W. Zhou

Publication List Details

Period

1987 - 2009

Number

71

Co-Authors

Empires and Percolation: Stochastic Merging of Adjacent Regions (2009)

Aldous, D. J., Ong, J. R., Zhou, W.

We introduce a stochastic model in which adjacent planar regions $A, B$ merge stochastically at some rate $\lambda(A,B)$, and observe analogies with the well-studied topics of mean-field coagulation...

On normal approximations to $U$-statistics (2009)

Bentkus, V., Zhou, W.

Let ${X_1,...,X_n}$ be i.i.d. random observations. Let ${\Sta =\Lr+\T}$ be a $U$-statistic of order $k \ge 2$, where $\Lr$ is a linear statistic having asymptotic normal distribution, and $\T$ is a...

Neutron powder diffraction atomic pair distribution function analysis using the ARCS chopper spectrometer at the Spallation Neutron Source (2009)

Bozin, E. S., Juhas, P., Zhou, W., Stone, M. B., Abernathy, D. L., Huq, A., ...

The frst neutron powder diffraction based atomic pair distribution functions (PDFs) are reported from the new wide angular-range chopper spectrometer ARCS at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak...

Grand Rounds (2009)

Phillips, M, Haines, M, Peck, E, Lee, H, Phillips, B, Wein, B, ...

Objective: The paper describes the case of a 27-year-old, right-handed woman, KF, who sustained a left thalamic ischemic infarct. KF's case is unusual in that she presented with ipsilateral...

Complexity of conditional colorability of graphs (2009)

Li, X., Yao, X., Zhou, W., Broersma, H.J.

For positive integers $k$ and $r$, a conditional $(k,r)$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that every vertex $v$ of degree $d(v)$ in $G$ is adjacent to...

Dendritic Cell Function in Allostimulation Is Modulated by C5aR Signaling (2009)

Peng, Q., Li, K., Wang, N., Li, Q., Asgari, E., Asgari, E., ...

Regulation of T cell immunity by C5a has been suggested from recent studies. However, the underlying mechanisms, particularly the involved cells and biochemical basis, are not well defined. In this...

Address Reuse in Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)

D. Ch, L. Pan, W. Zhou, M. Chowdhury

Abstract—Sensor Networks have applications in diverse fields. While unique addressing is not a requirement of many data collecting applications of wireless sensor networks, it is vital for the...

An Algebraic Method for Analyzing Open-Loop Dynamic Systems (2008)

W. Zhou, D. J. Jeffrey, G. J. Reid

Abstract. This paper reports on the results of combining the Maple packages Dynaflex and RifSimp. The Dynaflex package has been developed to generate the governing dynamical equations for mechanical...

Development of a Quality Assurance Safety Assessment Database for Near Surface Radioactive Waste Disposal (2008)

Park, J.W., Kim, C.L., Park, J.B., Lee, E.Y., Lee, Y.M., Kang, C.H., ...

A quality assurance safety assessment database, called QUARK (QUality Assurance Program for Radioactive Waste Management in Korea), has been developed to manage both analysis information and...

Focal Point Theory Models for Dissecting Dynamic Duality Problems of Microbial Infections (2008)

W. Zhou, A. Jong

Extending along the dynamic continuum from conflict to cooperation, microbial infections always involve symbiosis (Sym) and pathogenesis (Pat). There exists a dynamic Sym-Pat duality (DSPD) in...

Hydrosomes, novel thermosensitive gel-containing polymersomes (2008)

Lee, J.S., Zhou, W., Zhang, D., Otto, C., Feijen, J.

Novel thermosensitive gel-containing polymersomes (hydrosomes) were prepared by incorporating poly(N-isopropylacrylamide), PNIPAAm, into polymersomes based on poly(ethylene...

Multi-classifier classification of spam email on a ubiquitous multi-core architecture (2008)

Islam, Md., Singh, Jaipal, Chonka, A., Zhou, W.

This paper presents an innovative fusion based multi-classifier email classification on a ubiquitous multi-core architecture. Many approaches use text-based single classifiers or multiple weakly...

Desired Chinese medicine practitioner capabilities and professional development needs: a survey of registered practitioners in Victoria, Australia (2008)

Xue, C, Zhou, W, Zhang, A, Greenwood, K, Da Costa, C, Radloff, A, ...

Background The State of Victoria in Australia introduced Chinese medicine practitioner registration in 2000 and issued its education guidelines in late 2002 for introduction in 2005. This study...

Focal Point Theory Models for Dissecting Dynamic Duality Problems of Microbial Infections (2008)

W. Zhou, A. Jong

Extending along the dynamic continuum from conflict to cooperation, microbial infections always involve symbiosis (Sym) and pathogenesis (Pat). There exists a dynamic Sym-Pat duality (DSPD) in...

Saddlepoint Approximations to the Trimmed Mean (2007)

R. Helmers, G. Qin, W. Zhou, Roelof Helmers, Bing-yi Jing, ...

CWI is a founding member of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. CWI's research has a theme-oriented structure and is grouped into four clusters. Listed below...

Supercriticalfluidtechnology For Remediation Of Pcb/pah-Contaminated Soils/sediments (2007)

Tavlarides Zhou And, L. L. Tavlarides, W. Zhou, G. Anitescu

Key words: soil/sediments remediation technology, supercritical fluids, PCBs, PAHs A two-stage technology employing green solvents such as supercritical CO 2 (SC-CO 2 ) and supercritical water (SCW)...

Re-evaluation of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta perovskite as oxygen semi-permeable membrane (2007)

Zeng, P. Y., Chen, Z. H., Zhou, W., Gu, H.X., Shao, Z. P., Liu, S. M.

Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF), a mixed oxygen ionic and electronic conducting ceramic derived from SrCo0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (SCF), was re-evaluated for its possible application as an oxygen...

Re-evaluation of Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta perovskite as oxygen semi-permeable membrane (2007)

Zeng, P. Y., Chen, Z. H., Zhou, W., Gu, H.X., Shao, Z. P., Liu, S. M.

Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (BSCF), a mixed oxygen ionic and electronic conducting ceramic derived from SrCo0.8Fe0.2O3-delta (SCF), was re-evaluated for its possible application as an oxygen...

Transition Metal-Ethylene Complexes as High-Capacity Hydrogen Storage Media (2006)

Durgun, Engin, Ciraci, Salim, Zhou, W., Yildirim, Taner

From first-principles calculations, we predict that a single ethylene molecule can form a stable complex with two transition metals (TM) such as Ti. The resulting TM-ethylene complex then absorbs up...

Transport in the Laughlin quasiparticle interferometer: Evidence for topological protection in an anyonic qubit (2006)

Camino, F. E., Zhou, W., Goldman, V. J.

We report experiments on temperature and Hall voltage bias dependence of the superperiodic conductance oscillations in the novel Laughlin quasiparticle interferometer, where quasiparticles of the 1/3...

Comparison of Chinese medicine education and training in China and Australia (2006)

Xue, C, Wu, Q, Zhou, W, Yang, A, Story, D

The similarities and differences between Chinese medicine (CM) education in China and Australia are considered in a detailed comparison of the five-year undergraduate programmes offered by the...

Thermal Dephasing in the Laughlin Quasiparticle Interferometer: Chiral Luttinger Liquid Behavior (2005)

Camino, F. E., Zhou, W., Goldman, V. J.

We report experimental temperature dependence of the amplitude of Aharonov-Bohm oscillations in the Laughlin quasiparticle interferometer. The results fit very well the thermal dephasing dependence...

Empirical Likelihood Intervals for the Mean Difference of Two Skewed Populations with Additional Zero Values (2005)

Zhou, W., Zhou, Xiao-Hua

We considered the problem of constructing nonparametric confidence intervals for the difference in the means of two independent skewed populations which contain zero values. To account for zero...

Empirical Likelihood Intervals for the Mean Difference of Two Skewed Populations with Additional Zero Values (2005)

Zhou, W., Zhou, Xiao-Hua

We considered the problem of constructing nonparametric confidence intervals for the difference in the means of two independent skewed populations which contain zero values. To account for zero...

Empirical Likelihood Intervals for the Mean Difference of Two Skewed Populations with Additional Zero Values (2005)

Zhou, W., Zhou, Xiao-Hua

We considered the problem of constructing nonparametric confidence intervals for the difference in the means of two independent skewed populations which contain zero values. To account for zero...

Aharonov-Bohm electron interferometer in the integer quantum Hall regime (2005)

Camino, F. E., Zhou, W., Goldman, V. J.

We report experiments on a quantum electron interferometer fabricated from high mobility, low density GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure material. In this device, a nearly circular electron island is...

Impact of DNA ligase IV on nonhomologous end joining pathways during class switch recombination in human cells (2005)

Pan-Hammarström, Q., Lähdesmäki, A., Zhou, W., Gatti, R.A., Hammarström, L., ...

Class switch recombination (CSR) is a region-specific, transcriptionally regulated, nonhomologous recombinational process that is initiated by activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). The initial...

[Abstract]   [Full Text]   [PDF] Statistical Assessment of Time-Varying Dependency Between Two Neurons (2005)

Valérie Ventura, Can Cai, Robert E. Kass, J Neurophysiol, Y. Li, W. Zhou, ...

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Developing an OSTE to address lapses in learners' professional behavior and an instrument to code educators' responses (2004)

Srinivasan, M, Litzelman, D, Seshadri, R, Lane, K, Zhou, W, Bogdewic, S, ...

Purpose. To develop an instrument for measuring medical educators' responses to learners' lapses in professional behavior. Method. In 1999, at the Indiana University School of Medicine, a 22-item...

Minimizing Truck-Car Conflicts on Highways, Phase I (2004)

Peeta, S., Zhou, W.

Trucks represent the predominant form of domestic freight movement. Due to the substantial increase in freight truck traffic on the nation's highways, its influence on traffic flow performance,...

An Integrative Neural Network for Detecting Inertial Motion and Head Orientation (2004)

Andrea M. Green, Dora E. Angelaki, H. Zhu, J. R. Jordan, B. Fulcher, ...

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Empirical likelihood confidence regions for comparison distributions and ROC curves (2003)

Jing, BY, Peng, L, Zhou, W

The authors derive empirical likelihood confidence regions for the comparison distribution of two populations whose distributions are to be tested for equality using random samples. Another...

Saddlepoint Approximations to the Trimmed Mean (2002)

R. Helmers, G. Qin, W. Zhou, Roelof Helmers, Bing-yi Jing, ...

CWI is a founding member of ERCIM, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. CWI's research has a theme-oriented structure and is grouped into four clusters. Listed below...

Simulation of the Concentrations and Distributions of Indoor Radon and Thoron (2001)

Zhou, W., Iida, T., Moriizumi, J., Aoyagi, T., Takahashi, I.

The technique of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) was used to study the concentrations and distributions of indoor radon (222Rn) and thoron (220Rn) as well as their progeny in three dimensions....

Wolbachia infections are distributed throughout insect somatic and germ line tissues (1999)

Dobson, S. L., Bourtzis, K., Braig, H. R., Jones, B. F., Zhou, W., Rousset, F., ...

Wolbachia are intracellular microorganisms that form maternally-inherited infections within numerous arthropod species. These bacteria have drawn much attention, due in part to the reproductive...

Wolbachia infections are distributed throughout insect somatic and germ line tissues (1999)

Dobson, S. L., Bourtzis, K., Braig, H. R., Jones, B. F., Zhou, W., Rousset, F., ...

Wolbachia are intracellular microorganisms that form maternally-inherited infections within numerous arthropod species. These bacteria have drawn much attention, due in part to the reproductive...

Cloning and characterization of a gene encoding the major surface protein of the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis (1998)

Braig, H. R., Zhou, W., Dobson, S. L., O'Neill, S. L.

The maternally inherited intracellular symbiont Wolbachia pipientis is well known for inducing a variety of reproductive abnormalities in the diverse arthropod hosts it infects. It has been...

Cloning and characterization of a gene encoding the major surface protein of the bacterial endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis (1998)

Braig, H. R., Zhou, W., Dobson, S. L., O'Neill, S. L.

The maternally inherited intracellular symbiont Wolbachia pipientis is well known for inducing a variety of reproductive abnormalities in the diverse arthropod hosts it infects. It has been...

XAFS Characterization of Copper Contamination in the Unsaturated and Saturated Zones of a Soil Profile (1997)

Sayers, D., Hesterberg, D., Zhou, W., Robarge, W., Plurnmer, G.

The fate of heavy-metal contaminants in the environment, and the design and success of remediation strategies at hazardous waste sites depend on the chemical speciation of the contaminants. The...

XAFS Characterization of Copper in Model Aqueous Systems of Humic Acid and Illite (1997)

Hesterberg, D., Sayers, D., Zhou, W., Robarge, W., Plummer, G.

Adsorption of heavy metals at mineral surfaces and complexation with reactive organic-matter functional groups are important processes regulating the solubility and fate of soil contaminants. To...

XAFS Characterization of Copper Contamination in the Unsaturated and Saturated Zones of a Soil Profile (1997)

Sayers, D., Hesterberg, D., Zhou, W., Robarge, W., Plurnmer, G.

The fate of heavy-metal contaminants in the environment, and the design and success of remediation strategies at hazardous waste sites depend on the chemical speciation of the contaminants. The...

XAFS Characterization of Copper in Model Aqueous Systems of Humic Acid and Illite (1997)

Hesterberg, D., Sayers, D., Zhou, W., Robarge, W., Plummer, G.

Adsorption of heavy metals at mineral surfaces and complexation with reactive organic-matter functional groups are important processes regulating the solubility and fate of soil contaminants. To...

Risk-based Selection of Forest Regeneration Methods (1997)

W. Zhou, Wenchao Zhou, Yuri M. Ermoliev

A stochastic optimization model is developed to make a selection between the planting method and the seed-tree method, taking into account the uncertainty of, and the legal requirement on, the...

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE STUDIES OF n-TYPE MODULATION DOPED AlGaAs-GaAs MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS IN TILTED MAGNETIC FIELDS (1987)

Lee, K., Perry, C., Zhou, W., Worlock, J.

We have investigated the effect of tilted magnetic fields on the energetics and the intensity of the photoluminescence in n-type modulation doped AlGaAs-GaAs multiple quantum well structures....

PHOTOLUMINESCENCE STUDIES OF n-TYPE MODULATION DOPED AlGaAs-GaAs MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS IN TILTED MAGNETIC FIELDS (1987)

Lee, K., Perry, C., Zhou, W., Worlock, J.

We have investigated the effect of tilted magnetic fields on the energetics and the intensity of the photoluminescence in n-type modulation doped AlGaAs-GaAs multiple quantum well structures....

Polymorphisms of inflammatory and metalloproteinase genes, Helicobacter pylori infection and the risk of oesophageal adenocarcinoma

Früh, M, Zhou, W, Zhai, R, Su, L, Heist, R S, Wain, J C, ...

Helicobacter pylori (HP) infection appears protective against oesophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) risk. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are released in the presence of HP infection. In MMP2 wild-type...

STAT3 is required but not sufficient for EGF receptor-mediated migration and invasion of human prostate carcinoma cell lines

Zhou, W, Grandis, J R, Wells, A

Growth factor-induced migration is a rate-limiting step in tumour invasiveness. The molecules that regulate this cellular behaviour would represent novel targets for limiting tumour cell progression....

Pharmacokinetics and Safety of Famciclovir in Children with Herpes Simplex or Varicella-Zoster Virus Infection▿

Sáez-Llorens, X., Yogev, R., Arguedas, A., Rodriguez, A., Spigarelli, M. G., ...

Two multicenter, open-label, single-arm, two-phase studies evaluated single-dose pharmacokinetics and single- and multiple-dose safety of a pediatric oral famciclovir formulation (prodrug of...