Ying Liu

A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent for Tutoring Speech and Language Learning (2009)

Dominic W. Massaro, Ying Liu, Trevor H. Chen, Charles Perfetti

Speech and language science and technology evolved under the assumption that speech was a solely auditory event. However, a burgeoning record of research findings reveals that our perception and...

Integrating Semantic Templates with Decision Tree for Image Semantic Learning (2009)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Ah-hwee Tan

Abstract. Decision tree (DT) has great potential in image semantic learning due to its simplicity in implementation and its robustness to incomplete and noisy data. Decision tree learning naturally...

Digital Image Retrieval Using Intermediate Semantic Features and Multistep Search (2009)

Dengsheng Zhang, Ying Liu, Jin Hou

Recently, semantic image retrieval has attracted large amount of interest due to the rapid growth of digital image storage. However, existing approaches have severe limitations. In this paper, a new...

Magnetic Silicon Fullerene (2009)

Wang, Jing, Liu, Ying, Li, You-Cheng

A magnetic metal-encapsulating silicon fullerene, Eu@Si20, has been predicted by density functional theory to be by far the most stable fullerene-like silicon structure. The Eu@Si20 structure is a...

A New Class of Boron Nanotube (2009)

Wang, Jing, Liu, Ying, Li, You-Cheng

The configurations, stability and electronic structures of a new class of boron sheet and related boron nanotubes have been predicted within the framework of density functional theory. This boron...

Inhibition of HIV-1 entry by extracts derived from traditional Chinese medicinal herbal plants (2009)

Park, In-Woo, Han, Changri, Song, Xiaoping, Green, Linden A, Wang, Ting, Liu, Ying, ...

Abstract Background Highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) is the current HIV/AIDS treatment modality. Despite the fact that HAART is very effective in suppressing HIV-1 replication and...

Quasi-MSnidentification of flavanone 7-glycoside isomers in Da Chengqi Tangby high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (2009)

Xu, Fengguo, Liu, Ying, Zhang, Zunjian, Yang, Cheng, Tian, Yuan

Abstract Background Da Chengqi Tang (DCT) is a common purgative formula in Chinese medicine. Flavanones are its major active compounds derived from Fructus Aurantii Immaturus . The present study...

Finding a Haystack in Haystacks – Simultaneous Identification of Concepts in Large Bio-Medical Corpora ∗ Abstract (2009)

Ying Liu, Lucian V. Lita, R. Stefan Niculescu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles

Since nearly all information is now created digitally, large text databases have become more prevalent than ever. Automatically mining information from these databases proves to be a challenge due to...

C671 Ying Liu Threshold-Style Processing Threshold-Style Processing of Chinese Characters for Adult Second Language Learners (2009)

Ying Liu, Ying Liu, Min Wang, Charles A. Perfetti

To assess the learning of word form and meaning in an unfamiliar writing system, we carried out primed naming experiments with learners of Chinese at the end of their first and second terms of...

Evidence for Neural Accommodation to a Writing System Following Learning (2009)

Ying Liu, Susan Dunlap, Julie Fiez, Charles Perfetti

Abstract: Native English speakers with no knowledge of Chinese were trained on 60 Chinese characters according to one of three mapping conditions: orthography to pronunciation and meaning (P þ M),...

A transcript profiling approach reveals the zinc finger transcription factor ZNF191 is a pleiotropic factor (2009)

Li, Jianzhong, Chen, Xia, Gong, Xuelian, Liu, Ying, Feng, Hao, Qiu, Lei, ...

Abstract Background The human zinc finger protein 191 (ZNF191) is a member of the SCAN domain family of Krüppel-like zinc finger transcription factors. ZNF191 shows 94% identity to its mouse...

FGF-regulated BMP signaling is required for eyelid closure and to specify conjunctival epithelial cell fate (2009)

Dattilo, Lisa K, Rajagopal, Ramya, Liu, Ying, Kaartinen, Vesa, Mishina, Yuji, ...

There are conflicting reports about whether BMP signaling is required for eyelid closure during fetal development. This question was addressed using mice deficient in BMP or TGF beta signaling in...

Triaqua(2,2′-bipyridine)(5-nitroisophthalato-κO)nickel(II) monohydrate (2009)

Ying Liu, Qingpeng He, Xianxi Zhang, Zechun Xue, Chunyan Lv

In the title compound, [Ni(C8H3NO6)(C10H8N2)(H2O)3]·H2O, the NiII cation is six-coordinated by a chelating 2,2′-bipyridine ligand, one carboxylate O atom from a 5-nitroisophthalate dianion...

Expression of Mipu1 in Response to Myocardial Infarction in Rats (2009)

Guiliang Wang, Xiaoxia Zuo, Junwen Liu, Lei Jiang, Ying Liu, Yazhu Zheng, ...

Myocardial ischemic preconditioning up-regulated protein 1 (Mipu1) was cloned in our laboratory. Male Wistar rats were subjected to left anterior coronary artery ligation and sham-operation and...

4,4′-(Cyclohexane-1,1-diyl)diphenol methanol solvate (2009)

Jun Shuai, Ying Liu, Mo Liu, Dengke Liu

The title compound, crystallized as a methanol solvate, C18H20O2·CH3OH, is an intermediate in the synthesis of the antilipidemic agent clinofibrate. Molecules are packed together with the...

New Phenylethanoid Glycosides from the Fruits of Forsythia Suspense (Thunb.) Vahl (2009)

Fu Nan Wang, Zhi Qiang Ma, Ying Liu, Ying Zhi Guo, Zhong Wei Gu

Forsythosides H-J (1-3), three new caffeoyl phenylethanoid glycosides (CPGs), were isolated from the fruits of Forsythia suspense (Thunb.) Vahl., together with six known phenylethanoid glycosides:...

HYDROLYSIS OF WHEAT STRAW HEMICELLULOSE AND DETOXIFICATION OF THE HYDROLYSATE FOR XYLITOL PRODUCTION (2009)

Junping Zhuang, Ying Liu, Zhen Wu, Yong Sun, Lu Lin

Xylitol can be obtained from wheat straw hemicellulose containing a high content of xylan. This study describes a new system of hydrolysis, utilizing a mixed solution of formic acid and hydrochloric...

Generation and Characterization of Novel Human IRAS Monoclonal Antibodies (2009)

Bo Wang, Ying Liu, Yajun Shan, Zhenyu Yao, Xiaolan Liu, Ruibin Su, ...

Imidazoline receptors were first proposed by Bousquet et al., when they studied antihypertensive effect of clonidine. A strong candidate for I1R, known as imidazoline receptor antisera-selected...

TGF-{beta} promotes invasion and metastasis of gastric cancer cells by increasing fascin1 expression via ERK and JNK signal pathways (2009)

Fu, Hua, Hu, Zhongliang, Wen, Jifang, Wang, Kuansong, Liu, Ying

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) is involved in actin cytoskeleton reorganization and tumor progression. Fascin1, an actin-binding protein, increases cell invasiveness and motility in various...

Identification and characterization of the minimal promoter of Mipu1: the role of GC boxes in the regulation of basal transcription (2009)

Lv, Ben, Tang, Yiting, Li, Xiayu, Wang, Guiliang, Yuan, Can, Liu, Ying, ...

Mipu1, a novel gene encoding a KRAB/C2H2 zinc-finger protein, was first reported to be up-regulated in myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury, functioning to protect cells against oxidative stress....

Structure discovery in PPI networks using pattern-based network decomposition (2009)

Bachman, Philip, Liu, Ying

Motivation: The large, complex networks of interactions between proteins provide a lens through which one can examine the structure and function of biological systems. Previous analyses of these...

Generation and Characterization of Novel Human IRAS Monoclonal Antibodies (2009)

Bo Wang, Ying Liu, Yajun Shan, Zhenyu Yao, Xiaolan Liu, Ruibin Su, ...

Imidazoline receptors were first proposed by Bousquet et al., when they studied antihypertensive effect of clonidine. A strong candidate for I1R, known as imidazoline receptor antisera-selected...

Tetra-μ-oxido-tetrakis{dioxido[3-(2-pyridyl)-1H-pyrazole]molybdenum(VI)} (2009)

Dacheng Li, Ying Liu, Peihai Wei, Bo Hu, Xiutang Zhang

In the title compound, [Mo4O12(C8H7N3)4], the MoVI ion has a distorted octahedral coordination completed by two terminal O atoms, two μ-oxide atoms and two N atoms from one...

Protective role of mouse MBL-C on intestinal mucosa during Shigella flexneri invasion (2009)

Zuo, Da-Ming, Zhang, Li-Yun, Lu, Xiao, Liu, Ying, Chen, Zheng-Liang

Mannan-binding lectin (MBL) is a C-type serum lectin, which is believed to play an important role in the innate immunity against a variety of pathogens. MBL can bind to sugar determinants of a wide...

1,4-Bis(2-pyridylmethoxy)benzene (2009)

Jin-Sheng Gao, Ying Liu, Shuang Zhang, Guang-Feng Hou, Peng-Fei Yan

In the title compound, C18H16N2O2, the phenylene ring is located on inversion center. The pyridyl ring makes a dihedral angle of 39.9 (1)° with the phenylene ring. In the crystal, adjacent...

1,4-Bis(pyridin-3-ylmethoxy)benzene (2009)

Jin-Sheng Gao, Ying Liu, Shuang Zhang, Dian-Fa Zuo, Guang-Feng Hou

The asymmetric unit of the centrosymmetric title compound, C18H16N2O2, contains one half-molecule. The central benzene ring forms a dihedral angle of 66.8 (1)° with two outer aromatic...

1,4-Bis(4-pyridylmethoxy)benzene (2009)

Ping Zou, Ying Liu, Shuang Zhang, Xue Wang, Jin-Sheng Gao

The molecule of the title compound, C18H16N2O2, lies about a center of inversion. The central phenylene ring is aligned at 62.7 (1)° with respect to the pyridyl ring. In the crystal, weak...

4,4′-(o-Phenylenedioxydimethylene)dipyridinium dinitrate (2009)

Ping Zou, Shuang Zhang, Ying Liu, Jun Qiao, Jin-Sheng Gao

The cation of the salt, C18H18N2O22+·2NO3−, lies about a twofold rotation axis. The pyridinium ring is almost coplanar with the phenylene ring [dihedral angle between rings =...

1-Phenyl-3-(2,4,6-trimethoxyphenyl)prop-2-en-1-one (2009)

Ying Liu, Xianxi Zhang, Zechun Xue, Chunyan Lv

In the title compound, C18H18O4, the dihedral angle between the mean planes of the aromatic rings is 7.39 (6)°. The dihedral angles between the linking C—C=C—C plane and the...

Using WordNet to Disambiguate Word Senses for Text Classification (2008)

Ying Liu, Peter Scheuermann, Xingsen Li, Xingquan Zhu

Abstract. In this paper, we propose an automatic text classification method based on word sense disambiguation. We use “hood ” algorithm to remove the word ambiguity so that each word is replaced...

Information Representation on the Grid: a Synthetic Database Benchmark/Workload for Grid Information Servers (2008)

Beth Plale, Craig Jacobs, Ying Liu, Charlie Moad, Rupali Parab, Prajakta Vaidya, ...

The Grid is a new paradigm for wide area distributed computing. Management of grid resource information on the grid is complicated by the fact that grid resources such as hosts,

Similarity Space Projection for Web Image Search and Annotation (2008)

Ying Liu, Tao Qin, Tie-yan Liu, Lei Zhang, Wei-ying Ma

Web image search has been explored and developed in academic as well as commercial areas for over a decade. To measure the similarity between Web images and user queries, most of the existing Web...

CAPEVACUATION: The Corridor-Based Emergency Traffic Evacuation System for Washington D.C. (2008)

Yue Liu, Ying Liu

Abstract: Evacuating large municipal areas during emergencies and disasters in an efficient manner is one of the critical concerns faced by emergency management agencies. This study has developed a...

Investigation into Biomedical Literature Classification using Support Vector Machines *Corresponding Author (2008)

Nalini Polavarapu, Shamkant B. Navathe, Ramprasad Ramnarayanan, Abrar Ul Haque, Saurav Sahay, Ying Liu

Specific topic search in the PubMed Database, one of the most important information resources for scientific community, presents a big challenge to the users. The researcher typically formulates...

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF SCALABLE DATA MINING ALGORITHMS ABSTRACT (2008)

Ying Liu, Jayaprakash Pisharath, Wei-keng Liao, Gokhan Memik, Alok Choudhary, Pradeep Dubey

Data mining has become one of the most essential tools in diverse fields. The increases in data sizes and algorithmic complexities require the computational power of chip to increase even further. In...

Finding a Haystack in Haystacks – Simultaneous Identification of Concepts in Large Bio-Medical Corpora ∗ Abstract (2008)

Ying Liu, Lucian V. Lita, R. Stefan Niculescu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles

Since nearly all information is now created digitally, large text databases have become more prevalent than ever. Automatically mining information from these databases proves to be a challenge due to...

An earthworm protease cleaving serum fibronectin and decreasing HBeAg in HepG2.2.15 cells (2008)

Wang, Xue-Qing, Chen, Lan, Pan, Rong, Zhao, Jing, Liu, Ying, He, Rong-Qiao

Abstract Background Virus-binding activity is one of the important functions of fibronectin (FN). It has been reported that a high concentration of FN in blood improves the transmission frequency of...

Expression profiling of human glial precursors (2008)

Campanelli, James T, Sandrock, Robert W, Wheatley, Will, Xue, Haipeng, Zheng, Jianhua, Liang, Feng, ...

Abstract Background We have generated gene expression databases for human glial precursors, neuronal precursors, astrocyte precursors and neural stem cells and focused on comparing the profile of...

A Component-based Framework and Reusability in Garment* (2008)

Naixiao Zhang, Ying Liu

Garment is a mechanism for abstraction and encapsulation of languages. It aims to make the best support on the definition and implementation of new languages, especially DSLs (Domain Specification...

Deriving High-Level Concepts Using Fuzzy-ID3 Decision Tree for Image Retrieval (2008)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma

To improve the retrieval accuracy of content-based image retrieval, an important task is to reduce the ‘semantic gap’ between low-level image features and the richness of human semantics. In this...

ChemXSeer: A Web Search Engine and Repository for e-Chemistry (2008)

C. Lee Giles, Prasenjit Mitra, Karl Mueller, James Z. Wang, Bingjun Sun, Levent Bolelli, ...

Cyberinfrastructure or e-science has become crucial for scientific progress and open source systems have greatly facilitated design and implementation. In chemistry, the growth of data has been...

Investigation into Biomedical Literature Classification using Support Vector Machines *Corresponding Author (2008)

Nalini Polavarapu, Shamkant B. Navathe, Ramprasad Ramnarayanan, Abrar Ul Haque, Saurav Sahay, Ying Liu

Specific topic search in the PubMed Database, one of the most important information resources for scientific community, presents a big challenge to the users. The researcher typically formulates...

Chemxseer: An echemistry web search engine and repository (2008)

C. Lee Giles, Prasenjit Mitra, Karl Mueller, James Z. Wang, Bingjun Sun, Levent Bolelli, ...

With the amount of scientific digital content available online constantly increasing, the community of science has been increasing its efforts towards automatically collecting and organizing such...

A Unified Relational Approach to Grid Information Services (2008)

Nithya Vijayakumar, Ying Liu, Beth Plale

A Grid Information Service (GIS) is a database (in the generic sense of the word) of

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Pedram Hamrah, Syed O. Huq, Ying Liu, Qiang Zhang, M. Reza Dana

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Soluble histone H2AX is induced by DNA replication stress and sensitizes cells to undergo apoptosis (2008)

Liu, Ying, Parry, Joshua A, Chin, Anna, Duensing, Stefan, Duensing, Anette

Abstract Background Chromatin-associated histone H2AX is a key regulator of the cellular responses to DNA damage. However, non-nucleosomal functions of histone H2AX are poorly characterized. We have...

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm002 Gene expression Modeling nonlinearity in dilution design microarray data (2008)

Xiuwen Zheng, Hung-chung Huang, Wenyuan Li, Peng Liu, Quan-zhen Li, Ying Liu

Motivation: Dilution design (Mixed tissue RNA) has been utilized by some researchers to evaluate and assess the performance of multiple microarray platforms. Current microarray data analysis...

Ying Liu and Xiaoyan Zhu An Efficient Approach of Language Model Applying in ASR Systems An Efficient Approach of Language Model Applying in ASR Systems 1 (2008)

Ying Liu, Xiaoyan Zhu

Language model plays a pivotal role in large vocabulary speech recognition systems. Providing more syntactic and semantic information, high-level language models hold stronger ability in guiding the...

THU and ICRC at TRECVID 2007 (2008)

Jinhui Yuan, Zhishan Guo, Li Lv, Wei Wan, Teng Zhang, Dong Wang, ...

Shot boundary detection The shot boundary detection system in 2007 is basically the same as that of last year. We make three major modifications in the system of this year. First, CUT detector and GT...

Web-based Image Retrieval with a Case Study (2008)

Ying Liu, Danqing Zhang

Abstract. Advances in content-based image retrieval(CBIR)lead to numerous efficient techniques for retrieving images based on their content features, such as colours, textures and shapes. However,...

A Scalable Distributed Stream Mining System for Highway Traffic Data* (2008)

Ying Liu, Alok Choudhary, Jianhong Zhou, Ashfaq Khokhar

Abstract. To achieve the concept of smart roads, intelligent sensors are being placed on the roadways to collect real-time traffic streams. Traditional method is not a real-time response, and incurs...

* Correspondence Author. Abstract (2008)

Ying Liu, Venu Dasigi, Brian J. Ciliax, Ashwin Ram, Ray Dingledine, Karin Borges, ...

One of the key challenges of microarray studies is to derive biological insights from the unprecedented quantities of data on gene-expression patterns. Clustering genes by functional keyword...

Oasis: a Mapping and Integration Framework for Biomedical (2008)

Guanglei Song, Yu Qian, Ying Liu, Kang Zhang

More and more ontologies are emerging across bioinformatics domains to represent and define domain knowledge, such as gene ontology, anatomy ontology and disease ontology. To integrate these...

Evaluating the Efficacy of a Terrorism Question Answer System: The TARA Project (2008)

Rob Schumaker, Ying Liu, Mark Ginsburg, Hsinchun Chen

Terrorism education has become a topic of interest lately. With many agencies and private organizations scrambling to provide information, the actual process of finding relevant material can...

Evaluating Mass Knowledge Acquisition using the ALICE Chatterbot: The AZ-ALICE Dialog System (2008)

Robert P. Schumaker, Ying Liu, Mark Ginsburg, Hsinchun Chen

In this paper, we evaluate mass knowledge acquisition using modified ALICE chatterbots. In particular we investigate the potential of allowing subjects to modify chatterbot responses to see if...

Pushing Frequency Constraint to Utility Mining Model (2008)

Jing Wang, Ying Liu, Lin Zhou, Yong Shi, Xingquan Zhu

Abstract. Traditional association rules mining (ARM) only concerns the frequency of itemsets, which may not bring large amount of profit. Utility mining only focuses on itemsets with high utilities,...

NU-MineBench: Understanding the Performance and Scalability Characteristics of Data Mining Algorithms (2008)

Jayaprakash Pisharath, Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Gokhan Memik, Alok Choudhary, Pradeep Dubey

Data mining has become one of the most essential tools for various businesses as well as researchers in diverse fields. The surge in the operational speed of computing systems, and also the emergence...

Abstract DESIGNING PARALLEL SPECIFICATIONS IN CCS (2008)

Ken Stevens, John Aldwinckle, Graham Birtwistle, Ying Liu

We describe a style of specifying concurrent systems based upon the parallel composition operator of CCS and apply it to several asynchronous hardware examples. 1

Author's Declaration for Electronic Submission (2008)

Ying Liu

I hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be...

A Multilingual Embodied Conversational Agent for Tutoring Speech and Language Learning (2008)

Dominic W. Massaro, Ying Liu, Trevor H. Chen, Charles Perfetti

Speech and language science and technology evolved under the assumption that speech was a solely auditory event. However, a burgeoning record of research findings reveals that our perception and...

iCSP'O4 Proceedings I, AN EFFICIENT TEXTURE FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHM FOR ARBTTRARY-SHAPED REGIONS (2008)

Ying Liu, Wei-ying Ma, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojuti Lu

Ahstract: Region-based image retrieval has been an active I-csenrch area. Texture is one of the important features to dcsciibt: regions In this paper, an efficient texture feature cstraction...

SIEVE—Search Images Effectively through Visual Elimination (2008)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu

Abstract. Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the Web could...

TESTING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPECIFICATIONS IN THE MODAL-CALCULUS Abstract (2008)

Ying Liu, John Aldwinckle, Graham Birtwistle, Ken Stevens

In a companion paper in these proceedings [6], we introduced the CCS notation and explained how to write specifications succinctly in CCS using the composition operator. In this paper we explain how...

Construction of Conjugative Gene Transfer System Between E. coli and Moderately Thermophilic, Extremely Acidophilic Acidithiobacillus caldus MTH-04 (2008)

Liu, Xianggmei, Lin, Jianqun, Zhang, Zheng, Bian, Jiang, Zhao, Qing, Liu, Ying, ...

A genetic transfer system for introducing foreign genes to biomining microorganisms is urgently needed. Thus, a conjugative gene transfer system was investigated for a moderately thermophilic,...

Efficient Bioreduction of Ethyl 4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate to (S)4-chloro-3-hydrobutanoate by Whole Cells of Candida magnoliae in Water/ n-Butyl Acetate Two-phase System (2008)

Xua, Zhinan, Fang, Limei, Lin, Jianping, Jiang, Xiaoxia, Liu, Ying, Cen, Peilin

The asymmetric biosynthesis of ethyl (S)-4-chloro-3-hydrobutanoate from ethyl 4-chloro-3-oxobutanoate was investigated by using whole cells of Candida magnoliae JX120-3 without the addition of...

Some reflections on IPv6 adoption in Australia (2008)

Dell, Peter, Kwong, Christopher, Liu, Ying

IPv6 is an inevitable upgrade to Internet Protocol (IP), the underlying protocol upon which the Internet is based, and solves many problems with the existing technology including limited address...

Molecular Evidence for Species Status of the Endangered Hainan Peacock Pheasant (2008)

Jiang Chang, Biao Wang, Yang-Yun Zhang, Ying Liu, Wei Liang, Ji-Chao Wang, ...

The Hainan peacock pheasant is an endangered taxon found only on Hainan Island of China. Due to lack of detailed taxonomic studies, whether it is a subspecies of the grey peacock pheasant...

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) measurements in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, China (2008)

Liu, Ying, Shao, Min, Lu, Sihua, Chang, Chih-Chung, Wang, Jia-Lin, Chen, Gao

We measured levels of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at seven sites in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China during the Air Quality Monitoring Campaign spanning 4 October to 3...

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) measurements in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, China (2008)

Liu, Ying, Shao, Min, Lu, Sihua, Chang, Chih-Chung, Wang, Jia-Lin, Chen, Gao

We measured levels of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at seven sites in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China during the Air Quality Monitoring Campaign spanning 4 October to 3...

Some reflections on IPv6 adoption in Australia (2008)

Dell, Peter, Kwong, Christopher, Liu, Ying

IPv6 is an inevitable upgrade to Internet Protocol (IP), the underlying protocol upon which the Internet is based, and solves many problems with the existing technology including limited address...

Entropy Flow and the Evolution of a Storm (2008)

Ying Liu, Chongjian Liu

The universal principle that an open system can be driven to a state far from equilibrium, or organized, by strong negative entropy flow from its surroundings has been validated in numerous fields...

Bis(pentane-2,4-dionato-κ2O,O′)bis[4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-(4-pyridyl)imidazoline-1-oxyl 3-oxide-κN2]manganese(II) (2008)

Ying Liu, Xianxi Zhang, Zechun Xue, Qingpeng He, Yu Zhang

The title compound, [Mn(C5H7O2)2(C12H16N3O2)2], is isostructural with its NiII-containing analogue [Hao, Mu & Kong (2008). Acta Cryst. E64, m957]. The asymmetric unit comprises one-half of the...

Bis[2,4-pentanedionato(1−)]bis[4,4,5,5-tetramethyl-2-(4-pyridyl)-imidazoline-1-oxyl 3-oxide]manganese(II) (2008)

Ying Liu, Qingpeng He, Xianxi Zhang, Zechun Xue, Chunyan Lv

In the title compound, [Mn(C5H7O2)2(C12H16N3O2)], the manganese(II) cation (site symmetry overline{1}) is hexacoordinated by four O and two N atoms in a distorted trans-MnN2O4 octahedral geometry....

catena-Poly[[aqua(2,2′-bipyridyl)cobalt(II)]-μ-5-nitroisophthalato] (2008)

Ying Liu, Qingpeng He, Xianxi Zhang, Zechun Xue, Chunyan Lv

In the crystal structure of the title compound, [Co(C8H3NO6)(C10H8N2)(H2O)]n, there are two symmetry-independent one-dimensional coordination polymers, which are approximately related by...

Ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-(3,5-difluorophenoxy)acrylate (2008)

Hai-Bin Gong, Jie Wang, Ying Liu, Lei Wang

In the title compound, C17H13ClF2O3, a multifunctional aromatic compound, the dihedral angle between the two benzene rings is 51.8 (3)°.

Ethyl 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-3-(2,4-difluorophenoxy)acrylate (2008)

Hai-Bin Gong, Jie Wang, Ying Liu, Lei Wang

In the molecule of the title compound, C17H13ClF2O3, the dihedral angles formed by the aromatic rings of the chlorobenzene and difluorobenzene groups with the plane of the acrylate unit are...

Some reflections on IPv6 adoption in Australia (2008)

Dell, Peter, Kwong, C., Liu, Ying

IPv6 is an inevitable upgrade to Internet Protocol (IP), the underlying protocol uponwhich the Internet is based, and solves many problems with the existing technologyincluding limited address space,...

Some reflections on IPv6 adoption in Australia (2008)

Dell, Peter, Kwong, C., Liu, Ying

IPv6 is an inevitable upgrade to Internet Protocol (IP), the underlying protocol uponwhich the Internet is based, and solves many problems with the existing technologyincluding limited address space,...

Time-dependent translocation and potential impairment on central nervous system by intranasally instilled TiO2 nanoparticles (2008)

Wang, Jiangxue, Liu, Ying, Jiao, Fang, Lao, Fang, Li, Wei, Gu, Yiqun, ...

Nanoparticles can be administered via nasal, oral, intraocular, intratracheal (pulmonary toxicity), tail vein and other routes. Here, we focus on the time-dependent translocation and potential damage...

Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) measurements in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region, China (2008)

Ying Liu, Min Shao, Sihua Lu, Chih-chung Chang, Jia-Lin Wang, Gao Chen

We measured levels of ambient volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at seven sites in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China during the Air Quality Monitoring Campaign spanning 4 October to 3...

Immunomodulating Activity of Agaricus brasiliensis KA21 in Mice and in Human Volunteers (2008)

Liu, Ying, Fukuwatari, Yasushi, Okumura, Ko, Takeda, Kazuyoshi, Ishibashi, Ken-ichi, Furukawa, Mai, ...

We performed studies on murine models and human volunteers to examine the immunoenhancing effects of the naturally outdoor-cultivated fruit body of Agaricus brasiliensis KA21 (i.e. Agaricus blazei)....

Analysis of correlated mutations in HIV-1 protease using spectral clustering (2008)

Liu, Ying, Eyal, Eran, Bahar, Ivet

Motivation: The ability of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) protease to develop mutations that confer multi-drug resistance (MDR) has been a major obstacle in designing rational therapies...

HBeAg in HepG2.2.15 cells (2008)

Xue-qing Wang, Lan Chen, Rong Pan, Jing Zhao, Ying Liu, Qiao He

Research article An earthworm protease cleaving serum fibronectin and decreasing

A large-scale proteomic analysis of human embryonic stem cells (2007)

Schulz, Thomas C, Swistowska, Anna, Liu, Ying, Swistowski, Andrzej, Palmarini, Gail, Brimble, Sandii N, ...

Abstract Background Much of our current knowledge of the molecular expression profile of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is based on transcriptional approaches. These analyses are only partly...

Artificial neural networks for linkage analysis of quantitative gene expression phenotypes and evaluation of gene × gene interactions (2007)

Liu, Ying, Duan, Weimin, Paschall, Justin, Saccone, Nancy L

Abstract Background Using single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotypes and selected gene expression phenotypes from 14 CEPH (Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain) pedigrees provided for Genetic...

TESTING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPECIFICATIONS IN THE MODAL-CALCULUS (2007)

Ying Liu, John Aldwinckle, Graham Birtwistle, Ken Stevens

In a companion paper in these proceedings [6], we introduced the CCS notation and explained how to write specifications succinctly in CCS using the composition operator. In this paper we explain how...

1 Aliated Graduate Student Member (2007)

Ying Liu

Lower bounds for the size of binary space partition of rectangles by

Neural Basis of the Non-Attentional Processing of Briefly Presented Words (2007)

Dan-ling Peng, Duo Xu, Zhen Jin, Qian Luo, Guo-sheng Ding, Conrad Perry, ...

Abstract: The neural basis of the automatic activation of words was investigated in an fMRI study. In the study, words were presented briefly (51 or 151 msec) followed by a mask. To prevent...

Grounding Knowledge of Engineering Applications in Systematic Terms (2007)

Ying Liu, Jin Yu

Abstract. In the main research of internet-computing enabled knowledge management, we use some of the most advanced research scenarios, arguing that we critically need a system approach to question...

Negative Autoregulation by FAS Mediates Robust Fetal Erythropoiesis (2007)

Merav Socolovsky, Michael Murrell, Ying Liu, Ramona Pop, Ermelinda Porpiglia, Andre Levchenko

Tissue development is regulated by signaling networks that control developmental rate and determine ultimate tissue mass. Here we present a novel computational algorithm used to identify regulatory...

Negative autoregulation by FAS mediates robust fetal erythropoiesis (2007)

Socolovsky, Merav, Murrell, Michael, Liu, Ying, Pop, Ramona, Porpiglia, Ermelinda, Levchenko, Andre

Tissue development is regulated by signaling networks that control developmental rate and determine ultimate tissue mass. Here we present a novel computational algorithm used to identify regulatory...

Negative autoregulation by FAS mediates robust fetal erythropoiesis (2007)

Socolovsky, Merav, Murrell, Michael, Liu, Ying, Pop, Ramona, Porpiglia, Ermelinda, Levchenko, Andre

Tissue development is regulated by signaling networks that control developmental rate and determine ultimate tissue mass. Here we present a novel computational algorithm used to identify regulatory...

Towards a possible aetiology for depressions? (2007)

Liu, Ying, Heiberg, Tore, Reichelt, Karl-Ludvig

Abstract Background Since a genetic disposition for depression is probable, there ought to be biochemical changes. Increased peptide levels with relevant bioactivities have been found in urine in a...

Suppression of conductance fluctuation in weakly disordered mesoscopic graphene samples near the charge neutral point (2007)

Staley, Neal E., Puls, Conor, Liu, Ying

We measured the conductance fluctuation of bi- and trilayer graphene devices prepared on mechanical exfoliated graphene by an all-dry, lithography-free process using an ultrathin quartz filament as a...

Release Characteristics of Protein Drugs from DNA Hydrogels (2007)

Liu, Ying

DNA molecules have been used as generic instead of genetic materials to construct nanostructures. Based on Watson-Crick base pairing, a three-arm junction DNA, or Y-shaped DNA (Y-DNA), was first...

Release Characteristics of Protein Drugs from DNA Hydrogels (2007)

Liu, Ying

DNA molecules have been used as generic instead of genetic materials to construct nanostructures. Based on Watson-Crick base pairing, a three-arm junction DNA, or Y-shaped DNA (Y-DNA), was first...

Modeling nonlinearity in dilution design microarray data (2007)

Zheng, Xiuwen, Huang, Hung-Chung, Li, Wenyuan, Liu, Peng, Li, Quan-Zhen, Liu, Ying

Motivation: Dilution design (Mixed tissue RNA) has been utilized by some researchers to evaluate and assess the performance of multiple microarray platforms. Current microarray data analysis...

An Integrated Optimal Control System for Emergency Evacuation (2007)

Liu, Ying

How to effectively control evacuation traffic has emerged as one of the critical research issues in transportation community, due to the unusually high demand surge and the often limited network...

An Integrated Optimal Control System for Emergency Evacuation (2007)

Liu, Ying

How to effectively control evacuation traffic has emerged as one of the critical research issues in transportation community, due to the unusually high demand surge and the often limited network...

Mg/Ca ratios of Globigerinoides sacculifer and sea surface temperature calculation of ODP Hole 184-1144A in the northen South China Sea (Appendix) (2007)

Wei, Gangjian, Deng, Wenfeng, Liu, Ying, Li, Xianhua

High-resolution sea surface temperatures (SST) derived from Mg/Ca ratios of Globeriginoides sacculifer at ODP Site 1144 were reported to reveal the SST changes during the last 260 ka in the northern...

INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRIVATE GIVING TO PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS (2007)

Liu, Ying

INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRIVATE GIVING TO PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS YING LIU In recent years, increasing market...

INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRIVATE GIVING TO PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS (2007)

Liu, Ying

INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRIVATE GIVING TO PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS YING LIU In recent years, increasing market...

INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRIVATE GIVING TO PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS (2007)

Liu, Ying

INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE PRIVATE GIVING TO PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES: A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS YING LIU In recent years, increasing market...

Existence of two electronic states in Sr4Ru3O10 at low temperatures (2007)

Xu, Zhuan, Xu, Xiangfan, Freitas, Rafael S., Long, Zhenyi, Zhou, Meng, Fobes, David, ...

We report measurements on in-plane resistivity, thermopower, and magnetization as a function of temperature and magnetic fields on single crystalline Sr4Ru3O10 grown by the floating zone method. As...

Conductive mesocellular silica-carbon nanocomposite foams for immobilization, direct electrochemistry, and biosensing of proteins (2007)

Wu, Shuo, Ju, Huangxian, Liu, Ying

A mesocellular silica-carbon nanocomposite foam (MSCF) is designed for the immobilization and biosensing of proteins. The as-prepared MSCF has a highly ordered mesostructure, good biocompatibility,...

Amyloid-like aggregates of neuronal tau induced by formaldehyde promote apoptosis of neuronal cells (2007)

Nie, Chun, Wang, Xing, Liu, Ying, Perrett, Sarah, He, Rong

Abstract Background The microtubule associated protein tau is the principle component of neurofibrillar tangles, which are a characteristic marker in the pathology of Alzheimer's disease; similar...

Singularities on wave fronts of slow waves in anisotropic fluid-saturated porous media (2007)

Liu, Ying, Gao, Ling Tian, Lu, Guoxing

Energy focusing is found on the wave fronts of slow waves, which is a new propagation characteristic for slow waves in fluid-saturated porous materials. The material parameters, as well as the...

Eisenia fetida Protease-III-1 Functions in Both Fibrinolysis and Fibrogenesis (2007)

Jing Zhao, Rong Pan, Jian He, Ying Liu, Dong-Feng Li, Rong-Qiao He

The fibrinolytic function of earthworm protease-III-1 (EfP-III-1) has been studied in recent years. Here, we found that EfP-III-1 acted not only in fibrinogenolysis, but also in fibrogenesis. We have...

Singularities on wave fronts of slow waves in anisotropic fluid-saturated porous media (2007)

Liu, Ying, Gao, Ling Tian, Lu, Guoxing

Energy focusing is found on the wave fronts of slow waves, which is a new propagation characteristic for slow waves in fluid-saturated porous materials. The material parameters, as well as the...

Singularities on wave fronts of slow waves in anisotropic fluid-saturated porous media (2007)

Liu, Ying, Gao, Ling Tian, Lu, Guoxing

Energy focusing is found on the wave fronts of slow waves, which is a new propagation characteristic for slow waves in fluid-saturated porous materials. The material parameters, as well as the...

Detecting double faults on term and literal in Boolean expressions (2007)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to guarantee the detection of certain prescribed faults in programs. The detection conditions of single faults have been studied and used in areas...

Detecting double faults on term and literal in Boolean expressions (2007)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to guarantee the detection of certain prescribed faults in programs. The detection conditions of single faults have been studied and used in areas...

Singularities on wave fronts of slow waves in anisotropic fluid-saturated porous media (2007)

Liu, Ying, Gao, Ling Tian, Lu, Guoxing

Energy focusing is found on the wave fronts of slow waves, which is a new propagation characteristic for slow waves in fluid-saturated porous materials. The material parameters, as well as the...

Detecting double faults on term and literal in Boolean expressions (2007)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to guarantee the detection of certain prescribed faults in programs. The detection conditions of single faults have been studied and used in areas...

Detecting double faults on term and literal in Boolean expressions (2007)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to guarantee the detection of certain prescribed faults in programs. The detection conditions of single faults have been studied and used in areas...

Dynamical systems for discovering protein complexes and functional modules from biological networks (2007)

Li, Wenyuan, Liu, Ying, Huang, Hung-Chung, Peng, Yanxiong, Lin, Yongjing, Ng, Wee-Keong, ...

Recent advances in high throughput experiments and annotations via published literature have provided a wealth of interaction maps of several biomolecular networks, including metabolic,...

Enhancing the effectiveness of clustering with spectra analysis (2007)

Li, Wenyuan, Ng, Wee-Keong, Liu, Ying, Ong, Kok-Leong

For many clustering algorithms, such as K-Means, EM, and CLOPE, there is usually a requirement to set some parameters. Often, these parameters directly or indirectly control the number of clusters,...

A practical synthesis of dynamic role settings in telecare services (2007)

Ying Liu, Jean Bacon

Abstract- Role provisioning is an essential yet complex aspect of the design of virtual organisations. This paper addresses an even more complex scenario, that of role provisioning in telecare. Here...

BMC Proceedings BioMed Central (2007)

Ying Liu, Weimin Duan, Justin Paschall, Nancy L Saccone, Nancy L Saccone

Proceedings Artificial neural networks for linkage analysis of quantitative gene expression phenotypes and evaluation of gene × gene interactions

An Evaluation of the Chat and Knowledge Delivery Components of a Low-Level Dialog System: The AZ-ALICE Experiment. Decision Support Systems (2007)

Robert P. Schumaker, Mark Ginsburg, Hsinchun Chen, Ying Liu

An effective networked knowledge delivery platform is one of the Holy Grails of Web computing. Knowledge delivery approaches range from the heavy and narrow to the light and broad. This paper...

Tableseer: Automatic table metadata extraction and searching in digital libraries (2007)

Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles

Tables are ubiquitous in digital libraries. In scientific documents, tables are widely used to present experimental results or statistical data in a condensed fashion. However, current search engines...

Tableseer: Automatic table metadata extraction and searching in digital libraries (2007)

Ying Liu, Kun Bai, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles

Tables are ubiquitous in digital libraries. In scientific documents, tables are widely used to present experimental results or statistical data in a condensed fashion. However, current search engines...

On detecting double literal faults in boolean expressions (2007)

Lau, Man F., Liu, Ying, Chen, Tsong Y., Yu, Yuen T.

Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to detect hypothesized faults in a program. When a program contains a fault so that it behaves differently from as is expected, test cases that...

Detecting double faults on term and literal in Boolean expressions (2007)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to guarantee the detection of certain prescribed faults in programs. The detection conditions of single faults have been studied and used in areas...

Singularities on wave fronts of slow waves in anisotropic fluid-saturated porous media (2007)

Liu, Ying, Gao, Ling Tian, Lu, Guoxing

Energy focusing is found on the wave fronts of slow waves, which is a new propagation characteristic for slow waves in fluid-saturated porous materials. The material parameters, as well as the...

On detecting double literal faults in boolean expressions (2007)

Lau, Man F., Liu, Ying, Chen, Tsong Y., Yu, Yuen T.

Fault-based testing aims at selecting test cases to detect hypothesized faults in a program. When a program contains a fault so that it behaves differently from as is expected, test cases that...

Eisenia fetida Protease-III-1 Functions in Both Fibrinolysis and Fibrogenesis (2007)

Jing Zhao, Rong Pan, Jian He, Ying Liu, Dong-Feng Li, Rong-Qiao He

The fibrinolytic function of earthworm protease-III-1 (EfP-III-1) has been studied in recent years. Here, we found that EfP-III-1 acted not only in fibrinogenolysis, but also in fibrogenesis. We have...

Dicer-1, but not Loquacious, is critical for assembly of miRNA-induced silencing complexes (2007)

Liu, Xiang, Park, Joseph K., Jiang, Feng, Liu, Ying, McKearin, Dennis, Liu, Qinghua

Double-stranded RNA-binding proteins (dsRBPs), such as R2D2 and Loquacious (Loqs), function in tandem with Dicer (Dcr) enzymes in RNA interference (RNAi). In Drosophila, Dcr-1/Loqs and Dcr-2/R2D2...

Realization of Gain Improvement Using Helix-Monopole Antenna for Two-Way Portable Radio (2007)

LIU, Ying, BU, Antao, GONG, Shuxi, CHOI, Hyengcheul, SHIN, Dongsoo, KIM, Hyeongdong

A novel helix-monopole antenna is proposed which combines the helix and monopole together to form improved current distribution. The current magnitudes are computed with Moment Method (MM) and...

Globular and full-length forms of adiponectin mediate specific changes in glucose and fatty acid uptake and metabolism in cardiomyocytes (2007)

Palanivel, Rengasamy, Fang, Xiangping, Park, Min, Eguchi, Megumi, Pallan, Shelley, De Girolamo, Sabrina, ...

Objective Our aim was to investigate the regulation of glucose and fatty acid metabolism in cardiomyocytes by the globular (gAd) and full-length (fAd) forms of adiponectin. Methods We produced fAd...

Enhancing the effectiveness of clustering with spectra analysis (2007)

Li, Wenyuan, Ng, Wee-Keong, Liu, Ying, Ong, Kok-Leong

For many clustering algorithms, such as K-Means, EM, and CLOPE, there is usually a requirement to set some parameters. Often, these parameters directly or indirectly control the number of clusters,...

Dynamical systems for discovering protein complexes and functional modules from biological networks (2007)

Li, Wenyuan, Liu, Ying, Huang, Hung-Chung, Peng, Yanxiong, Lin, Yongjing, Ng, Wee-Keong, ...

Recent advances in high throughput experiments and annotations via published literature have provided a wealth of interaction maps of several biomolecular networks, including metabolic,...

Region-based (2007)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu

image retrieval with high-level semantics using decision tree learning

On smart-care services: Studies of visually impaired users in living contexts (2007)

Ying Liu, Jean Bacon, Roger Wilson-hinds

roger @ screenreader. co. uk Abstract- Smart care technology is any sensor based technology used to aid and support human independent living. Such technologies offer new potential and can give rise...

A large-scale proteomic analysis of human embryonic stem cells (2007)

Bmc Genomics, Thomas C Schulz, Anna Maria Swistowska, Ying Liu, Andrzej Swistowski, Gail Palmarini, ...

© 2007 Schulz et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License

Electrochemical characteristics of glucose oxidase adsorbed at carbon nanotubes modified electrode with ionic liquid as binder (2006)

Liu, Ying, Liu, Ling, Dong, Shaojun

Multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNTs)-modified electrode has been prepared by using ionic liquid (IL) as the binder. The as-prepared CNTs-IL composite modified electrode has good biocompatibility and is...

A molecular scheme for improved characterization of human embryonic stem cell lines (2006)

Josephson, Richard, Sykes, Gregory, Liu, Ying, Ording, Carol, Xu, Weining, Zeng, Xianmin, ...

Abstract Background Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) offer a renewable source of a wide range of cell types for use in research and cell-based therapies to treat disease. Inspection of protein...

Genome wide profiling of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), their derivatives and embryonal carcinoma cells to develop base profiles of U.S. Federal government approved hESC lines (2006)

Liu, Ying, Shin, Soojung, Zeng, Xianmin, Zhan, Ming, Gonzalez, Rodolfo, Mueller, Franz-Josef, ...

Abstract Background In order to compare the gene expression profiles of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines and their differentiated progeny and to monitor feeder contaminations, we have examined...

Transcriptome coexpression map of human embryonic stem cells (2006)

Li, Huai, Liu, Ying, Shin, Soojung, Sun, Yu, Loring, Jeanne F, Mattson, Mark P, ...

Abstract Background Human embryonic stem (ES) cells hold great promise for medicine and science. The transcriptome of human ES cells has been studied in detail in recent years. However, no systematic...

SANTANA- Smart Antenna Terminal Design (2006)

Liu, Ying

This project is embedded in SANTANA (Smart Antenna Terminal) project. The project goal is to design a Ka-band circularly polarized antenna radiator for the receiver SANTANA system. The research work...

Suppression of Fas-FasL coexpression by erythropoietin mediates erythroblast expansion during the erythropoietic stress response in vivo (2006)

Liu, Ying, Pop, Ramona, Sadegh, Cameron, Brugnara, Carlo, Haase, Volker H., Socolovsky, Merav

Erythropoietin (Epo) is the principal regulator of the erythropoietic response to hypoxic stress, through its receptor, EpoR. The EpoR signals mediating the stress response are largely unknown, and...

Offshore outsourcing of services: Theory and evidence (2006)

Liu, Ying

Advances in Information Technology have allowed firms to outsource services with different complexity using different governance structures. We survey the functioning of offshore outsourcing in...

Geochemistry of the 755 Ma Mundine Well dyke swarm, northwestern Australia: Part of a Neoproterozoic mantle superplume beneath Rodinia? (2006)

Li, Xian-hua, Li, Zheng-xiang, Wingate, Michael, Chung, Sun-lin, Liu, Ying, Lin, Guang-chun, ...

Geochemical and Nd?Hf isotopic data are reported for dolerite samples from the Neoproterozoic (755 Ma) Mundine Well dyke swarm in northwestern Australia. These dolerites are tholeiitic in...

Geochemistry of the 755 Ma Mundine Well dyke swarm, northwestern Australia: Part of a Neoproterozoic mantle superplume beneath Rodinia? (2006)

Li, Xian-hua, Li, Zheng-xiang, Wingate, Michael, Chung, Sun-lin, Liu, Ying, Lin, Guang-chun, ...

Geochemical and Nd?Hf isotopic data are reported for dolerite samples from the Neoproterozoic (755 Ma) Mundine Well dyke swarm in northwestern Australia. These dolerites are tholeiitic in...

Controlled Cardiac Computed Tomography (2006)

Erwei Bai, Chenglin Wang, Ying Liu, Ge Wang

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has been a hot topic for years because of the clinical importance of cardiac diseases and the rapid evolution of CT systems. In this paper, we propose a novel...

On detection conditions of double faults related to terms in Boolean expressions (2006)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Detection conditions of specific classes of faults have recently been studied by many researchers. Under the assumption that at most one of these faults occurs in the software under test, these fault...

Controlled Cardiac Computed Tomography (2006)

Erwei Bai, Chenglin Wang, Ying Liu, Ge Wang

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has been a hot topic for years because of the clinical importance of cardiac diseases and the rapid evolution of CT systems. In this paper, we propose a novel...

On detection conditions of double faults related to terms in Boolean expressions (2006)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Detection conditions of specific classes of faults have recently been studied by many researchers. Under the assumption that at most one of these faults occurs in the software under test, these fault...

A Hybrid Approach for Biomarker Discovery from Microarray Gene Expression Data for Cancer Classification (2006)

Yanxiong Peng, Wenyuan Li, Ying Liu

Microarrays allow researchers to monitor the gene expression patterns for tens of thousands of genes across a wide range of cellular responses, phenotype and conditions. Selecting a small subset of...

On detection conditions of double faults related to terms in Boolean expressions (2006)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Detection conditions of specific classes of faults have recently been studied by many researchers. Under the assumption that at most one of these faults occurs in the software under test, these fault...

On detection conditions of double faults related to terms in Boolean expressions (2006)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Detection conditions of specific classes of faults have recently been studied by many researchers. Under the assumption that at most one of these faults occurs in the software under test, these fault...

Synthesis and Analgesic Activity Evaluation of Some Agmatine Derivatives (2006)

Hongxia He, Mengjia Liu, Zhibing Zheng, Ying Liu, Junhai Xiao, Ruibin Su, ...

A series of N,N’-disubstituted-2-nitroethene-1,1-diamine and N,N’-disubstituted- N’’-cyanoguanidine derivatives were prepared and evaluated for in...

Calder query grid service: Insights and experimental evaluations (2006)

Nithya N. Vijayakumar, Ying Liu, Beth Plale

We have architected and evaluated a new kind of data resource, one that is composed of a logical collection of ephemeral data streams that could be viewed as a collection of publish-subscribe...

Automatic extraction of table metadata from digital documents (2006)

Ying Liu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, Kun Bai

Tables are used to present, list, summarize, and structure important data in documents. In scholarly articles, they are often used to present the relationships among data and highlight a collection...

Automatic extraction of table metadata from digital documents (2006)

Ying Liu, Prasenjit Mitra, C. Lee Giles, Kun Bai

Tables are used to present, list, summarize, and structure important data in documents. In scholarly articles, they are often used to present the relationships among data and highlight a collection...

On detection conditions of double faults related to terms in Boolean expressions (2006)

Lau, Man Fai, Liu, Ying, Yu, Yuen Tak

Detection conditions of specific classes of faults have recently been studied by many researchers. Under the assumption that at most one of these faults occurs in the software under test, these fault...

Controlled Cardiac Computed Tomography (2006)

Erwei Bai, Chenglin Wang, Ying Liu, Ge Wang

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has been a hot topic for years because of the clinical importance of cardiac diseases and the rapid evolution of CT systems. In this paper, we propose a novel...

Human embryonic stem cells have a unique epigenetic signature (2006)

Bibikova, Marina, Chudin, Eugene, Wu, Bonnie, Zhou, Lixin, Garcia, Eliza Wickham, Liu, Ying, ...

Human embryonic stem (hES) cells originate during an embryonic period of active epigenetic remodeling. DNA methylation patterns are likely to be critical for their self-renewal and pluripotence. We...

Human embryonic stem cells have a unique epigenetic signature (2006)

Bibikova, Marina, Chudin, Eugene, Wu, Bonnie, Zhou, Lixin, Wickham Garcia, Eliza, Liu, Ying, ...

Human embryonic stem (hES) cells originate during an embryonic period of active epigenetic remodeling. DNA methylation patterns are likely to be critical for their self-renewal and pluripotence. We...

Study on texture feature extraction in region-based image retrieval system (2006)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhangt, Guojun Lul, Wei-ying Ma

Abstract image. In the right image, the 'sand ' region is usually what users are interested in. T'exture is an important feature to describe images. 7hough lots of work has been done...

Fabrication of Nanostructured Electrodes and Interfaces Using Combustion CVD (2005)

Liu, Ying

Reducing fabrication and operation costs while maintaining high performance is a major consideration for the design of a new generation of solid-state ionic devices such as fuel cells, batteries, and...

Fabrication of Nanostructured Electrodes and Interfaces Using Combustion CVD (2005)

Liu, Ying

Time: 1:00 ¨C 3:00 PM, August 19, Friday, 2005 Location: RM295, Love Building, MSE Dissertation title: Fabrication of Nanostructured Electrodes and Interfaces Using Combustion CVD Defender: Ying Liu...

Fabrication of Nanostructured Electrodes and Interfaces Using Combustion CVD (2005)

Liu, Ying

Time: 1:00 ¨C 3:00 PM, August 19, Friday, 2005 Location: RM295, Love Building, MSE Dissertation title: Fabrication of Nanostructured Electrodes and Interfaces Using Combustion CVD Defender: Ying Liu...

Fabrication of Nanostructured Electrodes and Interfaces Using Combustion CVD (2005)

Liu, Ying

Reducing fabrication and operation costs while maintaining high performance is a major consideration for the design of a new generation of solid-state ionic devices such as fuel cells, batteries, and...

Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Genomic Knowledge Discovery (2005)

Liu, Ying

The last decade has been marked by unprecedented growth in both the production of biomedical data and the amount of published literature discussing it. Almost every known or postulated piece of...

Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Genomic Knowledge Discovery (2005)

Liu, Ying

The last decade has been marked by unprecedented growth in both the production of biomedical data and the amount of published literature discussing it. Almost every known or postulated piece of...

Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Genomic Knowledge Discovery (2005)

Liu, Ying

The last decade has been marked by unprecedented growth in both the production of biomedical data and the amount of published literature discussing it. Almost every known or postulated piece of...

Text Mining Biomedical Literature for Genomic Knowledge Discovery (2005)

Liu, Ying

The last decade has been marked by unprecedented growth in both the production of biomedical data and the amount of published literature discussing it. Almost every known or postulated piece of...

Th1/Th2 Functional Imbalance After Acute Myocardial Infarction: Coronary Arterial Inflammation or Myocardial Inflammation (2005)

Zhang, Lanjing, Chen, Jing, Liao, Yu-Hua, Guo, Zhangqiang, Liu, Ying, Zhang, Jinying, ...

Objectives: The study clarified whether the T-helper (Th)1/Th2 imbalance existed only in coronary arterial inflammation or in both coronary arterial inflammation and myocardial inflammation and...

[Chromosomal localization and inhibitory effect on TPK activition of a human novel gene hbrp] (2005)

Feng, Chen, Liu, Ying, Jiang, Miao, Yang, Jia Ning, Chen, Fei, ...

The purpose of present study is to determine the location of the novel gene hbrp which is related to bovine seminal plasma (BSP) proteins in the human chromosome by the FISH (fluorescent in situ...

Dissipation in Quasi One-Dimensional Superconducting Single-Crystal Sn Nanowires (2005)

Tian, Ming-Liang, Wang, Jin-Guo, Kurtz, James S., Liu, Ying, Mayer, Theresa S., Mallouk, Thomas E., ...

Electrical transport measurements were made on single-crystal Sn nanowires to understand the intrinsic dissipation mechanisms of a one-dimensional superconductor. While the resistance of wires of...

Transgene Silencing in Wheat Transformed with the WSMV-CP Gene (2005)

Zhiwu Li, Ying Liu, Philip H. Berger

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) was co-transformed with the bar gene and Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Coat Protein gene (WSMV-CP) by the biolistic method. Transgenic wheat carrying the WSMV-CP showed...

Motion extraction, estimation and recognition for people with disabilities utilizing a multi-touch surface [electronic resource] / (2005)

Liu, Ying.

Multi-Touch technology provides a successful gesture based Human Computer Interface. The contact and gesture extraction and recognition algorithms of this interface are based on full hand function...

Text mining biomedical literature for genomic knowledge discovery [electronic resource] / (2005)

Liu, Ying.

The last decade has been marked by unprecedented growth in both the production of biomedical data and the amount of published literature discussing it. Almost every known or postulated piece of...

Fabrication of nanostructured electrodes and interfaces using combustion CVD [electronic resource] / (2005)

Liu, Ying.

Reducing fabrication and operation costs while maintaining high performance is a major consideration for the design of a new generation of solid-state ionic devices such as fuel cells, batteries, and...

Towards understanding collaborative software development / (2005)

Liu, Ying.

"A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, Department of Computing Science".

Fabrication of nanostructured electrodes and interfaces using combustion CVD (2005)

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.

Text mining biomedical literature for genomic knowledge discovery (2005)

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.

Transgene Silencing in Wheat Transformed with the WSMV-CP Gene (2005)

Zhiwu Li, Ying Liu, Philip H. Berger

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) was co-transformed with the bar gene and Wheat Streak Mosaic Virus Coat Protein gene (WSMV-CP) by the biolistic method. Transgenic wheat carrying the WSMV-CP showed...

Contract Research Organisations (CROs) in China: Only the Beginning (2005)

Michael Chu, Ying Liu

WHETHER IT IS PART OF A GLOBALIZATION STRATEGY OR MARKET ENTRY INTO CHINA, CHINA'S CRO INDUSTRY IS POISED TO CLAIM ITS PLACE IN THIS GLOBAL INDUSTRY. According to experts, the International Contract...

A Fast High Utility Itemsets Mining Algorithm (2005)

Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary

Association rule mining (ARM) identifies frequent itemsets from databases and generates association rules by considering each item in equal value. However, items are actually different in many...

A two-phase algorithm for fast discovery of high utility itemsets (2005)

Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary

Abstract. Traditional association rules mining cannot meet the demands arising from some real applications. By considering the different values of individual items as utilities, utility mining...

Text mining biomedical literature for discovering gene-to-gene relationships: a comparative study of algorithms (2005)

Ying Liu, Shamkant B. Navathe, Jorge Civera, Venu Dasigi, Ashwin Ram, Brian J. Ciliax, ...

Abstract—Partitioning closely related genes into clusters has become an important element of practically all statistical analyses of microarray data. A number of computer algorithms have been...

A Fast High Utility Itemsets Mining Algorithm (2005)

Ying Liu, Wei-keng Liao, Alok Choudhary

Association rule mining (ARM) identifies frequent itemsets from databases and generates association rules by considering each item in equal value. However, items are actually different in many...

Realization of ggf dais data service interface for grid access to data streams (2005)

Ying Liu, Beth Plale, Nithya Vijayakumar

As the computation power of hardware increases, real-time processing of large amount of streaming data becomes possible. Streams are widely recognized as one of the major data resources. Meanwhile,...

Region-Based Image Retrieval with High-Level Semantic Color Names (2005)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma

Performance of traditional content-based image retrieval systems is far from user’s expectation due to the ‘semantic gap ’ between low-level visual features and the richness of human semantics....

The lexical constituency model: Some implications of research on Chinese for general theories of reading (2005)

Charles A. Perfetti, Ying Liu, Li Hai Tan, Van Orden, The Testing

The authors examine the implications of research on Chinese for theories of reading and propose the lexical constituency model as a general framework for word reading across writing systems. Word...

A model and its application for uncertainly group decision making ∗ (2005)

Jianzhong Chen, Ying Liu

Abstract. To better solve the complicated problem of multi-attribute group decision making (MAGDM), we proposed a systemic approach by extending TOPSIS method. Linguistic assess terms of each group...

High performance data mining techniques for large databases [electronic resource]. (2005)

Liu, Ying.

Data mining techniques are becoming prominent in various domains. Due to the latest technological advances in computer hardware, networks and data warehouses, very large data sets are available....

Systems (2005)

Charles Perfetti, Ying Liu, Julie Fiez, Li-hai Tan

The neural substrate for reading includes highly general subsystems, collectively the “reading network”. To the extent these subsystems are indeed universal, they must somehow support reading of...

Orthography to phonology and meaning: Comparisons across and within writing systems. Reading and (2005)

Charles A. Perfetti, Ying Liu

Abstract. According to the Universal Writing System Constraint, all writing systems encode language, and thus reflect basic properties of the linguistic system they encode. According to a second...

Deriving High-Level Concepts Using Fuzzy-ID3 Decision Tree for Image Retrieval (2005)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma

To improve the retrieval accuracy of content-based image retrieval, an important task is to reduce the ‘semantic gap’ between low-level image features and the richness of human semantics. In this...

The role of cultural diversity and leadership in computer-supported collaborative learning: a content analysis (2004)

Liu, Ying

Computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies are increasingly being used to support collaborative learning in groups. Its potential to shift the traditional pedagogical paradigm triggers...

Major and trace element concentrations in sediments of ODP Hole 184-1144A in the South China Sea (Appendix A) (2004)

Wei, Gangjian, Liu, Ying, Li, Xian-hua, Shao, Lei, Fang, Dianyong

We present here the major and trace element data of the sediments at ODP Site 1144 of the last 230 ka with time resolution about 1.5 kyr to investigate their relations to the climate changes....

Human ARV1: A new modulator of lipid homeostasis (2004)

Liu, Ying

In this thesis, a full-length human ARV1 (A?RE2 R?equired for V?iability 1) cDNA was cloned using two distinct approaches: homology searching and functional complementation. Human ARV 1 (hARV1) is...

Metamorphic testing and testing with special values (2004)

Chen, Tsong Y., Kuo, Fei C., Liu, Ying, Tang, Antony

The problem of testing programs without test oracles is well known. A commonly used approach is to use special values in testing but this is often insufficient to ensure program correctness. This...

CSFS [microform] : a secure file system. (2004)

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (M.Comp. Sc.)--Concordia University, 2003.

Metamorphic testing and testing with special values (2004)

Chen, Tsong Yueh, Kuo, Fei-Ching, Liu, Ying, Tang, Antony

The problem of testing programs without test oracles is well known. A commonly used approach is to use special values in testing but this is often insufficient to ensure program correctness. This...

Chromatographic separations of enantiomers and underivatized oligosaccharides / (2004)

Liu, Ying.

My graduate research has focused on separation science and bioanalytical analysis, which emphasized in method development. It includes three major areas: enantiomeric separations using high...

Metamorphic testing and testing with special values (2004)

Chen, Tsong Yueh, Kuo, Fei Ching, Liu, Ying, Tang, Antony

The problem of testing programs without test oracles is well known. A commonly used approach is to use special values in testing but this is often insufficient to ensure program correctness. This...

Metamorphic testing and testing with special values (2004)

Chen, Tsong Yueh, Kuo, Fei Ching, Liu, Ying, Tang, Antony

The problem of testing programs without test oracles is well known. A commonly used approach is to use special values in testing but this is often insufficient to ensure program correctness. This...

Extraction of Texture Features from Arbitrary-Shaped Regions for Image Retrieval (2004)

Ying Liu, Xiaofang Zhou, Wei-ying Ma

Lots of work has been done in texture feature extraction for rectangular images, but not as much attention has been paid to the arbitrary-shaped regions available in region-based image retrieval...

Region-based Image Retrieval with Perceptual Colors (2004)

Ying Liu, Dengsheng Zhang, Guojun Lu, Wei-ying Ma

Abstract. Due to the ‘semantic gap ’ between low-level visual features and the rich semantics in user’s mind, performance of traditional contentbased image retrieval systems is far from...

Business Process Modeling in Abstract Logic Tree (2004)

Ying Liu, Jian Wang, Jun Zhu, Haiqi Liang, Zhong Tian, Wei Sun, ...

been issued as a Research Report for early dissemination of its contents. In view of the transfer of copyright to the outside publisher, its distribution outside of IBM prior to publication should be...

Understanding Grid Resource Information Management Through a Synthetic Database Benchmark/Workload (2004)

Beth Plale, Craig Jacobs, Scott Jensen, Ying Liu, Charlie Moad, Rupali Parab, ...

Management of grid resource information is a challenging and important area considering the potential size of the grid and wide range of resources that should be represented. Though example Grid...

Understanding Grid Resource Information Management Through a Synthetic Database Benchmark/Workload (2004)

Beth Plale, Craig Jacobs, Ying Liu, Charlie Moad, Rupali Parab, Prajakta Vaidya

The Grid is a new paradigm for wide area distributed computing. Management of grid resource information on the grid is complicated by the fact that grid resources such as hosts, clusters, virtual...

Active learning with support vector machine applied to gene expression data for cancer classification (2004)

Ying Liu

There is growing interest in the application of machine learning techniques in bioinformatics. The supervised machine learning approach has been widely applied to bioinformatics and gained a lot of...

Metamorphic testing and testing with special values (2004)

Chen, Tsong Yueh, Kuo, Fei-Ching, Liu, Ying, Tang, Antony

The problem of testing programs without test oracles is well known. A commonly used approach is to use special values in testing but this is often insufficient to ensure program correctness. This...

Trends in reported incidences of gastric cancer by tumour location, from 1975 to 1989 in Japan (2004)

Liu, Ying, Kaneko, Satoshi, Sobue, Tomotaka

Background This study was performed to estimate the incidence of gastric cancer by tumour location and to clarify whether the relative and absolute rates of gastric cancer in Japan changed between...

Trends in reported incidences of gastric cancer by tumour location, from 1975 to 1989 in Japan (2004)

Liu, Ying, Kaneko, Satoshi, Sobue, Tomotaka

Background This study was performed to estimate the incidence of gastric cancer by tumour location and to clarify whether the relative and absolute rates of gastric cancer in Japan changed between...

The implicit and explicit learning of orthographic structure and function of a new writing system (2004)

Min Wang, Ying Liu, Charles A. Perfetti

Two experiments were carried out to examine how adult readers of English learn to acquire the orthographic structure and function of Chinese characters selected from reading material in their...

Kruppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) represses histidine decarboxylase gene expression through an upstream Sp1 site and downstream gastrin responsive elements (2003)

Ai, Wandong, Liu, Ying, Langlois, Michael R., Wang, Timothy C.

Histidine decarboxylase (HDC) is the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of histidine to histamine, a bioamine that plays an important role in allergic responses, inflammation, neurotransmission,...

Differentiation of glial cells from glial precursors. (2003)

Liu, Ying.

Gliogenesis (development of glia) is an important aspect of neural development. Elucidating the lineage relationships of neural stem cells and fully differentiated glia, such as oligodendrocytes and...

Differentiation of glial cells from glial precursors. (2003)

Liu, Ying.

Gliogenesis (development of glia) is an important aspect of neural development. Elucidating the lineage relationships of neural stem cells and fully differentiated glia, such as oligodendrocytes and...

beta-lactoglobulin complexed vitamins A and D in skim milk: shelf life and bioavailability (2003)

Liu, Ying

As reduced fat dairy products became popular in the U.S., the reduction of vitamins A and D in these products rendered a nutritional concern. Beta-lactoglobulin has been reported capable of binding...

Climatic impact on Al, K, Sc and Ti in marine sediments: Evidence from ODP Site 1144, South China Sea (2003)

Wei, Gangjian, Liu, Ying, Li, Xianhua, Shao, Lei, Liang, Xirong

Al, K, Sc and Ti concentrations of the terrestrial material-dominant sediments from ODP site 1144 were reported. Comparison between the bulk and the acid-leached sediments indicates that about 20~30%...

Real-time reach planning for animated characters using hardware acceleration (2003)

Liu, Ying, Badler, Norman I

We present a heuristic-based real-time reach planning algorithm for virtual human figures. Given the start and goal positions in a 3D workspace, our problem is to compute a collision-free path that...

Real-time Reach Planning for Animated Characters Using Hardware Acceleration (2003)

Badler, Norman I, Liu, Ying

We present a heuristic-based real-time reach planning algorithm for virtual human figures. Given the start and goal positions in a 3D workspace, our problem is to compute a collision-free path that...

Geochemical and Nd isotopic investigations of sediments from the South China Sea (2003)

Li, Xian-hua, Wei, Gangjian, Shao, Lei, Liu, Ying, Liang, Xirong, Jian, Zhimin, ...

Secular variations in geochemistry and Nd isotopic data have been documented in sediment samples at ODP Site 1148 in the South China Sea. Major and trace elements show significant changes at ca. 29.5...

Interactive reach planning for animated characters using hardware acceleration (2003)

Liu, Ying

We present real-time articulated arm reach planning algorithms for virtual human figures. Given a start configuration and a goal location, we compute a collision-free path for a seven degrees of...

Analyzing an acquisition model and optimizing stock abnormal return using simulation techniques (2003)

Liu, Ying

The relative economic efficiency of acquisitions as a means of restructuring financially distressed firms is investigated. Yearly accounting and daily stock price data are extracted for the period...

Analyzing an acquisition model and optimizing stock abnormal return using simulation techniques (2003)

Liu, Ying

The relative economic efficiency of acquisitions as a means of restructuring financially distressed firms is investigated. Yearly accounting and daily stock price data are extracted for the period...

Analyzing an acquisition model and optimizing stock abnormal return using simulation techniques (2003)

Liu, Ying

The relative economic efficiency of acquisitions as a means of restructuring financially distressed firms is investigated. Yearly accounting and daily stock price data are extracted for the period...

Analyzing an acquisition model and optimizing stock abnormal return using simulation techniques (2003)

Liu, Ying

The relative economic efficiency of acquisitions as a means of restructuring financially distressed firms is investigated. Yearly accounting and daily stock price data are extracted for the period...

Jreflex: Towards supporting small student software teams (2003)

Kenny Wong, Warren Blanchet, Ying Liu, Curtis Schofield, Eleni Stroulia, Zhenchang Xing

The success of a software development project depends on the technical competency of the development team, the quality of the tools they use, and the project-management decisions they make during the...

Contents (2003)

Mark Illing, Ying Liu, Mark Illing, Ying Liu

The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors.

Survey of publish subscribe event systems (2003)

Ying Liu, Beth Plale

The Internet has changed considerably the scale of distributed systems, motivating the demand for more flexible communication models and systems. Individual point-to-point and synchronous...

Benchmark Details of Synthetic Database Benchmark/Workload for Grid Resource Information (2003)

Beth Plale, Craig Jacobs, Ying Liu, Charlie Moad, Rupali Parab, Prajakta Vaidya

The Grid is a new paradigm for wide area distributed computing. Management of grid resource information on the grid is complicated by the fact that grid resources such as hosts, clusters, virtual...

Contact Author: (2003)

Emrah Acar, Anirudh Devgan, Rahul Rao, Ying Liu, Haihua Su, Sani Nassif, ...

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

Synthesis and biological evaluation of novel epibatidine analogues [electronic resource] / (2003)

Liu, Ying.

In an effect to develop for more selective neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor analgesics that have less toxicity and adverse side effects relative to epibatidine, three new classes of...

ERP evidence for the time course of graphic, phonological, and semantic information in Chinese meaning and pronunciation (2003)

Ying Liu, Charles A. Perfetti, Lesley Hart

Two words that varied in their relationship were presented sequentially to Chinese readers who made meaning and pronunciation decisions. In the meaning task, they decided whether the words had the...

The time course of brain activity in reading English and Chinese: An ERP study of Chinese bilinguals (2003)

Ying Liu, Charles A. Perfetti

Abstract: Chinese bilinguals performed a delayed naming task, reading both Chinese characters and English words, while EEGs were recorded by a 128-channel system. Principle component analysis (PCA)...

Analyzing an acquisition model and optimizing stock abnormal return using simulation techniques (2003)

Liu, Ying

The relative economic efficiency of acquisitions as a means of restructuring financially distressed firms is investigated. Yearly accounting and daily stock price data are extracted for the period...

The human homologue of unc-93 maps to chromosome 6q27 – characterisation and analysis in sporadic epithelial ovarian cancer (2002)

Liu, Ying, Dodds, Phillippa, Emilion, Gracy, Mungall, Andrew J, Dunham, Ian, Beck, Stephan, ...

Abstract Background In sporadic ovarian cancer, we have previously reported allele loss at D6S193 (62%) on chromosome 6q27, which suggested the presence of a putative tumour suppressor gene. Based on...

Virtual Humans for Validating Maintenance Procedures (2002)

Badler, Norman I, Erignac, Charles A, Liu, Ying

They can be sent to check the human aspects of complex physical systems by simulating assembly, repair, and maintenance tasks in a 3D virtual environment.

Limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis (2002)

Liu, Ying

(Uncorrected OCR) ABSTRACT In this study, the classical limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis are reviewed; equations, unknowns and assumptions in different methods are analyzed; the...

Limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis (2002)

Liu, Ying

(Uncorrected OCR) ABSTRACT In this study, the classical limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis are reviewed; equations, unknowns and assumptions in different methods are analyzed; the...

Limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis (2002)

Liu, Ying

(Uncorrected OCR) ABSTRACT In this study, the classical limit equilibrium methods for slope stability analysis are reviewed; equations, unknowns and assumptions in different methods are analyzed; the...

Summary (2002)

Ying Liu

2.1Exceptional good valued terabyte machine......................................................................5 2.2A provision for overall hardware operational...

C++ Codes of Implicit Lu Algorithms for Absdll01 (2001)

Li, Xing, Liu, Ying, Del Popolo, Antonino

This report is devoted to some C++ codes implementing the implicit LU class algorithms for solving linear determined, and undetermined systems with $n$ variables and $m$ equations. A main program...

Regulation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection, β-Chemokine Production, and CCR5 Expression in CD40L-Stimulated Macrophages: Immune Control of Viral Entry (2001)

Cutter, Robin L., Zheng, Jialin, Che, Myhanh, Niemann, Douglas, Liu, Ying, He, Johnny, ...

Mononuclear phagocytes (MP) and T lymphocytes play a pivotal role in the host immune response to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Regulation of such immune responses can be...

Estrogen protects against the synergistic toxicity by HIV proteins, methamphetamine and cocaine (2001)

Turchan, Jadwiga, Anderson, Caroline, Hauser, Kurt F, Sun, Qinmiao, Zhang, Jiayou, Liu, Ying, ...

Abstract Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection continues to increase at alarming rates in drug abusers, especially in women. Drugs of abuse can cause long-lasting damage to the...

Paper Alert: Immunology (2001)

Elliott, Tim, Bonneville, Marc, Kruisbeek, Ada, Walker, Paul R., Glaichenhaus, Nicolas, Rowland-Jones, Sarah, ...

A selection of interesting papers that were published in the two months before our press date in major journals most likely to report significant results in immunology.

Impact of interconnect variations on the clock skew of a gigahertz microprocessor (2000)

Ying Liu, Sani R. Nassif, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Andrzej J. Strojwas

Due to the large die sizes and tight relative clock skew margins, the impact of interconnect manufacturing variations on the clock skew in today’s gigahertz microprocessors can no longer be...

Impact of interconnect variations on the clock skew of a gigahertz microprocessor (2000)

Ying Liu, Sani R. Nassif, Lawrence T. Pileggi, Andrzej J. Strojwas

Due to the large die sizes and tight relative clock skew margins, the impact of interconnect manufacturing variations on the clock skew in today’s gigahertz microprocessors can no longer be...

Bioorganic studies on philanthotoxin and nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (1999)

Liu, Ying

Philanthotoxin (PhTX), a neurologically active polyamine amide natural product, is a potent noncompetitive antagonist of neurotransmitter receptors including nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)...

Speaker Verification Using a Dynamic, 'Articulatory' Segmental Hidden Markov Model (1998)

Liu, Ying, Russell, Martin

This is the final report for EOARD project #033060 "Speaker verification using a dynamic, 'articulatory' segmental hidden Markov model". A segmental HMM is HMM whose states are associated with...

The transformation of traditional courtyard houses in China / (1997)

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1997.

Numerical analysis of elastic membrane structures subjected to hydrostatic pressure loading / (1997)

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Concordia University, 1997.

Studies on the Phosphorylation of a Mr 25,000 Protein, a Putative Protein Phosphatase 2A Modulator, by Casein Kinase I, and Analysis of Multiple Endogenous Phosphates (1996)

Liu, Ying, Kohara, Hiromi, Hashimoto, Eikichi

A Mr 25,000 protein, which was isolated from the cytosolic fraction of Xenopus laevis oocytes, is a newly identified substrate for casein kinase II and protein kinase C [Hashimoto et al. (1995) J....

AMULET1: SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION IN CCS (1995)

Liu, Ying

There has been a dramatic resurgence of asynchronous hardware designs in recent years. Since state spaces multiply, asynchronous systems can be extremely state rich and it is correspondingly...

AMULET1: SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION IN CCS (1995)

Liu, Ying

There has been a dramatic resurgence of asynchronous hardware designs in recent years. Since state spaces multiply, asynchronous systems can be extremely state rich and it is correspondingly...

Human Laminin M Chain: Epitope Analysis of Its Monoclonal Antibodies by Immunoscreening of cDNA Clones and Tissue Expression (1994)

Hori, Hisae, Kanamori, Tetsuko, Mizuta, Toshihiko, Yamaguchi, Noriko, Liu, Ying, Nagai, Yutaka

We have produced four monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against human placenta laminin purified by immunoafnnity chromatography. Three clones, 2D9, 3DM, and 4F1, recognized 320 kDa (M) chain of the...

Designing Parallel Specifications In Ccs (1993)

Ken Stevens John, John Aldwinckle, Graham Birtwistle, Ying Liu

We describe a style of specifying concurrent systems based upon the parallel composition operator of CCS and apply it to several asynchronous hardware examples. 1 Introduction In this paper we...

REASONING ABOUT ASYNCHRONOUS DESIGNS IN CCS (1992)

Liu, Ying

With VLSI technology advancing rapidly, synchronous designers are finding it difficult to distribute clock signals and maintain functionality as more circuitry is packed onto chips. Ways out of the...

REASONING ABOUT ASYNCHRONOUS DESIGNS IN CCS (1992)

Liu, Ying

With VLSI technology advancing rapidly, synchronous designers are finding it difficult to distribute clock signals and maintain functionality as more circuitry is packed onto chips. Ways out of the...

The downfall of the human soul / (1991)

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (M.A.)--Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Tex., 1991.

Expression of open reading frames in the intron of the nrdB gene of Bacteriophage T4 / (1990)

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (M.S.)--The University at Albany, State University of New York, Dept. of Biology, 1990.

The Role of Simple Rules in the Conduct of Canadian Monetary Policy

Denise Côté, Jean-Paul Lam, Ying Liu, Pierre St-Amant

The third strategy employed by the Bank when dealing with uncertainty is the consideration of appropriate simple reaction functions or "rules" for the setting of the policy interest rate. Since John...

An Endocrine-Exocrine Switch in the Activity of the Pancreatic Homeodomain Protein PDX1 through Formation of a Trimeric Complex with PBX1b and MRG1 (MEIS2)

Swift, Galvin H., Liu, Ying, Rose, Scott D., Bischof, Larry J., Steelman, Scott, Buchberg, Arthur M., ...

HOX proteins and some orphan homeodomain proteins form complexes with either PBX or MEIS subclasses of homeodomain proteins. This interaction can increase the binding specificity and transcriptional...

Regulation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection, β-Chemokine Production, and CCR5 Expression in CD40L-Stimulated Macrophages: Immune Control of Viral Entry

Cotter, Robin L., Zheng, Jialin, Che, Myhanh, Niemann, Douglas, Liu, Ying, He, Johnny, ...

Mononuclear phagocytes (MP) and T lymphocytes play a pivotal role in the host immune response to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Regulation of such immune responses can be...

Two Cyclin-Dependent Kinases Promote RNA Polymerase II Transcription and Formation of the Scaffold Complex

Liu, Ying, Kung, Charles, Fishburn, James, Ansari, Aseem Z., Shokat, Kevan M., Hahn, Steven

Three cyclin-dependent kinases, CDK7, -8, and -9, are specifically involved in transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and target the Pol II C-terminal domain (CTD). The role of CDK7 and CDK8...

CD4-Independent Infection of Astrocytes by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1: Requirement for the Human Mannose Receptor

Liu, Ying, Liu, Hao, Kim, Byung Oh, Gattone, Vincent H., Li, Jinliang, Nath, Avindra, ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection occurs in the central nervous system and causes a variety of neurobehavioral and neuropathological disorders. Both microglia, the residential...

Saturated fat–rich diet enhances selective uptake of LDL cholesteryl esters in the arterial wall

Seo, Toru, Qi, Kemin, Chang, Chuchun, Liu, Ying, Worgall, Tilla S., Ramakrishnan, Rajasekhar, ...

Plasma LDL levels and atherosclerosis both increase on a saturated fat–rich (SAT) diet. LDL cholesterol delivery to tissue may occur via uptake of the LDL particles or via selective uptake (SU),...

Behavioral response of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to acute ammonia stress monitored by computer vision*

Xu, Jian-yu, Miao, Xiang-wen, Liu, Ying, Cui, Shao-rong

The behavioral responses of a tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) school to low (0.13 mg/L), moderate (0.79 mg/L) and high (2.65 mg/L) levels of unionized ammonia (UIA) concentration were monitored using...

Expression of Exogenous Sam68, the 68-Kilodalton Src-Associated Protein in Mitosis, Is Able To Alleviate Impaired Rev Function in Astrocytes

Li, Jinliang, Liu, Ying, Park, In-Woo, He, Johnny J.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gene expression in astrocytes is restricted, resulting in a brief and limited synthesis of HIV-1 viral structural proteins. Impaired Rev function has been...

Direct Participation of Sam68, the 68-Kilodalton Src-Associated Protein in Mitosis, in the CRM1-Mediated Rev Nuclear Export Pathway

Li, Jinliang, Liu, Ying, Kim, Byung Oh, He, Johnny J.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication requires efficient nuclear export of incompletely spliced and unspliced HIV-1 mRNA transcripts, which is achieved by Rev expression at an early...

Essential Role for Rac in Heregulin β1 Mitogenic Signaling: a Mechanism That Involves Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and Is Independent of ErbB4

Yang, Chengfeng, Liu, Ying, Lemmon, Mark A., Kazanietz, Marcelo G.

Heregulins are a family of ligands for the ErbB3/ErbB4 receptors that play important roles in breast cancer cell proliferation and tumorigenesis. Limited information is available on the contribution...

Analysis of P53 mutations and their expression in 56 colorectal cancer cell lines

Liu, Ying, Bodmer, Walter F.

A comprehensive analysis of the TP53 gene and its protein status was carried out on a panel of 56 colorectal cancer cell lines. This analysis was based on a combination of denaturing HPLC mutation...

Are Canadian Banks Efficient? A Canada--U.S. Comparison

Jason Allen, Walter Engert, Ying Liu

The authors compare the efficiency of Canada's largest banks with U.S. commercial banks over the past 20 years. Efficiency is measured in three ways. First, the authors study key performance ratios,...

An Endocrine-Exocrine Switch in the Activity of the Pancreatic Homeodomain Protein PDX1 through Formation of a Trimeric Complex with PBX1b and MRG1 (MEIS2)

Swift, Galvin H., Liu, Ying, Rose, Scott D., Bischof, Larry J., Steelman, Scott, Buchberg, Arthur M., ...

HOX proteins and some orphan homeodomain proteins form complexes with either PBX or MEIS subclasses of homeodomain proteins. This interaction can increase the binding specificity and transcriptional...

Regulation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection, β-Chemokine Production, and CCR5 Expression in CD40L-Stimulated Macrophages: Immune Control of Viral Entry

Cotter, Robin L., Zheng, Jialin, Che, Myhanh, Niemann, Douglas, Liu, Ying, He, Johnny, ...

Mononuclear phagocytes (MP) and T lymphocytes play a pivotal role in the host immune response to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection. Regulation of such immune responses can be...

Expression of Exogenous Sam68, the 68-Kilodalton Src-Associated Protein in Mitosis, Is Able To Alleviate Impaired Rev Function in Astrocytes

Li, Jinliang, Liu, Ying, Park, In-Woo, He, Johnny J.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) gene expression in astrocytes is restricted, resulting in a brief and limited synthesis of HIV-1 viral structural proteins. Impaired Rev function has been...

Direct Participation of Sam68, the 68-Kilodalton Src-Associated Protein in Mitosis, in the CRM1-Mediated Rev Nuclear Export Pathway

Li, Jinliang, Liu, Ying, Kim, Byung Oh, He, Johnny J.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) replication requires efficient nuclear export of incompletely spliced and unspliced HIV-1 mRNA transcripts, which is achieved by Rev expression at an early...

Two Cyclin-Dependent Kinases Promote RNA Polymerase II Transcription and Formation of the Scaffold Complex

Liu, Ying, Kung, Charles, Fishburn, James, Ansari, Aseem Z., Shokat, Kevan M., Hahn, Steven

Three cyclin-dependent kinases, CDK7, -8, and -9, are specifically involved in transcription by RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and target the Pol II C-terminal domain (CTD). The role of CDK7 and CDK8...

CD4-Independent Infection of Astrocytes by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1: Requirement for the Human Mannose Receptor

Liu, Ying, Liu, Hao, Kim, Byung Oh, Gattone, Vincent H., Li, Jinliang, Nath, Avindra, ...

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection occurs in the central nervous system and causes a variety of neurobehavioral and neuropathological disorders. Both microglia, the residential...

Saturated fat–rich diet enhances selective uptake of LDL cholesteryl esters in the arterial wall

Seo, Toru, Qi, Kemin, Chang, Chuchun, Liu, Ying, Worgall, Tilla S., Ramakrishnan, Rajasekhar, ...

Plasma LDL levels and atherosclerosis both increase on a saturated fat–rich (SAT) diet. LDL cholesterol delivery to tissue may occur via uptake of the LDL particles or via selective uptake (SU),...

Analysis of P53 mutations and their expression in 56 colorectal cancer cell lines

Liu, Ying, Bodmer, Walter F.

A comprehensive analysis of the TP53 gene and its protein status was carried out on a panel of 56 colorectal cancer cell lines. This analysis was based on a combination of denaturing HPLC mutation...

Essential Role for Rac in Heregulin β1 Mitogenic Signaling: a Mechanism That Involves Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor and Is Independent of ErbB4

Yang, Chengfeng, Liu, Ying, Lemmon, Mark A., Kazanietz, Marcelo G.

Heregulins are a family of ligands for the ErbB3/ErbB4 receptors that play important roles in breast cancer cell proliferation and tumorigenesis. Limited information is available on the contribution...

Behavioral response of tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) to acute ammonia stress monitored by computer vision*

Xu, Jian-yu, Miao, Xiang-wen, Liu, Ying, Cui, Shao-rong

The behavioral responses of a tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) school to low (0.13 mg/L), moderate (0.79 mg/L) and high (2.65 mg/L) levels of unionized ammonia (UIA) concentration were monitored using...

Human embryonic stem cells have a unique epigenetic signature

Bibikova, Marina, Chudin, Eugene, Wu, Bonnie, Zhou, Lixin, Garcia, Eliza Wickham, Liu, Ying, ...

Human embryonic stem (hES) cells originate during an embryonic period of active epigenetic remodeling. DNA methylation patterns are likely to be critical for their self-renewal and pluripotence. We...

The C-Terminal Hydrophobic Domain of Hepatitis C Virus RNA Polymerase NS5B Can Be Replaced with a Heterologous Domain of Poliovirus Protein 3A▿

Lee, Haekyung, Liu, Ying, Mejia, Edison, Paul, Aniko V., Wimmer, Eckard

Replication of the plus-stranded RNA genome of hepatitis C virus (HCV) occurs in a membrane-bound replication complex consisting of viral and cellular proteins and viral RNA. NS5B, the RNA polymerase...

A New Group B Adenovirus Receptor Is Expressed at High Levels on Human Stem and Tumor Cells▿

Tuve, Sebastian, Wang, Hongjie, Ware, Carol, Liu, Ying, Gaggar, Anuj, Bernt, Kathrin, ...

CD46 is used by human group B adenoviruses (Ads) as a high-affinity attachment receptor. Here we show evidence that several group B Ads utilize an additional receptor for infection of human cells,...

Efficiency and economies of scale of large Canadian banks

Jason Allen, Ying Liu

This paper measures the economies of scale of Canada's six largest banks and their cost-efficiency over time. Using a unique panel data set from 1983 to 2003, we estimate pooled cost functions and...

Induction of KLF4 in response to heat stress

Liu, Ying, Wang, Jing, Yi, Yuxin, Zhang, Huali, Liu, Junwen, Liu, Meidong, ...

Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is an evolutionarily conserved zinc finger–containing transcription factor with diverse regulatory functions in cell growth, proliferation, differentiation, and...

A Genotype-Independent Real-Time PCR Assay for Quantification of Hepatitis B Virus DNA▿

Liu, Ying, Hussain, Munira, Wong, Stephen, Fung, Scott K., Yim, Hyung Joon, Lok, Anna S. F.

Accurate quantification of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA levels is important for monitoring patients with chronic HBV infection and for assessing their responses to antiviral therapy. This study aimed...

Neuropathologies in Transgenic Mice Expressing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Tat Protein under the Regulation of the Astrocyte-Specific Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Promoter and Doxycycline

Kim, Byung Oh, Liu, Ying, Ruan, Yiwen, Xu, Zao C., Schantz, Laurel, He, Johnny J.

The human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) Tat protein is a key pathogenic factor in a variety of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)-associated disorders. A number of studies have...

Suppression of Fas-FasL coexpression by erythropoietin mediates erythroblast expansion during the erythropoietic stress response in vivo

Liu, Ying, Pop, Ramona, Sadegh, Cameron, Brugnara, Carlo, Haase, Volker H., Socolovsky, Merav

Erythropoietin (Epo) is the principal regulator of the erythropoietic response to hypoxic stress, through its receptor, EpoR. The EpoR signals mediating the stress response are largely unknown, and...

Eisenia fetida Protease-III-1 Functions in Both Fibrinolysis and Fibrogenesis

Zhao, Jing, Pan, Rong, He, Jian, Liu, Ying, Li, Dong-Feng, He, Rong-Qiao

The fibrinolytic function of earthworm protease-III-1 (Ef P-III-1) has been studied in recent years. Here, we found that Ef P-III-1 acted not only in fibrinogenolysis, but also in fibrogenesis. We...

Formaldehyde at Low Concentration Induces Protein Tau into Globular Amyloid-Like Aggregates In Vitro and In Vivo

Nie, Chun Lai, Wei, Yan, Chen, Xinyong, Liu, Yan Ying, Dui, Wen, Liu, Ying, ...

Recent studies have shown that neurodegeneration is closely related to misfolding and aggregation of neuronal tau. Our previous results show that neuronal tau aggregates in formaldehyde solution and...

Adenovirus-Platelet Interaction in Blood Causes Virus Sequestration to the Reticuloendothelial System of the Liver▿

Stone, Daniel, Liu, Ying, Shayakhmetov, Dmitry, Li, Zong-Yi, Ni, Shaoheng, Lieber, André

Intravenous (i.v.) delivery of recombinant adenovirus serotype 5 (Ad5) vectors for gene therapy is hindered by safety and efficacy problems. We have discovered a new pathway involved in unspecific...

Tyrosine 3 of Poliovirus Terminal Peptide VPg(3B) Has an Essential Function in RNA Replication in the Context of Its Precursor Protein, 3AB▿

Liu, Ying, Franco, David, Paul, Aniko V., Wimmer, Eckard

Poliovirus (PV) VPg is a genome-linked protein that is essential for the initiation of viral RNA replication. It has been well established that RNA replication is initiated when a molecule of UMP is...

Negative Autoregulation by FAS Mediates Robust Fetal Erythropoiesis

Socolovsky, Merav, Murrell, Michael, Liu, Ying, Pop, Ramona, Porpiglia, Ermelinda, Levchenko, Andre

Tissue development is regulated by signaling networks that control developmental rate and determine ultimate tissue mass. Here we present a novel computational algorithm used to identify regulatory...

The Bro1-Domain Protein, EGO-2, Promotes Notch Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans

Liu, Ying, Maine, Eleanor M.

In Caenorhabditis elegans, as in other animals, Notch-type signaling mediates numerous inductive events during development. The mechanism of Notch-type signaling involves proteolytic cleavage of the...

Tip60 functions as a potential corepressor of KLF4 in regulation of HDC promoter activity

Ai, Walden, Zheng, Hai, Yang, Xiangdong, Liu, Ying, Wang, Timothy C.

KLF4 is a transcription factor that is highly expressed in the gastrointestinal tract. Previously we have demonstrated that KLF4 represses HDC promoter activity in a gastric cell line through both an...

Mutagenesis of the putative sterol-sensing domain of yeast Niemann Pick C–related protein reveals a primordial role in subcellular sphingolipid distribution

Malathi, Krishnamurthy, Higaki, Katsumi, Tinkelenberg, Arthur H., Balderes, Dina A., Almanzar-Paramio, Dorca, Wilcox, Lisa J., ...

Lipid movement between organelles is a critical component of eukaryotic membrane homeostasis. Niemann Pick type C (NP-C) disease is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder typified by lysosomal...

On goodness-of-fit of logistic regression model

Liu, Ying

Logistic regression model is a branch of the generalized linear models and is widely used in many areas of scientific research. The logit link function and the binary dependent variable of interest...

A Genome-Wide Association Study of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis Identifies New Disease Loci

Liu, Ying, Helms, Cynthia, Liao, Wilson, Zaba, Lisa C., Duan, Shenghui, Gardner, Jennifer, ...

A genome-wide association study was performed to identify genetic factors involved in susceptibility to psoriasis (PS) and psoriatic arthritis (PSA), inflammatory diseases of the skin and joints in...

Draining Lymph Nodes of Corneal Transplant Hosts Exhibit Evidence for Donor Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) Class II–positive Dendritic Cells Derived from MHC Class II–negative Grafts

Liu, Ying, Hamrah, Pedram, Zhang, Qiang, Taylor, Andrew W., Dana, M. Reza

To examine the widely accepted dogmas that corneal grafts lack passenger leukocytes or cells capable of migrating directly to lymph nodes (LNs), we tracked the migration of corneal graft-derived...

The Performance and Robustness of Simple Monetary Policy Rules in Models of the Canadian Economy

Denise Côté, John Kuszczak, Jean-Paul Lam, Ying Liu, Pierre St-Amant

In this report, we evaluate several simple monetary policy rules in twelve private and public sector models of the Canadian economy. Our results indicate that none of the simple policy rules we...

A Comparison of Twelve Macroeconomic Models of the Canadian Economy

Denise Côté, John Kuszczak, Jean-Paul Lam, Ying Liu, Pierre St-Amant

In this report, the authors examine and compare twelve private and public sector models of the Canadian economy with respect to their paradigm, structure, and dynamic properties. These open-economy...

Modelling Mortgage Rate Changes with a Smooth Transition Error-Correction Model

Ying Liu

This paper uses a smooth transition error-correction model (STECM) to model the one-year and five-year mortgage rate changes. The model allows for a non-linear adjustment process of mortgage rates...

An Index of Financial Stress for Canada

Mark Illing, Ying Liu

The authors develop an index of financial stress for the Canadian financial system. Stress is defined as the force exerted on economic agents by uncertainty and changing expectations of loss in...

Financial Conditions Indexes for Canada

Céline Gauthier, Christopher Graham, Ying Liu

The authors construct three financial conditions indexes (FCIs) for Canada based on three approaches: an IS-curve-based model, generalized impulse-response functions, and factoranalysis. Each...

Market Valuation and Risk Assessment of Canadian Banks

Ying Liu, Eli Papakirykos, Mingwei Yuan

The authors apply the asset-valuation model developed by Rabinovitch (1989) to six publicly traded Canadian banks over the period 1982–2002. The model is an extension of the Merton (1977a)...

Controlled Cardiac Computed Tomography

Bai, Erwei, Wang, Chenglin, Liu, Ying, Wang, Ge

Cardiac computed tomography (CT) has been a hot topic for years because of the clinical importance of cardiac diseases and the rapid evolution of CT systems. In this paper, we propose a novel...

The performance and robustness of simple monetary policy rules in models of the Canadian economy

Denise Côté, John Kuszczak, Jean-Paul Lam, Ying Liu, Pierre St-Amant

In this paper, we evaluate seven simple monetary policy rules in a wide range of models of the Canadian economy. Our results indicate that none of the seven simple policy rules we examined is robust...

A Note on Contestability in the Canadian Banking Industry

Jason Allen, Ying Liu

The authors examine the degree of contestability in the Canadian banking system using the H-statistic proposed by Panzar and Rosse (1987) and modified by Bikker, Spierdijk, and Finnie (2006). A...

Efficiency and Economies of Scale of Large Canadian Banks

Jason Allen, Ying Liu

The authors measure the economies of scale of Canada's six largest banks and their cost-efficiency over time. Using a unique panel data set from 1983 to 2003, they estimate pooled translog cost...

Dicer-1, but not Loquacious, is critical for assembly of miRNA-induced silencing complexes

Liu, Xiang, Park, Joseph K., Jiang, Feng, Liu, Ying, McKearin, Dennis, Liu, Qinghua

Double-stranded RNA-binding proteins (dsRBPs), such as R2D2 and Loquacious (Loqs), function in tandem with Dicer (Dcr) enzymes in RNA interference (RNAi). In Drosophila, Dcr-1/Loqs and Dcr-2/R2D2...

Protection against Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Tat Neurotoxicity by Ginkgo biloba Extract EGb 761 Involving Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein

Zou, Wei, Kim, Byung Oh, Zhou, Betty Y., Liu, Ying, Messing, Albee, He, Johnny J.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 Tat protein is an important pathogenic factor in HIV-associated neuropathogenesis. Despite recent progress, the molecular mechanisms underlying Tat neurotoxicity...

Analysis of correlated mutations in HIV-1 protease using spectral clustering

Liu, Ying, Eyal, Eran, Bahar, Ivet

Motivation: The ability of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) protease to develop mutations that confer multi-drug resistance (MDR) has been a major obstacle in designing rational therapies...

Immunomodulating Activity of Agaricus brasiliensis KA21 in Mice and in Human Volunteers

Liu, Ying, Fukuwatari, Yasushi, Okumura, Ko, Takeda, Kazuyoshi, Ishibashi, Ken-ichi, Furukawa, Mai, ...

We performed studies on murine models and human volunteers to examine the immunoenhancing effects of the naturally outdoor-cultivated fruit body of Agaricus brasiliensis KA21 (i.e. Agaricus blazei)....

Binding to the Minor Groove of the Double-Strand, Tau Protein Prevents DNA from Damage by Peroxidation

Wei, Yan, Qu, Mei-Hua, Wang, Xing-Sheng, Chen, Lan, Wang, Dong-Liang, Liu, Ying, ...

Tau, an important microtubule associated protein, has been found to bind to DNA, and to be localized in the nuclei of both neurons and some non-neuronal cells. Here, using electrophoretic mobility...

EFFECTS OF SPUTTERED Ar PRESSURE AND SUBSTRATE TEMPERATURE ON THE MICROSTRUCTURE AND MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF Cr/SmCo5/Cr FILMS

CONGMIAN ZHEN, JINJUAN ZHANG, LI MA, DENGLU HOU, YING LIU, SHIQIANG LI

Cr/SmCo5/Cr films were fabricated by a DC facing targets magnetron sputtering. The influences of sputtered Ar pressure and substrate temperature on their microstructure and magnetic properties were...

PERMANENCE AND THE EXISTENCE OF THE PERIODIC SOLUTION OF THE NON-AUTONOMOUS TWO-SPECIES COMPETITIVE MODEL WITH STAGE STRUCTURE

GUANGZHAO ZENG, LANSUN CHEN, LIHUA SUN, YING LIU

This paper considers a non-autonomous competitive two-species model with stage structure in one species. The conditions of permanence obtained. Furthermore, the existence and asymptotic stability of...

Financial Structure Change and Banking Income: a Canada-U.S. Comparison

Christian Calmès, Ying Liu

Data suggest that the Canadian financial structure, and particularly indirect finance (e.g., banking), have become more market-oriented. we associate this financiel trend in part with the regulatory...

Cattle Mammary Bioreactor Generated by a Novel Procedure of Transgenic Cloning for Large-Scale Production of Functional Human Lactoferrin

Yang, Penghua, Wang, Jianwu, Gong, Guochun, Sun, Xiuzhu, Zhang, Ran, Du, Zhuo, ...

Large-scale production of biopharmaceuticals by current bioreactor techniques is limited by low transgenic efficiency and low expression of foreign proteins. In general, a bacterial artificial...

A binomial CUSUM chart for detecting large shifts in fraction nonconforming

Zhang Wu, Jianxin Jiao, Ying Liu

This article studies a unique feature of the binomial CUSUM chart in which the difference (dt-d0) is replaced by (dt-d0)2 in the formulation of the cumulative sum Ct (where dt and d0 are the actual...

Biodistribution and Safety Profile of Recombinant Adeno-Associated Virus Serotype 6 Vectors following Intravenous Delivery ▿

Stone, Daniel, Liu, Ying, Li, Zong-Yi, Strauss, Robert, Finn, Eric E., Allen, James M., ...

Recombinant adeno-associated virus vectors based on serotype 6 (rAAV6) efficiently transduce skeletal muscle after intravenous administration and have shown efficacy in the mdx model of muscular...

A model for a multivariate binary response with covariates based on compatible conditionally specified logistic regressions

Joe, Harry, Liu, Ying

A model for a multivariate binary response vector with covariates is obtained. The conditional distribution of each binary response given the other binary responses and the covariates is equivalent...

Stem cell myths

Magnus, Tim, Liu, Ying, Parker, Graham C, Rao, Mahendra S

Stem cells, although difficult to define, hold great promise as tools for understanding development and as therapeutic agents. However, as with any new field, uncritical enthusiasm can outstrip...

Financial structure change and banking income: A Canada-U.S. comparison

Calmès, Christian, Liu, Ying

Data suggest that the Canadian financial structure, and particularly indirect finance (e.g., banking), have become more market-oriented. We associate this financial trend in part with the regulatory...

Block-Suffix Shifting: Fast, Simultaneous Medical Concept Set Identification in Large Medical Record Corpora

Liu, Ying, Lita, Lucian Vlad, Niculescu, Radu Stefan, Mitra, Prasenjit, Giles, C. Lee

Owing to new advances in computer hardware, large text databases have become more prevalent than ever. Automatically mining information from these databases proves to be a challenge due to slow...

Experimental Study of Subchronic Toxicity of Lanthanum Nitrate on Liver in Rats

Chen, Dong, Liu, Ying, Chen, Ai-jun, Nie, Yu-Xiu

Wistar rats were divided into six groups, which were given La (NO3)3 at 20.0, 10.0, 2.0, 0.2, and 0.1 mg/kg, and the control group, which was given physiological saline, respectively, for six months....

Expression of Mipu1 in Response to Myocardial Infarction in Rats

Wang, Guiliang, Zuo, Xiaoxia, Liu, Junwen, Jiang, Lei, Liu, Ying, Zheng, Yazhu, ...

Myocardial ischemic preconditioning up-regulated protein 1 (Mipu1) was cloned in our laboratory. Male Wistar rats were subjected to left anterior coronary artery ligation and sham-operation and...

The Sphingolipid Long-chain Base-Pkh1/2-Ypk1/2 Signaling Pathway Regulates Eisosome Assembly and Turnover*S⃞

Luo, Guangzuo, Gruhler, Albrecht, Liu, Ying, Jensen, Ole N., Dickson, Robert C.

Eisosomes are recently described fungal structures that play roles in the organization of the plasma membrane and endocytosis. Their major protein components are Pil1 and Lsp1, and previous studies...

High performance data mining techniques for large databases.

Liu, Ying.

Thesis (Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering)--Northwestern University, 2005.

The chemistrode: A droplet-based microfluidic device for stimulation and recording with high temporal, spatial, and chemical resolution

Chen, Delai, Du, Wenbin, Liu, Ying, Liu, Weishan, Kuznetsov, Andrey, Mendez, Felipe E., ...

Microelectrodes enable localized electrical stimulation and recording, and they have revolutionized our understanding of the spatiotemporal dynamics of systems that generate or respond to electrical...

In Vitro and In Vivo Properties of Adenovirus Vectors with Increased Affinity to CD46▿

Wang, Hongjie, Liu, Ying, Li, ZongYi, Tuve, Sebastian, Stone, Daniel, Kalyushniy, Oleksandr, ...

Gene transfer vectors containing adenovirus (Ad) serotype 35 (Ad35) fibers have shown promise for cancer and stem cell gene therapy. In this study, we attempted to improve the in vitro and in vivo...

Upregulation of the constitutively expressed HSC70 by KLF4

Liu, Ying, Zhao, Jie, Liu, Junwen, Zhang, Huali, Liu, Meidong, Xiao, Xianzhong

Krüppel-like factor 4 (KLF4) is a transcription factor that is abundantly expressed in various organisms from bacteria to mammals. It has been demonstrated that KLF4 regulates the expression of a...

A Hybrid Approach for Biomarker Discovery from Microarray Gene Expression Data for Cancer Classification

Peng, Yanxiong, Li, Wenyuan, Liu, Ying

Microarrays allow researchers to monitor the gene expression patterns for tens of thousands of genes across a wide range of cellular responses, phenotype and conditions. Selecting a small subset of...

Activated Androgen Receptor Downregulates E-Cadherin Gene Expression and Promotes Tumor Metastasis ▿

Liu, Yan-Nian, Liu, Ying, Lee, Han-Jung, Hsu, Yung-Hsiang, Chen, Ji-Hshiung

The loss of E-cadherin gene expression can cause the dysfunction of the cell-cell junction to trigger tumor metastasis. Members of the Snail family of transcription factors are repressors of the...

Market Valuation and Risk Assessment of Canadian Banks

Liu, Ying, Papakirykos, Eli, Yuan, Mingwei

This paper applies the asset valuation model developed by Rabinovitch (1989) to the six largest Canadian banks. The model is an extension of the Merton (1977a) option-pricing model with the...

Cyclic Adenosine 3′,5′-Monophosphate Responsive Element Binding Protein Phosphorylation Is Required But Not Sufficient for Activation of Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone Transcription

Liu, Ying, Kamitakahara, Anna, Kim, Alice Joohee, Aguilera, Greti

cAMP is a major regulator of CRH transcription. However, receptors activating CRH neurons (α-adrenergic and glutamatergic) do not signal through cAMP, suggesting that calcium phospholipid-dependent...

Adiponectin is expressed by skeletal muscle fibers and influences muscle phenotype and function

Krause, Matthew P., Liu, Ying, Vu, Vivian, Chan, Lawrence, Xu, Aimin, Riddell, Michael C., ...

Adiponectin (Ad) is linked to various disease states and mediates antidiabetic and anti-inflammatory effects. While it was originally thought that Ad expression was limited to adipocytes, we...

Multiple Intrinsically Disordered Sequences Alter DNA Binding by the Homeodomain of the Drosophila Hox Protein Ultrabithorax*S⃞

Liu, Ying, Matthews, Kathleen S., Bondos, Sarah E.

During animal development, distinct tissues, organs, and appendages are specified through differential gene transcription by Hox transcription factors. However, the conserved Hox homeodomains bind...

Gastrointestinal differentiation marker Cytokeratin 20 is regulated by homeobox gene CDX1

Chan, Carol W. M., Wong, Newton A., Liu, Ying, Bicknell, David, Turley, Helen, Hollins, Laura, ...

CDX1 is a transcription factor that plays a key role in intestinal development and differentiation. However, the downstream targets of CDX1 are less well defined than those of its close homologue,...

Generation and Characterization of Novel Human IRAS Monoclonal Antibodies

Wang, Bo, Liu, Ying, Shan, Yajun, Yao, Zhenyu, Liu, Xiaolan, Su, Ruibin, ...

Imidazoline receptors were first proposed by Bousquet et al., when they studied antihypertensive effect of clonidine. A strong candidate for I1R, known as imidazoline receptor antisera-selected...

On goodness-of-fit of logistic regression model

Liu, Ying

Logistic regression model is a branch of the generalized linear models and is widely used in many areas of scientific research. The logit link function and the binary dependent variable of interest...

Two Clinical Strains of Klebsiella pneumoniae Carrying Plasmid-Borne blaIMP-4, blaSHV-12, and armA Isolated at a Pediatric Center in Shanghai, China▿

Liu, Ying, Zhang, Bei, Cao, Qing, Huang, Weichun, Shen, Lisong, Qin, Xuan

Two cases of pulmonary infection due to strains of multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae were investigated. Beta-lactamase determinants, such as blaIMP-4 and blaSHV-12, and the 16S rRNA...

On goodness-of-fit of logistic regression model

Liu, Ying

Logistic regression model is a branch of the generalized linear models and is widely used in many areas of scientific research. The logit link function and the binary dependent variable of interest...

A progressive rise in stomach cancer-related mortality rate during 1970-1995 in Japanese individuals over 85 years of age

Juan Sun, Xiaohui Ouyang, Hidekatsu Yoshioka, Wenli Wang, Chun Fan, Hongwei Li, ...

A large number of studies have shown a gradual fall in stomach cancer-related mortality rate during the last decade. Here we analyzed the pattern of stomach cancer-related mortality rates in Japanese...