Ying Zhang

Publication List Details

Period

1985 - 2009

Number

609

Co-Authors

On the Correlation of Geographic and Network Proximity at Internet Edges and its Implications for Mobile Unicast and Multicast Routing. ∗ (2009)

Thomas C. Schmidt, Matthias Wählisch, Ying Zhang

Signi cant e ort has been invested recently to accelerate handover operations in a next generation mobile Internet. Corresponding works for developing e-cient mobile multicast management are...

Solving the Dirac equation with nonlocal potential by Imaginary Time Step method (2009)

Zhang, Ying, Liang, Haozhao, Meng, Jie

The Imaginary Time Step (ITS) method is applied to solve the Dirac equation with the nonlocal potential in coordinate space by the ITS evolution for the corresponding Schr\"odinger-like equation for...

Magnetic moments of $^{33}$Mg in time-odd relativistic mean field approach (2009)

Li, Jian, Zhang, Ying, Yao, Jiang-ming, Meng, Jie

The configuration-fixed deformation constrained relativistic mean field approach with time-odd component has been applied to investigate the ground-state properties of $^{33}$Mg with effective...

High Precision sigma exp(13)C Analysis Of Steroids By Comprehensive Two Dimensional Gas Chromatography Combustion Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (2009)

Zhang, Ying

Carbon Isotope Ratio analysis of urinary steroids using GCC-IRMS is a recognized test to detect illicit doping with synthetic testosterone. However, there are currently no universally used steroid...

Fast Sub-pixel Precision Variable Block Size Motion Estimation (2009)

Zhang, Ying, Siu, Wan-Chi, Shen, Tingzhi

APSIPA ASC 2009: Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association, 2009 Annual Summit and Conference. 4-7 October 2009. Sapporo, Japan. Poster session: Image, Video, and Multimedia Signal...

Suppression of growth, migration and invasion of highly-metastatic human breast cancer cells by berbamine and its molecular mechanisms of action (2009)

Wang, Shan, Liu, Qian, Zhang, Ying, Liu, Ke, Yu, Pengfei, Liu, Kun, ...

Abstract Background Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer related deaths among females worldwide. Berbamine (BER), a kind of bis-benzylisoquinoline alkaloid, has been used to treat...

Large-scale sidereal anisotropy of multi-TeV galactic cosmic rays and the heliosphere (2009)

Amenomori, M., Bi, X. J., Chen, D., Cui, S. W., Ding, L. K., ...

We develop a model anisotropy best-fitting to the two-dimensional sky-map of multi-TeV galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity observed with the Tibet III air shower (AS) array. By incorporating a pair...

Effective Diagnosis of Routing Disruptions from End Systems (2009)

Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Ming Zhang

Internet routing events are known to introduce severe disruption to applications. So far effective diagnosis of routing events has relied on proprietary ISP data feeds, resulting in limited...

Integrating XQuery and P2P in MonetDB/XQuery* (2009)

Ying Zhang, Peter Boncz

Abstract. MonetDB/XQuery * is a fully functional publicly available XML DBMS that has been extended with distributed and P2P data management functionality. Our (minimal) XQuery language extension...

Computation of the p6 order chiral Lagrangian coefficients from the underlying theory of QCD (2009)

Jiang, Shao-Zhou, Zhang, Ying, Li, Chuan, Wang, Qing

We present results of computing the p6 order low energy constants in the normal part of chiral Lagrangian both for two and three flavor pseudo-scalar mesons. This is a generalization of our previous...

Probabilistic Skyline Operators over Sliding Windows Windows (2009)

Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, Jeffrey Xu Yu

Abstract — Skyline computation has many applications including multi-criteria decision making. In this paper, we study the problem of efficient processing of continuous skyline queries over sliding...

Managing Uncertain Data: Probabilistic Approaches (2009)

Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Jian Pei, Ying Zhang

Abstract — Uncertain data are inherent in many important applications. Recently, considerable research efforts have been put into the field of managing uncertain data. In this paper, we summarize...

Taming Verification Hardness: An Efficient Algorithm for Testing Subgraph Isomorphism (2009)

Haichuan Shang, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin

Graphs are widely used to model complicated data semantics in many applications. In this paper, we aim to develop efficient techniques to retrieve graphs, containing a given query graph, from a large...

Non-local mean field effect on nuclei near Z=64 sub-shell (2009)

Long, Wen Hui, Nakatsukasa, Takashi, Sagawa, Hiroyuki, Meng, Jie, Nakada, Hitoshi, Zhang, Ying

Evolutions of single-particle energies and Z=64 sub-shell along the isotonic chain of N=82 are investigated in the density dependent relativistic Hartree-Fock (DDRHF) theory in comparison with other...

High-sensitive and rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosisinfection by IFN-γ release assay among HIV-infected individuals in BCG-vaccinated area (2009)

Jiang, Weimin, Shao, Lingyun, Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Shu, Meng, Chengyan, Xu, Yunya, ...

Abstract Background An accurate test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is urgently needed in immunosuppressed populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic power of...

Effect of chemistry-aerosol-climate coupling on predictions of future climate and future levels of tropospheric ozone and aerosols (2009)

Liao, Hong, Zhang, Ying, Chen, Wei-Ting, Raes, Frank, Seinfeld, John H.

We explore the extent to which chemistry-aerosol-climate coupling influences predictions of future ozone and aerosols as well as future climate using the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)...

Avoid the Tsunami of the Dirac sea in the Imaginary Time Step method (2009)

Zhang, Ying, Liang, Haozhao, Meng, Jie

The discrete single-particle spectra in both the Fermi and Dirac sea have been calculated by the imaginary time step (ITS) method for the Schr\"{o}dinger-like equation after avoiding the "tsunami" of...

Clinical significance of Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin(NGAL) expression in primary rectal cancer (2009)

Zhang, Xiu-Feng, Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Xiao-Hua, Zhou, Su-Mei, Yang, Guan-Gen, Wang, Ou-Chen, ...

Abstract Background Emerging evidence has demonstrated that Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is up-regulated in multiple malignancies, including oesophagus cancer, and plays a...

EFFECTS OF AN ALCOHOL EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN WUHAN, CHINA (2009)

Zhang, Ying

This study evaluates the effects of an alcohol education program on high school students' knowledge, alcohol expectancy, self-regulation self-efficacy and alcohol use behavior in Wuhan City, Hubei...

Z' Boson Mixings with Z-\gamma and Charge Assignments (2009)

Zhang, Ying, Wang, Qing

Based on the general description for Z'-Z-\gamma mixing as derived from the electroweak chiral Lagrangian, we characterize and classify the various new physics models involving the Z' boson that have...

Treatment of malignant tumors of the skull base with multi-session radiosurgery (2009)

Coppa, Nicholas D, Raper, Daniel MS, Zhang, Ying, Collins, Brian T, Harter, K William, Gagnon, Gregory J, ...

Abstract Objective Malignant tumors that involve the skull base pose significant challenges to the clinician because of the proximity of critical neurovascular structures and limited effectiveness of...

Doubly hybrid density functional for accurate descriptions of nonbond interactions, thermochemistry, and thermochemical kinetics (2009)

Zhang, Ying, Xu, Xin

We develop and validate a density functional, XYG3, based on the adiabatic connection formalism and the Görling–Levy coupling-constant perturbation expansion to the second order (PT2). XYG3 is a...

The CMU-UKA Statistical Machine Translation Systems for IWSLT 2007 (2009)

Ian Lane, Andreas Zollmann, Thuy Linh Nguyen, Nguyen Bach, Ashish Venugopal, Stephan Vogel, ...

This paper describes the CMU-UKA statistical machine translation systems submitted to the IWSLT 2007 evaluation campaign. Systems were submitted for three language-pairs: Japanese→English,...

Abstract (2009)

Ying Zhang, Lan Wu

Time series datasets are widely used in many areas. When the size of a dataset grows large or the number of datasets increases, it becomes difficult for a human to observe the structure of a dataset...

Patterns of exon-intron architecture variation of genes in eukaryotic genomes (2009)

Zhu, Liucun, Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Wen, Yang, Sihai, Chen, Jian-Qun, Tian, Dacheng

Abstract Background The origin and importance of exon-intron architecture comprises one of the remaining mysteries of gene evolution. Several studies have investigated the variations of intron...

Genetic and other factors determining mannose-binding lectin levels in American Indians: the Strong Heart Study (2009)

Best, Lyle G, Ferrell, Robert E, DeCroo, Susan, North, Kari E, MacCluer, Jean W, Zhang, Ying, ...

Abstract Background Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) forms an integral part of the innate immune system. Persistent, subclinical infections and chronic inflammatory states are hypothesized to contribute...

Radical cyberknife radiosurgery with tumor tracking: an effective treatment for inoperable small peripheral stage I non-small cell lung cancer (2009)

Collins, Brian T, Vahdat, Saloomeh, Erickson, Kelly, Collins, Sean P, Suy, Simeng, Yu, Xia, ...

Abstract Objective Curative surgery is not an option for many patients with clinical stage I non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), but radical radiosurgery may be effective. Methods Inoperable...

Effects of an alcohol education program for high school students in Wuhan, China (2009)

Zhang, Ying

This study evaluates the effects of an alcohol education program on high school students' knowledge, alcohol expectancy, self-regulation self-efficacy and alcohol use behavior in Wuhan City, Hubei...

Function and signaling of plexinD1 in the endothelial cells (2009)

Zhang, Ying

Several families of neuronal guidance factors have been found to direct the patterning of developing vascular system. In particular, certain semaphorins and their plexin and neuropilin receptors have...

Effects of San’ao decoction and its analogous prescriptions on airway inflammation in mice with respiratory syncytial virus- and ovalbumin-induced asthma (2009)

Ying ZHANG, Hui-qin XU

Objective: To evaluate the effects of San’ao decoction (SAD) and its analogous prescriptions (APs), compounds of traditional Chinese herbal medicine for asthma, on airway inflammation in mice with...

Glycobiology on the fly: Developmental and mechanistic insights from Drosophila (2009)

Hagen, Kelly G. Ten, Zhang, Liping, Tian, E, Zhang, Ying

Drosophila melanogaster offers many unique advantages for deciphering the complexities of glycan biosynthesis and function. The completion of the Drosophila genome sequencing project as well as the...

Downregulation of miR-133 and miR-590 contributes to nicotine-induced atrial remodelling in canines (2009)

Shan, Hongli, Zhang, Yong, Lu, Yanjie, Zhang, Ying, Pan, Zhenwei, Cai, Benzhi, ...

Aims The present study was designed to decipher molecular mechanisms underlying nicotine's promoting atrial fibrillation (AF) by inducing atrial structural remodelling. Methods and results The...

Embryo-uterine cross-talk during implantation: the role of Wnt signaling (2009)

Chen, Qi, Zhang, Ying, Lu, Jinhua, Wang, Qiang, Wang, Shuangjie, Cao, Yujing, ...

During mammalian pregnancy, it has been demonstrated that the quality of embryo implantation determines the quality of ongoing pregnancy and fetal development. Recent studies have provided increasing...

PMAP: databases for analyzing proteolytic events and pathways (2009)

Igarashi, Yoshinobu, Heureux, Emily, Doctor, Kutbuddin S., Talwar, Priti, Gramatikova, Svetlana, Gramatikoff, Kosi, ...

The Proteolysis MAP (PMAP, http://www.proteolysis.org) is a user-friendly website intended to aid the scientific community in reasoning about proteolytic networks and pathways. PMAP is comprised of...

Creation of the two isoforms of rodent NKG2D was driven by a B1 retrotransposon insertion (2009)

Lai, C. Benjamin, Zhang, Ying, Rogers, Sally L., Mager, Dixie L.

The mouse gene for the natural killer (NK) cell-activating receptor Nkg2d produces two protein isoforms, NKG2D-S and NKG2D-L, which differ by 13 amino acids at the N-terminus and have different...

Existence of Positive Solutions for m-Point Boundary Value Problems on Time Scales (2009)

Ying Zhang, ShiDong Qiao

We study the one-dimensional p-Laplacian m-point boundary value problem (φp(uΔ(t)))Δ+a(t)f(t,u(t))=0, t∈[0,1]T, u(0)=0, u(1)=∑i=1m−2aiu(ξi), where T is a time scale, φp(s)=|s|p−2s, p>1,...

Characterization of the putative tryptophan synthase {beta}-subunit from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (2009)

Shen, Hongbo, Yang, Yanping, Wang, Feifei, Zhang, Ying, Ye, Naihao, Xu, Shengfeng, ...

The increasing emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) poses a serious threat to the control of this disease. It is in urgent need to develop new TB drugs. Tryptophan biosynthetic pathway plays...

Di-μ-cyanido-1:2κ2C:N,2:3κ2N:C-hexacyanido-1κ3C,3κ3C-tetrakis(1,10-phenanthroline)-1κ2N,N′;2κ4N,N′;3κ2N,N′-1,3-dicobalt(III)-2-iron(II) tetrahydrate (2009)

Ying Zhang, Ai-Hua Yuan, Hu Zhou, Ji-Xi Guo, Lang Liu

The hydrothermal reaction of CoCl2·6H2O, 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) and K3[Fe(CN)6] in deionized water yielded the title cyanide-bridged trinuclear cluster, [Co2Fe(CN)8(C12H8N2)4]·4H2O or...

Poly[[(μ2-benzene-1,4-dicarboxylato-κ4O1,O1′:O4,O4′)(μ2-di-4-pyridyldiazene-κ2N1:N1′)cobalt(II)] N,N-dimethylformamide disolvate hemihydrate] (2009)

Chao-Xia Chu, Ying Zhang, Hu Zhou, Ai-Hua Yuan

In the title compound, {[Co(C8H4O4)(C10H8N4)]·2C3H7NO·0.5H2O}n, the CoII atom is six-coordinated by four O atoms from two benzene-1,4-dicarboxylate (H2bdc2−) groups and two N atoms...

StreetTiVo: Using a P2P XML Database System to Manage Multimedia Data in Your Living Room (2009)

Zhang, Ying, De Vries, A.P., Boncz, P., Hiemstra, D., Ordelman, R.J.F.

StreetTiVo is a project that aims at bringing research results into the living room; in particular, a mix of current results in the areas of Peer-to-Peer XML Database Management System (P2P XDBMS),...

Effective Diagnosis of Routing Disruptions from End Systems (2008)

Ying Zhang

Internet routing events are known to introduce severe disruption to applications. So far effective diagnosis of routing events has relied on proprietary ISP data feeds, resulting in limited...

Internet-Scale Malware Mitigation: Combining Intelligence of the Control and Data Plane ABSTRACT (2008)

Ying Zhang

Security on the Internet today is treated mostly as a data plane problem. IDS’s, firewalls, and spam filters all operate on the simple principle of detecting malicious data plane behavior and...

PolyBot and PolyKinetic TM System: A Modular Robotic Platform for Education (2008)

Alex Golovinsky, Mark Yim, Ying Zhang, Craig Eldershaw, Dave Duff

Abstract—Modular robotics has been an active area of research for the last decade. In this paper, we argue that it also provides an excellent platform for education. PolyBot is a type of modular...

ABSTRACT Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking (2008)

Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao

Prefix hijacking, a misbehavior in which a misconfigured or malicious BGP router originates a route to an IP prefix it does not own, is becoming an increasingly serious security problem in the...

Testing for Unit Roots in Seasonal Time Series with Long Period. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Testing for seasonal unit roots has been discussed extensively in the literature. However, the test will be dicult if the time series has a long period, where the critical values for the test...

Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.3 [Computer Systems Organization]: Network Operations (2008)

Wheeler Ruml, Ying Zhang

ABSTRACT It is often useful to know the geographic positions of nodes in a communications network, but adding GPS receivers or other sophisticated sensors to every node can be expensive. We present...

ABSTRACT Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking (2008)

Zheng Zhang, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao

Prefix hijacking, a misbehavior in which a misconfigured or malicious BGP router originates an IP prefix that the router does not own, is becoming an increasingly serious security problem on the...

Two-dimensional photonic crystals with anisotropic unit cells imprinted from poly(dimethylsiloxane) membranes under elastic deformation (2008)

Zhu, Xuelian, Zhang, Ying, Chandra, Dinesh, Cheng, Shih-Chieh, Kikkawa, James M, Yang, Shu

We study structural symmetries of two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals with anisotropic unit cells, including square- and rectangular-lattices with orientationally modulated elliptic motifs, and a...

Cholesteric Gels from Helical Polyguanidines and Cyclopolymerization of 1,2-Dicarbodiimides (2008)

Zhang, Ying

As a helical polymer, polyguanidines have been investigated for a period of time. Single-handed polyguanidines can be synthesized by polymerization of chiral carbodiimides or helix-sense selective...

33.2 Energy-Aware Deterministic Fault Tolerance in Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems* (2008)

Ying Zhang

We investigate a unified approach for fault tolerance and dynamic power management in distributed real-time embedded systems. Coordinated checkpointing is used to achieve fault tolerance, and power...

Multilingual Search for Cultural Heritage Archives via Combining Multiple Translation Resources (2008)

Ying Zhang, Eamonn Newman, Fabio Fantino

The linguistic features of material in Cultural Heritage (CH) archives may be in various languages requiring a facility for effective multilingual search. The specialised language often associated...

Here, (2008)

Ying Zhang, Jiedao Zhang, Cheng Cheng, Xingqi Guo

development. 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC)

Design Synthesis of Microelectromechanical Systems Using Genetic Algorithms with Component-Based Genotype Representation (2008)

Ying Zhang, Alice M. Agogino

An automated design synthesis system based on a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) has been developed for the optimization of surface-micromachined MEMS devices. A hierarchical component-based...

SDIP 3: Structured and Dynamic Information Push and Pull Protocols for Distributed Sensor Networks (2008)

Ying Zhang, Qingfeng Huang

Abstract. We propose and study a class of structured and dynamic information push and pull protocols for wireless sensor networks. For structured information dissemination, our study focuses on the...

An Investigation of Question Translation for English–Chinese Cross-Language Question Answering (2008)

Ying Zhang, Sen Zhang, Bin Wang, Yuqing Guo, Yanjun Ma

Question-answering (QA) is a next-generation search technology which aims to provide answers to a user’s question from a collection of documents. Cross-Language QA (CLQA) extends this paradigm to...

ABSTRACT Internet Routing Resilience to Failures: Analysis and Implications (2008)

Jian Wu, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley, Mao Kang, G. Shin

Internet interdomain routing is policy-driven, and thus physical connectivity does not imply reachability. On average, routing on today’s Internet works quite well, ensuring reachability for most...

Online available since 2006/Dec/15 Knowledge Based Process Scheduling and Management for Multi-agent Distributed Collaborative Manufacturing (2008)

Yanli He, Weiping He, Haicheng Yang, Ying Zhang, Kai Zhao

Abstract. Agent technology is widely employed to construct dynamic, distributed collaborative manufacturing systems in which the individual participating agents contribute to execute different part...

ABSTRACT Internet Routing Resilience to Failures: Analysis and Implications (2008)

Jian Wu, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley, Mao Kang, G. Shin

Internet interdomain routing is policy-driven, and thus physical connectivity does not imply reachability. On average, routing on today’s Internet works quite well, ensuring reachability for most...

Intricate gene regulatory networks of helix-loop-helix (HLH) proteins support regulation of bone-tissue related genes during osteoblast differentiation (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Hassan, Mohammad Q., Li, Zhaoyong, Stein, Janet L., Lian, Jane B., Van Wijnen, Andre J., ...

Helix-loop-helix (HLH) transcription factors are key regulators of neurogenesis, myogenesis and osteogenesis. Here the relative contributions of multiple classes of HLH factors to the expression of...

An Analysis of Factors Predicting Click Through Rate During Web Searching Using Neural Networks (2008)

Zhang, Ying

In this research, I investigate the interactions between users and search engines during Web searching using Neural Networks (NNs) and data from two Web search engine transactional logs. The goal of...

Dublin City University at CLEF 2007: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) Experiments (2008)

Ying Zhang, Ke Zhang

The Dublin City University participated in the CLEF 2007 CL-SR English task. For CLEF 2007 we concentrated primarily on the issues of topic translation, combining this with search field combination...

Internet-Scale Malware Mitigation: Combining Intelligence of the Control and Data Plane ABSTRACT (2008)

Ying Zhang

Security on the Internet today is treated mostly as a data plane problem. IDS’s, firewalls, and spam filters all operate on the simple principle of detecting malicious data plane behavior and...

Mobile Self-Localization using Multi-Dimensional Scaling in Robotic Sensor Networks (2008)

Chang-hua Wu, Weihua Sheng, Ying Zhang

Abstract — In this paper, we define a mobile self-localization (MSL) problem for sparse and/or mobile robotic sensor networks, and propose an algorithm, MA-MDS-MAP(P), based on Multi-Dimensional...

Overview of the CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval Track (2008)

Pavel Pecina, Petra Hoffmannová, Ying Zhang, Douglas W. Oard

The CLEF-2007 Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) track included two tasks: to identify topically coherent segments of English interviews in a known-boundary condition, and to identify time...

Wavelet Transform Based Variable Tree Size Fractal Video Coding (2008)

Ying Zhang, Lai-man Po, Ying-lin Yu

A new wavelet video compression scheme using adaptive fractal codi ng i s pr esented i n t his paper. Through pyramidal w avelet t ransform, each vi deo f rame i s decomposed into multiresolution...

Abstract Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications (2008)

Mark Yim, Kimon Roufas, David Duff, Ying Zhang, Craig Eldershaw, Sam Homans

Robots used for tasks in space have strict requirements. Modular reconfigurable robots have a variety of attributes that are well suited to for these conditions, including: the ability to serve as...

Localizing Tags Using Mobile Infrastructure (2008)

Ying Zhang, Kurt Partridge, Jim Reich

Abstract. This paper presents algorithms, simulations, and empirical results of a system that finds relative tag positions in 3D space using a new approach called “mobile infrastructure. ” Mobile...

A Measurement Study of Internet Delay Asymmetry (2008)

Abhinav Pathak, Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao

Abstract. RTT has been widely used as a metric for peer/server selection. However, many applications involving closest peer/server selection like streaming, tree-based multicast services and other...

Privacy-Preserving Data Set Union (2008)

Alberto Maria, Segre Andrew Wildenberg, Veronica Vieland, Ying Zhang

This paper describes a cryptographic protocol for merging two data sets based on identifiers without divulging those identifier records; technically, the protocol computes a blind set-theoretic...

Abstract Modular Reconfigurable Robots in Space Applications (2008)

Mark Yim, Kimon Roufas, David Duff, Ying Zhang, Sam Homans

Robots used for tasks in space have strict requirements. Modular reconfigurable robots have a variety of attributes that are advantageous for these conditions including the ability to serve as many...

Minimum Power Configuration for Wireless Communication in Sensor Networks (2008)

Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Ying Zhang, Qingfeng Huang, Robert Pless

copyright/server notice, the title of the publication, and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by permission of the ACM, Inc. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or...

Robotics for Future Land Warfare: Modular Self Reconfigurable Robots (2008)

Craig Eldershaw, Mark Yim, David Duff, Kimon Roufas, Ying Zhang

The face of modern land warfare is changing rapidly. Defence organisations around the world must be constantly adjusting and improving just to maintain a comparative advantage over their opponents....

Evaluation of Multi-sensory Feedback on the Usability of a Virtual Assembly Environment (2008)

Ying Zhang

Abstract — Virtual assembly environment (VAE) technology has the great potential for benefiting the manufacturing applications in industry. Usability is an important aspect of the VAE. This paper...

MEMS Design Synthesis: Integrating Case-based Reasoning and Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms (2008)

Corie L. Cobb, Ying Zhang, Alice M. Agogino

A case-based reasoning (CBR) knowledge base has been incorporated into a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) design tool that uses a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) to synthesize and...

Characterizing Internet Delay Asymmetry (2008)

Abhinav Pathak, Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao

Many real-time applications over the wide-area network perform proximity measurements to optimize their performance. These include voice over IP [14], multicast streaming (e.g., [7, 3, 4]), data...

Dedication (2008)

Shuo Feng, Ying Zhang, My Daughter, Grace Zixuan Feng, Baopu Feng, Yulian Yuan

Recognition. (Under the direction of Professor Hamid Krim). Curves are important features in computer vision and pattern recognition, and their classification under a variety of transformations, such...

Flight Performance of the Soybean Aphid, Aphis glycines (Hemiptera: Aphididae) Under Different Temperature and Humidity Regimens (2008)

Ying Zhang, Limin Wang, Kongming Wu, George E. Heimpel

The soybean aphid, Aphis glycines (Matsumura), is native to eastern Asia and has recently invaded North America, where it is currently the most important insect pest of soybeans. The soybean aphid...

One-step nanoscale assembly of complex structures via harnessing of elastic instability (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Matsumoto, Elisabetta A., Peter, Anna, Lin, Pei-Chun, Kamien, Randall D., Yang, Shu

We report on a simple yet robust method to produce orientationally modulated two-dimensional patterns with sub-100 nm features over cm(2) regions via a solvent-induced swelling instability of an...

Stueckelberg Mechanism and Chiral Lagrangian for $Z'$ Boson (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Wang, Shun-Zhi, Wang, Qing

Traditional Stueckelberg Mechanism is shown equivalent to set up a gauged U(1) chiral Lagrangian and fix special gauge. With this mechanism, the original electro-weak chiral Lagrangian is inlarged by...

A Novel X-Axis Tuning Fork Gyroscope with "8 Vertical Springs-Proofmass" Structure on (111)-Silicon (2008)

Duan, Fei, Jiao, Jiwei, Wang, Yucai, Zhang, Ying, Mi, Binwei, Li, Jinpeng, ...

A novel x-axis tuning fork MEMS gyroscope with "8 vertical springs-proofmass" structure for Coriolis effect detection is presented. Compared with the common single-plane springs, the 8 vertical...

Sequential Localization Algorithm for Active Sensor Network Deployment (2008)

Ying Zhang, Qingfeng Huang, Juan Liu

There has been a lot of work on localization for sensor networks. Most localization schemes assume an already deployed network. Very little research has been done for active sensor deployment with...

MEMS Design Synthesis: Integrating Case-based Reasoning and Multi-objective Genetic Algorithms (2008)

Corie L. Cobb, Ying Zhang, Alice M. Agogino

A case-based reasoning (CBR) knowledge base has been incorporated into a Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) design tool that uses a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) to synthesize and...

ABSTRACT A Platform for Studying Locomotion Systems: Modular Reconfigurable Robots (2008)

Ying Zhang, Craig Eldershaw, Mark Yim, Kimon Roufas, Dave Duff

There are many fundamentally different mechanical motions that a system can use to achieve locomotion. Two standard examples are the wheels on a car or the legs of an artificial ant, but many others...

Minimum Power Configuration for Wireless Communication in Sensor Networks (2008)

Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Ying Zhang, Qingfeng Huang, Robert Pless

This article proposes the minimum power configuration (MPC) approach to power management in wireless sensor networks. In contrast to earlier research that treats different radio states (i.e.,...

and Problems—Routing and layout (2008)

Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu, Ying Zhang, Qingfeng Huang, Robert Pless

This paper proposes the minimum power configuration (MPC) approach to energy conservation in wireless sensor networks. In sharp contrast to earlier research that treats topology control, power-aware...

High-Level Sensor Network Simulations for Routing Performance Evaluations (2008)

Ying Zhang, Gyula Simon

Abstract — For wireless sensor networks a wide variety of adhoc routing algorithms are available in the literature. Typically, each algorithm comes with its own platform and application scenario,...

Information-Directed Routing in Sensor Networks Using Real-Time Reinforcement Learning (2008)

Maggie Cheng, Yingshu Li, Ying Zhang, Juan Liu, Feng Zhao

The primary task of a sensor network is sensing, that is, to collect information from a physical environment in order to answer a set of user queries or support other decision-making functions....

Pre-processing of Bilingual Corpora for Mandarin-English EBMT (2008)

Ying Zhang, Ralf Brown, Robert Frederking, Alon Lavie

Pre-processing of bilingual corpora plays an important role in Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) and Statistical-Based Machine Translation (SBMT). For our Mandarin-English EBMT system,...

PanDoRA: A Large-scale Two-way Statistical Machine Translation System for Hand-held Devices (2008)

Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

The statistical machine translation (SMT) approach has taken a lead place in the field of Machine Translation for its better translation quality and lower cost in training compared to other...

Design Synthesis of Microelectromechanical Systems Using Genetic Algorithms with Component-Based Genotype Representation (2008)

Ying Zhang, Alice M. Agogino

An automated design synthesis system based on a multi-objective genetic algorithm (MOGA) has been developed for the optimization of surface-micromachined MEMS devices. A hierarchical component-based...

Multiple Choice Randomization (2008)

Ian Mcleod, Ying Zhang, Hao Yu

items and answer-options arrangement; Student evaluation; Teaching large classes Multiple-choice randomized (MCR) examinations in which the order of the items or questions as well as the order of the...

Optimizing Components for Handheld Two-way Speech Translation for an (2008)

Roger Hsiao, Ashish Venugopal, Thilo Köhler, Ying Zhang, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, ...

This paper described our handheld two-way speech translation system for English and Iraqi. The focus is on developing a field usable handheld device for speech-to-speech translation. The computation...

Automatic Sign Translation (2008)

Ying Zhang, Bing Zhao, Jie Yang, Alex Waibel

Large amounts of information is embedded in the natural scenes. Signs are good examples of objects in natural environments which have rich information content. In this paper, we present our efforts...

Survey of Current Speech Translation Research (2008)

Ying Zhang Language, Ying Zhang

This paper is the final report for course 11-733 "Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation Seminar" Fall 2003, related information can be found at:...

Deficiencies of Double-Strand Break Repair Factors and Effects on Mutagenesis in Directly γ-Irradiated and Medium-Mediated Bystander Human Lymphoblastoid Cells (2008)

Ying Zhang, Junqing Zhou, Kathryn D. Held, Robert W. Redmond, Kevin M Prise, Howard L. Liber

Zhang, Y., Zhou, J., Held, K. D., Redmond, R. W., Prise, K. M. and Liber, H. L. Deficiencies of Double-Strand Break Repair Factors and Effects on Mutagenesis in Directly γ-Irradiated and...

Adapting an Example-Based Translation System to (2008)

Chinese Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Ralf D. Brown, Robert E. Frederking

We describe an Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) system and the adaptations and enhancementsmade to create a ChineseEnglish translation system from the Hong Kong legal code and various other...

Radial Coordination for Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)

Qingfeng Huang, Ying Zhang

Convergecast is frequently used for supporting various tasks in sensor network applications. In this paper, we investigate the problem of packet loss in the convergecast process in wireless sensor...

Defining the N-Linked Glycosylation Site of Hantaan Virus Envelope Glycoproteins Essential for Cell Fusion (2008)

Zheng, Feng, Ma, Lixian, Shao, Lihua, Wang, Gang, Chen, Fengzhe, Zhang, Ying, ...

The Hantaan virus (HTNV) is an enveloped virus that is capable of inducing low pH-dependent cell fusion. We molecularly cloned the viral glycoprotein (GP) and nucleocapsid (NP) cDNA of HTNV and...

Harnessing the instabilities of soft matter: Dynamically tuning of wetting, assembly and pattern transformation in polymer microstructures (2008)

Zhang, Ying

In this dissertation, we have investigated the fabrication, mechanical instability and applications of two kinds of polymer micro/nano-structures: high-aspect-ratio (HAR) polymer pillar arrays, and...

Genome-Wide Assessments Reveal Extremely High Levels of Polymorphism of Two Active Families of Mouse Endogenous Retroviral Elements (2008)

Ying Zhang, Irina A. Maksakova, Liane Gagnier, Dixie L. Mager

Endogenous retroviral elements (ERVs) in mice are significant genomic mutagens, causing ~10% of all reported spontaneous germ line mutations in laboratory strains. The majority of these mutations are...

Domain-specific query translation for multilingual information access using machine translation augmented with dictionaries mined from Wikipedia (2008)

Jones, Gareth J.F., Fantino, Fabio, Newman, Eamonn, Zhang, Ying

Accurate high-coverage translation is a vital component of reliable cross language information access (CLIA) systems. While machine translation (MT) has been shown to be effective for CLIA tasks in...

Domain-specific query translation for multilingual information access using machine translation augmented with dictionaries mined from Wikipedia (2008)

Jones, Gareth J.F., Fantino, Fabio, Newman, Eamonn, Zhang, Ying

Accurate high-coverage translation is a vital component of reliable cross language information access (CLIA) systems. While machine translation (MT) has been shown to be effective for CLIA tasks in...

Computing order statistics over data streams. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Statistics computation over data streams is often required by many applications, including processing of relational type queries, data mining and high speed network management. Among various s...

Weak Convergence Theorems of Three Iterative Methods for Strictly Pseudocontractive Mappings of Browder-Petryshyn Type (2008)

Ying Zhang, Yan Guo

Let E be a real q-uniformly smooth Banach space which is also uniformly convex (e.g., Lp or lp spaces (1

Error Control in Distributed Node Self-Localization (2008)

Juan Liu, Ying Zhang

Location information of nodes in an ad hoc sensor network is essential to many tasks such as routing, cooperative sensing, and service delivery. Distributed node self-localization is lightweight and...

Computing order statistics over data streams. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Statistics computation over data streams is often required by many applications, including processing of relational type queries, data mining and high speed network management. Among various s...

Computing order statistics over data streams. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Statistics computation over data streams is often required by many applications, including processing of relational type queries, data mining and high speed network management. Among various s...

Computing order statistics over data streams. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Statistics computation over data streams is often required by many applications, including processing of relational type queries, data mining and high speed network management. Among various s...

Computing order statistics over data streams. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Statistics computation over data streams is often required by many applications, including processing of relational type queries, data mining and high speed network management. Among various s...

Improved Subset Autoregression: With R Package (2008)

A. I. McLeod, Ying Zhang

The FitAR R (R Development Core Team 2008) package that is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network is described. This package provides a comprehensive approach to fitting autoregressive and...

Climate Change and the Transmission of Vector-Borne Diseases: A Review (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Bi, Peng, Hiller, Janet Esther

This article reviews studies examining the relationship between climate variability and the transmission of vector- and rodent-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, Ross River virus...

Quality of Australian clinical guidelines and relevance to the care of older people with multiple morbid conditions (2008)

Vitry, Agnes, Zhang, Ying

Objective: To assess the quality of Australian clinical guidelines for chronic diseases and their relevance to older people with multiple comorbid conditions. Design: Selection and assessment of...

Climate Change and the Transmission of Vector-Borne Diseases: A Review (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Bi, Peng, Hiller, Janet Esther

This article reviews studies examining the relationship between climate variability and the transmission of vector- and rodent-borne diseases, including malaria, dengue fever, Ross River virus...

Quality of Australian clinical guidelines and relevance to the care of older people with multiple morbid conditions (2008)

Vitry, Agnes, Zhang, Ying

Objective: To assess the quality of Australian clinical guidelines for chronic diseases and their relevance to older people with multiple comorbid conditions. Design: Selection and assessment of...

High-Efficiency Intracavity Continuous-Wave Green-Light Generation by Quasiphase Matching in a Bulk Periodically Poled MgO:LiNbO3 Crystal (2008)

Shaowei Chu, Ying Zhang, Bin Wang, Yong Bi

908 mW of green light at 532 nm were generated by intracavity quasiphase matching in a bulk periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3 (PPMgLN) crystal. A maximum optical-to-optical...

Computing order statistics over data streams. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Statistics computation over data streams is often required by many applications, including processing of relational type queries, data mining and high speed network management. Among various s...

A Novel Algorithm for Initial Frame Synchronization in TD-SCDMA Downlink (2008)

Limin Meng, Jingyu Hua, Ying Zhang, Zhijiang Xu, Gang Li

This study presents a novel initial frame synchronization scheme of TD-SCDMA system. This algorithm uses the implicit power transition in the special frame structure and introduces a different power...

Computing order statistics over data streams. (2008)

Zhang, Ying

Statistics computation over data streams is often required by many applications, including processing of relational type queries, data mining and high speed network management. Among various s...

Adrenal protein expressions after Pinggan Qianyang Formula treatment in hypertensive rats with liver-yang hyperactivity: a comparative proteomic analysis (2008)

Ying ZHANG, Guang-wei ZHONG

Objective: To explore the pathogenic mechanism of liver-yang hyperactivity type of hypertension and to observe the effects of Pinggan Qianyang Formula (PGQYF), a compound of traditional Chinese...

Mahuang Zhisou Capsule in treatment of acute upper respiratory tract infection of external wind-cold syndrome: a multi-center, randomized controlled, and double-blind trial (2008)

Ying ZHANG, Jing CHANG

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of Mahuang Zhisou Capsule (MHZSC), a compound traditional Chinese herbal medicine, in treatment of acute upper respiratory tract infection of wind-cold...

Online experimenter : an evaluation of experiments conducted under local and remote conditions (2008)

Zhang, Ying

When conducting experiments, researchers traditionally work in a lab setting where they have access to specialized equipment and can meet their subjects faceto- face. This is definitely the way that...

Dublin City University at CLEF 2007: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) experiments (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Jones, Gareth J.F., Zhang, Ke

The Dublin City University participation in the CLEF 2007 CL-SR English task concentrated primarily on issues of topic translation. Our retrieval system used the BM25F model and pseudo relevance...

Dublin City University at CLEF 2007: Cross-Language Speech Retrieval (CL-SR) experiments (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Jones, Gareth J.F., Zhang, Ke

The Dublin City University participation in the CLEF 2007 CL-SR English task concentrated primarily on issues of topic translation. Our retrieval system used the BM25F model and pseudo relevance...

Weak Convergence Theorems of Three Iterative Methods for Strictly Pseudocontractive Mappings of Browder-Petryshyn Type (2008)

Ying Zhang, Yan Guo

Let E be a real q-uniformly smooth Banach space which is also uniformly convex (e.g., Lp or lp spaces (1

E2F2 expression induces proliferation of terminally differentiated cardiomyocytes in vivo (2008)

Ebelt, Henning, Zhang, Ying, Kampke, Alexander, Xu, Jia, Schlitt, Axel, Buerke, Michael, ...

Aims In previous experiments we have demonstrated that expression of the transcription factors E2F2 and E2F4 is sufficient to induce proliferation of isolated primary cardiomyocytes from newborn rats...

Transcriptional enhancement by GATA1-occupied DNA segments is strongly associated with evolutionary constraint on the binding site motif (2008)

Cheng, Yong, King, David C., Dore, Louis C., Zhang, Xinmin, Zhou, Yuepin, Zhang, Ying, ...

Tissue development and function are exquisitely dependent on proper regulation of gene expression, but it remains controversial whether the genomic signals controlling this process are subject to...

High-Efficiency Intracavity Continuous-Wave Green-Light Generation by Quasiphase Matching in a Bulk Periodically Poled MgO:LiNbO3 Crystal (2008)

Shaowei Chu, Ying Zhang, Bin Wang, Yong Bi

908 mW of green light at 532 nm were generated by intracavity quasiphase matching in a bulk periodically poled MgO:LiNbO3 (PPMgLN) crystal. A maximum optical-to-optical conversion efficiency of...

Error Control in Distributed Node Self-Localization (2008)

Juan Liu, Ying Zhang

Location information of nodes in an ad hoc sensor network is essential to many tasks such as routing, cooperative sensing, and service delivery. Distributed node self-localization is lightweight and...

A stylistic, contextual, and musical analysis of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini", Op. 43 (2008)

Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Ying

This document explores the use of the theme from Paganini's 24 th Caprice and the Dies Irae in Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43. The two themes are studied from a historical and...

Sequential solvent extraction for the modes of occurrence of selenium in coals of different ranks from the Huaibei Coalfield, China (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Liu, Guijian, Chou, Chen-Lin, Wang, Lei, Kang, Yu

Abstract Forms of selenium in bituminous coal, anthracite, and cokeite (natural coke) from Huaibei Coalfield, Anhui, China, have been determined by sequential solvent extraction. The selenium content...

Practical Defenses Against BGP Prefix Hijacking (2007)

Zhang, Zheng, Zhang, Ying, Hu, Y. Charlie

Prefix hijacking, a misbehavior in which a misconfigured or malicious BGP router originates an IP prefix that the router does not own, is becoming an increasingly serious security problem on the...

Two Estimators of the Mean of a Counting Process with Panel Count Data (2007)

Jon A. Wellner, Ying Zhang

this paper, we extend the formulation of the sample space given by Schick and Yu (1999) to study panel count data for general counting processes. We study both a pseudo-likelihood estimator b

SvPablo Guide (2007)

Ying Zhang, Ruth Aydt, Mario Pantano, Shannon Whitmore

This document is both a SvPablo user guide and a reference manual. Through a series of detailed examples, it describes both how to instrument application codes and to interpret the performance...

Pre-processing of Bilingual Corpora for Mandarin-English EBMT (2007)

Ying Zhang, Ralf Brown, Robert Frederking, Alon Lavie

Pre-processing of bilingual corpora plays an important role in Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) and Statistical-Based Machine Translation (SBMT). For our Mandarin-English EBMT system,...

1 Constraint Programming in Constraint Nets (2007)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

We view constraints as relations and constraint satisfaction as a dynamic process of approaching the solution set of the constraints. We have developed a semantic model for dynamic systems, called...

Constraint-Based Agents: (2007)

Formal Model For, Alan K. Mackworth, Ying Zhang

Formal models for agent design are important for both practical and theoretical reasons. The Constraint-Based Agent (CBA) model includes a set of tools and methods for specifying, designing,...

Combs, Needles, Haystacks: Balancing Push and Pull for Discovery in Large-Scale Sensor Networks ABSTRACT (2007)

Xin Liu, Qingfeng Huang, Ying Zhang

In this paper we investigate efficient strategies for supporting on-demand information dissemination and gathering in large-scale wireless sensor networks. In particular, we propose a “comb-needle...

Radical stereotactic radiosurgery with real-time tumor motion tracking in the treatment of small peripheral lung tumors (2007)

Collins, Brian T, Erickson, Kelly, Reichner, Cristina A, Collins, Sean P, Gagnon, Gregory J, Dieterich, Sonja, ...

Abstract Background Recent developments in radiotherapeutic technology have resulted in a new approach to treating patients with localized lung cancer. We report preliminary clinical outcomes using...

Estimation of the mean function with panel count data using monotone polynomial splines (2007)

Lu, Minggen, Zhang, Ying, Huang, Jian

We study nonparametric likelihood-based estimators of the mean function of counting processes with panel count data using monotone polynomial splines. The generalized Rosen algorithm, proposed by...

Wild-type p53 reduces radiation hypermutability in p53-mutated human lymphoblast cells (2007)

Zhang, Qinming, Liu, Yunfeng, Zhou, Junqing, Chen, Weihong, Zhang, Ying, Liber, Howard L.

Many studies have shown that an alteration of p53 affects various cellular responses to DNA damage after treatment with ionizing radiation. The human lymphoblast cell WTK1, which contains a mutant...

Widely variable endogenous retroviral methylation levels in human placenta (2007)

Reiss, Daphne, Zhang, Ying, Mager, Dixie L.

It is generally assumed that transposable elements, including endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), are silenced by DNA methylation/chromatin structure in mammalian cells. However, there have been very few...

An investigation of question translation for English-Chinese cross-language question answering (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Jones, Gareth J.F., Zhang, Sen, Wang, Bin, Guo, Yuqing, Ma, Yanjun

Question-answering (QA) is a next-generation search technology which aims to provide answers to a user’s question from a collection of documents. Cross-Language QA (CLQA) extends this paradigm to...

An investigation of question translation for English-Chinese cross-language question answering (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Jones, Gareth J.F., Zhang, Sen, Wang, Bin, Guo, Yuqing, Ma, Yanjun

Question-answering (QA) is a next-generation search technology which aims to provide answers to a user’s question from a collection of documents. Cross-Language QA (CLQA) extends this paradigm to...

Finding cis-regulatory elements using comparative genomics: Some lessons from ENCODE data (2007)

King, David C., Taylor, James, Zhang, Ying, Cheng, Yong, Lawson, Heather A., Martin, Joel, ...

Identification of functional genomic regions using interspecies comparison will be most effective when the full span of relationships between genomic function and evolutionary constraint are...

A Regular Nine-Prism Array of Patches for Wireless LANs (2007)

ZHANG, Ying, YIN, Qinye, LUO, Ming, JIANG, Yansheng

Since Smart Antenna technology has powerful spatial processing ability; it is regarded as a promising approach to enhancing the data rates and capacity of wireless LAN systems. In this paper, a small...

Multilingual search for cultural heritage archives via combining multiple translation resources (2007)

Jones, Gareth J.F., Zhang, Ying, Newman, Eamonn, Fantino, Fabio, Debole, Franca

The linguistic features of material in Cultural Heritage (CH) archives may be in various languages requiring a facility for effective multilingual search. The specialised language often associated...

Multilingual search for cultural heritage archives via combining multiple translation resources (2007)

Jones, Gareth J.F., Zhang, Ying, Newman, Eamonn, Fantino, Fabio, Debole, Franca

The linguistic features of material in Cultural Heritage (CH) archives may be in various languages requiring a facility for effective multilingual search. The specialised language often associated...

Electroweak Chiral Lagrangian for Left-right Symmetric Models (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Wang, Shun-Zhi, Ge, Feng-Jun, Wang, Qing

The complete list of electroweak chiral Lagrangian up to order of p4 for left-right symmetric models with a neutral light higgs is provided. The connection of these operators to left and right gauge...

A comparison of the prediction performances by the linear models and the ARIMA model : Take AUD/JPY as an example (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Wu, Hailun

With the development of the financial markets, the foreign exchange market has become more and more important for investors. The daily volume of business dealt with on the foreign exchange markets in...

A comparison of the prediction performances by the linear models and the ARIMA model : Take AUD/JPY as an example (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Wu, Hailun

With the development of the financial markets, the foreign exchange market has become more and more important for investors. The daily volume of business dealt with on the foreign exchange markets in...

Aspirin and ibuprofen enhance pyrazinamide treatment of murine tuberculosis (2007)

Byrne, Sean T., Denkin, Steven M., Zhang, Ying

Objectives Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) or ibuprofen [2-(4-isobutyl-phenyl)-propionic acid] was administered to mice undergoing treatment of tuberculosis infection with pyrazinamide to determine if...

On the Correlation of Geographic and Network Proximity at Internet Edges and its Implications for Mobile Unicast and Multicast Routing (2007)

Schmidt, Thomas C., Wählisch, Matthias, Zhang, Ying

Significant effort has been invested recently to accelerate handover operations in a next generation mobile Internet. Corresponding works for developing efficient mobile multicast management are...

The biochemical characterization and functional study of the Salmonella effector protein SopA in Salmonella pathogenesis (2007)

Zhang, Ying

Salmonella translocate bacterial effectors into host cells to confer bacterial entry and survival. It is not known how the host cells cope with the influx of these effectors. During the functional...

Prostasin Serine Protease as a Breast Cancer Invasion Marker and a Metastasis Suppressor (2007)

Chai, Karl X., Chen, Li-Mei, Zhang, Ying

This project had one Specific Aim after the peer and programmatic reviews, to evaluate prostasin, a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored extracellular serine protease as a potential metastasis...

The relationship between climate variation and selected infectious diseases: Australian and Chinese perspectives. (2007)

Zhang, Ying.

Background Climate variation has affected diverse physical and biological systems worldwide. Population health is one of the most important impacts of climate variation. Although the impact of...

Exploring functional genetic variants in genes involved in mental disorders (2007)

Zhang, Ying

My studies are to test the hypothesis that functional polymorphisms of OPRM1 and DRD2 modulate the susceptibility to mental disorders. I first determined whether there is an mRNA allele expression...

A Novel X-Axis Tuning Fork Gyroscope with "8 Vertical Springs-Proofmass" Structure on (111)-Silicon (2007)

Duan, Fei, Jiao, Jiwei, Wang, Yucai, Zhang, Ying, Mi, Binwei, Li, Jinpeng, ...

A novel x-axis tuning fork MEMS gyroscope with "8 vertical springs-proofmass" structure for Coriolis effect detection is presented. Compared with the common single-plane springs, the 8 vertical...

A Novel X-Axis Tuning Fork Gyroscope with "8 Vertical Springs-Proofmass" Structure on (111)-Silicon (2007)

Duan, Fei, Jiao, Jiwei, Wang, Yucai, Zhang, Ying, Mi, Binwei, Li, Jinpeng, ...

A novel x-axis tuning fork MEMS gyroscope with "8 vertical springs-proofmass" structure for Coriolis effect detection is presented. Compared with the common single-plane springs, the 8 vertical...

The relationship between climate variation and selected infectious diseases: Australian and Chinese perspectives. (2007)

Zhang, Ying.

Background Climate variation has affected diverse physical and biological systems worldwide. Population health is one of the most important impacts of climate variation. Although the impact of...

The optimism in goal pursuit / (2007)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, June 2007.

Weather variables and Japanese encephalitis in the metropolitan area of Jinan city, China (2007)

Bi, Peng, Zhang, Ying, Parton, Kevin A.

© 2007 The British Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

El Nino Southern oscillation (ENSO) and dysentery in shandong province China (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Bi, Peng, Wang, Guoyong, Hiller, Janet Esther

To investigate the impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on dysentery transmission, the relationship between monthly dysentery cases in Shandong Province of China and the monthly...

Weather variables and Japanese encephalitis in the metropolitan area of Jinan city, China (2007)

Bi, Peng, Zhang, Ying, Parton, Kevin A.

© 2007 The British Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

The relationship between climate variation and selected infectious diseases: Australian and Chinese perspectives. (2007)

Zhang, Ying.

Background Climate variation has affected diverse physical and biological systems worldwide. Population health is one of the most important impacts of climate variation. Although the impact of...

El Nino Southern oscillation (ENSO) and dysentery in shandong province China (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Bi, Peng, Wang, Guoyong, Hiller, Janet Esther

To investigate the impact of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on dysentery transmission, the relationship between monthly dysentery cases in Shandong Province of China and the monthly...

Electromotor control system in Gymnarchus niloticus / (2007)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2007.

Climate change and disability-adjusted life years (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Bi, Peng, Hiller, Janet Esther

Copyright © 2007 National Environmental Health Association

Electromotor control system in Gymnarchus niloticus / (2007)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2007.

The relationship between climate variation and selected infectious diseases: Australian and Chinese perspectives. (2007)

Zhang, Ying.

Background Climate variation has affected diverse physical and biological systems worldwide. Population health is one of the most important impacts of climate variation. Although the impact of...

Climate change and disability-adjusted life years (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Bi, Peng, Hiller, Janet Esther

Copyright © 2007 National Environmental Health Association

Method Development of Characterization of N-linked Glycoproteins in Mass Spectrometry (2007)

Zhang, Ying

Protein glycosylation is one of the most important post-translational modifications, and it is involved in many biological processes, including inter-/intra cell signaling, protein recognition, and...

Colorimetric and Fluorescent Sensing of SCN- Based on meso-Tetraphenylporphyrin/meso-Tetraphenylporphyrin Cobalt(II) System (2007)

Ying Zhang, Hua Wang, Rong H. Yang

An approach for colorimetric and fluorescent sensing of thiocyanate (SCN-) hasbeen proposed based on the competitive-displacement strategy betweenmeso-tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) and...

Stereocomplexation and monolayer morphologies of a stereoregular poly(methylmethacrylate) mixture formed at the air/water surface (2007)

Liu, Jing, Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Jianming, Shen, Deyan, Guo, Qipeng, Takahashi, Isao, ...

The stereocomplexation of stereoregular PMMA at the air/water interface was proved by structure determination using reflection-absorption IR and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. Morphological...

A randomized controlled trial of Yiqi Pingchuan Granule in treating acute attack of bronchial spasm due to asthma of qi deficiency and cold syndrome (2007)

Ying ZHANG, Rui-ming ZHANG

Objective: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of Yiqi Pingchuan Granule in treating acute attack of asthma due to qi deficiency and cold syndrome. Methods: A randomized controlled trial was...

Improved Cross-language Information Retrieval via Disambiguation and Vocabulary Discovery (2007)

Zhang, Ying

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) allows people to find documents irrespective of the language used in the query or document. This thesis is concerned with the development of techniques to...

A Framework for Measuring and Predicting the Impact of Routing Changes (2007)

Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao

Abstract — Routing dynamics heavily influence Internet data plane performance. Existing studies only narrowly focused on a few destinations and did not consider the predictability of the impact of...

Enhancing image-based arabic document translation using a noisy channel correction model (2007)

Yi Chang, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel, Jie Yang

An image-based document translation system consists of several components, among which OCR (Optical Character Recognition) plays an important role. However, existing OCR software is not robust...

A static load-balancing scheme for parallel xml parsing on multicore cpus (2007)

Yinfei Pan, Wei Lu, Ying Zhang, Kenneth Chiu

A number of techniques to improve the parsing performance of XML have been developed. Generally, however, these techniques have limited impact on the construction of a DOM tree, which can be a...

XRPC: Interoperable and Efficient Distributed XQuery (2007)

Ying Zhang

We propose XRPC, a minimal XQuery extension that enables distributed yet efficient querying of heterogeneous XQuery data sources. XRPC enhances the existing concept of XQuery functions with the...

Low-rate tcp-targeted dos attack disrupts internet routing (2007)

Ying Zhang

Compared to attacks against end hosts, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Internet infrastructure such as those targeted at routers can be more devastating due to their global impact on many...

Low-rate tcp-targeted dos attack disrupts internet routing (2007)

Ying Zhang

Compared to attacks against end hosts, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against the Internet infrastructure such as those targeted at routers can be more devastating due to their global impact on many...

Summarizing order statistics over data streams with duplicates (poster (2007)

Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Yidong Yuan, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Xiaofang Zhou, Jeffrey Xu Yu

A rank query is essentially to find a data element with a given rank against a monotonic order specified on data elements. Rank queries have several equivalent variations

Selecting Stars: the k Most Representative Skyline Operator (2007)

Xuemin Lin, Yidong Yuan, Qing Zhang, Ying Zhang

Skyline computation has many applications including multi-criteria decision making. In this paper, we study the problem of selecting k skyline points so that the number of points, which are dominated...

Y.C.: Understanding Network Delay Changes Caused by Routing Events (2007)

Himabindu Pucha, Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, Y. Charlie Hu

Network delays and delay variations are two of the most important network performance metrics directly impacting real-time applications such as voice over IP and time-critical financial transactions....

Balancing push and pull for efficient information discovery in large-scale sensor networks (2007)

Xin Liu, Qingfeng Huang, Ying Zhang

In this paper we investigate efficient strategies for supporting on-demand informa-tion dissemination and gathering in large-scale wireless sensor networks. In particular, we propose a “comb-needle...

A Framework for Measuring and Predicting the Impact of Routing Changes (2007)

Ying Zhang, Z. Morley Mao

Abstract — Routing dynamics heavily influence Internet data plane performance. Existing studies only narrowly focused on a few destinations and did not consider the predictability of the impact of...

XRPC: Interoperable and Efficient Distributed XQuery (2007)

Ying Zhang

We propose XRPC, a minimal XQuery extension that enables distributed yet efficient querying of heterogeneous XQuery data sources. XRPC enhances the existing concept of XQuery functions with the...

HMDB: the human metabolome database (2007)

David S. Wishart, Dan Tzur, Craig Knox, Roman Eisner, An Chi Guo, Nelson Young, ...

The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) is currently the most complete and comprehensive curated collection of human metabolite and human metabolism data in the world. It contains records for more than...

Improved Cross-language Information Retrieval via Disambiguation and Vocabulary Discovery (2007)

Zhang, Ying

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) allows people to find documents irrespective of the language used in the query or document. This thesis is concerned with the development of techniques to...

Summarizing Order Statistics over Data Streams with Duplicates (2007)

Zhang, Ying, Lin, Xuemin, Yuan, Yidong, Kitsuregawa, M., Zhou, Xiaofang, Xu Yu, J.

In this paper, we investigated the problem of approximately processing rank queries against distinct data elements in a data stream with the presence of duplicated data elements. Novel space and time...

Improved Cross-language Information Retrieval via Disambiguation and Vocabulary Discovery (2007)

Zhang, Ying

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) allows people to find documents irrespective of the language used in the query or document. This thesis is concerned with the development of techniques to...

On the Impact of Route Monitor Selection (2007)

Ying Zhang, Zheng Zhang, Z. Morley, Mao Y. Charlie, Hu Bruce, M. Maggs

Several route monitoring systems have been set up to help understand the Internet routing system. They operate by gathering realtime BGP updates from different networks. Many studies have relied on...

Renal histology in Chinese patients with anti-myeloperoxidase autoantibody-positive Wegener's granulomatosis (2007)

Chen, Min, Yu, Feng, Wang, Su-Xia, Zou, Wan-Zhong, Zhang, Ying, Zhao, Ming-Hui, ...

Background. Proteinase-3 antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (PR3-ANCA) was the serological marker for Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), while myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA was the serological marker for...

Balancing push and pull for efficient information discovery in large-scale sensor networks (2007)

Xin Liu, Qingfeng Huang, Ying Zhang

Abstract—In this paper, we investigate efficient strategies for supporting on-demand information dissemination and gathering in largescale wireless sensor networks. In particular, we propose a...

HMDB: the Human Metabolome Database (2007)

Wishart, David S., Tzur, Dan, Knox, Craig, Eisner, Roman, Guo, An Chi, Young, Nelson, ...

The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) is currently the most complete and comprehensive curated collection of human metabolite and human metabolism data in the world. It contains records for more than...

CutDB: a proteolytic event database (2007)

Igarashi, Yoshinobu, Eroshkin, Alexey, Gramatikova, Svetlana, Gramatikoff, Kosi, Zhang, Ying, Smith, Jeffrey W., ...

Beyond the well-known role of proteolytic machinery in protein degradation and turnover, many specialized proteases play a key role in various regulatory processes. Thousands of highly specific...

Stereocomplexation and monolayer morphologies of a stereoregular poly(methylmethacrylate) mixture formed at the air/water surface (2007)

Liu, Jing, Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Jianming, Shen, Deyan, Guo, Qipeng, Takahashi, Isao, ...

The stereocomplexation of stereoregular PMMA at the air/water interface was proved by structure determination using reflection-absorption IR and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction. Morphological...

Improved Cross-language Information Retrieval via Disambiguation and Vocabulary Discovery (2007)

Zhang, Ying

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) allows people to find documents irrespective of the language used in the query or document. This thesis is concerned with the development of techniques to...

Congruence and Uniqueness of Certain Markoff Numbers (2006)

Zhang, Ying

By making use of only simple facts about congruence, we first show that every even Markoff number is congruent to 2 modulo 32, and then, generalizing an earlier result of Baragar, establish the...

CyberKnife®radiosurgery in the treatment of complex skull base tumors: analysis of treatment planning parameters (2006)

Collins, Sean P, Coppa, Nicholas D, Zhang, Ying, Collins, Brian T, McRae, Donald A, Jean, Walter C

Abstract Background Tumors of the skull base pose unique challenges to radiosurgical treatment because of their irregular shapes, proximity to critical structures and variable tumor volumes. In this...

Construction of a 7-fold BAC library and cytogenetic mapping of 10 genes in the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) (2006)

Liu, Wei, Zhao, Yonghui, Liu, Zhaoliang, Zhang, Ying, Lian, Zhengxing, Li, Ning

Abstract Background The giant panda, one of the most primitive carnivores, is an endangered animal. Although it has been the subject of many interesting studies during recent years, little is known...

不正に対する公認会計士監査制度の改革-アメリカと日本の監査制度の整備の観点から- (2006)

張, 影, ZHANG, Ying

The public company audit is expected to detect frauds in the financial reporting of entity. But, if senior management of corporation want to perpetrate frauds, the auditors have a risk of material...

On-demand lake circulation modeling management system (2006)

Pan, Yinfei, Kimura, Nobuaki, Zhang, Ying, Wu, Chin, Chiu, Kenneth

Paper presented at The Seventh International Conference on HydroScience and Engineering (ICHE) hosted by the College of Engineering at Drexel Univeristy on September 10-13, 2006 in Philadelphia,...

A research algorithm to improve detection of delirium in the intensive care unit (2006)

Pisani, Margaret A, Araujo, Katy LB, Van Ness, Peter H, Zhang, Ying, Ely, E Wesley, Inouye, Sharon K

Abstract Introduction Delirium is a serious and prevalent problem in intensive care units (ICUs). The purpose of this study was to develop a research algorithm to enhance detection of delirium in...

A survey of length series identities for surfaces, % 3-manifolds and representation varieties (2006)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

We survey some of our recent results on length series identities for hyperbolic (cone) surfaces, possibly with cusps and/or boundary geodesics; classical Schottky groups; representations/characters...

会計不正に対する中国公認会計士の監査対応 (2006)

張, 影, ZHANG, Ying

Auditors are expected to detect frauds in the reporting entity. That case is not different in China. Because of the unique economic system in China, some difference can be observed among the...

Representing Primes as x^2 + 5y^2: An Inductive Proof that Euler Missed (2006)

Zhang, Ying

We present an elementary inductive proof which Euler could have obtained, for the corresponding result as the title indicates, had he refined a bit his proof for Fermat's assertion on representing...

An elementary proof of uniqueness of Markoff numbers which are prime powers (2006)

Zhang, Ying

We present a very elementary proof of the uniqueness of Markoff numbers which are prime powers or twice prime powers, in the sense that it uses neither algebraic number theory nor hyperbolic geometry.

A LANDSCAPE PREFERENCE STUDY OF CAMPUS OPEN SPACE (2006)

ZHANG, YING

The current study is an empirical study of preference for campus open space around the drill field on Mississippi State University (MSU) campus. 83 students at Mississippi State University were...

A LANDSCAPE PREFERENCE STUDY OF CAMPUS OPEN SPACE (2006)

ZHANG, YING

The current study is an empirical study of preference for campus open space around the drill field on Mississippi State University (MSU) campus. 83 students at Mississippi State University were...

Differential Adhesion of Microspheres Mediated by DNA Hybridization I: Experiment (2006)

Zhang, Ying, Milam, Valeria T, Graves, David J, Hammer, Daniel A

We have developed a novel method to study collective behavior of multiple hybridized DNA chains by measuring the adhesion of DNA-coated micron-scale beads under hydrodynamic flow. Beads coated with...

Gauge and Lorentz Covariant Schwinger-Dyson Equation for Fermion Propagator in Arbitrary External Gauge Field (2006)

Chen, Xiang, Zhang, Ying, Chen, Fa-Min, Wang, Qing

A formalism of gauge and Lorentz covariant Schwinger-Dyson equation is built up for fermion propagator in presence of arbitrary external gauge field within ladder approximation. Different type...

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK FACTOR AWARENESS IN AMERICAN INDIAN COMMUNITIES: THE STRONG HEART STUDY (2006)

Schweigman, Kurt, Eichner, June, Welty, Thomas K., Zhang, Ying

Objective: To use data from the longitudinal Strong Heart Study (SHS) to determine the level of awareness about risk factors for heart disease among 13 populations of American Indians in Arizona,...

Generalizations of McShane's identity to hyperbolic cone-surfaces (2006)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

We generalize McShane's identity for the length series of simple closed geodesics on a cusped hyperbolic surface to a general identity for hyperbolic cone-surfaces (with all cone angles ≥ π),...

Some New Methods for the Comparison of Two Linear Regression Models (2006)

Liu, Wei, Jamshidian, Mortaza, Zhang, Ying, Bretz, Frank, Han, Xiaoliang

The frequently used approach to the comparison of two linear regression models is to use the partial F test. It is pointed out in this paper that the partial F test has in fact a naturally associated...

Text Detection and Translation from Natural Scenes (2006)

Gao, Jiang, Yang, Jie, Zhang, Ying, Waibel, Alex

The authors present a system for automatic extraction and interpretation of signs from a natural scene. The system is capable of capturing images, detecting and recognizing signs, and translating...

Towards Automatic Sign Translation (2006)

Yang, Jie, Gao, Jiang, Zhang, Ying, Waibel, Alex

ABSTRACT Signs are everywhere in our lives. They make our lives easier when we are familiar with them. But sometimes they also pose problems. For example, a tourist might not be able to understand...

The Effects of Cellular Seeding Density on Microencapsulated Recombinant Cho Cells Growth, Metabolism and Production of Endostatin (2006)

Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, Jing Zhou, Xulang Zhang, Xin Guo, ...

Microencapsulation technology is an alternative large-scale mammalian cells culture method. The semi-permeable membrane of microcapsule allows free diffusion of nutrients, oxygen and toxic...

The Effects of Cellular Seeding Density on Microencapsulated Recombinant Cho Cells Growth, Metabolism and Production of Endostatin (2006)

Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, Jing Zhou, Xulang Zhang, Xin Guo, ...

Microencapsulation technology is an alternative large-scale mammalian cells culture method. The semi-permeable membrane of microcapsule allows free diffusion of nutrients, oxygen and toxic...

doi:10.1093/nar/gkl813 CutDB: a proteolytic event database (2006)

Yoshinobu Igarashi, Alexey Eroshkin, Svetlana Gramatikova, Kosi Gramatikoff, Ying Zhang, Jeffrey W. Smith, ...

Beyond the well-known role of proteolytic machinery in protein degradation and turnover, many specialized proteases play a key role in various regulatory processes. Thousands of highly specific...

Space-efficient relative error order sketch over data streams (2006)

Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Jian Xu, Flip Korn, Wei Wang

We consider the problem of continuously maintaining order sketches over data streams with a relative rank error guarantee ɛ. Novel space-efficient and one-scan randomised techniques are developed....

Short Title: Weighted Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimate (2006)

Chaofeng Liu, Jun Xie, Ying Zhang

1 Summary. Hierarchical models have a variety of applications, including multi-center clini-cal trials, local estimation of disease rates, longitudinal studies, risk assessment, and meta-analysis. In...

Optimizing Components for Handheld Two-way Speech Translation for an English-Iraqi Arabic System (2006)

Roger Hsiao, Ashish Venugopal, Thilo Köhler, Ying Zhang, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, Andreas Zollmann, ...

This paper described our handheld two-way speech translation system for English and Iraqi. The focus is on developing a field usable handheld device for speech-to-speech translation. The computation...

Distributed language modeling for N-best list re-ranking (2006)

Ying Zhang, Almut Silja, Hildebrand Stephan Vogel

In this paper we describe a novel distributed language model for N-best list re-ranking. The model is based on the client/server paradigm where each server hosts a portion of the data and provides...

Space-efficient relative error order sketch over data streams (2006)

Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Jian Xu, Flip Korn, Wei Wang

We consider the problem of continuously maintaining order sketches over data streams with a relative rank error guarantee ɛ. Novel space-efficient and one-scan randomised techniques are developed....

Optimizing Components for Handheld Two-way Speech Translation for an (2006)

Roger Hsiao, Ashish Venugopal, Thilo Köhler, Ying Zhang, Paisarn Charoenpornsawat, ...

This paper described our handheld two-way speech translation system for English and Iraqi. The focus is on developing a field usable handheld device for speech-to-speech translation. The computation...

Distributed language modeling for N-best list re-ranking (2006)

Ying Zhang, Almut Silja Hildebrand, Stephan Vogel

In this paper we describe a novel distributed language model for N-best list re-ranking. The model is based on the client/server paradigm where each server hosts a portion of the data and provides...

A unified approach for fault tolerance and dynamic power management in real-time embedded systems (2006)

Ying Zhang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Senior Member

Abstract—This paper investigates an integrated approach for achieving fault tolerance and energy savings in real-time embedded systems. Fault tolerance is achieved via checkpointing, and energy is...

Automatic acquisition of Chinese-English parallel corpus from the web. In: ECIR2006 (2006)

Ying Zhang, Ke Wu, Jianfeng Gao, Phil Vines

Abstract. Parallel corpora are a valuable resource for tasks such as cross-language information retrieval and data-driven natural language processing systems. Previously only small scale corpora have...

The Effect of Brand Awareness on the Evaluation of Search Engine Results (2006)

Bernard J. Jansen, Mimi Zhang, Ying Zhang

In this paper we investigate the effect of search engine brand (i.e., identifying name that distinguishes a product from its competitors) on evaluation of system performance. Our research is...

Renal histology in Chinese patients with anti-myeloperoxidase autoantibodies positive Wegener's granulomatosis (2006)

Chen, Min, Yu, Feng, Wang, Su-Xia, Zou, Wan-Zhong, Zhang, Ying, Zhao, Ming-Hui, ...

Background. Proteinase-3 antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (PR3-ANCA) was the serological marker for Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), while myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA was the serological marker for...

Design of Nonpeptidic Topomimetics of Antiangiogenic Proteins With Antitumor Activities (2006)

Dings, Ruud P. M., Chen, Xuemei, Van Eijk, Loes I., Zhang, Ying, Hoye, Thomas R., ...

The inhibition of angiogenesis is a promising avenue for cancer treatment. Although some angiostatic compounds are in the process of development and testing, these often prove ineffective in vivo or...

Effects of weak acids, UV and proton motive force inhibitors on pyrazinamide activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro (2006)

Wade, Mary Margaret, Zhang, Ying

Background: Pyrazinamide is a paradoxical frontline tuberculosis drug characterized by high sterilizing in vivo activity but poor in vitro activity. Pyrazinamide is thought to act by the entrapment...

Aspirin and ibuprofen enhance pyrazinamide treatment of murine tuberculosis (2006)

Byrne, Sean T., Denkin, Steven M., Zhang, Ying

Objectives Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) or ibuprofen [2-(4-isobutyl-phenyl)-propionic acid] was administered to mice undergoing treatment of tuberculosis infection with pyrazinamide to determine if...

Experimental validation of predicted mammalian erythroid cis-regulatory modules (2006)

Wang, Hao, Zhang, Ying, Cheng, Yong, Zhou, Yuepin, King, David C., Taylor, James, ...

Multiple alignments of genome sequences are helpful guides to functional analysis, but predicting cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) accurately from such alignments remains an elusive goal. We predict...

Effects of weak acids, UV and proton motive force inhibitors on pyrazinamide activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro (2006)

Wade, Mary Margaret, Zhang, Ying

Background: Pyrazinamide is a paradoxical frontline tuberculosis drug characterized by high sterilizing in vivo activity but poor in vitro activity. Pyrazinamide is thought to act by the entrapment...

Experimental validation of predicted mammalian erythroid cis-regulatory modules (2006)

Wang, Hao, Zhang, Ying, Cheng, Yong, Zhou, Yuepin, King, David C., Taylor, James, ...

Multiple alignments of genome sequences are helpful guides to functional analysis, but predicting cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) accurately from such alignments remains an elusive goal. We predict...

Renal histology in Chinese patients with anti-myeloperoxidase autoantibodies positive Wegener's granulomatosis (2006)

Chen, Min, Yu, Feng, Wang, Su-Xia, Zou, Wan-Zhong, Zhang, Ying, Zhao, Ming-Hui, ...

Background. Proteinase-3 antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (PR3-ANCA) was the serological marker for Wegener's granulomatosis (WG), while myeloperoxidase (MPO)-ANCA was the serological marker for...

Nonlinear 2D Spin Susceptibility in a Finite Magnetic Field: Spin-Polarization Dependence (2005)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

By theoretically calculating the interacting spin susceptibility of a two-dimensional electron system in the presence of finite spin polarization, we show that the extensively employed technique of...

End Invariants for $\SL(2,C)$ characters of the one-holed torus (2005)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

We define and study the set ${\mathcal E}(\rho)$ of end invariants of a $\SL(2,C)$ character $\rho$ of the one-holed torus $T$. We show that the set ${\mathcal E}(\rho)$ is the entire projective...

Competitive Hybridization Kinetics Reveals Unexpected Behavior Patterns (2005)

Zhang, Ying, Hammer, Daniel A, Graves, David J

Although the kinetics of hybridization between a soluble polynucleotide and an immobilized complementary sequence have been studied by others, it is almost universally assumed that the interaction...

Structural basis for the voltage-gated Na+ channel selectivity of the scorpion alpha-like toxin BmK M1 (2005)

Li, Chong, Zhang, Ying, Wang, Da-Cheng

Scorpion alpha-like toxins are proteins that act on mammalian and insect voltage-gated Na+ channels. Therefore, these toxins constitute an excellent target for examining the foundations that underlie...

Analyzing Panel Count Data with Informative Observation Times (2005)

Huang, Chiung-Yu, Wang, Mei-Cheng, Zhang, Ying

In this paper, we study panel count data with informative observation times. We assume nonparametric and semiparametric proportional rate models for the underlying recurrent event process, where the...

Analyzing Panel Count Data with Informative Observation Times (2005)

Huang, Chiung-Yu, Wang, Mei-Cheng, Zhang, Ying

In this paper, we study panel count data with informative observation times. We assume nonparametric and semiparametric proportional rate models for the underlying recurrent event process, where the...

Analyzing Panel Count Data with Informative Observation Times (2005)

Huang, Chiung-Yu, Wang, Mei-Cheng, Zhang, Ying

In this paper, we study panel count data with informative observation times. We assume nonparametric and semiparametric proportional rate models for the underlying recurrent event process, where the...

Analyzing Panel Count Data with Informative Observation Times (2005)

Huang, Chiung-Yu, Wang, Mei-Cheng, Zhang, Ying

In this paper, we study panel count data with informative observation times. We assume nonparametric and semiparametric proportional rate models for the underlying recurrent event process, where the...

Spin Polarization Dependence of Carrier Effective Mass in Semiconductor Structures: Spintronic Effective Mass (2005)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

We introduce the concept of a spintronic effective mass for spin-polarized carriers in semiconductor structures, which arises from the strong spin-polarization dependence of the renormalized...

Two likelihood-based semiparametric estimation methods for panel count data with covariates (2005)

Wellner, Jon A., Zhang, Ying

We consider estimation in a particular semiparametric regression model for the mean of a counting process with ``panel count'' data. The basic model assumption is that the conditional mean function...

The SL(2,C) character variety of the one-holed torus (2005)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

In this note we announce several results concerning the SL(2,C) character variety ${\mathcal X}$ of the one-holed torus. We give a description of the largest open subset ${\mathcal X}_{BQ}$ of...

Comment on "Effects of Thickness on the Spin Susceptibility of the Two Dimensional Electron Gas" (2005)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

A comment on a recent paper (PRL {\bf 94}, 226405 (2005)) by S. De Palo, M. Botti, S. Moroni, and Gaetano Senatore.

Generalized Markoff Maps and McShane's Identity (2005)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

We study general representations of the free group on two generators into $SL(2,C)$, and the connection with generalized Markoff maps, following Bowditch. We show that Bowditch's Q-conditions for...

Temperature and magnetization-dependent band-gap renormalization and optical many-body effects in diluted magnetic semiconductors (2005)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

We calculate the Coulomb interaction induced density, temperature and magnetization dependent many-body band-gap renormalization in a typical diluted magnetic semiconductor GaMnAs in the...

Exchange instabilities in electron systems: Bloch versus Stoner Ferromagnetism (2005)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

We show that 2D and 3D electron systems with the long-range Coulomb electron-electron interaction could develop ferromagnetic instabilities due to strong exchange effects at low densities. The...

Differential adhesion of microspheres to substrate surfaces mediated by DNA hybridization (2005)

Zhang, Ying

Current microarray technology is using fluorescently modified oligonucleotides as the probe to label the target sequences, and the fluorescent intensity read by specific instruments, such as...

SimReg: a software including some new developments in multiple comparison and simultaneous confidence bands for linear regression models (2005)

Jamishidian, Mortaza, Liu, Wei, Zhang, Ying, Jamshidian, Farid

The problem of simultaneous inference and multiple comparison for comparing means of k(≥3) populations has been long studied in the statistics literature and is widely available in statistics...

Correlations among surfactant drag reduction additive chemical structures, rheological properties and microstructures in water and water/co-solvent systems (2005)

Zhang, Ying

Under appropriate conditions, surfactants in water are known to self-assemble into threadlike micelles which reduce the drag of the solution in turbulent flow compared to that of the water solvent at...

Text mining for neuroscience / (2005)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005.

Mycobacterial catalase-peroxidase is a tissue antigen and target of the adaptive immune response in systemic sarcoidosis. (2005)

Song, Zhimin, Marzilli, Lisa, Greenlee, Brian M., Chen, Edward S., Silver, Richard F., Askin, Frederic B., ...

Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology characterized by noncaseating epithelioid granulomas, oligoclonal CD4(+) T cell infiltrates, and immune complex formation. To identify pathogenic antigens...

Mining Key Phrase Translations from Web Corpora (2005)

Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

Key phrases are usually among the most information-bearing linguistic structures. Translating them correctly will improve many natural language processing applications. We propose a new framework to...

Hierarchical MEMS Synthesis and Optimization (2005)

Ying Zhang, Raffi Kamalian, Alice M. Agogino, Carlo H. Séquin

A hierarchical MEMS synthesis and optimization architecture has been developed for MEMS design automation. The architecture integrates an object-oriented component library with a MEMS simulation tool...

Mining Key Phrase Translations from Web Corpora (2005)

Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

Key phrases are usually among the most information-bearing linguistic structures. Translating them correctly will improve many natural language processing applications. We propose a new framework to...

Mining Translations of OOV Terms from the Web through (2005)

Ying Zhang

Translating out-of-vocabulary (OOV) terms is a great challenge for the Cross-lingual Information Retrieval and Datadriven Machine Translation systems. Several approaches have been proposed to mine...

An efficient phrase-to-phrase alignment model for arbitrarily long phrase and large corpora (2005)

Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

Most statistical machine translation (SMT) systems use phrase-to-phrase translations to capture local context information, leading to better lexical choices and more reliable word reordering. Long...

Mining Key Phrase Translations from Web Corpora (2005)

Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

Key phrases are usually among the most information-bearing linguistic structures. Translating them correctly will improve many natural language processing applications. We propose a new framework to...

Hierarchical MEMS Synthesis and Optimization (2005)

Ying Zhang, Raffi Kamalian, Alice M. Agogino, Carlo H. Séquin

A hierarchical MEMS synthesis and optimization architecture has been developed for MEMS design automation. The architecture integrates an object-oriented component library with a MEMS simulation tool...

Mining Key Phrase Translations from Web Corpora (2005)

Fei Huang, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

Key phrases are usually among the most information-bearing linguistic structures. Translating them correctly will improve many natural language processing applications. We propose a new framework to...

Reduced Human Fatigue in Interactive Evolutionary Computation for Micromachine Design (2005)

Raffi Kamalian, Ying Zhang, Hideyuki Takagi, Alice M. Agogino

This paper presents a novel method of using Interactive Evolutionary Computation (IEC) for the design of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS). A key limitation of IEC is human fatigue. Based on the...

Two likelihood-based semiparametric estimation methods for panel count data with covariates (2005)

Jon A. Wellner, Ying Zhang

We consider estimation in a particular semiparametric regression model for the mean of a counting process with “panel count ” data. The basic model assumption is that the conditional mean...

Design and implementation of radio frequency CMOS power amplifiers / (2005)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D., Electrical and Computer Engineering)--University of California, Irvine, 2005.

Molecular Character of the Recombinant Antitumor Lectin from the Edible Mushroom Agrocybe aegerita (2005)

Yang, Na, Tong, Xin, Xiang, Ye, Zhang, Ying, Liang, Yi, Sun, Hui, ...

The lectin from Agrocybe aegerita (AAL) has been found to possess potent tumor-suppressing function and tumor cell apoptosis-inducing activity. In this paper, we report the full sequence, the active...

STAM: A System of Tracking and Mapping in Real Environments (2004)

Zhang, Ying, Ackerson, Lee, Duff, David, Eldershaw, Craig, Yim, Mark

We have implemented a system of tracking mobile robots and mapping an unstructured environment, using up to 25 wireless sensor nodes in an indoor setting. These sensor nodes form an ad hoc network of...

McShane's identity for classical Schottky Groups (2004)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

Greg McShane introduced a remarkable identity for the lengths of simple closed geodesics on cusped hyperbolic surfaces. This was subsequently generalized by the authors to hyperbolic cone-surfaces,...

Necessary and sufficient conditions for McShane's identity and variations (2004)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

Greg McShane introduced a remarkable identity for lengths of simple closed geodesics on the once punctured torus with a complete, finite volume hyperbolic structure. Bowditch later generalized this...

Dispersion Instability in Strongly Interacting Electron Liquids (2004)

Zhang, Ying, Yakovenko, V. M., Sarma, S. Das

We show that the low-density strongly interacting electron liquid, interacting via the long-range Coulomb interaction, could develop a dispersion instability at a critical density associated with the...

Density dependent spin susceptibility and effective mass in interacting quasi-two dimensional electron systems (2004)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

Motivated by recent experimental reports, we carry out a Fermi liquid many-body calculation of the interaction induced renormalization of the spin susceptibility and effective mass in realistic two...

Generalizations of McShane's identity to hyperbolic cone-surfaces (2004)

Tan, Ser Peow, Wong, Yan Loi, Zhang, Ying

We generalize McShane's identity for the length series of simple closed geodesics on a cusped hyperbolic surface to hyperbolic cone-surfaces (with all cone angles $\le \pi$), possibly with cusps...

Structures of flavivirus particles (2004)

Zhang, Ying

My Ph.D research involves the study of flavivirus particle structures. Three structural proteins, E, prM/M and C, exist in the flavivirus particles. The Capsid (C) protein is important in the genome...

Potent, selective and cell-mediated inhibition of human herpesvirus 6 at an early stage of viral replication by the non-nucleoside compound CMV423 (2004)

Zhang, Ying, Otto, Michael, ...

CMV423 (2-chloro-3-pyridin-3-yl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroindolizine-1-carboxamide) is a new antiviral agent with potent and selective in vitro activity against the beta-herpesvirus human cytomegalovirus...

On the finite sample behavior of testing whether new is better than used of a specified age. (2004)

Ahmad, Ibrahim A., Liu, Wei, Zhang, Ying

Hollander, Park and Proschan (1986) proposed a test of new is better than used of a specified age. It is based on large sample normality of the test statistic. There is, however, no study in the...

Dynamic adaptation for fault tolerance and power management in embedded real-time systems (2004)

Ying Zhang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Safety-critical embedded systems often operate in harsh environmental conditions that necessitate fault-tolerant computing techniques. In addition, many safety-critical systems execute real-time...

Localization from connectivity in sensor networks (2004)

Yi Shang, Wheeler Ruml, Ying Zhang, Markus Fromherz

Abstract—We propose an approach that uses connectivity information—who is within communications range of whom—to derive the locations of nodes in a network. The approach can take advantage of...

Task Feasibility Analysis and Dynamic Voltage Scaling in Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Embedded Systems (2004)

Ying Zhang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

We investigate dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) in realtime embedded systems that use checkpointing for fault tolerance. We present feasibility-of-scheduling tests for checkpointing schemes for a...

Interpreting BLEU/NIST scores: How much improvement do we need to have a better system (2004)

Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel

Automatic evaluation metrics for Machine Translation (MT) systems, such as BLEU and the related NIST metric, are becoming increasingly important in MT. Yet, their behaviors are not fully understood....

Measuring Confidence Intervals for the Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics (2004)

Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

Automatic evaluation metrics for Machine Translation (MT) systems, such as BLEU and the related NIST metric, are becoming increasingly important in MT. This paper reports a novel method of...

log (2004)

Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel

– mWER: edit distance between the hypothesis and the closest reference translation – mPER: position independent error rate – BLEU:

• Confidence Intervals based on Bootstrap Percentile – Algorithm (2004)

Ying Zhang (joy, Stephan Vogel, Nist Mteval, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel, Ying Zhang, ...

– Comparing two MT systems – Implementation • Discussions – How much testing data is needed? – How many reference translations are needed? – How many bootstrap samples are needed?

An xml-based scripting language for chain-type modular robotic systems (2004)

Ying Zhang, Alex Golovinsky, Mark Yim, Craig Eldershaw

Abstract. A number of modular robotic systems have been developed over the last decade. Such systems promise increased flexibility and robustness and lower cost over conventional robots; however...

Message-initiated constraint-based routing for wireless ad-hoc sensor networks (2004)

Ying Zhang

Abstract — Most existing routing mechanisms today differ in routing objectives and routing strategies, however all the existing routing protocols have in common that the routing objective and...

Iron enhances the antituberculous activity of pyrazinamide (2004)

Somoskovi, Akos, Wade, Mary Margaret, Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

Background: Pyrazinamide is a paradoxical frontline tuberculosis drug characterized by high in vivo sterilizing activity but poor in vitro activity. This separation in pyrazinamide activity reflects...

Iron enhances the antituberculous activity of pyrazinamide (2004)

Somoskovi, Akos, Wade, Mary Margaret, Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

Background: Pyrazinamide is a paradoxical frontline tuberculosis drug characterized by high in vivo sterilizing activity but poor in vitro activity. This separation in pyrazinamide activity reflects...

Temperature dependent effective mass renormalization in a Coulomb Fermi liquid (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

We calculate numerically the quasiparticle effective mass (m*) renormalization as a function of temperature and electron density in two- and three-dimensional electron systems with long-range Coulomb...

Quasiparticle effective mass divergence in two dimensional electron systems (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Sarma, S. Das

Within the infinite series of ring (or bubble) diagram approximation for the electronic self-energy as appropriate for the long-range Coulomb interaction, we calculate the density-dependent T=0 Fermi...

Spreading and synchronization of intrinsic signals in visual cortex of macaque monkey evoked by a localized visual stimulus (2003)

Liu, Guang B., Zhang, Ying, Pettigrew, John D., Xu, Wei F., Li, Chao-Yi

[Abstract]: Spatio-temporal maps of the occipital cortex of macaque monkeys were analyzed using optical imaging of intrinsic signals. The images obtained during localized visual stimulation (IS) were...

Spreading and synchronization of intrinsic signals in visual cortex of macaque monkey evoked by a localized visual stimulus (2003)

Liu, Guang B., Zhang, Ying, Pettigrew, John D., Xu, Wei F., Li, Chao-Yi

[Abstract]: Spatio-temporal maps of the occipital cortex of macaque monkeys were analyzed using optical imaging of intrinsic signals. The images obtained during localized visual stimulation (IS) were...

Spreading and synchronization of intrinsic signals in visual cortex of macaque monkey evoked by a localized visual stimulus (2003)

Liu, Guang B., Zhang, Ying, Pettigrew, John D., Xu, Wei F., Li, Chao-Yi

[Abstract]: Spatio-temporal maps of the occipital cortex of macaque monkeys were analyzed using optical imaging of intrinsic signals. The images obtained during localized visual stimulation (IS) were...

Spreading and synchronization of intrinsic signals in visual cortex of macaque monkey evoked by a localized visual stimulus (2003)

Liu, Guang B., Zhang, Ying, Pettigrew, John D., Xu, Wei F., Li, Chao-Yi

[Abstract]: Spatio-temporal maps of the occipital cortex of macaque monkeys were analyzed using optical imaging of intrinsic signals. The images obtained during localized visual stimulation (IS) were...

Temperature dependent effective mass renormalization in 2D electron systems (2003)

Sarma, S. Das, Galitski, Victor, Zhang, Ying

We calculate, as a function of temperature and density, the electron-electron interaction induced quasiparticle effective mass renormalization in 2D electron systems within the leading-order...

A simple nonparametric two-sample test for the distribution function of event time with interval censored data (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Liu, Wei, Wu, Hulin

For the setting of interval censored data in which the event time is not exactly observed but known to be inside a random interval, a simple nonparametric two-sample test, based on empirical...

Exploring relationships between life-cycle modularity and life-cycle cost / (2003)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (M.S.)--Utah State University, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2003.

An enhanced maturity model for enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation / (2003)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (M. Eng.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, 2003.

Where is it? : deriving stimulus location from the responses of visual neurons / (2003)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D., Division of Medical Sciences (Neuroscience))--Harvard University, 2003.

Ion channels and homeostasis in a small neural network / (2003)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cornell University, Aug., 2003.

Spreading and synchronization of intrinsic signals in visual cortex of macaque monkey evoked by a localized visual stimulus (2003)

Liu, Guang B., Zhang, Ying, Pettigrew, John D., Xu, Wei F., Li, Chao-Yi

[Abstract]: Spatio-temporal maps of the occipital cortex of macaque monkeys were analyzed using optical imaging of intrinsic signals. The images obtained during localized visual stimulation (IS) were...

The CMU statistical machine translation system (2003)

Stephan Vogel, Ying Zhang, Fei Huang, Alicia Tribble, Ashish Venugopal, Bing Zhao, ...

In this paper we describe the components of our statistical machine translation system. This system combines phrase-tophrase translations extracted from a bilingual corpus using different alignment...

A formal approach to agent design: An overview of constraint-based agents (2003)

Alan K. Mackworth, Ying Zhang

Abstract. Formal models for agent design are important for both practical and theoretical reasons. The Constraint-Based Agent (CBA) design approach includes two formal models: Constraint Nets and...

Energy-Aware Fault Tolerance in Fixed-Priority Real-Time Embedded Systems (2003)

Ying Zhang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty, Vishnu Swaminathan

We investigate an integrated approach to fault tolerance and dynamic power management in real-time embedded systems. Fault tolerance is achieved via checkpointing and power management is carried out...

Fault Recovery Based on Checkpointing for Hard Real-Time Embedded Systems (2003)

Ying Zhang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

Safety-critical embedded systems often operate in harsh environmental conditions that necessitate fault-tolerant computing techniques. Many safety-critical systems also execute realtime applications....

Energy-Aware Adaptive Checkpointing in Embedded Real-Time Systems (2003)

Ying Zhang, Krishnendu Chakrabarty

We present an integrated approach that provides fault tolerance and dynamic power management for a real-time task executing in an embedded system. Fault tolerance is achieved through an adaptive...

Integrated Phrase Segmentationand Alignmentalgorithm For Statistical Machine Translation (2003)

Ying Zhang Stephan, Ying Zhang, Stephan Vogel, Alex Waibel

We present an integrated phrase segmentation/alignment algorithm (ISA) for Statistical Machine Translation. Without the need of building an initial word-to-word alignment or initially segmenting the...

A novel high frequency, high-efficiency, differential class-e power amplifier in 0.18um cmos (2003)

Payam Heydari, Ying Zhang

Abstract-- This paper presents the design of a high efficiency, low THD, 5.7GHz fully differential power amplifier for wireless communications in a standard 0.18µm CMOS technology. The power...

Phase Automata: A Programming Model of Locomotion Gaits for Scalable Chain-type Modular Robots (2003)

Ying Zhang, Mark Yim, Craig Eldershaw, Dave Duff, Kimon Roufas

Abstract − Modular reconfigurable robots have shown the promises of great versatility and robustness; however programming locomotion gaits for hundreds of modules remains a challenge. In this paper...

Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to weak acids (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Hao, Sun, Zhonghe

The susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis to a range of weak acids and acid pH was investigated. M. tuberculosis was found to be more susceptible to acid pH and...

Discoordinate re-expression of cardiac fetal genes in N{omega}-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) hypertension (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Carreras, Daniel, De Bold, Adolfo J.

Objective: Hypertension produced by chronic inhibition of nitric oxide (NO) synthase by N-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) was used to determine the effect of severe pressure overload with or...

Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to weak acids (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Hao, Sun, Zhonghe

The susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis to a range of weak acids and acid pH was investigated. M. tuberculosis was found to be more susceptible to acid pH and...

Mode of action of pyrazinamide: disruption of Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane transport and energetics by pyrazinoic acid (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Wade, Mary Margaret, Scorpio, Angelo, Zhang, Hao, Sun, Zhonghe

Pyrazinamide is an important sterilizing drug that shortens tuberculosis (TB) therapy. However, the mechanism of action of pyrazinamide is poorly understood because of its unusual properties. Here we...

Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to weak acids (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Hao, Sun, Zhonghe

The susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis to a range of weak acids and acid pH was investigated. M. tuberculosis was found to be more susceptible to acid pH and...

Mode of action of pyrazinamide: disruption of Mycobacterium tuberculosis membrane transport and energetics by pyrazinoic acid (2003)

Zhang, Ying, Wade, Mary Margaret, Scorpio, Angelo, Zhang, Hao, Sun, Zhonghe

Pyrazinamide is an important sterilizing drug that shortens tuberculosis (TB) therapy. However, the mechanism of action of pyrazinamide is poorly understood because of its unusual properties. Here we...

Spreading and synchronization of intrinsic signals in visual cortex of macaque monkey evoked by a localized visual stimulus (2003)

Liu, Guang B., Zhang, Ying, Pettigrew, John D., Xu, Wei F., Li, Chao-Yi

[Abstract]: Spatio-temporal maps of the occipital cortex of macaque monkeys were analyzed using optical imaging of intrinsic signals. The images obtained during localized visual stimulation (IS) were...

Escherichia coli genes involved in resistance to pyrazinoic acid, the active component of the tuberculosis drug pyrazinamide (2002)

Schaller, A, Guo, M, Gisanrin, O, Zhang, Ying; U0011361

The natural resistance of Escherichia coli to pyrazinoic acid (POA), the active derivative of pyrazinamide, was investigated. The TolC mutant was found to be more susceptible to POA and other weak...

Transitions to equilibrium state in classical \phi ^{4} lattice (2002)

Wang, Xingang, Zhang, Ying, Hu, Gang

Statistical behavior of a classical $\phi ^{4}$ Hamiltonian lattice is investigated from microscopic dynamics. The largest Lyapunov exponent and entropies are considered for manifesting chaos and...

Novel Fiber Grating Sensing Technique Based on the Torsion Beam (2002)

Zhang, Weigang, Feng, Dejun, Ding, Lei, Zhang, Ying, Dong, Xinyong

A novel fiber grating sensing technology based on the torsion beam is reported for the first time. The Bragg wavelength change is linear with the torsional angle and the torque. The fiber Bragg...

NMR relaxation and diffusion characterization of hydrocarbon gases and liquids (2002)

Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Ying

The proton nuclear spin-lattice relaxation times and self-diffusion coefficients of ethane and propane were measured at elevated temperatures and pressures. It is found that pure ethane and propane...

Connecting and disconnecting for chain self-reconfiguration with PolyBot (2002)

Mark Yim, Ying Zhang, Kimon Roufas, David Duff, Craig Eldershaw

Chain modular robots form systems with many degrees of freedom which are capable of being reconfigured to form arbitrary chain-based topologies. This reconfiguration requires the detaching of modules...

Layered range multicast for video on demand (2002)

Kien A. Hua, Duc A. Tran, Ying Zhang

We explore a communication paradigm for video on demand, called Range Multicast. This scheme is a shift from the conventional thinking about multicast where every receiver must obtain the same data...

Automatic detection and translation of text from natural scenes (2002)

Jie Yang, Xilin Chen, Jing Zhang, Ying Zhang, Alex Waibel

Large amounts of information are embedded in natural scenes. Signs are good examples of natural objects with high information content. In this paper, we discuss problems in automatic detection and...

Attribute/Service Model: Design Patterns for Distributed Coordination (2002)

Ying Zhang, Mark Yim, Craig Eldershaw, Kimon Roufas, Dave Duff

This paper proposes the Attribute/Service Model (ASM) and associated design patterns as a general and simple framework for applications that require programming with multiple tasks on multiple...

Correlated alternative side chain conformations in the RNA-recognition motif of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 (2002)

Vitali, Jacqueline, Ding, Jianzhong, Jiang, Jianzhong, Zhang, Ying, Krainer, Adrian R., Xu, Rui-Ming

The RNA-recognition motif (RRM) is a common and evolutionarily conserved RNA-binding module. Crystallographic and solution structural studies have shown that RRMs adopt a compact α/&bgr;...

A semiparametric pseudolikelihood estimation method for panel count data (2002)

Zhang, Ying

In this paper, we study panel count data with covariates. A semiparametric pseudolikelihood estimation method is proposed based on the assumption that, given a covariate vector Z, the underlying...

Competing orders in a magnetic field: spin and charge order in the cuprate superconductors (2001)

Zhang, Ying, Demler, Eugene, Sachdev, Subir

We describe two-dimensional quantum spin fluctuations in a superconducting Abrikosov flux lattice induced by a magnetic field applied to a doped Mott insulator. Complete numerical solutions of a...

(1+1)-dimensional turbulence systems reduced from (2+1)-dimensional Lax integrable dispersive long wave equation (2001)

Tang, Xiao-yan, Lou, Sen-yue, Zhang, Ying

After extending the Clarkson-Kruskal's direct similarity reduction ansatz to a more general form, one may obtain various new types of reduction equations. Especially, some lower dimensional...

Chaos in soliton systems and special Lax pairs for chaos systems (2001)

Lou, Sen-yue, Tang, Xiao-yan, Zhang, Ying

In this letter, taking the well known (2+1)-dimensional soliton systems, Davey-Stewartson (DS) model and the asymmetric Nizhnik-Novikov-Veselov (ANNV) model, as two special examples, we show that...

Spin ordering quantum transitions of superconductors in a magnetic field (2001)

Demler, Eugene, Sachdev, Subir, Zhang, Ying

We argue that recent neutron scattering measurements by Lake et. al. (Science 291, 1759 (2001)) of the spin excitation spectrum of LSCO in a magnetic field can be understood in terms of proximity to...

Design and testing of a polyvinylidene fluoride sensor for monitoring of structure / (2001)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (M.S. in materials engineering)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001.

A nonparametric two-sample test of the failure function with interval censoring case 2 (2001)

Zhang, Ying, Liu, Wei, Zhan, Yihui

For the setting of interval censoring case 2, a nonparametric two-sample test, based on a smooth functional of the nonparametric maximum pseudolikelihood estimator, is developed to compare the...

KEEPING OUR PAST: SMALL TOWN PRESERVATION IN AMERICA SINCE 1950 (2001)

ZHANG, YING

Although the major focus of the American preservation movement has been in cities, preserving traditional small towns and villages has also been important. An increasing sensitivity to environmental...

An Automatic Sign Recognition and Translation System (2001)

Jie Yang, Jiang Gao, Ying Zhang, Xilin Chen, Alex Waibel

A sign is something that suggests the presence of a fact, condition, or quality. Signs are everywhere in our lives. They make our lives easier when we are familiar with them. But sometimes they pose...

An Automatic Sign Recognition and Translation System (2001)

Jie Yang, Jiang Gao, Ying Zhang, Xilin Chen, Alex Waibel

A sign is something that suggests the presence of a fact, condition, or quality. Signs are everywhere in our lives. They make our lives easier when we are familiar with them. But sometimes they pose...

Adapting an Example-Based Translation System to Chinese (2001)

Ying Zhang, Ralf D. Brown, Robert E. Frederking

We describe an Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) system and the adaptations and enhancementsmade to create a ChineseEnglish translation system from the Hong Kong legal code and various other...

Towards Automatic Sign Translation (2001)

Jie Yang Jiang, Jie Yang, Jiang Gao, Ying Zhang, Alex Waibel

this paper, we present our efforts towards automatic sign translation

Text Detection and Translation From Natural Scenes (2001)

Jiang Gao, Jie Yang, Ying Zhang, Alex Waibel

We present a system for automatic extraction and interpretation of signs from a natural scene.

A Semiparametric Regression Model for Panel Count Data: When Do Pseudo-likelihood Estimators Become Badly Inefficient? (2001)

Jon A. Wellner, Ying Zhang, Hao Liu

We consider estimation in a particular semiparametric regression model for the mean of a counting process under the assumption of "panel count" data. The basic model assumption is that the...

Distributed control for 3d metamorphosis (2001)

Mark Yim, Ying Zhang, John Lamping, Eric Mao

Abstract. In this paper, we define Proteo as a class of three-dimensional (3D) metamorphic robotic system capable of approximating arbitrary 3D shapes by utilizing repeated modules. Each Proteo...

A nonparametric two-sample test of the failure function with interval censoring case 2 (2001)

Zhang, Ying, Liu, Wei, Zhan, Yihui

For the setting of interval censoring case 2, a nonparametric two‐sample test, based on a smooth functional of the nonparametric maximum pseudolikelihood estimator, is developed to compare the...

A randomized controlled clinical trial on etimicin, a new aminoglycoside antibiotic, versus netilmicin in the treatment of bacterial infections (2000)

Zhao, CY, Li, JT, Hou, J, Guo, M, Zhang, Ying; U0011361, Chen, YF

Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of two aminoglycoside antibiotics, etimicin and netilmicin, in the treatment of bacterial infections.

Renormalization group analysis of quantum critical points in d-wave superconductors (2000)

Vojta, Matthias, Zhang, Ying, Sachdev, Subir

We describe a search for renormalization group fixed points which control a second-order quantum phase transition between a d_{x^2-y^2} superconductor and some other superconducting ground state....

Quantum phase transitions in d-wave superconductors (2000)

Vojta, Matthias, Zhang, Ying, Sachdev, Subir

Motivated by the strong, low temperature damping of nodal quasiparticles observed in some cuprate superconductors, we study quantum phase transitions in d_{x^2-y^2} superconductors with a...

Mycobacterium smegmatis has two pyrazinamidase enzymes, PncA and PzaA (2000)

Guo, M, Sun, ZH, Zhang, Ying; U0011361

The Mycobacterium smegmatis pncA gene, encoding nicotinamidase/pyrazinamidase, was identified. While it was similar to counterparts from other mycobacteria, the M. smegmatis PncA had little homology...

Two estimators of the mean of a counting process with panel count data (2000)

Wellner, Jon A., Zhang, Ying

We study two estimators of the mean function of a countingprocess based on “panel count data.” The setting for “panel count data” is one in which $n$ independent subjects, each with a...

Competing orders and quantum criticality in doped antiferromagnets (2000)

Vojta, Matthias, Zhang, Ying, Sachdev, Subir

We use a number of large-N limits to explore the competition between ground states of square lattice doped antiferromagnets which break electromagnetic U(1), time-reversal, or square lattice space...

Martingales and weak martingales / (2000)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (M.S.)--Kansas State University, 2000.

Formal specification of performance metrics for intelligent systems (2000)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

There are now so many architectures for intelligent systems: deliberative planning vs. reactive acting, behavioral subsuming vs. hierarchical structuring, machine learning vs. logic reasoning, and...

Six Degree of Freedom Sensing for Docking Using IR LED Emitters and Receivers,” presented at Int. Symp. for Experimental Robotics 2000 (2000)

Kimon Roufas, Ying Zhang, Dave Duff, Mark Yim

Abstract: Six DOF offset sensing between two plates is important for automatic docking mechanisms. This paper presents an easy and inexpensive implementation of such a system using four...

Computational and experimental study on structure-photoactivity relationships of formate esters and perfluorinated anhydrides (1999)

Zhang, Ying

Structure-activity relationship study is an important research field in chemistry, biology and pharmacology. The structure-photoactivity relationship study reported here focuses on the effect of...

Modeling and Analysis of Hybrid Control Systems (1999)

Ying Zhang, Alan K Mackworth

We propose a formal approach to the modeling and analysis of hybrid control systems. The approach consists of the interleaved phases of hybrid dynamic system modeling, requirements specification,...

Prostasin Serine Protease as a Breast Cancer Invasion Marker and a Metastasis Suppressor (1998)

Chai, Karl X., Chen, Li-Mei, Zhang, Ying, Lowe, Stephanie L.

We have previously shown that membrane-anchored prostasin serine protease was an in vitro suppressor of tumor cell invasion (1-3) . The expression of prostasin is down-regulated in prostate cancers...

Energy-Aware Fault Tolerance in Fixed-Priority Real-Time Embedded Systems (1998)

Zhang, Ying, Chakrabarty, Krishnendu, Swaminathan, Vishnu

We investigate an integrated approach to fault tolerance and dynamic power management in real-time embedded systems. Fault tolerance is achieved via checkpointing and power management is carried out...

Task Feasibility Analysis and Dynamic Voltage Scaling in Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Embedded Systems (1998)

Zhang, Ying, Chakrabarty, Krishnendu

We investigate dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) in realtime embedded systems that use checkpointing for fault tolerance. We present feasibility-of-scheduling tests for checkpointing schemes for a...

A Preliminary Study on Superplasticity of Ti-14Al-21Nb Alloy. (1998)

Zhang, Ying, Ma, Jimin, Li, Xueming, Cao, Chunxiao

Superplastic deformation of Ti-14Al-21Nb alloy occurred in a strain rate range of 0.00005 to 0.0005 1/s, where the strain rate sensitivity index m (m=0.43) was maximum; a maximum tensile ductility...

Edge recovery in barcode recognition /--by Ying Zhang. (1998)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1998.

Performance Analysis of Parallel Systems: Approaches and Open Problems (1998)

Daniel A. Reed, Ruth A. Aydt, Luiz Derose, Celso L. Mendes, Randy L. Ribler, Eric Sha, ...

Parallel computing is rapidly evolving to include heterogeneous collections of distributed and parallel systems. Concurrently, applications are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary with code...

SvPablo: A Multi-Language Performance Analysis System (1998)

Luiz De Rose, Luiz De Rose, Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Daniel A. Reed, Daniel A. Reed

Abstract. SvPablo is a language independent performance analysis and visualization system that supports analysis of applications written in a variety of languages and executing on both sequential and...

Performance Analysis of Parallel Systems: Approaches and Open Problems (1998)

Daniel A. Reed, Ruth A. Aydt, Luiz DeRose, Celso L. Mendes, Randy L. Ribler, Eric Shaffer, ...

Parallel computing is rapidly evolving to include heterogeneous collections of distributed and parallel systems. Concurrently, applications are becoming increasingly multidisciplinary with code...

Large Sample Theory for an Estimator of the Mean of a Counting Process with Panel Count Data (1998)

Jon A. Wellner, Ying Zhang

We study an estimator of the mean function of a counting process based on "panel count" data which has been proposed by Sun and Kalbfleisch (1995). The setting for "panel count...

SvPablo: A Multi-Language Performance Analysis System (1998)

Luiz De Rose, Ying Zhang, Luiz De, Rose Ying, Zhang Daniel, Daniel A. Reed

In this paper we present the design of SvPablo, a language independent performance analysis and visualization system that can be easily extended to new contexts with minimal changes to the software...

Two Estimators of the Mean of a Counting Process with Panel Count Data (1998)

Jon Wellner And, Jon A. Wellner, Ying Zhang

We study two estimators of the mean function of a counting process based on "panel count data". The setting for "panel count data" is one in which n independent subjects, each...

Two Estimators of the Mean of aCounting Process with Panel Count Data (1998)

Jon A. Wellner, Ying Zhang

We study two estimators of the mean function of a counting process based on \panel count data". The setting for \panel count data " is one in which n independent subjects, each with a...

Mechanism of odor control by essential oils /--by Ying Zhang. (1997)

Zhang, Ying.

Principal faculty advisor: Dr. Donald Wilkinson, Dept. of Chemistry.

Wavelet Transform Based Variable Tree Size Fractal Video Coding (1997)

Ying Zhang, Ying-lin Yu

A new wavelet video compression scheme using adaptive fractal coding is presented in this paper. Through pyramidal wavelet transform, each video frame is decomposed into multiresolution subbands and...

A novel monoantennary complex-type sugar chain found in octopus rhodopsin: occurrence of the Gal{beta}1->4Fuc group linked to the proximal N-acetylglucosaniine residue of the trimannosyl core (1997)

Zhang, Ying, Iwasa, Tatsuo, Tsuda, Motoyuki, Kobata, Akira, Takasaki, Seiichi

The N-linked sugar chains were liberated as oligosaccha-rides from octopus rhodopsin by hydrazinolysis. Most of the oligosaccharides were neutral, and separated into two major components by column...

Mutagenesis studies of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 reverse transcriptase and integrase genes /--Ying Zhang (1996)

Zhang, Ying

Ph. D. dissertation -- State University of New York, Health Science Center at Syracuse, 1996.

A study of the mechanisms of contaminant emissions from building materials / (1996)

Zhang, Ying.

Investigates the mechanisms of indoor emissions from building materials, and how to develop a reliable model to predict material emission strength.

Specification and verification of hybrid dynamic systems with timed V-automata (1996)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

Abstract. The advent of computer-controlled embedded systems coupled to physical environments requires the development of new theories of dynamic system modeling, specification and verification. We...

Fractal Color Image Compression Using Vector Distortion Measure (1995)

Ying Zhang, Lai-Man Po

In this paper, fractal monochrome image compression technique proposed by Jacquin is investigated for 24-bit true color image by encoding the RGB components' images independently. To exploit the...

Constraint Nets: A Semantic Model for Hybrid Dynamic Systems (1995)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

Hybrid dynamic systems are systems consisting of a non-trivial mixture of discrete and continuous components, such as a controller realized by a combination of digital and analog circuits, a robot...

Synthesis of Hybrid Constraint-Based Controllers Ying Zhang (1995)

And Alan Mackworth, Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

A robot is an integrated system, with a controller embedded in its plant. We take a robotic system to be the coupling of a robot to its environment.

A STRUCTURED PHASE TRANSITION FOR THE ANTIPLANE SHEAR OF AN ELASTIC CIRCULAR TUBE (1995)

FOSDICK, ROGER, ZHANG, YING

We consider the radially symmetric axial shear of an elastic circular tube. The strain-energy function for the material is non-convex, and the potential energy contains a penalty contribution for...

Will the robot do the right thing (1994)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth, Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

Constraint Nets have been developed as an algebraic on-line computational model of robotic systems. A robotic system consists of a robot and its environment. A robot consists of a plant and a...

Will the robot do the right thing (1994)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

Robots are generally composed of multiple sensors, actuators and electromechanical parts. The overall behavior of a robot is emergent from coordination among its various parts and its interaction...

Specification and verification of constraint-based dynamic systems (1994)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

Abstract. Constraint satisfaction can be seen as a dynamic process that approaches the solution set of the given constraints asymptotically [6]. Constraint programming is seen as creating a dynamic...

Constraint Logic Planning (1994)

Ying Zhang, Howard Barringer

Deductive planning provides a rigorous approach for planning, such that the capabilities and limitations of the planning systems can be clearly defined. However, most of the deductive planners suffer...

Domain Constraint Maintenance (1994)

Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Howard Barringer, Howard Barringer, David Carlisle

In this report, we propose a set of domain independent and human independent restrictions on actions and we show that the restrictions can prevent actions from being improperly defined. Then, based...

Molecular genetics of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis (1994)

Zhang, Ying, Young, Douglas

Tuberculosis (TB) is the single largest killer among infectious diseases. The recent resurgence of TB together with outbreaks of multidrug resistant tuberculosis has focused attention on...

The efficacy of level of adjunct questions over time by discourse type / (1993)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Utah State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1993.

Design and Analysis of Embedded Real-Time Systems: An Elevator Case Study (1993)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

Constraint Nets have been developed as an algebraic on-line computational model of robotic systems. Timed 8-automata have been studied as a logical specification language of real-time behaviors. A...

Constraint Programming in Constraint Nets (1993)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

We view constraints as relations and constraint satisfaction as a dynamic process of approaching a stable equilibrium. We have developed an algebraic model of dynamics, called Constraint Nets, to...

Design and analysis of embedded real-time systems: An elevator case study (1993)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

Constraint Nets have been developed as an algebraic on-line computational model of robotic systems. Timed 8-automata have been studied as a logical speci cation language of real-time behaviors. A...

A Reified Temporal Logic For Nonlinear Planning (1992)

Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Howard Barringer, Howard Barringer

Deductive planning treats planning as a reasoning process within a formal logic. Several formal logics have been applied in various deductive planning systems, but none is completely satisfactory and...

Will The Robot Do The Right Thing? (1992)

Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth, Alan K. Mackworth, Alan K. Mackworth

Constraint Nets have been developed as an algebraic on-line computational model of robotic systems. A robotic system consists of a robot and its environment. A robot consists of a plant and a...

Parallel and Distributed Finite Constraint Satisfaction: Complexity, Algorithms and Experiments (1992)

Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth, Alan K. Mackworth, Alan K. Mackworth

This paper explores the parallel complexity of finite constraint satisfaction problems (FCSPs) by developing three algorithms for deriving minimal constraint networks in parallel. The first is a...

Hydrogen and hydrogen-related defects in silicon /--by Ying Zhang. (1991)

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--The University at Albany, State University of New York, Dept. of Physics, 1991.

Parallel and distributed algorithms for constraint networks (1991)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth, Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

This paper develops two new algorithms for solving a nite constraint satisfaction problem (FCSP) in parallel. In particular, we give a parallel algorithm for the EREW PRAM model and a distributed...

Parallel and distributed algorithms for finite constraint satisfaction problems (1991)

Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth

This paper develops two new algorithms for solv-ing a finite constraint satisfaction problem (FCSP) in parallel. In particular, we give a parallel algorithm for the EREW PRAM model and a distributed...

Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Constraint Networks (1991)

Ying Zhang, Ying Zhang, Alan K. Mackworth, Alan K. Mackworth, Alan K. Mackworth

This paper develops two new algorithms for solving a finite constraint satisfaction problem (FCSP) in parallel. In particular, we give a parallel algorithm for the EREW PRAM model and a distributed...

Correlations among surfactant drag reduction additive chemical structures, rheological properties and microstructures in water and water/co-solvent systems

Zhang, Ying

Under appropriate conditions, surfactants in water are known to self-assemble into threadlike micelles which reduce the drag of the solution in turbulent flow compared to that of the water solvent at...

Regulation of Smad degradation and activity by Smurf2, an E3 ubiquitin ligase

Zhang, Ying, Chang, Chenbei, Gehling, Daniel J., Hemmati-Brivanlou, Ali, Derynck, Rik

Smad proteins are key intracellular signaling effectors for the transforming growth factor-β superfamily of peptide growth factors. Following receptor-induced activation, Smads move into the nucleus...

Crystal structure of human p32, a doughnut-shaped acidic mitochondrial matrix protein

Jiang, Jianzhong, Zhang, Ying, Krainer, Adrian R., Xu, Rui-Ming

Human p32 (also known as SF2-associated p32, p32/TAP, and gC1qR) is a conserved eukaryotic protein that localizes predominantly in the mitochondrial matrix. It is thought to be involved in...

Reduced Pyrazinamidase Activity and the Natural Resistance of Mycobacterium kansasii to the Antituberculosis Drug Pyrazinamide

Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

Pyrazinamide (PZA), an analog of nicotinamide, is a prodrug that requires conversion to the bactericidal compound pyrazinoic acid (POA) by the bacterial pyrazinamidase (PZase) activity of...

pncA Mutations as a Major Mechanism of Pyrazinamide Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Spread of a Monoresistant Strain in Quebec, Canada

Cheng, Shao-Ji, Thibert, Louise, Sanchez, Tracy, Heifets, Leonid, Zhang, Ying

Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important first-line tuberculosis drug that is part of the currently used short-course tuberculosis chemotherapy. PZA is a prodrug that has to be converted to the active form...

Role of Acid pH and Deficient Efflux of Pyrazinoic Acid in Unique Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Pyrazinamide

Zhang, Ying, Scorpio, Angelo, Nikaido, Hiroshi, Sun, Zhonghe

Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important antituberculosis drug. Unlike most antibacterial agents, PZA, despite its remarkable in vivo activity, has no activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro...

Spent Culture Supernatant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra Improves Viability of Aged Cultures of This Strain and Allows Small Inocula To Initiate Growth

Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

Spent culture supernatant from early-stationary-phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra cultures increased the viability of bacilli from aged cultures of this strain and allowed small inocula to...

Mycobacterium smegmatis Has Two Pyrazinamidase Enzymes, PncA and PzaA

Guo, Ming, Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

The Mycobacterium smegmatis pncA gene, encoding nicotinamidase/pyrazinamidase, was identified. While it was similar to counterparts from other mycobacteria, the M. smegmatis PncA had little homology...

Recombinant PhpA Protein, a Unique Histidine Motif-Containing Protein from Streptococcus pneumoniae, Protects Mice against Intranasal Pneumococcal Challenge

Zhang, Ying, Masi, Amy W., Barniak, Vicki, Mountzouros, Ken, Hostetter, Margaret K., Green, Bruce A.

The multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is effective against both systemic disease and otitis media caused by serotypes contained in the vaccine. However, serotypes not covered by the current...

Correlated alternative side chain conformations in the RNA-recognition motif of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1

Vitali, Jacqueline, Ding, Jianzhong, Jiang, Jianzhong, Zhang, Ying, Krainer, Adrian R., Xu, Rui-Ming

The RNA-recognition motif (RRM) is a common and evolutionarily conserved RNA-binding module. Crystallographic and solution structural studies have shown that RRMs adopt a compact α/β structure, in...

CXC-Chemokine Receptor 4 Is Not a Coreceptor for Human Herpesvirus 7 Entry into CD4+ T Cells

Zhang, Ying, Hatse, Sigrid, De Clercq, Erik, Schols, Dominique

Human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) is a T-lymphotropic virus which utilizes the CD4 receptor as its main receptor to enter the target cells. Hence, HHV-7 can interfere with human immunodeficiency virus type...

Productive Infection of Primary Macrophages with Human Herpesvirus 7

Zhang, Ying, De Bolle, Leen, Aquaro, Stefano, Van Lommel, Alfons, De Clercq, Erik, Schols, Dominique

Here we demonstrate replication of human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7), a T-lymphotropic virus, in macrophages. Productive replication was lost after 2 weeks, but HHV-7 DNA was detected up to 1 month after...

Salicylate Reduces Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Multiple Antituberculosis Drugs

Schaller, Alain, Sun, Zhonghe, Yang, Yongping, Somoskovi, Akos, Zhang, Ying

Salicylate induces multiple antibiotic resistance in various bacterial species. Here we investigated the effect of salicylate on the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a range of...

A regulatory protein that interferes with activator-stimulated transcription in bacteria

Nakano, Shunji, Nakano, Michiko M., Zhang, Ying, Leelakriangsak, Montira, Zuber, Peter

Transcriptional activator proteins in bacteria often operate by interaction with the C-terminal domain of the α-subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Here we report the discovery of an “anti-α”...

Structures of immature flavivirus particles

Zhang, Ying, Corver, Jeroen, Chipman, Paul R., Zhang, Wei, Pletnev, Sergei V., Sedlak, Dagmar, ...

Structures of prM-containing dengue and yellow fever virus particles were determined to 16 and 25 Å resolution, respectively, by cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction techniques. The...

Flexible DNA bending in HU–DNA cocrystal structures

Swinger, Kerren K., Lemberg, Kathryn M., Zhang, Ying, Rice, Phoebe A.

HU and IHF are members of a family of prokaryotic proteins that interact with the DNA minor groove in a sequence-specific (IHF) or non-specific (HU) manner to induce and/or stabilize DNA bending. HU...

Repression of the Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene Promoter by Cross Talk among EAR3/COUP-TFI, Sp1/Sp3, and TFIIB

Zhang, Ying, Dufau, Maria L.

Transcription of luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) gene is activated by Sp1/Sp3 at two Sp1 sites and is repressed by nuclear orphan receptors EAR2 and EAR3 through a direct-repeat (DR) motif. To...

Crystal structure of the two-RRM domain of hnRNP A1 (UP1) complexed with single-stranded telomeric DNA

Ding, Jianzhong, Hayashi, Mariko K., Zhang, Ying, Manche, Lisa, Krainer, Adrian R., Xu, Rui-Ming

Human hnRNP A1 is a versatile single-stranded nucleic acid-binding protein that functions in various aspects of mRNA maturation and in telomere length regulation. The crystal structure of UP1, the...

The tumor suppressor Smad4/DPC4 and transcriptional adaptor CBP/p300 are coactivators for Smad3 in TGF-β-induced transcriptional activation

Feng, Xin-Hua, Zhang, Ying, Wu, Rui-Yun, Derynck, Rik

Smads regulate transcription of defined genes in response to TGF-β receptor activation, although the mechanisms of Smad-mediated transcription are not well understood. We demonstrate that the...

Vaccine Potential of the Neisseria meningitidis 2086 Lipoprotein

Fletcher, Leah D., Bernfield, Liesel, Barniak, Vicki, Farley, John E., Howell, Alan, Knauf, Melissa, ...

A novel antigen that induces cross-reactive bactericidal antibodies against a number of Neisseria meningitidis strains is described. This antigen, a ∼28-kDa lipoprotein called LP2086, was first...

Structural and Virological Studies of the Stages of Virus Replication That Are Affected by Antirhinovirus Compounds

Zhang, Ying, Simpson, Alan A., Ledford, Rebecca M., Bator, Carol M., Chakravarty, Sugoto, Skochko, Gregory A., ...

Pleconaril is a broad-spectrum antirhinovirus and antienterovirus compound that binds into a hydrophobic pocket within viral protein 1, stabilizing the capsid and resulting in the inhibition of cell...

PppA, a Surface-Exposed Protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Elicits Cross-Reactive Antibodies That Reduce Colonization in a Murine Intranasal Immunization and Challenge Model

Green, Bruce A., Zhang, Ying, Masi, Amy W., Barniak, Vicki, Wetherell, Michael, Smith, Robert P., ...

The multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is effective against both systemic disease and otitis media caused by serotypes contained in the vaccine. However, serotypes not covered by the present...

Single-neuron responses and neuronal decisions in a vernier task

Zhang, Ying, Reid, R. Clay

Vernier acuity is a measure of the smallest horizontal offset between two vertical lines that can be behaviorally discriminated. To examine the link between the neuronal responses in a retinotopic...

Evaluation of Recombinant Lipidated P2086 Protein as a Vaccine Candidate for Group B Neisseria meningitidis in a Murine Nasal Challenge Model

Zhu, Duzhang, Zhang, Ying, Barniak, Vicki, Bernfield, Liesel, Howell, Alan, Zlotnick, Gary

Neisseria meningitidis is a major causative agent of bacterial meningitis in human beings, especially among young children (≤2 years of age). Prevention of group B meningococcal disease represents...

Coordinated Changes in DNA Methylation and Histone Modifications Regulate Silencing/Derepression of Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene Transcription

Zhang, Ying, Fatima, Naheed, Dufau, Maria L.

We have previously demonstrated that transcription of the luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) gene is subject to repression by histone deacetylation at its promoter region, where a histone deacetylase...

The A2B adenosine receptor protects against inflammation and excessive vascular adhesion

Yang, Dan, Zhang, Ying, Nguyen, Hao G., Koupenova, Milka, Chauhan, Anil K., Makitalo, Maria, ...

Adenosine has been described as playing a role in the control of inflammation, but it has not been certain which of its receptors mediate this effect. Here, we generated an A2B adenosine...

Characteristics of transgenic tomatoes antisensed for the ethylene receptor genes LeERT1 and LeERT2 *

Wang, Zhong-feng, Ying, Tie-jin, Zhang, Ying, Bao, Bi-li, Huang, Xiao-dan

Two stable transformed lines containing antisense LeERT1 or LeERT2 sequences and their hybridized line were investigated to determine the effect of LeERT1 and LeERT2 specificity in the ethylene...

Antifungal Activity of C-27 Steroidal Saponins

Yang, Chong-Ren, Zhang, Ying, Jacob, Melissa R., Khan, Shabana I., Zhang, Ying-Jun, Li, Xing-Cong

As part of our search for new antifungal agents from natural resources, 22 C-27 steroidal saponins and 6 steroidal sapogenins isolated from several monocotyledonous plants were tested for their...

l7Rn6 Encodes a Novel Protein Required for Clara Cell Function in Mouse Lung Development

Fernández-Valdivia, Rodrigo, Zhang, Ying, Pai, Sonia, Metzker, Michael L., Schumacher, Armin

The highly secretory Clara cells play a pivotal role in protecting the lung against inflammation and oxidative stress. This study reports the positional cloning of a novel protein required for Clara...

Mutational Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis RNA Polymerase α C-Terminal Domain Supports the Interference Model of Spx-Dependent Repression†

Zhang, Ying, Nakano, Shunji, Choi, Soon-Yong, Zuber, Peter

The Spx protein of Bacillus subtilis exerts both positive and negative transcriptional control in response to oxidative stress by interacting with the C-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase (RNAP)...

Competitive Hybridization Kinetics Reveals Unexpected Behavior Patterns

Zhang, Ying, Hammer, Daniel A., Graves, David J.

Although the kinetics of hybridization between a soluble polynucleotide and an immobilized complementary sequence have been studied by others, it is almost universally assumed that the interaction...

Multiple Membrane Tethers Probed by Atomic Force Microscopy

Sun, Mingzhai, Graham, John S., Hegedüs, Balazs, Marga, Françoise, Zhang, Ying, Forgacs, Gabor, ...

Using the atomic force microscope to locally probe the cell membrane, we observed the formation of multiple tethers (thin nanotubes, each requiring a similar pulling force) as reproducible features...

Regulation of Smad degradation and activity by Smurf2, an E3 ubiquitin ligase

Zhang, Ying, Chang, Chenbei, Gehling, Daniel J., Hemmati-Brivanlou, Ali, Derynck, Rik

Smad proteins are key intracellular signaling effectors for the transforming growth factor-β superfamily of peptide growth factors. Following receptor-induced activation, Smads move into the nucleus...

Crystal structure of human p32, a doughnut-shaped acidic mitochondrial matrix protein

Jiang, Jianzhong, Zhang, Ying, Krainer, Adrian R., Xu, Rui-Ming

Human p32 (also known as SF2-associated p32, p32/TAP, and gC1qR) is a conserved eukaryotic protein that localizes predominantly in the mitochondrial matrix. It is thought to be involved in...

Reduced Pyrazinamidase Activity and the Natural Resistance of Mycobacterium kansasii to the Antituberculosis Drug Pyrazinamide

Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

Pyrazinamide (PZA), an analog of nicotinamide, is a prodrug that requires conversion to the bactericidal compound pyrazinoic acid (POA) by the bacterial pyrazinamidase (PZase) activity of...

pncA Mutations as a Major Mechanism of Pyrazinamide Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Spread of a Monoresistant Strain in Quebec, Canada

Cheng, Shao-Ji, Thibert, Louise, Sanchez, Tracy, Heifets, Leonid, Zhang, Ying

Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important first-line tuberculosis drug that is part of the currently used short-course tuberculosis chemotherapy. PZA is a prodrug that has to be converted to the active form...

Role of Acid pH and Deficient Efflux of Pyrazinoic Acid in Unique Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Pyrazinamide

Zhang, Ying, Scorpio, Angelo, Nikaido, Hiroshi, Sun, Zhonghe

Pyrazinamide (PZA) is an important antituberculosis drug. Unlike most antibacterial agents, PZA, despite its remarkable in vivo activity, has no activity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis in vitro...

Spent Culture Supernatant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra Improves Viability of Aged Cultures of This Strain and Allows Small Inocula To Initiate Growth

Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

Spent culture supernatant from early-stationary-phase Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra cultures increased the viability of bacilli from aged cultures of this strain and allowed small inocula to...

Mycobacterium smegmatis Has Two Pyrazinamidase Enzymes, PncA and PzaA

Guo, Ming, Sun, Zhonghe, Zhang, Ying

The Mycobacterium smegmatis pncA gene, encoding nicotinamidase/pyrazinamidase, was identified. While it was similar to counterparts from other mycobacteria, the M. smegmatis PncA had little homology...

Recombinant PhpA Protein, a Unique Histidine Motif-Containing Protein from Streptococcus pneumoniae, Protects Mice against Intranasal Pneumococcal Challenge

Zhang, Ying, Masi, Amy W., Barniak, Vicki, Mountzouros, Ken, Hostetter, Margaret K., Green, Bruce A.

The multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is effective against both systemic disease and otitis media caused by serotypes contained in the vaccine. However, serotypes not covered by the current...

Correlated alternative side chain conformations in the RNA-recognition motif of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1

Vitali, Jacqueline, Ding, Jianzhong, Jiang, Jianzhong, Zhang, Ying, Krainer, Adrian R., Xu, Rui-Ming

The RNA-recognition motif (RRM) is a common and evolutionarily conserved RNA-binding module. Crystallographic and solution structural studies have shown that RRMs adopt a compact α/β structure, in...

CXC-Chemokine Receptor 4 Is Not a Coreceptor for Human Herpesvirus 7 Entry into CD4+ T Cells

Zhang, Ying, Hatse, Sigrid, De Clercq, Erik, Schols, Dominique

Human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7) is a T-lymphotropic virus which utilizes the CD4 receptor as its main receptor to enter the target cells. Hence, HHV-7 can interfere with human immunodeficiency virus type...

Productive Infection of Primary Macrophages with Human Herpesvirus 7

Zhang, Ying, De Bolle, Leen, Aquaro, Stefano, Van Lommel, Alfons, De Clercq, Erik, Schols, Dominique

Here we demonstrate replication of human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7), a T-lymphotropic virus, in macrophages. Productive replication was lost after 2 weeks, but HHV-7 DNA was detected up to 1 month after...

Salicylate Reduces Susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to Multiple Antituberculosis Drugs

Schaller, Alain, Sun, Zhonghe, Yang, Yongping, Somoskovi, Akos, Zhang, Ying

Salicylate induces multiple antibiotic resistance in various bacterial species. Here we investigated the effect of salicylate on the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to a range of...

A regulatory protein that interferes with activator-stimulated transcription in bacteria

Nakano, Shunji, Nakano, Michiko M., Zhang, Ying, Leelakriangsak, Montira, Zuber, Peter

Transcriptional activator proteins in bacteria often operate by interaction with the C-terminal domain of the α-subunit of RNA polymerase (RNAP). Here we report the discovery of an “anti-α”...

Structures of immature flavivirus particles

Zhang, Ying, Corver, Jeroen, Chipman, Paul R., Zhang, Wei, Pletnev, Sergei V., Sedlak, Dagmar, ...

Structures of prM-containing dengue and yellow fever virus particles were determined to 16 and 25 Å resolution, respectively, by cryoelectron microscopy and image reconstruction techniques. The...

Flexible DNA bending in HU–DNA cocrystal structures

Swinger, Kerren K., Lemberg, Kathryn M., Zhang, Ying, Rice, Phoebe A.

HU and IHF are members of a family of prokaryotic proteins that interact with the DNA minor groove in a sequence-specific (IHF) or non-specific (HU) manner to induce and/or stabilize DNA bending. HU...

Repression of the Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene Promoter by Cross Talk among EAR3/COUP-TFI, Sp1/Sp3, and TFIIB

Zhang, Ying, Dufau, Maria L.

Transcription of luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) gene is activated by Sp1/Sp3 at two Sp1 sites and is repressed by nuclear orphan receptors EAR2 and EAR3 through a direct-repeat (DR) motif. To...

Crystal structure of the two-RRM domain of hnRNP A1 (UP1) complexed with single-stranded telomeric DNA

Ding, Jianzhong, Hayashi, Mariko K., Zhang, Ying, Manche, Lisa, Krainer, Adrian R., Xu, Rui-Ming

Human hnRNP A1 is a versatile single-stranded nucleic acid-binding protein that functions in various aspects of mRNA maturation and in telomere length regulation. The crystal structure of UP1, the...

The tumor suppressor Smad4/DPC4 and transcriptional adaptor CBP/p300 are coactivators for Smad3 in TGF-β-induced transcriptional activation

Feng, Xin-Hua, Zhang, Ying, Wu, Rui-Yun, Derynck, Rik

Smads regulate transcription of defined genes in response to TGF-β receptor activation, although the mechanisms of Smad-mediated transcription are not well understood. We demonstrate that the...

Vaccine Potential of the Neisseria meningitidis 2086 Lipoprotein

Fletcher, Leah D., Bernfield, Liesel, Barniak, Vicki, Farley, John E., Howell, Alan, Knauf, Melissa, ...

A novel antigen that induces cross-reactive bactericidal antibodies against a number of Neisseria meningitidis strains is described. This antigen, a ∼28-kDa lipoprotein called LP2086, was first...

Structural and Virological Studies of the Stages of Virus Replication That Are Affected by Antirhinovirus Compounds

Zhang, Ying, Simpson, Alan A., Ledford, Rebecca M., Bator, Carol M., Chakravarty, Sugoto, Skochko, Gregory A., ...

Pleconaril is a broad-spectrum antirhinovirus and antienterovirus compound that binds into a hydrophobic pocket within viral protein 1, stabilizing the capsid and resulting in the inhibition of cell...

PppA, a Surface-Exposed Protein of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Elicits Cross-Reactive Antibodies That Reduce Colonization in a Murine Intranasal Immunization and Challenge Model

Green, Bruce A., Zhang, Ying, Masi, Amy W., Barniak, Vicki, Wetherell, Michael, Smith, Robert P., ...

The multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine is effective against both systemic disease and otitis media caused by serotypes contained in the vaccine. However, serotypes not covered by the present...

Single-neuron responses and neuronal decisions in a vernier task

Zhang, Ying, Reid, R. Clay

Vernier acuity is a measure of the smallest horizontal offset between two vertical lines that can be behaviorally discriminated. To examine the link between the neuronal responses in a retinotopic...

Evaluation of Recombinant Lipidated P2086 Protein as a Vaccine Candidate for Group B Neisseria meningitidis in a Murine Nasal Challenge Model

Zhu, Duzhang, Zhang, Ying, Barniak, Vicki, Bernfield, Liesel, Howell, Alan, Zlotnick, Gary

Neisseria meningitidis is a major causative agent of bacterial meningitis in human beings, especially among young children (≤2 years of age). Prevention of group B meningococcal disease represents...

Coordinated Changes in DNA Methylation and Histone Modifications Regulate Silencing/Derepression of Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene Transcription

Zhang, Ying, Fatima, Naheed, Dufau, Maria L.

We have previously demonstrated that transcription of the luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) gene is subject to repression by histone deacetylation at its promoter region, where a histone deacetylase...

Competitive Hybridization Kinetics Reveals Unexpected Behavior Patterns

Zhang, Ying, Hammer, Daniel A., Graves, David J.

Although the kinetics of hybridization between a soluble polynucleotide and an immobilized complementary sequence have been studied by others, it is almost universally assumed that the interaction...

Multiple Membrane Tethers Probed by Atomic Force Microscopy

Sun, Mingzhai, Graham, John S., Hegedüs, Balazs, Marga, Françoise, Zhang, Ying, Forgacs, Gabor, ...

Using the atomic force microscope to locally probe the cell membrane, we observed the formation of multiple tethers (thin nanotubes, each requiring a similar pulling force) as reproducible features...

l7Rn6 Encodes a Novel Protein Required for Clara Cell Function in Mouse Lung Development

Fernández-Valdivia, Rodrigo, Zhang, Ying, Pai, Sonia, Metzker, Michael L., Schumacher, Armin

The highly secretory Clara cells play a pivotal role in protecting the lung against inflammation and oxidative stress. This study reports the positional cloning of a novel protein required for Clara...

Antifungal Activity of C-27 Steroidal Saponins

Yang, Chong-Ren, Zhang, Ying, Jacob, Melissa R., Khan, Shabana I., Zhang, Ying-Jun, Li, Xing-Cong

As part of our search for new antifungal agents from natural resources, 22 C-27 steroidal saponins and 6 steroidal sapogenins isolated from several monocotyledonous plants were tested for their...

Mutational Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis RNA Polymerase α C-Terminal Domain Supports the Interference Model of Spx-Dependent Repression†

Zhang, Ying, Nakano, Shunji, Choi, Soon-Yong, Zuber, Peter

The Spx protein of Bacillus subtilis exerts both positive and negative transcriptional control in response to oxidative stress by interacting with the C-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase (RNAP)...

The A2B adenosine receptor protects against inflammation and excessive vascular adhesion

Yang, Dan, Zhang, Ying, Nguyen, Hao G., Koupenova, Milka, Chauhan, Anil K., Makitalo, Maria, ...

Adenosine has been described as playing a role in the control of inflammation, but it has not been certain which of its receptors mediate this effect. Here, we generated an A2B adenosine...

Characteristics of transgenic tomatoes antisensed for the ethylene receptor genes LeETR1 and LeETR2 *

Wang, Zhong-feng, Ying, Tie-jin, Zhang, Ying, Bao, Bi-li, Huang, Xiao-dan

Two stable transformed lines containing antisense LeETR1 or LeETR2 sequences and their hybridized line were investigated to determine the effect of LeETR1 and LeETR2 specificity in the ethylene...

Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase/Protein Kinase Cζ-Induced Phosphorylation of Sp1 and p107 Repressor Release Have a Critical Role in Histone Deacetylase Inhibitor-Mediated Depression of Transcription of the Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene

Zhang, Ying, Liao, Mingjuan, Dufau, Maria L.

We have demonstrated that silencing of luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) gene transcription is mediated via a proximal Sp1 site at its promoter. Trichostatin A (TSA) induced histone acetylation and...

CutDB: a proteolytic event database

Igarashi, Yoshinobu, Eroshkin, Alexey, Gramatikova, Svetlana, Gramatikoff, Kosi, Zhang, Ying, Smith, Jeffrey W., ...

Beyond the well-known role of proteolytic machinery in protein degradation and turnover, many specialized proteases play a key role in various regulatory processes. Thousands of highly specific...

Genetic analysis of fruit shape traits at different maturation stages in sponge gourd*

Zhang, Sheng, Hu, Jin, Zhang, Cai-fang, Guan, Ya-jing, Zhang, Ying

The fruit shape is important quantitative trait closely related to the fruit quality. However, the genetic model of fruit shapes has not been proposed. Therefore, in the present study, analysis of...

Differential Adhesion of Microspheres Mediated by DNA Hybridization I: Experiment

Zhang, Ying, Milam, Valeria T., Graves, David J., Hammer, Daniel A.

We have developed a novel method to study collective behavior of multiple hybridized DNA chains by measuring the adhesion of DNA-coated micron-scale beads under hydrodynamic flow. Beads coated with...

Aspirin Antagonism in Isoniazid Treatment of Tuberculosis in Mice▿

Byrne, Sean T., Denkin, Steven M., Zhang, Ying

Salicylate has previously been shown to reduce the susceptibility of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to several drugs in vitro. In this study, aspirin, a salicylate anti-inflammatory, antagonized...

Experimental validation of predicted mammalian erythroid cis-regulatory modules

Wang, Hao, Zhang, Ying, Cheng, Yong, Zhou, Yuepin, King, David C., Taylor, James, ...

Multiple alignments of genome sequences are helpful guides to functional analysis, but predicting cis-regulatory modules (CRMs) accurately from such alignments remains an elusive goal. We predict...

Effect of lead on ERK activity and the protective function of bFGF in rat primary culture astroglia*

Zhang, Ying, Ye, Li-ping, Wang, Biao, Cao, Shi-cheng, Sun, Li-guang

Objective: To observe the effects of lead on levels of phosphorylated extracellular signal regulated kinase (p-ERK) in the cytoplasm of primary cultures of rat astroglial cells and the possible...

HMDB: the Human Metabolome Database

Wishart, David S., Tzur, Dan, Knox, Craig, Eisner, Roman, Guo, An Chi, Young, Nelson, ...

The Human Metabolome Database (HMDB) is currently the most complete and comprehensive curated collection of human metabolite and human metabolism data in the world. It contains records for more than...

Inducible activation of CEBPB, a gene negatively regulated by BCR/ABL, inhibits proliferation and promotes differentiation of BCR/ABL-expressing cells

Guerzoni, Clara, Bardini, Michela, Mariani, Samanta A., Ferrari-Amorotti, Giovanna, Neviani, Paolo, Panno, Maria Luisa, ...

Translational regulation by oncogenic proteins may be a rapid and efficient mechanism to modulate gene expression. We report here the identification of the CEBPB gene as a target of translational...

Cross-reaction of anti-DNA autoantibodies with membrane proteins of human glomerular mesangial cells in sera from patients with lupus nephritis

Du, Hui, Chen, Min, Zhang, Ying, Zhao, Ming-hui, Wang, Hai-Yan

Anti-DNA autoantibodies were thought to play a major role in the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis (LN). A recent study revealed that affinity-purified anti-DNA antibodies had a cross-reaction with...

Widely variable endogenous retroviral methylation levels in human placenta

Reiss, Daphne, Zhang, Ying, Mager, Dixie L.

It is generally assumed that transposable elements, including endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), are silenced by DNA methylation/chromatin structure in mammalian cells. However, there have been very few...

Expression, purification and crystallization of a human protein SH3BGRL at atomic resolution

Yin, Lei, Zhu, De-Yu, Yang, Na, Huang, Qiu-Hua, Zhang, Ying, Wang, Da-Cheng

The protein SH3BGRL, containing both SH3-binding and Homer EVH1-binding motifs, has been crystallized using the hanging-drop vapour-diffusion method.

High level glucose increases mutagenesis in human lymphoblastoid cells

Zhang, Ying, Zhou, Junqing, Wang, Tieli, Cai, Lu

Epidemiological data have suggested an increased cancer rates in diabetic patients, for which the underlying mechanism is poorly understood. We studied whether high level of glucose (HG) treatment...

The catalytic subunit of the proteasome is engaged in the entire process of estrogen receptor-regulated transcription

Zhang, Hua, Sun, Luyang, Liang, Jing, Yu, Wenhua, Zhang, Ying, Wang, Yan, ...

The ubiquitin–proteasome system plays an important role in a variety of cellular functions by means of its proteolytic activity. Interestingly, recent studies have indicated that the proteasome...

PhoU Is a Persistence Switch Involved in Persister Formation and Tolerance to Multiple Antibiotics and Stresses in Escherichia coli▿ †

Li, Yongfang, Zhang, Ying

When a bactericidal antibiotic is added to a growing bacterial culture, the great majority of the bacterial population is killed but a small number of metabolically quiescent bacteria called...

Isoniazid Induces Its Own Resistance in Nonreplicating Mycobacterium tuberculosis▿

Siddiqi, Salman, Takhar, Param, Baldeviano, Christian, Glover, William, Zhang, Ying

Isoniazid (INH) resistance is most frequent among drug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates. This study was conducted to investigate whether INH could induce its own resistance....

Structure of Immature West Nile Virus▿

Zhang, Ying, Kaufmann, Bärbel, Chipman, Paul R., Kuhn, Richard J., Rossmann, Michael G.

The structure of immature West Nile virus particles, propagated in the presence of ammonium chloride to block virus maturation in the low-pH environment of the trans-Golgi network, was determined by...

Integration of Estrogen and Wnt Signaling Circuits by the Polycomb Group Protein EZH2 in Breast Cancer Cells▿

Shi, Bin, Liang, Jing, Yang, Xiaohan, Wang, Yan, Zhao, Youna, Wu, Huijian, ...

Essential for embryonic development, the polycomb group protein enhancer of zeste homolog 2 (EZH2) is overexpressed in breast and prostate cancers and is implicated in the growth and aggression of...

Finding cis-regulatory elements using comparative genomics: Some lessons from ENCODE data

King, David C., Taylor, James, Zhang, Ying, Cheng, Yong, Lawson, Heather A., Martin, Joel, ...

Identification of functional genomic regions using interspecies comparison will be most effective when the full span of relationships between genomic function and evolutionary constraint are...

Sequential solvent extraction for the modes of occurrence of selenium in coals of different ranks from the Huaibei Coalfield, China

Zhang, Ying, Liu, Guijian, Chou, Chen-Lin, Wang, Lei, Kang, Yu

Forms of selenium in bituminous coal, anthracite, and cokeite (natural coke) from Huaibei Coalfield, Anhui, China, have been determined by sequential solvent extraction. The selenium content in bulk...

Requirement of the Zinc-Binding Domain of ClpX for Spx Proteolysis in Bacillus subtilis and Effects of Disulfide Stress on ClpXP Activity▿

Zhang, Ying, Zuber, Peter

Spx, a transcriptional regulator of the disulfide stress response in Bacillus subtilis, is under the proteolytic control of the ATP-dependent protease ClpXP. Previous studies suggested that ClpXP...

Genome-Wide Assessments Reveal Extremely High Levels of Polymorphism of Two Active Families of Mouse Endogenous Retroviral Elements

Zhang, Ying, Maksakova, Irina A., Gagnier, Liane, Van De Lagemaat, Louie N., Mager, Dixie L.

Endogenous retroviral elements (ERVs) in mice are significant genomic mutagens, causing ∼10% of all reported spontaneous germ line mutations in laboratory strains. The majority of these mutations...

Mycobacterial catalase–peroxidase is a tissue antigen and target of the adaptive immune response in systemic sarcoidosis

Song, Zhimin, Marzilli, Lisa, Greenlee, Brian M., Chen, Edward S., Silver, Richard F., Askin, Frederic B., ...

Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown etiology characterized by noncaseating epithelioid granulomas, oligoclonal CD4+ T cell infiltrates, and immune complex formation. To identify pathogenic antigens...

Pyrrolidine Dithiocarbamate and Diethyldithiocarbamate Are Active against Growing and Nongrowing Persister Mycobacterium tuberculosis▿

Byrne, Sean T., Gu, Peihua, Zhou, Jiangbing, Denkin, Steven M., Chong, Curtis, Sullivan, David, ...

Diethyldithiocarbamate (DETC) and pyrrolidine dithiocarbamate (PDTC) were highly active against tubercle bacilli, with MICs of 8 μg/ml and 0.13 μg/ml, respectively. DETC and PDTC were active...

Activation of the PTEN/mTOR/STAT3 pathway in breast cancer stem-like cells is required for viability and maintenance

Zhou, Jiangbing, Wulfkuhle, Julia, Zhang, Hao, Gu, Peihua, Yang, Yanqin, Deng, Jianghong, ...

Side-population (SP) cells within cancers and cell lines are rare cell populations known to enrich cancer stem-like cells. In this study, we characterized SP cells from the human breast cancer cell...

Simreg: a Software Including Some New Developments in Multiple Comparison and Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Linear Regression Models

Mortaza Jamshidian, Wei Liu, Ying Zhang, Farid Jamishidian

The problem of simultaneous inference and multiple comparison for comparing means of k( ≥ 3) populations has been long studied in the statistics literature and is widely available in statistics...

SIP, a novel ankyrin repeat containing protein, sequesters steroid receptor coactivators in the cytoplasm

Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Hua, Liang, Jing, Yu, Wenhua, Shang, Yongfeng

Steroid receptor coactivators (SRCs) exert profound effects on animal development and physiology. These coactivators are nuclear proteins and transcription co-regulators that function to facilitate...

Polymorphisms in human dopamine D2 receptor gene affect gene expression, splicing, and neuronal activity during working memory

Zhang, Ying, Bertolino, Alessandro, Fazio, Leonardo, Blasi, Giuseppe, Rampino, Antonio, Romano, Raffaella, ...

Subcortical dopamine D2 receptor (DRD2) signaling is implicated in cognitive processes and brain disorders, but the effect of DRD2 variants remains ambiguous. We measured allelic mRNA expression in...

Genetic Basis of Virulence Attenuation Revealed by Comparative Genomic Analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Strain H37Ra versus H37Rv

Zheng, Huajun, Lu, Liangdong, Wang, Bofei, Pu, Shiying, Zhang, Xianglin, Zhu, Genfeng, ...

Tuberculosis, caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, remains a leading infectious disease despite the availability of chemotherapy and BCG vaccine. The commonly used avirulent M. tuberculosis strain...

KEEPING OUR PAST: SMALL TOWN PRESERVATION IN AMERICA SINCE 1950

ZHANG, YING

Although the major focus of the American preservation movement has been in cities, preserving traditional small towns and villages has also been important. An increasing sensitivity to environmental...

Exploring functional genetic variants in genes involved in mental disorders

Zhang, Ying

My studies are to test the hypothesis that functional polymorphisms of OPRM1 and DRD2 modulate the susceptibility to mental disorders. I first determined whether there is an mRNA allele expression...

MICRO-LAMINATED (ZrO2âY2O3)/(Al2O3âY2O3) COATINGS ON Feâ25Cr ALLOY AND THEIR HIGH TEMPERATURE OXIDATION RESISTANCE

MINGMING YAO, FANG LI, YING ZHANG, YEDONG HE

The micro-laminated (ZrO2âY2O3)/(Al2O3âY2O3) composite coatings were prepared on the surface of Feâ25Cr alloy by an electrochemical process and a sintering process alternately. FE-SEM analyses...

XPS STUDY OF INTERACTION OF TITANIUM SPECIES WITH DIFFERENT INTERNAL ELECTRON DONORS ON ZâN CATALYSTS

XI ZHAO, YING ZHANG, YANG SONG, GANG WEI

TiCl4/MgCl2, TiCl4/MgCl2/donor catalysts and TiCl4/donor complexes were prepared in this experiment; the donors are EB, DNBP, DBPG, DBW, PPDE, and BMMF respectively. Chemical states of Ti on the...

A GEOMETRICAL METHOD ON MULTIDIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC CREDIT EVALUATION

YING ZHANG, LIN CHEN, ZONGFANG ZHOU, YONG SHI

In this paper, we first discuss the space frame of multidimensional dynamic credit evaluation (MDCE) theoretically, and then propose the conception of identical credit status and pseudo-identical...

EFFECT OF ZrO2 POWDERS ON THE PYROLYSIS OF POLYCARBOSILANES COATING UNDER LASER ABLATION

HAN CHENG, ZHAOFENG CHEN, JIE TAO, BO YAN, CONG LI, LIANGBING WANG, ...

Aircrafts hold the outstanding mastery of the sky in modern wars, however the laser beam weapons can carry out laser attacking to aircrafts. The purpose of the present paper is to research on a new...

Comparison of CO2 emission scenarios and mitigation opportunities in China's five sectors in 2020

Cai, Wenjia, Wang, Can, Chen, Jining, Wang, Ke, Zhang, Ying, Lu, Xuedu

This study has been created in order to better inform climate policy recommendations for China through the study of emissions reduction potential and mitigation opportunities in the major emission...

A semiparametric pseudolikelihood estimation method for panel count data

Ying Zhang

In this paper, we study panel count data with covariates. A semiparametric pseudolikelihood estimation method is proposed based on the assumption that, given a covariate vector Z, the underlying...

Analysing panel count data with informative observation times

Chiung-Yu Huang, Mei-Cheng Wang, Ying Zhang

In this paper, we study panel count data with informative observation times. We assume nonparametric and semiparametric proportional rate models for the underlying event process, where the form of...

Nonparametric k-sample tests with panel count data

Ying Zhang

We study the nonparametric k-sample test problem with panel count data. The asymptotic normality of a smooth functional of the nonparametric maximum pseudo-likelihood estimator (Wellner & Zhang,...

On the finite sample behavior of testing whether new is better than used of a specified age

Ibrahim A. Ahmad, Wei Liu, Ying Zhang

Hollander, Park and Proschan (1986) proposed a test of new is better than used of a specified age. It is based on large sample normality of the test statistic. There is, however, no study in the...

Investigating Early Events in Receptor Binding and Translocation of Colicin E9 Using Synchronized Cell Killing and Proteolytic Cleavage ▿

Zhang, Ying, Vankemmelbeke, Mireille N., Holland, Lisa E., Walker, David C., James, Richard, Penfold, Christopher N.

Enzymatic colicins such as colicin E9 (ColE9) bind to BtuB on the cell surface of Escherichia coli and rapidly recruit a second coreceptor, either OmpF or OmpC, through which the N-terminal natively...

Epitypification: should we epitypify?§

Hyde, Kevin D., Zhang, Ying

Epitypification can solve many taxonomic problems and stabilize the understanding of species, genera, families or orders. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how to epitypify. A few examples where...

Prospective Trials of Intelligent Alarm Algorithms for Patient Monitoring

Zhang, Ying, Tsien, Christine L.

“Intelligent” alarm algorithms have the potential to improve monitoring systems for critical care by safe reduction of false alarms and better integration of physiological signals. Evaluation is...

Cross-listing and Trading on the Domestic Market: Evidence from Canada-US Partial Holidays

George F. Tannous, Ying Zhang

This study uses intraday data to analyze security trading during partial holidays. The objectives include understanding the trading environment during such holidays and learning whether cross-listing...

When Thinking Beats Doing: The Role of Optimistic Expectations in Goal-Based Choice

Ying Zhang, Ayelet Fishbach, Ravi Dhar

We propose that, in the pursuit of ongoing goals, optimistic expectations of future goal pursuit have greater impact on immediate actions than do less optimistic considerations, such as...

Transcriptional repression of c-Myb and GATA-2 is involved in the biologic effects of C/EBPα in p210BCR/ABL-expressing cells

Soliera, Angela Rachele, Lidonnici, Maria Rosa, Ferrari-Amorotti, Giovanna, Prisco, Marco, Zhang, Ying, Martinez, Robert V., ...

Ectopic C/EBPα expression in p210BCR/ABL-expressing hematopoietic cells induces granulocytic differentiation, inhibits proliferation, and suppresses leukemogenesis. To assess the underlying...

Developing superpad application /

Zhang, Ying.

Thesis (M.S.C.I.S.)--Regis University, Denver, 2002.

Immunogenicity and Protective Efficacy of a Live Attenuated H5N1 Vaccine in Nonhuman Primates

Fan, Shufang, Gao, Yuwei, Shinya, Kyoko, Li, Chris Kafai, Li, Yanbing, Shi, Jianzhong, ...

The continued spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza viruses among poultry and wild birds, together with the emergence of drug-resistant variants and the possibility of human-to-human...

Creation of the two isoforms of rodent NKG2D was driven by a B1 retrotransposon insertion

Lai, C. Benjamin, Zhang, Ying, Rogers, Sally L., Mager, Dixie L.

The mouse gene for the natural killer (NK) cell-activating receptor Nkg2d produces two protein isoforms, NKG2D-S and NKG2D-L, which differ by 13 amino acids at the N-terminus and have different...

Protein Kinase Cα-Induced Derepression of the Human Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene Transcription through ERK-Mediated Release of HDAC1/Sin3A Repressor Complex from Sp1 Sites

Liao, Mingjuan, Zhang, Ying, Dufau, Maria L.

LH receptor (LHR) gene transcription is subject to repression/derepression through various modes and multiple effectors. Epigenetic silencing and activation of the LHR is achieved through coordinated...

Transcriptional enhancement by GATA1-occupied DNA segments is strongly associated with evolutionary constraint on the binding site motif

Cheng, Yong, King, David C., Dore, Louis C., Zhang, Xinmin, Zhou, Yuepin, Zhang, Ying, ...

Tissue development and function are exquisitely dependent on proper regulation of gene expression, but it remains controversial whether the genomic signals controlling this process are subject to...

A signal-anchor sequence stimulates signal recognition particle binding to ribosomes from inside the exit tunnel

Berndt, Uta, Oellerer, Stefan, Zhang, Ying, Johnson, Arthur E., Rospert, Sabine

Sorting of eukaryotic membrane and secretory proteins depends on recognition of ribosome-bound nascent chain signal sequences by the signal recognition particle (SRP). The current model suggests that...

PMAP: databases for analyzing proteolytic events and pathways

Igarashi, Yoshinobu, Heureux, Emily, Doctor, Kutbuddin S., Talwar, Priti, Gramatikova, Svetlana, Gramatikoff, Kosi, ...

The Proteolysis MAP (PMAP, http://www.proteolysis.org) is a user-friendly website intended to aid the scientific community in reasoning about proteolytic networks and pathways. PMAP is comprised of...

Energy-dependent Immunity Protein Release during tol-dependent Nuclease Colicin Translocation*

Vankemmelbeke, Mireille, Zhang, Ying, Moore, Geoffrey R., Kleanthous, Colin, Penfold, Christopher N., James, Richard

Nuclease colicins bind their target receptor in the outer membrane of sensitive cells in the form of a high affinity complex with their cognate immunity proteins. Upon cell entry the immunity protein...

Undifferentiated connective tissue diseases-related hepatic injury

Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Fu-Kui, Wu, Xiao-Ning, Wang, Tai-Ling, Jia, Ji-Dong, Wang, Bao-En

Hepatic injury is rarely associated with undifferentiated connective tissue diseases (UCTD). We report, here, a case of a middle-aged woman with UCTD-related hepatic injury, including its case...

The YjbH Protein of Bacillus subtilis Enhances ClpXP-Catalyzed Proteolysis of Spx ▿

Garg, Saurabh K., Kommineni, Sushma, Henslee, Luke, Zhang, Ying, Zuber, Peter

The global transcriptional regulator Spx of Bacillus subtilis is controlled at several levels of the gene expression process. It is maintained at low concentrations during unperturbed growth by the...

Unlocking Repression of the Human Luteinizing Hormone Receptor Gene by Trichostatin A-induced Cell-specific Phosphatase Release*

Zhang, Ying, Liao, Mingjuan, Dufau, Maria L.

Our previous studies demonstrated that the histone deacetylase inhibitor, trichostatin A (TSA), induces derepression of the human luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) gene by de-recruitment of the pRB...

PREPARATION OF MICROARC OXIDATION COATINGS ON 6061 ALUMINUM ALLOYS AND THEIR THERMAL SHOCK RESISTANCE

WENBIN XUE, YING ZHANG, XINGLI JIANG, ZHUO YANG

The thick ceramic coatings were prepared on 6061 aluminum alloys by microarc oxidation in a silicate electrolyte. The morphology and phase constituent of the coatings with different thickness were...

PHOTO-CATALYTIC PROPERTIES OF TiO2âFe2O3âLa2O3 NANO-COMPOSITE FILMS

JING LI, MING-MING YAO, YING ZHANG, HUAI YANG

Titanium dioxide doped Fe3+ and La3+ nano-composite films were prepared using the solâgel method. The photo-catalytic properties were evaluated by photo-degradation of methyl orange in solution....

Student Network Centrality and Academic Performance: Evidence from United Nations University

Zhang, Ying, Rajabzadeh, Iman, Lauterbach, Rodolfo

In this paper we empirically studied the relationship between network centrality and academic performance among a group of 47 PhD students from UNU-MERIT institute. We conducted an independent email...

Doubly hybrid density functional for accurate descriptions of nonbond interactions, thermochemistry, and thermochemical kinetics

Zhang, Ying, Xu, Xin, Goddard, William A.

We develop and validate a density functional, XYG3, based on the adiabatic connection formalism and the Görling–Levy coupling-constant perturbation expansion to the second order (PT2). XYG3 is a...

Lectin microarrays identify cell-specific and functionally significant cell surface glycan markers

Tao, Sheng-Ce, Li, Yu, Zhou, Jiangbing, Qian, Jiang, Schnaar, Ronald L, Zhang, Ying, ...

Glycosylation is among the most complex posttranslational modifications with an extremely high level of diversity that has made it refractory to high-throughput analyses. Despite its resistance to...

Insights into the Molecular Basis of L-Form Formation and Survival in Escherichia coli

Glover, William A., Yang, Yanqin, Zhang, Ying

L-forms have been shown to occur among many species of bacteria and are suspected to be involved in persistent infections. Since their discovery in 1935, numerous studies characterizing L-form...

Inhibition of the TGF-β receptor I kinase promotes hematopoiesis in MDS

Zhou, Li, Nguyen, Aaron N., Sohal, Davendra, Ying Ma, Jing, Pahanish, Perry, Gundabolu, Krishna, ...

MDS is characterized by ineffective hematopoiesis that leads to peripheral cytopenias. Development of effective treatments has been impeded by limited insight into pathogenic pathways governing...

Alliance-based Network View on Chinese Firms' Catching-up: Case Study of Huawei Technologies Co.Ltd

Zhang, Ying

With China's rapid economic growth in recent years, many Chinese firms especially in high-tech industries have started to technically lead in the international market. In this study, we aim to...

Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe

Zhang, Ying, Filippov, Sergey

Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby...

Preferential Epigenetic Suppression of the Autonomous MusD over the Nonautonomous ETn Mouse Retrotransposons▿ †

Maksakova, Irina A., Zhang, Ying, Mager, Dixie L.

Nonautonomous retrotransposon subfamilies are often amplified in preference to their coding-competent relatives. However, the mechanisms responsible for such replicative success are poorly...

Activation of canonical Wnt signaling pathway promotes proliferation and self-renewal of rat hepatic oval cell line WB-F344 in vitro

Zhang, Ying, Li, Xin-Min, Zhang, Fu-Kui, Wang, Bao-En

AIM: To investigate the effect of activation of canonical Wnt signaling pathway on the proliferation and differentiation of hepatic oval cells in vitro.

Improved Subset Autoregression: With R Package

Ying Zhang

The FitAR R (R Development Core Team 2008) package that is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network is described. This package provides a comprehensive approach to fitting autoregressive and...