Yi Chen

Reranking Answers for Definitional QA Using Language Modeling (2009)

Yi Chen, Ming Zhou, Shilong Wang

Abstract * Statistical ranking methods based on centroid vector (profile) extracted from external knowledge have become widely adopted in the top definitional QA systems in TREC 2003 and 2004. In...

DYNAMIC TERM WEIGHTING FOR PERSONAL PHOTO RETRIEVAL (2009)

Yi Chen

ABSTRACT 1 Personal photo retrieval is different from many search tasks in that all the targets are either known to the user, or they are about something the owner has seen. For this reason,...

Antiphospholipid antibody profiles in lupus nephritis with glomerular microthrombosis: a prospective study of 124 cases (2009)

Zheng, Hui, Chen, Yi, Ao, Wen, Shen, Yan, Chen, Xiao-wei, Dai, Min, ...

Abstract Introduction Glomerular microthrombosis (GMT) is a common vascular change in patients with lupus nephritis (LN). The mechanism underlying GMT is largely unknown. Although several studies...

ABSTRACT Reasoning and Identifying Relevant Matches for XML Keyword Search ∗ (2009)

Ziyang Liu, Yi Chen

data in web and scientific applications. An intuitively compelling but vaguely defined goal is to identify matches to query keywords that are relevant to the user. However, it is hard to directly...

EasyTicket: A Ticket Routing Recommendation Engine for Enterprise Problem Resolution ABSTRACT (2009)

Qihong Shao, Yi Chen

Managing problem tickets is a key issue in IT service industry. A large service provider may handle thousands of problem tickets from its customers on a daily basis. The efficiency of processing...

Pores and Ridges: High Resolution Fingerprint Matching Using Level 3 Features (2009)

Anil K. Jain, Yi Chen, Student Member, Meltem Demirkus, Student Member

Abstract—Fingerprint friction ridge details are generally described in a hierarchical order at three different levels, namely, Level 1

Le marché du travail urbain en Chine entre concurrence et imperfections institutionnelles : analyses des différentiels salariaux (2009)

Chen, Yi

Au cours de son processus de transition vers une économie de marché, l'Etat chinois a choisi de réformer le secteur étatique de manière graduelle plutôt que de recourir à des privatisations...

Le marché du travail urbain en Chine entre concurrence et imperfections institutionnelles : analyses des différentiels salariaux (2009)

Chen, Yi

Au cours de son processus de transition vers une économie de marché, l'Etat chinois a choisi de réformer le secteur étatique de manière graduelle plutôt que de recourir à des privatisations...

Le marché du travail urbain en Chine entre concurrence et imperfections institutionnelles : analyses des différentiels salariaux (2009)

Chen, Yi

Au cours de son processus de transition vers une économie de marché, l'Etat chinois a choisi de réformer le secteur étatique de manière graduelle plutôt que de recourir à des privatisations...

Le marché du travail urbain en Chine entre concurrence et imperfections institutionnelles : analyses des différentiels salariaux (2009)

Chen, Yi

Au cours de son processus de transition vers une économie de marché, l'Etat chinois a choisi de réformer le secteur étatique de manière graduelle plutôt que de recourir à des privatisations...

Di-μ-chlorido-bis[chlorido(1,10-phenanthroline-κ2N,N′)zinc(II)] (2009)

Xiao-Mao Yang, Qing-Bo Leng, Yi Chen, You-Gang He, Shi-Wu Luo

In the crystal structure of the title complex, [Zn2Cl4(C12H8N2)2], each of the two five-coordinated ZnII atoms displays a strongly distorted trigonal-bipyramidal geometry defined by two N atoms from...

Dynamic integration in SCM- the role of TPL (2009)

Chen, Yi, Olsson, Kajsa

    Introduction:  Companies are facing an environment with fierce competition therefore to respond to the customers' needs and to deliver on time at a competitive cost is becoming more and...

Functional SNPs in the SCGB3A2 promoter are associated with susceptibility to Graves' disease (2009)

Song, Huai-Dong, Liang, Jun, Shi, Jing-Yi, Zhao, Shuang-Xia, Liu, Zhi, Zhao, Jia-Jun, ...

Graves' disease (GD) is one of the most common human autoimmune diseases, and recent data estimated a prevalence of clinical hyperthyroidism of 0.25–1.09% in the population. Several reports have...

Defects structures in silicon carbide bulk crystals, epilayers and devices (2009)

Chen, Yi

Defects structures in silicon carbide bulk crystals, epilayers and devices

Dynamic integration in SCM- the role of TPL (2009)

Chen, Yi, Olsson, Kajsa

    Introduction:  Companies are facing an environment with fierce competition therefore to respond to the customers' needs and to deliver on time at a competitive cost is becoming more and...

Defects structures in silicon carbide bulk crystals, epilayers and devices (2009)

Chen, Yi

Defects structures in silicon carbide bulk crystals, epilayers and devices

Organic thin film transistors with mono-crystalline rubrene films by horizontal hot wall deposition (2009)

Chen, Yi

As promising candidates for future low-cost and flexible display applications, organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) have attracted considerable research interests for the past two decades. Recent...

Machine Learning, Biometrics, Forensic Science (2008)

Yi Chen

OBJECTIVE To obtain a research position in the area of pattern recognition and its applications, including biometrics, medical imaging and financial engineering

ELEC639B Term Project: An Image Compression System with Interpolating Filter (2008)

Yi Chen

In this project, two families of filter banks are constructed, then their performance is compared with an image compression system. The one-dimensional and quincunx families of interpolating filter...

Handling Imprecision & Incompleteness in Autonomous Databases (Technical Challenge) (2008)

Subbarao Kambhampati, Yi Chen, Jianchun Fan, Hemal Khatri, Ullas Nambiar, Garrett Wolf

As more and more information from autonomous web databases becomes available to lay users, query processing over these databases must adapt to deal with the imprecise nature of user queries as well...

Outside Member (2008)

Yi Chen, Yi Chen

Quincunx filter banks are two-dimensional, two-channel, nonseparable filter banks. They are widely used in many signal processing applications. In this thesis, we study the design and applications of...

Salary differentials according to sex in urban China (2008)

Chen, Yi;, Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin

Before the reforms began in the late 1970s, there was no such thing as a labour market in China. The allocation of jobs, just as the rules governing wages in the state enterprises, were fixed by the...

QUIC: Handling Query Imprecision & Data Incompleteness in Autonomous Databases ABSTRACT (2008)

Subbarao Kambhampati, Garrett Wolf, Yi Chen, Hemal Khatri, Bhaumik Chokshi, Jianchun Fan, ...

As more and more information from autonomous databases becomes available to lay users, query processing over these databases must adapt to deal with the imprecise nature of user queries as well as...

Efficient Path Query Processing on Encoded XML (2008)

Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson

As XML has become a popular format for information exchange, the efficient processing of broadcast XML data on a constrained device (for example, a cell phone or a PDA) becomes a critical task. In...

L-Tree: a Dynamic Labeling Structure for Ordered XML Data (2008)

Yi Chen, George A. Mihaila, Rajesh Bordawekar, Sriram Padmanabhan

With the ever growing use of XML as a data representation format, we see an increasing need for robust, high performance XML database systems. While most of the recent work focuses on efficient XML...

doi:10.1155/2007/83858 Research Article Design of Optimal Quincunx Filter Banks for Image Coding (2008)

Yi Chen, Michael D. Adams, Wu-sheng Lu

Two new optimization-based methods are proposed for the design of high-performance quincunx filter banks for the application of image coding. These new techniques are used to build linear-phase...

ABSTRACT BLAS: An Efficient XPath Processing System (2008)

Yi Chen

complex XPath queries over XML data. BLAS uses Plabeling to process queries involving consecutive child axes, and D-labeling to process queries involving descendant axes traversal. The XML data is...

ABSTRACT XKvalidator: A Constraint Validator For XML (2008)

Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Yifeng Zheng

The role of XML in data exchange is evolving from one of merely conveying the structure of data to one that also conveys its semantics. In particular, several proposals for key and foreign key...

Kambhampati QPIAD: Query Processing over Incomplete Autonomous Databases (2008)

Hemal Khatri, Jianchun Fan, Yi Chen, Subbarao Kambhampati

Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka “null values”) is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through mediators. Traditional query...

Query Processing over Incomplete Autonomous Databases (2008)

Garrett Wolf, Hemal Khatri, Bhaumik Chokshi, Jianchun Fan, Yi Chen, Subbarao Kambhampati

Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka “null values”) is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through mediators. Traditional query...

To appear in ICB06 Localized Iris Image Quality Using 2-D Wavelets (2008)

Yi Chen, Sarat C. Dass, Anil K. Jain

The performance of an iris recognition system can be undermined by poor quality images and result in high false reject rates (FRR) and failure to enroll (FTE) rates. In this paper, a wavelet-based...

Likelihood Ratio-Based Biometric Score Fusion Karthik Nandakumar, Student Member, IEEE, (2008)

Yi Chen, Student Member, Anil K. Jain

Abstract—Multibiometric systems fuse information from different sources to compensate for the limitations in performance of individual matchers. We propose a framework for the optimal combination...

3D TOUCHLESS FINGERPRINTS: COMPATIBILITY WITH LEGACY ROLLED IMAGES (2008)

Yi Chen, Eva Diaz-santana, Anil K. Jain

Fingerprints are traditionally captured based on contact of the finger on paper or a platen surface. This often results in partial or degraded images due to improper finger placement, skin...

Query Processing over Incomplete Autonomous Databases (2008)

Garrett Wolf, Hemal Khatri, Bhaumik Chokshi, Yi Chen, Subbarao Kambhampati

Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka “null values”) is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through mediators. Traditional query...

Quality-based Score Level Fusion in Multibiometric Systems ∗ (2008)

Karthik N, Yi Chen, Anil K. Jain

The quality of biometric samples has a significant impact on the accuracy of a matcher. Poor quality biometric samples often lead to incorrect matching results because the features extracted from...

QUIC: Handling Query Imprecision & Data Incompleteness in Autonomous Databases ABSTRACT (2008)

Subbarao Kambhampati, Garrett Wolf, Yi Chen, Hemal Khatri, Bhaumik Chokshi, Jianchun Fan, ...

As more and more information from autonomous databases becomes available to lay users, query processing over these databases must adapt to deal with the imprecise nature of user queries as well as...

Electro-Active-Paper Actuator Made with LiCl/Cellulose Films: Effect of LiCl Content (2008)

Wang, Nian-Gui, Kim, Jae-Hwan, Chen, Yi, Yun, Sung-Ryul, Lee, Sun-Kon

The cellulose-based, Electroactive Paper (EAPap) has recently been reported as a smart material with the advantages of lightweight, dry condition, biodegradability, sustainability, large displacement...

DNA nanomachines and DNA-directed assembly of nanostructures (2008)

Chen, Yi

DNA, apart from being a nature biological information carrier, has also been recognized as a useful material in the field of nanotechnology, such as molecular detection, nanofabrication,...

Report No. 4 of CSCE 896 eXtensible Markup Language Using DOM to Retrieve XML Data (2007)

Yifeng Zhu, Instructor Dr, Reichbanch Ta, Yi Chen

this report, TreeWalker and NodeFilter were used to retrieve selected elements from an XML file. II. SYSTEM DESIGN Based on the analysis of the functional requirements of this program, the interface,...

Report No. 2 of CSCE 896 eXtensible Markup Language Schema Model of the Course Syllabi (2007)

Yifeng Zhu, Instructor Dr, Reichenbach Ta, Yi Chen

this report, a schema model of course syllabi is designed and implemented. This schema model describes the structure and syntax of an XML document of course syllabi and ensures that the data is valid...

Unsaturated phosphatidylcholines lining on the surface of cartilage and its possible physiological roles (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W, Oloyede, Adekunle

Abstract Background Evidence has strongly indicated that surface-active phospholipid (SAPL), or surfactant, lines the surface of cartilage and serves as a lubricating agent. Previous clinical study...

Les différentiels salariaux par sexe en Chine urbaine (2007)

Chen, Yi;, Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin

Avant le lancement des réformes à la fin des années 1970, il n’existait pour ainsi dire pas de marché du travail en Chine. L’allocation des emplois ainsi que les règles déterminant les...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l'égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois (2007)

Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin, Chen, Yi

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une...

SYNTHESIS OF THE PENTAVALENT IODINE COMPOUND, DIPHENYLIODOSYL TOSYLATE, AND ITS USE FOR THE OXIDATION OF SULFIDES (2007)

Chen, Yi

The novel acyclic iodine (V) compound, diphenyliodosyl tosylate (DIT), was synthesized by the hydroxide-promoted condensation of iodylbenzene to diphenyliodosyl hydroxide, and in situ protonation of...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l'égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois (2007)

Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin, Chen, Yi

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

SYNTHESIS OF THE PENTAVALENT IODINE COMPOUND, DIPHENYLIODOSYL TOSYLATE, AND ITS USE FOR THE OXIDATION OF SULFIDES (2007)

Chen, Yi

The novel acyclic iodine (V) compound, diphenyliodosyl tosylate (DIT), was synthesized by the hydroxide-promoted condensation of iodylbenzene to diphenyliodosyl hydroxide, and in situ protonation of...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Storing and efficiently querying critical workflows from log in scientific exploration (2007)

Qihong Shao, Michel Kinsy, Yi Chen

Abstract. Existing workflow management systems assume that scientists have a clear and well-specified workflow design before the execution. In reality, a lot of scientific discoveries are made as the...

The Evolution of Gender Earnings Gaps and Discrimination in Urban China, 1988-95 (2007)

Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin, Chen, Yi

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against women in urban China at the beginning of the 1990s. The observed stability in the...

The Evolution of Gender Earnings Gaps and Discrimination in Urban China, 1988-95 (2007)

Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin, Chen, Yi

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against women in urban China at the beginning of the 1990s. The observed stability in the...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l'égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois (2007)

Chen, Yi, Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l'égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois (2007)

Chen, Yi, Démurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une...

Design of Optimal Quincunx Filter Banks for Image Coding (2007)

Yi Chen, Michael D. Adams, Wu-Sheng Lu

Two new optimization-based methods are proposed for the design of high-performance quincunx filter banks for the application of image coding. These new techniques are used to build linear-phase...

An XML Framework for Integrating Continuous Queries, Composite Event Detection, and Database Condition Monitoring for Multiple Data Streams (2007)

Urban, Susan, Dietrich, Suzanne, Chen, Yi

With advancements in technology over the last ten years, data management issues have evolved from a stored persistent form to also include streaming data generated from sensors and other software...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Design of Optimal Quincunx Filter Banks for Image Coding (2007)

Yi Chen, Michael D. Adams, Wu-Sheng Lu

Two new optimization-based methods are proposed for the design of high-performance quincunx filter banks for the application of image coding. These new techniques are used to build linear-phase...

Preliminary evaluation of the capacity of surface-active phospholipids to provide semipermeability in a saline filtration environment (2007)

Chen, Yi, Crawford, Ross W., Oloyede, Adekunle

Background: Semipermeability to fluid transport is one of the principal attributes of a tissue like articular cartilage. Consequently, this characteristic can be exploited in attempts to understand...

Designing and Evaluating an XPath Dialect for Linguistic Queries (2006)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B., Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and natural language processing employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural choices for...

An Efficient XPath Query Processor for XML Streams (2006)

Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B, Zheng, Yifeng

Streaming XPath evaluation algorithms must record a potentially exponential number of pattern matches when both predicates and descendant axes are present in queries, and the XML data is recursive....

Designing and Evaluating an XPath Dialect for Linguistic Queries (2006)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan, Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and natural language processing employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural choices for...

Designing and Evaluating an XPath Dialect for Linguistic Queries (2006)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan, Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and natural language processingemploy large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standardordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, arenatural choices for linguistic...

Re-educating the injured spinal cord by operant conditioning of a reflex pathway (2006)

Chen, Yi

The activity-dependent plasticity is the foundation for normal spinal function. When spinal cord injury (SCI) interrupts the pathways of the spinal circuitry, normal input is altered, and...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi, Not Available

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need a...

Modeling and Storing Scientific Protocols (2006)

KWASNIKOWSKA, Natalia, Chen, Yi, Lacroix, Zoé

We propose an abstract model for scientific protocols, where several atomic operators are proposed for protocol composition. We distinguish two different layers associated with scientific protocols:...

Design and application of quincunx filter banks (2006)

Chen, Yi

Quincunx filter banks are two-dimensional, two-channel, nonseparable filter banks. They are widely used in many signal processing applications. In this thesis, we study the design and applications of...

Modeling and Storing Scientific Protocols (2006)

Chen, Yi, Lacroix, Zoé

We propose an abstract model for scientific protocols, where several atomic operators are proposed for protocol composition. We distinguish two different layers associated with scientific protocols:...

Modeling and Storing Scientific Protocols (2006)

KWASNIKOWSKA, Natalia, Chen, Yi, Lacroix, Zoé

We propose an abstract model for scientific protocols, where several atomic operators are proposed for protocol composition. We distinguish two different layers associated with scientific protocols:...

Designing and Evaluating an XPath Dialect for Linguistic Queries (2006)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan, Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and natural language processing employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural choices for...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need...

Design of robust final state controller (2006)

Chen, Yi.

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006.

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi, Not Available

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need a...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi, Not Available

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need a...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip (2006)

Chen, Yi

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need a...

Query processing over incomplete autonomous databases (2006)

Hemal Khatri, Jianchun Fan, Yi Chen, Subbarao Kambhampati

Incompleteness due to missing attribute values (aka “null values”) is very common in autonomous web databases, on which user accesses are usually supported through mediators. Traditional query...

Design of optimal quincunx filter banks for image coding (2006)

Yi Chen, Michael D. Adams, Wu-sheng Lu

Sequential quadratic programming is used to design high-performance quincunx filter banks for image coding, where the resulting filter banks have perfect reconstruction, linear phase, high coding...

Design of optimal quincunx filter banks for image coding (2006)

Yi Chen, Michael D. Adams, Wu-sheng Lu

Two new optimization-based methods are proposed for the design of high-performance quincunx filter banks for the application of image coding. These new techniques are used to build linear-phase...

Incorporating image quality in multi-algorithm fingerprint verification (2006)

Julian Fierrez-aguilar, Yi Chen, Javier Ortega-garcia, Anil K. Jain

Abstract. The effect of image quality on the performance of fingerprint verification is studied. In particular, we investigate the performance of two fingerprint matchers based on minutiae and ridge...

Modeling and storing scientific protocols (2006)

Natalia Kwasnikowska, Yi Chen, Zoé Lacroix

Abstract. We propose an abstract model for scientific protocols, where several atomic operators are proposed for protocol composition. We distinguish two different layers associated with scientific...

An efficient xpath query processor for xml streams (2006)

Yi Chen

Streaming XPath evaluation algorithms must record a potentially exponential number of pattern matches when both predicates and descendant axes are present in queries, and the XML data is recursive....

Design of robust final state controller [electronic resource] / (2006)

Chen, Yi.

Summary: Final State Control (FSC) has been designed recently to be very efficient in System and Control design. Minimax method has been used in optimization with parameter uncertainties. The purpose...

Design and application of quincunx filter banks (2006)

Chen, Yi

Quincunx filter banks are two-dimensional, two-channel, nonseparable filter banks. They are widely used in many signal processing applications. In this thesis, we study the design and applications of...

Comparative Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis Identifies Pseudomonas Factors Conferring Resistance to the Pulmonary Collectin SP-A (2005)

Shiping Zhang, Yi Chen, Eric Potvin, Francois Sanschagrin, Roger C. Levesque, Francis X. McCormack, ...

The pulmonary collectin, surfactant protein A (SP-A), is a broad spectrum opsonin with microbicidal membrane permeabilization properties that plays a role in the innate immune response of the lung....

Patterns of HIV prevalence among injecting drug users in the cross-border area of Lang Son Province, Vietnam, and Ning Ming County, Guangxi Province, China (2005)

Des Jarlais, Don C, Johnston, Patrick, Friedmann, Patricia, Kling, Ryan, Liu, Wei, Ngu, Doan, ...

Abstract Background To assess patterns of injecting drug use and HIV prevalence among injecting drug users (IDUs) in an international border area along a major heroin trans-shipment route. Methods...

ViteX : a Streaming XPath Processing System (2005)

Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B., Zheng, Yifeng

We present ViteX, an XPath processing system on XML streams with polynomial time complexity. ViteX uses a polynomial-space data structure to encode an exponential number of pattern matches (in the...

Estimation of Hymenopteran Parasitism in Cereal Aphids by Using Molecular Markers (2005)

Douglas B. Jones, Kristopher L. Giles, Yi Chen, Kevin A. Shufran

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers were designed and tested for identification of immature parasitoids in small grain cereal aphids and for estimation of parasitism rates. PCR technique was...

Extending XPath to Support Linguistic Queries (2005)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B., Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and language technology development employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural choices for...

Extending XPath to support linguistic queries (2005)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan, Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and language technology development employ large data repositories of ordered trees, known as “treebanks.” We define a path language for linguistic trees represented in XML...

Efficient XPath query processing on stored and streaming XML data (2005)

Chen, Yi

With XML emerging as the de facto standard for data representation format, efficient query evaluation on XML data is a very important research challenge. Different applications require queries to be...

Extending XPath to support linguistic queries (2005)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan, Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and language technology development employlarge data repositories of ordered trees, known as “treebanks.” Wedefine a path language for linguistic trees represented in...

Extending XPath to support linguistic queries (2005)

Bird, Steven, Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan, Lee, Haejoong, Zheng, Yifeng

Linguistic research and language technology development employ large data repositories of ordered trees, known as “treebanks.” We define a path language for linguistic trees represented...

Differences in surfactant lipids collected from pleural and pulmonary lining fluids (2005)

Mills, Paul C., Chen, Yi, Hills, Yvette C., Hills, Brian A.

Purpose. The type and relative importance of saturated and unsaturated phospholipid components of surfactant within the epithelial lining fluid (ELF) of the inner and outer surfaces of the lung is...

Differences in surfactant lipids collected from pleural and pulmonary lining fluids (2005)

Mills, Paul C., Chen, Yi, Hills, Yvette C., Hills, Brian A.

Purpose. The type and relative importance of saturated and unsaturated phospholipid components of surfactant within the epithelial lining fluid (ELF) of the inner and outer surfaces of the lung is...

Symmetric extension for two-channel quincunx filter banks (2005)

Yi Chen, Michael D. Adams, Wu-sheng Lu

In the case of one-dimensional filter banks, symmetric extension is a commonly used technique for constructing nonexpansive transforms of finite-length sequences. In this paper, we show how symmetric...

ViteX: A Streaming XPath Processing System (2005)

Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Yifeng Zheng

We present ViteX, an XPath processing system on XML streams with polynomial time complexity. ViteX uses a polynomial-space data structure to encode an exponential number of pattern matches (in the...

Symmetric extension for quincunx filter banks (2005)

Yi Chen, Michael D. Adams, Wu-sheng Lu

Symmetric extension is a commonly used technique for constructing nonexpansive transforms for one-dimensional signals of finite length. In this paper, we show how to extend this technique to the...

Incorporating Image Quality in Multi-algorithm Fingerprint Verification (2005)

Julian Fierrez-aguilar, Yi Chen, Javier Ortega-garcia, Anil K. Jain

The e#ect of image quality on the performance of fingerprint verification is studied. In particular, we investigate the performance of two fingerprint matchers based on minutiae and ridge information...

Fingerprint Quality Indices for Predicting Authentication Performance (2005)

Yi Chen, Sarat Dass, Anil Jain

Abstract. The performance of an automatic fingerprint authentication system relies heavily on the quality of the captured fingerprint images. In this paper, two new quality indices for fingerprint...

Extending XPath to support linguistic queries (2005)

Steven Bird, Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Haejoong Lee, Yifeng Zheng

Linguistic research and language technology development employ large repositories of ordered trees. XML, a standard ordered tree model, and XPath, its associated language, are natural choices for...

EXPedite: A System for Encoded XML Processing (2004)

Chen, Yi, Mihaila, George A, Davidson, Susan B, Padmanabhan, Sriram

As XML becomes an increasingly popular format for information exchange, the efficient processing of broadcast XML data on a constrained device (for example, a cell phone or a PDA) becomes a critical...

BLAS : An Efficient XPath Processing System (2004)

Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B, Zheng, Yifeng

We present BLAS, a Bi-LAbeling based System, for efficiently processing complex XPath queries over XML data. BLAS uses P-labeling to process queries involving consecutive child axes, and D-labeling...

L-Tree: a Dynamic Labeling Structure for Ordered XML Data (2004)

Chen, Yi, Mihaila, George, Bordawekar, Rajesh, Padmanabhan, Sriram

With the ever growing use of XML as a data representation format, we see an increasing need for robust, high performance XML database systems. While most of the recent work focuses on efficient XML...

Developmental Learning: A Case Study in Understanding “Object Permanence” (2004)

Chen, Yi, Weng, Juyang

The concepts of muddy environment and muddy tasks set the ground for us to understand the essence of intelligence, both artificial and natural, which further motivates the need of Developmental...

Developmental Learning: A Case Study in Understanding “Object Permanence” (2004)

Chen, Yi, Weng, Juyang

The concepts of muddy environment and muddy tasks set the ground for us to understand the essence of intelligence, both artificial and natural, which further motivates the need of Developmental...

Developmental Learning: A Case Study in Understanding “Object Permanence” (2004)

Chen, Yi, Weng, Juyang

The concepts of muddy environment and muddy tasks set the ground for us to understand the essence of intelligence, both artificial and natural, which further motivates the need of Developmental...

Aggregation operations by spatiotemporal databases (2003)

Chen, Yi

The efficient evaluation of aggregation queries is key to the success of relational database systems and Geographic Information Systems. However, the aggregation queries for spatiotemporal databases...

Aggregation operations on spatiotemporal databases / (2003)

Chen, Yi.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2003.

Divergent Pro- and Antiinflammatory Roles for IL-23 and IL-12 in Joint Autoimmune Inflammation (2003)

Murphy, Craig A., Langrish, Claire L., Chen, Yi, Blumenschein, Wendy, McClanahan, Terrill, Kastelein, Robert A., ...

Interleukin (IL) 23 is a heterodimeric cytokine composed of a p19 subunit and the p40 subunit of IL-12. IL-23 affects memory T cell and inflammatory macrophage function through engagement of a novel...

Divergent Pro- and Antiinflammatory Roles for IL-23 and IL-12 in Joint Autoimmune Inflammation (2003)

Murphy, Craig A., Langrish, Claire L., Chen, Yi, Blumenschein, Wendy, McClanahan, Terrill, Kastelein, Robert A., ...

Interleukin (IL) 23 is a heterodimeric cytokine composed of a p19 subunit and the p40 subunit of IL-12. IL-23 affects memory T cell and inflammatory macrophage function through engagement of a novel...

RRXS: Redundancy reducing XML storage in relations (2003)

Yi Chen, Susan Davidson, Carmem Hara, Yifeng Zheng

Current techniques for storing XML using relational technology consider the structure of an XML document but ignore its semantics as expressed by keys or functional dependencies. However, when the...

Nesting Sites of the Carpenter Ant, Camponotus vicinus (Mayr) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Northern Idaho (2002)

Yi Chen, Laurel D. Hansen, John J. Brown

Camponotus vicinus (Mayr) is a common ant species found in the Pacific Northwest. It is an important predator of many forest insect pests, a potential biological control agent, and is also a serious...

XKvalidator: A Constraint Validator For XML (2002)

Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B., Zheng, Yifeng

The role of XML in data exchange is evolving from one of merely conveying the structure of data to one that also conveys its semantics. In particular, several proposals for key and foreign key...

Validating Constraints in XML (2002)

Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B., Zheng, Yifeng

The role of XML in data exchange is evolving from one of merely conveying the structure of data to one that also conveys its semantics. In particular, several proposals for key and foreign key...

Molecular Evidence for a Species Complex in the Genus Aphelinus (Hymenoptera: Aphelinidae), with Additional Data on Aphidiine Phylogeny (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) (2002)

Yi Chen, Kristopher L Giles, Matthew H. Greenstone

Mitochondrial 16s rDNA was sequenced from nine different populations of Aphelinidae and 10 of aphidiinae. Sequence divergences between populations within a species are low, ranging from 0 to 0.38%....

Constraint Preserving XML Storage in Relations (2002)

Yi Chen Susan, Yi Chen, Susan B. Davidson, Yifeng Zheng

As XML becomes a standard for data representation on the internet, there is a growing interest in storing XML using relational database technology.

Electrostatic repulsion of positively charged vesicles and negatively charged objects (2001)

Chen, Yi

Opposite charged objects attract each other in vacuum; same thing happens in solution according to Possion-Boltzmann theory. Yet it was observed in the experiment that a positively charged, mixed...

Indexing Keys in Hierarchical Data (2001)

Chen, Yi, Davidson, Susan B., Zheng, Yifeng

Building on a notion of keys for XML, we propose a novel indexing scheme for hierarchical data that is based not only on the structure but also the content of the data. The index can be used to check...

A palm computer based mobile information system for clinical headache research (2001)

Chen, Yi

A palm computer based mobile information system for clinical headache research

A palm computer based mobile information system for clinical headache research (2001)

Chen, Yi

A palm computer based mobile information system for clinical headache research

Quercetin inhibits the expression and function of the androgen receptor in LNCaP prostate cancer cells (2001)

Xing, Nianzeng, Chen, Yi, Mitchell, Susan H., Young, Charles Y.F.

The androgen receptor (AR) is involved in the development and progression of prostate cancer. In order to find new compounds that may present novel mechanisms to attenuate the function of AR, we...

Charge-Reversal Instability in Mixed Bilayer Vesicles (2000)

Chen, Yi, Nelson, Philip

Bilayer vesicles form readily from mixtures of charged and neutral surfactants. When such a mixed vesicle binds an oppositely-charged object, its membrane partially demixes: the adhesion zone...

Electrostatic Repulsion of Positively Charged Vesicles and Negatively Charged Objects (1999)

Aranda-Espinoza, Helim, Chen, Yi, Dan, Nily, Lubensky, Thomas C., Nelson, Philip, Ramos, Laurence, ...

A positively charged, mixed bilayer vesicle in the presence of negatively charged surfaces (for example, colloidal particles) can spontaneously partition into an adhesion zone of definite area, and...

Electrostatic Repulsion of Positively Charged Vesicles and Negatively Charged Objects (1999)

Aranda-Espinoza, Helim, Chen, Yi, Dan, Nily, Lubensky, TC, Nelson, Philip, Ramos, Laurence, ...

A positively charged, mixed bilayer vesicle in the presence of negatively charged surfaces (for example, colloidal particles) can spontaneously partition into an adhesion zone of definite area, and...

Electrostatic Repulsion of Positively Charged Vesicles and Negatively Charged Objects (1999)

Helim Aranda-Espinoza, Yi Chen, Nily Dan, T. C. Lubensky, Philip Nelson, Laurence Ramos, ...

this paper was motivated by two sets of experimental observations that defy the familiar rule above #2, 3#. Bilayer vesicles were prepared from a mixture of cationic #positively charged# and neutral...

A study of light reflectance and surface properties of animal fibres (1996)

Chen, Yi.

Illustrations: mounted photographs. Thesis submitted to the School of Agriculture, Faculty of Science and Technology. Bibliography: leaves 142-162.

Piano Concerto. (Original composition); (1993)

Chen, Yi

Piano Concerto for piano and orchestra is in one movement. The creative idea is based on the most popular Chinese original folk tune Baban (Eight Beats), in which one can find the golden section and...

Piano Concerto. (Original composition);. (1993)

Chen, Yi

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-07, Section: A, page: 2376.

Propagation of Picosecond Electrical Pulses in GaAs for Velocity-Matched Modulators, (1992)

Chen, Yi, Nees, John, Williamson, Steve

We report on propagation of picosecond step pulses over 10 millimeters with a GaAs-encapsulated transmission line. The effective dielectric constant matches the optical value to within 0. 1 %.

DEVELOPMENT OF DETECTORS AND MODULATORS FOR MULTI-HUNDRED GIGAHERTZ OPERATION (OPTOELECTRONICS). (1991)

CHEN, YI

High performance optoelectronic devices are required for modern optical and optoelectronic systems. The thesis covers the development of novel ultrafast detectors and modulators as well as the work...

Growth phenomena and characteristics of strained InxGa1-xAs on GaAs (1989)

Pamulapati, J., Berger, P., Chang, K., Oh, J. E., Chen, Yi, Singh, Jasprit, ...

We have investigated the molecular beam epitaxial growth, structural and optical properties of InGaAs on GaAs. We have focused first on the initial stages of growth where the growth is expected to be...

A simulation model of field drying alfalfa within the soil-swath-atmosphere continuum /--by Yi Chen. (1987)

Chen, Yi.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, 1987.

A simulation model of field drying alfalfa within the soil-swath-atmosphere continuum--[microform] /--by Yi Chen. (1987)

Chen, Yi.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Engineering, 1987.

Impacts of Air Interface Call Admission Control on UTRAN Transport Simulations (1970)

Yi Chen, Xi Li, Richard Schelb, Carmelita Grg, Andreas Timm-Giel

This paper investigates the potential impacts caused by Call Admission Control (CAC) mechanism of the air interface on simulations carried out for the transport network domain of UMTS Radio Access...

When the bureaucrats move out of business : a cost-benefit assessment of labor retrenchment in China

Yi Chen, Diwan, Ishac

The author estimate the costs and benefits of labor retrenchment in state-owned industrial enterprises in China. Their results indicate the prevalence of low and stagnant labor productivity, low...

Time-dependent vascular regression and permeability changes in established human tumor xenografts induced by an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor antibody

Yuan, Fan, Chen, Yi, Dellian, Marc, Safabakhsh, Nina, Ferrara, Napoleone, Jain, Rakesh K.

The hyperpermeability of tumor vessels to macromolecules, compared with normal vessels, is presumably due to vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor (VEGF/VPF) released by...

Endothelial cell death, angiogenesis, and microvascular function after castration in an androgen-dependent tumor: Role of vascular endothelial growth factor

Jain, Rakesh K., Safabakhsh, Nina, Sckell, Axel, Chen, Yi, Jiang, Ping, Benjamin, Laura, ...

The sequence of events that leads to tumor vessel regression and the functional characteristics of these vessels during hormone–ablation therapy are not known. This is because of the lack of an...

Laminin-10 is crucial for hair morphogenesis

Li, Jie, Tzu, Julia, Chen, Yi, Zhang, Yan-Ping, Nguyen, Ngon T., Gao, Jing, ...

The role of the extracellular matrix in cutaneous morphogenesis is poorly understood. Here, we describe the essential role of laminin-10 (α5β1γ1) in hair follicle development. Laminin-10 was...

Inhibition of NF-κB Activity by IκBβ in Association with κB-Ras

Chen, Yi, Vallee, Sebastien, Wu, Joann, Vu, Don, Sondek, John, Ghosh, Gourisankar

IκBβ, one of the major IκB proteins, is only partially degraded in response to most extracellular signals. However, the molecular mechanism of this event is unknown. We show here that IκBβ...

Hematopoietic gene expression profile in zebrafish kidney marrow

Song, Huai-Dong, Sun, Xiao-Jian, Deng, Min, Zhang, Guo-Wei, Zhou, Yi, Wu, Xin-Yan, ...

The zebrafish kidney marrow is considered to be the organ of definitive hematopoiesis, analogous to the mammalian bone marrow. We have sequenced 26,143 ESTs and isolated 304 cDNAs with putative...

PldB, a Putative Phospholipase D Homologue in Dictyostelium discoideum Mediates Quorum Sensing during Development

Chen, Yi, Rodrick, Vanessa, Yan, Yi, Brazill, Derrick

Quorum sensing, also known as cell-density sensing in the unicellular eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum, is required for efficient entry into the differentiation and development segment of its life...

Multi-Virulence-Locus Sequence Typing Clarifies Epidemiology of Recent Listeriosis Outbreaks in the United States

Chen, Yi, Zhang, Wei, Knabel, Stephen J.

Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MVLST) was used to analyze isolates from two major listeriosis outbreaks in the United States in 1998 and 2002 that were due to consumption of contaminated hot...

Comparative Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis Identifies Pseudomonas Factors Conferring Resistance to the Pulmonary Collectin SP-A

Zhang, Shiping, Chen, Yi, Potvin, Eric, Sanschagrin, Francois, Levesque, Roger C, McCormack, Francis X, ...

The pulmonary collectin, surfactant protein A (SP-A), is a broad spectrum opsonin with microbicidal membrane permeabilization properties that plays a role in the innate immune response of the lung....

Anti–IL-23 therapy inhibits multiple inflammatory pathways and ameliorates autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Chen, Yi, Langrish, Claire L., Mckenzie, Brent, Joyce-Shaikh, Barbara, Stumhofer, Jason S., McClanahan, Terrill, ...

IL-23 is a member of the IL-12 cytokine family that drives a highly pathogenic T cell population involved in the initiation of autoimmune diseases. We have shown that IL-23–dependent, pathogenic T...

The NKG2D-Activating Receptor Mediates Pulmonary Clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Borchers, Michael T., Harris, Nathaniel L., Wesselkamper, Scott C., Zhang, Shiping, Chen, Yi, Young, Lisa, ...

The NKG2D-activating receptor is expressed on cytotoxic lymphocytes and interacts with ligands expressed on the surface of cells stressed by pathogenic and nonpathogenic stimuli. In this study, we...

Time-dependent vascular regression and permeability changes in established human tumor xenografts induced by an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor antibody

Yuan, Fan, Chen, Yi, Dellian, Marc, Safabakhsh, Nina, Ferrara, Napoleone, Jain, Rakesh K.

The hyperpermeability of tumor vessels to macromolecules, compared with normal vessels, is presumably due to vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor (VEGF/VPF) released by...

Endothelial cell death, angiogenesis, and microvascular function after castration in an androgen-dependent tumor: Role of vascular endothelial growth factor

Jain, Rakesh K., Safabakhsh, Nina, Sckell, Axel, Chen, Yi, Jiang, Ping, Benjamin, Laura, ...

The sequence of events that leads to tumor vessel regression and the functional characteristics of these vessels during hormone–ablation therapy are not known. This is because of the lack of an...

Laminin-10 is crucial for hair morphogenesis

Li, Jie, Tzu, Julia, Chen, Yi, Zhang, Yan-Ping, Nguyen, Ngon T., Gao, Jing, ...

The role of the extracellular matrix in cutaneous morphogenesis is poorly understood. Here, we describe the essential role of laminin-10 (α5β1γ1) in hair follicle development. Laminin-10 was...

Inhibition of NF-κB Activity by IκBβ in Association with κB-Ras

Chen, Yi, Vallee, Sebastien, Wu, Joann, Vu, Don, Sondek, John, Ghosh, Gourisankar

IκBβ, one of the major IκB proteins, is only partially degraded in response to most extracellular signals. However, the molecular mechanism of this event is unknown. We show here that IκBβ...

Hematopoietic gene expression profile in zebrafish kidney marrow

Song, Huai-Dong, Sun, Xiao-Jian, Deng, Min, Zhang, Guo-Wei, Zhou, Yi, Wu, Xin-Yan, ...

The zebrafish kidney marrow is considered to be the organ of definitive hematopoiesis, analogous to the mammalian bone marrow. We have sequenced 26,143 ESTs and isolated 304 cDNAs with putative...

PldB, a Putative Phospholipase D Homologue in Dictyostelium discoideum Mediates Quorum Sensing during Development

Chen, Yi, Rodrick, Vanessa, Yan, Yi, Brazill, Derrick

Quorum sensing, also known as cell-density sensing in the unicellular eukaryote Dictyostelium discoideum, is required for efficient entry into the differentiation and development segment of its life...

Multi-Virulence-Locus Sequence Typing Clarifies Epidemiology of Recent Listeriosis Outbreaks in the United States

Chen, Yi, Zhang, Wei, Knabel, Stephen J.

Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MVLST) was used to analyze isolates from two major listeriosis outbreaks in the United States in 1998 and 2002 that were due to consumption of contaminated hot...

Comparative Signature-Tagged Mutagenesis Identifies Pseudomonas Factors Conferring Resistance to the Pulmonary Collectin SP-A

Zhang, Shiping, Chen, Yi, Potvin, Eric, Sanschagrin, Francois, Levesque, Roger C, McCormack, Francis X, ...

The pulmonary collectin, surfactant protein A (SP-A), is a broad spectrum opsonin with microbicidal membrane permeabilization properties that plays a role in the innate immune response of the lung....

Anti–IL-23 therapy inhibits multiple inflammatory pathways and ameliorates autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Chen, Yi, Langrish, Claire L., Mckenzie, Brent, Joyce-Shaikh, Barbara, Stumhofer, Jason S., McClanahan, Terrill, ...

IL-23 is a member of the IL-12 cytokine family that drives a highly pathogenic T cell population involved in the initiation of autoimmune diseases. We have shown that IL-23–dependent, pathogenic T...

The NKG2D-Activating Receptor Mediates Pulmonary Clearance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Borchers, Michael T., Harris, Nathaniel L., Wesselkamper, Scott C., Zhang, Shiping, Chen, Yi, Young, Lisa, ...

The NKG2D-activating receptor is expressed on cytotoxic lymphocytes and interacts with ligands expressed on the surface of cells stressed by pathogenic and nonpathogenic stimuli. In this study, we...

Re-educating the injured spinal cord by operant conditioning of a reflex pathway

Chen, Yi

The activity-dependent plasticity is the foundation for normal spinal function. When spinal cord injury (SCI) interrupts the pathways of the spinal circuitry, normal input is altered, and...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l’égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois

Yi Chen, Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d’entreprise et la discrimination à l’égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l’année 1995, à...

Multi-Virulence-Locus Sequence Typing Identifies Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Which Differentiate Epidemic Clones and Outbreak Strains of Listeria monocytogenes▿

Chen, Yi, Zhang, Wei, Knabel, Stephen J.

A recently developed multi-virulence-locus sequence typing (MVLST) method showed improved discriminatory power for subtyping genetically diverse Listeria monocytogenes isolates and identified...

The Evolution of Gender Earnings Gaps and Discrimination in Urban China, 1988-95

Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier, Yi Chen

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against women in urban China at the beginning of the 1990s. The observed stability in the...

Multiplex PCR for Simultaneous Detection of Bacteria of the Genus Listeria, Listeria monocytogenes, and Major Serotypes and Epidemic Clones of L. monocytogenes▿

Chen, Yi, Knabel, Stephen J.

A multiplex PCR assay which combines detection of bacteria of the genus Listeria, Listeria monocytogenes serotypes 1/2a and 4b, and epidemic clones I, II, and III of L. monocytogenes was developed....

IL-25 regulates Th17 function in autoimmune inflammation

Kleinschek, Melanie A., Owyang, Alexander M., Joyce-Shaikh, Barbara, Langrish, Claire L., Chen, Yi, Gorman, Daniel M., ...

Interleukin (IL)-25 is a member of the IL-17 family of cytokines. However, unlike the other members of this family, IL-25 promotes T helper (Th) 2 responses. We now show that IL-25 also regulates the...

Genome-Wide Survey and Developmental Expression Mapping of Zebrafish SET Domain-Containing Genes

Sun, Xiao-Jian, Xu, Peng-Fei, Zhou, Ting, Hu, Ming, Fu, Chun-Tang, Zhang, Yong, ...

SET domain-containing proteins represent an evolutionarily conserved family of epigenetic regulators, which are responsible for most histone lysine methylation. Since some of these genes have been...

IL-23 drives a pathogenic T cell population that induces autoimmune inflammation

Langrish, Claire L., Chen, Yi, Blumenschein, Wendy M., Mattson, Jeanine, Basham, Beth, Sedgwick, Jonathan D., ...

Interleukin (IL)-23 is a heterodimeric cytokine composed of a unique p19 subunit, and a common p40 subunit shared with IL-12. IL-12 is important for the development of T helper (Th)1 cells that are...

Divergent Pro- and Antiinflammatory Roles for IL-23 and IL-12 in Joint Autoimmune Inflammation

Murphy, Craig A., Langrish, Claire L., Chen, Yi, Blumenschein, Wendy, McClanahan, Terrill, Kastelein, Robert A., ...

Interleukin (IL) 23 is a heterodimeric cytokine composed of a p19 subunit and the p40 subunit of IL-12. IL-23 affects memory T cell and inflammatory macrophage function through engagement of a novel...

Business and government interdependence in China: Cooperative goals to develop industries and the marketplace

Dean Tjosvold, Ann Peng, Yi Chen, Fang Su

Cooperation and competition, Business and government interdependence, Open-minded discussion,

Structures of the four subfamilies of phosphodiesterase-4 provide insight into the selectivity of their inhibitors

Wang, Huanchen, Peng, Ming-Sheng, Chen, Yi, Geng, Jie, Robinson, Howard, Houslay, Miles D., ...

PDE4 (phosphodiesterase-4)-selective inhibitors have attracted much attention as potential therapeutics for the treatment of both depression and major inflammatory diseases, but their practical...

Binding of rapamycin analogs to calcium channels and FKBP52 contributes to their neuroprotective activities

Ruan, Benfang, Pong, Kevin, Jow, Flora, Bowlby, Mark, Crozier, Robert A., Liu, Danni, ...

Rapamycin is an immunosuppressive immunophilin ligand reported as having neurotrophic activity. We show that modification of rapamycin at the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) binding region...

Prophages in Listeria monocytogenes Contain Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms That Differentiate Outbreak Clones within Epidemic Clones▿

Chen, Yi, Knabel, Stephen J.

A fragment end ligation-mediated PCR strategy was used to analyze the AscI pulsed-field gel electrophoresis patterns of Listeria monocytogenes epidemic clone II (ECII), which led to the...

Induction of Blood Brain Barrier Tight Junction Protein Alterations by CD8 T Cells

Suidan, Georgette L., Mcdole, Jeremiah R., Chen, Yi, Pirko, Istvan, Johnson, Aaron J.

Disruption of the blood brain barrier (BBB) is a hallmark feature of immune-mediated neurological disorders as diverse as viral hemorrhagic fevers, cerebral malaria and acute hemorrhagic...

Differentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination a l’egard des femmes sur le marche du travail chinois

Yi CHEN, Sylvie DEMURGER, Martin FOURNIER

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marche du travail par type d’entreprise et la discrimination a l’egard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l’annee 1995, a...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l'égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois

Sylvie Demurger, Martin Fournier, Yi Chen

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une...

Earnings Differentials and Ownership Structure in Chinese Enterprises

Chen, Yi, Demurger, Sylvie, Fournier, Martin

This article analyzes the determinants of earnings differentials among enterprises of different ownership in urban China in 1995, using an extended version of Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition methods. We...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l'égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois

Sylvie Demurger, Martin Fournier, Yi Chen

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une...

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Helim Aranda-espinoza, Yi Chen, Nily Dan, T. C. Lubensky, Philip Nelson, Laurence Ramos

Aranda-Espinoza et al. 1 A positively charged, mixed bilayer vesicle in the presence of negatively charged surfaces (for example, colloidal particles) can spontaneously partition into an adhesion...

Hardware Acceleration of Security Application Using Reconfigurable System-on-Chip

Chen, Yi

The ubiquity of Internet connectivity means there is a greater need for computer network safety and security. Cost-effective secure computing networks and broadband applications not only need a...

Différentiels salariaux, segmentation et discrimination à l'égard des femmes sur le marché du travail chinois

Yi Chen, Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une...

The Evolution of Gender Earnings Gaps and Discrimination in Urban China, 1988-95

Sylvie Démurger, Martin Fournier, Yi Chen

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against women in urban China at the beginning of the 1990s. The observed stability in the...