C. Chen

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1983 - 9998

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Evidence for the η_b(1S) Meson in Radiative Υ(2S) Decay (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees , J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We have performed a search for the η_b(1S) meson in the radiative decay of the Υ(2S) resonance using a sample of 91.6 × 10^6 Υ(2S) events recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B factory...

Click Here for Full Article (2009)

H. G. Roe, C. Chen, J. Roberts, R. H. Brown, K. H. Baines

[1] Images from instruments on Cassini as well as from telescopes on the ground reveal the presence of sporadic small-scale cloud activity in the cold late-winter north polar region of Saturn’s...

Measurement of the γγ* → π^0 transition form factor (2009)

Aubert, B., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent , X., ...

We study the reaction e^(+)e^(-) → e^(+)e^(-)π^0 in the single tag mode and measure the differential cross section dσ/dQ^2 and the γγ* → π^0 transition form factor in the momentum transfer...

Discovery of fog at the south pole of Titan (2009)

Brown, M. E., Smith, A. L., Chen, C., Adamkovics, M.

While Saturn's moon Titan appears to support an active methane hydrological cycle, no direct evidence for surface-atmosphere exchange has yet appeared. It is possible that the identified...

Search for Dimuon Decays of a Light Scalar Boson in Radiative Transitions Y → yA^0 (2009)

Aubert, B., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent, X., ...

We search for evidence of a light scalar boson in the radiative decays of the Υ(2S) and Υ(3S) resonances: Υ(2S,3S) → γA^0, A^0 →µ^+µ^-. Such a particle appears in extensions of the standard...

Search for b → u transitions in B^0 → D^(0)K^(*0) decays (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We present a study of the decays B^0 → D^(0)K^(*0) and B^0 →[overline D]^(0)K^(*0) with K^(*0) → K^(+)π^-. The D^0 and the [overline D]^0 mesons are reconstructed in the final states f =...

Integrating Automated Range Registration with Multiview Geometry for the Photorealistic Modeling of Large-Scale Scenes (2009)

Ioannis Stamos, Lingyun Liu, Chao Chen, George Wolberg, Gene Yu, Siavash Zokai, ...

Abstract The photorealistic modeling of large-scale scenes, such as urban structures, requires a fusion of range sensing technology and traditional digital photography. This paper presents a system...

Search for second-class currents in τ^- → ωπ^(-)ν_τ (2009)

Aubert, B., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent, X., ...

We report an analysis of τ^- decaying into ωπ^(-)ν_τ with ω → π^(+)π^(-)π^0 using a data sample containing nearly 320 × 10^6 pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II...

Search for B0 meson decays to pi^0KS^0KS^0, etaKS^0KS^0, and eta^([prime])KS^0KS^0 (2009)

Aubert, B., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent, X., ...

We describe searches for B^0 meson decays to the charmless final states π^(0)K^(0)_(S)K^(0)_(S), ηK^(0)_(S)K^(0)_(S), and η'K^(0)_(S)K^(0)_(S). The data sample corresponds to 467 × 10^6...

Improved Measurement of B^+ → ρ^+ ρ^0 and Determination of the Quark-Mixing Phase Angle α (2009)

Aubert, B., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent, X., ...

We present improved measurements of the branching fraction B, the longitudinal polarization fraction f_L, and the direct CP asymmetry A_(CP) in the B meson decay channel B^+ → p^+p^0. The data...

Submitted for review to IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology A COMPLETE FAULT DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM FOR THE OPERATION OF AUTOMATED VEHICLES IN A PLATOON (2009)

R. Rajamani, A. Howell, C. Chen, J. K. Hedrick, M. Tomizuka

A “complete ” fault diagnostic system is developed for automated vehicles operating as a platoon on an automated highway system. The diagnostic system is designed to monitor the complete set of...

Milagro Observations of Multi-TeV Emission from Galactic Sources in the Fermi Bright Source List (2009)

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B. T., Aune, T., Berley, D., Chen, C., Christopher, G. E., ...

We present the result of a search of the Milagro sky map for spatial correlations with sources from a subset of the recent Fermi Bright Source List (BSL). The BSL consists of the 205 most significant...

Evidence for X(3872) → Ψ (2S)y in B^± → X(3872)K^± Decays and a Study of B → ccyK (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

In a search for B → ccyK decays with the BABAR detector, where cc includes J/Ψ and Ψ (2S), and K includes K^±, K^0_S , and K^*(892), we find evidence for X(3872) → J/Ψy and X(3872) → Ψ...

Search for the decay B^+-->K_s^0K_s^0pi^+ (2009)

Aubert , B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We search for charmless decays of charged B mesons to the three-body final state K_S^0K_S^0pi^+. Using a data sample of 423.7 fb^(-1) collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector,...

Direct CP, Lepton Flavor, and Isospin Asymmetries in the Decays B → K^(*)l^+l^- (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We measure branching fractions and integrated rate asymmetries for the rare decays B→K(*)l^+l^-, where l^+l^- is either e^+e^- or µ^+µ^-, using a sample of 384×10^6 B B events collected with the...

Measurement of time dependent CP asymmetry parameters in B0 meson decays to omegaK_S^0, eta^([prime])K^0, and pi^0K_S^0 (2009)

Aubert , B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We present measurements of the time-dependent CP-violation parameters S and C in the decays B0-->omegaKS0, B0-->eta[prime]K0, reconstructed as eta[prime]KS0 and eta[prime]KL0, and B0-->pi0KS0. The...

Measurement of the B^+ → omegal^+nu and B^+ → etal^+nu branching fractions (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We present a study of the charmless semileptonic B-meson decays B^+ → omega[script-l]^+nu and B^+ → eta[script-l]^+nu. The analysis is based on 3.83×10^8 B[overline B] pairs recorded at the...

Evidence for B^+ → [overline K]^(*0)K^(*+) (2009)

Aubert , B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We present measurements of the branching fraction and fraction of longitudinal polarization for the decay B^+ K^(*0)K^(*+) with a sample of (467±5)×10^6 BB pairs collected with the BABAR detector...

Observation of B meson decays to omegaK^* and improved measurements for omegarho and omegaf_0 (2009)

Aubert , B., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., Prudent , X., ...

We present measurements of B meson decays to the final states ωK^*, ωp, and ωf_0, where K^* indicates a spin 0, 1, or 2 strange meson. The data sample corresponds to 465×10^6 BB pairs collected...

Angular distributions in the decay B → K^*l^+l^- (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prudent, X., ...

We use a sample of 384×106 B[overline B] events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- collider to study angular distributions in the rare decays B-->K*[script-l]+[script-l]-, where...

Dalitz plot analysis of D_s^+ → π^+π^-π^+ (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

A Dalitz plot analysis of approximately 13 000 D_s^+ decays to π^+π^-π^+ has been performed. The analysis uses a 384 fb-1 data sample recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy...

Measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries in B^0 → D^((*)+)D^((*)-) decays (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We present new measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries for B^0→D(*)+D(*)- decays using (467±5)×10^6 B[overline B] pairs collected with the BABAR detector located at the PEP-II B Factory at...

MBM 12: young protoplanetary discs at high galactic latitude (2009)

Meeus, G., Juhasz, A., Henning, Th., Bouwman, J., Chen, C., Lawson, W., ...

(abridged) We present Spitzer infrared observations to constrain disc and dust evolution in young T Tauri stars in MBM 12, a star-forming cloud at high latitude with an age of 2 Myr and a distance of...

Measurement of the e^(+)e^(-)→ bb(macron) cross section between √s = 10.54 and 11.20 GeV (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We report e^(+)e^(-)→ bb(macron) cross section measurements by the BABAR experiment performed during an energy scan in the range of 10.54 to 11.20 GeV at the SLAC PEP-II e^(+)e^(-) collider. A...

Discovery of lake-effect clouds on Titan (2009)

Brown, M. E., Schaller, E. L., Roe, H. G., Chen, C., Roberts, J., Brown, R. H., ...

Images from instruments on Cassini as well as from telescopes on the ground reveal the presence of sporadic small-scale cloud activity in the cold late-winter north polar region of Saturn's large...

Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays tau^- --> l^-Ks^0 with the BABAR Experiment (2009)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

A search for the lepton flavor violating decays τ^- → l^- K^0_S (l = e or µ) has been performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 469 fb-1, collected with the BABAR...

Biometric Quantization through Detection Rate Optimized Bit Allocation (2009)

C. Chen

Extracting binary strings from real-valued biometric templates is a fundamental step in many biometric template protection systems, such as fuzzy commitment, fuzzy extractor, secure sketch, and...

Biometric Quantization through Detection Rate Optimized Bit Allocation (2009)

C. Chen

Extracting binary strings from real-valued biometric templates is a fundamental step in many biometric template protection systems, such as fuzzy commitment, fuzzy extractor, secure sketch, and...

Adiponectin Regulate Growth Hormone Secretion Via Adiponectin Receptor Mediated Ca2+ Signalling in Rat Somatotrophs In Vitro (2009)

Steyn, F. J., Boehme, F., Vargas, E., Wang, K., Parkington, H. C., Rao, J. R., ...

Obesity is associated with reduced levels of growth hormone (GH) and the disruption of pulsatile GH secretion. This results in relative GH deficiency. It is likely that a regulatory relationship...

Cholesterol induces mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in mouse pancreatic beta-cell line MIN6 cells (2009)

Zhao, Y. F., Wang, L., Lee, S., Sun, Q., Tuo, Y., Wang, Y., ...

Reduction of pancreatic beta-cell mass is a key element leading to type 2 diabetes. Obesity and overweight with high levels of lipids including cholesterol are tightly linked to type 2 diabetes. The...

Measurement of the branching fractions of (B)over-bar -> D**l(-)(v)over-bar(l) decays in events tagged by a fully reconstructed B meson (2008)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...

We report a measurement of the branching fractions of D**- decays based on 417 fb-1 of data collected at the (4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are...

New Limits on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the ANITA Experiment (2008)

Gorham, ANITA Collaboration: P., Allison, P., Barwick, S., Beatty, J., Besson, D., Binns, W., ...

We report initial results of the first flight of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA-1) 2006-2007 Long Duration Balloon flight, which searched for evidence of a diffuse flux of cosmic...

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna Ultra-high Energy Neutrino Detector Design, Performance, and Sensitivity for 2006-2007 Balloon Flight (2008)

Gorham, ANITA Collaboration: P., Allison, P., Barwick, S., Beatty, J., Besson, D., Binns, W., ...

We present a detailed report on the experimental details of the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) long duration balloon payload, including the design philosophy and realization, physics...

Computational simulation of thermally sprayed WC–Co powder (2008)

Kamnis, S., Gu, S., Lu, T.J., Chen, C.

WC–Co cemented carbides are a class of hard composite materials of great technological importance. They are widely used as tool materials in a large variety of applications that have high demands...

Discovery of lake-effect clouds on Titan (2008)

Brown, M. E., Schaller, E. L., Roe, H. G., CHen, C., Roberts, J., Brown, R. H., ...

Images from instruments on Cassini as well as from telescopes on the ground reveal the presence of sporadic small-scale cloud activity in the cold late-winter north polar of Saturn's large moon...

Spitzer MIPS observations of stars in the β Pictoris moving group (2008)

Rebull, L. M., Stapelfeldt, K. R., Werner, M. W., Mannings, V. G., Chen, C., Stauffer, J. R., ...

We present Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) observations at 24 and 70 μm for 30 stars, and at 160 μm for a subset of 12 stars, in the nearby (~30 pc), young (~12 Myr) β Pictoris...

The Large Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy as Observed with Milagro (2008)

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B. T., Aune, T., Berley, D., Casanova, S., Chen, C., ...

Results are presented of a harmonic analysis of the large scale cosmic-ray anisotropy as observed by the Milagro observatory. We show a two-dimensional display of the sidereal anisotropy pro jections...

A Measurement of the Spatial Distribution of Diffuse TeV Gamma Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane with Milagro (2008)

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B., Aune, T., Berley, D., Blaufuss, E., Casanova, S., ...

Diffuse $\gamma$-ray emission produced by the interaction of cosmic-ray particles with matter and radiation in the Galaxy can be used to probe the distribution of cosmic rays and their sources in...

Multi-Bits Biometric String Generation based on the Likelihood Ratio (2008)

C. Chen

Abstract — Preserving the privacy of biometric information stored in biometric systems is becoming a key issue. An important element in privacy protecting biometric systems is the quantizer which...

Vectored DSLs with DSM: The road to Ubiquitous Gigabit DSLs (2008)

J. Cioffi, M. Brady, V. Pourahmad, S. Jagannathan, W. Lee, Y. Kim, ...

Abstract- This paper investigates the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) data-rate increases possible with the Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) methods known as Level 3 Vectoring and Level 2 Band...

Discovery of Localized Regions of Excess 10-TeV Cosmic Rays (2008)

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B., Aune, T., Berley, D., Blaufuss, E., Casanova, S., ...

An analysis of 7 years of Milagro data performed on a 10-degree angular scale has found two localized regions of excess of unknown origin with greater than 12 sigma significance. Both regions are...

The application of C12 biochip in the diagnosis and monitoring of colorectal cancer: Systematic evaluation and suggestion for improvement (2008)

Chen, C, Chen, LQ, Yang, GL, Li, Y

Background: The 12 tumor markers′ (TMs) biochip diagnostic (C12) system has been proven useful in some previous studies but its value for colorectal cancer (CRC) only was not systematically...

Modeling and simulation of network architectures for Triple-Play services (2008)

Chen, C.

According to some analysts in the field of telecommunications network [1], the digital home in the future is a media center combining Triple-Play services, which consist of High Speed Internet (HSI),...

TapMulti: A Scalable and Low-Delay Application-Layer Multicast Protocol on Tapestry Overlay Network (2008)

Qing-hua Zheng, S. Jiang, F. Zhang, T. Peng, C. Chen

In this study, we propose a low-delay ALM protocol named TapMulti on Tapestry to achieve scalability and low-delay, . In TapMulti protocol, a delivery tree is designed to reduce end-to-end delay and...

GPU-MEME: Using graphics hardware to accelerate motif finding in DNA sequences (2008)

Chen, C., Schmidt, B., Liu, W., Müller-Wittig, W.K.

Discovery of motifs that are repeated in groups of biological sequences is a major task in bioinformatics. Iterative methods such as expectation maximization (EM) are used as a common approach to...

Activation of ATP-sensitive potassium channels in rat pancreatic beta-cells by linoleic acid through both intracellular metabolites and membrane receptor signalling pathway (2008)

Zhao, Y. F., Pei, J. M., Chen, C.

ATP-sensitive potassium channels (K-ATP channels) determine the excitability of pancreatic beta-cells and importantly regulate glucose-stimulated insulin secretion (GSIS). Long-chain free fatty acids...

Involvement of tetrodotoxin-resistant Na+ current and protein kinase C in the action of growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone on primary cultured somatotropes from GH-green fluorescent protein transgenic mice (2008)

Yang, S. K., Wang, K., Parkington, H., Chen, C.

GHRH depolarizes the membrane of somatotropes, leading to an increase in intracellular free Ca2+ concentration and GH secretion. Na+ channels mediate the rapid depolarization during the initial phase...

Drosophila odorant receptors are novel seven transmembrane domain proteins that can signal independently of heterotrimeric G proteins (2008)

Smart, R., Kiely, A., Beale, M., Vargas, E., Carraher, C., Kralicek, A. V., ...

Olfaction in Drosophila is mediated by a large family of membrane-bound odorant receptor proteins (Ors). In heterologous cells, we investigated whether the structural features and signalling...

A genome-wide association study identifies novel alleles associated with hair color and skin pigmentation (2008)

Han, J., Kraft, P., Nan, H., Guo, Q., Chen, C., Qureshi, A., ...

We conducted a multi-stage genome-wide association study of natural hair color in more than 10,000 men and women of European ancestry from the United States and Australia. An initial analysis of...

Biometric binary string generation with detection rate optimized bit allocation (2008)

Chen, C., Veldhuis, R.N.J., Kevenaar, T.A.M., Akkermans, A.H.M.

Extracting binary strings from real-valued templates has been a fundamental issue in many biometric template protection systems. In this paper, we present an optimal bit allocation method (OBA). By...

Performances of the likelihood-ratio classifier based on different data modelings (2008)

Chen, C., Veldhuis, R.N.J.

The classical likelihood ratio classifier easily collapses in many biometric applications especially with independent training-test subjects. The reason lies in the inaccurate estimation of the...

Improved measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and the CP-odd fraction in the decay B(0) -> D*D(+)*(-) (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...

8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000251987200002.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1549

Reproducible Testing of Concurrent and Distributed Programs (2007)

Sohn Kung Hsia, H. Sohn, D. Kung, P. Hsia, Y. Toyoshima, C. Chen

One of the biggest problems in regression testing of a concurrent or distributed program is nondeterministic behavior which may produce different results from previous test with same test data. To...

Study of B(0)-->π(0)π(0), B(±)-->π(±)π(0), and B(±)-->K(±)π(0) decays, and isospin analysis of B-->ππ decays (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...

9 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000251327200002.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2798

Measurements of CP-Violating asymmetries in the decay B-0 -> K+ K- K-0 (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...

7 pages, 3 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000250296000017.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.3885

Molecular dynamics simulation for nanoscale deep indentation of a copper substrate by single-walled carbon nanotube tips (2007)

Hsieh, J. Y., Huang, Lin S., Chen, C., Lo, H. C., Hwang, C. C.

Abstract. Deep nanoindentation of a copper substrate by single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) has been analyzed using molecular dynamics simulations. Three categories of SWCNTs and their...

Measurements of branching fractions, polarizations, and direct CP-violation asymmetries in $B \to \rhoK^*$ and $B \to f_0(980) K^*$ decays (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We report searches for B-meson decays to the charmless final states rho K* and f0(980) K* with a sample of 232 million BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy...

Branching Fraction Measurements of Charged B Decays to $K^{*+}K^+K^-, K^{*+}\pi^+K^-, K^{*+}K^+\pi^-$ and $K^{*+}\pi^+\pi^-$ Final States (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

Branching fraction and asymmetry measurements of charmless $B^+\to K^{*+}h^+_1h^-_2$ (where $h_{1,2}$ = $K$, $\pi$) decays are presented, using a data sample of 232 million $\Upsilon(4S) \to$ $BB$...

Measurement of the Absolute Branching Fractions $B \to D\pi$, $D*\pi$, $D**\pi$ with a Missing Mass Method (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present branching fraction measurements of charged and neutral B decays to Dpi-, D*pi- and D**pi- with a missing mass method, based on a sample of 231 million Y(4S)-->BBar pairs collected by the...

Search for B+ -> tau(+)nu (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...

12 pages, 7 figures.-- PACS nrs.: 13.20.-v; 13.25.Hw.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000249786800009.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.1820

Search for the rare decay B -> πl(+)l(-) (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...

7 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables.-- PACS nrs.: 13.20.He.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000248597500008.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0703018

Measurements of CP-Violating Asymmetries in $B^0 \to a^\{pm}_1(1260) \pi^{\mp}$ Decays (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., Poireau, V., ...

We present measurements of CP-violating asymmetries in the decay B0 -> a_1(1260)^{+-} pi^{-+} with a_1(1260)^{+-} -> pi^{-+} pi^{+-} pi^{+-}. The data sample corresponds to 384 million B B-bar pairs...

Observation of B+ -> rho+ K-(0) and measurement of its branching fraction and charge asymmetry (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...

8 pages, 1 figure.-- PACS nrs.: 13.25.Hw; 11.30.Er; 12.15.Hh.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000248544300003.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0702043

Facilitation of decidualization by locally produced ghrelin in the human endometrium (2007)

Tawadros, N., Salamonsen, L.A., Dimitriadis, E., Chen, C.

Ghrelin acting via the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R) stimulates GH secretion from pituitary glands. Both ligand and receptor are present in the pituitary, hypothalamus and many...

Branching fraction measurements of B+ -> ρ(+)γ, B(0) -> ρ(0)γ, and B(0) -> ω^γ (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., ...

7 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables.-- PACS nrs.: 13.20.He; 12.15.Hh; 14.40.Nd.-- ISI Article Identifier: 000245691400015.-- ArXiv pre-print available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0612017

Evidence for $B^0 \to \rho^0\rho^0$ Decay and Implications for the CKM Angle $\alpha$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., Poireau, V., ...

We search for the decays B0->rho0rho0, B0->rho0f0, and B0->f0f0 in a sample of about 384 million Upsilon(4S)->BBbar decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e-...

In situ radioglaciological measurements near Taylor Dome, Antarctica and implications for UHE neutrino astronomy (2007)

Besson, D., Jenkins, J., Matsuno, S., Nam, J., Smith, M., Barwick, S. W., ...

Radiowave detection of the Cherenkov radiation produced by neutrino-ice collisions requires an understanding of the radiofrequency (RF) response of cold polar ice. We herein report on a series of...

Observation of the Exclusive Reaction $e^+e^- \to \phi \eta at \sqrt{s}$=10.58 GeV (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., Poireau, V., ...

We report the observation of $\e^+e^-\to \phi\eta$ near $\sqrt{s}$ = 10.58 GeV with 6.5 $\sigma$ significance in the $K^+K^-\gamma\gamma$ final state in a data sample of 224 $fb^{-1}$ collected by...

Observation of $B^+ \to \Phi \Phi K^+$ and evidence for $B^0 \to \Phi \Phi K^0$ below $\Eta_C$ threshold (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We report measurements of the decays B+ -> Phi Phi K+ and B0 -> hi Phi K0 using a sample of 231 million BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at the...

Measurements of branching fraction, polarization, and charge asymmetry of $B^\pm \to \rho^\pm \rho^0$ and a search for $B^\pm \to \rho^pm f_0(980)$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We measure the branching fraction, polarization and CP asymmetry of B+ -> rho+rho0 decays and search for the decay B+ -> rho+f_0(980) based on a data sample of 231.8 million Y(4S)->BB decays...

Search for B Meson Decays to $\eta' \eta'$ K (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We describe searches for decays of B mesons to the charmless final states eta' eta' K. The data consist of 228 million B Bbar pairs produced in e+ e- annihilation, collected with the BaBar detector...

Observation of $e^+e^-$ Annihilation into the $\boldmath{C=+1}$ Hadronic Final States $\rho^0\rho^0$ and $\phi\rho^0$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We report the first observation of $e^+e^-$ annihilations into states of positive $C$-parity, namely $\rho^0 \rho^0$ and $\phi\rho^0$. The two states are observed in the $\pip\pim\pip\pim$ and...

Search for the decay of a $B^0$ or \bar{B}^0$ meson to $\bar{K}^{*0} K^0 or K^{*0} \bar{K}^0$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We present a search for the decay of a B0 or B0bar meson to a K*0bar K0 or K*0 K0bar final state, using a sample of approximately 232 million BBbar events collected with the BABAR detector at the...

Search for the decay $B^0 \to K^0_S K^0_S K^0_L$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present the first search for the decay B0 --> K0_S K0_S K0_L using a data sample of 232 million B Bbar pairs. We find no statistically significant evidence for the non-resonant component of this...

Measurements of the Branching Fraction and Time-Dependent CP Asymmetries of $B^0 \to J/\Psi \Pi^0$ decays (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present measurements of the branching fraction and time-dependent CP asymmetries in B0 -> JPsi pi0 decays based on (231.8 +/- 2.6) x 10**6 asymmetries Y(4S) -> BBbar decays collected with the...

B Meson Decays to mega $K^*, \omega \rho, \omega \omega, \omega \phi, and \omega f_0$. (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We describe searches for B meson decays to the charmless vector-vector final states omega K*, omega rho, omega omega, and omega phi with 233 times 10^{6} BB pairs produced in e+e- annihilation at...

Measurement of the $\eta$ and $\etaprime$ transition form factors at $q^2=112 GeV^2$. (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We report a study of the processes e+e- -> eta gamma and e+e- -> etaprime gamma at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV, using a 232 fb^-1 data sample collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II...

Search for the decay $B^0 \to a_1^{\pm} \rho^{\mp}$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present a search for the rare B-meson decay B0 to a1+- rho-+ with a_1+- to pi+ pi- pi+-. We use (110 +/- 1.2) x 10^6 Upsilon(4S) to BBbar decays collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II...

Study of $B \ D^(*)D_s(J)^(*)$ Decays and Measurement of $D_s^- and D_sJ(2 460)^-$ Branching Fractions (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present branching fraction measurements of twelve B meson decays of the form B --> D^(*)D_s(J)^(*). The results are based on Y(4S) decays in BBbar pairs. One of the B mesons is fully reconstructed...

Search for $B^+ \to \phi \pi^+$ and $B^0 \to \phi \pi^0$ Decays (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

A search has been made for the decays B+ -> phi pi+ and B0->to phi pi0 in a data sample of approximately 232 x 10^6 B Bbar pairs recorded at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BaBar detector at the...

Measurement of the $D^+ \to \pi^+ \pi^0$ and $D^+ \to K^+ pi^0$ Branching Fractions (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present measurements of the branching fractions for the Cabbibo suppressed decays D+ --> pi+ pi0 and D+ --> K+ pi0 based on a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 124.3 fb-1....

Observation of a Charmed Baryon Decaying to $D^0 p$ at a Mass Near $2.94 GeV/c^2$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

A search for charmed baryons decaying to $D^0 p$ reveals two states: the $\Lambda_c(2880)^+$ baryon and a previously unobserved state at a mass of [$2939.8\pm 1.3 \text{(stat.)}\pm 1.0...

Search for $B^+ \to$ X(3872) $K^+$, X(3872) $\to J/\psi \gamma$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

In a study of B+ --> J/psi gamma K+ decays, we find evidence for the radiative decay X(3872) --> J/psi gamma with a statistical significance of 3.4 sigma. We measure the product of branching...

Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Time-Dependent CP Asymmetry in the Decay $B^0 \to D^{*+} D^{*-} K^0_s$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We study the decay B0->D*+D*-Ks using (230 +/- 2) x 10^{6} BBbar pairs collected by the Babar detector at the PEP-II B factory. We measure a branching fraction B(B0->D*+D*-Ks)=(4.4\pm0.4\pm0.7)\times...

Precise Branching Ratio Measurements of the Decays $D^0 \to \pi^-\pi^+\pi^0$ and $D^0 \to K^- K^+ \pi^0$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

Using 232 fb-1 of e+e- collision data recorded by the BaBar experiment, we measure the ratios of three-body Cabibbo-suppressed decay rates of the D^0 meson relative to that of the Cabibbo-favored...

Observation of $B^+ \to K^0\bar{K}^+$ and $B^0 \to K^0 \bar{K}^0$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We report observations of the b --> d penguin-dominated decays B+ --> K0bar K+ and B0 --> K0 K0bar in approximately 350 million Upsilon(4S) --> BBbar decays collected with the BaBar detector. We...

Observation of $B^0$ Meson Decay to $a^\pm_1(1260) \pi^\mp$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We present a measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B0 --> a1(1260)^{+-} pi^{-+} with a1(1260)^{+-} --> pi^{-+} pi^{+-} pi^{+-}. The data sample consists of 218 million B B-bar pairs...

Search for T, CP and CPT Violation in $B^0 \bar{B}^0$ Mixing with Inclusive Dilepton Events (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We report the results of a search for T, CP and CPT violation in B0-B0bar mixing using an inclusive dilepton sample collected by the BaBar experiment at the PEP-II B Factory. Using a sample of 232...

Measurement of Branching Fractions in Radiative B Decays to $\eta K \gamma$ and Search for B Decays to $\eta' K \gamma$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We present measurements of the B->eta K gamma branching fractions and upper limits for the B->eta' K gamma branching fractions. For B->eta K+ gamma we also measure the time-integrated charge...

Observation of $\Upsilon(4S)$ decays to $\pi^+\pi^-\Upsilon(1S)$ and $\pi^+\pi^-\Upsilon(2S)$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We present the first measurement of $\Upsilon(4S)$ decays to $\pi^+\pi^-\Upsilon(1S)$ and $\pi^+\pi^-\Upsilon(2S)$ based on a sample of 230$\times10^6$ $\Upsilon(4S)$ mesons collected with the BABAR...

Observation of a New $D_s$ Meson Decaying to D K at a Mass of $2.86 GeV/c^2$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We observe a new D_s meson with mass (2856.6 +/- 1.5_{stat.} +/- 5.0_{syst.}) MeV/c^2 and width (48 +/- 7_{stat.} +/- 10_{syst.}) MeV decaying into D^0 K^+ and D^+K^0_S. In the same mass...

Measurements of the Decays $B^0 \to \bar{D}^0p\bar{p}$, $B^0 \to \bar{D}^{*0}p\bar{p}$, $B^0 \to D^{-}p\bar{p}\pi^+$, and $B^0 \to D^{*-}p\bar{p}\pi^+$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We present measurements of branching fractions of $B^0$ decays to multi-body final states containing protons, based on 232 million $\Upsilon(4S)\to B\bar{B}$ decays collected with the BaBar detector...

Measurement of the Branching Fraction and Photon Energy Moments of $B \to X_s \gamma$ and $A_{cp}(B \to X_{s+d} \gamma)$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

The photon spectrum in B -> X_s gamma decay, where X_s is any strange hadronic state, is studied using a data sample of 88.5 million e+e- -> Upsilon(4S) -> BBbar decays collected by the BaBar...

Measurement of the $B \to \pi \ell \nu$ Branching Fraction and Determination of $|V_{ub}|$ with Tagged B Mesons (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We report a measurement of the B -> pi l nu branching fraction based on 211 fb-1 of data collected with the BABAR detector. We use samples of B0 and B+ mesons tagged by a second B meson reconstructed...

A Study of the $D_{sJ}^*(2317)^+$ and $D_{sJ}(2460)^+$ Mesons in Inclusive $c\bar{c}$ Production Near $\sqrt(s)$ = 10.6 GeV (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

A study of the $D_{sJ}^*(2317)^+$ and $D_{sJ}(2460)^+$ mesons in inclusive $c\bar{c}$ production is presented using 232~${\rm fb}^{-1}$ of data collected by the BaBar experiment near $\sqrt{s} =...

Measurement of the $B^- \to D^0 K*^-$ branching fraction (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

From a sample of 232 million Upsilon(4S)--> B B-bar events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B Factory in 1999--2004, we measure the B- --> D0 K*-(892) decay branching fraction using...

Search for the Charmed Pentaquark Candidate $\Theta_c (3100)^0$ in $e^+e^-$ Annihilations at $\sqrt{s}=10.58 GeV$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We search for the charmed pentaquark candidate reported by the H1 collaboration, the Theta_c(3100)^0, in e^+e^- interactions at a center-of-mass (c.m.) energy of 10.58 GeV, using 124~fb-1 of data...

Observation of an Excited Charm Baryon $\Omega_C^*$ Decaying to $\Omega_C^0\Gamma$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We report the first observation of an excited singly-charm baryon OmegaC* (css) in the radiative decay OmegaC0 Gamma, where the OmegaC0 baryon is reconstructed in the decays to the final states...

Measurement of branching fractions and charge asymmetries in B decays to an $\eta$ meson and a $K*$ meson (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for the decays etaK*, where K* indicates a spin 0, 1, or 2 Kpi system. The data sample corresponds to 344x10^6 BBbar pairs...

Measurement of $bar{B^0} \to D^{(*)0} \bar{K^{(*)0}}$ Branching Fractions (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present a study of the decays B0bar --> D(*)0 K(*)0bar using a sample of 226 million Y(4S) --> B Bbar decays collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e-collider at SLAC....

Measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries in $B^0 \to D^{(*)\pm}\pi^{\mp}$ and $ B^0 \to D^{\pm}\rho^{\mp}$ decays (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present updated results on time-dependent CP asymmetries in fully reconstructed B0->D(*)+-pi-+ and B0->D+-rho-+ decays in approximately 232 million Y(4S)->BBbar events collected with the BaBar...

Searches for $B^0$ decays to $\eta K^0, \eta \eta, \eta' \eta', \eta \phi and \eta' \phi$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We search for B0 meson decays into two-body combinations of K0, eta, eta', and phi mesons in 324 million B Bbar pairs collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider...

Search for the Decay $\tau^- \to 3\pi^- 2\pi^+ 2\pi^0 \nu_\tau$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

A search for the decay of the tau lepton to five charged and two neutral pions is performed using data collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. The analysis uses...

Measurements of branching fractions, rate asymmetries, and angular distributions in the rare decays $B\to K\ell^+\ell^-$ and $B\to K*\ell^+\ell^-$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We present measurements of the flavor-changing neutral current decays B --> Kl+l- and B --> K*l+l-, where l+l- is either an e+e- or mu+mu- pair. The data sample comprises 229 x 10^6 Y(4s) -->to BBbar...

Dalitz plot analysis of the decay $B^\pm \to K^\pm K^\pm K^\mp$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We analyze the three-body charmless decay B+- -> K+-K+-K-+ using a sample of 226.0 +- 2.5 million BBbar pairs collected by the BABAR detector. We measure the total branching fraction and CP asymmetry...

Study of the decay $\bar{B^0} \to D\^{*+} \omega\pi^-$ (2007)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Bona, M., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., ...

We report on a study of the decay B0bar -> D*+ omega pi- with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II B-factory at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. Based on a sample of 232 million BBbar decays, we...

Holistic or compositional representation of two-digit numbers? Evidence from the distance, magnitude, and SNARC effects in a number-matching task. (2007)

Zhou, X., Chen, C., Chen, L., Dong, Q.

Whether two-digit numbers are represented holistically (each digit pair processed as one number) or compositionally (each digit pair processed separately as a decade digit and a unit digit) remains...

Phenotype genotype exploration on a desktop GPU grid (2007)

Chen, C., Singh, A., Lui, W., Müller-Wittig, W., Mitchell, W., Schmidt, B.

Comparative genomics provides a powerful tool for studying evolutionary changes among organisms. We have designed a new tool, called Phenotype Genotype Explorer to nominate candidate genes...

Heritability and shared environment estimates for myopia and associated ocular biometric traits: the Genes in Myopia (GEM) family study (2007)

Chen, C, Scurrah, KJ, Stankovich, J, Garoufalis, P, Dirani, M, Pertile, KK, ...

To examine the familial correlations, heritability (h2) and common environmental components (c2) of myopia and ocular biometric traits (all treated as continuous outcomes) in families collected...

Heritability and shared environment estimates for myopia and associated ocular biometric traits: the Genes in Myopia (GEM) family study (2007)

Chen, C, Scurrah, KJ, Stankovich, J, Garoufalis, P, Dirani, M, Pertile, KK, ...

To examine the familial correlations, heritability (h2) and common environmental components (c2) of myopia and ocular biometric traits (all treated as continuous outcomes) in families collected...

Facilitation of decidualization by locally produced ghrelin in the human endometrium (2007)

Tawadros, N., Salamonsen, L. A., Dimitriadis, L. E., Chen, C.

Ghrelin acting via the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R) stimulates GH secretion from pituitary glands. Both ligand and receptor are present in the pituitary, hypothalamus and many...

Regulation of Pancreatic Beta-Cell Function by Adipocytes (2007)

Zhao, Y. F., Chen, C.

Adipokines, the bioactive factors derived mainly from adipocytes, regulate pancreatic beta-cell function including insulin secretion, gene expression and apoptosis. In this review, we propose that...

Somatostatin Decreases Voltage-gated Ca2+ Currents in GH3 Cells Through Activation of Somatostatin Receptor 2 (2007)

Yang, S., Parkington, H. C., Epelbaum, J., Keating, D. J., Chen, C.

The secretion of growth hormone (GH) is inhibited by hypothalamic somatostatin (SRIF) in somatotropes through five subtypes of the somatostatin receptor (SSTR1–SSTR5). We aimed to characterize the...

Facilitation of decidualization by locally produced ghrelin in the human endometrium (2007)

Tawadros, N., Salamonsen, L. A., Dimitriadis, L. E., Chen, C.

Ghrelin acting via the growth hormone secretagogue receptor (GHS-R) stimulates GH secretion from pituitary glands. Both ligand and receptor are present in the pituitary, hypothalamus and many...

Regulation of Pancreatic Beta-Cell Function by Adipocytes (2007)

Zhao, Y. F., Chen, C.

Adipokines, the bioactive factors derived mainly from adipocytes, regulate pancreatic beta-cell function including insulin secretion, gene expression and apoptosis. In this review, we propose that...

Somatostatin Decreases Voltage-gated Ca2+ Currents in GH3 Cells Through Activation of Somatostatin Receptor 2 (2007)

Yang, S., Parkington, H. C., Epelbaum, J., Keating, D. J., Chen, C.

The secretion of growth hormone (GH) is inhibited by hypothalamic somatostatin (SRIF) in somatotropes through five subtypes of the somatostatin receptor (SSTR1–SSTR5). We aimed to characterize the...

Adaptive Processing of Range Scanned Head: Synthesis of Personalized Animated Human Face Representation with Multiple-Level Radial Basis Function (2007)

C. Chen, Edmond C. Prakash

We propose an animation system for personalized human head. Landmarks compliant to MPEG-4 facial definition parameters (FDP) are initially labeled on both template model and any target human head...

Multi-bits biometric string generation based on the likelyhood ratio (2007)

Chen, C., Veldhuis, R.N.J., Kevenaar, T.A.M., Akkermans, A.H.M.

Preserving the privacy of biometric information stored in biometric systems is becoming a key issue. An important element in privacy protecting biometric systems is the quantizer which transforms a...

Heritability and shared environment estimates for myopia and associated ocular biometric traits: the Genes in Myopia (GEM) family study (2007)

Chen, C, Scurrah, KJ, Stankovich, J, Garoufalis, P, Dirani, M, Pertile, KK, ...

To examine the familial correlations, heritability (h2) and common environmental components (c2) of myopia and ocular biometric traits (all treated as continuous outcomes) in families collected...

Adaptive Processing of Range Scanned Head: Synthesis of Personalized Animated Human Face Representation with Multiple-Level Radial Basis Function (2007)

C. Chen, Edmond C. Prakash

We propose an animation system for personalized human head. Landmarks compliant to MPEG-4 facial definition parameters (FDP) are initially labeled on both template model and any target human head...

BABAR silicon vertex tracker: Status and prospects (2006)

Re, V, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Curry, S, Kirkby, D, Berryhill, J, ...

The BABAR Silicon Vertex Tracker (SVT) has been efficiently operated for six years since the start of data taking in 1999. Due to higher than expected background levels some unforeseen effects have...

Discovery of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy (2006)

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B., Berley, D., Blaufuss, E., Casanova, S., Chen, C., ...

The diffuse gamma radiation arising from the interaction of cosmic ray particles with matter and radiation in the Galaxy is one of the few probes available to study the origin of the cosmic rays....

Observations of the Askaryan Effect in Ice (2006)

Barwick, S. W., Beatty, J. J., Besson, D. Z., Binns, W. R., Chen, C., ...

We report on the first observations of the Askaryan effect in ice: coherent impulsive radio Cherenkov radiation from the charge asymmetry in an electromagnetic (EM) shower. Such radiation has been...

The apparent disappearance of Loligo forbesi from the south of its range in the 1990s: Trends in Loligo spp. abundance in the northeast Atlantic and possible environmental influences (2006)

CHEN, C, PIERCE, G, WANG, J, ROBIN, J, POULARD, Jean-Charles, PEREIRA, J, ...

Since the early 1990s, Loligoforbesi has apparently disappeared from much of the southern part of its former range, with catches off the Iberian Peninsula, for example, declining dramatically during...

Nanoparticle-templated assembly of viral protein cages (2006)

Chen, C, Daniel, Marie-Christine, Quinkert, Z. T., De, Mrinmoy, Stein, Barry, Bowman, V. D., ...

Self-assembly of regular protein surfaces around nanoparticle templates provides a new class of hybrid biomaterials with potential applications in medical imaging and in bioanalytical sensing. We...

Search for W and Z bosons in the reaction (p)over-barp -> two jets plus gamma at root s=1.8 TeV (2006)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We present a study of the dijet invariant mass distribution for the reaction (p) over barp -> jets + gamma + X, at a center of mass energy of 1.8 TeV, using data collected by the CDF experiment. We...

Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV (2006)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We present the first measurement of the A(2) and A(3) angular coefficients of the W boson produced in proton-antiproton collisions. We study W -> e nu(e) and W ->mu nu(mu) candidate events produced...

Measurement of the azimuthal angle distribution of leptons from W boson decays as a function of the W transverse momentum in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s = 1.8 TeV (2006)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We present the first measurement of the A(2) and A(3) angular coefficients of the W boson produced in proton-antiproton collisions. We study W -> e nu(e) and W ->mu nu(mu) candidate events produced...

Energy Consumption Analysis and Energy Conservation Evaluation of a Commercial Building in Shanghai (2006)

Chen, C., Pan, Y., Huang, Z., Wu, G.

The paper presents a model of a commercial building in Shanghai with energy simulation software, and after calibration, the energy consumption of this building is calculated. On the basis of the...

An Application of Phase Change Technology in a Greenhouse (2006)

Liu, Y., Chen, C., Guo, H., Yue, H.

This research paper focuses on the greenhouse that needs additional heat at night to insure an inside air temperature above 20?, and applies a new type of shape-stabilized phase change material (PCM)...

Experimental Investigation of Natural Convection in Trombe Wall Systems (2006)

Chen, B., Zhao, J., Chen, C., Zhuang, Z.

In this paper, experiments with a passive solar building with Trombe wall in the north cold climate are carried out and discussed, and the natural convection heat transfer process has been...

Analysis of Heat Charging and Discharging on the Phase Change Energy-Storage Composite Wallboard (PCECW) in Building (2006)

Yue, H., Chen, C., Liu, Y., Guo, H.

This research paper combines the phase change material and the basal building material to constitute a kind of new phase change energy- storage composite wallboard (PCECW), applied in a residential...

Hip joint replacement surgery for idiopathic osteoarthritis aggregates in families. (2006)

Bukulmez, H, Matthews, AL, Sullivan, CM, Chen, C, Kraay, MJ, Elston, RC, ...

In order to determine whether there is a genetic component to hip or knee joint failure due to idiopathic osteoarthritis (OA), we invited patients (probands) undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty for...

Investigations of the nonlinear behavior of piezoceramic hollow cylinders. (2006)

Laskewitz, B., Kamlah, M., Chen, C.

Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, 17(2006) S.521-32

Prevalence and partial sequence analysis of human T cell lymphotropic virus type I in China (2005)

Wang, Y., Li, X., Song, A., Zhang, C., Chen, Y., Chen, C., ...

A total of 145,293 serum samples were collected from volunteer blood donors in 13 provinces of China and tested for anti-HTLV antibody using an ELISA licensed in China. Thirty were positive for...

A mass point vehicle scrappage model (2005)

Chen, C, Niemeier, Debbie A.

In air quality modeling, vehicle survival rates, also frequently referred to as retention rates, are very important for modeling mobile emissions inventories. The vehicle survival rate determines how...

Search for B-Meson Decays to Two-Body Final States with $a_0(980)$ Mesons (2005)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., ...

We present a search for B decays to charmless final states involving charged or neutral a0 mesons. The data sample corresponds to 89 million BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector operating at...

Branching Fractions and CP Asymmetries in $B^0 \to K^+ K^- K^0_S$ and $B^+ \to K^+ K^0_S K^0_S$ (2005)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., ...

We measure the branching fractions and CP asymmetries in the decays B0 --> K+K-K0S and B+ --> K+K0S K0S using a sample of approximately 122 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector. From a...

An Exploratory Study Using an AIDS Model for Tradeoffs between Time Allocations to Maintenance Activities/Travel and Discretionary Activities/Travel (2005)

Chen, C, Mokhtarian, Patricia L

This paper focuses on the tradeoff in time allocation between maintenance activities/travel and discretionary activities/travel. With the recognition that people are not completely free to allocate...

Search for electroweak single-top-quark production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2005)

Acosta, D., Adelman, J., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., ...

We report on a search for standard model t-channel and s-channel single-top quark production in p (p) over bar collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.96 TeV. We use a data sample corresponding to...

First measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections from Run II of the Fermilab Tevatron Collider (2005)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amerio, S., ...

We report the first measurements of inclusive W and Z cross sections times leptonic branching ratios for p (p) over bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV, based on their decays to electrons and muons....

Search for decays of $B^0 \to e^+ e ^-, B^0 \to \mu^+ \mu^-, B^0 \to e^{pm} \mu{mp}$ (2005)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present a search for the decays B0-->e+e-, B0-->µ+µ-, and B0-->e±µ-/+ in data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the SLAC B Factory. Using a data set of 111...

Search for decays of $B^0 \to e^+ e ^-, B^0 \to \mu^+ \mu^-, B^0 \to e^{pm} \mu{mp}$ (2005)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present a search for the decays B0-->e+e-, B0-->µ+µ-, and B0-->e±µ-/+ in data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the SLAC B Factory. Using a data set of 111...

Search for decays of $B^0 \to e^+ e ^-, B^0 \to \mu^+ \mu^-, B^0 \to e^{pm} \mu{mp}$ (2005)

Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Couderc, F., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...

We present a search for the decays B0-->e+e-, B0-->µ+µ-, and B0-->e±µ-/+ in data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the SLAC B Factory. Using a data set of 111...

Oestrogen Replacement in Vivo Rescues the Dysfunction of Pituitary Somatotropes in Ovariectomised Aromatase Knockout Mice (2005)

Yan, M., Jones, M. E. E., Hernandez, M., Dongling, L, Simpson, E. R., Chen, C.

The mechanism of regulation of growth hormone (GH) secretion by oestrogens and androgens is still controversial. Available data on the action of oestrogens on GH expression and secretion in...

Somatostatin Increases Voltage-Gated K+ Currents in GH3 Cells Through Activation of Multiple Somatostatin Receptors (2005)

Yang, S., Parkington, H. C., Blake, A. D., Keating, D. J., Chen, C.

The secretion of GH by somatotropes is inhibited by somatostatin (SRIF) through five specific membrane receptors (SSTRs). SRIF increases both transient outward (IA) and delayed rectifying (IK) K+...

Oestrogen Replacement in Vivo Rescues the Dysfunction of Pituitary Somatotropes in Ovariectomised Aromatase Knockout Mice (2005)

Yan, M., Jones, M. E. E., Hernandez, M., Dongling, L, Simpson, E. R., Chen, C.

The mechanism of regulation of growth hormone (GH) secretion by oestrogens and androgens is still controversial. Available data on the action of oestrogens on GH expression and secretion in...

Somatostatin Increases Voltage-Gated K+ Currents in GH3 Cells Through Activation of Multiple Somatostatin Receptors (2005)

Yang, S., Parkington, H. C., Blake, A. D., Keating, D. J., Chen, C.

The secretion of GH by somatotropes is inhibited by somatostatin (SRIF) through five specific membrane receptors (SSTRs). SRIF increases both transient outward (IA) and delayed rectifying (IK) K+...

Reverse cholesterol transport and cholesterol efflux in atherosclerosis (2005)

Ohashi, R., Mu, H., Wang, X., Yao, Q., Chen, C.

Reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) is a pathway by which accumulated cholesterol is transported from the vessel wall to the liver for excretion, thus preventing atherosclerosis. Major constituents...

Reverse cholesterol transport and cholesterol efflux in atherosclerosis (2005)

Ohashi, R., Mu, H., Wang, X., Yao, Q., Chen, C.

Reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) is a pathway by which accumulated cholesterol is transported from the vessel wall to the liver for excretion, thus preventing atherosclerosis. Major constituents...

TTB or not TTB, that is the question: a review and analysis of the empirical literature on travel time (and money) budgets (2004)

Mokhtarian, Patricia L, Chen, C

This paper summarizes and analyses findings from more than two dozen aggregate and disaggregate studies of travel time (and sometimes money) expenditures, exploring the question of the existence of a...

Comparison of Three-jet Events in Proton-Antiproton Collisions at Center-of-mass Energy 1.8 TeV to Predictions from a Next-to-leading Order QCD Calculation (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

The properties of three-jet events with total transverse energy greater than 320 GeV and individual jet energy greater than 20 GeV have been analyzed and compared to absolute predictions from a...

Spermidine/spermine N-1-acetyltransferase specifically binds to the integrin alpha 9 subunit cytoplasmic domain and enhances cell migration (2004)

Chen, C, Young, B A, Coleman, C S, Pegg, A E, Sheppard, D

T he integrin alpha9beta1 is expressed on migrating cells, such as leukocytes, and binds to multiple ligands that are present at sites of tissue injury and inflammation. alpha9beta1, like the...

Design, construction and tests of the ICARUS T600 detector (2004)

Amerio, S., Amoruso, S., Antonello, M., Aprili, P., Armenante, M., Arneodo, F., ...

We have constructed and operated the ICARUS T600 liquid argon (LAr) time projection chamber (TPC). The ICARUS T600 detector is the largest LAr TPC ever built, with a size of about 500 tons of fully...

Expression of the human ferritin light chain in a frataxin mutant yeast affects ageing and cell death (2004)

Desmyter, L, Dewaele, S, Reekmans, R, Nystrom, T, Contreras, R, Chen, C

Ferritin is one of the major eukaryotic proteins involved in regulating iron metabolism and maintaining iron homeostasis. However, Saccaromyces cerevisiae is an exception, possessing no ferritin and...

Combination of CDF and D0 results on the W boson mass and width (2004)

Abazov, V. M., Abbott, B., Abdesselam, A., Abolins, M., Abramov, V., Acharya, B. S., ...

The results based on 1992-95 data (Run 1) from the CDF and D0 experiments on the measurements of the W boson mass and width are presented, along with the combined results. We report a Tevatron...

Measurement of the average time-integrated mixing probability of b-flavored hadrons produced at the Fermilab Tevatron (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We have measured the number of like-sign (LS) and opposite-sign (OS) lepton pairs arising from double semileptonic decays of b and (b) over bar hadrons, pair produced at the Fermilab Tevatron...

Underlying event in hard interactions at the Fermilab Tevatron p(p)over-barp collider (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

For comparison of inclusive jet cross sections measured at hadron-hadron colliders to next-to-leading order (NLO) parton-level calculations, the energy deposited in the jet cone by spectator parton...

Direct photon cross section with conversions at CDF (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We present a measurement of the isolated direct photon cross section in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV and \eta\gammagamma and eta-->gammagamma events from the data we use a new...

Measurement of the polar-angle distribution of leptons from W boson decay as a function of the W transverse momentum in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We present a measurement of the polar-angle distribution of leptons from W boson decay, as a function of the W transverse momentum. The measurement uses an 80+/-4 pb(-1) sample of p (p) over bar...

Optimized search for single-top-quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We use a neural-network technique to search for standard model single-top-quark production in the 106 pb(-1) dataset accumulated by the Collider Detector at Fermilab detector during the 1992-1995...

Heavy flavor properties of jets produced in p(p)over-bar interactions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Ambrose, D., Anikeev, K., Antos, J., Apollinari, G., Arisawa, T., ...

We present a detailed examination of the heavy flavor properties of jets produced at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The data set, collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, consists of events...

Observation of the narrow state X(3872)-> J/psi pi(+)pi(-) in (p)over-barp collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M. H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., ...

We report the observation of a narrow state decaying into J/psipi(+)pi(-) and produced in 220 pb(-1) of (p) over barp collisions at roots=1.96 TeV in the CDF II experiment. We observe 730+/-90...

Inclusive double-Pomeron exchange at the Fermilab tevatron (p)over-barp collider (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report results from a study of events with a double-Pomeron exchange topology produced in (p) over barp collisions at roots=1800 GeV. The events are characterized by a leading antiproton and a...

Search for Kaluza-Klein graviton emission in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV using the missing energy signature (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report on a search for direct Kaluza-Klein graviton production in a data sample of 84 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV, recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We...

Search for pair production of scalar top quarks in R-parity violating decay modes in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We present the results of a search for pair production of scalar top quarks ((t) over tilde (1)) in an R-parity violating supersymmetry scenario in 106 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at...

Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons decaying to dileptons in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amerio, S., ...

We present the results of a search for doubly charged Higgs bosons (H+/-+/-) decaying to dileptons (ll') using approximate to240 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collision data collected by the CDF II...

Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV using dilepton events (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amerio, S., ...

We report a measurement of the t (t) over bar production cross section using dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy in p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96...

Inclusive search for anomalous production of high-p(T) like-sign lepton pairs in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We report on a search for anomalous production of events with at least two charged, isolated, like-sign leptons, each with p(T)>11 GeV/c using a 107 pb(-1) sample of 1.8 TeV p (p) over bar collisions...

Search for B-s(0)->mu(+)mu(-) and B-d(0)->mu(+)mu(-) decays in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2004)

Acousta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amerio, S., ...

We report on a search for B-s(0)-->mu(+)mu(-) and B-d(0)-->mu(+)mu(-) decays in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.96 TeV using 171 pb(-1) of data collected by the CDF II experiment at the Fermilab...

Combination of CDF and D0 results on the W boson mass and width (2004)

Abazov, V.M., Abbott, B., Abdesselam, A., Abolins, M., Abramov, V., S. Acharya, B., ...

The results based on 1992–95 data (Run 1) from the CDF and D0 experiments on the measurements of the W boson mass and width are presented, along with the combined results. We report a Tevatron...

Combination of CDF and D0 results on the W boson mass and width (2004)

Abazov, V.M., Abbott, B., Abdesselam, A., Abolins, M., Abramov, V., S. Acharya, B., ...

The results based on 1992–95 data (Run 1) from the CDF and D0 experiments on the measurements of the W boson mass and width are presented, along with the combined results. We report a Tevatron...

Combination of CDF and D0 results on the W boson mass and width (2004)

Abazov, V.M., Abbott, B., Abdesselam, A., Abolins, M., Abramov, V., S. Acharya, B., ...

The results based on 1992–95 data (Run 1) from the CDF and D0 experiments on the measurements of the W boson mass and width are presented, along with the combined results. We report a Tevatron...

Search for doubly charged Higgs bosons decaying to dileptons in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amerio, S., ...

We present the results of a search for doubly charged Higgs bosons (H+/-+/-) decaying to dileptons (ll') using approximate to240 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collision data collected by the CDF II...

Observation of the narrow state X(3872)→ J/psi pi(+)pi(-) in (p)over-barp collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M.H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., ...

We report the observation of a narrow state decaying into J/psipi(+)pi(-) and produced in 220 pb(-1) of (p) over barp collisions at roots=1.96 TeV in the CDF II experiment. We observe 730+/-90...

Search for Bs0→μ+μ- and Bd0→μ+μ- Decays in pp̅ Collisions at sqrt[s]=1.96  TeV (2004)

Acousta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amerio, S., ...

We report on a search for B-s(0)→mu(+)mu(-) and B-d(0)→mu(+)mu(-) decays in p (p) over bar collisions at...

Underlying event in hard interactions at the Fermilab Tevatron p-barp collider (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

For comparison of inclusive jet cross sections measured at hadron-hadron colliders to next-to-leading order (NLO) parton- level calculations, the energy deposited in the jet cone by spectator parton...

Direct photon cross section with conversions at CDF (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We present a measurement of the isolated direct photon cross section in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV and \eta\ lt 0.9 using data collected between 1994 and 1995 by the Collider Detector...

Inclusive double Pomeron exchange at the Fermilab tevatron p bar-p collider (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report results from a study of events with a double Pomeron exchange topology produced in pbar-p collisions at roots=1800 GeV. The events are characterized by a leading antiproton and a large...

Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV using dilepton events (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amerio, S., ...

We report a measurement of the t (t) over bar production cross section using dilepton events with jets and missing transverse energy in p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96...

Inclusive search for anomalous production of high-p(T) like- sign lepton pairs in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We report on a search for anomalous production of events with at least two charged, isolated, like-sign leptons, each with p(T) gt 11 GeV/c using a 107 pb(-1) sample of 1.8 TeV p (p) over bar...

Heavy flavor properties of jets produced in p(p)over-bar interactions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Ambrose, D., Anikeev, K., Antos, J., Apollinari, G., Arisawa, T., ...

We present a detailed examination of the heavy flavor properties of jets produced at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The data set, collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab, consists of events...

Optimized search for single-top-quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We use a neural-network technique to search for standard model single-top-quark production in the 106 pb(-1) dataset accumulated by the Collider Detector at Fermilab detector during the 1992-1995...

Search for pair production of scalar top quarks in R-parity violating decay modes in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We present the results of a search for pair production of scalar top quarks ((t) over tilde (1)) in an R-parity violating supersymmetry scenario in 106 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at...

Measurement of the polar-angle distribution of leptons from W boson decay as a function of the W transverse momentum in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., Anikeev, K., ...

We present a measurement of the polar-angle distribution of leptons from W boson decay, as a function of the W transverse momentum. The measurement uses an 80+/-4 pb(-1) sample of p (p) over bar...

Search for Kaluza-Klein graviton emission in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV using the missing energy signature (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report on a search for direct Kaluza-Klein graviton production in a data sample of 84 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV, recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. We...

Measurement of the average time-integrated mixing probability of b-flavored hadrons produced at the Fermilab Tevatron (2004)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We have measured the number of like-sign (LS) and opposite-sign (OS) lepton pairs arising from double semileptonic decays of b and (b) over bar hadrons, pair produced at the Fermilab Tevatron...

Effect of GHRH and GHRP-2 Treatment in Vitro on GH Secretion and Levels of GH, Pituitary Transcription Factor-1, GHRH-receptor, GH-secretagogue-receptor and Somatostatin Receptor mRNAs in Ovine Pituitary Cells (2004)

Yan, M., Hernandez, M., Xu, R., Chen, C.

Growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone (GHRH) and GH-releasing peptides (GHRPs) stimulate the release of GH through their specific receptors on somatotropes. Combined GHRH and GHRP administration...

Suppressing effects of bisphenol A on the secretory function of ovine anterior pituitary cells (2004)

Katoh, K, Matsuda, A, Ishigami, A, Yonekura, S, Ishiwata, H, Chen, C, ...

We investigated the action of bisphenol A (BPA) on cellular GH release and content, cell number, GHmRNA expression, and concentrations of cellular cyclic AMP ([cAMP]c) and calcium ion ([Ca2+]c) in...

3T3-L1 Adipocyte Reduces Kir6.2 Expression in MIN6 Insulin-Secreting Cells in Vitro (2004)

Zhao, Y. F., Zhu, Y. L., Chen, C.

Dysfunction of the pancreatic beta-cell is an important defect in the pathophysiological changes of type 2 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes is evidently associated with obesity. But the role of the...

Effect of GHRH and GHRP-2 Treatment in Vitro on GH Secretion and Levels of GH, Pituitary Transcription Factor-1, GHRH-receptor, GH-secretagogue-receptor and Somatostatin Receptor mRNAs in Ovine Pituitary Cells (2004)

Yan, M., Hernandez, M., Xu, R., Chen, C.

Growth hormone (GH)-releasing hormone (GHRH) and GH-releasing peptides (GHRPs) stimulate the release of GH through their specific receptors on somatotropes. Combined GHRH and GHRP administration...

Suppressing effects of bisphenol A on the secretory function of ovine anterior pituitary cells (2004)

Katoh, K, Matsuda, A, Ishigami, A, Yonekura, S, Ishiwata, H, Chen, C, ...

We investigated the action of bisphenol A (BPA) on cellular GH release and content, cell number, GHmRNA expression, and concentrations of cellular cyclic AMP ([cAMP]c) and calcium ion ([Ca2+]c) in...

3T3-L1 Adipocyte Reduces Kir6.2 Expression in MIN6 Insulin-Secreting Cells in Vitro (2004)

Zhao, Y. F., Zhu, Y. L., Chen, C.

Dysfunction of the pancreatic beta-cell is an important defect in the pathophysiological changes of type 2 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes is evidently associated with obesity. But the role of the...

SPICE-Compatible Thermal Simulation with Lumped Circuit Modeling for Thermal Reliability Analysis based on Modeling Order Reduction (2004)

Ting-yuan Wang, C. Chen

With the growing power dissipation in modern high performance VLSI designs, nonuniform temperature distribution and limited heat-conduction capability have caused thermal induced performance and...

Patient preferences for acute pain treatment{dagger} (2004)

Gan, T. J., Lubarsky, D. A., Flood, E. M., Thanh, T., Mauskopf, J., Mayne, T., ...

Background. Optimal treatment for acute pain is a function of an individual’s willingness to make trade-offs between treatment side effects and pain control. The objective was to investigate the...

Patient preferences for acute pain treatment{dagger} (2004)

Gan, T. J., Lubarsky, D. A., Flood, E. M., Thanh, T., Mauskopf, J., Mayne, T., ...

Background. Optimal treatment for acute pain is a function of an individual’s willingness to make trade‐offs between treatment side effects and pain control. The objective was to investigate...

Patient preferences for acute pain treatment{dagger} (2004)

Gan, T. J., Lubarsky, D. A., Flood, E. M., Thanh, T., Mauskopf, J., Mayne, T., ...

Background. Optimal treatment for acute pain is a function of an individual’s willingness to make trade-offs between treatment side effects and pain control. The objective was to investigate the...

Measurement of prompt charm meson production cross sections in pp collisions at square root s=1.96 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M.H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., ...

We report on measurements of differential cross sections d sigma /dp/sub T/ for prompt charm meson production in pp collisions at square root s=1.96 TeV using 5.8+or-0.3 pb/sup -1/ of data from the...

Measurement of the muon decay spectrum with the ICARUS liquid Argon TPC (2003)

Amoruso, S, Antonello, M, Aprili, P, Arneodo, F, Badertscher, A, Baiboussinov, B, ...

Examples are given which prove the ICARUS detector quality through relevant physics measurements. We study the muon decay energy spectrum from a sample of stopping muon events acquired during the...

Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup n/ pp collisions at square root s =1.96 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M.H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., ...

We report on a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D/sup 0/ to mu /sup +/ mu /sup -/ in pp collisions at square root s=1.96 TeV using 65 pb/sup -1/ of data collected by the CDF II...

Measurement of the mass difference m(D-s(+))-m(D+) at CDF II (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M. H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Alcorn, B., ...

We present a measurement of the mass difference m(D-s(+))-m(D+), where both the D-s(+) and D+ are reconstructed in the phipi(+) decay channel. This measurement uses 11.6 pb(-1) of data collected by...

Search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D-0 ->mu(+)mu(-) in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M. H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., ...

We report on a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay D-0-->mu(+)mu(-) in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.96 TeV using 65 pb(-1) of data collected by the CDF II experiment at the...

Momentum distribution of charged particles in jets in dijet events in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV and comparisons to perturbative QCD predictions (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

Inclusive momentum distributions of charged particles in restricted cones around jet axes were measured in dijet events with invariant dijet masses in the range 80 to 600 GeV/c(2). Events were...

Measurement of prompt charm meson production cross sections in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.96 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M. H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., ...

We report on measurements of differential cross sections dsigma/dp(T) for prompt charm meson production in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.96 TeV using 5.8+/-0.3 pb(-1) of data from the CDF II...

Search for lepton flavor violating decays of a heavy neutral particle in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report on a search for a high mass, narrow width particle that decays directly to emu, etau, or mutau. We use approximately 110 pb(-1) of data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab from...

Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in dilepton events from p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We have searched for pair production of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (stop) in 107 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab...

Central pseudorapidity gaps in events with a leading antiproton at the Fermilab tevatron (p)over-barp collider (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report a measurement of the fraction of events with a large pseudorapidity gap Deltaeta within the pseudorapidity region available to the proton dissociation products X in (p) over bar +p-->(p)...

Search for associated production of Upsilon and vector boson in p(p)over-bar collisions at root(s)over-bar=1.8 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We present a search for associated production of the Y(1S) and a vector boson in 83 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV collected by the CDF experiment in 1994-1995. We find no...

Search for long-lived charged massive particles in p(p)over-bar collision at root s=1.8 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report a search for the production of long-lived charged massive particles in a data sample of 90 pb(-1) of roots = 1.8 TeV p (p) over bar collisions recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab....

Search for a W-' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair in 1.8 TeV p(p)over-bar collisions (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M. G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report the results of a search for a W-' boson produced in p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 106 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the Collider Detector at...

Novel antisense oligonucleotides targeting TGF-β inhibit in vivo scarring and improve surgical outcome (2003)

Cordeiro, M.F., Mead, A., Ali, R.R., Alexander, A., Murray, S., Chen, C., ...

The scarring response is an important factor in many diseases throughout the body. In addition, it is a major problem in influencing results of surgery. In the eye, for example, post-operative...

Frontoethmoidal osteoma: a stereotactic-assisted sino-orbital approach (2003)

Selva, D., Chen, C., Wormald, Peter-John

Copyright © 2003 The American Society of Opthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Inc.

Frontoethmoidal osteoma: a stereotactic-assisted sino-orbital approach (2003)

Selva, D., Chen, C., Wormald, Peter-John

Copyright © 2003 The American Society of Opthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Inc.

Solution for fault-tolerance in replicated database systems (2003)

Chen, C., Zhou, Wanlei

A distributed database system is subject to site failure and link failure. This paper presents a reactive system approach to achieving the fault-tolerance in such a system. The reactive system...

Solution for fault-tolerance in replicated database systems (2003)

Chen, C., Zhou, Wanlei

A distributed database system is subject to site failure and link failure. This paper presents a reactive system approach to achieving the fault-tolerance in such a system. The reactive system...

Measurement of the mass difference m(Ds+)-m(D+)at CDF II (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Ahn, M.H., Akimoto, T., Albrow, M.G., Alcorn, B., ...

We present a measurement of the mass difference m(D-s(+))- m(D+), where both the D-s(+) and D+ are reconstructed in the phipi(+) decay channel. This measurement uses 11.6 pb(-1) of data collected by...

Momentum distribution of charged particles in jets in dijet events in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV and comparisons to perturbative QCD predictions (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

Inclusive momentum distributions of charged particles in restricted cones around jet axes were measured in dijet events with invariant dijet masses in the range 80 to 600 GeV/c(2). Events were...

Search for a W' boson decaying to a top and bottom quark pair in 1.8 TeV p(p)over-bar collisions (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report the results of a search for a W-' boson produced in p (p) over bar collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 1.8 TeV using a 106 pb(-1) data sample recorded by the Collider Detector at...

Search for associated production of Upsilon and vector boson in p(p)over-bar collisions at root(s)over-bar=1.8 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We present a search for associated production of the Y(1S) and a vector boson in 83 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV collected by the CDF experiment in 1994-1995. We find no...

Search for long-lived charged massive particles in p(p)over-bar collision at root s=1.8 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report a search for the production of long-lived charged massive particles in a data sample of 90 pb(-1) of roots = 1.8 TeV p (p) over bar collisions recorded by the Collider Detector at Fermilab....

Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in dilepton events from p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2003)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We have searched for pair production of the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (stop) in 107 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab...

Hexarelin Protects Rat Cardiomyocytes from Angiotensin II-induced Apoptosis in Vitro (2003)

Pang, J., Xu, Rong-Kun, Xu, Xiang-Bin, Cao, Ji-Min, Ni, Chao, Zhu, Wen-Ling, ...

Loss of cardiomyocytes by apoptosis is proposed to cause heart failure. Angiotensin II (ANG II), an important neurohormonal factor during heart failure, can induce cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Inasmuch...

Hexarelin Protects Rat Cardiomyocytes from Angiotensin II-induced Apoptosis in Vitro (2003)

Pang, J., Xu, Rong-Kun, Xu, Xiang-Bin, Cao, Ji-Min, Ni, Chao, Zhu, Wen-Ling, ...

Loss of cardiomyocytes by apoptosis is proposed to cause heart failure. Angiotensin II (ANG II), an important neurohormonal factor during heart failure, can induce cardiomyocyte apoptosis. Inasmuch...

3D Thermal-ADI - An Efficient Chip-Level Transient Thermal Simulator (2003)

Ting-yuan Wang, Yu-min Lee, C. Chen

Recent studies show that the nonuniform thermal distribution on the substrate and interconnects has impact on the circuit reliability and performance. Hence three-dimensional (3-D) thermal analysis...

A solution for fault-tolerance in replicated database systems (2003)

Chen, C., Zhou, Wanlei

A distributed database system is subject to site failure and link failure. This paper presents a reactive system approach to achieving the fault-tolerance in such a system. The reactive system...

The CDFII Time-Of-Flight Detector and Impact on Beauty Flavor Tagging (2002)

Grozis, C., Kephart, R., Stanek, R., Kim, D. H., Kim, M. S., Oh, Y., ...

The new CDFII detector incorporates a Time-of-Flight detector (TOF), employing plastic scintillator bars and fine-mesh photomultipliers. Since August 2001 the TOF system has been fully instrumented...

Branching ratio measurements of exclusive B+ decays to charmonium with the Collider Detector at Fermilab (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report on measurements of the branching ratios of the decays B+→chi(c1)(0)(1P)K+ and B+→J/psiK(+)pi(+)pi(-), where chi(c1)(0)(1P)→J/psigamma and J/psi→mu(+)mu(-) in p (p) over bar...

Comparison of the isolated direct photon cross sections in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV and root s=0.63 TeV. (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We have measured the cross sections d(2)sigma/dP(T)deta for production of isolated direct photons in p (p) over bar collisions at two different center-of-mass energies, 1.8 TeV and 0.63 TeV, using...

Cross section for forward J/psi production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

The inclusive cross section for J/psi production times the branching ratio B(J/psi→mu(+)mu(-)) has been measured in the forward pseudorapidity region: Bxdsigma[(p) over bar +p→J/psi(p(T) gt 10...

Diffractive dijet production at root s=630 and 1800 GeV at the Fermilab tevatron (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Ambrose, D., ...

We report a measurement of the diffractive structure function F-jj(D) of the antiproton obtained from a study of dijet events produced in association with a leading antiproton in (p) over barp...

Limits on extra dimensions and new particle production in the exclusive photon and missing energy signature in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

The exclusive gammais not an element of(T) signal has a small standard model cross section and is thus a channel sensitive to new physics. This signature is predicted by models with a superlight...

Measurement of B-meson lifetimes using fully reconstructed B decays produced in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We present an improved measurement of b-meson lifetimes using fully reconstructed B-decays produced in p(p) over bar collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV, using 114 pb(-1) of data collected at the Collider...

Measurement of the B+ total cross section and B+ differential cross section d sigma/dpT in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Ambrose, D., ...

We present measurements of the B+ meson total cross section and differential cross section dsigma/dp(T). The measurements use a 98+/-4 pb(-1) sample of p (p) over bar collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV...

Measurement of the ratio of b quark production cross sections in (p)over-bar-p collisions at root s=630 GeV and root s=1800 GeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We report a measurement of the ratio of the bottom quark production cross section in antiproton-proton collisions at roots=630 GeV to 1800 GeV using bottom quarks with transverse momenta greater than...

Search for new physics in photon-lepton events in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., ...

We present the results of a search in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV for anomalous production of events containing a photon with large transverse energy and a lepton (e or mu) with large...

Search for radiative b-hadron decays in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Ambrose, D., Amidei, D., ...

We have performed a search for radiative b-hadron decays using events produced in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV and collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The decays we...

Search for single-top-quark production in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Ambrose, D., ...

We search for standard model single-top-quark production in the W-gluon fusion and W-star channels using 106 pb(-1) of data from p(p) over bar collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV collected with the...

Search for the decay B-s →mu(+)mu(-)phi in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., ...

We present a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay B-s→mu(+)mu(-)phi in p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1.8 TeV, using 91 pb(-1) of data collected at the Collider Detector at...

Soft and hard interactions in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1800 and 630 GeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Ambrose, D., ...

We present a study of p (p) over bar collisions at roots=1800 and 630 GeV collected using a minimum bias trigger by the CDF experiment in which the data set is divided into two classes corresponding...

Study of the heavy flavor content of jets produced in association with W bosons in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Amaral, P., Ambrose, D., ...

We present a detailed examination of the heavy flavor content of the W+jet data sample collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab during the 1992-1995 collider run at the Fermilab Tevatron....

Upsilon production and polarization in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Acosta, D., Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Ambrose, D., ...

We report on measurements of the Y(1S), Y(2S), and Y(3S) differential cross sections (d(2)sigma/dp(T)dy)(\y\ lt 0.4) , as well as on the Ε(1S) polarization in p[(p)over bar] collisions at roots =...

Charged jet evolution and the underlying event in proton- antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV (2002)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

The growth and development of "charged particle jets" produced in proton-antiproton collisions at 1.8 TeV are studied over a transverse momentum range from 0.5 GeV/c to 50 GeV/c. A variety of leading...

Cross section and heavy quark composition of gamma+mu events produced in p(p)over-bar collisions (2002)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We present a measurement of the cross section and the first measurement of the heavy flavor content of associated direct photon + muon events produced in hadronic collisions. These measurements come...

Measurement of the strong coupling constant from inclusive jet production at the Tevatron (p)over-barp collider (2002)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We report a measurement of the strong coupling constant, alpha(s)(M-Z), extracted from inclusive jet production in p (p) over bar collisions at root(s) = 1800 GeV. The QCD prediction for the...

Search for gluinos and scalar quarks in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV using the missing energy plus multijets signature (2002)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We have performed a search for gluinos ((g) over tilde) and scalar quarks ((q) over tilde) in a data sample of 84 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV, recorded by the Collider...

Search for new heavy particles in the WZ0 final state in ppover-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2002)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We present the first general search for new heavy particles, X, which decay via X → WZ(0) → enu + jj as a function of M-X and Gamma(X) in p(p) over bar collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV. No evidence...

Searches for new physics in events with a photon and b-quark jet at CDF (2002)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We have searched for evidence of physics beyond the standard model in events that include an energetic photon and an energetic b-quark jet, produced in 85 pb(-1) of (p) over barp collisions at 1.8...

Study of B-0 → J/psi K-(*)0 pi(+)pi(-) decays with the Collider detector at Fermilab (2002)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We report a study of the decays B-0 → J/psiK((*)0) pi(+) pi(- ), which involve the creation of a u(u) over bar or d(d) over bar quark pair in addition to a (b) over bar → (c) over bar(c(s)...

Reliability of serial urine HCG as a biomarker to detect early pregnancy loss (2002)

Goldman, M.B., Ryan, L.M., Chen, C., Damokosh, A.I., Christiani, D.C., ...

BACKGROUND: To examine the reliability of HCG as a biomarker for early pregnancy loss, five experienced researchers independently assessed data from 153 menstrual cycles, determining whether each...

Advances in the development of simulation tools for integrated optics devices: FDTD, BPM, and mode solving techniques (2001)

Tanev, S., Feng, D., Dods, S., Tzolov, V.P., Jakubczk, Z.J., Chen, C., ...

In the present paper we review the state of the art of two complementary propagation techniques with applications integrated optics device modeling: the Finite-Difference Time- Domain and the Beam...

Charged-particle multiplicity p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We report on a measurement of the mean charged-particle multiplicity of jets in dijet events with dijet masses in the range 80-630 GeV/c(2), produced at the Tevatron in p(p) over bar collisions with...

Double diffraction dissociation at the Fermilab Tevatron collider (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We present results from a measurement of double diffraction dissociation in pp collisions at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. The production cross section for events with a central pseudorapidity gap...

First measurement of the ratio B(t→Wb)/B(t→Wq) and associated limit on the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa element vertical bar V-tb vertical bar (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We present the first measurement of the ratio of branching fractions R ≡ B(t → Wb)/B(t → Wq) from pa collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV. The data set corresponds to 109 pb-1 of data...

Measurement of d sigma/dM and forward-backward charge asymmetry for high-mass Drell-Yan e+e- pairs from p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We report on a measurement of the mass dependence of the forward-backward charge asymmetry, A(FB), and production cross section d sigma /dM for e(+)e(-) pairs with mass M-ee gt 40 GeV/c(2). The data...

Measurement of the inclusive jet cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We present results from the measurement of the inclusive jet cross section for jet transverse energies front 40 to 465 GeV in the pseudorapidity range 0.1 lt \[eta]\ lt 0.7. The results are based on...

Measurement of the top quark pT distribution (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We have measured the p(T) distribution of top quarks that are pair produced in p (p) over bar collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV using a sample of t (t) over bar decays in which we observe a single...

Measurement of the t(t)over-bar production cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We update the measurement of the t (t) over bar production cross section using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. This measurement uses t (t) over bar decays to the final states e + nu + jets...

Measurement of the two-jet differential cross section in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1800 GeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

A measurement is presented of the two-jet differential cross section d(3)sigma /dE(T)d eta (1)d eta (2) at center of mass energy roots = 1800 GeV in p (p) over bar collisions. The results are based...

Observation of diffractive J/psi production at the Fermilab Tevatron (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We report the first observation of diffractive J/psi(→ mu (+)mu (-)) production in [(p)power bar] collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV. Diffractive events are identified by their rapidity gap signature....

Search for narrow diphoton resonances and for gamma gamma+W/Z signatures in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We present results of searches for diphoton resonances produced both inclusively and also in association with a vector boson (W or Z) using 100 pb(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions using the CDF...

Search for neutral supersymmetric Higgs bosons in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We present the results of a starch for neutral Higgs bosons produced in association with b quarks in p (p) over bar → b (b) over barb (b) over bar final states with 91 +/- 7 pb(-1) of p (p) over...

Search for quark-lepton compositeness and a heavy W ' boson using the e nu channel in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amidei, D., ...

We present searches for quark-lepton compositeness and a heavy W' boson at high electron-neutrino transverse mass. We use similar to 110 pb(-1) of data collected in pp collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV...

Search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark in p(p)over-bar collisions at root s=1.8 TeV (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We report on a search for the supersymmetric partner of the top quark (top squark) produced in t (t) over bar events using 110 ph(-1) of p (p) over bar collisions at roots = 1.8 TeV recorded with the...

Tests of enhanced leading order QCD in W boson plus jets events from 1.8 TeV (p)over-barp collisions (2001)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We present a study of events with W bosons and hadronic jets produced in (p) over barp collisions at a center of mass energy of 1.8 TeV. The data consist of 51400 W→e nu decay candidates from 108...

Telcordia LSI engine: Implementation and scalability issues (2001)

C. Chen, N. Stoffel, M. Post, C. Basu, D. Bassu, C. Behrens, ...

Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI), a vector spacebased approach to information retrieval, has been proven to be an effective tool in correlating and retrieving relevant documents. While much work has...

Sm-Co-Cu-Ti high-temperature permanent magnets (2000)

Zhou, Jian, Skomski, Ralph, Chen, C., Hadjipanayis, G.C., Sellmyer, David J.

A class of promising permanent-magnet materials with an appreciable high-temperature coercivity of 8.6 kOe at 500 °C is reported. The Sm-Co-Cu-Ti magnets are prepared by arc melting and require a...

Search for new particles decaying to tt in pp collisions at square root s=1.8 TeV (2000)

Affolder, T., Akimoto, H., Akopian, A., Albrow, M.G., Amaral, P., Amendolia, S.R., ...

We use 106 pb/sup -1/ of data collected with the Collider Detector at Fermilab to search for narrow-width, vector particles decaying to a top and an antitop quark. Model independent upper limits on...

Cell-specific and conditional expression of caffeoyl-coenzyme A-3-O-methyltransferase in poplar (2000)

Chen, C, Meyermans, H, Burggraeve, B, De Rycke, R, Inoue, K, De Vleesschauwer, V, ...

Caffeoyl coenzyme A-3-O-methyltransferase (CCoAOMT) plays an important role in lignin biosynthesis and is encoded by two genes in poplar (Populus trichocarpa). Here, we describe the expression...

Lack of association between the 677 C to T polymorphism and colorectal hyperplastic polyps (2000)

Ulrich, C.M., Kampman, E., Bigler, J., Schwartz, S.M., Chen, C., Bostick, R., ...

Colorectal hyperplastic polyps are benign lesions that share many risk factors with colorectal adenomas and cancers. Low folate intakes are associated with an increased risk of colon cancer. The...

Electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) - A novel technique for ceramic thin film (2000)

Chen, C., Schoonman, J.

A review and discussion, with 29 refs., of electrostatic spray deposition (ESD) of ceramic thin films. The ESD technique opens up the opportunity to control the morphol. of a layer. The morphol. is...

Modifications in lignin and accumulation of phenolic glucosides in poplar xylem upon down-regulation of caffeoyl-coenzyme A O-methyltransferase, an enzyme involved in lignin biosynthesis (2000)

Morreel, K, Lapierre, C, Pollet, B, De Bruyn, André, ...

Caffeoyl-coenzyme A O-methyltransferase (CCoAOMT) methylates, in vitro, caffeoyl-CoA and 5-hydroxyferuloyl-CoA, two possible precursors in monolignol biosynthesis in vivo. To clarify the in vivo role...

Free vibration of symmetrically laminated cantilevered thick trapezoidal plates (1999)

Kitipornchai, S., Chen, C., Liew, K. M., Lim, C.W.

To account for the effect of transverse shear deformation, the p-Ritz method incorporating Reddy’s third-order shear deformation theory has been developed for the vibration analysis of...

Free vibration of symmetrically laminated cantilevered thick trapezoidal plates (1999)

Kitipornchai, S., Chen, C., Liew, K. M., Lim, C.W.

To account for the effect of transverse shear deformation, the p-Ritz method incorporating Reddy’s third-order shear deformation theory has been developed for the vibration analysis of...

Probing Minimal Supergravity at the CERN LHC for Large $tan\beta$ (1998)

Baer, Howard W, Chen, C, Drees, Manuel, Paige, Frank E, Tata, Xerxes

For large values of the minimal supergravity model parameter $\tan\beta$, the tau lepton and the bottom quark Yukawa couplings become large, leading to reduced masses of $\tau$-sleptons and...

Lateral Control Of Heavy Duty Vehicles For Automated Highway Systems (1998)

Tai, M., Hingwe, P., Chen, C., Tomizuka, M.

This report presents a linear analysis of a tractor semitrailer model. The analysis is followed by the design of a simple linear controller for lane following. Offtracking analysis is presented for a...

Role of Out-of-Plane Copper and Thallium Orbitals in Thallium Cuprate (1997)

Studer, F., Gasser, C., Murray, H., Srivastava, P., Sekhar, B., Garg, K., ...

Simultaneous total and fluorescence yield XAS measurements on Cu L3-edge and, for the first time, total yield measurements at Tl L3-edge of well oriented Tl(2212) thin films are reported in this...

The Manufacture of High Permeability Mn-Zn Ferrites by Atmospherical Protect (1997)

Tsay, M., Tung, M., Chen, C., Liu, T.

For the manufacture of high permeability Mn-Zn ferrite cores, the zinc loss from the surface of sintering cores causes poor yield rate of final products. This experiment uses the atmospherical...

Role of Out-of-Plane Copper and Thallium Orbitals in Thallium Cuprate (1997)

Studer, F., Gasser, C., Murray, H., Srivastava, P., Sekhar, B., Garg, K., ...

Simultaneous total and fluorescence yield XAS measurements on Cu L3-edge and, for the first time, total yield measurements at Tl L3-edge of well oriented Tl(2212) thin films are reported in this...

The Manufacture of High Permeability Mn-Zn Ferrites by Atmospherical Protect (1997)

Tsay, M., Tung, M., Chen, C., Liu, T.

For the manufacture of high permeability Mn-Zn ferrite cores, the zinc loss from the surface of sintering cores causes poor yield rate of final products. This experiment uses the atmospherical...

Study of the structure of hadronic events and determination of $\alpha_{s}$ at $\sqrt{s}$ = 130 GeV and 136 GeV (1996)

Acciarri, M, Adam, A, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Ahlen, S P, Alpat, B, ...

We present a study of the structure of hadronic events recorded by the L3 detector at center-of-mass energies of 130 and 136 GeV. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5 pb-1...

Measurement of $\eta$ production in two and three-jet events from hadronic Z decays at LEP (1996)

Acciarri, M, Adam, A, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Ahlen, S P, Alpat, B, ...

The inclusive production of \eta mesons has been studied using 1.6 million hadronic Z decays collected with the L3 detector. The \eta multiplicity per event, the multiplicity for two-jet and...

Search for excited leptons in $e^{+} e^{-}$ annihilation at $\sqrt {s}$ = 130 - 140 GeV (1996)

Acciarri, M, Adam, A, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Ahlen, S P, Alpat, B, ...

We report on a search for the excited leptons e^*,mu^*,tau^* and nu^* in e+e- collisions at sqrt{s} = 130 - 140 GeV using the L3 detector at LEP. No evidence has been found for their existence. From...

Measurement of hadron and lepton-pair production at 130 GeV $ (1996)

Acciarri, M, Adam, A, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Ahlen, S P, Alpat, B, ...

We report on the first measurements of e+e- annihilations into hadrons and lepton pairs at center-of-mass energies between 130 GeV and 140 GeV. In a total luminosity of 5 pb-1 collected with the L3...

Object State Testing and Fault Analysis for Reliable Software Systems (1996)

Kung Lu, Y. Lu, N. Venugopalan, P. Hsia, Y. Toyoshima, C. Chen, ...

Object state behavior implies that the effect of an operation on an object may depend on the states of the object and other objects. It may cause state changes to more than one object. Thus, the...

Search for the decays B$_{d}^{0}$ --> $\gamma\gamma$ and B$_{s}^{0}$ --> $\gamma\gamma$ (1995)

Acciarri, M, Adam, A, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Ahlen, S P, Alpat, B, ...

A search for the decays \Bdsgg in 2.95 million hadronic \rm Z decays has been performed using the L3 detector at LEP. No candidates are found in the signal region and upper limits have been set on...

Study of the K$^{0}_{s}$K$^{0}_{s}$ final state in two-photon collisions (1995)

Acciarri, M, Adam, A, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Ahlen, S P, Alpat, B, ...

The reaction \epem\ra\epem\gamma^*\gamma^*\ra\epem\kos\kos is studied with the L3 detector at LEP and the formation of the f_2\, \!\!\!'(1525) resonance is observed. For an integrated luminosity of...

Search for neutral charmless B decays at LEP (1995)

Acciarri, M, Adam, A, Adriani, O, Aguilar-Benítez, M, Ahlen, S P, Alpat, B, ...

A search for rare charmless decays of \Bd and \Bs mesons has been performed in the exclusive channels \Bd_{(\mathrm s)}\ra\eta\eta, \Bd_{(\mathrm s)}\ra\eta\pio and \Bd_{(\mathrm s)}\ra\pio\pio. The...

The Site And Stage Of Anti-dna B-cell Deletion (1995)

Chen, C, Nagy, Z, Radic, MZ, Hardy, RR, Huszar, D, Camper, SA, ...

ANTIBODIES to DNA and nucleoproteins are found in sera of individuals with systemic autoimmune disease. In the population (and in the autoimmune mouse strain MRL/lpr) there is a great variety of such...

Measurement of cross sections and leptonic forward-backward asymmetries at the Z pole and determination of electroweak parameters (1994)

Bilei, G. M., Monteleoni, B., Bertucci, B., Ferroni, F., Vorobyov, An. A., Vorobyov, An. A., ...

We report on the measurement of the leptonic and hadronic cross sections and leptonic forward-backward asymmetries at the Z peak with the L3 detector at LEP. The total luminosity of 40.8 pb −1...

On object state testing (1994)

D. C. Kung, N. Suchak, J. Gao, P. Hsia, Y. Toyoshima, C. Chen

The importance of object state testing is illustrated through a simple example. We show that certain errors in the implementation of object state behavior cannot be readily detected by conventional...

On Object State Testing (1994)

D. C. Kung, N. Suchak, J. Gao, P. Hsia, Y. Toyoshima, C. Chen

The importance of object state testing is illustrated through a simple example. We show that certain errors in the implementation of object state behavior cannot be readily detected by conventional...

Change Impact Identification in Object Oriented Software Maintenance (1994)

D. Kung, J. Gao, P. Hsia, F. Wen, Y. Toyoshima, C. Chen

Types of code changes in an object oriented library are described. A formal model for capturing and inferencing on the changes to identify affected classes is described. The model consists of three...

Search for non-minimal Higgs bosons in Z 0 decays (1993)

Sarakinos, M. S., Vogel, H., Zichichi, A., Xie, Y. Y., Xu, J. G., White, M., ...

We report on a search for the neutral and charged Higgs bosons predicted by models of spontaneous symmetry breaking with more than one Higgs doublet field. No signals are observed. We set...

Studies of hadronic event structure and comparisons with QCD models at the Z 0 resonance (1992)

Meschini, M., Malhotra, P. K., Becker, U., Santocchia, A., Wright, D., Zhou, B., ...

The structure of hadronic events from Z 0 decay is studied by measuring event shape variables, factorial moments, and the energy flow distribution. The distributions, after correction for detector...

On fault simulation of digital circuits by critical path tracking. (1992)

Chen, C.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Cranfield Institute of Technology, 1992.

A two-dimensional YAC pooling strategy for library screening via STS and Alu-PCR methods (1992)

Amemiya, C.T., Alegria-Hartman, M.J., Aslanidis, C., Chen, C., Nikolic, J., Gingrich, J.C., ...

We have developed a simple two-dimensional YAC pooling strategy to facilitate YAC library screening via STS and Alu-PCR approaches. The method has been implemented using the human total genomic YAC...

Measurement of electroweak parameters from hadronic and leptonic decays of the Z 0 (1991)

Antonov, L., Tarkovsky, E., Sheer, I., Nowak, H., Grinnell, C., Kraemer, R. W., ...

We have studied the reactions e + e − →hadrons, e + e − , μ + μ − and τ + τ − , in the energy range 88.2 GeV. A total luminosity of 5.5 pb −1 , corresponding to approximately 115000...

BEHAVIOR OF SINGLE Ir ADATOMS AND SMALL Ir CLUSTERS ON Ir SURFACES (1989)

Chen, C., Tsong, T.

The behavior of single Ir adatoms and small Ir clusters on the Ir (111) and (001) surfaces such as the surface diffusion, the structure transformation of clusters, the dissolution of the top surface...

BEHAVIOR OF SINGLE Ir ADATOMS AND SMALL Ir CLUSTERS ON Ir SURFACES (1989)

Chen, C., Tsong, T.

The behavior of single Ir adatoms and small Ir clusters on the Ir (111) and (001) surfaces such as the surface diffusion, the structure transformation of clusters, the dissolution of the top surface...

The performance of an L3 hadron calorimeter prototype module with BGO (1988)

Chen, C., Chen, H. S., Li, X. G., Lu, Y. S., Mao, Y. F., Tang, X. W., ...

A prototype of a gas sampling uranium module of the L3 hadron calorimeter was built and subsequently tested with pion beams of energies between 4 and 20 GeV. The construction of the proportional...

PYROLYSIS-LASER PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTRA (PLPAS) OF POLYMERS (1983)

Wang, W., Wang, D., Chen, C., Liu, Y.

A combination of polymer pyrolysis and CO2 laser photoacoustic detection is proposed. Characteristic fingerprint patterns thus obtained give information on polymer composition.

THE CO2 LASER OPTOACOUSTIC SPECTRA OF SILICANE, PHOSPHINE AND BORANE (1983)

Ming, C., Liu, I., Chen, C.

Equipment and method for detecting silicane, phosphine and borane by CO2 laser optoacoustic spectroscopy have been described. Experimental results show that the characteristic absorption of silicane,...

PYROLYSIS-LASER PHOTOACOUSTIC SPECTRA (PLPAS) OF POLYMERS (1983)

Wang, W., Wang, D., Chen, C., Liu, Y.

A combination of polymer pyrolysis and CO2 laser photoacoustic detection is proposed. Characteristic fingerprint patterns thus obtained give information on polymer composition.

THE CO2 LASER OPTOACOUSTIC SPECTRA OF SILICANE, PHOSPHINE AND BORANE (1983)

Ming, C., Liu, I., Chen, C.

Equipment and method for detecting silicane, phosphine and borane by CO2 laser optoacoustic spectroscopy have been described. Experimental results show that the characteristic absorption of silicane,...

Ethical dilemmas in palliative care: a study in Taiwan

Chiu, T., Hu, W., Cheng, S., Chen, C.

Objectives—To investigate the incidence and solution of ethical dilemmas in a palliative care unit.

The use of evoked potentials for clinical correlation and surgical outcome in cervical spondylotic myelopathy with intramedullary high signal intensity on MRI

Lyu, R, Tang, L, Chen, C, Chen, C, Chang, H, Wu, Y

Objective: To investigate the use of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) and somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) for clinical significance and surgical outcome in patients with cervical spondylotic...

Exposure to benzene, occupational stress, and reduced birth weight

Chen, D., Cho, S., Chen, C., Wang, X., Damokosh, A., Ryan, L., ...

OBJECTIVES—The association between birth weight and exposure to benzene, work stress, and other occupational and environmental hazards was investigated.
METHODS—In a large petrochemical...

Increased morbidity from nasopharyngeal carcinoma and chronic pharyngitis or sinusitis among workers at a newspaper printing company

Liu, Y, Du, C, Lin, C, Chan, C, Chen, C, Wang, J

Objectives: To determine the association between printing works and nasopharygeal carcinoma as well as other diseases.

Follow up study of haematological effects in workers exposed to 2-methoxyethanol

Shih, T, Hsieh, A, Chen, Y, Liao, G, Chen, C, Chou, J, ...

Aims: To examine the association between 2-methoxyethanol (2-ME) exposure and haematological effects, as well as the recovery from these haematological effects with continuous reduction in exposure...

Haematological effects among silk screening workers exposed to 2-ethoxy ethyl acetate

Loh, C, Shih, T, Liou, S, Lin, Y, Hsieh, A, Chen, C, ...

Aims: To investigate the haematological effects in 2-EEA exposed workers.

Stress and dysmenorrhoea: a population based prospective study

Wang, L, Wang, X, Wang, W, Chen, C, Ronnennberg, A, Guang, W, ...

Background: Dysmenorrhoea is the most common gynaecological disorder in women of reproductive age. Despite the association between stress and pregnancy outcomes, few studies have examined the...

Increasing relative prevalence of HSV-2 infection among men with genital ulcers from a mining community in South Africa

Lai, W, Chen, C, Morse, S, Htun, Y., Fehler, H, Liu, H, ...

Objectives: To determine the aetiology of genital ulcer disease (GUD) and its association with HIV infection in the mining community of Carletonville, South Africa, from two cross sectional surveys...

Stimulation of the BKCa channel in cultured smooth muscle cells of human trachea by magnolol

Wu, S, Chen, C, Li, H, Lo, Y, Chen, S, Chiang, H

Background: Magnolol, a compound isolated from the cortex of Magnolia officinalis, has been found to possess anti-allergic and anti-asthmatic activity.

Preconsultation use of analgesics on adults presenting to the emergency department with acute appendicitis

Chong, C, Wang, T, Chen, C, Ma, H, Chang, H

Objective: 279 cases of appendicitis were reviewed and compared for the difference between those patients who received pain medication before consulting a surgeon and those who were not treated with...

Mortality attributable to cigarette smoking in Taiwan: a 12-year follow-up study

Liaw, K., Chen, C.

BACKGROUND—Assessment of the impact of cigarette smoking on mortality helps to indicate the importance of tobacco control in a given country.
OBJECTIVES—To examine the relative risk of dying...

"Unequal opportunity": neighbourhood disadvantage and the chance to buy illegal drugs

Storr, C, Chen, C, Anthony, J

Study objectives: This study investigates whether subgroups of people living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods may be more likely to come into contact with drug dealers as compared with persons living...

Phenotypic variability in a Chinese family with rimmed vacuolar distal myopathy

Ro, L, Lee-Chen, G, Wu, Y, Lee, M, Hsu, P, Chen, C

Methods: The clinical, neurophysiological, histopathological, and genetic characteristics of two patients with DMRV from a Chinese family from Taiwan were investigated.

Target Performance, Pre-Bid Run-Up Premiums, Competitive Bidding and Successful Takeovers: Hostile versus Friendly Offers

Cornu, P., Chen, C.

This paper empirically investigates the causes and immediate consequences of hostile takeovers in the U.S. over the 1990-1995 period. We find no indications of poor target performance over the five...

Comparison of lidocaine and bronchodilator inhalation treatments for cough suppression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chong, C, Chen, C, Ma, H, Wu, Y, Chen, Y, Wang, T

Background: This study aimed to assess and compare the effectiveness of lidocaine and bronchodilator inhalation treatments for rapid cough suppression in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary...

Excess injury mortality among smokers: a neglected tobacco hazard

Wen, C, Tsai, S, Cheng, T, Chan, H, Chung, W, Chen, C

Objective: To assess the mortality risks from injuries for smokers and ex-smokers and to quantify the mortality burden of smoking from injury in Taiwan.

Uncovering the relation between betel quid chewing and cigarette smoking in Taiwan

Wen, C, Tsai, S, Cheng, T, Chen, C, Levy, D, Yang, H, ...

Objective: To describe the characteristics of betel quid chewers and to investigate the behavioural and mortality relations between betel quid chewing and cigarette smoking.

Smoking attributable mortality for Taiwan and its projection to 2020 under different smoking scenarios

Wen, C, Tsai, S, Chen, C, Cheng, T, Tsai, M, Levy, D

Objectives: To estimate smoking attributable mortality (SAM) in Taiwan for the years 2001 through 2020 under scenarios of reductions in smoking rates by 0%, 2%, 4%, and 10% per year.

Expression of granulocyte colony stimulating factor receptor in human colorectal cancer

Yang, X, Liu, F, Xu, Z, Chen, C, Wu, X, Li, G, ...

Aims: To discover if human colorectal cancer expresses granulocyte colony stimulating factor receptor (G-CSFR) and if granulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) plays an important part in the...

Observations of gonadotrophic and ovarian hormone activity during recovery from anorexia nervosa

Crisp, A. H., Chen, C., MacKinnon, P. C. B., Corker, C. S.

Serum gonadotrophins and gonadal steroids were measured in six unmarried female patients with anorexia nervosa before and during treatment by feeding and psychotherapy, which led to restoration of...

Study of EEG sleep characteristics in patients with anorexia nervosa before and after restoration of matched population mean weight consequent on ingestion of a ‘normal’ diet

Lacey, J. H., Kalucy, R. S., Crisp, A. H., Hartmann, Margot, Chen, C.

This experimental study confirms that insomnia and especially early morning waking is associated with low body weight in anorexia nervosa. It extends the view that there is a relationship between...

Creating an environment for linking knowledge-based systems to a clinical database: a suite of tools.

Wilcox, A., Hripcsak, G., Chen, C.

A difficulty in using knowledge-based systems has been linking them to clinical databases. The challenge is in making a correct mapping from the data in the knowledge base to the data in the...

Small synthetic ligands of the cholecystokinin-B/gastrin receptor can mimic the function of endogenous peptide hormones.

Beinborn, M., Chen, C., DeMeo, L., McBride, E. W., Kopin, A. S.

The gastric cholecystokinin-B/gastrin receptor (CCK-BR) is a key regulator of enterochromaffin-like cell function and proliferation. Over the last decade, a number of small non-peptide CCK-BR...

Measuring the impact of efficient household travel decisions on potential travel time savings and accessibility gains

Recker, W. W., Chen, C., McNally, M. G.

Using the conceptual framework of time-space geography, this paper incorporates both spatio-temporal constraints and household interaction effects into a meaningful measure of the potential of a...

Discovery of Localized Regions of Excess 10-TeV Cosmic Ray

Abdo, A. A., Allen, B. T., Aune, T., Berley, D., Blaufuss, E., Casanova, S., ...

An analysis of 7 years of Milagro data performed on a 10- degree angular scale has found two localized regions of excess of unknown origin with greater than 12 sigma significance. Both regions are...

Serum DDT, age at menarche, and abnormal menstrual cycle length

Ouyang, F, Perry, M, Venners, S, Chen, C, Wang, B, Yang, F, ...

Background: Although dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) exposure is known to affect human endocrine function, few previous studies have investigated the effects of DDT exposure on age at menarche...