Yan Liu

Confirmation of Flixweed (Descurainia sophia) Resistance to Tribenuron in China (2008)

Hai Lan Cui, Chao Xian Zhang, Hong Jun Zhang, Xue Liu, Yan Liu, Gui Qi Wang, ...

Reports arose from major Chinese wheat production regions that flixweed was not controlled by tribenuron after the herbicide was continuously used for several years. Flixweed seeds were collected...

Magnetic field effects on photosynthetic reactions (2008)

Liu, Yan

Although the influence of magnetic fields on the rates and product yields of a host of chemical reactions are well documented and can be understood in the framework of the Radical Pair Mechanism...

Cloning, Characterization, and FISH Mapping of Four Satellite DNAs from Black Muntjac (Muntiacus crinifrons   ) and Fea's Muntjac (M. feae) (2008)

LIU, Yan, NIE, Wen-hui, HUANG, Ling, WANG, Jin-huan, SU, Wei-ting, LIN, Chyi Chyang, ...

Recent molecular cytogenetic studies demonstrate that extensive centromere-telomere fusions are the main chromosomal rearrangements underlying the karyotypic evolution of extant muntjacs. Although...

Critical Behavior of Ferromagnetic Ising Model on Triangular Lattice (2008)

Luo, Zhi-Huan, Loan, Mushtaq, Liu, Yan, Lin, Jian-Rong

We apply a new updating algorithm scheme to investigate the critical behavior of the two-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising model on a triangular lattice with nearest neighbour interactions. The...

Use of cancer-specific yeast-secreted in vivobiotinylated recombinant antibodies for serum biomarker discovery (2008)

Scholler, Nathalie, Gross, Jennifer A, Garvik, Barbara, Wells, Lance, Liu, Yan, Loch, Christian M, ...

Abstract Background Strategies to discover circulating protein markers of ovarian cancer are urgently needed. We developed a novel technology that permits us to isolate recombinant antibodies...

Multiple D2-Brane Action from M2-Branes (2008)

Li, Tianjun, Liu, Yan, Xie, Dan

We study the detail derivation of the multiple D2-brane effective action from multiple M2-branes in the Bagger-Lambert-Gustavsson (BLG) theory and the Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena (ABJM) theory...

Biodiversity Congruence and Conservation Strategies: A National Test (2008)

Haigen Xu, Jun Wu, Yan Liu, Hui Ding, Ming Zhang, Yi Wu, ...

Understanding patterns of biodiversity is essential to developing conservation strategies and monitoring conservation goals, and severe data constraints make surrogate indicators necessary. We used a...

Neo-sex chromosomes in the black muntjac recapitulate incipient evolution of mammalian sex chromosomes (2008)

Zhou, Qi, Wang, Jun, Huang, Ling, Nie, Wenhui, Wang, Jinhuan, Liu, Yan, ...

Abstract Background The regular mammalian X and Y chromosomes diverged from each other at least 166 to 148 million years ago, leaving few traces of their early evolution, including degeneration of...

Tetrakis(μ3-2-{[1,1-bis(hydroxymethyl)-2-oxidoethyl]iminomethyl}-6-methoxyphenolato)tetranickel(II) tetrahydrate (2008)

Yujing Guo, Lianzhi Li, Yan Liu, Jianfang Dong, Daqi Wang

The title complex, [Ni4(C12H15NO4)4]·4H2O, has crystallographic fourfold inversion symmetry, with each NiII ion coordinated in a slightly distorted square-pyramidal coordination environment and...

(2,2′-Bipyridine-κ2N,N′)[N-(2-oxido-1-naphthylidene)threoninato-κ3O1,N,O2]copper(II) (2008)

Zhanglei Qiu, Lianzhi Li, Yan Liu, Tao Xu, Daqi Wang

In the title complex, [Cu(C15H13NO4)(C10H8N2)], the Schiff base ligand is derived from the condensation of 2-hydroxy-1-naphthaldehyde and l-threonine. The CuII atom is five-coordinated by one N atom...

Nonexistence of triples of nonisomorphic connected graphs with isomorphic connected $P_3$-graphs (2007)

Li, Xueliang, Liu, Yan

In the paper "Broersma and Hoede, {\it Path graphs}, J. Graph Theory {\bf 13} (1989) 427-444", the authors proposed a problem whether there is a triple of mutually nonisomorphic connected graphs...

Realistic Type IIB Supersymmetric Minkowski Flux Vacua (2007)

Chen, Ching-Ming, Li, Tianjun, Liu, Yan, Nanopoulos, Dimitri V.

We show that there exist supersymmetric Minkowski vacua on Type IIB toroidal orientifold with general flux compactifications where the RR tadpole cancellation conditions can be relaxed elegantly....

MERCURY, ARSENIC AND SELENIUM IN CHANNEL CATFISH CAUGHT IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA; IMPLICATIONS FOR COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT EMISSION SOURCE IDENTIFICATION AND FISH CONSUMPTION SAFETY (2007)

Liu, Yan

This study recruited local anglers to catch catfish from 3 locations within the Pittsburgh Pool and an upstream location on Allegheny River at Kittanning Dam to compare the As, Hg and Se levels in...

MERCURY, ARSENIC AND SELENIUM IN CHANNEL CATFISH CAUGHT IN SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA; IMPLICATIONS FOR COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT EMISSION SOURCE IDENTIFICATION AND FISH CONSUMPTION SAFETY (2007)

Liu, Yan

This study recruited local anglers to catch catfish from 3 locations within the Pittsburgh Pool and an upstream location on Allegheny River at Kittanning Dam to compare the As, Hg and Se levels in...

Constructing Civil Society in Transitional China: Case Studies of One Private University and One Non-governmental Institute for Peasant Education (2007)

Liu, Yan

The political shift in China in the last two and a half decades, from an emphasis on ideological orthodoxy and centralized economic control, to an emphasis on national economic development for...

Constructing Civil Society in Transitional China: Case Studies of One Private University and One Non-governmental Institute for Peasant Education (2007)

Liu, Yan

The political shift in China in the last two and a half decades, from an emphasis on ideological orthodoxy and centralized economic control, to an emphasis on national economic development for...

REDUCTION OF SKIN STRETCH INDUCED MOTION ARTIFACTS IN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MONITORING USING ADAPTIVE FILTERING (2007)

Liu, Yan

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in many regions worldwide, accounting for nearly one third of global deaths in 2001. Wearable electrocardiographic cardiovascular monitoring...

REDUCTION OF SKIN STRETCH INDUCED MOTION ARTIFACTS IN ELECTROCARDIOGRAM MONITORING USING ADAPTIVE FILTERING (2007)

Liu, Yan

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death in many regions worldwide, accounting for nearly one third of global deaths in 2001. Wearable electrocardiographic cardiovascular monitoring...

Long-term consequences of neonatal glucocorticoid treatment (2007)

Liu, Yan

Glucocorticoïden (GC’s) worden veel gebruikt ter voorkoming van chronische long­aandoeningen bij vroeggeborenen. Op korte termijn heeft dit positieve effecten. Mogelijk heeft dit echter...

Structural stability for Brinkman-Forchheimer equations (2007)

Yan Liu, Changhao Lin

In this paper, we obtain the continuous dependence and convergence results for the Brinkman and Forchheimer coefficients of a differential equation that models the flow of fluid in a saturated porous...

The impact of neighbourhood size on the accuracy of cellular automata-based urban modelling (2007)

Liu, Yan

Cellular automata are discrete dynamic models in which behaviour is specified in terms of local relations. This technique has recently been advantageously applied to modelling of the urban...

Genetic and Molecular Characterization of ISWI Family Chromatin Remodelers in Wingless Signaling. (2007)

Liu, Yan

The Wnt signaling pathway is highly conserved in the animal kingdom, and plays pivotal roles in cell fate specification throughout development and stem cell maintenance in adult tissues....

The impact of neighbourhood size on the accuracy of cellular automata-based urban modelling (2007)

Liu, Yan

Cellular automata are discrete dynamic models in which behaviour is specified in terms of local relations. This technique has recently been advantageously applied to modelling of the urban...

Performance evaluation and prediction for legacy information systems (2007)

Jin, Yan, Tang, Antony, Han, Jun, Liu, Yan

Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance requirements....

Performance evaluation and prediction for legacy information systems (2007)

Jin, Yan, Tang, Antony, Han, Jun, Liu, Yan

Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance requirements....

The impact of neighbourhood size on the accuracy of cellular automata-based urban modelling (2007)

Liu, Yan

Cellular automata are discrete dynamic models in which behaviour is specified in terms of local relations. This technique has recently been advantageously applied to modelling of the urban...

Performance evaluation and prediction for legacy information systems (2007)

Jin, Yan, Tang, Antony, Han, Jun, Liu, Yan

Database-centric information systems are critical to the operations of large organisations. In particular, they often process a large amount of data with stringent performance requirements....

trt-1 Is the Caenorhabditis elegans Catalytic Subunit of Telomerase (2006)

Bettina Meier, Iuval Clejan, Yan Liu, Mia Lowden, Anton Gartner, Jonathan Hodgkin, ...

Mutants of trt-1, the Caenorhabditis elegans telomerase reverse transcriptase, reproduce normally for several generations but eventually become sterile as a consequence of telomere erosion and...

Interactive visual data mining modeling to enhance understanding and effectiveness of the process (2006)

Liu, Yan

Data mining (DM) modeling is a process of transforming information enfolded in a dataset into a form amenable to human cognition. Most current DM tools only support automatic modeling, during which...

trt-1 is the C. elegans catalytic subunit of telomerase (2006)

Bettina Meier, Iuval Clejan, Yan Liu, Mia Lowden, Anton Gartner, Jonathan Hodgkin, ...

Mutants of trt-1, the C. elegans telomerase reverse transcriptase, reproduce normally for several generations but eventually become sterile as a consequence of telomere erosion and end-to-end...

Gluonic excitation of non-exotic hybrid charmonium from lattice QCD (2005)

Luo, Xiang-Qian, Liu, Yan

The ground and first excited states of the hybrid charmonium ${\bar c} c g$, with non-exotic quantum numbers $J^{PC}=0^{-+}$, $1^{--}$ and $1^{++}$ are investigated using quenched lattice QCD. They...

Modelling the driving forces of Sydney's urban development (1971-96) in a cellular environment (2005)

Liu, Yan, Phinn, Stuart

[Abstract]: This paper demonstrates a flexible implementation of rules to control the simulation of urban development of Sydney from 1971 to 1996 using a cellular automata model. Five key factors,...

Modelling the driving forces of Sydney's urban development (1971-96) in a cellular environment (2005)

Liu, Yan, Phinn, Stuart

[Abstract]: This paper demonstrates a flexible implementation of rules to control the simulation of urban development of Sydney from 1971 to 1996 using a cellular automata model. Five key factors,...

Modelling the driving forces of Sydney's urban development (1971-96) in a cellular environment (2005)

Liu, Yan, Phinn, Stuart

[Abstract]: This paper demonstrates a flexible implementation of rules to control the simulation of urban development of Sydney from 1971 to 1996 using a cellular automata model. Five key factors,...

Modelling the driving forces of Sydney's urban development (1971-96) in a cellular environment (2005)

Liu, Yan, Phinn, Stuart

[Abstract]: This paper demonstrates a flexible implementation of rules to control the simulation of urban development of Sydney from 1971 to 1996 using a cellular automata model. Five key factors,...

Estimate of the charmed 0-- hybrid meson spectrum from quenched lattice QCD (2005)

Liu, Yan, Luo, Xiang-Qian

We compute from quenched lattice QCD the ground state masses of the charmed hybrid mesons cbar c g, with exotic quantum numbers JPC=1-+, 0+- and 0--. The 0-- hybrid meson spectrum has never been...

TEACHERS UNDERSTANDINGS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2005)

Liu, Yan

Probability and statistical inference are important ideas with a remarkably wide range of applications. However, psychological and instructional studies conducted in the last two decades have...

TEACHERS UNDERSTANDINGS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL INFERENCE AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (2005)

Liu, Yan

Probability and statistical inference are important ideas with a remarkably wide range of applications. However, psychological and instructional studies conducted in the last two decades have...

Comparisons of the Structural and Chemical Properties of Melanosomes Isolated from Retinal Pigment Epithelium, Iris and Choroid of Newborn and Mature Bovine Eyes¶ (2005)

Yan Liu, Lian Hong, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito, Bhavin B. Adhyaru, Chi-Yuan Cheng, ...

Melanosomes were isolated from the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), iris and choroid of mature (age >2 years) and newborn (age RPE, and exhibit decreasing yields with age. 13C solid-state nuclear...

Compact Composition Operators on the Bloch Space in Bounded Symmetric Domains (2005)

Zhou, Zehua, Liu, Yan

Let $\Omega$ be a bounded symmetric domain except the two exceptional domains of ${\Bbb C}^N$ and $\phi$ a holomorphic self-map of $\Omega.$ This paper gives a sufficient and necessary condition for...

The Essential Norm of Composition Operator between Generalized Bloch Spaces in Polydiscs and its Applications (2005)

Zhou, Zehua, Liu, Yan

Let $U^{n}$ be the unit polydisc of ${\Bbb C}^{n}$ and $\phi=(\phi_1, >..., \phi_n)$ a holomorphic self-map of $U^{n}.$ By ${\cal B}^p(U^{n})$, ${\cal B}^p_{0}(U^{n})$ and ${\cal B}^p_{0*}(U^{n})$...

Feature selection in large dataset processing, especially in the video domain (2005)

Liu, Yan

The rapid growth and wide applications of digital video data have led to a significant need for video classification. Unfortunately, the gap between high-level concepts and low-level features and the...

Comparison of Structural and Chemical Properties of Black and Red Human Hair Melanosomes¶ (2005)

Yan Liu, Lian Hong, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito, Bhavin Adhyaru, Chi-Yuan Cheng, ...

Melanosomes in black and red human hair are isolated and characterized by various chemical and physical techniques. Different yields of 4-amino-hydroxyphenolanaline by HI hydrolysis (a marker for...

Oxidation Potentials of Human Eumelanosomes and Pheomelanosomes¶ (2005)

Alexander Samokhvalov, Lian Hong, Yan Liu, Jacob Garguilo, Robert J. Nemanich, Glenn S. Edwards, ...

Eumelanosomes and pheomelanosomes isolated from black and red human hair, respectively, were studied by photoelectron emission microscopy (PEEM). PEEM images were collected at various wavelengths...

Baby boomers in Queensland: where are they and where are they moving? (2005)

Liu, Yan, Soar, Jeffrey

By 2011 the first of the generation known as baby boomers in Australia will reach 65 although previous patterns of retirement indicate that almost half may be retired from full-time employment by the...

Baby boomers in Queensland: where are they and where are they moving? (2005)

Liu, Yan, Soar, Jeffrey

By 2011 the first of the generation known as baby boomers in Australia will reach 65 although previous patterns of retirement indicate that almost half may be retired from full-time employment by the...

Baby boomers in Queensland: where are they and where are they moving? (2005)

Liu, Yan, Soar, Jeffrey

By 2011 the first of the generation known as baby boomers in Australia will reach 65 although previous patterns of retirement indicate that almost half may be retired from full-time employment by the...

Baby boomers in Queensland: where are they and where are they moving? (2005)

Liu, Yan, Soar, Jeffrey

By 2011 the first of the generation known as baby boomers in Australia will reach 65 although previous patterns of retirement indicate that almost half may be retired from full-time employment by the...

Calbindin-D28k and the vitamin D endocrine system : therapeutic implications for clinical disorders of bone / (2005)

Liu, Yan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

Modelling the driving forces of Sydney's urban development (1971-96) in a cellular environment (2005)

Liu, Yan, Phinn, Stuart

[Abstract]: This paper demonstrates a flexible implementation of rules to control the simulation of urban development of Sydney from 1971 to 1996 using a cellular automata model. Five key factors,...

Baby boomers in Queensland: where are they and where are they moving? (2005)

Liu, Yan, Soar, Jeffrey

By 2011 the first of the generation known as baby boomers in Australia will reach 65 although previous patterns of retirement indicate that almost half may be retired from full-time employment by the...

Package for fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) and a comparative study on their polarization mode dispersion (PMD) at varying temperature (2005)

Tigang NING, Li PEI, Yan LIU, Zhongwei TAN, Qi WANG, Jingjing ZHENG, ...

A temperature-compensated material of fiber Bragg grating (FBG), which has negative thermal-expansion coefficient has been presented. The temperature coefficient of FBGs’ center wavelength is...

Binding of Metal Ions to Melanin and Their Effects on the Aerobic Reactivity¶ (2004)

Lian Hong, Yan Liu, John D. Simon

The binding of Mg(II), Ca(II), Zn(II), Cu(II) and Fe(III) to ETDA-washed Sepia melanin is quantified by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. By monitoring the solution pH change associated...

Simulations of dusty plasmas using a special-purpose computer system for gravitational N-body problems (2004)

Yamamoto, Keisuke, Mizuno, Yasunori, Inuzuka, Hiroshi, Cao, Yonggao, Liu, Yan, Yazawa, Kenichi

Simulations of dusty plasmas were performed using GRAPE-6, a special-purpose computer designed for gravitational N-body problems. The collective behaviour of dust particles, which are injected into...

Simulations of dusty plasmas using a special-purpose computer system for gravitational N-body problems (2004)

Yamamoto, Keisuke, Mizuno, Yasunori, Inuzuka, Hiroshi, Cao, Yonggao, Liu, Yan, Yazawa, Kenichi

Simulations of dusty plasmas were performed using GRAPE-6, a special-purpose computer designed for gravitational N-body problems. The collective behaviour of dust particles, which are injected into...

Simulations of dusty plasmas using a special-purpose computer system for gravitational N-body problems (2004)

Yamamoto, Keisuke, Mizuno, Yasunori, Inuzuka, Hiroshi, Cao, Yonggao, Liu, Yan, Yazawa, Kenichi

Simulations of dusty plasmas were performed using GRAPE-6, a special-purpose computer designed for gravitational N-body problems. The collective behaviour of dust particles, which are injected into...

Photodynamic Treatment of the Dermatophyte Trichophyton rubrum and its Microconidia with Porphyrin Photosensitizers¶ (2004)

Johan Lugtenburg, Yan Liu, Hans J. Schuitmaker

The application of photosensitizers for the treatment of fungal infections is a new and promising development within the field of photodynamic treatment (PDT). Dermatophytes, fungi that can cause...

Kernel Conditional Random Fields: Representation and Clique Selection (2004)

John Lafferty, Xiaojin Zhu, Yan Liu

Kernel conditional random fields (KCRFs) are introduced as a framework for discriminative modeling of graph-structured data. A representer theorem for conditional graphical models is given which...

Characterization of the Fe(III)-binding Site in Sepia Eumelanin by Resonance Raman Confocal Microspectroscopy¶ (2004)

Alexander Samokhvalov, Yan Liu, John D. Simon

The resonance Raman spectrum of Sepia eumelanin is discussed by analogy to model compounds containing catechol (CAT)–like structural units. These data are then compared with the analogous data on...

Simulations of dusty plasmas using a special-purpose computer system for gravitational N-body problems (2004)

Yamamoto, Keisuke, Mizuno, Yasunori, Inuzuka, Hiroshi, Cao, Yonggao, Liu, Yan, Yazawa, Kenichi

Simulations of dusty plasmas were performed using GRAPE-6, a special-purpose computer designed for gravitational N-body problems. The collective behaviour of dust particles, which are injected into...

Simulations of dusty plasmas using a special-purpose computer system for gravitational N-body problems (2004)

Yamamoto, Keisuke, Mizuno, Yasunori, Inuzuka, Hiroshi, Cao, Yonggao, Liu, Yan, Yazawa, Kenichi

Simulations of dusty plasmas were performed using GRAPE-6, a special-purpose computer designed for gravitational N-body problems. The collective behaviour of dust particles, which are injected into...

Designing a Test Suite for Empirically-based Middleware (2004)

Yan Liu, Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Ning Jiang, Shiping Chen

One of the major problems in building large-scale enterprise systems is anticipating the performance of the eventual solution before it has been built. This problem is especially germane to modern...

Performance Prediction of Component-based Applications (2004)

Shiping Chen, Yan Liu, Ian Gorton

This paper investigates the feasibility of providing a practical solution to this problem. An empirical approach is proposed to determine the performance characteristics of component-based...

Nbp1 is a novel component of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae spindle pole body and a target of the Cdc14 phosphatase (2004)

Liu, Yan

The Cdc14 phosphatase of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae , has important roles in regulating the progression of cells through anaphase and telophase including an essential function in...

A New Boosting Algorithm Using Input-Dependent Regularizer (2003)

Rong Jin, Yan Liu, Luo Si, Jaime Carbonell, Alexander G. Hauptmann

AdaBoost has proved to be an e#ective method to improve the performance of base classifiers both theoretically and empirically.

On Predicting Rare Classes With Svm Ensembles In Scene Classification (2003)

Rong Yan, Yan Liu, Rong Jin, Alex Hauptmann

Scene classification is an important technique to infer high-level semantic scene categories from low-level visual features. However, in the real world the positive data for many scenes may be rare,...

Life Prediction and Mechanical Behavior of Thermal Barrier Coatings (2003)

Liu, Yan

Delamination and spallation of thermal barrier coating (TBC) systems, used in hot parts of gas turbines, have been studied with respect to thermal fatigue. TBCs with and without pre-existing cracks...

Modeling ovarian function in premenopausal women / (2003)

Liu, Yan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2003.

Modeling ovarian function in premenopausal women / (2003)

Liu, Yan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2003.