Coupling of light from an optical fiber taper into silver nanowires (2009)
Dong, Chun-Hua, Ren, Xi-Feng, Yang, Rui, Duan, Jun-Yuan, Guan, Jian-Guo, Guo, Guang-Can, ...
We report the coupling of photons from an optical fiber taper to surface plasmon modes of silver nanowires. The launch of propagating plasmons can be realized not only at ends of the nanowires, but...
Coupling of higher-mode-light into a single sliver nanowire (2009)
Guo, Guo-Ping, Yang, Rui, Ren, Xi-Feng, Wang, Lu-Lu, Shi, Hong-Yan, Hu, Bo, ...
Coupling of higher-order-mode light into a single sliver nanowire and the degree of the coupling can be controlled by adjusting the light polarization, showing that nanowire waveguide has no request...
Transmission of doughnut light through a bull's eye structure (2009)
Wang, Lu-Lu, Ren, Xi-Feng, Yang, Rui, Guo, Guang-Can, Guo, Guo-Ping
We experimentally investigate the extraordinary optical transmission of doughnut light through a bull's eye structure. Since the intensity is vanished in the center of the beam, almost all the energy...
Sun, Yu, Yang, Rui, Zhong, Ji-gen, Fang, Feng, Jiang, Jin-jin, Liu, Ming-yao, ...
Abstract Introduction Exogenous surfactant has been explored as a potential therapy for acute lung injury (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). In the present study, a nebuliser...
Optimal contact process on complex networks (2009)
Yang, Rui, Zhou, Tao, Xie, Yan-Bo, Lai, Ying-Cheng, Wang, Bing-Hong
Contact processes on complex networks are a recent subject of study in nonequilibrium statistical physics and they are also important to applied fields such as epidemiology and computer and...
Optimal contact process on complex networks (2009)
Yang, Rui, Zhou, Tao, Xie, Yan-Bo, Lai, Ying-Cheng, Wang, Bing-Hong
Contact processes on complex networks are a recent subject of study in nonequilibrium statistical physics and they are also important to applied fields such as epidemiology and computer and...
Bayesian Modeling of Exposure and Airflow Using Two-Zone Models (2009)
Zhang, Yufen, Banerjee, Sudipto, Yang, Rui, Lungu, Claudiu, Ramachandran, Gurumurthy
Mathematical modeling is being increasingly used as a means for assessing occupational exposures. However, predicting exposure in real settings is constrained by lack of quantitative knowledge of...
Levels of epitope-specific autoantibodies correlate with renal damage in anti-GBM disease (2009)
Yang, Rui, Hellmark, Thomas, Zhao, Juan, Cui, Zhao, Segelmark, Marten, Zhao, Ming-hui, ...
Background. Although the clinical importance of demonstrating the presence of anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies is well established, less is known concerning the clinical...
Transnational higher education in China: context, characteristics and concerns (2008)
Transnational higher education is a rapidly growing phenomenon that is under-researched and often even misunderstood. As the world's most promising market, China has the potential to dwarf all...
Yang, Rui, Li, Wei-Wei, Hoang, Bang H, Kim, Hansoo, Banerjee, Debabrata, Kheradpour, Albert, ...
Abstract Background Methotrexate (MTX) uptake is mediated by the reduced folate carrier (RFC). Defective drug uptake in association with decreased RFC expression is a common mechanism of MTX...
Robust Audio Watermarking Based on Low-Order Zernike Moments (2008)
Shijun Xiang, Jiwu Huang, Rui Yang, Chuntao Wang, Hongmei Liu
Abstract. Extensive testing shows that the audio Zernike moments in lower orders are very robust to common signal processing operations, such as MP3 compression, low-pass filtering, etc. Based on the...
ABSTRACT Localized Signature Table: Fast Similarity Search on Transaction Data (2008)
Qiang Jing, Panos Kalnis, Rui Yang
Recently, techniques for supporting efficient similarity search over huge transaction datasets have emerged as an important research area. Several indexing schemes have been proposed towards this...
VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track Report (2008)
Rui Yang, Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, ...
This year, we participated in the Web Track in addition to the Robust Track. We submitted results on both topic distillation and home page/named page finding tasks. As our time and human resources...
ABSTRACT Similarity Evaluation on Tree-structured Data (2008)
Tree-structured data are becoming ubiquitous nowadays and manipulating them based on similarity is essential for many applications. The generally accepted similarity measure for trees is the edit...
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval (2008)
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, ...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on experience,...
Zheng Chen, Liu Wenyin, Rui Yang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang
A web media agent is presented, which can make a user’s web surfing experience more productive. Once the user visits a web page, semantic descriptions of the media objects on the page are...
Epidemic spreading and immunization with identical infectivity (2006)
Yang, Rui, Ren, Jie, Bai, Wen-Jie, Zhou, Tao, Zhang, Ming-Feng, Wang, Bing-Hong
In this paper, a susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) model with identical infectivity, where each node is assigned with the same capability of active contacts, $A$, at each time step, is...
Epidemic spreading on heterogeneous networks with identical infectivity (2006)
Yang, Rui, Wang, Bing-Hong, Ren, Jie, Bai, Wen-Jie, Shi, Zhi-Wen, Wang, Wen-Xu, ...
In this paper, we propose a modified susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) model, in which each node is assigned with an identical capability of active contacts, $A$, at each time step. In contrast to...
Nonholonomic Geometry, Mechanics and Control (2006)
The motions of various mechanical systems which we wish to synthesize and control often have to satisfy certain kinds of restrictions imposed by the natural environment or the structure of the...
On the Dynamics of Floating Four-Bar Linkages (2006)
Yang, Rui, Krishnaprasad, P. S.
The hamiltonian structure of floating, planar four-bar linkages is discussed. The geometry of configuration space is related to the classical theory of mechanisms due to Grashof. For generic value of...
On the Geometry and Dynamics of Floating Four-Bar Linkages (2006)
Yang, Rui, Krishnaprasad, P. S.
This paper investigates the kinematics and dynamics of floating, planar four bar linkages. The geometry of configuration space is analyzed through the classical theory of mechanisms due to Grashof....
Time-scale Invariant Audio Watermarking Based on the Statistical Features in Time Domain (2006)
Shijun Xiang, Jiwu Huang, Rui Yang
Abstract. In audio watermarking, the robustness to desynchronization attacks such as TSM (Time-Scale Modification) operations, is still an open issue. In this paper, both mathematical proof and...
Rapid suburbanization is changing the face of urban America. Despite voluminous literature on the relationship between suburbanization and economic segregation, whether or not the current suburban...
Chinese core journals for marine sciences (2001)
Abstracts of 2nd UNU-ORI joint international workshop for marine environment
Ubiquitous media agents for managing personal multimedia files (2001)
Liu Wenyin, Zheng Chen, Fan Lin, Rui Yang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang
A novel idea of ubiquitous media agents is presented. Media agents are intelligent systems that are able to automatically collect and build personalized semantic indices of multimedia data on behalf...
Internationalisation of higher education in China : a study of Guangzhou (2000)
Includes tables. Bibliography: leaves 368-411.
On the Dynamics of Floating Four-Bar Linkages. 2. Bifurcations of Relative Equilibria (1998)
Yang, Rui, Krishnaprasad, P. S.
Continuing our program to understand the geometry and dynamics of floating four-bar linkages, we explore the relative equilibria of an assembly that admits symmetric configurations. We show that a...
Three-Phase (Beta+Beta Prime+Gamma Prime) Ni-Al-Ti-(Cr,Fe) Alloys for High Temperature Use. (1998)
Yang, Rui, Leake, John A., Cahn, Robert W.
The three-phase field incorporating the beta (NiAl), beta prime (Ni2AlTi) and gamma prime (Ni3Al) phases in the Ni-Al-Ti system was accurately determined. A number of alloys within that field, with...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 1992.
Nonholonomic geometry : mechanics and control / (1992)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Maryland at College Park, 1992.
Phase equilibria and mechanical behaviour of alloys based on Ni-Al-Ti. (1992)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1992.
Tactile perception for multifingered hands / (1987)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 1987.
The E-learning system used in the civil servants job-training (1970)
The Chinese government is pursuing e-learning policies which makes job-training with a knowledge-based society. To explain more fully the important role of the e-learning environment, this article...
Press, Richard D., Love, Zac, Tronnes, Ashlie A., Yang, Rui, Tran, Thuan, Mongoue-Tchokote, Solange, ...
Although most patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) treated with imatinib mesylate achieve a complete cytogenetic response (CCR), some patients will relapse. To determine the potential of...
Investment Strategies to Exploit Economic Growth in China
Burton G. Malkiel, Jianping Mei, Rui Yang
Since the beginning of the economic reforms two decades ago, the economy in China has enjoyed a real growth rate of 9.6 percent per year. We believe that China is only in the early stages of its...
Investment Strategies to Exploit Economic Growth in China
Burton G. Malkiel, Jianping Mei, Rui Yang
Since the beginning of the economic reforms two decades ago, the economy in China has enjoyed a real growth rate of 9.6 percent per year. We believe that China is only in the early stages of its...
Shen, Huiyong, Tang, Yong, Huang, Lin, Yang, Rui, Wu, Yanfeng, Wang, Peng, ...
Diffusion-weighted MRI (DWI) has been proposed as a method to evaluate the integrity of white matter tracts in the spinal cord. The integrity of the spinal cord reflects the exact stage of traumatic...
Aerosolised surfactant generated by a novel noninvasive apparatus reduced acute lung injury in rats
Sun, Yu, Yang, Rui, Zhong, Ji-gen, Fang, Feng, Jiang, Jin-jin, Liu, Ming-yao, ...
Polymorphisms and Methylation of the Reduced Folate Carrier in Osteosarcoma
Yang, Rui, Qin, Jing, Hoang, Bang H., Healey, John H., Gorlick, Richard
High-dose methotrexate is a standard component in the treatment of osteogenic sarcoma. Impaired methotrexate uptake associated with decreased reduced folate carrier expression is a common mechanism...