Interference Channels With Arbitrarily Correlated Sources (2009)
Communicating arbitrarily correlated sources over interference channels is considered in this paper. A sufficient condition is found for the lossless transmission of a pair of correlated sources over...
Liu, Wei, Berger, Thomas E., Title, Alan M., Tarbell, Theodore D.
We report a chromospheric jet lasting for more than 1 hr observed by Hinode Solar Optical Telescope in unprecedented detail. The ejection occurred in three episodes separated by 12-14 min, with the...
Li, Wei, Liu, Wei, Zhong, Jia, Yu, Xin
Abstract Background Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by the absence of the cytoskeletal protein, dystrophin. In DMD patients, dilated cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure may occur...
Song, Ho-Taek, Jordan, Elaine K, Lewis, Bobbi K, Liu, Wei, Ganjei, Justin, Klaunberg, Brenda, ...
Abstract Background Establishing a large rodent model of brain metastasis that can be monitored using clinically relevant magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques is challenging. Non-invasive...
Polyploid evolution in Oryza officinaliscomplex of the genus Oryza (2009)
Wang, Baosheng, Ding, Zhuoya, Liu, Wei, Pan, Jin, Li, Changbao, Ge, Song, ...
Abstract Background Polyploidization is a prominent process in plant evolution, whereas the mechanism and tempo-spatial process remained poorly understood. Oryza officinalis complex, a polyploid...
Liu, Wei, Yue, Chong-Xing, Zhang, Jiao
The new particles predicted by the topcolor-assisted technicolor ($TC2$) model and the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (called $LHT$ model) can induce the lepton flavor violation ($LFV$) couplings...
Attia, Ahmed S, Sedillo, Jennifer L, Hoopman, Todd C, Liu, Wei, Liu, Lixia, Brautigam, Chad A, ...
Abstract Background Bacteriocins are antimicrobial proteins and peptides ribosomally synthesized by some bacteria which can effect both intraspecies and interspecies killing. Results Moraxella...
Matching Models to Data in Modelling Morphogen Diffusion (2009)
The mechanism by which spatial patterns are established during embryonic development is usually modelled as passive diffusion of morphogen proteins translated from maternally deposited messenger...
Improved Wavelet Feature Extraction Methods Based on HSV Space for Vehicle Detection (2009)
Xuezhi Wen, Wei Liu, Nan Wang, Huai Yuan, Hong Zhao
The focus of this work is on the problem of feature extraction for vehicle detection. Feature extraction is a key point of pattern recognition. In particular, we propose using improved wavelet...
A Rear Vehicle Location Algorithm for Lane Change Assist (2009)
Wei Liu, Chunyan Song, Pengyu Fu, Nan Wang, Huai Yuan
A monocular vision based location algorithm is presented to detect and track rear vehicles for lane change assist. The algorithm uses the shadow underneath the vehicle to extract regions of interest...
Jian, Bo, Hou, Wensheng, Wu, Cunxiang, Liu, Bin, Liu, Wei, Song, Shikui, ...
Abstract Background Transgenic approaches provide a powerful tool for gene function investigations in plants. However, some legumes are still recalcitrant to current transformation technologies,...
Liu, Wei, Petrosian, Vahe, Mariska, John T.
Acceleration and transport of high-energy particles and fluid dynamics of atmospheric plasma are interrelated aspects of solar flares. We present here self-consistently combined Fokker-Planck...
QoS-Aware Publish-Subscribe Service for Real-Time Data Acquisition � (2009)
Xinjie Lv, Xin Li, Tian Yang, Zaifei Liao, Wei Liu, Hongan Wang
Abstract: Many complex distributed real-time applications, monitoring and controlling the external environment, require sophisticated processing and sharing of an extensive amount of data under...
Reddy, Padmalatha S, Legault, Holly M, Sypek, Joseph P, Collins, Mark J, Goad, Elizabeth, Goldman, Samuel J, ...
No abstract available.
Genomic regions with distinct genomic distance conservation in vertebrate genomes (2009)
Sun, Hong, Skogerbø, Geir, Zheng, Xiaohui, Liu, Wei, Li, Yixue
Abstract Background A number of vertebrate highly conserved elements (HCEs) have been detected and their genomic interval distances have been reported to be more conserved than protein coding genes...
Study on the photocatalytic activity of TiN/TiO2 nanoparticle formed by ball milling (2009)
Chen, Shifu, Zhang, Sujuan, Zhao, Wei, Liu, Wei
TiN/TiO2 nanoparticle photocatalyst was prepared by ball milling of TiO2 in H2O solution doped with TiN. The photocatalyst was characterized by UV–Vis diffuse reflection spectroscopy, X-ray powder...
Volatility Forecasting in the Hang Seng index using the GARCH Approach (2009)
The aim of this paper is to add to the literature on volatility forecasting using data from the Hong Kong stock market to determine if forecasts from GARCH based models can outperform simple...
Liu, Wei, Hsu, Scott C., Li, Hui
We present results from three-dimensional ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations of low $\beta$ compact toroid (CT) injection into a hot strongly magnetized plasma, with the aim of providing insight...
Liu, Wei, Wang, Tong-Jiang, Dennis, Brian R., Holman, Gordon D.
We present an X-ray imaging and spectroscopic study of a partially occulted C7.7 flare on 2003 April 24 observed by RHESSI that accompanied a prominence eruption observed by TRACE. (1) The activation...
Wei Liu, Evan Crocker, Stefan N. Constantinescu, Steven O. Smith
spectroscopy; erythropoietin receptor; magic angle spinning
Unfolding and flat layout design of non-manifold 3D folded structures (2009)
Kang Tai, Wei Liu, Georg L. Thimm
There are practical applications in the sheet metal, packaging and various other industries for research into the automatic development of the flat layout or pattern that can be folded into some...
Jose Renau, Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze, Wei Liu, Smruti R. Sarangi, James Tuck, ...
To speed up nonnumerical applications that are hard to parallelize, designers build sophisticated out-of-order processors with carefully tuned execution engines and memory subsystems. Unfortunately,...
Rare decays $B_s\to l^+l^-$ and $B\to Kl^+l^-$ in \the topcolor-assisted technicolor model (2009)
Liu, Wei, Yue, Chong-Xing, Yang, Hui-Di
We examine the rare decays $B_s\to l^+l^-$ and $B\to Kl^+l^-$ in the framework of the topcolor-assisted technicolor ($TC2$) model. The contributions of the new particles predicted by this model to...
Synthesis and Luminescence Properties of Core/Shell ZnS:Mn/ZnO Nanoparticles (2009)
Jiang, Daixun, Cao, Lixin, Liu, Wei, Su, Ge, Qu, Hua, Sun, Yuanguang, ...
In this paper the influence of ZnO shell thickness on the luminescence properties of Mn-doped ZnS nanoparticles is studied. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images showed that the average...
A simultaneous confidence band provides useful information on the plausible range of the unknown regression model. There are several recent papers using confidence bands for various inferential...
Nan Wu, Kuang Fu, Yu-Jie Fu, Yuan-Gang Zu, Fang-Rong Chang, Yung-Husan Chen, ...
Antioxidant activities of the aqueous and ethanol extracts of pigeonpea [Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.] leaves, as well as petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, n-butanol and water fractions and the four main...
Fine properties of stochastic evolution equations and their applications (2009)
In this work, we aim to study some fine properties for a class of nonlinear SPDE within the variational framework. The results consist of three main parts. In the first part, we study the asymptotic...
Cheng Gao, Wei Liu, Zhi-dan Sun, Shi-guang Zhao, Xiang-zhen Liu
Abstract Backgroud Cerebral vasospasm (CVS) and early brain injury remain major causes of morbidity and mortality after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Hydroxymethylglutaryl coenzyme A...
trans-Diaquabis[5-carboxy-4-carboxylato-2-(4-pyridinio)-1H-imidazol-1-ido-κ2N3,O4]iron(II) (2009)
Xia Li, Wei Liu, Ben-Lai Wu, Hong-Yun Zhang
In the title complex, [Fe(C10H6N3O4)2(H2O)2], the FeII atom is located on a twofold rotation axis and is coordinated by two trans-positioned N,O-bidentate and zwitterionic...
trans-Diaquabis[5-carboxy-2-(3-pyridyl)-1H-imidazole-4-carboxylato-κ2N3,O4]iron(II) (2009)
Wei Liu, Gang Zhang, Xia Li, Ben-Lai Wu, Hong-Yun Zhang
In the title complex, [Fe(C10H6N3O4)2(H2O)2], the FeII atom is located on an inversion centre and is trans-coordinated by two N,O-bidentate 5-carboxy-2-(3-pyridyl)-1H-imidazole-4-carboxylate ligands...
An ent-kaurane diterpenoid from Isodon japonica var. glaucocalyx (2009)
Su-Ping Bai, Guo-Sheng Luo, Xiao-Yi Zhang, Wei Liu
The title compound, 14β-acetoxy-7α-hydroxy-ent-kaur-16-ene-3,15-dione or glaucocalyxin B, C22H30O5, a natural ent-kaurane diterpenoid, is composed of four rings with the expected cis and...
Wu, Jianhong, Liu, Wei, Xue, Chenbing, Zhou, Shunchang, Lan, Fengli, Bi, Lei, ...
The present study investigated the penetration and potential toxicity of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles following its dermal exposure in vitro and in vivo. In vitro, after exposure to isolated...
Xiang, Bo, Yi, Mei, Wang, Li, Liu, Wei, Zhang, Wenling, Ouyang, Jue, ...
Oxidored-nitro domain containing protein 1 (NOR1) gene is a novel nitroreductase gene first isolated from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). It plays an important role in the formation of chemical...
Cao, Cunwei, Liu, Wei, Li, Ruoyu, Wan, Zhe, Qiao, Jianjun
Objectives Penicillium marneffei infection is an important disease among human immunodeficiency virus patients in south-east Asia, including southern China. However, therapeutic strategies are...
Soundness Analysis of T-Restricted Interorganizational Logical Workflow Nets (2009)
Wei Liu, Yuyue Du, Haichun Sun
Interorganizational Logical Workflow Nets (ILWN) can efficiently model cooperative systems based on Petri nets, workflow techniques and temporal logic. But soundness of arbitrary ILWNs is hard to...
Deshou Hao, Changhua Wang, Qinyan Li, Wei Liu, Wen Fu
Background: Liquid based cytology (LBC) has been reported to increase the sensitivity of cervical cytology, in comparison with conventional cytology Pap smear (CPS). Most LBC systems though require...
Modeling Multimedia Synchronization using Petri Nets (2009)
In this study, Logical Time Interaction Petri Nets (LTIPN) were designed to describe multimedia synchronization based on the previous models. In the model, we introduce logical expressions which are...
Fu, Guangsen, Wu, Jinjun, Liu, Wei, Zhu, Deyu, Hu, Yonglin, Deng, Jiaoyu, ...
DNA gyrase is an indispensible marvelous molecular machine in manipulating the DNA topology for the prokaryotes. In the ‘two-gate’ mechanism of DNA topoisomerase, T-segment navigation from N- to...
Screening the Drug Sensitivity Genes Related to GEM and CDDP in the Lung Cancer Cell-lines (2009)
Chunyu YANG, Zhennan TIAN, Wei LIU, Li CAI
Background and objective Screening of small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) cell lines with gemcitabine hydrochloride (GEM) and cisplatin (CDDP) related to drug...
Expression and Significance of Clusterin in Anip973/CDDP Cell Lines (2009)
Xuesong CHEN, Zhennan TIAN, Dandan LI, Jiaqi CHEN, Li CAI, Wei LIU
Background and objective Clusterin (CLU) is a multifunctional protein which attracts much attentions in recent years due to its function and variation in tumor formation and development. So far,...
Li, Wei, Liu, Wei, Zhong, Jia, Yu, Xin
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is caused by the absence of the cytoskeletal protein, dystrophin. In DMD patients, dilated cardiomyopathy leading to heart failure may occur...
Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive advances in microprocessor performance have failed to deliver significant gains in ease of software debugging. This is a major shortcoming of the state of the art, given that...
iWatcher: Simple and General Architectural Support for Software Debugging (2008)
Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive advances in microprocessor performance have failed to deliver significant gains in ease of software debugging. This is a major shortcoming of the state of the art, given that...
Jinhui Ding, Elizabeth Eskow, Ting-cheng Lu, Wei Liu, Lianjun Jiang, Richard Byrd, ...
We describe a protein structure prediction method that predicts the three-dimensional structure of new folds via minimizations of a physics-based energy function. The method is one of the few...
ABSTRACT Vision-based Web Data Records Extraction (2008)
This paper studies the problem of extracting data records on the response pages returned from web databases or search engines. Existing solutions to this problem are based primarily on analyzing the...
Wong, Wilson, Liu, Wei, Liaw, Saujoe, Balliu, Nicoletta, Wu, Hongwei, Tade, Moses
The need for domain ontologies in mission critical applications such as risk management and hazard identification is becoming more and more pressing. Most research on ontology learning conducted in...
Design of Text-based Questions from the Study of Typology of Questions (2008)
Abstract: Questions can be classified from different perspectives: grammatical form, communicative value, content orientation and cognitive level. In language pedagogy, text-based questioning as both...
W: A fast parallel algorithm for finding the longest common sequence of multiple biosequences (2008)
Yixin Chen, Andrew Wan, Wei Liu
Background. Biological sequences can be represented as a sequence of symbols. For instance, a protein is a sequence of 20 different letters (amino acids), and DNA sequences (genes) can be represented...
Photon-induced production of the mirror quarks from the $LHT$ model at the $LHC$ (2008)
Yue, Chong-Xing, Liu, Jin-Yan, Ding, Li, Liu, Wei, Ma, Wei
The photon-induced processes at the $LHC$ provide clean experimental conditions due to absence of the proton remnants, which might produce complementary and interesting results for tests of the...
Reddy, Padmalatha S, Legault, Holly M, Sypek, Joseph P, Collins, Mark J, Goad, Elizabeth, Goldman, Samuel J, ...
Abstract Introduction Treatment with sirolimus, a mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) inhibitor, has been shown to be efficacious in the MRL/lpr and NZB × NZW F1 mouse models of lupus nephritis,...
Kretlow, James D, Jin, Yu-Qing, Liu, Wei, Zhang, Wen, Hong, Tan-Hui, Zhou, Guangdong, ...
Abstract Background Bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BMSCs) are a widely researched adult stem cell population capable of differentiation into various lineages. Because many promising...
Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences using a Probabilistic Approach (2008)
Wong, Wilson, Liu, Wei, Bennamoun, Mohammed
Most research related to unithood were conducted as part of a larger effort for the determination of termhood. Consequently, novelties are rare in this small sub-field of term extraction. In...
Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences using Mutual Information and Independence Measure (2008)
Wong, Wilson, Liu, Wei, Bennamoun, Mohammed
Most works related to unithood were conducted as part of a larger effort for the determination of termhood. Consequently, the number of independent research that study the notion of unithood and...
Enhanced Integrated Scoring for Cleaning Dirty Texts (2008)
Wong, Wilson, Liu, Wei, Bennamoun, Mohammed
An increasing number of approaches for ontology engineering from text are gearing towards the use of online sources such as company intranet and the World Wide Web. Despite such rise, not much work...
Zhang, Fang, Liu, Wei, Wu, Xiao-Ming, Xin, Zhong-Tao, Zhao, Qiu-Min, Yang, Hong, ...
Abstract Background Tularemia was reported in China over 50 years ago, however, many epidemical characteristics remain unclear. In the present study, the prevalence of Francisella tularensis in ticks...
Zhu, Shi-Hai, Yue, Chong-Xing, Liu, Wei, Ding, Li
In the framework of the topcolor-assisted technicolor $(TC2)$ model, we study production of the neutral top-pion $\pi_{t}^{0}$ in association with a high-$p_{T}$ jet at the $LHC$, which proceeds via...
Jia, Yujiang, Lu, Fan, Zeng, Gang, Sun, Xinhua, Xiao, Yan, Lu, Lin, ...
Abstract Objective To assess the predictors and prevalence of HIV infection among injection drug users in highly endemic regions along major drug trafficking routes in three Chinese provinces....
Noise-Sustained Convective Instability in a Magnetized Taylor-Couette Flow (2008)
The helical magnetorotational instability of the magnetized Taylor-Couette flow is studied numerically in a finite cylinder. A distant upstream insulating boundary is shown to stabilize the...
PKTown: A Peer-to-Peer Middleware to Support Multiplayer Online Games* (2008)
Hai Jin, Hong Yao, Xiaofei Liao, Sirui Yang, Wei Liu, Yong Jia
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system can support service for lots of end users with little hardware investment, which suits for the efforts to lower down the service cost for Multiplayer Online Games (MOG). In...
Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Computer Science
Abstract Recent impressive performance improvements in computer ar-chitecture have not led to significant gains in ease of debugging. Software debugging often relies on inserting run-time...
Jose Renau, Karin Strauss, Luis Ceze, Wei Liu, Smruti R. Sarangi, James Tuck, ...
To speed up nonnumerical applications that are hard to parallelize, designers build sophisticated out-of-order processors with carefully tuned execution engines and memory subsystems. Unfortunately,...
Xiaochun George Wang, Wei Liu, On Behalf Of, Xiaochun George Wang, Wei Liu
A singular pencil model and neural network cascade fault diagnosis strategy for the lumber-drying process
A COMPARISON OF ADAPTIVE BEAMFORMING IMPLEMENTATIONS FOR WIDEBAND SCENARIOS (2008)
Stephan Weiss, Choo Leng Koh, Wei Liu
efficient implementation, subband processing, frequency domain processing. In this paper, we compare low cost implementations of wideband adaptive beamformers utilising the generalised sidelobe...
Long Term Evolution of Magnetized Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters (2008)
Liu, Wei, Li, Hui, Li, Shengtai, Hsu, Scott C.
We have performed nonlinear ideal magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the long term evolution of a magnetized low-density "bubble" plasma formed by a radio galaxy in a stratified cluster medium. It is...
Strongly Enhanced Current-Carrying Performance in MgB2 Tape Conductors by Novel C60 Doping (2008)
Zhang, Xianping, Ma, Yanwei, Gao, Zhaoshun, Wang, Dongliang, Wang, Lei, Liu, Wei, ...
MgB2 is a promising superconductor for important large-scale applications for both high field magnets and cryocooler-cooled magnet operated at temperatures around 20 K. In this work, by utilizing C60...
Yanqing Yuwen, Yulong Gao, Honglei Gao, Xiaole Qi, Tieqiang Li, Wei Liu, ...
Nucleotide sequences of the VP2 gene of eight infectious bursal disease viruses isolated from vaccinated chicken flocks in the northeast of China were determined. The sequence analysis showed that...
Liu, Wei, Petrosian, Vahe, Dennis, Brian R., Holman, Gordon D.
We present a detailed imaging and spectroscopic study of the conjugate hard X-ray (HXR) footpoints (FPs) observed with RHESSI in the 2003 October 29 X10 flare. The double FPs first move toward and...
Channel Prediction Aided Multiuser Transmission in SDMA (2008)
Liu, Wei, Yang, Lie-Liang, Hanzo, Lajos
Transmit preprocessing employed at the basestation (BS) has been proposed for simplifying the design of the mobile receiver. Provided that the channel impulse response (CIR) of all the BS to mobile...
Ahmed, Qasim Zeeshan, Liu, Wei, Yang, Lie-Liang
In this contribution an adaptive detection scheme based on least mean square (LMS) principles is proposed and investigated in the context of the hybrid direct-sequence time-hopping ultrawide...
Liu, Wei, Hsu, Scott C., Li, Hui, Li, Shengtai, Lynn, Alan G.
Nonlinear ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the propagation and expansion of a magnetic "bubble" plasma into a lower density, weakly-magnetized background plasma are presented. These...
Single Molecule Probing of Exocytotic Protein Interactions Using Force Spectroscopy (2008)
Montana, Vedrana; University Of Alabama, Birmingham, USA, Liu, Wei; University Of Alabama, Birmingham, USA, Mohideen, Umar; University Of California, Riverside, USA; Umar.mohideen@ucr.edu, Parpura, Vladimir; University Of Alabama, Birmingham, USA; Vlad@uab.edu
H.: Magic Land: a 3D Human Capture Mixed Reality System for Museum Experiences (2008)
Tran Cong, Thien Qui, Ta Huynh, Duy Nguyen, Adrian David Cheok, Sze Lee Teo, ...
Magic Land is an application of mixed reality in art and entertainment. This system includes a special recording room where visitors can have themselves captured and a mixed reality environment where...
Magic Music Desk: A Tangible and Ubiquitous Multimodal Music and Speech System (2008)
Zhiying Zhou, Adrian David Cheok, Wei Liu, Chen Xiangdong, Farzam Farbiz
Abstract. This paper describes a novel multi-modal multi-user audio-visual interface – the Magic Music Desk (MMD) which employs the principles of embodied interaction, and emphasizes social...
Modeling Interactive Memex-like Applications Based on Self-Modifiable Petri Nets (2008)
Abstract This paper introduces an interactive Memex-like application using a self-modifiable Petri Net model – Self-modifiable Color Petri Net (SCPN). The Memex (“memory extender”) device...
Semi-Automatic Ontology Extension Using Spreading Activation (2008)
Wei Liu, Albert Weichselbraun, Arno Scharl, Elizabeth Chang
Abstract: This paper describes a system to semi-automatically extend and refine ontologies by mining textual data from the Web sites of international online media. Expanding a seed ontology creates a...
A Robust and Energy-Efficient Data Dissemination Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks (2008)
Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, Yuguang Fang
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are appealing in obtaining fine-granular observations about the physical world. Due to the fact that WSNs are composed of a large number of low-cost and...
Super-Resolution Resolution (SR) � � Super (2008)
Hallucinating Faces, Wei Liu, Wei Liu Dahua, Dahua Lin, Xiaoou Tang, Two-stage Stage, ...
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Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive performance improvements in computer architecture have not led to significant gains in ease of debugging. Software debugging often relies on inserting run-time software checks. In...
Improving Quality of Email Categorization with Tournament Methods (2008)
Yunqing Xia, Wei Liu, Louise Guthrie, Kam-fai Wong
Abstract — To perform the task of email categorization, the tournament methods are proposed in this article in which the multi-class categorization process is broken down into a set of binary...
Text Classification with Tournament Methods (2008)
Louise Guthrie, Wei Liu, Yunqing Xia
Abstract. This paper compares the effectiveness of n-way (n> 2) classification using a probabilistic classifier to the use of multiple binary probabilistic classifiers. We describe the use of...
Numerical Study of the Magnetorotational Instability in Princeton MRI Experiment (2008)
In preparation for an experimental study of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in liquid metal, we present non-ideal axisymmetric magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the nonlinear evolution of MRI in...
Internet collaboration and service composition as a loose form of teamwork (2008)
Lin Padgham A, Wei Liu B, Lin Padgham, Wei Liu
This paper describes Web Service composition as a form of team work, where the Web services are team members in a loose collaboration. We argue that newer hierarchical team work models are more...
ABSTRACT Vision-based Web Data Records Extraction (2008)
This paper studies the problem of extracting data records on the response pages returned from web databases or search engines. Existing solutions to this problem are based primarily on analyzing the...
Securing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with (2008)
Certificateless Public Keys, Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, Yuguang Fang, Senior Member
Abstract — This paper studies key management, a fundamental problem in securing mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). We present IKM, an ID-based key management scheme as a novel combination of ID-based...
Techniques for Leakage Power Reduction in Nanoscale Circuits: A Survey 1 (2008)
This report surveys progress in the field of designing low power especially low leakage CMOS circuits in deep submicron era. The leakage mechanism and various recently proposed run time leakage...
Pillar: A Parallel Implementation Language (2008)
Todd Anderson, Neal Glew, Peng Guo, Brian T. Lewis, Wei Liu, Zhanglin Liu, ...
Abstract. As parallelism in microprocessors becomes mainstream, new programming languages and environments are emerging to meet the challenges of parallel programming. To support research on these...
PKTown: A Peer-to-Peer Middleware to Support IPTV and Multiplayer Online Games (2008)
Hai Jin, Hong Yao, Xiaofei Liao, Sirui Yang, Wei Liu, Yong Jia
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) can support service for lots of end users with little hardware investment, which suits for the efforts to lower down the service cost for Multiplayer Online Games (MOG). In this...
Improving Quality of Email Categorization With Tournament Methods (2008)
Yunqing Xia, Wei Liu, Louise Guthrie, Kam-fai Wong
Abstract — The tournament text classification methods are proposed in this article to perform the task of email categorization, in which the essence is to break down the multi-class categorization...
Efficient and flexible architectural support for dynamic monitoring (2008)
Yuanyuan Zhou, Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive performance improvements in computer architecture have not led to significant gains in ease of debugging. Software debugging often relies on inserting run-time software checks. In...
Bodey Baker Title: Strategy specification for teamwork in robot soccer (2008)
Autonomous robots or agents are known to be effective at dangerous tasks where the risk to human life is high or where tasks are overly repetitive. Some tasks where autonomous systems are know to be...
Liting Cai, Tiebing Zeng, Qingren Zeng, Benwen Li, Xuechi Lin, Yanfei Gong, ...
We previously reported that immunization with intact live cells from schistosomula of Schistosoma japonicum (S.j) partially protected the Kunming strain of mice from challenge infection. In the...
Magnetic Graphene Nanohole Superlattices (2008)
Yu, Decai, Lupton, Elizabeth M., Liu, Miao, Liu, Wei, Liu, Feng
We investigate the magnetic properties of nano-holes (NHs) patterned in graphene using first principles calculations. We show that superlattices consisting of a periodic array of NHs form a new...
The littlest Higgs model with T-parity and single top production at $ep$ collision (2008)
Yue, Chong-Xing, Wen, Jia, Liu, Jin-Yan, Liu, Wei
Based on calculating the contributions of the littlest Higgs model with T-parity (called $LHT$ model) to the anomalous top coupling $tq\gamma$ ($q=u$ or $c$), we consider single top production via...
Construction of exact simultaneous confidence bands for a simple linear regression model (2008)
Liu, Wei, Lin, Shan, Piegorsch, Walter W.
A simultaneous confidence band provides a variety of inferences on the unknown components of a regression model. There are several recent papers using confidence bands for various inferential...
Determining the Unithood of Word Sequences using Mutual Information and Independence Measure (2008)
Wilson Wong, Wei Liu, Mohammed Bennamoun
Most works related to unithood were conducted as part of a larger effort for the determination of termhood. Consequently, the number of independent research that study the notion of unithood and...
Efficient and flexible architectural support for dynamic monitoring (2008)
Yuanyuan Zhou, Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive performance improvements in computer architecture have not led to significant gains in the case of debugging. Software debugging often relies on inserting run-time software checks....
Bayesian Tensor Inference for Sketch-based Facial Photo Hallucination (2008)
Wei Liu, Xiaoou Tang, Jianzhuang Liu
This paper develops a statistical inference approach, Bayesian Tensor Inference, for style transformation between photo images and sketch images of human faces. Motivated by the rationale that image...
Yanchao Zhang, Student Member, Wei Liu, Yuguang Fang, Senior Member, Dapeng Wu
regulations for ultra-wideband (UWB) transmission systems have sparked a surge of research interests in the UWB technology. One of the important application areas of UWB is wireless sensor networks....
A Closer Look at Skip-gram Modelling (2008)
David Guthrie, Ben Allison, Wei Liu, Louise Guthrie, Yorick Wilks
Data sparsity is a large problem in natural language processing that refers to the fact that language is a system of rare events, so varied and complex, that even using an extremely large corpus, we...
Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas, Real Bugs, At A Fraction, ...
Recent impressive advances in microprocessor performance have failed to deliver significant gains in ease of software debugging. Given that software bugs account for as much as 40 percent of computer...
Astrid Vabret, ‡ Zhong-Tao Xin, § Yi-Ming Shao,¶ (2008)
Wei Liu, Fang Tang, Arnaud Fontanet
This study investigated the long-term excretion of severe acute respiratory syndrome–associated coronavirus in sputum and stool specimens from 56 infected patients. The median (range) duration of...
Enhanced Integrated Scoring for Cleaning Dirty Texts (2008)
Wilson Wong, Wei Liu, Mohammed Bennamoun
An increasing number of approaches for ontology engineering from text are gearing towards the use of online sources such as company intranet and the World Wide Web. Despite such rise, not much work...
Nearest Intra-Class Space Classifier for Face Recognition (2008)
Wei Liu, Yunhong Wang, Stanz. Li
In this paper, we propose a novel classification method, called nearest intra-class space (NICS), for face recognition. In our method, the distribution of face patterns of each person is represented...
Harnack Inequality and Applications for Stochastic Evolution Equations with Monotone drift (2008)
In this paper, the dimension-free Harnack inequality is proved for the associated transition semigroups to a large class of stochastic evolution equations with monotone drift. As applications, the...
The Effect of Second Order Refraction on Optical Bubble Sizing in Multiphase Flows (2008)
Qiu, Huihe, Hsu, Chin-Tsau, Liu, Wei
In multiphase flne the bubble size and velocity. To achieve this, one of approaches is to utilize laser phase-Doppler anemometry. However, it was found that the second order refraction has great...
Large Deviations for Stochastic Evolution Equations with Small Multiplicative Noise (2008)
The Freidlin-Wentzell type large deviation principle is established for the distributions of stochastic evolution equations with general monotone drift and small multiplicative noise. Roughly...
Expression and significance of clusterin in Anip973/NVB cell lines (2008)
Wei LIU, Li CAI, Jinfeng NING, Dandan LI
Background and objective To detect clusterin expression in Anip973/Navelbine (Anip973/NVB) and wild type Anip973, the last one as a control, so as to conform that clusterin be association with the...
Disodium tricopper(II) tetrakis[selenate(IV)] tetrahydrate (2008)
Wei Liu, Lan Zhang, Kai Hu, Lixin Cao, Ge Su, Jingtai Zhao
The title compound, Na2Cu3(SeO3)4(H2O)4, has been prepared under hydrothermal conditions. The crystal structure contains a three-dimensional anionic framework made up from distorted [CuO4(H2O)2]...
Abbreviated title: Adiponutrin Family Members Downloaded from (2008)
Andrew C. Lake, Ying Sun, Jian-liang Li, Jae Eun Kim, Jeremy W. Johnson, Dongmei Li, ...
Adiponutrin and a related protein, Desnutrin/ATGL, were recently described as adipocyte-specific proteins with lipid hydrolase activity. Using bioinformatics, we identified three additional...
Structural analysis of the Sulfolobus solfataricus MCM protein N-terminal domain (2008)
Liu, Wei, Pucci, Biagio, Rossi, Mosè, Pisani, Francesca M., Ladenstein, Rudolf
The Mini-Chromosome Maintenance (MCM) proteins are candidates of replicative DNA helicase in eukarya and archaea. Here we report a 2.8 Å crystal structure of the N-terminal domain (residues 1–268)...
Harnack Inequality and Strong Feller Property for Stochastic Fast-Diffusion Equations (2007)
This paper presents analogous results for stochastic fast-diffusion equations. Since the fast-diffusion equation possesses weaker dissipativity than the porous medium one does, some technical...
Magnetized Ekman Layer and Stewartson Layer in a Magnetized Taylor-Couette Flow (2007)
In this paper we present axisymmetric nonlinear simulations of magnetized Ekman and Stewartson layers in a magnetized Taylor-Couette flow with a centrifugally stable angular-momemtum profile and with...
Systematic Study on QCD Interactions of Heavy Mesons with $\rho$ Meson (2007)
Li, Zuo-Hong, Liu, Wei, Liu, Hai-Yan
The strong interactions of the negative-parity heavy mesons with $\rho$ meson may be described consistently in the context of an effective lagrangian, which is invariant under isospin SU(2)...
A Generalised Sidelobe Canceller Architecture Based on Oversampled Subband Decompositions (2007)
Stephan Weiss, Wei Liu, Robert W. Stewart, Ian K. Proudler
Abstract. Adaptive broadband beamforming can be performed in oversampled subband signals, whereby an independent beamformer is operated in each frequency band. This has been shown to result in a...
An Effective File Migration Algorithm in Cluster File Systems (2007)
Wei Liu, Weimin Zheng, Meiming Shen, Xinming Ou, Min Wu
I/O balancing is an attractive problem in distributed systems. With the fast growth of high-speed network technology, file migration becomes an effective way to solve the problem. In this paper, we...
Design of an I/O Balancing File System on Web Server Clusters (2007)
Wei Liu, Min Wu, Xinming Ou, Weimin Zheng, Meiming Shen
The paper presents the design of an I/O balancing file system on Web server clusters. High-speed networks allow machines to access remote data nearly as quickly as they can access local data. This...
PREFETCHING AND CACHING METADATA IN A DISTRIBUTED NFS (2007)
Wei Liu, Xinming Ou, Weimin Zheng, Min Wu, Meiming Shen
The paper describes a name and attribute cache(NACache) in a distributed NFS server. The distributed NFS server provides the identical NFS service as the common NFS server and no modification to NFS...
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A DISTRIBUTED NFS SERVER ON CLUSTER OF WORKSTATIONS (2007)
Wei Liu, Weimin Zheng, Meiming Shen, Xinming Ou, Min Wu
The paper presents the design and implementation of a distributed NFS server which consists of multiple computers. The distributed NFS server provides the identical NFS file service as the...
A NOVEL METHOD FOR PARTIALLY ADAPTIVE BROADBAND BEAMFORMING (2007)
Wei Liu, Stephan Weiss, Lajos Hanzo
Abstract. In this paper, a novel subband-selective generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) for partially adaptive broadband beamforming is proposed. The blocking matrix of the GSC is constructed such...
Tracking, diagnosis and recovery of the nonconformance in a manufacturing system is a time consuming and tedious process, which could result in substantial delays in the production process. Therefore...
A Broadband Adaptive Beamformer in Subbands (2007)
With Scaled Aperture, Stephan Weiss, Robert W. Stewart, Wei Liu
This paper introduces an adaptive broadband beamforming structure which permits constant resolution over a larger frequency interval spanning several octaves. Beamformers operating in uniform...
Liu, Wei, Petrosian, Vahe', Dennis, Brian R., Jiang, Yan Wei
We present data analysis and interpretation of an M1.4-class flare observed with the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) on April 30, 2002. This event, with its footpoints...
Thermal Charm Production in Quark-Gluon Plasma at LHC (2007)
Zhang, Ben-Wei, Ko, Che Ming, Liu, Wei
Charm production from the quark-gluon plasma created in the midrapidity of central heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is studied in the next-to-leading order in QCD. Using a...
Zhang, Yi, Ye, Daoli, Gao, Xiang, Liu, Wei, Li, Fangfang
Herein we report the spectroscopic, electrochemical, TEM and DLS characterizations Of C-60 supramolecular inclusion complexes with alpha-, beta- and gamma-cyclodextrins prepared using anionic C-60....
Charmed Exotics in Heavy Ion Collisions (2007)
Lee, Su Houng, Yasui, Shigehiro, Liu, Wei, Ko, Che Ming
Based on the color-spin interaction in diquarks, we argue that charmed multiquark hadrons are likely to exist. Because of the appreciable number of charm quarks produced in central nucleus-nucleus...
Crystal structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase Gnd1 (2007)
He, Weiwei, Wang, Yi, Liu, Wei, Zhou, Cong-Zhao
Abstract Background As the third enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase (6PGDH) is the main generator of cellular NADPH. Both thioredoxin reductase and glutathione...
Liu, Wei, Wynn, H.P., Hayter, A.J.
In many linear regression models, there are functional relationships among the covariates. The usual (partial) F tests for these models do not utilize these functional relationships, however, and so...
Jet conversions in a quark-gluon plasma (2007)
Ko,Che Ming, Liu,Wei, Zhang,Ben-Wei
We report our recent work on conversions between gluon and quark jets as they traverse through a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and their effects on the nuclear modification factors for quark and gluon...
Traveling waves in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow (2007)
Liu, Wei, Goodman, Jeremy, Ji, Hantao
We investigate numerically a traveling wave pattern observed in experimental magnetized Taylor-Couette flow at low magnetic Reynolds number. By accurately modeling viscous and magnetic boundaries in...
A New Application of Exact Nonparametric Methods to Long-Horizon Predictability Tests (2007)
Empirical results from long-horizon regression tests have been influential in the finance literature. Yet, it has come to be understood that traditional long-horizon tests may be unreliable in finite...
A New Application of Exact Nonparametric Methods to Long-Horizon Predictability Tests (2007)
Empirical results from long-horizon regression tests have been influential in the finance literature. Yet, it has come to be understood that traditional long-horizon tests may be unreliable in finite...
A New Application of Exact Nonparametric Methods to Long-Horizon Predictability Tests (2007)
Empirical results from long-horizon regression tests have been influential in the finance literature. Yet, it has come to be understood that traditional long-horizon tests may be unreliable in finite...
A New Application of Exact Nonparametric Methods to Long-Horizon Predictability Tests (2007)
Empirical results from long-horizon regression tests have been influential in the finance literature. Yet, it has come to be understood that traditional long-horizon tests may be unreliable in finite...
A Study of Partial F Tests for Multiple Linear Regression Models (2007)
Partial F tests play a central role in model selections in multiple linear regression models. This paper studies the partial F tests from the view point of simultaneous confidence bands. It first...
J/psi absorption by nucleons in the meson-exchange model (2007)
Oh, Yongseok, Liu, Wei, Ko, C. M.
We reinvestigate the $J/\psi$ dissociation processes induced by the reactions with nucleons, $J/\psi + N \to \bar{D}^{(*)} + \Lambda_c$, in the meson-exchange model. Main constraints used in this...
Molecular epidemiology of measles viruses in China, 1995–2003 (2007)
Zhang, Yan, Zhu, Zhen, Rota, Paul A, Jiang, Xiaohong, Hu, Jiayu, Wang, Jianguo, ...
Abstract This report describes the genetic characterization of 297 wild-type measles viruses that were isolated in 24 provinces of China between 1995 and 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of the N gene...
国际大都市图书馆数字图书馆建设评估研究 Metropolitan Digital Library Services Evaluation: Measures and Approaches (2007)
On the basis of the investigating the digital library evaluation from domestic and abroad, this paper reviews the evaluation model and measurements according to the digital library activities by...
建设2.0版的图书馆集成管理系统Integrated Library System for Library 2.0 (2007)
Library2.0 becomes a buzzword in recent one or two years but it seems that it still has no visible advancement in terms of killer applications. It may be due to the lack of the consensus on the...
The in meso method, also called as lipidic cubic phase, has been proved to be a useful technique for membrane protein crystallization (Caffrey, 2003). The method was introduced in 1996 by using...
国际大都市图书馆数字图书馆建设评估研究 Metropolitan Digital Library Services Evaluation: Measures and Approaches (2007)
On the basis of the investigating the digital library evaluation from domestic and abroad, this paper reviews the evaluation model and measurements according to the digital library activities by...
建设2.0版的图书馆集成管理系统Integrated Library System for Library 2.0 (2007)
Library2.0 becomes a buzzword in recent one or two years but it seems that it still has no visible advancement in terms of killer applications. It may be due to the lack of the consensus on the...
Wei Liu, Jon Elerath, Ian Breitner
Microsoft ® Exchange Server 2007 is a mission-critical messaging application that places several strict demands on underlying storage systems. This paper compares four different RAID types from...
Wang, Shunqing, Shi, Zhenqi, Liu, Wei, Jules, Joel, Feng, Xu
Abstract Background RNA interference (RNAi) was originally identified as a biological process in which short double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) suppress the expression of genes complimentary to the dsRNA....
A fast parallel algorithm for finding the longest common sequence of multiple biosequences (2006)
Chen, Yixin, Wan, Andrew, Liu, Wei
Abstract Background Searching for the longest common sequence (LCS) of multiple biosequences is one of the most fundamental tasks in bioinformatics. In this paper, we present a parallel algorithm...
Liu, Wei, Li, Dong, Zhang, Jiyang, Zhu, Yunping, He, Fuchu
Abstract Background Measuring each protein's importance in signaling networks helps to identify the crucial proteins in a cellular process, find the fragile portion of the biology system and further...
Liu, Wei, Zhao, Yonghui, Liu, Zhaoliang, Zhang, Ying, Lian, Zhengxing, Li, Ning
Abstract Background The giant panda, one of the most primitive carnivores, is an endangered animal. Although it has been the subject of many interesting studies during recent years, little is known...
The liberalization of capital outflows could cause an increase, rather than decrease, in capital inflows. The aim of this thesis is to explore the paradox. Empirical evidence from four countries,...
Massive Domain Wall Fermions on Four-dimensional Anisotropic Lattices (2006)
Feng, Xu, Li, Xin, Liu, Wei, Liu, Chuan
We formulate the massive domain wall fermions on anisotropic lattices. For the massive domain wall fermion, we find that the dispersion relation assumes the usual form in the low momentum region when...
Helical Magnetorotational Instability in Magnetized Taylor-Couette Flow (2006)
Liu, Wei, Goodman, Jeremy, Herron, Isom, Ji, Hantao
Hollerbach and Rudiger have reported a new type of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in magnetized Taylor-Couette flow in the presence of combined axial and azimuthal magnetic fields. The salient...
Two-dimensional small-world networks: navigation with local information (2006)
Chen, Jian-Zhen, Liu, Wei, Zhu, Jian-Yang
Navigation process is studied on a variant of the Watts-Strogatz small world network model embedded on a square lattice. With probability $p$, each vertex sends out a long range link, and the...
A hospital-based surveillance for Japanese encephalitis in Bali, Indonesia (2006)
Kari, Komang, Liu, Wei, Gautama, Kompiang, Mammen, Mammen P, Clemens, John D, Nisalak, Ananda, ...
Abstract Background Japanese encephalitis (JE) is presumed to be endemic throughout Asia, yet only a few cases have been reported in tropical Asian countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the...
RHESSI Observation of Chromospheric Evaporation (2006)
Liu, Wei, Liu, Siming, Jiang, Yan Wei, Petrosian, Vahe'
We present analyses of the spatial and spectral evolution of hard X-ray emission observed by {\it RHESSI} during the impulsive phase of an M1.7 flare on 2003 November 13. In general, as expected, the...
Liu, Wei, Chen, Ying, Gong, Ming, Li, Xin, Liu, Chuan, Meng, Guozhan
Static quark potential is studied using a tadpole improved gauge lattice action. The scale is set using the potential for a wide range of bare parameters. The renormalized anisotropy of the lattice...
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Some New Methods for the Comparison of Two Linear Regression Models (2006)
Liu, Wei, Jamshidian, Mortaza, Zhang, Ying, Bretz, Frank, Han, Xiaoliang
The frequently used approach to the comparison of two linear regression models is to use the partial F test. It is pointed out in this paper that the partial F test has in fact a naturally associated...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006
DC元数据年度进展 Report on Dublin Core Metadata Annual Conference 2006 (2006)
DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) had just held a successful annual conference (DC-2006) at Manzanillo, Mexico on Oct.3-6, 2006. This paper reported the ongoing activities during the conference...
从Web 2.0到图书馆2.0：服务因用户而变 Library 2.0:Mashup Your Service on the Demand of Users (2006)
Internet technology and applications have arosen some new characters in recent years, which called Web 2.0. As for library close to the Internet in terms of information resources and measures of...
Library Application of Web 2.0 Technologies Internet technology and applications have arosen some new characters in recent years, which called Web 2.0. As for library close to the Internet in terms...
A multi-objective approach for RMT design [microform]. (2006)
Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Ottawa, 2006.
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A multi-objective approach for RMT design. (2006)
Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Ottawa, 2006.
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Foreign investment in China's fund-management industry : opportunities and challenges / (2006)
Assignment (MComm)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006.
Single molecule mechanical probing of the SNARE complex by atomic force microscope / (2006)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2006.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2006.
Exact confidence bounds for the coefficient of variation of a normally distributed population (2006)
DC元数据年度进展 Report on Dublin Core Metadata Annual Conference 2006 (2006)
DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) had just held a successful annual conference (DC-2006) at Manzanillo, Mexico on Oct.3-6, 2006. This paper reported the ongoing activities during the conference...
从Web 2.0到图书馆2.0：服务因用户而变 Library 2.0:Mashup Your Service on the Demand of Users (2006)
Internet technology and applications have arosen some new characters in recent years, which called Web 2.0. As for library close to the Internet in terms of information resources and measures of...
Library Application of Web 2.0 Technologies Internet technology and applications have arosen some new characters in recent years, which called Web 2.0. As for library close to the Internet in terms...
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
POSH: A TLS compiler that exploits program structure (2006)
Wei Liu, James Tuck, Luis Ceze, Wonsun Ahn, Karin Strauss, Jose Renau
As multi-core architectures with Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) are becoming better understood, it is important to focus on TLS compilation. TLS compilers are interesting in that, while they do not...
Lydia Parziale, David T. Britt, Chuck Davis, Jason Forrester, Wei Liu, Carolyn Matthews, ...
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Nihal Altan-bonnet, Rachid Sougrat, Wei Liu, Theresa Ward
Golgi inheritance during mammalian cell division occurs through the disassembly, partitioning, and reassembly of Golgi membranes. The mechanisms responsible for these processes are poorly understood....
Energy Conservation Through Resource-Aware Movement in Heterogeneous Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (2006)
Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Kejie Lu, Yuguang Fang
Energy conservation in mobile ad hoc networks is of paramount importance because most mobile nodes usually have very limited energy supply. Previous research on this issue focused on the design at...
Wei Liu, Hideyuki Tanaka, Kanta Matsuura
This paper presents a two-step empirical analysis of investing in security countermeasures based on an Japanese enterprise survey. At the first step, we verify the relations between probability of...
Location-aware resource management in mobile ad hoc networks (2006)
Xiang Chen, Wei Liu, Hongqiang Zhai, Yuguang Fang, X. Chen, W. Liu, ...
We propose an innovative resource management scheme for TDMA based mobile ad hoc networks. Since communications between some important nodes in the network are more critical, they should be accepted...
Learning distance metrics with contextual constraints for image retrieval (2006)
Wei Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Wei-ying Ma
Relevant Component Analysis (RCA) has been proposed for learning distance metrics with contextual constraints for image retrieval. However, RCA has two important disadvantages. One is the lack of...
PathExpander: Architectural Support for Increasing the Path Coverage of Dynamic Bug Detection (2006)
Shan Lu, Pin Zhou, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas
Dynamic software bug detection tools are commonly used because they leverage run-time information. However, they suffer from a fundamental limitation, the Path Coverage Problem: they detect bugs only...
Bmc Bioinformatics, Wei Liu, Dong Li, Jiyang Zhang, Yunping Zhu, Fuchu He
Research article SigFlux: A novel network feature to evaluate the importance of proteins in signal transduction networks
Summary: The commercial benefit of transducer industry is very large potentially. The IEEE 1451 standard provides compatibility among the products from different transducer manufacturers. The IEEE...
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Bmc Bioinformatics, Yixin Chen, Andrew Wan, Wei Liu, Open Access
A fast parallel algorithm for finding the longest common sequence of multiple biosequences
Takami, Tomohide, Arnold, Dennis P., Fuchs, Adrian V., Will, Geoffrey D., Goh, Roland, Waclawik, Eric R., ...
Initial stages of two-dimensional crystal growth of the double-decker sandwich complex Lu(Pc*)2 [Pc* = 2,3,9,10,16,17,23,24-octakis(octyloxy)phthalocyaninato] have been studied by scanning tunneling...
Distributed modular controller architecture for high power converter applications (2005)
Modular converter is of particular interest in high power applications in order to achieve higher level of flexibility, expandability and reliability. Power electronics building block(PEBB) and...
Liu, Wei, Zhu, Rong-Huan, Wang, Da-Cheng
The cDNA of BmK IT-AP, an excitatory insect toxin from the scorpion Buthus martensi Karsch that has an analgesic effect on mammalian cells, was expressed in E. coli in the form of an inclusion body....
Simulations of Magnetorotational Instability in a Magnetized Couette Flow (2005)
Liu, Wei, Goodman, Jeremy, Ji, Hantao
In preparation for an experimental study of magnetorotational instability (MRI) in liquid metal, we present non-ideal two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the nonlinear evolution of MRI...
Des Jarlais, Don C, Johnston, Patrick, Friedmann, Patricia, Kling, Ryan, Liu, Wei, Ngu, Doan, ...
Abstract Background To assess patterns of injecting drug use and HIV prevalence among injecting drug users (IDUs) in an international border area along a major heroin trans-shipment route. Methods...
Evolution of the Loop-Top Source of Solar Flares--Heating and Cooling Processes (2005)
Jiang, Yan Wei, Liu, Siming, Liu, Wei, Petrosian, Vahe
We present a study of the spatial and spectral evolution of the loop-top (LT) sources in a sample of 6 flares near the solar limb observed by {\it RHESSI}. A distinct coronal source, which we...
One-dimensional Ising model built on small-world networks: competing dynamics (2005)
Liu, Wei, Xiong, Wen-Yuan, Zhu, Jian-Yang
In this paper, we offer a competing dynamic analysis of the one-dimensional Ising model built on the small-world network (SWN). Adding-type SWNs are investigated in detail using a simplified...
Semi-automatic ontology extension using spreading activation (2005)
Chang, Elizabeth, Liu, Wei, Scharl, Arno, Weichselbraun, Albert
This paper describes a system to semi-automatically extend and refine ontologies by mining textual data from the Web sites of international online media. Expanding a seed ontology creates a semantic...
Semi-automatic ontology extension using spreading activation (2005)
Chang, Elizabeth, Liu, Wei, Scharl, Arno, Weichselbraun, Albert
This paper describes a system to semi-automatically extend and refine ontologies by mining textual data from the Web sites of international online media. Expanding a seed ontology creates a semantic...
This is a comprehensive introduction to DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative), its activities, metadata specifications and future directions. Many topics discussed during the history of DCMI on...
Pang, Wan-Kai, Leung, Ping-Kei, Huang, Wei-Kwang, Liu, Wei
The coefficient of variation (CV) of a population is defined as the ratio of the population standard deviation to the population mean. It is regarded as a measure of stability or uncertainty, and can...
Jamishidian, Mortaza, Liu, Wei, Zhang, Ying, Jamshidian, Farid
The problem of simultaneous inference and multiple comparison for comparing means of k(≥3) populations has been long studied in the statistics literature and is widely available in statistics...
Vibration control of large scale flexible structures using magnetorheological dampers (2005)
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Takeuchi, Riki, Marinova, Sophia V., Lepak, David P., Liu, Wei
Traditionally, one of the most frequently used outcomes of expatriate adjustment research has been premature return of expatriate employees. However, previous research has not considered premature...
Network traffic modelling and analysis / (2005)
Written for the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Geometric design of flat layout of 3D folded structures / (2005)
"Supervisor, Associate Professor Tai Kang."
Semi-automatic ontology extension using spreading activation (2005)
Chang, Elizabeth, Liu, Wei, Scharl, Arno, Weichselbraun, Albert
This paper describes a system to semi-automatically extend and refine ontologies by mining textual data from the Web sites of international online media. Expanding a seed ontology creates a semantic...
Vibration control of large scale flexible structures using magnetorheological dampers (2005)
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
This is a comprehensive introduction to DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative), its activities, metadata specifications and future directions. Many topics discussed during the history of DCMI on...
Email Categorization with Tournament Methods (2005)
Yunqing Xia, Wei Liu, Louise Guthrie, Shatin Hong Kong
Abstract. We propose to deploy the tournament methods to perform the task of email categorization. The multi-class categorization process is thus broken down into a set of binary classification...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Wei Liu, Josep Torrellas, Yuanyuan Zhou
As more data value speculation mechanisms are being proposed to speed-up processors, there is growing pressure on the critical processor structures that must buffer the state of the speculative...
Posh: A profiler-enhanced tls compiler that leverages program structure (2005)
Wei Liu, James Tuck, Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, Jose Renau, Josep Torrellas
As Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) architectures are becoming better understood, it is important to focus on the role of TLS compilers. In systems where tasks are generated in software, the compiler...
Posh: A profiler-enhanced tls compiler that leverages program structure (2005)
Wei Liu, James Tuck, Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, Jose Renau, Josep Torrellas
As Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) architectures are becoming better understood, it is important to focus on the role of TLS compilers. In systems where tasks are generated in software, the compiler...
Posh: A profiler-enhanced tls compiler that leverages program structure (2005)
Wei Liu, James Tuck, Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, Jose Renau, Josep Torrellas
As Thread-Level Speculation (TLS) architectures are becoming better understood, it is important to focus on the role of TLS compilers. In systems where tasks are generated in software, the compiler...
Enhancing Commitment Machines (2005)
Michael Winikoff, Wei Liu, James Harland
Agent interaction protocols are usually specified in terms of permissible sequences of messages. This representation is, unfortunately, brittle and does not allow for flexibility and robustness. The...
A Platform for Distributed Analysis of Neuroimaging Data on Global Grids (2005)
Scott Kolbe Tianchi, Scott Kolbe, Tianchi Ma, Wei Liu, Wee Siong Soh, Rajkumar Buyya, ...
This paper presents a Grid environment developed for analysis of MRI brain data on global Grids. In the current experiment, the MRI data analysis tasks are composed and formulated as a parameter...
Enhancing commitment machines (2005)
Michael Winikoff, Wei Liu, James Harl
Abstract. Agent interaction protocols are usually specified in terms of permissible sequences of messages. This representation is, unfortunately, brittle and does not allow for flexibility and...
Smruti R. Sarangi, Wei Liu, Josep Torrellas, Yuanyuan Zhou
As more data value speculation mechanisms are being proposed to speed-up processors, there is growing pressure on the critical processor structures that must buffer the state of the speculative...
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Howard, Kathleen P., Liu, Wei, Crocker, Evan, Nanda, Vikas, Lear, James, Degrado, William F., ...
A peptide designed to form a homo-oligomeric transmembrane helical bundle was reconstituted into lipid bilayers and studied by using 2H NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) with magic angle spinning to...
Liu, Jiewu, Huang, Qian, Higdon, Jason, Liu, Wei, Xie, Tao, Yamashita, Tetsuji, ...
To understand the mechanisms underlying autosomal dominant progressive retinitis pigmentosa (RP) caused by the mutations of the RP1 gene and to identify molecules that play roles in the early disease...
An Enhanced Scalable Probe-Based Multicast Admission Control Scheme (2005)
YANG, Zongkai, LE, Chunhui, HE, Jianhua, CHOU, Chun Tung, LIU, Wei
To guarantee QoS for multicast transmission, admission control for multicast sessions is expected. Probe-based multicast admission control (PBMAC) scheme is a scalable and simple approach. However,...
Electro-thermal simulations and measurements of silicon carbide power transistors (2004)
The temperature dependent electrical characteristics of silicon carbide power transistors – 4H-SiC metal semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs) and 4H-SiC bipolar junction transistors...
Electro-thermal simulations and measurements of silicon carbide power transistors (2004)
The temperature dependent electrical characteristics of silicon carbide power transistors – 4H-SiC metal semiconductor field-effect transistors (MESFETs) and 4H-SiC bipolar junction transistors...
Thermopower peak in phase transition region of (1-x)La$_{2/3}$Ca$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$/xYSZ (2004)
Liu, Wei, Zhao, Jun, Chen, Chinping, Yan, Shousheng, Xia, Zhengcai, Liu, Sheng
The thermoelectric power (TEP) and the electrical resistivity of the intergranular magnetoresistance (IGMR) composite, (1-x)La$_{2/3}$Ca$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$/xYSZ (LCMO/YSZ) with x = 0, 0.75%, 1.25%,...
It is widely believed that the implementation of progressive HR practices that affect employee skills, motivation, and behaviors can create strategic advantage for the organization (e.g., Arthur,...
It is widely believed that the implementation of progressive HR practices that affect employee skills, motivation, and behaviors can create strategic advantage for the organization (e.g., Arthur,...
Liu, Wei, Chen, Chinping, Wang, Xinfeng, Zhao, Jun, Xu, Xiangyu, Xu, Jun, ...
The magnetic and transport properties have been investigated for the composite polycrystalline manganites, (1-x)$La_{2/3}Ca_{1/3}MnO_3$/(x)yttria-stabilized zirconia ((1-x)LCMO/(x)YSZ), at various...
Ziel dieser Arbeit war die Untersuchung des Effektes einer adenovirus-vermittelten Überexpression einer dominant-negativen Mutante des Transkriptionsfaktors CREB (dnCREB) auf die Regulation der...
"Ontology-based metadata application for Digital Libraries". An ontology is a formal specification of a conceptualization, usually related to a specific domain of knowledge like library and...
This paper summarized the designing and implementation of a metadata application profile derived from multi metadata standards and specifications for CHINESE CULTURAL CELEBRITIES' MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY...
The Semantic Architecture for Chinese Cultural Celebrities’ Manuscript Library (2004)
Semantic architecture is crucial for a digital library application especially in a distributed system environment. It provides various approaches to overcome semantic interoperability problems and...
On the finite sample behavior of testing whether new is better than used of a specified age. (2004)
Ahmad, Ibrahim A., Liu, Wei, Zhang, Ying
Hollander, Park and Proschan (1986) proposed a test of new is better than used of a specified age. It is based on large sample normality of the test statistic. There is, however, no study in the...
Some simple corrected confidence intervals following a sequential test. (2004)
In this paper, we consider the construction of confidence intervals for a secondary variable after a sequential test for a primary variable. Asymptotic moment expansions for randomly stopped averages...
A study of zonal and nodal prices in power system markets / (2004)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2004.
A study of zonal and nodal prices in power system markets / (2004)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2004.
Protein interactions in solution : implications for protein aggregation and separation / (2004)
Thesis (Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering)--University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2004.
A study of zonal and nodal prices in power system markets / (2004)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2004.
Distribution kinetics of the ketolide antibiotic, cethromycin, to chinchilla middle ear / (2004)
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Minnesota, 2004.
Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2004.
"Ontology-based metadata application for Digital Libraries". An ontology is a formal specification of a conceptualization, usually related to a specific domain of knowledge like library and...
This paper summarized the designing and implementation of a metadata application profile derived from multi metadata standards and specifications for CHINESE CULTURAL CELEBRITIES' MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY...
The Semantic Architecture for Chinese Cultural Celebrities’ Manuscript Library (2004)
Semantic architecture is crucial for a digital library application especially in a distributed system environment. It provides various approaches to overcome semantic interoperability problems and...
iWatcher: Efficient Architectural Support for Software Debugging (2004)
Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive performance improvements in computer architecture have not led to significant gains in ease of debugging. Software debugging often relies on inserting run-time software checks. In...
Null space approach of Fisher discriminant analysis for face recognition (2004)
Wei Liu, Yunhong Wang, Stan Z. Li, Tieniu Tan
Abstract. The null space of the within-class scatter matrix is found to express most discriminative information for the small sample size problem (SSSP). The null space-based LDA takes full advantage...
iWatcher: Efficient Architectural Support for Software Debugging (2004)
Pin Zhou Feng, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive performance improvements in computer architecture have not led to significant gains in ease of debugging. Software debugging often relies on inserting run-time software checks. In...
iWatcher: Efficient Architectural Support for Software Debugging (2004)
Pin Zhou, Feng Qin, Wei Liu, Yuanyuan Zhou, And Josep Torrellas, Josep Torrellas
Recent impressive performance improvements in computer architecture have not led to significant gains in ease of debugging. Software debugging often relies on inserting run-time software checks. In...
AccMon: Automatically Detecting Memory-related Bugs via Program Counter-based Invariants (2004)
Pin Zhou, Wei Liu, Long Fei, Shan Lu, Feng Qin, Yuanyuan Zhou, ...
This paper makes two contributions to architectural support for software debugging. First, it proposes a novel statistics-based, onthe -fly bug detection method called PC-based invariant detection....
Reliable And Efficient Packet Forwarding By Utilizing Path Diversity In (2004)
Wireless Ad Hoc, Jianfeng Wang, Hongqiang Zhai, Wei Liu, Yuguang Fang
It is critical to provide high-rate, reliable and energy efficient wireless communications in mobile ad hoc networks. The use of path diversity is a promising way to achieve this objective. However...
Null space-based kernel Fisher discriminant analysis for face recognition (2004)
Wei Liu, Yunhong Wang, Stan Z. Li, Tieniu Tan
The null space-based LDA takes full advantage of the null space while the other methods remove the null space. It proves to be optimal in performance. From the theoretical analysis, we present the...
Null space approach of Fisher discriminant analysis for face recognition (2004)
Wei Liu, Yunhong Wang, Stan Z. Li, Tieniu Tan
Abstract. The null space of the within-class scatter matrix is found to express most discriminative information for the small sample size problem (SSSP). The null space-based LDA takes full advantage...
Combining Null Space-Based Gabor Features for Face Recognition (2004)
Wei Fan, Yunhong Wang, Wei Liu, Tieniu Tan
We propose a novel face recognition strategy combining various discriminating Gabor features in multi-scales and multi-orientations. A bank of well-chosen Gabor filters is applied on the image to...
AccMon: Automatically Detecting Memory-related Bugs via Program Counter-based Invariants (2004)
Pin Zhou, Wei Liu, Long Fei, Shan Lu, Feng Qin, Yuanyuan Zhou, ...
This paper makes two contributions to architectural support for software debugging. First, it proposes a novel statistics-based, onthe-fly bug detection method called PC-based invariant detection....
Thesis research directed by: Business and Management.
Rapid transmission of hepatitis C virus among young injecting heroin users in Southern China (2004)
Garten, Rebecca J, Lai, Shenghan, Zhang, Jinbing, Liu, Wei, Chen, Jie, Vlahov, David, ...
Background Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is quickly spread through injection drug use. The prevalence and incidence of HCV in Chinese heroin users has been rarely reported. Methods A longitudinal cohort of...
Small-World Network Effect in Competing Glauber- and Kawasaki-type Dynamics (2003)
Zhu, Jian-Yang, Liu, Wei, Zhu, Han
In this article, we investigate the competing Glauber-type and Kawasaki-type dynamics with small-world network (SWN) effect, in the framework of the Gaussian model. The Glauber-type single-spin...
Charm production from proton-proton collisions (2003)
Liu, Wei, Ko, Che Ming, Lee, Su Houng
We evaluate the cross sections for charmed hadron production from proton-proton reactions $pp\to\bar D^0p\Lambda_c^+$ and $pp\to\bar D^{*0}p\Lambda_c^+$ using a hadronic Lagrangian. With empirical...
Attempt on Detection of Natural Neutrinos by a Simple and Compact Apparatus (2003)
Liu, Wei, Ishibashi, Kenji, Arima, Hidehiko, Ishimoto, Shunsuke, Iijima, Takashi, Katano, Yoshiaki, ...
A simple and compact apparatus was developed for detection of natural neutrinos on the basis of a new hypothesis. The experimental apparatus consisted of two electrodes, fiber material and purified...
Charm production from photo-nucleon reaction in a hadronic model (2003)
Liu, Wei, Lee, Su Houng, Ko, Che Ming
We study the total cross section for photo production of open charm hadrons near threshold using a hadronic Lagrangian. Both two-body final states involving $\Lambda_c$ and a charmed meson as well as...
Ding Ding, Kilgore Paul E., Clemens John D., Wei Liu, Zhi-Yi Xu
Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of inactivated and live attenuated Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccines given to infants and children in Shanghai. Methods: A decision-analytical model was...
A multiple directional decision procedure for successive comparisons of treatment effects (2003)
Suppose that the k treatments under comparison are ordered in a certain way. For example, there may be a sequence of increasing dose levels of a drug. It is interesting to look directly at the...
Zhang, Ying, Liu, Wei, Wu, Hulin
For the setting of interval censored data in which the event time is not exactly observed but known to be inside a random interval, a simple nonparametric two-sample test, based on empirical...
This note shows how to construct a 1 - ß level symmetric confidence interval for a normal mean ? that is consistent with and more informative than a size ß sequential equivalence test of H0 :|?| >...
Option pricing with pure jump models / (2003)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2003.
Matching leadership styles with employment modes : strategic HRM perspective (2003)
Takeuchi, Riki, Liu, Wei, Lepak, David P., Sims Jr., Henry P.
Researchers have spent considerable efforts to identify means of using human resource management practices to effectively utilize human capital. At the same time, it has been well recognized that...
Option pricing with pure jump models / (2003)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2003.
Optimization strategy for damper configurations of buildings based on performance indices / (2003)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2003.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Clarkson University, 2003.
Münster (Westfalen), Univ., Diss., 2003 (Nicht für den Austausch).
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Minnesota, 2003. Major: Pharmaceutics.
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A generic intelligent nonconformance tracking and recovery (GINTR) system / (2003)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Wichita State University, Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.
Option pricing with pure jump models / (2003)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Virginia, 2003.
H2S Detection Sensing Characteristic of CuO/SnO2 Sensor (2003)
Jinhuai Liu, Xingjiu Huang, Gang Ye, Wei Liu, Zheng Jiao, Wnaglian Chao, ...
Among the various metal oxide additives tested, the complex of CuO is outstanding in promoting the sensing propoerties of an SnO2 sensor for H2S in air. The SnO2 sensors loaded with 5 wt. % CuO is...
Adrian David Cheok, Siew Wan Fong, Kok Hwee Goh, Xubo Yang, Wei Liu, Farzam Farzbiz, ...
Abstract. Human Pacman is an interactive role-playing game that envisions to bring the computer gaming experience to a new level of emotional and sensory gratification by setting the real world as a...
Extending agents by transmitting protocols in open systems (2003)
Agents in an open system communicate using interaction protocols. Suppose that we have a system of agents and that we want to add a new protocol that all (or some) agents should be able to...
Differential microwave device characterization / (2003)
"Mémoire présenté en vue de l'obtention du diplôme de maîtrise ès sciences appliquées (génie électrique)."
The functions of pitx2 and Bmp signaling in craniofacial development (2002)
The formation of the vertebrate face is an extremely complex developmental process, which needs to coordinate the outgrowth of several facial primordia. Facial primordia are small buds made up of...
The central limit theorem for a normalized summation of random number of i.i.d. random variables is well known. In this paper we improve the central limit theorem by providing a two-term expansion...
Approximations of distributions of some standardized partial sums in sequential analysis (2002)
Liu, Wei, Wang, Nan, Wang, Suojin
In sequential analysis it is often necessary to determine the distributions of √tYt and/or √a Yt, where t is a stopping time of the form t = inf{n ≥ 1 : n+Sn+ ξn> a}, Yn is the sample mean of...
Nevin,William A., Hempstead,Michael R., Liu,Wei, Leznoff,Cliff C., Lever,Alfred B.
The electrochemistry of 9, 16, 23-TETRA(NEOPENTOXY)PHTHALOCYANATO cobalt, and some binuclear analogs, has been studied in dichlorobenzene and in dimethylformamide. The redox mechanisms and species on...
Nevins,William A., Liu,Wei, Greenberg,Shafrira, Hempstead,Michael R., Marcuccio,Sebastian M.
Using pentaerythritol as a framework, it has been possible to synthesize a tetranuclear phthalocyanine with a spiro type linkage. Electrochemical and spectro-electrochemical data are presented for...
Dimerisation of Mononuclear and Binuclear Cobalt Phthalocyanines. (2002)
Nevin,William A., Liu,Wei, Lever,Alfred B.
The aggregation of mononuclear (3,9,16,23-tetra(neopentoxy)phthalocyanato)cobalt(II) and of some related binuclear cobalt(II) phthalocyanine derivatives, in o-dichlorobenzene, has been studied by...
Gas-phase ethylene/1-hexene copolymerization over MgCl₂-supported Ziegler-Natta catalysts / (2002)
A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering. Department of Chemical...
Gas-phase ethylene/1-hexene copolymerization over MgCl₂-supported Ziegler-Natta catalysts / (2002)
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.
Salmonella enteritidis (SE) contamination of poultry products is a major cause of food-borne disease worldwide. The candidate gene approach for identification of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for...
Study on the Characteristics of Ag Doped CuO-BaTiO3 CO2 Sensors (2002)
Zheng Jiao, Feng Chen, Run Su, Xingjiu Huang, Wei Liu, Jinhuai Liu
In this paper the characteristics of a CuO-BaTiO3 based CO2 gas sensor was investigated. The sensitivity of the CuO-BaTiO3 based CO2 sensor was influenced by doping various metal elements such as Au,...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Iowa State University, 2002.
Hong-Yu Zhang, Wei Liu, Wei-Zhong Liu, Jin-Lun Xie
Electron spin resonance technique and spin-trapping methods were used to determine the photoproduction of 1O2 and O2·− by hypomycin B (HMB), a novel perylenequinonoid pigment (PQP) possessing only...
Somerville, Paul, Miwa, Tetsuhisa, Liu, Wei, Hayter, Anthony J.
Lee and Spurrier (1995) present one-sided and two-sided confidence interval procedures for making successive comparisons between ordered treatments. Their procedures have important applications for...
Hayter, Anthony, Miwa, Tetsushisa, Liu, Wei
We consider the unbalanced one-way layout for comparing 3 treatment effects which can be assumed to satisfy the simple ordering m1 m2 m3. This problem arises often in the comparison of three dose...
A nonparametric two-sample test of the failure function with interval censoring case 2 (2001)
Zhang, Ying, Liu, Wei, Zhan, Yihui
For the setting of interval censoring case 2, a nonparametric two-sample test, based on a smooth functional of the nonparametric maximum pseudolikelihood estimator, is developed to compare the...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Delaware, 2002.
Subband adaptive generalized sidelobe canceller for broadband beamforming (2001)
Wei Liu, Stephan Weiss, Lajos Hanzo
In this paper, we propose a novel subband adaptive broadband beamforming architecture based on the generalised sidelobe canceller (GSC), in which we decompose each of the tapped delay-line signals...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Delaware, 2002.
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Alabama, 2001.
A nonparametric two-sample test of the failure function with interval censoring case 2 (2001)
Zhang, Ying, Liu, Wei, Zhan, Yihui
For the setting of interval censoring case 2, a nonparametric two‐sample test, based on a smooth functional of the nonparametric maximum pseudolikelihood estimator, is developed to compare the...
A Numerical Analysis to the {$\pi$} and {K} Coupled--Channel Scalar Form-factor (2000)
Liu, Wei, Zheng, Hanqing, Chen, Xiao-Lin
A numerical analysis to the scalar form-factor in the $\pi\pi$ and KK coupled--channel system is made by solving the coupled-channel dispersive integral equations, using the iteration method. The...
Distributed Collaborative Caching for WWW (2000)
The 'World Wide Web' ('WWW') offers an opportunity for users to share information and collaborate on activities globally. Better performance of the WWW is expected. This thesis presents a model and...
Distributed Collaborative Caching for WWW (2000)
The 'World Wide Web' ('WWW') offers an opportunity for users to share information and collaborate on activities globally. Better performance of the WWW is expected. This thesis presents a model and...
Distributed Collaborative Caching for WWW (2000)
The 'World Wide Web' ('WWW') offers an opportunity for users to share information and collaborate on activities globally. Better performance of the WWW is expected. This thesis presents a model and...
Distributed Collaborative Caching for WWW (2000)
The 'World Wide Web' ('WWW') offers an opportunity for users to share information and collaborate on activities globally. Better performance of the WWW is expected. This thesis presents a model and...
Distributed Collaborative Caching for WWW (2000)
The 'World Wide Web' ('WWW') offers an opportunity for users to share information and collaborate on activities globally. Better performance of the WWW is expected. This thesis presents a model and...
Distributed Collaborative Caching for WWW (2000)
The 'World Wide Web' ('WWW') offers an opportunity for users to share information and collaborate on activities globally. Better performance of the WWW is expected. This thesis presents a model and...
The impact of formulation composition on the stability of freeze-dried proteins (2000)
The broad objective of this study was to gain an improved understanding of the impact of formulation composition on both short-term stability (stability during freeze-drying) and long-term stability...
Grain size effect on low cycle fatigue behavior of copper polycrystals (2000)
The absence of complete and reliable results on the effects of the grain size on the cyclic behavior for polycrystalline copper determines the main objective of the present study, which was conducted...
Grain size effect on low cycle fatigue behavior of copper polycrystals (2000)
The absence of complete and reliable results on the effects of the grain size on the cyclic behavior for polycrystalline copper determines the main objective of the present study, which was conducted...
Grain size effect on low cycle fatigue behavior of copper polycrystals (2000)
The absence of complete and reliable results on the effects of the grain size on the cyclic behavior for polycrystalline copper determines the main objective of the present study, which was conducted...
Grain size effect on low cycle fatigue behavior of copper polycrystals (2000)
The absence of complete and reliable results on the effects of the grain size on the cyclic behavior for polycrystalline copper determines the main objective of the present study, which was conducted...
Grain size effect on low cycle fatigue behavior of copper polycrystals (2000)
The absence of complete and reliable results on the effects of the grain size on the cyclic behavior for polycrystalline copper determines the main objective of the present study, which was conducted...
Grain size effect on low cycle fatigue behavior of copper polycrystals (2000)
The absence of complete and reliable results on the effects of the grain size on the cyclic behavior for polycrystalline copper determines the main objective of the present study, which was conducted...
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nebraska--Lincoln, 2000.
Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Chemistry.
Excited states of the very neutron deficient nucleus ¹¹¹Te /--by Wei Liu. (2000)
Thesis (M.S.)--Mississippi State University. Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Apoptotic pathways involved in kainate excitotoxicity / (2000)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Southern California, 2000.
Hayter, A.J., Miwa, Tetsuhisa, Liu, Wei
Consider the standard problem of investigating whether any of k treatments are better than a control. A two-sided procedure provides both upper and lower bounds on the differences between each...
Liu, Wei, Miwa, Tetsuhisa, Hayter, A.J.
Lee and Spurrier (J. Statist. Plann. Inference 43 (1995) 323–330) present a new procedure for making successive comparisons between ordered treatments. Their procedure has important applications...
Miwa, Tetsuhisa, Hayter, A.J., Liu, Wei
An effective procedure is presented to compute the level probabilities under simple order of independent normal random variables with unequal variances. These level probabilities have an application...
Liu, Wei., Benoît-Rohmer, Florence.
Aan kop van titelp.: Université Robert Schuman.
18O/16O and D/H isotope compositions are reported for coexisting quartz, feldspar and biotite from four lithological units within the Aral granite batholith, Altay Mts of China. The data exhibit a...
Human DNA polymerase epsilon (pol ϵ) normally contains a 261-kDa catalytic subunit (p261), but from some sources it is isolated as a 140-kDa catalytic core of p261. This shortened form...
Liu, Wei, Zhang, Bin, Zheng, Hanqing
We re-estimate the decay branching ratio of $B_s\to 2\gamma$ through $D_s^+D_s^-$ and $D_s^{*+}D_s^{*-}$ intermediate states, in the effective Lagrangian approach. We find that the branching ratio...
Radiation-induced Assembly of Rad51 and Rad52 Recombination Complex Requires ATM and c-Abl (1999)
Chen, Gang, Yuan, Shyng-Shiou F., Liu, Wei, Xu, Yang, Trujillo, Kelly, Song, Binwei, ...
Cells from individuals with the recessive cancer-prone disorder ataxia telangiectasia (A-T) are hypersensitive to ionizing radiation (I-R). ATM (mutated in A-T) is a protein kinase whose activity is...
Performance based seismic analysis of a steel frame structure / (1999)
Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1999.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 19999.
A one-sided confidence set hidden under a two-sided sequential test of normal mean. (1999)
This article demonstrates how to construct a 1 − α level confidence set naturally associated a size α two-sided sequential test of a normal mean μ. If the null hypothesis H0: μ = 0 is rejected...
Bis(Dioxolene)(Bipyridine)Ruthenium Redox Series. (1998)
Lever, A. B., Auburn, Pamela R., Dodsworth, Elaine S., Haga, Masa-aki, Liu, Wei
Complexes of the general formula (Ru(bpy)(dioxolene)2)n+ have been prepared where (bpy) is 2,2'-bipyridine, and n = 1, 0, +1. The dioxolene ligand is 1,2-dihydroxybenzene (catechol), 3,5-di-t-butyl-...
Specific aims: Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) have been shown to stimulate cell proliferation and differentiation. And IGF-I, one of the important members of the IGF family plays an important...
Cumulative evidence shows that insulin-like growth factor (IGF-I) plays an important role in the mitogenesis of breast cancer cells. IGF-I stimulates cell division by regulating events during the...
Effect of Matrix Alloying Elements on the Corrosion Resistance of C/Al Composite Materials. (1998)
Wu, Jianxin, Liu, Wei, Li, Pengxing, Wu, Renjie
This paper concerned mmc in some important way and contained information about, utilized, or discussed these subjects: basic topics:, cr mmc, mmc materials and material types:, (c)f/al, (c)f/al-cu,...
Nondestructive evaluation of bridge cables using time domain reflectometry / (1998)
Thesis (M.E.E.)--University of Delaware, 1999.
The molecular mechanism for syndecan-1 functions /--by Wei Liu. (1998)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1998.
Time-lapse crosswell seismic monitoring of the Athabasca Tar Sands (1998)
grantor: University of Toronto
Improving the fully sequential sampling scheme of Anscombe-Chow-Robbins (1997)
A new sequential sampling scheme is proposed in which, after an initial batch sample, sampling is continued in batches of data-dependent sizes (at most k such batches), and then one-at-a-time with a...
Changes in photoemission spectra across the order/disorder transition in copper-gold alloys (1997)
Ultra-violet photoemission spectroscopy has been used in this project to investigate the changes in photoemission spectra across the order/disorder transition in Cu-Au alloys. Many obvious changes...
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Improving the fully sequential estimation method of Anscombe-Chow-Robbins. (1997)
A new sequential sampling scheme is proposed in which, after an initial batch sample, sampling is continued in batches of data-dependent sizes (at most k such batches), and then one-at-a-time with a...
The basic problem is to compare several treatments with a control in the standard unbalanced one-way layouts. Step-up tests were considered by Dunnett and Tamhane (1995, Biometrics 51, 217-227). In...
Control of directional errors with step-up multiple tests (1997)
It is shown in Shaffer (1980) that step-down multiple tests designed to control Type I errors at rate α actually control Type I and III errors jointly at rate α under certain distributional...
A k-stage sequential sampling procedure for estimation of normal mean (1997)
We study a k-stage > sequential estimation procedure which includes the three-stage procedure of Hall (1981) as a special case. With a suitable value of k, the k-stage procedure not only can be as...
"... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Sciences in the Department of Physiology."
Numerical studies of compressible turbulence /--by Wei Liu. (1996)
Thesis (M.S.)--State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1996.
Regulation of phopholipase C-β by G protein α and βγ subunits /--Wei Liu. (1996)
Spine title: G protein regulation of phospholipase C.
On multiple tests of a nonhierarchical finite family of hypotheses (1996)
This paper considers the problem of simultaneously testing a non-hierarchical finite family of hypotheses. Several definitions have been introduced. They are used to shed interesting light on the...
Common law's expedition : the impact of Hong Kong business law on PRC business law. (1996)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 1996.
This paper considers the construction of an upper confidence bound on the range of a set of p (≥2) location parameters following a sequential range test. Although details are given only for the...
Development of novel metal oxide composite catalysts for complete oxidation reactions (1995)
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1995.
Development of novel metal oxide composite catalysts for complete oxidation reactions / (1995)
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1995.
The effects of syndecan-4 and betaglycan in tumor cell invasion / (1995)
Thesis (M.S.)--University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, 1995.
Development of novel metal oxide composite catalysts for complete oxidation reactions (1995)
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1995.
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Scheduling Transactions on Distributed Systems with the VPL Engine (1994)
Eva Kühn, Wei Liu, Herbert Pohlai
The coordination of distributed services and the integration of data repositories that are maintained by autonomous distributed databases requires flexible transaction management. Recently numerous...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Glasgow, 1994.
Thesis (Ph. D. in Comparative Biochemistry)--University of California, Berkeley, May 1993.
Thesis (doctoral)--University of Cambridge, 1993.
Shimomura, Shoji, Liu, Wei, Inohara, Naohiro, Watanabe, Shinichiro, Futai, Masamitsu
A genomic clone encoding an auxin-binding protein (ABP) from the endoplasmic reticulum was isolated from Arabidopsis thaliana. The ABP gene consisted of 5 exons and 4 introns and encoded a...
Vita.
Optimal control studies for steamflooding /--by Wei Liu. (1992)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Colorado, 1992.
BLDSC reference no.: DX179454.
Thesis (Ph. D. in Comparative Biochemistry)--University of California, Berkeley, May 1992.
Thèse méd. Genève.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sussex, 1992.
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Analysis of power functions of multiple comparisons tests. (1990)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Bath, 1990.
"A thesis [submitted] as partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering degree."
Research and Design of the Agricultural Short-message Management System (1970)
Wanlin Gao, Xinlan Jiang, Wei Liu, Ganghong Zhang, Hongqiang Yang, Yang Ping
Aiming at the current status of the agricultural information service business, this paper elaborates the characteristics of the agricultural short-message resources, and puts forward a kind of...
A Fast Longest Common Subsequence Algorithm for Biosequences Alignment (1970)
Searching for the longest common substring (LCS) of biosequences is one of the most important tasks in Bioinformatics. A fast algorithm for LCS problem named FAST_LCS is presented. The algorithm...
Multiple Comparison of Several Linear Regression Models (0000)
Research on multiple comparison during the past 50 years or so has focused mainly on the comparison of several population means. Several years ago, Spurrier considered the multiple comparison of...
Some new methods for the comparison of two linear regression models (0000)
The frequently used approach to the comparison of two linear regression models is to use the partial F test. It is pointed out in this paper that the partial F test has in fact a naturally associated...
In many statistical problems, the variances of the populations cannot be assumed to be equal. These inhomogeneity problems are often more difficult to handle than the corresponding homogeneity...
The Cross-Section of Stock Returns on The Shanghai Stock Exchange
This study explores the cross-sectional stock return behavior on the A-share market of the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE), which is segmented from world's other equity markets. We estimate the effects...
Kato, Masashi, Iwashita, Toshihide, Takeda, Kozue, Akhand, Anwarul A., Liu, Wei, Yoshihara, Motoi, ...
The c-RET proto-oncogene encodes a receptor-type tyrosine kinase, and its mutations in the germ line are responsible for the inheritance of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A) and 2B...
The helical domain of a G protein α subunit is a regulator of its effector
The α subunit (Gα) of heterotrimeric G proteins is a major determinant of signaling selectivity. The Gα structure essentially comprises a GTPase “Ras-like” domain (RasD) and a unique...
Liu, Wei, Mo, Zeqian, Xiang, Mengqing
During retinogenesis, the Xenopus basic helix–loop–helix transcription factor Xath5 has been shown to promote a ganglion cell fate. In the developing mouse and chicken retinas, gene targeting and...
Golgi Inheritance in Mammalian Cells Is Mediated through Endoplasmic Reticulum Export ActivitiesD⃞V⃞
Altan-Bonnet, Nihal, Sougrat, Rachid, Liu, Wei, Snapp, Erik L., Ward, Theresa, Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer
Golgi inheritance during mammalian cell division occurs through the disassembly, partitioning, and reassembly of Golgi membranes. The mechanisms responsible for these processes are poorly understood....
Eder, Steve, Liu, Wei, Hulett, F. Marion
The PhoP-PhoR two-component regulatory system controls the phosphate deficiency response in B. subtilis. A number of Pho regulon genes which require PhoP∼P for activation or repression have been...
Liu, Wei, Eder, Stephen, Hulett, F. Marion
The tagAB and tagDEF operons, which are adjacent and divergently transcribed, encode genes responsible for cell wall teichoic acid synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. The Bacillus data presented here...
Human DNA polymerase epsilon (pol ɛ) normally contains a 261-kDa catalytic subunit (p261), but from some sources it is isolated as a 140-kDa catalytic core of p261. This shortened form possesses...
Piyasirisilp, Sucheep, McCutchan, Francine E., Carr, Jean K., Sanders-Buell, Eric, Liu, Wei, Chen, Jie, ...
New outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) among injecting drug users (IDUs) are spreading in China along heroin trafficking routes. Recently, two separate HIV-1 epidemics among...
The reduction potential of nitric oxide (NO) and its importance to NO biochemistry
Bartberger, Michael D., Liu, Wei, Ford, Eleonora, Miranda, Katrina M., Switzer, Christopher, Fukuto, Jon M., ...
A potential of about −0.8 (±0.2) V (at 1 M versus normal hydrogen electrode) for the reduction of nitric oxide (NO) to its one-electron reduced species, nitroxyl anion (3NO−) has been determined...
Lanone, Sophie, Zheng, Tao, Zhu, Zhou, Liu, Wei, Lee, Chun Geun, Ma, Bing, ...
IL-13 potently stimulates eosinophilic and lymphocytic inflammation and alveolar remodeling in the lung, effects that depend on the induction of various matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Here, we...
Liu, Wei, Lionakis, Michail S., Lewis, Russell E., Wiederhold, Nathan, May, Gregory S., Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P.
Fluconazole (FLC), a triazole with limited activity against Aspergillus species, is frequently used as prophylaxis in leukemia patients and bone marrow transplant recipients. Prior FLC use has been...
Bmp4 signaling is required for outflow-tract septation and branchial-arch artery remodeling
Liu, Wei, Selever, Jennifer, Wang, Degang, Lu, Mei-Fang, Moses, Kelvin A., Schwartz, Robert J., ...
The Bmp4 signaling molecule is expressed in ventral splanchnic and branchial-arch mesoderm and outflow-tract (OFT) myocardium, suggesting a role for Bmp4 in OFT development. Inactivation of Bmp4 in...
Paul, Salbi, Birkey, Stephanie, Liu, Wei, Hulett, F. Marion
The phoPR operon encodes a response regulator, PhoP, and a histidine kinase, PhoR, which activate or repress genes of the Bacillus subtilis Pho regulon in response to an extracellular phosphate...
Liu, Wei, May, Gregory S., Lionakis, Michail S., Lewis, Russell E., Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P.
With the increasing use of antifungals such as amphotericin B, itraconazole, voriconazole, caspofungin, and terbinafine (TRB) in patients at high risk for invasive aspergillosis, resistance of...
Maxion, Heather K., Liu, Wei, Chang, Mi-Hyang, Kelly, Kathleen A.
Murine vaginal infection with the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia muridarum is commonly used as a model for ascending Chlamydia infections of the human female genital tract. Gamma...
Development of a Ligand-Directed Approach To Study the Pathogenesis of Invasive Aspergillosis
Lionakis, Michail S., Lahdenranta, Johanna, Sun, Jessica, Liu, Wei, Lewis, Russell E., Albert, Nathaniel D., ...
Invasive aspergillosis is a leading cause of infectious death in immunosuppressed patients. Here, we adapted a phage display library-based selection to screen and identify binding peptides to the...
Role of CCR5 in IFN-γ–induced and cigarette smoke–induced emphysema
Ma, Bing, Kang, Min-Jong, Lee, Chun Geun, Chapoval, Svetlana, Liu, Wei, Chen, Qingsheng, ...
Th1 inflammation and remodeling characterized by tissue destruction frequently coexist in human diseases. To further understand the mechanisms of these responses, we defined the role(s) of CCR5 in...
Comparison of helix interactions in membrane and soluble alpha-bundle proteins.
Eilers, Markus, Patel, Ashish B, Liu, Wei, Smith, Steven O
Helix-helix interactions are important for the folding, stability, and function of membrane proteins. Here, two independent and complementary methods are used to investigate the nature and...
Role of Side-Chain Conformational Entropy in Transmembrane Helix Dimerization of Glycophorin A
Liu, Wei, Crocker, Evan, Siminovitch, David J., Smith, Steven O.
Dimerization of the transmembrane domain of glycophorin A is mediated by a seven residue motif LIxxGVxxGVxxT through a combination of van der Waals and hydrogen bonding interactions. One of the...
Adenosine metabolism and murine strain–specific IL-4–induced inflammation, emphysema, and fibrosis
Ma, Bing, Blackburn, Michael R., Lee, Chun Geun, Homer, Robert J., Liu, Wei, Flavell, Richard A., ...
To define the factors that control the tissue effects of IL-4, we compared the effects of Tg IL-4 in Balb/c and C57BL/6 mice. In the former, IL-4 caused modest eosinophilic inflammation and mild...
Attempt on Detection of Natural Neutrinos by a Simple and Compact Apparatus
LIU, Wei, ISHIBASHI, Kenji, ARIMA, Hidehiko, ISHIMOTO, Shunsuke, IIJIMA, Takashi
A simple and compact apparatus was developed for detection of natural neutrinos on the basis of a new hypothesis. The experimental apparatus consisted of two electrodes, fiber material and purified...
A hospital-based surveillance for Japanese encephalitis in Bali, Indonesia
Kari, Komang, Liu, Wei, Gautama, Kompiang, Mammen, Mammen P, Clemens, John D, Nisalak, Ananda, ...
Helix Packing and Orientation in the Transmembrane Dimer of gp55-P of the Spleen Focus Forming Virus
Liu, Wei, Crocker, Evan, Constantinescu, Stefan N., Smith, Steven O.
gp55-P is a dimeric membrane protein with a single transmembrane helix that is coded by the env gene of the polycythemic strain of the spleen focus forming virus. gp55-P activates the erythropoietin...
Identification of Francisella tularensis Genes Affected by Iron Limitation†
Deng, Kaiping, Blick, Robert J., Liu, Wei, Hansen, Eric J.
Cells of an attenuated live vaccine strain (LVS) of F. tularensis grown under iron-restricted conditions were found to contain increased quantities of several proteins relative to cells of this same...
Wang, Jun, Zhou, Hong, Zheng, Jiang, Cheng, Juan, Liu, Wei, Ding, Guofu, ...
In the present study artemisinin (ART) was found to have potent anti-inflammatory effects in animal models of sepsis induced by CpG-containing oligodeoxy-nucleotides (CpG ODN), lipopolysaccharide...
Kato, Masashi, Iwashita, Toshihide, Takeda, Kozue, Akhand, Anwarul A., Liu, Wei, Yoshihara, Motoi, ...
The c-RET proto-oncogene encodes a receptor-type tyrosine kinase, and its mutations in the germ line are responsible for the inheritance of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN2A) and 2B...
The helical domain of a G protein α subunit is a regulator of its effector
The α subunit (Gα) of heterotrimeric G proteins is a major determinant of signaling selectivity. The Gα structure essentially comprises a GTPase “Ras-like” domain (RasD) and a unique...
Liu, Wei, Mo, Zeqian, Xiang, Mengqing
During retinogenesis, the Xenopus basic helix–loop–helix transcription factor Xath5 has been shown to promote a ganglion cell fate. In the developing mouse and chicken retinas, gene targeting and...
Eder, Steve, Liu, Wei, Hulett, F. Marion
The PhoP-PhoR two-component regulatory system controls the phosphate deficiency response in B. subtilis. A number of Pho regulon genes which require PhoP∼P for activation or repression have been...
Liu, Wei, Eder, Stephen, Hulett, F. Marion
The tagAB and tagDEF operons, which are adjacent and divergently transcribed, encode genes responsible for cell wall teichoic acid synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. The Bacillus data presented here...
Human DNA polymerase epsilon (pol ɛ) normally contains a 261-kDa catalytic subunit (p261), but from some sources it is isolated as a 140-kDa catalytic core of p261. This shortened form possesses...
Piyasirisilp, Sucheep, McCutchan, Francine E., Carr, Jean K., Sanders-Buell, Eric, Liu, Wei, Chen, Jie, ...
New outbreaks of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) among injecting drug users (IDUs) are spreading in China along heroin trafficking routes. Recently, two separate HIV-1 epidemics among...
The reduction potential of nitric oxide (NO) and its importance to NO biochemistry
Bartberger, Michael D., Liu, Wei, Ford, Eleonora, Miranda, Katrina M., Switzer, Christopher, Fukuto, Jon M., ...
A potential of about −0.8 (±0.2) V (at 1 M versus normal hydrogen electrode) for the reduction of nitric oxide (NO) to its one-electron reduced species, nitroxyl anion (3NO−) has been determined...
Lanone, Sophie, Zheng, Tao, Zhu, Zhou, Liu, Wei, Lee, Chun Geun, Ma, Bing, ...
IL-13 potently stimulates eosinophilic and lymphocytic inflammation and alveolar remodeling in the lung, effects that depend on the induction of various matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). Here, we...
Liu, Wei, Lionakis, Michail S., Lewis, Russell E., Wiederhold, Nathan, May, Gregory S., Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P.
Fluconazole (FLC), a triazole with limited activity against Aspergillus species, is frequently used as prophylaxis in leukemia patients and bone marrow transplant recipients. Prior FLC use has been...
Bmp4 signaling is required for outflow-tract septation and branchial-arch artery remodeling
Liu, Wei, Selever, Jennifer, Wang, Degang, Lu, Mei-Fang, Moses, Kelvin A., Schwartz, Robert J., ...
The Bmp4 signaling molecule is expressed in ventral splanchnic and branchial-arch mesoderm and outflow-tract (OFT) myocardium, suggesting a role for Bmp4 in OFT development. Inactivation of Bmp4 in...
Paul, Salbi, Birkey, Stephanie, Liu, Wei, Hulett, F. Marion
The phoPR operon encodes a response regulator, PhoP, and a histidine kinase, PhoR, which activate or repress genes of the Bacillus subtilis Pho regulon in response to an extracellular phosphate...
Liu, Wei, May, Gregory S., Lionakis, Michail S., Lewis, Russell E., Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P.
With the increasing use of antifungals such as amphotericin B, itraconazole, voriconazole, caspofungin, and terbinafine (TRB) in patients at high risk for invasive aspergillosis, resistance of...
Maxion, Heather K., Liu, Wei, Chang, Mi-Hyang, Kelly, Kathleen A.
Murine vaginal infection with the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia muridarum is commonly used as a model for ascending Chlamydia infections of the human female genital tract. Gamma...
Development of a Ligand-Directed Approach To Study the Pathogenesis of Invasive Aspergillosis
Lionakis, Michail S., Lahdenranta, Johanna, Sun, Jessica, Liu, Wei, Lewis, Russell E., Albert, Nathaniel D., ...
Invasive aspergillosis is a leading cause of infectious death in immunosuppressed patients. Here, we adapted a phage display library-based selection to screen and identify binding peptides to the...
Role of CCR5 in IFN-γ–induced and cigarette smoke–induced emphysema
Ma, Bing, Kang, Min-Jong, Lee, Chun Geun, Chapoval, Svetlana, Liu, Wei, Chen, Qingsheng, ...
Th1 inflammation and remodeling characterized by tissue destruction frequently coexist in human diseases. To further understand the mechanisms of these responses, we defined the role(s) of CCR5 in...
Comparison of helix interactions in membrane and soluble alpha-bundle proteins.
Eilers, Markus, Patel, Ashish B, Liu, Wei, Smith, Steven O
Helix-helix interactions are important for the folding, stability, and function of membrane proteins. Here, two independent and complementary methods are used to investigate the nature and...
Role of Side-Chain Conformational Entropy in Transmembrane Helix Dimerization of Glycophorin A
Liu, Wei, Crocker, Evan, Siminovitch, David J., Smith, Steven O.
Dimerization of the transmembrane domain of glycophorin A is mediated by a seven residue motif LIxxGVxxGVxxT through a combination of van der Waals and hydrogen bonding interactions. One of the...
Golgi Inheritance in Mammalian Cells Is Mediated through Endoplasmic Reticulum Export ActivitiesD⃞V⃞
Altan-Bonnet, Nihal, Sougrat, Rachid, Liu, Wei, Snapp, Erik L., Ward, Theresa, Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer
Golgi inheritance during mammalian cell division occurs through the disassembly, partitioning, and reassembly of Golgi membranes. The mechanisms responsible for these processes are poorly understood....
Helix Packing and Orientation in the Transmembrane Dimer of gp55-P of the Spleen Focus Forming Virus
Liu, Wei, Crocker, Evan, Constantinescu, Stefan N., Smith, Steven O.
gp55-P is a dimeric membrane protein with a single transmembrane helix that is coded by the env gene of the polycythemic strain of the spleen focus forming virus. gp55-P activates the erythropoietin...
Adenosine metabolism and murine strain–specific IL-4–induced inflammation, emphysema, and fibrosis
Ma, Bing, Blackburn, Michael R., Lee, Chun Geun, Homer, Robert J., Liu, Wei, Flavell, Richard A., ...
To define the factors that control the tissue effects of IL-4, we compared the effects of Tg IL-4 in Balb/c and C57BL/6 mice. In the former, IL-4 caused modest eosinophilic inflammation and mild...
A hospital-based surveillance for Japanese encephalitis in Bali, Indonesia
Kari, Komang, Liu, Wei, Gautama, Kompiang, Mammen, Mammen P, Clemens, John D, Nisalak, Ananda, ...
Identification of Francisella tularensis Genes Affected by Iron Limitation†
Deng, Kaiping, Blick, Robert J., Liu, Wei, Hansen, Eric J.
Cells of an attenuated live vaccine strain (LVS) of F. tularensis grown under iron-restricted conditions were found to contain increased quantities of several proteins relative to cells of this same...
Wang, Jun, Zhou, Hong, Zheng, Jiang, Cheng, Juan, Liu, Wei, Ding, Guofu, ...
In the present study artemisinin (ART) was found to have potent anti-inflammatory effects in animal models of sepsis induced by CpG-containing oligodeoxy-nucleotides (CpG ODN), lipopolysaccharide...
Attempt on Detection of Natural Neutrinos by a Simple and Compact Apparatus
LIU, Wei, ISHIBASHI, Kenji, ARIMA, Hidehiko, ISHIMOTO, Shunsuke, IIJIMA, Takashi
A simple and compact apparatus was developed for detection of natural neutrinos on the basis of a new hypothesis. The experimental apparatus consisted of two electrodes, fiber material and purified...
Molecular epidemiology of measles viruses in China, 1995–2003
Zhang, Yan, Zhu, Zhen, Rota, Paul A, Jiang, Xiaohong, Hu, Jiayu, Wang, Jianguo, ...
This report describes the genetic characterization of 297 wild-type measles viruses that were isolated in 24 provinces of China between 1995 and 2003. Phylogenetic analysis of the N gene sequences...
Axin is a scaffold protein in TGF-β signaling that promotes degradation of Smad7 by Arkadia
Liu, Wei, Rui, Hongliang, Wang, Jifeng, Lin, Shuyong, He, Ying, Chen, Mingliang, ...
TGF-β signaling involves a wide array of signaling molecules and multiple controlling events. Scaffold proteins create a functional proximity of signaling molecules and control the specificity of...
Liu, Wei, Asa, Sylvia L., Fantus, I. George, Walfish, Paul G., Ezzat, Shereen
We investigated the effects of 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol vitamin D3 (VD) and its noncalciomimetic analog EB1089 on thyroid carcinoma cell growth. VD and EB1089 exhibited anti-proliferative...
Pharmacogenetics of outcome in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Rocha, Jose Claudio C., Cheng, Cheng, Liu, Wei, Kishi, Shinji, Das, Soma, Cook, Edwin H., ...
Acquired genetic characteristics of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) cells are used to individualize therapy, whereas germ line genetic characteristics generally are not. We determined whether ALL...
Six3 activation of Pax6 expression is essential for mammalian lens induction and specification
Liu, Wei, Lagutin, Oleg V, Mende, Michael, Streit, Andrea, Oliver, Guillermo
The homeobox gene Six3 regulates forebrain development. Here we show that Six3 is also crucial for lens formation. Conditional deletion of mouse Six3 in the presumptive lens ectoderm (PLE) disrupted...
ArfGAP1 dynamics and its role in COPI coat assembly on Golgi membranes of living cells
Liu, Wei, Duden, Rainer, Phair, Robert D., Lippincott-Schwartz, Jennifer
Secretory protein trafficking relies on the COPI coat, which by assembling into a lattice on Golgi membranes concentrates cargo at specific sites and deforms the membranes at these sites into coated...
The in meso method, also called as lipidic cubic phase, has been proved to be a useful technique for membrane protein crystallization (Caffrey, 2003). The method was introduced in 1996 by using...
Multiple Comparison of Several Linear Regression Models
Research on multiple comparison during the past 50 years or so has focused mainly on the comparison of several population means. Several years ago, Spurrier considered the multiple comparison of...
Rotational orientation of monomers within a designed homo-oligomer transmembrane helical bundle
Howard, Kathleen P., Liu, Wei, Crocker, Evan, Nanda, Vikas, Lear, James, Degrado, William F., ...
A peptide designed to form a homo-oligomeric transmembrane helical bundle was reconstituted into lipid bilayers and studied by using 2H NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) with magic angle spinning to...
Recombined Xenograft of Cancellous Bone and Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP)
Hu, Yun-yu, Liu, Wei, Lu, Yu-pu
A new bone xenograft was reconstituted using treated calf cancellous bone and bovine bone morphogenetic protein (BMP). Bioassay in mice showed that the graft had high osteoinductive ability with 0.5...
Construction of Exact Simultaneous Confidence Bands for a Simple Linear Regression Model
Wei Liu, Shan Lin, Walter W. Piegorsch
A simultaneous confidence band provides a variety of inferences on the unknown components of a regression model. There are several recent papers using confidence bands for various inferential...
Mortaza Jamshidian, Wei Liu, Ying Zhang, Farid Jamishidian
The problem of simultaneous inference and multiple comparison for comparing means of k( ≥ 3) populations has been long studied in the statistics literature and is widely available in statistics...
Potential for short-rotation intensive-culture hardwood production in Hawaii
Phillips, Victor D., Liu, Wei, Merriam, Robert A., Singh, Devindar
Iba, Kousuke, Albrechtsen, Reidar, Gilpin, Brent, Fröhlich, Camilla, Loechel, Frosty, Zolkiewska, Anna, ...
The ADAMs (a disintegrin and metalloprotease) family of proteins is involved in a variety of cellular interactions, including cell adhesion and ecto- domain shedding. Here we show that ADAM 12 binds...
A New Application of Exact Nonparametric Methods to Long-Horizon Predictability Tests
Empirical results from long-horizon regression tests have been influential in the finance literature. Yet, it has come to be understood that traditional long-horizon tests may be unreliable in finite...
This dissertation presents a theoretical investigation and extensive simulation results pertaining to the use of heavily quantized Gaussian sequences for autocorrelation and spectral estimation....
Mechanism of activation of the Formin protein Daam1
Liu, Wei, Sato, Akira, Khadka, Deepak, Bharti, Ritu, Diaz, Hector, Runnels, Loren W., ...
The Formin proteins are central players in mediating cytoskeletal reorganization and are epistatically positioned in a pathway downstream of Rho activation. These proteins exist in the cytoplasm in...
Structural analysis of the Sulfolobus solfataricus MCM protein N-terminal domain†
Liu, Wei, Pucci, Biagio, Rossi, Mosè, Pisani, Francesca M., Ladenstein, Rudolf
The Mini-Chromosome Maintenance (MCM) proteins are candidates of replicative DNA helicase in eukarya and archaea. Here we report a 2.8 Å crystal structure of the N-terminal domain (residues 1–268)...
Analysis of Risk Measures and Multi-dimensional Risk Dependence
In this thesis, we try to provide a broad econometric analysis of a class of risk measures, distortion risk measures (DRM). With carefully selected functional form, the Value-at-Risk (VaR) and...
Ma, Yan, Qiao, Jianjun, Liu, Wei, Wan, Zhe, Wang, Xiaohong, Calderone, Richard, ...
Aspergillus fumigatus is an important opportunistic fungal pathogen. This organism must be able to adapt to stress changes in the microenvironment during host invasion and systemic spread. The...
Semiparametric nonlinear mixed-effects (NLME) models are very flexible in modeling long-term HIV viral dynamics. In practice, statistical analyses are often complicated due to measurement errors and...
On the finite sample behavior of testing whether new is better than used of a specified age
Ibrahim A. Ahmad, Wei Liu, Ying Zhang
Hollander, Park and Proschan (1986) proposed a test of new is better than used of a specified age. It is based on large sample normality of the test statistic. There is, however, no study in the...
Central limit theorem, expansion of a tail probability, martingale, renewal theory, sequential analysis, stopping time, Wald's lemma,
Moraxella catarrhalis Expresses an Unusual Hfq Protein ▿
Attia, Ahmed S., Sedillo, Jennifer L., Wang, Wei, Liu, Wei, Brautigam, Chad A., Winkler, Wade, ...
The Hfq protein is recognized as a global regulatory molecule that facilitates certain RNA-RNA interactions in bacteria. BLAST analysis identified a 630-nucleotide open reading frame in the genome of...
Jia, Yujiang, Lu, Fan, Zeng, Gang, Sun, Xinhua, Xiao, Yan, Lu, Lin, ...
Locked Nucleic Acid Pentamers as Universal PCR Primers for Genomic DNA Amplification
Sun, Zhen, Chen, Zhi, Hou, Xiaoli, Li, Shuping, Zhu, Haihong, Qian, Ji, ...
Structural Relationships between Highly Conserved Elements and Genes in Vertebrate Genomes
Sun, Hong, Skogerbø, Geir, Wang, Zhen, Liu, Wei, Li, Yixue
Large numbers of sequence elements have been identified to be highly conserved among vertebrate genomes. These highly conserved elements (HCEs) are often located in or around genes that are involved...
Yan, Yongliang, Yang, Jian, Dou, Yuetan, Chen, Ming, Ping, Shuzhen, Peng, Junping, ...
The capacity to fix nitrogen is widely distributed in phyla of Bacteria and Archaea but has long been considered to be absent from the Pseudomonas genus. We report here the complete genome sequencing...
A one-sided confidence set hidden under a two-sided sequential test of a normal mean
This article demonstrates how to construct a 1 - [alpha] level confidence set naturally associated a size [alpha] two-sided sequential test of a normal mean [mu]. If the null hypothesis H0: [mu] = 0...
Control of directional errors with step-up multiple tests
It is shown in Shaffer (1980) that step-down multiple tests designed to control Type I errors at rate [alpha] actually control Type I and III errors jointly at rate [alpha] under certain...
Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of Hsp33 from Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Liu, Wei, Zhou, Ye-Yun, Teng, Mai-Kun, Zhou, Cong-Zhao
Heat-shock protein Hsp33 from S. cerevisiae was crystallized and diffraction data were collected to 2.7 Å resolution.
Prostaglandin E2 modulates dendritic cell function during chlamydial genital infection
Inflammatory responses mediated by antigen-presenting dendritic cells (DCs), can be modulated by the presence of prostaglandins (PG), including prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). PGE2 modifies the production...
A novel COL1A1 nonsense mutation causing osteogenesis imperfecta in a Chinese family
Liu, Wei, Gu, Feng, Ji, Jian, Lu, Duanyang, Li, Xiaorong, Ma, Xu
Novel Genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato from Rodents and Ticks in Southwestern China▿
Chu, Chen-Yi, Liu, Wei, Jiang, Bao-Gui, Wang, Ding-Ming, Jiang, Wei-Jia, Zhao, Qiu-Min, ...
By using multilocus sequence analysis, five Borrelia valaisiana-related strains isolated from rodents and ticks in southwestern China were eventually classified as a new genospecies of B. burgdorferi...
Reddy, Padmalatha S, Legault, Holly M, Sypek, Joseph P, Collins, Mark J, Goad, Elizabeth, Goldman, Samuel J, ...
MARKET TIMING OF INTERNATIONAL STOCK MARKETS USING THE YIELD SPREAD
Wei (Wendy) Liu, Bruce G. Resnick, Gary L. Shoesmith
We use probit modeling to forecast bear stock markets in the United States and in eight major foreign stock markets. In general, we find that the U.S. yield spread contains more important...
Genomic regions with distinct genomic distance conservation in vertebrate genomes
Sun, Hong, Skogerbø, Geir, Zheng, Xiaohui, Liu, Wei, Li, Yixue
Bondareva, Alla, Downey, Charlene M., Ayres, Fabio, Liu, Wei, Boyd, Steven K., Hallgrimsson, Benedikt, ...
Lysyl oxidase (LOX), an extracellular matrix remodeling enzyme, appears to have a role in promoting breast cancer cell motility and invasiveness. In addition, increased LOX expression has been...
Probability density estimation for survival data with censoring indicators missing at random
Wang, Qihua, Liu, Wei, Liu, Chunling
In this paper, some nonparametric approaches of density function estimation are developed when censoring indicators are missing at random. A conditional mean score based estimator and a mean score...
Reddy, Padmalatha S, Legault, Holly M, Sypek, Joseph P, Collins, Mark J, Goad, Elizabeth, Goldman, Samuel J, ...
Garten, Rebecca J, Lai, Sheng-Han, Zhang, Jin-Bing, Liu, Wei, Chen, Jie, Yu, Xiao-Fang
AIM: To study the virological and host factors influencing hepatitis C infection outcomes in heroin users in southern China.
Zhao, Meng, Duan, Xu-Fang, Zhao, Xu-Yun, Zhang, Bo, Lu, Ying, Liu, Wei, ...
Today's business success to a great extent depends on logistics and supply chain performance. More and more companies, especially manufacturing firms, obtain their competitive advantages through...
The Beijing Olympics and the Art of Nation-State Maintenance
This article maps out how different actors are involved in the promotion and mediation of the Olympics. It looks at the roles of, first, the nation-state, through an analysis of the promotional...
Control and Out-of-Sample Validation of Dependent Risks
This article introduces a framework to determine and allocate capital reserves to multiple dependent business lines, with or without overall reserve level constraints. The proposed methodology...
A simple and efficient algorithm for genome-wide homozygosity analysis in disease
Liu, Wei, Ding, Jinhui, Gibbs, Jesse Raphael, Wang, Sue Jane, Hardy, John, Singleton, Andrew
Here we propose a simple statistical algorithm for rapidly scoring loci associated with disease or traits due to recessive mutations or deletions using genome-wide single nucleotide polymorphism...
Identification of a bacteriocin and its cognate immunity factor expressed by Moraxella catarrhalis
Attia, Ahmed S, Sedillo, Jennifer L, Hoopman, Todd C, Liu, Wei, Liu, Lixia, Brautigam, Chad A, ...
The chinchilla microdialysis model for the study of antibiotic distribution to middle ear fluid
Cheung, Belinda W. Y., Liu, Wei, Ji, Ping, Cartier, Linda L., Li, Zhihong, Mostafa, Nael, ...
In cases of slow or limited penetration of an antibiotic to the site of infection such as in acute otitis media (the middle ear), plasma levels of the agent may not reflect the concentrations that...
Crystal structure of DNA gyrase B′ domain sheds lights on the mechanism for T-segment navigation
Fu, Guangsen, Wu, Jinjun, Liu, Wei, Zhu, Deyu, Hu, Yonglin, Deng, Jiaoyu, ...
DNA gyrase is an indispensible marvelous molecular machine in manipulating the DNA topology for the prokaryotes. In the ‘two-gate’ mechanism of DNA topoisomerase, T-segment navigation from N- to...
Guo, Yuanbiao, Zhang, Xuequn, Huang, Jian, Zeng, Yan, Liu, Wei, Geng, Chao, ...
In fetal hematopoietic organs, the switch from hematopoiesis is hypothesized to be a critical time point for organogenesis, but it is not yet evidenced. The transient coexistence of hematopoiesis...
Polyploid evolution in Oryza officinalis complex of the genus Oryza
Wang, Baosheng, Ding, Zhuoya, Liu, Wei, Pan, Jin, Li, Changbao, Ge, Song, ...
Genomic Epidemiology of a Dengue Virus Epidemic in Urban Singapore▿ †
Schreiber, Mark J., Holmes, Edward C., Ong, Swee Hoe, Soh, Harold S. H., Liu, Wei, Tanner, Lukas, ...
Dengue is one of the most important emerging diseases of humans, with no preventative vaccines or antiviral cures available at present. Although one-third of the world's population live at risk of...
Some new methods for the comparison of two linear regression models
The frequently used approach to the comparison of two linear regression models is to use the partial F test. It is pointed out in this paper that the partial F test has in fact a naturally associated...
In many statistical problems, the variances of the populations cannot be assumed to be equal. These inhomogeneity problems are often more difficult to handle than the corresponding homogeneity...
A New Application of Exact Nonparametric Methods to Long-Horizon Predictability Tests
Empirical results from long-horizon regression tests have been influential in the finance literature. Yet, it has come to be understood that traditional long-horizon tests may be unreliable in finite...
Proteomics, pathway array and signaling network-based medicine in cancer
Zhang, David Y, Ye, Fei, Gao, Ling, Liu, Xiaoliang, Zhao, Xin, Che, Yufang, ...
Cancer is a multifaceted disease that results from dysregulated normal cellular signaling networks caused by genetic, genomic and epigenetic alterations at cell or tissue levels. Uncovering the...