Wei Zhang

Publication List Details

Period

1944 - 9999

Number

579

Co-Authors

The HapMap Resource is Providing New Insights into Ourselves and its Application to Pharmacogenomics (9999)

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...

Variabilities of the impacts of cold pathogen and cold-dampness pathogen on fractalkine mRNA expression in lung tissues of rats (2300)

Wei ZHANG

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...

Multi-Objective Optimisation Method for Posture Prediction and Analysis with Consideration of Fatigue Effect and its Application Case (2009)

Ma, Liang, Zhang, Wei, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Guillaume, François

Automation technique has been widely used in manufacturing industry, but there are still manual handling operations required in assembly and maintenance work in industry. Inappropriate posture and...

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

Zhang and Storck, Peripheral Members in Online Communities Peripheral Members in Online Communities 1 (2009)

Wei Zhang, John Storck

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...

Fractional topological excitations and quantum phase transition in a bilayer 2DEG adjacent to a superconductor film (2009)

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...

1.5um Polarization-Entangled Bell States Generation Based on Birefringence in High Nonlinear Microstructure Fiber (2009)

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...

CSC5160: Combinatorial Optimization and Approximation Algorithms Topic: Graph Partitioning Problems Date: 14/03/2008 (2009)

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),...

The clinicopathologic observation, c-KIT gene mutation and clonal status of gastrointestinal stromal tumor in the sacrum (2009)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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...

Upregulation of Toll-like receptor (TLR) expression and release of cytokines from P815 mast cells by GM-CSF (2009)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Wei

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 Design of Space-Time Block Codes Achieving Full Diversity with Partial Interference Cancellation Group Decoding (2009)

Zhang, Wei, Xia, Xiang-Gen

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...

The subcellular localization of IGFBP5 affects its cell growth and migration functions in breast cancer (2009)

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...

The incidence of co-morbidities related to obesity and overweight: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2009)

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...

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...

Using cell fate attractors to uncover transcriptional regulation of HL60 neutrophil differentiation (2009)

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...

Magnetization in two-dimensional electron gas in a perpendicular magnetic field: the roles of edge states and spin-orbit coupling (2009)

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)

Notre Dame, Wei Zhang

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

Can payments for watershed services help save biodiversity? A spatial analysis of highland Guatemala (2009)

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)

Wei Zhang, Yuan-Tao Chen

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...

Electrochemical characteristics of an interdigitated microband electrode array of boron-doped diamond film (2009)

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...

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...

Common genetic variants on 8q24 contribute to susceptibility to bladder cancer in a Chinese population (2009)

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...

cDNA microarray reveals the alterations of cytoskeleton-related genes in osteoblast under high magneto-gravitational environment (2009)

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,...

Correlation of expression and methylation of imprinted genes with pluripotency of parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells (2009)

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)

Wei Zhang, David G. Popovich

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...

Titania Nanocrystals and Adsorptive Nanoporous Polymer Composites: An Enrichment and Degradation System (2009)

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...

The effect of etanercept on work productivity in patients with early active rheumatoid arthritis: results from the COMET study (2009)

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....

Whey protein and gum arabic encapsulated Omega-3 lipids. The effect of material properties on coacervation (2009)

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)

Wei-Xia Qing, Wei Zhang

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)

Wei Zhang, Yuan-Tao Chen

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...

Interactions between galectin-3 and integrin{beta}3 in regulating endometrial cell proliferation and adhesion (2009)

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)

Wei-Xia Qing, Wei Zhang

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.

Multi-Objective Optimisation Method for Posture Prediction and Analysis with Consideration of Fatigue Effect and its Application Case (2009)

Ma, Liang, Zhang, Wei, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Guillaume, François

Automation technique has been widely used in manufacturing industry, but there are still manual handling operations required in assembly and maintenance work in industry. Inappropriate posture and...

Multi-Objective Optimisation Method for Posture Prediction and Analysis with Consideration of Fatigue Effect and its Application Case (2009)

Ma, Liang, Zhang, Wei, Chablat, Damien, Bennis, Fouad, Guillaume, François

Automation technique has been widely used in manufacturing industry, but there are still manual handling operations required in assembly and maintenance work in industry. Inappropriate posture and...

Does Negative Interaction in the Church Increase Psychological Distress? Longitudinal Findings from the Presbyterian Panel Survey (2009)

Ellison, Christopher G., Zhang, Wei, Krause, Neal, Marcum, John P.

This study examines the effects of negative interaction in church on psychological distress. After outlining a series of theoretical arguments linking negative interaction with health and well-being,...

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...

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Wei Zhang

Extraction, matching and pose recovery based

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)

Sun, Zhi-Wei, Zhang, Wei

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)

Pan, Hao, Zhang, Wei

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)

Wei Zhang

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)

Wei Zhang

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)

Zhang, Wei

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...

Downregulation of CD147 expression alters cytoskeleton architecture and inhibits gelatinase production and SAPK pathway in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells (2008)

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...

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...

THE CONTROL OF ROTATIONAL HAND ACTIONS BY MULTI-DIGIT SYNERGIES (2008)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Wei Zhang

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)

Zhang, Wei

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.

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition in trapped quasi-two-dimensional Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance (2008)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Dong, Chongying, Zhang, Wei

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...

Cardiomyocyte overexpression of neuronal nitric oxide synthase delays transition toward heart failure in response to pressure overload by preserving calcium cycling (2008)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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...

Study on Fuzzy Spatial Location Model and Spatial Query Study on Fuzzy Spatial Location Model and Spatial Query (2008)

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)

Longzhuang Li, Wei Zhang

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)

Wei Zhang, Jana Kosecka

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)

Wei Zhang

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)

Wei Zhang

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)

Wei Zhang

⋄ Strong knowledge in machine learning and pattern recognition ⋄ Excellent problem solving capability and strong communication skills

Nonparametric estimation of multiple structures with outliers (2008)

Wei Zhang, Jana Kosecka

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)

Wei Zhang

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)

Wei Zhang, Robert Van Engelen

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...

MDH: A High Speed Multi-phase Dynamic Hash String Matching Algorithm for Large-Scale Pattern Set (2008)

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...

The Effect of Skewness and Kurtosis on Mean and Covariance Structure Analysis The Univariate Case and Its Multivariate Implication (2008)

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)

Brian D. Davison, Wei Zhang

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...

A Monte Carlo study of the triangular lattice gas with the first- and the second-neighbor exclusions (2008)

Zhang, Wei, Deng, Youjin

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Wei Zhang

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...

General Terms (2008)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Wei Zhang

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...

Instability of Anthocyanin Accumulation in Vitis vinifera L. var. Gamay Freaux Suspension Cultures (2008)

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)

Wei Zhang

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...

Optical properties of coupled metal-semiconductor and metal-molecule nanocrystal complexes: the role of multipole effects (2008)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Wei Zhang, M. Eileen Dolan

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...

The HapMap Resource is Providing New Insights into Ourselves and its Application to Pharmacogenomics (2008)

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...

Exploring the Evolutionary History of the Differentially Expressed Genes between Human Populations: Action of Recent Positive Selection (2008)

Wei Zhang, M. Eileen Dolan

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...

APPLICATION OF STEREOLOGICAL METHODS TO STUDY THE WHITE MATTER AND MYELINATED FIBERS THEREIN OF RAT BRAIN (2008)

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...

SNPinProbe_1.0: A database for filtering out probes in the Affymetrix GeneChip® Human Exon 1.0 ST array potentially affected by SNPs (2008)

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...

A Possible Link between Infection with Burkholderia Bacteria and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Based on Epitope Mimicry (2008)

Wei Zhang, Morris Reichlin

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...

Organocatalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Dihydroarenes by Dioxygen Using 2,3-Dichloro-5,6-dicyano-benzoquinone (DDQ) and NaNO2 (2008)

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...

Effects of pathogenic wind-dampness on lung tissue cytokines in rats with syndrome due to pathogenic cold invading lung (2008)

Wei ZHANG

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...

Influence of Feixian Formula on serum transforming growth factor-β1 and platelet-derived growth factor in rats with bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibrosis (2008)

Wei ZHANG, Liang-duo JIANG

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...

Variabilities of the impacts of cold pathogen and cold-dampness pathogen on fractalkine mRNA expression in lung tissues of rats (2008)

Wei ZHANG

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...

A rat model of pulmonary fibrosis induced by infusing bleomycin quickly through tracheal intubation (2008)

Wei ZHANG, Liang-duo JIANG

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)

Zhang, Wei

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2008

Purification of Recombinant Human Serum Albumin (rHSA) Produced by Genetically Modified Pichia Pastoris (2008)

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...

Anodic Electrochemical Pretreatment Time and Potential Affect the Electrochemical Characteristics of Moderately Boron-Doped Diamond Electrode (2008)

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....

Y chromosome haplogroups may confer susceptibility to partial AZFc deletions and deletion effect on spermatogenesis impairment (2008)

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,...

A Possible Link between Infection with Burkholderia Bacteria and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Based on Epitope Mimicry (2008)

Wei Zhang, Morris Reichlin

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...

Purification, molecular cloning, and characterization of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) from pigmented Vitis vinifera L. cell suspension cultures as putative anthocyanin transport proteins (2008)

Conn, Simon, Curtin, Chris, Bézier, Annie, Franco, Chris, Zhang, Wei

The ligandin activity of specific glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) is necessary for the transport of anthocyanins from the cytosol to the plant vacuole. Five GSTs were purified from Vitis vinifera...

Annetocin and TCTP expressions in the earthworm Eisenia fetida exposed to PAHs in artificial soil (2008)

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...

Impact of benzo [a] pyrene the expression of mitochondrion-encoded genes in the earthworm Eisenia fetida (2008)

Zheng, Sen-lin, Song, Yu-fang, Qiu, Xiao-yan, Sun, Tie-heng, Zhang, Wei, Ackland, M. Leigh

The earthworm Eisenia fetida's benzo [a] pyrene (BaP) exposure experiments were carried out in artificial soil according to ISO 11268-1:1993. And then the upregulated and downregulated subtractive...

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

Purification, molecular cloning, and characterization of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) from pigmented Vitis vinifera L. cell suspension cultures as putative anthocyanin transport proteins (2008)

Conn, Simon James, Curtin, Chris, Beizer, Annie, Franco, Chris, Zhang, Wei

The ligandin activity of specific glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) is necessary for the transport of anthocyanins from the cytosol to the plant vacuole. Five GSTs were purified from Vitis vinifera...

Purification, molecular cloning, and characterization of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) from pigmented Vitis vinifera L. cell suspension cultures as putative anthocyanin transport proteins (2008)

Conn, Simon James, Curtin, Chris, Beizer, Annie, Franco, Chris, Zhang, Wei

The ligandin activity of specific glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) is necessary for the transport of anthocyanins from the cytosol to the plant vacuole. Five GSTs were purified from Vitis vinifera...

Mapping environmental services in Guatemala (2007)

Pagiola, Stefano, Colom, Ale, Zhang, Wei

In this paper, we use data from Guatemala to map areas that are important for the provision of indirect ecosystem services—services whose benefits are enjoyed at some distance from the ecosystem...

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)

Ilya Shmulevich, Wei Zhang

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...

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

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTROMAGNETIC COMPATIBILITY, VOL. 41, NO. 2, MAY 1999 115 A Practical Aspect of Over-Rooftop (2007)

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...

Microarray reveals differences in both tumor and vascular specific gene expression in de novo CD5� and CD5- diffuse large B-cell lymphomas. Cancer Res (2007)

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...

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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...

CONTROL OF STATIONARY BEHAVIOR IN PROBABILISTIC BOOLEAN NETWORKS BY MEANS OF STRUCTURAL INTERVENTION (2007)

Wei Zhang

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...

Posttraumatic secondary brain insults exacerbates neuronal injury by altering Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors (2007)

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...

Estimation of DNA Sequence Context-dependent Mutation Rates Using Primate Genomic Sequences: Application to Estimation of Selection Bias in Protein (Human TP53) Evolution (2007)

Wei Zhang

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...

JAK1–STAT1–STAT3, a key pathway promoting proliferation and preventing premature differentiation of myoblasts (2007)

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...

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms at the TP53-binding or responsive promoter regions of BAX and BCL2 genes and risk of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (2007)

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...

Patient, informal caregiver and care provider acceptance of a hospital in the home program in Ontario, Canada (2007)

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

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...

Analysis of a genomic island housing genes for DNA S-modification system in Streptomyces lividans 66 and its counterparts in other distantly related bacteria (2007)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei, Hu, Jianghai

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei, Hu, Jianghai

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)

Zhang, Wei

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+/−)....

Effect of silica concentration on electrical conductivity of epoxy resin-carbon black-silica nanocomposites (2007)

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)...

Synergistic Effect of Tumor Necrosis Factor-α and Interferon-α on the Induction of Apoptosis Detected by BM-I/JIMRO: A New Marker of Apoptosis (2007)

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...

Effects of low dosage pyrene pollution on biochemical characters of earthworm (Eisenia fetida) in soil (2007)

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...

Children Serology of Echinococcosis Infection as an Environmental Health Indicator to Guide Preventive Activities in Ningxia, PR China (2007)

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...

Effects of low dosage pyrene pollution on biochemical characters of earthworm (Eisenia fetida) in soil (2007)

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...

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...

Wolf-Rayet Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: the metallicity dependence of the initial mass function (2006)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

This thesis presents theoretical investigations of triplet superfluidity (triplet superconductivity) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors and ultra-cold Fermi gases. Triplet superfluidity is...

Electronic states in a magnetic quantum-dot molecule: phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking (2006)

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)

Zhang, Wei, Fertig, H. A.

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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...

Triplet superfluidity in quasi-one-dimensional conductors and ultra-cold fermi gases [electronic resource] / (2006)

Zhang, Wei.

This thesis presents theoretical investigations of triplet superfluidity (triplet superconductivity) in quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors and ultra-cold Fermi gases. Triplet superfluidity is...

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...

An efficient bit-stream swtiching [sic.] in multi-rate based video streaming systems / (2006)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006.

Analysis and design of two classes of turbo-like codes (2006)

Zhang, Wei.

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...

Regulation of sexual dimorphism: mutational and chemogenetic analysis of the doublesex DM domain. (2006)

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...

Steady-State Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks Modelled by Probabilistic Boolean Networks (2006)

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...

Pre-administration of Ganoderma lucidum spore reduces incidence of neural tube defects induced by retinoic acid in pregnant mice (2006)

Wei ZHANG, Yuan-Shan ZENG

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....

Primary study on proteomics about ganoderma lucidium spores promoting survival and axon regeneration of injured spinal motor neurons in rats (2006)

Wei ZHANG, Yuan-Shan ZENG

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...

LETTER A New Algorithm for Crossbar Switch Problem Using Hopfield Neural Network with Continuous Hysteresis Neurons (2006)

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)

Wei Zhang, Clement Yu

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...

BioMed Central (2006)

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...

E.N.: A hierarchical object recognition system based on multiscale principal curvature regions (2006)

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)

Zhang, Wei

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006

Seamless Bit-Stream Switching in Multirate-Based Video Streaming Systems (2006)

Wei Zhang, Bing Zeng

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...

Grow to Fit Molecular Dynamics (G2FMD): an ab initio method for protein side-chain assignment and refinement (2006)

Zhang, Wei, Duan, Yong

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...

Text-Independent/Text-Prompted Speaker Recognition by Combining Speaker-Specific GMM with Speaker Adapted Syllable-Based HMM (2006)

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...

Molecular characteristics of class 1 and class 2 integrons and their relationships to antibiotic resistance in clinical isolates of Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri (2006)

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:...

A mixture model-based discriminate analysis for identifying ordered transcription factor binding site pairs in gene promoters directly regulated by estrogen receptor-{alpha} (2006)

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...

Probing genomic diversity and evolution of Escherichia coli O157 by single nucleotide polymorphisms (2006)

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...

Grow to Fit Molecular Dynamics (G2FMD): an ab initio method for protein side-chain assignment and refinement (2006)

Zhang, Wei, Duan, Yong

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...

Molecular characteristics of class 1 and class 2 integrons and their relationships to antibiotic resistance in clinical isolates of Shigella sonnei and Shigella flexneri (2006)

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:...

Probing genomic diversity and evolution of Escherichia coli O157 by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (2006)

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...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms of the gonadotrophin-regulated testicular helicase (GRTH) gene may be associated with the human spermatogenesis impairment (2006)

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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)

Zhang, Wei

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...

Sozialwesen in China / (2005)

Zhang, Wei.

Zugl.: Chemnitz, Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2005.

Photoreactivation in yeast : a test of how lesions in DNA are recognized / (2005)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2005. Graduate Programme in Biology.

Extreme value theory analysis of Alberta power prices (2005)

Zhang, Wei

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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)

Wei Zhang

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)

Jun Yan, Wei Zhang

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)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.

Computational simulation of biological systems [electronic resource] : studies on protein folding and protein structure prediction / (2005)

Zhang, Wei.

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...

Adaptive Iterative Soft-Input Soft-Output Parallel Decision-Feedback Detectors for Asynchronous Coded DS-CDMA Systems (2005)

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...

Analysis of dose-response effects on gene expression data with comparison of two microarray platforms (2005)

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...

Single nucleotide polymorphisms of the gonadotrophin-regulated testicular helicase (GRTH) gene may be associated with the human spermatogenesis impairment (2005)

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...

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 simultaneously measuring protein expression levels in a large number of biological samples. A challenge for accurate...

Analysis of dose-response effects on gene expression data with comparison of two microarray platforms (2005)

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 particular challenge is to detect genes with expression levels that change...

Extended states in disordered systems: role of off-diagonal correlations (2004)

Zhang, Wei, Ulloa, Sergio E.

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...

Multimodal pedagogical planning for 3D learning environments [electronic resource] : a unified framework / (2004)

Zhang, Wei.

Keywords: Multimodal Pedagogical Planning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, ITS Authoring Systems.

X-ray structural determination and biophysical characterization of HemAT, a chemotaxis receptor from Bacillus subtilis (2004)

Zhang, Wei, Zhang, Wei

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...

Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing of Listeria monocytogenes. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 70: 913–920. Downloaded from jcm.asm.org at Penn State Univ on April 14 (2004)

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)

Wei Zhang, Greg Zelinsky

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...

Differential Gene and Protein Expression in Primary Breast Malignancies and Their Lymph Node Metastases as Revealed by Combined cDNA Microarray and Tissue Microarray Analysis (2004)

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...

To Stretch the Boundary of Secondary Metabolite Production in Plant Cell-Based Bioprocessing: Anthocyanin as a Case Study (2004)

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...

Growing genetic regulatory networks from seed genes (2004)

Hashimoto, Ronaldo F., Kim, Seungchan, Shmulevich, 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...

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...

Enhanced sensitivity electrochemical assay of low-molecular-weight heparins using rotating polyion-sensitive membrane electrodes (2003)

Xiao, Kang Ping, Zhang, Wei, Meyerhoff, Mark E., Qin, Wei

Use of a novel rotating polycation-sensitive polymer membrane electrode yields sensors that can serve as simple potentiometric titration endpoint detectors for the determination of three FDA approved...

Microbubble fermentation of recombinant Pichia pastoris for human serum albumin production (2003)

Zhang, Wei

The high cell density fermentation of recombinant Pichia pastoris for human serum albumin (HSA) production is a high oxygen demand process. The oxygen demand is usually met by increased agitation...

Microbubble fermentation of recombinant Pichia pastoris for human serum albumin production (2003)

Zhang, Wei

The high cell density fermentation of recombinant Pichia pastoris for human serum albumin (HSA) production is a high oxygen demand process. The oxygen demand is usually met by increased agitation...

Role of phosphatidylethanolamine in the function and assembly of phenylalanine-specific permease of Escherichia coli (2003)

Zhang, Wei

Transmembrane segments of polytopic membrane proteins once inserted are generally considered stably oriented due to the large free energy barrier for topological reorientation of adjacent...

Doing English digital: An assessment model for a new college English curriculum in China (2003)

Zhang, Wei

With the rapid growth of the Internet in China, the increasing connection between English and technology creates new demands for College English education. To succeed in higher education and the...

Development of photochemically initiated direct and indirect luminescence detection methods for liquid chromatography (LC) and study of aromatic sulfonates and phospholipids using reversed phase ion-pair LC-mass spectrometry (2003)

Zhang, Wei

The first project is development of a 5.5 μL spiral micro-flow chemiluminescence (CL) cell that allows the rapid mixing of CL reagent and analyte and simultaneous detection of the emitted...

DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOCHEMICALLY INITIATED DIRECT AND INDIRECT LUMINESCENCE DETECTION METHODS FOR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY (LC) AND STUDY OF AROMATIC SULFONATES AND PHOSPHOLIPIDS USING REVERSED PHASE ION-PAIR LC-MASS SPECTROMETRY (2003)

Zhang, Wei

The first project is development of a 5.5 µL spiral micro-flow chemiluminescence (CL) cell that allows the rapid mixing of CL reagent and analyte and simultaneous detection of the emitted light for...

DEVELOPMENT OF PHOTOCHEMICALLY INITIATED DIRECT AND INDIRECT LUMINESCENCE DETECTION METHODS FOR LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY (LC) AND STUDY OF AROMATIC SULFONATES AND PHOSPHOLIPIDS USING REVERSED PHASE ION-PAIR LC-MASS SPECTROMETRY (2003)

Zhang, Wei

The first project is development of a 5.5 µL spiral micro-flow chemiluminescence (CL) cell that allows the rapid mixing of CL reagent and analyte and simultaneous detection of the emitted light for...

ICR: in-cache replication for enhancing data cache reliability (2003)

Wei Zhang, Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Mahmut Kandemir, Anand Sivasubramaniam

wzhang,gurumurt,kandemir,anand¢ Processor caches already play a critical role in the performance of today’s computer systems. At the same time, the data integrity of words coming out of the caches...

Personalized Web Prefetching in Mozilla (2003)

Wei Zhang, David B. Lewanda, Christopher D. Janneck, Brian D. Davison

This paper presents the design and implementation of a Web prefetching module in Mozilla, an open-source and cross-platform browser. We have incorporated two kinds of predictors: a historybased...

Doing English digital: An assessment model for a new college English curriculum in China. (2003)

Zhang, Wei

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1228.

Steady-State Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks Modelled by Probabilistic Boolean Networks (2003)

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...

Relation of Hospital Volume to Colostomy Rates and Survival for Patients With Rectal Cancer (2003)

Hodgson, David C., Zhang, Wei, Zaslavsky, Alan M., Fuchs, Charles S., Wright, William E., Ayanian, John Z.

Background: Postoperative mortality after some types of cancer surgery is inversely related to the number of operations performed at a hospital (i.e., hospital volume). This study assessed the...

Regulation of HERG potassium channel activation by protein kinase C independent of direct phosphorylation of the channel protein (2003)

Thomas, Dierk, Zhang, Wei, Wu, Kezhong, Wimmer, Anna-Britt, Gut, Bernd, Wendt-Nordahl, Gunnar, ...

Objective: Patients with HERG-associated long QT syndrome typically develop tachyarrhythmias during physical or emotional stress. Previous studies have revealed that activation of the beta-adrenergic...

Spontaneous production of anti-IFN-{alpha} and anti-IL-12 autoantibodies by thymoma cells from myasthenia gravis patients suggests autoimmunization in the tumor (2003)

Shiono, Hiroyuki, Wong, Yat Lei, Matthews, Ian, Liu, Jian-Li, Zhang, Wei, Sims, Gary, ...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is mediated by autoantibodies to the acetylcholine receptor (AChR), expressed in muscle and rare thymic myoid cells. Most early‐onset cases show thymic lymph...

Data extraction from composite oligonucleotide microarrays (2003)

Shmulevich, Ilya, Astola, Jaakko, Cogdell, David, Hamilton, Stanley R., Zhang, Wei

Microarray or DNA chip technology is revolutionizing biology by empowering researchers in the collection of broad‐scope gene information. It is well known that microarray‐based measurements...

Aura Virus Structure Suggests that the T=4 Organization Is a Fundamental Property of Viral Structural Proteins (2002)

Zhang, Wei, Fisher, Bonnie R., Olson, Norman H., Strauss, James H., Kuhn, Richard J., Baker, Timothy S.

Aura and Sindbis viruses are closely related alphaviruses. Unlike other alphaviruses, Aura virus efficiently encapsidates both genomic RNA (11.8 kb) and subgenomic RNA (4.2 kb) to form virus...

Holstein polarons in a strong electric field: delocalized and stretched states (2002)

Zhang, Wei, Govorov, Alexander O., Ulloa, Sergio E.

The coherent dynamics of a Holstein polaron in strong electric fields is considered under different regimes. Using analytical and numerical analysis, we show that even for small hopping constant and...

Polarons with a twist (2002)

Zhang, Wei, Govorov, Alexander O., Ulloa, Sergio E.

We consider a polaron model where molecular \emph{rotations} are important. Here, the usual hopping between neighboring sites is affected directly by the electron-phonon interaction via a {\em...

Non-perturbative electron dynamics in crossed fields (2002)

Villas-Boas, J. M., Zhang, Wei, Ulloa, Sergio E., Rivera, P. H., Studart, Nelson

Intense AC electric fields on semiconductor structures have been studied in photon-assisted tunneling experiments with magnetic field applied either parallel (B_par) or perpendicular (B_per) to the...

Topology discovery in dynamic IP network / (2002)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M.S.)--Fordham University, 2002.

Table Of Contents (2002)

Instructor Professor, Clement Yu, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhou, Huiyong Xiao, I. Introduction

1. Project resource........................................................................................................................1 2. Research...

From Boolean to probabilistic Boolean networks as models of genetic regulatory networks (2002)

Ilya Shmulevich, Edward R. Dougherty, Wei Zhang

Mathematical and computational modeling of genetic regulatory networks promises to uncover the fundamental principles governing biological systems in an integrative and holistic manner. It also paves...

Identification of combination gene sets for glioma classification (2002)

Seungchan Kim, Edward R. Dougherty, Ilya Shmulevich, Kenneth R. Hess, Stanley R. Hamilton, Jeffrey M. Trent, ...

One goal for the gene expression profiling of cancer tissues is to identify signature genes that robustly distinguish different types or grades of tumors. Such signature genes would ideally provide a...

A Framework For Corporate Householding (2002)

Stuart Madnick, Richard Wang, Wei Zhang

Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our understanding of the area...

Scheduling and Feedback Co-Design (2002)

For Networked Control, Michael S. Branicky, Stephen M. Phillips, Wei Zhang

Feedback control systems wherein the control loops are closed through a real-time network are called networked control systems (NCSs). The insertion of the communication network in the feedback...

Feature Articles (2002)

Computational Intelligence Bulletin, Web-log Mining, Quantitative Temporal-event, Prediction Qiang Yang, Hui Wang, Wei Zhang, ...

The web log data embed much of web users' browsing behavior. From the web logs, one can discover patterns that predict the users' future requests based on their current behavior. These web...

A 3D structure database of components from Chinese traditional medicinal herbs (2002)

Xuebin Qiao, Tingjun Hou, Wei Zhang, Senli Guo, Xiaojie Xu

This article described a 3D structure database of components extracted from Chinese Traditional Medicinal (CTM) herbs. It offers not only basic molecular properties and optimized 3D structure of the...

A FRAMEWORK FOR CORPORATE HOUSEHOLDING (Research-in-Progress) (2002)

Stuart E. Madnick, Richard Wang, Wei Zhang, Stuart Madnick, Richard Wang, Wei Zhang

ABSTRACT: Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our understanding of...

Video Compass (2002)

Wei Zhang

Abstract. In this paper we describe a flexible approach for determining the relative orientation of the camera with respect to the scene. The main premise of the approach is the fact that in man-made...

Vehicle networks: Achieving regular formation (2002)

Madalena Chaves, Robert Day, Lucia Gomez-ramos, Parthasarathi Nag, Anca Williams, Wei Zhang, ...

Abstract. In this paper we will consider a network of vehicles exchanging information among themselves with the intention of achieving a specified polygonal formation. The network achieves the...

Gene perturbation and intervention in probabilistic Boolean networks (2002)

Shmulevich, Ilya, Dougherty, Edward R., Zhang, Wei

Motivation: A major objective of gene regulatory network modeling, in addition to gaining a deeper understanding of genetic regulation and control, is the development of computational tools for the...

Rapid component IKr of the guinea-pig cardiac delayed rectifier K+ current is inhibited by {beta}1-adrenoreceptor activation, via cAMP/protein kinase A-dependent pathways (2002)

Karle, Christoph A, Zitron, Edgar, Zhang, Wei, Kathöfer, Sven, Schoels, Wolfgang, Kiehn, Johann

Objective: The antiarrhythmic potential of betablockers contributes to their beneficial effects in the treatment of cardiac diseases, although the molecular basis of their class II antiarrhythmic...

Probabilistic Boolean networks: a rule-based uncertainty model for gene regulatory networks (2002)

Shmulevich, Ilya, Dougherty, Edward R., Kim, Seungchan, Zhang, Wei

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...

{beta}3-Adrenergic regulation of an ion channel in the heart--inhibition of the slow delayed rectifier potassium current IKs in guinea pig ventricular myocytes (2002)

Bosch, Ralph F., Schneck, Alexander C., Kiehn, Johann, Zhang, Wei, Hambrock, Annette, Eigenberger, Bernd W., ...

Objectives: IKs, the slow component of the delayed rectifier potassium current, underlies a strong β-adrenergic regulation in the heart. Catecholamines, like isoproterenol, induce a strong increase...

Structural investigation of alphaviruses and geminiviruses by cryo-electron microscopy (2001)

Zhang, Wei

My thesis work involves the coordinated application of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and three-dimensional image reconstruction techniques to study virus structures and to understand questions...

COLUMN LEACHING TESTS TO STUDY MOBILIZATION OF RADIONUCLIDES IN LINER SYSTEM OF ON-SITE DISPOSAL FACILITY AT FERNALD SITE (2001)

ZHANG, WEI

Controlling radioactive wastes from contaminating the subsurface environment has become a major concern with the development of technology in utilizing nuclear energy. Currently only a limited number...

Column leaching tests to study mobilization of radionuclides in liner system of on-site disposal facility at Fernald site [electronic resource] / (2001)

Zhang, Wei., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.

Controlling radioactive wastes from contaminating the subsurface environment has become a major concern with the development of technology in utilizing nuclear energy. Currently only a limited number...

Stability of Networked Control Systems (2001)

Wei Zhang, Michael S. Branicky, Stephen M. Phillips

Feedback control systems wherein the control loops are closed through a real-time network are called networked control systems (NCSs) [1]-[4]. The defining feature of an NCS is that information...

Identification of overlapping but distinct cAMP and cGMP interaction sites with cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 3A by site-directed mutagenesis and molecular modeling based on crystalline PDE4B (2001)

Zhang, Wei, Ke, Hengming, Tretiakova, Anna P., Jameson, Bradford, Colman, Robert W.

Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 3A (PDE3A) hydrolyzes cAMP to AMP, but is competitively inhibited by cGMP due to a low kcat despite a tight Km. Cyclic AMP elevation is known to inhibit all...

Antiarrhythmic drug carvedilol inhibits HERG potassium channels (2001)

Karle, Christoph A, Kreye, Volker A.W, Thomas, Dierk, Röckl, Katja, Kathöfer, Sven, Zhang, Wei, ...

Objective: The aryloxypropanolamine carvedilol is a multiple action cardiovascular drug with blocking effects on -receptors, β-receptors, Ca2+-channels, Na+-channels and various native cardiac K+...

Clonal instability of V region hypermutation in the Ramos Burkitt's lymphoma cell line (2001)

Zhang, Wei, Bardwell, Philip D., Woo, Caroline J., Poltoratsky, Vladimir, Scharff, Matthew D., Martin, Alberto

Affinity maturation of the humoral immune response is caused by single base changes that are introduced into the V regions of the Ig genes during a brief period of B cell differentiation. It has...

The effect of insider trading and compensation incentives on disclosure quality (2000)

Zhang, Wei

This study tests whether managers' incentives for insider trading profits influence the managers' disclosure behavior. This study further tests whether the adverse effect of insider trading on...

Study of Central Configurations and Relative Equilibria in the Problem of Four Bodies (2000)

Zhang, Wei

Central configurations and relative equilibria problems in N-body system have been studied for more than two hundred years. Due to its complexity, so far there is no complete theoretical solution...

Vibration Analysis On A Thin Plate With The Aid Of Computation Of Normal Forms (2000)

Pei Yu, Wei Zhang, Qinsheng Bi

{Through the dynamical analysis of a thin plate, normal forms have been explicitly derived for a non-autonomous system associated with 1:1 semisimple internal resonance as well as external...

Contents (2000)

Wei Zhang, John Scourias, A. Mehrotra, L. S. Golding, Charles Brookson

6. Mobility and security management in the GSM system and some proposed future

Scanning electron microscopic changes in the morphology of rabbit pulmonary tissue biopsied following ischemia and reperfusion: a window of opportunity? (2000)

Premaratne, Shyamal, Razzuk, Aziz M., Hasaniya, Nahidh W., Zhang, Wei, McNamara, J. Judson, Tinsley, Larry R., ...

Reperfusion is known to cause tissue damage in ischemic pulmonary tissue. We investigated the time frame of this occurrence by examining electron microscopic changes in lung tissue. Isolated,...

DEGENERATE BIFURCATION ANALYSIS ON A PARAMETRICALLY AND EXTERNALLY EXCITED MECHANICAL SYSTEM (2000)

Wei Zhang, Pei Yu

A general parametrically and externally excited mechanical system is considered. The main attention is focused on the dynamical properties of local bifurcations as well as global bifurcations...

Reliability Evaluation of Bulk Power Systems Using Analytical and Equivalent Approaches (1999)

Zhang, Wei

Electric power systems throughout the world are undergoing considerable changes due to the converging forces of deregulation, technological revolution and evolving customer expectations. Quantitative...

The role of cytokine in tolerance induction and regulation in experimental autoimmune thyroiditis (1999)

Zhang, Wei

Deaggregated mouse thyroglobulin (dMTg) induces tolerance to EAT, a Th1 cell-mediated disease. To test whether IL-12, a potent activator of Th1 cells, can overcome tolerance induction, different...

Lot streaming in two-stage hybrid flow shop / (1999)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 1999.

Repair in Chinese conversation (1999)

Zhang, Wei

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled Repair in Chinese Conversation submitted by Zhang Wei for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in June 1998 This thesis...

Repair in Chinese conversation (1999)

Zhang, Wei

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled Repair in Chinese Conversation submitted by Zhang Wei for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in June 1998 This thesis...

Analysis of CDMA-based land mobile satellite communication systems over fading channels / (1999)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1999.

Repair in Chinese conversation (1999)

Zhang, Wei

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled Repair in Chinese Conversation submitted by Zhang Wei for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong in June 1998 This thesis...

Vibration analysis on a thin plate with the aid (1999)

Pei Yu, Wei Zhang, Qinsheng Bi

Through the dynamical analysis of a thin plate, normal forms have been explicitly derived for a non-autonomous system associated with 1: 1 semisimple internal resonance as well as external...

Integrated EMI/Thermal Design for Switching Power Supplies (1998)

Zhang, Wei

This work presents the modeling and analysis of EMI and thermal performance for switch power supply by using the CAD tools. The methodology and design guidelines are developed. By using a boost PFC...

Integrated EMI/Thermal Design for Switching Power Supplies (1998)

Zhang, Wei

This work presents the modeling and analysis of EMI and thermal performance for switch power supply by using the CAD tools. The methodology and design guidelines are developed. By using a boost PFC...

Repair in Chinese conversation [electronic resource] / (1998)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999.

Integrated EMI/thermal design for switching power supplies (1998)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998.

Repair in Chinese conversation / (1998)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1999.

Integrated EMI/Thermal Design for . . . (1998)

Dan Y. Chen, Dushan Borojevich, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang

This work presents the modeling and analysis of EMI and thermal performance for switch power supply by using the CAD tools. The methodology and design guidelines are developed.

Shape-Based Indexing in a Medical Image Database (1998)

Wei Zhang, Stanley Sclaroff

In this work, we report on a prototype of a clinical radiograph image database to be indexed by image content. The underlying content-based search engine is based on the modal shape description...

Residents' attitudes towards tourism impacts in Singapore / (1998)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M. Bus.)--Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School, 1998.

Gender Wage Gaps in China's Labor Market: Size, Structure, Trends (1997)

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret, Rawski, Thomas G., Zhang, Wei

Chinese attitudes toward the treatment of men and women in the workplace reflect two divergent perspectives. The legacy of China's past includes a strong tendency to favor male over female workers,...

Exchange-rate exposures of Singapore listed companies / (1997)

Lee, Kee Hwa., Tan, Choon Kiat., Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (M.B.A. (Acc.))--Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School, 1997.

Functional analysis of MRF4 during mouse embryogenesis (1996)

Zhang, Wei

MRF4 is one of four skeletal muscle specific regulatory genes, (the other three genes being MyoD, myf5, and myogenin), each of which has the unique ability to orchestrate an entire program of...

Optimizing Wavelet Transform Based On Supervised Learning For Detection Of Microcalcifications In Digital Mammograms (1995)

Hiroyuki Yoshida, Wei Zhang, Weidong Cai, Kunio Doi, Robert M Nishikawa, Maryellen L. Giger, ...

A novel technique for optimizing the wavelet transform to enhance and detect microcalcifications in mammograms was developed based on the supervised learning method. In the learning process, a cost...

High-Performance Job-Shop Scheduling With A Time-Delay TD(lambda) Network (1995)

Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich

Job-shop scheduling is an important task for manufacturing industries. We are interested in the particular task of scheduling payload processing for NASA's space shuttle program. This paper...

Value Function Approximations and Job-Shop Scheduling (1995)

Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich

We report a successful application of TD() with value function approximation to the task of job-shop scheduling. Our scheduling problems are based on the problem of scheduling payload processing...

A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Job-shop Scheduling (1995)

Wei Zhang, Thomas G. Dietterich

We apply reinforcement learning methods to learn domain-specific heuristics for job shop scheduling. A repair-based scheduler starts with a critical-path schedule and incrementally repairs constraint...

A reinforcement learning approach to job-shop scheduling (1995)

Wei Zhang

We apply reinforce merit learning methods to learn domain-specific heuristics for job shop scheduling A repair-based scheduler starts with a critical-path schedule and incrementally repairs...

Study of tumor suppressor genes p53 and Rb in acute myelogenous leukemia (1992)

Zhang, Wei

Loss of antiproliferative function of p53 by point mutation occurred frequently in various solid tumors. However, the genetic change of p53 by deletion or point mutation was a rare event (6%) in the...

Cytokinins from the tRNA of the Red Alga Porphyra perforata J. Ag. (1992)

Zhang, Wei, Yamane, Hisakazu, Spray, Clive R., Chapman, David J., Phinney, Bernard O.

Isopentenyladenosine and cis-zeatin riboside have been identified by GC-MS from the tRNA of a red alga Porphyra perforata.

MODELING OF LPCVD SILICON NITRIDE PROCESS (1989)

Wang, Ji-Tao, Zhang, Shi-Li, Wang, Yong-Fa, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Zheng-Chang, Zhang, Ke-Yun, ...

Much attention has been paid to the modeling of LPCVD process by several research groups and authors. Our simulation model of LPCVD process was proposed in 1979 and 1980, and then improved and...

MODELING OF LPCVD SILICON NITRIDE PROCESS (1989)

Wang, Ji-Tao, Zhang, Shi-Li, Wang, Yong-Fa, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Zheng-Chang, Zhang, Ke-Yun, ...

Much attention has been paid to the modeling of LPCVD process by several research groups and authors. Our simulation model of LPCVD process was proposed in 1979 and 1980, and then improved and...

MODELING OF LPCVD SILICON NITRIDE PROCESS (1989)

Wang, Ji-Tao, Zhang, Shi-Li, Wang, Yong-Fa, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Zheng-Chang, Zhang, Ke-Yun, ...

Much attention has been paid to the modeling of LPCVD process by several research groups and authors. Our simulation model of LPCVD process was proposed in 1979 and 1980, and then improved and...

Competitiveness of China's Manufacturing Industry and its Impacts on the Neighbouring Countries

Wei Zhang, Tao Zhang

This paper investigates the rapid growth of China's share in the international commodity market and the structural changes of China's commodity exports. It demonstrates a significant improvement of...

Gender Wage Gaps in China's Labor Market: Size, Structure, Trends

Margaret Maurer-Fazio, Thomas G. Rawski, Wei Zhang

Chinese attitudes toward the treatment of men and women in the workplace reflect two divergent perspectives. The legacy of China's past includes a strong tendency to favor male over female workers,...

COLUMN LEACHING TESTS TO STUDY MOBILIZATION OF RADIONUCLIDES IN LINER SYSTEM OF ON-SITE DISPOSAL FACILITY AT FERNALD SITE

ZHANG, WEI

Controlling radioactive wastes from contaminating the subsurface environment has become a major concern with the development of technology in utilizing nuclear energy. Currently only a limited number...

Study of Central Configurations and Relative Equilibria in the Problem of Four Bodies

Zhang, Wei

Central configurations and relative equilibria problems in N-body system have been studied for more than two hundred years. Due to its complexity, so far there is no complete theoretical solution...

Can the Strategy of Western Development Narrow Down China's Regional Disparity?

Wei Zhang

The main causes of the faster growth in China's eastern coastal area, and thus for the rise in income disparity between eastern and western regions, are the rapid increases in foreign trade and...

Welfare Effects of Capital Taxation in a Small Open Economy

Shuanglin Lin, Wei Zhang

In a small open economy, the welfare effect of capital taxation depends on the allocation of the tax revenue as well as the tax system. If tax revenues are used to finance debt or government...

Efficient High-Dimensional Importance Sampling

Jean-Francois Richard, Wei Zhang

The paper describes a simple, generic and yet highly accurate Efficient Importance Sampling (EIS) Monte Carlo (MC) procedure for the evaluation of high-dimensional numerical integrals. EIS is based...

Further Reform of China’s Pension System: A Realistic Alternative Option to Fully Funded Individual Accounts

Wei Zhang

China's newly established three-pillar pension system consists of: basic pension; fully funded individual account; and voluntary commercial pension insurance. The second component faces immense...

Insider Trading and Pay-Performance Sensitivity: An Empirical Analysis

Wei Zhang, Steven F. Cahan, Arthur C. Allen

We examine whether the sensitivity of pay to performance is associated with the amount of insider trading that managers undertake. Because insider trading profits represent an alternative form of...

Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease-associated mutant tRNA synthetases linked to altered dimer interface and neurite distribution defect

Nangle, Leslie A., Zhang, Wei, Xie, Wei, Yang, Xiang-Lei, Schimmel, Paul

Charcot–Marie–Tooth (CMT) diseases are the most common heritable peripheral neuropathy. At least 10 different mutant alleles of GARS (the gene for glycyl-tRNA synthetase) have been reported to...

Osmo-Sensitive and Stretch-Activated Calcium-Permeable Channels in Vicia faba Guard Cells Are Regulated by Actin Dynamics1[OA]

Zhang, Wei, Fan, Liu-Min, Wu, Wei-Hua

In responses to a number of environmental stimuli, changes of cytoplasmic [Ca2+]cyt in stomatal guard cells play important roles in regulation of stomatal movements. In this study, the osmo-sensitive...

Netrins and neogenin promote myotube formation

Kang, Jong-Sun, Yi, Min-Jeong, Zhang, Wei, Feinleib, Jessica L., Cole, Francesca, Krauss, Robert S.

Differentiation of skeletal myoblasts into multinucleated myotubes is a multistep process orchestrated by several families of transcription factors, including myogenic bHLH and NFAT proteins. The...

On the challenges of the HapMap resource

Zhang, Wei, Dolan, M. Eileen

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...

Structural characterization of the maytansinoid–monoclonal antibody immunoconjugate, huN901–DM1, by mass spectrometry

Wang, Lintao, Amphlett, Godfrey, Blättler, Walter A., Lambert, John M., Zhang, Wei

Immunoconjugates are being explored as novel cancer therapies with the promise of target-specific drug delivery. The immunoconjugate, huN901–DM1, composed of the humanized monoclonal IgG1 antibody,...

JAK1–STAT1–STAT3, a key pathway promoting proliferation and preventing premature differentiation of myoblasts

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...

Quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs) [electronic resource].

Zhang, Wei.

Thermal imaging by infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs) has many military and commercial applications. So far, most infrared FPAs are based on HgCdTe or quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs)....

Quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs).

Zhang, Wei.

Thermal imaging by infrared focal plane arrays (FPAs) has many military and commercial applications. So far, most infrared FPAs are based on HgCdTe or quantum well infrared photodetectors (QWIPs)....

Bankruptcy risk and the performance of tradable permit markets

John Stranlund, Wei Zhang

We study the impacts of bankruptcy risk on markets for tradable environmental and natural resource permits. We show that bankruptcy risk in a competitive market for tradable permits causes an...

Trade Disclosure, Information Learning and Securities Market Performance.

Wu, Chunchi, Zhang, Wei

In this paper we examine the effect of information disclosure on securities market performance when liquidity traders are able to acquire information about inside trading. We show that the bid-ask...

Simulation estimation of dynamic discrete choice panel models with accelerated importance samplers

Wei Zhang, Lung-fei Lee

With long time series for dynamic discrete choice panel models, the Geweke--Hajivassiliou--Keane sampler has been observed to have large biases and root-mean-square errors. The Richard--Zhang...

Econometric Modelling of UK House Prices Using Accelerated Importance Sampling.

Richard, Jean-Francois, Zhang, Wei

The authors consider stochastic and dynamic extensions of a model for U.K. house prices proposed by D. F. Hendry (1984). Numerical integrations are carried out by means of an accelerated importance...

American futures options arbitrage: evidence from the Nikkei 225 options market

Changyun Wang, Wei Zhang, Weng Kit Tan

Previous studies have examined the profitability of European index options arbitrage. This paper adds to the literature by investigating the arbitrage profitability of American index options - the...

To Trade or Not to Trade: The Effect of Broker Search and Discretionary Trading on Securities Market Performance

Wei Zhang, Jinliang Li, Chunchi Wu

In this article we examine the interaction of brokerage search with the Bayesian learning behavior of competitive dealers under asymmetric information. We particularly focus on the effects of price...

Evaluation of a Commercialized In Situ Hybridization Assay for Detecting Human Papillomavirus DNA in Tissue Specimens from Patients with Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Cervical Carcinoma▿

Guo, Ming, Gong, Yun, Deavers, Michael, Silva, Elvio G., Jan, Yee Jee, Cogdell, David E., ...

To evaluate a commercialized in situ hybridization (ISH) assay for detecting human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA, we compared the ability of a new ISH probe, Inform HPV III (Ventana Medical Systems,...

Bankruptcy Risk and the Performance of Tradable Permit Markets

John K. Stranlund, Wei Zhang

We study the impact of bankruptcy risk on markets for tradable environmental and natural resource permits. We find that firms that risk bankruptcy demand more permits than if they were financially...

Insider Trading and Pay-Performance Sensitivity: An Empirical Analysis

Wei Zhang, Steven F. Cahan, Arthur C. Allen

We examine whether the sensitivity of pay to performance is associated with the amount of insider trading that managers undertake. Because insider trading profits represent an alternative form of...

Rethinking Regional Disparity in China.

Zhang, Wei

Income disparities in China decreased both across provinces and across three transprovincial areas from 1978 through 1984. After 1984 there was an increase in disparity across the three areas, but...

A Framework for Corporate Householding

Madnick, Stuart, Wang, Richard, Zhang, Wei

Previous research on corporate household and corporate householding has presented examples, literature review, and working definitions. In this paper, we first improve our understanding of the area...

Single-nucleotide polymorphism-gene intermixed networking reveals co-linkers connected to multiple gene expression phenotypes

Gong, Bin-Sheng, Zhang, Qing-Pu, Zhang, Guang-Mei, Zhang, Shao-Jun, Zhang, Wei, Lv, Hong-Chao, ...

Gene expression profiles and single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) profiles are modern data for genetic analysis. It is possible to use the two types of information to analyze the relationships among...

Identification of overlapping but distinct cAMP and cGMP interaction sites with cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 3A by site-directed mutagenesis and molecular modeling based on crystalline PDE4B

Zhang, Wei, Ke, Hengming, Tretiakova, Anna P., Jameson, Bradford, Colman, Robert W.

Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 3A (PDE3A) hydrolyzes cAMP to AMP, but is competitively inhibited by cGMP due to a low kcat despite a tight Km. Cyclic AMP elevation is known to inhibit all...

SP5: Improving Protein Fold Recognition by Using Torsion Angle Profiles and Profile-Based Gap Penalty Model

Zhang, Wei, Liu, Song, Zhou, Yaoqi

How to recognize the structural fold of a protein is one of the challenges in protein structure prediction. We have developed a series of single (non-consensus) methods (SPARKS, SP2, SP3, SP4) that...

Quantum dot infrared photodetectors (QDIPs)

Zhang, Wei.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2006.

The C. elegans L1CAM homologue LAD-2 functions as a coreceptor in MAB-20/Sema2–mediated axon guidance

Wang, Xuelin, Zhang, Wei, Cheever, Thomas, Schwarz, Valentin, Opperman, Karla, Hutter, Harald, ...

The L1 cell adhesion molecule (L1CAM) participates in neuronal development. Mutations in the human L1 gene can cause the neurological disorder CRASH (corpus callosum hypoplasia, retardation, adducted...

Felodipine Reduces Cardiac Expression of IL-18 and Perivascular Fibrosis in Fructose-Fed Rats

Xing, Shan-Shan, Tan, Hong-Wei, Bi, Xiu-Ping, Zhong, Ming, Zhang, Yun, Zhang, Wei

Metabolic syndrome is associated with accelerated macrovascular and microvascular coronary disease, cardiomyopathy, and elevated inflammatory status. To determine whether metabolic...

Steady-State Analysis of Genetic Regulatory Networks Modelled by Probabilistic Boolean Networks

Shmulevich, Ilya, Gluhovsky, Ilya, Hashimoto, Ronaldo F., Dougherty, Edward R., Zhang, Wei

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...

A Possible Link between Infection with Burkholderia Bacteria and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Based on Epitope Mimicry

Zhang, Wei, Reichlin, Morris

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...

HapMap filter 1.0: A tool to preprocess the HapMap genotypic data for association studies

Zhang, Wei, Duan, Shiwei, Dolan, M Eileen

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...

Cooperation between the Hic1 and Ptch1 tumor suppressors in medulloblastoma

Briggs, Kimberly J., Corcoran-Schwartz, Ian M., Zhang, Wei, Harcke, Thomas, Devereux, Wendy L., Baylin, Stephen B., ...

Medulloblastoma is an embryonal tumor thought to arise from the granule cell precursors (GCPs) of the cerebellum. PATCHED (PTCH), an inhibitor of Hedgehog signaling, is the best-characterized tumor...

BSV INVESTORS VERSUS RATIONAL INVESTORS: AN AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL FINANCE MODEL

WEI ZHANG, YONGJIE ZHANG, XIONG XIONG, XI JIN

BSV (Barberis, Shleifer and Vishny [Journal of Financial Economics 49 (1998) 307â343]) model is one of the three major behavioral finance models. The existing BSV model is about how behavioral...

THE CONSTRUCTION OF INNOVATION NETWORKS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES OF INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS IN CHINA

XIAOBO WU, ZHIGANG GU, WEI ZHANG

Innovation network has been viewed as one of the most important means in improving technological capabilities for decades. Based on literature review, this paper presents a conceptual model on the...

Thrombin regulates intracellular cyclic AMP concentration in human platelets through phosphorylation/activation of phosphodiesterase 3A

Zhang, Wei, Colman, Robert W.

Thrombin-induced cyclic AMP (cAMP) reduction potentates several steps in platelet activation, including Ca++ mobilization, cytoskeletal reorganization, and fibrinogen receptor conformation. We now...

SLCO1B1 521T→C functional genetic polymorphism and lipid-lowering efficacy of multiple-dose pravastatin in Chinese coronary heart disease patients

Zhang, Wei, Chen, Bi-Lian, Ozdemir, Vural, He, Yi-Jing, Zhou, Gan, Peng, Dao-Di, ...

What is already known about this subject Both oral clearance as well as delivery of pravastatin to its molecular targets in hepatoctyes are greatly influenced by the organic anion transporting...

Combinatorial Signals of Activin/Nodal and Bone Morphogenic Protein Regulate the Early Lineage Segregation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells*S⃞

Wu, Zhao, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Guibin, Cheng, Lu, Liao, Jing, Jia, Nannan, ...

Cell fate commitment of pre-implantation blastocysts, to either the inner cell mass or trophoblast, is the first step in cell lineage segregation of the developing human embryo. However, the...

Variation in virulence among clades of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with disease outbreaks

Manning, Shannon D., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Springman, A. Cody, Qi, Weihong, Lacher, David W., Ouellette, Lindsey M., ...

Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a...

Bankruptcy Risk and Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Taxes

John K. Stranlund, Wei Zhang

Under favorable but reasonable conditions, an imperfectly enforced emissions tax produces the efficient allocation of individual emissions control; aggregate emissions are independent of whether...

BS69 is involved in cellular senescence through the p53–p21Cip1 pathway

Zhang, Wei, Chan, Ho Man, Gao, Yan, Poon, Randy, 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...

Purification, molecular cloning, and characterization of glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) from pigmented Vitis vinifera L. cell suspension cultures as putative anthocyanin transport proteins

Conn, Simon, Curtin, Chris, Bézier, Annie, Franco, Chris, Zhang, Wei

The ligandin activity of specific glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) is necessary for the transport of anthocyanins from the cytosol to the plant vacuole. Five GSTs were purified from Vitis vinifera...

SNPinProbe_1.0: A database for filtering out probes in the Affymetrix GeneChip® Human Exon 1.0 ST array potentially affected by SNPs

Duan, Shiwei, Zhang, Wei, Bleibel, Wasim Kamel, Cox, Nancy Jean, Dolan, M Eileen

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...

Multifunctional roles of insulin-like growth factor binding protein 5 in breast cancer

Akkiprik, Mustafa, Feng, Yumei, Wang, Huamin, Chen, Kexin, Hu, Limei, Sahin, Aysegul, ...

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 insulin-like...

Structural Basis for the Recognition of Histone H4 by the Histone-Chaperone RbAp46

Murzina, Natalia V., Pei, Xue-Yuan, Zhang, Wei, Sparkes, Mike, Vicente-Garcia, Jose, Pratap, J. Venkatesh, ...

RbAp46 and RbAp48 (pRB-associated proteins p46 and p48, also known as RBBP7 and RBBP4, respectively) are highly homologous histone chaperones that play key roles in establishing and maintaining...

Spatially Optimal Habitat Management For Natural Pest Control Services

Zhang, Wei, Van Derr Werf, Wopke, Swinton, Scott M.

The control of crop pests by their natural enemies represents an important ecosystem service that maintains the stability of agricultural systems and has the potential to mitigate pest control costs....

Rethinking Ecosystem Services from an Intermediate Product Perspective

Swinton, Scott M., Zhang, Wei

The Earth's ecosystems provide myriad goods and services that are essential to human wellbeing. This paper offers a typology of ecosystem services that emphasizes the means by which humans experience...

The Impact of Environmental Policy on Household Income and Activity Choice: Evidence from Sandstorm Source Control Program in North China

Zhang, Wei, Liu, Can

This paper uses household data to assess the near-term impact of the program on incomes and activity choices of rural households in areas where the sandstorm control program (Beijing and Tianjin...

Assessing the Potential for Payments for Watershed Services to Reduce Poverty in Guatemala

Pagiola, Stefano, Zhang, Wei, Colom, Ale

Payments for Environmental Services (PES) are being increasingly used as conservation instruments, particularly in Latin America. PES programs seek to capture part of the benefits derived from...

Pest Control in the Presence of Pest Suppression by Natural Enemies

Zhang, Wei, Swinton, Scott M.

The control of pests by their natural enemies represents an important ecosystem service that maintains the stability of agroecosystems and has the potential to mitigate pest control costs both to...

CHANGES IN CHINA'S URBAN FOOD CONSUMPTION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR TRADE

Zhang, Wei, Wang, Qingbin

Detailed data from 3,500 urban Chinese households are used to estimate demand elasticities and the impacts of regional and demographic variables for 17 food products through a two-stage budgeting...

THE ECONOMICS OF GREEN PAYMENTS FOR REDUCING AGRICULTURAL NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION IN THE CORN BELT

Zhang, Wei, Horan, Richard, Claassen, Roger

We develop a watershed-based model of green payments to examine how payments applied to different environmental performance measures compare on the basis of economic efficiency, equity, and...

INSTRUMENT CHOICE AND BUDGET-CONSTRAINED TARGETING

Horan, Richard D., Claassen, Roger, Agapoff, Jean, Zhang, Wei

We analyze how choosing to use a particular type of instrument for agri-environmental payments, when these payments are constrained by the regulatory authority's budget, implies an underlying...

FINANCIAL IMPACTS OF ALTERNATIVE PHOSPHORUS MANAGEMENT PRACTICES: THE CASE OF VERMONT DAIRY FARMS

Zhang, Wei, Parsons, Robert

The Farm Level Income and Policy Simulation Modeling System (FLIPSim) is used to provide policymakers and dairy farmers estimated farm financial impact on the implementation of five field related...

Nitrogen fixation island and rhizosphere competence traits in the genome of root-associated Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501

Yan, Yongliang, Yang, Jian, Dou, Yuetan, Chen, Ming, Ping, Shuzhen, Peng, Junping, ...

The capacity to fix nitrogen is widely distributed in phyla of Bacteria and Archaea but has long been considered to be absent from the Pseudomonas genus. We report here the complete genome sequencing...

Bankruptcy Risk and the Performance of Tradable Permit Markets

Stranlund, John K., Zhang, Wei

We study the impact of bankruptcy risk on markets for tradable environmental and natural resource permits. We find that firms that risk bankruptcy demand more permits than if they were financially...

Bankruptcy Risk and Imperfectly Enforced Emissions Taxes

Stranlund, John K., Zhang, Wei

Under favorable but reasonable conditions, an imperfectly enforced emissions tax produces the efficient allocation of individual emissions control; aggregate emissions are independent of whether...

On the time to ruin and the deficit at ruin in a risk model with double-sided jumps

Xing, Xiaoyu, Zhang, Wei, Jiang, Yiming

In this paper, we consider a jump diffusion risk model, which consists of a Brownian motion, phase type distributed positive claims and general negative claims. The distributions of the time to ruin...

Abscisic acid regulation of guard-cell K+ and anion channels in Gβ- and RGS-deficient Arabidopsis lines

Fan, Liu-Min, Zhang, Wei, Chen, Jin-Gui, Taylor, J. Philip, Jones, Alan M., Assmann, Sarah M.

In mammals, basal currents through G protein-coupled inwardly rectifying K+ (GIRK) channels are repressed by Gαi/oGDP, and the channels are activated by direct binding of free Gβγ subunits...

The Contribution of Foreign Borrowing to the New Zealand Economy

Anthony Makin, Wei Zhang, Grant Scobie

New Zealand’s unrelenting current account deficits, its trade performance and high external debt level remain central to ongoing economic policy debates. However, what has been overlooked in the...

Exploring the Evolutionary History of the Differentially Expressed Genes between Human Populations: Action of Recent Positive Selection

Zhang, Wei, Dolan, M. Eileen

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...

FstSNP-HapMap3: a database of SNPs with high population differentiation for HapMap3

Duan, Shiwei, Zhang, Wei, Cox, Nancy Jean, Dolan, Mary Eileen

The International HapMap Project has recently made available genotypes and frequency data for phase 3 (NCBI build 36, dbSNPb129) of the HapMap providing an enriched genotype dataset for approximately...

Centrosome-associated regulators of the G2/M checkpoint as targets for cancer therapy

Wang, Yingmei, Ji, Ping, Liu, Jinsong, Broaddus, Russell R, Xue, Fengxia, Zhang, Wei

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 G2/M checkpoint...

Quantization and Similarity Measure Selection for Discrimination of Lymphoma Subtypes under k-nearest Neighbor Classification

Cristian Mircean, Ioan Tabus, Jaakko Astola, Tohru Kobayashi, Hiroshi Shiku, Motoko Yamaguchi, ...

Molecular classification of tumors holds great potential for cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment. In this study, we apply a novel classification technique to cDNA microarray data for...

Hepatic non-parenchymal cells and extracellular matrix participate in oval cell-mediated liver regeneration

Zhang, Wei, Chen, Xiao-Ping, Zhang, Wan-Guang, Zhang, Feng, Xiang, Shuai, Dong, Han-Hua, ...

AIM: To elucidate the interaction between non-parenchymal cells, extracellular matrix and oval cells during the restituting process of liver injury induced by partial hepatectomy (PH).

Peste des Petits Ruminants Virus in Tibet, China

Wang, Zhiliang, Bao, Jingyue, Wu, Xiaodong, Liu, Yutian, Li, Lin, Liu, Chunju, ...

Serologic and molecular evidence indicates that peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) infection has emerged in goats and sheep in the Ngari region of southwestern Tibet, People’s Republic of...

Evaluation of Genetic Variation Contributing to Differences in Gene Expression between Populations

Zhang, Wei, Duan, Shiwei, Kistner, Emily O., Bleibel, Wasim K., Huang, R. Stephanie, Clark, Tyson A., ...

Gene expression is a complex quantitative trait partially regulated by genetic variation in DNA sequence. Population differences in gene expression could contribute to some of the observed...

Genetic Architecture of Transcript-Level Variation in Humans

Duan, Shiwei, Huang, R. Stephanie, Zhang, Wei, Bleibel, Wasim K., Roe, Cheryl A., Clark, Tyson A., ...

We report here the results of testing the pairwise association of 12,747 transcriptional gene-expression values with more than two million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in samples of...

Can payments for watershed services help save biodiversity? A spatial analysis of highland Guatemala

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...

Vibrio cholerae O139 Multiple-Drug Resistance Mediated by Yersinia pestis pIP1202-Like Conjugative Plasmids▿

Pan, Jing-Cao, Ye, Rong, Wang, Hao-Qiu, Xiang, Hai-Qing, Zhang, Wei, Yu, Xin-Fen, ...

A conjugative plasmid, pMRV150, which mediated multiple-drug resistance (MDR) to at least six antibiotics, including ampicillin, streptomycin, gentamicin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and...

Consuming fructose-sweetened, not glucose-sweetened, beverages increases visceral adiposity and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese humans

Stanhope, Kimber L., Schwarz, Jean Marc, Keim, Nancy L., Griffen, Steven C., Bremer, Andrew A., Graham, James L., ...

Studies in animals have documented that, compared with glucose, dietary fructose induces dyslipidemia and insulin resistance. To assess the relative effects of these dietary sugars during sustained...

Inhibition of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 expression by RNA interference suppresses invasion through inducing anoikis in human colon cancer cells

Fan, Yu, Zhang, You-Li, Wu, Ying, Zhang, Wei, Wang, Yin-Huan, Cheng, Zhao-Ming, ...

AIM: To investigate the roles and mechanism of signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in invasion of human colon cancer cells by RNA interference.

Minimum Conflict Individual Haplotyping from SNP Fragments and Related Genotype

Zhang, Xiang-Sun, Wang, Rui-Sheng, Wu, Ling-Yun, Zhang, Wei

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...

The effect of corruption on capital accumulation

Shuanglin Lin, Wei Zhang

Corruption, Capital accumulation, Labor supply, Overlapping generations model, D9, E2, H8, K4,

Phosphorylation of Thr18 and Ser20 of p53 in Ad-p53 – induced apoptosis

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...

Gγ1 + Gγ2 ≠ Gβ: Heterotrimeric G Protein Gγ-Deficient Mutants Do Not Recapitulate All Phenotypes of Gβ-Deficient Mutants1[C][W][OA]

Trusov, Yuri, Zhang, Wei, Assmann, Sarah M., Botella, José Ramón

Heterotrimeric G proteins are signaling molecules ubiquitous among all eukaryotes. The Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) genome contains one Gα (GPA1), one Gβ (AGB1), and two Gγ subunit (AGG1 and...

Functional Proteomics of Arabidopsis thaliana Guard Cells Uncovers New Stomatal Signaling Pathways[W][OA]

Zhao, Zhixin, Zhang, Wei, Stanley, Bruce A., Assmann, Sarah M.

We isolated a total of 3 × 108 guard cell protoplasts from 22,000 Arabidopsis thaliana plants and identified 1734 unique proteins using three complementary proteomic methods: protein spot...

Molecular and Genetic Evidence for the Key Role of AtCaM3 in Heat-Shock Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis1[W][OA]

Zhang, Wei, Zhou, Ren-Gang, Gao, Ying-Jie, Zheng, Shu-Zhi, Xu, Peng, Zhang, Su-Qiao, ...

Heat shock (HS) is a common form of stress suffered by plants. It has been proposed that calmodulin (CaM) is involved in HS signal transduction, but direct evidence has been lacking. To investigate...

Major complications after radiofrequency ablation for liver tumors: Analysis of 255 patients

Kong, Wen-Tao, Zhang, Wei-Wei, Qiu, Yu-Dong, Zhou, Tie, Qiu, Jun-Lan, Zhang, Wei, ...

AIM: To investigate the major complications after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for the treatment of liver tumors and analyze possible risk factors that precipitate these complications.

The reversal effect of magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles loaded with cisplatin on SKOV3/DDP ovarian carcinoma cells

Jiang, Zhi, Chen, Bao-An, Xia, Guo-Hua, Wu, Qiang, Zhang, Yu, Hong, Tie-Yan, ...

To explore whether the magnetic nanoparticles of Fe3O4 (MNPs-Fe3O4) loaded with cisplatin can reverse the diaminedichloro platinum (DDP) resistance to multidrug resistance of ovarian carcinoma cells...

Leptin Increases Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Vivo and in Vitro*

Garza, Jacob C., Guo, Ming, Zhang, Wei, Lu, Xin-Yun

Leptin, an adipose-derived hormone, has been implicated in several physiological processes involving the hippocampus. However, the role of leptin in adult hippocampal neurogenesis remains unknown....

Changes in count and function of splenic lymphocytes from patients with portal hypertension

Li, Zong-Fang, Zhang, Shu, Lv, Gao-Bo, Huang, Ying, Zhang, Wei, Ren, Song, ...

AIM: To investigate changes in numbers and proliferative function of splenic lymphocytes in patients with hypersplenism due to portal hypertension (PH), to provide evidence for further study of...

Bioreduction with Efficient Recycling of NADPH by Coupled Permeabilized Microorganisms▿

Zhang, Wei, O'Connor, Kevin, Wang, Daniel I. C., Li, Zhi

The glucose dehydrogenase (GDH) from Bacillus subtilis BGSC 1A1 was cloned and functionally expressed in Escherichia coli BL21(pGDH1) and XL-1 Blue(pGDH1). Controlled permeabilization of recombinant...

The reversal effect of magnetic Fe3O4 nanoparticles loaded with cisplatin on SKOV3/DDP ovarian carcinoma cells

Jiang, Zhi, Chen, Bao-An, Xia, Guo-Hua, Wu, Qiang, Zhang, Yu, Hong, Tie-Yan, ...

To explore whether the magnetic nanoparticles of Fe3O4 (MNPs-Fe3O4) loaded with cisplatin can reverse the diaminedichloro platinum (DDP) resistance to multidrug resistance of ovarian carcinoma cells...

Primary malignant melanoma of the liver: A case report

Gong, Li, Li, Yan-Hong, Zhao, Jian-Ye, Wang, Xu-Xia, Zhu, Shao-Jun, Zhang, Wei

Primary malignant melanoma of the liver is an exceedingly rare tumor. Only 12 cases have been reported in the worldwide literature. We present a case of isolated malignant melanoma of the liver...

The HapMap Resource is Providing New Insights into Ourselves and its Application to Pharmacogenomics

Zhang, Wei, Ratain, Mark J., Dolan, M. Eileen

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...

Benzoate Catabolite Repression of the Phenol Degradation in Acinetobacter calcoaceticus PHEA-2

Zhan, Yuhua, Yu, Haiying, Yan, Yongliang, Ping, Shuzhen, Lu, Wei, Zhang, Wei, ...

Acinetobacter calcoaceticus PHEA-2 exhibited a delayed utilization of phenol in the presence of benzoate. Benzoate supplementation completely inhibited phenol degradation in a benzoate...

Rapid Identification of Paragonimiasis Foci by Lay Informants in Lao People's Democratic Republic

Odermatt, Peter, Veasna, Duong, Zhang, Wei, Vannavong, Nanthasane, Phrommala, Souraxay, Habe, Shigehisa, ...

Paragonimiasis is a neglected pulmonary disease provoked by a food-borne trematode parasite. The infection may develop into severe pulmonary disease, often diagnosed with delay and confused with...

Critical and Distinct Roles of p16 and Telomerase in Regulating the Proliferative Life Span of Normal Human Prostate Epithelial Progenitor Cells*S⃞

Bhatia, Bobby, Jiang, Ming, Suraneni, Mahipal, Patrawala, Lubna, Badeaux, Mark, Schneider-Broussard, Robin, ...

Normal human prostate (NHP) epithelial cells undergo senescence in vitro and in vivo, but the underlying molecular mechanisms remain obscure. Here we show that the senescence of primary NHP cells,...

WNK3 positively regulates epithelial calcium channels TRPV5 and TRPV6 via a kinase-dependent pathway

Zhang, Wei, Na, Tao, Peng, Ji-Bin

WNK3, a member of the With No Lysine (K) family of protein serine/threonine kinases, was shown to regulate members of the SLC12A family of cation-chloride cotransporters and the renal outer medullary...

Multiplexed FRET to Image Multiple Signaling Events in Live Cells

Grant, David M., Zhang, Wei, McGhee, Ewan J., Bunney, Tom D., Talbot, Clifford B., Kumar, Sunil, ...

We report what to our knowledge is a novel approach for simultaneous imaging of two different Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensors in the same cell with minimal spectral cross talk....