Y. Xu

Publication List Details

Period

0000 - 2009

Number

291

Co-Authors

Information flow perspective for capturing the impact of corporate environmental performance on the cost of debt (2009)

Xu, Y., Slaughter, Geoff, Hakim, L.

[Abstract]: Stakeholders’ increased concern for environmental sustainability has resulted in many firms placing greater emphasis on environmental performance management. Creditors are often major...

Orthogonal polynomials in several variables for measures with mass points (2009)

Delgado, A. M., Fernandez, L., Perez, T. E., Pinar, M. A., Xu, Y.

Let $d\nu$ be a measure in $\mathbb{R}^d$ obtained from adding a set of mass points to another measure $d\mu$. Orthogonal polynomials in several variables associated with $d\nu$ can be explicitly...

Stem cell factor protects against neuronal apoptosis by activating AKT/ERK in diabetic mice (2009)

Xu,Y.

Neuronal apoptosis occurs in the diabetic brain due to insulin deficiency or insulin resistance, both of which reduce the expression of stem cell factor (SCF). We investigated the possible...

Trigonometric Parallaxes of 6.7 GHz Methanol Masers (2009)

Rygl, K. L. J., Brunthaler, A., Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Van Langevelde, H. J., Xu, Y.

Emission from the 6.7 GHz methanol maser transition is very strong, relatively stable, has small internal motions and is observed toward numerous massive star forming regions in the Galaxy. Our goal...

Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star-Forming Regions: VII. G9.62+0.20 and the Expanding 3 KPC-ARM (2009)

Sanna, A., Reid, M. J., Moscadelli, L., Dame, T. M., Menten, K. M., Brunthaler, A., ...

We report a trigonometric parallax of 12 GHz methanol masers associated with the massive star forming region G9.62+0.20, corresponding to a distance of 5.2+-0.6 kpc. With a local standard of rest...

Absolute positions of 6.7-GHz methanol masers (2009)

Xu, Y., Voronkov, M. A., Pandian, J. D., Li, J. J., Sobolev, A. M., Brunthaler, A., ...

The ATCA, MERLIN and VLA interferometers were used to measure the absolute positions of 35 6.7 GHz methanol masers to subarcsecond or higher accuracy. Our measurements represent essential preparatory...

A Trigonometric Parallax of Sgr B2 (2009)

Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Xu, Y.

We have measured the positions of water masers in Sgr B2, a massive star forming region in the Galactic center, relative to an extragalactic radio source with the Very Long Baseline Array. The...

Trigonometric Parallaxes of Massive Star Forming Regions: VI. Galactic Structure, Fundamental Parameters and Non-Circular Motions (2009)

Reid, M. J., Menten, K. M., Zheng, X. W., Brunthaler, A., Moscadelli, L., Xu, Y., ...

We are using the NRAO Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Japanese VERA project to measure trigonometric parallaxes and proper motions of masers found in high-mass star-forming regions across the...

Ion Channel Mimetic Chronopotentiometric Polymeric Membrane Ion Sensor for Surface-Confined Protein Detection (2009)

Xu, Y., Bakker, Eric

The operation of ion channel sensors is mimicked with functionalized polymeric membrane electrodes, using a surface confined affinity reaction to impede the electrochemically imposed ion transfer...

Selective precipitation of Cu from Zn in a pS controlled continuously stirred tank reactor (2009)

Martinho Sampaio, R.M., Timmers, R.A., Xu, Y., Keesman, K.J., Lens, P.N.L.

Copper was continuously and selectively precipitated with Na2S to concentrations below 0.3 ppb from water containing around 600 ppm of both Cu and Zn in a Continuously Stirred Tank Reactor. The pH...

Effects of the pH/pCO2 control method on medium chemistry and phytoplankton growth (2009)

D. Shi, Y. Xu

The control of key chemical parameters in phytoplankton cultures, such as pCO2, pH and Ω (the saturation state of calcium carbonate), is made difficult by the interdependence of these parameters and...

Effects of the pH/pCO2 control method in the growth medium of phytoplankton (2009)

D. Shi, Y. Xu

To study the effects of ocean acidification on the physiology of phytoplankton requires that the key chemical parameters of the growth medium, pCO2, pH and Ω (the saturation state of calcium...

Variability of summer precipitation over Eastern China during the last millennium (2009)

C. Shen, Y. Peng, Y. Xu, J. Zheng

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...

The impact of N-ratio in minimizing stage migration phenomenon in gastric cancer patients with insufficient number or level of lymph node retrieved: results from a Chinese mono-institutional study in 2159 patients (2009)

Sun, Z., Lu, C., Li, K., ...

Background: Previous studies indicate that N-ratio has significant superiority in minimizing ‘stage migration’ for patients with >15 lymph nodes retrieved. Whether the result is applicable to...

Information flow perspective for capturing the impact of corporate environmental performance on the cost of debt (2009)

Xu, Y., Slaughter, Geoff, Hakim, L.

[Abstract]: Stakeholders’ increased concern for environmental sustainability has resulted in many firms placing greater emphasis on environmental performance management. Creditors are often major...

Ethanol exposure induces differential microRNA and target gene expression and teratogenic effects which can be suppressed by folic acid supplementation (2009)

Wang, L, Zhang, Z, Li, Q, Yang, R, Pei, X, Xu, Y, ...

BACKGROUND: microRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role in development and are associated with birth defects. Data are scant on the role of miRNAs in birth defects arising from exposure to...

Structure Determination of a New Protein From Backbone-Centered NMR Data and NMR-Assisted Structure Prediction (2008)

K. L. Mayer, Y. Qu, S. Bansal, P. D. Leblond, F. E. Jenney, P. S. Brereton, ...

ABSTRACT Targeting of proteins for structure determination in structural genomic programs often includes the use of threading and fold recognition methods to exclude proteins belonging to...

System-Size Independence of Directed Flow Measured at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (2008)

Abelev, B. I., Aggarwal, M. M., Ahammed, Z., Anderson, B. D., Arkhipkin, D., Averichev, G. S., ...

We measure directed flow (ν_1) for charged particles in Au+Au and Cu+Cu collisions at √S_(NN)=200 and 62.4 GeV, as a function of pseudorapidity (η), transverse momentum (p_t), and collision...

References (2008)

Padua Points, Marco Vianello, L. Bos, M. Caliari, S. De Marchi, M. Vianello, ...

Poster subject: Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing The Padua points are the first known example of optimal points for total degree polynomial interpolation in two variables, with a Lebesgue...

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 $p + p$...

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...

Bacterial Community Structure in Tree Hole Habitats of Ochlerotatus triseriatus: Influences of Larval Feeding (2008)

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...

A computerised real-time measurement system to locate the position of the urine stream in designing urine collection devices for women (2008)

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...

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 9:459-470(2004) PROTEIN FOLD RECOGNITION THROUGH APPLICATION OF RESIDUAL DIPOLAR COUPLING DATA (2008)

Y. Qu, V. Olman, Y. Xu, Y. Qu, ...

Residual dipolar coupling (RDC) represents one of the most exciting emerging NMR techniques for studying protein structures. However, solving a protein structure using RDC data alone is a highly...

Nonlinear Time-Varying Identification of Human Arm Joint Mechanical Properties using a Portable Pneumatic Truster (2008)

Xu And, Y. Xu, J. M. Hollerbach

The goal of this research is to determine the joint mechanical properties of the freely moving human arm, by utilizing an unconstraining force perturbation device and developing nonlinear...

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)

Y. Xu, J. J. Zhao, Z. N. Sui

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...

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...

Simulation of Near-Tip Crack Behaviour and Its Correlation to Fatigue Crack Growth with a Modified Strip-Yield Model (2008)

Wang, L., Chen, Y.K., Tiu, W., Xu, Y.

Original article can be found at: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijmic Copyright Inderscience Enterprises Limited DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2008.021777

Backside calibration chronopotentiometry: using current to perform ion measurements by zeroing the transmembrane ion flux (2008)

Xu, Y., Ngeontae, W., Pretsch, E., Bakker, Eric

A recent new direction in ion-selective electrode (ISE) research utilizes a stir effect to indicate the disappearance of an ion concentration gradient across a thin ion-selective membrane. This...

Reversible detection of proteases and their inhibitors by a pulsed chronopotentiometric polyion-sensitive electrode (2008)

Xu, Y., Shvarev, A., Makarychev-Mikhailov, S., Bakker, Eric

Polymer membrane electrodes operated by pulsed chronopotentiometry have recently been introduced to replace traditional ion-selective electrodes for a number of applications. While ion-selective...

Reversible detection of proteases and their inhibitors by a pulsed chronopotentiometric polyion-sensitive electrode (2008)

Xu, Y., Shvarev, A., Makarychev-Mikhailov, S., Bakker, Eric

Polymer membrane electrodes operated by pulsed chronopotentiometry have recently been introduced to replace traditional ion-selective electrodes for a number of applications. While ion-selective...

Backside calibration chronopotentiometry: using current to perform ion measurements by zeroing the transmembrane ion flux (2008)

Xu, Y., Ngeontae, W., Pretsch, E., Bakker, Eric

A recent new direction in ion-selective electrode (ISE) research utilizes a stir effect to indicate the disappearance of an ion concentration gradient across a thin ion-selective membrane. This...

Effective pruning strategies for sequential pattern mining (2008)

Xu, Y., Ma, Z., Li, L., Dillon, Tharam S.

In this paper, we systematically explore the search space of frequent sequence mining and present two novel pruning strategies, S E P (Sequence Extension Pruning) and I EP (Item Extension Pruning),...

Discontinuous Hamiltonian finite element method for linear hyperbolic systems (2008)

Xu, Y., Bokhove, O.

We develop a Hamiltonian discontinuous finite element discretization of a generalized Hamiltonian system for linear hyperbolic systems, which include the rotating shallow water equations, the...

Variability of summer precipitation over eastern China during the last millennium (2008)

C. Shen, Y. Peng, Y. Xu, J. Zheng

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...

Association between CYP2D6 *10 genotype and survival of breast cancer patients receiving tamoxifen treatment (2008)

Xu, Y., Sun, Y., Yao, L., Shi, L., Wu, Y., Ouyang, T., ...

Background: Human cytochrome P450 2D6 (CYP2D6) genotype may affect the efficacy of tamoxifen treatment in Caucasian women with breast cancer. The most common polymorphism of CYP2D6 in Chinese women...

Single Trial versus Ensemble Data Methods For Identification of Time-Varying Elbow Joint Dynamics (2007)

Y. Xu, J. M. Hollerbach

This paper presents the highpass mean removal ensemble data (HMRED) method, for identification of human joint dynamics. This method is shown to be more robust to inter-trial variation than previous...

Effect of Force Perturbation on Elbow Joint Pulse Response in Posture (2007)

Xu And, Y. Xu, J. M. Hollerbach

In this paper we show that small random force perturbations do not alter the mechanical properties of the elbow joint in posture by comparing the pulse responses evoked by a pulse force with or...

1 PNIF: AN INTERCHANGE FORMAT FOR SYSTEM SPECIFICATION WITH COLOURED PETRI NETS (2007)

A. M. Koelmans, A. V. Yakovlev, Y. Xu

modelling, formal techniques and methods for verification. Petri Nets are becoming increasingly popular as a means to formally specify and verify hardware systems at a high level. Many tools are...

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)

Gauthier, B., Shi, R., Xu, Y.

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,...

The structure of the Galactic halo: SDSS versus SuperCOSMOS (2007)

Xu, Y., Deng, L. C., Hu, J. Y.

The halo structure at high Galactic latitudes near both the north and south poles is studied using SDSS and SuperCOSMOS data. For the south cap halo, the archive of the SuperCOSMOS photographic...

Near-bandgap wavelength-dependent studies of long-lived traveling coherent longitudinal acoustic phonon oscillations in GaSb/GaAs systems (2007)

Miller, J. K., Qi, J., Xu, Y., Liu, X., Furdyna, J. K., ...

We report first studies of long-lived oscillations in optical pump-probe measurements on GaSb-GaAs heterostructures. The oscillations arise from a photogenerated coherent longitudinal acoustic phonon...

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...

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...

Super hydrophobic mesoporous silica with anchored methyl groups on the surface by a one-step synthesis without surfactant template (2007)

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...

Slowing the deterioration of mango fruit during cold storage by pre-storage application of oxalic acid (2007)

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...

Modulation of immune response in mice immunised with an inactivated Salmonella vaccine and gavaged with Andrographis paniculata extract or andrographolide (2007)

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...

Modulation of immune response in mice immunised with an inactivated Salmonella vaccine and gavaged with Andrographis paniculata extract or andrographolide (2007)

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...

A noninvasive continence management scheme: Development and evaluation of a novel toileting device for women (2007)

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...

Sensitivity and Working Range of Backside Calibration Potentiometry (2007)

Ngeontae, W., Xu, Y., Xu, C., Aeungmaitrepirom, W., Tuntulani, T., Pretsch, E., ...

A new direction in potentiometric sensing, termed backside calibration potentiometry, was recently introduced. It makes use of the fact that the stir effect disappears in the absence of an...

Sensitivity and Working Range of Backside Calibration Potentiometry (2007)

Ngeontae, W., Xu, Y., Xu, C., Aeungmaitrepirom, W., Tuntulani, T., Pretsch, E., ...

A new direction in potentiometric sensing, termed backside calibration potentiometry, was recently introduced. It makes use of the fact that the stir effect disappears in the absence of an...

Slowing the deterioration of mango fruit during cold storage by pre-storage application of oxalic acid (2007)

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...

Space-time discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear water waves (2007)

Xu, Y.

A space–time discontinuous Galerkin (DG) finite element method for nonlinear water waves in an inviscid and incompressible fluid is presented. The space–time DG method results in a conservative...

Error estimates of the semi-discrete local discontinuous Galerkin method for nonlinear convection-diffusion and KdV equations (2007)

Xu, Y.

In this paper, we provide $L^2$ error estimates for the semi-discrete local discontinuous Galerkin methods for nonlinear convection-diffusion equations and KdV equations with smooth solutions. The...

Discontinuous Hamiltonian Finite Element Method for Bilinear Poisson Brackets (2007)

Xu, Y., Bokhove, O.

We develop a Hamiltonian discontinuous finite element discretization of a generalized Hamiltonian system for linear hyperbolic systems, which includes the rotating shallow water equations, the...

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...

Stability Analysis of θ-Methods for Neutral Multidelay Integrodifferential System (2007)

Y. Xu, J. J. Zhao, Z. N. Sui

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...

Kinetic Modulation of Pulsed Chronopotentiometric Polymeric Membrane Ion Sensors by Polyelectrolyte Multilayers (2007)

Xu, Y., Xu, C., Shvarev, A., Becker, Thomas, De Marco, Roland, Bakker, E.

Polymeric membrane ion-selective electrodes are normally interrogated by zero current potentiometry, and their selectivity is understood to be primarily dependent on an extraction/ion-exchange...

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...

The use of small interfering RNAs to inhibit adipocyte differentiation in human preadipocytes and fetal-femur-derived mesenchymal cells (2006)

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...

Molecular outflows around high-mass young stellar objects (2006)

Xu, Y., Yang, J., Zheng, X. W., Miyazaki, A., Sunada, K., ...

We present a study of molecular outflows using high-resolution mapping of the CO (1-0) line emission toward eight relatively nearby 6.7 GHz methanol masers, which are associated with massive star...

The asymmetric structure of the Galactic halo (2006)

Xu, Y., Deng, L. C., Hu, J. Y.

Using the stellar photometry catalogue based on the latest data release (DR4) of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), a study of the Galactic structure using star counts is carried out for selected...

Catalytic properties of Ni3Al foils for methanol decomposition (2006)

Chun, D.H., Xu, Y., Demura, M., Kishida, K., Oh, M.H, Hirano, T., ...

Hydrogen was produced by methanol decomposition over cold-rolled foils of intermetallic compound Ni3Al which is known as an excellent high-temperature structural material. We found high catalytic...

The effects of the spin-orbit coupling strength of the two configurations of rare-earth ions on the magneto-optical properties in garnets (2006)

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)

Xu, Y. (Yanhui)

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, L. H., Jiang, Y. M., 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)

Xu, Y, Wang, J, Xu, SJ

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...

Phenolic compounds in tea from Australian supermarkets (2006)

Yao, L. H., Jiang, Y. M., 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...

Local discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equations and the Ito-type coupled KdV equations (2006)

Xu, Y.

In this paper we develop a local discontinuous Galerkin method to solve the Kuramoto–Sivashinsky equations and the Ito-type coupled KdV equations. The L2 stability of the schemes is obtained for...

Speech melody as articulatorily implemented communicative functions (2005)

Xu, Y.

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)

Xu, Y., Xu, C.X.

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, L. H., Caffin, N., DArcy, B., Jiang, Y. M., 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...

Seasonal variations of phenolic compounds in Australia-grown tea (Camellia sinensis) (2005)

Yao, L. H., Caffin, N., D'Arcy, B., Jiang, Y. M., Shi, J., Singanusong, R., ...

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