Kinematics in Randers-Finsler geometry and secular increase of the astronomical unit (2009)
Kinematics in Finsler space is investigated. It is showed that the result based on the kinematics with a special Finsler structure is in good agreement with the reported value of secular trend in the...
The MediaMill TRECVID 2008 Semantic Video Search Engine Draft notebook paper (2009)
O. De Rooij, B. Huurnink, J. He, ...
In this paper we describe our TRECVID 2008 video retrieval experiments. The MediaMill team participated in three tasks: concept detection, automatic search, and interactive search. Rather than...
Li, D., Li, X., Huang, H., Li, X.
In this paper, we present four SLOCC invariants of degree 2^{n/2} of any even n qubits. By means of the invariants, we propose some SLOCC classification of any even qubits.
Li, X., MacLeod, R., Dunlop, A.J., Edwards, H.V., Advant, M., Gibson, L.C.D., ...
βarrestins are molecular scaffolds that can bring together three-component mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling modules to promote signal compartmentalisation. We use peptide array...
Yang, S., Lach-hab, M., Vaisman, I. I., Li, X., Blaisten-Barojas, E.
In this work we provide a list of 200 crystal entries in the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database (ICSD) that have errors, incomplete information, or are given a generic name of zeolite when they may...
Search for b → u transitions in B^0 → D^(0)K^(*0) decays (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We present a study of the decays B^0 → D^(0)K^(*0) and B^0 →[overline D]^(0)K^(*0) with K^(*0) → K^(+)π^-. The D^0 and the [overline D]^0 mesons are reconstructed in the final states f =...
Electrohydrodynamic atomisation (EHDA) spraying is a promising materials deposition technique as it allows uniform and regular deposition, and offers a range of other advantages, such as low cost...
Evidence for X(3872) → Ψ (2S)y in B^± → X(3872)K^± Decays and a Study of B → ccyK (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
In a search for B → ccyK decays with the BABAR detector, where cc includes J/Ψ and Ψ (2S), and K includes K^±, K^0_S , and K^*(892), we find evidence for X(3872) → J/Ψy and X(3872) → Ψ...
Search for the decay B^+-->K_s^0K_s^0pi^+ (2009)
Aubert , B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We search for charmless decays of charged B mesons to the three-body final state K_S^0K_S^0pi^+. Using a data sample of 423.7 fb^(-1) collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector,...
Direct CP, Lepton Flavor, and Isospin Asymmetries in the Decays B → K^(*)l^+l^- (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We measure branching fractions and integrated rate asymmetries for the rare decays B→K(*)l^+l^-, where l^+l^- is either e^+e^- or µ^+µ^-, using a sample of 384×10^6 B B events collected with the...
Aubert , B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We present measurements of the time-dependent CP-violation parameters S and C in the decays B0-->omegaKS0, B0-->eta[prime]K0, reconstructed as eta[prime]KS0 and eta[prime]KL0, and B0-->pi0KS0. The...
Measurement of the B^+ → omegal^+nu and B^+ → etal^+nu branching fractions (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We present a study of the charmless semileptonic B-meson decays B^+ → omega[script-l]^+nu and B^+ → eta[script-l]^+nu. The analysis is based on 3.83×10^8 B[overline B] pairs recorded at the...
Angular distributions in the decay B → K^*l^+l^- (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prudent, X., ...
We use a sample of 384×106 B[overline B] events collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- collider to study angular distributions in the rare decays B-->K*[script-l]+[script-l]-, where...
Dalitz plot analysis of D_s^+ → π^+π^-π^+ (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
A Dalitz plot analysis of approximately 13 000 D_s^+ decays to π^+π^-π^+ has been performed. The analysis uses a 384 fb-1 data sample recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy...
Measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries in B^0 → D^((*)+)D^((*)-) decays (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We present new measurements of time-dependent CP asymmetries for B^0→D(*)+D(*)- decays using (467±5)×10^6 B[overline B] pairs collected with the BABAR detector located at the PEP-II B Factory at...
Measurement of the e^(+)e^(-)→ bb(macron) cross section between √s = 10.54 and 11.20 GeV (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We report e^(+)e^(-)→ bb(macron) cross section measurements by the BABAR experiment performed during an energy scan in the range of 10.54 to 11.20 GeV at the SLAC PEP-II e^(+)e^(-) collider. A...
Branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries in radiative B decays to ηKγ (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We present measurements of the CP-violation parameters S and C for the radiative decay B^0 → ηK^0_Sγ for B → ηKγ we also measure the branching fractions and for B^+ → ηK^+γ the...
Search for Lepton Flavor Violating Decays tau^- --> l^-Ks^0 with the BABAR Experiment (2009)
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
A search for the lepton flavor violating decays τ^- → l^- K^0_S (l = e or µ) has been performed using a data sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 469 fb-1, collected with the BABAR...
Karmakar, M. K., Li, X., Ho, A. M.-H., Kwok, W. H., Chui, P. T.
Background Current methods of locating the epidural space rely on surface anatomical landmarks and loss-of-resistance (LOR). We are not aware of any data describing real-time ultrasound (US)-guided...
Cancer risks in Crohn disease patients (2009)
Hemminki, K., Li, X., Sundquist, J., Sundquist, K.
Background: Patients diagnosed with Crohn disease (CD) are known to be at an increased risk of bowel cancers and lymphoma. CD is an autoimmune disease and we hypothesize that the patients are...
Personal Social Capital Scale: an instrument for health and behavioral research (2009)
Chen, X., Stanton, B., Gong, J., Fang, X., Li, X.
The concept of social capital has drawn much attention in social and behavioral epidemiology and health education research. The purpose of this study is to develop the ‘Personal Social Capital...
Cancer risk in hospitalized sarcoidosis patients: a follow-up study in Sweden (2009)
Ji, J., Shu, X., Li, X., Sundquist, K., Sundquist, J., Hemminki, K.
Background: Sarcoidosis patients show dysregulated immune function, which may be related to subsequent cancer. We examined here the overall and specific cancer risks among Swedish subjects who had...
Complexity of conditional colorability of graphs (2009)
Li, X., Yao, X., Zhou, W., Broersma, H.J.
For positive integers $k$ and $r$, a conditional $(k,r)$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that every vertex $v$ of degree $d(v)$ in $G$ is adjacent to...
RFID infrastructure design: A case study of two Australian RFID projects (2009)
Mo, J, Sheng, Q, Li, X, Zeadally, S
The design, implementation, and deployment of large-scale RFID infrastructures can occur only through innovative solutions that address RFID challenges at all levels, including device, data...
G. Zhao, R. Chu, X. Li, T. Zhang, J. Shen, Z. Wu
During the intensive observation period of the Watershed Allied Telemetry Experimental Research (WATER), a total of 1074 raindrop size distribution were measured by the Parsivel disdrometer, a latest...
G. Zhu, X. Li, Y. Su, C. Huang
The following two models were combined to predict simultaneously CO2 and H2O gas exchange at the leaf scale of Populus euphratica: a Farquhar et al. type biochemical sub-model of photosynthesis...
Application of Direct Fluid Flow Oscillations to Improve Mixing in Microbioreactors (2009)
Li, X., Gulik Van, W.M., Heijnen, J.J., ...
This article describes an active mixing method for a microbioreactor that was designed, simulated, tested, and successfully implemented. By applying a varying pressure to a microchannel looping...
Chromoblastomycosis caused by a meristematic mutant of Fonsecaea monophora (2009)
Xi, L., Lu, C., Sun, J., Li, X., Liu, H., Zhang, J., ...
We report the first case of chromoblastomycosis caused by a meristematic mutant of Fonsecaea monophora in an 81-year-old Cantonese male. The patient had a seven-month history of a red plaque with...
Structure of the ribosome associating GTPase HflX (Online first) (2009)
Wu, H., Sun, L., Blombach, F., Brouns, S.J.J., Snijders, A.P.L., Lorenzen, K., ...
The HflX-family is a widely distributed but poorly characterized family of translation factor-related guanosine triphosphatases (GTPases) that interact with the large ribosomal subunit. This study...
Zhang, H, Jiang, Z, Chang, J, Li, X, Zhu, H, Zhou, S, ...
Aim: This study investigated the role of NAD(P)H oxidase in transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1)-induced reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1),...
Aubert, B., Bona, M., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J. P., Poireau, V., Prencipe, E., ...
We report a measurement of the branching fractions of D**- decays based on 417 fb-1 of data collected at the (4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage rings. Events are...
Niu, C, Li, X, Lei, C, Clarke, AK
Chetoneura shennonggongensis Amorim & Niu, sp.n., inhabiting caves in East China, is described based on the adult male and female, plus larva. Chetoneura Colless, previously associated with Orfelia...
Sundquist, K., Martineus, J. C., Li, X., Hemminki, K., Sundquist, J.
Objectives. To quantify the sibling risk of RA, SLE and AS. To analyse the concordant and discordant associations between RA, SLE and AS. Methods. Follow-up study of all individuals and their...
Karmakar, M. K., Ho, A. M.-H., Li, X., Kwok, W. H., Tsang, K., Ngan Kee, W. D.
Lumbar plexus block (LPB) is frequently used in combination with an ipsilateral sacral plexus or sciatic nerve block for lower limb surgery. This is traditionally performed using surface anatomical...
Auxin as a Model for the Integration of Hormonal Signal Processing and Transduction (2008)
Teale, W.D., Ditengou, F.A., Dovzhenko, A.D., Li, X., Molendijk, A.M., Ruperti, B., ...
The regulation of plant growth responds to many stimuli. These responses allow environmental adaptation, thereby increasing fitness. In many cases, the relay of information about a plant's...
Study of B meson decays with excited eta and eta ` mesons (2008)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, JP, ...
Li, W., Li, X., Li, Zheng-Xiang
Middle Neoproterozoic igneous rocks are widespread in South China, but their petrogenesis and tectonic implications are still highly controversial. The Guangfeng middle Neoproterozoic...
Choosing leaders for multi-objective PSO algorithms using differential evolution (2008)
The fast convergence of particle swarm algorithms can become a downside in multi-objective optimization problems when there are many local optimal fronts. In such a situation a multi-objective...
Improving the performance and scalability of differential evolution (2008)
Differential Evolution (DE) is a powerful optimization procedure that self-adapts to the search space, although DE lacks diversity and sufficient bias in the mutation step to make efficient progress...
Integrating user preferences with particle swarms for multi-objective optimization (2008)
This paper proposes a method to use reference points as preferences to guide a particle swarm algorithm to search towards preferred regions of the Pareto front. A decision maker can provide several...
Genetic pathways and mutation profiles of human cancers: site- and exposure-specific patterns (2007)
Lea, I.A., Jackson, M.A., Li, X., Bailey, S., Peddada, S.D., Dunnick, J.K.
Cancer is a complex disease that involves the accumulation of both genetic and epigenetic alterations of numerous genes. Data in the Genetic Alterations in Cancer database for gene mutations and...
Integrated electrochemical sensor array for on-line monitoring of yeast fermentations (2007)
Krommenhoek, E.E., Gardeniers, J.G.E., Bomer, J.G., Li, X., Ottens, M., ...
This paper describes the design, modeling, and experimental characterization of an electrochemical sensor array for on-line monitoring of fermentor conditions in both miniaturized cell assays and in...
A ZnO nanorod based layered ZnO/64 degrees YX LiNbO3 SAW hydrogen gas sensor (2007)
Sadek, A, Wlodarski, W, Li, Y, Yu, W, Yu, X, Kalantar-Zadeh, K, ...
A zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorod based surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensor has been developed and investigated towards hydrogen (H-2) gas. The ZnO nanorods were deposited onto a layered ZnO/64 degrees YX...
Allen, A.J, Li, X, Ilavsky, J, Delabie, Annelies, ...
A Complete Image Compression Scheme Based on Overlapped Block Transform with Post-Processing (2006)
C. Kwan, B. Li, R. Xu, X. Li, T. Tran, T. Nguyen
A complete system was built for high-performance image compression based on overlapped block transform. Extensive simulations and comparative studies were carried out for still image compression...
Platinum passivation of self-assembled erbium disilicide nanowire arrays on Si(100) (2005)
Ragan, R., Kim, S., Li, X., Stanley Williams, R.
Self-assembled ErSi2−x nanowires were grown on Si(001) substrates with an average nanowire width of 2.8 nm. Submonolayer coverage of platinum was deposited on the Si(001) surface post ErSi2−x...
Age and gender differences in health service utilization (2005)
Background This study of age and gender profiles of health care populations fills a gap in the research literature by providing a population study of both single health agency and inter-agency...
Age and Gender Differences in Health Service Utilization (2005)
Background This study of age and gender profiles of health care populations fills a gap in the research literature by providing a population study of both single health agency and inter-agency...
Age and gender differences in health service utilization (2005)
Background This study of age and gender profiles of health care populations fills a gap in the research literature by providing a population study of both single health agency and inter-agency...
Technology is rapidly changing the speed and manner in which people interact with each other and with the world. As technology helps criminals to operate more easily and quickly across borders, so...
Fatigue Stress Analysis of Suspension Bridged using FEM (2002)
Chan, Tommy H.T., Li, X., Guo, L.
Fatigue is an important fallurc mode for large suspension bridges under traffic loadings. However, large suspension bridges have so many attributes tbat it is difficult to analyze their fatigue...
Safety of the weight-adjusted dosing regimen of tenecteplase in the ASSENT-Trial (2001)
Alexander, J H, Chin, R, Li, X, Barron, H V, Armstrong, P W, ...
The results of the ASsessment of Safety and Efficacy of a New Thrombolytic agent (ASSENT-2) trial revealed that tenecteplase (TNK) is equivalent to tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) for treating...
Barron, H V, Armstrong, P W, Granger, C B, Berioli, S, Barbash, G, ...
BACKGROUND: Fibrinolytic therapy increases the risk of bleeding events. TNK-tPA (tenecteplase) is a variant of rt-PA with greater fibrin specificity and reduced plasma clearance that can be given as...
Barron, H.V., Armstrong, P.W., Granger, C.B., Berioli, S., Barbash, G., ...
Background Fibrinolytic therapy increases the risk of bleeding events. TNK-tPA (tenecteplase) is a variant of rt-PA with greater fibrin specificity and reduced plasma clearance that can be given as a...
Illegal wildlife trade in the Himalayan region of China (2000)
Li, Y., Gao, Z., Li, X., Wang, S., Niemelä, J.
The Himalayan region of China, with its rich biodiversity, used to be important for hunting and collecting of medicinal plants. In the past decades, conservation attitudes and legislation for...
HCG concentration and receptor gene expression in placental tissue from trisomy 18 and 21 (2000)
Jauniaux, E., Bao, S., Eblen, A., Li, X., Lei, Z.M., Meuris, S., ...
Trisomy 21 is associated with high maternal serum concentrations of intact human chorionic gonadotrophin α(HCG) and free β-HCG whereas these concentrations are markedly decreased in trisomy 18. In...
Li, X, Suzuki, K, Kanaori, K, Tajima, K, Kashiwada, A, Hiroaki, H, ...
Potential regulation of GnRH gene by a steroidogenic factor-1-like protein (2000)
Corley, D.R., Li, X., Lei, Z.M., Rao, Ch.V.
Steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) is a member of an orphan nuclear hormone receptor superfamily. It plays a critical role in the development and function of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal and...
Shiraishi, M, Oates, AJ, Li, X, Hosoda, F, Ohki, M, Alitalo, T, ...
Methodological Study on Dose Reconstruction for Uranium Miners in China (1998)
Zhang, Y., Yang, J., Ma, J., Zhou, J., Li, X., Yang, M., ...
Occupational exposure of uranium miners is very important in the nuclear industry. The individual dose to the miners in the earlier times in China suffers from a lack of information. To reconstruct...
Does Auxin Play a Role in the Release of Apical Dominance by Shoot Inversion in Ipomoea nil? (1993)
Prasad, T. K., Li, X., Abdel-Rahman, A. M., Hosokawa, Z., Cloud, N. P., Lamotte, C. E., ...
According to the auxin-inhibition hypothesis of apical dominance, apically produced auxin moves down the stem and inhibits axillary bud outgrowth, either directly or indirectly. This hypothesis has...
Second primary malignancies in patients with male breast cancer
Hemminki, K, Scélo, G, Boffetta, P, Mellemkjaer, L, Tracey, E, Andersen, A, ...
An international multicentre study of first and second primary neoplasms associated with male breast cancer was carried out by pooling data from 13 cancer registries. Among a total of 3409 men with...
Although estimates are available of the proportion of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) among all colorectal cancer (CRC), its proportion among familial CRC is unclear. We estimated...
Shi, Y-Z, Hui, A-M, Takayama, T, Li, X, Cui, X, Makuuchi, M
To investigate the relationship between the expression of p21WAF1/ClP1protein and p53 status and the possible role of the two proteins in hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), we examined the expression...
Cancers in the first-degree relatives of children with brain tumours
Hemminki, K, Li, X, Vaittinen, P, Dong, C
We used the nationwide Swedish Family-Cancer Database with 2060 childhood brain tumours diagnosed in the period 1958–1996 to analyse the risk of this tumour by parental cancers and in siblings of...
Cancer risks in childhood and adolescence among the offspring of immigrants to Sweden
We used the nation-wide Swedish Family-Cancer Database to analyse the risk of nervous system tumours, leukaemia and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in age groups 0–4 and 0–19 years among Swedish-born...
Estimating and testing haplotype-trait associations in non-diploid populations
X. Li, B. N. Thomas, S. M. Rich, D. Ecker, J. K. Tumwine, A. S. Foulkes
Malaria is an infectious disease that is caused by a group of parasites of the genus "Plasmodium". Characterizing the association between polymorphisms in the parasite genome and measured traits in...