Cai, Wei, Schweiger, Brunhilde, Buchholz, Udo, Buda, Silke, Littmann, Martina, Heusler, Jörg, ...
Abstract Background In Germany, the first outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1 occurred among wild birds on the island of Ruegen between February and April 2006. The aim of this study...
Cai, Wei, Buchholz, Udo, Buda, Silke, Haas, Walter, Schweiger, Brunhilde, Littmann, Martina, ...
Background: In Germany, the first outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza A/H5N1 occurred among wild birds on the island of Ruegen between February and April 2006. The aim of this study was to...
Impulsive Control Systems (2009)
Impulsive control systems arose from classical control systems described by differential equations where the control functions could be unbounded. Passing to the limit of trajectories whose...
Impulsive Control Systems (2009)
Impulsive control systems arose from classical control systems described by differential equations where the control functions could be unbounded. Passing to the limit of trajectories whose...
Behavioral Modeling for Analog System-Level Simulation by Wavelet Collocation Method (2008)
Xin Li, Xuan Zeng, Dian Zhou, Xieting Ling, Wei Cai
Abstract—In this paper, we propose a wavelet collocation method with nonlinear companding to generate behavioral models for analog circuits at the system level. During the overall process of...
0-7695-2153-3/04 $20.00 ©2004 IEEE Scalable line dynamics in ParaDiS (2008)
Vasily Bulatov, Wei Cai, Jeff Fier, Masato Hiratani, Gregg Hommes, Tim Pierce, ...
We describe an innovative highly parallel application program, ParaDiS, which computes the plastic strength of materials by tracing the evolution of dislocation lines over time. We discuss the issues...
Oluwayomi Adamo, Saraju P. Mohanty, Elias Kougianos, Murali Varanasi, Wei Cai
Abstract: Two fundamental operations performed by a digital camera are image capturing and storing. The images are subsequently transmitted in various forms over appropriate media. These images are...
Differential Space-Time Block-Coded OFDMA for Frequency-Selective Fading Channels (2008)
Zhonglin Chen, Guangxi Zhu, Wei Cai, Qiang Ni
Abstract—Combining differential Alamouti space-time block code (DASTBC) with orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA), this paper introduces a multiuser/multirate transmission scheme,...
The Gridkit Resource Management Frameworks (2008)
Geoff Coulson, Wei Cai, Paul Grace, Gordon Blair, Laurent Mathy, Wai Kit Yeung
Traditional resource discovery and management systems in Grid Computing tend to be coarse-grained, have fixed static policies and deal exclusively with concrete resource entities e.g. CPUs, memory...
Open Overlay Support for the Divergent Grid (2008)
Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Gordon Blair, Barry Porter, Wei Cai, David Duce, ...
The divergent Grid is characterized by heterogeneity. Applications will operate across different types of end-systems (e.g. from resource light sensor motes to supercomputers) that are interconnected...
Bojinov, Martin, Cai, Wei, Kinnunen, Petri, Saario, Timo
Journal of Nuclear Materials Vol.378 Nr.1, 45 - 54
WANG, Yi, ZENG, Xuan, TAO, Jun, ZHU, Hengliang, CAI, Wei
In this paper, we propose an Adaptive Stochastic Collocation Method for block-based Statistical Static Timing Analysis (SSTA). A novel adaptive method is proposed to perform SSTA with delays of gates...
Periodic Boundary Conditions for Dislocation Dynamics Simulations in Three Dimensions (2007)
Vasily V. Bulatov, Moon Rhee, Wei Cai
This article presents an implementation of periodic boundary conditions (PBC) for Dislocation Dynamics (DD) simulations in three dimensions (3D). We discuss fundamental aspects of PBC development,...
APPLYING THE REFLECTIVE MIDDLEWARE APPROACH IN GRID COMPUTING (2007)
Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Nikos Parlavantzas, Wai Kit Yeung, Wei Cai
Significant progress has been made in the design and development of objectbased distributed systems and, more recently, in component-based reflective middleware platforms—i.e., middleware platforms...
Greer, Julia R., Weinberger, Christopher R., Cai, Wei
We compare mechanical strength of f.c.c. gold and b.c.c. molybdenum single crystal pillars of sub-micrometer diameter in uniaxial compression tests. Both crystals show an increase of flow stress with...
Equine Immobilization with a Limb Restraint System (2007)
Mobility of the horse to initiate motion from the standing position is examined in this thesis. In particular, the thesis focuses on the study of the mobility of a horse with fixed hooves to the...
Equine Immobilization with a Limb Restraint System (2007)
Mobility of the horse to initiate motion from the standing position is examined in this thesis. In particular, the thesis focuses on the study of the mobility of a horse with fixed hooves to the...
Equine Immobilization with a Limb Restraint System (2007)
Mobility of the horse to initiate motion from the standing position is examined in this thesis. In particular, the thesis focuses on the study of the mobility of a horse with fixed hooves to the...
FPGA prototyping of a watermarking algorithm for MPEG-4 (2007)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of North Texas, May, 2007.
Extending the fast multipole method for charges inside a dielectric sphere in an ionic solvent: High-order
Dislocation multi-junctions and strain hardening (2006)
Vasily V. Bulatov, Luke L. Hsiung, Meijie Tang, Athanasios Arsenlis, Maria C. Bartelt, Wei Cai, ...
High Order Hybrid Numerical Simulations of Two Dimensional Detonation Waves (2006)
In order to study multi-dimensional unstable detonation waves, we have developed high order numerical scheme suitable for calculating the detailed transverse wave structures of multidimensional...
On One-Sided Filters for Spectral Fourier Approximations of Discontinuous Functions (2006)
Cai, Wei, Gottlieb, David, Shu, Chi-Wang
Impedance tomography seeks to recover information about the internal electrical conductivity of an object by means of voltage and current flux measurements made on its boundary, and so provide a...
Abstract. The dyadic Green’s function in multi-layer structures for Maxwell equations is a key component for the integral equation method, but time consuming to calculate. A novel algorithm, the...
Jimin Pei, Wei Cai, Lisa N. Kinch, Nick V. Grishin
Running title: prediction of functional specificity determinants Key words: log-likelihood ratio; specificity determinants; phylogenetic tree; multiple sequence alignment; evolutionary simulation;...
Pei, Jimin, Cai, Wei, Kinch, Lisa N., Grishin, Nick V.
Motivation: A number of methods have been developed to predict functional specificity determinants in protein families based on sequence information. Most of these methods rely on pre-defined...
Spatially Separated and Correlated Atom-molecule Lasers from a Bose Condensate (2005)
Jing, Hui, Cai, Wei, Xu, Jing-Jun, Zhan, Ming-Sheng
We propose a feasible scheme to create two spatially separated atomic and molecular beams from an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate by combining the Raman-type atom laser output and the two-color...
A Component-based Middleware Framework for Configurable and Reconfigurable Grid Computing. (2005)
Coulson, Geoff, Grace , Paul, Blair , Gordon, Cai , Wei, Cooper, Chris, Duce, David, ...
Significant progress has been made in the design and development of Grid middleware which, in its present form, is founded on Web services technologies. However, we argue that present-day Grid...
A Boundary Integral Equation Method for Photonic Crystal Fibers (2005)
Min Hyung Cho, Wei Cai, Tsing-hua Her
A Boundary Integral Equation for the eigenmode of Photonic Crystal Fibers is formulated and numerically solved using the Nyström method. The real and imaginary parts of the propagation constant,...
The Gridkit Distributed Resource Management Framework (2005)
Wei Cai, Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Gordon Blair, Laurent Mathy, Wai-kit Yeung
Abstract. Traditionally, distributed resource management / scheduling systems for the Grid (e.g. Globus / GRAM / Condor-G) have tended to deal with coarsegrained and concrete resource types (e.g....
A short course on DDLab and ParaDiS (2005)
Wei Cai, Jie Deng, Keonwook Kang
DDLab and ParaDiS are dislocation dynamics simulation codes. They use the same algorithm for the calculation of node force, node velocity and topological changes, etc. The difference between them is...
Pei, Jimin, Cai, Wei, Kinch, Lisa N., Grishin, Nick V.
Motivation: A number of methods have been developed to predict functional specificity determinants in protein families based on sequence information. Most of these methods rely on pre-defined...
Reconstruction of ancestral protein sequences and its applications (2004)
Cai, Wei, Pei, Jimin, Grishin, Nick V
Abstract Background Modern-day proteins were selected during long evolutionary history as descendants of ancient life forms. In silico reconstruction of such ancestral protein sequences facilitates...
GRIDKIT: Pluggable Overlay Networks for Grid Computing (2004)
Paul Grace, Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Laurent Mathy, Wai Kit Yeung, Wei Cai, ...
Abstract. A ‘second generation ’ approach to the provision of Grid middleware is now emerging which is built on service-oriented architecture and web services standards and technologies. However,...
Supporting Paper Used: Essentially Non-Oscillatory Spectral Fourier Methods for Shock (2004)
Firmin Ndeges, Wave Calculations, Wei Cai, David Gotlieb, Chi-wang Shu
Gibbs ’ phenomena occurs in Fourier approximation of piecewise continuous functions with discontinuities. This can lead to a number of practical difficulties including poor convergence behavior in...
Wei Cai, Jimin Pei, Nick V Grishin
Background: Modern-day proteins were selected during long evolutionary history as descendants of ancient life forms. In silico reconstruction of such ancestral protein sequences facilitates our...
A Component-based Middleware Framework for Configurable and Reconfigurable Grid Computing (2004)
Geoff Coulson Paul, Paul Grace, Gordon Blair, Wei Cai, Chris Cooper, David Duce, ...
Significant progress has been made in the design and development of Grid middleware which, in its present form, is founded on web services technologies. However, we argue that present-day Grid...
Geoff Coulson, Paul Grace, Gordon Blair, Laurent Mathy, David Duce, Chris Cooper, ...
Significant progress has been made in the design and development of Grid middleware which, in its present form, is founded on service-oriented architecture and web services technologies....
A Reflective Middleware Approach to the Provision of Grid Middleware (2003)
Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Nikos Parlavantzas, Wai Kit Yeung, Wei Cai
In the past few years significant progress has been
A Reflective Middleware Approach to the Provision of Grid Middleware (2003)
Geoff Coulson, Gordon Blair, Nikos Parlavantzas, Wai Kit Yeung, Wei Cai
In the past few years significant progress has been
Anisotropic Elastic Interactions of a Periodic Dislocation Array (2001)
Bulatov, Vasily V., Cai, Wei, Chang, Jinpeng, Li, Ju, Yip, Sidney
Vibrations in switched reluctance motors:--a dissertation /--by Wei(William) Cai. (2000)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Clarkson University, 2000.
In this paper, we introduce a novel acceleration method for the calculation of dyadic Green’s functions for the mixed potential integral equation formulation of electromagnetic scattering of...
Cartilage-reactive T cells in rheumatoid synovium (2000)
Fang, Qiong, Sun, Yan-Yang, Cai, Wei, Dodge, George R., Lotke, Paul A., Williams, William V.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory polyarthritis genetically linked to HLA-DR4 and related haplotypes. RA synovial tissue is characterized by T cell infiltration and activation of...
Cell Averaging Chebyshev Methods for Hyperbolic Problems. (1998)
Cai, Wei, Gottlieb, David, Harten, Ami
This paper describes a cell averaging method for the Chebyshev approximations of first order hyperbolic equations in conservation form. We present formulas for transforming between pointwise data at...
Uniform High Order Spectral Methods for One and Two Dimensional Euler Equations. (1998)
This paper studies uniform high order spectral methods to solve multi-dimensional Euler equations for gas dynamics. Uniform high order spectral approximations with spectral accuracy in smooth regions...
Adaptive Wavelet Collocation Methods for Initial Value Boundary Problems of Nonlinear PDE's. (1998)
We have designed a cubic spline wavelet decomposition for the Sobolev space HO(2)(I) where I is a bounded interval. Based on a special 'point-wise orthogonality' of the wavelet basis functions, a...
Multi-Resolution Wavelet Methods for the Simulation of Flames (1998)
The main results of this grant is a hybrid high order algorithm for the study of 2-D detonation waves, and the development of an adaptive wavelet ADI method as a direct pr as a preconditioner for...
Parallel Multi-Scale Algorithms and Applications to Combustion and Turbulence (1998)
In this project, the main objective was to develop multi-resolution wavelet algorithm to study the flame acceleration and to understand the mechanism of the transition of deflagration to detonation....
Parallel Multi-Scale Algorithms and Applications to Combustion and Turbulence. (1997)
In this Project, the main objective was to develop multiresolution wavelet algorithm to study the flame acceleration and to understand the mechanism of the transition of deflagration to detonation....
Novel sensors on vehicle measurement of emissions. (1992)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1992.
Cai, Wei, Chen, Jun-zhu, Ruan, Li-ming, Wang, Yi-na
Objective: To observe the effects of fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP) on serum levels of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB), as well as the concentration of calcium in...
Cai, Wei, Xu, Yi, Chen, Jun-zhu, Huang, Shu-ru, Lu, Zhen-ya, Wang, Zhan-kun
Objective: To observe the effect of Yangxueqingnao particles on rat vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation induced by lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). Methods: The amount of 3H-TdR...
Effects of angiotensin II on connexin 43 of VSMCs in arteriosclerosis
Cai, Wei, Ruan, Li-ming, Wang, Yi-na, Chen, Jun-zhu
Objective: To observe the effect of angiotensin II (Ang II) on expression of gap junction channel protein connexin 43 (Cx43) in the proliferation process of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs)...
Cai, Wei, Chen, Jun-zhu, Ruan, Li-ming, Wang, Yi-na
Objective: To observe the effects of fructose-1,6-diphosphate (FDP) on serum levels of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) and creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB), as well as the concentration of calcium in...
Cai, Wei, Xu, Yi, Chen, Jun-zhu, Huang, Shu-ru, Lu, Zhen-ya, Wang, Zhan-kun
Objective: To observe the effect of Yangxueqingnao particles on rat vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation induced by lysophosphatidic acid (LPA). Methods: The amount of 3H-TdR...
Effects of angiotensin II on connexin 43 of VSMCs in arteriosclerosis
Cai, Wei, Ruan, Li-ming, Wang, Yi-na, Chen, Jun-zhu
Objective: To observe the effect of angiotensin II (Ang II) on expression of gap junction channel protein connexin 43 (Cx43) in the proliferation process of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs)...
Bioactivation mechanisms for mitotane and its analogs.
Dissertation (Ph.D)--University of Michigan.
Surface-controlled dislocation multiplication in metal micropillars
Weinberger, Christopher R., Cai, Wei
Understanding the plasticity and strength of crystalline materials in terms of the dynamics of microscopic defects has been a goal of materials research in the last 70 years. The size-dependent yield...