Sulfur Passivation of GaAs Surfaces, (9999)
Passivation of GaAs (100) surfaces with chemical solutions containing P2s5 has been studied using photoluminescence, electrical tests(I-V, C-V), Auger electron and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopies,...
Distance Measurements from Supernovae and Dark Energy Constraints (2009)
Constraints on dark energy from current observational data are sensitive to how distances are measured from Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data. We find that flux-averaging of SNe Ia can be used to test...
Hibernation-like state induced by an opioid peptide protects against experimental stroke (2009)
Borlongan, Cesar V, Hayashi, Teruo, Oeltgen, Peter R, Su, Tsung-Ping, Wang, Yun
Abstract Background Delta opioid peptide [D-ala2,D-leU5]enkephalin (DADLE) induces hibernation in summer ground squirrels, and enhances preservation and survival of isolated or transplanted lungs and...
A Nonblocking Approach for Reaching an Agreement on Request Total Orders ∗ (2009)
In distributed systems that use active replication to achieve robustness, it is important to efficiently enforce consistency among replicas. The nonblocking mode helps to speed up system execution....
Jiang, Weimin, Shao, Lingyun, Zhang, Ying, Zhang, Shu, Meng, Chengyan, Xu, Yunya, ...
Abstract Background An accurate test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection is urgently needed in immunosuppressed populations. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic power of...
Clarifying Forecasts of Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (2009)
The measurement of baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) from a galaxy redshift survey provides one of the most promising methods for probing dark energy. In this paper, we clarify the assumptions that...
Lowd, Daniel, Godde, Olivier, McLaughlin, Matthew, Nong, Shuzhen, Wang, Yun, Herlocker, Jonathan L.
Collaborative filtering (CF)-based recommender systems predict what items a user will like or find useful based on the recommendations (active or implicit) of other members of a networked community....
Di-μ-chlorido-bis[aqua(2,2′-bipyridine-κ2N,N′)chloridocobalt(II)] (2009)
Li-Li Zhu, Yu Sun, Huai-Hong Zhang, Yun Wang, Bai-Wang Sun
The title complex, [Co2Cl4(C10H8N2)2(H2O)2], is composed of two CoII atoms, each hexacoordinated by three Cl atoms, one 2,2′-bipyridine (bpy) ligand and one water molecule in a distorted...
A Review of Carbon Nanotubes-Based Gas Sensors (2009)
Gas sensors have attracted intensive research interest due to the demand of sensitive, fast response, and stable sensors for industry, environmental monitoring, biomedicine, and so forth. The...
Zhu, Mo-Tao, Feng, Wei-Yue, Wang, Yun, Wang, Bing, Wang, Meng, Ouyang, Hong, ...
Exposure to nanoparticles has presented potential risks to human cardiorespiratory systems. Pulmonary retention and extrapulmonary redistribution of inhaled nanoparticles have been considered to be...
Kamalakaran, Sitharthan, Kendall, Jude, Zhao, Xiaoyue, Tang, Chunlao, Khan, Sohail, Ravi, Kandasamy, ...
Methylation of CpG islands associated with genes can affect the expression of the proximal gene, and methylation of non-associated CpG islands correlates to genomic instability. This epigenetic...
A Review of Carbon Nanotubes-Based Gas Sensors (2009)
Gas sensors have attracted intensive research interest due to the demand of sensitive, fast response, and stable sensors for industry, environmental monitoring, biomedicine, and so forth. The...
Bis{2-methoxy-6-[(3-pyridyl)methyliminomethyl]phenolato}copper(II) (2009)
Yun Wang, Li-Li Zhu, Bai-Wang Sun
In the mononuclear title complex, [Cu(C14H13N2O2)2], the CuII atom lies on an inversion centre and adopts a square-planar coordination geometry. The dihedral angle formed by the pyridine and benzene...
Effects of general anesthetics on visceral pain transmission in the spinal cord (2008)
Wang, Yun, Wu, Jing, Lin, Qing, Nauta, HJ, Yue, Yun, Fang, Li
Abstract Current evidence suggests an analgesic role for the spinal cord action of general anesthetics; however, the cellular population and intracellular mechanisms underlying anti-visceral pain by...
Deconstructing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations: A Comparison of Methods (2008)
Rassat, Anais, Amara, Adam, Amendola, Luca, Castander, Francisco J., Kitching, Thomas, Kunz, Martin, ...
The Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (BAOs) or baryon wiggles which are present in the galaxy power spectrum at scales 100-150Mpc/h are powerful features with which to constrain cosmology. The potential...
Model-Independent Distance Measurements from Gamma-Ray Bursts and Constraints on Dark Energy (2008)
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) are the most energetic events in the Universe, and provide a complementary probe of dark energy by allowing the measurement of cosmic expansion history that extends to...
Development of Acetic-acid Tolerant Zymomonas mobilis Strains through Adaptation (2008)
Zymomonas mobilis is one of the most promising microorganisms for bioethanol production. However, its practical use on industrial scale is impeded by its high sensitivity to acetate, which is present...
Development of acetic-acid tolerant zymomonas mobilis strains through adaptation (2008)
Zymomonas mobilis is one of the most promising microorganisms for bioethanol production. However, its practical use on industrial scale is impeded by its high sensitivity to acetate, which is present...
Nolen, Brian M, Marks, Jeffrey R, Ta'san, Shlomo, Rand, Alex, Luong, The, Wang, Yun, ...
Abstract Introduction Neoadjuvant chemotherapy has become the standard of care for the diverse population of women diagnosed with locally advanced breast cancer. Serum biomarker levels are...
A Method to Organize A Small-World Based Publish/Subscribe Network In Large-Scale Environment (2008)
Abstract—The paper proposes a Small-World Network Publish / Subscribe (SWN-P/S) model in large-scale environment, which is a novel Event-based Middleware with Small-World Network (SWN) model....
Dynamic Pricing Using Internal-inference Based Multiagent Learning (2008)
Wei Han, You-guang Chen, Yun Wang, Cheng-dao Wang
In multiagent environment, the optimal policy of any agent depends on the policies of other agents. This makes the learning problem more problematic. Previous Algorithms based on observed actions of...
Secure Electronic Transaction (SET protocol) (2008)
Electronic commerce, as exemplified by the popularity of the Internet, is going to have an enormous impact on the financial services industry. No financial institution will be left unaffected by the...
Figure of Merit for Dark Energy Constraints from Current Observational Data (2008)
Choosing the appropriate figure of merit (FoM) for dark energy (DE) constraints is key in comparing different DE experiments. Here we show that for a set of DE parameters {f_i}, it is most intuitive...
Planck priors for dark energy surveys (2008)
Mukherjee, Pia, Kunz, Martin, Parkinson, David, Wang, Yun
Although cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy data alone cannot constrain simultaneously the spatial curvature and the equation of state of dark energy, CMB data provide a valuable addition...
Impact of Heterogeneity on Coverage and Broadcast Reachability in Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)
Yun Wang, Xiaodong Wang, Dharma P. Agrawal, Ali A. Minai
Abstract — While most existing research efforts in the area of wireless sensor networks have focused on networks with identical nodes, deploying sensors with different capabilities has become a...
A Note on Convergence Analysis of an SQP-Type Method for Nonlinear Semidefinite Programming (2008)
Yun Wang, Shaowu Zhang, Liwei Zhang
We reinvestigate the convergence properties of the SQP-type method for solving nonlinear semidefinite programming problems studied by Correa and Ramirez (2004). We prove, under the strong...
Application-Specific Quality of Service Constraint Design in Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is usually made up of hundreds or thousands of small sensors, for monitoring environmental changes or events in a given field. On the one hand, a WSN offers the...
Pulse wave: the bridge connecting traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine (2008)
Abstract: Pulse wave, a research focus in both traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, which contains a wealth of human physiological and pathological information, has always been the...
Ascoli, Giorgio A., Alonso−Nanclares, Lidia, Anderson, Stewart A., Barrionuevo, German, Benavides−Piccione, Ruth, Burkhalter, Andreas, ...
Neuroscience produces a vast amount of data from an enormous diversity of neurons. A neuronal classification system is essential to organize such data and the knowledge that is derived from them....
Application-Specific Quality of Service Constraint Design in Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is usually made up of hundreds or thousands of small sensors, for monitoring environmental changes or events in a given field. On the one hand, a WSN offers the...
A Note on Convergence Analysis of an SQP-Type Method for Nonlinear Semidefinite Programming (2008)
Yun Wang, Shaowu Zhang, Liwei Zhang
We reinvestigate the convergence properties of the SQP-type method for solving nonlinear semidefinite programming problems studied by Correa and Ramirez (2004). We prove, under the strong...
Yu, Jing, Wang, Yun, Zhou, Wen-Hui, Wang, Ling, He, Yin-Yan, Li, Da-Jin
BACKGROUND The CC chemokines, regulated on activation, normal T-cell expressed and secreted (RANTES) and macrophage-inflammatory protein-1alpha (MIP-1α), have been identified as potential...
Observational approaches to understanding dark energy (2007)
Illuminating the nature of dark energy is one of the most important challenges in cosmology today. In this review I discuss several promising observational approaches to understanding dark energy, in...
While it is widely believed that preemptability is a necessary requirement for developing real-time software, there are additional costs involved with preemptive scheduling, as compared to...
The maturity of schedulabilty analysis techniques for fixed-priority preemptive scheduling has enabled the consideration of timing issues at design time using a specification of the tasking...
The maturity of schedulabilty analysis techniques for fixed-priority preemptive scheduling has enabled the consideration of timing issues at design time using a specification of the tasking...
Tomislav Kundi'c, Edwin L. Turner, Wesley N. Colley, J. Richard Gott, James E. Rhoads, Yun Wang, ...
Continued photometric monitoring of the gravitational lens system 0957+561A,B in the g and r bands with the Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5 m telescope during 1996 shows a sharp g band event in...
While it is widely believed that preemptability is a necessary requirement for developing real-time software, there are additional costs involved with preemptive scheduling, as compared to...
Improving the Calibration of Type Ia Supernovae Using Late-time Lightcurves (2007)
The use of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological standard candles is a key to solving the mystery of dark energy. Improving the calibration of SNe Ia increases their power as cosmological...
Differentiating dark energy and modified gravity with galaxy redshift surveys (2007)
The observed cosmic acceleration today could be due to an unknown energy component (dark energy), or a modification to general relativity (modified gravity). If dark energy models and modified...
Le Bé, Jean-Vincent, Silberberg, Gilad, Wang, Yun, Markram, Henry
Neocortical pyramidal cells (PCs) project to various cortical and subcortical targets. In layer V, the population of thick tufted PCs (TTCs) projects to subcortical targets such as the tectum,...
Survey Requirements for Accurate and Precise Photometric Redshifts for Type Ia Supernovae (2007)
Wang, Yun, Narayan, Gautham, Wood-Vasey, Michael
In this paper we advance the simple analytic photometric redshift estimator for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) proposed by Wang (2007), and use it to study simulated SN Ia data. We find that better than...
Huang, Jian, Hao, Pei, Zhang, Yun-Li, Deng, Fu-Xing, Deng, Qing, Hong, Yi, ...
Abstract Background The liver is the largest human internal organ – it is composed of multiple cell types and plays a vital role in fulfilling the body's metabolic needs and maintaining...
Observational Bounds on Modified Gravity Models (2007)
De Felice, Antonio, Mukherjee, Pia, Wang, Yun
Modified gravity provides a possible explanation for the currently observed cosmic accelaration. In this paper, we study general classes of modified gravity models. The Einstein-Hilbert action is...
Nontrivial Geometries: Bounds on the Curvature of the Universe (2007)
Mersini-Houghton, Laura, Wang, Yun, Mukherjee, Pia, Kafexhiu, Ervin
Probing the geometry of the universe is one of the most important endevours in cosmology. Current observational data from the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropy (CMB), galaxy surveys and type Ia...
HURTZ, SHANNON Q., HENRIKSEN, LISA, WANG, YUN, FEIGHERY, ELLEN C., FORTMANN, STEPHEN P.
Aim: This paper describes adolescents' exposure to alcohol advertising in stores and to alcohol-branded promotional items and their association with self-reported drinking. Methods: A cross-sectional...
Observational Constraints on Dark Energy and Cosmic Curvature (2007)
Current observational bounds on dark energy depend on assumptions about the curvature of the universe. We present a simple and efficient method for incorporating constraints from CMB anisotropy data,...
オーステナイト系ステンレス鋼の塑性変形および初期疲労損傷に関する微視的研究 (2007)
名古屋大学博士学位論文 学位の種類: 博士(工学)(課程) 学位授与年月日: 平成19年3月23日
オーステナイト系ステンレス鋼の塑性変形および初期疲労損傷に関する微視的研究 (2007)
名古屋大学博士学位論文 学位の種類: 博士(工学)(課程) 学位授与年月日: 平成19年3月23日
HURTZ, SHANNON Q., HENRIKSEN, LISA, WANG, YUN, FEIGHERY, ELLEN C., FORTMANN, STEPHEN P.
Aim: This paper describes adolescents' exposure to alcohol advertising in stores and to alcohol-branded promotional items and their association with self-reported drinking. Methods: A cross-sectional...
Present and future evidence for evolving dark energy (2006)
Liddle, Andrew R, Mukherjee, Pia, Parkinson, David, Wang, Yun
We compute the Bayesian evidences for one- and two-parameter models of evolving dark energy, and compare them to the evidence for a cosmological constant, using current data from Type Ia supernova,...
A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator for Type Ia Supernovae (2006)
The use of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological standard candles is fundamental in modern observational cosmology. In this letter, we derive a simple empirical photometric redshift estimator...
Analysis of Transient Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cells (2006)
Dynamic characteristics of polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFC) are of paramount importance for the automotive applications, given the rapid variation of loads. First, a three-dimensional...
Phillips, M. M., Garnavich, Peter, Wang, Yun, Branch, David, Baron, Edward, Crotts, Arlin, ...
JEDI (Joint Efficient Dark-energy Investigation) is a candidate implementation of the NASA-DOE Joint Dark Energy Mission (JDEM). JEDI will probe dark energy in three independent methods: (1) type Ia...
Colloidal Behavior of Polyampholytes (2006)
Polyampholytes are polymers that have both positively and negatively charged groups in the same chain. In recent years polyampholytes have started to be used in papermaking applications, as well as...
From the early presentation by Rosenberg and Hovland (1960), three components- affect, cognition and conation- of attitude are introduced. Moreover, attitude is a result of learning and is strongly...
Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), galaxy clustering, and cosmic microwave background anisotropy (CMB) data provide complementary constraints on the nature of the dark energy in the universe. We find that...
Jen-Tsan Chi, Zhen Wang, Edwin H. Rodriguez, Marci E. Schaner, Ali Salim, ...
The transcriptional response to hypoxia varies between cell types. A gene-expression signature of the cellular response to hypoxia is associated with a significantly poorer prognosis in breast and...
Jen-Tsan Chi, Zhen Wang, Edwin H. Rodriguez, Marci E. Schaner, Ali Salim, ...
Background Inadequate oxygen (hypoxia) triggers a multifaceted cellular response that has important roles in normal physiology and in many human diseases. A transcription factor, hypoxia-inducible...
Wieland, K. A., Wang, Yun, Solin, S. A., Girgis, A. M., Ram-Mohan, L. R.
We present a detailed discussion of extraordinary optoconductance (EOC). Experimental data was acquired via macroscopic metal-semiconductor hybrid structures composed of GaAs and In and subjected to...
Dark Energy Constraints from Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (2006)
Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO) in the galaxy power spectrum allows us to extract the scale of the comoving sound horizon at recombination, a cosmological standard ruler accurately determined by...
Analysis of transient phenomena in polymer electrolyte fuel cells [electronic resource] / (2006)
The full text of the dissertation is available as a Adobe Acrobat .pdf file (184 p.) ; Adobe Acrobat Reader required to view the file.
Analysis of transient phenomena in polymer electrolyte fuel cells (2006)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Pennsylvania State University, 2006.
Plant mass-density relationship along moisture gradient in north-west China (2006)
Deng, Jian-Ming, Wang, Gen-Xuan, Morris, E. Charles, Wei, Xiao-Ping, Li, Dong-Xiu, Chen, Bao-Ming, ...
1 Metabolic scaling theory predicts that the rate of resource use per unit area is independent of the average mass per individual and that the slope of the log mass–log density relationship should...
Basic Theory in the New Real Line-scale Rough Function Model (2006)
Yun Wang, Yanyong Guan, Kaiquan Shi
Abstract. The basic concepts of Pawlak rough function model are improved. The concepts of double approximation operators that are scale upper (lower) approximation and real line upper (lower)...
Plant mass-density relationship along moisture gradient in north-west China (2006)
Deng, Jian-Ming, Wang, Gen-Xuan, Morris, E. Charles, Wei, Xiao-Ping, Li, Dong-Xiu, Chen, Bao-Ming, ...
1 Metabolic scaling theory predicts that the rate of resource use per unit area is independent of the average mass per individual and that the slope of the log mass–log density relationship should...
Meehan, Thomas P., Wang, Yun, Tate, Janet P., Curry, Maureen, Elwell, Anne, Petrillo, Marcia K., ...
Background. During 2000–03, Qualidigm, a US Quality Improvement Organization, conducted a project to improve the care received by elderly Medicare patients with coronary artery disease or...
Wang, Yun, Lee, Kai Woo, Chan, Franky L., Chen, Shiuan, Leung, Lai K.
Estrogen plays a crucial role in the development of breast cancer, and the inhibition of estrogen synthesis has been an important target for the prevention and treatment of this disease. The...
Meehan, Thomas P., Wang, Yun, Tate, Janet P., Curry, Maureen, Elwell, Anne, Petrillo, Marcia K., ...
Background. During 2000-03, Qualidigm, a US Quality Improvement Organization, conducted a project to improve the care received by elderly Medicare patients with coronary artery disease or...
Wang, Yun, Lee, Kai Woo, Chan, Franky L., Chen, Shiuan, Leung, Lai K.
Estrogen plays a crucial role in the development of breast cancer, and the inhibition of estrogen synthesis has been an important target for the prevention and treatment of this disease. The...
Meehan, Thomas P., Wang, Yun, Tate, Janet P., Curry, Maureen, Elwell, Anne, Petrillo, Marcia K., ...
Background. During 2000-03, Qualidigm, a US Quality Improvement Organization, conducted a project to improve the care received by elderly Medicare patients with coronary artery disease or...
Kringen, Pedro, Wang, Yun, Dumeaux, Vanessa, Nesland, Jahn M, Kristensen, Gunnar, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, ...
Abstract Background Ovarian carcinomas from 30 BRCA1 germ-line carriers of two distinct high penetrant founder mutations, 20 carrying the 1675delA and 10 the 1135insA, and 100 sporadic cases were...
Crotts, Arlin, Garnavich, Peter, Priedhorsky, William, Habib, Salman, Heitmann, Katrin, Wang, Yun, ...
JEDI will probe dark energy in three independent ways by measuring the expansion history of the universe: (1) using type Ia supernovae as cosmological standard candles over a range of distances, (2)...
Primordial Power Spectrum Reconstruction (2005)
In order to reconstruct the initial conditions of the universe it is important to devise a method that can efficiently constrain the shape of the power spectrum of primordial matter density...
Uncorrelated Measurements of the Cosmic Expansion History and Dark Energy from Supernovae (2005)
We present a method for measuring the cosmic expansion history H(z) in uncorrelated redshift bins, and apply it to current and simulated type Ia supernova data assuming spatial flatness. If the...
Interpreting soil organic matter characteristics in organic farming systems (2005)
Wander, Michelle M., Marriott, Emily E., Wang, Yun
Soil organic matter (SOM) fraction characteristics need to be developed as indicies that can be related to specific soil functions. The general effects of organic management on prominsing indicies of...
Methods for missing values in dichotomous response variables (2005)
In this dissertation, we focus on methods for analyzing data with missing values for dichotomous response variables. We compare several methods, including complete cases, weighting, the EM algorithm,...
Development of Nanostructure Fabrication Technology and New Electron-Quantum Wave Devices (2005)
Chou, Stephen Y., Fischer, Paul B., Fischer, P. B., Wang, Yun, Liu, Yue, Hsiang, Thomas Y., ...
Under the three-year grant, we have investigated and developed various nanofabrication technologies including construction of an ultra-high resolution electron beam lithography system, sub-20 nm...
Banks, H. T., Smith, R. C., Wang, Yun
Based on a distributed parameter model for vibrations, an approximate finite dimensional dynamic compensator is designed to suppress vibrations (multiple modes with a broad band of frequencies) of a...
A new statistical approach for anomaly intrusion detection / (2005)
Presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D) - Nova Southeastern University.
Thesis (M.S.C.I.T.)--Regis University, Denver, Colo., 2005.
On t.p.: "III,IV" and "III" in superscript; "2" in subscript.
Interpreting soil organic matter characteristics in organic farming systems (2005)
Wander, Michelle M., Marriott, Emily E., Wang, Yun
Soil organic matter (SOM) fraction characteristics need to be developed as indicies that can be related to specific soil functions. The general effects of organic management on prominsing indicies of...
Probing the evolution of the dark energy density with future supernova surveys (2004)
Wang, Yun, Kostov, Veselin, Freese, Katherine, Frieman, Joshua A, Gondolo, Paolo
The time dependence of the dark energy density can be an important clue to the nature of dark energy in the universe. We show that future supernova data from dedicated telescopes (such as SNAP), when...
Current Observational Constraints on Cosmic Doomsday (2004)
Wang, Yun, Kratochvil, Jan Michael, Linde, Andrei, Shmakova, Marina
In a broad class of dark energy models, the universe may collapse within a finite time t_c. Here we study a representative model of dark energy with a linear potential, V(\phi)=V_0(1+\alpha\phi)....
Observational signatures of the weak lensing magnification of supernovae (2004)
Due to the deflection of light by density fluctuations along the line of sight, weak lensing is an unavoidable systematic uncertainty in the use of type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological...
Dark Energy Search with Supernovae (2004)
To determine the nature of dark energy from observational data, it is important that we use model-independent and optimal methods. We should probe dark energy using its density (allowed to be a free...
Looking for Cosmological Alfven Waves in WMAP Data (2004)
Chen, Gang, Mukherjee, Pia, Kahniashvili, Tina, Ratra, Bharat, Wang, Yun
A primordial cosmological magnetic field induces and supports vorticity or Alfven waves, which in turn generate cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. A homogeneous primordial magnetic field...
New dark energy constraints from supernovae, microwave background and galaxy clustering (2004)
Using the spectacular new high redshift supernova observations from the HST/GOODS program and previous supernova, CMB and galaxy clustering data, we make the most accurate measurements to date of the...
Wavelets and WMAP non-Gaussianity (2004)
We study the statistical properties of the 1st year WMAP data on different scales using the spherical mexican hat wavelet transform. Consistent with the results of Vielva et al. (2003) we find a...
Probing Dark Energy Using Its Density Instead of Its Equation of State (2004)
The variation of dark energy density with redshift, $\rho_X(z)$, provides a critical clue to the nature of dark energy. Since $\rho_X(z)$ depends on the dark energy equation of state $w_X(z)$ through...
Probing the Evolution of the Dark Energy Density with Future Supernova Surveys (2004)
Wang, Yun, Kostov, Veselin, Freese, Katherine, Frieman, Joshua A., Gondolo, Paolo
The time dependence of the dark energy density can be an important clue to the nature of dark energy in the universe. We show that future supernova data from dedicated telescopes (such as SNAP), when...
This dissertation is on the fabrication of polymer-based microfluidic arrays for the detection of genetic mutations. Poly(methyl methacrylate) was chosen as one of the polymer substrate materials due...
This dissertation is on the fabrication of polymer-based microfluidic arrays for the detection of genetic mutations. Poly(methyl methacrylate) was chosen as one of the polymer substrate materials due...
Design patterns for distributed application security / (2004)
"Mémoire présenté en vue de l'obtention du diplôme de maîtrise ès sciences appliquées (génie informatique)"
We reconstruct the dark energy density $\rho_X(z)$ as a free function from current type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data (Tonry et al. 2003; Barris et al. 2003; Knop et al. 2003), together with the Cosmic...
Wang, Yun, Tenbarge, Jason, Fleshman, Bobby
Weak gravitational lensing due to the inhomogeneous matter distribution in the universe is an important systematic uncertainty in the use of standard candles in cosmology. There are two different...
Reduction of parasitic capacitance in vertical MOSFETs by spacer local oxidation (2003)
Kunz, V. Dominik, Uchino, Takashi, De Groot, C. H. (Kees), Ashburn, Peter, Donaghy, David C., Hall, Steven, ...
Application of double gate or surround-gate vertical metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is hindered by the parasitic overlap capacitance associated with their layout, which...
Reduction of Parasitic Capacitance in Vertical MOSFETs by Spacer Local Oxidation (2003)
Kunz, V Dominik, Uchino, Takashi, De Groot, C H (Kees), Ashburn, Peter, Donaghy, David C, Hall, Steven, ...
Application of double gate or surround-gate vertical metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is hindered by the parasitic overlap capacitance associated with their oayout, which...
Reduction of Parasitic Capacitance in Vertical MOSFETs by Spacer Local Oxidation (2003)
Kunz, V Dominik, Uchino, Takashi, De Groot, C H (Kees), Ashburn, Peter, Donaghy, David C, Hall, Steven, ...
Application of double gate or surround-gate vertical metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is hindered by the parasitic overlap capacitance associated with their oayout, which...
Reduction of Parasitic Capacitance in Vertical MOSFETs by Spacer Local Oxidation (2003)
Kunz, V Dominik, Uchino, Takashi, De Groot, C H (Kees), Ashburn, Peter, Donaghy, David C, Hall, Steven, ...
Application of double gate or surround-gate vertical metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistors (MOSFETs) is hindered by the parasitic overlap capacitance associated with their oayout, which...
Model-Independent Reconstruction of the Primordial Power Spectrum from WMAP Data (2003)
Reconstructing the shape of the primordial power spectrum in a model independent way from cosmological data is a useful consistency check on what is usually assumed regarding early universe physics....
Physical properties of the Dome Fuji deep ice core (2003)
Hondoh, Takeo, Narita, Hideki, Hori, Akira, Ikeda-Fukazawa, Tomoko, Fujii-Miyamoto, Michiko, Ohno, Hiroshi, ...
Recent results of physical analyses of the Dome Fuji ice core are summarized with special attention to new methods introduced in the present studies．Microphysical processes which affect the ice...
Galaxy Clustering and Dark Energy (2003)
Munshi, Dipak, Porciani, Cristiano, Wang, Yun
We study the evolution of galaxy clustering in various cosmological models with quintessence. We investigate how the analytical predictions vary with change of dark energy equation of state $w_X$....
Future Type Ia Supernova Data as Tests of Dark Energy from Modified Friedmann Equations (2003)
Wang, Yun, Freese, Katherine, Gondolo, Paolo, Lewis, Matthew
In the Cardassian model, dark energy density arises from modifications to the Friedmann equation, which becomes $H^2 = g(\rhom)$, where $g(\rhom)$ is a new function of the energy density. The...
Direct Wavelet Expansion of the Primordial Power Spectrum (2003)
In order to constrain and possibly detect unusual physics during inflation, we allow the power spectrum of primordial matter density fluctuations, P_{in}(k), to be an arbitrary function in the...
Wavelet Band Powers of the Primordial Power Spectrum from CMB Data (2003)
Measuring the primordial matter power spectrum is our primary means of probing unknown physics in the very early universe. We allow the primordial power spectrum to be an arbitrary function, and...
Leonid Baraz, Tevi Devor, Orna Etzion, Shalom Goldenberg, Alex Skaletsky, Yun Wang
IA-32 Execution Layer (IA-32 EL) is a new technology that executes IA-32 applications on Intel ® Itanium ® processor family systems. Currently, support for IA-32 applications on Itanium-based...
Dark energy effects on the Lyman-alpha forest (2002)
Viel, M., Matarrese, S., Theuns, Tom, Munshi, D., Wang, Yun
In quintessence models, the dark energy content of the universe is described by a slowly rolling scalar field whose pressure and energy density obey an equation of state of the form p=w $\rho$; w is...
How Sensitive Are Weak Lensing Statistics to Dark Energy Content? (2002)
Future weak lensing surveys will directly probe the clustering of dark matter, in addition to providing a test for various cosmological models. Recent studies have provided us with the tools which...
A universal probability distribution function for weak-lensing amplification (2002)
Wang, Yun, Holz, Daniel E., Munshi, Dipak
We present an approximate form for the weak lensing magnification distribution of standard candles, valid for all cosmological models, with arbitrary matter distributions, over all redshifts. Our...
Real-time system design using preemption thresholds [microform]. (2002)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Concordia University, 2001.
Wang, Yun, Gupta, Anirudh, Toledo-Rodriguez, Maria, Wu, Cai Zhi, Markram, Henry
Anatomical, electrophysiological and molecular diversity of basket cell-like interneurons in layers II–IV of rat somatosensory cortex were studied using patch-clamp electrodes filled with biocytin....
Thomson, Alex M., West, David C., Wang, Yun, Bannister, A. Peter
Dual and triple intracellular recordings with biocytin labelling in slices of adult neocortex explored small circuits of synaptically connected neurons. 679 paired recordings in rat and 319 in cat...
Unbiased Estimate of Dark Energy Density from Type Ia Supernova Data (2001)
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are currently the best probes of the dark energy in the universe. To constrain the nature of dark energy in a model-independent manner, we allow the density of dark...
LoSecco, John M., Mathews, Grant J., Wang, Yun
Observers have demonstrated that it is now feasible to measure the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature at high redshifts. We explore the possible constraints on cosmology which might...
Constraints on extra dimensions from cosmological and terrestrial measurements (2001)
Milton, Kimball A., Kantowski, Ronald, Kao, Chung, Wang, Yun
If quantum fields exist in extra compact dimensions, they will give rise to a quantum vacuum or Casimir energy. That vacuum energy will manifest itself as a cosmological constant. The fact that...
Measuring Time-Dependence of Dark Energy Density from Type Ia Supernova Data (2001)
Wang, Yun, Garnavich, Peter M.
Observations of high redshift supernovae imply an accelerating Universe which can only be explained by an unusual energy component such as vacuum energy or quintessence. To assess the ability of...
Model Independent Primordial Power Spectrum from Maxima, Boomerang, and DASI Data (2000)
A model-independent determination of the primordial power spectrum of matter density fluctuations could uniquely probe physics of the very early universe, and provide powerful constraints on...
Brass, Lawrence M., Lichtman, Judith H., Wang, Yun, Gurwitz, Jerry H., Radford, Martha J., Krumholz, Harlan M.
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Intracranial hemorrhage is a serious complication of thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, especially among the elderly, but little information exists on...
Crystallographic analysis of the Dome Fuji ice core (2000)
Azuma, Nobuhiko, Wang, Yun, Yoshida, Yasuo, Narita, Hideki, Hondoh, Takeo, Shoji, Hitoshi, ...
International Symposium on Physics of Ice Core Records. Shikotsukohan, Hokkaido, Japan, September 14-17, 1998.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sheffield, 2000.
Role of Chemotactic Factors in Neutrophil Activation After Thermal Injury in Rats (1999)
Piccolo, Maria-Thereza S., Wang, Yun, Verbrugge, Serge, Warner, Roscoe L., Sannomiya, Paulina, Piccolo, Nelson S., ...
Acute thermal trauma is well known to produce evidence of a “systemic inflammatory response” in vivo, as manifested by evidence of complement activation, appearance in plasma of a variety of...
Flux-averaging Analysis of Type Ia Supernova Data (1999)
Because of flux conservation, flux-averaging {\it justifies} the use of the distance-redshift relation for a smooth universe in the analysis of type Ia supernova (SN Ia) data. We have combined the SN...
Self-lensing of a Singular Isothermal Sphere (1999)
Many astrophysical systems can be approximated as isothermal spheres. In an isothermal sphere, the ``foreground'' objects can act as lenses on ``background'' objects in the same distribution. We...
A Model-Independent Photometric Redshift Estimator (1999)
Wang, Yun, Bahcall, Neta, Turner, Edwin L.
We derive a simple empirical photometric redshift estimator using a training set of galaxies with multiband photometry and measured redshifts in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). This estimator is...
Weak lensing leads to the non-Gaussian magnification distribution of standard candles at given redshift $z$, $p(\mu|z)$. In this paper, we give accurate and simple empirical fitting formulae of the...
Model-Independent Measurement of the Primordial Power Spectrum (1998)
Wang, Yun, Spergel, David N., Strauss, Michael A.
In inflationary models with minimal amount of gravity waves, the primordial power spectrum of density fluctuations, $A_S^2(k)$, together with the basic cosmological parameters, completely specify the...
Supernova pencil beam survey (1998)
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) can be calibrated to be good standard candles at cosmological distances. We propose a supernova pencil beam survey that could yield between dozens to hundreds of SNe Ia in...
A Catalog of Color-based Redshift Estimates for z (1998)
Wang, Yun, Bahcall, Neta, Turner, Edwin L.
We derive simple empirical color-redshift relations for $z\la 4$ galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) using a linear function of three photometric colors ($U-B$, $B-V$, $V-I$). The dispersion...
Wang, Yun, Spergel, David N., Strauss, Michael A.
The basic cosmological parameters and the primordial power spectrum together completely specify predictions for the cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy and large scale structure. Here we...
Wang, Yun, Stanley, E. Richard.
Advisor: E. Richard Stanley
A Time Domain Formulation for Identification in Electromagnetic Dispersion (1998)
Banks And Buksas, H. T. Banks, M. W. Buksas, Yun Wang
We present a time domain approach for the investigation of dispersion mechanisms of a medium in electromagnetic field problems. Maxwell's equations coupled with a generalized electric...
A Time Domain Formulation for Identification in Electromagnetic Dispersion (1998)
H. T. Banks, M. W. Buksas, Yun Wang
We present a time domain approach for the investigation of dispersion mechanisms of a medium in electromagnetic field problems. Maxwell's equations coupled with a generalized electric...
Yun Wang, David N. Spergel, Michael A. Strauss
The existence of primordial adiabatic Gaussian random-phase density fluctuations is a generic prediction of inflation. The properties of these fluctuations are completely specified by their power...
1. PERSONNEL During the reporting year the research staff consisted of (1998)
Neta Bahcall, Renyue Cen, Bruce Draine, Edward Fitzpatrick, Jeremy Goodman, J. Richard Gott, ...
This report provides a summary and bibliography for the research activities at the Princeton University Observatory and Department of Astrophysical Sciences during the period July 1, 1997 to June 30,...
Wang, Yun, Spergel, David N., Turner, Edwin L.
Low amplitude (linear regime) cosmic density fluctuations lead to spatial variations in the locally measurable value of $H_0$ (denoted as $H_L$), $\delta_H \equiv (H_L-H_0)/H_0$, which are of order...
Sulalman, Zahid M., Scoggins, Terrel E., Ripley, Payson E., Melkonian, Amy, Wang, Yun
In response to the need for a standardized methodology for altitude decompression sickness risk assessment across the wide range of exposures encountered in USAF flight operations, the Armstrong...
Caustics, Critical Curves and Cross Sections for Gravitational Lensing by Disk Galaxies (1997)
We study strong gravitational lensing by spiral galaxies, modeling them as infinitely thin uniform disks embedded in singular isothermal spheres. We derive general properties of the critical curves...
Astrophysical Effects of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events (1997)
Every astrophysical object (dark or not) is a gravitational lens, as well as a receiver/observer of the light from sources lensed by other objects in its neighborhood. For a given pair of source and...
Taiwanese consumers' attitude toward buying domestic versus U.S. made apparel /--by Yun Wang. (1997)
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Some quantum effects in confined low-dimensional systems / (1997)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Some quantum effects in confined low-dimensional systems [electronic resource] / (1997)
Thesis (M.Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Some quantum effects in confined low-dimensional systems / (1997)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Some quantum effects in confined low-dimensional systems / (1997)
Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997.
Kundic, Tomislav, Turner, Edwin L., Colley, Wesley N., Gott, J. Richard, Rhoads, James E., ...
Photometric monitoring of the gravitational lens system 0957+561A,B in the g and r bands with the Apache Point Observatory (APO) 3.5 m telescope during 1996 shows a sharp g band event in the trailing...
Sikivie, P., Tkachev, I. I., Wang, Yun
The spectrum of cold dark matter particles on Earth is expected to have peaks in velocity space associated with particles which are falling onto the Galaxy for the first time and with particles which...
Statistics of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events. II.The Small Shear Case (1996)
We consider an astrophysical system with a population of sources and a population of lenses. For each pair of source and lens, there is a thin on-axis tube-like volume behind the lens in which the...
Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves from Merging Neutron Star Binaries (1996)
Wang, Yun, Stebbins, Albert, Turner, Edwin L.
We discuss the gravitational lensing of gravitational waves from merging neutron star binaries, in the context of advanced LIGO type gravitational wave detectors. We consider properties of the...
The Cosmological Constant and Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors (1996)
Interferometric gravitational wave detectors could measure the frequency sweep of a binary inspiral [characterized by its chirp mass] to high accuracy. The observed chirp mass is the intrinsic chirp...
Reduction of hexavalent chromium at polypyrrole-modified electrodes /--by Yun Wang. (1996)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Texas at Arlington, 1996.
A Fast and Accurate Algorithm for Computing Tensor CBR Anisotropy (1995)
Inflation gives rise to a nearly scale-invariant spectrum of tensor perturbations (gravitational waves), their contribution to the Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR) anisotropy depends upon the...
Statistics of Extreme Gravitational Lensing Events. I.The Zero Shear Case (1995)
For a given source and lens pair, there is a thin on-axis tube-like volume behind the lens in which the radiation flux from the source is greatly increased due to gravitational lensing. Any objects...
The Statistics of Nearly On-Axis Gravitational Lensing Events (1995)
A small volume of space, nearly on-axis behind a gravitational lens with respect to a given source, will receive a greatly increased radiation flux. In the idealized case of a point mass lens acting...
The velocity peaks in the cold dark matter spectrum on Earth (1995)
Sikivie, P., Tkachev, I. I., Wang, Yun
The cold dark matter spectrum on earth is expected to have peaks in velocity space. We obtain estimates for the sizes and locations of these peaks. To this end we have generalized the secondary...
We present two simple analytical methods for computing the gravity wave contribution to the cosmic background radiation (CBR) anisotropy in inflationary models; one method uses a time-dependent...
An Alternative Understanding of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (1995)
Wang, Z., Zhu, Jian-Xin, Wang, Yun
We show that, in the presence of a strong magnetic field, a two-dimensional interacting electron gas can effectively be described by a Hamiltonian of `free' hard-core anions subject to the magnetic...
Hierarchical methods for three-dimensional surface reconstruction / (1995)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1995.
An Alternative Understanding of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (1995)
Wang, Z., Zhu, Jian-Xin, Wang, Yun
We show that, in the presence of a strong magnetic field, a two-dimensional interacting electron gas can effectively be described by a Hamiltonian of `free' hard-core anions subject to the magnetic...
An Alternative Understanding of the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect (1995)
Wang, Z., Zhu, Jian-Xin, Wang, Yun
We show that, in the presence of a strong magnetic field, a two-dimensional interacting electron gas can effectively be described by a Hamiltonian of `free' hard-core anions subject to the magnetic...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow, 1995.
Modeling And Parameter Estimation For An Imperfectly Clamped Plate (1995)
H. T. Banks, R. C. Smith, Yun Wang
In this paper, the modeling of boundary conditions for an imperfectly clamped circular plate is discussed. This model is derived under the assumption that there is some variation in both the boundary...
Polynomial Hybrid Inflation (1994)
We study a simple extension of Linde's hybrid inflation model, with the inflaton mass term replaced by the most general renormalizable potential for $\phi$. The unprocessed power spectrum of density...
Characterization of the interactions between tumor suppressor p53 and DNA / (1994)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1994.
H. T. Banks, D. E. Brown, Vern L. Metcalf, R. J. Silcox, R. C. Smith, Yun Wang
A problem of continued interest concerns the control of vibrations in a flexible structure and the related problem of reducing structure-borne noise in structural acoustic systems. In both cases,...
H. T. Banks, D. E. Brown, Vern L. Metcalf, R. J. Silcox, R. C. Smith, Yun Wang
A problem of continued interest concerns the control of vibrations in a flexible structure and the related problem of reducing structure-borne noise in structural acoustic systems. In both cases,...
H. T. Banks, R. C. Smith, Yun Wang
Based on a distributed parameter model for vibrations, an approximate finite dimensional dynamic compensator is designed to suppress vibrations (multiple modes with a broad band of frequencies) of a...
Mass and radius of cosmic balloons (1993)
This revised version uses Gauss-Codazzi equations to derive the exact mass and radius relations. The results remain qualitatively the same.
Axion detection in the milli-eV mass range (1993)
Sikivie, Pierre, Tanner, D. B., Wang, Yun
We propose an experimental scheme to search for galactic halo axions with mass $m_a \sim 10^{-3}$eV, which is above the range accessible with cavity techniques. The detector consists of a large...
C. Mohan, Don Haderle, Yun Wang, Josephine Cheng
Abstract Many data base management systems ’ query optimizers choose at most one index for accessing the records of a table in a given query, even though many indexes may exist on the table. In...
Nuclear structure studies with monoenergetic neutrons :--zirconium isotopes. (1988)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio University, November, 1988.
Japan's role in China's modernization, 1978-1986 / (1988)
Thesis (M.A.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1989.
Degree granted by Dept. of Civil Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering.
Differential signaling via the same axon of neocortical pyramidal neurons
Markram, Henry, Wang, Yun, Tsodyks, Misha
The nature of information stemming from a single neuron and conveyed simultaneously to several hundred target neurons is not known. Triple and quadruple neuron recordings revealed that each synaptic...
Tayar, Lamin, Higo, Kyoko, Kubo, Yoshinao, Wang, Yun, Lu, Ling-Min, Zhang, Fengmin, ...
The pathogenicities of the murine AIDS (MAIDS) virus complex (LP-BM5) and ecotropic helper virus (BM5eco) isolated from the complex to BALB/c nude mice were studied to elucidate the possible role of...
Effects of cerebral ischemia in mice deficient in Persephin
Tomac, Andreas C., Agulnick, Alan D., Haughey, Norman, Chang, Chen-Fu, Zhang, Yajun, Bäckman, Cristina, ...
Persephin (Pspn), a recently cloned member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily (TGF-β) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) subfamily, is distributed throughout the...
Wang, Yun, Liu, Xinran, Biederer, Thomas, Südhof, Thomas C.
RIMs are presynaptic active zone proteins that regulate neurotransmitter release. We describe two related genes that encode proteins with identical C-terminal sequences that bind to the conserved PDZ...
D2 receptor regulation of synaptic burst firing in prefrontal cortical pyramidal neurons
Wang, Yun, Goldman-Rakic, Patricia S.
The efficacy of antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia depends on their ability to block dopamine (DA) D2 receptors. D2 receptor excitatory mediation of glutamatergic receptors has been...
Kringen, Pedro, Wang, Yun, Dumeaux, Vanessa, Nesland, Jahn M, Kristensen, Gunnar, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, ...
Chi, Jen-Tsan, Wang, Zhen, Nuyten, Dimitry S. A, Rodriguez, Edwin H, Schaner, Marci E, Salim, Ali, ...
The transcriptional response to hypoxia varies between cell types. A gene-expression signature of the cellular response to hypoxia is associated with a significantly poorer prognosis in breast and...
Binding interactions of pefloxacin mesylate with bovine lactoferrin and human serum albumin*
Fan, Ji-cai, Chen, Xiang, Wang, Yun, Fan, Cheng-ping, Shang, Zhi-cai
The binding of pefloxacin mesylate (PFLX) to bovine lactoferrin (BLf) and human serum albumin (HSA) in dilute aqueous solution was studied using fluorescence spectra and absorbance spectra. The...
Jeggo, Ross D, Kellett, Daniel O, Wang, Yun, Ramage, Andrew G, Jordan, David
Brainstem 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin)-containing neurones modulate cardiovascular reflex responses but the differing roles of the many 5-HT receptors have not been thoroughly investigated....
Wang, Yun, Toledo-Rodriguez, Maria, Gupta, Anirudh, Wu, Caizhi, Silberberg, Gilad, Luo, Junyi, ...
Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings followed by histochemical staining and single-cell RT-PCR were obtained from 180 Martinotti interneurones located in layers II to VI of the somatosensory cortex of...
Association of Retail Tobacco Marketing With Adolescent Smoking
Henriksen, Lisa, Feighery, Ellen C., Wang, Yun, Fortmann, Stephen P.
A survey of 2125 middle-school students in central California examined adolescents’ exposure to tobacco marketing in stores and its association with self-reported smoking. Two thirds of sixth-,...
Differential signaling via the same axon of neocortical pyramidal neurons
Markram, Henry, Wang, Yun, Tsodyks, Misha
The nature of information stemming from a single neuron and conveyed simultaneously to several hundred target neurons is not known. Triple and quadruple neuron recordings revealed that each synaptic...
Tayar, Lamin, Higo, Kyoko, Kubo, Yoshinao, Wang, Yun, Lu, Ling-Min, Zhang, Fengmin, ...
The pathogenicities of the murine AIDS (MAIDS) virus complex (LP-BM5) and ecotropic helper virus (BM5eco) isolated from the complex to BALB/c nude mice were studied to elucidate the possible role of...
Effects of cerebral ischemia in mice deficient in Persephin
Tomac, Andreas C., Agulnick, Alan D., Haughey, Norman, Chang, Chen-Fu, Zhang, Yajun, Bäckman, Cristina, ...
Persephin (Pspn), a recently cloned member of the transforming growth factor-β superfamily (TGF-β) and glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) subfamily, is distributed throughout the...
Wang, Yun, Liu, Xinran, Biederer, Thomas, Südhof, Thomas C.
RIMs are presynaptic active zone proteins that regulate neurotransmitter release. We describe two related genes that encode proteins with identical C-terminal sequences that bind to the conserved PDZ...
D2 receptor regulation of synaptic burst firing in prefrontal cortical pyramidal neurons
Wang, Yun, Goldman-Rakic, Patricia S.
The efficacy of antipsychotics in the treatment of schizophrenia depends on their ability to block dopamine (DA) D2 receptors. D2 receptor excitatory mediation of glutamatergic receptors has been...
Kringen, Pedro, Wang, Yun, Dumeaux, Vanessa, Nesland, Jahn M, Kristensen, Gunnar, Borresen-Dale, Anne-Lise, ...
Chi, Jen-Tsan, Wang, Zhen, Nuyten, Dimitry S. A, Rodriguez, Edwin H, Schaner, Marci E, Salim, Ali, ...
The transcriptional response to hypoxia varies between cell types. A gene-expression signature of the cellular response to hypoxia is associated with a significantly poorer prognosis in breast and...
Association of Retail Tobacco Marketing With Adolescent Smoking
Henriksen, Lisa, Feighery, Ellen C., Wang, Yun, Fortmann, Stephen P.
A survey of 2125 middle-school students in central California examined adolescents’ exposure to tobacco marketing in stores and its association with self-reported smoking. Two thirds of sixth-,...
Jeggo, Ross D, Kellett, Daniel O, Wang, Yun, Ramage, Andrew G, Jordan, David
Brainstem 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT, serotonin)-containing neurones modulate cardiovascular reflex responses but the differing roles of the many 5-HT receptors have not been thoroughly investigated....
Binding interactions of pefloxacin mesylate with bovine lactoferrin and human serum albumin*
Fan, Ji-cai, Chen, Xiang, Wang, Yun, Fan, Cheng-ping, Shang, Zhi-cai
The binding of pefloxacin mesylate (PFLX) to bovine lactoferrin (BLf) and human serum albumin (HSA) in dilute aqueous solution was studied using fluorescence spectra and absorbance spectra. The...
Wang, Yun, Toledo-Rodriguez, Maria, Gupta, Anirudh, Wu, Caizhi, Silberberg, Gilad, Luo, Junyi, ...
Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings followed by histochemical staining and single-cell RT-PCR were obtained from 180 Martinotti interneurones located in layers II to VI of the somatosensory cortex of...
Qi, Jinshun, Wang, Yun, Jiang, Min, Warren, Philippa, Chen, Gong
Cyclothiazide (CTZ) is a potent blocker of AMPA receptor desensitization. We have recently demonstrated that CTZ also inhibits GABAA receptors. Here we report that CTZ induces robust epileptiform...
Crozier, Robert A., Wang, Yun, Liu, Cheng-Hang, Bear, Mark F.
Long-term depression (LTD) induced by low-frequency synaptic stimulation (LFS) was originally introduced as a model to probe potential mechanisms of deprivation-induced synaptic depression in visual...
Wang, Yun, Sherwood, John L, Miles, Colin P, Whiffin, Gary, Lodge, David
The in vivo effects of a selective partial agonist for neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChRs) α4β2 subtype, TC-2559, characterised recently in in vitro preparations, have been profiled....
Activity of C fibre cardiac vagal efferents in anaesthetized cats and rats
Jones, James F X, Wang, Yun, Jordan, David
Bradycardia can be evoked by stimulation of both myelinated and non-myelinated vagal efferent fibres. The on-going activity and synaptic inputs to cardiac vagal preganglionic neurones with myelinated...
Wang, Yun, Ramage, Andrew G, Jordan, David
Recordings were made from a total of sixty-four vagal preganglionic neurones in the dorsal vagal motor nucleus (DVMN) of pentobarbitone sodium anaesthetized rats. The effects of ionophoretic...
Wang, Yun, Jones, James F X, Jeggo, Ross D, De Burgh Daly, Michael, Jordan, David, Ramage, Andrew G
It has been demonstrated previously that the vagal bradycardia evoked by activation of pulmonary C-fibres is not respiratory modulated. Experiments were carried out in α-chloralose anaesthetized...
Experiments were performed to determine whether 5-HT1A receptors (a) modulate the activity of cardiac and bronchoconstrictor vagal preganglionic neurones (CVPNs and BVPNs) in the nucleus ambiguus...
Serum biomarker profiles and response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced breast cancer
Nolen, Brian M, Marks, Jeffrey R, Ta'san, Shlomo, Rand, Alex, Luong, The Minh, Wang, Yun, ...
Wang, Qian, Wang, Yun, Liang, Changyong, Song, Jianhua, Chen, Xinwen
The HA2 protein of the Helicoverpa armigera single-nucleocapsid nucleopolyhedrovirus (HearNPV) is a WASP homology protein capable of nucleating branched actin filaments in the presence of the Arp2/3...
Wang, Yun, Wang, Qian, Liang, Changyong, Song, Jianhua, Li, Ni, Shi, Hui, ...
Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus (AcMNPV) BV/ODV-c42 (orf101; c42), which encodes a 41.5-kDa viral nucleocapsid protein with a putative nuclear localization signal (NLS) motif at...
Effects of general anesthetics on visceral pain transmission in the spinal cord
Wang, Yun, Wu, Jing, Lin, Qing, Nauta, HJ, Yue, Yun, Fang, Li
Current evidence suggests an analgesic role for the spinal cord action of general anesthetics; however, the cellular population and intracellular mechanisms underlying anti-visceral pain by general...
Maeng, Sungho, Hunsberger, Joshua G., Pearson, Brandon, Yuan, Peixiong, Wang, Yun, Wei, Yanling, ...
Recent microarray studies with stringent validating criteria identified Bcl-2-associated athanogene (BAG1) as a target for the actions of medications that are mainstays in the treatment of bipolar...
Factors associated with time to laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis
Daniak, Chris N, Peretz, David, Fine, Jonathan M, Wang, Yun, Meinke, Alan K, Hale, William B
AIM: To determine patient and process of care factors associated with performance of timely laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis.
Dynamic regulation of mitochondrial function by glucocorticoids
Du, Jing, Wang, Yun, Hunter, Richard, Wei, Yanling, Blumenthal, Rayah, Falke, Cynthia, ...
Glucocorticoids play an important biphasic role in modulating neural plasticity; low doses enhance neural plasticity and spatial memory behavior, whereas chronic, higher doses produce inhibition. We...
Extraordinary electroconductance in metal-semiconductor hybrid structures
Wang, Yun, Newaz, A. K. M., Wu, Jian, Solin, S. A., Kavasseri, V. R., Jin, N., ...
We report the phenomenon of extraordinary electroconductance in microscopic metal-semiconductor hybrid structures fabricated from GaAs epitaxial layer and a Ti thin film shunt. Four-lead Van der Pauw...
Wang, Yun, Torres-Gonzalez, Moises, Tripathy, Sasmita, Botolin, Daniela, Christian, Barbara, Jump, Donald B.
Hepatic fatty acid elongase-5 (Elovl-5) plays an important role in long chain monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acid synthesis. Elovl-5 activity is regulated during development, by diet,...
Hibernation-like state induced by an opioid peptide protects against experimental stroke
Borlongan, Cesar V, Hayashi, Teruo, Oeltgen, Peter R, Su, Tsung-Ping, Wang, Yun
Hou, Jiang-Long, Gao, Ke, Li, Mei, Ma, Jian-Yang, Shi, Ying-Kang, Wang, Yun, ...
AIM: To evaluate the value of plasma N-terminal pro- brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level for predicting postoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) in patients undergoing surgery for esophageal...
Kamalakaran, Sitharthan, Kendall, Jude, Zhao, Xiaoyue, Tang, Chunlao, Khan, Sohail, Ravi, Kandasamy, ...
Methylation of CpG islands associated with genes can affect the expression of the proximal gene, and methylation of non-associated CpG islands correlates to genomic instability. This epigenetic...
Li, Yazhou, Perry, TracyAnn, Kindy, Mark S., Harvey, Brandon K., Tweedie, David, Holloway, Harold W., ...
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an endogenous insulinotropic peptide secreted from the gastrointestinal tract in response to food intake. It enhances pancreatic islet β-cell proliferation and...
Evidence of ultraviolet type mutations in xeroderma pigmentosum melanomas
Wang, Yun, DiGiovanna, John J., Stern, Jere B., Hornyak, Thomas J., Raffeld, Mark, Khan, Sikandar G., ...
To look for a direct role of ultraviolet radiation (UV) exposure in cutaneous melanoma induction, we studied xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients who have defective DNA repair resulting in a 1000-fold...