An Equivalent Pseudoword Solution to Chinese Word Sense Disambiguation (2009)
Zhimao Lu, Haifeng Wang, Jianmin Yao, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
This paper presents a new approach based on Equivalent Pseudowords (EPs) to tackle Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) in Chinese language. EPs are particular artificial ambiguous words, which can be...
Li, Sheng, Liu, Yang, Piao, Yun-Song
In a given path with multiple branches, in principle, it can be expected that there are some fork points, where one branch is bifurcated into different branches, or various branches converge into one...
Integrating fluctuations into distribution of resources in transportation networks (2009)
He, Shan, Li, Sheng, Ma, Hongru
We propose a resource distribution strategy to reduce the average travel time in a transportation network given a fixed generation rate. Suppose that there are essential resources to avoid congestion...
Market Dispersion and the Profitability of Hedge Funds (2009)
We examine the impact of market dispersion on the performance of hedge funds. Market dispersion is measured by the cross-sectional volatility of equity returns in a given month. Using hedge fund...
Lubrication And Contact Fatigue Models For Roller And Gear Contacts (2009)
Pitting is a surface or sub-surface initiated contact fatigue failure that is commonly observed in lubricated contacts of widely used machine components such as gears and bearings. Such contacts...
Multi-Band Spectral Subtraction Method for Electrolarynx Speech Enhancement (2009)
Sheng Li, MingXi Wan, SuPin Wang
Although the electrolarynx (EL) provides an important means of voice reconstruction for patients who lose their vocal cords by laryngectomies, the radiated noise and additive environment noise reduce...
Lubrication And Contact Fatigue Models For Roller And Gear Contacts (2009)
Pitting is a surface or sub-surface initiated contact fatigue failure that is commonly observed in lubricated contacts of widely used machine components such as gears and bearings. Such contacts...
Sheng Li, Fu-Li Zhang, Shou-Bin Wang, Hui-Ling Bai
The title compound, {[Tb(C7H3NO4)(C7H4NO4)(H2O)2]·2H2O}n, is isotypic with the analogous TmIII compound [Li, Zhang, Wang & Bai (2009). Acta Cryst. E65, m411]. The TbIII atom is...
Sheng Li, Yue Chen, Hong-Mei He, Yuan-Fang Ma
The title compound, {[Tm(C7H3NO4)(C7H4NO4)(H2O)2]·2H2O}n, is isotypic with the analogous TbIII compound [Li et al. (2009). Acta Cryst. E65, m410]. All interatomic distances and angles and the...
Dynamics and Control of Infections Transmitted From Person to Person Through the Environment (2009)
Li, Sheng, Eisenberg, Joseph N. S., Spicknall, Ian H., Koopman, James S.
The environment provides points for control of pathogens spread by food, water, hands, air, or fomites. These environmental transmission pathways require contact network formulations more...
Yajuan Lü, Ming Zhou, Sheng Li, Changning Huang, Tiejun Zhao
Knowledge acquisition is a bottleneck in machine translation and many NLP tasks. A method for automatically acquiring translation templates from bilingual corpora is proposed in this paper. Bilingual...
Activating Case-Based Reasoning with Active Databases (2008)
Abstract. Many of today’s CBR systems are passive in nature: they require human users to activate them manually and to provide information about the incoming problem explicitly. In this paper, we...
Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
A classical Chinese Natural Language Understanding (NLU) architecture usually includes several NLU components which are executed with some mechanism. A new Multilayer Search Mechanism (MSM) which...
Effect of edge removal on topological and functional robustness of complex networks (2008)
He, Shan, Li, Sheng, Ma, Hongru
We study the robustness of complex networks subject to edge removal. Several network models and removing strategies are simulated. Rather than the existence of the giant component, we use total...
Diffusion Model for Apple Cubes Atmospheric Freeze-Drying with the Effect of Shrinkage (2008)
Li, Sheng, Zbicinski, Ireneusz, Wang, Hongwao, Stawczyk, Jan, Zhang, Zongyu
Atmospheric freeze-drying (AFD) could combine the advantages of both freeze drying (high product quality) and convective heat pump drying (lower process costs). A black box modelling approach, the...
Diffusion Model for Apple Cubes Atmospheric Freeze-Drying with the Effect of Shrinkage (2008)
Li, Sheng, Zbicinski, Ireneusz, Wang, Hongwao, Stawczyk, Jan, Zhang, Zongyu
Atmospheric freeze-drying (AFD) could combine the advantages of both freeze drying (high product quality) and convective heat pump drying (lower process costs). A black box modelling approach, the...
Diffusion Model for Apple Cubes Atmospheric Freeze-Drying with the Effect of Shrinkage (2008)
Li, Sheng, Zbicinski, Ireneusz, Wang, Hongwao, Stawczyk, Jan, Zhang, Zongyu
Atmospheric freeze-drying (AFD) could combine the advantages of both freeze drying (high product quality) and convective heat pump drying (lower process costs). A black box modelling approach, the...
Diffusion Model for Apple Cubes Atmospheric Freeze-Drying with the Effect of Shrinkage (2008)
Li, Sheng, Zbicinski, Ireneusz, Wang, Hongwao, Stawczyk, Jan, Zhang, Zongyu
Atmospheric freeze-drying (AFD) could combine the advantages of both freeze drying (high product quality) and convective heat pump drying (lower process costs). A black box modelling approach, the...
HIT: Web based Scoring Method for English Lexical Substitution (2008)
Shiqi Zhao, Lin Zhao, Yu Zhang, Ting Liu, Sheng Li
This paper describes the HIT system and its participation in SemEval-2007 English Lexical Substitution Task. Two main steps are included in our method: candidate substitute extraction and candidate...
An Automatic Evaluation Method for Localization Oriented Lexicalised EBMT System (2008)
Jianmin Yao, Ming Zhou, Tiejun Zhao, Hao Yu, Sheng Li
To help developing a localization oriented EBMT system, an automatic machine translation evaluation method is implemented which adopts edit distance, cosine correlation and Dice coefficient as...
Li, Sheng, Cai, Yi-Fu, Piao, Yun-Song
In this paper, we study a curvaton model described by a Dirac-Born-Infeld-like action. We calculate the spectrum of curvature perturbation induced by DBI-curvaton and estimate its non-Gaussianity. We...
Energy band of graphene ribbons under the tensile force (2008)
Wei, Yong, Tong, Guo-Ping, Li, Sheng
According to the tight-binding approximation, we investigate the electronic structures of graphene ribbons with zigzag shaped edges (ZGRs) and armchair shaped edges (AGRs) drawn by the tensile force,...
Semantic Role Lableing System using Maximum Entropy Classifier ∗ (2008)
Ting Liu, Wanxiang Che, Sheng Li, Yuxuan Hu, Huaijun Liu
A maximum entropy classifier is used in our semantic role labeling system, which takes syntactic constituents as the labeling units. The maximum entropy classifier is trained to identify and classify...
Teng Zhao, Di Zhang, Yun Liu, Daizhan Zhou, Zhuo Chen, Sheng Li, ...
*Objective:* Type 2 Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by chronic hyperglycemia and with a major feature of insulin resistance. Genetic association studies have suggested that...
Question Answering (QA), Information Extraction (IE), and Machine Translation (MT). Since the (2008)
Shiqi Zhao, Ting Liu, Xincheng Yuan, Sheng Li, Yu Zhang
Lexical paraphrasing aims at acquiring word-level paraphrases. It is critical for many Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, such as
μ-Oxido-bis{chlorido[tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine]chromium(III)} bis(hexafluoridophosphate) (2008)
Sheng Li, Shou-Bin Wang, Fu-Li Zhang, Kun Tang
The title compound, [Cr2Cl2O(C18H18N4)2](PF6)2, is isostructural with the VIII analogue. Each CrIII atom is chelated by the tetradentate tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine ligand via four N atoms, and...
Diazidobis(2,2′-biimidazole)cobalt(II) (2008)
Sheng Li, Shou-Bin Wang, Fu-Li Zhang, Kun Tang
In the title compound, [Co(N3)2(C6H6N4)2], the CoII atom lies on a centre of inversion and is bonded to two azide ions and two bidentate 2,2′-biimidizole ligands, giving a slightly distorted...
Shou-Bin Wang, Hong-Mei He, Sheng Li, Kun Tang
In the title compound, [Gd2(C7H3F2O2)6(C12H8N2)2], the asymmetric unit comprises one Gd3+ cation chelated by two 2,4-difluorobenzoate and one 1,10-phenanthroline ligands. Two cations are linked into...
Shou-Bin Wang, Kun Tang, Bao-Hua Yang, Sheng Li
The reported structure is a monoclinic polymorph of the title compound, [Mn2(C16H14N2O2)2(NCS)2], which has been characterized previously in an orthorhombic form. Each MnIII atom is chelated by a...
Tetra-μ-2,5-difluorobenzoato-bis[(2,2′-bipyridine)(2,5-difluorobenzoato)gadolinium(III)] (2008)
Sheng Li, Fu-Li Zhang, Kun Tang, Yuan-Fang Ma
In the centrosymmetric title compound, [Gd2(C7H3F2O2)6(C10H8N2)2], the asymmetric unit comprises one cation chelated by two 2,5-difluorobenzoate and one 2,2′-bipyridine. Two cations are linked...
catena-Poly[[(2,2′-bipyridine-κ2N,N′)nickel(II)]-μ-oxalato-κ4O1,O2:O1′,O2′] (2008)
Sheng Li, Xing-Lian Yan, Shou-Bin Wang, Yuan-Fang Ma
The title compound, [Ni(C2O4)(C10H8N2)]n, is isostructural with its MnII, FeII, CuII and ZnII analogues. Each NiII atom is chelated by two oxalate ligands and one 2,2′-bipyridine, forming a...
Lixin Zhang, Usha Reddi, Usha Srinivasan, Sheng Li, Stephanie M. Borchardt, Parvathy Pillai, ...
Many bacterial species function as both commensals and pathogens; we used this dual nature to develop a high-throughput molecular epidemiological approach to identifying bacterial virulence genes. We...
Kimura, En, Han, Jay J., Li, Sheng, Fall, Brent, Ra, Jennifer, Haraguchi, Miki, ...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized in skeletal muscle by cycles of myofiber necrosis and regeneration leading to loss of muscle fibers and replacement with fibrotic connective and...
Lixin Zhang, Usha Reddi, Usha Srinivasan, Sheng Li, Stephanie M. Borchardt, Parvathy Pillai, ...
Many bacterial species function as both commensals and pathogens; we used this dual nature to develop a high-throughput molecular epidemiological approach to identifying bacterial virulence genes. We...
Activating Case-based Reasoning with Active Databases (2007)
. Many of today's CBR systems are passive in nature: they require human users to activate them manually and to provide information about the incoming problem explicitly. In this paper, we...
Quantum Multiple Scattering: (2007)
Correspondence Between By, Sheng Li, Eric J. Heller
Quantum Multiple Scattering: Correspondence between Particle and Photon Scattering Sheng Li, June 2003 Thesis advisor: Prof. Eric J. Heller This thesis discusses the quantum multiple scattering...
Evaluating hedge fund performance: a stochastic dominance approach (2007)
We introduce a general and flexible framework for hedge fund performance evaluation and asset allocation: stochastic dominance (SD) theory. Our approach utilizes statistical tests for stochastic...
The Extraction of Trajectories from Real Texts Based on Linear Classification (2007)
Li, Hanjing, Zhao, Tiejun, Li, Sheng, Zhao, Jiyuan
Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics NODALIDA-2007. Editors: Joakim Nivre, Heiki-Jaan Kaalep, Kadri Muischnek and Mare Koit. University of Tartu, Tartu, 2007. ISBN...
Pericytes of human skeletal muscle are myogenic precursors distinct from satellite cells (2007)
Tonlorenzi, Rossana, Tagliafico, Enrico, Sacchetti, Benedetto, Perani, Laura, ...
Cells derived from blood vessels of human skeletal muscle can regenerate skeletal muscle, similarly to embryonic mesoangioblasts. However, adult cells do not express endothelial markers, but instead...
Jie Zhang, Jia-Qing Xiang, Ya-Wei Zhang, Yan-Yan Chen, Xiao-Yan Zhou, Yun Liu, ...
Prostate cancer cells adhere to a tumor basement membrane, while secretoryepithelial cells reside in a suprabasal cell compartment. Since tumor cells are derived fromsuprabasal epithelial cells, they...
An automated framework for validating firewall policy enforcement (2007)
Adel El-atawy, Taghrid Samak, Zein Wali, Ehab Al-shaer, Frank Lin, Christopher Pham, ...
The implementation of network security devices such as firewalls and IDSs are constantly being improved to accommodate higher security and performance standards. Using reliable and yet practical...
An automated framework for validating firewall policy enforcement (2007)
Adel El-atawy, Taghrid Samak, Zein Wali, Ehab Al-shaer, Sheng Li
The implementation of network security devices such as firewalls and IDSs are constantly being improved to accommodate higher security and performance standards. Using reliable and yet practical...
An automated framework for validating firewall policy enforcement (2007)
Adel El-atawy, Taghrid Samak, Zein Wali, Ehab Al-shaer, Sheng Li
The implementation of network security devices such as firewalls and IDSs are constantly being improved to accommodate higher security and performance standards. Using reliable and yet practical...
Effective delivering capacity in traffic dynamics based on scale-free network (2006)
He, Shan, Li, Sheng, Ma, Hongru
We investigate the percentage of delivering capacities that are actually consumed in a typical traffic dynamics where the capacities are uniformly assigned over a scale-free network. Theoretical...
Tillage translocation and tillage erosion: measurement, modeling, application and validation (2006)
Tillage erosion is a major contributor to the total soil erosion in cultivated topographically complex lands. No study has been carried out on tillage erosion associated with cereal-based production...
Tillage translocation and tillage erosion: measurement, modeling, application and validation (2006)
Tillage erosion is a major contributor to the total soil erosion in cultivated topographically complex lands. No study has been carried out on tillage erosion associated with cereal-based production...
Tillage translocation and tillage erosion: measurement, modeling, application and validation (2006)
Tillage erosion is a major contributor to the total soil erosion in cultivated topographically complex lands. No study has been carried out on tillage erosion associated with cereal-based production...
Tillage translocation and tillage erosion: measurement, modeling, application and validation (2006)
Tillage erosion is a major contributor to the total soil erosion in cultivated topographically complex lands. No study has been carried out on tillage erosion associated with cereal-based production...
Tillage translocation and tillage erosion: measurement, modeling, application and validation (2006)
Tillage erosion is a major contributor to the total soil erosion in cultivated topographically complex lands. No study has been carried out on tillage erosion associated with cereal-based production...
Tillage translocation and tillage erosion: measurement, modeling, application and validation (2006)
Tillage erosion is a major contributor to the total soil erosion in cultivated topographically complex lands. No study has been carried out on tillage erosion associated with cereal-based production...
Quasispecies distribution of Eigen model (2006)
We study sharp peak landscapes (SPL) of Eigen model from a new perspective about how the quasispecies distribute in the sequence space. To analyze the distribution more carefully, we bring forth two...
Design, Fabrication and Testing of Micronozzles for Gas Sensing Applications (2006)
Real-time identification and quantitative analysis of volatile and semi-volatile chemical vapors are critical for environmental monitoring. Currently available portable instruments lack the...
Design, Fabrication and Testing of Micronozzles for Gas Sensing Applications (2006)
Real-time identification and quantitative analysis of volatile and semi-volatile chemical vapors are critical for environmental monitoring. Currently available portable instruments lack the...
Biochemical analysis of the interaction between transfer ribonucleic acid and exportin-t (2006)
In this thesis the ternary complex of tRNAexportin-tRanGTP was studied by biochemical and biophysical methods. Firstly, photocrosslinking was used to determine the contact sites between tRNA...
High-Performance Nonlinear Optical Material Developed in Japan (2006)
As reported by this newspaper based on announcement by the Asahi Glass Corporation of Japan, the world's best performing nonlinear optical material was developed by the Asahi Corporation. The...
Dependency parsing based on dynamic local optimization (2006)
Ting Liu, Jinshan Ma, Huijia Zhu, Sheng Li
This paper presents a deterministic parsing algorithm for projective dependency grammar. In a bottom-up way the algorithm finds the local optimum dynamically. A constraint procedure is made to use...
Three essays on bidding in the construction industry / (2006)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Economics, University of Utah, 2006.
Sun, Yun, Zhang, Fuchang, Gao, Jianjun, Gao, Xiaocai, Guo, Tingwei, Zhang, Kejin, ...
Genetic defects attributable to the genes involved in the hypothalamus–pituitary–thyroid (HPT) gland axis can cause abnormal thyroid hormone function and mental retardation (MR). Pit-1, encoded...
Sun, Yun, Zhang, Fuchang, Gao, Jianjun, Gao, Xiaocai, Guo, Tingwei, Zhang, Kejin, ...
Genetic defects attributable to the genes involved in the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid gland (HPT) axis can cause abnormal thyroid hormone function and mental retardation (MR). Pit-1, encoded by...
Li, Sheng, Kimura, En, Ng, Rainer, Fall, Brent M., Meuse, Leonard, Reyes, Morayma, ...
A promising approach for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is by autologous cell transplantation of myogenic stem cells transduced with a therapeutic expression cassette. Development of this...
Li, Sheng, Kimura, En, Ng, Rainer, Fall, Brent M., Meuse, Leonard, Reyes, Morayma, ...
A promising approach for treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is by autologous cell transplantation of myogenic stem cells transduced with a therapeutic expression cassette. Development of this...
Evolving Network With Different Edges (2005)
Sun, Jie, Ge, Yizhi, Li, Sheng
We proposed an evolving network model constituted by the same nodes but different edges. The competition between nodes and different links were introduced. Scale free properties have been found in...
Epidemic Spreading in Dynamic Small World Networks (2004)
Li, Sheng, Meng, Meng, Ma, Hongru
In this paper, we use a series of small world networks to simulate the epidemic spreading in the real world. To make our model more similar to the real world, we employ a parameter $p_{move}$ to...
Network of tRNA Gene Sequences (2004)
Wei, Fangping, Li, Sheng, Ma, Hongru
We showed in this paper that similarity network can be used as an powerful tools to study the relationship of tRNA genes. We constructed a network of 3719 tRNA gene sequences using simplest alignment...
Localization of electromagnetic waves in a two dimensional random medium (2002)
Motivated by previous investigations on the radiative effects of the electric dipoles embedded in structured cavities, localization of electromagnetic waves in two dimensions is studied {\it ab...
Finger coordination in two-hand force production tasks [microform] / (2002)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2002.
Learning chinese bracketing knowledge based on a bilingual language model (2002)
Yajuan Lü, Sheng Li, Tiejun Zhao, Muyun Yang
This paper proposes a new method for automatic acquisition of Chinese bracketing knowledge from English-Chinese sentence-aligned bilingual corpora. Bilingual sentence pairs are first aligned in...
Quantum Multiple Scattering: Eigenmode Expansion and Its Applications to Proximity Resonance (2001)
We show that for a general system of N s-wave point scatterers, there are always N eigenmodes. These eigenmodes or eigenchannels play the same role as spherical harmonics for a spherically symmetric...
ActiveCBR: An Agent System That Integrates Case-Based Reasoning and Active Database (2001)
Abstract. Case-based reasoning (CBR) is an artificial intelligence (AI) technique for problem solving that uses previous similar examples to solve a current problem. Despite its success, most current...
Topological Defects in 3-d Euclidean Gravity (2000)
Li, Sheng, Zhang, Yong, Zhu, Zhongyuan
By making use of the complete decomposition of SO(3) spin connection, the topological defect in 3-dimensional Euclidean gravity is studied in detail. The topological structure of disclination is...
Decomposition of SU(N) connection and Effective Theory of SU(N) QCD (1999)
Li, Sheng, Zhang, Yong, Zhu, Zhongyuan
We give a general decomposition of SU(N) connection and derive a generalized Skyrme-Faddeev action as the effective action of SU(N) QCD in the low energy limit. The result is obtained by separating...
Disclination in Lorentz Space-Time (1999)
The disclination in Lorentz space-time is studied in detail by means of topological properties of $\phi $-mapping. It is found the space-time disclination can be described in term of a Dirac spinor....
The Topological Structure of Nieh-Yan Form and Chiral Anomaly in Spaces with Torsion (1999)
The topological structure of the Nieh-Yan form in 4-dimensional manifold is given by making use of the decomposition of spin connection. The case of the generalized Nieh-Yan form on $2^d$-dimensional...
The index theorem of Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic of manifold with boundary is given by making use of the general decomposition theory of spin connection. We shows the sum of the total index of a...
What's behind the Asian economic crisis? : a case study of Indonesia / (1999)
Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 1999.
SO(4) Monopole As A New Topological Invariant And Its Topological Structure (1998)
By making use of the decomposition theory of gauge potential, the inner structure of SU(2) and SO(4) gauge theory is discussed in detail. We find the SO(4) monopole can be given via projecting the...
England Develops World's Fastest Optic Switch Breakthrough in High-Speed Communications. (1998)
England's Gelasige University has successfully developed the world's fastest optical switching device, allowing for a major breakthrough in high-speed communications. This switching device is called...
The topological structure of the electric topological current of the locally gauge invariant Maxwell-Chern-Simons Model and its bifurcation is studied. The electric topological charge is quantized in...
The Topological Structure of the Space-Time Disclination (1998)
The space-time disclination is studied by making use of the decomposition theory of gauge potential in terms of antisymmetric tensor field and $\phi$-mapping method. It is shown that the self-dual...
Heidelberg, Universiẗat, Diss., 1996.
Ammonia plasma treatment of polyolefins for adhesive bonding with a cyanoacrylate adhesive (1995)
Wu, Dong Yang, Gutowski, W S, Li, Sheng, Griesser, Hans Jeorg
Ammonia plasma treatment of polyolefins for adhesive bonding with a cyanoacrylate adhesive (1995)
Wu, Dong Yang, Gutowski, W S, Li, Sheng, Griesser, Hans Joerg
Ammonia plasma treatment of polyolefins for adhesive bonding with a cyanoacrylate adhesive (1995)
Wu, Dong Yang, Gutowski, W S, Li, Sheng, Griesser, Hans Joerg
Li, Sheng, Dean, Susan, Li, Zhijian, Horecka, Joe, Deschenes, Robert J., Fassler, Jan S.
The yeast “two-component” osmotic stress phosphorelay consists of the histidine kinase, Sln1p, the phosphorelay intermediate, Ypd1p and two response regulators, Ssk1p and Skn7p, whose activities...
Bachrach, Estanislao, Li, Sheng, Perez, Antonio L., Schienda, Jaclyn, Liadaki, Kalliopi, Volinski, Jay, ...
Cell-based therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients and mdx mice has proven to be a safe but ineffective form of treatment. Recently, a group of cells called muscle side population (SP) cells...
Li, Sheng, Friesen, Jon A., Fei, Hong, Ding, Xiang, Borst, David W.
In a previous study [Li, Wagner, Friesen and Borst (2003) Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 134, 147–155], we showed that the MO (mandibular organ) of the lobster Homarus americanus has high levels of HMGR...
Li, Sheng, Dean, Susan, Li, Zhijian, Horecka, Joe, Deschenes, Robert J., Fassler, Jan S.
The yeast “two-component” osmotic stress phosphorelay consists of the histidine kinase, Sln1p, the phosphorelay intermediate, Ypd1p and two response regulators, Ssk1p and Skn7p, whose activities...
Bachrach, Estanislao, Li, Sheng, Perez, Antonio L., Schienda, Jaclyn, Liadaki, Kalliopi, Volinski, Jay, ...
Cell-based therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients and mdx mice has proven to be a safe but ineffective form of treatment. Recently, a group of cells called muscle side population (SP) cells...
Li, Sheng, Friesen, Jon A., Fei, Hong, Ding, Xiang, Borst, David W.
In a previous study [Li, Wagner, Friesen and Borst (2003) Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 134, 147–155], we showed that the MO (mandibular organ) of the lobster Homarus americanus has high levels of HMGR...
Crystal structure of human phosphoribosylpyrophosphate synthetase 1 reveals a novel allosteric site
Li, Sheng, Lu, Yongcheng, Peng, Baozhen, Ding, Jianping
PRPP (phosphoribosylpyrophosphate) is an important metabolite essential for nucleotide synthesis and PRS (PRPP synthetase) catalyses synthesis of PRPP from R5P (ribose 5-phosphate) and ATP. The...
Evaluating hedge fund performance: a stochastic dominance approach
We introduce a general and flexible framework for hedge fund performance evaluation and asset allocation: stochastic dominance (SD) theory. Our approach utilizes statistical tests for stochastic...
Wu, Jun, Zheng, Qian, Shi, Bing, Meng, Tian, Wang, Yan, Li, Sheng, ...
Objective: This study aimed to explore the effects of different types of palatal lateral excisions on the growth and development of the maxilla and dental arch, and to investigate the underlying...
Robustness of neural codes and its implication on natural image processing
In this study, based on the view of statistical inference, we investigate the robustness of neural codes, i.e., the sensitivity of neural responses to noise, and its implication on the construction...
Zhang, Lixin, Reddi, Usha, Srinivasan, Usha, Li, Sheng, Borchardt, Stephanie M., Pillai, Parvathy, ...
Many bacterial species function as both commensals and pathogens; we used this dual nature to develop a high-throughput molecular epidemiological approach to identifying bacterial virulence genes. We...
Market Dispersion and the Profitability of Hedge Funds
We examine the impact of market dispersion on the performance of hedge funds. Market dispersion is measured by the cross-sectional volatility of equity returns in a given month.Using hedge fund...
Hsu, Yuan-Hao, Burke, John E., Stephens, Daren L., Deems, Raymond A., Li, Sheng, Asmus, Kyle M., ...
The GIVA phospholipase A2 (PLA2) contains two domains: a calcium-binding domain (C2) and a catalytic domain. These domains are linked via a flexible tether. GIVA PLA2 activity is Ca2+-dependent in...
Positive association between the PDLIM5 gene and bipolar disorder in the Chinese Han population
Zhao, Teng, Liu, Yun, Wang, Peng, Li, Sheng, Zhou, Daizhan, Zhang, Di, ...
Small intestinal bacteria overgrowth decreases small intestinal motility in the NASH rats
Wu, Wan-Chun, Zhao, Wei, Li, Sheng
AIM: To explore the relationship between small intestinal motility and small intestinal bacteria overgrowth (SIBO) in Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and to investigate the effect of SIBO on the...
Zhao, Wen-Hua, Li, Ling, Zhang, Bo, Zhang, Wei-Dong, Zong, Min, Tang, Ji-Dong, ...
AIM: To investigate whether supplementation of male zooid of Antheraea pernyi extracts (MZAPE) could enhance immune function of radiated tumor-bearing rats.
Granillo, Olivia M., Brahmajothi, Mulugu V., Li, Sheng, Whorton, A. Richard, Mason, S. Nicholas, McMahon, Timothy J., ...
Nitric oxide (NO) effects are often mediated via S-nitrosothiol (SNO) formation; SNO uptake has recently been shown to be mediated in some cell types via system L-type amino acid transporters (LAT-1,...
Effect of 5-LOX/COX-2 common inhibitor DHDMBF30 on pancreatic cancer cell Capan2
Zhang, Bo, Wang, Chang-Liang, Zhao, Wen-Hua, Lv, Ming, Wang, Chun-Ying, Zhong, Wei-Xia, ...
AIM: To study the effect of 5-lipoxygenase/cyclooxy-genase-2 (5-LOX/COX-2) dual inhibitor 7-tert-butyl-2, 3-dihydro-3, 3-dimethyl substituted dihydrofuran 30 (DHDMBF30) on proliferation and apoptosis...
Li, Sheng, Wu, Wan-Chun, He, Chi-Yi, Han, Zhen, Jin, Dao-You, Wang, Lin
AIM: To explore the change of intestinal mucosa barrier function in the progress of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) in rats.
Kimura, En, Han, Jay J., Li, Sheng, Fall, Brent, Ra, Jennifer, Haraguchi, Miki, ...
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized in skeletal muscle by cycles of myofiber necrosis and regeneration leading to loss of muscle fibers and replacement with fibrotic connective and...
Efalizumab binding to the LFA-1 αL I domain blocks ICAM-1 binding via steric hindrance
Li, Sheng, Wang, Hao, Peng, Baozhen, Zhang, Meilan, Zhang, Daipong, Hou, Sheng, ...
Lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1) plays important roles in immune cell adhesion, trafficking, and activation and is a therapeutic target for the treatment of multiple autoimmune...
Burke, John E., Hsu, Yuan-Hao, Deems, Raymond A., Li, Sheng, Woods, Virgil L., Dennis, Edward A.
The Group IVA (GIVA) phospholipase A2 associates with natural membranes in response to an increase in intracellular Ca2+ along with increases in certain lipid mediators. This enzyme associates with...