Yong Wang

Publication List Details

Period

1988 - 2009

Number

353

Co-Authors

Effects of Flaxseed Gum Addition and Drying Conditions on Creep-Recovery Properties and Water Vapour Transmission Rate of Starch-Based Films (2009)

Li, Xin-yu, Wang, Yong, Li, Dong

This study investigated the effect of different concentrations of flaxseed gum (0%, 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%) and various drying conditions (40 °C, 60 °C, 80 °C) on creep-recovery property and...

Effects of Flaxseed Gum Addition and Drying Conditions on Creep-Recovery Properties and Water Vapour Transmission Rate of Starch-Based Films (2009)

Li, Xin-yu, Wang, Yong, Li, Dong

This study investigated the effect of different concentrations of flaxseed gum (0%, 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%) and various drying conditions (40 °C, 60 °C, 80 °C) on creep-recovery property and...

Effects of Flaxseed Gum Addition and Drying Conditions on Creep-Recovery Properties and Water Vapour Transmission Rate of Starch-Based Films (2009)

Li, Xin-yu, Wang, Yong, Li, Dong

This study investigated the effect of different concentrations of flaxseed gum (0%, 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%) and various drying conditions (40 °C, 60 °C, 80 °C) on creep-recovery property and...

Effects of Flaxseed Gum Addition and Drying Conditions on Creep-Recovery Properties and Water Vapour Transmission Rate of Starch-Based Films (2009)

Li, Xin-yu, Wang, Yong, Li, Dong

This study investigated the effect of different concentrations of flaxseed gum (0%, 0.1%, 0.2%, 0.3%, 0.4%, 0.5%) and various drying conditions (40 °C, 60 °C, 80 °C) on creep-recovery property and...

Comprehensive molecular etiology analysis of nonsyndromic hearing impairment from typical areas in China (2009)

Yuan, Yongyi, You, Yiwen, Huang, Deliang, Cui, Jinghong, Wang, Yong, Wang, Qiang, ...

Abstract Background Every year, 30,000 babies are born with congenital hearing impairment in China. The molecular etiology of hearing impairment in the Chinese population has not been investigated...

Capital Income Taxation Revisited: The Role of Information Asymmetry in the Credit Market (2009)

Ho , Wai-Hong, Wang, Yong

This paper reexamines the issue of optimal capital income taxation in an endogenous growth model with overlapping generations. By assuming costly state verification for capital producing projects, we...

A novel approach to inhibit HIV-1 infection and enhance lysis of HIV by a targeted activator of complement (2009)

Xu, Yuanyong, Zhang, Chuanfu, Jia, Leili, Wen, Cuirong, Liu, Huihui, Wang, Yong, ...

Abstract Background The complement system is one of the most potent weapons of innate immunity. It is not only a mechanism for direct protection against invading pathogens but it also interacts with...

Equivariant heat invariants of the Laplacian and nonmininmal operators on differential forms (2009)

Wang, Yong

In this paper, we compute the first two equivariant heat kernel coefficients of the Bochner Laplacian on differential forms. The first two equivariant heat kernel coefficients of the Bochner...

Lower dimensional volumes and the Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem for Manifolds with Boundary (2009)

Wang, Yong

In this paper, we define lower dimensional volumes of spin manifolds with boundary. We compute the lower dimensional volume ${\rm Vol}^{(2,2)}$ for 5-dimensional and 6-dimensional spin manifolds with...

Association between ACEgene I/D polymorphisms and hyperandrogenism in women with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and controls (2009)

Sun, Jing, Fan, Haijian, Che, Yena, Cao, Yunxia, Wu, Xiaoke, Sun, Hai-xiang, ...

Abstract Background I/D polymorphisms of ACE are associated with the plasma ACE concentration. The ACE is associated with the angiogenesis of ovarian endothelium in vitro as well as steroidogenesis...

GC-1 mRHBDD1 knockdown spermatogonia cells lose their spermatogenic capacity in mouse seminiferous tubules (2009)

Wang, Yong, Song, Wei, Li, Shuchun, Guan, Xin, Miao, Shiying, Zong, Shudong, ...

Abstract Background Apoptosis is important for regulating spermatogenesis. The protein mRHBDD1 (mouse homolog of human RHBDD1)/rRHBDD1 (rat homolog of human RHBDD1) is highly expressed in the testis...

Prediction of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3/EuO(001) interface (2009)

Wang, Yong, Niranjan, Manish K., Burton, J. D., An, Joonhee M., Belashchenko, Kirill D., Tsymbal, Evgeny Y.

First-principles calculations predict the existence of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the LaO/EuO interface in a LaAlO3/EuO (001) heterostructure. This polar interface favors...

Multi-Stable Conductance States in Metallic Double-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (2009)

Tang, Dongsheng, Wang, Yong, Yuan, Huajun, Ci, Lijie, Zhou, Weiya, Xie, Sishen

Electrical transport properties of individual metallic double-walled carbon nanotubes (DWCNTs) were measured down to liquid helium temperature, and multi-stable conductance states were found in...

Genomic sequence, organization and characteristics of a new nucleopolyhedrovirus isolated from Clanis bilineatalarva (2009)

Zhu, Shan-Ying, Yi, Jian-Ping, Shen, Wei-De, Wang, Li-Qun, He, Hua-Gang, Wang, Yong, ...

Abstract Background Baculoviruses are well known for their potential as biological agents for controlling agricultural and forest pests. They are also widely used as expression vectors in molecular...

Altered microRNA expression in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia (2009)

Lian, Jie, Zhang, Xiansheng, Tian, Hui, Liang, Ning, Wang, Yong, Liang, Chaozhao, ...

Abstract Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small non-coding RNA molecules, are indicated to play essential roles in spermatogenesis. However, little is known about the expression patterns or...

Methyl 5-bromo-6-methylpicolinate (2009)

Ya-Ming Wu, Chun-Ming Wu, Yong Wang

The title compound, C8H8BrNO2, does not show any significant intermolecular π–π or C—H...π interactions in the crystal packing except for one weak Br...Br...

9-Ethyl-3-(2-methylbenzoyl)-9H-carbazole (2009)

Ye-Chao Hang, Min-Dong Chen, Yong Wang

In the title compound, C22H19NO, the dihedral angle between the benzene ring and the carbazole ring system 77.1 (1)°.. The crystal structure is stabilized by intermolecular aromatic...

Modified Adaptive Chirplet Decomposition with Application in ISAR Imaging of Maneuvering Targets (2009)

Yong Wang, Yi-Cheng Jiang

The modified adaptive Chirplet decomposition (MACD) is presented in this paper. It is based on the extension of the traditional Chirplet atoms to the form of the quadratic frequency-modulated...

(E,E)-6,6′-Dimethoxy-2,2′-[o-phenylenebis(nitrilomethylidyne)]diphenol (2009)

Yong Wang, Hong-Gang Li, Handong Yin, Guo-Dong Wei, Xiao Wang

In the title compound, C22H20N2O4, the central benzene ring forms dihedral angles of 3.2 (2) and 61.1 (1)° with the two outer substituted benzene rings. Intramolecular O—H...N...

1,5-Bis(2-chlorobenzylidene)carbonohydrazide (2009)

Kaozhen Li, Jing Jiao, Yong Wang, Guo-Dong Wei, Daqi Wang

In the title molecule, C15H12Cl2N4O, the two benzene rings are inclined at a dihedral angle of 14.5 (2)°. In the crystal, intermolecular N—H...O hydrogen bonds link molecules into...

Site of metabolism prediction for six biotransformations mediated by cytochromes P450 (2009)

Zheng, Mingyue, Luo, Xiaomin, Shen, Qiancheng, Wang, Yong, Du, Yun, Zhu, Weiliang, ...

Motivation: One goal of metabolomics is to define and monitor the entire metabolite complement of a cell, while it is still far from reach since systematic and rapid approaches for determining the...

PROCAIN server for remote protein sequence similarity search (2009)

Wang, Yong, Sadreyev, Ruslan I., Grishin, Nick V.

Sensitive and accurate detection of distant protein homology is essential for the studies of protein structure, function and evolution. We recently developed PROCAIN, a method that is based on...

PROCAIN: protein profile comparison with assisting information (2009)

Wang, Yong, Sadreyev, Ruslan I., Grishin, Nick V.

Detection of remote sequence homology is essential for the accurate inference of protein structure, function and evolution. The most sensitive detection methods involve the comparison of evolutionary...

N′-[4-(Dimethylamino)benzylidene]benzohydrazide (2009)

Chuansheng Cui, Qingan Meng, Yong Wang

In the title molecule, C16H17N3O, the two aromatic rings form a dihedral angle of 4.51 (18)°. In the crystal structure, intermolecular N—H...O hydrogen bonds link molecules related...

Predicting eukaryotic transcriptional cooperativity by Bayesian network integration of genome-wide data (2009)

Wang, Yong, Zhang, Xiang-Sun, Xia, Yu

Transcriptional cooperativity among several transcription factors (TFs) is believed to be the main mechanism of complexity and precision in transcriptional regulatory programs. Here, we present a...

Socioeconomic and Biophysical Influences on Forest Cover type in the Alabama’s eight Counties: A logistic Regression Analysis using GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques (2008)

Buddhi Gyawali, Wubishet Tadesse, Rory Fraser, Yong Wang

Land use and land cover study has recently become an important subject in understanding social and economic dynamics of the landscape. The availability of census data at the finer scale and...

The Performance of Elliptic Curve Based Group Diffie-Hellman Protocols for Secure Group Communication over Ad Hoc Networks (2008)

Yong Wang, Byrav Ramamurthy

Abstract — The security of the two party Diffie-Hellman key exchange protocol is currently based on the discrete logarithm problem (DLP). However, it can also be built upon the elliptic curve...

Resource constrained video coding/adaptation,” in PhD thesis graduate school of arts and sciences (2008)

Yong Wang, Yong Wang, Yong Wang

To my parents, who give me the meaning of life To my wife, who gives me the meaning of love

A survey of security issues in wireless sensor networks (2008)

Yong Wang, Garhan Attebury, Byrav Ramamurthy

Advances in wireless communication and electronics have enabled the development of low-cost, lowpower, multifunctional sensor nodes. These tiny sensor nodes, consisting of sensing, data processing,...

Robotic Deburring Process (2008)

Xianlun Wang, Yong Wang, Yunna Xue

Abstract. To achieve the desired dynamic impedance and the smooth chamfer contour, some adaptive controls and intelligent control schemes are incorporated in the impedance control for uncertain...

SANet: A Service-Agent Network for Call-Center Scheduling (2008)

Qiang Yang, Yong Wang, Zhong Zhang

Abstract—We consider a network of service-providing agents, where different agents have different capabilities, availability, and cost to solve problems. These characteristics are particularly...

Algorithm (2008)

Mingyan Jiang, Francisco Rubio, Yong Wang, Jesús Gómez-vilardebó, Dongfeng Yuan, Mingyan Jiang, ...

Vol.:-No.:-Date: 20-21 2007 This publication has been included here just to facilitate downloads to those people asking for personal use copies. This material may be published at copyrighted journals...

Asymmetric Information, Auditing Commitment and Economic Growth (2008)

Ho , Wai-Hong, Wang, Yong

We analyze in this paper the growth and welfare consequences arising from the lack of auditing commitment in a credit market with costly state verification. Specifically, two endogenous growth...

A general type of twisted anomaly cancellation formulas (2008)

Wang, Yong

For even dimensional manifolds, we prove some twisted anomaly cancellation formulas which generalize some well-known cancellation formulas. For odd dimensional manifolds, we obtain some modularly...

Transgression and twisted anomaly cancellation formulas on odd dimensional manifolds (2008)

Wang, Yong

We compute the transgressed forms of some modularly invariant characteristic forms,which are related to the twisted elliptic genera. We study the modularity properties of these secondary...

EUROGRAPHICS 2000 / A. de Sousa, J.C. Torres Short Presentations © The Eurographics Association 2000 A Novel Image-Based Rendering System With A Longitudinally Aligned Camera Array (2008)

Jiang Li, Kun Zhou, Yong Wang, Heung-yeung Shum

This paper introduces a novel image-based rendering system to capture, represent and render real world and synthetic scenes. In our system, a longitudinally aligned camera array is mounted on a...

SHORT COMMUNICATION Inferring Protein Interactions from Experimental Data by Association Probabilistic Method (2008)

Luonan Chen, Ling-yun Wu, Yong Wang, Xiang-sun Zhang

ABSTRACT To elucidate protein interaction networks is one of the major goals of functional genomics for whole organisms. So far, various computational methods have been proposed for inference of...

Microchannel Chemical Reactors for Fuel Processing Applications. II. Compact Fuel Vaporization (2008)

Anna Lee, Y. Tonkovich, Jennifer L. Zilka, Mike J. Lamont, Yong Wang, ...

A fuel processor is a critical element for the deployment of automotive fuel cell power systems. One component of the fuel processor, the compact gasoline vaporizer, was demonstrated at full-scale...

Abundance of Juvenile Eastern Box Turtles Relative to Canopy Cover in Managed Forest Stands in Alabama (2008)

Zachary Felix, Yong Wang, Helen Czech, Callie J. Schweitzer

Between 2002 and 2005, we used drift fences and artificial pools to sample juvenile eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina) in northeastern Alabama in forest stands experimentally treated to retain...

A compact electroactive polymer actuator suitable for refreshable Braille display (2008)

Ren, Kailiang, Liu, Sheng, Lin, Minren, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Q. M.

The large strain, high elastic modulus, and easy processing of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene-chlorofluoroethylene) (P(VDF-TrFE-CFE)) electrostrictive terpolymer make it very attractive...

The unique mouse pollination in an orchid species (2008)

Yong Wang, Yang Zhang, Xiao-Kai Ma, Li Dong

The Chinese orchid, _Cymbidium serratum_, is pollinated by the wild mountain mouse _Rattus fulvescens_. The flowers use both odor and colour as attractants, and provide labellum as food reward for...

114 Genome Informatics 16(2): 114–124 (2005) Comparison of Protein Structures by Multi-Objective Optimization (2008)

Luonan Chen, Ling-yun Wu, Ruiqi Wang, Yong Wang, Shihua Zhang, Xiang-sun Zhang

We propose a novel method for solving the structure comparison problem for proteins, based on a decomposition technique. We define the structure alignment as a multi-objective optimization problem...

BIOINFORMATICS ORIGINAL PAPER (2008)

Gene Expression, Yong Wang, Trupti Joshi, Xiang-sun Zhang, Dong Xu, Luonan Chen

Inferring gene regulatory networks from multiple microarray datasets Vol. 22 no. 19 2006, pages 2413–2420 doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl396

Document Clustering with Semantic Analysis (2008)

Yong Wang, Julia Hodges

Document clustering generates clusters from the whole document collection automatically and is used in many fields, including data mining and information retrieval. In the traditional vector space...

Conditional Random Field for Natural Scene Categorization (2008)

Yong Wang, Shaogang Gong

Conditional random field (CRF) has been widely used for sequence labeling and segmentation. However, CRF does not offer a straightforward approach to classify whole sequences. On the other hand,...

Technical Note Using Model Trees for Classi cation (2008)

Eibe Frank, Yong Wang, Stuart Inglis, Geoffrey Holmes Geo, Ian H. Witten, H. Witten

Abstract. Model trees, which are a type of decision tree with linear regression functions at the leaves, form the basis of a recent successful technique for predicting continuous numeric values. They...

Inferring Transcriptional Regulatory Networks from High-throughput Data (2008)

Yong Wang, Xiang-sun Zhang, Luonan Chen

Motivation: Inferring the relationships between transcription factors (TFs) and their targets has utmost importance for understanding the complex regulatory mechanisms in cellular systems. However,...

A Quadratic Programming Model for Political Districting Problem (2008)

Zhenping Li, Rui-sheng Wang, Yong Wang

Abstract Political Districting Problem is one of the critical issues in political elections, it can be expressed as: how to partition a state into reasonable districts for parliament election and...

Content-Based Prediction of Optimal Video Adaptation Operations Using Subjective Quality Evaluation (2008)

Yong Wang, Shih-fu Chang, Er C. Loui

Video adaptation allows for direct manipulation of existing encoded video streams to meet new resource constraints without having to encode the video from scratch. Multi-dimensional scalable coding...

Activities of Rana kukunoris   in Summer and Autumn Around the Seasonal Pond in Zoige Alpine Peat Land (2008)

QI, Yin, Zachary, Felix, DAI, Qiang, WANG, Yong, LIU, Li, ZHANG, Qiang, ...

The water environment has important features that affect the activities of anurans. The activities of Rana kukunoris around the seasonal pond was investigated using transects, in late July and...

A Constrained Optimization Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Multiobjective Optimization Techniques (2008)

Yong Wang, Zixing Cai

Abstract—This paper presents a novel evolutionary algorithm for constrained optimization. During the evolutionary process, our algorithm is based on multiobjective optimization techniques, i.e., an...

Transport Layer Approaches for Improving Idle Energy in Challenged Sensor Networks ABSTRACT (2008)

Yong Wang, Chieh-yih Wan, Margaret Martonosi, Li-shiuan Peh

Today, the study of energy efficient networking solutions in sensor networks has been focusing on networks with always-on connectivity between communication end-points and short link delays. However,...

MARio: Mobility-adaptive routing using route lifetime abstractions in mobile ad hoc networks (2008)

Yong Wang, Margaret Martonosi, Li-shiuan Peh

Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) often have fast-changing and unpredictable mobility. This is especially true for recently emerging mobile sensor networks [7] and delay tolerant networks [2], where...

Poster Abstract: A New Scheme on Link Quality Prediction and its Applications to Metric-Based Routing ABSTRACT (2008)

Yong Wang, Margaret Martonosi, Li-shiuan Peh

Efficient routing in wireless sensor networks entails the establishment of high quality links. Recent research has shown that metricbased routing, such as ETX [6], can significantly improve routing...

Clustering using Adaptive Self-Organizing Maps (ASOM) and Applications (2008)

Yong Wang, Chengyong Yang, Kalai Mathee, Giri Narasimhan

Abstract. This paper presents an innovative, adaptive variant of Kohonen’s selforganizing maps called ASOM, which is an unsupervised clustering method that adaptively decides on the best...

Loss-Rate Based Reliable Data Transport Mechanism for Dynamic Event Sensing in Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)

Xue, Yuyan, Ramamurthy, Byrav, Wang, Yong

Many wireless sensor network (WSN) transport protocols proposed in recent studies focus on providing end-to- end reliability as in TCP. However, traditional end-to-end reliability is energy and time...

Identification and Molecular Characterization of Novel cry1-Type Toxin Genes from Bacillus thuringiensis K1 Isolated in Korea (2008)

Li, Ming Shun, Choi, Jae-Young, Roh, Jong-Yul, Shim, Hee-Jin, Kang, Joong-Nam, Kim, Yang-Su, ...

To clone novel cry1-type genes from the Bacillus thuringiensis K1 isolate, about 2.4-kb-long PCR fragments were amplified with two primer sets of ATG1-F/N400-R and 1BeATG1-F/N400-R. Using PCR-RFLP,...

Gene function prediction using labeled and unlabeled data (2008)

Zhao, Xing-Ming, Wang, Yong, Chen, Luonan, Aihara, Kazuyuki

Abstract Background In general, gene function prediction can be formalized as a classification problem based on machine learning technique. Usually, both labeled positive and negative samples are...

ISAR Imaging of Rotating Target with Equal Changing Acceleration Based on the Cubic Phase Function (2008)

Yong Wang, Yi-cheng Jiang

When reconstructing the ISAR image of a maneuvering target rotating approximately with the equal changing acceleration, the received signals can be considered as the multicomponent cubic phase...

Detection and Parameter Estimation of Multicomponent LFM Signal Based on the Cubic Phase Function (2008)

Yong Wang, Yi-Cheng Jiang

A new algorithm for the detection and parameters estimation of LFM signal is presented in this paper. By the computation of the cubic phase function (CPF) of the signal, it is shown that the CPF is...

Noise Analysis of Second-Harmonic Generation in Undoped and MgO-Doped Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (2008)

Yong Wang, Jorge Fonseca-Campos, Wan-guo Liang, Chang-Qing Xu, Ignacio Vargas-Baca

Noise characteristics of second-harmonic generation (SHG) in periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) using the quasiphase matching (QPM) technique are analyzed experimentally. In the experiment,...

3-[4-(Dimethylamino)phenyl]-1,5-diphenylpentane-1,5-dione (2008)

Qing-Peng He, Xiao-Qiang Qin, Xiao Wang, Qiu-Lan Shi, Yong Wang

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C25H25NO2, contains two independent molecules. The crystal packing exhibits weak intermolecular C—H...O, C—H...π and π–π...

1,5-Bis(4-chlorophenyl)-3-(2-thienyl)pentane-1,5-dione (2008)

Xianqiang Huang, Feng Xin, Qiu-Lan Shi, Yong Wang, Guo-Dong Wei

In the title molecule, C21H16Cl2O2S, the five-membered ring is rotationally disordered between two orientations in a 1:1 ratio. In the crystal structure, weak intermolecular C—H...O hydrogen...

Stability of bimetallic Pd-Zn catalysts for the steam reforming of methanol (2008)

Conant, Travis, Karim, Ayman M., Lebarbier, Vanessa, Wang, Yong, Girgsdies, Frank, Schlögl, Robert, ...

ZnO-supported palladium-based catalysts have been shown in recent years to be both active and selective towards the steam reforming of methanol, although they are still considered to be less active...

Direct structural evidences of Mn11Ge8 and Mn5Ge2 clusters in Ge0.96Mn0.04 thin films (2008)

Wang, Yong, Zou, Jin, Zhao, Zuoming, Han, Xinhai, Zhou, Xiaoyu, Wang, Kang L.

Mn-rich clusters in Mn-doped Ge thin films epitaxially grown on Ge (001) have been investigated by various transmission electron microscopy techniques. Both the mysterious Mn11Ge8 and the hexagonal...

ISAR Imaging of Rotating Target with Equal Changing Acceleration Based on the Cubic Phase Function (2008)

Yong Wang, Yi-cheng Jiang

When reconstructing the ISAR image of a maneuvering target rotating approximately with the equal changing acceleration, the received signals can be considered as the multicomponent cubic phase...

Hairpin structures formed by alpha satellite DNA of human centromeres are cleaved by human topoisomerase II{alpha} (2008)

Jonstrup, Anette Thyssen, Thomsen, Tina, Wang, Yong, Knudsen, Birgitta R., Koch, Jørn, Andersen, Anni H.

Although centromere function has been conserved through evolution, apparently no interspecies consensus DNA sequence exists. Instead, centromere DNA may be interconnected through the formation of...

Detection and Parameter Estimation of Multicomponent LFM Signal Based on the Cubic Phase Function (2008)

Yong Wang, Yi-Cheng Jiang

A new algorithm for the detection and parameters estimation of LFM signal is presented in this paper. By the computation of the cubic phase function (CPF) of the signal, it is shown that the CPF is...

Noise Analysis of Second-Harmonic Generation in Undoped and MgO-Doped Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate (2008)

Yong Wang, Jorge Fonseca-Campos, Wan-guo Liang, Chang-Qing Xu, Ignacio Vargas-Baca

Noise characteristics of second-harmonic generation (SHG) in periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) using the quasiphase matching (QPM) technique are analyzed experimentally. In the experiment,...

Modified Adaptive Chirplet Decomposition with Application in ISAR Imaging of Maneuvering Targets (2008)

Yong Wang, Yi-Cheng Jiang

The modified adaptive Chirplet decomposition (MACD) is presented in this paper. It is based on the extension of the traditional Chirplet atoms to the form of the quadratic frequency-modulated...

Depth-dependent target strength of anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) measured in situ (2008)

Zhao, Xianyong, Wang, Yong, Dai, Fangqun

Zhao, X., Wang, Y., and Dai, F. 2008. Depth-dependent target strength of anchovy (Engraulis japonicus) measured in situ. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 882–888. Three sets of target...

Predicting gene ontology functions from protein's regional surface structures (2007)

Liu, Zhi-Ping, Wu, Ling-Yun, Wang, Yong, Chen, Luonan, Zhang, Xiang-Sun

Abstract Background Annotation of protein functions is an important task in the post-genomic era. Most early approaches for this task exploit only the sequence or global structure information....

Derivations of Normalized Mutual Information in Binary Classifications (2007)

Wang, Yong, Hu, Bao-Gang

This correspondence studies the basic problem of classifications - how to evaluate different classifiers. Although the conventional performance indexes, such as accuracy, are commonly used in...

CaseNet: A Distributed Case-based Reasoning Network (2007)

Yong Wang, Qiang Yang, Zhong Zhang

. In a network of CBR systems, each system may have different capabilities and availability for solving any particular problems. It is expected that by integrating multiple CBR systems into a...

A Genetic Algorithm and its Parallelization for Graph Matching with Similarity Measures (2007)

Yong Wang, Naohiro Ishii

Graph matching and similarity measures of graphs have many applications to pattern recognition, machine vision in robotics and similarity-based approximate reasoning in artificial intelligence. This...

A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Matching and Similarity Measure of Graphs (2007)

Yong Wang, Naohiro Ishii

Graph matching and similarity measure of graphs have many applications to pattern recognition, machine vision in robotics and similarity-based approximate reasoning in artificial intelligence. This...

Safety Verication of Model Helicopter Controller using Hybrid Input/Output Automata (2007)

Sayan Mitra, Yong Wang, Nancy Lynch, Eric Feron

Abstract: This paper presents an application of the Hybrid I/O Automaton modelling framework [9] to a realistic hybrid system verication problem. A supervisory pitch controller for ensuring the...

Application of hybrid I/O automata in safety verification of pitch controller for model helicopter system (2007)

Sayan Mitra, Yong Wang, Nancy Lynch, Eric Feron

Abstract: This paper presents an application of the Hybrid I/O Automaton modelling framework [9] to a realistic hybrid system verication problem. A supervisory pitch controller for ensuring the...

y (2007)

Philo Juang, Hidekazu Oki, Yong Wang, Margaret Martonosi, Li-shiuan Peh, Daniel Rubenstein

Over the past decade, mobile computing and wireless communication have become increasingly important drivers of many new computing applications. The eld of wireless sensor networks particularly...

Real-Time Scheduling for Multi-Agent Call Center Automation (2007)

Yong Wang, Qiang Yang, Zhong Zhang

Abstract. In a call center, service agents with different capabilities are available for solving incoming customer problems at any time. To supply quick response and better problem solution to...

IMAGE-BASED WALKTHROUGH OVER THE INTERNET (2007)

Jiang Li, Yiying Tong, Yong Wang, Heung-yeung Shum, Ya-qin Zhang

In this paper, we describe a client-server image-based walkthrough system. This system employs pictures, panoramas, and concentric mosaics captured from real scenes. These data are compressed and...

A Comparative Study of Three ATM Switches (2007)

Yong Wang, Yong Wang, Yong Wang

Permission is granted to Auburn University to make copies of this thesis at its discretion, upon the request of individuals or institutions and at their expense. The author reserves all publication...

A Geometric Perspective on Bifurcation Control 1 (2007)

Yong Wang, Richard M. Murray

In this paper, we analyze the problem of bifurcation control from a geometric perspective. Ourgoalistoprovide coordinate free, geometric conditions under which control can be used to alter the...

Evaluation of Bleed Valve Rate Requirements in Nonlinear Control of Rotating Stall on Axial Flow Compressors (2007)

Simon Yeung, Yong Wang, Richard M. Murray

In this paper we evaluate the actuator rate requirements for control of rotating stall using a bleed valve and provide tools for predicting these requirements. Modification of both the stable and...

VisGenie: a Generic Video Visualization System (2007)

Yong Wang Columbia, Yong Wang, Lexing Xie

In this project, we designed and realized VisGenie, a generic system for visualizing multimedia streams and the associated metadata stream. Information visualization is not only useful for end users,...

An improved identification scheme (2007)

Gang Yao, Guilin Wang, Yong Wang

Abstract. M. Kim and K. Kim [1] introduce a new identification scheme based on the Gap Diffie-Hellman problem, and prove that the scheme is secure against active attacks if the Gap Diffie-Hellman...

Analysis on multi-domain cooperation for predicting protein-protein interactions (2007)

Wang, Rui-Sheng, Wang, Yong, Wu, Ling-Yun, Zhang, Xiang-Sun, Chen, Luonan

Abstract Background Domains are the basic functional units of proteins. It is believed that protein-protein interactions are realized through domain interactions. Revealing multi-domain cooperation...

Confirmation of Shannon's Mistake about Perfect Secrecy of One-time-pad (2007)

Wang, Yong

This paper analyzes Shannon's proof that one-time-pad is perfectly secure and discusses all the possibilities, and then confirms which of them is Shannon's notion. The confirmed notion is found to be...

Security Analyses of One-time System (2007)

Wang, Yong

Shannon put forward the concept of perfect secrecy and proved that some kinds of cryptosystems are perfectly secure. The paper analyzes Shannon's proof that some kinds of cryptosystems were of...

Mistake Analyses on Proof about Perfect Secrecy of One-time-pad (2007)

Wang, Yong

This paper analyzes the proof that one-time system is perfectly secure, and confirms that they are wrong. The mistakes lie in that the conditions of the probabilities are not the same when using...

Group Rekeying Schemes for Secure Group Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (2007)

Wang, Yong, Ramamurthy, Byrav, Xue, Yuyan

Wireless sensor networks are promising solutions for many applications. However, wireless sensor nodes suffer from many constraints such as low computation capability, small memory, limited energy...

uKeying: A Key Management Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks Utilizing a Unique Session Key (2007)

Wang, Yong, Ramamurthy, Byrav, Xue, Yuyan

Key management is a core mechanism to ensure the security of applications and network services in wireless sensor networks. Key management includes two aspects: key distribution and key revocation....

An Efficient Scheme for Removing Compromised Sensor Nodes from Wireless Sensor Networks (2007)

Wang, Yong, Ramamurthy, Byrav, Zou, Xukai, Xue, Yuyan

Key management is a core mechanism to ensure the security of applications and network services in wireless sensor networks. It includes two aspects: key distribution and key revocation. Key...

A comprehensive system for evaluation of remote sequence similarity detection (2007)

Qi, Yuan, Sadreyev, Ruslan I, Wang, Yong, Kim, Bong-Hyun, Grishin, Nick V

Abstract Background Accurate and sensitive performance evaluation is crucial for both effective development of better structure prediction methods based on sequence similarity, and for the...

Time reversal Aharonov-Casher effect in mesoscopic rings with Rashba spin-orbital interaction (2007)

Zhu, Zhenyue, Wang, Yong, Xia, Ke, Xie, X. C., Ma, Zhongshui

The time reversal Aharonov-Casher (AC) interference effect in the mesoscopic ring structures, based on the experiment in Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{97}, 196803 (2006), is studied theoretically. The...

Alignment of molecular networks by integer quadratic programming (2007)

Zhenping, Li, Zhang, Shihua, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Xiang-Sun, Chen, Luonan

Motivation: With more and more data on molecular networks (e.g. protein interaction networks, gene regulatory networks and metabolic networks) available, the discovery of conserved patterns or...

Utility-Based Video Adaptation for Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) and Content-Based Utility Function Prediction for Real-Time Video Transcoding (2007)

Wang, Yong, Kim, Jae-Gon, Chang, Shin-Fu, Kim, Hyung-Myung

Many techniques exist for adapting videos to satisfy heterogeneous resource conditions or user preferences, whereas selection of the best adaptation operation among various choices usually is either...

Key management protocols in hybrid wireless sensor networks (2007)

Wang, Yong

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) use sensors to monitor phenomena such as temperature, humidity, groundwater levels and transmit this information to a base station using wireless channels. WSNs find...

Effect of the 3'APOB-VNTR polymorphism on the lipid profiles in the Guangxi Hei Yi Zhuang and Han populations (2007)

Ruixing Yin, Guangqin Chen, Yong Wang, Weixiong Lin, Dezhai Yang, Shangling Pan

Abstract Background Apolipoprotein (Apo) B is the major component of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) and chylomicrons. Many genetic polymorphisms of the Apo B have...

The Homosexual Subject: Coming-Out as a Political Act (2007)

Yong Wang

Drawing on Lacan’s notion of the subject as a split and his four discursive forms, this paper identifies and examines three moments inherent to the coming out narratives. It is shown that two such...

Founders versus Descendants: The Profitability, Growth and Efficiency Characteristics Comparison in the UK Small and Medium Sized Family Businesses (2007)

Wang, Yong, Ahmed, Pervaiz K., Farquhar, Stuart S.

Family businesses and business families existed long before the genesis of historians and economists. In most economies, family business is estimated to represent over two–thirds of all enterprises...

Short-term anoxia treatment maintains tissue energy levels and membrane integrity and inhibits browning of harvested litchi fruit (2007)

Hai Liu, Lili Song, Yueming Jiang, Daryl C. Joyce, Mouming Zhao, Yanli You, ...

Pericarp browning is the main limitation to the postharvest storage, handling and marketing life of litchi fruit. Pre-storage treatment with pure N-2 gas is potentially effective in reducing skin...

Short-term anoxia treatment maintains tissue energy levels and membrane integrity and inhibits browning of harvested litchi fruit (2007)

Hai Liu, Lili Song, Yueming Jiang, Daryl C. Joyce, Mouming Zhao, Yanli You, ...

Pericarp browning is the main limitation to the postharvest storage, handling and marketing life of litchi fruit. Pre-storage treatment with pure N-2 gas is potentially effective in reducing skin...

Electronic transport properties and Microstructures of TiO2:Co magnetic semiconductors (2007)

Songa, Hong-Qiang, Wang, Yong, Yanb, Shi-Shen, Meib, Liang-Mo, Zhangd, Ze

TiO2:Co thin films of high Co concentration were investigated by the high resolution transmission electron microscopy, physical property measurement system and energy dispersive X-ray. The...

Magneto-optical Kerr rotation in amorphous TiO2/Co magnetic semiconductor thin films (2007)

Song, Hong-Qiang, Mei, Liang-Mo, Zhang, Yun-Peng, Yan, Shi-Shen, Ma, Xiu-Liang, Wang, Yong, ...

TiO2/Co thin films were prepared on glass substrates under thermal non-equilibrium condition by alternately sputtering very thin TiO2 and Co layers for 60 periods. Microstructure and composition...

Controlled Growth of Zn-Polar ZnO Films on Al-Terminated α-Al2O3(0001) Surface by Using Wurtzite MgO Buffer (2007)

Yuan, Hong-Tao, Liu, Yu-Zi, Wang, Xi-Na, Li, Han-Dong, Wang, Yong, Zeng, Zhao-Quan, ...

The controlled growth of Zn-polar ZnO films on Al-terminated α-Al2O3 (0001) substrates is investigated by the radio-frequency plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy method. Prior to the growth,...

Open Access (2007)

Bmc Bioinformatics, Rui-sheng Wang, Yong Wang, Ling-yun Wu, Xiang-sun Zhang, Luonan Chen

Research article Analysis on multi-domain cooperation for predicting protein-protein interactions

Inferring transcriptional regulatory networks from high-throughput data (2007)

Wang, Rui-Sheng, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Xiang-Sun, Chen, Luonan

Motivation: Inferring the relationships between transcription factors (TFs) and their targets has utmost importance for understanding the complex regulatory mechanisms in cellular systems. However,...

BMC Bioinformatics BioMed Central Methodology article (2007)

Yuan Qi, Ruslan I Sadreyev, Yong Wang, Bong-hyun Kim, Nick V Grishin

A comprehensive system for evaluation of remote sequence similarity detection

Unitarity Constraints on effective interaction in $\pi N$ scattering (2006)

Luo, Mingxing, Wang, Yong, Zhu, Guohuai

Positivity constraints are derived on pion-nucleon scattering amplitudes and their even-order derivatives inside the Mandelstam Triangle with the help of dispersion relations. Fairly interesting...

Revealing divergent evolution, identifying circular permutations and detecting active-sites by protein structure comparison (2006)

Chen, Luonan, Wu, Ling-Yun, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Shihua, Zhang, Xiang-Sun

Abstract Background Protein structure comparison is one of the most important problems in computational biology and plays a key role in protein structure prediction, fold family classification, motif...

Gravity and the Noncommutative Residue for Manifolds with Boundary (2006)

Wang, Yong

We prove a Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem for the Dirac operator and the signature operator for $3,4$-dimensional manifolds with boundary. As a corollary, we give two kinds of operator theoretic...

Adiabatic Limits, Vanishing Theorems and the Noncommutative Residue (2006)

Liu, Kefeng, Wang, Yong

In this paper, we compute the adiabatic limit of the scalar curvature and prove several vanishing theorems, we also derive a Kastler-Kalau-Walze type theorem for the noncommutative residue in the...

Differential Forms and the Noncommutative Residue for Manifolds with Boundary in the Non-product Case (2006)

Wang, Yong

In this paper, for an even dimensional compact manifold with boundary which has the non-product metric near the boundary, we use the noncommutative residue to define a conformal invariant pair. For a...

The Equivariant Noncommutative Atiyah-Patodi-Singer Index Theorem (2006)

Wang, Yong

In [Wu], the noncommutative Atiyah-Patodi-Singer index theorem was proved. In this paper, we extend this theorem to the equivariant case.

Differential Forms and the Wodzicki Residue for Manifolds with Boundary (2006)

Wang, Yong

In [3], Connes found a conformal invariant using Wodzicki's 1-density and computed it in the case of 4-dimensional manifold without boundary. In [14], Ugalde generalized the Connes' result to...

Chern-Connes Character for the Invariant Dirac Operator in Odd Dimensions (2006)

Wang, Yong

In this paper we give a proof of the Lefschetz fixed point formula of Freed$^{\rm [1]}$ for an orientation-reversing involution on an odd dimensional spin manifold by using the direct geometric...

Characterization of pancreatic lesions from MT-tgfα, Ela-mycand MT-tgfα/Ela-mycsingle and double transgenic mice (2006)

Liao, Dezhong, Wang, Yong, Wu, Jiusheng, Adsay, Nazmi, Grignon, David, Khanani, Fayyaz, ...

Abstract In order to identify good animal models for investigating therapeutic and preventive strategies for pancreatic cancer, we analyzed pancreatic lesions from several transgenic models and made...

A coupled hygrothermal cohesive layer model for simulating debond growth in bimaterial interface (2006)

Wang, Yong

Structural adhesive is extensively used in laminated composite, thin film structure and fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) bonded concrete structure. Debond initiation and propagation of adhesive...

AFM studies on detailed structures and dynamic growth of crystals in BA-Cn polymer films (2006)

Wang, Yong

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006

Microstructure, Ferromagnetism, and Magnetic transport of Ti1–xCoxO2 Amorphous Magnetic Semiconductor (2006)

Song, Hong-Qiang, Mei, Liang-Mo, Yan, Shi-Shen, Ma, Xiu-Liang, Liu, Jia-Ping, Wang, Yong, ...

TiO2-based magnetic semiconductors with high Co doping concentrations (Ti1–xCoxO2) were synthesized under thermal nonequilibrium condition by sputtering machine. Microstructure and composition...

Complexity adaptive H.264 encoding for light weight stream (2006)

Yong Wang, Shih-fu Chang

Emerging video coding standard H.264 achieves significant efficiency improvements, at the expense of greatly increased computational complexity at both the encoder and the decoder. Most prior works...

A supervised learning approach for routing optimizations in wireless sensor networks (2006)

Yong Wang, Margaret Martonosi, Li-shiuan Peh

Routing in sensor networks maintains information on neighbor states and potentially many other factors in order to make informed decisions. Challenges arise both in (a) performing accurate and...

Nuclear Gene Variation and Molecular Dating of the Cichlid Species Flock of Lake Malawi (2006)

Won, Yong-Jin, Wang, Yong, Sivasundar, Arjun, Raincrow, Jeremy, Hey, Jody

The cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are famously diverse. However, evolutionary studies have been difficult because of their recent and uncertain phylogenetic history. Portions of 12 nuclear loci were...

Nuclear Gene Variation and Molecular Dating of the Cichlid Species Flock of Lake Malawi (2006)

Won, Yong-Jin, Wang, Yong, Sivasundar, Arjun, Raincrow, Jeremy, Hey, Jody

The cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are famously diverse. However evolutionary studies have been difficult because of their recent and uncertain phylogenetic history. Portions of twelve nuclear loci...

Inferring gene regulatory networks from multiple microarray datasets (2006)

Wang, Yong, Joshi, Trupti, Zhang, Xiang-Sun, Xu, Dong, Chen, Luonan

Motivation: Microarray gene expression data has increasingly become the common data source that can provide insights into biological processes at a system-wide level. One of the major problems with...

Template Synthesis of Tubular Sn-Based Nanostructures for Lithium Ion Storage (2005)

Wang, Yong, Zeng, Hua Chun, Lee, Jim Yang

We report herewith the preparation of SnO₂ nanotubes with very good shape and size control, and with and without a carbon nanotube overlayer, The SnO₂-core/carbon-shell nanotubes are excellent...

Template Synthesis of Tubular Sn-Based Nanostructures for Lithium Ion Storage (2005)

Wang, Yong, Zeng, Hua Chun, Lee, Jim Yang

We report herewith the preparation of SnO₂ nanotubes with very good shape and size control, and with and without a carbon nanotube overlayer, The SnO₂-core/carbon-shell nanotubes are excellent...

Consistency in Formulation of Spin Current and Torque Associated with a Variance of Angular Momentum (2005)

Wang, Yong, Xia, Ke, Su, Zhao-Bin, Ma, Zhongshui

Stimulated generally by recent interest in the novel spin Hall effect, the nonrelativistic quantum mechanical conserved currents, taken into account of spin-orbit coupling, are rigorously formulated...

An Optimal Framework of Video Adaptation and Its Application to Rate Adaptation Transcoding (2005)

Kim, Jae-Gon, Wang, Yong, Chang, Shih-Fu, Kim, Hyung-Myung

The adaptation of video according to the heterogeneous and dynamic resource constraints on networks and devices, as well as on user preferences, is a promising approach for universal access and...

INCORPORATING SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC INFORMATION INTO DOCUMENT REPRESENTATION FOR DOCUMENT CLUSTERING (2005)

Wang, Yong

Document clustering is a widely used strategy for information retrieval and text data mining. In traditional document clustering systems, documents are represented as a bag of independent words. In...

INCORPORATING SEMANTIC AND SYNTACTIC INFORMATION INTO DOCUMENT REPRESENTATION FOR DOCUMENT CLUSTERING (2005)

Wang, Yong

Document clustering is a widely used strategy for information retrieval and text data mining. In traditional document clustering systems, documents are represented as a bag of independent words. In...

Effects of actuator limits in bifurcation control with applications to active control of fluid instabilities in turbomachinery (2005)

Wang, Yong

Feedback stabilization is one of the most dominant issues in modern control theory. The validity of linear control design is based on the assumption that the system is stabilizable. With rapid...

Balancing family relationship and financial control: the story of Peter Whitley Ltd. (2005)

Yong Wang

Family businesses and business families have existed long before the genesis of historians and economists. In most developed economies, the family business sector is estimated to represent over...

Impacts of leadership style on the development of small business: lessons from a Chinese family-controlled firm (2005)

Yong Wang

Professionalised management style coupled with dynamic business strategies constitutes a fundamental feature of most successful businesses, especially small-scaled firms. Often the management style...

Balancing family relationship and financial control: the story of Peter Whitley Ltd. (2005)

Yong Wang

Family businesses and business families have existed long before the genesis of historians and economists. In most developed economies, the family business sector is estimated to represent over...

Impacts of leadership style on the development of small business: lessons from a Chinese family-controlled firm (2005)

Yong Wang

Professionalised management style coupled with dynamic business strategies constitutes a fundamental feature of most successful businesses, especially small-scaled firms. Often the management style...

Theory and algorithms for shape-preserving bivariate cubic L1 splines. (2005)

Wang, Yong

A major objective of modelling geophysical features, biological objects, financial processes and many other irregular surfaces and functions is to develop "shape-preserving" methodologies for...

Resource constrained video coding/adaptation (2005)

Wang, Yong

Typical video coding systems focus on optimization of the video quality subject to certain resource constraints, such as bandwidth. The rate distortion optimization framework has been widely used in...

Essays on the cross section of stock returns [electronic resource]. (2005)

Wang, Yong.

In chapter 1, we demonstrate, using data for the period 1954--2003, that differences in exposure to consumption risk explains cross sectional differences in average excess returns across the 25...

Oscillatory tunnel magnetoresistance in double barrier magnetic tunnel junctions (2005)

Zeng, Zhong-Ming, Han, Xiu-Feng, Zhan, Wen-Shan, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Ze, Zhang, Shufeng

We report an unconventional oscillatory tunnel magnetoresistance as a function of the applied bias in double barrier magnetic tunnel junctions that were made of two Al2O3 barriers sandwiched by three...

Erasure-coding based routing for opportunistic networks (2005)

Yong Wang, Sushant Jain, Margaret Martonosi, Kevin Fall

mobility is a challenging problem because disconnections are prevalent and lack of knowledge about network dynamics hinders good decision making. Current approaches are primarily based on redundant...

Erasure-coding based routing for opportunistic networks (2005)

Yong Wang, Sushant Jain, Margaret Martonosi, Kevin Fall

mobility is a challenging problem because disconnections are prevalent and lack of knowledge about network dynamics hinders good decision making. Current approaches are primarily based on redundant...

Genome sequencing in open microfabricated high-density picoliter reactors (2005)

Marcel Margulies, Michael Egholm, William E. Altman, Said Attiya, Joel S. Bader, Lisa A. Bemben, ...

We describe a scalable, highly parallel sequencing system with raw throughput significantly greater than that of state-of-the-art capillary electrophoresis instruments. The apparatus uses a novel...

Human Bex2 interacts with LMO2 and regulates the transcriptional activity of a novel DNA-binding complex (2005)

Han, Chunyu, Liu, Hao, Liu, Jin, Yin, Kang, Xie, Yi, Shen, Xiao, ...

Human Bex2 (brain expressed X-linked, hBex2) is highly expressed in the embryonic brain, but its function remains unknown. We have identified that LMO2, a LIM-domain containing transcriptional...

Tubular Organization of SnO₂ Nanocrystallites for Improved Lithium Ion Battery Anode Performance (2004)

Wang, Yong, Lee, Jim Yang, Zeng, Hua Chun

Porous tin oxide nanotubes were obtained by vacuum infiltration of tin oxide nanoparticles into porous aluminum oxide membranes, followed by calcination. The porous tin oxide nanotube arrays so...

Tubular Organization of SnO₂ Nanocrystallites for Improved Lithium Ion Battery Anode Performance (2004)

Wang, Yong, Lee, Jim Yang, Zeng, Hua Chun

Porous tin oxide nanotubes were obtained by vacuum infiltration of tin oxide nanoparticles into porous aluminum oxide membranes, followed by calcination. The porous tin oxide nanotube arrays so...

Preparation of nano-sized CeO2 by mechanochemical reaction of cerium carbonate with sodium hydroxide (2004)

Li, Yong Xiu, Zhou, Xue Zhen, Wang, Yong, You, Xiao Zeng

The preparation of nano-sized CeO2 powder by mechanochemical reaction of hydrate cerium carbonate with sodium hydroxide and subsequent heat treatment was studied using X-ray diffraction, differential...

Evolution mechanisms and biological significance of CG dinucleotide compositional bias in genomes (2004)

Wang, Yong

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled EVOLUTION MECHANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CG DINUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONAL BIAS IN GENOMES submitted by WANGYONG for the degree of Doctor of...

Evolution mechanisms and biological significance of CG dinucleotide compositional bias in genomes (2004)

Wang, Yong

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled EVOLUTION MECHANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CG DINUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONAL BIAS IN GENOMES submitted by WANGYONG for the degree of Doctor of...

The relationship between succession issues and business performance: evidence from UK family SMEs (2004)

Wang, Yong, Watkins, David, Harris, Neil, Spicer, Keith

Researchers widely argue that the most significant difference between family controlled and non-family business concerns the way in which executive succession occurs, and more specifically, unique...

The views of UK family business owners on flotation (2004)

Poutziouris, Panikkos, Wang, Yong

This empirical research paper draws evidence from a database of UK independent private companies (n=250) and reports on the financial aspirations of owner-managers of family firms with respect to the...

Evolution mechanisms and biological significance of CG dinucleotide compositional bias in genomes (2004)

Wang, Yong

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled EVOLUTION MECHANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF CG DINUCLEOTIDE COMPOSITIONAL BIAS IN GENOMES submitted by WANGYONG for the degree of Doctor of...

Microstructure refinement of cast TiAl alloys by β solidification (2004)

Jin, Yonggang, Wang, J. N., Yang, Jie, Wang, Yong

Microstructure refinement of TiAl alloys is realized by introducing β solidification in this paper. The obtained fine-grained cast microstructures can be optimized to be fine-grained fully lamellar...

Effect of Mn on formation of lamellar structure in a γ-TiAl alloy (2004)

Jin, Yonggang, Wang, J.N., Wang, Yong, Yang, Jie

A fine cast microstructure can be developed in two TiAl alloys with or without Mn. It can be optimized to be a fine-grained fully lamellar structure (FFLS) by heat treatment. But the presence of Mn...

Microstructure refinement of cast TiAl alloys by β solidification (2004)

Jin, Yonggang, Wang, J. N., Yang, Jie, Wang, Yong

Microstructure refinement of TiAl alloys is realized by introducing β solidification in this paper. The obtained fine-grained cast microstructures can be optimized to be fine-grained fully lamellar...

Effect of Mn on formation of lamellar structure in a γ-TiAl alloy (2004)

Jin, Yonggang, Wang, J.N., Wang, Yong, Yang, Jie

A fine cast microstructure can be developed in two TiAl alloys with or without Mn. It can be optimized to be a fine-grained fully lamellar structure (FFLS) by heat treatment. But the presence of Mn...

Role of gallium wetting layer in high-quality ZnO growth on sapphire (0001) substrates (2004)

Zeng, Zhaoquan, Wang, Yong, Du, Xiaolong, Mei, Zengxia, Kong, Xianghe, Jia, Jinfeng, ...

A Ga wetting layer was used to modify the surface structure of sapphire (0001) substrate to prepare high-quality ZnO film by radio frequency plasma-assisted molecule beam epitaxy. We found that this...

Subjective Preference of SpatioTemporal Rate in Video Adaptation Using Multi-Dimensional Scalable Coding (2004)

Yong Wang, Shih-fu Chang, Er C. Loui

Video adaptation allows for direct manipulation of existing encoded video streams to meet new resource constraints without having to encode the video from scratch. Multi-dimensional scalable coding...

Corporate Investment and Asset Price Dynamics: Implications for the Cross-Section of Returns (2004)

Murray Carlson, Adlai Fisher, Ron Giammarino, Eduardo Schwartz, Tan Wang, Yong Wang, ...

We show that corporate investment decisions can explain conditional dynamics in expected asset returns. Our approach is similar in spirit to Berk, Green, and Naik (1999), but we introduce to the...

S.-F.: Predicting optimal operation of MC-3DSBC multi-dimensional scalable video coding using subjective quality measurement (2004)

Yong Wang, Tian-tsong Ng, Shih-fu Chang

Recently we have witnessed a growing interest in the development of the subband/wavelet coding (SBC) technology, partly due to the superior scalability of SBC. Scalable coding provides great synergy...

DNA structure constraint is probably a fundamental factor inducing CpG deficiency in bacteria (2004)

Wang, Yong, Leung, Frederick C. C.

Motivation: It has been speculated that CpG dinucleotide deficiency in genomes is a consequence of DNA methylation. However, this hypothesis does not adequately explain CpG deficiency in bacteria....

An evaluation of new criteria for CpG islands in the human genome as gene markers (2004)

Wang, Yong, Leung, Frederick C. C.

Motivation: Recently, more stringent criteria for CpG islands have been introduced to exclude Alu repeats, thereby enabling a higher proportion of CpG islands associating with genes to be identified....

DNA structure constraint is probably a fundamental factor inducing CpG deficiency in bacteria (2004)

Wang, Yong, Leung, Frederick C. C.

Motivation: It has been speculated that CpG dinucleotide deficiency in genomes is a consequence of DNA methylation. However, this hypothesis does not adequately explain CpG deficiency in bacteria....

Mobilization of Dendritic Cell Precursors Into the Circulation by Administration of MIP-1 in Mice (2004)

Zhang, Yanyun, Yoneyama, Hiroyuki, Wang, Yong, Ishikawa, Sho, Hashimoto, Shin-ichi, Gao, Ji-Liang, ...

Background: Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in immune responses and may be useful adjuvants for tumor vaccine therapy. We previously reported that F4/80–B220–CD11c+ DC precursors...

An evaluation of new criteria for CpG islands in the human genome as gene markers (2004)

Wang, Yong, Leung, Frederick C. C.

Motivation: Recently, more stringent criteria for CpG islands have been introduced to exclude Alu repeats, thereby enabling a higher proportion of CpG islands associating with genes to be identified....

DNA structure constraint is probably a fundamental factor inducing CpG deficiency in bacteria (2004)

Wang, Yong, Leung, Frederick C. C.

Motivation: It has been speculated that CpG dinucleotide deficiency in genomes is a consequence of DNA methylation. However, this hypothesis does not adequately explain CpG deficiency in bacteria....

A hierarchy for the plus cupping Turing degrees (2003)

Li, Angsheng, Wang, Yong

We say that a computably enumerable (c. e.) degree a is plus-cupping, if for every c. e. degree x with 0 < x≤ a, there is a c. e. degree y ≠ 0’ such that x ∨ y=0’. We say that a is...

Development of a novel frequency-domain frame synchronization algorithm for digital communication systems / (2003)

Wang, Yong.

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

From mouthpiece to money maker : Chinese newspapers become more autonomous / (2003)

Wang, Yong.

Submitted to the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies at the Stanford Law School, Stanford University.

Safety verification of model helicopter controller using hybrid input/output automata (2003)

Sayan Mitra, Yong Wang, Nancy Lynch, Eric Feron

Abstract. This paper presents an application of the Hybrid I/O Automaton (HIOA) framework [12] in verifying a realistic hybrid system. A supervisory pitch controller for a model helicopter system is...

Endogenous Health Care and Life Expectancy in a Neoclassical Growth Model ∗ (2003)

Michaelc. M. Leung, Yong Wang

We study the endogenous relationship between health care, life expectancy and output in a modified neoclassical growth model. While health care competes resources away from goods production, it...

Routing Algorithms for Ring Networks (2003)

Yong Wang, Name Yong Wang, L. Liestman

In this thesis, we study routing problems on ring networks. The ring is a popular topology for communication networks and has attracted much research attention.

A Rule Grouping Technique for Weight-Based TCAM Coprocessors (2003)

Hao Che, Yong Wang, Zhijun Wang

A crucial issue associated with a TCAM coprocessor with weights is that no more rules can be enforced if the weights are exhausted. In this paper, the problem is identified and a rule grouping...

Mpeg-4 real time fd-cd transcoding (2003)

Yong Wang, Jae-gon Kim, Shih-fu Chang

In this report we summarize our work on real time transcoding implementation combining frame dropping (FD) and DCT coefficient dropping (CD). FD can realize the temporal down sampling resulting in a...

Efficient algorithm for embedding hypergraphs in a cycle (2003)

Yong Wang, Qian-ping Gu, Qian-ping Gu

Abstract: The problem of Minimum Congestion Hypergraph Embedding in a Cycle (MCHEC) is to embed the hyperedges of a hypergraph as paths in a cycle such that the maximum congestion (the maximum number...

Confidence in Domestic Money and Currency Substitution (2003)

Tandon, Ajay, Wang, Yong

This article studies currency substitution in a model where domestic money suffers from lack of confidence. When agents' confidence is exogenous and constant, there is a unique but unstable...

CONSISTENCY OF MIST NETTING AND POINT COUNTS IN ASSESSING LANDBIRD SPECIES RICHNESS AND RELATIVE ABUNDANCE DURING MIGRATION (2002)

Yong Wang, Deborah M. Finch

We compared consistency of species richness and relative abundance data collected concurrently using mist netting and point counts during migration in riparian habitats along the middle Rio Grande of...

Chinese entrepreneurship: the development of small family firms in China (2002)

Poutziouris, Panikkos, Wang, Yong, Chan, Sally

This explorative paper considers the recent developments in the emerging small family business sector in post-reform China as the country embraces socio-economic and structural transition from a...

Error resilient video coding with tree structure motion compensation and data partitioning (2002)

Yong Wang, Yam D. Srinath

This paper introduces a new scheme for robust video coding and transmission to reduce the effect of error propagation. In this scheme, the linear structure of motion estimation and compensation in...

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR STANDARDAIZATION ORGANIZATION INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZATION ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG11 CODING OF MOVING PICTURES AND ASSOCIATED AUDIO (2002)

Jae-gon Kim, Yong Wang, Shih-fu Chang, Kyeongok Kang

The MPEG has recently started work on standardization of Digital Item Adaptation as a part of the MPEG-21 multimedia framework. The concept of the Digital Item Adaptation is adaptation of resources...

Modeling for optimal probability prediction (2002)

Yong Wang, Ian H. Witten

We present a general modeling method for optimal probability prediction over future observations, in which model dimensionality is determined as a natural by-product. This new method yields several...

Interacting with 3D Graphic Objects in (2002)

Yong Wang, Jiang Li, Kun Zhou, Heung-yeung Shum

This paper presents a novel hybrid rendering system, which allows users to interact with 3D graphic objects in an image-based environment. To represent a complex environment, we use a collection of...

Modeling for optimal probability prediction (2002)

Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H.

We present a general modelling method for optimal probability prediction over future observations, in which model dimensionality is determined as a natural by-product. This new method yields several...

Complex natural resonances of conducting planar objects buried in a dielectric half-space (2001)

Yong Wang, Longstaff, I.D., Leat, C.J., Shuley, N.V.

This paper was one of the first early attempts to carry out a full wave target identification scenario on a buried object.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HABITAT AND LANDSCAPE FEATURES AND THE AVIAN COMMUNITY OF RED MAPLE SWAMPS IN SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND (2001)

FRANCIS C. GOLET, YONG WANG, JED S. MERROW, WILLIAM R. DeRAGON

We investigated the relationship between habitat and landscape characteristics and the abundance and species richness of breeding birds in 12 southern Rhode Island red maple (Acer rubrum) swamps of...

Total synthesis of (+)-polyoxin J and ( - )-laulimalide / (2001)

Wang, Yong.

Thesis (Ph. D. in chemistry)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001.

Complex natural resonances of conducting planar objects buried in a dielectric half-space (2001)

Yong Wang, Longstaff, I.D., Leat, C.J., Shuley, N.V.

This paper was one of the first early attempts to carry out a full wave target identification scenario on a buried object.

Effects of actuator limits in bifurcation control with applications to active control of fluid instabilities in turbomachinery (2000)

Wang, Yong

Feedback stabilization is one of the most dominant issues in modern control theory. The validity of linear control design is based on the assumption that the system is stabilizable. With rapid...

A new approach to fitting linear models in high dimensional spaces / (2000)

Wang, Yong.

"This thesis presents a new approach to fitting linear models called 'pace regression', which also overcomes the dimensionality determination problem"--Abstract.

Interactivity of news channels : a study of 20 top portals in China and USA / (2000)

Wang, Yong.

Thesis (M.Mass Comm.)--Nanyang Technological University, School of Communication Studies, 2000.

Position-specific effect of ribonucleotides on the cleavage activity of human topoisomerase II (2000)

Wang, Yong, Thyssen, Anette, Westergaard, Ole, Andersen, Anni H.

Beyond the normal DNA transactions mediated by topoisomerase II, we have recently demonstrated that the cleavage activity of the two human topoisomerase II isoforms is several-fold stimulated if a...

Clustering with finite data from semi-parametric mixture distributions (1999)

Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H.

Existing clustering methods for the semi-parametric mixture distribution perform well as the volume of data increases. However, they all suffer from a serious drawback in finite-data situations:...

Clustering with finite data from semi-parametric mixture distributions (1999)

Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H.

Existing clustering methods for the semi-parametric mixture distribution perform well as the volume of data increases. However, they all suffer from a serious drawback in finite-data situations:...

Pace Regression (1999)

Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H.

This paper articulates a new method of linear regression, “pace regression”, that addresses many drawbacks of standard regression reported in the literature-particularly the subset selection...

Pace Regression (1999)

Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H.

This paper articulates a new method of linear regression, “pace regression”, that addresses many drawbacks of standard regression reported in the literature-particularly the subset selection...

A novel [4+3] cycloaddition of the Nazarov oxyallyl intermediate / (1999)

Wang, Yong.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Chemistry, University of Utah, 1999.

Pace Regression (1999)

Yong Wang, Ian H. Witten

This paper articulates a new method of linear regression, \pace regression," that addresses many drawbacks of standard regression reported in the literature|particularly the subset selection...

Clustering With Finite Data From Semi-Parametric Mixture Distributions (1999)

Yong Wang, Ian H. Witten

Existing clustering methods for the semi-parametric mixture distribution perform well as the volume of data increases. However, they all suffer from a serious drawback in finite-data situations:...

VADE: A virtual assembly design environment (1999)

Sankar Jayaram, Yong Wang, Uma Jayaram, Kevin Lyons, Peter Hart

The Virtual Assembly Design Environment (VADE) is a Virtual Reality (VR)-based engineering application that allows engineers to evaluate, analyze, and plan the assembly of mechanical systems. This...

Myomodulin modulation of the Retzius cell and its role in the leech associative learning (1998)

Wang, Yong

Associative learning is a fundamental process in animals. The CS's ability to predict the US is key for the acquisition of an association. Consistent CS prediction of a US prevents functional...

Physically based modeling in virtual assembly / (1998)

Wang, Yong.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, 1998.

Technical Note (1998)

Using Model, Eibe Frank, Yong Wang, Geoffrey Holmes, Ian H. Witten

. Model trees, which are a type of decision tree with linear regression functions at the leaves, form the basis of a recent successful technique for predicting continuous numeric values. They can be...

Learning Feature Weights for Similarity Measures (1998)

Yong Wang, Naohiro Ishii

When employing a similarity function to measure the similarity between two cases, one large problem is how to determine the feature weights. This paper presents a new method for learning feature...

Using Model Trees for Classification (1998)

Eibe Frank, Yong Wang, Suart Inglis, Geoffrey Holmes, Ian H. Witten, H. Witten

. Model trees, which are a type of decision tree with linear regression functions at the leaves, form the basis of a recent successful technique for predicting continuous numeric values. They can be...

Using model trees for classification (1997)

Frank, Eibe, Wang, Yong, Inglis, Stuart J., Holmes, Geoffrey, Witten, Ian H.

Model trees, which are a type of decision tree with linear regression functions at the leaves, form the basis of a recent successful technique for predicting continuous numeric values. They can be...

Using model trees for classification (1997)

Frank, Eibe, Wang, Yong, Inglis, Stuart J., Holmes, Geoffrey, Witten, Ian H.

Model trees, which are a type of decision tree with linear regression functions at the leaves, form the basis of a recent successful technique for predicting continuous numeric values. They can be...

Inducing Model Trees for Continuous Classes (1997)

Yong Wang, Ian H. Witten

. Many problems encountered when applying machine learning in practice involve predicting a "class" that takes on a continuous numeric value, yet few machine learning schemes are able to do...

A Method Of Similarity Metrics For Structured Representations (1997)

Yong Wang, Naohiro Ishii

Case-based reasoning(CBR) is a topic that becomes more and more important and recently has been used for planning, design, etc, of applications in industry and business domains. In case-based...

A Genetic Algorithm for Learning Weights in A Similarity Function (1997)

Yong Wang, Naohiro Ishii

One large problem when employing a similarity function to measure the similarities between new and prior cases is to determine the weights of the features. This paper proposes a new method of...

A Method of Similarity Metrics for Structured Representations (1997)

Yong Wang, Naohiro Ishii

Case-based reasoning(CBR) is a topic that becomes more and more important and recently has been used for planning, design, etc., of applications in industry and business domains. In case-based...

Using Model Trees for Classi cation (1997)

Eibe Frank, Yong Wang, Stuart Inglis, Geoffrey Holmes, Ian H. Witten, Raymond Mooney

Abstract. Model trees, which are a type of decision tree with linear regression functions at the leaves, form the basis of a recent successful technique for predicting continuous numeric values. They...

Induction of model trees for predicting continuous classes (1996)

Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H.

Many problems encountered when applying machine learning in practice involve predicting a "class" that takes on a continuous numeric value, yet few machine learning schemes are able to do this. This...

Induction of model trees for predicting continuous classes (1996)

Wang, Yong, Witten, Ian H.

Many problems encountered when applying machine learning in practice involve predicting a "class" that takes on a continuous numeric value, yet few machine learning schemes are able to do this. This...

Mixed-state penetration depths in s-wave and d-wave superconductors (1996)

Wang, Yong, MacDonald, A. H.

We report on a microscopic calculation of the current and magnetic field distribution in the mixed state of model s-wave and d-wave superconductors. For the d-wave case, we find that corrections to...

Semidefinite programming (1996)

Zhenping Li, Shihua Zhang, Yong Wang, Xiang-sun Zhang, Luonan Chen

Alignment of molecular networks by integer quadratic

Mixed-State Quasiparticle Spectrum for d-wave Superconductors (1995)

Wang, Yong, MacDonald, A. H.

Controversy concerning the pairing symmetry of high-$T_c$ materials has motivated an interest in those measurable properties of superconductors for which qualitative differences exist between the...

A Method Of Similarity Metrics Using Fuzzy Integration (1994)

Yong Wang, Nobuhiro Inuzuka, Naohiro Ishii

Similarity metrics is a central issue in automatic reasoning system, especially in case-based reasoning and analogical reasoning. This paper proposes a method of similarity metrics by focusing the...

Characterization by 1H NMR of glycosidic conformations in the tetramolecular complex formed by d(GGTTTTTGG) (1991)

Wang, Yong, Jin, Renzhe, Gaffney, Barbara, Jones, Roger A., Breslauer, Kenneth J.

We have conducted two dimensional NOESY studies on the molecule d(G2T5G2) to characterize the structure of the tetramolecular complex previously identified by calorimetric and spectroscopic studies...

Experimental study of separated flow field on NACA 23024 right wing /--by Yong Wang. (1988)

Wang, Yong.

Thesis (M.S.)--The Wichita State University, Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering, 1988.

Machine Vision Based Cotton Recognition for Cotton Harvesting Robot (1970)

Yong Wang, Xiaorong Zhu, Changying Ji

A new cotton recognition method is proposed in this paper. It provides parameters for motion of the manipulator so that it can acquire precise location information of cotton, identify cotton from...

Consumption Risk and the Cost of Equity Capital

Ravi Jagannathan, Yong Wang

We demonstrate, using data for the period 1954-2003, that differences in exposure to consumption risk explains cross sectional differences in average excess returns (cost of equity capital) across...

Public capital, asymmetric information, and economic growth

Wai-Hong Ho, Yong Wang

We investigate the provision of public capital in an endogenous growth model with asymmetric information. In a credit market with costly screening, we show that the equilibrium contracts are...

The alternative oxidase lowers mitochondrial reactive oxygen production in plant cells

Maxwell, Denis P., Wang, Yong, McIntosh, Lee

Besides the cytochrome c pathway, plant mitochondria have an alternative respiratory pathway that is comprised of a single homodimeric protein, alternative oxidase (AOX). Transgenic cultured tobacco...

Crystallographic comparison of the estrogen and progesterone receptor’s ligand binding domains

Tanenbaum, David M., Wang, Yong, Williams, Shawn P., Sigler, Paul B.

The 2.8-Å crystal structure of the complex formed by estradiol and the human estrogen receptor-α ligand binding domain (hERαLBD) is described and compared with the recently reported structure of...

Position-specific effect of ribonucleotides on the cleavage activity of human topoisomerase II

Wang, Yong, Thyssen, Anette, Westergaard, Ole, Andersen, Anni H.

Beyond the normal DNA transactions mediated by topoisomerase II, we have recently demonstrated that the cleavage activity of the two human topoisomerase II isoforms is several-fold stimulated if a...

Dual localization of human DNA topoisomerase IIIα to mitochondria and nucleus

Wang, Yong, Lyu, Yi Lisa, Wang, James C.

The human TOP3α gene encoding DNA topoisomerase IIIα (hTop3α) has two potential start codons for the synthesis of proteins 1,001 and 976 aa residues in length. The sequence of the N-terminal...

Helix-stabilized cyclic peptides as selective inhibitors of steroid receptor–coactivator interactions

Leduc, Anne-Marie, Trent, John O., Wittliff, James L., Bramlett, Kelli S., Briggs, Stephen L., Chirgadze, Nikolay Y., ...

The interaction between nuclear receptors and coactivators provides an arena for testing whether protein–protein interactions may be inhibited by small molecule drug candidates. We provide evidence...

The DIVa Maturase Binding Site in the Yeast Group II Intron aI2 Is Essential for Intron Homing but Not for In Vivo Splicing

Huang, Hon-Ren, Chao, Michael Y., Armstrong, Barbara, Wang, Yong, Lambowitz, Alan M., Perlman, Philip S.

Splicing of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial DNA group II intron aI2 depends on the intron-encoded 62-kDa reverse transcriptase-maturase protein (p62). In wild-type strains, p62 remains...

Structure and Expression Profile of the Arabidopsis PHO1 Gene Family Indicates a Broad Role in Inorganic Phosphate Homeostasis1[w]

Wang, Yong, Ribot, Cécile, Rezzonico, Enea, Poirier, Yves

PHO1 has been recently identified as a protein involved in the loading of inorganic phosphate into the xylem of roots in Arabidopsis. The genome of Arabidopsis contains 11 members of the PHO1 gene...

On the origin of Lake Malawi cichlid species: A population genetic analysis of divergence

Won, Yong-Jin, Sivasundar, Arjun, Wang, Yong, Hey, Jody

The cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are famously diverse. However, phylogenetic and population genetic studies of their history have been difficult because of the great amount of genetic variation that...

FLIP Protects against Hypoxia/Reoxygenation-Induced Endothelial Cell Apoptosis by Inhibiting Bax Activation

Wang, Xue, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Jinglan, Kim, Hong Pyo, Ryter, Stefan W., Choi, Augustine M. K.

Hypoxia/reoxygenation causes cell death, yet the underlying regulatory mechanisms remain partially understood. Recent studies demonstrate that hypoxia/reoxygenation can activate death receptor and...

Human Bex2 interacts with LMO2 and regulates the transcriptional activity of a novel DNA-binding complex

Han, Chunyu, Liu, Hao, Liu, Jin, Yin, Kang, Xie, Yi, Shen, Xiao, ...

Human Bex2 (brain expressed X-linked, hBex2) is highly expressed in the embryonic brain, but its function remains unknown. We have identified that LMO2, a LIM-domain containing transcriptional...

Characterization of pancreatic lesions from MT-tgfα, Ela-myc and MT-tgfα/Ela-myc single and double transgenic mice

Liao, Dezhong Joshua, Wang, Yong, Wu, Jiusheng, Adsay, Nazmi Volkan, Grignon, David, Khanani, Fayyaz, ...

In order to identify good animal models for investigating therapeutic and preventive strategies for pancreatic cancer, we analyzed pancreatic lesions from several transgenic models and made a series...

The alternative oxidase lowers mitochondrial reactive oxygen production in plant cells

Maxwell, Denis P., Wang, Yong, McIntosh, Lee

Besides the cytochrome c pathway, plant mitochondria have an alternative respiratory pathway that is comprised of a single homodimeric protein, alternative oxidase (AOX). Transgenic cultured tobacco...

Crystallographic comparison of the estrogen and progesterone receptor’s ligand binding domains

Tanenbaum, David M., Wang, Yong, Williams, Shawn P., Sigler, Paul B.

The 2.8-Å crystal structure of the complex formed by estradiol and the human estrogen receptor-α ligand binding domain (hERαLBD) is described and compared with the recently reported structure of...

Position-specific effect of ribonucleotides on the cleavage activity of human topoisomerase II

Wang, Yong, Thyssen, Anette, Westergaard, Ole, Andersen, Anni H.

Beyond the normal DNA transactions mediated by topoisomerase II, we have recently demonstrated that the cleavage activity of the two human topoisomerase II isoforms is several-fold stimulated if a...

Dual localization of human DNA topoisomerase IIIα to mitochondria and nucleus

Wang, Yong, Lyu, Yi Lisa, Wang, James C.

The human TOP3α gene encoding DNA topoisomerase IIIα (hTop3α) has two potential start codons for the synthesis of proteins 1,001 and 976 aa residues in length. The sequence of the N-terminal...

Helix-stabilized cyclic peptides as selective inhibitors of steroid receptor–coactivator interactions

Leduc, Anne-Marie, Trent, John O., Wittliff, James L., Bramlett, Kelli S., Briggs, Stephen L., Chirgadze, Nikolay Y., ...

The interaction between nuclear receptors and coactivators provides an arena for testing whether protein–protein interactions may be inhibited by small molecule drug candidates. We provide evidence...

The DIVa Maturase Binding Site in the Yeast Group II Intron aI2 Is Essential for Intron Homing but Not for In Vivo Splicing

Huang, Hon-Ren, Chao, Michael Y., Armstrong, Barbara, Wang, Yong, Lambowitz, Alan M., Perlman, Philip S.

Splicing of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial DNA group II intron aI2 depends on the intron-encoded 62-kDa reverse transcriptase-maturase protein (p62). In wild-type strains, p62 remains...

Structure and Expression Profile of the Arabidopsis PHO1 Gene Family Indicates a Broad Role in Inorganic Phosphate Homeostasis1[w]

Wang, Yong, Ribot, Cécile, Rezzonico, Enea, Poirier, Yves

PHO1 has been recently identified as a protein involved in the loading of inorganic phosphate into the xylem of roots in Arabidopsis. The genome of Arabidopsis contains 11 members of the PHO1 gene...

On the origin of Lake Malawi cichlid species: A population genetic analysis of divergence

Won, Yong-Jin, Sivasundar, Arjun, Wang, Yong, Hey, Jody

The cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are famously diverse. However, phylogenetic and population genetic studies of their history have been difficult because of the great amount of genetic variation that...

FLIP Protects against Hypoxia/Reoxygenation-Induced Endothelial Cell Apoptosis by Inhibiting Bax Activation

Wang, Xue, Wang, Yong, Zhang, Jinglan, Kim, Hong Pyo, Ryter, Stefan W., Choi, Augustine M. K.

Hypoxia/reoxygenation causes cell death, yet the underlying regulatory mechanisms remain partially understood. Recent studies demonstrate that hypoxia/reoxygenation can activate death receptor and...

Human Bex2 interacts with LMO2 and regulates the transcriptional activity of a novel DNA-binding complex

Han, Chunyu, Liu, Hao, Liu, Jin, Yin, Kang, Xie, Yi, Shen, Xiao, ...

Human Bex2 (brain expressed X-linked, hBex2) is highly expressed in the embryonic brain, but its function remains unknown. We have identified that LMO2, a LIM-domain containing transcriptional...

Characterization of pancreatic lesions from MT-tgfα, Ela-myc and MT-tgfα/Ela-myc single and double transgenic mice

Liao, Dezhong Joshua, Wang, Yong, Wu, Jiusheng, Adsay, Nazmi Volkan, Grignon, David, Khanani, Fayyaz, ...

In order to identify good animal models for investigating therapeutic and preventive strategies for pancreatic cancer, we analyzed pancreatic lesions from several transgenic models and made a series...

A second binding site for hydroxytamoxifen within the coactivator-binding groove of estrogen receptor β

Wang, Yong, Chirgadze, Nickolay Y., Briggs, Stephen L., Khan, Sohaib, Jensen, Elwood V., Burris, Thomas P.

Evidence is presented that the estrogen antagonist 4-hydroxytamoxifen (HT) can occupy not only the core binding pocket within the ligand-binding domain of estrogen receptor (ER) β but also a second...

Newcastle Disease Virus-Based Live Attenuated Vaccine Completely Protects Chickens and Mice from Lethal Challenge of Homologous and Heterologous H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses▿

Ge, Jinying, Deng, Guohua, Wen, Zhiyuan, Tian, Guobing, Wang, Yong, Shi, Jianzhong, ...

H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) has continued to spread and poses a significant threat to both animal and human health. Current influenza vaccine strategies have limitations that...

On fast computation of the non-parametric maximum likelihood estimate of a mixing distribution

Yong Wang

A fast algorithm for computing the non-parametric maximum likelihood estimate of a mixing distribution is presented. At each iteration, the algorithm adds new important points to the support set as...

Total body irradiation selectively induces murine hematopoietic stem cell senescence

Wang, Yong, Schulte, Bradley A., LaRue, Amanda C., Ogawa, Makio, Zhou, Daohong

Exposure to ionizing radiation (IR) and certain chemotherapeutic agents not only causes acute bone marrow (BM) suppression but also leads to long-term residual hematopoietic injury. This latter...

Structural Requirements for Yersinia YopJ Inhibition of MAP Kinase Pathways

Hao, Yi-Heng, Wang, Yong, Burdette, Dara, Mukherjee, Sohini, Keitany, Gladys, Goldsmith, Elizabeth, ...

MAPK signaling cascades are evolutionally conserved. The bacterial effector, YopJ, uses the unique activity of Ser/Thr acetylation to inhibit the activation of the MAPK kinase (MKK) and prevent...

Parametric study of the effect of phase anisotropy on the micromechanical behaviour of dentin–adhesive interfaces

Misra, Anil, Spencer, Paulette, Marangos, Orestes, Wang, Yong, Katz, J. Lawrence

A finite element (FE) model has been developed based upon the recently measured micro-scale morphological, chemical and mechanical properties of dentin–adhesive (d–a) interfaces using confocal...

Near-Rational Behaviour and Financial Market Fluctuations.

Wang, Yong

This paper departs from the conventional assumption of unbounded rationality in the marketplace and investigates the effects of a suboptimal behavior in financial markets. A rule of thumb adopted by...

Endogenous Health Care, Life Expectancy, and Economic Development

Wang, Yong

We study the endogenous relationship between health care, life expectancy and output in a modified neoclassical growth model. While health care competes resources away from goods production, it...

The Real Value of Money under Endogenous Beliefs

Bertocchi, Graziella, Wang, Yong

We study an overlapping generations model where the probability that money can lose its value is an endogenous function of the level of aggregate real money balances. The economy can display multiple...

ECONOMICS OF STOCK-PRICE VIBRATIONS: RIDING SPECULATIVE WAVES WITHOUT SPECULATION

Hiroshi Ohta, Hironobu Nakagawa, Yong Wang

When speculation causes share prices to fluctuate, even the best speculators may do 'hardly better than the comprehensive common-stock averages' (Samuelson). We further demonstrate in this paper that...

Lazy Investors, Discretionary Consumption, and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

RAVI JAGANNATHAN, YONG WANG

When consumption betas of stocks are computed using year-over-year consumption growth based upon the fourth quarter, the consumption-based asset pricing model (CCAPM) explains the cross-section of...

The Intergenerational Overlap and Human Capital Formation *

Oded Stark, Yong Wang

A new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital is proposed. It is suggested that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital...

Inflationary Finance, Capital Controls, and Currency Substitution.

Tandon, Ajay, Wang, Yong

This paper studies currency substitution in an environment where agents' inflation tax-evasive demand for foreign money is balanced by the concern for the possibility that the government may impose...

Stationary Markov Equilibria in an OLG Model with Correlated Production Shocks.

Wang, Yong

In this paper, the author examines the existence of stationary equilibria in an overlapping generations model where production shocks are correlated over time. In general, the system is complicated...

Imperfect Information, Bayesian Learning, and Capital Accumulation.

Bertocchi, Graziella, Wang, Yong

This paper examines the consequences of informational imperfections for economic growth in an overlapping generations model in which agents learn the technological parameters in a Bayesian fashion....

Total Innovation Management: a novel paradigm of innovation management in the 21st century

Qingrui Xu, Jin Chen, Zhangshu Xie, Jingjiang Liu, Gang Zheng, Yong Wang

Based on an ecosystem view of innovation management and in-depth case studies of firms in China and abroad, a novel paradigm of innovation management—Total Innovation Management (TIM)—is put...

Inducing Human Capital Formation: Migration as a Substitute for Subsidies

Stark, Oded, Wang, Yong

When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. The provision of subsidies...

The Intergenerational Overlap and Human Capital Formation

Stark, Oded, Wang, Yong

We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital...

Essays on the cross section of stock returns.

Wang, Yong.

Thesis (Ph.D., Finance)--Northwestern University, 2005.

Confidence in Domestic Money and Currency Substitution

Ajay Tandon, Yong Wang

This article studies currency substitution in a model where domestic money suffers from lack of confidence. When agents' confidence is exogenous and constant, there is a unique but unstable...

Hairpin structures formed by alpha satellite DNA of human centromeres are cleaved by human topoisomerase IIα

Jonstrup, Anette Thyssen, Thomsen, Tina, Wang, Yong, Knudsen, Birgitta R., Koch, Jørn, Andersen, Anni H.

Although centromere function has been conserved through evolution, apparently no interspecies consensus DNA sequence exists. Instead, centromere DNA may be interconnected through the formation of...

Kank regulates RhoA-dependent formation of actin stress fibers and cell migration via 14-3-3 in PI3K–Akt signaling

Kakinuma, Naoto, Roy, Badal Chandra, Zhu, Yun, Wang, Yong, Kiyama, Ryoiti

Phosphoinositide-3 kinase (PI3K)/Akt signaling is activated by growth factors such as insulin and epidermal growth factor (EGF) and regulates several functions such as cell cycling, apoptosis, cell...

Land Cover and Socio-economic Characteristics in the Eight Counties of Alabama: A Spatial Analysis

Gyawali, Buddhi, Fraser, Rory, Wang, Yong, Bukenya, James

This study employed a clustering algorithm and a logistic regression analysis to examine the relationship between cropland and demographic attributes obtained at the census block group level. The...

Prediction of the tissue-specificity of selective estrogen receptor modulators by using a single biochemical method

Dai, Susie Y., Chalmers, Michael J., Bruning, John, Bramlett, Kelli S., Osborne, Harold E., Montrose-Rafizadeh, Chahrzad, ...

Here, we demonstrate that a single biochemical assay is able to predict the tissue-selective pharmacology of an array of selective estrogen receptor modulators (SERMs). We describe an approach to...

Temporal Coding by Cochlear Nucleus Bushy Cells in DBA/2J Mice with Early Onset Hearing Loss

Wang, Yong, Manis, Paul B.

The bushy cells of the anterior ventral cochlear nucleus (AVCN) preserve or improve the temporal coding of sound information arriving from auditory nerve fibers (ANF). The critical cellular...

OVERLAPPING

Wang, Yong, Stark, Oded

We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital...

On the evolutionary edge of migration as an assortative mating device

Oded Stark, Doris Behrens, Yong Wang

Haystacks-type model, Prisoner’s dilemma game, Inclination to migrate, Cost of migration, Evolution of cooperation, Taste for migration, A12, A13, D64, R23,

Characterization of the PHO1 Gene Family and the Responses to Phosphate Deficiency of Physcomitrella patens1

Wang, Yong, Secco, David, Poirier, Yves

PHO1 was previously identified in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) as a protein involved in loading inorganic phosphate (Pi) into the xylem of roots and its expression was associated with the...

The constrained Fisher scoring method for maximum likelihood computation of a nonparametric mixing distribution

Yong Wang

Constrained Newton method, EM algorithm, Fisher scoring, Information matrix, Iteratively reweighted least squares, Mixture model, Nonparametric maximum likelihood,

Asymmetric Information and Demand for Money in an Overlapping Generations Economy

Yong Wang

This paper studies a pure exchange overlapping generations economy in which agents have asymmetric information pertaining to their income realizations. Such an information asymmetry introduces a role...

Angiotensin-(1–7) and the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Mas Are Key Players in Renal Inflammation

Esteban, Vanesa, Heringer-Walther, Silvia, Sterner-Kock, Anja, De Bruin, Ron, Van Den Engel, Sandra, Wang, Yong, ...

Angiotensin (Ang) II mediates pathophysiologial changes in the kidney. Ang-(1–7) by interacting with the G protein-coupled receptor Mas may also have important biological activities.

PROCAIN: protein profile comparison with assisting information

Wang, Yong, Sadreyev, Ruslan I., Grishin, Nick V.

Detection of remote sequence homology is essential for the accurate inference of protein structure, function and evolution. The most sensitive detection methods involve the comparison of evolutionary...

HCV Antibody Response and Genotype Distribution in Different Areas and Races of China

Jia, Leili, Yu, Jiyun, Yang, Jinliang, Song, Hongbin, Liu, Xuelin, Wang, Yong, ...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) heterogeneity accounts for the failure of effective vaccine development and the lack of successful anti-viral therapy in some patients. Little is known about the immune...

PROCAIN server for remote protein sequence similarity search

Wang, Yong, Sadreyev, Ruslan I., Grishin, Nick V.

Sensitive and accurate detection of distant protein homology is essential for the studies of protein structure, function and evolution. We recently developed PROCAIN, a method that is based on...

Karyotypes on three species of Chinese mesogastropod snails, Semisulcospira libertina, S. dolichostoma and Viviparus rivularis

Park, Gab-Man, Kim, Jae-Jin, Chung, Pyung-Rim, Wang, Yong, Min, Duk-Young

Three species of the families Viviparidae and Pleuroceridae, the first intermediate host of paragonimiasis, metagonimiasis and echinostomiasis were studied cytologically. The observed diploid...

Short-Term Synaptic Depression and Recovery at the Mature Mammalian Endbulb of Held Synapse in Mice

Wang, Yong, Manis, Paul B.

The endbulb of Held synapses between the auditory nerve fibers (ANF) and cochlear nucleus bushy neurons convey fine temporal information embedded in the incoming acoustic signal. The dynamics of...

A Genetic Screen for Nitrate Regulatory Mutants Captures the Nitrate Transporter Gene NRT1.11[W][OA]

Wang, Rongchen, Xing, Xiujuan, Wang, Yong, Tran, Amy, Crawford, Nigel M.

Nitrate regulatory mutants (nrg) of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) were sought using a genetic screen that employed a nitrate-inducible promoter fused to the yellow fluorescent protein marker...

Capital Income Taxation Revisited: The Role of Information Asymmetry in the Credit Market

Ho , Wai-Hong, Wang, Yong

This paper reexamines the issue of optimal capital income taxation in an endogenous growth model with overlapping generations. By assuming costly state verification for capital producing projects, we...

Disease-Aging Network Reveals Significant Roles of Aging Genes in Connecting Genetic Diseases

Wang, Jiguang, Zhang, Shihua, Wang, Yong, Chen, Luonan, Zhang, Xiang-Sun

One of the challenging problems in biology and medicine is exploring the underlying mechanisms of genetic diseases. Recent studies suggest that the relationship between genetic diseases and the aging...

Endowment structures, industrial dynamics, and economic growth

Ju, Jiandong, Lin, Justin Yifu, Wang, Yong

Economic Theory&Research,Political Economy,Economic Growth,Access to Finance,Currencies and Exchange Rates

Age Affects Spontaneous Activity and Depolarizing Afterpotentials in Isolated Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone Neurons

Wang, Yong, Garro, Mona, Dantzler, Heather A., Taylor, Julia A., Kline, David D., Kuehl-Kovarik, M. Cathleen

Neuronal activity underlying the pulsatile secretion of GnRH remains poorly understood, as does the endogenous generation of such activity. It is clear that changes at the level of the hypothalamus...

Asymmetric Information, Auditing Commitment and Economic Growth

Ho , Wai-Hong, Wang, Yong

We analyze in this paper the growth and welfare consequences arising from the lack of auditing commitment in a credit market with costly state verification. Specifically, two endogenous growth...

Conservative Fragments in Bacterial 16S rRNA Genes and Primer Design for 16S Ribosomal DNA Amplicons in Metagenomic Studies

Wang, Yong, Qian, Pei-Yuan

Bacterial 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) amplicons have been widely used in the classification of uncultured bacteria inhabiting environmental niches. Primers targeting conservative regions of the rDNAs...

Predicting eukaryotic transcriptional cooperativity by Bayesian network integration of genome-wide data

Wang, Yong, Zhang, Xiang-Sun, Xia, Yu

Transcriptional cooperativity among several transcription factors (TFs) is believed to be the main mechanism of complexity and precision in transcriptional regulatory programs. Here, we present a...

Regional Supply Capacity of Agricultural Products in Shandong Province Based on GIS

Yang, Liping, Guo, Honghai, Yao, Huimin, Sun, Xiaoqing, Yang, Ping, Wang, Yong, ...

The authors select six indices of resource endowment, supply scale and structure of agricultural products in assessment area of China, and then use Factor Analysis Method and Geographic Information...