Wei Zhang, Mark J. Ratain, M. Eileen Dolan
The exploration of quantitative variation in complex traits such as gene expression and drug response in human populations has become one of the major priorities for medical genetics. The...
Objective: To study the variabilities of the effects of cold pathogen and cold-dampness pathogen on the fractalkine (FKN) mRNA expression in lung tissues of rats.Methods: Twenty-four Wistar rats of...
HIT-IR-WSD: A WSD System for English Lexical Sample Task (2009)
Yuhang Guo, Wanxiang Che, Yuxuan Hu, Wei Zhang, Ting Liu
HIT-IR-WSD is a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system developed for English lexical sample task (Task 11) of Semeval
Organizations are exploring the role communities play in knowledge management and online communities are attracting more and more attentions. One difference between online communities and...
Hao, Ningning, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Zhigang, Wang, Yupeng, Zhang, Ping
We study a bilayer two-dimension-electron-gas (2DEG) adjacent to a type-II superconductor thin film with a pinned vortex lattice. We find that with increasing interlayer tunneling, the system of half...
Efficient oligonucleotide probe selection for pan-genomic tiling arrays (2009)
Phillippy, Adam M, Deng, Xiangyu, Zhang, Wei, Salzberg, Steven L
Abstract Background Array comparative genomic hybridization is a fast and cost-effective method for detecting, genotyping, and comparing the genomic sequence of unknown bacterial isolates. This...
Star-Forming Galaxies at z~2 in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (2009)
Kong, Xu, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Min
Using a simple color selection based on B-, z- and K-band photometry, BzK= (z-K)_AB-(B-z)_AB>-0.2, we picked out 52 star-forming galaxies at 1.4
An Error Bound for the Sensor Scheduling Problem (2009)
Zhang, Wei, Hu, Jianghai, Vitus, Michael P
The sensor scheduling problem tries to select one out of multiple available sensors at each time step to minimize a weighted sum of all the estimation errors over a certain time horizon. The problem...
Critical parameters for the one-dimensional systems with long-range correlated disorder (2009)
Zhao, Yi, Duan, Suqing, Zhang, Wei
We study the metal-insulator transition in a tight-binding one-dimensional (1D) model with long-range correlated disorder. In the case of diagonal disorder with site energy within...
Zhou, Qiang, Zhang, Wei, Cheng, Jierong, Huang, Yidong, Peng, Jiangde
Polarization-entangled photon pair generation based on two scalar scattering processes of the vector four photon scattering has been demonstrated experimentally in high nonlinear microstructure fiber...
Connecting P2P to the Web: A Gnutella-WWW Gateway ∗ (2009)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present an approach to extend the abilities of peer-to-peer networks to take advantage of broad information resources on the World Wide Web and vice versa. Either network may contain the data to...
Lecturer Lap, Chi Lau, Scribe Yingze Wang, Wei Zhang
This lecture gives a general introduction of graph partitioning problems. We will begin with the definitions of some classic graph partitioning problems (e.g. multiway cut, multicut, sparsest cut),...
Gong, Li, Li, Yan-Hong, Zhao, Hua-Dong, Zhao, Jian-Ye, Zhang, Wei
Abstract Background It is very rare that gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) occurs in the sacrum. Only one case of GIST occuring in the sacral region, with intracranial metastasis, has been...
FUNCTIONS OF PERK eIF2-alpha KINASE IN THE MOUSE PANCREATIC Beta-CELLS (2009)
PERK eIF2-alpha kinase is an ER transmembrane protein sensing ER stress and [Ca2+]ER alteration under physiological or pharmacological condition. When large scale of eIF2-alpha is phosphorylated,...
Tomography of correlation functions for ultracold atoms via time-of-flight images (2009)
We propose to utilize density distributions from a series of time-of-flight images of an expanding cloud to reconstruct single-particle correlation functions of trapped ultra-cold atoms. In...
Computer Simulation of Secondary Structure of Biological and Synthetic Macromolecules (2009)
RNA tetraloop is the smallest, simplest and the most frequent motif which is involved in numerous important biological functions. A local deviation from the RNA standard tetraloop, d2 tetraloop, has...
Computer simulation of secondary structure of biological and synthetic macromolecules (2009)
RNA tetraloop is the smallest, simplest and the most frequent motif which is involved in numerous important biological functions. A local deviation from the RNA standard tetraloop, d2 tetraloop, has...
Yang, Haiwei, Wei, Jifu, Zhang, Huiyun, Lin, Liyan, Zhang, Wei, He, Shaoheng
Abstract Backgroud Recently, mast cells have been recognized to express several Toll-like receptors (TLRs) on their membrane surfaces, and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)...
A Numerical Study of Solid Suspension Layers in a Swirl Fluidised Bed Reactor (2009)
Three-dimensional numerical simulations of an isothermal swirl fluidised bed (SFB) system with no chemical reactions were performed to study the swirl decay process and its effects on bed...
A Numerical Study of Solid Suspension Layers in a Swirl Fluidised Bed Reactor (2009)
Three-dimensional numerical simulations of an isothermal swirl fluidised bed (SFB) system with no chemical reactions were performed to study the swirl decay process and its effects on bed...
A Numerical Study of Solid Suspension Layers in a Swirl Fluidised Bed Reactor (2009)
Three-dimensional numerical simulations of an isothermal swirl fluidised bed (SFB) system with no chemical reactions were performed to study the swirl decay process and its effects on bed...
A Numerical Study of Solid Suspension Layers in a Swirl Fluidised Bed Reactor (2009)
Three-dimensional numerical simulations of an isothermal swirl fluidised bed (SFB) system with no chemical reactions were performed to study the swirl decay process and its effects on bed...
Boundary effects on energy dissipation in a cellular automaton model (2009)
In this paper, we numerically study energy dissipation caused by traffic in the Nagel-Schreckenberg (NaSch) model with open boundary conditions (OBC). Numerical results show that there is a...
New critical exponents for percolation and the random-cluster model (2009)
Deng, Youjin, Zhang, Wei, Garoni, Timothy M., Sokal, Alan D., Sportiello, Andrea
We introduce several infinite families of new critical exponents for the random-cluster model, and give heuristic scaling arguments determining all but one of these exponents as a function of q in...
Vehicular traffic flow at a intersection controlled by signal light with a new probability (2009)
We introduced a probability of traffic light, PL, at an intersection when approaching cars in two roads are in same conditions. As a application, we proposed a modified Nagel-Schreckenberg cellular...
A partial interference cancellation (PIC) group decoding based space-time block code (STBC) design criterion was recently proposed by Guo and Xia, where the decoding complexity and the code rate...
Akkiprik, Mustafa, Hu, Limei, Sahin, Aysegul, Hao, Xishan, Zhang, Wei
Abstract Background Insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 (IGFBP5) has been shown to be associated with breast cancer metastasis in clinical marker studies. However, a major difficulty in...
Guh, Daphne P, Zhang, Wei, Bansback, Nick, Amarsi, Zubin, Birmingham, C Laird, Anis, Aslam H
Abstract Background Overweight and obese persons are at risk of a number of medical conditions which can lead to further morbidity and mortality. The primary objective of this study is to provide an...
Image features and learning algorithms for biological, generic and social object recognition (2009)
Graduation date: 2009
Image features and learning algorithms for biological, generic and social object recognition (2009)
Graduation date: 2009
A Study of the Discrete-Time Switched LQR Problem (2009)
Zhang, Wei, Hu, Jianghai, Abate, Alessandro
This paper studies the discrete-time switched LQR (DSLQR) problem based on a dynamic programming approach. One contribution of this paper is the analytical characterization of both the value function...
Huang, Albert C, Hu, Limei, Kauffman, Stuart A, Zhang, Wei, Shmulevich, Ilya
Abstract Background The process of cellular differentiation is governed by complex dynamical biomolecular networks consisting of a multitude of genes and their products acting in concert to determine...
Estimating the H I gas fractions of galaxies in the local Universe (2009)
Zhang, Wei, Li, Cheng, Kauffmann, Guinevere, Zou, Hu, Catinella, Barbara, Shen, Shiyin, ...
We use a sample of 800 galaxies with H I mass measurements from the HyperLeda catalogue and optical photometry from the fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to calibrate a new...
Centrosome-associated regulators of the G2/M checkpoint as targets for cancer therapy (2009)
Wang, Yingmei, Ji, Ping, Liu, Jinsong, Broaddus, Russell R, Xue, Fengxia, Zhang, Wei
Abstract In eukaryotic cells, control mechanisms have developed that restrain cell-cycle transitions in response to stress. These regulatory pathways are termed cell-cycle checkpoints. The G 2 /M...
Wang, Zhigang, Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Ping
We study the de Haas--van Alphen (dHvA) oscillations in the magnetization of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) under the influence of the edge states and/or the Rashba spin-orbit interaction...
EE698G: Multiuser Communication Class Presentation (2009)
Capacity of the non-ergodic channel Capacity of the Rayleigh fading channel Capacity for fixed channel transfer function Introduction of MIMO channel OUTLINE OF THE PRESENTATION
Multiobjective Simulated Annealing for Design of Combinational Logic Circuits * (2009)
Guoliang He, Yuanxiang Li, Xuan Wang, Wei Zhang, Zhifeng Dai
Abstract- A multiobjective optimization technique was proposed for designing combinational logic circuits with 100% functionality and minimized number of gates. The main idea is to consider each...
� � Extensions of RDF(S) � � Ontology.... (2009)
Huiyong Xiao, Wei Zhang, Uschold Gruninger
� � Traditional knowledge representation � � Current world wide web � � Semantic web architecture
Pagiola, Stefano, Zhang, Wei, Colom, Ale
Payments for environmental services (PES) are a promising mechanism for conservation. PES could either provide additional funding for protected areas, pay land users to conserve biodiversity outside...
A new muscle fatigue and recovery model and its ergonomics application in human simulation (2009)
Ma, Liang, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei, Guillaume, François
Although automatic techniques have been employed in manufacturing industries to increase productivity and efficiency, there are still lots of manual handling jobs, especially for assembly and...
Dynamic Muscle Fatigue Evaluation in Virtual Working Environment (2009)
Ma, Liang, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei
Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) is one of the major health problems in mechanical work especially in manual handling jobs. Muscle fatigue is believed to be the main reason for MSD. Posture analysis...
Stabilizing Switched Linear Systems With Unstabilizable Subsystems (2009)
Zhang, Wei, Hu, Jianghai, Abate, Alessandro
Abstract This paper studies the exponential stabilization problem for discrete-time switched linear systems based on a control-Lyapunov function approach. A number of versions of converse...
Dynamic Muscle Fatigue Evaluation in Virtual Working Environment (2009)
Ma, Liang, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei
Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) is one of the major health problems in mechanical work especially in manual handling jobs. Muscle fatigue is believed to be the main reason for MSD. Posture analysis...
Dynamic Muscle Fatigue Evaluation in Virtual Working Environment (2009)
Ma, Liang, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei
Musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) is one of the major health problems in mechanical work especially in manual handling jobs. Muscle fatigue is believed to be the main reason for MSD. Posture analysis...
Diagnostic Value of Transbronchial Lung Biopsy in Peripheral Lung Cancer (2009)
Wenhui TANG, Jianguo LI, Wei ZHANG
Background and objective Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide. Because the locations of peripheral lung cancer are special, diagnosis of peripheral lung cancer is...
Bis(thiosemicarbazide)nickel(II) bis[2-(thiosemicarbazonomethyl)benzenesulfonate] dihydrate (2009)
In the title compound, [Ni(CH5N3S)2](C8H8N3O3S2)2·2H2O, the NiII atom lies on a inversion centre and is four-coordinated by two N and two S atoms of two thiosemicarbazide ligands in an almost...
Zhang, Wei, Xie, Shaoai, Li, Mei, Chen, Hongjin, Ma, Li, Jia, Jinping
An microband electrode array (MBEA) of a boron-doped diamond (BDD) film was prepared by using the hot-filament chemical vapor deposition (HF-CVD) technique and microfabrication process with a...
Ethyl 2-hydroxy-5-oxo-4-phenyl-2,3,4,5-tetrahydropyrano[3,2-c]chromene-2-carboxylate (2009)
Wei Zhang, Guangcun Zhang, Bailin Li, Yifeng Wang
The main structural unit of the title compoud, C21H18O6, is a fused three-ring group consisting of coumarin and tetrahydropyrane ring systems. Two C atoms of the tetrahydropyran ring are displaced by...
(2R,4R)-2-Hydroxy-4-(2-methoxyphenyl)bicyclo[3.3.1]nonan-9-one (2009)
Shuping Luo, Guangcun Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Yifeng Wang, Wei Zhang
The title compound, C16H20O3, contains a bicyclic ring system with two chiral centers. The crystal structure is stabilized by intermolecular O—H...O hydrogen bonds. The absolute configuration...
Estimating the H I gas fractions of galaxies in the local universe (2009)
Zhang, Wei, Li, Cheng, Kauffmann, Guinevere, Zou, Hu, Catinella, Barbara, Shen, Shiyin, ...
Population-specific GSTM1 copy number variation (2009)
Huang, R. Stephanie, Chen, Peixian, Wisel, Steve, Duan, Shiwei, Zhang, Wei, Cook, Edwin H., ...
As one of the major glutathione conjugation enzymes, GSTM1 detoxifies a number of drugs and xenobiotics. Its expression and activity have been shown to correlate both with cancer risks and drug...
Wang, Meilin, Wang, Miaomiao, Zhang, Wei, Yuan, Lin, Fu, Guangbo, Wei, Qingyi, ...
A recent genome-wide association study identified two common variants that confer susceptibility to bladder cancer. We hypothesized that these variants are associated with risk of bladder cancer in...
Qian, Airong, Di, Shengmeng, Gao, Xiang, Zhang, Wei, Tian, Zongcheng, Li, Jingbao, ...
The diamagnetic levitation as a novel ground-based model for simulating a reduced gravity environment has been widely applied in many fields. In this study, a special designed superconducting magnet,...
Li, Chao, Chen, Zhisheng, Liu, Zhong, Huang, Junjiu, Zhang, Wei, Zhou, Lingjun, ...
Mammalian parthenogenetic embryos (pE) are not viable due to placental deficiency, presumably resulting from lack of paternally expressed imprinted genes. Pluripotent parthenogenetic embryonic stem...
Characterization of fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella flexneri in Hangzhou area of China (2009)
Pu, Xiao-Ying, Pan, Jing-Cao, Wang, Hao-Qiu, Zhang, Wei, Huang, Zhi-Cheng, Gu, Yang-Ming
Objectives The aim of this study was to characterize fluoroquinolone-resistant Shigella and determine whether the qnr and aac(6′)-Ib-cr genes could contribute to sporadic shigellosis at the clinic...
Chemical and Biological Characterization of Oleanane Triterpenoids from Soy (2009)
Soyasaponins are a group of complex and structural diverse oleanane triterpenoids found in soy (Glycine max) and other legumes. They are primarily classified into two main groups − group A and B...
Zhang, Yonglai, Wei, Shu, Zhang, Wei, Xu, Yi-Jun, Liu, Sen, Su, Dang Sheng, ...
Novel composites of titania nanocrystals and adsorptive nanoporous polymers have been successfully synthesized via a two-step solvothermal pathway. These composites are developed as bifunctional...
Anis, Aslam, Zhang, Wei, Emery, Paul, Sun, Huiying, Singh, Amitabh, Freundlich, Bruce, ...
Objectives. To compare the impact of the combination of etanercept (ETN) and MTX with MTX alone on work productivity among MTX-naïve patients with active early RA over a 12-month period. Methods....
Zhang, Wei, Yan, Cuie, May, Jennifer, Barrow, Colin
The effect of material properties on complex coacervation of whey protein and gum Arabic from various sources was investigated. In this study, it was demonstrated that material properties of whey...
N-(4-Bromo-2-methylphenyl)pivalamide (2009)
The conformation of the N—H bond in the title compound, C12H16BrNO, is syn to the ortho-methyl substituent. There are two unique molecules in the asymmetric unit. In the crystal structure,...
4-(4-Diethylamino-2-hydroxybenzylideneammonio)-3-methylbenzenesulfonate dihydrate (2009)
In the crystal of the title compound, C18H22N2O4S·2H2O, molecules are linked into a one-dimensional chain structure by C—H...O, N—H...O, O—H...O and O—H...N hydrogen...
Lei, Cai-Xia, Zhang, Wei, Zhou, Jian-Ping, Liu, Yin-Kun
BACKGROUND Galectin-3 (gal-3) is a β-galactoside-binding protein which can be detected in endometrium. The study was designed to investigate synergism of gal-3 and integrinβ3 in endometrial cell...
2-Bromo-1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanone (2009)
There are two molecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C8H7BrO2. In the crystal, they form independent chains propagating in [010] linked by O—H...O hydrogen bonds.
Topological edge states and quantum Hall effect in the Haldane model (2008)
Hao, Ningning, Zhang, Ping, Wang, Zhigang, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Yupeng
We study the topological edge states of the Haldane's graphene model with zigzag/armchair lattice edges. The Harper equation for solving the energies of the edge states is derived. The results show...
Simulation-Based Augmented Reality for Sensor Network Development ∗ (2008)
Ye Wen, Wei Zhang, Rich Wolski
Software development for sensor network is made difficult by resource constrained sensor devices, distributed system complexity, communication unreliability, and high labor cost. Simulation, as a...
Binomial coefficients and the ring of p-adic integers (2008)
Let k>1 be an integer and let p be a prime. We show that if $p^a\le k
On the integers of the form $p^2+b^2+2^n$ and $b_1^2+b_2^2+2^{n^2}$ (2008)
We prove that the sumset {p^2+b^2+2^n: p is prime and b,n\in N} has positive lower density. We also construct a residue class with odd modulo, which contains no integer of the form p^2+b^2+2^n. And...
EE658G: Multiuser Communication Spring, 2003 Multi-antenna Gaussian Channel (MIMO) (2008)
Nowadays, the research on multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems becomes a hot spot for the reason that it can greatly increase the spectral efficiency (capacity) over a limited bandwidth. Since it...
NATURE: A Hybrid Nanotube/CMOS Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture (2008)
Wei Zhang, Niraj K. Jha, Li Shang
addition, if nanoelectronic circuits/architectures are imple-ABSTRACT mented using bottom-up chemical self-assembly techniques, then the chip defect levels are expected to be high (between Recent...
Exploring Remote Object Coherence in XML Web Services (2008)
Robert Engelen, Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Wei Zhang
Object-level coherence in distributed applications and systems has been studied extensively. Object coherence in platform-specific and tightly-coupled systems is achieved with binary serialization...
Agility in Virtualized Utility Computing ∗ (2008)
Hangwei Qian, Elliot Miller, Wei Zhang, Michael Rabinovich, Craig E. Wills
Virtual machines have emerged as an attractive approach for utility computing platforms because applications running on VMs are fault- and security- isolated from each other, yet can share physical...
Compiler-Directed Data Cache Leakage Reduction (2008)
Leakage energy reduction for caches has been the target of many recent research efforts. In this work, we propose a novel compiler directed approach to reduce the data cache leakage energy by...
A worm algorithm for the fully-packed loop model (2008)
Zhang, Wei, Garoni, Timothy M., Deng, Youjin
We present a Markov-chain Monte Carlo algorithm of worm type that correctly simulates the fully-packed loop model on the honeycomb lattice, and we prove that it is ergodic and has uniform stationary...
Integrating epigenomics into pharmacogenomic studies (2008)
Wei Zhang, R Stephanie Huang, M Eileen DolanSection of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USAAbstract: The goal of personalized medicine is to...
Modified entanglement purification scheme with doubly entangled photon state (2008)
Wang, Chuan, Sheng, Yu-Bo, Li, Xi-Han, Deng, Fu-Guo, Zhang, Wei, Long, Gui Lu
Recently Xiao et al. proposed a scheme for entanglement purification based on doubly entangled photon states (Phys. Rev. A 77(2008) 042315). We modify their scheme for improving the efficiency of...
Qian, Ai-Rong, Zhang, Wei, Cao, Jian-Ping, Yang, Peng-Fei, Gao, Xiang, Wang, Zhe, ...
Abstract Background CD147 plays a critical role in the invasive and metastatic activity of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells by stimulating the surrounding fibroblasts to express matrix...
Structural studies of West Nile virus in complex with neutralizing antibodies (2008)
Kuhn, Richard J, Kaufmann, Bärbel, Lok, Shee, Cherrier, Mick, Perera, Rushika, Sedlak, Dagmar, ...
No abstract available.
Framework for Dynamic Evaluation of Muscle Fatigue in Manual Handling Work (2008)
Ma, Liang, Bennis, Fouad, Chablat, Damien, Zhang, Wei
Muscle fatigue is defined as the point at which the muscle is no longer able to sustain the required force or work output level. The overexertion of muscle force and muscle fatigue can induce acute...
A Generalized FAST TCP scheme (2008)
Yuan, Cao, Tan, Liansheng, Andrew, Lachlan L. H., Zhang, Wei, Zukernan, Moshe
THE CONTROL OF ROTATIONAL HAND ACTIONS BY MULTI-DIGIT SYNERGIES (2008)
The current dissertation is the first to systematically investigate finger coordination during multi-finger tasks that require accurate rotational actions. This series of studies has five main...
IBM MASTOR SYSTEM: Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-speech Translator * (2008)
Yuqing Gao, Liang Gu, Bowen Zhou, Ruhi Sarikaya, Mohamed Afify, Hong-kwang Kuo, ...
In this paper, we describe the IBM MASTOR, a speech-to-speech translation system that can translate spontaneous free-form speech in real-time on both laptop and hand-held PDAs. Challenges include...
Abstract Experiments in Building Recognition (2008)
In this report we study the problem of building recognition. Given a database of building images, we are interested in classifying a novel view of a building by finding the closest match from the...
Real-time Accurate Object Detection using Multiple Resolutions (2008)
Wei Zhang, Gregory Zelinsky, Dimitris Samaras
We propose a multi-resolution framework inspired by human visual search for general object detection. Different resolutions are represented using a coarse-to-fine feature hierarchy. During detection,...
Real-time Accurate Object Detection using Multiple Resolutions (2008)
Wei Zhang, Gregory Zelinsky, Dimitris Samaras
We propose a multi-resolution framework inspired by human visual search for general object detection. Different resolutions are represented using a coarse-to-fine feature hierarchy. During detection,...
A New Agent-based Distributed Model of Grid Service Advertisement and Discovery (2008)
Dan Ma, Wei Zhang, Hong-jun Zhang
Abstract. Grid computing is becoming a research focus in distributed and parallel systems. The idea of the grid service being a kernel of the whole grid architecture is accepted by the researchers....
Multifunctional roles of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 in breast cancer (2008)
Akkiprik, Mustafa, Feng, Yumei, Wang, Huamin, Chen, Kexin, Hu, Limei, Sahin, Aysegul, ...
Abstract The insulin-like growth factor axis, which has been shown to protect cells from apoptosis, plays an essential role in normal cell physiology and in cancer development. The family of...
Biharmonic space-like hypersurfaces in pseudo-Riemannian space (2008)
We classify the space-like biharmonic surfaces in 3-dimension pseudo-Riemannian space form, and construct explicit examples of proper biharmonic hypersurfaces in general ADS space.
We study the superfluid transition in a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas with a magnetic field tuning through a Feshbach resonance. Using an effective two-dimensional Hamiltonian with renormalized...
Rational vertex operator algebras are finitely generated (2008)
It is proved that any vertex operator algebra for which the image of the Virasoro element in Zhu's algebra is algebraic over complex numbers is finitely generated. In particular, any vertex operator...
Gomez, Ana Maria, Milliez, Paul, Fernandez-Velasco, Maria, Vinet, Laurent, ...
Background - Defects in cardiomyocyte Ca2+ cycling are a signature feature of heart failure (HF) that occurs in response to sustained hemodynamic overload, and they largely account for contractile...
Exploring the order parameter symmetry of p-wave Fermi condensates (2008)
We discuss the time-of-flight expansion of dilute p-wave Fermi condensates on the BEC side of Feshbach resonances, as a way to extract information about the order parameter symmetry for...
Quasienergy spectra of a charged particle in planar honeycomb lattices (2008)
Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Ping, Duan, Suqing, Zhao, Xian-Geng
The low energy spectrum of a particle in planar honeycomb lattices is conical, which leads to the unusual electronic properties of graphene. In this letter we calculate the quasienergy spectra of a...
Clustering Property of Wolf-Rayet Galaxies in the SDSS (2008)
Zhang, Wei, Kong, Xu, Cheng, Fu-Zhen
We have analysed, for the first time, the clustering properties of Wolf-Rayet (W-R) galaxies, using a large sample of 846 W-R galaxies selected from the Data Release 4 (DR4) of the SDSS. We compute...
BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER Sequence analysis (2008)
Lang Li, Victor X. Jin, Henry H. Paik, Meiyun Fan, Xiaoman Li, ...
A mixture model-based discriminate analysis for identifying ordered transcription factor binding site pairs in gene promoters directly regulated by estrogen receptor-a Vol. 22 no. 18 2006, pages...
Yongjian Yang, Xiaohui Yang, Wei Zhang, Yongjian Yang, Xiaohui Yang, Wei Zhang
The spatial relationships plays an important role in GIS spatial data modeling, spatial query and spatial analysis etc. From the cognitive view, we represent and apply the information of...
A General Method for Statistical Performance Evaluation ∗ (2008)
In the paper, we propose a general method for statistical performance evaluation. The method incorporates various statistical metrics and automatically selects an appropriate statistical metric...
Nonparametric estimation of multiple structures with outliers (2008)
Abstract. Common problem encountered in the analysis of dynamic scene is the problem of simultaneous estimation of the number of models and their parameters. This problem becomes difficult as the...
Efficient Feature Extraction for Image Classification (2008)
Wei Zhang, Xiangyang Xue, Zichen Sun, Yue-fei Guo, Mingmin Chi, Hong Lu
In many image classification applications, input feature space is often high-dimensional and dimensionality reduction is necessary to alleviate the curse of dimensionality or to reduce the cost of...
A New Agent-based Distributed Model of Grid Service Advertisement and Discovery (2008)
Dan Ma, Wei Zhang, Hong-jun Zhang
Abstract. Grid computing is becoming a research focus in distributed and parallel systems. The idea of the grid service being a kernel of the whole grid architecture is accepted by the researchers....
NATURE: A Hybrid Nanotube/CMOS Dynamically Reconfigurable Architecture (2008)
Recent progress on nanodevices, such as carbon nanotubes and nanowires, points to promising directions for future circuit design. However, nanofabrication techniques are not yet mature, making...
Abstract Hierarchical Building Recognition (2008)
In urban areas, buildings are often used as landmarks for localization. Reliable and efficient recognition of buildings is crucial for enabling this functionality. Motivated by the applications which...
Education Honors and Awards (2008)
⋄ Strong knowledge in machine learning and pattern recognition ⋄ Excellent problem solving capability and strong communication skills
Nonparametric estimation of multiple structures with outliers (2008)
Abstract. Common problem encountered in the analysis of dynamic scene is the problem of simultaneous estimation of the number of models and their parameters. This problem becomes difficult as the...
TDX: a High-Performance Table-Driven XML Parser ∗ ABSTRACT (2008)
This paper presents TDX, a table-driven XML parser. TDX combines parsing and validation into one pass to increase the performance of XML-based applications, such as Web services. The TDX approach is...
2006b) Segmentation of publication records of authors from the web (2008)
Wei Zhang, Clement Yu, Neil Smalheiser, Vetle Torvik
Publication records are often found in the authors’ personal home pages. If such a record is partitioned into a list of semantic fields of authors, title, date, etc., the unstructured texts can be...
A Table-Driven Streaming XML Parsing Methodology for High-Performance Web Services (2008)
This paper presents a table-driven streaming XML parsing methodology, called TDX. TDX expedites XML parsing by pre-recording the states of an XML parser in tabular form and by utilizing an efficient...
Zongwei Zhou, Yibo Xue, Junda Liu, Wei Zhang, Jun Li
Abstract. String matching algorithm is one of the key technologies in numerous network security applications and systems. Nowadays, the increasing network bandwidth and pattern set size both calls...
Texture Mapping with Vector Graphics: A Nested Mipmapping Solution (2008)
Wei Zhang, Yonggao Yang, Song Xing
Texture mapping with vector graphics, rather than raster graphics generates better rendering quality. This paper discusses a fully developed approach of texture mapping 3D objects with vector...
Ke-hai Yuan, Peter M. Bentler, Wei Zhang, Ke-hai Yuan, Peter M. Bentler, Wei Zhang
The maximum likelihood (ML) method, based on the normal distribution assumption, is widely used in mean and covariance structure analysis. With typical nonnormal data, the ML method will lead to...
Searching the Web and more — a juxtaposition of online search traces (2008)
The information retrieval task is larger than the problem of searching for documents on the Web. In this paper we broaden our analysis to include search logs of many Web search engines, peer-to-peer...
We formulate a Swendsen-Wang-like version of the geometric cluster algorithm. As an application,we study the hard-core lattice gas on the triangular lattice with the first- and the second-neighbor...
BCS-BEC Crossover of a Quasi-two-dimensional Fermi Gas: the Significance of Dressed Molecules (2008)
We study the crossover of a quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas trapped in the radial plane from the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) regime to the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) regime by crossing a...
The PIT1gene polymorphisms were associated with chicken growth traits (2008)
Nie, Qinghua, Fang, Meixia, Xie, Liang, Zhou, Min, Liang, Zhangmin, Luo, Ziping, ...
Abstract Background With crucial roles on the differentiation of anterior pituitary and the regulation of the prolactin ( PRL ), growth hormone ( GH ) and thyroid-stimulating hormone-β ( TSH-β )...
A non-functional prototype at TREC 2003 (2008)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Josh Miller
As a first attempt at participation in the TREC competition, we built a system which produced some preliminary results, but was unable to generate the quality of results that we expected. While we...
Optimal Dimensionality of Metric Space for Classification (2008)
Wei Zhang, Xiangyang Xue, Zichen Sun, Yue-fei Guo, Hong Lu
In many real-world applications, Euclidean distance in the original space is not good due to the curse of dimensionality. In this paper, we propose a new method, called Discriminant Neighborhood...
Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell-Based Power Generation Processes with CO2 Capture (2008)
I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be...
XDO2: A Deductive Object-Oriented Query Language for XML (2008)
Wei Zhang, Tok Wang Ling, Zhuo Chen, Gillian Dobbie
Abstract. In the past decade, researchers have combined deductive and object-oriented features to produce systems that are powerful and have excellent modeling capabilities. More recently, an XML...
A Computational Model of Eye Movements during Object Class Detection (2008)
Wei Zhang, Hyejin Yang, Dimitris Samaras, Gregory J. Zelinsky
We present a computational model of human eye movements in an object class detection task. The model combines state-of-the-art computer vision object class detection methods (SIFT features trained...
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Characteristics of Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice (2008)
We discuss several possible experimental signatures of the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) transition for an ultracold Bose gas in an inhomogeneous optical lattice. Based on the commonly used...
Relevance Evaluation of Search Engines' Query Results Longzhuang Li, Yi Shang, and Wei Zhang (2008)
Dept Of Computer, Longzhuang Li, Yi Shang, Wei Zhang
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A Handy Script to Implement Genetic Models in R (2008)
Genome-wide associations between genotypic and phenotypic data often assume certain genetic models. A handy script in R was written to implement three commonly used genetic models: additive, dominant...
Quantification of in Vitro Cell Invasion through Image Analysis (2008)
Antti Niemistö, Limei Hu, Olli Yli-harja, Wei Zhang, Ilya Shmulevich
An image analysis method for quantification of in vitro cell invasion is presented. The method is designed for in vitro assays that are based on invasion of cells through a porous membrane. The...
Qu, Junge, Zhang, Wei, Yu, Xingju, Jin, Meifang
The inherent instability of metabolite production in plant cell culture-based bioprocessing is a major problem hindering its commercialization. To understand the extent and causes of this...
Photon-assistant Fano resonance in coupled multiple quantum dots (2008)
Xie, Wanyuan, Pan, Hui, Chu, Weidong, Zhang, Wei, Duan, Suqing
Based on calculations of the electronic structure of coupled multiple quantum dots, we study systemically the transport properties of the system driven by an ac electric field. We find qualitative...
A Handy Script to Implement Genetic Models in R (2008)
Genome-wide associations between genotypic and phenotypic data often assume certain genetic models. A handy script in R was written to implement three commonly used genetic models: additive, dominant...
Yan, Jie-Yun, Zhang, Wei, Duan, Suqing, Zhao, Xian-Geng, Govorov, Alexander O.
We investigate theoretically the effects of interaction between an optical dipole (semiconductor quantum dot or molecule) and metal nanoparticles. The calculated absorption spectra of hybrid...
Bankruptcy Risk and the Performance of Market-based Pollution Control Policies (2008)
We study the impacts of bankruptcy risk on the performance of market-based pollution control policies. In chapter one, we concentrate on emissions trading markets. We find that firms that risk...
Bankruptcy Risk and the Performance of Market-based Pollution Control Policies (2008)
We study the impacts of bankruptcy risk on the performance of market-based pollution control policies. In chapter one, we concentrate on emissions trading markets. We find that firms that risk...
Biology and Control of Creeping Rivergrass (Echinochloa polystachya) in Rice (2008)
R. Matthew Griffin, Eric P. Webster, Wei Zhang, David C. Blouin
Rice was planted at 78 kg/ha with different densities of creeping rivergrass. Creeping rivergrass at stand densities (SD) of 10,000 to 70,000 stolon segments/ha produced 5.4 to 6 stolons per...
On the challenges of the HapMap resource (2008)
The International HapMap Project provides a key resource of genotypic data on human lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from four major world populations of European, African, Chinese and Japanese...
Wei Zhang, Mark J. Ratain, M. Eileen Dolan
The exploration of quantitative variation in complex traits such as gene expression and drug response in human populations has become one of the major priorities for medical genetics. The...
HapMap filter 1.0: A tool to preprocess the HapMap genotypic data for association studies (2008)
Wei Zhang, Shiwei Duan, M. Eileen Dolan
The International HapMap Project provides a resource of genotypic data on single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), which can be used in various association studies to identify the genetic determinants...
Though debates exist on the early human evolutionary models such as the “Out of Africa” theory, which hypothesizes that modern humans migrated from Africa to Europe about 50,000 to 100,000 years...
SHU YANG, CHEN LI, WEI ZHANG, WEIWEI WANG, JENS R NYENGAARD, YONG TANG
An efficient and unbiased stereological method was applied to estimate the white matter volume, the total volume, total length and mean diameter of the myelinated fibers in the white matter and the...
Shiwei Duan, Wei Zhang, Wasim Kamal Bleibel, Nancy Jean Cox, M. Eileen Dolan
The Affymetrix GeneChip® Human Exon 1.0 ST array (exon array) is designed to measure both gene-level and exon-level expression in human samples. This exon array contains ~1.4 million probesets...
We previously demonstrated that purified polyclonal and monoclonal anti-dsDNA antibodies bind a 15-mer peptide ASPVTARVLWKASHV in ELISA and Dot blot. This 15-mer peptide partial sequence ARVLWKASH...
Framework for Dynamic Evaluation of Muscle Fatigue in Manual Handling Work (2008)
Ma, Liang, Bennis, Fouad, Chablat, Damien, Zhang, Wei
Muscle fatigue is defined as the point at which the muscle is no longer able to sustain the required force or work output level. The overexertion of muscle force and muscle fatigue can induce acute...
Framework for Dynamic Evaluation of Muscle Fatigue in Manual Handling Work (2008)
Ma, Liang, Bennis, Fouad, Chablat, Damien, Zhang, Wei
Muscle fatigue is defined as the point at which the muscle is no longer able to sustain the required force or work output level. The overexertion of muscle force and muscle fatigue can induce acute...
FstSNP-HapMap3: a database of SNPs with high population differentiation for HapMap3 (2008)
Shiwei Duan, Wei Zhang, Nancy Jean Cox, Mary Eileen Dolan
The International HapMap Project has recently made available genotypes and frequency data for phase 3 (NCBI build 36, dbSNP b129) of the HapMap providing an enriched genotype dataset for...
Wei Zhang, Hong Ma, Lipeng Zhou, Zhiqiang Sun, Zhongtian Du, Hong Miao, ...
The oxidative dehydrogenation of dihydroarenes catalyzed by 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyano-benzoquinone(DDQ) and NaNO2 with dioxygen is reported. The combination of DDQ and NaNO2 showed high efficiency and...
A generalized FAST TCP scheme (2008)
Yuan, Cao, Tan, Liansheng, Andrew, Lachlan L. H., Zhang, Wei, Zukerman, Moshe
FAST TCP has been shown to be promising in terms of system stability, throughput and fairness. However, it requires buffering which increases linearly with the number of flows bottlenecked at a link....
A new muscle fatigue and recovery model and its ergonomics application in human simulation (2008)
Ma, Liang, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei, Guillaume, François
Although automatic techniques have been employed in manufacturing industries to increase productivity and efficiency, there are still lots of manual handling jobs, especially for assembly and...
A new muscle fatigue and recovery model and its ergonomics application in human simulation (2008)
Ma, Liang, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei, Guillaume, François
Although automatic techniques have been employed in manufacturing industries to increase productivity and efficiency, there are still lots of manual handling jobs, especially for assembly and...
Objective: To explore the effects of wind and dampness pathogens on cytokines in the lung tissue of rats with cold syndrome due to different gradient cold pathogens.Methods: One hundred and four...
Objective: To observe the effects of Feixian Formula, a compound traditional Chinese herbal medicine for treating pulmonary fibrosis, on bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis in rats, and its...
Objective: To study the variabilities of the effects of cold pathogen and cold-dampness pathogen on the fractalkine (FKN) mRNA expression in lung tissues of rats.Methods: Twenty-four Wistar rats of...
Objective: To study the approach for developing a rat model of pulmonary fibrosis induced by bleomycin (BLM).Method: Different doses (7, 6, 5, 3.4, 2, 1 mg/kg) of bleomycin A5-saline were infused...
Functional eleucidation of BS69 (2008)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008
Yang, Yu Rong, Craig, Philip S., Vuitton, Dominique A., Williams, Gail M., Sun, Tao, Liu, Tian Xi, ...
Belew, M., Li, Mei Yan, Zhang, Wei, Caldwell, Karin
Recombinant human serum albumin (rHSA) was produced by genetically transformed Pichia pastoris yeast. The cell-culture supernatant (CCS) contained 8–12 g/l rHSA that was purified in a three-step...
Zhang, Wei, Xie, Shaoai, Chen, Hongjin, Li, Mei, Ma, Li, Jia, Jinping
Boron-doped diamond (BDD) electrodes, both as-prepared and electrochemically oxidized were studied. The relation between the anodic oxidation treatment time, anodic potential and electrochemical...
A generalized FAST TCP scheme (2008)
Yuan, Cao, Tan, Liansheng, Andrew, Lachlan L. H., Zhang, Wei, Zukerman, Moshe
FAST TCP has been shown to be promising in terms of system stability, throughput and fairness. However, it requires buffering which increases linearly with the number of flows bottlenecked at a link....
Yang, Yuan, Ma, Mingyi, Li, Lei, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Pu, Ma, Yongxin, ...
BACKGROUND Partial AZFc deletions related to testis-specific gene families are common mutations of the Y chromosome, but their contribution to spermatogenic impairment is still unresolved, and the...
Notch-1 regulates transcription of the epidermal growth factor receptor through p53 (2008)
Purow, Benjamin W., Sundaresan, Tilak K., Burdick, Michael J., Kefas, Benjamin A., Comeau, Laurey D., Hawkinson, Michael P., ...
The Notch pathway plays a key role in the development and is increasingly recognized for its importance in cancer. We demonstrated previously the overexpression of Notch-1 and its ligands in gliomas...
Achieving Weighted Fairness and Efficient Channel Utilization in IEEE 802.11e WLANs (2008)
ZHANG, Wei, SUN, Jun, WANG, Xinbing
This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the protocol capacity of 802.11e networks, under the assumption that each access category (AC) has the same packet length. We prove that the maximal...
Phosphorylation of Thr18 and Ser20 of p53 in Ad-p53-induced apoptosis (2008)
Nakamizo, Akira, Amano, Toshiyuko, Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Xin-Qiao, Ramdas, Latha, Liu, Ta-Jen, ...
The p53 protein plays a critical role in inducing cell cycle arrest or apoptosis. Because p53 is inactivated in human gliomas, restoring p53 function is a major focus of glioma therapy. The most...
Polymorphisms in microRNA targets: a gold mine for molecular epidemiology (2008)
Chen, Kexin, Song, Fengju, Calin, George A., Wei, Qingyi, Hao, Xishan, Zhang, Wei
MicroRNAs are non-coding small RNAs that regulate gene expression by Watson–Crick base pairing to target messenger RNA (mRNA). They are involved in most biological and pathological processes,...
We previously demonstrated that purified polyclonal and monoclonal anti-dsDNA antibodies bind a 15-mer peptide ASPVTARVLWKASHV in ELISA and Dot blot. This 15-mer peptide partial sequence ARVLWKASH...
Zheng, Senlin, Song, Yufang, Qui, Xiaoyan, Sun, Tieheng, Ackland, M. Leigh, Zhang, Wei
The toxicity of sublethal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) levels in soils was assessed by testing their impact on expression of annetocin, a reproduction regulating gene, and translationally...
Heights of CM points I Gross–Zagier formula (2008)
Xinyi Yuan, Shou-wu Zhang, Wei Zhang
1 Introduction and state of main results 2 1.1 L-function and root numbers........................... 2 1.2 Waldspurger’s formula.............................. 3
CLUSTERING GENES AND SAMPLES FROM GLIOMA MICROARRAY DATA (2007)
Ciprian Doru Giurcsneanu, Ioan Tsbus, Ilya Shmulevich, Wei Zhang
Abstract: In this paper we perform a twofold analysis of a microarray dataset containing gene expressions from patients with various types of glioma, with the goal of finding regular structures along...
Global Dynamics of a Parametrically and Externally Excited Thin Plate (2007)
Wei Zhang, Zhaomiao Liu, Pei Yu
Abstract. Both the local and global bifurcations of a parametrically and externally excited simply supported rectangular thin plate are analyzed. The formulas of the thin plate are derived from the...
normalization of gene expression data (2007)
Motivation: Most approaches to gene expression analysis use real-valued expression data, produced by highthroughput screening technologies, such as microarrays. Often, some measure of similarity must...
An Evaluation of Intratumor Heterogeneity (2007)
Kelly Hunt, Pilar Labordé, Kenneth R. Hess, Raphael Pollock, Wei Zhang, Ph. D, ...
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URSI/Remote Sensing Club of Finland/IEEE (2007)
Xxiii National Convention, Wei Zhang, Hassan El-sallabi, Kimmo Kalliola, Pauli Aikio, Pertti Vainikainen
The summary reports wide-band propagation modeling in the shadow, i.e., out-of-sight, regions of urban micro-cellular environments and comparisons of model predictions with measurements. The results...
A General Method for Statistical Performance Evaluation (2007)
Longzhuang Li Dept, Longzhuang Li, Wei Zhang
performance evaluation. The method incorporates various statistical metrics and automatically selects an appropriate statistical metric according to the problem parameters. Empirically, We compare...
organic papers Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online (2007)
Wei Zhang, Zhang B, Key Indicators
R factor = 0.040 wR factor = 0.086 Data-to-parameter ratio = 16.7 For details of how these key indicators were automatically derived from the article, see
Wei Zhang, Jaakko Lähteenmäki, Pertti Vainikainen
A practical aspect of over-rooftop multiple-building forward diffraction from a low source is presented, including two formulations and an introduction of their application. In particular, the...
Tohru Kobayashi, Motoko Yamaguchi, Seungchan Kim, Jun Morikawa, Shoko Ogawa, Satoshi Ueno, ...
Malignant lymphoma is a heterogeneous disease with different clinical features. Among diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (DLBCLs), a unique subtype has been identified recently based on cell surface...
Ilya Shmulevich, Edward R. Dougherty, Seungchan Kim, Wei Zhang
Motivation: Our goal is to construct a model for genetic regulatory networks such that the model class: (i) incorporates rule-based dependencies between genes; (ii) allows the systematic study of...
Probabilistic Boolean Networks (PBNs) were recently introduced as models of gene regulatory networks. The dynamical behavior of PBNs, which are probabilistic generalizations of Boolean networks, can...
Ilya Shmulevich, Ilya Gluhovsky, Ronaldo F. Hashimoto, Edward R. Dougherty, Wei Zhang, Ilya Shmulevich Cancer
Steady-state analysis of genetic regulatory networks modelled by probabilistic Boolean networks
Fei, Zhou, Zhang, Xiang, Bai, Hong-min, Jiang, Xiao-fan, Li, Xia, Zhang, Wei, ...
Abstract Background Our previous studies indicated that metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) are deeply involved in the secondary processes after diffuse brain injury (DBI). In the present...
Understanding of the mechanism of DNA mutation process is critical for studying the functional consequences of genetic variation in clinical medicine (eg. drug response) as well as other complex...
Sun, Luguo, Ma, Kewei, Wang, Haixia, Xiao, Fang, Gao, Yan, Zhang, Wei, ...
Skeletal muscle stem cell–derived myoblasts are mainly responsible for postnatal muscle growth and injury-induced muscle regeneration. However, the cellular signaling pathways controlling the...
Chen, Kexin, Hu, Zhibin, Wang, Li-E, Sturgis, Erich M., El-Naggar, Adel K., Zhang, Wei, ...
Tumor protein 53 (TP53), a transcriptional factor, induces expression of the B-cell lymphoma 2-associated X protein (BAX) gene by directly binding to the TP53-binding element in the BAX promoter but...
MIMO broadcast scheduling with limited feedback (2007)
Zhang, Wei, Ben Letaief, Khaled
We consider multiuser scheduling with limited feedback of partial channel state information in MIMO broadcast channels. By using spatial multiplexing at the base station (BS) and antenna selection...
Lemelin, Jacques, Hogg, William E, Dahrouge, Simone, Armstrong, Catherine, Martin, Carmel M, Zhang, Wei, ...
Abstract Background Hospital in the home programs have been implemented in several countries and have been shown to be safe substitutions (alternatives) to in-patient hospitalization. These programs...
Bivariate Cubic L1 Splines and Applications (2007)
ZHANG, WEI. Bivariate cubic L1 splines and applications. (Under the direction of Shu-Cherng Fang.) Bivariate cubic L1 splines can provide shape-preserving surfaces for various applications. Using the...
He, Xinyi, Ou, Hong-Yu, Yu, Qing, Zhou, Xiufen, Wu, Jun, Liang, Jingdan, ...
This is the authors' final draft of the paper published as Molecular Microbiology, 2007, 65(4), pp.1034-1048. The final published version is available from Wiley Interscience,...
Bernstein Type Results for Lagrangian Graphs with Partially Harmonic Gauss Map (2007)
We establish Bernstein Theorems for Lagrangian graphs which are Hamiltonian minimal or have conformal Maslov form. Some known results of minimal (Lagrangian) submanifolds are generalized.
Finite temperature phase diagram of trapped Fermi gases with population imbalance (2007)
We consider a trapped Fermi gas with population imbalance at finite temperatures and map out the detailed phase diagram across a wide Feshbach resonance. We take the Larkin-Ovchinnikov-Fulde-Ferrel...
Optimal Dynamic Buffer Management Using Optimal Control of Hybrid Systems (2007)
This paper studies a dynamic buffer management problem with one buffer inserted between two interacting components. The component to be controlled is assumed to have multiple power modes...
On frequency synchronization in OFDM-based systems (2007)
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is a multi-carrier transmission method which allows a bandwidth efficient data transmission with low implementation complexity. However, it is...
Optimal Multi-Agent Coordination under Tree Formation Constraints (2007)
The optimal multi-agent coordination problem tries to find the motions for a group of agents that start from a set of initial positions and end at a set of destination positions with the least energy...
Matter-wave interference in s-wave and p-wave Fermi condensates (2007)
We discuss the time evolution and matter-wave interference of Fermi condensates on the BEC side of Feshbach resonances for s and p-wave superfluids, upon release from harmonic traps. In swave...
The 1p-Encoded Protein Stathmin and Resistance of Malignant Gliomas to Nitrosoureas (2007)
Ngo, Teri-T B., Peng, Tien, Liang, Xing-Jie, Akeju, Oluwaseun, Pastorino, Sandra, Zhang, Wei, ...
Background Malignant gliomas are generally resistant to all conventional therapies. Notable exceptions are anaplastic oligodendrogliomas with loss of heterozygosity on chromosome 1p (1p+/−)....
Zhang, Wei, Blackburn, Richard S., Dehghani-Sanij, Abbas A.
Electrical properties of nanocomposites are determined by the conductive paths of carbon black and influenced by a ``network'' of silica. With increasing content of silica, carbon black (CB)...
Zhang, Wei, Naomoto, Yoshio, Tanaka, Noriaki, Hizuta, Akio, Orita, Kunzo
The effects of the combination of natural human tumor necrosis factor-alpha (nHuTNF-alpha) and natural human interferon-alpha (nHuIFN-alpha) on the induction of apoptosis were investigated by...
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy: report of 42 cases. (2007)
Zhang, Wei, Tanaka, Kotaro, Kunitomi, Keizo, Orita, Kunzo
Our initial experience with laparoscopic cholecystectomy for cholecystitis and cholelithiasis was reviewed in 42 patients and the data were compared with those of 21 patients who underwent...
Onset of unsteady horizontal convection in rectangle tank at $Pr=1$ (2007)
Sun, Liang, MA, Dong-Jun, Zhang, Wei, Sun, De-Jun
The horizontal convection within a rectangle tank is numerically simulated. The flow is found to be unsteady at high Rayleigh numbers. There is a Hopf bifurcation of $Ra$ from steady solutions to...
Zhang, Wei, Song, Yu-Fang, Sun, Tie-Heng, Liu, Miao, Ackland, Leigh, Belogolova, Galina
By the method of artificial soil pollution, an exposure experiment with different concentrations of pyrene (0, 60, 120, 240, 480, 960 microg x kg(-1)) was conducted to determine the cytochrome P450...
BS69 is involved in cellular senescence through the p53-p21Cip1 pathway (2007)
Zhang, Wei, Chan, Ho Man, Gao, Yan, Poon, Randy Y. C., Wu, Zhenguo
The multidomain-containing cellular protein BS69 interacts with adenovirus E1A and several other viral and cellular factors, and acts as a transcription repressor. Here, we show that BS69 is involved...
L.: Principal curvature-based region detector for object recognition (2007)
Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Eric Mortensen, Thomas Dietterich
This paper presents a new structure-based interest region detector called Principal Curvature-Based Regions (PCBR) which we use for object class recognition. The PCBR interest operator detects stable...
High-rate full-diversity space-timefrequency codes for MIMO multipath block-fading channels (2007)
Wei Zhang, Xiang-gen Xia, Senior Member, P. C. Ching, Senior Member
Abstract—A systematic design of high-rate full-diversity space–time–frequency (STF) codes is proposed for multiple-input multiple-output frequency-selective block-fading channels. It is shown...
Yang, Yu R., Craig, Philip S., Vuitton, Dominique A., Sun, Tao, Williams, Gail M., Li, Zheng Z.., ...
This study was undertaken to develop an environmental health indicator for use as a basis for developing preventive measures against cystic (CE) and alveolar (AE) echinococcosis infection in children...
Parrots: A range measuring sensor network (2007)
Wei Zhang, Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh
This paper presents the implementation and design of a wireless sensor network developed to facilitate indoor mobile robot localization. The sensor network consists of homogeneous nodes, termed the...
L.: Principal curvature-based region detector for object recognition (2007)
Hongli Deng, Wei Zhang, Eric Mortensen, Thomas Dietterich
This paper presents a new structure-based interest region detector called Principal Curvature-Based Regions (PCBR) which we use for object class recognition. The PCBR interest operator detects stable...
Pattern Recognition for Ecological Science and Environmental Monitoring: An initial report (2007)
Eric N. Mortensen, Enrique L. Delgado, Hongli Deng, David Lytle, Andrew Moldenke, Robert Paasch, ...
Many ecological science and environmental monitoring problems can benefit from inexpensive, automated methods of counting insect and mesofaunal populations. Existing methods for obtaining population...
Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11e EDCA (2007)
ZHANG, Wei, SUN, Jun, LIU, Jing, ZHANG, Haibin
This letter presents a clear and more accurate analytical model to evaluate the IEEE 802.11e enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) protocol. The proposed model distinguishes internal collision...
Patient characteristics and hospital quality for colorectal cancer surgery (2007)
Zhang, Wei, Ayanian, John Z., Zaslavsky, Alan M.
Objective. To assess associations of patient characteristics with quality-related characteristics of the hospitals where they were treated for colorectal cancer and the role of these associations in...
Zhang, Wei, Song, Yu-Fang, Sun, Tie-Heng, Liu, Miao, Ackland, Leigh, Belogolova, Galina
By the method of artificial soil pollution, an exposure experiment with different concentrations of pyrene (0, 60, 120, 240, 480, 960 microg x kg(-1)) was conducted to determine the cytochrome P450...
Microencapsulation of marine lipids as a vehicle for functional food delivery (2007)
Jin, Yulai, Perrie, Chi, Zhang, Wei, Van Diepen, Corrine, Curtis, Jonathan, Barrow, Colin J.
Agility in virtualized utility computing (2007)
Hangwei Qian, Elliot Miller, Wei Zhang, Michael Rabinovich, Craig E. Wills
Virtual machines have emerged as an attractive approach for utility computing platforms because applications running on VMs are fault- and security- isolated from each other, yet can share physical...
Zhang, Wei, Kong, Xu, Li, Cheng, Zhou, Hong-yan, Cheng, Fu-zhen
We use a large sample of 174 Wolf-Rayet (WR) galaxies drawn from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to study whether and how the slope of the stellar initial mass function depends on metallicity. We...
Triplet Superfluidity in Quasi-one-dimensional Conductors and Ultra-cold Fermi Gases (2006)
This thesis presents theoretical investigations of triplet superfluidity (triplet superconductivity) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors and ultra-cold Fermi gases. Triplet superfluidity is...
Triplet Superfluidity in Quasi-one-dimensional Conductors and Ultra-cold Fermi Gases (2006)
This thesis presents theoretical investigations of triplet superfluidity (triplet superconductivity) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors and ultra-cold Fermi gases. Triplet superfluidity is...
Zhang, Wei, Dong, Tianming, Govorov, Alexander O.
We show that a double quantum-dot system made of diluted magnetic semiconductor behaves unlike usual molecules. In a semiconductor double quantum dot or in a diatomic molecule, the ground state of a...
Semiconductor-metal nanoparticle molecules: hybrid excitons and non-linear Fano effect (2006)
Zhang, Wei, Govorov, Alexander O., Bryant, Garnett W.
Modern nanotechnology opens the possibility of combining nanocrystals of various materials with very different characteristics in one superstructure. The resultant superstructure may provide new...
The application of an InGaAs/GaAsN strain-compensated superlattice to InAs quantum dots (2006)
Zhang, Wei, Uesugi, Katsuhiro, Suemune, Ikuo
Application of InGaAs/GaAsN strain-compensated superlattice (SCSL) to InAs quantum dots (QDs) has been studied with atomic force microscopy (AFM), reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED),...
Correlation functions for the $XY$ model in a Magnetic Field (2006)
Recent studies of the two-dimensional, classical $XY$ magnet in a magnetic field suggest that it has three distinct vortex phases: a linearly confined phase, a logarithmically confined phase, and a...
Femtosecond synchronously mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (2006)
Zhang, Wei, Ackemann, Thorsten*, Schmid, Marc, Langford, Nigel, Ferguson, Allister*
The behavior of a room temperature synchronously mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) operating at 980 nm is reported. The laser performance was found to be...
Femtosecond synchronously mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (2006)
Zhang, Wei, Ackemann, Thorsten, Schmid, Marc, Langford, Nigel, Ferguson, Allister
The behavior of a room temperature synchronously mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) operating at 980 nm is reported. The laser performance was found to be...
Femtosecond synchronously mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (2006)
Zhang, Wei, Ackemann, T., Schmid, Marc, Langford, Nigel, Ferguson, Allister
The behavior of a room temperature synchronously mode-locked vertical-external cavity surface-emitting laser (VECSEL) operating at 980 nm is reported. The laser performance was found to be...
Sub-continuum ion transport in air and phonon transport in nanostructures (2006)
In this dissertation, atmospheric ion generation were first simulated using a Particle In Cell-Monte Carlo (PIC-MC) method to predict ion generation and breakdown characteristics in microscale gaps....
Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Based Power Generation Processes with CO2 Capture (2006)
The Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is a promising technology for electricity generation. It converts the chemical energy of the fuel gas directly to electricity energy and therefore, very high...
Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Based Power Generation Processes with CO2 Capture (2006)
The Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is a promising technology for electricity generation. It converts the chemical energy of the fuel gas directly to electricity energy and therefore, very high...
A Framework to Illustrate Kinematic Behavior of Mechanisms by Haptic Feedback (2006)
Zhang, Qinqin, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei
The kinematic properties of mechanisms are well known by the researchers and teachers. The theory based on the study of Jacobian matrices allows us to explain, for example, the singular...
Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Based Power Generation Processes with CO2 Capture (2006)
The Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is a promising technology for electricity generation. It converts the chemical energy of the fuel gas directly to electricity energy and therefore, very high...
An Integrated Simulation System for Human Factors Study (2006)
Wang, Ying, Zhang, Wei, Bennis, Fouad, Chablat, Damien
It has been reported that virtual reality can be a useful tool for ergonomics study. The proposed integrated simulation system aims at measuring operator's performance in an interactive way for 2D...
Delay-dependent asymptotic stability for neural networks with time-varying delays (2006)
Xiaofeng Liao, Xiaofan Yang, Wei Zhang
We study the dynamical behavior of a class of neural network models with time-varying delays. By constructing suitable Lyapunov functionals, we obtain sufficient delay-dependent criteria to ensure...
An Integrated Simulation System for Human Factors Study (2006)
Wang, Ying, Zhang, Wei, Bennis, Fouad, Chablat, Damien
It has been reported that virtual reality can be a useful tool for ergonomics study. The proposed integrated simulation system aims at measuring operator's performance in an interactive way for 2D...
A Framework to Illustrate Kinematic Behavior of Mechanisms by Haptic Feedback (2006)
Zhang, Qinqin, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Zhang, Wei
The kinematic properties of mechanisms are well known by the researchers and teachers. The theory based on the study of Jacobian matrices allows us to explain, for example, the singular...
Sampling based methods for robust motion estimation and image based localization / (2006)
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This thesis presents theoretical investigations of triplet superfluidity (triplet superconductivity) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors and ultra-cold Fermi gases. Triplet superfluidity is...
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Analysis and design of two classes of turbo-like codes [electronic resource] / (2006)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006.
[School of Medicine] Department of Biochemistry.
Extreme value theory analysis of Alberta power prices [microform]. (2006)
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Calgary, 2005.
Minimum Conflict Individual Haplotyping from SNP Fragments and Related Genotype (2006)
Xiang-Sun Zhang, Rui-Sheng Wang, Ling-Yun Wu, Wei Zhang
The Minimum Error Correction (MEC) is an important model for haplotype reconstruction from SNP fragments. However, this model is effective only when the error rate of SNP fragments is low. In this...
Curbing domestic violence in China : towards an effective criminal justice response / (2006)
Thesis (LL. M.)--Dalhousie University, 2006.
An efficient bit-stream swtiching [sic.] in multi-rate based video streaming systems / (2006)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006.
Triplet superfluidity in quasi-one-dimensional conductors and ultra-cold fermi gases (2006)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2007.
Analysis and design of two classes of turbo-like codes (2006)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2006.
Minimum Conflict Individual Haplotyping from SNP Fragments and Related Genotype (2006)
Xiang-Sun Zhang, Rui-Sheng Wang, Ling-Yun Wu, Wei Zhang
The Minimum Error Correction (MEC) is an important model for haplotype reconstruction from SNP fragments. However, this model is effective only when the error rate of SNP fragments is low. In this...
Zhang, Wei, Li, Biaoru, Singh, Rupinder, Narendra, Uma, Zhu, Lingyang, Weiss, Michael A.
Doublesex (dsx) is a transcription factor in Drosophila that regulates somatic sexual differentiation. Male- and female-specific splicing isoforms of DSX share a novel DNA-binding domain, designated...
Ilya Shmulevich, Ilya Gluhovsky, Ronaldo F. Hashimoto, Edward R. Dougherty, Wei Zhang
Probabilistic Boolean networks (PBNs) have recently been introduced as a promising class of models of genetic regulatory networks. The dynamic behaviour of PBNs can be analysed in the context of...
Continuous Monitoring of Predictive Spatio-temporal Range Query (2006)
Wei Zhang, Jianzhong Li, Shengfei Shi, Haiwei Pan
The predictive Spatio-temporal range query returns a set of moving objects that will appear in a spatial query range during a future temporal query interval. A novel approach is proposed to...
Objective: To explore whether pre-administration of Ganoderma lucidum spore (GASP) can reduce incidence of neural tube defects (NTDs) induced by all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA) in pregnant mice....
Objective: To detect some proteins associated with the effect of ganoderma lucidium spores (GASP) on promoting the survival and axon regeneration of injured spinal motor neurons in rats. Methods: The...
Wei Zhang, Zheng Tang, Yong Li, Ronglong Wang
Abstract — In this paper, we propose a continuous hysteresis neurons Hopfield neural network architecture for efficiently solving crossbar switch problems. A Hopfield neural network architecture...
UIC at TREC 2006 Blog Track (2006)
We developed a two-step approach that finds relevant blog documents containing opinioned content for a given query topic. The first step, retrieval step, is to find documents relevant to the query....
Range-only slam for robots operating cooperatively with sensor networks (2006)
Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor, Wei Zhang
Abstract — A mobile robot we have developed is equipped with sensors to measure range to landmarks and can simultaneously localize itself as well as locate the landmarks. This modality is useful in...
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
A Biodiversity Semantic Associative Annotation Tool”, The 2006 (2006)
David A. Gaitros, Wei Zhang, Greg Riccardi
MorphBank, an on-line museum quality collection of biological images, is an NSF funded project designed to facilitate the on-line collaboration of biologists from around the world [3]. This paper...
Wei Zhang, Hongli Deng, Thomas G. Dietterich, Eric N. Mortensen
This paper proposes a new generic object recognition system based on multi-scale affineinvariant image regions. Image segments are obtained by a watershed transform of the principal curvature of a...
An efficient bit-stream swtiching [sic] in multi-rate based video streaming systems (2006)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006
Seamless Bit-Stream Switching in Multirate-Based Video Streaming Systems (2006)
This paper presents an efficient switching method among non-scalable bit-streams in a multirate-based video streaming system. This method not only takes advantage of the high coding efficiency of...
Delay-dependent asymptotic stability for neural networks with time-varying delays (2006)
Xiaofeng Liao, Xiaofan Yang, Wei Zhang
We study the dynamical behavior of a class of neural network models with time-varying delays. By constructing suitable Lyapunov functionals, we obtain sufficient delay-dependent criteria to ensure...
Patient characteristics and hospital quality for colorectal cancer surgery (2006)
Zhang, Wei, Ayanian, John Z., Zaslavsky, Alan M.
Objective. To assess associations of patient characteristics with quality-related characteristics of the hospitals where they were treated for colorectal cancer and the role of these associations in...
The rough energy landscapes and tight packing of protein interiors are two of the critical factors that have prevented the wide application of physics-based models in protein side-chain assignment...
NAKAGAWA, Seiichi, ZHANG, Wei, TAKAHASHI, Mitsuo
We presented a new text-independent/text-prompted speaker recognition method by combining speaker-specific Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) with syllable-based HMM adapted by MLLR or MAP. The robustness...
Pan, Jing-Cao, Ye, Rong, Meng, Dong-Mei, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Hao-Qiu, Liu, Ke-Zhou
Objectives: To analyse the gene cassettes and determine the roles of class 1 and class 2 integrons in antibiotic-resistant strains of Shigella sonnei (n = 31) and Shigella flexneri (n = 33). Methods:...
Li, Lang, Cheng, Alfred S. L., Jin, Victor X., Paik, Henry H., Fan, Meiyun, Li, Xiaoman, ...
Motivation: To detect and select patterns of transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) which distinguish genes directly regulated by estrogen receptor-α (ERα), we developed an innovative mixture...
Zhang, Wei, Qi, Weihong, Albert, Thomas J., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Alland, David, Hyytia-Trees, Eija K., ...
Infections by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157) are the predominant cause of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the United States. In silico comparison of the...
The rough energy landscapes and tight packing of protein interiors are two of the critical factors that have prevented the wide application of physics-based models in protein side-chain assignment...
An iterative implicit feedback approach to personalized search (2006)
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-yun Nie, Wan Chen, Wei Zhang
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It can, in a unified...
Pan, Jing-Cao, Ye, Rong, Meng, Dong-Mei, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Hao-Qiu, Liu, Ke-Zhou
Objectives: To analyse the gene cassettes and determine the roles of class 1 and class 2 integrons in antibiotic-resistant strains of Shigella sonnei (n = 31) and Shigella flexneri (n = 33). Methods:...
Zhang, Wei, Qi, Weihong, Albert, Thomas J., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Alland, David, Hyytia-Trees, Eija K., ...
Infections by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157) are the predominant cause of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the United States. In silico comparison of the...
A, Zhoucun, Zhang, Sizhong, Yang, Yuan, Ma, Yiongxin, Lin, Li, Zhang, Wei
BACKGROUND: Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH) is a testis-specific RNA helicase that is essential for completion of spermatogenesis and is involved in pathogenesis of impaired...
Simulation of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell - Based Power Generation Processes with CO2 Capture (2006)
The Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) is a promising technology for electricity generation. It converts the chemical energy of the fuel gas directly to electricity energy and therefore, very high...
Patient characteristics and hospital quality for colorectal cancer surgery (2006)
Zhang, Wei, Ayanian, John Z., Zaslavsky, Alan M.
Objective. To assess associations of patient characteristics with quality-related characteristics of the hospitals where they were treated for colorectal cancer and the role of these associations in...
Phase Behavior and Phase Separation Kinetics in Polymer Solutions under High Pressure (2005)
The phase behavior and phase separation kinetics in polymer solutions in binary mixtures of supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) and organic solvents were studied for two systems. Solutions of...
Phase Behavior and Phase Separation Kinetics in Polymer Solutions under High Pressure (2005)
The phase behavior and phase separation kinetics in polymer solutions in binary mixtures of supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) and organic solvents were studied for two systems. Solutions of...
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Thesis (M. A.)--University of Notre Dame, 2005.
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Soft-input soft-output multiuser detection for coded wireless multiuser systems. (2005)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Ottawa, 2005.
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Soft-input soft-output multiuser detection for coded wireless multiuser systems [microform]. (2005)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Ottawa, 2005.
Photoreactivation in yeast : a test of how lesions in DNA are recognized / (2005)
Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Biology.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2005.
Thesis (M. A.)--University of Notre Dame, 2005.
Extreme value theory analysis of Alberta power prices (2005)
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Object class recognition using multiple layer boosting with heterogeneous features (2005)
Wei Zhang, Bing Yu, Gregory J. Zelinsky, Dimitris Samaras
We combine local texture features (PCA-SIFT), global features (shape context), and spatial features within a single multi-layer AdaBoost model of object class recognition. The first layer selects...
The role of top-down and bottom-up processes in guiding eye movements during visual search (2005)
Gregory J. Zelinsky, Wei Zhang, Bing Yu, Xin Chen, Dimitris Samaras
To investigate how top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) information is weighted in the guidance of human search behavior, we manipulated the proportions of BU and TD components in a saliency-based model....
Recognition and classification of noun phrases in queries for effective retrieval (2005)
Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement Yu, Chaojing Sun, Fang Liu, Weiyi Meng
It has been shown that using phrases properly in the document retrieval leads to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we define four types of noun phrases and present an algorithm for...
Localization based on building recognition (2005)
Navigational capabilities of people in urban areas are to a large extent determined by their knowledge of current location. In addition to location information available by means of global...
Object class recognition using multiple layer boosting with heterogeneous features (2005)
Wei Zhang, Bing Yu, Gregory J. Zelinsky, Dimitris Samaras
We combine local texture features (PCA-SIFT), global features (shape context), and spatial features within a single multi-layer AdaBoost model of object class recognition. The first layer selects...
The role of top-down and bottom-up processes in guiding eye movements during visual search (2005)
Gregory J. Zelinsky, Wei Zhang, Bing Yu, Xin Chen, Dimitris Samaras
To investigate how top-down (TD) and bottom-up (BU) information is weighted in the guidance of human search behavior, we manipulated the proportions of BU and TD components in a saliency-based model....
Recognition and classification of noun phrases in queries for effective retrieval (2005)
Wei Zhang, Shuang Liu, Clement Yu, Chaojing Sun, Fang Liu, Weiyi Meng
It has been shown that using phrases properly in the document retrieval leads to higher retrieval effectiveness. In this paper, we define four types of noun phrases and present an algorithm for...
Compiler-guided register reliability improvement against soft errors (2005)
With the scaling of technology, transient errors caused by external particle strikes have become a critical challenge for microprocessor design. As embedded processors are widely used in...
Rotation-invariant face detection in grayscale images / (2005)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.
Scientific understanding as well as the way of studying science has been greatly changed since the advent of computer modeling. Computer simulation has played a central role in bridging theoretical...
Wei Zhang, Claude D'Amours, Abbas Yongaçoğlu
The optimum and many suboptimum iterative soft-input soft-output (SISO) multiuser detectors require a priori information about the multiuser system, such as the users' transmitted signature...
Hu, Jianhua, Kapoor, Mini, Zhang, Wei, Hamilton, Stanley R., Coombes, Kevin R.
Motivation: The problems of analyzing dose effects on gene expression are gaining attention in biomedical research. A specific challenge is to detect genes with expression levels that change...
Robust estimation of protein expression ratios with lysate microarray technology (2005)
Mircean, Cristian, Shmulevich, Ilya, Cogdell, David, Choi, Woonyoung, Jia, Yu, Tabus, Ioan, ...
Motivation: The protein lysate microarray is a developing proteomic technology for measuring protein expression levels in a large number of biological samples simultaneously. A challenge for accurate...
A, Zhoucun, Zhang, Sizhong, Yang, Yuan, Ma, Yiongxin, Lin, Li, Zhang, Wei
BACKGROUND: Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH) is a testis-specific RNA helicase that is essential for completion of spermatogenesis and is involved in pathogenesis of impaired...
Extended states in disordered systems: role of off-diagonal correlations (2004)
We study one-dimensional systems with random diagonal disorder but off-diagonal short-range correlations imposed by structural constraints. We find that these correlations generate effective...
Zhang, Wei, Franco, Chris, Curtin, Chris, Conn, Simon
Copyright © 2004 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Vermont, 2004.
Keywords: Multimodal Pedagogical Planning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS Authoring Systems.
Zhang, Wei, Franco, Chris, Curtin, Chris, Conn, Simon
Copyright © 2004 The Authors. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Erlangen, Nürnberg, Univ., Diss., 2004.
Multimodal pedagogical planning for 3D learning environments a unified framework / (2004)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--North Carolina State University.
The heme-based aerotaxis transducer (HemAT) from B. subtilis is a heme-containing protein and functions as an oxygen sensor. It can detect oxygen and transmit the signal generated from oxygen binding...
Wei Zhang, Bhushan M. Jayarao, Stephen J. Knabel
A multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MVLST) scheme was developed for subtyping Listeria monocytogenes, and the results obtained using this scheme were compared to those of pulsed-field gel...
Current Advances in Computer-based Object Detection and Target Acquisition (2004)
Object detection is a part of our everyday lives, however, automatic object detection by computer is still an open question. In 30 years of research in computer vision, little progress has been made....
Lessons from a Gnutella-Web gateway (2004)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Xishan Hao, Baocun Sun, Limei Hu, Harri Lähdesmäki, Valerie Dunmire, Yumei Feng, ...
st carcinoma metastasis, the authors compared gene expression profiles, obtained by cDNA microarray analysis, of nine matched primary tumors and metastases after screening for enrichment of tumor...
Lessons from a Gnutella-Web Gateway (2004)
Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang, Baoning Wu
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-to-peer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gateway. This work...
Some Basic Data Structures and Algorithms for Chemical Generic Programming (2004)
Wei Zhang, Tingjun Hou, Xuebin Qiao, Xiaojie Xu
Here, we report a template library used for molecular operation, the Molecular Handling Template Library (MHTL). The library includes some generic data structures and generic algorithms, and the two...
Wei Zhang, Chris Franco, Chris Curtin, Simon Conn
Plant cells and tissue cultures hold great promise for controlled production of a myriad of useful secondary metabolites on demand. The current yield and productivity cannot fulfill the commercial...
Growing genetic regulatory networks from seed genes (2004)
Hashimoto, Ronaldo F., Kim, Seungchan, Shumulevich, Ilya, Zhang, Wei, Bittner, Michael L., Dougherty, Edward R.
Motivation: A number of models have been proposed for genetic regulatory networks. In principle, a network may contain any number of genes, so long as data are available to make inferences about...