As of 2008, prostate cancer remains the number one cause of estimated new cancer cases in American men. Although early prostate cancer responds to androgen ablation, most tumors eventually recur as...
Prediction of the power losses of PWM inverter drives for permanent magnet synchronous motors (2009)
Prediction of the power losses of PWM inverter drives for permanent magnet synchronous motors (2009)
Wu, Yuan, Yang, Jian, Yang, Fan, Liu, Tao, Leng, Wenchuan, Chu, Yonglie, ...
Abstract Background Dermatophytes are fungi that cause superficial infections of the skin, hair, and nails. They are the most common agents of fungal infections worldwide. Dermatophytic fungi...
Shen, Yong, Yang, Jian, Guo, Hong
Security of a continuous-variable quantum key distribution protocol based on noisy coherent states and channel is analyzed. Assuming the noise of coherent states is induced by Fred, a neutral party...
LEARNING PRINCIPAL CURVES INSIDE DIVIDE-AND-COMBINE FRAMEWORK (2009)
Ming-ming Sun, Jing-yu Yang, Jian Yang
based on the deflnition of K principal CUN~S 111. It consists of two phages: divide phase and combine phase. Divide phase fmds appropriate division for the distribution under the con-straints of two...
Process-oriented enterprise mashups (2009)
De Vrieze, Paul, Xu, Lai, Bouguettayay, Athman, Yang, Jian, Chen, Jinjun
Mashups, a new web 2.0 technology provide the ability for easy creation of web-based applications by end-users. The uses of the mashups are often consumer related. In this paper we explore how...
A General Discriminant Model for Color Face Recognition (2008)
This paper presents a General Discriminant Model (GDM) for color face recognition. The GDM model involves two sets of variables: a set of color component combination coefficients for color image...
Assertive community treatment is a well-established model for providing intensive treatment and psychosocial rehabilitation services to people with severe and persistent mental illnesses (1). Use of...
NOVEL METHOD FOR SAR IMAGE SEGMENTATION WITH APPLICATION TO BRIDGE DETECTION (2008)
Yilun Chen, Jiong Chen, Jian Yang
A new method for SAR image segmentation is proposed in this paper. Region segmentation can be achieved by contour tracking, and we use the general Bayes tracking framework to solve this problem. Due...
Hans Gregersen, Donghua Liao, Jens B Frøkjær, Jian Yang, Jingbo Zhao, Asbjørn M Drewes, ...
Three-dimensional surface model analysis in the gastrointestinal tract
Yu, Hao, Jin, Yuguang, Peng, Feng, Wang, Hongjuan, Yang, Jian
The nitric acid oxidation followed by sodium hydroxide washing was applied for functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), few-walled CNTs (FWCNTs), and multiwalled CNTs (MWCNTs)....
Automatic Annotation Techniques for Gene Expression Images of the Fruit Fly (2008)
Madhusudhana Gargesha, Jian Yang, Bernard Van Emden
We present an application of image analysis techniques to automatically annotate biological images depicting gene expression patterns in developing embryos of fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), a...
DETECTION OF ROADS IN SAR IMAGES USING PARTICLE FILTER (2008)
Yilun Chen, Qiong Yang, Yuantao Gu, Jian Yang
A novel method is presented to detect the roads in Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. In the proposed method, a multi-segmented poly-line model is introduced to provide a description of road...
Establishing and Maintaining Compatibility in Service Oriented Business Collaboration (2008)
Current composite web service development and management solutions, e.g. BPEL, do not cater for assessing and maintaining comparability of business partners during business collaboration development...
Modeling and realizing interoperability (2008)
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Kees Leune, Mike Papazoglou, Hans Weig, Jian Yang
Abstract. Interoperability between enterprise applications requires an understanding of the obstacles to interoperability in order to provide methods for overcoming these obstacles. We address the...
ServiceCom: A tool for Service Composition Reuse and Specialization (2008)
Bart Orriëns, Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou
Web services are becoming the dominant paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers to create value...
A Rule Based Approach to the Service Composition Life-Cycle (2008)
Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou, Bart Orriëns
Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers to develop...
A Transductive Framework of Distance Metric Learning by Spectral Dimensionality Reduction (2008)
Distance metric learning and nonlinear dimensionality reduction are two interesting and active topics in recent years. However, the connection between them is not thoroughly studied yet. In this...
YAMAGUCHI, Yoshio, YAMAMOTO, Yukari, YAMADA, Hiroyoshi, YANG, Jian, BOERNER, Wolfgang-Martin
Classification of terrain is one of the most important applications of Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (POLSAR) image analysis. This paper presents a simple method to classify terrain by the...
VFDB 2008 release: an enhanced web-based resource for comparative pathogenomics (2008)
Yang, Jian, Chen, Lihong, Sun, Lilian, Yu, Jun, Jin, Qi
Virulence factor database (VFDB) was set up in 2004 dedicated for providing current knowledge of virulence factors (VFs) from various medical significant bacterial pathogens to facilitate...
The Role of NMDA Receptor Subtypes in Short-Term Plasticity in the Rat Entorhinal Cortex (2008)
We have previously shown that spontaneous release of glutamate in the entorhinal cortex (EC) is tonically facilitated via activation of presynaptic NMDA receptors (NMDAr) containing the NR2B subunit....
A New Approach to Unsupervised Target Classification for Polarimetric SAR Images (2008)
RONG, Xing, ZHANG, Weijie, YANG, Jian, HONG, Wen
A new unsupervised classification method is proposed for polarimetric SAR images to keep the spatial coherence of pixels and edges of different kinds of targets simultaneously. We consider the label...
Proteomic profile of dormant Trichophyton Rubrum conidia (2008)
Bmc Genomics, Wenchuan Leng, Tao Liu, Rui Li, Jian Yang, Ong Wei, ...
Research article
Achieving Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems (2007)
The work presented in this paper concentrates on the issues of determining the ideal way of schema connection and knowledge organization to support interoperation in multidatabase systems (MDBSs). In...
Eli Peli, Jian Yang, Robert Goldstein, Adam Reeves
Perceived contrast was measured under natural viewing conditions with the use of contrast-matching and magnitude-estimation paradigms and found to be independent of luminance over a range of...
Paper No. 29 Tackling the Challenges of Service Composition in E-Marketplaces (2007)
Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou, Willem-jan Heuvel
The Web has becomes the means for enterprises to deliever electronic services to businesses and customers, and for service providers to discover services and build complex applications by using...
Michael P. Papazoglou, Jian Yang
eCommerce has been well established for several years, particularly using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) over private or value-added networks. The advent of Internet and the World Wide Web has...
VFDB 2008 release: an enhanced web-based resource for comparative pathogenomics (2007)
Yang, Jian, Chen, Lihong, Sun, Lilian, Jin, Qi, Yu, J.
Virulence factor database (VFDB) was set up in 2004 dedicated for providing current knowledge of virulence factors (VFs) from various medical significant bacterial pathogens to facilitate...
Mapping the genetic architecture of complex traits in experimental populations (2007)
Yang, Jian, Zhu, Jun, Williams, Robert W.
Summary: Understanding how interactions among set of genes affect diverse phenotypes is having a greater impact on biomedical research, agriculture and evolutionary biology. Mapping and...
Simulating Visual Pattern Detection and Brightness Perception Based on Implicit Masking (2007)
A quantitative model of implicit masking, with a front-end low-pass filter, a retinal local compressive nonlinearity described by a modified Naka-Rushton equation, a cortical representation of the...
Jian Yang, Feng Yang, Hong-Sheng Xi, Wei Guo, Yanmin Sheng
We propose a robust adaptive algorithm for generalized eigendecomposition problems that arise in modern signal processing applications. To that extent, the generalized eigendecomposition problem is...
Simulating Visual Pattern Detection and Brightness Perception Based on Implicit Masking (2007)
A quantitative model of implicit masking, with a front-end low-pass filter, a retinal local compressive nonlinearity described by a modified Naka-Rushton equation, a cortical representation of the...
Jian Yang, Feng Yang, Hong-Sheng Xi, Wei Guo, Yanmin Sheng
We propose a robust adaptive algorithm for generalized eigendecomposition problems that arise in modern signal processing applications. To that extent, the generalized eigendecomposition problem is...
Unsupervised Classification of Polarimetric SAR Images by EM Algorithm (2007)
KHAN, Kamran-Ullah, YANG, Jian, ZHANG, Weijie
In this paper, the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is used for unsupervised classification of polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The EM algorithm provides an estimate of the...
8-Methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) is a prototype photochemotherapeutic agent and used to treat various skin disorders such as psoriasis and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Animal studies demonstrate that repeated...
New Formula of the Polarization Entropy (2006)
YANG, Jian, CHEN, Yilun, PENG, Yingning, YAMAGUCHI, Yoshio, YAMADA, Hiroyoshi
In this letter, a new formula is proposed for calculating the polarization entropy, based on the least square method. There is no need to calculate the eigenvalues of a covariance matrix as well as...
8-Methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) is a prototype photochemotherapeutic agent and used to treat various skin disorders such as psoriasis and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Animal studies demonstrate that repeated...
ShiBASE: an integrated database for comparative genomics of Shigella (2006)
Yang, Jian, Chen, Lihong, Yu, Jun, Sun, Lilian, Jin, Qi
Among the major enteric bacterial pathogens, Shigella is found to display extreme genome diversity and dynamics, which imposes a challenge in comparative genomic studies. To facilitate further...
B.: Algorithm Selection: A Quantitative Approach (2006)
Jian Yang, Brett Jiu, Gabe Butler, Vitaly Serbin, Xiangyang Wang, James Wong
The widespread use of algorithmic trading has led to the question of whether the most suitable algorithm is always being used. We propose a practical framework to help traders qualitatively...
Specification and Management of Policies in Service Oriented Business Collaboration Abstract (2005)
Current composite web service development and management solutions, e.g. BPEL, do not cater for adaptive business collaboration development where the vision of developing business collaborations on...
A Rule Driven Approach for Developing Adaptive Service Oriented Business Collaboration (2005)
Bart Orriens, Jian Yang, Mike Papazoglou
Abstract. Current composite web service development and management solutions, e.g. BPEL, do not cater for flexible and adaptive business collaborations due to their pre-defined and inflexible nature...
Bradley T. Ewing, Scott E. Hein, Ken Cyree, Phil English, Steve Sears, Ray Spudeck, ...
Insurer Stock Price Responses to Hurricane Floyd: An Event Study Analysis using Storm Characteristics This research uses an event study methodology to examine the effect of Hurricane Floyd on the...
Marlon Dumas, Schahram Dustdar, Frank Leymann, Karim Baina, Alistair Barros, Malu Castellanos, ...
I II Preface to BPS’05 Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) is emerging as a promising paradigm for integrating software applications within and across organisational boundaries. In this paradigm,...
Collaborative business transactions management : issues and challenges (2005)
Zhang, Yanchun, Yang, Jian, Liu, Chengfei
This tutorial seeks to discuss the key concepts in collaborative business transaction management. Its intent is to explain the concept in business transaction and how it is different from traditional...
VFDB: a reference database for bacterial virulence factors (2005)
Chen, Lihong, Yang, Jian, Yu, Jun, Yao, Zhijian, Sun, Lilian, Shen, Yan, ...
Bacterial pathogens continue to impose a major threat to public health worldwide in the 21st century. Intensified studies on bacterial pathogenesis have greatly expanded our knowledge about the...
Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, Zhang, Xiaobing, Chen, Lihong, Jiang, Yan, Yan, Yongliang, ...
The Shigella bacteria cause bacillary dysentery, which remains a significant threat to public health. The genus status and species classification appear no longer valid, as compelling evidence...
Real-Time Multivehicle Truckload Pickup and Delivery Problems (2004)
Jian Yang, Patrick Jaillet, Hani Mahmassani
In this paper we formally introduce a generic real-time multi-vehicle truckload pick-up and delivery problem. The problem includes the consideration of various costs associated with trucks ’ empty...
Service components for managing the life-cycle of service compositions (2004)
Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers to develop...
Dominant feature vectors based audio similarity measure (2004)
Jing Gu, Lie Lu, Rui Cai, Hong-jiang Zhang, Jian Yang
Abstract. This paper presents an approach to extracting dominant feature vectors from an individual audio clip and then proposes a new similarity measure based on the dominant feature vectors....
Dynamic contact and friction study of homogeneous and layered media / (2004)
Thesis (Ph.D. in Engineering-Mechanical Engineering)--University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2004.
The International Price Transmission in Stock Index Futures Markets (2004)
This study explores dynamic price relationships among nine major stock index futures markets, combining an error-correction model with directed acyclic graph (DAG) analysis. DAG-based innovation...
Forum Session at the First International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC03) (2003)
Marco Aiello, Chris Bussler, Jian Yang, Marco Aiello, Chris Bussler, Jian Yang, ...
Oriented Computing (SOC) — is the new emerging paradigm for distributed computing and e-business processing that has evolved from object-oriented and component computing to enable building agile...
Leveraging web-services and peer-to-peer networks (2003)
Mike P. Papazoglou, Bend J. Krämer, Jian Yang
Abstract. Peer-oriented computing is an attempt to weave interconnected machines into the fabric of the Internet. Service-oriented computing (exemplified by web-services), on the other hand, is an...
Web Service Componentization: Towards Service Reuse and Specialization (2003)
j ianuvt. nl Abstract-- Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application...
A framework for business rule driven web service composition (2003)
Bart Orriëns, Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou
Abstract. With web services emerging as a promising technology for supporting open and dynamic business processes, it is witnessed that standards for business process specification in the context of...
A Framework for Business Rule Driven Service Composition (2003)
Bart Orriëns, Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou
Abstract. One of the assumptions all the standards for web service composition (e.g. BPEL) make is that the business process is pre-defined. Obviously this assumption does not hold if business needs...
Leveraging web-services and peer-to-peer networks (2003)
Mike P. Papazoglou, Jian Yang, Bend J. Kramer
Two of the most recent and popular topics in computing are service-oriented computing (ex-emplified by web-services) and peer-to-peer computing. Peer-oriented computing is an attempt to weave...
Model driven service composition (2003)
Bart Orriëns, Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou
Abstract. The current standards for web service composition, e.g. BPEL. neither cater for dynamic service composition nor for dynamic business configuration. Our firm belief is that business...
Leveraging web-services and peer-to-peer networks (2003)
Mike P. Papazoglou, Bernd J. Krämer, Jian Yang
Abstract. Peer-oriented computing is an attempt to weave interconnected machines into the fabric of the Internet. Service-oriented computing (exemplified by web-services), on the other hand, is an...
Model driven service composition (2003)
Bart Orriëns, Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou
Abstract. The current standards for web service composition, e.g. BPEL. neither cater for dynamic service composition nor for dynamic business configuration. Our firm belief is that business...
Metabolomics spectral formatting, alignment and conversion tools (MSFACTs) (2003)
Duran, Anthony L., Yang, Jian, Wang, Liangjiang, Sumner, Lloyd W.
Motivation: The amplified interest in metabolic profiling has generated the need for additional tools to assist in the rapid analysis of complex data sets. Results: A new program; metabolomics...
Yang, Jian, Kunito, Takashi, Tanabe, Shinsuke, Miyazaki, Nobuyuki
Abstracts of 3rd UNU-ORI joint international workshop for marine environment
Web Component: A Substrate for Web Service Reuse and Composition (2002)
Abstract. Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers to...
Planning for requests against web services (2002)
Mike Papazoglou, Marco Aiello, Marco Pistore, Jian Yang
One of the most serious challenges that web service enabled e-marketplaces face is the lack of formal support for expressing service requests against UDDI-resident web services in order to solve a...
XSRL: A Request Language for Web Services (2002)
Mike Papazoglou, Marco Aiello, Marco Pistore, Jian Yang
One of the most serious challenges that web service enabled e-marketplaces face is the lack of formal support for expressing service requests against UDDI-resident web services in order to solve a...
Design Methodology for Web Services and Business Processes (2002)
Abstract. E-business is shifting attention from component based to web service based applications. Most enterprises spend most of their time assembling applications by consuming web services rather...
Web Component: A Substrate for Web Service Reuse and Composition (2002)
Abstract. Web services are becoming the prominent paradigm for distributed computing and electronic business. This has raised the opportunity for service providers and application developers to...
Mike Papazoglou, Marco Aiello, Marco Pistore, Jian Yang, Mike Papazoglou, Marco Aiello, ...
One of the most serious challenges that web-service enabled e-marketplaces face is the lack of formal support for expressing service requests against UDDI-resident web-services in order to solve a...
On the Robust Single Machine Scheduling Problem (2002)
The single machine scheduling problem with sum of completion times crite-rion (SS) can be solved easily by the Shortest Processing Time (SPT) rule. In the case of significant uncertainty of the...
Jin, Qi, Yuan, Zhenghong, Xu, Jianguo, Wang, Yu, Shen, Yan, Lu, Weichuan, ...
We have sequenced the genome of Shigella flexneri serotype 2a, the most prevalent species and serotype that causes bacillary dysentery or shigellosis in man. The whole genome is composed of a...
A Complete Sequence of the T. tengcongensis Genome (2002)
Bao, Qiyu, Tian, Yuqing, Li, Wei, Xu, Zuyuan, Xuan, Zhenyu, Hu, Songnian, ...
An evolutionary approach to materialized views selection in a data warehouse environment (2001)
Chuan Zhang, Xin Yao, Senior Member, Jian Yang
Abstract—A data warehouse (DW) contains multiple views accessed by queries. One of the most important decisions in designing a DW is selecting views to materialize for the purpose of efficiently...
An evolutionary approach to materialized views selection in a data warehouse environment (2001)
Chuan Zhang, Xin Yao, Jian Yang
A data warehouse contains multiple views accessed by queries. One of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse is selecting views to materialize for the purpose of eciently...
Currency Convertibility and Linkage Between Chinese Official and Swap Market Exchange Rates (2001)
This article investigates the impact of currency convertibility under the current account on the informational linkage between official and swap market exchange rates for Chinese currency (renminbi)....
Interoperation support for electronic business (2000)
Integrated value chains that consist of business alliance partners compete as single entities for customers. E-commerce is not simply about business transactions that run over the Internet, but is...
Interoperation Support for Electronic Commerce (2000)
Jian Yang, Michael P. Papazoglou
Nowadays it is more important than ever for companies to understand what their #core competences" are and how they can maintain their competitive advantage by forming alliances with partners to...
The chicken HPRT gene: a counter selectable marker for the DT40 cell line (1999)
Fukagawa, Tatsuo, Hayward, Neil, Yang, Jian, Azzalin, Claus, Griffin, Darren, Stewart, A. Francis, ...
We describe the cloning, characterisation and chromosomal mapping of the chicken hprt gene together with the construction of two counter selectable hprt-/- DT40 derived cell lines. One of these cell...
Jian Yang, Patrick Jaillet, Hani S. Mahmassani
With greater availability of real-time information systems, algorithms are needed to support commercial fleet operators in their decisions to assign ve-hicles and drivers to loads in a dynamic...
Evolving Materialized Views in Data Warehouse (1999)
Chuan Zhang, Xin Yao, Jian Yang
A data warehouse contains multiple views accessed by queries. One of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse is the selection of materialized views for the purpose of efficiently...
On the robust shortest path problem (1998)
The shortest path (SP) problem in a network with nonnegative arc lengths can be solved easily by Dijkstra’s labeling algorithm in polynomial time. In the case of significant uncertainty of the arc...
Crystallographic studies of Rhizomucor miehei aspartic proteinase and its pepstatin A complex (1998)
Algorithms for materialized view design in data warehousing environment (1997)
Selecting views to materialize is one of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse. In this paper, we present a frame-work for analyzing the issues in selecting views to materialize...
Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment (1997)
Jian Yang, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li
Data warehouses may contain multiple views accessed by queries. When these views are related to each other and defined over overlapping portions of the base data, it may be more efficient not to...
Algorithms for Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment (1997)
Jian Yang, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li
Selecting views to materialize is one of the most important decisions in designing a data warehouse. In this paper, we present a framework for analyzing the issues in selecting views to materialize...
Tackling the Challenges of Materialized View Design in Data Warehousing Environment (1997)
Jian Yang, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li
How to design materialized views in a data warehousing environment is an important problem which has been largely overlooked in the past? If we regard data warehouse queries as integrated views over...
A Framework for Designing Materialized Views in Data Warehousing Environment (1996)
J. Yang, K. Karlapalem, Q. Li, Jian Yang, Kamalakar Karlapalem, Qing Li
Data warehouses may contain multiple views with different query frequencies. When these views are related to each other and defined over overlapping portions of the base data, then it may be more...
peripheral contrast thresholds (1990)
Eli Peli, Jian Yang, Robert B. Goldstein
Image invariance with changes in size: the role of
Interoperation support for electronic business (0000)
The article focuses on an architectural framework that permits the flexibility, interoperability and openness needed for electronic-commerce applications The article focuses on an...
Interoperation support for electronic business
The article focuses on an architectural framework that permits the flexibility, interoperability and openness needed for electronic-commerce applications The article focuses on an...
Pentachlorophenol (PCP), a xenobiocide used to preserve lumbers, is a major environmental pollutant in North America. In spite of an expected high resistance to biodegradation, a number of aquatic...
Sun, Wanpeng, Geyer, C. Ronald, Yang, Jian
Through alternative promoter usage, human retinoblastoma protein-interacting zinc finger gene RIZ encodes two different protein products, RIZ1 and RIZ2, which have been identified to be a tumor...
Structural basis for glycyl radical formation by pyruvate formate-lyase activating enzyme
Vey, Jessica L., Yang, Jian, Li, Meng, Broderick, William E., Broderick, Joan B., Drennan, Catherine L.
Pyruvate formate-lyase activating enzyme generates a stable and catalytically essential glycyl radical on G734 of pyruvate formate-lyase via the direct, stereospecific abstraction of a hydrogen atom...
CURRENCY CONVERTIBILITY AND LINKAGE BETWEEN CHINESE OFFICIAL AND SWAP MARKET EXCHANGE RATES
This article investigates the impact of currency convertibility under the current account on the informational linkage between official and swap market exchange rates for Chinese currency (renminbi)....
Is the Value Premium a Proxy for Time-Varying Investment Opportunities? Some Time-Series Evidence
Guo, Hui, Savickas, Robert, Wang, Zijun, Yang, Jian
We uncover a positive stock market risk-return tradeoff after controlling for the covariance of market returns with the value premium. Fama and French (1996) conjecture that the value premium proxies...
Complete Genome Sequence of Haemophilus parasuis SH0165▿
Yue, Min, Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, Bei, Weicheng, Cai, Xuwang, Chen, Lihong, ...
Haemophilus parasuis is the causative agent of Glässer's disease, which produces big losses in swine populations worldwide. H. parasuis SH0165, belonging to the dominant serovar 5 in China, is a...
Xiong, Zhaohui, Jiang, Yan, Qi, Danhua, Lu, Huaibao, Yang, Fan, Yang, Jian, ...
Bacillus cereus strain Q1 was isolated from a deep-subsurface oil reservoir in the Daqing oil field in northeastern China. This strain is able to produce biosurfactants and to survive in extreme...
Indicators of prognosis after liver transplantation in Chinese hepatocellular carcinoma patients
Li, Jin, Yan, Lu-Nan, Yang, Jian, Chen, Zhe-Yu, Li, Bo, Zeng, Yong, ...
AIM: To identify prognostic factors of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), who were treated by orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).
Nonlinearity, data-snooping, and stock index ETF return predictability
Yang, Jian, Cabrera, Juan, Wang, Tao
This paper examines daily return predictability for eighteen international stock index ETFs. The out-of-sample tests are conducted, based on linear and various popular nonlinear models and both...
Wei, Shuo, Yang, Hsiao-Ching, Chuang, Hsiao-Ching, Yang, Jian, Kulp, Samuel K., Lu, Pei-Jung, ...
This study identifies a novel mechanism by which thiazolidinediones mediate cyclin D1 repression in prostate cancer cells. Based on the finding that the thiazolidinedione family of peroxisome...
Yang, Jian, Chamberlain, Sophie E L, Woodhall, Gavin L, Jones, Roland S G
NMDA receptors (NMDAr) are known to undergo recycling and lateral diffusion in postsynaptic spines and dendrites. However, NMDAr are also present as autoreceptors on glutamate terminals, where they...
Current status of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is a rare primary liver cancer with a global increasing trend in recent years. Symptoms tend to be vague and insidious in development, often are diagnosed at an...
Out-of-Sample Predictability in International Equity Markets: A Model Selection Approach
Xiaojing Su, Tao Wang, Jian Yang
For 13 major international stock markets, there is much evidence of out-of-sample predictability for growth stocks especially when evaluated with economic criteria, and to a noticeably lesser extent...