Wei Zheng

Ten More New Sightlines for the Study of Intergalactic Helium, and Hundreds of Far-UV-Bright Quasars, from SDSS, GALEX, and HST (2009)

Syphers, David, Anderson, Scott F., Zheng, Wei, Haggard, Daryl, Meiksin, Avery, Schneider, Donald P., ...

Absorption along quasar sightlines remains among the most sensitive direct measures of HeII reionization in much of the intergalactic medium (IGM). Until recently, fewer than a half-dozen unobscured...

Involvement of insulin-degrading enzyme in the clearance of beta-amyloid at the blood-CSF barrier: Consequences of lead exposure (2009)

Behl, Mamta, Zhang, Yanshu, Zheng, Wei

Abstract Background Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by the deposition of beta-amyloid (Aβ) peptides in the brain extracellular matrix, resulting in pathological changes and neurobehavioral...

Optimizations of an Application-Level Protocol for Enhanced Dependability in FlexRay (2009)

Wenchao Li, Marco Di Natale, Wei Zheng, Paolo Giusto, Alberto Sangiovanni-vincentelli, Sanjit A. Seshia

FlexRay [9] is an automotive standard for high-speed and reliable communication that is being widely deployed for next generation cars. The protocol has powerful errordetection mechanisms, but its...

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THE ROBUSTNESS OF DAG SCHEDULING HEURISTICS (2009)

Louis-claude Canon, Emmanuel Jeannot, Rizos Sakellariou, Wei Zheng

Keywords: In this paper we analyze the robustness of 20 static, makespan-centric, DAG scheduling heuristics of the literature. We also study if dynamically changing the order of the tasks on their...

Engineered Solder-Directed Self-Assembly Across Length Scales (2009)

Robert Knuesel, Shameek Bose, Wei Zheng, Heiko O. Jacobs

We report on recent progress in the directed self-assembly of discrete inorganic semiconductor device components. Different from prior research, the goal is to enable the integration of increasingly...

Angular Orientation-Specific Directed Self-assembly and Integration of Ultra Small Dies (2009)

Robert Knuesel, Shameek Bose, Wei Zheng, Heiko O. Jacobs

We report on recent progress in the directed selfassembly of discrete inorganic semiconductor device components. Different from prior research, the goal is to enable the integration of increasingly...

New Multiply-Lensed Galaxies Identified in ACS/NIC3 Observations of Cl0024+1654, Using an Improved Mass Model (2009)

Zitrin, Adi, Broadhurst, Tom, Umetsu, Keiichi, Coe, Dan, Benítez, Narciso, Ascaso, Begoña, ...

We present an improved strong-lensing analysis of Cl0024+1654 ($z$=0.39) using deep HST/ACS/NIC3 images, based on 33 multiply-lensed images of 11 background galaxies. These are found with a model...

Non-robotic fabrication of packaged microsystems by shape-and-solder-directed self-assembly,” presented at (2009)

Wei Zheng, Jae-hoon Chung, Heiko O. Jacobs

The non-robotic fabrication of packaged microsystems that contain non-identical parts has been accomplished by a directed self-assembly process. The self-assembly process uses geometrical shape...

A discussion of motivation for creativity within the business context : From the perspective of the Generation Y (2009)

Pablo Pelayo, Borja, Zheng, Wei

Creativity is one of the “hottest” words in today’s business world. Especially in the trend ofglobalization and fast development of the modern technology, creativity has become the...

Experimental Study of the Effects of Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transfected with Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α Gene (2009)

Jinfu Yang, Tao Tang, Feng Li, Wenwu Zhou, Jian Liu, Zhiping Tan, ...

Objective. To construct the eukaryotic expression vector hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-pcDNA3.1 and to investigate its transfective efficiency into mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vitro and the...

Experimental Study of the Effects of Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transfected with Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α Gene (2009)

Jinfu Yang, Tao Tang, Feng Li, Wenwu Zhou, Jian Liu, Zhiping Tan, ...

Objective. To construct the eukaryotic expression vector hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-pcDNA3.1 and to investigate its transfective efficiency into mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vitro and the...

Cigarette Smoking and Pancreatic Cancer: A Pooled Analysis From the Pancreatic Cancer Cohort Consortium (2009)

Lynch, Shannon M., Vrieling, Alina, Lubin, Jay H., Kraft, Peter, Mendelsohn, Julie B., Hartge, Patricia, ...

Smoking is an established risk factor for pancreatic cancer; however, detailed examination of the association of smoking intensity, smoking duration, and cumulative smoking dose with pancreatic...

A discussion of motivation for creativity within the business context : From the perspective of the Generation Y (2009)

Pablo Pelayo, Borja, Zheng, Wei

Creativity is one of the “hottest” words in today’s business world. Especially in the trend ofglobalization and fast development of the modern technology, creativity has become the...

Preprint, to appear in CSB 2007. Algorithms for Selecting Breakpoint Locations to Optimize Diversity in Protein Engineering by Site-directed Protein Recombination (2008)

Wei Zheng, Xiaoduan Ye, Alan M. Friedman, Chris Bailey-kellogg

Abstract: Protein engineering by site-directed recombination seeks to develop proteins with new or improved function, by accumulating multiple mutations from a set of homologous parent proteins. A...

Algorithms for Joint Optimization of Stability and Diversity in Planning Combinatorial Libraries of Chimeric Proteins (2008)

Wei Zheng, Alan M. Friedman, Chris Bailey-kellogg

Abstract. In engineering protein variants by constructing and screening combinatorial libraries of chimeric proteins, two complementary and competing goals are desired: the new proteins must be...

Programmable Reconfigurable Self-Assembly: Parallel Heterogeneous Integration of Chip-Scale Components on Planar and Nonplanar Surfaces (2008)

Jaehoon Chung, Wei Zheng, Thomas J. Hatch, Heiko O. Jacobs

Abstract—This paper reports on a programmable reconfigurable self-assembly (PRS) process to enable heterogeneous integration of components on nonplanar substrates. The proposed process makes use of...

Fluidic Heterogeneous Microsystems Assembly and Packaging (2008)

Wei Zheng, Jaehoon Chung, Heiko O. Jacobs

Abstract—The nonrobotic fabrication of packaged microsystems that contain nonidentical parts has been accomplished by a directed self-assembly process. The self-assembly process uses geometrical...

Effects of reproductive and demographic changes on breast cancer incidence in China: A modeling analysis (2008)

Linos, Eleni, Spanos, Demetri, Rosner, Bernard A., Linos, Katerina, Hesketh, Therese, Qu, Jian Ding, ...

Background: Breast cancer incidence is currently low in China. However, the distribution of reproductive and lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer among Chinese women is changing rapidly. We...

A High Yield of New Sightlines for the Study of Intergalactic Helium: Far-UV-Bright Quasars from SDSS, GALEX, and HST (2008)

Syphers, David, Anderson, Scott F., Zheng, Wei, Haggard, Daryl, Meiksin, Avery, Chiu, Kuenley, ...

Investigations of He II Ly-alpha (304 A rest) absorption toward a half-dozen quasars at z~3-4 have demonstrated the great potential of helium studies of the IGM, but the current critically small...

Modeling Time-Intensity Profiles for Pulmonary Nodules in MR Images (2008)

Li Shen, Wei Zheng, Ling Gao, Heng Huang, Fillia Makedon, Justin Pearlman

Abstract — Perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (pMRI) is an important tool to assess tumor angiogenesis for the early detection of lung cancer. This paper presents a novel integrated framework for...

z~7-10 Galaxies behind Lensing Clusters: Contrast with Field Search Results (2008)

Bouwens, Rychard J., Illingworth, Garth D., Bradley, Larry D., Ford, Holland, Franx, Marijn, Zheng, Wei, ...

We conduct a search for z>~7 dropout galaxies behind 11 massive lensing clusters using 21 arcmin**2 of deep HST NICMOS, ACS, and WFPC2 image data. In total, over this entire area, we find only one...

Highly sensitive and stable humidity nanosensors based on LiCl doped TiO2 electrospun nanofibers (2008)

Li, Zhenyu, Zhang, Hongnan, Zheng, Wei, Wang, Wei, Huang, Huimin, Wang, Ce, ...

A new type of humidity nanosensor based on LiCl-doped TiO2 nanofibers with poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) (PVP) nanofibers as sacrificial template has been fabricated through electrospinning and...

ABSTRACT Automatic Configuration of Internet Services (2008)

Wei Zheng

Recent research has found that operators frequently misconfigure Internet services, causing various availability and performance problems. In this paper, we propose a software infrastructure that...

Ontology-based Image Retrieval (2008)

Wei Zheng, Yi Ouyang, James Ford, Fillia S. Makedon

Abstract:- The current most desirable image retrieval feature is retrieving images based on their semantic content. Currently there are two major image retrieval paradigms that attempt to provide...

Abstract Sri Kanajan General Motors (2008)

Wei Zheng, Claudio Pinello

The objective of this paper is to present how to design a system that can accommodate additional functionality with either no changes to the design or adding architectural modules without changing...

MODELING MS LESION OBJECTS FOR MEDICAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE (2008)

Tilmann Steinberg, Zhengyi Le, Yi Ouyang, Zhifeng Wang, Wei Zheng, Fillia Makedon, ...

Current medical technologies allow for capturing patient brain pathology in scans of several different types at the same visit, yielding multiple modality image sequences from which objects of...

(2S)-Ethyl 2-[(Ss)-benzylsulfinylamino]-3,3-dimethylbutanoate (2008)

Wei Zheng, Xun Sun, Jie Sun, Bang-Guo Wei

The title compound, C15H23NO3S, is an unexpected 1,3-migration product in the addition of benzylzinc bromide to N-tert-butanesulfinyl iminoacetate. In the crystal structure, molecules are linked by...

Alcohol Drinking, Cigarette Smoking, and Risk of Colorectal Adenomatous and Hyperplastic Polyps (2008)

Shrubsole, Martha J., Wu, Huiyun, Ness, Reid M., Shyr, Yu, Smalley, Walter E., Zheng, Wei

The authors evaluated alcohol drinking and cigarette smoking in relation to risk of colorectal polyps in a Nashville, Tennessee, colonoscopy-based case-control study. In 2003–2005, cases with...

Menstrual and Reproductive Factors in Association With Lung Cancer in Female Lifetime Nonsmokers (2008)

Weiss, Jocelyn M., Lacey, James V., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Ji, Bu-Tian, Hou, Lifang, Yang, Gong, ...

Cigarette smoking is irrefutably the strongest risk factor for lung cancer; however, approximately 25% of cases worldwide occur among nonsmokers. The age-adjusted annual incidence rate of lung cancer...

Effects of Reproductive and Demographic Changes on Breast Cancer Incidence in China: A Modeling Analysis (2008)

Linos, Eleni, Spanos, Demetri, Rosner, Bernard A., Linos, Katerina, Hesketh, Therese, Qu, Jian Ding, ...

Background Breast cancer incidence is currently low in China. However, the distribution of reproductive and lifestyle risk factors for breast cancer among Chinese women is changing rapidly. We...

Endothelium-specific overexpression of class III deacetylase SIRT1 decreases atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice (2008)

Zhang, Qing-jun, Wang, Zhao, Chen, Hou-zao, Zhou, Shuang, Zheng, Wei, Liu, Guang, ...

Aims Hazardous environmental and genetic factors can damage endothelial cells to induce atherosclerotic vascular disease. Recent studies suggest that class III deacetylase SIRT1 may promote cell...

Deck the halls with rows of trolleys . . . emergency departments are busiest over the Christmas holiday period (2008)

Wei Zheng, David J. Muscatello, Adam C Chan

Between 2001 and 2006, average weekly counts of emergency department visits increased by 9% during the holiday period. The holiday increase was largely accounted for by visits that were less urgent,...

Deck the halls with rows of trolleys . . . emergency departments are busiest over the Christmas holiday period (2008)

Wei Zheng, David J. Muscatello, Adam C Chan

Between 2001 and 2006, average weekly counts of emergency department visits increased by 9% during the holiday period. The holiday increase was largely accounted for by visits that were less urgent,...

An outbreak of cardiovascular syndromes requiring urgent medical treatment and its association with environmental factors: an ecological study (2007)

Turner, Robin M, Muscatello, David J, Zheng, Wei, Willmore, Alan, Arendts, Glenn

Abstract Background In April 2005, syndromic surveillance based on statistical control chart methods in Sydney, Australia, signalled increasing incidence of urgent emergency department visits for...

\Gamma13 erg cm (2007)

Gerard A. Kriss, Arthur F. Davidsen, Wei Zheng, Jeffrey W. Kruk, Brian R. Espey, Up To \theta

We observed NGC 4151 on six separate occasions at intervals of one to three days using the Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope during the flight of Astro-2 aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in March 1995....

Association of matrix metalloproteinase-8 gene variation with breast cancer prognosis (2007)

Long, Ji-Rong, Laxton, Ross C, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Hodgkinson, Conrad, ...

Animal and cell studies indicate an inhibitory effect of matrix metalloproteinase-8 (MMP8) on tumorigenesis and metastasis. We investigated whether MMP8 gene variation was associated with breast...

Potential for early warning of viral influenza activity in the community by monitoring clinical diagnoses of influenza in hospital emergency departments (2007)

Zheng, Wei, Aitken, Robert, Muscatello, David J, Churches, Tim

Abstract Background Although syndromic surveillance systems are gaining acceptance as useful tools in public health, doubts remain about whether the anticipated early warning benefits exist. Many...

Patterns and correlates of physical activity: a cross-sectional study in urban Chinese women (2007)

Jurj, Adriana L, Wen, Wanqing, Gao, Yu-Tang, Matthews, Charles E, Yang, Gong, Li, Hong-Lan, ...

Abstract Background Inactivity is a modifiable risk factor for many diseases. Rapid economic development in China has been associated with changes in lifestyle, including physical activity. The...

Influence of Exercise, Walking, Cycling, and Overall Nonexercise Physical Activity on Mortality in Chinese Women (2007)

Matthews, Charles E., Jurj, Adriana L., Shu, Xiao-ou, Li, Hong-Lan, Yang, Gong, Li, Qi, ...

This investigation described the effects of exercise, walking, and cycling for transportation, as well as the effect of overall nonexercise physical activity, on mortality in the Shanghai Women's...

Physical activity and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in the Shanghai women's health study (2007)

Villegas, Raquel, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Li, Honglan, Yang, Gong, Matthews, Charles E, Leitzmann, Michael, ...

Background Leisure-time physical activity (LPA) has been associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. However, the potential effect of other types of physical activity on type 2 diabetes is...

IGFBP3mRNA expression in benign and malignant breast tumors (2007)

Ren, Zefang, Shin, Aesun, Cai, Qiuyin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Zheng, Wei

Abstract Introduction Most previous studies have focused on evaluating the association between circulating insulin-like growth factor binding protein 3 (IGFBP-3) levels and breast cancer risk....

Extrapolation errors in linear model trees (2007)

Wei-yin Loh, Chien-wei Chen, Wei Zheng

Prediction errors from a linear model tend to be larger when extrapolation is involved, particularly when the model is wrong. This paper considers the problem of extrapolation and interpolation...

Interaction of Soy Food and Tea Consumption with CYP19A1 Genetic Polymorphisms in the Development of Endometrial Cancer (2007)

Xu, Wang Hong, Dai, Qi, Xiang, Yong Bing, Long, Ji Rong, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Cheng, Jia Rong, ...

Certain polyphenols inhibit the activity of aromatase, a critical enzyme in estrogen synthesis that is coded by the CYP19A1 gene. Consumption of polyphenol-rich foods and beverages, thus, may...

Meta- and Pooled Analyses of the Cytochrome P-450 1B1 Val432Leu Polymorphism and Breast Cancer: A HuGE-GSEC Review (2007)

Paracchini, Valentina, Raimondi, Sara, Gram, Inger T., Kang, Daehee, Kocabas, Neslihan A., Kristensen, Vessela N., ...

The association between the cytochrome P-450 1B1 (CYP1B1) Val432Leu polymorphism and breast cancer was assessed through a meta-analysis of all published case-control studies and a pooled analysis of...

Reproducibility and Validity of the Shanghai Men's Health Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (2007)

Jurj, Adriana L., Wen, Wanqing, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Matthews, Charles E., Liu, Dake, Zheng, Wei, ...

Reproducibility and validity of the physical activity questionnaire (PAQ) used in the Shanghai Men's Health Study (2003–2006, People's Republic of China) was evaluated in a random sample of 196...

Reproducibility and Validity of the Shanghai Men's Health Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (2007)

Jurj, Adriana L., Wen, Wanqing, Xiang, Yong-Bing, Matthews, Charles E., Liu, Dake, Zheng, Wei, ...

Reproducibility and validity of the physical activity questionnaire (PAQ) used in the Shanghai Men's Health Study (2003–2006, People's Republic of China) was evaluated in a random sample of 196...

Impact of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay on the Global Expression Profile of Budding Yeast (2006)

Qiaoning Guan, Wei Zheng, Shijie Tang, Xiaosong Liu, Robert A. Zinkel, Kam-Wah Tsui, ...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic mechanism of RNA surveillance that selectively eliminates aberrant transcripts coding for potentially deleterious proteins. NMD also functions in...

Impact of Nonsense-mediated mRNA Decay on the Global Expression Profile of Budding Yeast (2006)

Qiaoning Guan, Wei Zheng, Shijie Tang, Xiaosong Liu, Robert A. Zinkel, Kam-Wah Tsui, ...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic mechanism of RNA surveillance that selectively eliminates aberrant transcripts coding for potentially deleterious proteins. NMD also functions in...

A Unified Fitting of HI and HeII Ly\alpha Transmitted Flux of QSO HE2347 with LCDM Hydrodynamic Simulations (2006)

Liu, Jiren, Jamkhedkar, Priya, Zheng, Wei, Feng, Long-Long, Fang, Li-Zhi

Using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations of the LCDM model, we present a comparison between the simulation sample and real data sample of HI and HeII Ly\alpha transmitted flux in the absorption...

Impact of nonsense-mediated mRNA decay on the global expression profile of budding yeast (2006)

Qiaoning Guan, Wei Zheng, Shijie Tang, Xiaosong Liu, Robert A. Zinkel, Kam-wah Tsui, ...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic mechanism of RNA surveillance that selectively eliminates aberrant transcripts coding for potentially deleterious proteins. NMD also functions in...

Microsoft, and Toyota. Automatic Model Generation for Black Box Real-Time Systems ∗ (2006)

Huining Thomas Feng, Wei Zheng, Sanjit A. Seshia, Thomas Huining Feng, Sri Kanajan

personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the...

Association of Ginseng Use with Survival and Quality of Life among Breast Cancer Patients (2006)

Cui, Yong, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Cai, Hui, Tao, Meng-Hua, Zheng, Wei

The authors evaluated the associations of ginseng use as a complementary therapy with survival and quality of life (QOL) in a cohort of 1,455 breast cancer patients who were recruited to the Shanghai...

Association of Overweight with Breast Cancer Survival (2006)

Tao, Meng-Hua, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Gao, Yu-Tang, Zheng, Wei

The authors investigated the association between overweight at the time of or soon after cancer diagnosis and survival in a cohort of 1,455 breast cancer patients aged 25–64 years. The patients...

Physical activity and the incidence of type 2 diabetes in the Shanghai women's health study (2006)

Villegas, Raquel, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Li, Honglan, Yang, Gong, Matthews, Charles E., Leitzmann, Michael, ...

Background Leisure-time physical activity (LPA) has been associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes. However, the potential effect of other types of physical activity on type 2 diabetes is...

An automated, broad-based, near real-time public health surveillance system using presentations to hospital Emergency Departments in New South Wales, Australia (2005)

Muscatello, David J, Churches, Tim, Kaldor, Jill, Zheng, Wei, Chiu, Clayton, Correll, Patricia, ...

Abstract Background In a climate of concern over bioterrorism threats and emergent diseases, public health authorities are trialling more timely surveillance systems. The 2003 Rugby World Cup (RWC)...

Intrinsic Absorption in the Spectrum of NGC 7469: Simultaneous Chandra, FUSE, and STIS Observations (2005)

Scott, Jennifer E., Kriss, Gerard A., Lee, Julia C., Quijano, Jessica Kim, Brotherton, Michael, Canizares, Claude R., ...

We present simultaneous X-ray, far-ultraviolet, and near-ultraviolet spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 obtained with the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer,...

Power Spectrum and Intermittency of Ly${\alpha}$ Transmitted Flux of QSO He2347-4342 (2005)

Jamkhedkar, Priya, Feng, Long-Long, Zheng, Wei, Fang, Li-Zhi

We have studied the power spectrum and the intermittent behavior of the fluctuations in the transmitted flux of HE2347-4342 ${\rm Ly}{\alpha}$ absorption in order to investigate if there is any...

Genetic polymorphisms in the matrix metalloproteinase 12 gene (MMP12) and breast cancer risk and survival: the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study (2005)

Shin, Aesun, Cai, Qiuyin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Zheng, Wei

Abstract Introduction Matrix metalloproteinase 12 (MMP12) is a proteolytic enzyme responsible for cleavage of plasminogen to angiotensin, which has an angiostatic effect. Using data from a...

Novel aspects in the microphase separation of block copolymers (2005)

Zheng, Wei

Several novel aspects of the microphase separation transition of block copolymers have been studied. These aspects are exemplified by the following three systems: (1) ABC triblock copolymers; (2)...

The Color Selection of Quasars from Redshifts 5 to 10: Cloning and Discovery (2005)

Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, Schneider, Donald P., Glazebrook, Karl, Iye, Masanori, Kashikawa, Nobunari, ...

We present simulations of quasar colors, magnitudes, and numbers at redshifts 54.7 quasars increases by a factor of 3X by extending 0.7 i-magnitudes deeper than the SDSS spectroscopic survey limit of...

Discovery of a Fifth Image of the Large Separation Gravitationally Lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112 (2005)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We report the discovery of a fifth image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004+4112. A faint point source located 0.2'' from the center of the brightest galaxy in the lensing...

Classification and Characterization of Objects from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005)

Barlow, T., Bianchi, L., Donas, J., Forster, K., Friedman, P., ...

We use the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Medium Imaging Survey (MIS) and All-sky Imaging Survey (AIS) data available in the first internal release, matched to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)...

Discovery of a fifth image of the large separation gravitationally lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 (2005)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Keeton, Charles R., Eisenstein, Daniel J., Castander, Francisco J., Chiu, Kuenley, ...

We report on the discovery of a fifth lensed image in the large separation lensed quasar system SDSS J1004 + 4112. A faint point source located 0.''2 from the center of the brightest galaxy in the...

An automated, broad-based, near real-time public health surveillance system using presentations to hospital emergency departments in New South Wales, Australia (2005)

Churches, Tim, Kaldor, Jill, Zheng, Wei, ...

Background: In a climate of concern over bioterrorism threats and emergent diseases, public health authorities are trialling more timely surveillance systems. The 2003 Rugby World Cup (RWC) provided...

An automated, broad-based, near real-time public health surveillance system using presentations to hospital emergency departments in New South Wales, Australia (2005)

Churches, Tim, Kaldor, Jill, Zheng, Wei, ...

Background: In a climate of concern over bioterrorism threats and emergent diseases, public health authorities are trialling more timely surveillance systems. The 2003 Rugby World Cup (RWC) provided...

Programmable reconfigurable self-assembly: Approaching the parallel heterogeneous integration on flexible substrates (2005)

Jae-hoon Chung, Wei Zheng, Heiko O. Jacobs

This paper reports on a programmable reconfigurable liquid solder directed self-assembly (PRS) method to enable parallel heterogeneous integration of components on non-planar substrates. Metal...

Research article (2005)

David J Muscatello, Tim Churches, Jill Kaldor, Wei Zheng, Clayton Chiu, Patricia Correll, ...

surveillance system using presentations to hospital Emergency

Node clustering based on link delay in p2p networks (2005)

Wei Zheng, Sheng Zhang, Yi Ouyang, Fillia Makedon, James Ford

Peer-to-peer (P2P) has become an important computing model because of its adaptation, self-organization and autonomy etc. But efficient organization of the nodes in P2P networks is still a challenge...

Aurora-A/STK15 T+91A is a general low penetrance cancer susceptibility gene: a meta-analysis of multiple cancer types (2005)

Ewart-Toland, Amanda, Dai, Qi, Gao, Yu-Tang, Nagase, Hiroki, Dunlop, Malcolm G., Farrington, Susan M., ...

STK15 (Aurora-A) is a serine/threonine kinase involved in mitotic chromosomal segregation. A genetic variant in STK15 T+91A (resulting in the amino acid substitution F31I) is associated with...

The Shanghai Women's Health Study: Rationale, Study Design, and Baseline Characteristics (2005)

Zheng, Wei, Chow, Wong-Ho, Yang, Gong, Jin, Fan, Rothman, Nathaniel, Blair, Aaron, ...

Although cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in most nations, the spectrum of cancer occurrence varies substantially worldwide. Most previous epidemiologic studies investigating cancer...

Association of Overweight with Breast Cancer Survival (2005)

Tao, Meng-Hua, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Gao, Yu-Tang, Zheng, Wei

The authors investigated the association between overweight at the time of or soon after cancer diagnosis and survival in a cohort of 1,455 breast cancer patients aged 25-64 years. The patients were...

Investigating genetic damage in workers occupationally exposed to methotrexate using three genetic end-points (2005)

Deng, Hongping, Zhang, Meibian, He, Jiliang, Wu, Wei, Jin, Lifen, Zheng, Wei, ...

Genetic damage in workers occupationally exposed to an antineoplastic drug was studied using the micronucleus (MN) test, the comet assay, the hprt gene mutation assay and the TCR gene mutation assay....

Association of Passive Smoking by Husbands with Prevalence of Stroke among Chinese Women Nonsmokers (2005)

Zhang, Xianglan, Shu, Xiao Ou, Yang, Gong, Li, Hong Lan, Xiang, Yong Bing, Gao, Yu-Tang, ...

Growing evidence suggests that exposure to environmental tobacco smoke may have deleterious cardiovascular effects. Few studies have investigated environmental tobacco smoke exposure in relation to...

The Shanghai Women's Health Study: Rationale, Study Design, and Baseline Characteristics (2005)

Zheng, Wei, Chow, Wong-Ho, Yang, Gong, Jin, Fan, Rothman, Nathaniel, Blair, Aaron, ...

Although cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in most nations, the spectrum of cancer occurrence varies substantially worldwide. Most previous epidemiologic studies investigating cancer...

Weight history and risk of endometrial cancer among Chinese women (2005)

Xu, Wang Hong, Xiang, Yong Bing, Zheng, Wei, Zhang, Xianglan, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Cheng, Jia Rong, ...

Background Adult obesity is a well-established risk factor for endometrial cancer. However, little is known about the association of endometrial cancer risk with body size early in life and weight...

Aurora-A/STK15 T+91A is a general low penetrance cancer susceptibility gene: a meta-analysis of multiple cancer types (2005)

Ewart-Toland, Amanda, Dai, Qi, Gao, Yu-Tang, Nagase, Hiroki, Dunlop, Malcolm G., Farrington, Susan M., ...

STK15 (Aurora-A) is a serine/threonine kinase involved in mitotic chromosomal segregation. A genetic variant in STK15 T+91A (resulting in the amino acid substitution F31I) is associated with...

Investigating genetic damage in workers occupationally exposed to methotrexate using three genetic end-points (2005)

Deng, Hongping, Zhang, Meibian, He, Jiliang, Wu, Wei, Jin, Lifen, Zheng, Wei, ...

Genetic damage in workers occupationally exposed to an antineoplastic drug was studied using the micronucleus (MN) test, the comet assay, the hprt gene mutation assay and the TCR gene mutation assay....

Effect of Adiposity and Fat Distribution on Endometrial Cancer Risk in Shanghai Women (2005)

Xu, Wang Hong, Matthews, Charles E., Xiang, Yong Bing, Zheng, Wei, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Cheng, Jia Rong, ...

The authors conducted a population-based case-control study of 832 endometrial cancer cases and 846 frequency-matched controls in Shanghai, China (1997–2001), to examine the association of overall...

The Shanghai Women's Health Study: Rationale, Study Design, and Baseline Characteristics (2005)

Zheng, Wei, Chow, Wong-Ho, Yang, Gong, Jin, Fan, Rothman, Nathaniel, Blair, Aaron, ...

Although cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in most nations, the spectrum of cancer occurrence varies substantially worldwide. Most previous epidemiologic studies investigating cancer...

Association of Overweight with Breast Cancer Survival (2005)

Tao, Meng-Hua, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Gao, Yu-Tang, Zheng, Wei

The authors investigated the association between overweight at the time of or soon after cancer diagnosis and survival in a cohort of 1,455 breast cancer patients aged 25-64 years. The patients were...

Efficient Multi-feature Content Based Retrieval (2004)

Zheng, Wei

Relevance feedback is recently adopted in image databases to increase their user-friendliness. In this report a performance study is carried out on the relevance feedback process, which focuses on...

Quasars and the Big Blue Bump (2004)

Shang, Zhaohui, Brotherton, Michael S., Green, Richard F., Kriss, Gerard A., Scott, Jennifer, Quijano, Jessica Kim, ...

We investigate the ultraviolet-to-optical spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 17 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) using quasi-simultaneous spectrophotometry spanning 900-9000 Angstrom (rest frame)....

Genetic polymorphism in the manganese superoxide dismutase gene, antioxidant intake, and breast cancer risk: results from the Shanghai Breast Cancer Study (2004)

Cai, Qiuyin, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Wen, Wanqing, Cheng, Jia-Rong, Dai, Qi, Gao, Yu-Tang, ...

Abstract Introduction It has been suggested that oxidative stress and mitochondrial DNA damage play important roles in breast cancer carcinogenesis. Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is a major...

A Composite Extreme Ultraviolet QSO Spectrum from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (2004)

Scott, Jennifer E., Kriss, Gerard A., Brotherton, Michael, Green, Richard F., Hutchings, John, Shull, J. Michael, ...

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) has surveyed a large sample (> 100) of active galactic nuclei in the low-redshift universe (z < 1). Its response at short wavelengths makes it...

A Composite Extreme Ultraviolet QSO Spectrum from FUSE (2004)

Scott, Jennifer E., Kriss, Gerard A., Brotherton, Michael, Green, Richard F., Hutchings, John, Shull, J. Michael, ...

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) has surveyed a large sample (> 100) of active galactic nuclei in the low redshift universe (z < 1). Its response at short wavelengths makes it...

The X-Ray Derived Cosmological Star Formation History and the Galaxy X-Ray Luminosity Functions in the Chandra Deep Fields North and South (2004)

Norman, Colin, Ptak, Andrew, Hornschemeier, Ann, Hasinger, Guenther, Bergeron, Jacqueline, Comastri, Andrea, ...

The cosmological star formation rate in the combined Chandra Deep Fields North and South is derived from our X-Ray Luminosity Function for Galaxies in these Deep Fields. Mild evolution is seen up to...

Intrinsic Absorption in the Spectrum of Mrk 279: Simultaneous Chandra, FUSE, and STIS Observations (2004)

Scott, Jennifer E., Kriss, Gerard A., Lee, Julia C., Arav, Nahum, Ogle, Patrick, Roraback, Kenneth, ...

We present a study of the intrinsic X-ray and far-ultraviolet absorption in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy Markarian 279 using simultaneous observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Space...

Observations and theoretical implications of the large-separation lensed quasar SDSS J1004+4112 (2004)

Oguri, Masamune, Inada, Naohisa, Keeton, Charles R., Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Gregg, Michael D., ...

We study the recently discovered gravitational lens SDSS J1004+4112, the first quasar lensed by a cluster of galaxies. It consists of four images with a maximum separation of 14.62". The system was...

Unsupervised Scoring for Scalable Internet-Based Collaborative Teleoperation (2004)

Ken Goldberg, Dezhen Song, In Yong Song, Jane Mcgonigal, Wei Zheng, Dana Plautz, ...

Our group is studying the potential for scalable Internet-based Collaborative (Multiple Operator Single Robot) Teleoperation, where many users simultaneously share control using browser-based...

Power spectrum and intermittency of the transmitted flux of QSOs Ly-alpha absorption spectra (2003)

Jamkhedkar, Priya, Feng, Long-Long, Zheng, Wei, Kirkman, David, Tytler, David, Fang, Li-Zhi

Using a set of 28 high resolution, high signal to noise ratio (S/N) QSO Ly-alpha absorption spectra, we investigate the non-Gaussian features of the transmitted flux fluctuations, and their effect...

A gravitationally lensed quasar with quadruple images separated by 14.62arcseconds (2003)

Inada, Naohisa, Oguri, Masamune, Pindor, Bartosz, Hennawi, Joseph F., Chiu, Kuenley, Zheng, Wei, ...

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for the study of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The cold-dark-matter model of the formation of large-scale structures (that is, clusters of...

The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...

Reproducibility and Validity of the Shanghai Women’s Health Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (2003)

Matthews, Charles E., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Yang, Gong, Jin, Fan, Ainsworth, Barbara E., Liu, Dake, ...

In this investigation, the authors evaluated the reproducibility and validity of the Shanghai Women’s Health Study (SWHS) physical activity questionnaire (PAQ), which was administered in a cohort...

The first data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2003)

Abazajian, Kevork N., Adelman-McCarthy, Jennifer K., Agueros, Marcel A., Allam, Sahar S., Anderson, Scott F., Annis, James, ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has validated and made publicly available its First Data Release. This consists of 2099 deg2 of five-band (u, g, r, i, z) imaging data, 186,240 spectra of...

Reproducibility and Validity of the Shanghai Women's Health Study Physical Activity Questionnaire (2003)

Matthews, Charles E., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Yang, Gong, Jin, Fan, Ainsworth, Barbara E., Liu, Dake, ...

In this investigation, the authors evaluated the reproducibility and validity of the Shanghai Women’s Health Study (SWHS) physical activity questionnaire (PAQ), which was administered in a cohort...

Parametric quantum spin pump (2002)

Zheng, Wei, Wu, Junling, Wang, Baigeng, Wang, Jian, Sun, Qingfeng, Guo, Hong

We investigate a non-adiabatic parametric quantum pump consists of a nonmagnetic scattering region connected by two ferromagnetic leads. The presence of ferromagnetic leads allows electrons with...

The Ionized Gas and Nuclear Environment in NGC 3783 II. Averaged HST/STIS and FUSE Spectra (2002)

Gabel, Jack R., Crenshaw, D. Michael, Kraemer, Steven B., Brandt, W. N., George, Ian M., Hamann, Frederick W., ...

We present observations of the intrinsic absorption in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 obtained with the STIS/HST and FUSE. We have coadded multiple STIS and FUSE observations to obtain a high S/N...

Non-Gaussian Features of Transmitted Flux of QSO's Ly$\alpha$ Absorption: Intermittent Exponent (2002)

Pando, Jesus, Feng, Long-Long, Jamkhedkar, Priya, Zheng, Wei, Kirkman, David, Tytler, David, ...

We calculate the structure function and intermittent exponent of the 1.) Keck data, which consists of 29 high resolution, high signal to noise ratio (S/N) QSO Ly$\alpha$ absorption spectra, and...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release (2002)

Stoughton, Chirs, Lupton, Rpbert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott, Castander, Francsico J., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of 10 6 galaxies, 100,000...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)

Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...

A Comparative Study of QoS Routing Schemes That Tolerate Imprecise State Information (2002)

Xin Yuan, Wei Zheng, Shiling Ding

In large networks, maintaining precise global network state information is almost impossible. Many factors, including nonnegligible propagation delay, infrequent link state update due to overhead...

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: early data release (2002)

Stoughton, Chris, Lupton, Robert H., Bernardi, Mariangela, Blanton, Michael R., Burles, Scott M., Castander, Francisco J., ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) is an imaging and spectroscopic survey that will eventually cover approximately one-quarter of the celestial sphere and collect spectra of ≈ 106 galaxies,...

Birthweight, childhood growth and hypertension in adulthood (2002)

Zhao, Mingfang, Shu, Xiao Ou, Jin, Fan, Yang, Gong, Li, Hong-Lan, Liu, Da-Ke, ...

Background Low birthweight (BW) and childhood growth have been hypothesized to be associated with an increased risk of hypertension in later life. Methods We analysed data among 13 467 women with a...

Continuous flow, submicro-liter scale PCR device for the analysis of plant genomes / (2001)

Zheng, Wei.

Since the introduction of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR), PCR has become one of the most useful and versatile processes in biological science. In recent years, many micromachined PCR chips have...

A Comparative Study of Quality of Service Routing Schemes That Tolerate Imprecise State Information (2001)

Xin Yuan, Wei Zheng

In large networks, maintaining precise global network state information is almost impossible. Many factors, including non-negligible propagation delay, infrequent link state update due to overhead...

Transthyretin, Thyroxine, and Retinol-Binding Protein in Human Cerebrospinal Fluid: Effect of Lead Exposure (2001)

Zheng, Wei, Lu, Yong-Ming, Lu, Guo-Yao, Zhao, Qiuqu, Cheung, Onpan, Blaner, William S.

Transthyretin (TTR), synthesized by the choroid plexus, is proposed to have a role in transport of thyroid hormones in the brain. Our previous studies in animals suggest that sequestration of lead...

Convection of water near 4 C in an anisotropic porous medium / (2000)

Zheng, Wei.

"Mémoire présenté en vue de l'obtention du diplôme de maîtrise ès sciences appliquées (génie mécanique)"

Dedicated to My Parents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (2000)

Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng

I would like to express my gratitude to the chairman of my supervisory committee, Dr. Richard Newman, for his invaluable advice, guidance and patience. Also I would like to express my sincere thanks...

Comparative Toxicokinetics of Manganese Chloride and Methylcyclopentadienyl Manganese Tricarbonyl (MMT) in Sprague-Dawley Rats (2000)

Zheng, Wei, Kim, Hyaehwan, Zhao, Qiuqu

The toxicokinetics of manganese (Mn) was investigated in male and female rats either following a single intravenous (iv) or oral dose of MnCl2 (6.0 mg Mn/kg), or following a single oral dose of...

Twinship and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer (2000)

Cerhan, James R., Kushi, Lawrence H., Olson, Janet E., Rich, Stephen S., Zheng, Wei, Folsom, Aaron R., ...

BACKGROUND: Intrauterine exposure to high levels of endogenous estrogens has been hypothesized to increase the risk of breast cancer. Because estrogens and other pregnancy hormones are substantially...

Population-Based, Case-Control Study of HER2 Genetic Polymorphism and Breast Cancer Risk (2000)

Xie, Dawen, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Deng, Zonglin, Wen, Wan-Qing, Creek, Kim E., Dai, Qi, ...

BACKGROUND: Alterations of the HER2 (also known as erbB-2 or neu) proto-oncogene have been implicated in the carcinogenesis and prognosis of breast cancer. A polymorphism at codon 655 (GTC/valine to...

A High Signal-to-Noise UV Spectrum of NGC 7469: New Support for Reprocessing of Continuum Radiation (1999)

Kriss, Gerard A., Peterson, Bradley M., Crenshaw, D. Michael, Zheng, Wei

From 1996 June 10 to 1996 July 29 the International AGN Watch monitored the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 using IUE, RXTE, and a network of ground-based observatories. On 1996 June 18, in the midst of...

Coulomb blockade in resistively isolated tunnel junctions /--by Wei Zheng. (1999)

Zheng, Wei.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1999.

Prospective Study of Diet and Ovarian Cancer (1999)

Kushi, Lawrence H., Mink, Pamela J., Folsom, Aaron R., Anderson, Kristin E., Zheng, Wei, Lazovich, DeAnn, ...

Evidence on dietary risk factors for ovarian cancer is inconsistent, but some studies have suggested positive associations with dietary fat, lactose, and cholesterol and negative associations with...

Insulin Resistance, IGFs and Energy Balance on the Risk of Breast Cancer (1998)

Malin, Alecia, Zheng, Wei, Yu, Herbert

The purpose of this proposal is to research the association of insulin resistance and its joint effect with insulin like growth factors (IGFs) on breast cancer risk. Many epidemiological studies have...

Folate and Breast Cancer: Role of Intake, Blood Levels and Metabolic Gene Polymorphisms (1998)

Shrubsole, Martha J., Zheng, Wei

The purpose of this application is training in nutritional and molecular epidemiology with the eventual goal of establishing an independent investigator. The hypothesis major hypothesis of the...

Insulin Resistance, IGFs and Energy Balance on the Risk of Breast Cancer (1998)

Malin, Alecia, Zheng, Wei, Yu, Herbert

The purpose of this proposal is to research the association of insulin resistance and its joint effect with insulin like growth factors (IGFs) on breast cancer risk. Many epidemiological studies have...

The Very Highly Ionized Broad Absorption Line System of the QSO SBS1542+541 (1998)

Telfer, Randal C., Kriss, Gerard A., Zheng, Wei, Davidsen, Arthur F., Green, Richard F.

We have analyzed the broad absorption line system of the bright (V=16.5) high-redshift (z=2.361) QSO SBS1542+541 using UV spectra from the HST FOS along with optical data from the MMT and the Steward...

Observation of Strong Coulomb Blockade in Resistively Isolated Tunnel Junctions (1998)

Zheng, Wei, Friedman, Jonathan R., Averin, D. V., Han, Siyuan, Lukens, J. E.

We report measurements of the Coulomb-blockade current in resistively isolated (R_{Isol} >> h/e^{2}) tunnel junctions for the temperature range 60mK $We report measurements of the Coulomb-blockade...

Ly-alpha/H-alpha Ratio of Singly Ionized Helium in Quasars (1998)

Zheng, Wei, Fang, Li-Zhi

He II Ly-alpha 304/H-alpha 1640 emission lines are mainly produced by recombination, and their canonical ratio of about 10 may be a sensitive reddening indicator. We obtain the high S/N optical...

Pathologic Features of Initial Adenomas as Predictors for Metachronous Adenomas of the Rectum (1998)

Yang, Gong, Zheng, Wei, Sun, Qi-Rong, Shu, Xiao-Ou, Li, Wei-Dong, Yu, Hai, ...

Background: Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the world, arising mostly from pre-existing adenomatous polyps (adenomas) of the large bowel. Patients with colorectal adenomas are at...

The He II Opacity of the Lyman-alpha Forest and the Intergalactic Medium (1997)

Zheng, Wei, Davidsen, Arthur F., Kriss, Gerard A.

Based on the empirical formulas governing the distribution of Ly-a forest absorption, we use a Monte-Carlo technique to calculate the average HeII optical depth produced by these forest lines. A...

Novel aspects in the microphase separation of block copolymers (1996)

Zheng, Wei

Several novel aspects of the microphase separation transition of block copolymers have been studied. These aspects are exemplified by the following three systems: (1) ABC triblock copolymers; (2)...

A Study of Time Variations of UV Continuum and Emission Lines in 3C390.3 (1996)

Zheng, Wei

Based on the IUE SWP spectra obtained between 1978 and 1994, the variations of the UV continuum and the Ly-alpha and C IV emission lines of the broad-line radio galaxy 3C390.3 are studied. The UV...

Intake of Vitamins A, C, and E and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer: The Iowa Women's Health Study (1996)

Kushi, Lawrence H., Fee, Rebecca M., Sellers, Thomas A., Zheng, Wei, Folsom, Aaron R.

The association between dietary antioxidant vitamin intake and the risk of breast cancer was examined in a prospective study of 34,387 postmenopausal women in Iowa. Intakes of vitamins A, C, and E...

Tea Consumption and Cancer Incidence in a Prospective Cohort Study of Postmenopausal Women (1996)

Zheng, Wei, Doyle, Timothy J., Kushi, Lawrence H., Sellers, Thomas A., Hong, Ching-Ping, Folsom, Aaron R.

Tea has consistently been shown to inhibit the occurrence of tumors in experimental animals. The evidence for such a beneficial effect in humans, however, is limited. The authors examined the...

Infant Breastfeeding and the Risk of Childhood Lymphoma and Leukaemia (1995)

SHU, XIAO-OU, CLEMENS, JOHN, ZHENG, WEI, YING, DA MING, JI, BU TIAN, JIN, AND FAN

Background. A protective effect of breastfeeding on childhood lymphoma has been indicated but supportive evidence is limited. Method. Data from a population-based case-control study of childhood...

Association of Body Mass Index and Body Fat Distribution with Risk of Lung Cancer in Older Women (1995)

Drinkard, Carol R., Sellers, Thomas A., Potter, John D., Zheng, Wei, Bostlck, Roberd M., Nelson, Christine L., ...

Obesity has been associated with an increased risk of cancer at a number of sites. A notable exception appears to be lung cancer, for which several studies suggest a modest inverse association....

Dietary Intake of Energy and Animal Foods and Endometrial Cancer Incidence: The lowa Women's Health Study (1995)

Zheng, Wei, Kushi, Lawrence H., Potter, John D., Sellers, Thomas A., Doyle, Timothy J., Bostick, Roberd M., ...

To assess the relations of dietary intake of energy and animal foods to endometrial cancer risk, dietary analyses were performed using data from a prospective cohort study of over 23,000...

Retinol, Antioxidant Vitamins, and Cancers of the Upper Digestive Tract in a Prospective Cohort Study of Postmenopausal Women (1995)

Zheng, Wei, Sellers, Thomas A., Doyle, Timothy J., Kushi, Lawrence H., Potter, John D., Folsom, Aaron R.

Very few prospective studies have reported previously on the association of micronutrient intake and the risk of cancers of the upper digestive tract (mouth, pharynx, esophagus, and stomach) in...

FeII and FeI emission in IRAS 07598+6508 and PHL 1092 (1994)

Kwan, John, Cheng, Fu-zhen, Fang, Li-Zhi, Zheng, Wei, Ge, Jian

One of the puzzles in understanding the spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is the origin of the FeII emission. FeI emission, if present, will help reveal the physical conditions of the emitting...

Familial Clustering of Breast and Prostate Cancers and Risk of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer (1994)

Sellers, Thomas A., Potter, John D., Rich, Stephen S., Drinkard, Carol R., Bostick, Roberd M., Kushi, Lawrence H., ...

Background: Previous studies have suggested that cancers of the breast and prostate cluster in families and that the presence of both diseases in a family may be associated with increased risk of...

A Nested Case-Control Study of Oesophageal and Stomach Cancers in the Linxian Nutrition Intervention Trial (1994)

GUO, WANDE, BLOT, WILLIAM J, LI, JUN-YAO, TAYLOR, PHILIP R, LIU, BO QI, WANG, WEN, ...

Background. Rates of oesophageal/gastric cardia cancer in Linxian, a rural county in north central China, are among the world's highest, but the risk factors are not well understood. Methods. A...

A Population-based Case-Control Study of Dietary Factors and Endometrial Cancer in Shanghai, People's Republic of China (1993)

Shu, Xiao Ou, Zheng, Wei, Potischman, Nancy, Brinton, Louise A., Hatch, Maureen C., Gao, Yu-Tang, ...

The relation between diet and endometrial cancer was examined in a population-based case-control study conducted in Shanghai, People's Republic of China, between 1988 and 1990, involving interviews...

Physical Activity and Occupational Risk of Colon Cancer in Shanghai, China (1993)

CHOW, WONG-HO, DOSEMECI, MUSTAFA, ZHENG, WEI, VETTER, RENATE, MCLAUGHLIN, JOSEPH K, GAO, YU-TANG, ...

Using occupational data for over 2000 colon cancer cases diagnosed between 1980 and 1984 in Shanghai, and employment information from the 1382 census for the Shanghai population, standardized...

Risk Factors for Cancers of the Nasal Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses among White Men in the United States (1993)

Zheng, Wei, McLaughlin, Joseph K., Chow, Wong-Ho, Chien, Harvey T. Co, Blot, William J.

A case-control analysis of cancer of the nasal cavity and sinuses was performed using data from the 1986 National Mortality Followback Survey. Data on cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, usual...

Diet and Other Risk Factors for Laryngeal Cancer in Shanghai, China (1992)

Zheng, Wei, Blot, William J., Shu, Xiao-Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Ji, Bu-Tian, Ziegler, Regina G., ...

A population-based, case-control study of laryngeal cancer was conducted in Shang-hai, China, during 1988-1990, in which 201 incident cases (177 males, 24 females) and 414 controls (269 males, 145...

Determination and Metabolism of Dithiol Chelating Agents. VII. Biliary Excretion of Dithiols and Their Interactions with Cadmium and Metallothionein (1990)

ZHENG, WEI, MAIORINO, RICHARD M., BRENDEL, KLAUS, APOSHIAN, H. VASKEN

Determination and Metabolism of Dithiol Chelating Agents. VII. Biliary Excretion of Dithiols and Their Interactions with Cadmium and Metallothionein. ZHENG, W., MAIORINO, R. M., BRENDEL, K., AND...

Lung Cancer and Smoking in Shanghai (1988)

GAO, YU-TANG, BLOT, WILLIAM J, ZHENG, WEI, FRAUMENI, JOSEPH F, HSU, CHENG-WEN

A case-control study involving interviews with 733 male and 672 female incident lung cancer patients and 1495 population-based controls revealed that cigarette smoking is the dominant cause of lung...

Fidelity versus Vanguard: Comparing the Performance of the Two Largest Mutual Fund Families

Tower, Edward, Zheng, Wei

This paper compares the risk and return of investing in equity mutual funds provided by the world's two largest mutual fund families: Fidelity and Vanguard over a long horizon. We believe this will...

Age-Dependent Resistance to Lethal Alphavirus Encephalitis in Mice: Analysis of Gene Expression in the Central Nervous System and Identification of a Novel Interferon-Inducible Protective Gene, Mouse ISG12

Labrada, Lucia, Liang, Xiao Huan, Zheng, Wei, Johnston, Christine, Levine, Beth

Several different mammalian neurotropic viruses produce an age-dependent encephalitis characterized by more severe disease in younger hosts. To elucidate potential factors that contribute to...

Role of Growth Factors in Coronary Morphogenesis

Tomanek, Robert J., Zheng, Wei

This communication briefly reviews the role of angiogenic growth factors in myocardial vessel formation during development. The earliest signs of vascularization are the migration and differentiation...

Soya food intake and risk of endometrial cancer among Chinese women in Shanghai: population based case-control study

Xu, Wang Hong, Zheng, Wei, Xiang, Yong Bing, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Cheng, Jia Rong, Dai, Qi, ...

Objective To evaluate the association of intake of soya food, a rich source of phytoestrogens, with the risk of endometrial cancer.

Sequential shape-and-solder-directed self-assembly of functional microsystems

Zheng, Wei, Buhlmann, Philippe, Jacobs, Heiko O.

We demonstrate the fabrication of packaged microsystems that contain active semiconductor devices and passive components by using a directed self-assembly technique. The directed self-assembly is...

The analysis of large-scale gene expression correlated to the phase changes of the migratory locust

Kang, Le, Chen, XiangYong, Zhou, Yan, Liu, BoWan, Zheng, Wei, Li, RuiQiang, ...

The migratory locust is one of the most notorious agricultural pests that undergo a well known reversible, density-dependent phase transition from the solitary to the gregarious. To demonstrate the...

Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome

Kalanithi, Paul S. A., Zheng, Wei, Kataoka, Yuko, DiFiglia, Marian, Grantz, Heidi, Saper, Clifford B., ...

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a childhood neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics. Imaging studies found alterations in caudate (Cd) and putamen volumes. To investigate possible...

Prenatal lead exposure, delta-aminolevulinic acid, and schizophrenia.

Opler, Mark G A, Brown, Alan S, Graziano, Joseph, Desai, Manisha, Zheng, Wei, Schaefer, Catherine, ...

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder of unknown etiology. Recent reports suggest that a number of environmental factors during prenatal development may be associated with schizophrenia. We...

Environmental tobacco smoke and mortality in Chinese women who have never smoked: prospective cohort study

Wen, Wanqing, Shu, Xiao Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Yang, Gong, Li, Qi, Li, Honglan, ...

Objective To evaluate the association of environmental exposure to tobacco smoke from husbands and from work, as well as from family members in early life, with all cause mortality and mortality due...

The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight

Villegas, Raquel, Shu, Xiao Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Yang, Gong, Cai, Hui, Li, Honglan, ...

Aim: To investigate the association between meat intake and incidence of type 2 diabetes (type 2 DM) in a large cohort of middle-aged women.

Impact of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay on the Global Expression Profile of Budding Yeast

Guan, Qiaoning, Zheng, Wei, Tang, Shijie, Liu, Xiaosong, Zinkel, Robert A, Tsui, Kam-Wah, ...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic mechanism of RNA surveillance that selectively eliminates aberrant transcripts coding for potentially deleterious proteins. NMD also functions in...

Age-Dependent Resistance to Lethal Alphavirus Encephalitis in Mice: Analysis of Gene Expression in the Central Nervous System and Identification of a Novel Interferon-Inducible Protective Gene, Mouse ISG12

Labrada, Lucia, Liang, Xiao Huan, Zheng, Wei, Johnston, Christine, Levine, Beth

Several different mammalian neurotropic viruses produce an age-dependent encephalitis characterized by more severe disease in younger hosts. To elucidate potential factors that contribute to...

Role of Growth Factors in Coronary Morphogenesis

Tomanek, Robert J., Zheng, Wei

This communication briefly reviews the role of angiogenic growth factors in myocardial vessel formation during development. The earliest signs of vascularization are the migration and differentiation...

Soya food intake and risk of endometrial cancer among Chinese women in Shanghai: population based case-control study

Xu, Wang Hong, Zheng, Wei, Xiang, Yong Bing, Ruan, Zhi Xian, Cheng, Jia Rong, Dai, Qi, ...

Objective To evaluate the association of intake of soya food, a rich source of phytoestrogens, with the risk of endometrial cancer.

Sequential shape-and-solder-directed self-assembly of functional microsystems

Zheng, Wei, Buhlmann, Philippe, Jacobs, Heiko O.

We demonstrate the fabrication of packaged microsystems that contain active semiconductor devices and passive components by using a directed self-assembly technique. The directed self-assembly is...

The analysis of large-scale gene expression correlated to the phase changes of the migratory locust

Kang, Le, Chen, XiangYong, Zhou, Yan, Liu, BoWan, Zheng, Wei, Li, RuiQiang, ...

The migratory locust is one of the most notorious agricultural pests that undergo a well known reversible, density-dependent phase transition from the solitary to the gregarious. To demonstrate the...

Altered parvalbumin-positive neuron distribution in basal ganglia of individuals with Tourette syndrome

Kalanithi, Paul S. A., Zheng, Wei, Kataoka, Yuko, DiFiglia, Marian, Grantz, Heidi, Saper, Clifford B., ...

Tourette syndrome (TS) is a childhood neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by motor and vocal tics. Imaging studies found alterations in caudate (Cd) and putamen volumes. To investigate possible...

Prenatal lead exposure, delta-aminolevulinic acid, and schizophrenia.

Opler, Mark G A, Brown, Alan S, Graziano, Joseph, Desai, Manisha, Zheng, Wei, Schaefer, Catherine, ...

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder of unknown etiology. Recent reports suggest that a number of environmental factors during prenatal development may be associated with schizophrenia. We...

Environmental tobacco smoke and mortality in Chinese women who have never smoked: prospective cohort study

Wen, Wanqing, Shu, Xiao Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Yang, Gong, Li, Qi, Li, Honglan, ...

Objective To evaluate the association of environmental exposure to tobacco smoke from husbands and from work, as well as from family members in early life, with all cause mortality and mortality due...

The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight

Villegas, Raquel, Shu, Xiao Ou, Gao, Yu-Tang, Yang, Gong, Cai, Hui, Li, Honglan, ...

Aim: To investigate the association between meat intake and incidence of type 2 diabetes (type 2 DM) in a large cohort of middle-aged women.

Impact of Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay on the Global Expression Profile of Budding Yeast

Guan, Qiaoning, Zheng, Wei, Tang, Shijie, Liu, Xiaosong, Zinkel, Robert A, Tsui, Kam-Wah, ...

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) is a eukaryotic mechanism of RNA surveillance that selectively eliminates aberrant transcripts coding for potentially deleterious proteins. NMD also functions in...

Quantitative high-throughput screening: A titration-based approach that efficiently identifies biological activities in large chemical libraries

Inglese, James, Auld, Douglas S., Jadhav, Ajit, Johnson, Ronald L., Simeonov, Anton, Yasgar, Adam, ...

High-throughput screening (HTS) of chemical compounds to identify modulators of molecular targets is a mainstay of pharmaceutical development. Increasingly, HTS is being used to identify chemical...

Three classes of glucocerebrosidase inhibitors identified by quantitative high-throughput screening are chaperone leads for Gaucher disease

Zheng, Wei, Padia, Janak, Urban, Daniel J., Jadhav, Ajit, Goker-Alpan, Ozlem, Simeonov, Anton, ...

Gaucher disease is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder caused by mutations in the glucocerebrosidase gene. Missense mutations result in reduced enzyme activity that may be due to...

Increased Expression of the Cardiac L-type Calcium Channel in Estrogen Receptor–deficient Mice

Johnson, Barry D., Zheng, Wei, Korach, Kenneth S., Scheuer, Todd, Catterall, William A., Rubanyi, Gabor M.

Steroid hormones control the expression of many cellular regulators, and a role for estrogen in cardiovascular function and disease has been well documented. To address whether the activity of the...

Crystallization and initial X-ray analysis of polyhydroxyalkanoate granule-associated protein from Aeromonas hydrophila

Zhao, Minglian, Li, Zhenguo, Zheng, Wei, Lou, Zhiyong, Chen, Guo-Qiang

The phasin PhaPAh from A. hydrophila strain 4AK4 was crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method.

A Conceptualisation of the Relationship Between Organisational Culture and Knowledge Management

Wei Zheng

Organisational culture has been regarded as an important factor affecting knowledge management practices. This paper is an initial effort in constructing a new conceptualisation of the relationship...

The Chinese Insurance Market: Estimating its Long-Term Growth and Size*

Wei Zheng, Yongdong Liu, Gerry Dickinson

The mid-term and long-term growth potential of China's insurance industry is a subject of significant interest to governments, business and academia. In this paper, the “world insurance growth...

Ranking mutual fund families: minimum expenses and maximum loads as markers for moral turpitude

Edward Tower, Wei Zheng

Mutual fund families, Performance, Turnover, Expense ratio, Loads, G10, G11, G20,

A Comparative Study of International Insurance Markets*

Wei Zheng, Yongdong Liu, Yiting Deng

By proposing the Benchmark Ratio of Insurance Penetration (BRIP) as a new paradigm for international insurance comparison, this paper makes a new assessment and comparison of insurance growth levels...

Southern community cohort study: establishing a cohort to investigate health disparities.

Signorello, Lisa B., Hargreaves, Margaret K., Steinwandel, Mark D., Zheng, Wei, Cai, Qiuyin, Schlundt, David G., ...

OBJECTIVES: To demonstrate the methods of recruitment of a low-income, predominantly African-American study population for the Southern Community Cohort Study (SCCS), a prospective epidemiologic...

Nonsense-Mediated Decay of ash1 Nonsense Transcripts in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Zheng, Wei, Finkel, Jonathan S., Landers, Sharon M., Long, Roy M., Culbertson, Michael R.

Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) performs two functions in eukaryotes, one in controlling the expression level of a substantial subset of genes and the other in RNA surveillance. In the vast...

Inter-MAR Association Contributes to Transcriptionally Active Looping Events in Human β-globin Gene Cluster

Wang, Li, Di, Li-Jun, Lv, Xiang, Zheng, Wei, Xue, Zheng, Guo, Zhi-Chen, ...

Matrix attachment regions (MARs) are important in chromatin organization and gene regulation. Although it is known that there are a number of MAR elements in the β-globin gene cluster, it is unclear...

Evaluating Online Health Information: Beyond Readability Formulas

Leroy, Gondy, Helmreich, Stephen, Cowie, James R., Miller, Trudi, Zheng, Wei

Although understanding health information is important, the texts provided are often difficult to understand. There are formulas to measure readability levels, but there is little understanding of...

Inhibition of 11β–hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type II selectively blocks the tumor COX-2 pathway and suppresses colon carcinogenesis in mice and humans

Zhang, Ming-Zhi, Xu, Jie, Yao, Bing, Yin, Huiyong, Cai, Qiuyin, Shrubsole, Martha J., ...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a leading cause of cancer death, yet primary prevention remains the best approach to reducing overall morbidity and mortality. Studies have shown that COX-2–derived PGE2...

Benefit and cost analysis of mariculture based on ecosystem services

Zheng, Wei, Shi, Honghua, Chen, Shang, Zhu, Mingyuan

As a life-supporting system, marine ecosystem provides various services for human being. Based on ecosystem services, we developed a Benifit and Cost Analysis model to balance the conflicts between...

Experimental Study of the Effects of Marrow Mesenchymal Stem Cells Transfected with Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-1α Gene

Yang, Jinfu, Tang, Tao, Li, Feng, Zhou, Wenwu, Liu, Jian, Tan, Zhiping, ...

Objective. To construct the eukaryotic expression vector hypoxia-inducible factor 1α-pcDNA3.1 and to investigate its transfective efficiency into mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in vitro and the...

Small-molecule agonists for the thyrotropin receptor stimulate thyroid function in human thyrocytes and mice

Neumann, Susanne, Huang, Wenwei, Titus, Steve, Krause, Gerd, Kleinau, Gunnar, Alberobello, Anna Teresa, ...

Seven-transmembrane-spanning receptors (7TMRs) are prominent drug targets. However, small-molecule ligands for 7-transmembrane-spanning receptors for which the natural ligands are large,...

Differential effects of cyclic and static stretch on coronary microvascular endothelial cell receptors and vasculogenic/angiogenic responses

Zheng, Wei, Christensen, Lance P., Tomanek, Robert J.

Mechanical stretch, an important growth stimulus, results not only from pulsatile blood flow and diastolic stretch of the ventricles [cyclic stretch (CS)] but also from tissue expansion during growth...

STRUCTURE AND FERROELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF Bi0.95La0.05FeO3 FILM ON INDIUM TIN OXIDE (ITO)/GLASS SUBSTRATE

QIANG GAO, WEI ZHENG

Bi0.95La0.05FeO3(BLFOx=0.05) film was fabricated on indium tin oxide/glass substrate using a metal organic decomposition method. No secondary phase can be observed in the well crystallized and...