Compressing inertial motion data in wireless sensing systems – an initial experiment (2008)
Cheng, L., Hailes, S., Cheng, Z., Hang, D., Yang, Y.
The use of wireless inertial motion sensors, such as accelerometers, for supporting medical care and sport’s training, has been under investigation in recent years. As the number of sensors (or...
An experimental study on a motion sensing system for sports training (2008)
Cheng, L., Hailes, S., Leung, D., Fan, F., Yang, Y., Cheng, Z.
In sports science, motion data collected from athletes is used to derive key performance characteristics, such as stride length and stride frequency, that are vital coaching support information. The...
Targeting Low-arsenic Groundwater with Mobile-phone Technology in Araihazar, Bangladesh (2007)
A. Van Geen, M. Trevisani, J. Immel, Md. Jakariya, N. Osman, Z. Cheng, ...
The Bangladesh Arsenic Mitigation and Water Supply Program (BAMWSP) has compiled field-kit measurements of the arsenic content of groundwater for nearly five million wells. By comparing the spatial...
Wathes, D.C., Bourne, N., Cheng, Z., Taylor, V.J., Brotherstone, S., Coffey, M.P.
Results from 4 studies were combined (representing a total of 500 lactations) to investigate the relationships between metabolic parameters and fertility in dairy cows. Information was collected on...
Cheng, Z., Kannan, C. V., Ozawa, K., Kimura, H., Wang, X. L.
Samarium doped bismuth titanate thin films with the composition of Bi3.25Sm0.75Ti3O12 and with strong preferred orientations along the c axis and the (117) direction were fabricated on...
Wathes, D.C., Cheng, Z., Bourne, N., Taylor, V.J., Coffey, M.P., Brotherstone, S.
During the early postpartum period dairy cows mobilize fat and muscle to support lactation. This is associated with alterations in blood metabolite and hormone profiles which in turn influence milk...
Cheng, Z., Wang, X. L., Kannan, C. V., Ozawa, K., Kimura, H., Nishida, T., ...
Multiferroic BiFeO3/Bi3.25Sm0.75Ti2.98V0.02O12 double-layered thin films on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si were fabricated using the pulsed-laser deposition technique. The films showed greatly enhanced ferroelectric...
Sharp, A.J., Hansen, S., Selzer, R.R., Cheng, Z., Regan, R., Hurst, J.A., ...
Genomic disorders are characterized by the presence of flanking segmental duplications that predispose these regions to recurrent rearrangement. Based on the duplication architecture of the genome,...
Numerical Analysis of the Channel Wheel Fresh Air Ventilator Under Frosting Conditions (2006)
Gao, B., Dong, Z., Cheng, Z., Luo, E.
As new equipment, the channel wheel fresh air ventilator has become increasingly popular in recent years. However, when such equipment is operated under low ambient temperature in the freezing area...
Cheng, Z., Kannan, C. V., Ozawa, K., Kimura, H., Wang, X. L.
Samarium doped bismuth titanate thin films with the composition of Bi3.25Sm0.75Ti3O12 and with strong preferred orientations along the c axis and the (117) direction were fabricated on...
Cheng, Z., Wang, X. L., Kannan, C. V., Ozawa, K., Kimura, H., Nishida, T., ...
Multiferroic BiFeO3/Bi3.25Sm0.75Ti2.98V0.02O12 double-layered thin films on Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si were fabricated using the pulsed-laser deposition technique. The films showed greatly enhanced ferroelectric...
Mueller, L.A., Tanksley, S.D., Giovannoni, J.J., Stack, S., Choi, D., ...
The genome of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is being sequenced by an international consortium of 10 countries (Korea, China, the United Kingdom, India, The Netherlands, France, Japan, Spain, Italy...
A genome-wide comparison of recent chimpanzee and human segmental duplications (2005)
Cheng, Z., Ventura, M., She, X. W., Khaitovich, Philipp, Graves, T., Osoegawa, K., ...
We present a global comparison of differences in content of segmental duplication between human and chimpanzee, and determine that 33% of human duplications (>94% sequence identity) are not...
Taylor, V.J., Cheng, Z., Pushpakumara, P.G.A., Beever, D.E., Wathes, D.C.
The relationships between insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) and the fertility and milk yield of Holstein-Friesian dairy cows were investigated. The concentration of IGF-I in blood was measured...
Wang, X. L., Takayama-Muromachi, E., Li, A. H., Cheng, Z., Keshavarzi, S., Qin, M. J., ...
Bi2-xPbxSr2Ca1-yGdyCu2O8 + delta (x = 0.34 and y = 0.18, 0.34) crystals were grown by the self-flux method. The crystals have a cleavage thickness of only half unit cell up to two unit cells with Tc...
Wang, X. L., Takayama-Muromachi, E., Li, A. H., Cheng, Z., Keshavarzi, S., Qin, M. J., ...
Bi2-xPbxSr2Ca1-yGdyCu2O8 + delta (x = 0.34 and y = 0.18, 0.34) crystals were grown by the self-flux method. The crystals have a cleavage thickness of only half unit cell up to two unit cells with Tc...
Wathes, D. C., Taylor, V. J., Cheng, Z., Mann, G. E.
Absent or irregular ovarian cycles in lactating dairy cows are caused by failure to ovulate the dominant follicle at the appropriate time. The follicle then either regresses or develops into a cyst....
A Modeling and Execution Environment for Distributed Scientific Workflows (2003)
Altintas, I., Bhagwanani, S., Buttler, D., Chandra, S., Cheng, Z., Coleman, M., ...
Boer, F.R. De, Cheng, Z., Shen, B.G., Yan, Q., Guo, H., Chen, D.F., ...
Boer, F.R. De, Shen, B.G., Cheng, Z., Wang, F., Yan, Q., Tang, H., ...
Simple miniaturized gel system for DNA sequence analysis.
Stein, A, Hill, S A, Cheng, Z, Bina, M
A simple miniaturized gel system suitable for DNA sequencing is described. Small ultrathin polyacrylamide gels are cast, eight or more at a time, using standard microscope slides. Gels, ready to use,...
Knott, V, Rees, D J, Cheng, Z, Brownlee, G G
Sets of overlapping cosmid clones generated by random sampling and fingerprinting methods complement data at pyrB (96.5') and oriC (84') in the published physical map of E. coli. A new cloning...
Jackson, S A, Cheng, Z, Wang, M L, Goodman, H M, Jiang, J
Comparative genome studies are important contributors to our understanding of genome evolution. Most comparative genome studies in plants have been based on genetic mapping of homologous DNA loci in...
Development and applications of a complete set of rice telotrisomics.
Cheng, Z, Yan, H, Yu, H, Tang, S, Jiang, J, Gu, M, ...
We previously isolated a complete set of primary trisomics along with many other aneuploids from triploid plants derived from an indica rice variety "Zhongxian 3037." About 30,000 progeny from these...
Cheng, Z, Presting, G G, Buell, C R, Wing, R A, Jiang, J
Large-scale physical mapping has been a major challenge for plant geneticists due to the lack of techniques that are widely affordable and can be applied to different species. Here we present a...
Elmes, M, Green, LR, Poore, K, Newman, J, Burrage, D, Abayasekara, DRE, ...
Preterm labour is the major cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality in humans. The incidence is around 10% and the causes are often unknown. Consumption of dietary n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids...
Zhou, X, Cole, S, Rao, N, Cheng, Z, Li, Y, McBride, J, ...
DNA copy number abnormalities (CNA) are characteristic of tumours, and are also found in association with congenital anomalies and mental retardation. The ultimate impact of copy number abnormalities...
Noninvasive molecular imaging of small living subjects using Raman spectroscopy
Keren, S., Zavaleta, C., Cheng, Z., Gheysens, O., Gambhir, S. S.
Molecular imaging of living subjects continues to rapidly evolve with bioluminescence and fluorescence strategies, in particular being frequently used for small-animal models. This article presents...