Zheng Liu

Publication List Details

Period

1991 - 2009

Number

165

Co-Authors

Inhibitory short synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides and lupus (2009)

Liu, Zheng, Davidson, Anne

Abstract B cells and antigen-presenting cells express a group of intracellular Toll-like receptors (TLRs) that recognize nucleic acids and can be accessed only when apoptotic debris or immune...

Activated mammalian target of rapamycin is associated with T regulatory cell insufficiency in nasal polyps (2009)

Xu, Geng, Xia, Jiahong, Hua, Xiaoyang, Zhou, Han, Yu, Chuanzhao, Liu, Zheng, ...

Abstract Background Decreased infiltration of Foxp3+ T regulatory cell (Treg) is considered to be critical for the Th1/Th2 dysregulation of nasal polyps, while the cellular mechanism underlying...

Prediction of Disease Severity in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis by Gene Expression Profiling (2009)

Zheng Liu, Tuulikki Sokka, Kevin Maas, Nancy J. Olsen, Thomas M. Aune

In order to test the ability of peripheral blood gene expression profiles to predict future disease severity in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a group of 17 patients (1±0.2...

Prediction of Disease Severity in Patients with Early Rheumatoid Arthritis by Gene Expression Profiling (2009)

Zheng Liu, Tuulikki Sokka, Kevin Maas, Nancy J. Olsen, Thomas M. Aune

In order to test the ability of peripheral blood gene expression profiles to predict future disease severity in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a group of 17 patients (1±0.2 years...

Direct Fingerprinting on Multicasting Compressed Video (2008)

Zheng Liu, Xue Li, Zhaoyang Dong

A video fingerprint is a kind of digital watermark used in digital video for tracking pirate copies in a multi-user environment. Different users receive the same video with different watermarks...

Processing Laser Range Image for the Investigation on the Long-Term Performance of Ductile Iron Pipe (2008)

Zheng Liu, Dennis Krys, Balvant Rajani, Homayoun Najjaran

Processing laser range image for the investigation on the long-term performance of ductile iron pipe NRCC-49697

Classification Rules that Include Neutral Zones and their Application to Microbial Community Profiling (2008)

Daniel R. Jeske, Zheng Liu, Elizabeth Bent, James Borneman

Abstract: We extend the classical one-dimensional Bayes binary classifier to create a classification rule that has a region of neutrality, to account for cases where the implied weight of evidence is...

Do Nominal Rigidities Matter for the Transmission of Technology Shocks? (2008)

Liu, Zheng, Phaneuf, Louis

A commonly held view is that nominal rigidities are important for the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We argue that they are also important for understanding the dynamic effects of technology...

Do Nominal Rigidities Matter for the Transmission of Technology Shocks? (2008)

Liu, Zheng, Phaneuf, Louis

A commonly held view is that nominal rigidities are important for the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We argue that they are also important for understanding the dynamic effects of technology...

Human prion disease with a G114V mutation and epidemiological studies in a Chinese family: a case series (2008)

Ye, Jing, Han, Jun, Shi, Qi, Zhang, Bao-Yun, Wang, Gui-Rong, Tian, Chan, ...

Abstract Introduction Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases of humans and animals. Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, in which mutations in the PRNP...

Prognostic implication of p27Kip1, Skp2 and Cks1 expression in renal cell carcinoma: a tissue microarray study (2008)

Liu, Zheng, Fu, Qiang, Lv, Jiaju, Wang, Facheng, Ding, Kejia

Abstract Background p27 Kip1 plays a major role as a negative regulator of the cell cycle. The regulation of p27 Kip1 degradation is mediated by its specific ubiquitin ligase subunits S-phase kinase...

2002) Staggered price setting, staggered wage setting, and business cycle persistence (2008)

Zheng Liu

Staggered price-setting and staggered wage-setting are commonly viewed as similar mechanisms in generating persistent real effects of monetary shocks. In this paper, we distinguish the two mechanisms...

: //pefmath.etf.bg.ac.yu NOTE ON IYENGAR’S INEQUALITY (2008)

Zheng Liu

The classical Iyengar’s inequality and its generalization are recaptured on certain weaker conditions. A related Iyengar’s type integral inequality and its generalization are also considered. 1.

Multi-Robot Concurrent Learning of Fuzzy Rules for Cooperation (2008)

Zheng Liu, Marcelo H. Ang

Abstract — For multi-robot systems, how to achieve cooperation is one of the key research issues. In this paper, a reinforcement learning approach based on fuzzy logic is proposed for multi-robot...

A catalytic reaction inside a single-walled carbon nanotube (2008)

Shiozawa, Hidetsugu, Pichler, Thomas, Grueneis, Alexander, Pfeiffer, Rudolf, Kuzmany, Hans, Liu, Zheng, ...

A catalytic reaction inside a single-walled carbon nanotube is demonstrated by using encapsulated ferrocene molecules as precursors. A combined spectroscopic an microscopic study unravels the...

Visibility-based Exploration in Unknown Environment Containing Structured Obstacles (2008)

Tirthankar B, Zheng Liu, Marcelo H. Ang, Winston Khoon, Guan Seah

How to enable a robot to explore in an unknown environment containing obstacles via local sensing is an important research issue for robot navigation, map building, and localization. In this paper, a...

ZnO tetrapods designed as multiterminal sensors to distinguish false responses and increase sensitivity (2008)

Zhang, Zengxing, Sun, Lianfeng, Zhao, Yuanchun, Liu, Zheng, Liu, Dongfang, Cao, Li, ...

Individual zinc oxide tetrapods were designed as multiterminal sensors by the e-beam lithography method. Different from double-terminal sensors, these sensors can give multiple responses to a single...

Bis(2,4-dibromo-6-formylphenolato-κ2O,O′)copper(II) (2008)

Guang Zhao Li, Shu Hua Zhang, Zheng Liu

In the title compound, [Cu(C7H3Br2O2)2], the CuII atom, which lies on an inversion centre, is coordinated by four O atoms from two chelating bidentate 2,4-dibromo-6-formylphenolate ligands in a...

4-(Methylsulfanyl)-2-(p-toluenesulfonamido)butanoic acid (2008)

Li Wang, Zheng Liu, Yong Liao Wang

In the title compound, C12H17NO4S2, the carboxyl groups link the molecules into centrosymmetric dimers through O—H...O hydrogen bonds. An N—H...O hydrogen bond between the NH group of the...

(3,5-Dichlorosalicylaldehyde thiosemicarbazonato-κ3S,N1,O)(N,N′-dimethylformamide-κO)copper(II) dimethylformamide solvate (2008)

Yuan Wang, Zheng Liu, Jiong-Yang Gao

In the title compound, [Cu(C8H5Cl2N3OS)(C3H7NO)]·C3H7NO, the CuII atom is coordinated in a slightly distorted square-planar geometry by an O, an S and an N atom from the tridentate ligand...

{2-[(3,5-Dichloro-2-oxidobenzylidene)amino-κ2N,O]-3-methylpentanoato-κO}(N,N′-dimethylformamide-κO)copper(II) (2008)

Jin Hong Xia, Zheng Liu, Yuan Wang, Xiao Zhen Feng

In the title compound, [Cu(C13H13Cl2NO3)(C3H7NO)], the CuII atom is coordinated in a slightly distorted square-planar geometry by two O atoms and one N atom from the tridentate chiral ligand...

μ-4,4′-Bipyridine-κ2N:N′-bis{[2-(3,5-dibromo-2-oxidobenzylideneamino)-3-hydroxypropanoato-κ3O,N,O′]copper(II)} monohydrate (2008)

Yong Liao Wang, Zheng Liu, Yuan Wang

The title compound, [Cu2(C10H7Br2NO4)2(C10H8N2)]·H2O, is a binuclear copper(II) complex. Both Cu atoms are four-coordinate in a square-planar geometry. In addition, there is one water...

μ-4,4′-Bipyridine-κ2N:N′-bis{[2-(3,5-dibromo-2-oxidobenzylideneamino)-3-hydroxypropanoato-κ3O,N,O′]copper(II)} monohydrate (2008)

Yong Liao Wang, Zheng Liu, Yuan Wang

The title compound, [Cu2(C10H7Br2NO4)2(C10H8N2)]·H2O, is a binuclear copper(II) complex. Both Cu atoms are four-coordinate in a square-planar geometry. In addition, there is one water molecule...

EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK WORKING PAPER SERIES WORKING PAPER NO � 173 OPENNESS AND EQUILIBRIUM DETERMINACY UNDER INTEREST RATE RULES (2007)

Xy Iuq Yixxiff, De Fiore, De Fiore, Zheng Liu, Zheng Liu

This paper shows that the conditions under which inflation-targeting interest rate rules lead to equilibrium uniqueness in a small open economy in general di#er from those in a closed economy. As the...

Study of gene function based on spatial co-expression in a high-resolution mouse brain atlas (2007)

Liu, Zheng, Yan, S Frank, Walker, John R, Zwingman, Theresa A, Jiang, Tao, Li, Jing, ...

Abstract Background The Allen Brain Atlas (ABA) project systematically profiles three-dimensional high-resolution gene expression in postnatal mouse brains for thousands of genes. By unveiling gene...

Study of gene function based on spatial co-expression in a high-resolution mouse brain atlas. (2007)

Liu, Zheng, Yan, S Frank, Walker, John R, Zwingman, Theresa A, Jiang, Tao, Li, Jing, ...

BACKGROUND: The Allen Brain Atlas (ABA) project systematically profiles three-dimensional high-resolution gene expression in postnatal mouse brains for thousands of genes. By unveiling gene behaviors...

ABSTRACT Investment-Specific Technological Change, Skill Accumulation, and Wage Inequality (2007)

Hui He, Zheng Liu

Wage inequality between education groups in the United States has increased substantially since the early 1980s. The relative number of college-educated workers has also increased dramatically in the...

Asymmetric Expectation Effects of Regime Shifts and the Great Moderation (2007)

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha, Nobu Kiyotaki, Especially Michael Golosov

The possibility of regime shifts in monetary policy can have important effects on rational agents’ expectation formation and equilibrium dynamics. In a DSGE model where the monetary policy rule...

ANALYSIS OF HUMAN IMMUNE MEDIATED DISEASES AND THEIR MURINE MODELS BY GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING (2006)

Liu, Zheng

Autoimmune and atopic diseases are immune-mediated multigenic diseases. The work of this thesis tests the hypothesis of performing gene expression profiling using peripheral blood mononuclear cells...

ANALYSIS OF HUMAN IMMUNE MEDIATED DISEASES AND THEIR MURINE MODELS BY GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING (2006)

Liu, Zheng

Autoimmune and atopic diseases are immune-mediated multigenic diseases. The work of this thesis tests the hypothesis of performing gene expression profiling using peripheral blood mononuclear cells...

Simultaneous Compensation of RC Mismatch and Clock Skew in Time-Interleaved S/H Circuits (2006)

LIU, Zheng, FURUTA, Masanori, KAWAHITO, Shoji

The RC mismatch among S/H stages for time-interleaved ADCs causes a phase error and a gain error and the phase error is dominant. The paper points out that clock skew and the phase error caused by...

Identification of gene expression signatures in autoimmune disease without the influence of familial resemblance (2006)

Liu, Zheng, Maas, Kevin, Aune, Thomas M.

Even though autoimmune diseases are heterogeneous, believed to result from the interaction between genetic and environmental components, patients with these disorders exhibit reproducible patterns of...

Gains from coordination in a multi-sector open economy : does it pay to be different? (2005)

Liu, Zheng, Pappa, Evi

This paper presents a new argument for international monetary policy coordination based on considerations of structural asymmetries across countries. In a two-country world with a traded and a...

Gains from coordination in a multi-sector open economy : does it pay to be different? (2005)

Liu, Zheng, Pappa, Evi

This paper presents a new argument for international monetary policy coordination based on considerations of structural asymmetries across countries. In a two-country world with a traded and a...

Gains from coordination in a multi-sector open economy : does it pay to be different? (2005)

Liu, Zheng, Pappa, Evi

This paper presents a new argument for international monetary policy coordination based on considerations of structural asymmetries across countries. In a two-country world with a traded and a...

Improvements on multimedia security algorithms / (2005)

Liu, Zheng.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2005.

Improvements on multimedia security algorithms / (2005)

Liu, Zheng.

Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Queensland, 2005.

Note on IYENGAR's inequality (2005)

Zheng Liu

The classical IYENGAR's inequality and its generalization are recaptured on certain weaker conditions. A related IYENGAR's type integral inequality and its generalization are also considered .

A fast algorithm for approximate string matching on gene sequences (2005)

Zheng Liu, James Borneman, Tao Jiang

Abstract. Approximate string matching is a fundamental and challenging problem in computer science, for which a fast algorithm is highly demanded in many applications including text processing and...

Multiple-UUV approach for enhancing connectivity in underwater ad-hoc sensor networks (2005)

Hwee-xian Tan, Zheng Liu, Marcelo H. Ang

Abstract- Underwater sensor networks typically comprise of sensor nodes that are deployed in sufficiently large numbers for data collection, monitoring and surveillance. The acquired data is relayed...

Three-dimensional display and arbitrary region interactive segmentation of high-resolution virus capsids from cryo-electron microscopy single particle reconstruction (2005)

Li, Jing, Liu, Zheng, Li, Kun-peng, Cui, Jin-ming, Zhang, Qin-fen, Li, Yin-yin, ...

Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) instrumentation and single particle reconstruction have created opportunities for high-throughput and high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D)...

Three-dimensional display and arbitrary region interactive segmentation of high-resolution virus capsids from cryo-electron microscopy single particle reconstruction (2005)

Li, Jing, Liu, Zheng, Li, Kun-peng, Cui, Jin-ming, Zhang, Qin-fen, Li, Yin-yin, ...

Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) instrumentation and single particle reconstruction have created opportunities for high-throughput and high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D)...

Identification of gene expression signatures in autoimmune disease without the influence of familial resemblance (2005)

Liu, Zheng, Maas, Kevin, Aune, Thomas M.

Even though autoimmune diseases are heterogeneous, believed to result from the interaction between genetic and environmental components, patients with these disorders exhibit reproducible patterns of...

Three-dimensional display and arbitrary region interactive segmentation of high-resolution virus capsids from cryo-electron microscopy single particle reconstruction (2005)

Li, Jing, Liu, Zheng, Li, Kun-peng, Cui, Jin-ming, Zhang, Qin-fen, Li, Yin-yin, ...

Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) instrumentation and single particle reconstruction have created opportunities for high-throughput and high-resolution three-dimensional (3-D)...

Finding top-k frequent balls in high dimensional spaces / (2004)

Liu, Zheng.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004.

Input-output structure and nominal rigidity: the persistence problem revisited (2004)

Zheng Liu

This paper revisits an important issue concerning the persistent real effect of a shock to monetary policy. Although recent sentiment has shifted away from price stickiness toward wage stickiness in...

Electron Microscopy Study of Novel Pt Nanowires Synthesized in the Spaces of Silica Mesoporous Materials (2002)

Terasaki, Osamu, Liu, Zheng, Ohsuna, Tetsu, Shin, Hyun June, Ryoo, Ryong

Structures of Pt-nanowires, synthesized in channels of silica mesoporous materials MCM-41, SBA-15 and MCM-48, were investigated by transmission electron microscopy. One dimensional (I D) Pt-nanowires...

Ordered nanoporous arrays of carbon supporting high dispersions of platinum nanoparticles (2001)

Joo, Sang Hoon, Choi, Seong Jae, Oh, Ilwhan, Kwak, Juhyoun, Liu, Zheng, Terasaki, Osamu, ...

Nanostructured carbon materials are potentially of great technological interest for the development of electronic(1,2), catalytic(3,4) and hydrogen-storage systems(5,6). Here we describe a general...

An HREM Study of Channel Structures in Mesoporous Silica SBA-15 and Platinum Wires Produced in the Channels (2001)

Liu, Zheng, Terasaki, Osamu, Ohsuna, Tetsu, Hiraga, Kenji, Shin, Hyun June, Ryoo, Ryong

The hyperbolic geometry of the pores in SBA-15 are drawn into a three-dimensional structure by small lateral pores, distributed in a random way, as shown in the picture, which interconnect the main...

Template Synthesis of Asymmetrically Mesostructured Platinum Networks (2001)

Shin, Hyun June, Ryoo, Ryong, Liu, Zheng, Terasaki, Osamu

This work was supported by Korea Ministry of Science and Technology (R.R.) and by CREST, Japan Science and Technology Corporation (O.T.).

Synthesis of New, Nanoporous Carbon with Hexagonally Ordered Mesostructure (2000)

Jun, Shinae, Joo, Sang Hoon, Kruk, Michal, Jaroniec, Mietek, Liu, Zheng, Ohsuna, Tetsu

R.R. is thankful for financial support by Korean Research Foundation (1998-010-180). M.J. and M.K. acknowledge donors of the Petroleum Research Fund administered by the American Chemical Society....

Chain of Production as a Monetary Propagation Mechanism (1999)

Kevin Huang Utah, Zheng Liu

This paper studies a general equilibrium model with multiple stages of production and asynchronized price setting that provides a new explanation for the observed persistent real effects of monetary...

Chain of production as a monetary propagation mechanism, Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics Discussion Paper 130, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (1999)

Zheng Liu

This paper studies a general equilibrium model with multiple stages of production and asynchronized price setting that provides a new explanation for the observed persistent real effects of monetary...

Gains from International Monetary Policy Coordination: Does It Pay to Be Different?

Evi Pappa, Zheng Liu

This paper presents a new argument for international monetary policy coordination based on considerations of structural asymmetries across countries. In a two-country world with a traded and a...

Gains from Coordination in a Multi-Sector Open Economy: Does it Pay to be Different?

Zheng Liu, Evi Pappa

Do countries gain by coordinating their monetary policies if they have different economic structures? We address this issue in the context of a new open-economy macro model with a traded and a...

Temptation and Self-Control: Some Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Zheng Liu

Temptation, Self-Control, Gul-Pesendorfer Preferences, Asset Pricing

Gains from Coordination in a Multi-Sector Open Economy: Does It Pay to Be Different?

Zheng Liu, Evi Pappa

Do countries gain by coordinating their monetary policies if they have different economic structures? We address this issue in the context of a new open-economy macro model with a traded and a...

Temptation and Self-Control: Some Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Survey

Zheng Liu, Qi Zhu

This paper empirically estimates a balanced-growth consistent, dynamic, structural model of intertemporal consumption and asset pricing that allows for, but does not assume, the Gul-Pesendorfer...

Why does the cyclical behavior of real wages change over time?

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

This paper seeks to understand the evolution of the cyclical behavior of U.S. real wage rates from the interwar period to the post World War II period using a dynamic general equilibrium model that...

Input-Output Structure and Nominal Rigidity: The Persistence Problem Revisited.

Huang, Kevin X D, Liu, Zheng

This paper revisits an important issue concerning the persistent real effect of a shock to monetary policy. Although recent sentiment has shifted away from price stickiness toward wage stickiness in...

Why Does the Cyclical Behavior of Real Wages Change Over Time?

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

The cyclical behavior of real wages has evolved from mildly countercyclical during the interwar period to modestly procyclical in the postwar era. This paper presents a general-equilibrium...

Steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) enhances ligand-dependent and receptor-dependent cell-free transcription of chromatin

Liu, Zheng, Wong, Jiemin, Tsai, Sophia Y., Tsai, Ming-Jer, O’Malley, Bert W.

Progesterone receptor (PR) functions as a transcription factor that modulates the transcription of target genes in response to progesterone and other signals. The transcriptional activity of PR...

Three-dimensional reconstruction of the recombinant type 3 ryanodine receptor and localization of its amino terminus

Liu, Zheng, Zhang, Jing, Sharma, Manjuli R., Li, Pin, Chen, S. R. Wayne, Wagenknecht, Terence

Recombinant type 3 ryanodine receptor (RyR3) has been purified in quantities sufficient for structural characterization by cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. Two cDNAs...

Memory from the dynamics of intrinsic membrane currents

Marder, Eve, Abbott, L. F., Turrigiano, Gina G., Liu, Zheng, Golowasch, Jorge

Almost all theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanisms underlying learning and memory focus on synaptic efficacy and make the implicit assumption that changes in synaptic efficacy are both...

Sequential recruitment of steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) and p300 enhances progesterone receptor-dependent initiation and reinitiation of transcription from chromatin

Liu, Zheng, Wong, Jiemin, Tsai, Sophia Y., Tsai, Ming-Jer, O'Malley, Bert W.

Employing a cell-free chromatin transcription system that recapitulates progesterone receptor (PR)-mediated transcription in vivo, we have investigated further the coactivator functions of steroid...

Cdc25B Functions as a Novel Coactivator for the Steroid Receptors

Ma, Zhi-Qing, Liu, Zheng, Ngan, Elly S. W., Tsai, Sophia Y.

We have previously demonstrated that overexpression of Cdc25B in transgenic mice resulted in mammary gland hyperplasia and increased steroid hormone responsiveness. To address how Cdc25B enhances the...

Coactivator/corepressor ratios modulate PR-mediated transcription by the selective receptor modulator RU486

Liu, Zheng, Auboeuf, Didier, Wong, Jiemin, Chen, J. Don, Tsai, Sophia Y., Tsai, Ming-Jer, ...

Selective receptor modulators, such as the antiprogestin RU486, are known to exhibit partial agonist activities in a cell-type-dependent manner. Employing an in vitro chromatin transcription system...

DNA targeting of rhinal cortex D2 receptor protein reversibly blocks learning of cues that predict reward

Liu, Zheng, Richmond, Barry J., Murray, Elisabeth A., Saunders, Richard C., Steenrod, Sara, Stubblefield, Barbara K., ...

When schedules of several operant trials must be successfully completed to obtain a reward, monkeys quickly learn to adjust their behavioral performance by using visual cues that signal how many...

Similarities and differences between selective and nonselective BAFF blockade in murine SLE

Ramanujam, Meera, Wang, Xiaobo, Huang, Weiqing, Liu, Zheng, Schiffer, Lena, Tao, Haiou, ...

B cells have multiple roles in immune activation and inflammation separate from their capacity to produce antibodies. B cell depletion is currently under intense investigation as a therapeutic...

Localization of a Disease-associated Mutation Site in the Three-dimensional Structure of the Cardiac Muscle Ryanodine Receptor*

Liu, Zheng, Wang, Ruiwu, Zhang, Jing, Wayne Chen, S. R., Wagenknecht, Terence

The cardiac muscle ryanodine receptor (RyR2) functions as a calcium release channel in the heart. Up to 40 mutations in RyR2 have been linked to genetic forms of sudden cardiac death. These mutations...

A small interfering RNA screen for modulators of tumor cell motility identifies MAP4K4 as a promigratory kinase

Collins, Cynthia S., Hong, Jiyong, Sapinoso, Lisa, Zhou, Yingyao, Liu, Zheng, Micklash, Kenneth, ...

Cell motility is a complex biological process, involved in development, inflammation, homeostasis, and pathological processes such as the invasion and metastatic spread of cancer. Here, we describe a...

Production, Trade, and International Comovement

Zheng Liu

This paper proposes a unified theory to explain two observed patterns of international business cycle comovements: the correlations in aggregate output and in consumption between OECD countries tend...

Openness and Equilibrium Determinacy Under Interest Rate Rules

Fiorella De Fiore, Zheng Liu

This paper shows that the conditions under which inflation-targeting interest rate rules lead to equilibrium uniqueness in a small open economy in general differ from those in a closed economy. As...

Investment-Specific Technical Change and the Dynamics of Skill Accumulation and Wage Inequality

Hui He, Zheng Liu

Wage inequality between education groups in the United States has increased substantially since the early 1980s. The relative quantity of college-educated workers has also increased dramatically in...

Steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) enhances ligand-dependent and receptor-dependent cell-free transcription of chromatin

Liu, Zheng, Wong, Jiemin, Tsai, Sophia Y., Tsai, Ming-Jer, O’Malley, Bert W.

Progesterone receptor (PR) functions as a transcription factor that modulates the transcription of target genes in response to progesterone and other signals. The transcriptional activity of PR...

Three-dimensional reconstruction of the recombinant type 3 ryanodine receptor and localization of its amino terminus

Liu, Zheng, Zhang, Jing, Sharma, Manjuli R., Li, Pin, Chen, S. R. Wayne, Wagenknecht, Terence

Recombinant type 3 ryanodine receptor (RyR3) has been purified in quantities sufficient for structural characterization by cryoelectron microscopy and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction. Two cDNAs...

Memory from the dynamics of intrinsic membrane currents

Marder, Eve, Abbott, L. F., Turrigiano, Gina G., Liu, Zheng, Golowasch, Jorge

Almost all theoretical and experimental studies of the mechanisms underlying learning and memory focus on synaptic efficacy and make the implicit assumption that changes in synaptic efficacy are both...

Sequential recruitment of steroid receptor coactivator-1 (SRC-1) and p300 enhances progesterone receptor-dependent initiation and reinitiation of transcription from chromatin

Liu, Zheng, Wong, Jiemin, Tsai, Sophia Y., Tsai, Ming-Jer, O'Malley, Bert W.

Employing a cell-free chromatin transcription system that recapitulates progesterone receptor (PR)-mediated transcription in vivo, we have investigated further the coactivator functions of steroid...

Cdc25B Functions as a Novel Coactivator for the Steroid Receptors

Ma, Zhi-Qing, Liu, Zheng, Ngan, Elly S. W., Tsai, Sophia Y.

We have previously demonstrated that overexpression of Cdc25B in transgenic mice resulted in mammary gland hyperplasia and increased steroid hormone responsiveness. To address how Cdc25B enhances the...

Coactivator/corepressor ratios modulate PR-mediated transcription by the selective receptor modulator RU486

Liu, Zheng, Auboeuf, Didier, Wong, Jiemin, Chen, J. Don, Tsai, Sophia Y., Tsai, Ming-Jer, ...

Selective receptor modulators, such as the antiprogestin RU486, are known to exhibit partial agonist activities in a cell-type-dependent manner. Employing an in vitro chromatin transcription system...

DNA targeting of rhinal cortex D2 receptor protein reversibly blocks learning of cues that predict reward

Liu, Zheng, Richmond, Barry J., Murray, Elisabeth A., Saunders, Richard C., Steenrod, Sara, Stubblefield, Barbara K., ...

When schedules of several operant trials must be successfully completed to obtain a reward, monkeys quickly learn to adjust their behavioral performance by using visual cues that signal how many...

Similarities and differences between selective and nonselective BAFF blockade in murine SLE

Ramanujam, Meera, Wang, Xiaobo, Huang, Weiqing, Liu, Zheng, Schiffer, Lena, Tao, Haiou, ...

B cells have multiple roles in immune activation and inflammation separate from their capacity to produce antibodies. B cell depletion is currently under intense investigation as a therapeutic...

A small interfering RNA screen for modulators of tumor cell motility identifies MAP4K4 as a promigratory kinase

Collins, Cynthia S., Hong, Jiyong, Sapinoso, Lisa, Zhou, Yingyao, Liu, Zheng, Micklash, Kenneth, ...

Cell motility is a complex biological process, involved in development, inflammation, homeostasis, and pathological processes such as the invasion and metastatic spread of cancer. Here, we describe a...

Structural Transitions of Confined Model Proteins: Molecular Dynamics Simulation and Experimental Validation

Lu, Diannan, Liu, Zheng, Wu, Jianzhong

Proteins fold in a confined space not only in vivo, i.e., folding assisted by molecular chaperons and chaperonins in a crowded cellular medium, but also in vitro as in production of recombinant...

Expectation Effects of Regimes Shifts in Monetary Policy

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

We assess the quantitative importance of expectation effects of regime shifts in monetary policy in a DSGE model that allows the monetary policy rule to switch between a “bad” regime and a...

Asymmetric Expectation Effects of Regime Shifts and the Great Moderation

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

The possibility of regime shifts in monetary policy can have important effects on rational agents' expectation formation and equilibrium dynamics. In a DSGE model where the monetary policy rule...

Openness and equilibrium determinacy under interest rate rules.

Fiorella De Fiore, Zheng Liu

This paper shows that the conditions under which inflation-targeting interest rate rules lead to equilibrium uniqueness in a small open economy in general differ from those in a closed economy. As...

Cloning of a Novel Aldo-Keto Reductase Gene from Klebsiella sp. Strain F51-1-2 and Its Functional Expression in Escherichia coli▿

Jiang, Hong, Yang, Chao, Qu, Hong, Liu, Zheng, Fu, Q. S., Qiao, Chuanling

A soil bacterium capable of metabolizing organophosphorus compounds by reducing the P=S group in the molecules was taxonomically identified as Klebsiella sp. strain F51-1-2. The gene involved in the...

INPUT OUTPUT STRUCTURE AND NOMINAL RIGIDITY: THE PERSISTENCE PROBLEM REVISITED

HUANG, KEVIN X.D., LIU, ZHENG

This paper revisits an important issue concerning the persistent real effect of a shock to monetary policy. Although recent sentiment has shifted away from price stickiness toward wage stickiness in...

Investment-Specific Technological Change, Skill Accumulation, and Wage Inequality

Hui He, Zheng Liu

Wage inequality between education groups in the United States has increased substantially since the early 1980s. The relative number of college-educated workers has also increased dramatically in the...

Production interdependence and welfare

Zheng Liu

The international welfare effects of a country's monetary policy shocks have been controversial in the new open economy macro (i.e., NOEM) literature. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases...

Asymmetric expectation effects of regime shifts and the Great Moderation

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

The possibility of regime shifts in monetary policy can have important effects on rational agents' expectation formation and equilibrium dynamics. In a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model...

Asymmetric expectation effects of regime shifts and the Great Moderation

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

We assess the quantitative importance of the expectation effects of regime shifts in monetary policy in a DSGE model that allows the monetary policy rule to switch between a ?bad? regime and a ?good?...

Investment-specific technological change, skill accumulation, and wage inequality

Hui He, Zheng Liu

Wage inequality between education groups in the United States has increased substantially since the early 1980s. The relative number of college-educated workers has also increased dramatically in the...

Gains from international monetary policy coordination - does it pay to be different?

Zheng Liu, Evi Pappa

This paper presents a new argument for international monetary policy coordination based on considerations of structural asymmetries across countries. In a two-country world with a traded and a...

Why Does the Cyclical Behavior of Real Wages Change Over Time?

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

This paper seeks to understand the evolution of the cyclical behavior of U.S. real wage rates from the interwar period to the post World War II period using a dynamic general equilibrium model that...

Inflation Targeting: What Inflation to Target?

Zheng Liu

Although CPI inflation and PPI inflation are both readily observable, the latter has received much less attention in the design of optimal monetary policy, despite the apparent difference in the...

What Explains the Effects of Technology Shocks on Labor Market Dynamics?

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

The sticky-price theory has proved fairly successful in explaining the dynamic effects of technology shocks on employment, at least under weak accommodation of monetary policy to the shocks. Yet,...

Temptation and self-control: some evidence and applications

Zheng Liu, Qi Zhu

This paper studies the empirical relevance of temptation and self-control using household-level data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We estimate an infinite-horizon consumption-savings model...

Production interdependence and welfare

Zheng Liu

The international welfare effects of a country’s monetary policy shocks have been controversial in the literature. While a unilateral monetary expansion increases the production efficiency in each...

Inflation to target : what inflation to target?

Zheng Liu

This paper derives a central bank's objective function and optimal policy rule for an economy with both CPI and PPI inflation rates. It implements constrained-optimal policy rules with minimal...

Multiple stages of processing and the quantity anomaly in international business cycle models

Zheng Liu

We construct a two-country DSGE model with multiple stages of processing and local currency staggered price-setting to study cross-country quantity correlations driven by monetary shocks. The model...

Staggered contracts and business cycle persistence

Zheng Liu

Staggered price and staggered wage contracts are commonly viewed as similar mechanisms in generating persistent real effects of monetary shocks. In this paper, we distinguish the two mechanisms in a...

Chain of production as a monetary propagation mechanism

Zheng Liu

This paper studies a general equilibrium model with multiple stages of production and asynchronized price setting that provides a new explanation for the observed persistent real effects of monetary...

Inflation targeting: what inflation rate to target?

Zheng Liu

In an economy with nominal rigidities in both an intermediate good sector and a finished good sector, and thus with a natural distinction between CPI and PPI inflation rates, a benevolent central...

Multiple stages of processing and the quantity anomaly in international business cycle models.

Zheng Liu

We construct a two-country DSGE model with multiple stages of processing and local-currency staggered price-setting to study cross-country quantity correlations driven by monetary shocks. The model...

Vertical production and trade interdependence and welfare

Zheng Liu

The authors study international transmissions and welfare implications of monetary shocks in a two-country world with multiple stages of production and multiple border-crossings of intermediate...

Temptation and Self-Control: Some Evidence and Applications

Zheng Liu, John Q. Zhu

This paper studies the empirical relevance of temptation and self-control using household-level data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey. We construct an infinite-horizon consumption-savings model...

Learning, Adaptive Expectations, and Technology Shocks

Zheng Liu, Tao Zha

This study explores theoretical and macroeconomic implications of the self-confirming equilibrium in a standard growth model. When rational expectations are replaced by adaptive expectations, we...

Staggered Contracts and Business Cycle Persistence

Zheng Liu

Staggered price and staggered wage contracts are commonly viewed as similar mechanisms in generating persistent real effects of monetary shocks. In this paper, we distinguish the two mechanisms in a...

Chain of Production as a Monetary Propagation Mechanism

Zheng Liu

This paper studies a general equilibrium model with multiple stages of production and sticky prices. Working through the input-output relations among industries at different stages and the timing of...

Vertical International Trade as a Monetary Transmission Mechanism in an Open Economy

Zheng Liu

This paper analyzes a two-country general equilibrium model with multiple stages of production and sticky prices. Working through the cross-country input-output relations and endogenous price...

On the Transmission of Monetary Policy Shocks

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

Empirical studies reveal that monetary policy shocks generate long-lasting effects on real GDP, countercyclical real wages before World War II and procyclical real wages afterwards. In this paper, we...

Input-Output Structure and Nominal Staggering: The Persistence Problem Revisited

Zheng Liu

This paper re-examines the conventional wisdom on the equivalence of staggered-wage setting and staggered-price setting in generating persistent real effects of aggregate demand shocks in a dynamic...

Short-Term Memory Trace in Rapidly Adapting Synapses of Inferior Temporal Cortex

Sugase-Miyamoto, Yasuko, Liu, Zheng, Wiener, Matthew C., Optican, Lance M., Richmond, Barry J.

Visual short-term memory tasks depend upon both the inferior temporal cortex (ITC) and the prefrontal cortex (PFC). Activity in some neurons persists after the first (sample) stimulus is shown. This...

Methylation of chloroplast DNA does not affect viability and maternal inheritance in tobacco and may provide a strategy towards transgene containment

Jaffé, Benjamin, Kovács, Katalin, Andras, Calin, Bódi, Zsuzsanna, Liu, Zheng, Fray, Rupert G.

We report the integration of a type II restriction-methylase, mFokI, into the tobacco chloroplast genome and we demonstrate that the introduced enzyme effectively directs the methylation of its...

Learning, adaptive expectations, and technology shocks

Zheng Liu, Tao Zha

This study explores the macroeconomic implications of adaptive expectations in a standard real business cycle model. When rational expectations are replaced by adaptive expectations, we show that the...

Learning, adaptive expectations, and technology shocks

Zheng Liu, Tao Zha

This study explores the macroeconomic implications of adaptive expectations in a standard real business cycle model. When rational expectations are replaced by adaptive expectations, we show that the...

Gains from international monetary policy coordination: Does it pay to be different?

Liu, Zheng, Pappa, Evi

In a two country world where each country has a traded and a non-traded sector and each sector has sticky prices, optimal independent policy in general cannot replicate the natural-rate allocations....

Asymmetric expectation effects of regime shifts in monetary policy

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

This paper addresses two substantive issues: (1) Does the magnitude of the expectation effect of regime switching in monetary policy depend on a particular policy regime? (2) Under which regime is...

Asymmetric Expectation Effects of Regime Shifts in Monetary Policy

Zheng Liu, Daniel Waggoner, Tao Zha

This paper addresses two substantive issues: (1) Does the magnitude of the expectation effect of regime switching in monetary policy depend on a particular policy regime? (2) Under which regime is...

Do Nominal Rigidities Matter for the Transmission of Technology Shocks?

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

A commonly held view is that nominal rigidities are important for the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We argue that they are also important for understanding the dynamic effects of technology...

Do nominal rigidities matter for the transmission of technology shocks?

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

A commonly held view is that nominal rigidities are important for the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We argue that they are also important for understanding the dynamic effects of technology...

Learning, Adaptive Expectations,and Technology Shocks

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

This study explores theoretical and macroeconomic implications of the self-confirming equilibrium in a standard growth model. When rational expectations are replaced by adaptive expectations, we...

Sources of the Great Moderation: Shocks, Frictions, or Monetary Policy?

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

We study the sources of the Great Moderation by estimating a variety of medium-scale DSGE models that incorporate regime switches in shock variances and in the inflation target. The best-fit model,...

Do Nominal Rigidities Matter for the Transmission of Technology Shocks?

Zheng Liu, Louis Phaneuf

A commonly held view is that nominal rigidities are important for the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We argue that they are also important for understanding the dynamic effects of technology...

Health Risk Analysis of Heating Fuel Choice: Case Study in Kentucky

Liu, Zheng, Pagoulatos, Angelos, Hu, Wuyang

Combustion-generated pollutants, principally those from solid-fuel including biomass and coal when cooking and heating, bring out a significant public health hazard predominantly affecting poor rural...

Sources of the Great Moderation: shocks, friction, or monetary policy?

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

We study the sources of the Great Moderation by estimating a variety of medium-scale DSGE models that incorporate regime switches in shock variances and in the inflation target. The best-fit model,...

Sources of the Great Moderation: shocks, frictions, or monetary policy?

Zheng Liu, Daniel F. Waggoner, Tao Zha

We study the sources of the Great Moderation by estimating a variety of medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models that incorporate regime switches in shock variances and the...

Development of an Autofluorescent Whole-Cell Biocatalyst by Displaying Dual Functional Moieties on Escherichia coli Cell Surfaces and Construction of a Coculture with Organophosphate-Mineralizing Activity▿ †

Yang, Chao, Zhu, Yaran, Yang, Jijian, Liu, Zheng, Qiao, Chuanling, Mulchandani, Ashok, ...

Surface display of the active proteins on living cells has enormous potential in the degradation of numerous toxic compounds. Here, we report the codisplay of organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) and...

Exploring the Mechanism of Physcomitrella patens Desiccation Tolerance through a Proteomic Strategy1[W][OA]

Wang, Xiao Qin, Yang, Ping Fang, Liu, Zheng, Liu, Wei Zhong, Hu, Yong, Chen, Hui, ...

The moss Physcomitrella patens has been shown to tolerate abiotic stresses, including salinity, cold, and desiccation. To better understand this plant's mechanism of desiccation tolerance, we have...

Responses and tolerance to salt stress in bryophytes

Wang, Xiaoqin, Liu, Zheng, He, Yikun

During exposure to salt environments, plants could perceive salt signal and transmit the signal to cellular machinery to activate adaptive responses. In bryophytes, salt signal components and...

Inhibitory short synthetic oligodeoxynucleotides and lupus

Liu, Zheng, Davidson, Anne

B cells and antigen-presenting cells express a group of intracellular Toll-like receptors (TLRs) that recognize nucleic acids and can be accessed only when apoptotic debris or immune complexes are...

Research on focal nodular hyperplasia with MSCT and postprocessing

Liu, Yuan-Jian, Fan, Wei-Jun, Yuan, Zhi-Dong, Liu, Peng-Cheng, Wang, Chun-Rong, Yan, Wei-Qiang, ...

AIM: To investigate and evaluate the pathological features and diagnostic value of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) with multi-section spiral computed tomography (MSCT) and postprocessing.

Structural and Functional Characterization of Ryanodine Receptor-Natrin Toxin Interaction

Zhou, Qiang, Wang, Qiong-Ling, Meng, Xing, Shu, Yuyan, Jiang, Tao, Wagenknecht, Terence, ...

Cysteine-rich secretory proteins (CRISPs) are widely distributed, and notably occur in the mammalian reproductive tract and in the salivary glands of venomous reptiles. Most CRISPs can inhibit ion...