR) and decreased organ blood flow, in which endothelin-1 (ET-1) plays an important role. Plasma levels of...

Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac Toxin in a Greenhouse-Derived Strain of Cabbage Looper (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) (2004)

Wendy C. Kain, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Alida F. Janmaat, Judith Myers, Anthony M. Shelton, Ping Wang

A population of cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni (Hübner), collected from commercial greenhouses in the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada, in 2001 showed a resistance level of 24-fold to...

Ocean Modeling and Visualization on Massively Parallel Computer (2004)

Yi Chao, Li, P. Peggy, Wang, Ping, Katz, Daniel S., Cheng, Benny N.

Climate modeling is one of the grand challenges of computational science, and ocean modeling plays an important role in both understanding the current climatic conditions and predicting future...

Crime, Ethics and Occupational Choice: Endogenous Sorting in a Closed Model (2004)

Conley, John P., Wang, Ping

We consider a simple model in which agents are endowed with heterogeneous abilities and differing degrees of honesty. Agents choose either to become criminals or invest in education and become...

Crime, Ethics and Occupational Choice: Endogenous Sorting in a Closed Model (2004)

Wang, Ping, Conley, John P.

We consider a simple model in which agents are endowed with heterogeneous abilities and differing degrees of honesty. Agents choose either to become criminals or invest in education and become...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee (2004)

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee (2004)

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee (2004)

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

Occupational Choice and Dynamic Indeterminacy (2003)

Mino, Kazuo, Koji, Shimomura, Wang, Ping

This paper construct a two-sector model of two-period lived overlapping generations with endogenous occupational choice where ability-heterogeneous agents choose whether to become educated when young...

Design and characterisation of an automatic stethoscope / (2003)

Wang, Ping.

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, 2003.

Uniqueness of semilinear elliptic inverse problem (2003)

Chaochun Qu, Ping Wang

We consider the uniqueness of the inverse problem for a semilinear elliptic differential equation with Dirichlet condition. The necessary and sufficient condition of unique solution is obtained. We...

Uniqueness of semilinear elliptic inverse problem (2003)

Chaochun Qu, Ping Wang

We consider the uniqueness of the inverse problem for a semilinear elliptic differential equation with Dirichlet condition. The necessary and sufficient condition of unique solution is obtained. We...

Functional association of cytokine-induced SH2 protein and protein kinase C in activated T cells (2003)

Chen, Shangwu, Anderson, Per O., Li, Li, Sjögren, Hans-Olov, Wang, Ping, Li, Su-Ling

TCR signaling is mediated by intracellular signaling molecules and nuclear transcription factors, which are tightly regulated by interaction with regulatory proteins such as Grb2 and SLAP. We...

Pioglitazone and metformin in obese women with polycystic ovary syndrome not optimally responsive to metformin (2003)

Glueck, Charles J., Moreira, Andrew, Goldenberg, Naila, Sieve, Luann, Wang, Ping

BACKGROUND: In an observational study of 13 women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) not optimally responsive to metformin diet, we assessed the efficacy and safety of addition of pioglitazone. We...

Nominal and Real Disturbances and Money Demand in Chinese Hyperinflation (2003)

Tallman, Ellis W., Tang, De-Piao, Wang, Ping

This article reexamines the dynamics of hyperinflation by allowing variability in the relative price of capital goods in units of consumption goods that reflects interactions between the real and...

Differential activation of signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT)3 and STAT5 and induction of suppressors of cytokine signalling in Th1 and Th2 cells (2003)

Anderson, Per, Sundstedt, Anette, Li, Li, O’Neill, Emma J., Li, Suling, Wraith, David C., ...

Cytokines direct the differentiation of naive CD4+ T cells into either IFN‐γ‐producing Th1 cells or IL‐4‐producing Th2 cells. In this study, we analyzed the activation of...

Association of tapasin and COPI provides a new mechanism for the retrograde transport of MHC class I molecules from the Golgi complex to the ER. (2002)

Paulsson, Kajsa M, Kleijmeer, Monique J, Griffith, Janice, Jevon, Marc, Chen, Shangwu, Anderson, Per O., ...

Tapasin is a subunit of the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP). It associates with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I. We show that tapasin interacts with b- and...

Pregnancy outcomes among women with polycystic ovary syndrome treated with metformin (2002)

Glueck, Charles J., Wang, Ping, Goldenberg, Naila, Sieve-Smith, Luann

BACKGROUND: We sought to determine whether metformin, which had facilitated conception in 72 oligoamenorrhoeic women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), would safely reduce the rate of first...

Localization of Midgut-Specific Protein Antigens from Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) Using Monoclonal Antibodies (2001)

Ping Wang, John T. Conrad, Mohammed Shahabuddin

Most insect transmitted pathogens interact with the midgut of their vectors for infection and, in some cases, development. Therefore, molecules associated with the midgut epithelium in direct contact...

Multivariate Markov switiching common factor models for the UK (2001)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 01/1.

Estimating the permanent and transitory components of the U.K business cycle (2001)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This paper forms part of the ESRC funded project (Award No. L1382511013) “Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: A Comparative Time Series Study”, which itself is part of the...

Regime Shifts in European Real Interest Rates (2001)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This paper forms part of the ESRC funded project (Award No. L1382511013) “Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: A Comparative Time Series Study”, which itself is part of the...

Multivariate Markov switiching common factor models for the UK (2001)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 01/1.

Estimating the permanent and transitory components of the U.K business cycle (2001)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This paper forms part of the ESRC funded project (Award No. L1382511013) “Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: A Comparative Time Series Study”, which itself is part of the...

Regime Shifts in European Real Interest Rates (2001)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This paper forms part of the ESRC funded project (Award No. L1382511013) “Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth: A Comparative Time Series Study”, which itself is part of the...

X-ray structure of a novel matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor complexed to stromelysin (2001)

Dunten, Pete, Kammlott, Ursula, Crowther, Robert, Levin, Wayne, Foley, Louise H., Wang, Ping, ...

A new class of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitors has been identified by screening a collection of compounds against stromelysin. The inhibitors, 2,4,6-pyrimidine triones, have proven to be...

Distinct differences in association of MHC class I with endoplasmic reticulum proteins in wild-type, and {beta}2-microglobulin- and TAP-deficient cell lines (2001)

Paulsson, Kajsa M., Wang, Ping, Anderson, Per O., Chen, Shangwu, Pettersson, Ralf F., Li, Suling

In this study we have compared the interaction of human MHC class I molecules with IgG heavy chain (HC) binding protein (BiP), calnexin, calreticulin, tapasin and TAP in β 2 -microglobulin (β 2 ...

Assembly of tapasin-associated MHC class I in the absence of the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) (2001)

Paulsson, Kajsa M., Anderson, Per O., Chen, Shangwu, Sjögren, Hans-Olov, Ljunggren, Hans-Gustaf, Wang, Ping, ...

The assembly of MHC class I molecules is regulated by a multi-protein complex in the endoplasmic reticules (ER) termed the loading complex. Tapasin is suggested to be one of the molecules forming...

Isospin dependence of liquid-gas phase transition in hot asymmetric nuclear matter (2000)

Qian, W. L., Su, Ru-Keng, Wang, Ping

By using the Furnstahl, Serot and Tang's model, the effect of density dependence of the effective nucleon-nucleon-rho-meson (NN-rho) coupling on the liquid-gas phase transition in hot asymmetric...

Plucking models of business cycle fluctuations: evidence from the G-7 countries (2000)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 00/3.

Do monetary shocks exert nonlinear real effects on UK industrial production? (2000)

Holmes, Mark J., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 00/4.

Oil and the asymmetric adjustment of UK output: a Markov-switching approach (2000)

Holmes, Mark J., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 00/8.

Homogenization in elastodynamics with force term depending on time (2000)

Ping Wang

We extend the study on the homogenization problem for an elastic material containing a distributed array of gas bubbles to the case when the body force depends on time. By technically constructing an...

Determination of conductivity in a heat equation (2000)

Ping Wang, Kewang Zheng

We consider the problem of determining the conductivity in a heat equation from overspecified non-smooth data. It is an ill-posed inverse problem. We apply a regularization approach to define and...

Plucking models of business cycle fluctuations: evidence from the G-7 countries (2000)

Mills, Terence C., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 00/3.

Do monetary shocks exert nonlinear real effects on UK industrial production? (2000)

Holmes, Mark J., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 00/4.

Oil and the asymmetric adjustment of UK output: a Markov-switching approach (2000)

Holmes, Mark J., Wang, Ping

This is Business Cycle Volatility and Economic Growth Research Paper No. 00/8.

Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration (2000)

Marcus Berliant, Ping Wang

those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth...

Homogenization in elastodynamics with force term depending on time (2000)

Ping Wang

We extend the study on the homogenization problem for an elastic material containing a distributed array of gas bubbles to the case when the body force depends on time. By technically constructing an...

Determination of conductivity in a heat equation (2000)

Ping Wang, Kewang Zheng

We consider the problem of determining the conductivity in a heat equation from overspecified non-smooth data. It is an ill-posed inverse problem. We apply a regularization approach to define and...

Low protein diets delay end-stage renal disease in non-diabetic adults with chronic renal failure (2000)

Fouque, Denis, Wang, Ping, Laville, Maurice, Boissel, Jean-Pierre

Background. The objective of this study was to determine the efficacy of low protein diets in delaying the need to start maintenance dialysis based on an analysis of published literature....

Existence of global solution for a differential system with initial data in Lp (1999)

Peter Bates, Fengxin Chen, Ping Wang

In this paper, we study the system governing flows in the magnetic field within the earth. The system is similar to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By establishing a new priori estimates and...

Ocean Modeling and Visualization on a Massively Parallel Computer. Parallel Computing for Industrial and Scientific Applications (1999)

Yi Chao, P. Peggy Li, Ping Wang, Daniel S. Katz, Benny N. Cheng

Climate modeling is one of the grand challenges of computational science, and ocean modeling plays an important role in both understanding the current climatic conditions and predicting future...

Existence of global solution for a differential system with initial data in Lp (1999)

Peter Bates, Fengxin Chen, Ping Wang

In this paper, we study the system governing flows in the magnetic field within the earth. The system is similar to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. By establishing a new priori estimates and...

Development of a Large-Scale Laboratory Facility for Sediment Transport Research (1998)

Hamilton, David G., Ebersole, Bruce A., Smith, Ernest R., Wang, Ping

This report documents the development and initial applications of the Large-scale Sediment Transport Facility (LSTF), which is located at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center...

Longshore Sediment Transport as a Function of Energy Dissipation (1998)

Smith, Ernest R., Wang, Ping

Experiments to measure waves, currents, and sediment transport rate for two breaker types, plunging and spilling, were conducted in a large-scale three-dimensional physical model. It was found that...

Beach-Profile Evolution under Spilling and Plunging Breakers (1998)

Wang, Ping, Ebersole, Bruce A., Smith, Ernest R.

Beach-profile evolution, along with measurements of waves, currents, and sediment concentration, under spilling and plunging breakers of similar height were studied in the three-dimensional...

Evaluation of the CERC Formula Using Large-Scale Model Data (1998)

Smith, Ernest R., Wang, Ping, Zhang, Jun

Longshore transport experiments were conducted in a large-scale physical model to evaluate predictions of the CERC formula with measured longshore sediment transport rates. It was found that the CERC...

Observation of a Massive Transformation from Alpha to Gamma in Quenched Ti-48 At. Pct Al Alloys. (1998)

Wang, Ping, Viswanathan, G. B., Vasudevan, Vijay K.

Examinations were made on phase transformations in Ti-48 at% Al alloys; the alloy showed great ductility at room temperature and good strength at elevated temperatures; heat treatment had a...

Composition Dependence of the Massive Transformation from Alpha to Gamma in Quenched TiAl Alloys. (1998)

Wang, Ping, Vasudevan, Vijay K.

The microstructures of Ti-(43-50)at.%Al alloys water quenched from the fully alpha-phase region were studied. Evidence for the massive transformation from alpha to gamma phase in alloys with 46.54-50...

On the differential system govering flows in magnetic field with data in Lp (1998)

Fengxin Chen, Ping Wang, Chaoshun Qu

In this paper we study the system governing flows in the magnetic field within the earth. The system is similar to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. For initial data in space Lp, we obtained...

Costly Intermediation and the Big Push (1998)

Zsolt Becsi, Ping Wang, Mark Wynne

: Many existing theories of financial intermediation have difficulty explaining why financial activity can generate large real effects. This paper argues that the large real effects may reflect a...

Endogenous Market Structures and Financial Development (1998)

Zsolt Becsi, Ping Wang, Mark A. Wynne

: Existing theories that emphasize the significance of financial intermediation for economic development have not addressed two important empirical facts: (i) the relationship between financial and...

On the differential system govering flows in magnetic field with data in Lp (1998)

Fengxin Chen, Ping Wang, Chaoshun Qu

In this paper we study the system governing flows in the magnetic field within the earth. The system is similar to the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations. For initial data in space Lp, we obtained...

Development of Retinoblastoma in the Absence of Telomerase Activity (1996)

Gupta, Jyothi, Han, Li-Ping, Wang, Ping, Gallie, Brenda L., Bacchetti, Silvia

Background: The length and stability of telomeres (essential functional structures at the end of eukaryotic chromosomes) have been implicated in the control of cell lifespan. Most somatic cells lack...

CAN GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT PERMANENTLY ALTER FERTILITY? THE CASE OF CHINA (1995)

SCOTESE, CAROL A., WANG, PING

We quantitatively assess the main sources of fertility fluctuations in China and find that only preference shifts involving education, health care and the employment and social status of women, can...

Induction of a cytogenetic adaptive response in germ cells of irradiated mice with very low-dose rate of chronic {gamma}-irradiation and its biological influence on radiation-induced DNA or chromosomal damage and cell killing in their male offspring (1995)

Cai, Lu, Wang, Ping

In earlier studies we have shown that either a single exposure or multiple exposures to a low dose of X-rays (0.05 Gy) induced a significant cytogenetic adaptive response in mouse germ cells. In this...

Wide band noise in MOSFETs (1993)

Wang, Ping

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.

Wide band noise in MOSFETs (1993)

Wang, Ping

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1993.

The Frame-based model of nursing care plans on the HELP system. (1989)

Wang, Ping.

The computerized nursing care plan is an integral part of HELP nursing subsystem. The frame technology, which is a new architecture for implementing a knowledge driven hospital information system,...

The Frame-based model of nursing care plans on the HELP system. (1989)

Wang, Ping.

The computerized nursing care plan is an integral part of HELP nursing subsystem. The frame technology, which is a new architecture for implementing a knowledge driven hospital information system,...

The frame-based model of nursing care plans on the HELP system /--by Ping Wang. (1989)

Wang, Ping.

Thesis (M.S.)--Dept. of Medical Informatics, University of Utah, 1989.

On diameter critical graphs / (1989)

Wang, Ping.

Thesis (M. Sc.)--University of Regina, 1989.

Occupational Choice and Dynamic Indeterminacy

Kazuo Mino, Koji Shimomura, Ping Wang

This paper construct a two-sector model of two-period lived overlapping generations with endogenous occupational choice where ability-heterogeneous agents choose whether to become educated when...

Dynamics in a Transactions-Based Monetary Growth Model

Sailesh K. Jha, Ping Wang, Chong K.Yip

This paper examines the dynamic properties of a monetary endogenous growth model in which money is introduced into the system via a transactions-cost technology. A monetary equilibrium that either...

Fight Fire with Fire: A Model of Pollution and Growth with Cooperative Settlement

Chia-Ying Chang, Chien-Chieh Huang, Ping Wang

This paper establishes a growth model where firms and residents in polluted areas bargain cooperatively to settle environmental concerns. While economic development affects the extent of the...

Production Externalities and Urban Configuration

Marcus Berliant, Shin-Kun Peng, Ping Wang

Jacobs (1969) argues that uncompensated knowledge spillovers have played a crucial role in population agglomeration and thus in the generation of cities. We explore this idea formally by extending...

Credit Market Imperfections, Financial Activity and Economic Growth

Been-Lon Chen, Yeong-Yuh Chiang, Ping Wang

This paper develops a dynamic general-equilibrium model with production to examine the inter-relationships between the real and the financial sectors with and without credit market imperfections. Due...

Educational Policy and Skill Heterogeneity with Credit Market Imperfections

John Fender, Ping Wang

An overlapping-generations model where agents choose whether to become educated when young is presented. Education enhances productivity, but needs to be financed by borrowing. Because of the...

Money and Prices in a Multiple Matching Decentralized Trading Model

Derek Laing, Victor Li, Ping Wang

We study price determination and exchange patterns in a monopolistically competitive economy, in which both goods and (fiat) money are perfectly divisible. The decentralized trading environment...

Factor Accumulation and Trade: Dynamic Comparative Advantage with Endogenous Physical and Human Capital

Eric W. Bond, Kathleen Trask, Ping Wang

This paper develops a two country endogenous growth model with accumulation of both physical and human capital. We establish the existence of two country balanced growth equilibria in which physical...

Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration

Marcus Berliant, Ping Wang

Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic...

Market Frictions, Technology Adoption and Economic Growth

Been-Lon Chen, Jie-Ping Mo, Ping Wang

This paper develops an endogenous growth model with labor market matching and technology adoption. While labor market search and entry frictions lengthen technology diffusion, exogenous technology...

Welfare Analysis of the Number and Locations of Local Public Facilities

Marcus Berliant, Shin-kun Peng, Ping Wang

We develop a discrete or finite household model with congestable local public goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously determined in a...

Skill Differentiation and Income Disparity in a Decentralized Matching Model of North-South Trade

George Norman, Ping Wang

This paper develops a North-South trade model in which the South produces food and the North produces both food and a high-tech good. Food production is undertaken by unskilled workers while the...

The Economics of "New Blood"

Derek Laing, Theodore Palivos, Ping Wang

A dynamic general equilibrium model of search and matching is constructed in which: (i) the stock of public knowledge grows through time and (ii) workers accumulate a fraction of this knowledge...

Educational Policy in a Credit Constrained Economy with Skill Heterogeneity

John Fender, Ping Wang

An overlapping-generations model where agents choose whether to become educated when young is presented. Education enhances productivity, but needs to be financed by borrowing. Because of the...

Anticipated Inflation, Real Disturbances and Money Demand: The Case of Chinese Hyperinflation, 1946-49

Ellis W. Tallman, De-piao Tang, Ping Wang

This paper re-examines the dynamics of hyperinflation extending the standard Cagan framework. In our theoretical model, we allow the relative price of capital goods in units of consumption goods to...

Activation of a Modern Industry

Ping Wang, Danyang Xie

This paper constructs an integrated framework to disentangle the underlying economic mechanism of industrial transformation. We consider three essential elements for the analysis: skill requirements,...

Sorting by foot: `travel-for' local public goods and equilibrium stratification

Shin-Kun Peng, Ping Wang

We re-examine Tiebout's hypothesis of endogenous sorting in a competitive spatial equilibrium framework, by considering both income and preference heterogeneity and by allowing agents to decide...

Stock return volatility and trading volume: evidence from the chinese stock market

Ping Wang, Peijie Wang, Aying Liu

This study investigates the dynamic relationship between stock return volatility and trading volume for individual stocks listed on the Chinese stock market as well as market portfolios of these...

Occupational Choice and Dynamic Indeterminacy

Kazuo Mino, Koji Shimomura, Ping Wang

This paper construct a two-sector model of two-period lived overlapping generations with endogenous occupational choice where ability-heterogeneous agents choose whether to become educated when...

Finance Thy Growth: The Role of Occupational Choice By Ability-Heterogeneous Agents

Neville N. Jiang, Ping Wang, Haibin Wu

This paper develops an overlapping-generations model of finance and growth with intrinsic heterogeneity in loanable fund conversion ability, where agents make occupational choice between becoming...

Financial Collusion and Over-Lending

Jinyoung Hwang, Ping Wang

We build a model consisting of a borrowing firm, a lending institution (bank), and a third party influencing loan decision-making (auditor/government regulator) where a low-type firm can bribe the...

Crime, Ethics and Occupational Choice: Endogenous Sorting in a Closed Model

John P. Conley, Ping Wang

We consider a simple model in which agents are endowed with heterogeneous abilities and differing degrees of honesty. Agents choose either to become criminals or invest in education and become...

Financial Matchmakers in Credit Markets with Heterogeneous Borrowers

Zsolt Becsi, Victor Li, Ping Wang

What happens when liquidity increases in credit markets and more funds are channeled from borrowers to lenders? We examine this question in a general equilibrium model where financial matchmakers...

Identification of the MATa mating-type locus of Cryptococcus neoformans reveals a serotype A MATa strain thought to have been extinct

Lengeler, Klaus B., Wang, Ping, Cox, Gary M., Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen with a defined sexual cycle involving mating between haploid MATa and MATα cells. Here we describe the isolation of part of the MATa...

An intestinal mucin is the target substrate for a baculovirus enhancin

Wang, Ping, Granados, Robert R.

An invertebrate intestinal mucin (IIM) was identified from a lepidopterous insect, Trichoplusia ni. The IIM is a major protein constituent of the peritrophic membrane that facilitates the digestive...

Five-transmembrane domains appear sufficient for a G protein-coupled receptor: Functional five-transmembrane domain chemokine receptors

Ling, Kun, Wang, Ping, Zhao, Jian, Wu, Ya-Lan, Cheng, Zhi-Jie, Wu, Guo-Xiang, ...

The putative seven-transmembrane (TM) domains have been the structural hallmark for the superfamily of heterotrimeric G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that regulate a variety of cellular functions...

Cloning and functional characterization of a subunit of the transporter associated with antigen processing

Li, Suling, Sjögren, Hans-Olov, Hellman, Ulf, Pettersson, Ralf F., Wang, Ping

The transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) is essential for the transport of antigenic peptides across the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. In addition, TAP interacts with major...

Thrombospondin-1 Induces Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Adherens Junction Proteins and Regulates an Endothelial Paracellular Pathway

Goldblum, Simeon E., Young, Bradford A., Wang, Ping, Murphy-Ullrich, Joanne E.

Thrombospondin-1 (TSP) induces endothelial cell (EC) actin reorganization and focal adhesion disassembly and influences multiple EC functions. To determine whether TSP might regulate EC–EC...

Identification of bdm-1, a gene involved in G protein β-subunit function and α-subunit accumulation

Kasahara, Shin, Wang, Ping, Nuss, Donald L.

Targeted disruption of Gα and Gβ genes has established the requirement of an intact G protein signaling pathway for optimal execution of several important physiological processes, including...

The G-Protein β Subunit GPB1 Is Required for Mating and Haploid Fruiting in Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen with a defined sexual cycle. The gene encoding a heterotrimeric G-protein β subunit, GPB1, was cloned and disrupted. gpb1 mutant strains...

Immunosuppressive and Nonimmunosuppressive Cyclosporine Analogs Are Toxic to the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans via Cyclophilin-Dependent Inhibition of Calcineurin

Cruz, M. Cristina, Del Poeta, Maurizio, Wang, Ping, Wenger, Roland, Zenke, Gerhard, Quesniaux, Valerie F. J., ...

Cyclosporine (CsA) is an immunosuppressive and antimicrobial drug which, in complex with cyclophilin A, inhibits the protein phosphatase calcineurin. We recently found that Cryptococcus neoformans...

Signal Transduction Cascades Regulating Fungal Development and Virulence

Lengeler, Klaus B., Davidson, Robert C., D'souza, Cletus, Harashima, Toshiaki, Shen, Wei-Chiang, Wang, Ping, ...

Cellular differentiation, mating, and filamentous growth are regulated in many fungi by environmental and nutritional signals. For example, in response to nitrogen limitation, diploid cells of the...

Cloning, Sequencing, and Characterization of the cgmB Gene of Sinorhizobium meliloti Involved in Cyclic β-Glucan Biosynthesis

Wang, Ping, Ingram-Smith, Cheryl, Hadley, Jill A., Miller, Karen J.

Periplasmic cyclic β-glucans of Rhizobium species provide important functions during plant infection and hypo-osmotic adaptation. In Sinorhizobium meliloti (also known as Rhizobium meliloti), these...

Mating-Type-Specific and Nonspecific PAK Kinases Play Shared and Divergent Roles in Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Nichols, Connie B., Lengeler, Klaus B., Cardenas, Maria E., Cox, Gary M., Perfect, John R., ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen with a defined sexual cycle involving fusion of haploid MATα and MATa cells. Virulence has been linked to the mating type, and MATα cells...

C2A activates a cryptic Ca2+-triggered membrane penetration activity within the C2B domain of synaptotagmin I

Bai, Jihong, Wang, Ping, Chapman, Edwin R.

Synaptotagmin (syt) I, an integral membrane protein localized to secretory vesicles, is a putative Ca2+ sensor for exocytosis. Its N terminus spans the membrane once, and its cytoplasmic domain...

Stable Defined Substrate for Turbidimetric Assay of Endoxylanases

Wang, Ping, Broda, Paul

A stable xylan suspension was prepared and characterized. Hydrolysis of the particles converts them into soluble fragments, thereby lowering the turbidity of the suspension. The small volume of the...

Sexual Cycle of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii and Virulence of Congenic a and α Isolates

Nielsen, Kirsten, Cox, Gary M., Wang, Ping, Toffaletti, Dena L., Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cryptococcus neoformans is a human-pathogenic fungus that has evolved into three distinct varieties that infect most prominently the central nervous system. A sexual cycle involving haploid cells of...

Hyperosmolarity enhances the lung capillary barrier

Safdar, Zeenat, Wang, Ping, Ichimura, Hideo, Issekutz, Andrew C., Quadri, Sadiqa, Bhattacharya, Jahar

Although capillary barrier deterioration underlies major inflammatory lung pathology, barrier-enhancing strategies are not available. To consider hyperosmolar therapy as a possible strategy, we gave...

Proinflammatory functions of vascular endothelial growth factor in alloimmunity

Reinders, Marlies E.J., Sho, Masayuki, Izawa, Atsushi, Wang, Ping, Mukhopadhyay, Debabrata, Koss, Kerith E., ...

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), an established angiogenesis factor, is expressed in allografts undergoing rejection, but its function in the rejection process has not been defined. Here,...

Mutation of the Regulator of G Protein Signaling Crg1 Increases Virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Cutler, Jim, King, Jill, Palmer, Daniel

The regulator of G protein signaling homolog Crg1 was found to be a key regulator of pheromone-responsive mating in the opportunistic human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. A mutation in the...

Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki in Trichoplusia ni

Janmaat, Alida F., Wang, Ping, Kain, Wendy, Zhao, Jian-Zhou, Myers, Judith

The genetic inheritance of resistance to a commercial formulation of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki was examined in a Trichoplusia ni colony initiated from a resistant population present in a...

Experimental measurement of an effective temperature for jammed granular materials

Song, Chaoming, Wang, Ping, Makse, Hernán A.

A densely packed granular system is an example of an out-of-equilibrium system in the jammed state. It has been a longstanding problem to determine whether this class of systems can be described by...

Three distinct kinetic groupings of the synaptotagmin family: Candidate sensors for rapid and delayed exocytosis

Hui, Enfu, Bai, Jihong, Wang, Ping, Sugimori, Mutsuyuki, Llinas, Rodolfo R., Chapman, Edwin R.

Synaptotagmins (syts) are a family of membrane proteins present on a variety of intracellular organelles. In vertebrates, 16 isoforms of syt have been identified. The most abundant isoform, syt I,...

Two cyclophilin A homologs with shared and distinct functions important for growth and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Cardenas, Maria E., Cox, Gary M., Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cyclophilin A is the target of the immunosuppressant cyclosporin A (CsA) and is encoded by a single unique gene conserved from yeast to humans. In the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, two...

The cyclophilins

Wang, Ping, Heitman, Joseph

Cyclophilins belong to a group of proteins known as immunophilins that have peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans somerase activity. Cyclophilins are found in all cells of all organisms studied. Mammalian...

Synaptotagmin VII Is Targeted to Secretory Organelles in PC12 Cells, Where It Functions as a High-Affinity Calcium Sensor†

Wang, Ping, Chicka, Michael C., Bhalla, Akhil, Richards, David A., Chapman, Edwin R.

Synaptotagmin (syt) I is thought to act as a Ca2+ sensor that regulates neuronal exocytosis. Fifteen additional isoforms of syt have been identified, but their functions are less well understood....

Changes in NMDA receptor expression in auditory cortex after learning

Sun, Wei, Mercado, Eduardo, Wang, Ping, Shan, Xiaojun, Lee, Te-Chung, Salvi, Richard J.

Extensive practice on auditory learning tasks dramatically alters the functional organization and response properties of neurons in the auditory cortex. The cellular mechanisms responsible for this...

Adrenomedullin and Adrenomedullin Binding Protein-1 Attenuate Vascular Endothelial Cell Apoptosis in Sepsis

Zhou, Mian, Simms, H Hank, Wang, Ping

This study reports that vascular endothelial cell apoptosis occurs in the late, hypodynamic stage of sepsis induced by cecal ligation and puncture in the rat. Administration of adrenomedullin and its...

Mechanisms Responsible for Vascular Hyporesponsiveness to Adrenomedullin after Hemorrhage: The Central Role of Adrenomedullin Binding Protein-1

Wu, Rongqian, Cui, Xiaoxuan, Dong, Weifeng, Zhou, Mian, Simms, H Hank, Wang, Ping

Vascular responsiveness to adrenomedullin (AM) is depressed after severe blood loss. The reduction of AM binding protein (ie, AMBP-1) appears to contribute to the vascular AM hyporesponsiveness after...

Function of Small Hydrophobic Proteins of Paramyxovirus

Wilson, Rebecca L., Fuentes, Sandra M., Wang, Ping, Taddeo, Erica C., Klatt, Alicia, Henderson, Andrew J., ...

Mumps virus (MuV), a rubulavirus of the paramyxovirus family, causes acute infections in humans. MuV has seven genes including a small hydrophobic (SH) gene, which encodes a type I membrane protein...

Formation of buyer-seller trade networks in a quality-differentiated product market

Ping Wang, Alison Watts

We examine the formation of buyer-seller links when exchange can take place only if such a link exists. Sellers produce products of different qualities, and multiple sellers can form a sellers'...

Activation of a Modern Industry

Ping Wang, Danyang Xie

This paper constructs an integrated framework to disentangle the underlying economic mechanism of industrial transformation. We consider three essential elements for the analysis: skill requirements,...

Identification of the MATa mating-type locus of Cryptococcus neoformans reveals a serotype A MATa strain thought to have been extinct

Lengeler, Klaus B., Wang, Ping, Cox, Gary M., Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen with a defined sexual cycle involving mating between haploid MATa and MATα cells. Here we describe the isolation of part of the MATa...

An intestinal mucin is the target substrate for a baculovirus enhancin

Wang, Ping, Granados, Robert R.

An invertebrate intestinal mucin (IIM) was identified from a lepidopterous insect, Trichoplusia ni. The IIM is a major protein constituent of the peritrophic membrane that facilitates the digestive...

Five-transmembrane domains appear sufficient for a G protein-coupled receptor: Functional five-transmembrane domain chemokine receptors

Ling, Kun, Wang, Ping, Zhao, Jian, Wu, Ya-Lan, Cheng, Zhi-Jie, Wu, Guo-Xiang, ...

The putative seven-transmembrane (TM) domains have been the structural hallmark for the superfamily of heterotrimeric G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that regulate a variety of cellular functions...

Cloning and functional characterization of a subunit of the transporter associated with antigen processing

Li, Suling, Sjögren, Hans-Olov, Hellman, Ulf, Pettersson, Ralf F., Wang, Ping

The transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) is essential for the transport of antigenic peptides across the membrane of the endoplasmic reticulum. In addition, TAP interacts with major...

Thrombospondin-1 Induces Tyrosine Phosphorylation of Adherens Junction Proteins and Regulates an Endothelial Paracellular Pathway

Goldblum, Simeon E., Young, Bradford A., Wang, Ping, Murphy-Ullrich, Joanne E.

Thrombospondin-1 (TSP) induces endothelial cell (EC) actin reorganization and focal adhesion disassembly and influences multiple EC functions. To determine whether TSP might regulate EC–EC...

Identification of bdm-1, a gene involved in G protein β-subunit function and α-subunit accumulation

Kasahara, Shin, Wang, Ping, Nuss, Donald L.

Targeted disruption of Gα and Gβ genes has established the requirement of an intact G protein signaling pathway for optimal execution of several important physiological processes, including...

The G-Protein β Subunit GPB1 Is Required for Mating and Haploid Fruiting in Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen with a defined sexual cycle. The gene encoding a heterotrimeric G-protein β subunit, GPB1, was cloned and disrupted. gpb1 mutant strains...

Immunosuppressive and Nonimmunosuppressive Cyclosporine Analogs Are Toxic to the Opportunistic Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans via Cyclophilin-Dependent Inhibition of Calcineurin

Cruz, M. Cristina, Del Poeta, Maurizio, Wang, Ping, Wenger, Roland, Zenke, Gerhard, Quesniaux, Valerie F. J., ...

Cyclosporine (CsA) is an immunosuppressive and antimicrobial drug which, in complex with cyclophilin A, inhibits the protein phosphatase calcineurin. We recently found that Cryptococcus neoformans...

Signal Transduction Cascades Regulating Fungal Development and Virulence

Lengeler, Klaus B., Davidson, Robert C., D'souza, Cletus, Harashima, Toshiaki, Shen, Wei-Chiang, Wang, Ping, ...

Cellular differentiation, mating, and filamentous growth are regulated in many fungi by environmental and nutritional signals. For example, in response to nitrogen limitation, diploid cells of the...

Cloning, Sequencing, and Characterization of the cgmB Gene of Sinorhizobium meliloti Involved in Cyclic β-Glucan Biosynthesis

Wang, Ping, Ingram-Smith, Cheryl, Hadley, Jill A., Miller, Karen J.

Periplasmic cyclic β-glucans of Rhizobium species provide important functions during plant infection and hypo-osmotic adaptation. In Sinorhizobium meliloti (also known as Rhizobium meliloti), these...

Mating-Type-Specific and Nonspecific PAK Kinases Play Shared and Divergent Roles in Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Nichols, Connie B., Lengeler, Klaus B., Cardenas, Maria E., Cox, Gary M., Perfect, John R., ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunistic fungal pathogen with a defined sexual cycle involving fusion of haploid MATα and MATa cells. Virulence has been linked to the mating type, and MATα cells...

C2A activates a cryptic Ca2+-triggered membrane penetration activity within the C2B domain of synaptotagmin I

Bai, Jihong, Wang, Ping, Chapman, Edwin R.

Synaptotagmin (syt) I, an integral membrane protein localized to secretory vesicles, is a putative Ca2+ sensor for exocytosis. Its N terminus spans the membrane once, and its cytoplasmic domain...

Stable Defined Substrate for Turbidimetric Assay of Endoxylanases

Wang, Ping, Broda, Paul

A stable xylan suspension was prepared and characterized. Hydrolysis of the particles converts them into soluble fragments, thereby lowering the turbidity of the suspension. The small volume of the...

Sexual Cycle of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii and Virulence of Congenic a and α Isolates

Nielsen, Kirsten, Cox, Gary M., Wang, Ping, Toffaletti, Dena L., Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cryptococcus neoformans is a human-pathogenic fungus that has evolved into three distinct varieties that infect most prominently the central nervous system. A sexual cycle involving haploid cells of...

Hyperosmolarity enhances the lung capillary barrier

Safdar, Zeenat, Wang, Ping, Ichimura, Hideo, Issekutz, Andrew C., Quadri, Sadiqa, Bhattacharya, Jahar

Although capillary barrier deterioration underlies major inflammatory lung pathology, barrier-enhancing strategies are not available. To consider hyperosmolar therapy as a possible strategy, we gave...

Proinflammatory functions of vascular endothelial growth factor in alloimmunity

Reinders, Marlies E.J., Sho, Masayuki, Izawa, Atsushi, Wang, Ping, Mukhopadhyay, Debabrata, Koss, Kerith E., ...

Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), an established angiogenesis factor, is expressed in allografts undergoing rejection, but its function in the rejection process has not been defined. Here,...

Mutation of the Regulator of G Protein Signaling Crg1 Increases Virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Cutler, Jim, King, Jill, Palmer, Daniel

The regulator of G protein signaling homolog Crg1 was found to be a key regulator of pheromone-responsive mating in the opportunistic human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. A mutation in the...

Inheritance of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki in Trichoplusia ni

Janmaat, Alida F., Wang, Ping, Kain, Wendy, Zhao, Jian-Zhou, Myers, Judith

The genetic inheritance of resistance to a commercial formulation of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki was examined in a Trichoplusia ni colony initiated from a resistant population present in a...

Experimental measurement of an effective temperature for jammed granular materials

Song, Chaoming, Wang, Ping, Makse, Hernán A.

A densely packed granular system is an example of an out-of-equilibrium system in the jammed state. It has been a longstanding problem to determine whether this class of systems can be described by...

Three distinct kinetic groupings of the synaptotagmin family: Candidate sensors for rapid and delayed exocytosis

Hui, Enfu, Bai, Jihong, Wang, Ping, Sugimori, Mutsuyuki, Llinas, Rodolfo R., Chapman, Edwin R.

Synaptotagmins (syts) are a family of membrane proteins present on a variety of intracellular organelles. In vertebrates, 16 isoforms of syt have been identified. The most abundant isoform, syt I,...

Two cyclophilin A homologs with shared and distinct functions important for growth and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Wang, Ping, Cardenas, Maria E., Cox, Gary M., Perfect, John R., Heitman, Joseph

Cyclophilin A is the target of the immunosuppressant cyclosporin A (CsA) and is encoded by a single unique gene conserved from yeast to humans. In the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, two...

The cyclophilins

Wang, Ping, Heitman, Joseph

Cyclophilins belong to a group of proteins known as immunophilins that have peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans somerase activity. Cyclophilins are found in all cells of all organisms studied. Mammalian...

Synaptotagmin VII Is Targeted to Secretory Organelles in PC12 Cells, Where It Functions as a High-Affinity Calcium Sensor†

Wang, Ping, Chicka, Michael C., Bhalla, Akhil, Richards, David A., Chapman, Edwin R.

Synaptotagmin (syt) I is thought to act as a Ca2+ sensor that regulates neuronal exocytosis. Fifteen additional isoforms of syt have been identified, but their functions are less well understood....

Adrenomedullin and Adrenomedullin Binding Protein-1 Attenuate Vascular Endothelial Cell Apoptosis in Sepsis

Zhou, Mian, Simms, H Hank, Wang, Ping

This study reports that vascular endothelial cell apoptosis occurs in the late, hypodynamic stage of sepsis induced by cecal ligation and puncture in the rat. Administration of adrenomedullin and its...

Mechanisms Responsible for Vascular Hyporesponsiveness to Adrenomedullin after Hemorrhage: The Central Role of Adrenomedullin Binding Protein-1

Wu, Rongqian, Cui, Xiaoxuan, Dong, Weifeng, Zhou, Mian, Simms, H Hank, Wang, Ping

Vascular responsiveness to adrenomedullin (AM) is depressed after severe blood loss. The reduction of AM binding protein (ie, AMBP-1) appears to contribute to the vascular AM hyporesponsiveness after...

Function of Small Hydrophobic Proteins of Paramyxovirus

Wilson, Rebecca L., Fuentes, Sandra M., Wang, Ping, Taddeo, Erica C., Klatt, Alicia, Henderson, Andrew J., ...

Mumps virus (MuV), a rubulavirus of the paramyxovirus family, causes acute infections in humans. MuV has seven genes including a small hydrophobic (SH) gene, which encodes a type I membrane protein...

Urban growth and subcenter formation: A trolley ride from the Staples Center to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl

Berliant, Marcus, Wang, Ping

The long-term trends of urbanization suggest: not only have more cities formed, but the leading metropolises have grown larger, with a number of peripheral subcenters developing over time....

Role of Protein O-Mannosyltransferase Pmt4 in the Morphogenesis and Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans▿

Olson, Gillian M., Fox, Deborah S., Wang, Ping, Alspaugh, J. Andrew, Buchanan, Kent L.

Protein O mannosylation is initiated in the endoplasmic reticulum by protein O-mannosyltransferases (Pmt proteins) and plays an important role in the secretion, localization, and function of many...

Characterization of Chimeric Bacillus thuringiensis Vip3 Toxins▿

Fang, Jun, Xu, Xiaoli, Wang, Ping, Zhao, Jian-Zhou, Shelton, Anthony M., Cheng, Jiaan, ...

Bacillus thuringiensis vegetative insecticidal proteins (Vip) are potential alternatives for B. thuringiensis endotoxins that are currently utilized in commercial transgenic insect-resistant crops....

Mechanism of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Cry1Ac in a Greenhouse Population of the Cabbage Looper, Trichoplusia ni▿

Wang, Ping, Zhao, Jian-Zhou, Rodrigo-Simón, Ana, Kain, Wendy, Janmaat, Alida F., Shelton, Anthony M., ...

The cabbage looper, Trichoplusia ni, is one of only two insect species that have evolved resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis in agricultural situations. The trait of resistance to B. thuringiensis...

Characterisation of exogenous folate transport in Plasmodium falciparum

Wang, Ping, Wang, Qi, Sims, Paul F.G., Hyde, John E.

Folate salvage by Plasmodium falciparum is an important source of key cofactors, but little is known about the underlying mechanism. Using synchronised parasite cultures, we observed that uptake of...

Managing suppliers beyond tier 1: An exploration of motivations and strategies leading to a normative model

Wang, Ping

The purpose of this research was to determine how the decision to manage suppliers beyond Tier 1 was made in a supply chain context. This research explored the reasons for managing suppliers beyond...

Ghrelin Down-regulates Proinflammatory Cytokines in Sepsis Through Activation of the Vagus Nerve

Wu, Rongqian, Dong, Weifeng, Cui, Xiaoxuan, Zhou, Mian, Simms, H Hank, Ravikumar, Thanjavur S., ...

Administration of ghrelin significantly reduced TNF-α and IL-6 in sepsis. However, ghrelin did not inhibit TNF-α and IL-6 release from endotoxin-stimulated Kupffer cells and peritoneal macrophages....

Preoperative localization and minimally invasive management of primary hyperparathyroidism concomitant with thyroid disease*

Zheng, Yi-xiong, Xu, Shao-ming, Wang, Ping, Chen, Li

The coexistence of thyroid diseases with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) can present a challenge in the clinical diagnosis and management for these patients. This study aims to determine the...

BUSINESS CYCLE TRENDS, CYCLES AND GROWTH REVISITED: WITH APPLICATIONS TO G7 ECONOMIES *

PEIJIE WANG, PING WANG

This paper examines the behaviour of G7 economies and decomposes their GDP into trend and cycle components using the Kalman filter. The general model of the paper encompasses a number of alternative...

Adrenomedullin and Adrenomedullin Binding Protein-1 Protect Endothelium-Dependent Vascular Relaxation in Sepsis

Zhou, Mian, Maitra, Subir R, Wang, Ping

Downregulation of vascular endothelial constitutive nitric oxide synthase (ecNOS) contributes to the vascular hyporesponsiveness in sepsis. Although coadministration of the potent vasodilatory...

Inducible overexpression of wild-type prion protein in the muscles leads to a primary myopathy in transgenic mice

Huang, Shenghai, Liang, Jingjing, Zheng, Mengjie, Li, Xinyi, Wang, Meiling, Wang, Ping, ...

The prion protein (PrP) level in muscle has been reported to be elevated in patients with inclusion-body myositis, polymyositis, dermatomyositis, and neurogenic muscle atrophy, but it is not clear...

COLLUSION AND OVERLENDING

JINYOUNG HWANG, NEVILLE JIANG, PING WANG

"This study provides a theoretical background for collusion-induced overlending being the main cause of the 1997 Korean financial crisis. Our model consists of a lending institution, a borrowing...

Equilibrium Dynamics in an Endogenous Growth Model of Money and Banking

JUIN-JEN CHANG, WEN-YA CHANG, CHING-CHONG LAI, PING WANG

We construct an analytically tractable endogenous growth model of money and banking where money provides "liquidity services" to facilitate transactions and banks convert non-reserve deposits into...

Fractalkine-Induced MFG-E8 Leads to Enhanced Apoptotic Cell Clearance by Macrophages

Miksa, Michael, Amin, Dhruv, Wu, Rongqian, Ravikumar, Thanjavur S, Wang, Ping

Clearance of apoptotic cells is crucial to maintain cellular function under normal and pathological conditions. We have recently shown that administration of immature dendritic cell-derived exosomes...

Thyroid Transcription Factor in Differentiating Type II Cells: Regulation, Isoforms, and Target Genes

Kolla, Venkatadri, Gonzales, Linda W., Gonzales, John, Wang, Ping, Angampalli, Sreedevi, Feinstein, Sheldon I., ...

Thyroid transcription factor-1 (TTF-1, product of the Nkx2.1 gene) is essential for branching morphogenesis of the lung and enhances expression of surfactant proteins by alveolar type II cells. We...

Canonical Heterotrimeric G Proteins Regulating Mating and Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Li, Lie, Shen, Gui, Zhang, Zheng-Guang, Wang, Yan-Li, Thompson, Jill K., Wang, Ping

Perturbation of pheromone signaling modulates not only mating but also virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans, an opportunistic human pathogen known to encode three Gα, one Gβ, and two Gγ subunit...

Phospholipase C β3 deficiency leads to macrophage hypersensitivity to apoptotic induction and reduction of atherosclerosis in mice

Wang, Zhenglong, Liu, Bei, Wang, Ping, Dong, Xuemei, Fernandez-Hernando, Carlos, Li, Zhong, ...

Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease that is associated with monocyte recruitment and subsequent differentiation into lipid-laden macrophages at sites of arterial lesions, leading to the...

Association of Polymorphisms in Odorant-Binding Protein Genes With Variation in Olfactory Response to Benzaldehyde in Drosophila

Wang, Ping, Lyman, Richard F., Shabalina, Svetlana A., Mackay, Trudy F. C., Anholt, Robert R. H.

Adaptive evolution of animals depends on behaviors that are essential for their survival and reproduction. The olfactory system of Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as one of the best characterized...

An atypical orthologue of 6-pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase can provide the missing link in the folate biosynthesis pathway of malaria parasites

Dittrich, Sabine, Mitchell, Sarah L, Blagborough, Andrew M, Wang, Qi, Wang, Ping, Sims, Paul F G, ...

Folate metabolism in malaria parasites is a long-standing, clinical target for chemotherapy and prophylaxis. However, despite determination of the complete genome sequence of the lethal species...

Mechanism of the Anti-inflammatory Effect of Curcumin: PPAR-γ Activation

Jacob, Asha, Wu, Rongqian, Zhou, Mian, Wang, Ping

Curcumin, the phytochemical component in turmeric, is used as a dietary spice and a topical ointment for the treatment of inflammation in India for centuries. Curcumin (diferuloylmethane) is...

Sensing Escherichia coli O157:H7 via frequency shift through a self-assembled monolayer based QCM immunosensor*

Wang, Li-jiang, Wu, Chun-sheng, Hu, Zhao-ying, Zhang, Yuan-fan, Li, Rong, Wang, Ping

By means of the specific immuno-recognition and ultra-sensitive mass detection, a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) biosensor for Escherichia coli O157:H7 detection was developed in this work. As a...

Genetic Networks of Liver Metabolism Revealed by Integration of Metabolic and Transcriptional Profiling

Ferrara, Christine T., Wang, Ping, Neto, Elias Chaibub, Stevens, Robert D., Bain, James R., Wenner, Brett R., ...

Although numerous quantitative trait loci (QTL) influencing disease-related phenotypes have been detected through gene mapping and positional cloning, identification of the individual gene(s) and...

Immune evasion versus recovery after acute hepatitis C virus infection from a shared source

Tester, Ian, Smyk-Pearson, Susan, Wang, Ping, Wertheimer, Anne, Yao, Ermei, Lewinsohn, David M., ...

Acute infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) rarely is identified, and hence, the determinants of spontaneous resolution versus chronicity remain incompletely understood. In particular, because of...

Cytokine-Induced Src Homology 2 Protein (Cis) Promotes T Cell Receptor–Mediated Proliferation and Prolongs Survival of Activated T Cells

Li, Suling, Chen, Shangwu, Xu, Xiufeng, Sundstedt, Anette, Paulsson, Kajsa M., Anderson, Per, ...

Members of the suppressor of cytokine signaling (SOCS) family were discovered as negative regulators of cytokine signaling by inhibition of the Janus kinase–signal transducer and activator of...

Economic Takeoffs in a Dynamic Process of Globalization *

Eric W. Bond, Ronald W. Jones, Ping Wang

The paper develops a dynamic general-equilibrium framework to illustrate that trade liberalization may speed up the process of globalization and industrialization by enabling a small open economy to...

The Timing of Childbearing among Heterogeneous Women

Ping Wang, Charles Mullin

Endogenous timing of births, human capital, distributions

Money, output, and income velocity

Theodore Palivos, Ping Wang

Income ; Input-output analysis ; Money

Inflation and economic activity in a multiple matching model of money

Derek Laing, Victor E. Li, Ping Wang

This paper investigates the relationship between money growth, inflation, and productive activity in a general equilibrium model where search frictions motivate the transactions role of money. The...

Endogenous market structures and financial development

Zsolt Becsi, Ping Wang, Mark A. Wynne

Existing theories that emphasize the significance of financial intermediation for economic development have not addressed two important empirical facts: (i) the relationship between financial and...

Costly intermediation and the big push

Zsolt Becsi, Ping Wang, Mark A. Wynne

Many existing theories of financial intermediation have difficulty explaining why financial activity can generate large real effects. This paper argues that the large real effects may reflect a...

Financial matchmakers in credit markets with heterogeneous borrowers

Zsolt Becsi, Victor Li, Ping Wang

What happens when liquidity increases in credit markets and more funds are channeled from borrowers to lenders? We examine this question in a general equilibrium model where financial matchmakers...

Inflation, trade frictions, and productive activity in a multiple-matching model of money

Derek Laing, Victor E. Li, Ping Wang

This paper investigates the relationship between money growth, inflation, and productive activity in a general equilibrium model of search. The use of a multiple-matching technique, where trade...

Nominal and real disturbances and money demand in the Chinese hyperinflation

Ellis W. Tallman, De-piao Tang, Ping Wang

This paper reexamines the dynamics of hyperinflation by allowing variability in the relative price of capital goods in units of consumption goods that reflects interactions between the real and...

Financial development and growth

Zsolt Becsi, Ping Wang

Poor performance by the financial sector can be costly for society. On the other hand, a healthy banking sector has been thought by some to contribute to the growth of the economy. Recently, though,...

CRIME AND POVERTY: A SEARCH-THEORETIC APPROACH

Chien-Chieh Huang, Derek Laing, Ping Wang

Numerous studies document that criminal activity is positively related to unemployment and negatively related to educational attainment levels within given communities. We study this phenomenon in...

Educational Policy in a Credit Constrained Economy with Skill Heterogeneity

John Fender, Ping Wang

An overlapping-generations model where agents choose whether to become educated when young is presented. Education enhances productivity, but needs to be financed by borrowing. Because of the...

Alternative Approaches to Money and Growth.

Wang, Ping, Yip, Chong K

This paper reexamines the issue of money and growth in an economy with both endogenous labor supply and endogenous capital stock using three recently developed approaches: the...

Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth

Berliant, Marcus, Wang, Ping

Theoretical models of urban growth are surveyed in a common framework. Exogenous growth models, where growth in some capital stock as a function of investment is assumed, are examined first. Then...

Have output growth rates stabilised? evidence from the g-7 economies

Terence C. Mills, Ping Wang

In this paper we consider an extension of Hamilton's Markov chain model of output growth that allows for a one-time structural break in the hyperparameters. We fit this model to post-war quarterly...

Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis

Ping Wang, Raymond Riezman

We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The disadvantage is that producing in the host...

Skill differentiation and wage disparity in a decentralized matching model of North-South trade

George Norman, Ping Wang

In this paper we develop a North-South trade model in which the South produces food and the North produces both food and a high-tech good. Food production is undertaken by unskilled workers, while...

DO AFRICAN COUNTRIES MOVE ASYMMETRICALLY TOWARDS PURCHASING POWER PARITY?

MARK J. HOLMES, PING WANG

This paper investigates the possibility that the adjustment towards long-run relative purchasing power parity (PPP) is dependent upon the nature of deviations from PPP that are experienced. While...

Learning, Matching and Growth.

Laing, Derek, Palivos, Theodore, Wang, Ping

The authors examine an endogenous growth model in which market frictions are an integral part of the economic environment. Workers invest in education when young, which raises their productivity once...

Multivariate Markov Switching Common Factor Models for the UK

Terence C. Mills, Ping Wang

We estimate a model that incorporates two key features of business cycles, comovement among economic variables and switching between regimes of boom and slump, to quarterly UK data for the last four...

Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration

Marcus Berliant, Ping Wang

Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained grwoth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic...

International Business Cycles.

Ahmed, Shaghil, Ickes, Barry W., Ping Wang, Byung Sam Yoo

The authors estimate a dynamic two-country model in which economic fluctuations are driven by a worldwide supply shock; country-specific supply shocks; and relative fiscal, money, and preference...

Factor Accumulation and Trade: Dynamic Comparative Advantage with Endogenous Physical and Human Capital

Eric W. Bond, Kathleen Trask, Ping Wang

This article develops a two-country endogenous growth model with accumulation of both physical and human capital. We establish the existence of two-country balanced growth equilibria with physical...

On the Existence of Balanced Growth Equilibrium.

Palivos, Theodore, Wang, Ping, Zhang, Jianbo

The authors characterize the class of dynamic models that allow for the most commonly used types of sustained economic growth (balanced and asymptotically balanced). They show that, under a constant...

Welfare Analysis of the Number and Locations of Local Public Facilities

Marcus Berliant, Shin-Kun Peng, Ping Wang

We develop a model with a finite number of households and congestable local public goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously determined. We...

Dynamic Urban Models: Agglomeration and Growth

Marcus Berliant, Ping Wang

Theoretical models of urban growth are surveyed in a common framework. Exogenous growth models, where growth in some capital stock as a function of investment is assumed, are examined first. Then...

Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration

Marcus Berliant, Ping Wang

Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic...

Knowledge Exchange, Matching, and Agglomeration

Marcus Berliant, Ping Wang

Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic...

Urban Growth and Subcenter Formation: A Trolley Ride from the Staples Center to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl

Marcus Berliant, Ping Wang

There have been long-term trends of urbanization and sustained growth across developed and developing countries over the past two centuries. Not only have more cities formed, but the leading...

Knowledge exchange, matching, and agglomeration

Marcus Berliant, Robert R. Reed, III, Ping Wang

Despite wide recognition of their significant role in explaining sustained growth and economic development, uncompensated knowledge spillovers have not yet been fully modeled with a microeconomic...

High inflation: causes and consequences

John H. Rogers, Ping Wang

Using evidence from seven hyperinflationary episodes in four Latin American countries in the second half of the 1980s, John Rogers and Ping Wang examine the causes and consequences of high inflation....

The tandem C2 domains of synaptotagmin contain redundant Ca2+ binding sites that cooperate to engage t-SNAREs and trigger exocytosis

Earles, Cynthia A., Bai, Jihong, Wang, Ping, Chapman, Edwin R.

Real-time voltammetry measurements from cracked PC12 cells were used to analyze the role of synaptotagmin–SNARE interactions during Ca2+-triggered exocytosis. The isolated C2A domain of...

Drosophila β Spectrin Functions Independently of α Spectrin to Polarize the Na,k Atpase in Epithelial Cells

Dubreuil, Ronald R., Wang, Ping, Dahl, Steve, Lee, John, Goldstein, Lawrence S.B.

Spectrin has been proposed to function as a sorting machine that concentrates interacting proteins such as the Na,K ATPase within specialized plasma membrane domains of polarized cells. However,...

Skill Dierentiation and Income Disparity in a Decentralized Matching Model of North-South Trade

George Norman, Ping Wang

This paper develops a North-South trade model in which the South produces food and the North produces both food and a high-tech good. Food production is undertaken by unskilled workers while the...

Activation of a Modern Industry

Ping Wang

This paper constructs an integrated framework to disentangle the underlying economic mechanism of industrial transformation. We consider three essential elements for the analysis: skill requirements,...

Economic Integration and Agglomeration in a Middle Product Economy

Peng, Shin-Kun, Thisse, Jacques-François, Wang, Ping

The Paper examines the interactions between economic integration and population agglomeration in a middle product economy displaying neoclassical growth. There are two vertically-integrated...

Oil Price Shocks and the Asymmetric Adjustment of UK Output: a Markov-switching approach

MARK HOLMES, PING WANG

This paper examines the role played by real oil price shocks in influencing the growth in UK GDP. Our particular interest is the possibility that asymmetries might exist in such a relationship. Using...

Asymmetric adjustment towards long-run PPP: Some new evidence for Asian economies

Mark Holmes, Ping Wang

This paper investigates relative purchasing power parity for a sample of nine Asian economies during the post-Bretton Woods floating exchange rate era. While most existing studies of purchasing power...

Equilibrium Adjustment, Basis Risk and Risk Transmission in Spot and Forward Foreign Exchange Markets.

Wang, Peijie, Wang, Ping

This study investigates the risk transmission between the spot and forward foreign exchange markets. In particular, the effect of innovation basis and signs of shocks in both markets are assessed....

Fertility Choice and Economic Growth: Theory and Evidence.

Wang, Ping, Yip, Chong K, Scotese, Carol A

This paper examines a growth model with endogenous consumption, labor-leisure, and fertility. A fertility choice variable capturing both the quality and quantity of the family size enters the utility...

Sources of Fluctuations in Relative Prices: Evidence from High Inflation Countries.

Rogers, John H, Wang, Ping

Casual analysis of six high-inflation episodes indicates a strong positive relationship between movements in the relative price ratio, measured by (WPI/CPI), and the inflation rate. The authors...

DO AFRICAN COUNTRIES MOVE ASYMMETRICALLY TOWARDS PURCHASING POWER PARITY?

MARK J. HOLMES, PING WANG

This paper investigates the possibility that the adjustment towards long-run relative purchasing power parity (PPP) is dependent upon the nature of deviations from PPP that are experienced. While...

research articles : Product diffusion and pricing with market frictions

Theodore Palivos, Derek Laing, Ping Wang

We study pricing and product diffusion in a dynamic general equilibrium framework with product market frictions. Ongoing R&D activity leads, with an endogenously determined probability, to continual...

Equilibrium dynamics in discrete-time endogenous growth models with social constant returns

Kazuo Mino, Kazuo Nishimura, Koji Shimomura, Ping Wang

Sectoral externalities, Endogenous growth, Dynamic determinacy/indeterminacy, E32, J24, O40,

Regime shifts in European real interest rates

Terence Mills, Ping Wang

Real interest rates, regime shifts, Markov processes,

Nominal and Real Disturbances and Money Demand in Chinese Hyperinflation

Ellis W. Tallman, De-Piao Tang, Ping Wang

This article reexamines the dynamics of hyperinflation by allowing variability in the relative price of capital goods in units of consumption goods that reflects interactions between the real and...

Dynamic Effects of Financial Intermediation over the Business Cycle.

Scotese, Carol Lehr, Wang, Ping

This paper provides a empirical evidence that the financial intermediation disturbances can generate business cycles. We examine three countries whose financial sectors are fully developed but quite...

Can Government Enforcement Permanently Alter Fertility? The Case of China.

Scotese, Carol, Wang, Ping

The authors quantitatively assess the main sources of fertility fluctuations in China and find that only preference shifts, involving education, health care, and the employment and social status of...

X-ray structure of a novel matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor complexed to stromelysin

Dunten, Pete, Kammlott, Ursula, Crowther, Robert, Levin, Wayne, Foley, Louise H., Wang, Ping, ...

A new class of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) inhibitors has been identified by screening a collection of compounds against stromelysin. The inhibitors, 2,4,6-pyrimidine triones, have proven to be...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

Differential regulation of class IA phosphoinositide 3-kinase catalytic subunits p110α and β by protease-activated receptor 2 and β-arrestins

Wang, Ping, Kumar, Puneet, Wang, Chang, DeFea, Kathryn A.

PAR-2 (protease-activated receptor 2) is a GPCR (G-protein-coupled receptor) that can elicit both G-protein-dependent and -independent signals. We have shown previously that PAR-2 simultaneously...

Purification and Characterization of Human Adrenomedullin Binding Protein-1

Qiang, Xiaoling, Wu, Rongqian, Ji, Youxin, Zhou, Mian, Wang, Ping

We recently discovered that the vascular responsiveness to adrenomedullin (AM), a potent vasoactive peptide, decreased during sepsis and hemorrhage in the rat and was markedly improved by its novel...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

Evaluation of the Human Transmission Risk of an Atypical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Prion Strain▿

Kong, Qingzhong, Zheng, Mengjie, Casalone, Cristina, Qing, Liuting, Huang, Shenghai, Chakraborty, Bikram, ...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the prion disease in cattle, was widely believed to be caused by only one strain, BSE-C. BSE-C causes the fatal prion disease named new variant...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

Gut Hyperpermiability after Ischemia and Reperfusion: Attenuation with Adrenomedullin and its Binding Protein Treatment

Higuchi, Shinya, Wu, Rongqian, Zhou, Mian, Marini, Corrado P., Ravikumar, Thanjavur S., Wang, Ping

Ischemia bowel remains a critical problem resulting in up to 80% mortality. The loss of gut barrier function plays an important role. Our previous studies have shown that administration of...

Differential cash constraints, financial leverage and the demand for money: Evidence from a complete panel of Taiwanese firms

Liu, Jin-Tan, Tsou, Meng-Wen, Wang, Ping

This paper studies firms' demand for money by developing a differential-cash-constraint framework with firms' entire wage bills requiring cash in advance and a fraction of investment purchases being...

Regime-switching volatility of six East Asian emerging markets

Wang, Ping, Theobald, Mike

This paper investigates regime-switching behaviour in the return-generating processes of six East Asian emerging stock markets over the period from 1970 to 2004 and examines the specific...

STOCK MARKET INTEGRATION FOR THE TRANSITION ECONOMIES: TIME-VARYING CONDITIONAL CORRELATION APPROACH

PING WANG, TOMOE MOORE

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the three emerging Central Eastern European stock markets have become integrated with the aggregate eurozone market over the sample period from 1994...

Plucking models of business cycle fluctuations: Evidence from the G-7 countries

Terence C. Mills, Ping Wang

Friedman's `plucking' model, in which output cannot exceed a ceiling level but is occasionally plucked downward by recessions, is tested using Kim and Nelson's formal econometric specification on...

Equilibrium Dynamics in Discrete-Time Endogenous Growth Models with Social Constant Returns

Kazuo Mino, Kazuo Nishimura, Koji Shimomura, Ping Wang

The existing literature establishes possibilities of local determinacy and dynamic indeterminacy in continuous-time two-sector models of endogenous growth with social constant returns. The necessary...

Are Alcoholics in Bad Jobs?

Don Kenkel, Ping Wang

Alcohol abuse has important implications for the productivity of the US workforce. The lost earnings of workers suffering from alcohol problems have been estimated at $36.6 billion in 1990. After...

The Timing of Childbearing among Heterogeneous Women in Dynamic General Equilibrium

Charles H. Mullin, Ping Wang

We develop a tractable framework with a fully specified dynamic process of demographic and labor decisions over an individual female's life span to determine the timing of childbearing. Fertility...

Optimal Drug Policy in Low-Income Neighborhoods

Sheng-Wen Chang, N. Edward Coulson, Ping Wang

Part of the debate over the control of drug activity in cities is concerned with the effectiveness of implementing demand- versus supply-side drug policies. This paper is motivated by the relative...

Rational Addiction, Peer Externalities and Long Run Effects of Public Policy

Donald S. Kenkel, Ping Wang

The main purpose of this research is to understand the patterns of consumption of addictive goods, their economic and welfare consequences for society and the long-run effect of tax policy in a...

Spatial Mismatch in Search Equilibrium.

Coulson, N Edward, Laing, Derek, Wang, Ping

We construct a search equilibrium model for a city with central and suburban labor markets that is consistent with the set of empirical regularities commonly associated with the spatial mismatch...

Ghrelin Attenuates Sepsis-induced Acute Lung Injury and Mortality in Rats

Wu, Rongqian, Dong, Weifeng, Zhou, Mian, Zhang, Fangming, Marini, Corrado P., Ravikumar, Thanjavur S., ...

Rationale: Our study has shown that plasma levels of ghrelin, a stomach-derived peptide, are significantly reduced in sepsis, and that ghrelin administration improves organ blood flow via a nuclear...

A gene expression network model of type 2 diabetes links cell cycle regulation in islets with diabetes susceptibility

Keller, Mark P., Choi, YounJeong, Wang, Ping, Belt Davis, Dawn, Rabaglia, Mary E., Oler, Angie T., ...

Insulin resistance is necessary but not sufficient for the development of type 2 diabetes. Diabetes results when pancreatic beta-cells fail to compensate for insulin resistance by increasing insulin...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire : a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Background Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the...

Suppression of PGC-1α by Ethanol: Implications of Its Role in Alcohol Induced Liver Injury

Chaung, Wayne W., Jacob, Asha, Ji, Youxin, Wang, Ping

Ethanol has been known to cause injury to the liver and other tissues; however the molecular factors responsible for alcohol induced liver injury has not been fully understood. Recent studies...

The Effect of Whole-Body Radiation on Blood Levels of Gastrointestinal Peptides in the Rat

Katanyutanon, Sakdhisapol, Wu, Rongqian, Wang, Ping

Radiation-induced injury may occur in various incidents as well as the terrorist radiation exposure scenario. The digestive tract is among the most radiosensitive organs in the body and its function,...

Sepsis-Induced Inflammation Is Exacerbated in an Animal Model of Type 2 Diabetes

Jacob, Asha, Steinberg, Marissa L., Yang, Juntao, Dong, Weifeng, Ji, Youxin, Wang, Ping

Hyperglycemia is common in critically ill patients and pronounced hyperglycemia may lead to complications which include severe infections, polyneuropathy, multiple organ failure and death in such...

Urban growth and subcenter formation: A trolley ride from the Staples Center to Disneyland and the Rose Bowl

Berliant, Marcus, Wang, Ping

The long-term trends of urbanization suggest: not only have more cities formed, but the leading metropolises have grown larger, with a number of peripheral subcenters developing over time....

Reversing Established Sepsis in Rats with Human Vasoactive Hormone Adrenomedullin and its Binding Protein

Wu, Rongqian, Higuchi, Shinya, Dong, Weifeng, Ji, Youxin, Zhou, Mian, Marini, Corrado P, ...

We recently demonstrated that early administration of rat adrenomedullin (AM), a vasoactive peptide, in combination with its binding protein (human AMBP-1) produces various beneficial effects in...

Sudden changes in volatility: The case of five central European stock markets

Wang, Ping, Moore, Tomoe

This paper investigates sudden changes in volatility in the stock markets of new European Union (EU) members by utilizing the iterated cumulative sums of squares (ICSS) algorithm. Using weekly data...

Outsourcing of innovation

Edwin Lai, Raymond Riezman, Ping Wang

R&D outsourcing, Principal-agent problem, Fixed versus revenue-sharing contract, D21, O31, L14,

Signaling from β1- and β2-adrenergic receptors is defined by differential interactions with PDE4

Richter, Wito, Day, Peter, Agrawal, Rani, Bruss, Matthew D, Granier, Sébastien, Wang, Yvonne L, ...

β1- and β2-adrenergic receptors (βARs) are highly homologous, yet they play clearly distinct roles in cardiac physiology and pathology. Myocyte contraction, for instance, is readily stimulated by...

Economic integration and agglomeration in a middle product economy

PENG, Shin-Kun, THISSE, Jacques-Franois, WANG, Ping

The paper examines the interactions between economic integration and population agglomeration in a middle product economy displaying neoclassical growth. There are two vertically integrated...

Evidence for common short natural trans sense-antisense pairing between transcripts from protein coding genes

Wang, Ping, Yin, Shanye, Zhang, Zhenguo, Xin, Dedong, Hu, Landian, Kong, Xiangyin, ...

A computational prediction of human coding RNA trans short sense-antisense pairs suggests that mRNA regulation by other coding transcripts might be a common occurrence.

The RGS Protein Crg2 Regulates Pheromone and Cyclic AMP Signaling in Cryptococcus neoformans▿ †

Shen, Gui, Wang, Yan-Li, Whittington, Amy, Li, Lie, Wang, Ping

Crg1 and Crg2 are regulators of G-protein signaling homologs found in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Crg1 negatively regulates pheromone responses and mating through direct...

Intergenerational human capital evolution, local public good preferences, and stratification

Chen, Been-Lon, Peng, Shin-Kun, Wang, Ping

This paper considers heterogeneities in preferences over the local public good, human capital formation, and residential locations as primary underlying forces of economic stratification in an...

RF Phasing of the Duke Linac*

Ping Wang Nelson, Ping Wang, Nelson Hower, Patrick G. O’shea

The injector of Duke storage ring is a 295 MeV S-band linear accelerator (linac) which consists of 3 klystrons and 11 accelerator sections. The phase adjustment between klystrons is achieved by means...

Early growth response gene 2 (Egr-2) controls the self-tolerance of T cells and prevents the development of lupuslike autoimmune disease

Zhu, Bo, Symonds, Alistair L.J., Martin, Joanne E., Kioussis, Dimitris, Wraith, David C., Li, Suling, ...

Maintaining tolerance of T cells to self-antigens is essential to avoid autoimmune disease. How self-reactive T cells are kept functionally inactive is, however, unknown. In this study, we show that...

Structure dissection of human progranulin identifies well-folded granulin/epithelin modules with unique functional activities

Tolkatchev, Dmitri, Malik, Suneil, Vinogradova, Anna, Wang, Ping, Chen, Zhigang, Xu, Ping, ...

Progranulin is a secreted protein with important functions in several physiological and pathological processes, such as embryonic development, host defense, and wound repair. Autosomal dominant...

Response enhancement of olfactory sensory neurons-based biosensors for odorant detection*

Wu, Chun-sheng, Chen, Pei-hua, Yuan, Qing, Wang, Ping

This paper presents a novel strategy for the response enhancement of olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs)-based biosensors by monitoring the enhancive responses of OSNs to odorants. An OSNs-based...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire: a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the availability of a...

Heritable Thrombophilia-Hypofibrinolysis and Osteonecrosis of the Femoral Head

Glueck, Charles J., Freiberg, Richard A., Wang, Ping

We hypothesized that inherited thrombophilia and hypofibrinolysis were risk factors for osteonecrosis of the femoral head. We compared measures of thrombophilia and hypofibrinolysis in referred new...

Trauma and Hemorrhage-Induced Acute Hepatic Insulin Resistance: Dominant Role of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α

Xu, Jie, Kim, Hyeong T., Ma, Yuchen, Zhao, Ling, Zhai, Lidong, Kokorina, Natalia, ...

It has long been known that injury, infections, and other critical illnesses are often associated with hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia. Mortality of critically ill patients is greatly reduced by...

African Trypanosomes Contain 5-Methylcytosine in Nuclear DNA ▿ †

Militello, Kevin T., Wang, Ping, Jayakar, Sangeeta K., Pietrasik, Rebecca L., Dupont, Christopher D., Dodd, Kristi, ...

It is currently unclear if there are modified DNA bases in Trypanosoma brucei other than J-base. We identify herein a cytosine-5 DNA methyltransferase gene and report the presence and location of...

Credit Mismatch and Breakdown

Zsolt Becsi, Victor E. Li, Ping Wang

This paper studies the phenomenon of mismatch in a decentralized credit market where borrowers and lenders must engage in costly search to establish credit relationships. Our dynamic general...

Decentralized Exchange and Factor Payments: A Multiple-Matching Approach

Derek Laing, Victor E. Li, Ping Wang

The emergence of fiat money is studied in an environment in which exchange is organized around trading posts where many producers and shoppers are matched in a dynamic monopolistically competitive...

Preference Bias and Outsourcing to Market: A Steady-State Analysis *

Raymond Riezman, Ping Wang

We analyze a model that focuses on the export/outsource decision. Outsourcing has the advantage of providing better information about local preferences. The disadvantage is that producing in the host...

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,...

Spermine Protects Mice Against Lethal Sepsis Partly by Attenuating Surrogate Inflammatory Markers

Zhu, Shu, Ashok, Mala, Li, Jianhua, Li, Wei, Yang, Huan, Wang, Ping, ...

The pathogenesis of sepsis is partly attributable to dysregulated inflammatory response mediated by pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) (for example, endotoxin) and damage-associated...

Serum leptin and soluble leptin receptor in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Huang, Xiao-Dong, Fan, Yan, Zhang, Hen, Wang, Ping, Yuan, Jing Ping, Li, Ming-Jie, ...

AIM: To determine the role of leptin system in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) development by delineating the changes in serum levels of leptin and soluble leptin receptor (sOB-R).

Dosage compensation on the active X chromosome minimizes transcriptional noise of X-linked genes in mammals

Yin, Shanye, Wang, Ping, Deng, Wenjun, Zheng, Hancheng, Hu, Landian, Hurst, Laurence D, ...

Comparison of gene expression variation in autosomal and X-linked genes reveals that high transcriptional noise is not a necessary consequence of haploid expression.

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire: a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the availability of a...

Occupational Choice and Dynamic Indeterminacy

Mino, Kazuo, Koji, Shimomura, Wang, Ping

This paper construct a two-sector model of two-period lived overlapping generations with endogenous occupational choice where ability-heterogeneous agents choose whether to become educated when young...

Do monetary Shocks Exert Nonlinear Real Effects on UK Industrial Production?

Holmes, Mark J., Wang, Ping

This study investigates whether or not UK industrial production is characterised by a nonlinear response to monetary shocks. Our methodology is based on logistic smooth transition vector...

A non-labeled DNA biosensor based on light addressable potentiometric sensor modified with TiO2 thin film*

Zong, Xiao-lin, Wu, Chun-sheng, Wu, Xiao-ling, Lu, Yun-feng, Wang, Ping

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) thin film was deposited on the surface of the light addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) to modify the sensor surface for the non-labeled detection of DNA molecules. To...

A pilot study to develop and validate a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) questionnaire: a health status instrument for TCM assessment in patients with Osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee

Wang, Ping

Research suggests acupuncture is potentially an effective treatment for osteoarthritis (OA) of the hip or knee. Essential for the evaluation of Chinese acupuncture treatment is the availability of a...

A Normative Analysis of Housing-Related Tax Policy in a General Equilibrium Model of Housing Quality and Prices

SHIN-KUN PENG, PING WANG

We evaluate an array of housing-related tax policies in a general equilibrium model with endogenous housing quality and prices. The local government facilitates the provision of local public...

Human Ghrelin Ameliorates Organ Injury and Improves Survival after Radiation Injury Combined with Severe Sepsis

Shah, Kavin G, Wu, Rongqian, Jacob, Asha, Blau, Steven A, Ji, Youxin, Dong, Weifeng, ...

In the terrorist radiation exposure scenario, radiation victims are likely to suffer from additional injuries such as sepsis. Our previous studies have shown that ghrelin is protective in sepsis....

The role of hepatic cytochrome P-450 in sepsis

Jacob, Asha, Zhou, Mian, Wu, Rongqian, Wang, Ping

Severe sepsis is a common, expensive, and fatal condition with as many deaths annually as those from acute myocardial infarctions. The average cost per case seems to exceed $22,000. The increased...