Yang Liu, John A. Clark, Susan Stepney
Abstract. We present a set of process patterns that can be used to as a systematic way of analysing security requirements in a novel domain, taking ubiquitous healthcare as an example.
Zhang, Zhenguo, Zhou, Li, Wang, Ping, Liu, Yang, Chen, Xianfeng, Hu, Landian, ...
Abstract Background The origin of new genes and their contribution to functional novelty has been the subject of considerable interest. There has been much progress in understanding the mechanisms by...
Ji, Yixin, Zhang, Yan, Xu, Songtao, Zhu, Zhen, Zuo, Shuyan, Jiang, Xiaohong, ...
Abstract Measles morbidity and mortality decreased significantly after measles vaccine was introduced into China in 1965. From 1995 to 2004, average annual measles incidence decreased to 5.6 cases...
Yang Liu, Jeremy A. Sarnat, Brent A. Coull, Petros Koutrakis, Daniel J. Jacob
Aerosol optical thickness (AOT) data derived by the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) from Jan 2001 to Feb 2002 were compared with AOT measurements from 16 Aerosol Robotic Network...
200km Decoy-state quantum key distribution with photon polarization (2009)
Chen, Teng-Yun, Wang, Jian, Liu, Yang, Cai, Wen-Qi, Wan, Xu, Chen, Luo-Kan, ...
We demonstrate the decoy-state quantum key distribution over 200 km with photon polarization through optical fiber, by using super-conducting single photon detector with a repetition rate of 320 Mega...
Forest-to-String Statistical Translation Rules (2009)
Yang Liu, Yun Huang, Qun Liu, Shouxun Lin
In this paper, we propose forest-to-string rules to enhance the expressive power of tree-to-string translation models. A forestto-string rule is capable of capturing nonsyntactic phrase pairs by...
Wenping Wang, Johannes Wallner, Yang Liu
A vertex in a mesh surface with planar faces may have the property that offsetting all the face planes incident with the vertex by a constant distance leads to planes which intersect again in a...
Visual Hull Rendering with Multi-view Stereo Refinement (2009)
Yang Liu, George Chen, Nelson Max, Christian Hofsetz, Peter Mcguinness
We present a system for rendering novel viewpoints from a set of calibrated and silhouette-segmented images using the visual hull together with multi-view stereo. The visual hull predicted from the...
Li, Sheng, Liu, Yang, Piao, Yun-Song
In a given path with multiple branches, in principle, it can be expected that there are some fork points, where one branch is bifurcated into different branches, or various branches converge into one...
On Centroidal Voronoi Tessellation — Energy Smoothness and Fast Computation (2009)
Yang Liu, Wenping Wang, Bruno Lévy, Feng Sun, Dong-ming Yan, Lin Lu, ...
Centroidal Voronoi tessellation (CVT) is a fundamental geometric structure that finds many applications
Hexagonal Meshes with Planar Faces (2009)
Wenping Wang, Yang Liu, Dongming Yan, Bin Chan, Ruotian Ling, Feng Sun
Figure 1: (Left): A conceptual architectural structure as a P-Hex mesh, computed using the progressive conjugation method. The interior view (top right) shows that the shapes of the P-Hex faces...
Yang Liu, Tu Wien, Johannes Wallner, Tu Wien, Yong-liang Yang, Wenping Wang
Figure 1: Conical meshes are planar quad meshes which discretize principal curvature lines, possess offset meshes at a constant distance as well as planar connecting elements supporting the offset...
Shi, Dong-yun, Xie, Fei-zhou, Zhai, Chao, Stern, Jeremy S, Liu, Yang, Liu, Shan-lin
Abstract Background The Warburg effect has been found in a wide spectrum of human cancers, however the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. This study aims to explore the role of cellular...
Nkansah, Richard A., Liu, Yang, Alley, Olivia J., Gerken, James B., Drake, Michael D., Roberts, John D.
The conformational equilibrium of 3-(dimethylazinoyl)propanoic acid (DMAPA, azinoyl = N^+(O^−) has a weak pH-dependence in D_2O, with a slight preference for trans in alkaline solutions. The acid...
A global benchmark study using affinity-based biosensors (2009)
Rich, Rebecca L., Papalia, Giuseppe A., Flynn, Peter J., Furneisen, Jamie, Quinn, John, Klein, Joshua S., ...
To explore the variability in biosensor studies, 150 participants from 20 countries were given the same protein samples and asked to determine kinetic rate constants for the interaction. We chose a...
Robust methods for accurate diagnosis using pan-microbiological oligonucleotide microarrays (2009)
Liu, Yang, Sam, Lee, Li, Jianrong, Lussier, Yves A
Abstract Background To address the limitations of traditional virus and pathogen detection methodologies in clinical diagnosis, scientists have developed high-throughput oligonucleotide microarrays...
ARSA: A Sentiment-Aware Model for Predicting Sales Performance Using Blogs ABSTRACT (2009)
Yang Liu, Xiangji Huang, Aijun An, Xiaohui Yu
Due to its high popularity, Weblogs (or blogs in short) present a wealth of information that can be very helpful in assessing the general public’s sentiments and opinions. In this paper, we study...
A Region-Based Compilation Infrastructure 1 (2009)
Yang Liu, Zhaoqing Zhang, Ruliang Qiao
The traditional framework for back-end compilation is based on the scope of functions, which is a natural boundary to partition an entire program for compilation. However, the sizes and structures of...
Liu, Yang, Piao, Yun-Song, Si, Zong-Guo
In this paper, we revisit the idea of locked inflation, which does not require a potential satisfying the normal slow-roll condition, but suffers from the problems associated with "saddle inflation"....
Solvability for second-order m-point boundary value problems at resonance on the half-line (2009)
In this article, we investigate the existence of positive solutions for second-order m-point boundary-value problems at resonance on the half-line $$displaylines{ (q(t)x'(t))'=f(t,x(t),x'(t)),quad...
Ling Hu, Yang Liu, Jiang-Ping Ma, Dian-Shun Guo
Molecules of the title compound, C56H76Cl4O16S4, have crystallographic C2 symmetry and adopt a 1,3-alternate conformation where the four –OCH2CH2OCH2CH2Cl groups are located alternately above...
Poly[hemi(ethylenediammonium) [di-μ-oxalato-indium(III)] dihydrate] (2009)
Qiaozhen Sun, Yang Liu, Hongwu Li, Zhi Luo
In title compound, {(C2H10N2)0.5[In(C2O4)2]·2H2O}n, the unique InIII ion is coordinated by eight O atoms from four oxalate ligands in a distorted square-antiprismatic environment. The doubly...
Minghao WANG, Yang LIU, Shuli LIU, Enhua WANG
Background and objective To explore the correlation between p120-catenin (p120ctn) and small GTPases in human lung cancer, and their effect on the cell-cell adhesion, we examined the expression...
Shuli LIU, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Enhua WANG
Background and objective p120-catenin (p120ctn), a member of the Armadillo gene family, hasemerged as an important modulator of small GTPase activities. Therefore, it plays novel roles in tumor...
Meta Analysis of Association between Polymorphisms in Promoter Region of MMPs gene and (2009)
Shuli LIU, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Enhua WANG
Background and objective p120-catenin (p120ctn), a member of the Armadillo gene family, has emerged as an important modulator of small GTPase activities. Therefore, it plays novel roles in tumor...
Ablation of p120-Catenin Altering the Activity of Small GTPase in Human Lung Cancer Cells (2009)
Shuli LIU, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Enhua WANG
Background and objective p120-catenin (p120ctn), a member of the Armadillo gene family, has emerged as an important modulator of small GTPase activities. Therefore, it plays novel roles in tumor...
Changqing FANG, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Yong ZHANG, Enhua WANG
Background and objective Different isoforms of p120-catenin (p120ctn), the members of catenin family, are variably expressed in different tissues and cells. These isoforms may confer different...
Liu, Yan, Wang, Yin, Wu, Cindy, Liu, Yang, Zheng, Pan
The majority of the Lafora's disease (LD) is caused by defect in the EPM2A gene, including missense and nonsense mutations and deletions. These defects mainly occur in the carbohydrate-binding...
Pan, Jennifer, Lin, Jie, Izzo, Julie G., Liu, Yang, Xing, Jinliang, Huang, Maosheng, ...
In this case–control study with 387 White esophageal patients and 462 White controls matched to cases by age and sex, we evaluated the associations between 13 potential functional polymorphisms in...
Yang Liu, Gang Chen, Nadine Norton, Wenmin Liu, Haining Zhu, Peng Zhou, ...
DNA pooling can provide an economic and efficient way to detect susceptibility loci to complex diseases. We carried out a genome screen with 400 microsatellite markers spaced at approximately 10 cm...
Yang Liu, Gang Chen, Nadine Norton, Wenmin Liu, Haining Zhu, Peng Zhou, ...
DNA pooling can provide an economic and efficient way to detect susceptibility loci to complex diseases. We carried out a genome screen with 400 microsatellite markers spaced at approximately...
Hemant K. Roy, Patrick Iversen, John Hart, Yang Liu, Jennifer L. Koetsier, Young Kim, ...
Objectives: Emerging evidence implicates the SNAIL family of transcriptional repressors in cancer development; however, the role of SNAIL in colorectal cancer has not been established. To investigate...
Abstract Web technologies based on XML, e.g. Semantic Web and Web Services, facilitate Webautomation and universally accessible content. One of the key factors for the success of XML-based...
Official Evaluation Discussion Summary (2008)
Zhongjun He, Haitao Mi, Yang Liu, Devi Xiong, Weihua Luo, Yun Huang, ...
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Senior Member, Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf, ...
Abstract — Effective human and automatic processing of speech requires recovery of more than just the words. It also involves recovering phenomena such as sentence boundaries, filler words, and...
Computation of Rotation Minimizing Frame (2008)
Wenping Wang, Bert Jüttler, Dayue Zheng, Yang Liu
Due to its minimal twist, the rotation minimizing frame (RMF) is widely used in computer graphics, including sweep or blending surface modeling, motion design and control in computer animation and...
Genetic characterization of Measles Viruses in China, 2004 (2008)
Zhang, Yan, Ji, Yixin, Jiang, Xiaohong, Xu, Songtao, Zhu, Zhen, Zheng, Lei, ...
Abstract Genetic characterization of wild-type measles virus was studied using nucleotide sequencing of the C-terminal region of the N protein gene and phylogenetic analysis on 59 isolates from 16...
Field test of a practical secure communication network with decoy-state quantum cryptography (2008)
Chen, Teng-Yun, Liu, Yang, Cai, Wen-Qi, Ju, Lei, Liang, Hao, Liu, Wei-Yue, ...
We present a secure network communication system that operated for the first time with decoy-state quantum cryptography in a real-world application scenario. The full key exchange and application...
Limitations of Remotely-sensed Aerosol as a Spatial Proxy for Fine Particulate Matter (2008)
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang
Recent research highlights the promise of remotely-sensed aerosol optical depth (AOD) as a proxy for ground-level PM2.5. Particular interest lies in the information on spatial heterogeneity...
Limitations of Remotely-sensed Aerosol as a Spatial Proxy for Fine Particulate Matter (2008)
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang
Recent research highlights the promise of remotely-sensed aerosol optical depth (AOD) as a proxy for ground-level PM2.5. Particular interest lies in the information on spatial heterogeneity...
Limitations of Remotely-sensed Aerosol as a Spatial Proxy for Fine Particulate Matter (2008)
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang
Recent research highlights the promise of remotely-sensed aerosol optical depth (AOD) as a proxy for ground-level PM2.5. Particular interest lies in the information on spatial heterogeneity...
Limitations of Remotely-sensed Aerosol as a Spatial Proxy for Fine Particulate Matter (2008)
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang
Recent research highlights the promise of remotely-sensed aerosol optical depth (AOD) as a proxy for ground-level PM2.5. Particular interest lies in the information on spatial heterogeneity...
Yang Liu, Yu Jia, Wei Wang, Zhi-Duan Chen, E. Christine Davis, Yin-Long Qiu
Trichocoleopsis S. Okamura and Neotrichocolea S. Hatt. are two water saccate liverwort genera endemic to East Asia whose systematic positions have been controversial. To address their phylogenetic...
Roy, Hemant K., Turzhitsky, Vladimir, Kim, Young L., Goldberg, Michael J., Muldoon, Joseph P., Liu, Yang, ...
PURPOSE: We previously reported that analysis of histologically normal intestinal epithelium for spectral slope, a marker for aberrations in nanoscale tissue architecture, had outstanding accuracy in...
Melon species include a wide variety of cultivars producing fruits differing in many fruit traits. Great efforts have been made trying to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying these traits,...
Melon species include a wide variety of cultivars producing fruits differing in many fruit traits. Great efforts have been made trying to understand the genetic mechanisms underlying these traits,...
ICA based on KPCA and Hybrid Flexible Neural Tree to Face Recognition (2008)
Jin Zhou, Yang Liu, Yuehui Chen
Abstract: In this paper, a new approach using Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and hybrid Flexible Neural Tree (FNT) is put forward for face recognition. To improve the quality of the face...
Hardware Efficient Architectures for Eigenvalue Computation (2008)
Yang Liu, Christos-savvas Bouganis
Eigenvalue computation is essential in many fields of science and engineering. For high performance and real-time applications, this may need to be done in hardware. This paper focuses on the...
Applying Data Mining to Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for High Performance Text Retrieval (2008)
Xiangji Huang, Yan Rui Huang, Miao Wen, Aijun An, Yang Liu, Josiah Poon
In this paper, we investigate the use of data mining, in particular the text classification and co-training techniques, to identify more relevant passages based on a small set of labeled passages...
Yang Liu, Tu Wien, Johannes Wallner, Tu Wien, Yong-liang Yang, Wenping Wang
Copyright © 2006 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided...
Accurate classification of dialog acts (DAs) is important for many spoken language applications. Different methods have been proposed such as hidden Markov models (HMM), maximum entropy (Maxent),...
Guo, Mao-Zu, Li, Jian-Fu, Liu, Yang
Abstract Background Inference of evolutionary trees using the maximum likelihood principle is NP-hard. Therefore, all practical methods rely on heuristics. The topological transformations often used...
Characterization and expression patterns of a membrane-bound trehalase from Spodoptera exigua (2008)
Tang, Bin, Chen, Xiaofei, Liu, Yang, Tian, Honggang, Liu, Jian, Hu, Jian, ...
Abstract Background The chitin biosynthesis pathway starts with trehalose in insects and the main functions of trehalases are hydrolysis of trehalose to glucose. Although insects possess two types,...
Band-Structure Effects on the Performance of III-V Ultrathin-Body SOI MOSFETs (2008)
Liu, Yang, Neophytou, Neophytos, Klimeck, Gerhard, Lundstrom, Mark S.
This paper examines the impact of band structure on deeply scaled III-V devices by using a self-consistent 20-band sp3d5s∗-SO semiempirical atomistic tight-binding model. The density of states and...
Zina Ben Miled, Yue W. Webster, Yang Liu, Nianhua Li
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Lee Sam, Yang Liu, Jianrong Li, Carol Friedman, Yves A. Lussier
The study of protein-protein interactions is essential to define the molecular networks that contribute to maintain homeostasis of an organism’s body functions. Disruptions in protein interaction...
Geometry of Multi-layer Freeform Structures for Architecture (2008)
Tu Wien, Yang Liu, Johannes Wallner, Tu Graz, Alexander Bobenko, Tu Berlin, ...
Figure 1: This architectural free form structure – built of beams of constant height meeting in optimized nodes and covered with planar glass facets – was designed using the theory and algorithms...
Low Power Trellis Decoder with Overscaled Supply Voltage (2008)
Yang Liu, Tong Zhang, Jiang Hu
Abstract — This paper is interested in applying voltage overscaling (VOS) to reduce trellis decoder energy consumption, where the key issue is how to minimize the decoding performance degradation...
Jersey number detection in sports video for athlete identification (2008)
Qixiang Ye, Qingming Huang, Shuqiang Jiang, Yang Liu, Wen Gao
Athlete identification is important for sport video content analysis since users often care about the video clips with their preferred athletes. In this paper, we propose a method for athlete...
ARSA: A Sentiment-Aware Model for Predicting Sales Performance Using Blogs ABSTRACT (2008)
Yang Liu, Xiangji Huang, Aijun An, Xiaohui Yu
Due to its high popularity, Weblogs (or blogs in short) present a wealth of information that can be very helpful in assessing the general public’s sentiments and opinions. In this paper, we study...
Coordinated dynamical swarm behavior occurs when certain types of animals forage for food or try to avoid predators. Analogous behaviors can occur in engineering systems (e.g. in groups of autonomous...
Liu, Yang, Dahmen, Karin A., Berger, A.
The $\Delta H(M, \Delta M)$ method and its ability to determine intrinsic switching field distributions of perpendicular recording media are numerically studied. It is found that the presence of...
Effects of Glucose on Development of ICR Mouse Embryos in vitro (2008)
DING, Fang, ZHOU, Hong-lin, LIU, Yang, MA, Lan, SU, Ying, DU, Ling
To study the effects of glucose on the development of ICR mouse embryos in vitro. Experiment 1: ICR female mice (6－8 weeks of age) were super-ovulated with i.p. injections of PMSG and hCG, and...
A Tight-Binding Study of the Ballistic Injection Velocity for Ultrathin-Body SOI MOSFETs (2008)
Liu, Yang, Neophytou, Neophytos, Low, Tony, Klimeck, Gerhard, Lundstrom, Mark
This paper examines the validity of the widely used parabolic effective mass approximation by computing the ballistic injection velocity of a double-gate, ultrathin-body (UTB) n-MOSFET. The energy...
Shue, Eveline H, Carson-Walter, Eleanor B, Liu, Yang, Winans, Bethany N, Ali, Zarina S, Chen, Jun, ...
Abstract Background Plasmalemmal vesicle associated protein-1 ( PV-1 ) is selectively expressed in human brain microvascular endothelial cells derived from clinical specimens of primary and secondary...
Automatic speech recognition has improved dramatically over the past few decades. The goal of such systems is typically only to output a simple stream of words. Humans, however, use information...
Yang Liu, Yu-kwong Kwok, J. Wang
Abstract — An efficient practical packet scheduling algorithm for high data rate cellular services has to tackle two challenges: bandwidth efficiency and fairness, which are conflicting with each...
Yang Liu, Yu-kwong Kwok, J. Wang
Abstract—Ultra wideband (UWB) systems are widely envisioned to be the next important wireless infrastructure for efficient short-range communications and mobile applications. Indeed, forming ad hoc...
Design and Analysis of Optimization Methods for Subdivision Surface Fitting (2008)
Wenping Wang, Hong Qin, Huaiping Yang, Yang Liu
Abstract — We present a complete framework for computing a subdivision surface to approximate unorganized point sample data, which is a separable nonlinear least squares problem. We study the...
Y.: Improved algorithms for the feedback vertex set problems (2008)
B Er, G E Nsis, Jianer Chen, Jianer Chen, Fedor V. Fomin, Fedor V. Fomin, ...
We present improved parameterized algorithms for the Feedback Vertex Set problem on both unweighted and weighted graphs. Both algorithms run in time O(5 k kn 2). For unweighted graphs, our algorithm...
Yang Liu, Yu-kwong Kwok, J. Wang
Ultra wideband (UWB) systems are currently an important wireless infrastructure for efficient shortrange communications. To improve the system efficiency while guaranteeing the radio link level...
Computation of Rotation Minimizing Frame in Computer Graphics (2008)
Wenping Wang, Bert Jüttler, Dayue Zheng, Yang Liu
We investigate the computation and properties of rotation minimizing frame (RMF), which is a moving orthonormal frame U(u) attached to a smooth curve x(u), called the spine curve, in 3D such that...
Amit Goradia, Zhiwei Cen, Clayton Haffner, Yang Liu, Boo Heon Song, Matt Mutka, ...
Pervasive surveillance implies the continuous tracking of multiple targets as they move about the monitored region. The tasks to be performed by a surveillance system have the following requirements:...
Yang Liu, Rokjin J. Park, Daniel J. Jacob, Qinbin Li, Vasu Kilaru, Jeremy A. Sarnat
Mapping annual mean ground-level PM 2.5 concentrations using
On the calculation of Schottky contact resistivity (2008)
This numerical study examines the importance of self-consistently accounting for transport and electrostatics in the calculaiton of semiconductor/metal Schottky contact resistivity. It is shown that...
Existence of solutions for a fourth-order boundary-value problem (2008)
In this paper, we use the lower and upper solution method to obtain an existence theorem for the fourth-order boundary-value problem $$displaylines{ u^{(4)}(t)=f(t,u(t),u'(t),u''(t),u'''(t)),quad 0
1-(2-Methoxyethoxy)-4-nitrobenzene (2008)
Yang Liu, Wei-Na Xu, Xiao-Ling Zhang, Jian-Ping Ma, Dian-Shun Guo
The title compound, C9H11NO4, is an intermediate for dyes and drugs. The O—C—C—O chain adopts a synclinal conformation. The crystal structure is stabilized by C—H...O hydrogen...
Heng-Da Li, Yang Liu, Mao-Liang Xu, Seik Weng Ng
One of the two 1,4-dicarboxylate dianions in the title compound, [Mn2(C12H6O4)2(C19H12N4)2]·C3H7NO, uses its two carboxylate groups to chelate two N-heterocycle-chelated Mn atoms; the other...
Expression and significance of p120ctn isoforms in lung squamous cell carcinomas (2008)
Yuan MIAO, Yang LIU, Yan WANG, Enhua WANG
Background and Objective It has been proven that p120ctn plaied an important role in cell adhesion and correlates with tumorigenesis significantly, the aim of this work is to investigate the...
High Expression of TCF-4 Positively Correlated with Lung Cancer Progression (2008)
Lianhe YANG, Hongtao XU, Yan WANG, Yang LIU, Yue ZHAO, Shundong DAI, ...
Background and objective TCF-4 is an important downstream molecule of Wnt signaling pathway, but studies on the expression level and significance of TCF-4 in lung cancer were still limited. The aim...
Facile Synthesis of Oleanolic Acid Monoglycosides and Diglycosides (2008)
Yu Sha, Mao-Cai Yan, Jiao Liu, Yang Liu, Mao-Sheng Cheng
Oleanolic acid and its glycosides are important natural products, possessing various attractive biological activities such as antitumor, antivirus and anti-inflammatory properties. In the present...
Xu-qiong Xiong, Dong-mei Zhao, Peng-fei Bu, Yang Liu, Jin-hong Ren, Jian Wang, ...
Abstract: CoMFA, CoMSIA and eigenvalue analysis (EVA) were performed to study the structural features of 61 diverse dibenzodioxepinone and dibenzodioxocinone analogues to probe cholesteryl ester...
Hongliang Huang, Hai Yu, Da Li, Yang Liu, Fenping Shen, Jun Zhou, ...
A novel co-polymer based on 2-hydroxypropyl-α-cyclodextrin cross-linked by low molecular weight polyethylenimine was synthesized as a gene delivery vector. The copolymer could bind and...
Chun-Bo Liu, Jian Wang, Xiu-Ying Li, Guang-Bo Che, Yang Liu
In the title adduct, 2C18H14N4·C8H6O4, the centrosymmetric 1,4-benzenedicarboxylic acid molecule makes two O—H...·N hydrogen bonds to adjacent...
(2E,5E)-2,5-Bis(3,4,5-trimethoxybenzylidene)cyclopentanone (2008)
Yi-Feng Sun, Yang Liu, Feng-Yu Zhang, Hong-Ji Chen, Yi-Ping Cui
The title compound, C25H28O7, was prepared by the base-catalysed reaction of 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzaldehyde with cyclopentanone. The molecule has crystallographic twofold rotation symmetry and adopts...
Comprehensive viral oligonucleotide probe design using conserved protein regions (2008)
Jabado, Omar J., Liu, Yang, Conlan, Sean, Quan, P. Lan, Hegyi, Hédi, Lussier, Yves, ...
Oligonucleotide microarrays have been applied to microbial surveillance and discovery where highly multiplexed assays are required to address a wide range of genetic targets. Although printing...
Peixoto, Paul, Liu, Yang, Depauw, Sabine, Hildebrand, Marie-Paule, Boykin, David W., Bailly, Christian, ...
The development of small molecules to control gene expression could be the spearhead of future-targeted therapeutic approaches in multiple pathologies. Among heterocyclic dications developed with...
Silicon Photonics Research in Hong Kong: Microresonator Devices and Optical Nonlinearities (2008)
POON, Andrew W., ZHOU, Linjie, XU, Fang, LI, Chao, CHEN, Hui, LIANG, Tak-Keung, ...
In this review paper we showcase recent activities on silicon photonics science and technology research in Hong Kong regarding two important topical areas — microresonator devices and optical...
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang, Moreno-Macias, Hortensia, Kondragunta, Shobha
We assess the strength of association between aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from the GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product (GASP) and ground-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to assess AOD as a...
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang, Moreno-Macias, Hortensia, Kondragunta, Shobha
We assess the strength of association between aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from the GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product (GASP) and ground-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to assess AOD as a...
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang, Moreno-Macias, Hortensia, Kondragunta, Shobha
We assess the strength of association between aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from the GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product (GASP) and ground-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to assess AOD as a...
Paciorek, Christopher J., Liu, Yang, Moreno-Macias, Hortensia, Kondragunta, Shobha
We assess the strength of association between aerosol optical depth (AOD) retrievals from the GOES Aerosol/Smoke Product (GASP) and ground-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to assess AOD as a...
Effect of Electro-Diffusion Current Flow on Electrostatic Screening in Aqueous Pores (2007)
Liu, Yang, Sauer, Jon, Dutton, Robert
A numerical study within the framework of the Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations is conducted to investigate electrostatic screening of charged bio-molecules within synthetic pores having diameters of...
Selective Delivery of a Quinone Methide Precursor by Peptide Nucleic Acids (2007)
Quinone methides (QMs) are electrophilic intermediates that can be generated in vivo to alkylate DNA and function as anti-cancer drugs. Previously, DNA-QM conjugates have shown the ability to...
Selective Delivery of a Quinone Methide Precursor by Peptide Nucleic Acids (2007)
Quinone methides (QMs) are electrophilic intermediates that can be generated in vivo to alkylate DNA and function as anti-cancer drugs. Previously, DNA-QM conjugates have shown the ability to...
Optical and electrical performance of, SnO2 capped ZnO nanowire Arrays (2007)
Shi, Liang, Xu, Yeming, Hark, Suikong, Liu, Yang, Wang, Sheng, Peng, Lian-mao, ...
Two-junction-nanowire arrays (SnO2 capped ZnO nanowire arrays on Zn substrate) are synthesized using a two-step-solution-reaction. The bare single crystalline ZnO nanowires give reasonably intense...
Abstract Building a Bilingual WordNet-Like Lexicon: the New Approach and Algorithms (2007)
Yang Liu, Shiwen Yu, Jiangsheng Yu
A bilingual concept MRD is of significance for IE, MT, WSD and the like. However, it is reasonably difficult to build such a lexicon for there exist two ontologies, also, the evolution of such a...
Two Kinds of Hypernymy Faults in WordNet: the Cases of Ring and Isolator ∗ (2007)
Yang Liu, Jiangsheng Yu, Zhengshan Wen, Shiwen Yu
Abstract. Hypernymy is the key relation that serves to form the ontology of the noun and verb concepts in WordNet and provides a common way of making induction along the hypernymy tree for the NLP...
Deleting a marked item from an unsorted database with a single query (2007)
In this Letter we present a quantum deletion algorithm that deletes a marked state from an unsorted database of $N$ items with only a single query. This algorithm achieves exponential speedup...
Li, Jiang, Robinson, Vance S, Liu, Yang, Lu, Weijie, Fisher, Timothy, Lukehart, Charles M
Preparation procedures and thermionic emission properties of graphitic carbon nanofibres (GCNFs) supported on Si wafer or commercial carbon felt supports are reported. GCNF/native-oxide Si wafer,...
Shi, Zhimin, Zhang, Hongxia, Liu, Yang, Xu, Muqi, Dai, Jiayin
Perfluorododecanoic acid (PFDoA, C12), a synthetic perfluorinated chemical containing 12 carbons, has broad industrial applications and has been detected in sera from humans and other animals;...
Liu, Yang, Dahmen, Karin A., Berger, A.
We present a numerical study of the $\Delta H(M,\Delta M)$ method and its ability to accurately determine intrinsic switching field distributions in interacting granular magnetic materials such as...
No-passing Rule in the Ground State Evolution of the Random-Field Ising Model (2007)
We exactly prove the no-passing rule in the ground state evolution of the random-field Ising model (RFIM) with monotonically varying external field. In particular, we show that the application of the...
A Dinucleotide Deletion in CD24 Confers Protection against Autoimmune Diseases (2007)
Lizhong Wang, Shili Lin, Kottil W. Rammohan, Zhenqiu Liu, Jin-qing Liu, Run-hua Liu, ...
It is generally believed that susceptibility to both organ-specific and systemic autoimmune diseases is under polygenic control. Although multiple genes have been implicated in each type of...
BugFinder: Automatische Fehlerfindung in nebenläufiger Software (2007)
Edelkamp, Stefan, Mehler, T., Jabbar, Shahid, Goloub, Alexander, Kellershoff, Mark, Liu, Yang, ...
A Di-nucleotide Deletion in CD24 Confers Protection against Autoimmune Diseases (2007)
Lizhong Wang, Shili Lin, Kotill Rammonham, Pan Zheng, Yang Liu
It is generally believed that susceptibility to both organ-specific and systemic autoimmune diseases is under polygenic control. Although multiple genes have been implicated in each type of...
Report (M.S.)--Michigan Technological University, 2007.
A robust motion detection estimation algorithm targeted for VLSI technology (2007)
Horne, Lachlan Stuart, Rainsford, Tamath Jane, Al-Sarawi, S. F., Tan, Winnie, Li, Weihua, Liu, Yang
Copyright © 2007 SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Pareto-improving and revenue-neutral congestion pricing / (2007)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007.
A robust motion detection estimation algorithm targeted for VLSI technology (2007)
Horne, Lachlan Stuart, Rainsford, Tamath Jane, Al-Sarawi, S. F., Tan, Winnie, Li, Weihua, Liu, Yang
Copyright © 2007 SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
Comparing Evaluation Metrics for Sentence Boundary Detection (2007)
In recent NIST evaluations on sentence boundary detection, a single error metric was used to describe performance. Additional metrics, however, are available for such tasks, in which a word stream is...
E.: Speaker adaptation of language models for automatic dialog act segmentation of meetings (2007)
Dialog act (DA) segmentation in meeting speech is important for meeting understanding. In this paper, we explore speaker adaptation of hidden event language models (LMs) for DA segmentation using the...
Software Technology Modelling with Relational Calculus of Object and Component Systems- rCOS (2007)
Zhenbang Chen, Abdel Hakim Hannousse, Dang Van Hung, Istvan Knoll, Xiaoshan Li, Zhiming Liu, ...
Training Centre of the United Nations University (UNU). It is based in Macao, and was founded in 1991. It started operations in July 1992. UNU-IIST is jointly funded by the government of Macao and...
Boosting prediction accuracy on imbalanced datasets with svm ensembles (2007)
Yang Liu, Aijun An, Xiangji Huang
Abstract. Learning from imbalanced datasets is inherently difficult due to lack of information about the minority class. In this paper, we study the performance of SVMs, which have gained great...
Personalized Recommendation with Adaptive Mixture of Markov Models (2007)
Yang Liu, Xiangji Huang, Aijun An
With more and more information available on the Internet, the task of making personalized recommendations to assist the user’s navigation has become increasingly important. Considering there might...
Pareto-improving and revenue-neutral congestion pricing (2007)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007
Directed Feedback Vertex Set Problem is FPT (2007)
Chen, Jianer, Liu, Yang, Lu, Songiian
To decide if the {sc parameterized feedback vertex set} problem in directed graph is fixed-parameter tractable is a long standing open problem. In this paper, we prove that the {sc parameterized...
One-Class Support Vector Machine Calibration Using Particle Swarm Optimisation (2007)
Abstract. Population-based search methods such as evolutionary algorithms, shuffled complex algorithms, simulated annealing and ant colony search are increasingly used as automatic calibration...
2007b. Unsupervised Language Model Adaptation Incorporating Named Entity Information (2007)
Language model (LM) adaptation is important for both speech and language processing. It is often achieved by combining a generic LM with a topic-specific model that is more relevant to the target...
Evaluation of high-throughput functional categorization of human (2007)
Bmc Bioinformatics, James L Chen, Yang Liu, Lee T Sam, Jianrong Li, Yves A Lussier
disease genes
An Integrative Genomic Approach to Uncover Molecular Mechanisms of Prokaryotic Traits (2006)
Yang Liu, Jianrong Li, Lee Sam, Chern-Sing Goh, Mark Gerstein, Yves A. Lussier
With mounting availability of genomic and phenotypic databases, data integration and mining become increasingly challenging. While efforts have been put forward to analyze prokaryotic phenotypes,...
An integrative genomic approach to uncover molecular mechanisms of prokaryotic traits (2006)
Yang Liu, Jianrong Li, Lee Sam, Chern-Sing Goh, Mark B Gerstein, Yves Lussier
With mounting availability of genomic and phenotypic databases, data integration and mining become increasingly challenging. While efforts have been put forward to analyze prokaryotic phenotypes,...
Sun, Shan, Liu, Yang, Liu, Jing-Mei, Yan, Yong-Bin, ...
DREB1/C-repeat binding factor (CBF) is a plant-specific family of transcription factors and plays a crucial role in freeze tolerance. In the present work, two groups of drought-responsive element...
Some Issues in the Construction of a Multi-lingual Lexical-semantic Net (2006)
Bi, Yu-de, Choi, Key-sun, Xiong, Jian-guo, Liu, Yang
GWC2006, Proceeding,pp.293-294
Schrijver, Carolus J., DeRosaand, Marc L., Metcalf, Thomas R., Liu, Yang, McTiernan, Jim, Regnier, Stephane, ...
Continuous collision detection for elliptic disks (2006)
Yi-king Choi, Wenping Wang, Yang Liu, Myung-soo Kim
Collision detection and avoidance is important for various tasks in robotics. Compared with commonly used circular disks, elliptic disks provide compact shape representation for robots or other...
Verification of Computation Orchestration via Timed Automata (2006)
Jin Song Dong, Yang Liu, Jun Sun, Xian Zhang
Abstract. Recently, a promising programming model called Orc has been proposed to support a structured way of orchestrating distributed web services. Orc is intuitive because it offers concise...
Y.: “Using Prosody for Automatic Sentence Segmentation of Multi-Party Meetings (2006)
Abstract. We explore the use of prosodic features beyond pauses, including duration, pitch, and energy features, for automatic sentence segmentation of ICSI meeting data. We examine two different...
Yves Lussier, Yves Lussier, Tara Borlawsky, Tara Borlawsky, Daniel Rappaport, Yang Liu, ...
Natural language processing (NLP) is a high throughput technology because it can process vast quantities of text within a reasonable time period. It has the potential to substantially facilitate...
PG 480: Bug-Finder Enhanced Error Detection in Concurrent Computer Programs (2006)
Dr. Stefan Edelkamp, M. Sc, Shahid Jabbar, Teilnehmer Alexander Goloub, ...
BioMed Central Open Access (2006)
Chern-sing Goh, Tara A Gianoulis, Yang Liu, Jianrong Li, Alberto Paccanaro, Yves A Lussier, ...
Integration of curated databases to identify genotype-phenotype
A Study in Machine Learning from Imbalanced Data for Sentence Boundary Detection in Speech (2006)
Yang Liu, Nitesh V. Chawla, Mary P. Harper, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Enriching speech recognition output with sentence boundaries improves its human readability and enables further processing by downstream language processing modules. We have constructed a hidden...
Genetic attributes of cerebrospinal fluid-derived HIV-1 env (2006)
Pillai, Satish K., Pond, Sergei L. Kosakovsky, Liu, Yang, Good, Benjamin M., Strain, Matthew C., Ellis, Ronald J., ...
HIV-1 often invades the CNS during primary infection, eventually resulting in neurological disorders in up to 50% of untreated patients. The CNS is a distinct viral reservoir, differing from...
Genetic attributes of cerebrospinal fluid-derived HIV-1 env (2006)
Pillai, Satish K., Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L., Liu, Yang, Good, Benjamin M., Strain, Matthew C., Ellis, Ronald J., ...
HIV-1 often invades the CNS during primary infection, eventually resulting in neurological disorders in up to 50% of untreated patients. The CNS is a distinct viral reservoir, differing from...
A Taxonomic Reassessment of Microdendron Inferred from Molecular and Morphological Evidence (2005)
Yang Liu, Yu Jia, Wei Wang, Zhi-Duan Chen, Yin-Long Qiu
Microdendron Broth., an eastern Asian endemic genus, was initially described based mainly on the tree-like gametophytes, but there have been several conflicting taxonomic treatments. In this study,...
Kim, Young L., Pradhan, Prabhakar, Subramanian, Hariharan, Liu, Yang, Kim, Min H., Backman, Vadim
We exploit low spatial coherence illumination to dephase time-reversed partial waves outside its finite coherence area, which virtually creates a controllable coherence volume and isolates the...
Subramanian, Hariharan, Pradhan, Prabhakar, Kim, Young L., Liu, Yang, Li, Xu, Backman, Vadim
Constructive interference among coherent waves traveling time-reversed paths in a random medium gives rise to the enhancement of light scattering observed in directions close to backscattering. This...
Characterization of Silicon Nanocrystals Embedded in SiO2 Matrix / (2005)
"Supervisor, Dr. Chen Tupei."
Al₂O₃ hosted attenuated phase shift mask materials for 157 nm / (2005)
"The Semiconductor Industry Association Roadmap 2003 has put 157 nm optical lithography as the next generation lithography wavelength for the node of 70 nm integrated circuits and below. The small...
Cryptographic database security with practical key management / (2005)
Approved by: Craig A. Rich, Hairong Kuang and Lan Yang.
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
Thesis (MBus) -- Auckland University of Technology, 2005.
Security in Ubiquitous Healthcare Systems (2005)
Yang Liu, Prof Susan, Stepney The
Andy Moore (Head of IT) from Harrogate Healthcare NHS Trust for help in the early stages of this work. I should also like to thank my supervisors Prof John Clark and Prof Susan Stepney for their...
Automatic Dialog Act Segmentation and Classification in Multiparty Meetings (2005)
Jeremy Ang, Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg
We explore the two related tasks of dialog act (DA) segmentation and DA classification for speech from the ICSI Meeting Corpus. We employ simple lexical and prosodic knowledge sources, and compare...
QoS Management of Supermedia Enhanced Teleoperation via Overlay Networks (2005)
Zhiwei Cen, Matt Mutka, Yang Liu, Amit Goradia, Ning Xi
In supermedia enhanced Internet based teleoperation systems, the data flowing between the operator and the robot include robotic control commands, video, audio, haptic feedback and other media types....
Does active learning help automatic dialog act taggin in meeting data (2005)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Knowledge of Dialog Acts (DAs) is important for the automatic understanding and summarization of meetings. Current approaches rely on a lot of hand labeled data to train automatic taggers. One...
Toward joint segmentation and classification of dialog acts in multiparty meetings (2005)
Matthias Zimmermann, Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Abstract. We present baseline results for the joint segmentation and classification of dialog acts (DAs) of the ICSI Meeting Corpus. Two simple approaches based on word information are investigated...
Structural Metadata Research in the EARS Program (2005)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Barbara Peskin, Jeremy Ang, Dustin Hillard, ...
Both human and automatic processing of speech require recognition of more than just words. In this paper we provide a brief overview of research on structural metadata extraction in the DARPA EARS...
Does active learning help automatic dialog act taggin in meeting data (2005)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Knowledge of Dialog Acts (DAs) is important for the automatic understanding and summarization of meetings. Current approaches rely on a lot of hand labeled data to train automatic taggers. One...
Comparing HMM, maximum entropy and conditional random fields for disfluency detection (2005)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Mary Harper
Automatic detection of disfluencies in spoken language is important for making speech recognition output more readable, and for aiding downstream language processing modules. We compare a generative...
An Energy-Efficient QoS-Aware Media AccessControl Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks (2005)
Yang Liu, Itamar Elhanany, Hairong Qi
Abstract — We present an innovative MAC protocol (Q-MAC) that minimizes the energy consumption in multi-hop wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and provides Quality of Service (QoS) by differentiating...
Improving particle filter with support vector regression for efficient visual tracking (2005)
Guangyu Zhu, Dawei Liang, Yang Liu, Qingming Huang, Wen Gao
Abstract—Particle filter is a powerful visual tracking tool based on sequential Monte Carlo framework, and it needs large numbers of samples to properly approximate the posterior density of the...
LPS receptor (CD14): a receptor for phagocytosis of Alzheimer's amyloid peptide (2005)
Liu, Yang, Walter, Silke, Stagi, Massimiliano, Cherny, Dmitry, Letiembre, Maryse, Schulz-Schaeffer, Walter, ...
The amyloid β peptide 42 (Aβ42) plays a key role in neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease. Mononuclear phagocytes, i.e. microglia, have the potential to clear Aβ by phagocytosis. Recently, the...
Using conditional random fields for sentence boundary detection in speech (2005)
Yang Liu, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Mary Harper
Sentence boundary detection in speech is important for enriching speech recognition output, making it easier for humans to read and downstream modules to process. In previous work, we have developed...
Regulation of ribonucleotide reductase M2 expression by the upstream AUGs (2005)
Dong, Zizheng, Liu, Yang, Zhang, Jian-Ting
Ribonucleotide reductase catalyzes a rate-limiting reaction in DNA synthesis by converting ribonucleotides to deoxyribonucleotides. It consists of two subunits and the small one, M2 (or R2), plays an...
LPS receptor (CD14): a receptor for phagocytosis of Alzheimer's amyloid peptide (2005)
Liu, Yang, Walter, Silke, Stagi, Massimiliano, Cherny, Dmitry, Letiembre, Maryse, Schulz-Schaeffer, Walter, ...
The amyloid β peptide 42 (Aβ42) plays a key role in neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease. Mononuclear phagocytes, i.e. microglia, have the potential to clear Aβ by phagocytosis. Recently, the...
LPS receptor (CD14): a receptor for phagocytosis of Alzheimer's amyloid peptide (2005)
Liu, Yang, Walter, Silke, Stagi, Massimiliano, Cherny, Dmitry, Letiembre, Maryse, Schulz-Schaeffer, Walter, ...
The amyloid β peptide 42 (Aβ42) plays a key role in neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease. Mononuclear phagocytes, i.e. microglia, have the potential to clear Aβ by phagocytosis. Recently, the...
LPS receptor (CD14): a receptor for phagocytosis of Alzheimer's amyloid peptide (2005)
Liu, Yang, Walter, Silke, Stagi, Massimiliano, Cherny, Dmitry, Letiembre, Maryse, Schulz-Schaeffer, Walter, ...
The amyloid β peptide 42 (Aβ42) plays a key role in neurotoxicity in Alzheimer's disease. Mononuclear phagocytes, i.e. microglia, have the potential to clear Aβ by phagocytosis. Recently, the...
Structural event detection for rich transcription of speech (2004)
Although speech recognition technology has significantly improved during the past few decades, current speech recognition systems output only a stream of words without providing other useful...
Thesis (Ph.D., Division of Engingeering and Applied Sciences)--Harvard University, 2004.
Markov model-based methods for web user clustering and surfing recommendation / (2004)
Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2004. Graduate Programme in Computer Science.
Light field rendering of under-sampled dynamic scenes by a plane sweep / (2004)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Davis, 2004.
We compare and contrast two different models for detecting sentence-like units in continuous speech. The first approach uses hidden Markov sequence models based on N-grams and maximum likelihood...
The problem of modeling and predicting a Web user’s browsing pattern has gained in-creasing attention in recent years. In this thesis, we present our methods for clustering and making...
S.: Evaluating factors impacting the accuracy of forced alignments in a multimodal corpus (2004)
Lei Chen, Yang Liu, Mary Harper, Eduardo Maia, Susan Mcroy
People, when processing human-to-human communication, utilize everything they can in order to understand that communication, including speech and information such as the time and location of an...
Statistical Overview of WordNet from 1.6 to 2.0 (2004)
Jiangsheng Yu Zhenshan, Jiangsheng Yu, Zhenshan Wen, Yang Liu, Zhihui Jin
We defined several discrete random variables and made their statistical comparisons between different versions of WordNet, by which the macroscopical evolution of WordNet from 1.6 to 2.0 is explored....
Evaluating Factors Impacting the Accuracy of Forced Alignments in a Multimodal Corpus (2004)
Lei Chen, Yang Liu, Mary Harper, Eduardo Maia, Susan Mcroy
People, when processing human-to-human communication, utilize everything they can in order to understand that communication, including speech and information such as the time and location of an...
Fitting B-Spline Curves to Point Clouds by Squared Distance Minimization (2004)
Wenping Wang, Helmut Pottmann, Yang Liu
Computing a curve to approximate data points is a problem encountered frequently in many applications in computer graphics, computer vision, CAD/CAM, and image processing. We present a novel and...
Fitting Subdivision Surfaces to Unorganized Point Data Using SDM (2004)
Wenping Wang, Hong Qin, Huaiping Yang, Yang Liu
We study the reconstruction of smooth surfaces from point clouds. We use a new squared distance error term in optimization to fit a subdivision surface to a set of unorganized points, which defines a...
Multimodal Model Integration for Sentence Unit Detection (2004)
Lei Chen, Yang Liu, Mary P. Harper, Elizabeth Shriberg
In this paper, we adopt a direct modeling approach to utilize conversational gesture cues in detecting sentence boundaries, called SUs, in video taped conversations. We treat the detection of SUs as...
The ICSI-SRI-UW metadata extraction system (2004)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke, Dustin Hillard, Mari Ostendorf, Barbara Peskin, ...
Both human and automatic processing of speech require recognizing more than just the words. We describe a state-of-the-art system for automatic detection of “metadata ” (information beyond the...
Yang Liu, Jeremy A. Sarnat, Brent A. Coull, Petros Koutrakis, Daniel J. Jacob
(AERONET) observations over the contiguous United States
We compare and contrast two different models for detecting sentence-like units in continuous speech. The first approach uses hidden Markov sequence models based on N-grams and maximum likelihood...
We compare and contrast two different models for detecting sentence-like units in continuous speech, using both acoustic and lexical information. The first approach is based on hidden Markov sequence...
Computing a curve to approximate data points is a problem encountered frequently in many applications in computer graphics, computer vision, CAD/CAM, and image processing. We present a novel and...
A novel compressed domain shot segmentation algorithm on H.264/AVC (2004)
Yang Liu, Weiqiang Wang, Wen Gao, Wei Zeng
This paper presents a novel shot segmentation algorithm on the H.264/AVC video, which operates in the compressed domain. First, the algorithm exploits the intra prediction mode histogram to locate...
Grid Metadata Catalog ServiceBased OGC Web Registry Service (2004)
Peisheng Zhao, Aijun Chen, Yang Liu, Liping Di, Wenli Yang, Peichuan Li
Grid is a promising e-Science infrastructure that promotes and facilitates the sharing and collaboration in the use of distributed heterogeneous resources through Virtual Organization (VO). A...
Light field rendering of under-sampled dynamic scenes by a plane sweep / (2004)
Degree granted in Computer Science.
Gao, Jian-Xin, Chang, Xing, Zheng, Xincheng, Wen, Jing, Yin, Lijie, Du, Peishuang, ...
Recent work demonstrates that costimulatory molecules play a critical role for clonal deletion of autoreactive T cells in the thymus. The role of CD28 in the survival of autoreactive T cells in the...
Nanocomposite Thin Films for both Mechanical and Functional Applications (2003)
Zhang, Sam, Fu, Yongqing, Du, Hejun, Liu, Yang, Chen, Tupei
The design methodology and realization of nanocomposite films aiming for mechanical (superhardness, toughness) and functional (optical, microelectronic) properties were discussed in this paper....
A theoretical and empirical study on the data mining process for credit scoring / (2003)
Zugl.: Göttingen, Univ., Diss., 2003.
Azo dyes degradation by anionic doped TiO₂ nanoparticles / (2003)
Thesis (M.S. in Engineering)--University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee, 2003.
Stability analysis of w-dimensional asynchronous swarms with a fixed communication topology (2003)
Yang Liu, Kevin M. Passino, Senior Member, Marios M. Polycarpou, Senior Member
Abstract—Coordinated dynamical swarm behavior occurs when certain types of animals forage for food or try to avoid predators. Analogous behaviors can occur in engineering systems (e.g., in groups...
Automatic disfluency identification in conversational speech using multiple knowledge sources (2003)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Disfluencies occur frequently in spontaneous speech. Detection and correction of disfluencies can make automatic speech recognition transcripts more readable for human readers, and can aid downstream...
A Region-Based Compilation Infrastructure (2003)
Yang Liu, Yang Liu Zhaoqing, Ruliang Qiao
The traditional framework for back-end compilation is based on the scope of functions, which is a natural boundary to partition an entire program for compilation. However, the sizes and structures of...
Word Fragment Identification Using Acoustic-Prosodic Features in Conversational Speech (2003)
Word fragments pose serious problems for speech recognizers. Accurate identification of word fragments will not only improve recognition accuracy, but also be very helpful for disfluency detection...
Automatic Disfluency Identification in Conversational Speech Using Multiple Knowledge Sources (2003)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Disfluencies occur frequently in spontaneous speech. Detection and correction of disfluencies can make automatic speech recognition transcripts more readable for human readers, and can aid downstream...
Yang Liu, Mary P. Harper, Michael T. Johnson, Leah H. Jamieson
Larr vocabular y continuous speech reech ition can benefitfre an e#cient data strR turfor rrR/sentingalarE number of acoustic hypotheses compactly. Wor gr1:1 or lattices have been chosen as such an...
Word Fragment Identification Using Acoustic-Prosodic Features in Conversational Speech (2003)
Word fragments pose serious problems for speech recognizers. Accurate identification of word fragments will not only improve recognition accuracy, but also be very helpful for disfluency detection...
Automatic disfluency identification in conversational speech using multiple knowledge sources (2003)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Disfluencies occur frequently in spontaneous speech. Detection and correction of disfluencies can make automatic speech recognition transcripts more readable for human readers, and can aid downstream...
Automatic Disfluency Identification in Conversational Speech Using Multiple Knowledge Sources (2003)
Yang Liu, Elizabeth Shriberg, Andreas Stolcke
Disfluencies occur frequently in spontaneous speech. Detection and correction of disfluencies can make automatic speech recognition transcripts more readable for human readers, and can aid downstream...
Water in rhyolitic and dacitic melts. (2003)
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan.
3D reconstruction of ocular fundus images / (2002)
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 2002.
Strategies in structuring international construction joint ventures / (2002)
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002.
Wen Wang, Yang Liu, Mary P. Harper
In this paper, we compare the efficacy of a variety of language models (LMs) for rescoring word graphs and N-best lists generated by a large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer. These LMs differ...
Rescoring Effectiveness Of Language Models Using (2002)
Different Levels Of, Wen Wang, Yang Liu, Mary P. Harper
In this paper, we compare the efficacy of a variety of language models (LMs) for rescoring word graphs and N-best lists generated byalargevocabulary continuous speechrecognizer.
The TRIPLES database: a community resource for yeast molecular biology (2002)
Kumar, Anuj, Cheung, Kei-Hoi, Tosches, Nick, Masiar, Peter, Liu, Yang, Miller, Perry, ...
TRIPLES is a web-accessible database of TRansposon-Insertion Phenotypes, Localization and Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae—a relational database housing nearly half a million data points...
Guo, Yong, Yang, Tianyu, Liu, Xingluo, Lu, Shengli, Wen, Jing, Durbin, Joan E., ...
Expression of cell surface MHC class I:peptide complex requires coordinated expression of multiple genes such as MHC class I heavy chain, β2-microglobulin (β2m), transporters associated with...
Stability analysis of one-dimensional asynchronous swarms (2001)
Yang Liu, Kevin M. Passino, Marios Polycarpou
Abstract—Coordinated swarm behavior in certain types of animals can also occur in groups of autonomous vehicles. Swarm “cohesiveness” is characterized as a stability property. Conditions for...
Stability analysis of one-dimensional asynchronous swarms (2001)
Coordinated dynamical swarm behavior occurs when certain types of animals forage for food or try to avoid predators. Analogous behaviors can occur in engineering systems (e.g. in groups of autonomous...
Polyanhydrides as delivery systems. (2001)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Aston in Birmingham, 2001.
Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2000.
Spin and charge response to magnetic frustration in the Hubbard model / (2000)
Typescript (photocopy).
Swarm Intelligence: Literature Overview (2000)
A long time ago, people discovered the variety of the interesting insect or animal behaviors in the nature. A ock of birds sweeps across the sky. A group of ants forages for food. Aschool of sh...
Research report (M.B.A.)--Massey University, 1999.
Cartan geometry, CR and complex geometry (1998)
Using the structure of filtered and graded Lie algebras, we establish the existence of a normal subgroup $/ H$ when the group action is primitive in the model case which is needed in the construction...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1998.
BLDSC reference no.: DX219358.
The Demeter Method: An Efficient Way to Build Adaptive Software (1996)
This paper intends to present the Demeter Method, which is a new object-oriented design
Ethylene removal from kiwifruit storage environments / (1995)
Thesis (PhD--Chemistry)--University of Auckland, 1995.
Gene-targeted B-deficient mice reveal a critical role for B cells in the CD4 T cell response (1995)
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...
Microbial induction of co-stimulatory activity for CD4 T-cell growth (1991)
Liu, Yang, Janeway, Charles A., Sercarz, E.
The activation of naive CD4 T cells by antigen is a critical step in the initiation of an immune response; it requires both ligation of the T-cell receptor (TCR) and the delivery of co-stimulatory...
FOXP3 is a novel transcriptional repressor for the breast cancer oncogene SKP2
Zuo, Tao, Liu, Runhua, Zhang, Huiming, Chang, Xing, Liu, Yan, Wang, Lizhong, ...
S-phase kinase-associated protein 2 (SKP2) is a component of the E3 ubiquitin ligase SKP1-Cul1-Fbox complex. Overexpression of SKP2 results in cell cycle dysregulation and carcinogenesis; however,...
Immune competence of cancer-reactive T cells generated de novo in adult tumor-bearing mice
May, Kenneth F., Lute, Kenneth, Kocak, Ergun, Abdessalam, Shahab, Yin, Lijie, Li, Ou, ...
The impact of timing of antigen introduction into fetus and neonates leads to the suggestion that pre-existing antigens are tolerogenic to immunocompetent cells generated thereafter. This hypothesis...
Draenert, Rika, Allen, Todd M., Liu, Yang, Wrin, Terri, Chappey, Colombe, Verrill, Cori L., ...
The predictability of virus–host interactions and disease progression in rapidly evolving human viral infections has been difficult to assess because of host and genetic viral diversity. Here we...
Massive and destructive T cell response to homeostatic cue in CD24-deficient lymphopenic hosts
Li, Ou, Chang, Xing, Zhang, Huiming, Kocak, Ergun, Ding, Cheng, Zheng, Pan, ...
In response to a lymphopenic cue, T lymphocytes undergo a slow-paced homeostatic proliferation in an attempt to restore T cell cellularity. The molecular interaction that maintains the pace of...
Schrantz, Nicolas, Sagiv, Yuval, Liu, Yang, Savage, Paul B., Bendelac, Albert, Teyton, Luc
The Niemann-Pick type C2 (NPC2) protein is a small, soluble, lysosomal protein important for cholesterol and sphingolipid transport in the lysosome. The immunological phenotype of NPC2-deficient mice...
Prevalence and Expression of the Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance Determinant qnrA1▿
Xu, Xiaogang, Wu, Shi, Ye, Xinyu, Liu, Yang, Shi, Wanliang, Zhang, Yingyuan, ...
Since its discovery, qnrA has been found in most common Enterobacteriaceae. Ciprofloxacin MICs conferred by different qnrA-positive plasmids could range from 0.1 μg/ml to 2 μg/ml in Escherichia...
Comprehensive viral oligonucleotide probe design using conserved protein regions
Jabado, Omar J., Liu, Yang, Conlan, Sean, Quan, P. Lan, Hegyi, Hédi, Lussier, Yves, ...
Oligonucleotide microarrays have been applied to microbial surveillance and discovery where highly multiplexed assays are required to address a wide range of genetic targets. Although printing...
CD24 Expression on T Cells Is Required for Optimal T Cell Proliferation in Lymphopenic Host
It is well established that T lymphocytes undergo homeostatic proliferation in lymphopenic environment. The homeostatic proliferation requires recognition of the major histocompatibility complex on...
Bai, Xue-Feng, Li, Ou, Zhou, Qunmin, Zhang, Huiming, Joshi, Pramod S., Zheng, Xincheng, ...
In the development of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a model for multiple sclerosis (MS), autoreactive T cells must be activated and clonally expand in the lymphoid organs, and then...
The Scurfy mutation of FoxP3 in the thymus stroma leads to defective thymopoiesis
Chang, Xing, Gao, Jian Xin, Jiang, Qi, Wen, Jing, Seifers, Nick, Su, Lishan, ...
The Scurfy mutation of the FoxP3 gene (FoxP3sf) in the mouse and analogous mutations in human result in lethal autoimmunity. The mutation of FoxP3 in the hematopoietic cells impairs the development...
Innate NKT lymphocytes confer superior adaptive immunity via tumor-capturing dendritic cells
Liu, Kang, Idoyaga, Juliana, Charalambous, Anna, Fujii, Shin-ichiro, Bonito, Anthony, Mordoh, Jose, ...
If irradiated tumor cells could be rendered immunogenic, they would provide a safe, broad, and patient-specific array of antigens for immunotherapies. Prior approaches have emphasized genetic...
Shue, Eveline H, Carson-Walter, Eleanor B, Liu, Yang, Winans, Bethany N, Ali, Zarina S, Chen, Jun, ...
B7DC/PDL2 Promotes Tumor Immunity by a PD-1–independent Mechanism
Liu, Xingluo, Gao, Jian Xin, Wen, Jing, Yin, Lijie, Li, Ou, Zuo, Tao, ...
B7H1 (PDL1) and B7DC (PDL2) are two new members of the B7 family that can interact with PD-1, a putative negative regulator for immune function. Recent studies have provided evidence for inhibitory...
Schnappinger, Dirk, Ehrt, Sabine, Voskuil, Martin I., Liu, Yang, Mangan, Joseph A., Monahan, Irene M., ...
Little is known about the biochemical environment in phagosomes harboring an infectious agent. To assess the state of this organelle we captured the transcriptional responses of Mycobacterium...
Sarma, Supria, Guo, Yong, Guilloux, Yannik, Lee, Cheng, Bai, Xue-Feng, Liu, Yang
Unmutated tumor antigens are chosen as primary candidates for tumor vaccine because of their expression on multiple lineages of tumors. A critical issue is whether unmutated tumor antigens are...
Liu, Yang, Chirino, Arthur J., Misulovin, Ziva, Leteux, Christine, Feizi, Ten, Nussenzweig, Michel C., ...
The macrophage and epithelial cell mannose receptor (MR) binds carbohydrates on foreign and host molecules. Two portions of MR recognize carbohydrates: tandemly arranged C-type lectin domains...
Gao, Jian-Xin, Zhang, Huiming, Bai, Xue-Feng, Wen, Jing, Zheng, Xincheng, Liu, Jinqing, ...
A number of in vitro studies have suggested that costimulatory molecules B7-1 and B7-2 and their receptor CD28 can promote clonal deletion, and limited in vivo studies have indicated that CD28 is...
Liu, Xingluo, Bai, Xue-Feng, Wen, Jing, Gao, Jian-Xin, Liu, Jinqing, Lu, Ping, ...
B7H/B7RP (hereby called B7H) is a new member of the B7 family of costimulatory molecules and interacts with inducible costimulatory molecule (ICOS). Its function for CD8 T cells has not been...
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...
It has been proposed that some bystander T cell activation may in fact be due to T cell antigen receptor (TCR) cross-reactivity that is too low to be detected by the effector cytotoxic T lymphocyte...
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...
Liu, Yang, Wenger, Roland H., Zhao, Min, Nielsen, Peter J.
A successful T cell immune response has two major products: effector T cells which directly or indirectly remove the antigens, and memory T cells, which allow a faster and more efficient recall...
Liu, Wenguang, Toyosawa, Satoru, Furuichi, Tatsuya, Kanatani, Naoko, Yoshida, Carolina, Liu, Yang, ...
Targeted disruption of core binding factor α1 (Cbfa1) showed that Cbfa1 is an essential transcription factor in osteoblast differentiation and bone formation. Furthermore, both in vitro and in vivo...
Ueta, Chisato, Iwamoto, Masahiro, Kanatani, Naoko, Yoshida, Carolina, Liu, Yang, Enomoto-Iwamoto, Motomi, ...
During skeletogenesis, cartilage develops to either permanent cartilage that persists through life or transient cartilage that is eventually replaced by bone. However, the mechanism by which...
Elastic light scattering fingerprinting for cell and tissue characterization [electronic resource].
The ability to comprehensively and non-invasively interrogate the nano/micro-architecture of biological tissue and cell is of immense importance for clinical diagnosis of cancer and tissue...
Predictive Modeling for Intelligent Maintenance in Complex Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes.
Semiconductor fabrication is one of the most complicated manufacturing processes, in which the current prevailing maintenance practices are preventive maintenance, using either time-based or...
A Role for Cytoplasmic PML in Cellular Resistance to Viral Infection
McNally, Beth A., Trgovcich, Joanne, Maul, Gerd G., Liu, Yang, Zheng, Pan
PML gene was discovered as a fusion partner with retinoic acid receptor (RAR) α in the t(15:17) chromosomal translocation associated with acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL). Nuclear PML protein has...
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
Elastic light scattering fingerprinting for cell and tissue characterization.
The ability to comprehensively and non-invasively interrogate the nano/micro-architecture of biological tissue and cell is of immense importance for clinical diagnosis of cancer and tissue...
Elastic light scattering fingerprinting for cell and tissue characterization
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2006.
Characterization and expression patterns of a membrane-bound trehalase from Spodoptera exigua
Tang, Bin, Chen, Xiaofei, Liu, Yang, Tian, Honggang, Liu, Jian, Hu, Jian, ...
Peixoto, Paul, Liu, Yang, Depauw, Sabine, Hildebrand, Marie-Paule, Boykin, David W., Bailly, Christian, ...
The development of small molecules to control gene expression could be the spearhead of future-targeted therapeutic approaches in multiple pathologies. Among heterocyclic dications developed with...
Modulation of NKT Cell Development by B7-CD28 Interaction: An Expanding Horizon for Costimulation
Zheng, Xincheng, Zhang, Huiming, Yin, Lijie, Wang, Chyung-Ru, Liu, Yang, Zheng, Pan
It has been demonstrated that the development of NKT cells requires CD1d. The contribution of costimulatory molecules in this process has not been studied. Here we show that in mice with targeted...
Structure of the response regulator VicR DNA-binding domain
Trinh, Chi-Hung, Liu, Yang, Phillips, Simon E. V., Phillips-Jones, Mary K.
The structure of the DNA-binding domain of the response regulator VicR from E. faecalis has been solved at 1.9 Å resolution. It is very similar to the related domains from PhoB and OmpR, but...
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
Liu, Yang, Sivaraman, J., Hew, Choy L.
The nonstructural protein VP9 from white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) has been identified and expressed in Escherichia coli. Native protein was purified and crystallized by vapour diffusion.
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
XIANG YU, CHENGBIAO WANG, MENG HUA, PUILAM TAM, YANG LIU, DEYANG YU
An adherent nano-superhard titanium nitride (TiN) film on the substrate of Cr12Mo4V high speed steel was prefabricated in a vacuum cathode multi-arc ion-plating system. Microhardness,...
Tumor Growth Decreases NK and B Cells as well as Common Lymphoid Progenitor
Richards, John, McNally, Beth, Fang, Xianfeng, Caligiuri, Michael A., Zheng, Pan, Liu, Yang
Liu, Yang, Boukhelifa, Malika, Tribble, Emily, Morin-Kensicki, Elizabeth, Uetrecht, Andrea, Bear, James E., ...
Phosphoinositides (PIPs) are ubiquitous regulators of signal transduction events in eukaryotic cells. PIPs are degraded by various enzymes, including PIP phosphatases. The integral membrane Sac1...
Manufacture of a human mesenchymal stem cell population using an automated cell culture platform
Thomas, Robert James, Chandra, Amit, Liu, Yang, Hourd, Paul C., Conway, Paul P., Williams, David J.
Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are rapidly developing fields that use cells or cell-based constructs as therapeutic products for a wide range of clinical applications. Efforts to...
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
L-Proline as an efficient and reusable promoter for the synthesis of coumarins in ionic liquid
Liu, Xiu-hong, Fan, Ji-cai, Liu, Yang, Shang, Zhi-cai
The effect of L-proline as a promoter on the condensation reaction of salicylaldehyde or its derivatives with ethyl acetoacetate in neutral ionic liquid [emim]BF4 was studied. All reactions were...
Genetic characterization of Measles Viruses in China, 2004
Zhang, Yan, Ji, Yixin, Jiang, Xiaohong, Xu, Songtao, Zhu, Zhen, Zheng, Lei, ...
Genetic characterization of wild-type measles virus was studied using nucleotide sequencing of the C-terminal region of the N protein gene and phylogenetic analysis on 59 isolates from 16 provinces...
FoxP3: A Life beyond Regulatory T Cells
This review analyzes the current dogma that FoxP3 functions exclusively in the regulatory T cells (Treg) and that FoxP3+ Treg is indispensable for survival of immune competent mice. We outline...
Computational Approaches to Phenotyping: High-Throughput Phenomics
The recent completion of the Human Genome Project has made possible a high-throughput “systems approach” for accelerating the elucidation of molecular underpinnings of human diseases, and...
Huang, Hongliang, Yu, Hai, Li, Da, Liu, Yang, Shen, Fenping, Zhou, Jun, ...
A novel co-polymer based on 2-hydroxypropyl-α-cyclodextrin cross-linked by low molecular weight polyethylenimine was synthesized as a gene delivery vector. The copolymer could bind and condense DNA...
Chen, Chong, Liu, Yu, Liu, Runhua, Ikenoue, Tsuneo, Guan, Kun-Liang, Liu, Yang, ...
The tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)–mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) pathway is a key regulator of cellular metabolism. We used conditional deletion of Tsc1 to address how quiescence is...
Liu, Kui, Li, Quan-Zhen, Delgado-Vega, Angelica M., Abelson, Anna-Karin, Sánchez, Elena, Kelly, Jennifer A., ...
Immune-mediated nephritis contributes to disease in systemic lupus erythematosus, Goodpasture syndrome (caused by antibodies specific for glomerular basement membrane [anti-GBM antibodies]), and...
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...
Liu, Runhua, Wang, Lizhong, Chen, Chong, Liu, Yan, Zhou, Penghui, Wang, Yin, ...
Glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK-3β) represses cell cycle progression by directly phosphorylating cyclin D1 and indirectly regulating cyclin D1 transcription by inhibiting Wnt signaling. Recently,...
Arnold, Donald M., Bernotas, Ashley, Nazi, Ishac, Stasi, Roberto, Kuwana, Masataka, Liu, Yang, ...
Eradication of H. pylori improves thrombocytopenia in some patients with immune thrombocytopenic purpura by mechanisms that remain obscure. Platelet count responses may occur independently of H....
Dendritic cells in the thymus contribute to T-regulatory cell induction
Proietto, Anna I., Van Dommelen, Serani, Zhou, Penghui, Rizzitelli, Alexandra, D'Amico, Angela, Steptoe, Raymond J., ...
Central tolerance is established through negative selection of self-reactive thymocytes and the induction of T-regulatory cells (TRs). The role of thymic dendritic cells (TDCs) in these processes has...
The Sources of Debt Matter Too
This paper examines the effects of different types of private debt on firm cash balances, equity risk, and investment. Firms with more bank loans have more cash and investment, but lower equity risk....
Subramanian, Hariharan, Pradhan, Prabhakar, Liu, Yang, Capoglu, Ilker R., Li, Xu, Rogers, Jeremy D., ...
Recently, there has been a major thrust to understand biological processes at the nanoscale. Optical microscopy has been exceedingly useful in imaging cell microarchitecture. Characterization of cell...
Pareto-improving and revenue-neutral congestion pricing schemes in two-mode traffic networks
Yang Liu, Xiaolei Guo, Hai Yang
Congestion pricing, Revenue-neutral, Pareto-improving, Two-mode network, Traffic equilibrium,
The role of cellular oxidative stress in regulating glycolysis energy metabolism in hepatoma cells
Shi, Dong-yun, Xie, Fei-zhou, Zhai, Chao, Stern, Jeremy S, Liu, Yang, Liu, Shan-lin
Bai, Li, Sagiv, Yuval, Liu, Yang, Freigang, Stefan, Yu, Karl O. A., Teyton, Luc, ...
Short or polyunsaturated lipid variants of the NKT cell antigen α-galactosylceramide (αGC) exhibit decreased potency and a Th2 bias in vivo despite conserved TCR contact residues and stable binding...
Panmicrobial Oligonucleotide Array for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Palacios, Gustavo, Quan, Phenix-Lan, Jabado, Omar J., Conlan, Sean, Hirschberg, David L., Liu, Yang, ...
To facilitate rapid, unbiased, differential diagnosis of infectious diseases, we designed GreeneChipPm, a panmicrobial microarray comprising 29,455 sixty-mer oligonucleotide probes for vertebrate...
Measles Resurgence Associated with Continued Circulation of Genotype H1 Viruses in China, 2005
Ji, Yixin, Zhang, Yan, Xu, Songtao, Zhu, Zhen, Zuo, Shuyan, Jiang, Xiaohong, ...
Measles morbidity and mortality decreased significantly after measles vaccine was introduced into China in 1965. From 1995 to 2004, average annual measles incidence decreased to 5.6 cases per 100,000...
Motohashi, Yutaka, Maeda, Akira, Nakamura, Kazutoshi, Higuchi, Shigekazu, Liu, Yang, Yuasa, Takao
To clarify the relationship between sleep-wake rhythm, physical fitness, and competence level of elderly stroke survivors living at home, thirty-seven stroke survivors living at home (65.4 ± 7.3...
Liu, Yang, Ye, Xinyu, Zhang, Hong, Xu, Xiaogang, Li, Wanhua, Zhu, Demei, ...
Fifty-three Mycoplasma pneumoniae strains were isolated from pediatric patients in Shanghai, China, from October 2005 to February 2008. Of 53 clinical isolates, 44 (83%) were resistant to...
Liu, Yang, Chen, Gang, Norton, Nadine, Liu, Wenmin, Zhu, Haining, Zhou, Peng, ...
DNA pooling can provide an economic and efficient way to detect susceptibility loci to complex diseases. We carried out a genome screen with 400 microsatellite markers spaced at approximately 10 cm...
Consumer perceived value is an important concept in marketing and plays a significant role in purchase decision-making. Consumer perceived value can be markedly influenced by product cues. The...