Wei Gao

Detection of Multidecadal Changes in UVB and Total Ozone Concentrations over the Continental US with NASA TOMS Data and USDA Ground-Based Measurements (2010)

Zhiqiang Gao, Wei Gao, Ni-Bin Chang

Thinning of the atmospheric ozone layer leads to elevated levels of Ultraviolet-B (UVB) at the Earth's surface, resulting in an increase of health risks to living organisms due to DNA damage. This...

Moisture availability influences the effect of ultraviolet-B radiation on leaf litter decomposition (2009)

William K. Smith, Wei Gao, Heidi Steltzer, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Roger Tree

Altered surface ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation resulting from a combination of factors that include changes in stratospheric ozone concentrations, cloud cover, and aerosol conditions may affect...

Functional Connectivity Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Cortical Functional Connectivity in the Developing Brain (2009)

Weili Lin, Ph. D, Quan Zhu, Wei Gao, Yasheng Chen, D. Sc, ...

Background and Purpose: Resting functional MRI was utilized to depict brain regions exhibiting temporal synchronization, also known as resting brain functional connectivity (rfc). This study aims to...

Detection of three-axis angles by an optical sensor (2009)

Saito, Yusuke, Arai, Yoshikazu, Gao, Wei

This article describes an optical method for measurement of three-axis angles (roll angle ΔθX, pitch angle ΔθY, yaw angle ΔθZ). The laser autocollimation method is improved from two-axis angle...

Controllable Ring Signatures (2008)

Wei Gao, Guilin Wang, Xueli Wang, Dongqing Xie

Abstract. This paper introduces a new concept called controllable ring signature which is ring signature with additional properties as follow. (1) Anonymous identification: by an anonymous...

2003 North American interagency intercomparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers : scanning and spectrograph instruments (2008)

Lantz, Kathleen, Disterhoft, Patrick, Slusser, James R., Gao, Wei, Berndt, Jerry, Bernhard, Germar, ...

The fifth North American Intercomparison of Ultraviolet Monitoring Spectroradiometers was held June 13 to 21, 2003 at Table Mountain outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA. The main purpose of the...

Caregiver assessment of patients with advanced cancer: concordance with patients, effect of burden and positivity (2008)

Higginson, Irene J, Gao, Wei

Abstract Background Clinicians and researchers often have to rely on information from caregivers to assess patients with advanced cancer. This study aims to assess the validity (using patients'...

General Terms (2008)

Wei Gao, Cheng Niu, Jian-yun Nie, Ming Zhou, Jian Hu, Kam-fai Wong, ...

Query suggestion aims to suggest relevant queries for a given query, which help users better specify their information needs. Previously, the suggested terms are mostly in the same language of the...

Mining Characteristic Patterns to Identify Web Users (2008)

Wei Gao, Olivia R. Liu Sheng

Many web applications and analyses require user identification when direct identification is not available. However, identifying users based on existing attributes, e.g. client IP, in tracking data...

One-Round ID-Based Blind Signature Scheme without ROS Assumption (2008)

Wei Gao, Xueli Wang, Guilin Wang, Fei Li

Abstract. In this paper, we propose a new ID-based blind signature scheme based on bilinear pairings from scratch (i.e. without using existing ID-based signature schemes, and without using existing...

2003 North American interagency intercomparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers : scanning and spectrograph instruments (2008)

Lantz, Kathleen, Disterhoft, Patrick, Slusser, James R., Gao, Wei, Berndt, Jerry, Bernhard, Germar, ...

The fifth North American Intercomparison of Ultraviolet Monitoring Spectroradiometers was held June 13 to 21, 2003 at Table Mountain outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA. The main purpose of the...

2003 North American interagency intercomparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers : scanning and spectrograph instruments (2008)

Lantz, Kathleen, Disterhoft, Patrick, Slusser, James R., Gao, Wei, Berndt, Jerry, Bernhard, Germar, ...

The fifth North American Intercomparison of Ultraviolet Monitoring Spectroradiometers was held June 13 to 21, 2003 at Table Mountain outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA. The main purpose of the...

In vitro pharmacodynamics of colistin against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (2008)

Poudyal, Anima, Howden, Benjamin P., Bell, Jan M., Gao, Wei, Owen, Roxanne J., Turnidge, John D., ...

Background Resistance to colistin is emerging in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and no solid pharmacodynamic data are available for colistin against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Methods...

2003 North American interagency intercomparison of ultraviolet spectroradiometers : scanning and spectrograph instruments (2008)

Lantz, Kathleen, Disterhoft, Patrick, Slusser, James R., Gao, Wei, Berndt, Jerry, Bernhard, Germar, ...

The fifth North American Intercomparison of Ultraviolet Monitoring Spectroradiometers was held June 13 to 21, 2003 at Table Mountain outside of Boulder, Colorado, USA. The main purpose of the...

In vitro pharmacodynamics of colistin against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (2008)

Poudyal, Anima, Howden, Benjamin P., Bell, Jan M., Gao, Wei, Owen, Roxanne J., Turnidge, John Douglas, ...

Background: Resistance to colistin is emerging in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and no solid pharmacodynamic data are available for colistin against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Methods:...

In vitro pharmacodynamics of colistin against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (2008)

Poudyal, Anima, Howden, Benjamin P., Bell, Jan M., Gao, Wei, Owen, Roxanne J., Turnidge, John Douglas, ...

Background: Resistance to colistin is emerging in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and no solid pharmacodynamic data are available for colistin against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Methods:...

In vitro pharmacodynamics of colistin against multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (2008)

Poudyal, Anima, Howden, Benjamin P., Bell, Jan M., Gao, Wei, Owen, Roxanne J., Turnidge, John Douglas, ...

Background: Resistance to colistin is emerging in multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria and no solid pharmacodynamic data are available for colistin against Klebsiella pneumoniae. Methods:...

Solar UVA exposures (2005)

Parisi, Alfio, Kimlin, Michael G., Bernhard, Germar, Slusser, James R., Herman, Jay R., Gao, Wei

[Abstract]: Exposures to UVA radiation (320 – 400 nm) have been linked to increasing the risk of skin cancer, premature skin photoageing and skin wrinkling. The relative proportion of the UVA...

Solar UVA exposures (2005)

Parisi, Alfio, Kimlin, Michael G., Bernhard, Germar, Slusser, James R., Herman, Jay R., Gao, Wei

[Abstract]: Exposures to UVA radiation (320 – 400 nm) have been linked to increasing the risk of skin cancer, premature skin photoageing and skin wrinkling. The relative proportion of the UVA...

Staging the ""mobile phone carnival"": A political economy of the SMS culture in China (2005)

Gao, Wei

Thesis (M.A.) - School of Communication - Simon Fraser University

CONSTRUCTING USER BEHAVIORAL PROFILES USING DATA-MINING-BASED APPROACH [electronic resource] (2005)

Gao, Wei.

User profiling has wide applications such as personalization, intrusion detection, and online customer analysis in e-business environments. In the past decade, most of past research on user profiling...

CONSTRUCTING USER BEHAVIORAL PROFILES USING DATA-MINING-BASED APPROACH (2005)

Gao, Wei.

Dissertation (PhD)--University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 2005.

NIL is not Nothing: Recognition of Chinese Network Informal Language Expressions (2005)

Yunqing Xia, Kam-fai Wong, Wei Gao

Informal language is actively used in network-mediated communication, e.g. chat room, BBS, email and text message. We refer the anomalous terms used in such context as network informal language (NIL)...

Staging the "mobile phone carnival" [electronic resource] : a political economy of the SMS culture in China / (2005)

Gao, Wei., Simon Fraser University.

This study uses the political economy perspective to contextualize the Short Message Service (SMS) phenomenon in China and examines how intertwining forces of market and state have mutually...

Solar Ultraviolet-B Radiation in Urban Environments: The Case of Baltimore, Maryland¶† (2004)

Gordon M. Heisler, Richard H. Grant, Wei Gao, James R. Slusser

Ultraviolet-B radiation (UV-B, 280–320 nm) has important effects in urban areas, including those on human health. Broadband UV-B radiation is monitored in Baltimore, MD, as part of the Baltimore...

Dosimeter for measurement of UVA exposures (2004)

Parisi, Alfio, Kimlin, Michael G., Slusser, James R., Herman, Jay R., Gao, Wei, Bernhard, Germar

[Abstract]: A prototype UVA dosimeter that is responsive to the UVA wavelengths only has been developed for measurement of personal exposures. The chemical phenothiazine, cast in thin film form and...

Dosimeter for measurement of UVA exposures (2004)

Parisi, Alfio, Kimlin, Michael G., Slusser, James R., Herman, Jay R., Gao, Wei, Bernhard, Germar

[Abstract]: A prototype UVA dosimeter that is responsive to the UVA wavelengths only has been developed for measurement of personal exposures. The chemical phenothiazine, cast in thin film form and...

Effects of Supplementary Ultraviolet-B Irradiance on Maize Yield and Qualities: A Field Experiment¶ (2004)

Wei Gao, Youfei Zheng, James R. Slusser, Gordon M. Heisler, Richard H. Grant, Jianqiang Xu, ...

Stratospheric ozone depletion has caused an increase in the amount of ultraviolet-B (UV-B) radiation reaching the earth's surface. Numerous investigations have demonstrated that the effect of UV-B...

Interactive Effects of Ultraviolet-B Radiation and Temperature on Cotton Physiology, Growth, Development and Hyperspectral Reflectance¶ (2004)

K. Raja Reddy, Vijaya Gopal Kakani, Duli Zhao, Sailaja Koti, Wei Gao

Current conditions of 2–11 kJ m−2 day−1 of UV-B radiation and temperatures of >30°C during flowering in cotton cultivated regions are projected to increase in the future. A controlled...

Nano-structured alloy and composite coatings for high temperature applications (2004)

Gao,Wei, Li,Zhengwei

Nano-structured materials often possess special properties that materials with identical compositions but ordinary grain size do not have. This paper reports our work on the surface...

Study in hybrid system simulation using MATLAB / (2004)

Gao, Wei., McMaster University. Dept. Of Computing And Software.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.) -- McMaster University, 2004.

Phoneme-based Transliteration of Foreign Names for OOV (2004)

Wei Gao, Kam-fai Wong, Wai Lam

One problem seriously affecting CLIR performance is the processing of queries with embedded foreign names. A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation from English to...

Extending the dynamic range of polysulphone for measuring UV exposures (2003)

Parisi, Alfio, Kimlin, Michael G., Slusser, James R., Herman, Jay R., Gao, Wei

[Abstract]: Polysulphone has been widely used as a dosimeter to quantify personal solar UV exposures to humans during normal daily activities. In summer at sub-tropical and tropical latitudes, the...

Extending the dynamic range of polysulphone for measuring UV exposures (2003)

Parisi, Alfio, Kimlin, Michael G., Slusser, James R., Herman, Jay R., Gao, Wei

[Abstract]: Polysulphone has been widely used as a dosimeter to quantify personal solar UV exposures to humans during normal daily activities. In summer at sub-tropical and tropical latitudes, the...

DAVID: Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery (2003)

Dennis, Glynn, Sherman, Brad T, Hosack, Douglas A, Yang, Jun, Gao, Wei, Lane, H, ...

Abstract The distributed nature of biological knowledge poses a major challenge to the interpretation of genome-scale datasets, including those derived from microarray and proteomic studies. This...

DAVID: Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery (2003)

Dennis, Glynn, Sherman, Brad T, Hosack, Douglas A, Yang, Jun, Gao, Wei, Lane, H Clifford, ...

Abstract Background Functional annotation of differentially expressed genes is a necessary and critical step in the analysis of microarray data. The distributed nature of biological knowledge...

Gleevec (STI-571) inhibits lung cancer cell growth (A549) and potentiates the cisplatin effect in vitro (2003)

Zhang, Peilin, Gao, Wei, Turner, Steven, Ducatman, Barbara S

Abstract Background Gleevec (aka STI571, Imatinib) is a recently FDA approved anti-tumor drug for chronic myelogenous leukemia. Gleevec binds specifically to BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase and inhibit the...

Nesting success of the Meadow Bunting along habitat edges in northeastern China (2003)

Wen-hong Deng, Guang-mei Zheng, Wei Gao

We compared the nesting success of the Meadow Bunting (Embriza cioides) along different kinds of habitat edges at three sites (166 total nests) in northeast China from 1998 to 2000. Nest loss rates...

Estimation of Pedestrian Level UV Exposure Under Trees¶ (2002)

Richard H. Grant, Gordon M. Heisler, Wei Gao

Trees influence the amount of solar UV radiation that reaches pedestrians. A three-dimensional model was developed to predict the ultraviolet-B (UV-B) irradiance fields in open-tree canopies where...

Prediction of the length of stay among cellulitis inpatients /--Wei Gao. (1999)

Gao, Wei., New York Medical College.--Graduate School Of Health Sciences.

Program in Epidemiology. Graduate School of Health Sciences.

Identification and Mapping of Sagebrush/Grass Successional Stages with Landsat Thematic Mapper Data at Yakima Training Center, Washington (1998)

Leedy, Craig R., Tueller, Paul T., Gao, Wei, Tweddale, Scott A.

In the future, remote sensing technologies will become an increasingly important and valuable tool for military land managers in semiarid regions. These technologies, when combined with field...

Fractographic Observation of Fatigue Crack Growth in Cast Ni3Al-Based Alloys. (1998)

Yin, Wanquan, Gao, Wei, Zhu, Yaoxiao

Fatigue behavior of cast Ni3Al-based alloys with the addition of alloying elements, such as Hf, Zr and Ti etc., has been investigated; it was found that: (1) the alloying elements change remarkably...

Fractographic Observation of Fatigue Crack Growth in Cast Ni3Al-Based Alloys. (1998)

Yin, Wanquan, Gao, Wei, Zhu, Yaoxiao

A study was made of the effects of alloying elements (Hf,Zr,Ti,...) on the fatigue behavior of cast Ni3Al-based alloys; it was found that the mechanical and fatigue properties of cast Ni3Al-based...

The Formation of Superconducting Phases in Bi(Pb)-Sr-Ca-Cu Oxide/Ag Microcomposites Produced by Oxidation of Metallic Precursor Alloys. (1998)

Gao, Wei, Li, Songcun, Parrella, Ron, Rudman, David A., Vander Sande, John B.

Metallic alloy ribbons of bi-sr-ca-cu with nominal compositions of 2-2-1-2, 2-2-2-3, 2-2-2-4, and 2-2-3-4, with or without pb, were made by vacuum induction melting followed by melt-spinning. ag, at...

A study of H (infinity) based iterative learning control with current error feedback for a ball & plate system / (1998)

Gao, Wei.

Thesis (M.Sc. (Comp. Contr. & Autom.))--Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 1998.

Modeling and measurement of ultraviolet irradiance in vegetation canopies (1997)

Gao, Wei

The potential loss of significant fractions of stratospheric ozone has prompted renewed efforts in assessing the potential damage to plant and animal life due to enhanced levels of solar...

In0.47Ga0.53As MSM photodiodes with transparent CTO schottky contacts and digital superlattice grading (1997)

Wei Gao, Paul R. Berger, Senior Member, George J. Zydzik, Henry M. O’bryan, Deborah L. Sivco, ...

Abstract — Metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) photodiodes with an InHXSQGaHXRUAs active region were investigated using a transparent cadmium tin oxide (CTO) layer for the interdigitated electrodes to...

A Multivariate logistic regression model to predict sepsis among infants /--Wei Gao. (1996)

Gao, Wei., New York Medical College.--Graduate School Of Health Sciences.

Program in Biostatistics. Graduate School of Health Sciences.

Oxidation of metallic alloys to produce high Tc superconducting oxide/Ag microcomposites (1993)

Gao, Wei, Vander Sande, John B.

A metallurgical/high temperature oxidation method has been developed to produce high Tc superconductors. Metallic precursor alloys were produced by vacuum melting and rapid solidification. Ag was...

Oxidation of metallic alloys to produce high Tc superconducting oxide/Ag microcomposites (1993)

Gao, Wei, Vander Sande, John B.

A metallurgical/high temperature oxidation method has been developed to produce high Tc superconductors. Metallic precursor alloys were produced by vacuum melting and rapid solidification. Ag was...

Oxidation of metallic alloys to produce high Tc superconducting oxide/Ag microcomposites (1993)

Gao, Wei, Vander Sande, John B.

A metallurgical/high temperature oxidation method has been developed to produce high Tc superconductors. Metallic precursor alloys were produced by vacuum melting and rapid solidification. Ag was...

Oxidation of metallic alloys to produce high Tc superconducting oxide/Ag microcomposites (1993)

Gao, Wei, Vander Sande, John B.

A metallurgical/high temperature oxidation method has been developed to produce high Tc superconductors. Metallic precursor alloys were produced by vacuum melting and rapid solidification. Ag was...

Oxidation of metallic alloys to produce high Tc superconducting oxide/Ag microcomposites (1993)

Gao, Wei, Vander Sande, John B.

A metallurgical/high temperature oxidation method has been developed to produce high Tc superconductors. Metallic precursor alloys were produced by vacuum melting and rapid solidification. Ag was...

DAVID: Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery

Dennis, Glynn, Sherman, Brad T, Hosack, Douglas A, Yang, Jun, Gao, Wei, Lane, H Clifford, ...

DAVID, a web-accessible program that integrates functional genomic annotations with intuitive graphical summaries, has been described and will assist in the interpretation of genome-scale datasets by...

Targeted deletion of CX3CR1 reveals a role for fractalkine in cardiac allograft rejection

Haskell, Christopher A., Hancock, Wayne W., Salant, David J., Gao, Wei, Csizmadia, Vilmos, Peters, Wendy, ...

Fractalkine (Fk) is a structurally unusual member of the chemokine family. To determine its role in vivo, we generated mice with a targeted disruption of CX3CR1, the receptor for Fk. CX3CR1–/–...

Prox1 Is a Novel Coregulator of Ff1b and Is Involved in the Embryonic Development of the Zebra Fish Interrenal Primordium

Liu, Yi-Wen, Gao, Wei, Teh, Hui-Ling, Tan, Jee-Hian, Chan, Woon-Khiong

Steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1) plays an essential role in adrenal development, although the exact molecular mechanisms are unclear. Our previous work established that Ff1b is the zebra fish homologue...

HIV-1 in genital tract and plasma of women: Compartmentalization of viral sequences, coreceptor usage, and glycosylation

Kemal, Kimdar Sherefa, Foley, Brian, Burger, Harold, Anastos, Kathryn, Minkoff, Howard, Kitchen, Christina, ...

Worldwide, 90% of HIV-1 infections are transmitted heterosexually. Because the genital mucosa are the sites of initial contact with HIV-1 for most exposed individuals, study of the virus from the...

Targeting of the chemokine receptor CCR1 suppresses development of acute and chronic cardiac allograft rejection

Gao, Wei, Topham, Peter S., King, Jennifer A., Smiley, Stephen T., Csizmadia, Vilmos, Lu, Bao, ...

Although mononuclear cell infiltration is a hallmark of cellular rejection of a vascularized allograft, efforts to inhibit rejection by blocking leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion have proved...

A novel site contributing to growth-arrest-specific gene 6 binding to its receptors as revealed by a human monoclonal antibody

Fisher, Paul W., Brigham-Burke, Michael, Wu, Sheng-Jiun, Luo, Jinquan, Carton, Jill, Staquet, Kim, ...

Gas6 (growth-arrest-specific gene 6) is a vitamin K-dependent protein known to activate the Axl family of receptor tyrosine kinases. It is an important regulator of thrombosis and many other...

DAVID: Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery

Dennis, Glynn, Sherman, Brad T, Hosack, Douglas A, Yang, Jun, Gao, Wei, Lane, H Clifford, ...

DAVID, a web-accessible program that integrates functional genomic annotations with intuitive graphical summaries, has been described and will assist in the interpretation of genome-scale datasets by...

Targeted deletion of CX3CR1 reveals a role for fractalkine in cardiac allograft rejection

Haskell, Christopher A., Hancock, Wayne W., Salant, David J., Gao, Wei, Csizmadia, Vilmos, Peters, Wendy, ...

Fractalkine (Fk) is a structurally unusual member of the chemokine family. To determine its role in vivo, we generated mice with a targeted disruption of CX3CR1, the receptor for Fk. CX3CR1–/–...

Prox1 Is a Novel Coregulator of Ff1b and Is Involved in the Embryonic Development of the Zebra Fish Interrenal Primordium

Liu, Yi-Wen, Gao, Wei, Teh, Hui-Ling, Tan, Jee-Hian, Chan, Woon-Khiong

Steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1) plays an essential role in adrenal development, although the exact molecular mechanisms are unclear. Our previous work established that Ff1b is the zebra fish homologue...

HIV-1 in genital tract and plasma of women: Compartmentalization of viral sequences, coreceptor usage, and glycosylation

Kemal, Kimdar Sherefa, Foley, Brian, Burger, Harold, Anastos, Kathryn, Minkoff, Howard, Kitchen, Christina, ...

Worldwide, 90% of HIV-1 infections are transmitted heterosexually. Because the genital mucosa are the sites of initial contact with HIV-1 for most exposed individuals, study of the virus from the...

Targeting of the chemokine receptor CCR1 suppresses development of acute and chronic cardiac allograft rejection

Gao, Wei, Topham, Peter S., King, Jennifer A., Smiley, Stephen T., Csizmadia, Vilmos, Lu, Bao, ...

Although mononuclear cell infiltration is a hallmark of cellular rejection of a vascularized allograft, efforts to inhibit rejection by blocking leukocyte-endothelial cell adhesion have proved...

A novel site contributing to growth-arrest-specific gene 6 binding to its receptors as revealed by a human monoclonal antibody

Fisher, Paul W., Brigham-Burke, Michael, Wu, Sheng-Jiun, Luo, Jinquan, Carton, Jill, Staquet, Kim, ...

Gas6 (growth-arrest-specific gene 6) is a vitamin K-dependent protein known to activate the Axl family of receptor tyrosine kinases. It is an important regulator of thrombosis and many other...

Isolation and preliminary crystallographic studies of two new phospholipases A2 from Vipera nikolskii venom

Gao, Wei, Starkov, Vladislav G., Tsetlin, Victor I., Utkin, Yuri N., Lin, Zheng-jiong, Bi, Ru-chang

The isolation, characterization and preliminary crystallographic studies of two new toxic PLA2s from the venom of V. nikolskii, which has only recently been established as a new species, are reported.

Requirement of the Chemokine Receptor CXCR3 for Acute Allograft Rejection

Hancock, Wayne W., Lu, Bao, Gao, Wei, Csizmadia, Vilmos, Faia, Kerrie, King, Jennifer A., ...

Chemokines provide signals for activation and recruitment of effector cells into sites of inflammation, acting via specific G protein–coupled receptors. However, in vitro data demonstrating the...

Donor-Derived Ip-10 Initiates Development of Acute Allograft Rejection

Hancock, Wayne W., Gao, Wei, Csizmadia, Vilmos, Faia, Kerrie L., Shemmeri, Nida, Luster, Andrew D.

An allograft is often considered an immunologically inert playing field on which host leukocytes assemble and wreak havoc. However, we demonstrate that graft-specific physiologic responses to early...

Modulation of LIGHT-HVEM Costimulation Prolongs Cardiac Allograft Survival

Ye, Qunrui, Fraser, Christopher C., Gao, Wei, Wang, Liqing, Busfield, Samantha J., Wang, Chichung, ...

LIGHT (TNFSF14), a tumor necrosis factor superfamily member expressed by activated T cells, binds to herpes virus entry mediator (HVEM) which is constitutively expressed by T cells and costimulates T...

An Analysis of Human MicroRNA and Disease Associations

Lu, Ming, Zhang, Qipeng, Deng, Min, Miao, Jing, Guo, Yanhong, Gao, Wei, ...

It has been reported that increasingly microRNAs are associated with diseases. However, the patterns among the microRNA-disease associations remain largely unclear. In this study, in order to dissect...

Stepwise procedures for the identification of minimum effective dose with unknown variances

Tao, Jian, Shi, Ning-Zhong, Guo, Jianhua, Gao, Wei

Hsu and Berger (J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 50 (1999) 468) proposed a stepwise confidence interval procedure for identifying the minimum effective dose in dose-response studies under homoscedasticity....

Testing marginal homogeneity against stochastically ordered marginals for rxr contingency tables

Gao, Wei, Kuriki, Satoshi

A square contingency table often appears in social, biomedical and behavioral science to be used to display joint responses when two variables have the same category levels. When responses are...

Evidence on the emergence of the brain's default network from 2-week-old to 2-year-old healthy pediatric subjects

Gao, Wei, Zhu, Hongtu, Giovanello, Kelly S., Smith, J. Keith, Shen, Dinggang, Gilmore, John H., ...

Several lines of evidence have implicated the existence of the brain's default network during passive or undirected mental states. Nevertheless, results on the emergence of the default network in...

Gastric outlet obstruction caused by heterotopic pancreas: A case report and a quick review

Jiang, Li-Xin, Xu, Jie, Wang, Xue-Wen, Zhou, Fu-Run, Gao, Wei, Yu, Guo-Hua, ...

A 46-year-old Chinese woman presented with nausea, recurrent vomiting, and abdominal pain. Gastroduodenal endoscopic examination revealed an oval-shaped submucosal tumor at the prepyloric area on the...