Ping Sun

Youth tobacco use cessation: 2008 update (2009)

Sussman, Steve, Sun, Ping

Abstract In this paper, an empirical review of 64 teen tobacco use cessation studies is provided. Examined include program contents, delivery modalities, number of contacts, and expected quit rates....

Gene-body hypermethylation of ATM in peripheral blood DNA of bilateral breast cancer patients (2009)

Flanagan, James M., Munoz-Alegre, Marta, Henderson, Stephen, Tang, Thomas, Sun, Ping, Johnson, Nichola, ...

Bilaterality of breast cancer is an indicator of constitutional cancer susceptibility; however, the molecular causes underlying this predisposition in the majority of cases is not known. We...

Ganglioside GM3 Inhibits Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Activation and Disrupts Its Association with Integrin* (2008)

Xiao-qi Wang, Ping Sun, Amy S. Paller, Gangliosides Gm

cell adhesion and migration on fibronectin. GT1b binds to integrin � 5 � 1 and blocks the integrin-fibronectin interaction; GM3 does not interact with integrin, and its effect is poorly...

Brief Communications Spatial Attention Does Not Strongly Modulate Neuronal Responses in Early Human Visual Cortex (2008)

Daniel Yoshor, Ping Sun

Attention can dramatically enhance behavioral performance based on a visual stimulus, but the degree to which attention modulates activity in early visual cortex is unclear. Whereas single-unit...

Efficient Forward Regression with Marginal Likelihood (2008)

Ping Sun, Xin Yao

Abstract. We propose an efficient forward regression algorithm based on greedy optimization of marginal likelihood. It can be understood as a forward selection procedure which adds a new basis vector...

Efficient Forward Regression with Marginal Likelihood (2008)

Ping Sun, Xin Yao

Abstract. We propose an efficient forward regression algorithm based on greedy optimization of marginal likelihood. It can be understood as a forward selection procedure which adds a new basis vector...

Hormone Therapy and the Risk of Breast Cancer in BRCA1 Mutation Carriers (2008)

Eisen, Andrea, Lubinski, Jan, Gronwald, Jacek, Moller, Pal, Lynch, Henry T., Klijn, Jan, ...

Background Hormone therapy (HT) is commonly given to women to alleviate the climacteric symptoms associated with menopause. There is concern that this treatment may increase the risk of breast...

New protein fold revealed by a 1.65 A resolution crystal structure of Francisella tularensis pathogenicity island protein IglC (2007)

Sun, Ping, Austin, Brian P., Schubot, Florian D., Waugh, David S.

Francisella tularensis is a highly infectious Gram-negative intracellular pathogen that causes the fulminating disease tularemia and is considered to be a potential bioweapon. F. tularensis...

Prospective associations of social self-control with drug use among youth from regular and alternative high schools (2007)

Pokhrel, Pallav, Sussman, Steve, Rohrbach, Louise, Sun, Ping

Abstract Background This study examined the one year prospective associations between adolescent social self-control and drug outcomes (cigarette use, alcohol use, marijuana use, hard drug use, and...

Retention of Parental Urine Odour of Postweaning Female Root Vole (2007)

SUN, Ping, YU, Hong-hao, ZHAO, Xin-quan, XU, Nan, ZHAO, Ya-jun

To research the retention of parental odours of female root voles (Microtus oeconomus   ), the behavioural responses to urine from parents were recorded 0, 10, 20, 30, and 40 days after weaning (20,...

Mott-Hubbard Scenario for the Metal-Insulator Transition in the Two Dimensional Electron Gas (2006)

Sun, Ping

By comparing the responses to an in-plane magnetic field near the metal-insulator transition (MIT), we find that the observed MIT in Si MOSFETs can be described by the non-perturbative Mott-Hubbard...

Spontaneous and therapeutic abortions and the risk of breast cancer among BRCAmutation carriers (2006)

Friedman, Eitan, Kotsopoulos, Joanne, Lubinski, Jan, Lynch, Henry T, Ghadirian, Parviz, Neuhausen, Susan L, ...

Abstract Introduction BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers are at increased risk for developing both breast and ovarian cancer. It has been suggested that carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations may also be at...

A Gradient-based Forward Greedy Algorithm for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression (2006)

Ping Sun, Xin Yao

Abstract In this chaper, we present a gradient-based forward greedy method for sparse approximation of Bayesian Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) model. Different from previous work, which is mostly...

Greedy forward selection algorithms to sparse Gaussian Process Regression (2006)

Ping Sun, Student Member, Xin Yao

Abstract — This paper considers the basis vector selection issue invloved in forward selection algorithms to sparse Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). Firstly, we re-examine a previous basis vector...

Greedy forward selection algorithms to sparse Gaussian Process Regression (2006)

Ping Sun, Student Member, Xin Yao

Abstract — This paper considers the basis vector selection issue invloved in forward selection algorithms to sparse Gaussian Process Regression (GPR). Firstly, we re-examine a previous basis vector...

A Gradient-based Forward Greedy Algorithm for Sparse Gaussian Process Regression (2006)

Ping Sun, Xin Yao

Abstract In this chaper, we present a gradient-based forward greedy method for sparse approximation of Bayesian Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) model. Different from previous work, which is mostly...

An Exchanging-based Refinement to Sparse Gaussian Process Regression (2006)

Ping Sun, Xin Yao

We propose a backward deletion procedure to Sparse Gaussian Process Regression (SGPR) model, which can be used to refine a number of sequential forward selection algorithms addressed recently. Some...

Spontaneous and therapeutic abortions and the risk of breast cancer among BRCA mutation carriers (2006)

Foulkes, William D., Friedman, Eitan, Kotsopoulos, Joanne, Lubinski, Jan, Lynch, Henry T, Ghadirian, Parviz, ...

BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers are at increased risk for developing both breast and ovarian cancer. It has been suggested that carriers of BRCA1/2 mutations may also be at increased risk of having...

Association of PINK1 and DJ-1 Confers Digenic Inheritance of Early Onset Parkinson's Disease (2006)

Tang, Beisha, Xiong, Hui, Sun, Ping, Zhang, Yuhu, Wang, Danling, Hu, Zhengmao, ...

Mutations in genes encoding both DJ-1 and pten-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) are independently linked to autosomal recessive early onset familial forms of Parkinson's disease (PD). We here report...

Changes in body weight and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1and BRCA2mutation carriers (2005)

Kotsopoulos, Joanne, Olopade, Olufunmilayo I, Ghadirian, Parviz, Lubinski, Jan, Lynch, Henry T, Isaacs, Claudine, ...

Abstract Background Several anthropometric measures have been found to be associated with the risk of breast cancer. Current weight, body mass index, and adult weight gain appear to be predictors of...

Understanding the Heavy Fermion Phenomenology from Microscopic Model (2005)

Sun, Ping, Kotliar, Gabriel

We solve the 3D periodic Anderson model via two impurity DMFT. We obtain the temperature v.s. hybridization phase diagram. In approaching the quantum critical point (QCP) both the Neel and lattice...

Consequences of the local spin self-energy approximation on the heavy Fermion quantum phase transition (2005)

Sun, Ping, Kotliar, Gabriel

We show, using the periodic Anderson model, that the local spin self-energy approximation, as implemented in the extended dynamical mean field theory (EDMFT), results in a first order phase...

Between two extremes: Examining decompositions of the ensemble objective function (2005)

Gavin Brown, Jeremy Wyatt, Ping Sun

Abstract. We study how the error of an ensemble regression estimator can be decomposed into two components: one accounting for the individual errors and the other accounting for the correlations...

Changes in body weight and the risk of breast cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers (2005)

Kotsopoulos, Joanne, Olopado, Olufunmilayo, Ghadirian, Parviz, Lubinski, Jan, Lynch, Henry, Isaacs, Claudine, ...

BACKGROUND:Several anthropometric measures have been found to be associated with the risk of breast cancer. Current weight, body mass index, and adult weight gain appear to be predictors of...

Investigation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on dry flue gas desulfurization (FGD) by-products (2004)

Sun, Ping

The primary goal of this research was to examine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on dry FGD by-products to determine environmentally safe reuse options of this material. Due to the lack of...

Investigation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on dry flue gas desulfurization (FGD) by-products [electronic resource] / (2004)

Sun, Ping.

Abstract: The primary goal of this research was to examine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on dry FGD by-products to determine environmentally safe reuse options of this material. Due to the...

Many-Body Approximation Scheme Beyond GW (2003)

Sun, Ping, Kotliar, Gabriel

We explore the combination of the extended dynamical mean field theory (EDMFT) with the GW approximation (GWA); the former sums the local contributions to the self-energies to infinite order in...

Extended Dynamical Mean Field Theory Study of the Periodic Anderson Model (2003)

Sun, Ping, Kotliar, Gabriel

We investigate the competition of the Kondo and the RKKY interactions in heavy fermion systems. We solve a periodic Anderson model using Extended Dynamical Mean Field Theory (EDMFT) with QMC. We...

Extended Dynamical Mean Field Theory and GW method (2002)

Sun, Ping, Kotliar, Gabriel

We develop the extended dynamical mean field theory (E-DMFT) with a view towards realistic applications. {\bf 1)} We introduce an intuitive derivation of the E-DMFT formalism. By identifying the...

Oral Contraceptives and the Risk of Breast Cancer in BRCA1 and BRCA2 Mutation Carriers (2002)

Narod, Steven A., Dubé, Marie-Pierre, Klijn, Jan, Lubinski, Jan, Lynch, Henry T., Ghadirian, Parviz, ...

Background: Oral contraceptive use has been associated with an increase in the risk of breast cancer in young women. We examined whether this association is seen in women at high risk of breast...

Epidermal growth factor receptor glycosylation is required for ganglioside GM3 binding and GM3-mediated suppresion of activation (2001)

Wang, Xiao-Qi, Sun, Ping, O’Gorman, Maurice, Tai, Tadashi, Paller, Amy S.

Gangliosides are able to bind to the epidermal growth factor receptor and inhibit its activation, but the mechanism of this inhibition is unknown. To address the role of receptor carbohydrates in...

Analytic approach to the one-dimensional spin-Peierls system in the entire frequency range (2000)

Sun, Ping, Schmeltzer, D., Bishop, A. R.

We use the two cut-off renormalization group (RG) method to study the spin-Peierls model in one-dimension for the entire phonon frequency range. We integrate out the phonon and solve the effective...

One-dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet in a weak external magnetic field (2000)

Sun, Ping, Schmeltzer, D.

The one dimensional spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet in a weak magnetic field h is studied using the bosonization method. We derive a set of renormalization group equations. The fixed point is...

Association of Serum Total Cholesterol with Coronary Disease and All-Cause Mortality: Multivariate Correction for Bias Due to Measurement Error (1996)

Iribarren, Carlos, Sharp, Dan, Burchfiel, Cecil M., Sun, Ping, Dwyer, James H.

Measurement error in the exposure under investigation is an important but often ignored source of bias in observational studies. The authors examined the impact of measurement error in the...

Investigation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on dry flue gas desulfurization (FGD) by-products

Sun, Ping

The primary goal of this research was to examine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on dry FGD by-products to determine environmentally safe reuse options of this material. Due to the lack of...

Transcriptional Regulation of PEN-2, a Key Component of the γ-Secretase Complex, by CREB

Wang, Ruishan, Zhang, Yun-wu, Sun, Ping, Liu, Runzhong, Zhang, Xian, Zhang, Xue, ...

Gamma-secretase, which is responsible for the intramembranous cleavage of Alzheimer's β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), the signaling receptor Notch, and many other substrates, is a multiprotein...

Transcriptional Regulation of PEN-2, a Key Component of the γ-Secretase Complex, by CREB

Wang, Ruishan, Zhang, Yun-wu, Sun, Ping, Liu, Runzhong, Zhang, Xian, Zhang, Xue, ...

Gamma-secretase, which is responsible for the intramembranous cleavage of Alzheimer's β-amyloid precursor protein (APP), the signaling receptor Notch, and many other substrates, is a multiprotein...

New protein fold revealed by a 1.65 Å resolution crystal structure of Francisella tularensis pathogenicity island protein IglC

Sun, Ping, Austin, Brian P., Schubot, Florian D., Waugh, David S.

Francisella tularensis is a highly infectious Gram-negative intracellular pathogen that causes the fulminating disease tularemia and is considered to be a potential bioweapon. F. tularensis...

Moment representation of Bernoulli polynomial, Euler polynomial and Gegenbauer polynomials

Sun, Ping

The Hermite polynomials can be represented to the moments of normal distribution by the work of Withers [2000. A simple expression for the multivariate Hermite polynomials. Statist. Probab. Lett. 47,...

Youth tobacco use cessation: 2008 update

Sussman, Steve, Sun, Ping

In this paper, an empirical review of 64 teen tobacco use cessation studies is provided. Examined include program contents, delivery modalities, number of contacts, and expected quit rates. In...

Gene-body hypermethylation of ATM in peripheral blood DNA of bilateral breast cancer patients

Flanagan, James M., Munoz-Alegre, Marta, Henderson, Stephen, Tang, Thomas, Sun, Ping, Johnson, Nichola, ...

Bilaterality of breast cancer is an indicator of constitutional cancer susceptibility; however, the molecular causes underlying this predisposition in the majority of cases is not known. We...

GeoChip-based analysis of metabolic diversity of microbial communities at the Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent

Wang, Fengping, Zhou, Huaiyang, Meng, Jun, Peng, Xiaotong, Jiang, Lijing, Sun, Ping, ...

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents are one of the most unique and fascinating ecosystems on Earth. Although phylogenetic diversity of vent communities has been extensively examined, their physiological...