Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions: II. Cep A & NGC 7538 (2008)
Moscadelli, L., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Xu, Y.
We report trigonometric parallaxes for the sources NGC 7538 and Cep A, corresponding to distances of 2.65 [+0.12/-0.11] kpc and 0.70 [+0.04/-0.04] kpc, respectively. The distance to NGC 7538 is...
Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions: III. G59.7+0.1 and W 51 IRS2 (2008)
Xu, Y., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Moscadelli, L.
We report trigonometric parallaxes for G59.7+0.1 and W 51 IRS2, corresponding to distances of 2.16^{+0.10}_{-0.09} kpc and 5.1^{+2.9}_{-1.4} kpc, respectively. The distance to G59.7+0.1 is smaller...
Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions: IV. G35.20-0.74 and G35.20-1.74 (2008)
Zhang, B., Zheng, X. W., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Xu, Y., Moscadelli, L., ...
We report trigonometric parallaxes for the high-mass star forming regions G35.20-0.74 and G35.20-1.74, corresponding to distances of 2.19 (+0.24 -0.20) kpc and 3.27 (+0.56 -0.42) kpc, respectively....
Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions: V. G23.01-0.41 and G23.44-0.18 (2008)
Brunthaler, A., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Moscadelli, L., Xu, Y.
We report trigonometric parallaxes for the massive star-forming regions G23.01-0.41 and G23.44-0.18, corresponding to distances of 4.59 [+0.38/-0.33] kpc and 5.88 [+1.37/-0.93] kpc, respectively. The...
Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions: I. S 252 & G232.6+1.0 (2008)
Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., Zheng, X. W., Moscadelli, L., Xu, Y.
We are conducting a large program with the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) to measure trigonometric parallaxes of massive star-forming regions across the Milky Way. Here we report measurement of...
Observation of a novel orbital selective Mott transition in Ca$_{1.8}$Sr$_{0.2}$RuO$_4$ (2008)
Neupane, M., Richard, P., Xu, Y., Jin, R., Mandrus, D., ...
Electrons in a simple correlated system behave either as itinerant charge carriers or as localized moments. However, there is growing evidence for the coexistence of itinerant electrons and local...
Beam-Energy and System-Size Dependence of Dynamical Net Charge Fluctuations (2008)
Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...
We present measurements of net charge fluctuations in $Au + Au$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 19.6, 62.4, 130, and 200 GeV, $Cu + Cu$ collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = $ 62.4, 200 GeV, and $p + p$...
The feasibility of an earthquake early warning Shield in Greece is being explored as a European demonstration project. This will be the first early warning system in Europe. The island of Revithoussa...
The feasibility of an earthquake early warning Shield in Greece is being explored as a European demonstration project. This will be the first early warning system in Europe. The island of Revithoussa...
Variability of summer precipitation over eastern China during the last millennium (2008)
Shen, C., Peng, Y., Xu, Y., Zheng, J.
We use measurements of recent decades, 1500-yr proxy data, and millennium model simulations with a variety of climate facings to study the temporal and spatial variability of summer precipitation...
Variability of summer precipitation over eastern China during the last millennium (2008)
Shen, C., Peng, Y., Xu, Y., Zheng, J.
We use measurements of recent decades, 1500-yr proxy data, and millennium model simulations with a variety of climate facings to study the temporal and spatial variability of summer precipitation...
Ultrafast Dynamics of Coherent Acoustic Phonons in the Ferromagnetic GaMnAs/GaAs System (2008)
Qi, J., Xu, Y., Steigerwald, A., Tolk, N., Liu, X., Furdyna, J. K., ...
We observed pronounced oscillations in the reflectivity curves of ferromagnetic Ga$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$As/GaAs heterostructures using pump-probe spectroscopy that are caused by coherent acoustic phonons...
Y. Xu, S. Chen, M.G. Kaufman, S. Maknojia, M. Bagdasarian, E.D. Walker
We investigated the bacterial community composition of tree holes in relation to the presence and absence of larvae of the mosquito Ochlerotatus triseriatus. Larvae were eliminated from a subset of...
Xu, Y., Macaulay, M.C., Jowitt, F.A., Clarke-O'Neill, S.R., Fader, M.J., Van Den Heuvel, E.A., ...
Clinicians often use intuitive models based on clinical experience or regression models based on population studies to plan treatment of gait-related disorders. Because such models are constructed...
Configuration flexibility and extended regimes in Large Helical Device (2008)
Yamada, H., Komori, A., Ohyabu, N., Kaneko, O., Kawahata, K., Watanabe, K. Y., ...
Recent experimental results in the Large Helical Device have indicated that a large pressure gradient can be formed beyond the stability criterion for the Mercier (high-n) mode. While the stability...
Impact of heat deposition profile on global confinement of NBI heated plasmas in the LHD (2008)
Yamada, H., Murakami, S., Yamazaki, K., Kaneko, O., Miyazawa, J., Sakamoto, R., ...
Energy confinement and heat transport of net-current-free NBI heated plasmas in the large helical device (LHD) are discussed with emphasis on density and power deposition profile dependences....
Recent advances in the LHD experiment (2008)
Motojima, O., Ohyabu, N., Komori, A., Kaneko, O., Yamada, H., Kawahata, K., ...
In the first four years of the LHD experiment, several encouraging results have emerged, the most significant of which is that MHD stability and good transport are compatible in the inward shifted...
Deletion of beta-catenin impairs T cell development (2008)
Xu, Y., Banerjee, D., Huelsken, J., Birchmeier, W., Sen, J. M.
T cells encounter two main checkpoints during development in the thymus. These checkpoints are critically dependent on signals derived from the thymic microenvironment as well as from the pre-T cell...
Calibration of models for pile settlement analysis using 64 field load tests (2008)
Zhang, L. M., Xu, Y., Tang, W. H.
Due to the presence of uncertainties, errors inevitably arise with the estimations of pile settlement. To properly consider serviceability requirements in limit state design, it is necessary to...
Stability Analysis of θ-Methods for Neutral Multidelay Integrodifferential System (2008)
This paper studies the stability of a class of neutral delay integrodifferential system. A necessary and sufficient condition of stability for its analytic solutions is considered. The improved...
Distinctive features of Late Palaeozoic massive sulphide deposits in South China (2007)
Gu, L, Zaw, K, Hu, W, Zhang, K, Ni, P, He, J, ...
More than 20 sediment-hosted massive sulphide deposits occur in Late Palaeozoic basins in South China. These deposits are accompanied by a certain amount of volcanic rocks in the host sequence and...
Learning phonetic categories by tracking movements☆ (2007)
We explore in this study how infants may derive phonetic categories from adult input that are highly variable. Neural networks in the form of self-organizing maps (SOMs; Kohonen, 1989 and Kohonen,...
Carrier relaxation time divergence in single and double layer cuprates (2007)
Schneider, ML, Rast, S, Onellion, M, Demsar, J, Taylor, AJ, Glinka, Y, ...
We report the transient optical pump-probe reflectivity measurements on single and double layer cuprate single crystals and thin films of ten different stoichiometries. We find that with sufficiently...
Modeling of a human circadian mutation yields insights into clock regulation by PER2 (2007)
Xu, Y, Toh, K L, Jones, C R, Shin, J Y, Fu, Y H, Ptacek, L J
Circadian rhythms are endogenous oscillations of physiological and behavioral phenomena with period length of -24 hr. A mutation in human Period 2 (hPER2), a gene crucial for resetting the central...
Softening of the stiffness of bottle-brush polymers by mutual interaction (2007)
Bolisetty, S., Ariaud, C., Xu, Y., Müller, A. H. E., Harnau, L., Rosenfeldt, S., ...
Estimation de vitesses par assimilation de données variationnelle (2007)
HUOT, E., XU, Y., KOROTAEV, G., WU, L., HERLIN, I.
Les méthodes classiques d'estimation dense de la vitesse (de type flot optique) s'appuient sur l'estimation des dérivées spatio-temporelles de l'image. Celles-ci sont difficiles à estimer dans le...
Distinctive features of Late Palaeozoic massive sulphide deposits in South China (2007)
Gu, L, Zaw, K, Hu, W, Zhang, K, Ni, P, He, J, ...
More than 20 sediment-hosted massive sulphide deposits occur in Late Palaeozoic basins in South China. These deposits are accompanied by a certain amount of volcanic rocks in the host sequence and...
Yang, DJ, Xu, Y, Wu, D, Sun, YH, Zhu, HY, Deng, F
Mesoporous silicas with methyl groups anchored on the pore wall by covalent bonds were prepared using polymethylhydrosiloxane and tetraethylorthosilicate as silica sources via a one-step synthesis...
Zheng, X. L., Tian, S. P., Gidley, M. J., Yue, H., Li, B. Q., Xu, Y., ...
The effects of pre-storage application of oxalic acid (OA) on the incidence of decay and ripening in mango fruit, and its physiological effects on the peel and flesh of mango were investigated after...
Xu, Y., Chen, Austen, Fry, S., Barrow, R. A., Marshall, R. L., Mukkur, T. K. S.
Gavage of mice, immunised with an inactivated S. typhimurium vaccine, with Andrographis paniculata extract [APE] or andrographolide [AND] resulted in an enhancement of Salmonella-specific antibody...
Xu, Y., Chen, Austen, Fry, S., Barrow, R. A., Marshall, R. L., Mukkur, T. K. S.
Gavage of mice, immunised with an inactivated S. typhimurium vaccine, with Andrographis paniculata extract [APE] or andrographolide [AND] resulted in an enhancement of Salmonella-specific antibody...
Macaulay, M., Jowitt, F., Clarke-O'Neil, S., Kardas, P., Blijham, N., ...
This paper describes a project to develop and clinically evaluate a novel toileting device for women called the Non-Invasive Continence Management System (NICMS). The NICMS device is designed to...
Heat kernel transform for nilmanifolds associated to the Heisenberg group (2006)
Kroetz, B., Thangavelu, S., Xu, Y.
We study the heat kernel transform on a nilmanifold $ M $ of the Heisenberg group. We show that the image of $ L^2(M) $ under this transform is a direct sum of weighted Bergman spaces which are...
Xu, Y., Yang, X., Zhang, J., Oreffo, R.O.C.
RNA interference (RNAi) has been used in functional genomics and offers innovative approaches in the development of novel therapeutics. Human mesenchymal stem cells offer a unique cell source for...
Yang, J. H., Xu, Y., Zhang, F., Guillot, M.
The effects of the spin-orbit ( SO) interaction strength of the ground and excited configurations of rare-earth ions on the paramagnetic and diamagnetic Faraday rotation (FR) spectra in...
LIGHT-related molecular network in the regulation of graft-versus-host disease / (2006)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- Biomedical Science -- Mayo Graduate School, 2006.
Phenolic compounds in tea from Australian supermarkets (2006)
L.H. Yao, Y.M. Jiang, Nola Caffin, Bruce D'Arcy, Nivedita Datta, X. Liu, ...
This paper is the first study of the phenolic composition of teas marketed in Australian supermarkets. Phenolic compounds are linked to the quality and health effects of tea. This information is of...
Phenolic compounds in tea from Australian supermarkets (2006)
Yao, LH, Jiang, YM, Caffin, N, DArcy, B, Datta, N, Liu, X, ...
Phenolic compounds constitute 50-70% of tea water extract and are the main quality parameters for teas. Theaflavins (TF), thearubigins (TR) and theabrownins (TB) are the major polyphenols that...
Compositional analysis of teas from Australian supermarkets (2006)
Yao, L. H., Liu, X., Jiang, Y. M., Caffin, N., DArcy, B., Singanusong, R., ...
Caffeine, total amino acids, water extract and moisture content are considered to be quality indicators for leaf teas and teabags. These analyses were examined in 20 leaf teas and 36 teabags sampled...
Quantum transport through C48N12 based atomic devices (2006)
We report numerical calculations on the quantum transport through C48N12 based devices from first principles. We find that the transport properties are very sensitive to orientations of the molecules...
Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions (2005)
The understanding of speech melody, i.e., pitch variations related to tone and intonation, can be improved by simultaneously taking into consideration two basic facts: that speech conveys...
Phonetic realization of focus in English declarative intonation (2005)
The present study investigates how focus is phonetically realized in declarative sentences in American English. The goal is to test the hypotheses that, (a) focus is manifested in parallel rather...
Seasonal variations of phenolic compounds in Australia-grown tea (Camellia sinensis) (2005)
Yao, LH, Caffin, N, DArcy, B, Jiang, YM, Shi, J, Singanusong, R, ...
Seasonal variations of phenolic compounds in fresh tea shoots grown in Australia were studied using an HPLC method. Three principal tea flavanols [epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epicatechin gallate...
Kan, B, Wang, M, Jing, H, Xu, H, Jiang, X, Yan, M, ...
Erratum in: Journal of Virology 2006 Aug;80(15):7786
Main factors in determining the magneto-optical behavior of rare-earth compounds (2004)
Yang, J. H., Zhang, F., Xu, Y., Guillot, M.
Some microscopic factors in the occurring of the Faraday rotation (FR) in the ferrimagnetic Ce-substituted iron garnet CexY3-xFe5O12 are analyzed using the quantum theory. One crucial factor is the...
MHD instabilities and their effects on plasma confinement in Large Helical Device plasmas (2004)
Toi, K., Ohdachi, S., Yamamoto, S., Nakajima, N., Sakakibara, S., Watanabe, K. Y., ...
Dynamic learning from multiple examples for semantic object segmentation and search (2004)
Journal Webpage: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622809/description#description
Yao, LH, Jiang, YM, Datta, N, Singanusong, R, Liu, X, Duan, J, ...
As part of a 4-year project to study phenolic compounds in tea shoots over the growing seasons and during black tea processing in Australia, an HPLC method was developed and optimised for the...
Spin-valve effect in a carbon atomic wire (2004)
Wei, YD, Xu, Y, Wang, J, Guo, H
We report a theoretical investigation of the spin-valve effect in an atomic scale system, a carbon chain, generated by the presence of a magnetic field in the device leads. We found that there exists...
Wu, N., Javanmard, M., Momeni, B., Soltani, M., Adibi, A., Xu, Y., ...
We systematically investigate and compare general methods of designing single mode photonic crystal waveguides in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice of air holes in a dielectric material. We apply...
Object-based image labeling through learning by example and mutl-level segmentation (2003)
Xu, Y., Duygulu, P., Saber, Eli, Tekalp, A., Yarman-Vural, F.
Journal Webpage: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/328/description#description
Topology Control Protocols to Conserve Energy in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks (2003)
Y. Xu, S. Bien, Y. Mori, J. Heidemann, D. Estrin
In wireless ad hoc networks and sensor networks, energy use is in many cases the most important constraint since it corresponds directly to operational lifetime. This paper presents two topology...
Procedural group identification (2003)
In this paper we axiomatically characterize two recursive procedures for defining a social group. The first procedure starts with the set of all individuals who define themselves as members of the...
A demonstration of magnetic field optimization in LHD (2003)
Murakami, S., Yamada, H., Wakasa, A., Sasao, M., Isobe, M., Ozaki, T., ...
The behaviors of trapped particles in helical ripples are complicated and would enhance the radial transport of energetic particles and thermal plasma (neoclassical transport) in heliotrons. Thus the...
Yang, J. H., Zhang, F., Xu, Y., Guillot, M.
A theoretical investigation on the role of some microscopic parameters in the Faraday rotation (Fr) in paramagnetic and ferrimagnetic insulators is presented. Fr scales linearly with the exchange...