Yang Yang

LifeGuide: An infrastructure for empowering behavioural intervention research (2009)

Yang, Yang, Osmond, Adrian, Weal, Mark, Wills, Gary, De Roure, David, Joseph, Judith, ...

Behavioural interventions are packages of tailored advice and support for behaviour change, which are known as one of the most important methodologies and technologies adopted by social scientists...

Supporting the running and analysis of trials of web-based behavioural interventions: the LifeGuide (2009)

Yang, Yang, Osmond, Adrian, Chen, Xiaoyu, Weal, Mark, Wills, Gary, De Roure, David, ...

Behavioural interventions - packages of advice and support for behaviour change - are one of the most important methodologies and technologies employed by social scientists for understanding and...

Observations of the trade wind wakes of Kauai and Oahu (2009)

Yang Yang, Jian Ma, Shang-ping Xie

[1] The Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu stand in the path of the east-northeasterly trade winds, creating wakes in the lee. For the first time, the structure of the wakes and their diurnal cycle...

Cloud patterns lee of Hawaii Island: A synthesis (2009)

Yang Yang, Shang-ping Xie, Jan Hafner

4.2 km) splits the northeast trade winds and induces a westerly reverse flow in the wake. Satellite observations and regional model simulations are used to investigate circulation effects on lee...

The Current Status of the Publishing Industry in China (2009)

Ji Sun, Yang Yang, Meng Mao

Journal of Scholarly Publishing - Volume 41, Number 1, October 2009

Formal Modeling and Scheduling of Datapaths of Digital Document Printers ⋆ (2009)

Georgeta Igna, Venkatesh Kannan, Yang Yang, Twan Basten, Marc Geilen, Frits Va, ...

Abstract. We apply three different modeling frameworks — timed automata (Uppaal), colored Petri nets and synchronous data flow — to model a challenging industrial case study that involves an...

A Facial Sketch Animation Generator for Mobile Communication (2009)

Yuehu Liu, Yuanqi Su, Yang Yang, Fengjuan Wang, Maojun Yuan, Zhen Ren

The ability to analyze and reproduce specific-person facial expression is an important multimedia content service for mobile communication. In this paper, a novel three-layer facial animation model...

CLASSIFICATION OF PROTEIN SEQUENCES BASED ON WORD SEGMENTATION METHODS (2009)

Yang Yang, Bao-liang Lu, Wen-yun Yang

Protein sequences contain great potential revealing protein function, structure families and evolution information. Classifying protein sequences into different functional groups or families based on...

MDS++: Supporting Ontology-based Dynamic (2009)

Classification Websphere, Metadata Server, Shengping Liu, Yang Yang, Guotong Xie, Chen Wang, ...

Metadata management systems are growing from tool-specific repositories to enterprise-wide metadata repositories. In this context, one challenge is the management of the evolving metadata whose...

HSulf-1 and HSulf-2 Are Potent Inhibitors of Myeloma Tumor Growth in Vivo * (2009)

Yuemeng Dai, Yang Yang, Veronica Macleod, Xinping Yue, Alan C. Rapraeger, Zachary Shriver, ...

To participate as co-receptor in growth factor signaling, heparan sulfate must have specific structural features. Recent studies show that when the levels of 6-O-sulfation of heparan sulfate are...

Mechanical Deformation Behavior of Nonpolar GaN Thick Films by Berkovich Nanoindentation (2009)

Wei, Tongbo, Hu, Qiang, Duan, Ruifei, Wang, Junxi, Zeng, Yiping, Li, Jinmin, ...

In this study, the deformation mechanisms of nonpolar GaN thick films grown on m-sapphire by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE) are investigated using nanoindentation with a Berkovich indenter,...

Application of the LifeGuide: The development and quantitative analysis of the 'Internet Doctor' (2009)

Joseph, J.A., Yardley, L., Hare, Jonathan, Osmond, Adrian, Yang , Yang, Weal, Mark, ...

LifeGuide is a software package that allows health professionals and researchers with no programming skills to easily and flexibly create, evaluate and modify behavioural interventions. An...

Designing authoring tools for the creation of on-line behavioural interventions (2009)

Osmond, Adrian, Hare, Jonathan, Price, Joseph, Smith, Ashley, Weal, Mark, Wills, Gary, ...

Behavioural interventions are used by social scientists to effect change in a person’s behaviour. The LifeGuide project is developing tools to enable the easy creation, deployment and trialling of...

LifeGuide: A 
platform for performing web-based behavioural interventions (2009)

Hare, Jonathan, Osmond, Adrian, Yang , Yang, Wills, Gary, Weal, Mark, De Roure, David, ...

Behavioural interventions are a technique used by social scientists and health professionals to mediate the behaviour of a subject. Traditionally, interventions take the form of tailored advice given...

The Researcher Social Network: A Social Network Based on Metadata of Scientific Publications (2009)

Yang , Yang, Au Yeung, Ching Man, Weal, Mark J., Davis, Hugh

Scientific journals can capture a scholar’s research career. A researcher’s publication data often reflects his/her research interests and their social relations. It is demonstrated that...

Self-Assembled 3D Flower-Like Hierarchical β-Ni(OH)2 Hollow Architectures and their In Situ Thermal Conversion to NiO (2009)

Zhu, Lu-Ping, Liao, Gui-Hong, Yang, Yang, Xiao, Hong-Mei, Wang, Ji-Fen, Fu, Shao-Yun

Three-dimensional (3D) flower-like hierarchical β-Ni(OH)2 hollow architectures were synthesized by a facile hydrothermal route. The as-obtained products were well characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM...

Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear Minimum-Delay Steiner Tree Construction Toward IP-Block-Based SOC Design (2009)

Jingyu Xu, Xianlong Hong, Tong Jing, Yang Yang

Abstract—With system-on-chip design, IP blocks form routing obstacles that deteriorate global interconnect delay. In this paper, we present a new approach for obstacle-avoiding rectilinear minimal...

Source Target Compiler Code Code (2009)

Group Members, Jian Wang, Yang Yang, Ruhai Liu, Yong Zhang

For this project, we decide to construct a translator. To begin our work we need to know what a compiler is. A compiler is a computer program or set of programs that translates a computer source...

Computational prediction of novel non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana (2009)

Song, Dandan, Yang, Yang, Yu, Bin, Zheng, Binglian, Deng, Zhidong, Lu, Bao-Liang, ...

Abstract Background Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes do not encode proteins but produce functional RNA molecules that play crucial roles in many key biological processes. Recent genome-wide...

A Bayesian framework for estimating vaccine efficacy per infectious contact (2009)

Yang, Yang, Gilbert, Peter, Longini, Ira M., Halloran, M. Elizabeth

In vaccine studies for infectious diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the frequency and type of contacts between study participants and infectious sources are among the most...

Computational Prediction of Novel Non-Coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana (2009)

Song, Dandan, Yang, Yang, Yu, Bin, Zheng, Binglian, Deng, Zhidong, Lu, Bao-Liang, ...

Background: Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes do not encode proteins but produce functional RNA molecules that play crucial roles in many key biological processes. Recent genome-wide transcriptional...

Computational prediction of novel non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana (2009)

Song Dandan, Yang Yang, Yu Bin, Zheng Binglian, Deng Zhidong, Lu Bao-Liang, ...

Abstract Background Non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes do not encode proteins but produce functional RNA molecules that play crucial roles in many key biological processes. Recent genome-wide...

LifeGuide: A platform for performing web-based behavioural interventions (2009)

Hare, Jonathon, Osmond, Adrian, Yang, Yang, Wills, Gary, De Roure, David, Joseph, Judith, ...

Interventions designed to influence people's behaviour ('behavioural interventions') are a fundamental part of daily life, whether in the form of personal advice, support and skills training from...

THE RESEARCHER SOCIAL NETWORK: A SOCIAL NETWORK BASED ON METADATA OF SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS (2009)

Yang, Yang, Man Au Yeung, Ching, Weal, Mark, Davis, Hugh

Scientific journals can capture a scholar’s research career. A researcher’s publication data often reflects his/her research interests and their social relations. It is demonstrated that...

A Bayesian model for evaluating influenza antiviral efficacy in household studies with asymptomatic infections (2009)

Yang, Yang, Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Longini, Ira M.

Antiviral agents are an important component in mitigation/containment strategies for pandemic influenza. However, most research for mitigation/containment strategies relies on the antiviral...

Antenna Selection for MIMO Systems with Closely Spaced Antennas (2009)

Yang Yang, Rick S. Blum, Sana Sfar

Physical size limitations in user equipment may force multiple antennas to be spaced closely, and this generates a considerable amount of mutual coupling between antenna elements whose effect cannot...

Identification of a novel negative regulatory element on the hepatitis B virus S-(+)-strand (2009)

Wu, Ying, Zhang, Wenlu, Yang, Yang, Yu, Bo, Huang, Ailong

In this study, we scanned the whole hepatitis B virus (HBV) genome for the identification of potential regulatory elements located on the S-(+)-strand. With pCDNA3.1-HBV1.3 as template which contains...

Antenna Selection for MIMO Systems with Closely Spaced Antennas (2009)

Yang Yang, Rick S. Blum, Sana Sfar

Physical size limitations in user equipment may force multiple antennas to be spaced closely, and this generates a considerable amount of mutual coupling between antenna elements whose effect cannot...

Synthesis, Novel Crystal Structure, and β-Amyloid Binding Property of Re(I) (tricarbonyl)+ EHIDA Analogue (2009)

Yang Yang, Jia Xin Zhang, Lin Zhu, Huabei Zhang

A neutral compound Re(CO)3(L) (L: 2-((2-(2,6-diethylphenylamino)-2-oxoethyl)(2-ethoxy-2-oxoethyl)amino)acetic acid, an IDA analogue) has been synthesized and evaluated for in vitro imaging probes of...

Agent Services: An Approach for Grid Computing Based on Agent and Web Services * (2008)

Zhengli Zhai, Yang Yang, Yuanzhuo Wang

Abstract- Agent technologies are integrated with Web Services in order to build a flexible and adaptable multi-agent system in Grid environment. Through an agent communication language and an...

An Experimental Study on Multi-channel Multi-radio Multi-hop Wireless Networks (2008)

Yunxin Liu, Yongqiang Xiong, Yang Yang, Pengzhi Xu, Qian Zhang

Abstract 1 —In this paper, we present experimental studies on Multi-channel Multi-radio Multi-hop (M3) wireless networks. The interference of multiple channels and multiple radios is studied. The...

Evolution of parallel machines (2008)

Yves Robert, École Normale, Supérieure Lyon, Larry Carter, Henri Casanova, Jeanne Ferrante, ...

Evolution of parallel machines... and soon to the Holy Grid? Parallel algorithm design and scheduling were already difficult tasks with homogeneous machines Yves Robert Scheduling for Heterogeneous...

Via-aware global routing for good VLSI manufacturability and high yield (2008)

Yang Yang, Tong Jing, Xianlong Hong, Yu Hu, Qi Zhu, Xiaodong Hu, ...

CAD tools have become more and more important for integrated circuit (IC) design since a complicated system can be designed into a single chip, called system-on-a-chip (SOC), in which physical design...

Millisecond-scale differences in neural activity in auditory cortex can drive decisions (2008)

Yang Yang, Michael R. DeWeese, Gonzalo Otazu, Anthony M. Zador

Neurons in the auditory cortex can lock with millisecond precision to the fine timing of acoustic stimuli, but it is not known whether this precise spike timing can be used to guide...

Ethernet Ring Protection for Carrier Ethernet Networks (2008)

Ryoo, Jeong-dong, Long, Hao, Yang, Yang, Holness, Marc, Ahmad, Zahir, Rhee, J.Kevin

Ethernet technologies are rapidly gaining importance as a prevailing solution for carrier networks. Ethernet ring protection switching, defined in ITU-T Recommendation G.8032, provides a means of...

DISTRIBUTED VIDEO STREAMING USING COMPLETE COMPLEMENTARY SEQUENCES (2008)

Chadi Khirallah, Vladimir Stanković, Lina Stanković (fagoonee, Yang Yang, Zixiang Xiong

In many distributed video streaming applications multiple terminals stream correlated video data to a central station to be processed. The fact that those terminals may be placed within a short range...

Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear Minimum-Delay Steiner Tree Construction towards IP-Block-Based SOC Design (2008)

Jingyu Xu, Xianlong Hong, Tong Jing, Yang Yang

With System-on-Chip design, IP blocks form routing obstacles that deteriorate global interconnect delay. In this paper, we present a new approach for obstacle-avoiding rectilinear minimal delay...

Molecular Imaging Using Labeled Donor Tissues Reveals Patterns of Engraftment, Rejection, and Survival in Transplantation (2008)

Yu-an Cao, Michael H. Bachmann, Andreas Beilhack, Yang Yang, Masashi Tanaka, Rutger-jan Swijnenburg, ...

Tissue regeneration and transplantation of solid organs involve complex processes that can only be studied in the context of the living organism, and methods of analyzing these processes in vivo are...

Via-aware global routing for good VLSI manufacturability and high yield (2008)

Yang Yang, Tong Jing, Xianlong Hong, Yu Hu, Qi Zhu, Xiaodong Hu, ...

CAD tools have become more and more important for integrated circuit (IC) design since a complicated system can be designed into a single chip, called system-on-a-chip (SOC), in which physical design...

Intrinsic Defects in the T-Cell Lineage Results in Natural Killer T-Cell Deficiency and the Development of Diabetes in the Nonobese Diabetic Mouse (2008)

Yang Yang, Min Bao, Ji-won Yoon

T-cell–mediated autoimmune diabetes in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice is closely associated with natural killer T (NKT)-cell deficiency. To determine whether intrinsic defects of the T-cell lineage...

A New Cooperative MAC Protocol for Wireless LANs (2008)

Samir Sayed, Yang Yang

Abstract: This paper introduces a new cooperative MAC-protocol for wireless LANs. This scheme is totally compatible with the legacy systems and leverages the multi-rate capability of IEEE systems....

EIAW: Towards a Business-friendly Data Warehouse Using Semantic Web Technologies (2008)

Guotong Xie, Yang Yang, Shengping Liu, Zhaoming Qiu, Yue Pan, Xiongzhi Zhou

Abstract. Data warehouse is now widely used in business analysis and decision making processes. To adapt the rapidly changing business environment, we develop a tool to make data warehouses more...

Electrical Computer Engineering ECE533 Digital Image Processing Image Denoising Using Wavelet Thresholding Techniques (2008)

Yang Yang

Wavelet transforms enable us to represent signals with a high degree of scarcity. Wavelet thresholding is a signal estimation technique that exploits the capabilities of wavelet transform for signal...

Basic-block Reordering Using Neural Networks (2008)

Xianhua Liu, Jiyu Zhang, Kun Liang, Yang Yang, Xu Cheng

Abstract. Basic-block reordering is a compiler optimization technique which has the effect of reducing branch cost and I-Cache misses by rearranging code layout. In this paper, we present our...

Abstract Secure Agent Data Integrity Shield (2008)

Sheng-uei Guan, Yang Yang

In the rapidly expanding field of E-Commerce, mobile agent is the emerging technology that addresses the requirement of intelligent filtering/processing of information. This paper will address the...

Bagging Binary and Quantile Predictors for Time Series: Further Issues (2008)

Tae-hwy Lee, Yang Yang, Wells Fargo Bank

Bagging (bootstrap aggregating) is a smoothing method to improve predictive ability under the presence of parameter estimation uncertainty and model uncertainty. In Lee and Yang (2006), we examined...

• Redundant Paths Fault Tolerance in XNet 30.04.2007 XNet: A Reliable Content-Based (2008)

Yang Yang

– XML content routing network – several novel technologies – efficient and reliable – very large populations of consumers

Intermediate Microeconomics (2008)

Yang Yang

[1] “Bagging Binary and Quantile Predictors for Time Series”, with Tae-Hwy Lee, Journal of Econometrics, forthcoming. [2] “Bagging Predictors for Time Series: Further Issues”, with Tae-Hwy...

The Polygonal Contraction Heuristic for Rectilinear Steiner Tree Construction ⋆ (2008)

Yin Wang, Xianlong Hong, Tong Jing, Yang Yang

Abstract — Motivated by VLSI/ULSI routing applications, we present a heuristic for rectilinear Steiner minimal tree (RSMT) construction. We transform a rectilinear minimum spanning tree (RMST) into...

Getting Mobile Beacon Path for Sensor Localization (2008)

Li Shi-jian, Xu Cong-fu, Yang Yang, Pan Yun-he

Abstract: In this paper, firstly, the number of positions for beacon is deduced to send a signal according to the acreage of ROI (region of interest); then a simple method is presented to calculate...

Research on Traffic Matrix Estimation (2008)

Zhou Jing-jing, Yang Jia-hai, Yang Yang, Zhang Hui

Abstract: The traffic matrix is one of the crucial inputs in many network planning and traffic engineering tasks, it is agreed that accurate traffic matrices are crucial, but it is usually impossible...

Abstract A Survey of Embedded Operating System (2008)

Catherine Lingxia Wang, Bo Yao, Yang Yang, Zhengyong Zhu

This paper presents a survey of several major embedded operating systems. It analyzes several design issues of embedded operating system, such as architecture, memory management, IPC, process...

Matrix rearrangement approach for the entangling power with mixed qudit systems (2008)

Lu, Xiao-Ming, Wang, Xiaoguang, Yang, Yang, Chen, Jian

We extend the former matrix rearrangement approach of the entangling power to the general cases, without the requirement of the same dimensions of the subsystems. The entangling power of a unitary...

Preparation of water-soluble multi-walled carbon nanotubes by polymer dispersant assisted exfoliation (2008)

Xue, Chao-Hua, Shi, Min-Min, Yan, Quan-Xiang, Shao, Zhen, Gao, Yan, Wu, Gang, ...

Water-soluble multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) with a high solubility of 29.2 mg ml(-1) were obtained by polymer dispersant hydrolyzed poly(styrene-co-maleic anhydride) (HSMA) assisted...

Minimax Robust MIMO Radar Waveform Design (2008)

Yang Yang, Student Member, Rick S. Blum

Abstract — We consider the problem of minimax robust waveform design for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar based on mutual information (MI) and minimum meansquare error (MMSE) estimation...

ON THE INEQUIVALENCE OF NESS-HELLESETH APN FUNCTIONS (2008)

Xiangyong Zeng, Lei Hu, Yang Yang, Wenfeng Jiang

Abstract. In this paper, the Ness-Helleseth functions over Fpn defined by the form f(x) = ux pn−1 2 −1 + x pn−2 are proven to be a new class of almost perfect nonlinear (APN) functions and they...

The Ecological Significance of Pubescence in Saussurea Medusa, a High-Elevation Himalayan “Woolly Plant” (2008)

Yang Yang, Christian Körner, Hang Sun

Several members of the vascular plant genus Saussurea, which are found at elevations exceeding 5000 m, have dense layers of woolly trichomes on their leaves, bracts, and inflorescences, the function...

The Ecological Significance of Pubescence in Saussurea Medusa, a High-Elevation Himalayan “Woolly Plant” (2008)

Yang Yang, Christian Körner, Hang Sun

Several members of the vascular plant genus Saussurea, which are found at elevations exceeding 5000 m, have dense layers of woolly trichomes on their leaves, bracts, and inflorescences, the function...

Efficient and Syntax-Compliant JPEG 2000 Encryption Preserving Original Fine Granularity of Scalability (2008)

Yang Yang, Bin B. Zhu, Shipeng Li, Nenghai Yu

A novel syntax-compliant encryption primitive and an efficient syntax-compliant JPEG 2000 encryption scheme are presented in this paper. The syntax-compliant encryption primitive takes, as input,...

e-Innovation and financial services (2008)

Yang, Yang

The Internet, a classic Schumpeterian innovation, has profoundly altered our lives and influenced the ways we do business. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, scholars, and enterprises that...

Multiple Nodal Solutions for Some Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problems via Admissible Invariant Sets (2008)

Yang Yang, Jihui Zhang, Zhitao Zhang

Existence and multiplicity results for nodal solutions are obtained for the fourth-order boundary value problem (BVP) u(4)(t)=f(t,u(t)), 0

Geometric Spanner of Objects under L1 Distance (Computing and Combinatorics) (2008)

Zhu, Yongding, Xu, Jinhui, Yang, Yang, Katoh, Naoki, Tanigawa, Shin-ichi

Computing and combinatorics : 14th annual international conference, COCOON 2008, Dalian, China, June 27-29, 2008 : proceedings : (Lecture notes in computer science ; 5092)

Joint Source and Channel Decoding for Variable Length Encoded Turbo Codes (2008)

Jianjun Liu, Guofang Tu, Can Zhang, Yang Yang

Joint source and channel decoding (JSCD) has been proved to be an effective technique which can improve decoding performance by exploiting residual source redundancy. Most previous publications on...

Multiple Nodal Solutions for Some Fourth-Order Boundary Value Problems via Admissible Invariant Sets (2008)

Yang Yang, Jihui Zhang, Zhitao Zhang

Existence and multiplicity results for nodal solutions are obtained for the fourth-order boundary value problem (BVP) u(4)(t)=f(t,u(t)), 0

Clusters of circulating Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains and association with antimicrobial resistance in Shanghai (2008)

Liao, Mingmin, Bell, Kelli, Gu, Wei-Ming, Yang, Yang, Eng, Nelson F., Fu, Wenkai, ...

Objectives (i) To distinguish Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in Shanghai by porB typing; (ii) to ascertain the congruence of porB DNA sequence typing with cases linked epidemiologically; (iii) to...

Mixture modeling of microarray gene expression data (2007)

Yang, Yang, Tashman, Adam P, Lee, Jung, Yoon, Seungtai, Mao, Wenyang, Ahn, Kwangmi, ...

Abstract About 28% of genes appear to have an expression pattern that follows a mixture distribution. We use first- and second-order partial correlation coefficients to identify trios and quartets of...

CRD:A New Data Mining Method In Deductive Databases * (2007)

Chun Tao, Yang Yang, Yonggang Zhao

Data mining, also known as knowledge discovery in databases, has been popularly recognized as an important research issue with broad applications. Many kinds of data mining methods have been...

Declarative Specification of Gene Regulatory Networks and Query Evaluation in PathSys ∗ (Extended Abstract) (2007)

Amarnath Gupta, Yang Yang, Aditya Bagchi, Animesh Ray

Biological pathways depict how biological entities interact among themselves to perform a certain task. Metabolic pathways present the complex cascade of reactions that occur to break down a...

Classification of Rank Conditions for Multiple Views of Dynamical Scenes (2007)

Yi Ma Kun, Yi Ma, Kun Huang, Yang Yang

In this paper we demonstrate the possibility of using rank conditions as a guiding principle to unify the study of multiple view geometry, for either static or dynamical scenes. A way of classifying...

Reconfigurable Fabric: An enabling technology for pervasive medical monitoring (2007)

Fang-chung Chen, Foad Dabiri, Roozbeh Jafari, Eren Kursun, Vijay Raghunathan, ...

In the past few years exciting advances in the development of pervasive computing technologies have taken place, in particular the field of flexible electronics is emerging: electronic components...

Intelligent Multi-Party Multi-Issue Bargaining System for e-Business (2007)

Yang, Yang (楊揚), Tam, Sai-man (譚世民), Lai, Chun-lam (黎峻林), Lau, Raymond Yiu-keung (劉耀強)

With the explosive growth of the number of transactions conducted via electronic channels, there is a pressing need for the development of intelligent support tools to improve the degree and...

A resampling-based test to detect person-to-person transmission of infectious disease (2007)

Yang, Yang, Longini Jr, Ira M., Halloran, M. Elizabeth

Early detection of person-to-person transmission of emerging infectious diseases such as avian influenza is crucial for containing pandemics. We developed a simple permutation test and its refined...

Mechanochemical Coupling in the Myosin Motor Domain. I. Insights from Equilibrium Active-Site Simulations (2007)

Haibo Yu, Liang Ma, Yang Yang, Qiang Cui

Although the major structural transitions in molecular motors are often argued to couple to the binding of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the recovery stroke in the conventional myosin has been shown...

Mechanochemical Coupling in the Myosin Motor Domain. II. Analysis of Critical Residues (2007)

Haibo Yu, Liang Ma, Yang Yang, Qiang Cui

An important challenge in the analysis of mechanochemical coupling in molecular motors is to identify residues that dictate the tight coupling between the chemical site and distant structural...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

On the Complexity of Multi-Round Divisible Load Scheduling (2007)

Yang, Yang, Casanova, Henri, Drozdowski, Maciej, Lawenda, Marcin, Legrand, Arnaud

In this paper we study master-worker scheduling of divisible loads in heterogeneous distributed systems. Divisible loads are computations that can be arbitrarily divided into independent ``chunks'',...

On the Complexity of Multi-Round Divisible Load Scheduling (2007)

Yang, Yang, Casanova, Henri, Drozdowski, Maciej, Lawenda, Marcin, Legrand, Arnaud

In this paper we study master-worker scheduling of divisible loads in heterogeneous distributed systems. Divisible loads are computations that can be arbitrarily divided into independent ``chunks'',...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

Development of a Confocal Optical System Design for Molecular Imaging Applications of Biochip (2007)

Guoliang Huang, Shukuan Xu, Jiang Zhu, Cheng Deng, Zhonghua Dong, Yang Yang, ...

A novel confocal optical system design and a dual laser confocal scanner have been developed to meet the requirements of highly sensitive detection of biomolecules on microarray chips, which is...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

Joint Source and Channel Decoding for Variable Length Encoded Turbo Codes (2007)

Jianjun Liu, Guofang Tu, Can Zhang, Yang Yang

Joint source and channel decoding (JSCD) has been proved to be an effective technique which can improve decoding performance by exploiting residual source redundancy. Most previous publications on...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions (2007)

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

Multiterminal video coding (2007)

Yang Yang, Vladimir Stanković, Wei Zhao, Zixiang Xiong

Abstract — Following recent works on the rate region of the quadratic Gaussian two-terminal source coding problem and limit-approaching code designs, this paper examines multiterminal source coding...

MIMO radar waveform design based on mutual information and minimum mean-square error estimation (2007)

Yang Yang, Student Member, Rick S. Blum

Abstract — This paper addresses the problem of radar waveform design for target identification and classification. Both the ordinary radar with a single transmitter and receiver and the recently...

Development of a Confocal Optical System Design for Molecular Imaging Applications of Biochip (2007)

Guoliang Huang, Shukuan Xu, Jiang Zhu, Cheng Deng, Zhonghua Dong, Yang Yang, ...

A novel confocal optical system design and a dual laser confocal scanner have been developed to meet the requirements of highly sensitive detection of biomolecules on microarray chips, which is...

Efficient and Syntax-Compliant JPEG 2000 Encryption Preserving Original Fine Granularity of Scalability (2007)

Yang Yang, Bin B. Zhu, Shipeng Li, Nenghai Yu

A novel syntax-compliant encryption primitive and an efficient syntax-compliant JPEG 2000 encryption scheme are presented in this paper. The syntax-compliant encryption primitive takes, as input,...

Geometric Spanner of Segments (Algorithms and Computation) (2007)

Yang, Yang, Zhu, Yongding, Xu, Jinhui, Katoh, Naoki

Algorithms and computation : 18th International Symposium, ISAAC 2007, Sendai, Japan, December 17-19, 2007 : proceedings ; ISAAC 2007 : (Lecture notes in computer science ; 4835)

Antiviral Effects on Influenza Viral Transmission and Pathogenicity: Observations from Household-based Trials (2007)

Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Hayden, Frederick G., Yang, Yang, Longini, Ira M., Monto, Arnold S.

Four household-based, randomized clinical trials, two each of zanamivir and oseltamivir, were designed primarily to estimate the effect of postexposure prophylaxis on preventing influenza illness in...

Detecting human-to-human transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1) (2007)

Yang Yang, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Jonathan D. Sugimoto, Longini Ira M.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (HPAI) subtype H5N1 has caused family case clusters, mostly in Southeast Asia, that could be due to human-to-human transmission. Should this virus, or another...

Detecting human-to-human transmission of avian influenza A (H5N1) (2007)

Yang Yang, M. Elizabeth Halloran, Jonathan D. Sugimoto, Longini Ira M.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A (HPAI) subtype H5N1 has caused family case clusters, mostly in Southeast Asia, that could be due to human-to-human transmission. Should this virus, or another...

4568 JOURNAL OF CLIMATE VOLUME 21 The Thermal Wake of Kauai Island: Satellite Observations and Numerical Simulations* (2007)

Yang Yang, Shang-ping Xie, Jan Hafner

Island thermal effects on the trail cloud band over the central North Pacific are investigated for the lee of Hawaii using satellite observations and a regional atmospheric model. The trail cloud...

Mechanochemical coupling in the myosin motor domain. I. Insights from equilibrium active-site simulations (2006)

Haibo Yu, Liang Ma, Yang Yang, Qiang Cui

Understanding the structure-function relationship in molecular motors relies on a quantitative description of how the local structural changes associated with ATP hydrolysis are propagated over a...

Mechanochemical coupling in the myosin motor domain. II. Analysis of critical residues (2006)

Haibo Yu, Liang Ma, Yang Yang, Qiang Cui

Understanding the structure-function relationship in molecular motors relies on a quantitative description of how the local structural changes associated with ATP hydrolysis are propagated over a...

Ankyrin-spectrin scaffolds, from blood to brain (2006)

Yang, Yang

The initiation and rapid transduction of electrical signals in the nervous system depends on the proper expression of voltage-gated sodium channels in the axon initial segment and nodes of Ranvier....

Traffic Agents for Improving QoS in Mixed Infrastructure and Ad Hoc Modes Wireless LAN (2006)

Yang Yang, Hai-Feng Yuan, Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Wen-Bing Yao, Yong-Hua Song

As an important complement to infrastructured wireless networks, mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) are more flexible in providing wireless access services, but more difficult in meeting different...

Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular determinants of quinolone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from Shanghai (2006)

Yang, Yang, Liao, Mingmin, Gu, Wei-Ming, Bell, Kelli, Wu, Lei, Eng, Nelson F., ...

Objectives: To determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Shanghai and to type the quinolone resistance-determining regions (QRDRs) of ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates....

Antimicrobial susceptibility and molecular determinants of quinolone resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates from Shanghai (2006)

Yang, Yang, Liao, Mingmin, Gu, Wei-Ming, Bell, Kelli, Wu, Lei, Eng, Nelson F., ...

Objectives: To determine the antimicrobial susceptibility of Neisseria gonorrhoeae from Shanghai and to type the quinolone resistance-determining regions (QRDRs) of ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates....

$L^2$ Forms and Ricci flow with bounded curvature on Complete Non-compact manifolds (2005)

Ma, Li, Yang, Yang

In this paper, we study the evolution of $L^2$ one forms under Ricci flow with bounded curvature on a non-compact Rimennian manifold. We show on such a manifold that the $L^2$ norm of a smooth one...

THEORETICAL STUDY OF 1.54 $\mu$m ELECTRONIC TRANSITIONS OF Er$^{3+}$ DOPED INTO GaN (2005)

Yang, Yang, Pitzer, Russell M.

Author Institution: Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706; Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210

Structural analysis and multidisciplinary design of flexible fluid loaded composite canard / (2005)

Yang, Yang.

Mechanical performance of a composite canard subject to static aerodynamic loads was numerically studied in the present research. The canard was modeled as a symmetrically laminated curved panel,...

Grid Services Adaptation in a Grid Workflow (2005)

Wencai Guo, Yang Yang, Zhengli Zhai

Abstract. At present the grid workflow is a focus topic in the research on grid technologies, but few approaches are provided for designing and checking the grid services adaptation in a workflow,...

1 Overview Buffer-Sizing for Precedence Graphs on Restricted Multiprocessor Architectures (2005)

Thomas Huining Feng, Yang Yang, Mentors Qi Zhu, Abhijit Davare

This work solves a sub-problem required to enable software synthesis for Parallel Heterogeneous Platforms (PHPs). This sub-problem is concerned with determining the buffer sizes between processing...

Spanning Graph-based Nonrectilinear Steiner Tree Algorithms (2005)

Qi Zhu, Student Member, Hai Zhou, Senior Member, Tong Jing, Xian-long Hong, ...

Abstract—With advances in fabrication technology of very/ultra large scale integrated circuit (VLSI/ULSI), we must face many new challenges. One of them is the interconnect effects, which may cause...

On multiterminal source code design (2005)

Yang Yang, Vladimir Stanković, Zixiang Xiong, Wei Zhao

Multiterminal (MT) source coding refers to separate lossy encoding and joint decoding of multiple correlated sources. This paper presents two practical MT coding schemes under the same general...

An MDA-Based System for Ontology Engineering (2005)

Yue Pan, Guotong Xie, Li Ma, Yang Yang, Yang Yang, Zhaoming Qiu, ...

LIMITED DISTRIBUTION NOTICE: This report has been submitted for publication outside of IBM and will probably be copyrighted if accepted for publication. Ithas been issued as a Research Report for...

Practical divisible load scheduling on grid platforms with APST-DV (2005)

Krijn Raadt, Yang Yang, Henri Casanova

Divisible load applications consist of a load, that is input data and associated computation, that can be divided arbitrarily into independent pieces. Such applications arise in many fields and are...

Bagging predictors for time series / (2005)

Yang, Yang.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2005.

A remark on soliton equation of mean curvature flow (2004)

Ma,Li, Yang,Yang

In this note, we consider self-similar immersions of the mean curvature flow and show that a graph solution of the soliton equation, provided it has bounded derivative, converges smoothly to a...

A realistic network/application model for scheduling divisible loads on large-scale platforms. (2004)

Marchal, Loris, Yang Yang, Casanova, Henri, Robert, Yves

(eng) Divisible load applications consist of an amount of data and associated computation that can be divided arbitrarily into any number of independent pieces. This model is a good approximation of...

A realistic network/application model for scheduling divisible loads on large-scale platforms (2004)

Marchal, Loris, Yang, Yang, Casanova, Henri, Robert, Yves

Divisible load applications consist of an amount of data and associated computation that can be divided arbitrarily into any number of independent pieces. This model is a good approximation of many...

A realistic network/application model for scheduling divisible loads on large-scale platforms (2004)

Marchal, Loris, Yang, Yang, Casanova, Henri, Robert, Yves

Divisible load applications consist of an amount of data and associated computation that can be divided arbitrarily into any number of independent pieces. This model is a good approximation of many...

Asymmetric code design for remote multiterminal source coding (2004)

Yang Yang, Vladimir Stanković, Zixiang Xiong, Wei Zhao

We perform asymmetric code design for remote multiterminal source coding (the CEO problem [1,2]) in the quadratic Gaussian case. For an i.i.d. Gaussian source we have two noisy � � �   � �...

Loris Marchal, Yang Yang, (2004)

École Normale, Supérieure Lyon, Unité Mixte, Henri Casanova, Yves Robert, ...

A realistic network/application model for scheduling divisible loads on large-scale platforms

Efficient octilinear steiner tree construction based on spanning graphs (2004)

Qi Zhu, Hai Zhou, Tong Jing, Xianlong Hong, Yang Yang

Abstract--Octilinear interconnect is a promising technique to shorten wire lengths. We present two practical heuristic octilinear Steiner tree (OSMT) algorithms in the paper. They are both based on...

An efficient low-degree RMST algorithm for VLSI/ULSI physical design (2004)

Yin Wang, Xianlong Hong, Tong Jing, Yang Yang, Xiaodong Hu, Guiying Yan

Abstract. Motivated by very/ultra large scale integrated circuit (VLSI/ULSI) physical design applications, we study the construction of rectilinear minimum spanning tree (RMST) with its maximum...

Multiterminal source code design based on Slepian-Wolf coded quantization”, in preparation (2004)

Yang Yang, Vladimir Stanković, Zixiang Xiong, Wei Zhao

Abstract- Multiterminal (MT) source coding refers to separate lossy encoding and joint decoding of multiple correlated sources. This paper presents two practical MT coding schemes under the same...

Asymmetric code design for remote multiterminal source coding (2004)

Yang Yang, Vladimir Stanković, Zixiang Xiong, Wei Zhao

We perform asymmetric code design for remote multiterminal source coding (the CEO problem [1,2]) in the quadratic Gaussian case. For an i.i.d. Gaussian source we have two noisy � � �   � �...

ARTICLES Programmable polymer thin fi lm and non-volatile memory device (2004)

Jianyong Ouyang, Chih-wei Chu, Charles R. Szmanda, Liping Ma, Yang Yang

Building on the success of organic electronic devices, such as light-emitting diodes and fi eld-effect transistors, procedures for fabricating non-volatile organic memory devices are now being...

Bagging Binary Predictors for Time Series (2004)

Tae-hwy Lee, Yang Yang

Bootstrap aggregating or Bagging, introduced by Breiman (1996a), has been proved to be effective to improve on unstable forecast. Theoretical and empirical works using classification, regression...

Efficient octilinear steiner tree construction based on spanning graphs (2004)

Q. Zhu, H. Zhou, T. Jing, X. Hong, Y. Yang, Qi Zhu, ...

Abstract--Octilinear interconnect is a promising technique to shorten wire lengths. We present two practical heuristic octilinear Steiner tree (OSMT) algorithms in the paper. They are both based on...

Containing Pandemic Influenza with Antiviral Agents (2004)

Longini, Ira M., Halloran, M. Elizabeth, Nizam, Azhar, Yang, Yang

For the first wave of pandemic influenza or a bioterrorist influenza attack, antiviral agents would be one of the few options to contain the epidemic in the United States until adequate supplies of...

Scheduling Divisible Loads on Star and Tree Networks: Results and Open Problems. (2003)

Beaumont, Olivier, Casanova, Henri, Legrand, Arnaud, Robert, Yves, Yang Yang

(eng) Applications in many scientific and engineering domains are structured in large numbers of independent tasks with low granularity. These applications can thus be naturally parallelized,...

Non-contacting techniques for detecting plant drought stress in a closed environment (2003)

Yang, Yang

Plant drought stress refers to the condition in which plant cells and tissues are at less than full turgor. When drought stress occurs, almost all the processes associated with plant growth are...

Scheduling Divisible Loads on Star and Tree Networks: Results and Open Problems (2003)

Beaumont, Olivier, Casanova, Henri, Legrand, Arnaud, Robert, Yves, Yang, Yang

Applications in many scientific and engineering domains are structured in large numbers of independent tasks with low granularity. These applications can thus be naturally parallelized, typically in...

Scheduling Divisible Loads on Star and Tree Networks: Results and Open Problems (2003)

Beaumont, Olivier, Casanova, Henri, Legrand, Arnaud, Robert, Yves, Yang, Yang

Applications in many scientific and engineering domains are structured in large numbers of independent tasks with low granularity. These applications can thus be naturally parallelized, typically in...

Issues in software engineering / (2003)

Yang, Yang.

Paper (M.S.I.S.)--Penn State Harrisburg.

Scheduling Divisible Loads on Star and Tree Networks: Results and Open Problems (2003)

École Normale, Supérieure Lyon, Olivier Beaumount, Henri Casanova, Arnaud Legrand, Yves Robert, ...

Many applications in scientific and engineering domains are structured as large numbers of independent tasks with low granularity. These applications are thus amenable to straightforward...

RUMR: Robust Scheduling for Divisible Workloads (2003)

Yang Yang

Divisible workload applications arise in many fields of science and engineering. They can be parallelized in master-worker fashion and relevant scheduling strategies have been proposed to reduce...

An approach to plan recognition and retrieval for multi-agent systems (2003)

Zhanxiang Huang, Yang Yang, Xiaoping Chen

Abstract. Planning plays an important role in the domain of multi-agent systems. Recognizing opponent’s plans and taking appropriate countermeasures will improve a team’s adaptability and...

UMR: A Multi-Round Algorithm for Scheduling Divisible Workloads (2003)

Yang Yang, Henri Casanova

Divisible load applications occur in many fields of science and engineering, can be eas-ily parallelized in a master-worker fashion, but pose several scheduling challenges. While a number of...

UMR: A Multi-Round Algorithm for Scheduling Divisible Workloads (2003)

Yang Yang, Henri Casanova

In this paper we present an algorithm for scheduling parallel applications that consist of a divisible workload. Our algorithm uses multiple rounds to overlap communication and computation between a...

Scheduling Divisible Loads on Star and Tree Networks: Results and Open Problems (2003)

Unit Mixte, Arnaud Legrand, Olivier Beaumount, ...

Many applications in scientific and engineering domains are structured as large numbers of independent tasks with low granularity. These applications are thus amenable to straightforward...

—- survey on instruction scheduling (2003)

Yang Yang

This paper surveys past research on instruction scheduling for exploiting more Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP). We focus on static instruction scheduling performed by compiler. The hardware...

SAFE: Secure Agent roaming for E-Commerce (2002)

Sheng-uei Guan, Yang Yang

The development of the Internet has made a powerful impact on the concept of commerce. E-commerce, a new way to conduct business, is gaining more and more popularity. Despite its rapid growth, there...

Network congestion control [electronic resource] / (2001)

Yang, Yang.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

Network congestion control (2001)

Yang, Yang.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2001.

In Rhizobium leguminosarum, NodD represses its own transcription by competing with RNA polymerase for binding sites (2000)

Hu, Hailiang, Liu, Songtao, Yang, Yang, Chang, Weizhong, Hong, Guofan

We isolated RNA polymerase (RNAP) from Rhizobium leguminosarum, the nitrogen-fixing symbiont of peas and Vicia. Its 91 kDa subunit, which is homologous to σ70 of Escherichia coli RNAP, is necessary...

Introducing Adaptivity into Mobile Network Protocol (1999)

Y. Yang, Yang Yang, Patricia Morreale

Mobile data networks are important parts of global communications. The network protocol deployed in the mobile network is typically based on a wireline network protocol, which is either a...

Characterization of neutral metabolites of benzo[a]pyrene in urine from germfree rats (1994)

Yang, Yang, Sjövall, Jan, Rafter, Joseph, Gustafsson, Jan-Åke

[14C] Benzo[a]pyrene (BP) was administered to male germfree rats. Urinary metabolites, constituting 9% of the administered radioactivity, were fractionated by lipophilic ion exchange...

Adaptive Mobile Network Protocol Extending the Idea of Hybrid IPATM for General Mobile Network (1990)

Yang Yang Patricia, Yang Yang, Patricia Morreale, Dhadesugoor R. Vaman

In this paper, we propose a new network protocol framework, the adaptive mobile network protocol #AMNP# for general mobile network based on the idea behind the hybrid IP#ATM. In AMNP, two operation...

Non-contacting techniques for detecting plant drought stress in a closed environment

Yang, Yang

Plant drought stress refers to the condition in which plant cells and tissues are at less than full turgor. When drought stress occurs, almost all the processes associated with plant growth are...

APC: Stata module for estimating age-period-cohort effects

Sam Schulhofer-Wohl, Yang Yang

apc is a Stata package for estimating age-period-cohort models. apc_cglim estimates generalized linear models in which a single equality constraint on the coefficients is used to solve the...

In Rhizobium leguminosarum, NodD represses its own transcription by competing with RNA polymerase for binding sites

Hu, Hailiang, Liu, Songtao, Yang, Yang, Chang, Weizhong, Hong, Guofan

We isolated RNA polymerase (RNAP) from Rhizobium leguminosarum, the nitrogen-fixing symbiont of peas and Vicia. Its 91 kDa subunit, which is homologous to σ70 of Escherichia coli RNAP, is necessary...

The E47 transcription factor negatively regulates CD5 expression during thymocyte development

Yang, Yang, Contag, Christopher H., Felsher, Dean, Shachaf, Catherine M., Cao, Yuan, Herzenberg, Leonard A., ...

The expression of CD5 increases progressively as thymocytes mature. We have shown that CD5 expression is controlled by a tissue-specific regulatory promoter located upstream of the CD5 translation...

Phenotypically distinct B cell development pathways map to the three B cell lineages in the mouse

Tung, James W., Mrazek, Matthew D., Yang, Yang, Herzenberg, Leonard A., Herzenberg, Leonore A.

A recent article by Montecino-Rodriguez et al. [Montecino-Rodriguez, E., Leathers, H. & Dorshkind, K. (2006) Nat. Immunol.7, 293–301] has distinguished the early progenitors for B-1 cells, which...

Mechanochemical Coupling in the Myosin Motor Domain. I. Insights from Equilibrium Active-Site Simulations

Yu, Haibo, Ma, Liang, Yang, Yang, Cui, Qiang

Although the major structural transitions in molecular motors are often argued to couple to the binding of Adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the recovery stroke in the conventional myosin has been shown...

Mechanochemical Coupling in the Myosin Motor Domain. II. Analysis of Critical Residues

Yu, Haibo, Ma, Liang, Yang, Yang, Cui, Qiang

An important challenge in the analysis of mechanochemical coupling in molecular motors is to identify residues that dictate the tight coupling between the chemical site and distant structural...

Division and differentiation of natural antibody-producing cells in mouse spleen

Yang, Yang, Tung, James W., Ghosn, Eliver E. B., Herzenberg, Leonard A., Herzenberg, Leonore A.

B-1a cells reside in both the peritoneal cavity and the spleen. LPS stimulates splenic B-1a to differentiate to plasma cells producing natural IgM specific for microbial and self antigens. However,...

βIV spectrin is recruited to axon initial segments and nodes of Ranvier by ankyrinG

Yang, Yang, Ogawa, Yasuhiro, Hedstrom, Kristian L., Rasband, Matthew N.

High densities of ion channels at axon initial segments (AISs) and nodes of Ranvier are required for initiation, propagation, and modulation of action potentials in axons. The organization of these...

Development of a Confocal Optical System Design for Molecular Imaging Applications of Biochip

Huang, Guoliang, Xu, Shukuan, Zhu, Jiang, Deng, Cheng, Dong, Zhonghua, Yang, Yang, ...

A novel confocal optical system design and a dual laser confocal scanner have been developed to meet the requirements of highly sensitive detection of biomolecules on microarray chips, which is...

Expression and Characterization of the Flocculin Flo11/Muc1, a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mannoprotein with Homotypic Properties of Adhesion▿

Douglas, Lois M., Li, Li, Yang, Yang, Dranginis, A. M.

The Flo11/Muc1 flocculin has diverse phenotypic effects. Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells of strain background Σ1278b require Flo11p to form pseudohyphae, invade agar, adhere to plastic, and develop...

T Cell Receptor (TCR) Engagement Leads to Activation-induced Splicing of  Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) Nuclear Pre-mRNA

Yang, Yang, Chang, Ju-Fay, Parnes, Jane R., Garrison Fathman, C.

Inducible gene expression is primarily regulated at the level of transcription. Additional steps of “processing” pre-mRNA, involved in the regulation of induced gene expression, have not been...

Design and evaluation of prophylactic interventions using infectious disease incidence data from close contact groups

Yang Yang, Ira M. Longini, M. Elizabeth Halloran

Prophylaxis of contacts of infectious cases such as household members and treatment of infectious cases are methods to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. We develop a method based on maximum...

Bagging Binary Predictors for Time Series

Yang Yang, Tae-Hwy Lee

Bootstrap aggregating or Bagging, introduced by Breiman (1996a), has been proved to be effective to improve on unstable forecast. Theoretical and empirical works using classification, regression...

Mixture modeling of microarray gene expression data

Yang, Yang, Tashman, Adam P, Lee, Jung Yeon, Yoon, Seungtai, Mao, Wenyang, Ahn, Kwangmi, ...

About 28% of genes appear to have an expression pattern that follows a mixture distribution. We use first- and second-order partial correlation coefficients to identify trios and quartets of...

α-Tocopherol Is Essential for Acquired Chill-Light Tolerance in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803▿ †

Yang, Yang, Yin, Chuntao, Li, Weizhi, Xu, Xudong

Unlike Escherichia coli, the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is insensitive to chill (5°C) in the dark but rapidly losses viability when exposed to chill in the light (100 μmol...

HDAC Inhibitors Act with 5-aza-2′-Deoxycytidine to Inhibit Cell Proliferation by Suppressing Removal of Incorporated Abases in Lung Cancer Cells

Chai, Guolin, Li, Lian, Zhou, Wen, Wu, Lipeng, Zhao, Ying, Wang, Donglai, ...

5-aza-2′-deoxycytidine (5-aza-CdR) is used extensively as a demethylating agent and acts in concert with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACI) to induce apoptosis or inhibition of cell...

The syndecan-1 heparan sulfate proteoglycan is a viable target for myeloma therapy

Yang, Yang, MacLeod, Veronica, Dai, Yuemeng, Khotskaya-Sample, Yekaterina, Shriver, Zachary, Venkataraman, Ganesh, ...

The heparan sulfate proteoglycan syndecan-1 is expressed by myeloma cells and shed into the myeloma microenvironment. High levels of shed syndecan-1 in myeloma patient sera correlate with poor...

Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Depsipeptide Activates Silenced Genes through Decreasing both CpG and H3K9 Methylation on the Promoter▿

Wu, Li-Peng, Wang, Xi, Li, Lian, Zhao, Ying, Lu, Shaoli, Yu, Yu, ...

Histone deacetylase inhibitor (HDACi) has been shown to demethylate the mammalian genome, which further strengthens the concept that DNA methylation and histone modifications interact in regulation...

CD11b expression distinguishes sequential stages of peritoneal B-1 development

Ghosn, Eliver Eid Bou, Yang, Yang, Tung, James, Herzenberg, Leonard A., Herzenberg, Leonore A.

Peritoneal cavity (PerC) B-1 cells have long been known to express CD11b, which is coexpressed with CD18 to form the Mac-1/CR3 complement receptor and adhesion molecule. However, although all PerC...

Identification of a Novel Prophage-Like Gene Cluster Actively Expressed in Both Virulent and Avirulent Strains of Leptospira interrogans Serovar Lai ▿

Qin, Jin-Hong, Zhang, Qing, Zhang, Zhi-Ming, Zhong, Yi, Yang, Yang, Hu, Bao-Yu, ...

DNA microarray analysis was used to compare the differential gene expression profiles between Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai type strain 56601 and its corresponding attenuated strain IPAV. A...

Frequent S100A4 Expression with Unique Splicing Pattern in Gastric Cancers: A Hypomethylation Event Paralleled with E-cadherin Reduction and Wnt Activation1

Li, Yan, Zhang, Kai-Li, Sun, Yuan, Yang, Yang, Chen, Xiao-Yan, Kong, Qing-You, ...

S100A4 promotes cancer metastasis, but its overall status and splicing manner during gastrocarcinogenesis remains less known. We therefore examined S100A4 frequencies, splicing pattern(s) and the...

Protein 4.1R-dependent multiprotein complex: New insights into the structural organization of the red blood cell membrane

Salomao, Marcela, Zhang, Xihui, Yang, Yang, Lee, Soohee, Hartwig, John H., Chasis, Joel Anne, ...

Protein 4.1R (4.1R) is a multifunctional component of the red cell membrane. It forms a ternary complex with actin and spectrin, which defines the nodal junctions of the membrane-skeletal network,...

cAMP-dependent Protein Kinase Phosphorylation Produces Interdomain Movement in SUR2B Leading to Activation of the Vascular KATP Channel*S⃞

Shi, Yun, Chen, Xianfeng, Wu, Zhongying, Shi, Weiwei, Yang, Yang, Cui, Ningren, ...

Vascular ATP-sensitive K+ channels are activated by multiple vasodilating hormones and neurotransmitters via PKA. A critical PKA phosphorylation site (Ser-1387) is found in the second...

Acetylation of FoxO1 Activates Bim Expression to Induce Apoptosis in Response to Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor Depsipeptide Treatment12

Yang, Yang, Zhao, Ying, Liao, Wenjuan, Yang, Jing, Wu, Lipeng, Zheng, Zhixing, ...

Histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors have been shown to induce cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in cancer cells. However, the mechanisms of HDAC inhibitor induced apoptosis are incompletely...

Specification Seeking: How Product Specifications Influence Consumer Preference

Christopher K. Hsee, Yang Yang, Yangjie Gu, Jie Chen

We offer a framework about when and how specifications (e.g., megapixels of a camera and number of air bags in a massage chair) influence consumer preferences and report five studies that test the...

A Missense Mutation in SLC33A1, which Encodes the Acetyl-CoA Transporter, Causes Autosomal-Dominant Spastic Paraplegia (SPG42)

Lin, Pengfei, Li, Jianwei, Liu, Qiji, Mao, Fei, Li, Jisheng, Qiu, Rongfang, ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs), characterized by progressive and bilateral spasticity of the legs, are usually caused by developmental failure or degeneration of motor axons in the...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

Comparison of Neisseria gonorrhoeae Multiantigen Sequence Typing and porB Sequence Analysis for Identification of Clusters of N. gonorrhoeae Isolates▿ †

Liao, Mingmin, Helgeson, Sarah, Gu, Wei-Ming, Yang, Yang, Jolly, Ann M., Dillon, Jo-Anne R.

porB DNA sequence analysis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence typing (NG-MAST) methods were compared for their abilities to discriminate strains and to identify epidemiologically...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

The adaptive serializable snapshot isolation protocol for managing database transactions

Yang, Yang

In this thesis, concept of database concurrency control, computational models of database transaction, the correct criterias of concurrent execution of transactions and concur- rency control...

Optimal dividend distribution policy from the perspective of the impatient and loss-averse investor

Yang, Yang, Shoji, Isao, Kanehiro, Sumei

This paper discusses a problem concerning intertemporal decision-making under uncertainty when its subject has psychological biases. Here, we consider an investment company as a decision maker that...

Outward-Orientation and Economic Growth: Additional Cross-Country Evidence

Ram , Rati, Yang, Yang

To shed further light on the role of outward-orientation in economic growth, Dollar’s (1992) framework is extended by (a) applying the methodology to the more recent period 1985-90, and (b)...

Synthesis, Novel Crystal Structure, and β-Amyloid Binding Property of Re(I) (tricarbonyl)+ EHIDA Analogue

Yang, Yang, Zhang, Jia Xin, Zhu, Lin, Zhang, Huabei

A neutral compound Re(CO)3(L) (L: 2-((2-(2,6-diethylphenylamino)-2-oxoethyl)(2-ethoxy-2-oxoethyl)amino)acetic acid, an IDA analogue) has been synthesized and evaluated for in vitro imaging probes of...

Heparanase Stimulation of Protease Expression Implicates It as a Master Regulator of the Aggressive Tumor Phenotype in Myeloma*

Purushothaman, Anurag, Chen, Ligong, Yang, Yang, Sanderson, Ralph D.

High levels of heparanase are an indicator of poor prognosis in myeloma patients, and up-regulation of the enzyme enhances tumor growth, angiogenesis, and metastasis in animal models. At least part...