Decadal to Centennial Variability of the Atlantic From Observations and Models (2009)
Thomas L. Delworth, Rong Zhang, Michael E. Mann
Some aspects of multidecadal Atlantic climate variability, and its impact on regional and hemispheric scale climate, are reviewed. Observational analyses have documented distinct patterns of Atlantic...
Andreas Schmittner, Eric D. Galbraith, Steven W. Hostetler, Thomas F. Pedersen, Rong Zhang
fluctuations of subsurface dissolved oxygen levels and denitrification coherent with North Atlantic temperature oscillations. Yet the mechanism of this teleconnection between the remote ocean basins...
On the interpretation of Caribbean paleo-temperature reconstructions (2009)
Xiuquan Wan, Ping Chang, R. Saravanan, Rong Zhang, Matthew W. Schmidt
[1] A conundrum exists regarding whether the sea-surface temperatures decreased or increased over the southern Caribbean and the western Tropical Atlantic region during the Younger Dryas when the...
Impact of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on North Pacific climate variability (2009)
Rong Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth
[1] In this paper, we found that the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) can contribute to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), especially the component of the PDO that is linearly independent...
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[1] Satellite altimeter data shows a weakening of the North Atlantic subpolar gyre during the 1990s, which is thought as an indicator of a slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation...
In Language and Information Technologies (2009)
Rong Zhang, Tanja Schultz, Karthik Visweswariah
Automatic recognition of continuous speech has been acknowledged as one of the most challenging problems today. The performance of a continuous speech recognition system highly depends on the...
2006: GFDL’s CM2 global coupled climate models. Part II: The baseline ocean simulation (2009)
Anand Gnanadesikan, Keith W. Dixon, Stephen M. Griffies, V. Balaji, Marcelo Barreiro, J. Anthony Beesley, ...
rainfall, Sahel summer rainfall, and Atlantic Hurricane (2009)
Rong Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth
[1] Prominent multidecadal fluctuations of India summer
Rong Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth, Isaac M. Held
temperature has clearly warmed over the 20th century due in large part to increasing greenhouse gases, this warming has not been monotonic. The departures from steady warming on multidecadal...
Channel code-division multiple access and its multilevel-structured LPDC-based instantialtion (2009)
Non-orthogonal random waveform based multiuser communications (2009)
This thesis is aimed at providing a unified treatment of non-orthogonal random waveform based multiuser communications, commencing from the underlying theory and providing the way to sophisticated...
Improving the performance of an LVCSR system through ensembles of acoustic models (2009)
This paper describes our work on applying ensembles of acoustic models to the problem of large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR). We propose three algorithms for constructing...
Efficient multi-dimensional data search has received much attention in centralized systems. However, its implementation in large-scale distributed systems is not a trivial job and remains to be a...
K-means+ Method for Improving Gene Selection for Classification of Microarray Data (2009)
Heng Huang, Rong Zhang, Fei Xiong, Fillia Makedon, Li Shen
Microarray gene expression techniques have recently made it possible to offer phenotype classification of many diseases. One problem in this analysis is that each sample is represented by quite a...
Kazuteru Nonomura, Yunhua Xu, Tannia Marinado, Daniel P. Hagberg, Rong Zhang, Gerrit Boschloo, ...
A new ruthenium complex, cis-di(thiocyanato)(2,2′-bipyridine-4,4′-dicarboxylic acid)(4,4′-bis(2-(5-(2-(4-diphenylaminophenyl)ethenyl)-thiophen-2-yl)ethenyl)-2,2′-bipyridine)ruthenium(II)...
Kazuteru Nonomura, Yunhua Xu, Tannia Marinado, Daniel P. Hagberg, Rong Zhang, Gerrit Boschloo, ...
A new ruthenium complex, cis-di(thiocyanato)(2,2′-bipyridine-4,4′-dicarboxylic...
Investigations on Ensemble Based Semi-Supervised Acoustic Model Training (2008)
Rong Zhang, Ziad Al Bawab, Arthur Chan, Ananlada Chotimongkol, David Huggins-daines, Alexander I. Rudnicky
Semi-supervised learning has been recognized as an effective way to improve acoustic model training in cases where sufficient transcribed data are not available. Different from most of existing...
Optimizing Boosting with Discriminative Criteria (2008)
We describe the use of discriminative criteria to optimize Boosting based ensembles. Boosting algorithms may create hundreds of individual classifiers in order to fit the training data. However, this...
Multivariable Control Enhancement of an Earthmoving Vehicle Working Cycle Abstract (2008)
Rong Zhang, Andrew G. Alleyne, Don E. Carter
A general operation of an earthmoving vehicle involves the coordination of a multivariable powertrain and the execution of a specific task in a repetitive fashion. Currently, this operation still...
This paper compares the performance of Boosting and non-Boosting training algorithms in large vocabulary continuous speech recognition (LVCSR) using ensembles of acoustic models. Both algorithms...
Cardiac motion analysis to improve pacing site selection in CRT. Acad Radiol 2006 (2008)
Heng Huang, Li Shen, Rong Zhang, Fillia Makedon, Bruce Hettleman, Justin Pearlman
Rationale and Objectives: The aim of the study is to build cardiac wall motion models to characterize mechanical dyssynchrony and predict pacing sites for the left ventricle of the heart in cardiac...
DATA SELECTION FOR SPEECH RECOGNITION (2008)
Yi Wu, Rong Zhang, Er Rudnicky
This paper presents a strategy for efficiently selecting informative data from large corpora of transcribed speech. We propose to choose data uniformly according to the distribution of some target...
A New Data Selection Principle for Semi-Supervised Incremental Learning (2008)
Current semi-supervised incremental learning approaches select unlabeled examples with predicted high confidence for model re-training. We show that for many applications this data selection strategy...
A New Data Selection Approach for Semi-Supervised Acoustic Modeling (2008)
Current approaches to semi-supervised incremental learning prefer to select unlabeled examples predicted with high confidence for model re-training. However, this strategy can degrade the...
Estimate of parameter-deviation degree for (2008)
Zhiyuan Xue, Ong Li, Rong Zhang, Zhiyuan Xue, Ong Li, Rong Zhang
Estimate of parameter-deviation degree for delayed neural networks
RO-SVM: Support Vector Machine with Reject Option for Image Categorization (2008)
When applying Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) for image categorization, an image is treated as a bag containing a number of instances, each representing a region inside the image. The categorization...
A BPGC-BASED SCALABLE IMAGE ENTROPY CODER RESILIENT TO ERRORS (2008)
Rong Zhang, Qibin Sun, Wai-choong Wong
In this paper, we present a new entropy coder, Contextbased Bit Plane Golomb Coder (CB-BPGC) for scalable image coding, which achieves better coding performance with lower complexity compared to the...
A New Bit-Plane Entropy Coder for Scalable Image Coding (2008)
Rong Zhang, Rongshan Yu, Qibin Sun, Wai-choong Wong
Compression ratio and computational complexity are two major factors for a successful image coder. By exploring the Laplacian distribution of the wavelet coefficients, a new bit plane entropy coder...
A Spatio-temporal Modeling Method for Shape Representation (2008)
Heng Huang, Li Shen, Rong Zhang, Fillia Makedon, Justin Pearlman
The spherical harmonic (SPHARM) description is a powerful surface modeling technique that can model arbitrarily shaped but simply connected three dimensional (3D) objects. Because SPHARM based 3D...
Hemispherical Harmonic Surface Description and Applications to Medical Image Analysis (2008)
Heng Huang, Lei Zhang, Dimitris Samaras, Li Shen, Rong Zhang, Fillia Makedon, ...
The use of surface harmonics for rigid and nonrigid shape description is well known. In this paper we define a set of complete hemispherical harmonic basis functions on a hemisphere domain and...
Bmc Genetics, Cheng Hu, Weiping Jia, Weihua Zhang, Congrong Wang, Rong Zhang, ...
Research article An evaluation of the performance of HapMap SNP data in a Shanghai Chinese population: Analyses of allele frequency, linkage disequilibrium pattern and tagging SNPs transferability on...
Estimation and compensation of I/Q imbalance in OFDM-based systems (2008)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
Wafer level LED packaging with integrated DRIE trenches for encapsulation (2008)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
Ping Chang, Rong Zhang, Wilco Hazeleger, Caihong Wen, Xiuquan Wan, Link Ji, ...
Abrupt changes in the African monsoon can have pronounced socioeconomic impacts on many West African countries. Evidence for both prolonged humid periods and monsoon failures have been identified...
Eurospeech 2001- Scandinavia Is This Conversation on Track? (2007)
Paul Carpenter, Chun Jin, Daniel Wilson, Rong Zhang, Dan Bohus, Alex Rudnicky
Confidence annotation allows a spoken dialog system to accurately assess the likelihood of misunderstanding at the utterance level and to avoid breakdowns in interaction. We describe experiments that...
ZINC OXIDE THIN FILMS FOR DYE-SENSITIZED SOLAR CELL APPLICATIONS (2007)
This thesis presents selected methodologies developed in our laboratory for growing ZnO thin films by chemical bath deposition (CBD), as well as ZnO films applications for dye-sensitized solar cells....
GChord: indexing for multi-attribute query in P2P system with low maintenance cost (2007)
Minqi Zhou, Rong Zhang, Weining Qian, Aoying Zhou
Abstract. To provide complex query processing in peer-to-peer systems has attracted much attention in both academic and industrial community. We present GChord, a scalable technique for evaluating...
Anticorrelated multidecadal variations between surface and subsurface tropical North (2007)
[1] In this paper for the first time I show that the multidecadal variations of observed tropical North Atlantic (TNA) sea surface temperature (SST) are strongly anticorrelated with those of the...
Critical function of Bmx/Etk in ischemia-mediated arteriogenesis and angiogenesis (2006)
Luo, Yan, Tang, Shibo, Rajantie, Iiro, Salven, Petri, Heil, Matthias, ...
Bmx/Etk non-receptor tyrosine protein kinase has been implicated in endothelial cell migration and tube formation in vitro. However, the role of Bmx in vivo is not known. Bmx is highly induced in the...
This paper investigates two important issues in constructing and combining ensembles of acoustic models for reducing recognition errors. First, we investigate the applicability of the AnyBoost...
Chen, Gong-Xiang, Zhang, Rong, Zhou, Hong Wei
Objectives: To determine the distribution and heterogeneity of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) responsible for imipenem resistance in Chryseobacterium meningosepticum. Methods: Clinical C....
Energy Reduced Software-Based Self-Testing for Wireless Sensor Network Nodes (2005)
Reliable operation of networks consisting of many embedded wireless nodes operating under strict cost and energy constraint is a major requirement for their widespread acceptance. Towards this goal,...
Rong Zhang, Thomas L. Delworth
In this study, a mechanism is demonstrated whereby a large reduction in the Atlantic thermohaline circulation (THC) can induce global-scale changes in the Tropics that are consistent with...
In this paper, it is shown that coherent large-scale low-frequency variabilities in the North Atlantic Ocean—that is, the variations of thermohaline circulation, deep western boundary current,...
Rong Zhang, Geoffrey K. Vallis
The mechanisms affecting the path of the depth-integrated North Atlantic western boundary current and the formation of the northern recirculation gyre are investigated using a hierarchy of models,...
A Monopolistic Market for Advanced Traveller Information Systems and Road Use Efficiency (2004)
This study presents a model for exploring the interactions between a transport market and a monopolistic market for advanced traveller information systems (ATIS). We examine the properties of the...
Apply N-best list re-ranking to acoustic model combinations of Boosting Training (2004)
The object function for Boosting training method in acoustic modeling aims to reduce utterance level error rate. This is different from the most commonly used performance metric in speech...
A frame level boosting training scheme for acoustic modelling (2004)
Conventional Boosting algorithms for acoustic modeling have two notable weaknesses. (1) The objective function aims to minimize utterance error rate, though the goal for most speech recognition...
Paola Cessi, Kirk Bryan, Rong Zhang
[1] Proxy climate data from the Greenland icecap and marine deposits in the Pacific indicate that warm conditions in the North Atlantic are linked to cool conditions in the Eastern Equatorial...
Implicit Representations for Recovery and Reconstruction of Motion Layers (2003)
Rong Zhang Nikos, Rong Zhang, Nikos Paragios, Dimitris Metaxas
In this paper, we propose a level set approach to decompose the image plane into segments with consistent apparent motion and recover parametric models that best describe such a motion. The number of...
Characterization of the EGR cooling device used in diesel exhaust gas recirculation systems / (2003)
Thesis (M.Ap.Sc.) -- McMaster University, 2003.
Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
A large scale clustering scheme for kernel k-means (2002)
Kernel functions can be viewed as a non-linear transformation that increases the separability of the input data by mapping them to a new high dimensional space. The incorporation of kernel function...
Improve latent semantic analysis based language model by integrating multiple level knowledge (2002)
We describe an extension to the use of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) for language modeling. This technique makes it easier to exploit long distance relationships in natural language for which the...
Is this conversation on track (2001)
Paul Carpenter, Chun Jin, Daniel Wilson, Rong Zhang, Dan Bohus, Er Rudnicky
Confidence annotation allows a spoken dialog system to accurately assess the likelihood of misunderstanding at the utterance level and to avoid breakdowns in interaction. We describe experiments that...
Is This Conversation on Track? (2001)
Paul Carpenter Chun, Chun Jin, Daniel Wilson, Rong Zhang, Dan Bohus, Alex Rudnicky
Confidence annotation allows a spoken dialog system to accurately assess the likelihood of misunderstanding at the utterance level and to avoid breakdowns in interaction. We describe experiments that...
Word Level Confidence Annotation using Combinations of Features (2001)
Rong Zhang And, Rong Zhang, Er I. Rudnicky
This paper describes the development of a word-level confidence metric suitable for use in a dialog system. Two aspects of the problems are investigated: the identification of useful features and the...
Is This Conversation on Track? (2001)
Paul Carpenter Chun, Chun Jin, Daniel Wilson, Rong Zhang, Dan Bohus, Er Rudnicky
Confidence annotation allows a spoken dialog system to accurately assess the likelihood of misunderstanding at the utterance level and to avoid breakdowns in interaction. We describe experiments that...
Zhang, Rong, Yatsuki, Hitomi, Kusakabe, Takahiro, Iwabe, Naoyuki, Miyata, Takashi, Imai, Toshio, ...
Nearly full-length cDNA clones for muscle-type and non-muscle-type aldolase mRNAs were cloned from λgt10 cDNA libraries constructed from skeletal muscle and liver mRNAs of lamprey (Entosphenus...
Zhang, Rong, Kai, Tatsuo, Sugimoto, Yasushi, Kusakabe, Takahiro, Takasaki, Yozo, Koga, Katsumi, ...
Three isozymic forms, α, β, and γ, of Drosophila melanogaster aldolase are produced from a single gene by alternative usage of the triple exons 4 (4α, 4β, and 4γ) (Shaw-Lee et al. (1992)...
Kai, Tatsuo, Sugimoto, Yasushi, Kusakabe, Takahiro, Zhang, Rong, Koga, Katsumi, Hori, Katsuji
Genomic clones encoding the Drosophila aldolase gene were isolated and the organization of the gene was determined. The protein-coding region spanning nearly 3.5 kb consists of five coding exons...
Site of expression and biological function of the rat mammary carcinoma suppressor gene (1990)
Zhang, Rong, Haag, Jill D., Gould, Michael N.
The rat mammary carcinoma suppressor (MCS) gene is an autosomal dominant gene found in the Copenhagen (Cop) rat that specifically prevents carcinogen-induced and spontaneous mammary carcinomas....
Isotonic estimation for grouped data
Woodroofe, Michael, Zhang, Rong
A non-parametric estimator of a non-increasing density is found in a class of piecewise linear functions when the data consist only of counts. An EM-Algorithm for computing the estimator is...
The C-Terminal Transmembrane Domain of Bcl-xL Mediates Changes in Mitochondrial Morphology
Zheng, Jing-Yi, Tsai, Yien-Che, Kadimcherla, Pradeep, Zhang, Rong, Shi, Julia, Oyler, George A., ...
We investigate the effect of mitochondrial localization and the Bcl-xL C-terminal transmembrane (TM) domain on mitochondrial morphology and subcellular light scattering. CSM 14.1 cell lines stably...
Shibata, Shigeki, Hastings, Jeff L, Prasad, Anand, Fu, Qi, Okazaki, Kazunobu, Palmer, M Dean, ...
Cardiovascular diseases increase with advancing age, associated with left ventricular and arterial stiffening in humans. In contrast, daily exercise training prevents and/or improves both ventricular...
Singh, Madhu V., Kapoun, Ann, Higgins, Linda, Kutschke, William, Thurman, Joshua M., Zhang, Rong, ...
Myocardial Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) inhibition improves cardiac function following myocardial infarction (MI), but the CaMKII-dependent pathways that participate in...
Chen, Li-rong, Zhou, Hong-wei, Cai, Jia-chang, Zhang, Rong, Chen, Gong-xiang
Objective: To investigate the mechanism of carbapenem resistance and the occurrence of plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance determinants qnr and aac(6′)-Ib-cr in a clinical isolate of Enterobacter...
The structural basis of integrin-linked kinase–PINCH interactions
Chiswell, Brian P., Zhang, Rong, Murphy, James W., Boggon, Titus J., Calderwood, David A.
The heterotrimeric complex between integrin-linked kinase (ILK), PINCH, and parvin is an essential signaling platform, serving as a convergence point for integrin and growth-factor signaling and...
Wang, Zhipeng, Liu, Li, Mei, Qibing, Liu, Linna, Ran, Yuhua, Zhang, Rong
The nephrotoxicity of gentamicin (GM) has been widely recognized. Heat shock protein 72 (HSP72) has been reported to be a cytoprotectant. However, its cytoprotective effect against GM induced kidney...
Glucocorticoid regulation of preproglucagon transcription and RNA stability during stress
Zhang, Rong, Packard, Benjamin A., Tauchi, Miyuki, D'Alessio, David A., Herman, James P.
Stress elicits a synchronized response of the endocrine, sympathetic, and central nervous systems to preserve homeostasis and well-being. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), a primary posttranslational...