Direct observation of a magnetic Bose glass (2009)
Hong, Tao, Zheludev, A., Manaka, H.
We report the single crystal study of the bulk magnetization and neutron scattering measurements on a quantum S=1/2 spin ladders system IPA-Cu(Cl0.95Br0.05)3with quenched disorder. In zero field, the...
Hong, Tao, Custelcean, R., Sales, B. C., Roessli, B., Singh, D. K., Zheludev, A.
A novel organometallic compound 2Dioxane.CuCl2.2H2O has been synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray crystallography. Magnetic susceptibility and zero-field inelastic neutron scattering...
Estimating risk of exposure to bacillus anthracis based on environmental concentrations (2009)
In many cases human health risk from biological agents is associated with aerosol exposures. It is suggested that concentrations found on surfaces may be used to infer future or past aerosol...
Kim, Jooho, Hong, Tao, Park, Insik, Zijlstra, Peter, Chon, James W. M., Gu, Min, ...
Abstract not available.
Long-Term Spatial Load Forecasting Using Human-Machine Co-construct Intelligence Framework (2008)
This thesis presents a formal study of the long-term spatial load forecasting problem: given small area based electric load history of the service territory, current and future land use information,...
Effect of pressure on the quantum spin ladder material IPA-CuCl3 (2008)
Hong, Tao, Garlea, V. O., Zheludev, A., Fernandez-Baca, J., Manaka, H., Chang, S., ...
Inelastic neutron scattering and bulk magnetic susceptibility studies of the quantum S=1/2 spin ladder system IPA-CuCl3 are performed under hydrostatic pressure. The pressure dependence of the spin...
Adiabaticity and localization in one-dimensional incommensurate lattices (2008)
Edwards, E. E., Beeler, M., Hong, Tao, Rolston, S. L.
We experimentally investigate the role of localization on the adiabaticity of loading a Bose-Einstein condensate into a one-dimensional optical potential comprised of a shallow primary lattice plus...
Low energy spin waves and magnetic interactions in SrFe$_2$As$_2$ (2008)
Zhao, Jun, Yao, Dao-Xin, Li, Shiliang, Hong, Tao, Chen, Y., Chang, S., ...
We report inelastic neutron scattering studies of magnetic excitations in antiferromagnetically ordered SrFe$_{2}$As$_{2}$ ($T_{N}=220$ K), the parent compound of the FeAs-based superconductors. At...
Realization of Coherent Optically Dense Media via Buffer-Gas Cooling (2008)
Hong, Tao, Gorshkov, Alexey V., Patterson, David, Zibrov, Alexander S., Doyle, John M., Lukin, Mikhail D., ...
We demonstrate that buffer-gas cooling combined with laser ablation can be used to create coherent optical media with high optical depth and low Doppler broadening that offers metastable states with...
A Relaxation Algorithm That Uses Word Collocation to Improve Text Recognition Performance (2008)
A method is presented for postprocessing the output of a word recognition algorithm for visual text recognition. A word recognition algorithm typically outputs a list of alternatives for the identity...
Neutron scattering from a coordination polymer quantum paramagnet (2006)
Hong, Tao, Kenzelmann, M., Turnbull, M. M., Landee, C. P., Lewis, B. D., Schmidt, K. P., ...
Inelastic neutron scattering measurements are reported for a powder sample of the spin-1/2 quantum paramagnet $\rm Cu(Quinoxaline)Br_2$. Magnetic neutron scattering is identified above an energy gap...
Quasiparticle breakdown in a quantum spin liquid (2005)
Stone, Matthew B., Zaliznyak, Igor A., Hong, Tao, Broholm, Collin L., Reich, Daniel H.
Much of modern condensed matter physics is understood in terms of elementary excitations, or quasiparticles - fundamental quanta of energy and momentum. Various strongly-interacting atomic systems...
Hong, Tao, Cramer, Claire, Cook, Eryn, Nagourney, Warren, Fortson, E. N.
We report an observation of the weak $6^{1}$S$_{0}$-$6^3$P$_0$ transition in $^{171,173}$Yb as an important step to establish Yb as a primary candidate for future optical frequency standards, and to...
Role of integrin phopsphorylation [sic] and ERK signaling in parietal endoderm migration / (2005)
Typescript.
Optical clocks based on ultra-narrow three-photon resonances in alkaline earth atoms (2004)
Hong, Tao, Cramer, Claire, Nagourney, Warren, Fortson, E. N.
A sharp resonance line that appears in three-photon transitions between the $^{1}S_{0}$ and $^{3}P_{0}$ states of alkaline earth and Yb atoms is proposed as an optical frequency standard. This...
On-demand single-photon state generation via nonlinear absorption (2004)
Hong, Tao, Jack, Michael W., Yamashita, Makoto
We propose a method for producing on-demand single-photon states based on collision-induced exchanges of photons and unbalanced linear absorption between two single-mode light fields. These two...
Spatial weak-light solitons in an electro-magnetically induced nonlinear waveguide (2004)
We show that a weak probe light beam can form spatial solitons in an electro-magnetically induced transparency (EIT) medium composed of four-level atoms and a coupling light field. We find that the...
Temporal Dark Solitons in Nonuniform Bose-Einstein Condensates (2002)
Hong, Tao, Wang, Yu Zhu, Huo, Yun Sheng
We discuss temporal dark solitons in confined nonuniform Bose condensates. As a kind of localized high excitation, these solitons can be viewed as macroscopic quasiparticles, having relative motion...
Enhanced Kerr nonlinearity for self-action via atomic coherence in a four-level atomic system (2002)
Hong, Tao, Jack, Michael Wong, Yamashita, Makoto, Mukai, Takaaki
Enhancement of optical Kerr nonlinearity for self-action by electro-magnetically induced transparency in a four-level atomic system including dephasing between the ground states is studied in detail...
Li, Zhi Gang, Hong, Tao, Shimada, Yutaka, Komoto, Izumi, Kawabe, Atsushi, Ding, Yongzeng, ...
Resveratrol (3,5,4′-trihydroxy-trans-stilbene) is a natural product occurring in grapes and various other plants with medicinal properties associated with reduced cardiovascular disease and reduced...
Collision Dynamics of Two Bose-Einstein Condensates in the Presence of Raman Coupling (2001)
A collision of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of Raman coupling is proposed and studied by numerical simulations. Raman transitions are found to be able to reduce...
Li, Zhigang, Shimada, Yutaka, Kawabe, Atsushi, Sato, Fumiaki, Maeda, Masato, Komoto, Izumi, ...
Recent studies have demonstrated that overexpression of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and elevation of COX-2-mediated synthesis of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) were observed in various cancers including...
A NEW PROCESS TO FABRICATE COATED FIBER REINFORCED ALUMINUM ALLOY MATRIX COMPOSITE. (1998)
Hong, Tao, Li, Geyang, Wang, Daifeng
Metal Matrix Composites; Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-10); Held Aug 1995, British Columbia, Canada; Edited by Anoush Poursartip and Ken Street;...
Non-linear predictive control of chemical processes / (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1998.
Representing Ocred Documents In Html (1997)
Tao Hong And, Tao Hong, Sargur N. Srihari
: OCR is an error-prone process. It is time-consuming and expensivetomanually proofread OCR results. The errors remaining in OCRed texts can cause serious problems in reading and understanding if...
Cherry Blossom: A System for Japanese Character Recognition (1997)
Sargur N. Srihari, Tao Hong, Zhixin Shi
A general purpose Japanese character recognition system, Cherry Blossom, has been developed at CEDAR in past years. It is designed to recognize Japanese document images in low resolution or with poor...
Degraded text recognition using visual and linguistic context /--by Tao Hong. (1996)
"January 1996."
A Unified Approach Towards Text Recognition (1996)
Tao Hong, Jonathan J. Hull, Sargur N. Srihari
In our recent research, we found that visual inter-word relations can be useful for different stages of English text recognition such as character segmentation and postprocessing. Different methods...
Degraded text recognition using visual and linguistics context /--by Tao Hong. (1995)
Photocopy of typescript.
Studies on a PDV envelope protein of Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus / (1995)
Includes bibliographical references.
Degraded text recognition using visual and linguistic context /--by Tao Hong. (1995)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1995.
Degraded Text Recognition Using Visual And Linguistic Context (1995)
Tao Hong, Chairman Dr, Jonathan J. Hull, Members Dr, Sargur N. Srihari, ...
Recognition of degraded text is a challenging problem. To improve the performance of an OCR system on degraded images of text, postprocessing techniques are critical. The objective of postprocessing...
The Design of a Nearest-Neighbor Classifier and Its Use for Japanese Character Recognition (1995)
Tao Hong, Stephen W. Lam, Jonathan J. Hull, Sargur N. Srihari
The nearest neighbor (NN) approach is a powerful nonparametric technique for pattern classification tasks. Although the brute-force NN algorithm is simple and has high accuracy, its computation cost...
Visual Inter-Word Relations and their Use in OCR Postprocessing (1995)
A technique is presented that uses visual relationships between word images in a document to improve the recognition of the text it contains. This technique takes advantage of the visual...
The Design of a Nearest-Neighbor Classifier and Its Use for Japanese Character Recognition (1995)
Tao Hong, Stephen W. Lam, Jonathan J. Hull, Sargur N. Srihari
The nearest neighbor (NN) approach is a powerful nonparametric technique for pattern classification tasks. In this paper, algorithms for prototype reduction, hierarchical prototype organization and...
Character Segmentation Using Visual Inter-word Constraints in a Text Page (1995)
Character segmentation is a critical preprocessing step for text recognition. In this paper a method is presented that utilizes visual inter-word constraints available in a text image to split word...
Algorithms for Postprocessing OCR Results with Visual Inter-Word Constraints (1995)
Algorithms are presented that determine the visual relationships between word images in a document. These include instances of common word images and common substrings that occur often in English...
Degraded text recognition is a difficult task. Given a noisy text image, a word recognizer can be applied to generate several candidates for each word image. High-level knowledge sources can then be...
Degraded Text Recognition Using Word Collocation (1994)
Given a noisy text page, a word recognizer can generate a set of candidates for each word image. A relaxation algorithm was proposed previously by the authors that uses word collocation statistics to...
Degraded Text Recognition Using Word Collocation (1994)
Given a noisy text page, a word recognizer can generate a set of candidates for each word image. A relaxation algorithm was proposed previously by the authors that uses word collocation statistics to...
Degraded text recognition is a difficult task. Given a Please fin in tire noisy text image, a word recognizer can be applied to 0.90 0.33 0.30 0.80 Fleece fill In toe generate several candidates for...
Degraded Text Recognition Using Word Collocation (1994)
A relaxation-based algorithm is proposed that improves the performance of a text recognition technique by propagating the influence of word collocation statistics. Word collocation refers to the...
Degraded text recognition is a difficult task. Given a noisy text image, a word recognizer can be applied to generate several candidates for each word image. Highlevel knowledge sources can then be...
Degraded Text Recognition Using Word Collocation and Visual Inter-Word Constraints (1994)
Given a noisy text page, a word recognizer can generate a set of candidates for each word image. A relaxation algorithm was proposed previously by the authors that uses word collocation statistics to...
Text Recognition Enhancement with a Probabilistic Lattice Chart Parser (1993)
A probabilistic lattice chart parser is proposed for improving the performance of a text recognition technique. Digital images of words are recognized and alternatives for the identity of each are...
Hong, Tao, Summers, Max D., Braunagel, Sharon C.
Baculovirus occlusion-derived virus (ODV) derives its envelope from an intranuclear membrane source. N-terminal amino acid sequences of the Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV)...
Characterization of a Novel Rapidly Growing Mycobacterium Species Associated with Sepsis
Hong, Tao, Ray Butler, W., Hollis, Frank, Floyd, Margaret M., Toney, Sean R., Tang, Yi-Wei, ...
A rapidly growing mycobacterium was isolated five times from blood cultures from a 6-year-old female patient with relapsed pre-B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia. All five isolates had identical...
Neisseria bacilliformis sp. nov. Isolated from Human Infections
Han, Xiang Y., Hong, Tao, Falsen, Enevold
Most Neisseria species are gram-negative cocci or diplococci; currently, N. elongata is the only species of human origin with a bacillary morphology. Here, we report isolation and characterization of...
Restricted expression of the gap junctional protein connexin 43 in the arterial system of the rat
Connexin 43 (Cx43) has been reported to be expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells. Evidence for possible variations in Cx43 distribution within different parts of the...
Imrit, Kavita, Goldfischer, Michael, Wang, Jie, Green, Jaime, Levine, Jerome, Lombardo, Joseph, ...
We applied 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify bacterial species present in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded heart valve tissue. In 40% (12/30) of the cases, we were able to identify the bacterium...
Hong, Tao, Summers, Max D., Braunagel, Sharon C.
Baculovirus occlusion-derived virus (ODV) derives its envelope from an intranuclear membrane source. N-terminal amino acid sequences of the Autographa californica nuclear polyhedrosis virus (AcMNPV)...
Characterization of a Novel Rapidly Growing Mycobacterium Species Associated with Sepsis
Hong, Tao, Ray Butler, W., Hollis, Frank, Floyd, Margaret M., Toney, Sean R., Tang, Yi-Wei, ...
A rapidly growing mycobacterium was isolated five times from blood cultures from a 6-year-old female patient with relapsed pre-B-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia. All five isolates had identical...
Neisseria bacilliformis sp. nov. Isolated from Human Infections
Han, Xiang Y., Hong, Tao, Falsen, Enevold
Most Neisseria species are gram-negative cocci or diplococci; currently, N. elongata is the only species of human origin with a bacillary morphology. Here, we report isolation and characterization of...
Restricted expression of the gap junctional protein connexin 43 in the arterial system of the rat
Connexin 43 (Cx43) has been reported to be expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells and endothelial cells. Evidence for possible variations in Cx43 distribution within different parts of the...
Imrit, Kavita, Goldfischer, Michael, Wang, Jie, Green, Jaime, Levine, Jerome, Lombardo, Joseph, ...
We applied 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify bacterial species present in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded heart valve tissue. In 40% (12/30) of the cases, we were able to identify the bacterium...
Sequential Linezolid-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolates with G2576T Mutation▿
Hong, Tao, Li, Xiangyang, Wang, Jie, Sloan, Cynthia, Cicogna, Cristina
We report on an analysis of sequential isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis from cultures of blood obtained from a patient with acute myeloid leukemia while the patient was receiving linezolid...
Liu, Hui-Yu, Collins, Qu Fan, Moukdar, Fatiha, Zhuo, Degen, Han, Jianmin, Hong, Tao, ...
In this study, we tested the hypothesis that human neutrophil α-defensins (HNPs) inhibit hepatic glucose production through a signaling pathway distinct from insulin. The effect of HNP-1 on fasting...
Liu, Hui-Yu, Wen, Ge-Bo, Han, Jianmin, Hong, Tao, Zhuo, Degen, Liu, Zhenqi, ...
Hepatic gluconeogenesis is elevated in diabetes and a major contributor to hyperglycemia. Stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1) is a chemokine and an activator of Akt. In this study, we tested the...