Vi, Linda, Njarlangattil, Anna, Wu, Yan, Gan, Bing, O'Gorman, David B
Abstract Background Dupuytren's Disease (DD) is a debilitating contractile fibrosis of the palmar fascia characterised by excess collagen deposition, contractile myofibroblast development, increased...
Dogan, Nesrin, Mihaylov, Ivaylo, Wu, Yan, Keall, Paul J, Siebers, Jeffrey V, Hagan, Michael P
Abstract Background To evaluate the dosimetric differences between Superposition/Convolution (SC) and Monte Carlo (MC) calculated dose distributions for simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) prostate...
Effects of Antenna Mutual Coupling on the Performance of MIMO Systems (2009)
Yan Wu, Jean Paul Linnartz, Samir Attallah
In this work, we study the effect of mutual coupling between multiple antennas on the outage capacity of a 2x2 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system in flat fading channels. We model the...
ORDERING DECISIONS AND COORDINATION IN SUPPLY CHAINS: A BEHAVIORAL PERSPECTIVE (2009)
This dissertation investigates the impact of various behavioral factors on supply chain management, using a laboratory approach. A series of experiments is designed to challenge the assumptions of...
IMGT(R), the international ImMunoGeneTics information system(R) (2009)
Lefranc, Marie-Paule, Giudicelli, Véronique, Ginestoux, Chantal, Jabado-Michaloud, Joumana, Folch, Géraldine, Bellahcene, Fatena, ...
IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system® (http://www.imgt.org), was created in 1989 by Marie-Paule Lefranc, Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire LIGM (Université...
Yan Wu, Ding-Guo Zhou, Si-Qun Wang, Yang Zhang
Rice straw (Oryza sativa L.) pulp was treated by high intensity ultrasonication to make fibrils. The rice straw fibril (RSF) material was used as reinforcement in an RSF/polypropylene (PP) composite....
Recent Advances in Synthetic Bioelastomers (2009)
Rui Shi, Dafu Chen, Quanyong Liu, Yan Wu, Xiaochuan Xu, Liqun Zhang, ...
This article reviews the degradability of chemically synthesized bioelastomers, mainly designed for soft tissue repair. These bioelastomers involve biodegradable polyurethanes, polyphosphazenes,...
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
Abstract—Energy efficiency is critical for wireless sensor networks. The data gathering process must be carefully designed to conserve energy and extend the network lifetime. For applications where...
A Specificity Map for the PDZ Domain Family (2008)
Raffi Tonikian, Yingnan Zhang, Stephen L. Sazinsky, Bridget Currell, Jung-Hua Yeh, Boris Reva, ...
PDZ domains are protein–protein interaction modules that recognize specific C-terminal sequences to assemble protein complexes in multicellular organisms. By scanning billions of random peptides,...
Yuen, Chau, Wu, Yan, Sun, Sumei
We compare four open-loop transmit diversity schemes in a coded Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system with four transmit antennas, namely cyclic delay diversity (CDD), Space-Time...
Construction of Ontology-Based Software Repositories by Text Mining (2008)
Yan Wu, Harvey Siy, Mansour Z, Victor Winter
Abstract. Software document repositories store artifacts produced in the course of developing software products. But most repositories are simply archives of documents. It is not unusual to find...
A Structural-Based Approach to Cantonese-English Machine Translation (2008)
In this paper, we present an integrated method to machine translation from Cantonese to English text. Our method combines example-based and rule-based methods that rely solely on example translations...
Construction of Ontology-Based Software Repositories by Text Mining (2008)
Yan Wu, Harvey Siy, Mansour Z, Victor Winter
Abstract. Software document repositories store artifacts produced in the course of developing software products. But most repositories are simply archives of documents. It is not unusual to find...
A Credit-based Distributed Protocol for Long-term Fairness in IEEE 802.11 Single-Hop Networks (2008)
Abstract — Fair bandwidth allocation is critical in wireless communication networks, since the wireless channel is often shared by a number of stations in the same neighborhood. With fair...
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A Comparison of Parallel Sorting Algorithms on Different Architectures (2007)
Nancy Amato, Ravishankar Iyer, Sharad Sundaresan, Yan Wu
In this paper, we present a comparative performance evaluation of three different parallel sorting algorithms: bitonic sort, sample sort, and parallel radix sort. In order to study the interaction...
Energy management in sensor networks for continuous monitoring applications (2007)
Wireless sensor networks provide a versatile computing platform for applications such as environmental monitoring or military field surveillance. These networks are typically deployed in remote,...
Phase evolution in PLD MgB2 films during the in situ annealing process (2007)
Wu, Yan, Kong, Chun, Wexler, D, Vos, M, Went, M, ...
The transformation of zero-field-cooled (ZFC) magnetization curves of PLD MgB2 films annealed in situ for different dwell times and at different temperatures is studied within the context of...
Topologies of Complex Networks: Functions and Structures (2007)
Lun Li, Lun Li, Zhipu Jin, Lijun Chen, Maryam Fazel, Denice Gayme, ...
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Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
Abstract — We study sleep/wake scheduling for low duty cycle sensor networks. Our work is different from prior work in that we explicitly consider the effect of synchronization error in the design...
Envelope Expansion with Core Collapse. III. Similarity Isothermal Shocks in a Magnetofluid (2006)
Yu, Cong, Lou, Yu-Qing, Bian, Fu-Yan, Wu, Yan
We explore MHD solutions for envelope expansions with core collapse (EECC) with isothermal MHD shocks in a quasi-spherical symmetry and outline potential astrophysical applications of such magnetized...
Fast global illumination : photon mapping using on-demand estimate with irradiance map / (2006)
Approved by: Amar Raheja, Chung Lee and Robert W. Kerbs.
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Optimal sleep/wake scheduling for time-synchronized sensor networks with qos guarantees (2006)
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
Abstract — We study sleep/wake scheduling for low-duty cycle sensor networks. 1 Our work is different from previous work in that we explicitly consider the effect of the synchronization error. We...
Optimal sleep/wake scheduling for time-synchronized sensor networks with qos guarantees (2006)
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
Abstract — We study sleep/wake scheduling for low-duty cycle sensor networks. 1 Our work is different from previous work in that we explicitly consider the effect of the synchronization error. We...
Guo, Sun-Wei, Magnuson, Victoria L., Schiller, Jennifer J., Wang, Xujing, Wu, Yan, Ghosh, Soumitra
Several polymorphisms in the vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene have been reported to be associated with the risk of developing type 1 diabetes, yet published findings have been conflicting. In this...
Shao, Yu, Wu, Yan, Chan, Chi Yu, McDonough, Kathleen, Ding, Ye
Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (oligos) are widely used for functional studies of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes. However, the identification of effective target sites is a major issue in...
Shao, Yu, Wu, Yan, Chan, Chi Yu, McDonough, Kathleen, Ding, Ye
Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (oligos) are widely used for functional studies of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes. However, the identification of effective target sites is a major issue in...
Shao, Yu, Wu, Yan, Chan, Chi Yu, McDonough, Kathleen, Ding, Ye
Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (oligos) are widely used for functional studies of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes. However, the identification of effective target sites is a major issue in...
Kinetics studies of cationic ring-opening photopolymerization using Raman spectrocscopy / (2005)
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Pytowski, Bronislaw, Goldman, Jeremy, Persaud, Kris, Wu, Yan, Witte, Larry, Hicklin, Daniel J., ...
Background: New lymphatic growth may contribute to tumor metastasis. Activation of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3 (VEGFR-3) by its ligands VEGF-C and -D is necessary for embryonic and...
Algorithm and performance of a clinical IMRT beam-angle optimization system (2003)
Djajaputra, David, Wu, Qiuwen, Wu, Yan, Mohan, Radhe
This paper describes the algorithm and examines the performance of an IMRT beam-angle optimization (BAO) system. In this algorithm successive sets of beam angles are selected from a set of predefined...
Work strain, depression and moderators : a cross-cultural perspective / (2003)
The difficulties in cross-cultural transition and the ways to diminish the adaptive cost and role conflict in this process have drawn attention from a wide range of scholars and professionals in...
Hessner, Martin J., Wang, Xujing, Hulse, Katie, Meyer, Lisa, Wu, Yan, Nye, Steven, ...
Gene expression studies using microarrays have great potential to generate new insights into human disease pathogenesis, but data quality remains a major obstacle. In particular, there does not exist...
Wang, Xujing, Hessner, Martin J., Wu, Yan, Pati, Nirupma, Ghosh, Soumitra
Abstract: Data preprocessing including proper normalization and adequate quality control before complex data mining is crucial for studies using the cDNA microarray technology. We have developed a...
Wu, Yan, Angelillo-Scherrer, Anne, Liao, Fang, ...
The therapeutic potential of placental growth factor (PlGF) and its receptor Flt1 in angiogenesis is poorly understood. Here, we report that PlGF stimulated angiogenesis and collateral growth in...
Magnetics and magnetotransport in colossal magnetoresistance thin films and nanostructures / (2001)
Thesis (M.S.)--Cornell University, 2001.
Essen, Univ., Diss., 2002.
Essen, Univ., Diss., 2002.
The function of tissue inhibitor or metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) in human ovary (2001)
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Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) stimulates angiogenesis by activating VEGF receptor-2 (VEGFR-2). The role of its homolog, placental growth factor (PlGF), remains unknown. Both VEGF and PlGF...
Inactivation of AtRac1 by abscisic acid is essential for stomatal closure (2001)
Lemichez, Emmanuel, Wu, Yan, Sanchez, Juan-Pablo, Mettouchi, Amel, Mathur, Jaideep, Chua, Nam-Hai
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Domain structure and magnetotransport in epitaxial colossal magnetoresistance thin films (2000)
Suzuki,Yuri, Wu, Yan, Yu, J., Rüdiger, Ulrich, Kent, Andrew D., Nath, Tapan K., ...
Our studies of compressively strained La0.7 Sr0.3 MnO7 (LSMO) thin films reveal the importance of domain structure and strain effects in the magnetization reversal and magnetotransport. Normal and...
Wu, Yan, Suzuki, Yuri, Rüdiger, Ulrich, Yu, Jun, Kent, Andrew D., Nath, Tapan K., ...
We have studied the magnetoresistance (MR) of compressively strained La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 (LSMO) films in various magnetic states in order to understand the role of magnetic domain structure on...
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Liu, Yang, Wu, Yan, Ramarathinam, Lakshmi, Guo, Yong, Huszar, Dennis, Trounstine, Mary, ...
The role of B cells in promoting T cell responses is still controversial. In this study, we use JHD mice which have a targeted mutation in the JH gene and are thus rendered deficient in B cells to...
Supercritical fluid carbon dioxide extraction of nitrated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons / (1992)
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From oligonucleotide shapes to genomic SELEX: Novel biological regulatory loops
Gold, Larry, Brown, David, He, Yi-yuan, Shtatland, Timur, Singer, Britta S., Wu, Yan
The SELEX method and oligonucleotide combinatorial chemistry discovery process yields high-affinity/high-specificity ligands for virtually any molecular target. Typically, the enormous starting...
Zheng, Pan, Wu, Yan, Guo, Yong, Lee, Cheng, Liu, Yang
Expression of B7-family costimulatory molecules CD80 (B7–1) and CD86 (B7–2) on tumor cells enhances host immunity. However, the role of the two B7 receptors, CD28 and CTLA4 (CD152), on T cells in...
Dias, Sergio, Hattori, Koichi, Heissig, Beate, Zhu, Zhenping, Wu, Yan, Witte, Larry, ...
Antiangiogenic agents block the effects of tumor-derived angiogenic factors (paracrine factors), such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), on endothelial cells (EC), inhibiting the growth of...
Egner, Patricia A., Wang, Jin-Bing, Zhu, Yuan-Rong, Zhang, Bao-Chu, Wu, Yan, Zhang, Qi-Nan, ...
Residents of Qidong, People's Republic of China, are at high risk for development of hepatocellular carcinoma, in part from consumption of foods contaminated with aflatoxins. Chlorophyllin, a mixture...
Sialylation of the Host Receptor May Modulate Entry of Demyelinating Persistent Theiler's Virus
Zhou, Lan, Luo, Yu, Wu, Yan, Tsao, Jun, Luo, Ming
Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) is a picornavirus of the Cardiovirus genus. Certain strains of TMEV may cause a chronic demyelinating disease, which is very similar to multiple...
Zuo, Jianru, Niu, Qi-Wen, Nishizawa, Naoko, Wu, Yan, Kost, Benedikt, Chua, Nam-Hai
The formation of the cell plate, a unique structure in dividing plant cells, is pivotal for cytokinesis. A mutation in the Arabidopsis KORRIGAN (KOR) gene causes the formation of aberrant cell...
Three color cDNA microarrays: quantitative assessment through the use of fluorescein-labeled probes
Hessner, Martin J., Wang, Xujing, Hulse, Katie, Meyer, Lisa, Wu, Yan, Nye, Steven, ...
Gene expression studies using microarrays have great potential to generate new insights into human disease pathogenesis, but data quality remains a major obstacle. In particular, there does not exist...
Jin, Ping, Wood, Michelle D., Wu, Yan, Xie, Zhiyi, Katagiri, Fumiaki
Many phytopathogenic bacteria use a type III secretion system to deliver type III effector proteins into the host plant cell. The Pseudomonas syringae type III effector AvrRpt2 is cleaved at a...
Inactivation of AtRac1 by abscisic acid is essential for stomatal closure
Lemichez, Emmanuel, Wu, Yan, Sanchez, Juan-Pablo, Mettouchi, Amel, Mathur, Jaideep, Chua, Nam-Hai
Plant water homeostasis is maintained by the phytohormone abscisic acid (ABA), which triggers stomatal pore closure in response to drought stress. We identified the Arabidopsis small guanosine...
Autocrine stimulation of VEGFR-2 activates human leukemic cell growth and migration
Dias, Sergio, Hattori, Koichi, Zhu, Zhenping, Heissig, Beate, Choy, Margaret, Lane, William, ...
Emerging data suggest that VEGF receptors are expressed by endothelial cells as well as hematopoietic stem cells. Therefore, we hypothesized that functional VEGF receptors may also be expressed in...
Dedifferentiation of Adult Human Myoblasts Induced by Ciliary Neurotrophic Factor In Vitro
Chen, Xiaoping, Mao, Zebin, Liu, Shuhong, Liu, Hong, Wang, Xuan, Wu, Haitao, ...
Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) is primarily known for its important cellular effects within the nervous system. However, recent studies indicate that its receptor can be highly expressed in...
RanBPM associates with CD39 and modulates ecto-nucleotidase activity
Wu, Yan, Sun, Xiaofeng, Kaczmarek, Elzbieta, Dwyer, Karen M., Bianchi, Elisabetta, Usheva, Anny, ...
CD39/ecto-NTPDase 1 (nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase 1) is an ecto-nucleotidase that influences P2 receptor activation to regulate vascular and immune cell adhesion and signalling events...
Wnt expression is not correlated with β-catenin dysregulation in Dupuytren's Disease
O'Gorman, David B, Wu, Yan, Seney, Shannon, Zhu, Rebecca D, Gan, Bing Siang
Differential Reactions of Microglia to Brain Metastasis of Lung Cancer
He, Bei Ping, Wang, Jian Jun, Zhang, Xian, Wu, Yan, Wang, Miao, Bay, Boon-Huat, ...
The brain is a common metastatic site for various types of cancers, especially lung cancer. Patients with brain metastases have a poor prognosis in spite of radiotherapy and/or chemotherapy. It is...
Rational design and rapid screening of antisense oligonucleotides for prokaryotic gene modulation
Shao, Yu, Wu, Yan, Chan, Chi Yu, McDonough, Kathleen, Ding, Ye
Antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (oligos) are widely used for functional studies of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genes. However, the identification of effective target sites is a major issue in...
Nonvascular VEGF receptor 3 expression by corneal epithelium maintains avascularity and vision
Cursiefen, Claus, Chen, Lu, Saint-Geniez, Magali, Hamrah, Pedram, Jin, Yiping, Rashid, Saadia, ...
Transparency of the cornea, the window of the eye, is a prerequisite for vision. Angiogenesis into the normally avascular cornea is incompatible with good vision and, therefore, the cornea is one of...
容積・形状の異なるコンテナにおけるキンモクセイの成長特性に関する研究
呉, 炎, Wu, Yan, 三島, 孔明, ミシマ, コウメイ, Mishima, Kōmei, Mishima, Komei, ...
容積, 形状の異なるコンテナにおけるキンモクセイの成長特性を検討するため,...
Bianchetti, Laurent, Wu, Yan, Guerin, Eric, Plewniak, Frédéric, Poch, Olivier
SAGE (Serial Analysis of Gene Expression) experiments generate short nucleotide sequences called ‘tags’ which are assumed to map unambiguously to their original transcripts (1 tag to 1 transcript...
Disordered Purinergic Signaling Inhibits Pathological Angiogenesis in Cd39/Entpd1-Null Mice
Jackson, Shaun W., Hoshi, Tomokazu, Wu, Yan, Sun, Xiaofeng, Enjyoji, Keiichi, Cszimadia, Eva, ...
CD39/ecto-nucleoside triphosphate diphosphohydrolase-type-1 (ENTPD1) is the dominant vascular ecto-nucleotidase that catalyzes the phosphohydrolysis of extracellular nucleotides in the blood and...
CTLA-4–B7 Interaction Is Sufficient to Costimulate T Cell Clonal Expansion
Wu, Yan, Guo, Yong, Huang, Andy, Zheng, Pan, Liu, Yang
T cell costimulation, particularly by the B7 family members B7-1 and B7-2, plays a critical role in regulating T cell–mediated immunity. Two molecules on T cells, CD28 and CTLA-4, are known to bind...
Wu, Yan, Zhou, Qunmin, Zheng, Pan, Liu, Yang
It is well established that B7-CD28/CTLA4 interactions play an important role in the induction of T helper cells for T-dependent antibody responses. However, targeted mutation of CD28 does not...
Structural insight into distinct mechanisms of protease inhibition by antibodies
Wu, Yan, Eigenbrot, Charles, Liang, Wei-Ching, Stawicki, Scott, Shia, Steven, Fan, Bin, ...
To better understand how the relatively flat antigen-combining sites of antibodies interact with the concave shaped substrate-binding clefts of proteases, we determined the structures of two...
A Specificity Map for the PDZ Domain Family
Tonikian, Raffi, Zhang, Yingnan, Sazinsky, Stephen L, Currell, Bridget, Yeh, Jung-Hua, Reva, Boris, ...
PDZ domains are protein–protein interaction modules that recognize specific C-terminal sequences to assemble protein complexes in multicellular organisms. By scanning billions of random peptides,...
Appleton, Brent A, Wu, Ping, Maloney, Janice, Yin, JianPing, Liang, Wei-Ching, Stawicki, Scott, ...
Neuropilins (Nrps) are co-receptors for class 3 semaphorins and vascular endothelial growth factors and important for the development of the nervous system and the vasculature. The extracellular...
Antibody-based targeting of FGFR3 in bladder carcinoma and t(4;14)-positive multiple myeloma in mice
Qing, Jing, Du, Xiangnan, Chen, Yongmei, Chan, Pamela, Li, Hao, Wu, Ping, ...
Overexpression of FGF receptor 3 (FGFR3) is implicated in the development of t(4;14)-positive multiple myeloma. While FGFR3 is frequently overexpressed and/or activated through mutations in bladder...
Xue, Yuan, Religa, Piotr, Cao, Renhai, Hansen, Anker Jon, Lucchini, Franco, Jones, Bernt, ...
The underlying mechanism by which anti-VEGF agents prolong cancer patient survival is poorly understood. We show that in a mouse tumor model, VEGF systemically impairs functions of multiple organs...
IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®
Lefranc, Marie-Paule, Giudicelli, Véronique, Ginestoux, Chantal, Jabado-Michaloud, Joumana, Folch, Géraldine, Bellahcene, Fatena, ...
IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system® (http://www.imgt.org), was created in 1989 by Marie-Paule Lefranc, Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire LIGM (Université...
Behdad, Amir, Sun, Xiaofeng, Khalpey, Zain, Enjyoji, Keiichi, Wink, Marcia, Wu, Yan, ...
Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) migration and proliferation are critical steps in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, post-angioplasty restenosis, neointimal hyperplasia, and chronic allograft...
Deletion of Cd39/Entpd1 Results in Hepatic Insulin Resistance
Enjyoji, Keiichi, Kotani, Ko, Thukral, Chandrashekar, Blumel, Benjamin, Sun, Xiaofeng, Wu, Yan, ...
OBJECTIVE—Extracellular nucleotides are important mediators of inflammatory responses and could also impact metabolic homeostasis. Type 2 purinergic (P2) receptors bind extracellular nucleotides...