Nan Zhang

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1990 - 2010

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112

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Impact of Node Cheating on Gossip-Based Protocol (2010)

Nan Zhang, Yuanchun Shi, Bin Chang

Abstract. Gossip-based protocol has been widely adopted by many large-scale multicast applications. In this paper, we study the impact of node cheating on decentralized gossip-based protocol. We...

Differential Flat Control for Rotorcraft Trajectory Tracking (2009)

Nan Zhang, Geanina Andrei, Antoine Drouin, Félix Mora-camino

Abstract—The purpose of this communication is to investigate the usefulness of the differential flatness control approach to solve the trajectory tracking problem for a four rotor aircraft. After...

Profile Prediction and Fabrication of Wet-Etched Gold Nanostructures for Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance (2009)

Zhou, Xiaodong, Zhang, Nan, Tan, Christina

Dispersed nanosphere lithography can be employed to fabricate gold nanostructures for localized surface plasmon resonance, in which the gold film evaporated on the nanospheres is anisotropically dry...

Dispersion of nanospheres on large glass substrate by amorphous or polycrystalline silicon deposition for localized surface plasmon resonance (2009)

Zhou, Xiaodong, Zhang, Nan, Liu, Kai Yu, Tan, Christina, Knoll, Wolfgang

Nanosphere lithography is a cost-effective way to fabricate noble metal nanostructures for plasmonics. However, dispersing nanospheres on a large area of glass substrate is a difficulty encountered...

Profile calculation of gold nanostructures by dispersed-nanosphere lithography through oblique etching for LSPR applications (2009)

Zhou, Xiaodong, Knoll, Wolfgang, Zhang, Nan, Liu, Hong

Nanosphere lithography is an inexpensive method used to fabricate gold nanostructures on a substrate. Using dispersed-nanosphere lithography, in which the nanospheres are dispersed on a substrate, 2D...

The role of aryl hydrocarbon receptor in blood pressure regulation and vascular homeostasis (2009)

Zhang, Nan

High blood pressure and endothelial dysfunction are two systemic abnormalities of the cardiovascular system that extensively contribute to the etiology of cardiovascular diseases, which represent the...

A Prototype Modular Detector Design for High Resolution Positron Emission Mammography Imaging (2009)

Nan Zhang, Christopher J. Thompson, Francois Cayouette, Dean Jolly, Steve Kecani

Abstract—Current challenges facing us in developing dedicated position emission tomography (PET) system for metabolic breast mammography (PEM) and small animal (ANIPET) are to achieve high spatial...

Data Mining Server Query Answer (2009)

Nan Zhang, Data Warehouse Server, Data Warehouse Server, Data Warehouse Server

• Constructing (global) data mining models on data – partitioned and held by autonomous entities – fully distributed and held by individual owners 6

Chronic rhinosinusitis with and without nasal polyps: what is the difference? (2009)

HUVENNE, WOUTER, VAN BRUAENE, NICHOLAS, Zhang, Nan, Van Zele, Thibaut, Patou, Joke, Gevaert, Philippe, ...

Chronic rhinosinusitis is a heterogeneous group of chronic sinus diseases that may consist of clearly different disease entities. Further investigation of the pathomechanisms of chronic...

The role of the conserved phenylalanine in the {sigma}54-interacting GAFTGA motif of bacterial enhancer binding proteins (2009)

Zhang, Nan, Joly, Nicolas, Burrows, Patricia C., Jovanovic, Milija, Wigneshweraraj, Siva R., Buck, Martin

σ54-dependent transcription requires activation by bacterial enhancer binding proteins (bEBPs). bEBPs are members of the AAA+ (ATPases associated with various cellular activities) protein family and...

Fusion et classification d'images multi-sources par SVM avec sélection des caractéristiques dans l'espace à noyau (2009)

SU RUAN, NAN ZHANG, LEBONVALLET, Stéphane, QINGMING LIAO, YUEMIN ZHU

L'objective de cette étude porte sur la classification d'une même scène observée par des différents types d'images IRM qui génère de grandes quantités de données à traiter. Dans ce cas, on...

Important research questions in allergy and related diseases: 3-chronic rhinosinusitis and nasal polyposis - a GA(2)LEN study (2009)

Bachert, Claus, VAN BRUAENE, NICHOLAS, Toskala, E, Zhang, Nan, Olze, H, Scadding, G, ...

Chronic rhinosinusitis is one of the most common health care challenges, with significant direct medical costs and severe impact on lower airway disease and general health outcomes. The diagnosis of...

Detection of Staphylococcus aureus in nasal tissue with peptide nucleic acid-fluorescence in situ hybridization (2009)

Corriveau, Marie-Noelle, Zhang, Nan, Holtappels, Gabriële, Van Roy, Nadine, Bachert, Claus

Background: Staphylococcus aureus(SA) in the nose can be a simple colonizer but also may create an intramucosal reservoir causing recurrent infections or can be a specific immune modulator through...

On Assortment and Implementation of Modern Mass Customization of Apparel (2009)

Nan Zhang

In this paper, the author mainly discusses assortment and implementation methods of mass customization nowadays. Through investigation of market requirements of mass customization, the author...

An Empirical Analysis on the Influential Elements of the Development of Individual Donation (2009)

Chao Zhang, Nan Zhang

Individual charity is an important way for providing public products and is a significant complement for social guarantee system, which is proved by the snow disaster of China at the beginning of...

The Cultivation of Farmers’ Social Capital from the Perspective of the New Rural Construction (2009)

Chao Zhang, Nan Zhang

This paper firstly analyzes the two aspects and the two kinds of capitals in new rural construction and then puts forwards the deficiency of countryside in social capital aspect. Theoretically, this...

An Experimental Study on Cheating and Anti-Cheating in Gossip-based Protocol (2008)

Yun Tang, Nan Zhang, Yuanchun Shi, Shiqiang Yang, Yuzhuo Zhong

Abstract—The Internet has witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of gossip-based protocol in many multicast applications. In a typical gossip-based protocol, each node independently exchanges data...

Self-Adaptive Worms and Countermeasures (2008)

Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao

Abstract. In this paper, we address issues related to defending against widespreading worms on the Internet. We study a new class of worms called the selfadaptive worms. These worms dynamically adapt...

Anode Position and Last Dynode Timing Circuits for Dual-Layer BGO Scintillator With PS-PMT Based Modular PET Detectors (2008)

Nan Zhang, Christopher J. Thompson, Dylan Togane, Francois Cayouette, Member Ieee, Khanh Q. Nguyen

Abstract—New high spatial resolution positron emission tomography (PET) detectors for small animal and breast imaging have been developed. In these detectors, position-sensitive photomultipliers...

This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING Privacy Protection Against Malicious Advers (2008)

Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao

Abstract — We address issues related to sharing information in a distributed system consisting of autonomous entities, each of which holds a private database. We consider threats from malicious...

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Systems (2008)

Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao

Although successful in many applications, data mining poses special concerns for private data. An integrated architecture takes a systemic view of the problem, implementing established protocols for...

Implementing an Advanced Simulation Tool for (2008)

Nan Zhang, Student Member, Mladen Kezunovic

Abstract—Many large scale system blackouts involve relay misoperations. Traditional relay algorithms and settings need to be evaluated under a variety of fault and no-fault system-wide scenarios to...

和谐还是对抗,谁是图书馆的主流?电子图书和纸本图书的综合研究 (2008)

Zhang, Nan (张楠)

Since invention of the paper, which greatly promoting the development of economy, science and culture , getting the reorganization throughout the world and passing the examination of history, it has...

Augmin : a protein complex required for centrosome-independent microtubule generation within the spindle (2008)

Goshima, Gohta, Mayer, Mirjam, Zhang, Nan, Stuurman, Nico, Vale, Ronald D.

© 2008 Goshima et al. This article is distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported license). The definitive version was published...

Group The Zombies Group Members (2008)

Gaye Hattem, Dhananjay Indurkar, Nan Zhang, Joshua Eastep, Tian Li, Jingyuan Zhang, ...

2 Project Goal and Objectives........................................ 3

Privacy-Preserving Data Mining Systems (2008)

Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao

Although successful in many applications, data mining poses special concerns for private data. An integrated architecture takes a systemic view of the problem, implementing established protocols for...

SHIC: A View-Dependent Rendering Framework for Isosurfaces (2008)

Nan Zhang, Huamin Qu, Wei Hong, Arie Kaufman

Figure 1: Illustration of our view-dependent isosurface rendering algorithm using a Lego car dataset. (a) The 241K isopoints (isovalue 120.5) extracted from a density volume. (b) The active isopoint...

Multiresolution Volume Simplification and Polygonization (2008)

I. Fujishiro, K. Mueller, A. Kaufman (editors, Nan Zhang, Arie Kaufman

We propose a multiresolution volume simplification and polygonization algorithm. Traditionally, voxel-based algorithms lack the adaptive resolution support and consequently simplified volumes quickly...

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (2008)

Nan Zhang, Shengquan Wang, Wei Zhao, Presented Nan Zhang, Data Providers, Data Miner, ...

• Extract knowledge from large amounts of data • Original data may be – Centrally stored in a database – Partitioned and held by autonomous entities – Fully distributed 3

A Dictionary-based Multi-Corpora Text Compression System (2008)

Weifeng Sun, Amar Mukherjee, Nan Zhang

Abstract In this paper we introduce StarZip, a multi-corpora lossless text compression utility which incorporates StarNT, our newly proposed transform algorithm. StarNT is a dictionary-based fast...

Integrating Mesh and Meshfree Methods for Physics-Based Fracture and Debris Cloud Simulation (2008)

M. Botsch, B. Chen (editors, Nan Zhang, Xiangmin Zhou, Desong Sha, Xiaoru Yuan, ...

We present a hybrid framework for physics-based simulation of fracture and debris clouds. Previous methods mainly consider bulk fractures. However, in many situations, small fractured pieces and...

Exploiting Multiuser Diversity in Reservation Random Access (2008)

Nan Zhang, Branimir Vojcic, Senior Member, Michael Souryal, Erik G. Larsson

Abstract–In this paper, we study the uplink of a cellular network where reservation random access schemes such as reservation slotted ALOHA and reservation slotted nonpersistent ISMA are used for...

Volume Cutout (2008)

Xiaoru Yuan, Nan Zhang, Minh X. Nguyen, Baoquan Chen

We present a novel method for cutting out 3D volumetric structures based on simple strokes that are drawn directly on volume rendered images. The freehand strokes roughly mark out objects of interest...

2,4-Dinitrobenzaldehyde hydrazone (2008)

Nan Zhang, Ruji Wang, Chunyan Tan, Yuyang Jiang, Yufen Zhao

The title compound, C7H6N4O4, plays an important role in the synthesis of biologically active compounds. The planar hydrazone group is oriented at a dihedral angle of 8.27 (3)° with...

Augmin: a protein complex required for centrosome-independent microtubule generation within the spindle (2008)

Goshima, Gohta, Mayer, Mirjam, Zhang, Nan, Stuurman, Nico, Vale, Ronald D

Since the discovery of gamma-tubulin, attention has focused on its involvement as a microtubule nucleator at the centrosome. However, mislocalization of gamma-tubulin away from the centrosome does...

Cheating and Anti-Cheating in Gossip-Based Protocol: An Experimental Investigation (2008)

XIAO, Xin, SHI, Yuanchun, TANG, Yun, ZHANG, Nan

During recent years, there has been a rapid growth in deployment of gossip-based protocol in many multicast applications. In a typical gossip-based protocol, each node acts as dual roles of receiver...

Role of staphylococcal superantigens in upper airway disease (2008)

Bachert, Claus, Zhang, Nan, Patou, Joke, Van Zele, Thibaut, Gevaert, Philippe

Purpose of review Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps often represents a chronic severe inflammatory disease of the upper airways and may serve as a model for lower airway diseases such as...

Different types of T-effector cells orchestrate mucosal inflammation in chronic sinus disease (2008)

Zhang, Nan, Van Zele, Thibaut, Perez Novo, Claudina, VAN BRUAENE, NICHOLAS, Holtappels, Gabriële, De Ruyck, Natalie, ...

Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is characterized by the accumulation of inflammatory cells; however, an eosinophil predominance is seen in white (Belgian), but not Asian...

Augmin: a protein complex required for centrosome-independent microtubule generation within the spindle (2008)

Goshima, Gohta, Mayer, Mirjam, Zhang, Nan, Stuurman, Nico, Vale, Ronald D

Since the discovery of gamma-tubulin, attention has focused on its involvement as a microtubule nucleator at the centrosome. However, mislocalization of gamma-tubulin away from the centrosome does...

Perceptually Consistent Segmentation of Texture Using Multiple Channel Filter (2007)

Nan Zhang, Wee Kheng Leow

. Texture segmentation aims at dividing an image into perceptually uniform regions each containing a distinct texture. In images of natural scene, texture in a region can change gradually in scale...

Approximate Pattern Matching Over the Burrows-Wheeler Transformed Text (2007)

Nan Zhang, Amar Mukherjee, Don Adjeroh, Tim Bell

Abstract. The compressed pattern matching problem is to locate the occurrence(s) of a pattern P in a text string T using a compressed representation of T, with minimal (or no) decompression. In this...

On Modeling Power of Object-Relational Data Models in Technical Applications (2007)

Nan Zhang, Theo Hrder

Technical applications, that is, all kinds of engineering applications (CA *), are distinguished from usual business applications in that they require enhanced data modeling facilities and operations...

An Automatic Semantic Relationship Discovery Approach (2007)

Hai Zhuge, Liping Zheng, Nan Zhang, Xiang Li

An important obstacle to the success of the Semantic Web is that the establishment of the semantic relationship is labor-intensive. This paper proposes an automatic semantic relationship discovering...

Associated production of the scalars and new gauge bosons from a little Higgs model at the LHC (2007)

Yue, Chong-Xing, Zhang, Nan, Ding, Li, Zhu, Shi-Hai

The littlest Higgs model with T-parity ($LHT$ model) predicts the existence of the T-odd scalars ($\phi^{\pm}$, $\phi^{0}$, and $\phi^{p}$). We consider production of these new particles associated...

Characterizing VLAN usage in an Operational Network (2007)

Garimella, Prashant, Sung, Yu-Wei, Zhang, Nan, Rao, Sanjay

In this paper we present a study characterizing VLAN us- age in a large-sized campus network. Despite their extensive prevalence in enterprise and campus networks, the usage of VLANs has received...

Pair production of the heavy leptons in future high energy linear e^{+}e^{-} colliders (2007)

Yue, Chong-Xing, Zhang, Nan, Zhu, Shi-Hai

The littlest Higgs model with T-parity predicts the existence of the T-odd particles, which can only be produced in pair. We consider pair production of the T-odd leptons in future high energy linear...

Combination immunotherapy with anti-CD20 and anti-HLA-DR monoclonal antibodies induces synergistic anti-lymphoma effects in human lymphoma cell lines (2007)

Tobin, Evan, Denardo, Gerald, Zhang, Nan, Epstein, Alan L, Liu, Cathy, Denardo, Sally

Rituximab is effective in about one half of patients with indolent lymphoma. Even these patients relapse and develop rituximab resistance. To increase potency and circumvent resistance, the...

The Chinese Supreme Court demonstrates support for new plant breeders by implementation of a 'Judicial Explanation' (2007)

Zhang, Nan

The CSPC strengthens the legal protection of varieties of new plants by promulgating a new ‘Judicial Explanation’ to clarify three unclear issues in order to coordinate practice with the People's...

Privacy-preserving data mining (2006)

Zhang, Nan

In the research of privacy-preserving data mining, we address issues related to extracting knowledge from large amounts of data without violating the privacy of the data owners. In this study, we...

Effects of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity on Higgs boson production at high energy $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders (2006)

Yue, Chong-Xing, Zhang, Nan

The Higgs boson production processes $e^{+}e^{-}\to ZH$, $e^{+}e^{-}\to \bar{\nu_{e}}\nu_{e}H$, and $e^{+}e^{-}\to t\bar{t}H$ are very important for studying Higgs boson properties and further...

FORWARD AND BACKWARD GRATING-ASSISTED DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS IN SILICON FOR WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING ADD-DROP APPLICATIONS (2006)

ZHANG, NAN

A novel tunable optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) based on a silicon forward/backward directional coupler is proposed. This device allows one wavelength channel or a small band of channels to be...

Forward and backward grating-assisted directional couplers in silicon for wavelength multiplexing add-drop applications [electronic resource] / (2006)

Zhang, Nan, OhioLINK Electronic Theses And Dissertations Center.

A novel tunable optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) based on a silicon forward/backward directional coupler is proposed. This device allows one wavelength channel or a small band of channels to be...

Sensory mapping, development and their applications to feature and attention selection [microform] / (2006)

Zhang, Nan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, 2005.

Sensory mapping, development and their applications to feature and attention selection / (2006)

Zhang, Nan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, 2005.

Three antibody-based immunotherapeutic modalities for malignancies / (2006)

Zhang, Nan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 2006.

W.: Self-adaptive worm and countermeasures (2006)

Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao

Abstract. In this paper, we address issues related to defending against widespreading worms on the Internet. We study a new class of worms called the selfadaptive worms. These worms dynamically adapt...

Stippling and Silhouettes Rendering in Geometry-Image Space (2005)

Kavita Bala, Philip Dutré (editors, Xiaoru Yuan, Minh X. Nguyen, Nan Zhang, Baoquan Chen

We present a novel non-photorealistic rendering method that performs all operations in a geometry-image domain.

Performance measurements for privacy preserving data mining (2005)

Nan Zhang, Wei Zhao, Jianer Chen

Abstract. This paper establishes the foundation for the performance measurements of privacy preserving data mining techniques. The performance is measured in terms of the accuracy of data mining...

Characterization and Selection of Materials for Air Biofiltration in Fluidized Beds (2004)

Leslous, Amel, Delebarre, Arnaud, Pré, Pascaline, Warlus, Stéphane, Zhang, Nan

A methodology is described for the selection of the best material to employ in a fluidized biofilter applied to volatil organic compounds (VOC) treatment. Two different supports were considered: one...

Characterization and Selection of Materials for Air Biofiltration in Fluidized Beds (2004)

Leslous, Amel, Delebarre, Arnaud, Pré, Pascaline, Warlus, Stéphane, Zhang, Nan

A methodology is described for the selection of the best material to employ in a fluidized biofilter applied to volatil organic compounds (VOC) treatment. Two different supports were considered: one...

Characterization and Selection of Materials for Air Biofiltration in Fluidized Beds (2004)

Leslous, Amel, Delebarre, Arnaud, Pré, Pascaline, Warlus, Stéphane, Zhang, Nan

A methodology is described for the selection of the best material to employ in a fluidized biofilter applied to volatil organic compounds (VOC) treatment. Two different supports were considered: one...

Characterization and Selection of Materials for Air Biofiltration in Fluidized Beds (2004)

Leslous, Amel, Delebarre, Arnaud, Pré, Pascaline, Warlus, Stéphane, Zhang, Nan

A methodology is described for the selection of the best material to employ in a fluidized biofilter applied to volatil organic compounds (VOC) treatment. Two different supports were considered: one...

Characterization and Selection of Materials for Air Biofiltration in Fluidized Beds (2004)

Leslous, Amel, Delebarre, Arnaud, Pré, Pascaline, Warlus, Stéphane, Zhang, Nan

A methodology is described for the selection of the best material to employ in a fluidized biofilter applied to volatil organic compounds (VOC) treatment. Two different supports were considered: one...

Multiresolution isosurface modeling and rendering / (2004)

Zhang, Nan.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2004.

The single currency : a road to the European monetary integration / (2004)

Zhang, Nan., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Dept. Of Economics.

Approved by: Maureen Burton, Bruce C. Brown and Carsten Lange.

Dual contouring with topologypreserving simplification using enhanced cell representation (2004)

Nan Zhang, Wei Hong, Arie Kaufman

Figure 1: Simplifying the zero-isosurface of a directed distance volume of 256 3 using our topology-preserving isosurface simplification algorithm. Although the cylinders and the box are very close...

Nonlinear Manifold Learning for Data Stream (2004)

Martin H. C. Law, Nan Zhang, Anil K. Jain

There has been a renewed interest in understanding the structure of high dimensional data set based on manifold learning. Examples include ISOMAP [25], LLE [20] and Laplacian Eigenmap [2] algorithms....

A new scheme on privacy preserving association rule mining (2004)

Nan Zhang, Shengquan Wang, Wei Zhao

Abstract. We address the privacy preserving association rule mining problem in a system with one data miner and multiple data providers, each holds one transaction. The literature has tacitly assumed...

Cardinality-based inference control in OLAP systems: an information theoretical Approach, DOLAP (2004)

Nan Zhang

We address the inference control problem in data cubes with some data known to users through external knowledge. The goal of inference controls is to prevent exact values of sensitive data from being...

Feature preserving distance fields (2004)

Huamin Qu, Nan Zhang, Ran Shao, Arie Kaufman, Klaus Mueller

We present two distance field representations which can preserve sharp features in original geometric models: the offset distance field (ODF) and the unified distance field (UDF). The ODF is sampled...

Feature preserving distance fields (2004)

Huamin Qu, Nan Zhang, Ran Shao, Arie Kaufman, Klaus Mueller

We present two distance field representations which can preserve sharp features in original geometric models: the offset distance field (ODF) and the unified distance field (UDF). The ODF is sampled...

Ray Tracing Height Fields (2003)

Huamin Qu Feng, Feng Qiu, Nan Zhang, Arie Kaufman, Ming Wan

We present a novel surface reconstruction algorithm which can directly reconstruct surfaces with different levels of smoothness in one framework from height fields using 3D discrete grid ray tracing....

Development of mass spectrometric methods for membrane proteome analysis / (2003)

Zhang, Nan.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Alberta.

Topological structure analysis of the protein-protein interaction network in budding yeast (2003)

Bu, Dongbo, Zhao, Yi, Cai, Lun, Xue, Hong, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Lu, Hongchao, ...

Interaction detection methods have led to the discovery of thousands of interactions between proteins, and discerning relevance within large‐scale data sets is important to present‐day...

A Developing Sensory Mapping for Robots (2002)

Nan Zhang And, Nan Zhang, John Weng, Zhengyou Zhang

A sensory mapping method, called "Staggered Hierarchical Mapping (SHM)," and its developmental algorithm are described in this paper. SHM is a model motivated by human early visual pathways...

LIPT: A reversible lossless text transform to improve compression performance (2001)

Fauzia S. Awan, Nan Zhang, Nitin Motgi, Raja T. Iqbal, Amar Mukherjee

Abstract. Lossless compression researchers have developed highly sophisticated approaches, such as Huffman encoding, arithmetic encoding, the Lempel-Ziv family,

T.: Enriched Relationship Processing in Object-Relational Database Management Systems (2001)

Nan Zhang, Norbert Ritter, Theo Härder

In this paper, we bring together two important topics of current database research: enhancing the data model by refined relationship semantics and exploiting ORDBMS extensibility to equip the system...

The Posttranslational modification of oxidized proteins by arginine and ubiquitin /--Nan Zhang. (1996)

Zhang, Nan., University Of Medicine And Dentistry Of New Jersey.--Graduate School Of Biomedical Sciences.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

S1 nuclease hypersensitive sites in an oligopurine/oligopyrimidine DNA from the t(10;14) breakpoint cluster region (1992)

Lu, Ming, Zhang, Nan, Raimondi, Susana, Ho, Anthony D.

Recurring chromosomal translocations are frequently seen in cancers, especially on leukemias and lymphomas. The genes affected by these chromosomal translocations appear to play an important role in...

A dominant-negative pleiotrophin mutant introduced by homologous recombination leads to germ-cell apoptosis in male mice

Zhang, Nan, Yeh, Hsiu-Jeng, Zhong, Rong, Li, Yue-Sheng, Deuel, Thomas F.

Pleiotrophin (PTN) is an 18-kDa heparin-binding secretory growth/differentiation factor for different cell types. Its gene is differentially expressed in both mesenchyme and central nervous system...

Topological structure analysis of the protein–protein interaction network in budding yeast

Bu, Dongbo, Zhao, Yi, Cai, Lun, Xue, Hong, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Lu, Hongchao, ...

Interaction detection methods have led to the discovery of thousands of interactions between proteins, and discerning relevance within large-scale data sets is important to present-day biology. Here,...

A dominant-negative pleiotrophin mutant introduced by homologous recombination leads to germ-cell apoptosis in male mice

Zhang, Nan, Yeh, Hsiu-Jeng, Zhong, Rong, Li, Yue-Sheng, Deuel, Thomas F.

Pleiotrophin (PTN) is an 18-kDa heparin-binding secretory growth/differentiation factor for different cell types. Its gene is differentially expressed in both mesenchyme and central nervous system...

Topological structure analysis of the protein–protein interaction network in budding yeast

Bu, Dongbo, Zhao, Yi, Cai, Lun, Xue, Hong, Zhu, Xiaopeng, Lu, Hongchao, ...

Interaction detection methods have led to the discovery of thousands of interactions between proteins, and discerning relevance within large-scale data sets is important to present-day biology. Here,...

FORWARD AND BACKWARD GRATING-ASSISTED DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS IN SILICON FOR WAVELENGTH MULTIPLEXING ADD-DROP APPLICATIONS

ZHANG, NAN

A novel tunable optical add-drop multiplexer (OADM) based on a silicon forward/backward directional coupler is proposed. This device allows one wavelength channel or a small band of channels to be...

Augmin: a protein complex required for centrosome-independent microtubule generation within the spindle

Goshima, Gohta, Mayer, Mirjam, Zhang, Nan, Stuurman, Nico, Vale, Ronald D.

Since the discovery of γ-tubulin, attention has focused on its involvement as a microtubule nucleator at the centrosome. However, mislocalization of γ-tubulin away from the centrosome does not...

Long Run Relationship between Money, Output, and Inflation

Homaifar, Ghassem A., Zhang, Nan

This paper examines the long run relationship between the monetary base and other monetary aggregates with the permanent income and inflation rates predicated on the assumption that the velocity turn...

The role of the conserved phenylalanine in the σ54-interacting GAFTGA motif of bacterial enhancer binding proteins

Zhang, Nan, Joly, Nicolas, Burrows, Patricia C., Jovanovic, Milija, Wigneshweraraj, Siva R., Buck, Martin

σ54-dependent transcription requires activation by bacterial enhancer binding proteins (bEBPs). bEBPs are members of the AAA+ (ATPases associated with various cellular activities) protein family and...