PinKDD’08: Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD Post-Workshop Report (2009)
Francesco Bonchi, Wei Jiang, Elena Ferrari, Bradley Malin
This report summarizes the events of the 2 nd International
Zhang, Jie, Zhang, Mingyan, Jiang, Wei, Wang, Lihong, Fu, Zhenkun, Li, Dalin, ...
Abstract Background B7-H4, a co-inhibitory molecule of the B7 family, can restrain T cell proliferation, cytokine secretion and the development of cytotoxicity. B7-H4 is expressed in tumor tissues at...
Built-In Test and Calibration of DAC/ADC Using A Low-Resolution Dithering DAC ∗ (2009)
Wei Jiang, Vishwani D. Agrawal
This paper presents a BIST scheme to test and calibrate on-chip DAC and ADC and to improve both linearity and resolution of converters using a built-in sigma-delta modulator. We use a dithering...
Built-in Self-Calibration of On-chip DAC and ADC (2009)
Wei Jiang, Vishwani D. Agrawal
Abstract—Linearity measurements are significant for assessing the performance of a modern mixed-signal system-on-chip. In this paper a new built-in self-test (BIST) scheme is presented for testing...
Designing Variation-Tolerance in Mixed-Signal Components of a System-on-Chip (2009)
Wei Jiang, Vishwani D. Agrawal
Abstract—We discuss a novel variation-tolerant technique for non-linearity errors in self-correctable mixed-signal components. We propose completely digital methods of test and correction for...
Face Recognition Based on Phase-Feature (2009)
Jiang, Wei, Lam, Kin-Man, Shen, Ting-Zhi
APSIPA ASC 2009: Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, 2009 Annual Summit and Conference. 4-7 October 2009. Sapporo, Japan. Poster session: 3D Mapping, Modeling, Tracking, and...
Kang, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoyan, Jiang, Wei, Wu, Chaoqun, Chen, Chunmei, Zheng, Yufang, ...
Abstract Background Compared with viral vectors, nonviral vectors are less immunogenic, more stable, safer and easier to replication for application in cancer gene therapy. However, nonviral gene...
k-anonymity provides a measure of privacy protection by preventing re-identification of data to fewer than a group of k data items. While algorithms exist for producing k-anonymous data, the model...
Wang, Lifei, Hu, Yunfeng, Zhang, Yanjuan, Wang, Songmei, Cui, Zhihui, Bao, Yi, ...
Abstract Background C-1027, produced by Streptomyces globisporus C-1027, is one of the most potent antitumoral agents. The biosynthetic gene cluster of C-1027, previously cloned and sequenced,...
A Case Report and Literature Review of Double Primary Cancer in Nasopharynx and Lung (2009)
Jingxun WU, Fenghua WANG, Peiyu HUANG, Yang ZHANG, Jieling WENG, Yuanyuan ZHAO, ...
Liang, Mengfan, Wang, Xuemin, Yuan, Yuan, Zhou, Quanhong, Tong, Chuanyao, Jiang, Wei
Macrophage plays a vital role in sepsis. However, the modulatory effect of glutamine (Gln) on macrophage/monocyte-mediate cytokines release is still controversial. Thus, we investigated the effect of...
A Survey of Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms (2008)
Elisa Bertino, Dan Lin, Wei Jiang
Abstract The aim of privacy preserving data mining (PPDM) algorithms is to extract relevant knowledge from large amounts of data while protecting at the same time sensitive information. An important...
Haijun Yang, Zuqing Zhu, Bo Xiang, Wei Jiang, Venkatesh Akella, Chen-nee Chuah, ...
Abstract: This paper proposes the efficient design and implementation of a hierarchical optical router controller supporting asynchronous, variable-length optical packets. A network testbed...
Additional file 2 – The biological support of the gene regulations for Yeast cell cycling. (2008)
Shaoqi Rao, Wei Jiang, Chuanxing Li, Yun Xiao, Zheng Guo, Qingpu Zhang, ...
KEGG database The KEGG [1, 2] is a suite of databases and associated software that integrates current knowledge on molecular interaction networks in biological processes (PATHWAY database), the...
Wei Jiang, Mingjing Li, Hongjiang Zhang, Jinwei Gu
To really bridge the gap between high-level semantics and low-levelfeatures in content-based image retrieval (CBIR), a problem that must be solved is: which features are suit-able for explaining the...
Skin Detection Using Color, Texture and Space Information (2008)
Zhiwei Jiang, Min Yao, Wei Jiang
Among various skin detection methods, Skin Probability Map (SPM) method is an effective one. Though SPM method possesses high true acceptance rate (TAR), its false acceptance rate (FAR) is...
Data Mining Methods and Applications (2008)
Kwok-leung Tsui, Wei Jiang, Y. Alp Aslandogan
In this chapter, we provide a review of the knowledge discovery process, including data handling, data mining methods and software, and current research activities. The introduction defines and...
Chinese Word Segmentation based on Mixing Model (2008)
Wei Jiang, Jian Zhao, Yi Guan, Zhiming Xu
This paper presents our recent work for participation in the Second International Chinese Word Segmentation Bakeoff. According to difficulties, we divide word segmentation into several sub-tasks,...
Is Privacy Still an Issue for Data Mining? (Extended Abstract) (2008)
Chris Clifton, Wei Jiang, Mummoorthy Muruguesan, M. Ercan Nergiz
Privacy-preserving data mining has been the subject of substantial research. This paper summarizes accomplishments, the privacy debate, and outlines areas where privacy issues still impact data...
Shaoqi Rao, Wei Jiang, Chuanxing Li, Entrez Gene
In the additional report for the further detailed biological explanations of each regulation for 20 Hela cell cycling genes, we present and discuss the results from analysis of four web resources:
Jiang, Wei, Li, Xia, Rao, Shaoqi, Wang, Lihong, Du, Lei, Li, Chuanxing, ...
Abstract Background With the advance of large-scale omics technologies, it is now feasible to reversely engineer the underlying genetic networks that describe the complex interplays of molecular...
Permutation-invariant monotones for multipartite entanglement characterization (2008)
Ren, Xi-Jun, Jiang, Wei, Zhou, Xingxiang, Zhou, Zheng-Wei, Guo, Guang-Can
In this work we consider the permutational properties of multipartite entanglement monotones. Based on the fact that genuine multipartite entanglement is a property of the entire multi-qubit system,...
The secure multi-party computation (SMC) model provides means for balancing the use and confidentiality of distributed data. Increasing security concerns have led to a surge in work on practical...
A Framework for Sketch-Based Cooperative Design (2008)
Abstract. This paper presents an application framework for constructing sketch-based cooperative design (especially for distributed conceptual design) tools. Three key issues are addressed: (1) how...
Scheduling with Integer Time Budgeting for Low-Power Optimization (2008)
Wei Jiang, Zhiru Zhang, Miodrag Potkonjak, Jason Cong
In this paper we present a mathematical programming formulation of the integer time budgeting problem for directed acyclic graphs. In particular, we formally prove that our constraint matrix has a...
Behavior and Communication Co-Optimization for Systems with Sequential Communication Media (2008)
Jason Cong, Yiping Fan, Guoling Han, Wei Jiang, Zhiru Zhang
In this paper we propose a new communication synthesis approach targeting systems with sequential communication media (SCM). Since SCMs require that the reading sequence and writing sequence must...
Synthesis of an Application-Specific Soft Multiprocessor System (2008)
Jason Cong, Guoling Han, Wei Jiang
The application-specific multiprocessor System-on-a-Chip is a promising design alternative because of its high degree of flexibility, short development time, and potentially high performance...
Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) catalyzes the reduction of ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides, the building blocks for DNA synthesis and repair. This remarkable reaction proceeds via a...
Incentive-driven and privacy-preserving collaborative computing (2008)
The Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMC) model provides means for balancing the use and confidentiality of distributed data. This is especially important in the field of privacy-preserving data...
Funderburg, Nicholas, Luciano, Angel A., Jiang, Wei, Rodriguez, Benigno, Sieg, Scott F., Lederman, Michael M., ...
BACKGROUND: Recently, heightened systemic translocation of microbial products was found in persons with chronic HIV infection and this was linked to immune activation and CD4(+) T cell homeostasis....
Jiang, Wei, Lederman, Michael M., Mohner, Richard J., Rodriguez, Benigno, Nedrich, Todd M., Harding, Clifford V., ...
Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonists such as unmethylated bacterial CpG DNAs activate B lymphocytes directly, potentially influencing their function and homeostasis. To assess B-cell responsiveness...
(E)-2-(Benzyliminomethyl)-4,6-dibromophenol (2008)
The title compound, C14H11Br2NO, was prepared by the condensation of benzylamine and 3,5-dibromo-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde. The crystal structure is stabilized by aromatic π–π stacking...
Bis{2-[(E)-benzyliminomethyl]-4,6-dibromophenolato-κ2N,O}cobalt(II) (2008)
In the title compound, [Co(C14H10Br2NO)2], the CoII ion is coordinated by an O and an N atom from two equivalent 2-[(E)-benzyliminomethyl]-4,6-dibromophenolate ligands, displaying a distorted...
Quinolinic acid induced excitotoxic animal model of Huntington’s disease is a widely used tool for studying pathological mechanisms and potential therapeutic strategies for this hereditary...
Familial aggregation analysis of gene expressions (2007)
Rao, Shao-Qi, Xu, Liang-De, Zhang, Guang-Mei, Li, Xia, Li, Lin, Shen, Gong-Qing, ...
Abstract Traditional studies of familial aggregation are aimed at defining the genetic (and non-genetic) causes of a disease from physiological or clinical traits. However, there has been little...
A Performance Analysis of Protocols for a Cluster of Proxy Servers (2007)
Aman Sinha, Dionissios Papadopoulos, Wei Jiang
In a moderate to large size organization, the access patterns of WWW document retrievals usually show considerable sharing of data. To improve the response time, a caching proxy is used to cache data...
Huang, Ge, Hu, Zhi, Li, Meining, Cui, Yongping, Li, Yuanyuan, Guo, Liping, ...
The esophageal cancer-related gene 2 (ECRG2) is a novel gene that shows sequence similarity to KAZAL-type serine protease inhibitor. In this study, the migration and invasion of PG cancer cells were...
He, Yong-Qiang, Zhang, Liang, Jiang, Bo-Le, Zhang, Zheng-Chun, Xu, Rong-Qi, Tang, Dong-Jie, ...
Abstract Background Xanthomonas campestris pathovar campestris ( Xcc ) is the causal agent of black rot disease of crucifers worldwide. The molecular genetic diversity and host specificity of Xcc are...
Zhang, Wei, Li, Li, Li, Xia, Jiang, Wei, Huo, Jianmin, Wang, Yadong, ...
Abstract Background It becomes increasingly clear that our current taxonomy of clinical phenotypes is mixed with molecular heterogeneity. Of vital importance for refined clinical practice and...
Association of CTLA-4gene polymorphisms with sporadic breast cancer in Chinese Han population (2007)
Wang, Lihong, Li, Dalin, Fu, Zhenkun, Li, Heng, Jiang, Wei, Li, Dianjun
Abstract Background The host immunogenetic background plays an important role in the development of breast cancer. Cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) is a molecule expressed predominantly on...
Xiao, Yun-Feng, Zou, Xu-Bo, Jiang, Wei, Chen, You-Ling, Guo, Guang-Can
We theoretically study a parallel optical configuration which includes N periodically coupled whispering-gallery-mode resonators. The model shows an obvious effect which has a direct analogy with the...
Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price (2007)
Chen, Qi, Goldstein, Itay, Jiang, Wei
The article shows that two measures of the amount of private information in stock price—price nonsynchronicity and probability of informed trading (PIN)—have a strong positive effect on the...
The research presented extends that on stress and temperature distributions in welded oil/gas steel pipe junctions, research that has resulted in Yahiaoui being invited to present to: Ecole de...
Finite Element Modelling of Multipass Fusion Welding with Application to Complex Geometries (2007)
The Journal’s editorial board deemed it timely to dedicate an issue to address recent developments in the field and to highlight challenges to industry to exploit state-of-the-art modelling...
Large-scale multimodal semantic concept detection for consumer video (2007)
Shih-fu Chang, Dan Ellis, Wei Jiang, Keansub Lee, Akira Yanagawa, Er C. Loui, ...
In this paper we present a systematic study of automatic classification of consumer videos into a large set of diverse semantic concept classes, which have been carefully selected based on user...
Large-scale multimodal semantic concept detection for consumer video (2007)
Shih-fu Chang, Dan Ellis, Wei Jiang, Keansub Lee, Akira Yanagawa, Er C. Loui, ...
In this paper we present a systematic study of automatic classification of consumer videos into a large set of diverse semantic concept classes, which have been carefully selected based on user...
Description of Submitted Runs (2007)
Shih-fu Chang, Winston Hsu, Wei Jiang, Lyndon Kennedy, Dong Xu, Akira Yanagawa, ...
� A_CL1_1: choose the best-performing classifier for each concept from all the following runs and an event detection method. � A_CL2_2: (visual-based) choose the best-performing visual-based...
Magnetic structure of free cobalt clusters studied with Stern-Gerlach deflection experiments (2006)
Payne, F. W., Jiang, Wei, Emmert, J. W., Deng, Jun, Bloomfield, L. A.
We have studied the magnetic properties of free cobalt clusters in two semi-independent Stern-Gerlach deflection experiments at temperatures between 60 and 307 K. We find that clusters consisting of...
Local Distinguishability of Orthogonal Quantum States and Generators of SU(N) (2006)
Ye, Ming-Yong, Jiang, Wei, Chen, Ping-Xing, Zhang, Yong-Sheng, Zhou, Zheng-Wei, Guo, Guang-Can
We investigate the possibility of distinguishing a set of mutually orthogonal multipartite quantum states by local operations and classical communication (LOCC). We connect this problem with...
Magnetism and Magnetic Isomers in Free Chromium Clusters (2006)
Payne, F. W., Jiang, Wei, Bloomfield, L. A.
We have used the Stern-Gerlach deflection technique to study magnetism in chromium clusters of 20-133 atoms. Between 60 K and 100 K, we observe that these clusters have large magnetic moments and...
With the recent advancement in power electronics and digital signal processors, switched reluctance machine (SRM) attracts more attention in high speed and harsh environment applications due to its...
Loss of the VHR dual-specific phosphatase causes cell-cycle arrest and senescence (2006)
Rahmouni, Souad, Cerignoli, Fabio, Alonso, Andres, Tsutji, Toshiya, Henkens, Rachel, Zhu, Changjun, ...
Protein tyrosine phosphatases regulate important processes in eukaryotic cells and have critical functions in many human diseases including diabetes to cancer(1-3). Here, we report that the human...
Background: Ischemic stroke ranks as the third major cause of clinical mortality and the leading cause of handicap in adults. Each year, stroke occurs in about 30,000 Swedes. The severity of an acute...
Background: Ischemic stroke ranks as the third major cause of clinical mortality and the leading cause of handicap in adults. Each year, stroke occurs in about 30,000 Swedes. The severity of an acute...
Computation of topological charges of optical vortices via non-degenerate four-wave-mixing (2006)
Jiang, Wei, Chen, Qun-feng, Zhang, Yong-sheng
In this paper, we report an experiment, which demonstrates computation of topological charges of two optical vortices via non-degenerate four-wave-mixing process. We show that the output signal beam...
The primary objective of this work is to propose a general and computationally efficient methodology for dynamic scheduling and optimal control of primary HVAC&R systems that would be of practical...
Abstract Background DAL-1 (Differentially Expressed in Adenocarcinoma of the Lung)/4.1B is a member of the protein 4.1 superfamily that has been shown to suppress growth in lung, breast and brain...
Li, Xia, Rao, Shaoqi, Jiang, Wei, Li, Chuanxing, Xiao, Yun, Guo, Zheng, ...
Abstract Background It is one of the ultimate goals for modern biological research to fully elucidate the intricate interplays and the regulations of the molecular determinants that propel and...
Li, Xia, Rao, Shaoqi, Jiang, Wei, Li, Chuanxing, Xiao, Yun, Guo, Zheng, ...
BACKGROUND: It is one of the ultimate goals for modern biological research to fully elucidate the intricate interplays and the regulations of the molecular determinants that propel and characterize...
Xia Li, Shaoqi Rao, Wei Jiang, Chuanxing Li, Yun Xiao, Zheng Guo, ...
© 2006 Li et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License
Similarity-based online feature selection in content-based image retrieval (2006)
Wei Jiang, Student Member, Guihua Er, Qionghai Dai, Senior Member, Jinwei Gu, ...
Abstract—Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) has been more and more important in the last decade, and the gap between high-level semantic concepts and low-level visual features hinders further...
Platform-Based Behavior-Level And (2006)
Jason Cong, Yiping Fan, Guoling Han, Wei Jiang, Zhiru Zhang
With the rapid increase of complexity in Systemon -a-Chip (SoC) design, the electronic design automation (EDA) community is moving from RTL (Register Transfer Level) synthesis to behavioral-level and...
AC-Fra,mework for Privacy-Preserving Colla,boration (2006)
The secure mlllti-party compnt.ation (ShIC) illode1 provitles ineails for l~alailciilg the use and confidentiality of distribut.ed data. Iilcreasiilg security coilcerils 11al.e led to a surge in work...
Bmc Genomics, Wei Zhang, Li Li, Xia Li, Wei Jiang, Jianmin Huo, ...
Research article Unravelling the hidden heterogeneities of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma based on coupled two-way clustering
High-throughput DNA methylation profiling using universal bead arrays (2006)
Bibikova, Marina, Lin, Zhenwu, Zhou, Lixin, Chudin, Eugene, Garcia, Eliza Wickham, Wu, Bonnie, ...
We have developed a high-throughput method for analyzing the methylation status of hundreds of preselected genes simultaneously and have applied it to the discovery of methylation signatures that...
Analysts' Weighting of Private and Public Information (2006)
Using both a linear regression method and a probability-based method, we find that on average, analysts place larger than efficient weights on (i.e., they overweight) their private information when...
High-throughput DNA methylation profiling using universal bead arrays (2006)
Bibikova, Marina, Lin, Zhenwu, Zhou, Lixin, Chudin, Eugene, Garcia, Eliza Wickham, Wu, Bonnie, ...
We have developed a high-throughput method for analyzing the methylation status of hundreds of preselected genes simultaneously and have applied it to the discovery of methylation signatures that...
Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price (2006)
Chen, Qi, Goldstein, Itay, Jiang, Wei
The paper shows that two measures of the amount of private information in stock price -- price nonsynchronicity and PIN -- have a strong positive effect on the sensitivity of corporate investment to...
Bragg solitons in an electromagnetically induced transparency medium (2005)
Jiang, Wei, Chen, Qun-feng, Zhang, Yong-sheng
In this Letter we discuss the possibility of producing Bragg solitons in an electromagnetically induced transparency medium. We show that this coherent medium can be engineered to be a Bragg grating...
Local Distinguishability and Schmidt Number of Orthogonal States (2005)
Chen, Ping-Xing, Jiang, Wei, Zhou, Zheng-Wei, Guo, Guang-Can
Now, the known ensembles of orthogonal states which are distinguishable by local operators and classical communication (LOCC) satisfy the condition that the sum of Schmidit numbers of the orthogonal...
Influence of a repump laser on a nearly degenerate four-wave-mixing spectrum in atomic vapors (2005)
Jiang, Wei, Chen, Qun-feng, Zhang, Yong-sheng
The influence of a repump laser on a nearly degenerate four-wave-mixing (NDFWM) spectrum was investigated. We found the amplitude and line shape of the NDFWM depended strongly on the detuning of the...
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On the road toward the information age, the enormous bandwidth demanded by the explosive growth of Internet traffic has been supplied by fiber-optic communications technology; in particular, the...
Jiang, Wei, Yahiaoui, Kadda, Hall, Frank Richard
This paper has informed industry of the capabilities of advanced simulation to better understand and improve the manufacture of welded joints; in turn, to improve the lifetime and safety of high...
Jiang, Wei, Yahiaoui, Kadda, Hall, Frank Richard, Laoui, Tahar
Paper presented at the NAFEMS 2005 World Congress, Malta.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Drexel University, 2005.
Jiang, Wei, Yahiaoui, Kadda, Laoui, Tahar
A three-dimensional thermo-mechanical finite element model has been developed and applied to multipass butt-welded mild steel plate and girth butt-welded stainless steel pipe. The simulation results...
Jiang, Wei, Lederman, Michael M., Salkowitz, Janelle R., Rodriguez, Benigno, Harding, Clifford V., Sieg, Scott F.
The biological activity of CpG oligodeoxynucleotide 2216 (ODN2216), a Toll-like receptor 9 agonist, was investigated with monocytes from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative and HIV-positive...
Knowledge Discovery from Transportation Graph (2005)
Transportation and Logistics are a major sector of the economy, however data analysis in this domain has remained largely in the province of optimization. The potential of data mining and knowledge...
W.,”Enhancing System-on-Chip Verification using Embedded Test Structures (2005)
the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that it
Jiang, Wei., Reddy, Agami T Dr.
Includes abstract and vita.
Analysts' Weighting of Private and Public Information* (2005)
Using both a linear regression method and a probability-based method, we find that on average analysts place larger than efficient weights on (i.e., they over-weight) their private information when...
Nonclassical photon pairs generated from a room-temperature atomic ensemble (2003)
Jiang, Wei, Han, Chao, Xue, Peng
We report experimental generation of non-classically correlated photon pairs from collective emission in a room-temperature atomic vapor cell. The nonclassical feature of the emission is demonstrated...
Thesis (M.Sc.)-- McMaster University, 2003.
Incentives for money managers under endogenous risk choice / (2001)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Economics, June 2001.
Incentives for money managers under endogenous risk choice / (2001)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Economics, June 2001.
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming, 1999.
Charting techniques in integrated APC and SPC environments /--by Wei Jiang. (1999)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1999.
A real-time knowledge-based restoration system managing large scale power failure / (1996)
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1996.
Jiang, Wei, Biomedical Sciences Program.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Biomedical Sciences Program of Eastern Virginia Medical School and Old Dominion University, 1995.
A kinetic investigation of the mechanism of muscle contraction with a series of nucleotides / (1995)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Old Dominion University, 1995.
Vita.
Kahn, Scott M., Klein, Michael G., Jiang, Wei, Xing, Wang Qui, Xu, Ding Bang, Perucho, Manuel, ...
To study the mutator phenotype characteristic of tumors showing widespread replication errors at simple DNA repeat sequences (RER+), we designed a selectable reporter system for the detection of...
Investigation of hydroforming sheet metal with varying blankholding loads. (1990)
Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, November, 1990.
Investigation of hydroforming sheet metal with varying blankholding loads (1990)
Investigation of hydroforming sheet metal with varying blankholding loads
Investigation of hydroforming sheet metal with varying blankholding loads (1990)
Investigation of hydroforming sheet metal with varying blankholding loads
Information Visualization Of An Agent-Based Financial System Model
This paper considers the application of information visualization techniques to an agent-based model of a financial system. The minority game is a simple agent-based model which can be used to...
Analysts' Weighting of Private and Public Information
Using both a linear regression method and a probability-based method, we find that on average, analysts place larger than efficient weights on (i.e., they overweight) their private information when...
Walker, Matthew, Zhang, Xue-Zhong, Jiang, Wei, Trinick, John, White, Howard D.
The mechanism of binding of myosin subfragment-1 (S1) to actin in the absence of nucleotides was studied by a combination of stopped-flow fluorescence and ms time resolution electron microscopy. The...
Identification and characterization of a human protein kinase related to budding yeast Cdc7p
The Cdc7p protein kinase is essential for the G1/S transition and initiation of DNA replication during the cell division cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cdc7p appears to be an evolutionarily...
Multistep regulation of DNA replication by Cdk phosphorylation of HsCdc6
Jiang, Wei, Wells, Nicholas J., Hunter, Tony
We have characterized HsCdc6, a human protein homologous to the budding yeast Cdc6p that is essential for DNA replication. We show that, unlike Cdc6p, the levels of HsCdc6 protein remain constant...
BRCA1 Is Phosphorylated at Serine 1497 In Vivo at a Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 Phosphorylation Site
Ruffner, Heinz, Jiang, Wei, Craig, A. Grey, Hunter, Tony, Verma, Inder M.
BRCA1 is a cell cycle-regulated nuclear protein that is phosphorylated mainly on serine and to a lesser extent on threonine residues. Changes in phosphorylation occur in response to cell cycle...
Yang, Haifeng, Jiang, Wei, Gentry, Matthew, Hallberg, Richard L.
CDC55 encodes a Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulatory subunit. cdc55-null cells growing at low temperature exhibit a failure of cytokinesis and produce abnormally...
Shureiqi, Imad, Jiang, Wei, Zuo, Xiangsheng, Wu, Yuanqing, Stimmel, Julie B., Leesnitzer, Lisa M., ...
Diminished apoptosis, a critical event in tumorigenesis, is linked to down-regulated 15-lipoxygenase-1 (15-LOX-1) expression in colorectal cancer cells. 13-S-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid (13-S-HODE),...
The spindle midzone, a conspicuous network of antiparallel interdigitating nonkinetochore microtubules between separating chromosomes, plays a crucial role in regulating the initiation and completion...
Jiang, Wei, Lederman, Michael M., Salkowitz, Janelle R., Rodriguez, Benigno, Harding, Clifford V., Sieg, Scott F.
The biological activity of CpG oligodeoxynucleotide 2216 (ODN2216), a Toll-like receptor 9 agonist, was investigated with monocytes from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative and HIV-positive...
Zhu, Changjun, Zhao, Jian, Bibikova, Marina, Leverson, Joel D., Bossy-Wetzel, Ella, Fan, Jian-Bing, ...
Microtubule (MT)-based motor proteins, kinesins and dyneins, play important roles in multiple cellular processes including cell division. In this study, we describe the generation and use of an...
Zhu, Changjun, Bossy-Wetzel, Ella, Jiang, Wei
The INCENP (inner centromere protein) is a chromosomal passenger protein that plays multiple roles in regulating mitosis and cytokinesis. The MKLP1 (mitotic kinesin-like protein) is a component of...
Jiang, Wei, Prokopenko, Olga, Wong, Lawrence, Inouye, Masayori, Mirochnitchenko, Oleg
We report the identification and characterization of a new ischemia/reperfusion-inducible protein (IRIP), which belongs to the SUA5/YrdC/YciO protein family. IRIP cDNA was isolated in a differential...
Discovery of time-delayed gene regulatory networks based on temporal gene expression profiling
Li, Xia, Rao, Shaoqi, Jiang, Wei, Li, Chuanxing, Xiao, Yun, Guo, Zheng, ...
Si, Weike, Kang, Quan, Luu, Hue H., Park, Jong Kyung, Luo, Qing, Song, Wen-Xin, ...
Marrow mesenchymal stem cells are pluripotent progenitors that can differentiate into bone, cartilage, muscle, and fat cells. Wnt signaling has been implicated in regulating osteogenic...
Jiang, Wei, Sun, Rui, Wei, Haiming, Tian, Zhigang
This study demonstrates that pretreatment with polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly I:C) significantly decreased the mortality and liver injury caused by injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the...
High-throughput DNA methylation profiling using universal bead arrays
Bibikova, Marina, Lin, Zhenwu, Zhou, Lixin, Chudin, Eugene, Garcia, Eliza Wickham, Wu, Bonnie, ...
We have developed a high-throughput method for analyzing the methylation status of hundreds of preselected genes simultaneously and have applied it to the discovery of methylation signatures that...
Spatiotemporal control of spindle midzone formation by PRC1 in human cells
Zhu, Changjun, Lau, Eric, Schwarzenbacher, Robert, Bossy-Wetzel, Ella, Jiang, Wei
We have examined the role of PRC1, a midzone-associated, microtubule bundling, Cdk substrate protein, in regulating the spatiotemporal formation of the midzone in HeLa cells. Cdk-mediated...
Space-filling Techniques in Visualizing Output from Computer Based Economic Models
Ric D Herbert, Richard Webber, Wei Jiang
One important factor concerning economic models is that frequently large amounts of data are produced. There is the research issue of how end-users (who may not be researchers or model developers)...
Tsuji, Toshiya, Ficarro, Scott B., Jiang, Wei
We report the identification of Cdc7/Dbf4 phosphorylation sites in human MCM2 and the determination of the role of Cdc7/Dbf4 phosphorylation of MCM2 in the initiation of DNA replication. Using...
Walker, Matthew, Zhang, Xue-Zhong, Jiang, Wei, Trinick, John, White, Howard D.
The mechanism of binding of myosin subfragment-1 (S1) to actin in the absence of nucleotides was studied by a combination of stopped-flow fluorescence and ms time resolution electron microscopy. The...
Identification and characterization of a human protein kinase related to budding yeast Cdc7p
The Cdc7p protein kinase is essential for the G1/S transition and initiation of DNA replication during the cell division cycle in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cdc7p appears to be an evolutionarily...
Multistep regulation of DNA replication by Cdk phosphorylation of HsCdc6
Jiang, Wei, Wells, Nicholas J., Hunter, Tony
We have characterized HsCdc6, a human protein homologous to the budding yeast Cdc6p that is essential for DNA replication. We show that, unlike Cdc6p, the levels of HsCdc6 protein remain constant...
BRCA1 Is Phosphorylated at Serine 1497 In Vivo at a Cyclin-Dependent Kinase 2 Phosphorylation Site
Ruffner, Heinz, Jiang, Wei, Craig, A. Grey, Hunter, Tony, Verma, Inder M.
BRCA1 is a cell cycle-regulated nuclear protein that is phosphorylated mainly on serine and to a lesser extent on threonine residues. Changes in phosphorylation occur in response to cell cycle...
Yang, Haifeng, Jiang, Wei, Gentry, Matthew, Hallberg, Richard L.
CDC55 encodes a Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A) regulatory subunit. cdc55-null cells growing at low temperature exhibit a failure of cytokinesis and produce abnormally...
Shureiqi, Imad, Jiang, Wei, Zuo, Xiangsheng, Wu, Yuanqing, Stimmel, Julie B., Leesnitzer, Lisa M., ...
Diminished apoptosis, a critical event in tumorigenesis, is linked to down-regulated 15-lipoxygenase-1 (15-LOX-1) expression in colorectal cancer cells. 13-S-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid (13-S-HODE),...
The spindle midzone, a conspicuous network of antiparallel interdigitating nonkinetochore microtubules between separating chromosomes, plays a crucial role in regulating the initiation and completion...
Madhavarao, Chikkathur N., Arun, Peethambaran, Moffett, John R., Szucs, Sylvia, Surendran, Sankar, Matalon, Reuben, ...
Canavan's disease (CD) is a fatal, hereditary disorder of CNS development that has been linked to mutations in the gene for the enzyme aspartoacylase (ASPA) (EC 3.5.1.15). ASPA acts to hydrolyze...
Jiang, Wei, Lederman, Michael M., Salkowitz, Janelle R., Rodriguez, Benigno, Harding, Clifford V., Sieg, Scott F.
The biological activity of CpG oligodeoxynucleotide 2216 (ODN2216), a Toll-like receptor 9 agonist, was investigated with monocytes from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-negative and HIV-positive...
Zhu, Changjun, Zhao, Jian, Bibikova, Marina, Leverson, Joel D., Bossy-Wetzel, Ella, Fan, Jian-Bing, ...
Microtubule (MT)-based motor proteins, kinesins and dyneins, play important roles in multiple cellular processes including cell division. In this study, we describe the generation and use of an...
Zhu, Changjun, Bossy-Wetzel, Ella, Jiang, Wei
The INCENP (inner centromere protein) is a chromosomal passenger protein that plays multiple roles in regulating mitosis and cytokinesis. The MKLP1 (mitotic kinesin-like protein) is a component of...
Jiang, Wei, Prokopenko, Olga, Wong, Lawrence, Inouye, Masayori, Mirochnitchenko, Oleg
We report the identification and characterization of a new ischemia/reperfusion-inducible protein (IRIP), which belongs to the SUA5/YrdC/YciO protein family. IRIP cDNA was isolated in a differential...
Jiang, Wei, Sun, Rui, Wei, Haiming, Tian, Zhigang
This study demonstrates that pretreatment with polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid (poly I:C) significantly decreased the mortality and liver injury caused by injection of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in the...
Discovery of time-delayed gene regulatory networks based on temporal gene expression profiling
Li, Xia, Rao, Shaoqi, Jiang, Wei, Li, Chuanxing, Xiao, Yun, Guo, Zheng, ...
High-throughput DNA methylation profiling using universal bead arrays
Bibikova, Marina, Lin, Zhenwu, Zhou, Lixin, Chudin, Eugene, Garcia, Eliza Wickham, Wu, Bonnie, ...
We have developed a high-throughput method for analyzing the methylation status of hundreds of preselected genes simultaneously and have applied it to the discovery of methylation signatures that...
Si, Weike, Kang, Quan, Luu, Hue H., Park, Jong Kyung, Luo, Qing, Song, Wen-Xin, ...
Marrow mesenchymal stem cells are pluripotent progenitors that can differentiate into bone, cartilage, muscle, and fat cells. Wnt signaling has been implicated in regulating osteogenic...
Spatiotemporal control of spindle midzone formation by PRC1 in human cells
Zhu, Changjun, Lau, Eric, Schwarzenbacher, Robert, Bossy-Wetzel, Ella, Jiang, Wei
We have examined the role of PRC1, a midzone-associated, microtubule bundling, Cdk substrate protein, in regulating the spatiotemporal formation of the midzone in HeLa cells. Cdk-mediated...
Tsuji, Toshiya, Ficarro, Scott B., Jiang, Wei
We report the identification of Cdc7/Dbf4 phosphorylation sites in human MCM2 and the determination of the role of Cdc7/Dbf4 phosphorylation of MCM2 in the initiation of DNA replication. Using...
The functional role of Cdc6 in S–G2/M in mammalian cells
Lau, Eric, Zhu, Changjun, Abraham, Robert T, Jiang, Wei
The Cdc6 protein is required for licensing of replication origins before the onset of DNA replication in eukaryotic cells. Here, we examined whether Cdc6 has other roles in mammalian cell-cycle...
Defined Contribution Pension Plans: Determinants of Participation and Contributions Rates
Gur Huberman, Sheena Iyengar, Wei Jiang
401(k) plans, defined contribution,
Association of CTLA-4 gene polymorphisms with sporadic breast cancer in Chinese Han population
Wang, Lihong, Li, Dalin, Fu, Zhenkun, Li, Heng, Jiang, Wei, Li, Dianjun
Zhang, Wei, Li, Li, Li, Xia, Jiang, Wei, Huo, Jianmin, Wang, Yadong, ...
He, Yong-Qiang, Zhang, Liang, Jiang, Bo-Le, Zhang, Zheng-Chun, Xu, Rong-Qi, Tang, Dong-Jie, ...
Construction of a microarray based on the genome of Xanthomonas campestris pv.campestris (Xcc), and its use to analyse 18 other virulent Xcc strains, revealed insights into the genetic diversity and...
Jiang, Wei, Cazacu, Simona, Xiang, Cunli, Zenklusen, Jean C, Fine, Howard A, Berens, Michael, ...
FK506 binding protein 5 (FKBP5) belongs to a family of immunophilins named for their ability to bind immunosuppressive drugs, also known as peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerases, and also with...
Toll-Like Receptor Ligands Induce Human T Cell Activation and Death, a Model for HIV Pathogenesis
Funderburg, Nicholas, Luciano, Angel A., Jiang, Wei, Rodriguez, Benigno, Sieg, Scott F., Lederman, Michael M.
Offering versus Choice in 401(k) Plans: Equity Exposure and Number of Funds
Records of over half a million participants in more than 600 401(k) plans indicate that participants tend to allocate their contributions evenly across the funds they use, with the tendency weakening...
PRC1 is a microtubule binding and bundling protein essential to maintain the mitotic spindle midzone
Mollinari, Cristiana, Kleman, Jean-Philippe, Jiang, Wei, Schoehn, Guy, Hunter, Tony, Margolis, Robert L.
Midzone microtubules of mammalian cells play an essential role in the induction of cell cleavage, serving as a platform for a number of proteins that play a part in cytokinesis. We demonstrate that...
Familial aggregation analysis of gene expressions
Rao, Shao-Qi, Xu, Liang-De, Zhang, Guang-Mei, Li, Xia, Li, Lin, Shen, Gong-Qing, ...
Traditional studies of familial aggregation are aimed at defining the genetic (and non-genetic) causes of a disease from physiological or clinical traits. However, there has been little attempt to...
Jiang, Wei, Hall, Sean R., Moos, Michael P.W., Cao, Richard Yang, Ishii, Satoshi, Ogunyankin, Kofo O., ...
Cysteinyl leukotrienes (CysLTs) have been implicated as inflammatory mediators of cardiovascular disease. Three distinct CysLT receptor subtypes transduce the actions of CysLTs but the role of the...
Jiang, Wei, Li, Xia, Rao, Shaoqi, Wang, Lihong, Du, Lei, Li, Chuanxing, ...
Adaptive CUSUM procedures with Markovian mean estimation
Shu, Lianjie, Jiang, Wei, Wu, Zhang
This paper proposes using a Markovian-type mean estimating procedure in the conventional cumulative sum (CUSUM) control scheme to update its reference value in an adaptive way. This generalizes a...
Hedge Fund Activism, Corporate Governance, and Firm Performance
ALON BRAV, WEI JIANG, FRANK PARTNOY, RANDALL THOMAS
Using a large hand-collected data set from 2001 to 2006, we find that activist hedge funds in the United States propose strategic, operational, and financial remedies and attain success or partial...
Directors' Ownership in the U.S. Mutual Fund Industry
QI CHEN, ITAY GOLDSTEIN, WEI JIANG
This paper empirically investigates directors' ownership in the mutual fund industry. Our results show that, contrary to anecdotal evidence, a significant portion of directors hold shares in the...
Jiang, Wei, Lederman, Michael M., Mohner, Richard J., Rodriguez, Benigno, Nedrich, Todd M., Harding, Clifford V., ...
Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) agonists such as unmethylated bacterial CpG DNAs activate B lymphocytes directly, potentially influencing their function and homeostasis. To assess B-cell responsiveness...
Insulin-like Growth Factor Binding Protein 7 Mediates Glioma Cell Growth and Migration1
Jiang, Wei, Xiang, Cunli, Cazacu, Simona, Brodie, Chaya, Mikkelsen, Tom
Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 7 (IGFBP-7) is the only member of the IGFBP superfamily that binds strongly to insulin, suggesting that IGFBP-7 may have different functions from other...
Optimization designs of the combined Shewhart-CUSUM control charts
Wu, Zhang, Yang, Mei, Jiang, Wei, Khoo, Michael B.C.
This article presents the optimization design of the combined Shewhart chart and CUSUM chart ( chart in short) used in Statistical Process Control (SPC). While the optimization design effectively...
Parkin, PINK1, and DJ-1 form a ubiquitin E3 ligase complex promoting unfolded protein degradation
Xiong, Hui, Wang, Danling, Chen, Linan, Choo, Yeun Su, Ma, Hong, Tang, Chengyuan, ...
Mutations in PARKIN, pten-induced putative kinase 1 (PINK1), and DJ-1 are individually linked to autosomal recessive early-onset familial forms of Parkinson disease (PD). Although mutations in these...
Notch activates cell cycle reentry and progression in quiescent cardiomyocytes
Campa, Víctor M., Gutiérrez-Lanza, Raquel, Cerignoli, Fabio, Díaz-Trelles, Ramón, Nelson, Brandon, Tsuji, Toshiya, ...
The inability of heart muscle to regenerate by replication of existing cardiomyocytes has engendered considerable interest in identifying developmental or other stimuli capable of sustaining the...
p190A RhoGAP Is a Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3-β Substrate Required for Polarized Cell Migration*S⃞
Jiang, Wei, Betson, Martha, Mulloy, Roseann, Foster, Rosemary, Lévay, Magdolna, Ligeti, Erzsébet, ...
The Rho GTPases are critical regulators of the actin cytoskeleton and are required for cell adhesion, migration, and polarity. Among the key Rho regulatory proteins in the context of cell migration...
An np control chart for monitoring the mean of a variable based on an attribute inspection
Wu, Zhang, Khoo, Michael B.C., Shu, Lianjie, Jiang, Wei
This article proposes a new np control chart, called the npx chart, that employs an attribute inspection (inspecting whether a unit is conforming or nonconforming) to monitor the mean value of a...
SubpathwayMiner: a software package for flexible identification of pathways
Li, Chunquan, Li, Xia, Miao, Yingbo, Wang, Qianghu, Jiang, Wei, Xu, Chun, ...
With the development of high-throughput experimental techniques such as microarray, mass spectrometry and large-scale mutagenesis, there is an increasing need to automatically annotate gene sets and...
Clostridium glycolicum Wound Infections: Case Reports and Review of the Literature▿
Jiang, Wei, Abrar, Sahibzada, Romagnoli, Mark, Carroll, Karen C.
We describe two cases of Clostridium glycolicum wound infections in immunocompetent adults. The bacterium was identified by 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This is the third published report of the...
Lau, Eric, Chiang, Gary G., Abraham, Robert T., Jiang, Wei
The DNA replication machinery plays additional roles in S phase checkpoint control, although the identities of the replication proteins involved in checkpoint activation remain elusive. Here, we...