Qing Liu

Publication List Details

Period

0000 - 9999

Number

165

Co-Authors

Summarizing Spatial Relations- A Hybrid Histogram ⋆ (2009)

Qing Liu, Xuemin Lin, Yidong Yuan

Abstract. Summarizing topological relations is fundamental to many spatial applications including spatial query optimization. In this paper, we examine the selectivity estimation for range window...

REGULAR PAPER A multi-resolution surface distance model for k-NN query processing (2009)

Ke Deng, Xiaofang Zhou, Heng Tao Shen, Qing Liu, Kai Xu, Xuemin Lin, ...

Abstract A spatial k-NN query returns k nearest points in a point dataset to a given query point. To measure the distance between two points, most of the literature focuses on the Euclidean distance...

BMC Cancer BioMed Central (2009)

Qing Liu, Li-zhen Chen, Yan-hua Li, Xiao Lin, Fa-lin Wen, Olov Adami, ...

Research article Trends in incidence and mortality of nasopharyngeal carcinoma over a 20–25 year period (1978/1983–2002) in Sihui and Cangwu counties in southern China

Clinical relevance of the interleukin 10 promoter polymorphisms in Chinese Han patients with major trauma: genetic association studies (2009)

Zeng, Ling, Gu, Wei, Chen, Kehong, Jiang, Dongpo, Zhang, Lianyang, Du, Dingyuan, ...

Abstract Introduction An excessive inflammatory response is thought to account for the pathogenesis of sepsis and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) after severe trauma. The interleukin-10...

Comparative transcripts profiling reveals new insight into molecular processes regulating lycopene accumulation in a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) red-flesh mutant (2009)

Xu, Qiang, Yu, Keqin, Zhu, Andan, Ye, Junli, Liu, Qing, Zhang, Jianchen, ...

Abstract Background Interest in lycopene metabolism and regulation is growing rapidly because accumulative studies have suggested an important role for lycopene in human health promotion. However,...

Towards Multidimensional Subspace Skyline Analysis (2009)

Jian Pei, Yidong Yuan, Xuemin Lin, Wen Jin, Martin Ester, Qing Liu, ...

The skyline operator is important for multicriteria decision-making applications. Although many recent studies developed efficient methods to compute skyline objects in a given space, none of them...

Loss of rRNA modifications in the decoding center of the ribosome impairs translation and strongly delays pre-rRNA processing (2009)

Liang, Xue-hai, Liu, Qing, Fournier, Maurille J.

The ribosome decoding center is rich in modified rRNA nucleotides and little is known about their effects. Here, we examine the consequences of systematically deleting eight pseudouridine and...

Evaluating reproducibility of differential expression discoveries in microarray studies by considering correlated molecular changes (2009)

Zhang, Min, Zhang, Lin, Zou, Jinfeng, Yao, Chen, Xiao, Hui, Liu, Qing, ...

Motivation: According to current consistency metrics such as percentage of overlapping genes (POG), lists of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) detected from different microarray studies for a...

Transcriptome analysis of a spontaneous mutant in sweet orange [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck] during fruit development (2009)

Liu, Qing, Zhu, Andan, Chai, Lijun, Zhou, Wenjing, Yu, Keqin, Ding, Jian, ...

Bud mutations often arise in citrus. The selection of mutants is one of the most important breeding channels in citrus. However, the molecular basis of bud mutation has rarely been studied. To...

Detecting projected outliers in high-dimensional data streams (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Gao, Qigang, Wang, Hai, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: In this paper, we study the problem of projected outlier detection in high dimensional data streams and propose a new technique, called Stream Projected Ouliter deTector (SPOT), to...

Detecting projected outliers in high-dimensional data streams (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Gao, Qigang, Wang, Hai, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: In this paper, we study the problem of projected outlier detection in high dimensional data streams and propose a new technique, called Stream Projected Ouliter deTector (SPOT), to...

Association of polymorphisms -1154G/A and -2578C/A in the vascular endothelial growth factor gene with decreased risk of endometriosis in Chinese women (2009)

Liu, Qing, Li, Yan, Zhao, Jian, Sun, Dong-Lan, Duan, Ya-Nan, Wang, Na, ...

BACKGROUNDVascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) plays an important role in the development of endometriosis. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of polymorphisms in the VEGF...

Gene specific co-regulation discovery: an improved approach (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: Discovering gene co-regulatory relationships is a new but important research problem in DNA microarray data analysis. The problem of gene specific co-regulation discovery is to, for a...

Gene specific co-regulation discovery: an improved approach (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: Discovering gene co-regulatory relationships is a new but important research problem in DNA microarray data analysis. The problem of gene specific co-regulation discovery is to, for a...

Detecting projected outliers in high-dimensional data streams (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Gao, Qigang, Wang, Hai, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: In this paper, we study the problem of projected outlier detection in high dimensional data streams and propose a new technique, called Stream Projected Ouliter deTector (SPOT), to...

Gene specific co-regulation discovery: an improved approach (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: Discovering gene co-regulatory relationships is a new but important research problem in DNA microarray data analysis. The problem of gene specific co-regulation discovery is to, for a...

Semi-bipartite graph visualization for gene ontology networks (2009)

Xu, Kai, Williams, Rohan, Hong, Seok-Hee, Liu, Qing, Zhang, Ji

[Abstract]: In this paper we propose three layout algorithms for semi-bipartite graphs-bipartite graphs with edges in one partition-that emerge from microarray experiment analysis. We also introduce...

FlowRecommender: a workflow recommendation technique for process provenance (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: The increasingly complicated workflow systems necessitates the development of automated workflow recommendation techniques, which are able to not only speed up the workflow construction...

Semi-bipartite graph visualization for gene ontology networks (2009)

Xu, Kai, Williams, Rohan, Hong, Seok-Hee, Liu, Qing, Zhang, Ji

[Abstract]: In this paper we propose three layout algorithms for semi-bipartite graphs-bipartite graphs with edges in one partition-that emerge from microarray experiment analysis. We also introduce...

FlowRecommender: a workflow recommendation technique for process provenance (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: The increasingly complicated workflow systems necessitates the development of automated workflow recommendation techniques, which are able to not only speed up the workflow construction...

BioMed Central (2009)

Bmc Genomics, Qiang Xu, Keqin Yu, Andan Zhu, Junli Ye, Qing Liu, ...

Research article Comparative transcripts profiling reveals new insight into molecular processes regulating lycopene accumulation in a sweet orange (Citrus sinensis) red-flesh mutant

Detecting projected outliers in high-dimensional data streams (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Gao, Qigang, Wang, Hai, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: In this paper, we study the problem of projected outlier detection in high dimensional data streams and propose a new technique, called Stream Projected Ouliter deTector (SPOT), to...

Gene specific co-regulation discovery: an improved approach (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: Discovering gene co-regulatory relationships is a new but important research problem in DNA microarray data analysis. The problem of gene specific co-regulation discovery is to, for a...

FlowRecommender: a workflow recommendation technique for process provenance (2009)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai

[Abstract]: The increasingly complicated workflow systems necessitates the development of automated workflow recommendation techniques, which are able to not only speed up the workflow construction...

Semi-bipartite graph visualization for gene ontology networks (2009)

Xu, Kai, Williams, Rohan, Hong, Seok-Hee, Liu, Qing, Zhang, Ji

[Abstract]: In this paper we propose three layout algorithms for semi-bipartite graphs-bipartite graphs with edges in one partition-that emerge from microarray experiment analysis. We also introduce...

Gene specific co-regulation discovery from gene microarray data (2008)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, De Souza, Paulo

[Abstract]: The problem of gene specific co-regulation discovery is to identify, for a particular gene of interest, called target gene, its strongly co-regulated genes and the condition subsets where...

A Billiard-Based Game Interpretation of the Neumann Problem for the Curve Shortening Equation (2008)

Giga, Yoshikazu, Liu, Qing

This paper constructs a family of discrete games, whose value functions converge to the unique viscosity solution of the Neumann boundary problem of the curve shortening flow equation. To derive the...

of genus one (2008)

Qing Liu, Dino Lorenzini, Michel Raynaud, Dedicated To John Tate

Let K be a discrete valuation field. Let OK denote the ring of integers of K, andletk be the residue field of OK, of characteristic p ≥ 0. Let S: = SpecOK. LetX K be a smooth geometrically...

A Remark on the Discrete Deterministic Game Approach for Curvature Flow Equations (2008)

Giga, Yoshikazu, Liu, Qing

This paper constructs a family of discrete two-person games, whose values converge to the unique viscosity solution of a general curvature flow equation in dimension two. We summarize all of the...

Real-Time Optimization Model for Dynamic Scheduling of Transit Operations (2008)

Liping Fu, Qing Liu, Paul Calamai

A new transit operating strategy is presented in which service vehicles operate in pairs with the lead vehicle providing an all-stop local service and the following vehicle being allowed to skip some...

Towards Multidimensional Subspace Skyline Analysis (2008)

Jian Pei, Yidong Yuan, Xuemin Lin, Wen Jin, Martin Ester, Qing Liu, ...

The skyline operator is important for multicriteria decision-making applications. Although many recent studies developed efficient methods to compute skyline objects in a given space, none of them...

A Hybrid Prediction Model for Moving Objects (2008)

Hoyoung Jeung, Qing Liu, Heng Tao Shen, Xiaofang Zhou

Abstract — Existing prediction methods in moving objects databases cannot forecast locations accurately if the query time is far away from the current time. Even for near future prediction, most...

COMBINING INTERACTIVE VISUALIZATION AND STATISTICS TO DETECT PATTERNS IN ENVIRONMENTAL DATA (2008)

Jean-yves Hervé, Qing Liu, Matthew Nicholson, Liliana González, Thomas Mather

One of the biggest challenges statisticians face when working with non-statisticians on applied problems is to be able to effectively communicate the statistical results. In this paper we discuss the...

Error Minimization in Approximate Range Aggregates (2008)

Xuemin Lin, Qing Zhang, Yidong Yuan, Qing Liu

Histogram techniques have been used in many commercial database management systems to estimate a query result size. Recently, it has been shown that they are very effective to support approximation...

Towards Multidimensional Subspace Skyline Analysis (2008)

Jian Pei, Yidong Yuan, Xuemin Lin, Wen Jin Martin Ester, Qing Liu, Wei Wang, ...

The skyline operator is important for multi-criteria decision making applications. Although many recent studies developed efficient methods to compute skyline objects in a given space, none of them...

Carbon nanofiber-based composites for the construction of mediator-free biosensors (2008)

Lu, Xianbo, Zhou, Jianhua, Lu, Wu, Liu, Qing, Li, Jinghong

Carbon nanofibers (CNFs), with typical diameters of similar to 80 nm and lengths of the order of micrometers, are extremely attractive in bioanalytical area as they can combine properties of high...

A novel brain-enriched E3 ubiquitin ligase RNF182 is up regulated in the brains of Alzheimer's patients and targets ATP6V0C for degradation (2008)

Liu, Qing, Lei, Joy X, Sikorska, Marianna, Liu, Rugao

Abstract Background Alterations in multiple cellular pathways contribute to the development of chronic neurodegeneration such as a sporadic Alzheimer's disease (AD). These, in turn, involve changes...

Signal-dependent Regulation of Transcription by Histone Deacetylase 7 Involves Recruitment to Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein Nuclear Bodies. (2008)

Gao, Chengzhuo, Cheng, Xiwen, Lam, Minh, Liu, Yu, Liu, Qing, Chang, Kun-Sang, ...

Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) nuclear bodies (NBs) are dynamic subnuclear compartments that play roles in several cellular processes, including apoptosis, transcriptional regulation, and DNA...

Degradation of the tumor suppressor PML by Pin1 contributes to the cancer phenotype of breast cancer MDA-MB-231 cells. (2008)

Reineke, Erin L., Lam, Minh, Liu, Qing, Liu, Yu, Stanya, Kristopher J., Chang, Kun-Sang, ...

Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) is an important regulator due to its role in numerous cellular processes including apoptosis, viral infection, senescence, DNA damage repair, and cell cycle...

Targeting Protein Phosphatase 2a as a Therapeutic Strategy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (2008)

Liu, Qing

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common type of adult leukemia in the western world. Despite significant progress in recent years, most patients eventually develop resistance to...

A Remark on the Discrete Deterministic Game Approach for Curvature Flow Equations (2008)

Giga, Yoshikazu, Liu, Qing

This paper constructs a family of discrete two-person games, whose values converge to the unique viscosity solution of a general curvature flow equation in dimension two. We summarize all of the...

A Billiard-Based Game Interpretation of the Neumann Problem for the Curve Shortening Equation (2008)

Giga, Yoshikazu, Liu, Qing

This paper constructs a family of discrete games, whose value functions converge to the unique viscosity solution of the Neumann boundary problem of the curve shortening flow equation. To derive the...

A Remark on the Discrete Deterministic Game Approach for Curvature Flow Equations (2008)

Giga, Yoshikazu, Liu, Qing

This paper constructs a family of discrete two-person games, whose values converge to the unique viscosity solution of a general curvature flow equation in dimension two. We summarize all of the...

A Billiard-Based Game Interpretation of the Neumann Problem for the Curve Shortening Equation (2008)

Giga, Yoshikazu, Liu, Qing

This paper constructs a family of discrete games, whose value functions converge to the unique viscosity solution of the Neumann boundary problem of the curve shortening flow equation. To derive the...

A Hybrid Prediction Model for Moving Objects (2008)

Jeung, Hoyoung, Liu, Qing, Shen, Heng Tao, Zhao, Xiaofang

Existing prediction methods in moving objects databases cannot forecast locations accurately if the query time is far away from the current time. Even for near future prediction, most techniques...

Targeting Protein Phosphatase 2a as a Therapeutic Strategy for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (2008)

Liu, Qing

Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is the most common type of adult leukemia in the western world. Despite significant progress in recent years, most patients eventually develop resistance to...

Gaining confidence in biological interpretation of the microarray data: the functional consistence of the significant GO categories (2008)

Yang, Da, Li, Yanhui, Xiao, Hui, Liu, Qing, Zhang, Min, Zhu, Jing, ...

Motivation: In microarray studies, numerous tools are available for functional enrichment analysis based on GO categories. Most of these tools, due to their requirement of a prior threshold for...

Bio-Sense: a system for supporting sharing and exploration in bioinformatics using semantic web services (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Abstract]: With a fast paced development of Bioinformatics in recent years, we have witnessed a rapid growth of the number of databases and tools available for aiding in scientific research and...

Bio-Sense: a system for supporting sharing and exploration in bioinformatics using semantic web services (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Abstract]: With a fast paced development of Bioinformatics in recent years, we have witnessed a rapid growth of the number of databases and tools available for aiding in scientific research and...

Bio-SENSE: semantic web services for bioinformatics provenance (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Introduction]: There is significant progress being made towards building Semantic Web Services platforms to support bioinformatics, with “myGrid” [1] and “Bio-Moby” [2] being the two...

Bio-SENSE: semantic web services for bioinformatics provenance (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Introduction]: There is significant progress being made towards building Semantic Web Services platforms to support bioinformatics, with “myGrid” [1] and “Bio-Moby” [2] being the two...

Bio-SENSE: semantic web services for bioinformatics provenance (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Introduction]: There is significant progress being made towards building Semantic Web Services platforms to support bioinformatics, with “myGrid” [1] and “Bio-Moby” [2] being the two...

Bio-Sense: a system for supporting sharing and exploration in bioinformatics using semantic web services (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Abstract]: With a fast paced development of Bioinformatics in recent years, we have witnessed a rapid growth of the number of databases and tools available for aiding in scientific research and...

Bio-SENSE: semantic web services for bioinformatics provenance (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Introduction]: There is significant progress being made towards building Semantic Web Services platforms to support bioinformatics, with “myGrid” [1] and “Bio-Moby” [2] being the two...

Bio-Sense: a system for supporting sharing and exploration in bioinformatics using semantic web services (2008)

Bouguettaya, Athman, Hepburn, Mark, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, Zhang, Ji

[Abstract]: With a fast paced development of Bioinformatics in recent years, we have witnessed a rapid growth of the number of databases and tools available for aiding in scientific research and...

Gene specific co-regulation discovery from gene microarray data (2008)

Zhang, Ji, Liu, Qing, Xu, Kai, De Souza, Paulo

[Abstract]: The problem of gene specific co-regulation discovery is to identify, for a particular gene of interest, called target gene, its strongly co-regulated genes and the condition subsets where...

Multi-resolution Algorithms for Building Spatial Histograms (2007)

Qing Liu Yidong, Qing Liu, Yidong Yuan, Xuemin Lin

Selectivity estimation of queries not only provides useful information to the query processing optimization but also may give users a preview of processing results. In this paper, we investigate the...

A novel bud mutation that confers abnormal patterns of lycopene accumulation in sweet orange fruit (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) (2007)

Liu, Qing, Xu, Juan, Liu, Yongzhong, Zhao, Xiaolong, Deng, Xiuxin, Guo, Linlin, ...

A novel, pleiotropic sweet orange (Citrus sinensis L. Osbeck) mutant, ‘Hong Anliu’, is described. This mutation causes carotenoid accumulation, high sugar, and low acid in the fruits. Gas...

OptIC project: An intercomparison of optimization techniques for parameter estimation in terrestrial biogeochemical models (2007)

Trudinger, Cathy M., Raupach, Michael R., Rayner, Peter J., Kattge, Jens, Liu, Qing, Pak, Bernard, ...

We describe results of a project known as OptIC (Optimisation InterComparison) for comparison of parameter estimation methods in terrestrial biogeochemical models. A highly simplified test model was...

Error minimization in approximate range aggregates (2007)

Xuemin Lin, Qing Zhang, Yidong Yuan, Qing Liu

Histogram techniques have been used in many commercial database management systems to estimate a query result size. Recently, it has been shown that they are very effective to support approximation...

Massera Type Theorem for Abstract Functional Differential Equations (2006)

Liu, Qing, Van Minh, Nguyen, Nguerekata, G., Yuan, Rong

The paper is concerned with conditions for the existence of almost periodic solutions of the following abstract functional differential equation $ \dot u(t) = Au(t) + [{\cal B}u](t) +f(t), $ where...

Optimal experimental designs for hyperparameter estimation in hierarchical linear models (2006)

Liu, Qing

Hierarchical models have received wide attention in a variety of fields; for example, social and behavioral sciences, agriculture, education, medicine, healthcare studies, and marketing. A general...

Summarization of very large spatial dataset (2006)

Liu, Qing, Qing.au@gmail.com

Nowadays there are a large number of applications, such as digital library information retrieval, business data analysis, CAD/CAM, multimedia applications with images and sound, real-time process...

The fluid dynamics of an underfloor distribution system [electronic resource] / (2006)

Liu, Qing (Qing A.)

This thesis discusses the fluid dynamics of an under floor air distribution (UFAD) ventilation system in which, in contrast to conventional air conditioning systems, cool air is delivered from...

Summarization of very large spatial dataset (2006)

Liu, Qing, Qing.au@gmail.com

Nowadays there are a large number of applications, such as digital library information retrieval, business data analysis, CAD/CAM, multimedia applications with images and sound, real-time process...

The fluid dynamics of an underfloor distribution system (2006)

Liu, Qing (Qing A.)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.

Summarization of very large spatial dataset (2006)

Liu, Qing

Nowadays there are a large number of applications, such as digital library information retrieval, business data analysis, CAD/CAM, multimedia applications with images and sound, real-time process...

Summarizing level-two topological relations in large spatial datasets (2006)

Lin, Xuemin, Liu, Qing, Yuan, Yidong D, Zhou, Xiaofang, Lu, Hongjun

Summarizing topological relations is fundamental to many spatial applications including spatial query optimization. In this article, we present several novel techniques to effectively construct cell...

Summarization of very large spatial dataset (2006)

Liu, Qing, Qing.au@gmail.com

Nowadays there are a large number of applications, such as digital library information retrieval, business data analysis, CAD/CAM, multimedia applications with images and sound, real-time process...

Summarization of very large spatial dataset (2006)

Liu, Qing

Nowadays there are a large number of applications, such as digital library information retrieval, business data analysis, CAD/CAM, multimedia applications with images and sound, real-time process...

Summarization of very large spatial dataset (2006)

Liu, Qing

Nowadays there are a large number of applications, such as digital library information retrieval, business data analysis, CAD/CAM, multimedia applications with images and sound, real-time process...

Summarization of very large spatial dataset (2006)

Liu, Qing, Qing.au@gmail.com

Nowadays there are a large number of applications, such as digital library information retrieval, business data analysis, CAD/CAM, multimedia applications with images and sound, real-time process...

Summarizing level-two topological relations in large spatial datasets (2006)

Lin, Xuemin, Liu, Qing, Yuan, Yidong D, Zhou, Xiaofang, Lu, Hongjun

Summarizing topological relations is fundamental to many spatial applications including spatial query optimization. In this article, we present several novel techniques to effectively construct cell...

Using ITS for fully automated public transport ticketing system / (2005)

Liu, Qing.

Thesis(M.Sc. (Eng) -- University of Leeds (Institute for Transport Studies), 2005.

Efficient Computation of the Skyline Cube (2005)

Yidong Yuan, Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Wei Wang, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Qing Zhang

Skyline has been proposed as an important operator for multi-criteria decision making, data mining and visualization, and user-preference queries. In this paper, we consider the problem of...

Efficient computation of the skyline cube (2005)

Yidong Yuan, Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Wei Wang, Jeffrey Xu, Yu Qing Zhang

Skyline has been proposed as an important operator for multi-criteria decision making, data mining and visualization, and userpreference queries. In this paper, we consider the problem of efficiently...

Using Object Deputy Model to Prepare Data for Data Warehousing (2005)

Peng, Zhiyong, Liu, Qing, Feng, Ling, Li, Xuhui, Liu, Junqiang

Providing integrated access to multiple, distributed, heterogeneous databases and other information sources has become one of the leading issues in database research and the industry. One of the most...

Stable reduction of finite covers of curves (2004)

Liu, Qing

Let K be the function field of a connected regular scheme S of dimension 1, and let f : X -> Y be a finite cover of projective smooth and geometrically connected curves over K with g(X) greater or...

land surface modeling with enhanced consideration of soil hydraulic properties and terrestrial ecosystems (2004)

Liu, Qing

This thesis research consists of two separate studies. The first study presents the assessment and representation of the effects of soil macropores on the soil hydraulic properties in land surface...

land surface modeling with enhanced consideration of soil hydraulic properties and terrestrial ecosystems (2004)

Liu, Qing

This thesis research consists of two separate studies. The first study presents the assessment and representation of the effects of soil macropores on the soil hydraulic properties in land surface...

Land surface modeling with enhanced consideration of soil hydraulic properties and terrestrial ecosystems (2004)

Liu, Qing.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004.

Land Surface Modeling with Enhanced Considerations of Soil Hydraulic Properties and Terrestrial Ecosystems Approved by: (2004)

Qing Liu, Dr. Robert, E. Dickinson, Advisor Dr, Robert B. Jackson, Dr. Judith, ...

It is very difficult to say enough to express how thankful I am to Dr. Robert Dickinson, my thesis advisor, who has supervised me since January, 2000. He inspired and influenced me in many ways. His...

Land surface modeling with enhanced consideration of soil hydraulic properties and terrestrial ecosystems [electronic resource] / (2004)

Liu, Qing.

This thesis research consists of two separate studies. The first study presents the assessment and representation of the effects of soil macropores on the soil hydraulic properties in land surface...

DOI: 10.1007/s00222-004-0403-2 On the Brauer group of a surface (2004)

Qing Liu, Dino Lorenzini, Michel Raynaud

Our goal in this note is to complete the proof of the following theorem. Theorem 1. Let k be a finite field, of characteristic p. Let X/k be a smooth proper geometrically connected surface. Assume...

Structural characterization of epitaxial YBCO thin films prepared by a fluorine-free sol–gel method for coated conductors (2003)

Lian, Jie, Yao, Haibo, Shi, Donglu, Wang, Lumin, Xu, Yongli, Liu, Qing, ...

Using a fluorine-free sol–gel method, both c- and a-axis textured YBCO thin films were synthesized in low oxygen partial pressure. The experimental results of both x-ray diffraction 2θ scan and...

Multiscale histograms: Summarizing topological relations in large spatial datasets (2003)

Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Yidong Yuan, Xiaofang Zhou

Summarizing topological relations is fundamental to many spatial applications including spatial query optimization. In this paper, we present several novel techniques to effectively construct cell...

Multiscale Histograms: Summarizing Topological (2003)

Relations In Large, Xuemin Lin, Qing Liu, Yidong Yuan, Xiaofang Zhou

Summarizing topological relations is fundamental to many spatial applications including spatial query optimization. In this paper, we present several novel techniques to e#ectively construct cell...

Effect of aging on the phenotype and function of bone marrow derived dendritic cells from BALB/c mice. (2002)

Liu, Qing;

Dendritic cells (DCs) represent the most efficient antigen-presenting cells to initiate primary T cell responses. It is now also appreciated that DCs, through direct cell-cell contacts or as a result...

Effect of aging on the phenotype and function of bone marrow derived dendritic cells from BALB/c mice. (2002)

Liu, Qing;

Dendritic cells (DCs) represent the most efficient antigen-presenting cells to initiate primary T cell responses. It is now also appreciated that DCs, through direct cell-cell contacts or as a result...

MotusNet: A content network (2001)

H. T. Kung, Pai-hsiang Hsiao, Adon Hwang, Conrad Nobili, Michael Vernal, Dario Vlah, ...

Abstract – MotusNet is a content network in which the addressable objects, contents, are decoupled from the physical nodes that carry them. The content names in MotusNet are hierarchical, so that...

Two essays on human capital acquisition by children (2001)

Liu, Qing

The quality of schooling, especially of public high schools, and the role of parents have been a focus of public policy in recent years. Schooling and parents are important in developing human...

A generalized decision logic in interval-set-valued information tables (1999)

Y. Y. Yao, Qing Liu

Abstract. A generalized decision logic in interval-set-valued information tables is introduced, which is an extension of decision logic studied by Pawlak. Each object in an interval-set-valued...

Allelic Diversity at the Merozoite Surface Protein-1 (MSP-1) Locus in Natural Plasmodium falciparum Populations: a Brief Overview (1998)

Marcelo U Ferreira, Osamu Kaneko, Masatsugu Kimura, Qing Liu, Fumihiko Kawamoto, Kazuyuki Tanabe

The merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1) locus of Plasmodium falciparum codes for a major asexual blood-stage antigen currently proposed as a major malaria vaccine candidate. The protein, however,...

Allelic Diversity at the Merozoite Surface Protein-1 (MSP-1) Locus in Natural Plasmodium falciparum Populations: a Brief Overview (1998)

Ferreira,Marcelo U, Kaneko,Osamu, Kimura,Masatsugu, Liu,Qing, Kawamoto,Fumihiko, Tanabe,Kazuyuki

The merozoite surface protein-1 (MSP-1) locus of Plasmodium falciparum codes for a major asexual blood-stage antigen currently proposed as a major malaria vaccine candidate. The protein, however,...

Rational points of the group of components of a Neron model (1998)

Bosch, Siegfried, Liu, Qing

Let A_K be an abelian variety over a discrete valuation field K. Let A be the Neron model of A_K over the ring of integers O_K of K and A_k its special fibre. We study the set of rational points of...

Compositio Mathematica 118: 61–102, 1999. © 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. Models of Curves and Finite Covers (1998)

Qing Liu, Dino Lorenzini Cnrs, Université De Bordeaux I

Abstract. Let K be a discrete valuation field with ring of integers OK.Letf: X → Y beafinite morphism of curves over K. In this article, we study some possible relationships between the models over...

Hydroxyapatite/polymer composites for bone replacement (1997)

Liu, Qing

To improve the mechanical properties and the bioactivity of PolyacitveTM, hydroxyapatite particles were chosen as filler to reinforce the polymer. In making composites, the interface between...

Models of Curves and Finite Covers (1997)

Qing Liu, Dino Lorenzini

this paper, we study some possible relationships between the models of X and of Y . In the first part of the paper, we look at semi-stable and stable models, while in the second part we investigate...

A novel nuclear structure containing the survival of motor neuron protein (1996)

Liu, Qing

HnRNP proteins are a group of abundant nuclear proteins that bind pre-mRNAs and nuclear mRNAs and play important roles in the processing and transport of mRNAs. Many of the hnRNP proteins undergo...

Relationship Between Cytotoxicity and Site-Specific DNA Recombination After In Vitro Exposure of Leukemia Cells to Etoposide (1996)

Chen, Chun-Lin, Fuscoe, James C., Liu, Qing, Pui, Ching-Hon, Mahmoud, Hazem H., Relling, Mary V.

Background Etoposide, an inhibitor of the normal religation activity of the nuclear enzyme topoisomerase II, can induce a secondary acute myeloid leukemia characterized by site-specific DNA...

A note on Gauss--Hermite quadrature (1994)

LIU, QING, PIERCE, DONALD A.

For Gauss—Hermite quadrature, we consider a systematic method for transforming the variable of integration so that the integrand is sampled in an appropriate region. The effectiveness of the...

Indoor Air Pollution and Lung Cancer in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China (1993)

Liu, Qing, Sasco, Annie J., Riboli, Elio, Hu, Meng Xuan

A case-control study comprising 224 male and 92 female incident lung cancer cases and the same number of individually matched hospital controls was conducted from June 1983 to June 1984 in Guangzhou,...

Heterogeneity in Mantel-Haenszel-type models (1993)

LIU, QING, PIERCE, DONALD A.

The Mantel-Haenszel problem involves inferences about a common odds ratio in a set of 2 x 2 tables. Although it is a fairly standard practice to test whether the odds ratios are indeed constant,...

On design and inference for two-stage adaptive clinical trials with dependent data (0000)

Liu, Qing

We consider two-stage adaptive designs for clinical trials where data from the two stages are dependent. This occurs when additional data are obtained from patients during their second stage...

Currency Areas and Monetary Coordination

Qing Liu, Shouyong Shi

In this paper we integrate the recent development in monetary theory with international finance, in order to examine the coordination between two currency areas in setting long-run inflation. The...

Currency Areas and Monetary Coordination

Qing Liu, Shouyong Shi

Currency Area; Monetary Coordination

Analysis of TFIIA Function In Vivo: Evidence for a Role in TATA-Binding Protein Recruitment and Gene-Specific Activation

Liu, Qing, Gabriel, Scott E., Roinick, Kelli L., Ward, Robert D., Arndt, Karen M.

Activation of transcription can occur by the facilitated recruitment of TFIID to promoters by gene-specific activators. To investigate the role of TFIIA in TFIID recruitment in vivo, we exploited a...

Sequence Variation in the Small-Subunit rRNA Gene of Plasmodium malariae and Prevalence of Isolates with the Variant Sequence in Sichuan, China

Liu, Qing, Zhu, Shenghua, Mizuno, Sahoko, Kimura, Masatsugu, Liu, Peina, Isomura, Shin, ...

By two PCR-based diagnostic methods, Plasmodium malariae infections have been rediscovered at two foci in the Sichuan province of China, a region where no cases of P. malariae have been officially...

Small nucleolar RNA interference induced by antisense or double-stranded RNA in trypanosomatids

Liang, Xue-hai, Liu, Qing, Michaeli, Shulamit

In trypanosomes the C/D- and H/ACA-like small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs) are clustered and repeated in the genome. The snoRNAs studied to date are transcribed as polycistronic transcripts by RNA...

hpRNA-Mediated Targeting of the Arabidopsis FAD2 Gene Gives Highly Efficient and Stable Silencing

Stoutjesdijk, Peter A., Singh, Surinder P., Liu, Qing, Hurlstone, Clive J., Waterhouse, Peter A., Green, Allan G.

The endogenous Δ12-desaturase gene (FAD2) in Arabidopsis was targeted for silencing using seed-specific cosuppression (CS), hairpin (HP) RNA (hpRNA), and intron-spliced HP (iHP) constructs. The iHP...

High-Stearic and High-Oleic Cottonseed Oils Produced by Hairpin RNA-Mediated Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing1

Liu, Qing, Singh, Surinder P., Green, Allan G.

We have genetically modified the fatty acid composition of cottonseed oil using the recently developed technique of hairpin RNA-mediated gene silencing to down-regulate the seed expression of two key...

Signal transduction and transforming properties of the TEL–TRKC fusions associated with t(12;15)(p13;q25) in congenital fibrosarcoma and acute myelogenous leukemia

Liu, Qing, Schwaller, Juerg, Kutok, Jeffery, Cain, Danielle, Aster, Jon C., Williams, Ifor R., ...

The TEL–TRKC fusion is expressed as a consequence of t(12;15)(p13;q25), and is associated with two human cancers: congenital fibrosarcoma and acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). We report that the...

A Fenton reaction at the endoplasmic reticulum is involved in the redox control of hypoxia-inducible gene expression

Liu, Qing, Berchner-Pfannschmidt, Utta, Möller, Ulrike, Brecht, Martina, Wotzlaw, Christoph, Acker, Helmut, ...

It has been proposed that hydroxyl radicals (·OH) generated in a perinuclear iron-dependent Fenton reaction are involved in O2-dependent gene expression. Thus, it was the aim of this study to...

Effects of hexamethylene diisocyanate exposure on human airway epithelial cells: in vitro cellular and molecular studies.

Wisnewski, Adam V, Liu, Qing, Miller, Jing-Jing, Magoski, Nadine, Redlich, Carrie A

In this study we developed an in vitro exposure model to investigate the effects of hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) on human airway epithelial cells at the cellular and molecular level. We used...

Optimal experimental designs for hyperparameter estimation in hierarchical linear models

Liu, Qing

Hierarchical models have received wide attention in a variety of fields; for example, social and behavioral sciences, agriculture, education, medicine, healthcare studies, and marketing. A general...

A nonpeptidic agonist of glucagon-like peptide 1 receptors with efficacy in diabetic db/db mice

Chen, Desu, Liao, Jiayu, Li, Na, Zhou, Caihong, Liu, Qing, Wang, Guangxing, ...

Peptidic mimics of the gut hormone glucagon-like peptide (GLP) 1, exemplified by the recently approved drug exenatide, show promise as therapies for type 2 diabetes. Such “incretin mimetics”...

Expression and function of MIP-2 are reduced by dexamethasone treatment in vivo

Schramm, Rene, Liu, Qing, Thorlacius, Henrik

The objective of this study was to examine the effect of dexamethasone on tumour necrosis factor-α (TNF-α)-induced expression and function of macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2) and...

CXC chemokines, MIP-2 and KC, induce P-selectin-dependent neutrophil rolling and extravascular migration in vivo

Zhang, Xiao Wei, Liu, Qing, Wang, Yusheng, Thorlacius, Henrik

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of CXC chemokines, i.e. macrophage inflammatory protein-2 (MIP-2) and KC, on leukocyte-endothelium interactions in detail and to evaluate the role...

CC chemokines induce P-selectin-dependent neutrophil rolling and recruitment in vivo: intermediary role of mast cells

Wan, Ming Xiu, Wang, Yusheng, Liu, Qing, Schramm, Rene, Thorlacius, Henrik

Based on in vitro chemotaxis experiments, it is widely held that CC chemokines, such as macrophage inflammatory protein-1α (MIP-1α) and macrophage chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) mainly support...

CAPRI and RASAL impose different modes of information processing on Ras due to contrasting temporal filtering of Ca2+

Liu, Qing, Walker, Simon A., Gao, Dingcheng, Taylor, James A., Dai, Yan-Feng, Arkell, Rebecca S., ...

The versatility of Ca2+ as a second messenger lies in the complex manner in which Ca2+ signals are generated. How information contained within the Ca2+ code is interpreted underlies cell function....

Oncogenic cooperation and coamplification of developmental transcription factor genes in lung cancer

Kendall, Jude, Liu, Qing, Bakleh, Amy, Krasnitz, Alex, Nguyen, Ken C. Q., Lakshmi, B., ...

We used high-resolution array analysis to discover a recurrent lung cancer amplicon located at 14q13.3. Low-level gain of this region was detected in 15% of lung cancer samples, and high-level...

Transportin-mediated Nuclear Import of Heterogeneous Nuclear RNP Proteins

Siomi, Mikiko C., Eder, Paul S., Kataoka, Naoyuki, Wan, Lili, Liu, Qing, Dreyfuss, Gideon

Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) A1 is an abundant nuclear protein that plays an important role in pre-mRNA processing and mRNA export from the nucleus. A1 shuttles rapidly between the...

Degradation of the Tumor Suppressor PML by Pin1 Contributes to the Cancer Phenotype of Breast Cancer MDA-MB-231 Cells▿

Reineke, Erin L., Lam, Minh, Liu, Qing, Liu, Yu, Stanya, Kristopher J., Chang, Kun-Sang, ...

Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) is an important regulator due to its role in numerous cellular processes including apoptosis, viral infection, senescence, DNA damage repair, and cell cycle...

A Higher Plant Δ8 Sphingolipid Desaturase with a Preference for (Z)-Isomer Formation Confers Aluminum Tolerance to Yeast and Plants[C][OA]

Ryan, Peter R., Liu, Qing, Sperling, Petra, Dong, Bei, Franke, Stefan, Delhaize, Emmanuel

Three plant cDNA libraries were expressed in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and screened on agar plates containing toxic concentrations of aluminum. Nine cDNAs were isolated that enhanced the...

Signal-dependent Regulation of Transcription by Histone Deacetylase 7 Involves Recruitment to Promyelocytic Leukemia Protein Nuclear Bodies

Gao, Chengzhuo, Cheng, Xiwen, Lam, Minh, Liu, Yu, Liu, Qing, Chang, Kun-Sang, ...

Promyelocytic leukemia protein (PML) nuclear bodies (NBs) are dynamic subnuclear compartments that play roles in several cellular processes, including apoptosis, transcriptional regulation, and DNA...

FTY720 demonstrates promising preclinical activity for chronic lymphocytic leukemia and lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma

Liu, Qing, Zhao, Xiaobin, Frissora, Frank, Ma, Yihui, Santhanam, Ramasamy, Jarjoura, David, ...

FTY720 is an immunosuppressant developed to prevent organ transplant rejection. Recent studies indicate an additional role for FTY720 in inducing cell apoptosis. We demonstrate here that FTY720...

Essays on Monetary Coordination, Exchange Rate Volatility and Interfirm Networks

Liu, Qing

This dissertation consists of three independent essays in Macroeconomics. The first essay analyzes monetary coordination between currency areas. It is shown that search frictions can generate the...

Novel Control of S Phase of the Cell Cycle by Ubiquitin-conjugating Enzyme H7

Whitcomb, Elizabeth A., Dudek, Edward J., Liu, Qing, Taylor, Allen

Timely degradation of regulatory proteins by the ubiquitin proteolytic pathway (UPP) is an established paradigm of cell cycle regulation during the G2/M and G1/S transitions. Less is known about...

In Vivo Demonstration and Quantification of Intracellular Bacillus anthracis in Lung Epithelial Cells▿

Russell, Brooke H., Liu, Qing, Jenkins, Sarah A., Tuvim, Michael J., Dickey, Burton F., Xu, Yi

Inhalational anthrax is initiated by the entry of Bacillus anthracis spores into the lung. A critical early event in the establishment of an infection is the dissemination of spores from the lung....

Transcriptome analysis of a spontaneous mutant in sweet orange [Citrus sinensis (L.) Osbeck] during fruit development

Liu, Qing, Zhu, Andan, Chai, Lijun, Zhou, Wenjing, Yu, Keqin, Ding, Jian, ...

Bud mutations often arise in citrus. The selection of mutants is one of the most important breeding channels in citrus. However, the molecular basis of bud mutation has rarely been studied. To...

Acute-on-chronic liver failure: consensus recommendations of the Asian Pacific Association for the study of the liver (APASL)

Sarin, Shiv Kumar, Kumar, Ashish, Almeida, John A., Chawla, Yogesh Kumar, Fan, Sheung Tat, Garg, Hitendra, ...

The Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) set up a working party on acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) in 2004, with a mandate to develop consensus guidelines on various...

On design and inference for two-stage adaptive clinical trials with dependent data

Liu, Qing

We consider two-stage adaptive designs for clinical trials where data from the two stages are dependent. This occurs when additional data are obtained from patients during their second stage...

Copy-Number Mutations on Chromosome 17q24.2-q24.3 in Congenital Generalized Hypertrichosis Terminalis with or without Gingival Hyperplasia

Sun, Miao, Li, Ning, Dong, Wu, Chen, Zugen, Liu, Qing, Xu, Yiming, ...

Congenital generalized hypertrichosis terminalis (CGHT) is a rare condition characterized by universal excessive growth of pigmented terminal hairs and often accompanied with gingival hyperplasia. In...

Lenalidomide down-regulates the CD20 antigen and antagonizes direct and antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity of rituximab on primary chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells

Lapalombella, Rosa, Yu, Bo, Triantafillou, Georgia, Liu, Qing, Butchar, Jonathan P., Lozanski, Gerard, ...

Lenalidomide, an immunomodulatory agent that enhances antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC), is currently being investigated as a therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The...

A critical role for phosphatase haplodeficiency in the selective suppression of deletion 5q MDS by lenalidomide

Wei, Sheng, Chen, Xianghong, Rocha, Kathy, Epling-Burnette, P. K., Djeu, Julie Y., Liu, Qing, ...

Lenalidomide is the first karyotype-selective therapeutic approved for the treatment of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) owing to high rates of erythroid and cytogenetic response in patients with...