Yong Zhang

Publication List Details

Period

1984 - 2009

Number

357

Co-Authors

Energy Diffusion in Gases (2009)

Yang, Jinghua, Zhang, Yong, Wang, Jiao, Zhao, Hong

In the air surrounding us, how does a particle diffuse? Thanks to Einstein and other pioneers,it has been well known that generally the particle will undergo the Brownian motion, and in the last...

Improved Algorithms for Bicluster Editing (2009)

Jiong Guo, Falk Hüffner, Christian Komusiewicz, Yong Zhang

Abstract. The NP-hard Bicluster Editing is to add or remove at most k edges to make a bipartite graph G = (V, E) a vertex-disjoint union of complete bipartite subgraphs. It has applications in the...

Planetary Nebulae Detected in the Spitzer Space Telescope GLIMPSE II Legacy Survey (2009)

Zhang, Yong, Kwok, Sun

We report the result of a search for the infrared counterparts of 37 planetary nebulae (PNs) and PN candidates in the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire II (GLIMPSE II)...

Positive selection for the male functionality of a co-retroposed gene in the hominoids (2009)

Zhang, Yong, Lu, Shujuan, Zhao, Shuqi, Zheng, Xiaofeng, Long, Manyuan, Wei, Liping

Abstract Background New genes generated by retroposition are widespread in humans and other mammalian species. Usually, this process copies a single parental gene and inserts it into a distant...

An Augmented Lagrangian Approach for Sparse Principal Component Analysis (2009)

Lu, Zhaosong, Zhang, Yong

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a widely used technique for data analysis and dimension reduction with numerous applications in science and engineering. However, the standard PCA suffers from...

Cytoplasmic Kaiso is associated with poor prognosis in non-small cell lung cancer (2009)

Dai, Shun-Dong, Wang, Yan, Miao, Yuan, Zhao, Yue, Zhang, Yong, Jiang, Gui-Yang, ...

Abstract Background Kaiso has been identified as a new member of the POZ-zinc finger family of transcription factors that are implicated in development and cancer. Although controversy still exists,...

A molecular line survey of the extreme carbon star CRL 3068 at millimeter wavelengths (2009)

Zhang, Yong, Kwok, Sun, Nakashima, Jun-ichi

We present the results of a molecular line survey of the extreme carbon star CRL 3068. The observations were carried out with the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO) 12m telescope and the Heinrich Hertz...

Quantum Fourier Transform Over Galois Rings (2009)

Zhang, Yong

Galois rings are regarded as "building blocks" of a finite commutative ring with identity. There have been many papers on classical error correction codes over Galois rings published. As an important...

Fast Amplification of QMA (2009)

Nagaj, Daniel, Wocjan, Pawel, Zhang, Yong

Given a verifier circuit for a problem in QMA, we show how to exponentially amplify the gap between its acceptance probabilities in the `yes' and `no' cases, with a method that is quadratically...

Optimal quantum repeaters with doubly entangled state purification (2009)

Wang, Chuan, Jiao, Rong-Zhen, Ma, Hai-Qiang, Zhang, Yong, Yu, Li

Recently, Briegel et al. present a quantum repeaters protocol using nest entanglement purification for long distance quantum communication(Physical Review Letters \textbf{81},5932). In this paper we...

Systematic identification of genes involved in divergent skeletal muscle growth rates of broiler and layer chickens (2009)

Zheng, Qi, Zhang, Yong, Chen, Ying, Yang, Ning, Wang, Xiu-Jie, Zhu, Dahai

Abstract Background The genetic closeness and divergent muscle growth rates of broilers and layers make them great models for myogenesis study. In order to discover the molecular mechanisms...

Online OVSF Code Assignment with Resource Augmentation (2009)

Francisy. L. Chin, Yong Zhang, Hong Zhu

Abstract. Orthogonal Variable Spreading Factor (OVSF) code assignment is a fundamental problem in Wideband Code-Division Multiple-Access (W-CDMA) systems, which play an important role in third...

Abstract Error Groups Via Jones Unitary Braid Group Representations at q=i (2009)

Zhang, Yong

In this paper, we classify a type of abstract groups by the central products of dihedral groups and quaternion groups. We recognize them as abstract error groups which are often not isomorphic to the...

Source Target Compiler Code Code (2009)

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

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

Resource A Mammalian Organelle Map by Protein Correlation Profiling (2009)

Leonard J. Foster, Yanling Zhang, Yong Zhang, Xiaohui Xie, Vamsi K. Mootha, ...

Protein localization to membrane-enclosed organelles is a central feature of cellular organization. Using protein correlation profiling, we have mapped 1,404 proteins to ten subcellular locations in...

First-principles theory of coloration of WO$_3$ upon charge insertion (2009)

Xue, Yu, Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Peihong

We report first-principles investigations of the coloration of WO$_3$ upon charge insertion, using sodium tungsten bronze (Na$_x$WO$_3$) as a model system. Our results explain well the systematic...

5-(1H-Imidazol-1-ylsulfonyl)-N,N-dimethylnaphthalen-1-amine (2009)

Lei Teng, Yong Zhang, Shi-lei Zhang, Yuan Qu, Xian-you Xia

In the title molecule, C15H15N3O2S, the dihedral angle between the naphthalene ring system and the imidazole ring is 86.1 (2)°. In the crystal structure, weak intermolecular C—H...O...

4-(1,3-Benzothiazol-2-yl)-N-(2-pyridylmethyl)aniline monohydrate (2009)

Zhen-Hong Su, Qing-Zhi Wang, Lei Teng, Yong Zhang

In the title compound, C19H15N3S·H2O, the benzothiazole ring system forms a dihedral angle of 7.22 (1)° with the benzene ring and the benzene ring forms a dihedral angle of...

N-(2-Aminoethyl)-5-(dimethylamino)naphthalene-1-sulfonamide (2009)

Shi-lei Zhang, Bi-lin Zhao, Zhen-hong Su, Xian-you Xia, Yong Zhang

In the title compound, C14H19N3O2S, the N atom of the dimethylamino group and the S atom are displaced by 0.078 (2) and 0.084 (2) Å, respectively, from the naphthalene ring...

Bis(benzothiazol-2-ylmethyl)amine (2009)

Yong Zhang, Bi-lin Zhao, Shi-lei Zhang, Yuan Qu, Xian-you Xia

In the title compound, C16H13N3S2, the dihedral angle between the two benzothiazole ring systems is 20.41 (2)°. In the crystal structure, intermolecular N—H...N hydrogen bonds link...

P120-catenin Isoforms 1A and 3A Differently Affect the Expression of E-cadherin and β-catenin in Lung Cancer Cells (2009)

Changqing FANG, Yang LIU, Nan LIU, Yong ZHANG, Enhua WANG

Background and objective Different isoforms of p120-catenin (p120ctn), the members of catenin family, are variably expressed in different tissues and cells. These isoforms may confer different...

The Clinical Applications of Combined HBV Approach to Chemotherapy for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer while Adoption of Antivirus Therapy (2009)

Lincan DUAN, Gaofeng LI, Yong ZHANG, Lianhuan YE

Background and objective Lung cancer has become the most serious malignant tumor threating the human beings’ health and life, and chemotherapy postponing or suspending contributes to one of the...

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

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

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

Improved Coinfection with Amphotropic Pseudotyped Retroviral Vectors (2009)

Yuehong Wu, David W. Melton, Yong Zhang, Peter J. Hornsby

Amphotropic pseudotyped retroviral vectors have typically been used to infect target cells without prior concentration. Although this can yield high rates of infection, higher rates may be needed...

Some Maximal Elements' Theorems in FC-Spaces (2009)

Rong-Hua He, Yong Zhang

Let I be a finite or infinite index set, let X be a topological space, and let (Yi,φNi)i∈I be a family of FC-spaces. For each i∈I, let Ai:X→2Yi be a set-valued mapping. Some new existence...

Diethyl 2,2′-[(5-dimethylamino-1-naphthyl)sulfonylimino]diacetate (2009)

Yong Zhang, Yuan Qu, Ting Liu

In the title compound, C20H26N2O6S, the N atom of the dimethylamino group is displaced by 0.113 (2) Å from the plane of the naphthalene ring system. The two ethoxy groups adopt...

2-{[4-(1,3-Benzothiazol-2-yl)phenyl](methyl)amino}acetic acid (2009)

Yong Zhang, Bi-lin Zhao

In the title compound, C16H14N2O2S, the dihedral angle between the benzothiazole ring system and benzene ring is 3.11 (2)°. In the crystal structure, intermolecular O—H...N hydrogen...

Some Maximal Elements' Theorems in FC-Spaces (2009)

Rong-Hua He, Yong Zhang

Let I be a finite or infinite index set, let X be a topological space, and let (Yi,φNi)i∈I be a family of FC-spaces. For each i∈I, let Ai:X→2Yi be a set-valued mapping....

MicroRNA-1 downregulation by propranolol in a rat model of myocardial infarction: a new mechanism for ischaemic cardioprotection (2009)

Lu, Yanjie, Zhang, Yong, Shan, Hongli, Pan, Zhenwei, Li, Xuelian, Li, Baoxin, ...

Aims The present study was designed to investigate whether the beneficial effects of β-blocker propranolol are related to regulation of microRNA miR-1. Methods and results We demonstrated that...

Optimal Design of Hierarchical B-Spline Networks for Nonlinear System Identification (2008)

Yuehui Chen, Qingjin Meng, Yong Zhang

Abstract — Hierarchical B-spline networks consist of multiple B-spline networks assembled in different level or cascade architecture. To identify the hierarchical B-spline networks and select...

Symmetric identities for Euler polynomials (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Sun, Zhi-Wei, Pan, Hao

In this paper we establish two symmetric identities on sums of products of Euler polynomials.

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Hua Wang, Yong Zhang

This paper is dedicated to the memory of Dominique de Caen, who introduced LAS to Leech trees.. More than 25 years ago John Leech [2] published the following beautiful problem: find, whenever...

A Dynamic Programming Approach of Finding an Optimal Broadcast Schedule in Minimizing Total Flow Time ∗ (2008)

Wun-tat Chan, Yong Zhang, Hong Zhu, Hong Shen

We study the problem of (off-line) broadcast scheduling in minimizing total flow time and propose a dynamic programming approach to compute an optimal broadcast schedule. Suppose the broadcast server...

Identifying Positioned Nucleosomes with Epigenetic Marks in Human from ChIP-Seq (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Shin, Hyunjin, Song, Jun S, Lei, Ying, Liu, X Shirley

Abstract Background In vivo positioning and covalent modifications of nucleosomes play an important role in epigenetic regulation, but genome-wide studies of positioned nucleosomes and their...

Morpho-Kinematic Properties of the 21-Micron Source IRAS 07134+1005 (2008)

Nakashima, Jun-ichi, Koning, Nico, Kwok, Sun, Zhang, Yong

We report the results of a Submillimeter Array (SMA) interferometric observation of 21-micron source IRAS 07134+1005 in the CO J=3-2 line. In order to determine the morpho-kinematic properties of the...

Fluidization, Mixing and Segregation of a Biomass-Sand Mixture in a Fluidized Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Fluidization, mixing and segregation of a biomass-sand mixture in a 3D gas-fluidized bed have been investigated by means of visual observation, pressure fluctuation analysis and the bed-frozen...

Fluidization, Mixing and Segregation of a Biomass-Sand Mixture in a Fluidized Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Fluidization, mixing and segregation of a biomass-sand mixture in a 3D gas-fluidized bed have been investigated by means of visual observation, pressure fluctuation analysis and the bed-frozen...

Fluidization, Mixing and Segregation of a Biomass-Sand Mixture in a Fluidized Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Fluidization, mixing and segregation of a biomass-sand mixture in a 3D gas-fluidized bed have been investigated by means of visual observation, pressure fluctuation analysis and the bed-frozen...

Fluidization, Mixing and Segregation of a Biomass-Sand Mixture in a Fluidized Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Fluidization, mixing and segregation of a biomass-sand mixture in a 3D gas-fluidized bed have been investigated by means of visual observation, pressure fluctuation analysis and the bed-frozen...

A Brownian Energy Depot Model of the Basilar Membrane Oscillation with a Braking Mechanism (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Kim, Chul Koo, Lee, Kong-Ju-Bock, Park, Youngah

High auditory sensitivity, sharp frequency selectivity, and otoacoustic emissions are signatures of active amplification of the cochlea. The human ear can also detect very large amplitude sound...

Active motions of Brownian particles in a generalized energy-depot model (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Kim, Chul Koo, Lee, Kong-Ju-Bock

We present a generalized energy-depot model in which the conversion rate of the internal energy into motion can be dependent on the position and the velocity of a particle. When the conversion rate...

Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS) (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Liu, Tao, Meyer, Clifford A, Eeckhoute, Jérôme, Johnson, David S, Bernstein, Bradley E, ...

Abstract We present Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq data, MACS, which analyzes data generated by short read sequencers such as Solexa's Genome Analyzer. MACS empirically models the shift size of...

A Molecular Line Survey of the Highly Evolved Carbon Star CIT 6 (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Kwok, Sun

We present a spectral line survey of the C-rich envelope CIT 6 in the 2mm and 1.3mm bands carried out with the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO) 12m telescope and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter...

Evolving additive tree models for system identification (2008)

Yuehui Chen, Ju Yang, Yong Zhang, Jiwen Dong

Abstract — To some extend, many complicated nonlinear maps are additive models of a number of linear and nonlinear terms. A single linear model or nonlinear model (i.e., a neural network model) has...

Lossless Compression of DNA Microarray Images (2008)

Yong Zhang, Rahul Parthe, Don Adjeroh

Microarray experiments are characterized by a massive amount of data, usually in the form of an image. Based on the nature of microarray images, we consider the microarray in terms of its structure...

03 .Multi-view 3d city model generation with image sequences. Vision techniques for digital architectural and archaeological archives. 1-3 july 2003 Ancona italy (2008)

Zuxun Zhang, Jun Wu, Yong Zhang, Yongjun Zhang, Jianqing Zhang

Rapid texture mapping of buildings and other man-made objects is a key aspect for reconstruction of 3D city landscapes. An effective approach by the way of coarse-to-fine 3D city model generation...

On Generating Fuzzy Systems based on Pareto Multi-objective Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithm (2008)

Zong-yi Xing, Yong Zhang, Yuan-long Hou, Li-min Jia

Abstract: An approach to construct multiple interpretable and precise fuzzy systems based on the Pareto Multi-objective Cooperative Coevolutionary Algorithm (PMOCCA) is proposed in this paper. First,...

An efficient and user-friendly method for the synthesis of hexagonal-phase NaYF4 : Yb, Er/Tm nanocrystals with controllable shape and upconversion fluorescence (2008)

Li, Zhengquan, Zhang, Yong

Hexagonal-phase NaYF4: Yb, Er/Tm nanocrystals are the best IR-to-visible upconverting materials to date, but user-friendly methods for making pure hexagonal-phase NaYF4: Yb, Er/Tm nanocrystals with...

Hospital-acquired invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with hepatic failure (2008)

Li, Dan, Chen, Liang, Ding, Xian, Tao, Ran, Zhang, Yong, Wang, Jie

Abstract Background Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) is a rapid, progressive, fatal disease that occurs mostly in immunocompromised patients. Patients with severe liver disease are at a...

The development of abdominal aortic aneurysms in mice is enhanced by benzo(a)pyrene (2008)

Zhang, Yong

Yong Zhang1, Kenneth S Ramos1,21Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA; 2Center for Genetics and Molecular Medicine,...

3D Interactive Centerline Extraction (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Chen, Kun, Wong, Stephen

This document describes a user-steered method to interactively track centerlines of tubular objects in 3D space. The method is developed as a plug-in of ImageJ using Java language. To evaluate the...

Gate Tunable Dissipation and "Superconductor-Insulator" Transition in Carbon Nanotube Josephson Transistors (2008)

Liu, Gang, Zhang, Yong, Lau, Chun Ning

Dissipation is ubiquitous in quantum systems, and its interplay with fluctuations is critical to maintaining quantum coherence. We experimentally investigate the dissipation dynamics in single-walled...

Emission line profiles as a probe of physical conditions in planetary nebulae (2008)

Zhang, Yong

We present an analysis of physical conditions in planetary nebulae (PNe) in terms of collisionally-excited line (CEL) and optical-recombination line (ORL) profiles. We aim to investigate whether line...

Experimental Investigations on the Effect of the Tracer Location on Mixing in a Spout-Fluid Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Experimental investigations on the mixing behavior of a spherical particle in a spout-fluid bed with a cross section of 0.1 m×0.03 m and height of 0.5 m were carried out. The image processing...

Experimental Investigations on the Effect of the Tracer Location on Mixing in a Spout-Fluid Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Experimental investigations on the mixing behavior of a spherical particle in a spout-fluid bed with a cross section of 0.1 m×0.03 m and height of 0.5 m were carried out. The image processing...

Experimental Investigations on the Effect of the Tracer Location on Mixing in a Spout-Fluid Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Experimental investigations on the mixing behavior of a spherical particle in a spout-fluid bed with a cross section of 0.1 m×0.03 m and height of 0.5 m were carried out. The image processing...

Experimental Investigations on the Effect of the Tracer Location on Mixing in a Spout-Fluid Bed (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Jin, Baosheng, Zhong, Wenqi

Experimental investigations on the mixing behavior of a spherical particle in a spout-fluid bed with a cross section of 0.1 m×0.03 m and height of 0.5 m were carried out. The image processing...

Online Frequency Allocation in Cellular Networks (2008)

Yong Zhang, Deshi Ye

Given a mobile telephone network, whose geographical coverage area is divided into cells, phone calls are serviced by assigning frequencies to them, so that no two calls emanating from the same or...

Chinese Information Retrieval Based on Document Expansion (2008)

Tingting He, Li Li, Guozhong Qu, Yong Zhang

This paper describes our work at the sixth NTCIR workshop on the subtasks of monolingual information retrieval (CLIR). This is the second time we have participated in NTCIR. We have used query...

Greedy Online Frequency Allocation in Cellular Networks (2008)

Wun-tat Chan, Deshi Ye, Yong Zhang, Hong Zhu

The online frequency allocation problem for cellular networks has been well studied in these years. Given a mobile telephone network, whose geographical coverage area is divided into cells, phone...

A 1-local 13/9-competitive Algorithm for Multicoloring Hexagonal Graphs (2008)

Yong Zhang, Hong Zhu

Abstract. In the frequency allocation problem, we are given a mobile telephone network, whose geographical coverage area is divided into cells, wherein phone calls are serviced by assigning...

2 Shenzhen Innovation International (2008)

Yong Zhang, Bian Yang, Xia-mu Niu

Abstract. A reversible watermarking scheme for relational databases is proposed in this paper to achieve lossless and exact authentication of relational databases via expansion on data error...

A spectral line survey of NGC 7027 at millimeter wavelengths (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Kwok, Sun

We report on a recent spectral line survey of the planetary nebula (PN) NGC 7027 using the Arizona Radio Observatory (ARO) 12m telescope and the Heinrich Hertz Submillimeter Telescope (SMT) at...

Resultant pressure distribution pattern along the basilar membrane in the spiral shaped cochlea (2008)

Zhang, Yong, Kim, Chul Koo, Lee, Kong-Ju-Bock, Park, Youngah

Cochlea is an important auditory organ in the inner ear. In most mammals, it is coiled as a spiral. Whether this specific shape influences hearing is still an open problem. By employing a three...

A constrained genetic approach for computing material property of elastic objects (2008)

Yong Zhang, Lawrence O. Hall, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar, Senior Member

Abstract—This paper presents a constrained genetic approach for reconstructing the material properties of elastic objects. The considered reconstruction problem is ill-posed and must be constrained...

ENSEMBLE OF FLEXIBLE NEURAL TREES FOR BREAST CANCER DETECTION (2008)

Yuehui Chen, Ajith Abraham, Yong Zhang, Iita Professorship Program

Breast cancer is one of the major tumor related cause of death in women. Various artificial intelligence techniques have been used to improve the diagnoses procedures and to aid the physician’s...

062 COMPUTING STRAIN ELASTOGRAMS OF SKIN USING AN OPTICAL FLOW BASED METHOD. (2008)

Yong Zhang, John R. Sullins, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Vasant Manohar

Background: Most elastography studies focus on detecting property anomalies of internal organs such as heart and kidney [1]. We report a preliminary work on computing strain elastograms of human...

016 DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBUST ALGORITHM FOR IMAGING COMPLEX TISSUE ELASTICITY. (2008)

Yong Zhang, Robert W. Kramer, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Vasant Manohar

Background: Imaging elastic properties of soft tissue is an emerging technology that holds great promise in medical diagnosis [1]. Two steps are usually involved: (1) A dynamic or static displacement...

TOMOGRAPHIC FEATURE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION USING PARALLELOTOPE BOUNDED ERROR ESTIMATION (2008)

Yong Zhang, W. Leslie Rogers

We give anovel method for performing statistically signi cant detection of speci ed object features which operates directly on X-ray (Gaussian) or radio-isotope (Poisson) tomographic projection data....

Exploit Sequencing Views in Semantic Cache to Accelerate XPath Query Evaluation (2008)

Jianhua Feng, Na Ta, Yong Zhang, Guoliang Li

In XML databases, materializing queries and their results into views in a semantic cache can improve the performance of query evaluation by reducing computational complexity and I/O cost. Although...

DNA sequence compression using the BurrowsWheeler Transform (2008)

Don Adjeroh, Yong Zhang, Amar Mukherjee, Matt Powell, Tim Bell

Abstract-- We investigate off-line dictionary oriented approaches to DNA sequence compression, based on the Burrows-Wheeler Transform (BWT). The preponderance of short repeating patterns is an...

Quantum Error Correction Code in the Hamiltonian Formulation (2008)

Zhang, Yong

The Hamiltonian model of quantum error correction code in the literature is often constructed with the help of its stabilizer formalism. But there have been many known examples of nonadditive codes...

Independent Emission and Absorption Abundances for Planetary Nebulae (2008)

Williams, Robert, Jenkins, Edward B., Baldwin, Jack A., Zhang, Yong, Sharpee, Brian, Pellegrini, Eric, ...

Emission-line abundances have been uncertain for more than a decade due to unexplained discrepancies in the relative intensities of the forbidden lines and weak permitted recombination lines in...

Neural Regulation in Circular Smooth Muscle of Mouse Lower Esophageal Sphincter (2008)

Zhang, Yong

Thesis (Ph.D, Physiology) -- Queen's University, 2008-01-24 15:54:52.175

Bis[bis(1H-benzimidazol-2-ylmethyl)amine]copper(II) dichloride methanol disolvate dihydrate (2008)

Xian-you Xia, Yong Zhang, Yuan Qu, Xue-mei Chen, Ting Liu

In the title compound, [Cu(C16H14N5)2]Cl2·2CH4O·2H2O, the cationic metal complex resides on a crystallographic centre of inversion, with the Cu2+ bonded to two...

Expressions of Frat and beta-catenin in lung cancer and their clinicopathological correlations (2008)

Lan LUAN, Yong ZHANG, Ning GUO, Enhua WANG

Background and objective Frat proteins are positive regulator of Wnt-signal transduction.By binding to GSK3,Frat prevents the phosphorylation and concomitant degradation of beta-catenin and allows...

Selective Growth of α-Al2O3 Nanowires and Nanobelts (2008)

Yong Zhang, Ruying Li, Xiaorong Zhou, Mei Cai, Xueliang Sun

We report the selective growth of α-Al2O3 nanowires and nanobelts via a catalyst-free chemical vapor deposition process under ambient pressure. By controlling the flow rates of the carrier...

Ponicidin Inhibits Monocytic Leukemia Cell Growth by Induction of Apoptosis (2008)

Jia-Jun Liu, Yong Zhang, Wei-Bin Guang, Hong-Zhi Yang, Dong-Jun Lin, Ruo-Zhi Xiao

In this study two monocytic leukemia cell lines, U937 and THP-1 cells, were used to investigate the anti-proliferation effects caused by ponicidin. Cell viability was measured by an MTT assay. Cell...

Cloning and bioactivity analysis of a CXC ligand in black seabream Acanthopagrus schlegeli: the evolutionary clues of ELR+CXC chemokines (2008)

Zhonghua Cai, Chunpin Gao, Yong Zhang, Kezhi Xing, Yaou Zhang

Abstract Background The ELR+CXC chemokines are multifunctional mediators that are mainly responsible for the recruitment of leucocytes to sites of inflammation and infection. Because of their high...

The role and significance of serum SYK and VEGF-C in metastasis of the lymph nodes of pulmonary adenocarcinoma (2008)

Lincan DUAN, Yunchao HUANG, Gaofeng LI, Xin LIU, Yong ZHANG

Background and objective Lung cancer has become one of the most dangerous malignant tumor in the world nowadays, whose pathogenesis is complex involving multi-genes and multi-elements. In this study,...

2-(4-Aminophenyl)-1,3-benzoxazole (2008)

Yuan Qu, Shi-lei Zhang, Lei Teng, Xian-you Xia, Yong Zhang

In the title molecule, C13H10N2O, the dihedral angle between the benzoxazole ring system and the benzene ring is 11.8 (1)°. In the crystal structure, molecules are linked by intermolecular...

2-(4-Aminophenyl)-1,3-benzothiazole (2008)

Yong Zhang, Zhen-Hong Su, Qing-Zhi Wang, Lei Teng

The title compound, C13H10N2S, contains two independent molecules in its asymmetric unit, with slightly different conformations. In one molecule, the dihedral angle between the benzothiazole unit and...

Bis(acetophenone oxime) O,O′-methylene ether (2008)

Yong Zhang, Hong-Jun Zang, Bo-Wen Cheng, Jun Song

In the molecule of the title compound, C17H18N2O2, the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 74.26 (3)°. The oxime units are oriented at dihedral angles of 7.66 (3) and...

The Subtelomere of Oryza sativa Chromosome 3 Short Arm as a Hot Bed of New Gene Origination in Rice (2008)

Fan, Chuanzhu, Zhang, Yong, Yu, Yeisoo, Rounsley, Steve, Long, Manyuan, Wing, Rod A.

Despite general observations of non-random genomic distribution of new genes, it is unclear whether or not new genes preferentially occur in certain genomic regions driven by related molecular...

Selective Growth of α-Al2O3 Nanowires and Nanobelts (2008)

Yong Zhang, Ruying Li, Xiaorong Zhou, Mei Cai, Xueliang Sun

We report the selective growth of α-Al2O3 nanowires and nanobelts via a catalyst-free chemical vapor deposition process under ambient pressure. By controlling the flow rates of the carrier gas,...

PPAR{gamma} and C/EBP factors orchestrate adipocyte biology via adjacent binding on a genome-wide scale (2008)

Lefterova, Martina I., Zhang, Yong, Steger, David J., Schupp, Michael, Schug, Jonathan, Cristancho, Ana, ...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ(PPARγ), a nuclear receptor and the target of anti-diabetic thiazolinedione drugs, is known as the master regulator of adipocyte biology. Although it...

Trans-natural antisense transcripts including noncoding RNAs in 10 species: implications for expression regulation (2008)

Li, Jiong-Tang, Zhang, Yong, Kong, Lei, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

Natural antisense transcripts are at least partially complementary to their sense transcripts. Cis-Sense/Antisense pairs (cis-SAs) have been extensively characterized and known to play diverse...

ACQUIRING 3D MODELS FROM IMAGES FOR MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS (2007)

Wee Kheng Leow, Zhiyong Huang, Luping Zhou, Indriyati Atmosukarto, Yong Zhang

Multimedia systems integrate and process multiple types of contents such as text, image, graphics, video, and sound. In addition to text, image, and video, 3D graphics is becoming an important...

ABSTRACT Automatic Scientific Text Classification Using Local Patterns: (2007)

Kdd Cup (task, Moustafa M. Ghanem, Yike Guo, Huma Lodhi, Yong Zhang

In this paper, we describe our approach for addressing Task 1 in the KDD CUP 2002 competition. The approach is based on developing and using an improved automatic feature selection method in...

TOMOGRAPHIC FEATURE DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION USING PARALLELOTOPE BOUNDED ERROR ESTIMATION (2007)

Yong Zhang, W. Leslie Rogers

We give a novel method for performing statistically significant detection of specified object features which operates directly on X-ray (Gaussian) or radio-isotope (Poisson) tomographic projection...

Consistency Set Estimation for PET Image Reconstruction 1 (2007)

Yong Zhang, W. Leslie Rogers

We give a method for determining a set of images which are consistent with measured projections data and error bounds on the projections noise. The error bounds can account for both statistical noise...

An On-Demand QoS Service Composition Protocol for MANETs (2007)

HAN, Songqiao, ZHANG, Shensheng, LI, Guoqi, ZHANG, Yong

This paper presents an active quality of service (QoS) aware service composition protocol for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), with the goal of conserving resources subject to QoS requirements. A...

Grey scale enhancement by a new self-made contrast agent in early cirrhotic stage of rabbit liver (2007)

Zhang, Li, Duan, Yun-You, Yin, Ji-Kai, Cui, Ji-Hong, Zhang, Yong, Cao, Tie-Sheng

Abstract Background The development of new ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) has become one of the most promising fields in ultrasound medicine. This paper evaluates a new self-made contrast agent...

CPC: assess the protein-coding potential of transcripts using sequence features and support vector machine (2007)

Kong, Lei, Zhang, Yong, Ye, Zhi-Qiang, Liu, Xiao-Qiao, Zhao, Shu-Qi, Wei, Liping, ...

Recent transcriptome studies have revealed that a large number of transcripts in mammals and other organisms do not encode proteins but function as noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) instead. As millions of...

Multi-functional chitosan nanoparticles encapsulating quantum dots and Gd-DTPA as imaging probes for bio-applications (2007)

Tan, Wee Beng, Zhang, Yong

Chitosan was used to encapsulate both CdSe/ZnS quantum dots (QDs) and the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetate (Gd-DTPA), forming multi-functional...

From Extraspecial Two-Groups To GHZ States (2007)

Zhang, Yong, Rowell, Eric C., Wu, Yong-Shi, Wang, Zhenghan, Ge, Mo-Lin

In this paper we explore natural connections among extraspecial 2-groups, almost-complex structures, unitary representations of the braid group and the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states. We...

Tree-Ring Based Drought Reconstruction (A.D. 1855–2001) For the Qilian Mountains, Northwestern China (2007)

Qinhua Tian, Xiaohua Gou, Yong Zhang, Jianfeng Peng, Jinsong Wang, Tuo Chen

A juniper (Juniperus przewalskii Kom) tree-ring width chronology has been developed from the west-ernmost forest of the Qilian Mountains. Our analyses demonstrate both temperature and precipitation...

Topological-Like Features in Diagrammatical Quantum Circuits (2007)

Zhang, Yong, Kauffman, Louis H.

In this paper, we revisit topological-like features in the extended Temperley--Lieb diagrammatical representation for quantum circuits including the teleportation, dense coding and entanglement...

GHZ States, Almost-Complex Structure and Yang--Baxter Equation (I) (2007)

Zhang, Yong, Ge, Mo-Lin

Recent study suggests that there are natural connections between quantum information theory and the Yang--Baxter equation. In this paper, in terms of the generalized almost-complex structure and with...

A DSP based variable-speed induction motor drive for a revolving stage (2007)

Zhang, Yong

Variable speed drive technology has advanced dramatically in the last 10 years with the advent of new power devices. In this study, a three phase induction motor drive using Insulated Gate Bipolar...

Embedded Wavelet Image Compression Algorithm Based On Full Zerotree (2007)

Yuan-yuan Hu, Xia-mu Niu, Bian Yang, Yong Zhang

In this paper, a novel embedded wavelet image compression algorithm, NEFZW (Novel Embedded Full Zerotree Wavelet) algorithm is proposed. The relationship of the intra scale subbands is exposed by the...

A DSP based variable-speed induction motor drive for a revolving stage (2007)

Zhang, Yong

Variable speed drive technology has advanced dramatically in the last 10 years with the advent of new power devices. In this study, a three phase induction motor drive using Insulated Gate Bipolar...

NATsDB: Natural Antisense Transcripts DataBase (2007)

Zhang, Yong, Li, Jiongtang, Kong, Lei, Gao, Ge, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) are reverse complementary at least in part to the sequences of other endogenous sense transcripts. Most NATs are transcribed from opposite strands of their sense...

SynDB: a Synapse protein DataBase based on synapse ontology (2007)

Zhang, Wuxue, Zhang, Yong, Zheng, Hui, Zhang, Chen, Xiong, Wei, Olyarchuk, John G., ...

A synapse is the junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell or gland cell. The functions and building molecules of the synapse are essential to almost...

MAPU: Max-Planck Unified database of organellar, cellular, tissue and body fluid proteomes (2007)

Zhang, Yanling, Zhang, Yong, Adachi, Jun, Olsen, Jesper V., Shi, Rong, De Souza, Gustavo, ...

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has become a powerful technology to map the protein composition of organelles, cell types and tissues. In our department, a large-scale effort to map these...

Differential expression profiling between the relative normal and dystrophic muscle tissues from the same LGMD patient (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Ye, Jianwei, Chen, Dazhi, Zhao, Xinyi, Xiao, Xingjun, Tai, Sheng, ...

Abstract Background Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD) is a group of heterogeneous muscular disorders with autosomal dominant and recessive inheritance, in which the pelvic or shoulder girdle...

s-Process Abundances in Planetary Nebulae (2006)

Sharpee, Brian, Zhang, Yong, Williams, Robert, Pellegrini, Eric, Cavagnolo, Kenneth, Baldwin, Jack A., ...

The s-process should occur in all but the lower mass progenitor stars of planetary nebulae, and this should be reflected in the chemical composition of the gas which is expelled to create the current...

Dominance of HIV-1 Subtype CRF01_AE in Sexually Acquired Cases Leads to a New Epidemic in Yunnan Province of China (2006)

Yong Zhang, Lin Lu, Lei Ba, Li Liu, Li Yang, Manhong Jia, ...

BackgroundDating back to the first epidemic among injection drug users in 1989, the Yunnan province has had the highest number of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infections in China....

Virtual Extension of Temperley--Lieb Algebra (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Kauffman, Louis H., Ge, Mo-Lin

The virtual knot theory is a new interesting subject in the recent study of low dimensional topology. In this paper, we explore the algebraic structure underlying the virtual braid group and call it...

Teleportation, Braid Group and Temperley--Lieb Algebra (2006)

Zhang, Yong

We explore algebraic and topological structures underlying the quantum teleportation phenomena by applying the braid group and Temperley--Lieb algebra. We realize the braid teleportation...

Quantum Algebras Associated With Bell States (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Jing, Naihuan, Ge, Mo-Lin

The antisymmetric solution of the braided Yang--Baxter equation called the Bell matrix becomes interesting in quantum information theory because it can generate all Bell states from product states....

Permutation and Its Partial Transpose (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Kauffman, Louis H., Werner, Reinhard F.

Permutation and its partial transpose play important roles in quantum information theory. The Werner state is recognized as a rational solution of the Yang--Baxter equation, and the isotropic state...

Phylophenetic properties of metabolic pathway topologies as revealed by global analysis (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Li, Shaojuan, Skogerbø, Geir, Zhang, Zhihua, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Zhang, Zefeng, ...

Abstract Background As phenotypic features derived from heritable characters, the topologies of metabolic pathways contain both phylogenetic and phenetic components. In the post-genomic era, it is...

Dynamic Changes in Subgraph Preference Profiles of Crucial Transcription Factors (2006)

Zhihua Zhang, Changning Liu, Geir Skogerbø, Xiaopeng Zhu, Hongchao Lu, Lan Chen, ...

Transcription factors with a large number of target genes—transcription hub(s), or THub(s)—are usually crucial components of the regulatory system of a cell, and the different patterns through...

Genomic characterization of ribitol teichoic acid synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus: genes, genomic organization and gene duplication (2006)

Qian, Ziliang, Yin, Yanbin, Zhang, Yong, Lu, Lingyi, Li, Yixue, Jiang, Ying

Abstract Background Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA (Methicillin Resistant S. aureus ), is an acquired pathogen and the primary cause of nosocomial infections worldwide. In S. aureus , teichoic acid is...

One-pot synthesis of chitosan/LaF3 : Eu3+ nanocrystals for bio-applications (2006)

Wang, Feng, Zhang, Yong, Fan, Xianping, Wang, Minquan

Lanthanide-based nanocrystals have shown great potential to be used as luminescent materials but their biological applications have been limited because most of the nanocrystals synthesized so far...

Time-dependent perturbation theory for vibrational energy relaxation and dephasing in peptides and proteins (2006)

Fujisaki, Hiroshi, Zhang, Yong, Straub, John E.

Without invoking the Markov approximation, we derive formulas for vibrational energy relaxation (VER) and dephasing for an anharmonic system oscillator using a time-dependent perturbation theory. The...

Braid Group, Temperley--Lieb Algebra, and Quantum Information and Computation (2006)

Zhang, Yong

In this paper, we explore algebraic structures and low dimensional topology underlying quantum information and computation. We revisit quantum teleportation from the perspective of the braid group,...

A functional MRI investigation of bilateral cortical activation during unilateral voluntary motor activity and electromyostimulation (2006)

Huang, Liping, Zhou, Shi, Li, Xia, Zhang, Jianqi, Zhang, Yong, Cao, Longjun, ...

It is known that chronic unilateral motor activity or electromyostimulation (EMS) may result in bilateral adaptation, a phenomenon termed cross education. One of the hypotheses for the potential...

Maximum Glass-forming Ability Obtained at an Off-eutectic Composition Within a La-al-(Cu, Ni) Pseudo-ternary Eutectic System (2006)

Yong Zhang

Glass formation was investigated for the La100-xAl0.412x(Cu,Ni)0.588x(x = 30-56.3) alloys. The optimum Glass Forming Ability (GFA) with full glassy rods of 12 mm in diameter was obtained at an...

L’AGE SUBJECTIF PAR DELA LES FRONTIERES : UNE ETUDE CROSS CULTURELLE DANS LE SECTEUR DE LA MODE VESTIMENTAIRE (2006)

Guiot, Denis, Barak, Benny, Gould, Stephen, Lee, Keun, Zhang, Yong

Cet article compare le degré de pertinence de l’âge subjectif pour segmenter le marché de la mode vestimentaire dans quatre pays : la Chine, la Corée du Sud, la France et les Etats-Unis. Après...

L’AGE SUBJECTIF PAR DELA LES FRONTIERES : UNE ETUDE CROSS CULTURELLE DANS LE SECTEUR DE LA MODE VESTIMENTAIRE (2006)

Guiot, Denis, Barak, Benny, Gould, Stephen, Lee, Keun, Zhang, Yong

Cet article compare le degré de pertinence de l’âge subjectif pour segmenter le marché de la mode vestimentaire dans quatre pays : la Chine, la Corée du Sud, la France et les Etats-Unis. Après...

Pattern analysis on grain yield performance of Chinese and CIMMYT spring wheat cultivars sown in China and CIMMYT (2006)

Zhang, Yong, He,Zhonghu, Zhang,Aimin, Van Ginkel, Maarten, Ye, Guoyou

Understanding the relationships among testing environments is essential for better targeting cultivars to production environments. To identify patterns of cultivar, environment,...

Pattern analysis on protein properties of Chinese and CIMMYT spring wheat cultivars sown in China and CIMMYT (2006)

Zhang, Yong, He, Zhonghu, Zhang, Aimin, Van Ginkel, Maarten, Pena, Roberto J., Ye, Guoyou

Improvement of processing quality is a very important objective for Chinese wheat breeding programs. Twenty-five CIMMYT and Chinese spring wheat cultivars were grown at four managed conditions by...

Maximum Glass-forming Ability Obtained at an Off-eutectic Composition Within a La-al-(Cu, Ni) Pseudo-ternary Eutectic System (2006)

Yong Zhang

Glass formation was investigated for the La100-xAl0.412x(Cu,Ni)0.588x(x = 30-56.3) alloys. The optimum Glass Forming Ability (GFA) with full glassy rods of 12 mm in diameter was obtained at an...

Frequency Allocation Problem for Linear Cellular Networks (2006)

Deshi Ye, Yong Zhang, Hong Zhu

Abstract. We study the online frequency allocation problem for wireless linear (highway) cellular networks, where the geographical coverage area is divided into cells aligned in a line. Calls arrive...

WEGO: a web tool for plotting GO annotations (2006)

Jia Ye, Lin Fang, Hongkun Zheng, Yong Zhang, Jie Chen, Zengjin Zhang, ...

Unified, structured vocabularies and classifications freely provided by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium are widely accepted in most of the large scale gene annotation projects. Consequently, many...

Luminescent nanomaterials for biological labelling (2006)

Wang, Feng, Beng Tan, Wee, Zhang, Yong, Fan, Xianping, Wang, Minquan

The use of labelling or staining agents has greatly assisted the study of complex biological interactions in the field of biology. In particular, fluorescent labelling of biomolecules has been...

A functional MRI investigation of bilateral cortical activation during unilateral voluntary motor activity and electromyostimulation (2006)

Huang, Liping, Zhou, Shi, Li, Xia, Zhang, Jianqi, Zhang, Yong, Cao, Longjun, ...

It is known that chronic unilateral motor activity or electromyostimulation (EMS) may result in bilateral adaptation, a phenomenon termed cross education. One of the hypotheses for the potential...

WEGO: a web tool for plotting GO annotations (2006)

Ye, Jia, Fang, Lin, Zheng, Hongkun, Zhang, Yong, Chen, Jie, Zhang, Zengjin, ...

Unified, structured vocabularies and classifications freely provided by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium are widely accepted in most of the large scale gene annotation projects. Consequently, many...

NATsDB: Natural Antisense Transcripts DataBase (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Li, Jiongtang, Kong, Lei, Gao, Ge, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) are reverse complementary at least in part to the sequences of other endogenous sense transcripts. Most NATs are transcribed from opposite strands of their sense...

MAPU: Max-Planck Unified database of organellar, cellular, tissue and body fluid proteomes (2006)

Zhang, Yanling, Zhang, Yong, Adachi, Jun, Olsen, Jesper V., Shi, Rong, De Souza, Gustavo, ...

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has become a powerful technology to map the protein composition of organelles, cell types and tissues. In our department, a large-scale effort to map these...

Sequential treatment with lamivudine and interferon-{alpha} monotherapies in hepatitis B e antigen-negative Chinese patients and its suppression of lamivudine-resistant mutations (2006)

Shi, Ming, Wang, Rong Sheng, Zhang, Hua, Zhu, Yu Fen, Han, Bei, Zhang, Yong, ...

Objectives: To assess the efficacy of sequential treatment with lamivudine and interferon-α monotherapies in Chinese patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-negative chronic hepatitis B....

Sequential treatment with lamivudine and interferon-{alpha} monotherapies in hepatitis B e antigen-negative Chinese patients and its suppression of lamivudine-resistant mutations (2006)

Shi, Ming, Wang, Rong Sheng, Zhang, Hua, Zhu, Yu Fen, Han, Bei, Zhang, Yong, ...

Objectives: To assess the efficacy of sequential treatment with lamivudine and interferon-α monotherapies in Chinese patients with hepatitis B e antigen (HBeAg)-negative chronic hepatitis B....

NPInter: the noncoding RNAs and protein related biomacromolecules interaction database (2006)

Wu, Tao, Wang, Jie, Liu, Changning, Zhang, Yong, Shi, Baochen, Zhu, Xiaopeng, ...

The noncoding RNAs and protein related biomacromolecules interaction database (NPInter; http://bioinfo.ibp.ac.cn/NPInter or http://www.bioinfo.org.cn/NPInter) is a database that documents...

Genome-wide in silico identification and analysis of cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in ten species (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Liu, X. Shirley, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

We developed a fast, integrative pipeline to identify cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) at genome scale. The pipeline mapped mRNAs and ESTs in UniGene to genome sequences in GoldenPath to...

A functional MRI investigation of bilateral cortical activation during unilateral voluntary motor activity and electromyostimulation (2006)

Huang, Liping, Zhou, Shi, Li, Xia, Zhang, Jianqi, Zhang, Yong, Cao, Longjun, ...

It is known that chronic unilateral motor activity or electromyostimulation (EMS) may result in bilateral adaptation, a phenomenon termed cross education. One of the hypotheses for the potential...

NATsDB: Natural Antisense Transcripts DataBase (2006)

Zhang, Yong, Li, Jiongtang, Kong, Lei, Gao, Ge, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) are reverse complementary at least in part to the sequences of other endogenous sense transcripts. Most NATs are transcribed from opposite strands of their sense...

MAPU: Max-Planck Unified database of organellar, cellular, tissue and body fluid proteomes (2006)

Zhang, Yanling, Zhang, Yong, Adachi, Jun, Olsen, Jesper V., Shi, Rong, De Souza, Gustavo, ...

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has become a powerful technology to map the protein composition of organelles, cell types and tissues. In our department, a large-scale effort to map these...

Pattern analysis on protein properties of Chinese and CIMMYT spring wheat cultivars sown in China and CIMMYT (2006)

Zhang, Yong, He, Zhonghu, Zhang, Aimin, Van Ginkel, Maarten, Pena, Roberto J., Ye, Guoyou

Improvement of processing quality is a very important objective for Chinese wheat breeding programs. Twenty-five CIMMYT and Chinese spring wheat cultivars were grown at four managed conditions by...

Description of dynamics of stock prices by a Langevin approach (2005)

Huang, Zi-Gang, Chen, Yong, Zhang, Yong, Wang, Ying-Hai

We present a time-dependent Langevin description of dynamics of stock prices. Based on a simple sliding-window algorithm, the fluctuation of stock prices is discussed in the view of a time-dependent...

Asymmetric Properties of Heat Conduction in a One-Dimensional Frenkel-Kontorova Model (2005)

Hu, Bambi, Yang, Lei, Zhang, Yong

In this Letter, we show numerically that the rectifying effect of heat flux in a one-dimensional two-segment Frenkel-Kontorova chain demonstrated in recent literature is merely available under the...

Interdependence of dynamical signals and topology: Detecting the influential nodes in networks (2005)

Yang, Lei, Huang, Liang, Zhang, Yong, Yang, Kongqing

By studying varies dynamical processes, including coupled maps, cellular automata and coupled differential equations, on five different kinds of known networks, we found a positive relation between...

Yang--Baxterizations, Universal Quantum Gates and Hamiltonians (2005)

Zhang, Yong, Kauffman, Louis H., Ge, Mo-Lin

The unitary braiding operators describing topological entanglements can be viewed as universal quantum gates for quantum computation. With the help of the Brylinskis's theorem, the unitary solutions...

The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications (2005)

Jun Yu, Jun Wang, Wei Lin, Songgang Li, Heng Li, Jun Zhou, ...

Comparative genome sequencing of indica and japonica rice reveals that duplication of genes and genomic regions has played a major part in the evolution of grass genomes.

The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications (2005)

Jun Yu, Jun Wang, Wei Lin, Songgang Li, Heng Li, Jun Zhou, ...

We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...

Muscle and plasma coenzyme Q10 concentration, aerobic power and exercise economy of healthy men in response to four weeks of supplementation (2005)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Hu, Hui, Wang, Jianxiong, ...

AIM: To investigate whether 4 weeks of oral supplementation with coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) would increase its concentration in skeletal muscle, and affect aerobic power (VO2max) and oxygen consumption...

Enhancement of the chemical semantic web through the use of InChI identifiers (2005)

Coles, Simon J., Day, Nick E., Murray-Rust, Peter, Rzepa, Henry S., Zhang, Yong

Molecules, as defined by connectivity specified via the International Chemical Identifier (InChI), are precisely indexed by major web search engines so that Internet tools can be transparently used...

Robust algorithms for property recovery in motion modeling, medical imaging and biometrics [electronic resource] / (2005)

Zhang, Yong.

ABSTRACT: The past two decades has witnessed growing interest in physics based techniques in computer vision, computer graphics and medical imaging. The main advantage of a physical model is its...

Milling quality and protein properties of autumn-sown Chinese wheats evaluated through multi-location trials (2005)

Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Yong, He, Zhonghu, Ye, Guoyou

Eight milling quality and protein properties of autumn-sown Chinese wheats were investigated using 59 cultivars and advanced lines grown in 14 locations in China from 1995 to 1998. Wide ranges of...

R: Noncode: an integrated knowledge database of non-coding rnas (2005)

Changning Liu, Baoyan Bai, Geir Skogerbø, Lun Cai, Wei Deng, Yong Zhang, ...

NONCODE is an integrated knowledge database dedicated to non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), that is to say, RNAs that function without being translated into proteins. All ncRNAs in NONCODE were filtered...

broadcast schedule in minimizing total flow time (2005)

Wun-tat Chan, Yong Zhang, Hong Zhu, Hong Shen, ...

A dynamic programming approach of finding an optimal

Efficient Algorithms for Finding A Longest Common Increasing Subsequence (2005)

Wun-tat Chan, Yong Zhang, Deshi Ye, Hong Zhu

We study the problem of finding a longest common increasing subsequence (LCIS) of multiple sequences of numbers. The LCIS problem is a fundamental issue in various application areas, including the...

Muscle and plasma coenzyme Q10 concentration, aerobic power and exercise economy of healthy men in response to four weeks of supplementation (2005)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Hu, Hui, Wang, Jianxiong, ...

AIM: To investigate whether 4 weeks of oral supplementation with coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) would increase its concentration in skeletal muscle, and affect aerobic power (VO2max) and oxygen consumption...

NONCODE: an integrated knowledge database of non-coding RNAs (2005)

Liu, Changning, Bai, Baoyan, Skogerbø, Geir, Cai, Lun, Deng, Wei, Zhang, Yong, ...

NONCODE is an integrated knowledge database dedicated to non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), that is to say, RNAs that function without being translated into proteins. All ncRNAs in NONCODE were filtered...

SPD--a web-based secreted protein database (2005)

Chen, Yunjia, Zhang, Yong, Yin, Yanbin, Gao, Ge, Li, Songgang, Jiang, Ying, ...

With the improved secreted protein prediction approach and comprehensive data sources, including Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, RefSeq, Ensembl and CBI-Gene, we have constructed secretomes of human, mouse and...

ChickVD: a sequence variation database for the chicken genome (2005)

Wang, Jing, He, Ximiao, Ruan, Jue, Dai, Mingtao, Chen, Jie, Zhang, Yong, ...

Working in parallel with the efforts to sequence the chicken (Gallus gallus) genome, the Beijing Genomics Institute led an international team of scientists from China, USA, UK, Sweden, The...

Muscle and plasma coenzyme Q10 concentration, aerobic power and exercise economy of healthy men in response to four weeks of supplementation (2005)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Hu, Hui, Wang, Jianxiong, ...

AIM: To investigate whether 4 weeks of oral supplementation with coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) would increase its concentration in skeletal muscle, and affect aerobic power (VO2max) and oxygen consumption...

Universal Quantum Gate, Yang--Baxterization and Hamiltonian (2004)

Zhang, Yong, Kauffman, Louis H., Ge, Mo-Lin

It is fundamental to view unitary braiding operators describing topological entanglements as universal quantum gates for quantum computation. This paper derives a unitary solution of the Quantum...

A genetic variation map for chicken with 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (2004)

Liu, Bin, Wang, Jun, Zhang, Yong, Yang, Xu, Zhang, Zengjin, ...

We describe a genetic variation map for the chicken genome containing 2.8 million single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). This map is based on a comparison of the sequences of three domestic chicken...

A global resource for computational chemistry (2004)

Murray-Rust, Peter, Rzepa, Henry S, Stewart, James J P, Zhang, Yong

Describes the creation and curation of the ca 200,000 molecules and calculations deposited in this collection (WWMM) This article has been submitted to the Journal Of Molecular Modeling (Springer)...

Representation and use of Chemistry in the Global Electronic Age (2004)

Murray-Rust, Peter, Rzepa, Henry S, Tyrrell, S M, Zhang, Yong

This manuscript addresses questions of robotic access to data and its automatic re-use, including the role of Open Access archival of data. This is a pre-refereed preprint allowed by the publisher's...

Quantum algorithms for a set of group theoretic problems (2004)

Fenner, Stephen, Zhang, Yong

We study two group theoretic problems, GROUP INTERSECTION and DOUBLE COSET MEMBERSHIP, in the setting of black-box groups, where DOUBLE COSET MEMBERSHIP generalizes a set of problems, including GROUP...

Hopf Algebraic Structures in the Cutting Rules (2004)

Zhang, Yong

Since the Connes--Kreimer Hopf algebra was proposed, revisiting present quantum field theory has become meaningful and important from algebraic points. In this paper, the Hopf algebra in the cutting...

Implementing fanout, parity, and Mod gates via spin exchange interactions (2004)

Fenner, Stephen A., Zhang, Yong

We show that, for any n > 0, the Heisenberg interaction among 2n qubits (as spin-1/2 particles) can be used to exactly implement an n-qubit parity gate, which is equivalent in constant depth to an...

BIODYNAMIC MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF MOTOR VEHICLE ROLLOVER OCCUPANTS (2004)

ZHANG, YONG

This thesis presents a computational, three-dimensional biodynamic model of a vehicle-occupant, crash-victim during rollover accident. The model represents the human body by a series of connected...

Biodynamic modeling and analysis of motor vehicle rollover occupants [electronic resource]. (2004)

Zhang, Yong., OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.

This thesis presents a computational, three-dimensional biodynamic model of a vehicle-occupant, crash-victim during rollover accident. The model represents the human body by a series of connected...

Effect of environment and genotype on bread-making quality of spring-sown spring wheat cultivars in China (2004)

Zhang, Yong, He,Zhonghu, Ye, Guoyou, Zhang, Aimin, Van Ginkel, Maarten

Improvement of end-use quality in bread wheat depends on a thorough understanding of current wheat quality and the influences of genotype (G), environment (E), and genotype by environment interaction...

A modeling approach for burn scar assessment using natural features and elastic property (2004)

Yong Zhang, Student Member, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar, Leonid V. Tsap

Abstract — A modeling approach is presented for quantitative burn scar assessment. Emphases are given to: (1) constructing a finite element model from natural image features with an adaptive mesh,...

Elastic face, an anatomy-based biometrics beyond visible cue (2004)

Yong Zhang, Sangeeta J. Kundu, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar, Leonid V. Tsap

This paper describes a face recognition method that is designed based on the consideration of anatomical and biomechanical characteristics of facial tissues. Elastic strain pattern inferred from...

A novel two-dimensional Mn (2004)

Coordination Polymer With, Bao-long Li, Xia Zhu, Jun-hui Zhou, Yong Zhang

this paper are available from the IUCr electronic archives (Reference: JZ1634). Services for accessing these data are described at the back of the journal

Conservation analysis of small RNA genes in Escherichia coli (2004)

Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Zhihua, Ling, Lunjiang, Shi, Baochen, Chen, Runsheng

Motivation: Small RNA (sRNA) genes in Escherichia coli have been in focus recently, as 44 out of 55 experimentally confirmed sRNA genes have been precisely located in the genome. The object of this...

The interactome as a tree--an attempt to visualize the protein-protein interaction network in yeast (2004)

Lu, Hongchao, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Liu, Haifeng, Skogerbø, Geir, Zhang, Jingfen, Zhang, Yong, ...

The refinement and high-throughput of protein interaction detection methods offer us a protein–protein interaction network in yeast. The challenge coming along with the network is to find better...

BGI-RIS: an integrated information resource and comparative analysis workbench for rice genomics (2004)

Zhao, Wenming, Wang, Jing, He, Ximiao, Huang, Xiaobing, Jiao, Yongzhi, Dai, Mingtao, ...

Rice is a major food staple for the world’s population and serves as a model species in cereal genome research. The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has long been devoting itself to sequencing,...

Conservation analysis of small RNA genes in Escherichia coli (2004)

Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Zhihua, Ling, Lunjiang, Shi, Baochen, Chen, Runsheng

Motivation: Small RNA (sRNA) genes in Escherichia coli have been in focus recently, as 44 out of 55 experimentally confirmed sRNA genes have been precisely located in the genome. The object of this...

Conservation analysis of small RNA genes in Escherichia coli (2004)

Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Zhihua, Ling, Lunjiang, Shi, Baochen, Chen, Runsheng

Motivation: Small RNA (sRNA) genes in Escherichia coli have been in focus recently, as 44 out of 55 experimentally confirmed sRNA genes have been precisely located in the genome. The object of this...

A note on the classical lower bound for a quantum walk algorithm (2003)

Fenner, Stephen A., Zhang, Yong

A recent paper on quantum walks by Childs et al. [STOC'03] provides an example of a black-box problem for which there is a quantum algorithm with exponential speedup over the best classical...

Quantum Lower Bounds for Fanout (2003)

Fang, Maosen, Fenner, Stephen, Green, Frederic, Homer, Steven, Zhang, Yong

We prove several new lower bounds for constant depth quantum circuits. The main result is that parity (and hence fanout) requires log depth circuits, when the circuits are composed of single qubit...

Bounds on the Power of Constant-Depth Quantum Circuits (2003)

Fenner, Stephen, Green, Frederic, Homer, Steven, Zhang, Yong

We show that if a language is recognized within certain error bounds by constant-depth quantum circuits over a finite family of gates, then it is computable in (classical) polynomial time. In...

Effect of Microstructure Changes on Mechanical Properties of La₆₆Al₁₄(Cu, Ni)₂₀ Amorphous and Crystalline Alloys (2003)

Zhang, Yong, Lee, Irene Mei Ling, Tan, Hao, Jing, Qin, Li, Yi

The microstructure, and phase selections of La₆₆Al₁₄(Cu, Ni)₂₀ alloy were studied by Bridgman solidifications, and composite materials of dendrites in...

Effect of Microstructure Changes on Mechanical Properties of La₆₆Al₁₄(Cu, Ni)₂₀ Amorphous and Crystalline Alloys (2003)

Zhang, Yong, Lee, Irene Mei Ling, Tan, Hao, Jing, Qin, Li, Yi

The microstructure, and phase selections of La₆₆Al₁₄(Cu, Ni)₂₀ alloy were studied by Bridgman solidifications, and composite materials of dendrites in amorphous matrix or micro- and nano-...

Concatenating dynamical decoupling with decoherence-free subspaces for quantum computation (2003)

Zhang, Yong, Zhou, Zheng-Wei, Yu, Bo, Guo, Guang-Can

A scheme to implement a quantum computer subjected to decoherence and governed by an untunable qubit-qubit interaction is presented. By concatenating dynamical decoupling through bang-bang (BB) pulse...

Robust high-fidelity teleportation of an atomic state through the detection of cavity decay (2003)

Yu, Bo, Zhou, Zheng-Wei, Zhang, Yong, Xiang, Guo-Yong, Guo, Guang-Can

We propose a scheme for quantum teleportation of an atomic state based on the detection of cavity decay. The internal state of an atom trapped in a cavity can be disembodiedly transferred to another...

PCAS – a precomputed proteome annotation database resource (2003)

Zhang, Yong, Yin, Yanbin, Chen, Yunjia, Gao, Ge, Yu, Peng, Luo, Jingchu, ...

Abstract Background Many model proteomes or "complete" sets of proteins of given organisms are now publicly available. Much effort has been invested in computational annotation of those "draft"...

In-situ electrochemical fabrication of natural contacts on single nanowires (2003)

Wu, Wenhao, DiMaria, J. B., Yoo, Han G., Pan, Shanlin, Rothberg, L. J., Zhang, Yong

We report a template-based in-situ electrochemical method for fabricating natural electric contacts on single nanowires using a pair of cross-patterned electrodes. Such electric contacts are highly...

Conformal Transformations of S-Matrix in Scalar Field Theory (2003)

Zhang, Yong

In this paper, three methods for describing the conformal transformations of the S-matrix in quantum field theory are proposed. They are illustrated by applying the algebraic renormalization...

Effects of four weeks of supplementation with coenzyme Q10 on aerobic power and exercise economy (2003)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Wang, Jianxiong, Hui, Hu, ...

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) plays several crucial roles in the body, mainly acting as a redox electron carrier in the mitochondria, being an essential antioxidant, and influencing the stability and function...

Muscle and plasma coenzyme Q10 concentrations and aerobic power in response to four weeks supplementation (2003)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Hu, Hui, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Brushett, Donald J

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation has been used by healthy and athletic populations with an expectation of enhancing aerobic performance. However, limited and conflicting information exists in the...

Bulk Glass Formation in Eutectic of La-Cu-Ni-Al Metallic Alloys (2003)

Zhang, Yong, Tan, Hao, Li, Yi

A eutectic in La-rich La-Cu₀.₅Ni₀.₅-Al alloys was determined by studying the melting behaviors and the microstructure observations. The microstructures of the La-Cu-Ni-Al...

Bulk Glass Formation in Eutectic of La-Cu-Ni-Al Metallic Alloys (2003)

Zhang, Yong, Tan, Hao, Li, Yi

A eutectic in La-rich La-Cu₀.₅Ni₀.₅-Al alloys was determined by studying the melting behaviors and the microstructure observations. The microstructures of the La-Cu-Ni-Al alloys prepared by...

Forward error correction algorithm for multimedia data stream / (2003)

Zhang, Yong.

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

Automatic Scientific Text Classification Using Local Patterns (2003)

Moustafa M. Ghanem, Yike Guo, Huma Lodhi, Yong Zhang

In this paper, we describe our approach for addressing Task 1 in the KDD CUP 2002 competition. The approach is based on developing and using an improved automatic feature selection method in...

BMC Genomics Database PCAS – a precomputed proteome annotation database resource (2003)

Yong Zhang, Yanbin Yin, Yunjia Chen, Ge Gao, Peng Yu, Jingchu Luo, ...

Background: Many model proteomes or "complete " sets of proteins of given organisms are now publicly available. Much effort has been invested in computational annotation of those...

Muscle and plasma coenzyme Q10 concentrations and aerobic power in response to four weeks supplementation (2003)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Hu, Hui, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Brushett, Donald J

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation has been used by healthy and athletic populations with an expectation of enhancing aerobic performance. However, limited and conflicting information exists in the...

Effects of four weeks of supplementation with coenzyme Q10 on aerobic power and exercise economy (2003)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Wang, Jianxiong, Hui, Hu, ...

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) plays several crucial roles in the body, mainly acting as a redox electron carrier in the mitochondria, being an essential antioxidant, and influencing the stability and function...

OsSET1, a novel SET-domain-containing gene from rice (2003)

Liang, Yun-Kuan, Wang, Ying, Zhang, Yong, Li, Song-Gang, Lu, Xiao-Chun, Li, Hong, ...

A novel SET‐domain‐containing gene OsSET1 was isolated from rice (Oryza sativa L.). Its deduced protein consists of 895 amino acids. OsSET1 has a high degree of structure similarity to...

OsSET1, a novel SET-domain-containing gene from rice (2003)

Liang, Yun-Kuan, Wang, Ying, Zhang, Yong, Li, Song-Gang, Lu, Xiao-Chun, Li, Hong, ...

A novel SET-domain-containing gene OsSET1 was isolated from rice (Oryza sativa L.). Its deduced protein consists of 895 amino acids. OsSET1 has a high degree of structure similarity to other...

Effects of four weeks of supplementation with coenzyme Q10 on aerobic power and exercise economy (2003)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Wang, Jianxiong, Hui, Hu, ...

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) plays several crucial roles in the body, mainly acting as a redox electron carrier in the mitochondria, being an essential antioxidant, and influencing the stability and function...

Muscle and plasma coenzyme Q10 concentrations and aerobic power in response to four weeks supplementation (2003)

Zhou, Shi, Zhang, Yong, Hu, Hui, Davie, Allan J, Marshall-Gradisnik, Sonya M, Brushett, Donald J

Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) supplementation has been used by healthy and athletic populations with an expectation of enhancing aerobic performance. However, limited and conflicting information exists in the...

OsSET1, a novel SET-domain-containing gene from rice (2003)

Liang, Yun-Kuan, Wang, Ying, Zhang, Yong, Li, Song-Gang, Lu, Xiao-Chun, Li, Hong, ...

A novel SET-domain-containing gene OsSET1 was isolated from rice (Oryza sativa L.). Its deduced protein consists of 895 amino acids. OsSET1 has a high degree of structure similarity to other...

Hopf Algebraic Structures in Proving Perturbative Unitarity (2002)

Zhang, Yong

The coproduct of a Feynman diagram is set up through identifying the perturbative unitarity of the S-matrix with the cutting equation from the cutting rules. On the one hand, it includes all...

Glass Forming Ability in Pr-(Cu, Ni)-Al Alloys (2002)

Zhang, Yong, Li, Yi

Glass forming ability (GFA) in the Pr-rich Pr-(Cu, Ni)-Al alloys at or near the eutectic points was systematically studied. It was found that the GFA in the pseudo-ternary alloys of Pr-(Cu, Ni)-Al is...

Glass Forming Ability in Pr-(Cu, Ni)-Al Alloys (2002)

Zhang, Yong, Li, Yi

Glass forming ability (GFA) in the Pr-rich Pr-(Cu, Ni)-Al alloys at or near the eutectic points was systematically studied. It was found that the GFA in the pseudo-ternary alloys of Pr-(Cu, Ni)-Al is...

Electronic Structure Near the Band Gap of Heavily Nitrogen Doped GaAs and GaP (2002)

Zhang, Yong, Fluegel, B., Hanna, M., Duda, A., Mascarenhas, A.

Isoelectronic impurity nitrogen atoms have been found to generate a series of localized states in GaP and GaAs. These states can be either bound (within the band gap) or resonant (above the band gap)...

Exciton Diamagnetic Shifts and Magnetic Field Dependent Linewidths in Ordered and Disordered InGaP Alloys (2002)

Jones, E. D., Bajaj, K. K., Coli, G., Crooker, S. A., Zhang, Yong

We have measured the diamagnetic shifts and photoluminescence linewidths of excitonic transitions in ordered and disordered In(0.48)Ga(0.52)P alloys, lattice matched to GaAs, in pulsed magnetic...

Tracking objects using recovered physical motion parameters (2002)

Yong Zhang, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar

This paper presents a physical model-based method for recovering and tracking nonrigid motion of elastic objects. The proposed method recovers the motion in terms of actual physical parameters...

Universal quantum computation with two- and three-qubit projective measurements (2001)

Fenner, Stephen A., Zhang, Yong

We present a finite set of projective measurements that, together with quantum memory and preparation of the |0> state, suffice for universal quantum computation. This extends work of Nielsen...

Intrinsic noise of a micro-mechanical displacement detector based on the radio-frequency single-electron transistor (2001)

Zhang, Yong, Blencowe, Miles

We investigate the intrinsic noise of a micro-mechanical displacement detector based on the radio-frequency single-electron transistor (rf-SET). Using the noise analysis of a SET by Korotkov as our...

Large deformation of spherical vesicle studied by perturbation theory and Surface evolver (2001)

Zhou, Jianjun, Zhang, Yong, Zhou, Xin, Zhong-can, Ou-Yang

With tangent angle perturbation approach the axial symmetry deformation of a spherical vesicle in large under the pressure changes is studied by the elasticity theory of Helfrich spontaneous...

Proportion of frozen local polarization in relaxor ferroelectrics (2001)

Liu, Zhi-Rong, Zhang, Yong, Gu, Bing-Lin, Zhang, Xiao-Wen

A Landau-type phenomenological cluster theory was presented to model the freezing process of local polarization in relaxors. Based on the theory, the proportion of frozen polarization in...

A Note on the Path Integral Representation of the Boundary State of D-brane (2000)

Zhang, Yong

In this paper we construct path integral representations of the boundary states in some special backgrounds such as the U(1) gauge field background, the linear dilaton background and the open string...

Topological Defects in 3-d Euclidean Gravity (2000)

Li, Sheng, Zhang, Yong, Zhu, Zhongyuan

By making use of the complete decomposition of SO(3) spin connection, the topological defect in 3-dimensional Euclidean gravity is studied in detail. The topological structure of disclination is...

Tsap, “Model-based nonrigid motion analysis using natural feature adaptive mesh (2000)

Yong Zhang, Dmitry B. Goldgof, Sudeep Sarkar, Leonid V. Tsap

The success of nonrigid motion analysis using physical finite element model is dependent on the mesh that characterizes the object's geometric structure. We suggest a deformable mesh adapted to...

Inner Code Rate Selection for a Concatenated Coding System on a Binary Symmetric Channel (2000)

Yong Zhang, Maja Bystrom

Concatenated codes have long been used as a practical means of combating errors on very noisy channels. In this paper we investigate the performance of concatenated systems that employ inner...

Rapid 3D Model Acquisition from Images of Small Objects (2000)

Wee Kheng Leow, Zhiyong Huang, Yong Zhang, Rudy Setiono

This paper describes a system for rapid acquisition of 3D models of objects for use in applications such as CAD and VR. The system consists of an image capturing platform, which comprises a...

Decomposition of SU(N) connection and Effective Theory of SU(N) QCD (1999)

Li, Sheng, Zhang, Yong, Zhu, Zhongyuan

We give a general decomposition of SU(N) connection and derive a generalized Skyrme-Faddeev action as the effective action of SU(N) QCD in the low energy limit. The result is obtained by separating...

An automated tool for natural language requirement extraction /--by Yong Zhang. (1999)

Zhang, Yong.

Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Computer Science.

A Superconducting Magnet System for Free-Electron Cyclotron Maser (Selected Portions), (1998)

Zhang,Yong, Gao,Guangzhen, Wang,Zhikai, Wang,Shuyuan, Qiao,Xiufen

The superconducting magnet system is a important part of the free-electron cyclotron maser. In tris paper a new super conducting magnet system is designed and tested. It consists of a main...

Controlling genes by inducible site directed recombination / (1998)

Zhang, Yong.

Freiburg (Breisgau), University, Diss., 1999 (Nicht für den Austausch).

Study of the condensation of metal vapor in a converging nozzle (1995)

Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Yong

The nucleation and growth of zinc vapor in converging nozzles are modeled. The temperature, pressure, velocity and growth distributions along the nozzle are calculated. The size distributions of the...

Incorporating Mri Region Information Into Spect Reconstruction Using Joint Estimation (1995)

Yong Zhang, Jeffrey A. Fessler, Neal H. Clinthorne, W. Leslie Rogers

Single Photon Emission Computed Tomographic images (SPECT) have relatively poor resolution. In an attempt to improve SPECT image quality, many methods have been developed for including anatomic...

Genetic study of Aureobasidium pullulans using mutagenesis and random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis / (1994)

Zhang, Yong.

Thesis (M.S.)--Biology and Microbiology Dept., South Dakota State University, 1994.

Simultaneous confidence intervals for image reconstruction problems (1994)

Yong Zhang, W. L. Rogers

We provide a methodology for specifying a set of simultaneous (1,) % con dence intervals on the intensity of each image pixel for emission and transmission tomography. These intervals give a(1,) %...

Tangshan earthquake in 1976 :--investigation of precursor phenomena with three dimensional numerical modellings /--presented by Yong Zhang. (1992)

Zhang, Yong.

Title from added t.p.: Das Tangshan Erdbeben von 1976 : Untersuchung von Vorläuferphänomenen mit Hilfe dreidimensionaler numerischer Modellierungen.

Single-base mutational analysis of cancer and genetic diseases using membrane bound modified oligonucleotides (1991)

Zhang, Yong, Coyne, Mazie Y., Will, Stephen G., Levenson, Corey H., Kawasaki, Ernest S.

A convenient format for the detection of PCR amplified sequences is the hybridization of the PCR products to oligonucleotide probes which are immobilized on a solid phase. We describe a new method...

A flying spot scanner with a variable scan size /--by Yong Zhang. (1984)

Zhang, Yong.

Degree granted by Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering.

BIODYNAMIC MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF MOTOR VEHICLE ROLLOVER OCCUPANTS

ZHANG, YONG

This thesis presents a computational, three-dimensional biodynamic model of a vehicle-occupant, crash-victim during rollover accident. The model represents the human body by a series of connected...

Rad52 partially substitutes for the Rad51 paralog XRCC3 in maintaining chromosomal integrity in vertebrate cells

Fujimori, Akira, Tachiiri, Seiji, Sonoda, Eiichiro, Thompson, Larry H., Dhar, Pawan Kumar, Hiraoka, Masahiro, ...

Yeast Rad52 DNA-repair mutants exhibit pronounced radiation sensitivity and a defect in homologous re combination (HR), whereas vertebrate cells lacking Rad52 exhibit a nearly normal phenotype. Bio...

RePS: A Sequence Assembler That Masks Exact Repeats Identified from the Shotgun Data

Wang, Jun, Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Ni, Peixiang, Han, Yujun, Huang, Xiangang, Zhang, Jianguo, ...

We describe a sequence assembler, RePS (repeat-masked Phrap with scaffolding), that explicitly identifies exact 20mer repeats from the shotgun data and removes them prior to the assembly. The...

BGI-RIS: an integrated information resource and comparative analysis workbench for rice genomics

Zhao, Wenming, Wang, Jing, He, Ximiao, Huang, Xiaobing, Jiao, Yongzhi, Dai, Mingtao, ...

Rice is a major food staple for the world’s population and serves as a model species in cereal genome research. The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has long been devoting itself to sequencing,...

Pulmonary expression of interleukin-13 causes inflammation, mucus hypersecretion, subepithelial fibrosis, physiologic abnormalities, and eotaxin production

Zhu, Zhou, Homer, Robert J., Wang, Zhonde, Chen, Qingsheng, Geba, Gregory P., Wang, Jingming, ...

Interleukin (IL)-13 is a pleiotropic cytokine produced in large quantities by activated CD4+ Th2 lymphocytes. To define further its potential in vivo effector functions, the Clara cell 10-kDa protein...

The interactome as a tree—an attempt to visualize the protein–protein interaction network in yeast

Lu, Hongchao, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Liu, Haifeng, Skogerbø, Geir, Zhang, Jingfen, Zhang, Yong, ...

The refinement and high-throughput of protein interaction detection methods offer us a protein–protein interaction network in yeast. The challenge coming along with the network is to find better...

NONCODE: an integrated knowledge database of non-coding RNAs

Liu, Changning, Bai, Baoyan, Skogerbø, Geir, Cai, Lun, Deng, Wei, Zhang, Yong, ...

NONCODE is an integrated knowledge database dedicated to non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), that is to say, RNAs that function without being translated into proteins. All ncRNAs in NONCODE were filtered...

ChickVD: a sequence variation database for the chicken genome

Wang, Jing, He, Ximiao, Ruan, Jue, Dai, Mingtao, Chen, Jie, Zhang, Yong, ...

Working in parallel with the efforts to sequence the chicken (Gallus gallus) genome, the Beijing Genomics Institute led an international team of scientists from China, USA, UK, Sweden, The...

SPD—a web-based secreted protein database

Chen, Yunjia, Zhang, Yong, Yin, Yanbin, Gao, Ge, Li, Songgang, Jiang, Ying, ...

With the improved secreted protein prediction approach and comprehensive data sources, including Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, RefSeq, Ensembl and CBI-Gene, we have constructed secretomes of human, mouse and...

The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications

Yu, Jun, Wang, Jun, Lin, Wei, Li, Songgang, Li, Heng, Zhou, Jun, ...

We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...

Characteristics and Living Patterns of Marine Myxobacterial Isolates

Zhang, Yu-qing, Li, Yue-zhong, Wang, Bing, Wu, Zhi-hong, Zhang, Cui-ying, Gong, Xun, ...

The growth, morphology, and life cycle of two marine myxobacterial isolates, halotolerant Myxococcus fulvus strain HW-1 and halophilic Haliangium ochraceum strain SMP-2, were studied as models to...

AAA ATPases regulate membrane association of yeast oxysterol binding proteins and sterol metabolism

Wang, Penghua, Zhang, Yong, Li, Hongzhe, Chieu, Hai Kee, Munn, Alan L, Yang, Hongyuan

The yeast genome encodes seven oxysterol binding protein homologs, Osh1p–Osh7p, which have been implicated in regulating intracellular lipid and vesicular transport. Here, we show that both Osh6p...

NPInter: the noncoding RNAs and protein related biomacromolecules interaction database

Wu, Tao, Wang, Jie, Liu, Changning, Zhang, Yong, Shi, Baochen, Zhu, Xiaopeng, ...

The noncoding RNAs and protein related biomacromolecules interaction database (NPInter; or ) is a database that documents experimentally determined functional interactions between noncoding RNAs...

Simple sequence repeat-based consensus linkage map of Bombyx mori

Miao, Xue-Xia, Xub, Shi-Jie, Li, Ming-Hui, Li, Mu-Wang, Huang, Jian-Hua, Dai, Fang-Yin, ...

We established a genetic linkage map employing 518 simple sequence repeat (SSR, or microsatellite) markers for Bombyx mori (silkworm), the economically and culturally important lepidopteran insect,...

Influence of temperature fluctuation on thermophilic anaerobic digestion of municipal organic solid waste*

Wu, Man-Chang, Sun, Ke-Wei, Zhang, Yong

A laboratory-scale experiment was carried out to assess the influence of temperature fluctuation on thermophilic anaerobic digestion of municipal organic solid waste (MOSW). Heating failure was...

Dynamic Changes in Subgraph Preference Profiles of Crucial Transcription Factors

Zhang, Zhihua, Liu, Changning, Skogerbø, Geir, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Lu, Hongchao, Chen, Lan, ...

Transcription factors with a large number of target genes—transcription hub(s), or THub(s)—are usually crucial components of the regulatory system of a cell, and the different patterns through...

Genome-wide in silico identification and analysis of cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in ten species

Zhang, Yong, Liu, X. Shirley, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

We developed a fast, integrative pipeline to identify cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) at genome scale. The pipeline mapped mRNAs and ESTs in UniGene to genome sequences in GoldenPath to...

WEGO: a web tool for plotting GO annotations

Ye, Jia, Fang, Lin, Zheng, Hongkun, Zhang, Yong, Chen, Jie, Zhang, Zengjin, ...

Unified, structured vocabularies and classifications freely provided by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium are widely accepted in most of the large scale gene annotation projects. Consequently, many...

Drosophila Target of Rapamycin Kinase Functions as a Multimer

Zhang, Yong, Billington, Charles J., Pan, Duojia, Neufeld, Thomas P.

Target of rapamycin (TOR) is a conserved regulator of cell growth and metabolism that integrates energy, growth factor, and nutrient signals. The 280-kDa TOR protein functions as the catalytic...

Excitatory purinergic neurotransmission in smooth muscle of guniea-pig taenia caeci

Zhang, Yong, Paterson, William G

Non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic (NANC) inhibitory neurotransmission has been an area of intense interest in gut motor physiology, whereas excitatory NANC neurotransmission has received less...

Dominance of HIV-1 Subtype CRF01_AE in Sexually Acquired Cases Leads to a New Epidemic in Yunnan Province of China

Zhang, Yong, Lu, Lin, Ba, Lei, Liu, Li, Yang, Li, Jia, Manhong, ...

This is a molecular epidemiology study of circulating HIV strains and subtypes in Yunnan province, which has China's largest number of HIV-infected individuals.

Rad52 partially substitutes for the Rad51 paralog XRCC3 in maintaining chromosomal integrity in vertebrate cells

Fujimori, Akira, Tachiiri, Seiji, Sonoda, Eiichiro, Thompson, Larry H., Dhar, Pawan Kumar, Hiraoka, Masahiro, ...

Yeast Rad52 DNA-repair mutants exhibit pronounced radiation sensitivity and a defect in homologous re combination (HR), whereas vertebrate cells lacking Rad52 exhibit a nearly normal phenotype. Bio...

RePS: A Sequence Assembler That Masks Exact Repeats Identified from the Shotgun Data

Wang, Jun, Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Ni, Peixiang, Han, Yujun, Huang, Xiangang, Zhang, Jianguo, ...

We describe a sequence assembler, RePS (repeat-masked Phrap with scaffolding), that explicitly identifies exact 20mer repeats from the shotgun data and removes them prior to the assembly. The...

BGI-RIS: an integrated information resource and comparative analysis workbench for rice genomics

Zhao, Wenming, Wang, Jing, He, Ximiao, Huang, Xiaobing, Jiao, Yongzhi, Dai, Mingtao, ...

Rice is a major food staple for the world’s population and serves as a model species in cereal genome research. The Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has long been devoting itself to sequencing,...

Pulmonary expression of interleukin-13 causes inflammation, mucus hypersecretion, subepithelial fibrosis, physiologic abnormalities, and eotaxin production

Zhu, Zhou, Homer, Robert J., Wang, Zhonde, Chen, Qingsheng, Geba, Gregory P., Wang, Jingming, ...

Interleukin (IL)-13 is a pleiotropic cytokine produced in large quantities by activated CD4+ Th2 lymphocytes. To define further its potential in vivo effector functions, the Clara cell 10-kDa protein...

The interactome as a tree—an attempt to visualize the protein–protein interaction network in yeast

Lu, Hongchao, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Liu, Haifeng, Skogerbø, Geir, Zhang, Jingfen, Zhang, Yong, ...

The refinement and high-throughput of protein interaction detection methods offer us a protein–protein interaction network in yeast. The challenge coming along with the network is to find better...

NONCODE: an integrated knowledge database of non-coding RNAs

Liu, Changning, Bai, Baoyan, Skogerbø, Geir, Cai, Lun, Deng, Wei, Zhang, Yong, ...

NONCODE is an integrated knowledge database dedicated to non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs), that is to say, RNAs that function without being translated into proteins. All ncRNAs in NONCODE were filtered...

ChickVD: a sequence variation database for the chicken genome

Wang, Jing, He, Ximiao, Ruan, Jue, Dai, Mingtao, Chen, Jie, Zhang, Yong, ...

Working in parallel with the efforts to sequence the chicken (Gallus gallus) genome, the Beijing Genomics Institute led an international team of scientists from China, USA, UK, Sweden, The...

SPD—a web-based secreted protein database

Chen, Yunjia, Zhang, Yong, Yin, Yanbin, Gao, Ge, Li, Songgang, Jiang, Ying, ...

With the improved secreted protein prediction approach and comprehensive data sources, including Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, RefSeq, Ensembl and CBI-Gene, we have constructed secretomes of human, mouse and...

The Genomes of Oryza sativa: A History of Duplications

Yu, Jun, Wang, Jun, Lin, Wei, Li, Songgang, Li, Heng, Zhou, Jun, ...

We report improved whole-genome shotgun sequences for the genomes of indica and japonica rice, both with multimegabase contiguity, or almost 1,000-fold improvement over the drafts of 2002. Tested...

Characteristics and Living Patterns of Marine Myxobacterial Isolates

Zhang, Yu-qing, Li, Yue-zhong, Wang, Bing, Wu, Zhi-hong, Zhang, Cui-ying, Gong, Xun, ...

The growth, morphology, and life cycle of two marine myxobacterial isolates, halotolerant Myxococcus fulvus strain HW-1 and halophilic Haliangium ochraceum strain SMP-2, were studied as models to...

AAA ATPases regulate membrane association of yeast oxysterol binding proteins and sterol metabolism

Wang, Penghua, Zhang, Yong, Li, Hongzhe, Chieu, Hai Kee, Munn, Alan L, Yang, Hongyuan

The yeast genome encodes seven oxysterol binding protein homologs, Osh1p–Osh7p, which have been implicated in regulating intracellular lipid and vesicular transport. Here, we show that both Osh6p...

Simple sequence repeat-based consensus linkage map of Bombyx mori

Miao, Xue-Xia, Xub, Shi-Jie, Li, Ming-Hui, Li, Mu-Wang, Huang, Jian-Hua, Dai, Fang-Yin, ...

We established a genetic linkage map employing 518 simple sequence repeat (SSR, or microsatellite) markers for Bombyx mori (silkworm), the economically and culturally important lepidopteran insect,...

NPInter: the noncoding RNAs and protein related biomacromolecules interaction database

Wu, Tao, Wang, Jie, Liu, Changning, Zhang, Yong, Shi, Baochen, Zhu, Xiaopeng, ...

The noncoding RNAs and protein related biomacromolecules interaction database (NPInter; or ) is a database that documents experimentally determined functional interactions between noncoding RNAs...

Influence of temperature fluctuation on thermophilic anaerobic digestion of municipal organic solid waste*

Wu, Man-Chang, Sun, Ke-Wei, Zhang, Yong

A laboratory-scale experiment was carried out to assess the influence of temperature fluctuation on thermophilic anaerobic digestion of municipal organic solid waste (MOSW). Heating failure was...

Drosophila Target of Rapamycin Kinase Functions as a Multimer

Zhang, Yong, Billington, Charles J., Pan, Duojia, Neufeld, Thomas P.

Target of rapamycin (TOR) is a conserved regulator of cell growth and metabolism that integrates energy, growth factor, and nutrient signals. The 280-kDa TOR protein functions as the catalytic...

Dynamic Changes in Subgraph Preference Profiles of Crucial Transcription Factors

Zhang, Zhihua, Liu, Changning, Skogerbø, Geir, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Lu, Hongchao, Chen, Lan, ...

Transcription factors with a large number of target genes—transcription hub(s), or THub(s)—are usually crucial components of the regulatory system of a cell, and the different patterns through...

Genome-wide in silico identification and analysis of cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) in ten species

Zhang, Yong, Liu, X. Shirley, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

We developed a fast, integrative pipeline to identify cis natural antisense transcripts (cis-NATs) at genome scale. The pipeline mapped mRNAs and ESTs in UniGene to genome sequences in GoldenPath to...

WEGO: a web tool for plotting GO annotations

Ye, Jia, Fang, Lin, Zheng, Hongkun, Zhang, Yong, Chen, Jie, Zhang, Zengjin, ...

Unified, structured vocabularies and classifications freely provided by the Gene Ontology (GO) Consortium are widely accepted in most of the large scale gene annotation projects. Consequently, many...

Dominance of HIV-1 Subtype CRF01_AE in Sexually Acquired Cases Leads to a New Epidemic in Yunnan Province of China

Zhang, Yong, Lu, Lin, Ba, Lei, Liu, Li, Yang, Li, Jia, Manhong, ...

This is a molecular epidemiology study of circulating HIV strains and subtypes in Yunnan province, which has China's largest number of HIV-infected individuals.

Excitatory purinergic neurotransmission in smooth muscle of guniea-pig taenia caeci

Zhang, Yong, Paterson, William G

Non-adrenergic, non-cholinergic (NANC) inhibitory neurotransmission has been an area of intense interest in gut motor physiology, whereas excitatory NANC neurotransmission has received less...

NATsDB: Natural Antisense Transcripts DataBase

Zhang, Yong, Li, Jiongtang, Kong, Lei, Gao, Ge, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

Natural antisense transcripts (NATs) are reverse complementary at least in part to the sequences of other endogenous sense transcripts. Most NATs are transcribed from opposite strands of their sense...

SynDB: a Synapse protein DataBase based on synapse ontology

Zhang, Wuxue, Zhang, Yong, Zheng, Hui, Zhang, Chen, Xiong, Wei, Olyarchuk, John G., ...

A synapse is the junction across which a nerve impulse passes from an axon terminal to a neuron, muscle cell or gland cell. The functions and building molecules of the synapse are essential to almost...

MAPU: Max-Planck Unified database of organellar, cellular, tissue and body fluid proteomes

Zhang, Yanling, Zhang, Yong, Adachi, Jun, Olsen, Jesper V., Shi, Rong, De Souza, Gustavo, ...

Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has become a powerful technology to map the protein composition of organelles, cell types and tissues. In our department, a large-scale effort to map these...

CPC: assess the protein-coding potential of transcripts using sequence features and support vector machine

Kong, Lei, Zhang, Yong, Ye, Zhi-Qiang, Liu, Xiao-Qiao, Zhao, Shu-Qi, Wei, Liping, ...

Recent transcriptome studies have revealed that a large number of transcripts in mammals and other organisms do not encode proteins but function as noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs) instead. As millions of...

Role of sarcoplasmic reticulum in control of membrane potential and nitrergic response in opossum lower esophageal sphincter

Zhang, Yong, Paterson, William G

We previously demonstrated that a balance of Ca2+-activated Cl− current (ICl(Ca)) and K+ current activity sets the resting membrane potential of opossum lower esophageal sphincter (LES) circular...

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

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

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

The ion selectivity of a membrane conductance inactivated by extracellular calcium in Xenopus oocytes

Zhang, Yong, McBride, Don W, Hamill, Owen P

The ion selectivity of a membrane ion conductance that is inactivated by extracellular calcium (Cao2+) in Xenopus oocytes has been studied using the voltage-clamp technique.The reversal potential of...

New Locus Important for Myxococcus Social Motility and Development▿

Zhang, Cui-ying, Cai, Ke, Liu, Hong, Zhang, Yong, Pan, Hong-wei, Wang, Bing, ...

The mts locus in salt-tolerant Myxococcus fulvus HW-1 was found to be critical for gliding motility, fruiting-body formation, and sporulation. The homologous genes in Myxococcus xanthus are also...

Calcium-, voltage- and osmotic stress-sensitive currents in Xenopus oocytes and their relationship to single mechanically gated channels

Zhang, Yong, Hamill, Owen P

Patch recordings from Xenopus oocytes indicated that mechanically gated (MG) channels are expressed at a uniform surface density (∼1 channel μm−2) with an estimated > 3 × 106 MG channels per...

On the discrepancy between whole-cell and membrane patch mechanosensitivity in Xenopus oocytes

Zhang, Yong, Hamill, Owen P

Mechanical stimulation of voltage-clamped Xenopus oocytes by inflation, aspiration, or local indentation failed to activate an increase in membrane conductance up to the point of causing visible...

Mechanically gated channel activity in cytoskeleton-deficient plasma membrane blebs and vesicles from Xenopus oocytes

Zhang, Yong, Gao, Feng, Popov, Vsevolod L, Wen, Julie W, Hamill, Owen P

A novel technique involving hypertonic stress causes membrane ‘blebbing’ of the Xenopus oocyte and the shedding of plasma membrane vesicles (PMVs).Confocal fluorescence microscopy,...

Nitric oxide contracts longitudinal smooth muscle of opossum oesophagus via excitation-contraction coupling

Zhang, Yong, Paterson, William G

The effects of sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and diethylenetriamine/nitric oxide adduct (DETA/NO), putative nitric oxide (NO) donors, on opossum oesophageal longitudinal smooth muscle were investigated...

A Transgenic FOXJ1-Cre System for Gene Inactivation in Ciliated Epithelial Cells

Zhang, Yong, Huang, Guangming, Shornick, Laurie P., Roswit, William T., Shipley, J. Michael, Brody, Steven L., ...

Ciliated airway epithelial cells are critical for mucosal barrier function, including host defense against pathogens. This cell population is often the primary target and thereby the first line of...

Determinants of Managerial Performance: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Perceptions of Middle-Level Managers in Four Countries

James P Neelankavil, Anil Mathur, Yong Zhang

This paper examines differences in what affects managerial performance of middle-level managers in four countries—China (N=204), India (N=184), the Philippines (N=220), and the United States...

Identification and characterization of two closely related histone H4 arginine 3 methyltransferases in Arabidopsis thaliana

Yan, Dongsheng, Zhang, Yong, Niu, Lifang, Yuan, Yi, Cao, Xiaofeng

Arginine methylation of histone H3 and H4 plays important roles in transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes such as yeasts, fruitflies, nematode worms, fish and mammals; however, less is known in...

Trans-natural antisense transcripts including noncoding RNAs in 10 species: implications for expression regulation

Li, Jiong-Tang, Zhang, Yong, Kong, Lei, Liu, Qing-Rong, Wei, Liping

Natural antisense transcripts are at least partially complementary to their sense transcripts. Cis-Sense/Antisense pairs (cis-SAs) have been extensively characterized and known to play diverse...

Reg FD and the Competitiveness of All-Star Analysts.

Bagnoli, Mark, Watts, Susan G., Zhang, Yong

This paper examines the impact of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) on the competitive advantage of All-Star analysts. We find that Institutional Investor All-Americans, chosen by the votes of...

Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)

Zhang, Yong, Liu, Tao, Meyer, Clifford A, Eeckhoute, Jérôme, Johnson, David S, Bernstein, Bradley E, ...

MACS performs model-based analysis of ChIP-Seq data generated by short read sequencers.

Precise asymptotics in the law of the iterated logarithm and the complete convergence for uniform empirical process

Zhang, Yong, Yang, Xiao-Yun

Let {[xi]1,[xi]2,...,[xi]n} be a sequence of independent and identically distributed U[0,1]-distributed random variables. Define the uniform empirical process . For 10.

The development of abdominal aortic aneurysms in mice is enhanced by benzo(a)pyrene

Zhang, Yong, Ramos, Kenneth S

Cigarette smoking has been strongly associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), but the components of tobacco smoke involved in AAA have not been identified. Benzo(a)pyrene (BaP) is an important...

Insect-Specific microRNA Involved in the Development of the Silkworm Bombyx mori

Zhang, Yong, Zhou, Xue, Ge, Xie, Jiang, Jianhao, Li, Muwang, Jia, Shihai, ...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous non-coding genes that participate in post-transcription regulation by either degrading mRNA or blocking its translation. It is considered to be very important in...

Ponicidin Inhibits Monocytic Leukemia Cell Growth by Induction of Apoptosis

Liu, Jia-Jun, Zhang, Yong, Guang, Wei-Bin, Yang, Hong-Zhi, Lin, Dong-Jun, Xiao, Ruo-Zhi

In this study two monocytic leukemia cell lines, U937 and THP-1 cells, were used to investigate the anti-proliferation effects caused by ponicidin. Cell viability was measured by an MTT assay. Cell...

Both Strands of siRNA Have Potential to Guide Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing in Mammalian Cells

Wei, Jun-Xia, Yang, Jie, Sun, Ji-Feng, Jia, Lin-Tao, Zhang, Yong, Zhang, Hui-Zhong, ...

Despite the widespread application of RNA interference (RNAi) as a research tool for diverse purposes, the key step of strand selection of siRNAs during the formation of RNA-induced silencing complex...

PPARγ and C/EBP factors orchestrate adipocyte biology via adjacent binding on a genome-wide scale

Lefterova, Martina I., Zhang, Yong, Steger, David J., Schupp, Michael, Schug, Jonathan, Cristancho, Ana, ...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ(PPARγ), a nuclear receptor and the target of anti-diabetic thiazolinedione drugs, is known as the master regulator of adipocyte biology. Although it...

Genome-wide assessment of worldwide chicken SNP genetic diversity indicates significant absence of rare alleles in commercial breeds

Muir, William M., Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Zhang, Yong, Wang, Jun, Groenen, Martien A. M., ...

Breed utilization, genetic improvement, and industry consolidation are predicted to have major impacts on the genetic composition of commercial chickens. Consequently, the question arises as to...

Comparison of real-time polymerase chain reaction with the COBAS Amplicor test for quantitation of hepatitis B virus DNA in serum samples

Shi, Ming, Zhang, Yong, Zhu, Ying-Hua, Zhang, Jing, Xu, Wei-Jia

AIM: To compare the clinical performance of a real-time PCR assay with the COBAS Amplicor Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Monitor test for quantitation of HBV DNA in serum samples.

Improved Coinfection with Amphotropic Pseudotyped Retroviral Vectors

Wu, Yuehong, Melton, David W., Zhang, Yong, Hornsby, Peter J.

Amphotropic pseudotyped retroviral vectors have typically been used to infect target cells without prior concentration. Although this can yield high rates of infection, higher rates may be needed...

Redundant Requirement for a Pair of PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE4 Homologs for the Proper Regulation of Arabidopsis Flowering Time1[C][OA]

Niu, Lifang, Zhang, Yong, Pei, Yanxi, Liu, Chunyan, Cao, Xiaofeng

CARM1/PRMT4 (for COACTIVATOR-ASSOCIATED ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE1/PROTEIN ARGININE METHYLTRANSFERASE4) catalyzes asymmetric dimethylation on arginine (Arg), and its functions in gene regulation is...

Cyclooxygenase 2 polymorphism and colorectal cancer: -765G>C variant modifies risk associated with smoking and body mass index

Xing, Li-Li, Wang, Zhen-Ning, Jiang, Li, Zhang, Yong, Xu, Ying-Ying, Li, Juan, ...

AIM: To explore whether cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) -765G>C polymorphism is associated with susceptibility of colorectal cancer (CRC) and to evaluate the risk of colorectal cancer in relation to...

Resultant Pressure Distribution Pattern along the Basilar Membrane in the Spiral Shaped Cochlea

Zhang, Yong, Kim, Chul Koo, Lee, Kong-Ju-Bock, Park, Youngah

The cochlea is an important auditory organ in the inner ear. In most mammals, it is coiled as a spiral. Whether this specific shape influences hearing is still an open problem. By employing a...

Acute and Chronic Airway Responses to Viral Infection: Implications for Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Holtzman, Michael J., Tyner, Jeffrey W., Kim, Edy Y., Lo, Mindy S., Patel, Anand C., Shornick, Laurie P., ...

Despite the high clinical impact of established and emerging respiratory viruses, some critical aspects of the host response to these pathogens still need to be defined. In that context, we aimed at...

L’AGE SUBJECTIF PAR DELA LES FRONTIERES : UNE ETUDE CROSS CULTURELLE DANS LE SECTEUR DE LA MODE VESTIMENTAIRE

Denis Guiot, Benny Barak, Stephen Gould, Keun Lee, Yong Zhang

Cet article compare le degré de pertinence de l’âge subjectif pour segmenter le marché de la mode vestimentaire dans quatre pays : la Chine, la Corée du Sud, la France et les Etats-Unis. Après...

Outbreak of Acute Respiratory Disease in China Caused by B2 Species of Adenovirus Type 11▿

Zhu, Zhen, Zhang, Yong, Xu, Songtao, Yu, Pengbo, Tian, Xiaoping, Wang, Li, ...

An outbreak of acute respiratory tract infection occurred in Shanxi Province, China, from March to April 2006. Of the 254 patients affected by this outbreak, 247 patients were students of a senior...

AFM STUDY OF THE EVOLUTION OF DOUBLE LAYER ON SiO2 SURFACE AND SELF-ASSEMBLY MONOLAYER INDUCED BY THE POLARIZATION WITH DC VOLTAGES

TIAN TIAN, YONG ZHANG, HAITAO WANG, NINGPING HUANG, ZHONGDANG XIAO

AFM was used to study the evolution of double layer on SiO2 surface and self-assembly monolayer induced by the polarization with DC voltages. Approach force curves were recorded when external DC...

Description of dynamics of stock prices by a Langevin approach

Zi-Gang Huang, Yong Chen, Yong Zhang, Ying-Hai Wang

We present a time-dependent Langevin description of dynamics of stock prices. Based on a simple sliding-window algorithm, the fluctuation of stock prices is discussed in the view of a time-dependent...

Seawater-Regulated Genes for Two-Component Systems and Outer Membrane Proteins in Myxococcus▿ †

Pan, Hong-wei, Liu, Hong, Liu, Ting, Li, Cheng-yun, Li, Zhi-feng, Cai, Ke, ...

When salt-tolerant Myxococcus cells are moved to a seawater environment, they change their growth, morphology, and developmental behavior. Outer membrane proteins and signal transduction pathways may...

Systematic identification and characterization of chicken (Gallus gallus) ncRNAs

Zhang, Yong, Wang, Jie, Huang, Shoujun, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Liu, Jun, Yang, Ning, ...

Recent studies have demonstrated that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) play important roles during development and evolution. Chicken, the first genome-sequenced non-mammalian amniote, possesses unique...

General gene movement off the X chromosome in the Drosophila genus

Vibranovski, Maria D., Zhang, Yong, Long, Manyuan

In Drosophila melanogaster, there is an excess of genes duplicated by retroposition from the X chromosome to the autosomes. Most of those retrogenes that originated on the X chromosome have testis...