Interaction and excitonic insulating transition in graphene (2008)
Liu, Guo-Zhu, Li, Wei, Cheng, Geng
The strong long-range Coulomb interaction between massless Dirac fermions in graphene can drive a semimetal-insulator transition. We show that this transition is strongly suppressed when the Coulomb...
Possible canonical distributions for finite systems with nonadditive energy (2008)
Ou, Congjie, Li, Wei, Du, Jiulin, Tsobnang, Francois, Chen, Jincan, Mehaute, Alain Le, ...
It is shown that a small system in thermodynamic equilibrium with a finite thermostat can have a q-exponential probability distribution which closely depends on the energy nonextensivity and the...
2122 3D STAR non-contrast carotid MR angiography (2008)
Ioannis, Koktzoglou, Li, Wei, Edelman, Robert R
No abstract available.
2121 spin-labeled projection MR angiography of the carotid arteries (2008)
Ioannis, Koktzoglou, Li, Wei, Edelman, Robert R
No abstract available.
Coherent transport on Apollonian networks and continuous-time quantum walks (2008)
Xu, Xinping, Li, Wei, Liu, Feng
We study the coherent exciton transport on Apollonian networks generated by simple iterative rules. The coherent exciton dynamics is modeled by continuous-time quantum walks and we calculate the...
Low-Dose Radiation Does Not Induce Proliferation in Tumor Cells In Vitro and In Vivo (2008)
Hongyu Jiang, Ying Xu, Wei Li, Kewei Ma, Lu Cai, Guanjun Wang
Jiang, H., Xu, Y., Li, W., Ma, K., Cai, L. and Wang, G. Low-Dose Radiation Does Not Induce Proliferation in Tumor Cells In Vitro and In Vivo. Radiat. Res. 170, 477–487 (2008).We have demonstrated...
Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS) (2008)
Zhang, Yong, Liu, Tao, Meyer, Clifford A, Eeckhoute, Jérôme, Johnson, David S, Bernstein, Bradley E, ...
Abstract We present Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq data, MACS, which analyzes data generated by short read sequencers such as Solexa's Genome Analyzer. MACS empirically models the shift size of...
Singularities and symmetry breaking in swarms (2008)
Li, Wei, Zhang, Hai-Tao, Chen, Michael ZhiQiang, Zhou, Tao
A large-scale system consisting of self-propelled particles, moving under the directional alignment rule (DAR), can often self-organize to an ordered state that emerges from an initially rotationally...
Singularities and symmetry breaking in swarms (2008)
Li, Wei, Zhang, Hai-Tao, Chen, Michael ZhiQiang, Zhou, Tao
A large-scale system consisting of self-propelled particles, moving under the directional alignment rule (DAR), can often self-organize to an ordered state that emerges from an initially rotationally...
Individual differences in the lexical development of French-English bilingual children. (2008)
The large and rapidly expanding body of literature on bilingual acquisition is mostly comprised of either single-case or cross-sectional studies. While these studies have made major contributions to...
Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) is an interdisciplinary field of study, which is concerned with the development of analysis techniques and measurement technologies for the quantitative...
What causes change of community diversity, stability, or invasibility is of long-standing interest to ecologists. Despite the attention focused on these essential themes, the roles of resource...
Systematic evaluation of variability in ChIP-chip experiments using predefined DNA targets. (2008)
Johnson, David S., Li, Wei, Gordon, D. Benjamin, Bhattacharjee, Arindam, Curry, Bo, Ghosh, Jayati, ...
The most widely used method for detecting genome-wide protein-DNA interactions is chromatin immunoprecipitation on tiling microarrays, commonly known as ChIP-chip. Here, we conducted the first...
Ghosh, Arunima, Li, Wei, Febbraio, Maria, Espinola, Ricardo G., McCrae, Keith R., Cockrell, Erin, ...
CD36 is a scavenger receptor that binds multiple ligands, including phosphatidyl serine (PS). Although CD36(-) mice do not have a bleeding diathesis, we show here that they do have significantly...
Li, Yinghui, Guan, Rongxia, Liu, Zhangxiong, Ma, Yansong, Wang, Lixia, Li, Linhai, ...
The Chinese genebank contains 23,587 soybean landraces collected from 29 provinces. In this study, a representative collection of 1,863 landraces were assessed for genetic diversity and genetic...
What causes change of community diversity, stability, or invasibility is of long-standing interest to ecologists. Despite the attention focused on these essential themes, the roles of resource...
Xing Chen, Wei Li, Yuming Wei, Guoyue Chen, Youliang Zheng
The aim of this research was to isolate and characterize the α-gliadin genes from T. turgidum ssp. paleocolchium. Nine genes were isolated from T. turgidum ssp. paleocolchicum (2n = 4x = 28,...
Pachinko allocation: DAG-structured mixture models of topic correlations (2007)
Statistical topic models are increasingly popular tools for summarization and manifold discovery in discrete data. However, the majority of existing approaches capture no or limited correlations...
HIERARCHICAL SUMMARIZATION OF VIDEO DATA (2007)
Digital video content is appearing in many new applications. There is a need for efficient video indexing, quick browsing, and easy retrieval of video content of interest in video clips. In this...
A Component-based Middleware Framework for Configurable and Reconfigurable Grid Computing. (2005)
Coulson, Geoff, Grace , Paul, Blair , Gordon, Cai , Wei, Cooper, Chris, Duce, David, ...
Significant progress has been made in the design and development of Grid middleware which, in its present form, is founded on Web services technologies. However, we argue that present-day Grid...
An Approach to Graph-Based Modeling of Network Exploitations (2005)
Computer security professionals and researchers are investigating proactive techniques for studying network-based attack behavior. Attack modeling is one of these research areas. In this...
Plant programmed cell death and disease/stress resistance (2005)
Programmed cell death (PCD) is genetically controlled cell suicide. PCD is involved in numerous physiological and pathological processes including the selective elimination of unwanted, unneeded or...
RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN INTEGRATED WIRELESS AND MOBILE NETWORKS (2005)
One of the recent trends in the telecommunication industry is the integration of voice and data services in wireless and mobile networks. In the face of this more complex traffic mix, where each...
(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled PEPTIDES OF ALPHA-AMINOXY ACIDS: NOVEL SECONDARY STRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS AS SELECTIVE CHLORIDE RECEPTORS Submitted by Li Wei for the Degree of Doctor...
Thermal-driven placement in 3D ICs / (2005)
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 42-45)
(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled PEPTIDES OF ALPHA-AMINOXY ACIDS: NOVEL SECONDARY STRUCTURES AND APPLICATIONS AS SELECTIVE CHLORIDE RECEPTORS Submitted by Li Wei for the Degree of Doctor...
Li, Wei, Wang, Xuemin, Knaap, Marjo S., Proud, Christopher G.
Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter (VWM) is a severe inherited human neurodegenerative disorder that is caused by mutations in the genes for the subunits of eukaryotic initiation factor...
Intermodality nonrigid breast-image registration (2004)
Coman, Ioana, Krol, Andrzej, Feiglin, David, Lipson, Edward, Mandel, James, Baum, Karl, ...
IEEE international symposium on biomedical imaging.
Wang, Xuemin, Li, Wei, Parra, Josep-Lluis, Beugnet, Anne, Proud, Christopher G.
Eukaryotic initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) binds the mRNA cap structure and forms eIF4F complexes that recruit 40S subunits to the mRNA. Formation of eIF4F is blocked by eIF4E-binding proteins such as...
Confocal analysis of synaptic connectivity of the rod pathway in the rabbit retina (2003)
The retina is a specialized neuronal structure that transforms the optical image into electrical signals which are transmitted to the brain via the optic nerve. As part of the strategy to cover a...
Opportunities and challenges in China's health care market / (2003)
Thesis (M.P.H.)--Yale University, 2003.
The role of Interleukin-6 and STAT3 in liver regeneration (2002)
Studies from Interleukin-6 deficient (IL-6-/-) mice established that IL-6 is essential for normal liver regeneration. Activation of the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is...
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 71-75).
Thesis (M. Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2002.
Li, Wei, Belsham, Graham J., Proud, Christopher G.
mRNA translation in eukaryotic cells involves a set of proteins termed translation initiation factors (eIFs), several of which are involved in the binding of ribosomes to mRNA. These include eIF4G, a...
Regulation of elongation factor 2 kinase by p90(RSK1) and p70 S6 kinase (2001)
Wang, Xuemin, Li, Wei, Williams, Michayla, Terada, Naohiro, Alessi, Dario R., Proud, Christopher G.
Elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2k) phosphorylates and inactivates eEF2. Insulin induces dephosphorylation of eEF2 and inactivation of eEF2 kinase, and these effects are blocked by rapamycin, which...
Corruption and Resource Allocation: Evidence from China (2001)
Exploiting a unique data set containing transactions data from a panel of 769 Chinese state-owned enterprises between 1980 and 1989, this paper tests microeconomic implications of a pervasive form of...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Manitoba, 2000.
Effects of delay profile of fading channels on the performance of WCDMA / (2000)
Thèse (M. Sc.)--Université Laval, 2000.
Computational modeling of turbulent flow in a cyclic engine (2000)
grantor: University of Toronto
Understanding and establishing reaction mechanisms is an important area in heterogeneous catalysis. This dissertation describes the use of in situ laser Raman spectroscopy combined with kinetic...
Custom Memory Placement for Parallel Data Mining (1997)
Parthasarathy, Srinivasan, Zaki, Mohammed Javeed, Li, Wei
A lot of data mining tasks, such as Associations, Sequences, and Classification, use complex pointer-based data structures that typically suffer from sub-optimal locality. In the multi-processor case...
Decentralizing in Transition Economies: A Tragedy of the Commons? (1997)
China began its gradual economic reform in the late 1970s; Russia initiated radical reform in the early 1990s. During the course of reform, China has enjoyed rapid growth while Russia has contracted....
New Algorithms for Fast Discovery of Association Rules (1997)
Zaki, Mohammed Javeed, Parthasarathy, Srinivasan, Ogihara, Mitsunori, Li, Wei
Association rule discovery has emerged as an important problem in knowledge discovery and data mining. The association mining task consists of identifying the frequent itemsets, and then forming...
Validity of Interprocedural Data Remapping (1996)
Programming languages like Fortran or C define exactly the layout of array elements in memory. Programmers often use that definition to access the same memory via variables declared as arrays of...
Evaluation of Sampling for Data Mining of Association Rules (1996)
Zaki, Mohammed Javeed, Parthasarathy, Srinivasan, Li, Wei, Ogihara, Mitsunori
Data mining is an emerging research area, whose goal is to extract significant patterns or interesting rules from large databases. High-level inference from large volumes of routine business data can...
Parallel Data Mining for Association Rules on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors (1996)
Zaki, Mohammed Javeed, Ogihara, Mitsunori, Parthasarathy, Srinivasan, Li, Wei
Data mining is an emerging research area, whose goal is to extract significant patterns or interesting rules from large databases. High-level inference from large volumes of routine business data can...
Briki: A Flexible Java Compiler (1996)
We present a Java compiler architecture which uses a unique combination of front- and back-ends to deliver great flexibility. Our compiler is designed to use the same optimization passes no matter...
NetProf: Network-Based High-Level Profiling of Java Bytecode (1996)
Parthasarathy, Srinivasan, Cierniak, Michal, Li, Wei
In this paper we present a system for network based visualization of profile information generated by Java applets/bytecode. The system, called NetProf, is composed of several components each of...
Customized Dynamic Load Balancing for a Network of Workstations (1995)
Zaki, Mohammed Javeed, Li, Wei, Parthasarathy, Srinivasan
Load balancing involves assigning to each processor, work proportional to its performance, minimizing the execution time of the program. Although static load balancing can solve many problems (e.g.,...
Compile-Time Inter-Query Dependence Analysis (1995)
Parthasarathy, Srinivasan, Li, Wei, Cierniak, Michal, Zaki, Mohammed Javeed
Most parallel databases exploit two types of parallelism: intra-query parallelism and inter-transaction concurrency. Between these two cases lies another type of parallelism: inter-query parallelism...
Recovering Logical Data and Code Structures (1995)
Many powerful parallelizing compiler techniques rely on the structures of data and code. Unfortunately, in many real applications, arrays do not have syntactic structures. In this paper, we show that...
Loop Scheduling for Heterogeneity (1995)
Cierniak, Michal, Li, Wei, Zaki, Mohammed Javeed
Link to published version: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel3/3962/11444/00518697.pdf?tp=&arnumber=518697&isnumber=11444
Recovering Logical Data and Code Structures (1995)
Many powerful parallelizing compiler techniques rely on the structures of data and code. Unfortunately, in many real applications, arrays do not have syntactic structures. In this paper, we show that...
Compiler Cache Optimizations for Banded Matrix Problems (1995)
Link to published version: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=224541&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=42864832&CFTOKEN=38189388
Unifying Data and Control Transformations for Distributed Shared-Memory Machines (1995)
Link to published version: http://portal.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=207145&type=pdf&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=42864832&CFTOKEN=38189388
Performance Impact of Processor and Memory Heterogeneity in a Network of Machines (1995)
Zaki, Mohammed Javeed, Li, Wei, Cierniak, Michal
In this paper we present a summary of the issues that need to be dealt with to effectively use a heterogeneous network of machines. We specifically point out the impact of processor and memory...
The change in productivity of Chinese state enterprises, 1983–1987 (1995)
This study estimates the change in productivity of Chinese state enterprises during 1983–1987 using a panel data set of 403 firms. A new approach to productivity measurement is used. Under this...
Performance Impact of Processor and Memory Heterogeneity in a Network of Machines (1995)
Zaki, Mohammed Javeed, Li, Wei, Cierniak, Michal
In this paper we present a summary of the issues that need to be dealt with to effectively use a heterogeneous network of machines. We specifically point out the impact of processor and memory...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Loughborough University of Technology, 1995.
Unifying Data and Control Transformations for Distributed Shared Memory Machines (1994)
We present a unified approach to locality optimization that employs both data and control transformations. Data transformations include changing the array layout in memory. Control transformations...
COMPILING FOR NUMA PARALLEL MACHINES (1994)
A common feature of many scalable parallel machines is non-uniform memory access (NUMA) --- data access to local memory is much faster than to non-local memories. In addition, when a number of remote...
Loop Scheduling for Heterogeneity (1994)
Cierniak, Michal, Li, Wei, Zaki, Mohammed Javeed
In this paper, we study the problem of scheduling parallel loops at compile-time for a heterogeneous network of machines. We consider heterogeneity in three aspects of parallel programming: program,...
The Lambda Loop Transformation Toolkit (User's Reference Manual) (1994)
Loop transformations are becoming critical to exploiting parallelism and data locality in parallelizing and optimizing compilers. This document describes the Lambda loop transformation toolkit, an...
The Lambda Loop Transformation Toolkit (User's Reference Manual) (1994)
Loop transformations are becoming critical to exploiting parallelism and data locality in parallelizing and optimizing compilers. This document describes the Lambda loop transformation toolkit, an...
The Lambda Loop Transformation Toolkit (User's Reference Manual) (1994)
Loop transformations are becoming critical to exploiting parallelism and data locality in parallelizing and optimizing compilers. This document describes the Lambda loop transformation toolkit, an...
Compiler Optimizations for Cache Locality and Coherence (1994)
Almost every modern processor is designed with a memory hierarchy organized into several levels, each of which is smaller, faster, and more expensive than the level below. High performance requires...
This article introduces the conception, characteristics, and trend of electronic publishing, network publishing, electronic library, and virtual library. By reviewing the recent development of...
Access Normalization: Loop Restructuring for NUMA Compilers (1992)
A common feature of many scalable parallel machines is non-uniform memory access - a processor can access data in its local memory ten to a thousand times faster than it can access local data. In...
A Singular Loop Transformation Framework Based on Non-singular Matrices (1992)
In this paper, we discuss a loop transformation framework that is based on integer non-singular matrices. The transformations included in this framework are called A-transformations and include...
Access Normalization: Loop Restructuring for NUMA Compilers (1992)
A common feature of many scalable parallel machines is non-uniform memory access - a processor can access data in its local memory ten to a thousand times faster than it can access local data. In...
A Singular Loop Transformation Framework Based on Non-Singular Matrices (1992)
In this paper, we discuss a loop transformation framework that is based on integer non-singular matrices. The transformations included in this framework are called $\Lambda$-transformations and...
Access Normalization: Loop Restructuring for NUMA Compilers (1992)
A common feature of many scalable parallel machines is non-uniform memory access - a processor can access data in its local memory ten to a thousand times faster than it can access non-local data. In...
Saarbrücken, Univ., Diss., 1991.
Tax Structure in Developing Countries: Many Puzzles and a Possible Explanation
Tax policies seen in developing countries are puzzling on many dimensions. To begin with, revenue/GDP is surprisingly small compared with that in developed economies. Taxes on labor income play a...
Puzzling Tax Structures in Developing Countries: A Comparison of Two Alternative Explanations
Observed economic policies in developing countries differ sharply both from those observed among developed countries and from those forecast by existing models of optimal policies. For example,...