A note on finite Dehn filling (2009)
Abstract. Let M be a compact, connected, orientable 3-manifold whose boundary is a torus and whose interior admits a complete hyperbolic metric of finite volume. In this paper we show that if the...
Dehn fillings of large hyperbolic 3–manifolds (2009)
S. Boyer, C. Mca Gordon, X. Zhang
Let M be a compact, connected, orientable, hyperbolic 3-manifold whose boundary is a torus and which contains an essential closed surface S. It is conjectured that 5 is an upper bound for the...
Evidence for Proton-Dominated Cosmic Ray Composition above 1.6 EeV (2009)
Abbasi, R. U., Abu-Zayyad, T., Al-Seady, M., Allen, M., Amman, J. F., Anderson, R. J., ...
We report studies of ultra-high energy cosmic ray composition via analysis of depth of airshower maximum (Xmax), for airshower events collected by the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) observatory....
The masses of hot subdwarfs (2009)
Masses are a fundamental parameter, but they are not well known for most hot subdwarfs. In general, the mass of a hot subdwarf is derived with asteroseismology or dynamical methods, for which it is...
Measurement of the Flux of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays by the Stereo Technique (2009)
Abbasi, R. U., Abu-Zayyad, T., Al-Seady, M., Allen, M., Amann, J. F., Archbold, G., ...
The High Resolution Fly's Eye experiment has measured the flux of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays using the stereoscopic air fluorescence technique. The HiRes experiment consists of two detectors that...
De Beer, Thomas, Vercruysse, Pieter, Burggraeve, Anneleen, Quinten, Thomas, Ouyang, J., Zhang, X., ...
The aim of the present study was to examine the complementary properties of Raman and near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy as PAT tools for the fast, noninvasive, non-destructive and in-line process...
X. Zhang, Z. M. Chen, S. Z. He, W. Hua, Y. Zhao, J. L. Li
Peroxyacetic Acid (PAA) is one of important atmospheric organic peroxides, which have received increasing attention for their potential contribution to the oxidation capacity of the troposphere and...
Yao, G., Zheng, C., Zhang, X., Chen, H., Zeng, C., ...
Objective. Currently the detection of renal vascular lesions (VLS) mainly depends on biopsy examination, and lacks surrogate biomarkers for clinical dynamic evaluation. The aim of this study is to...
Zhang, X., Li, Cheng-Dao, Tay, Amy, Lance, Reginald Charles Matheson, Mares, Daryl John, Cheong, Judy Poh-Eng, ...
© 2008 Springer. Part of Springer Science+Business Media
Zhang, X., Li, Cheng-Dao, Tay, Amy, Lance, Reginald Charles Matheson, Mares, Daryl John, Cheong, Judy Poh-Eng, ...
© 2008 Springer. Part of Springer Science+Business Media
Tagging pathogenicity genes in Fusarium graminearum using the transposon system mimp/impala (2008)
Dufresne, M., Ben M'Barek, S., Xu, X., Zhang, X., Liu, T., ...
Transposon mutagenesis was applied to generate Mutants in Fusarium graminearum. The mimp1/impala system originally identified in F. oxysporum proved very promising for mutagenesis as the transposon...
Zhang, X., Dufresne, M., Liu, T., Lu, W.Z., Yu, D.Z., ...
Fusorium head blight (FHB), mainly caused by Fusarium graminearum, is a very serious disease in wheat and barley production area. FHB epidemics cause yield decreases and production Of mycotoxin that...
Enhanced backward scattering by surface plasmons on silver film (2007)
Liu, Z., Pile, David F. P., Luo, Q., Fang, N., Zhang, X.
Remarkable attention has been attracted recently due to novel properties of surface plasmon and its potential applications in nanotechnology. In this work we present an angularly resolved surface...
Tutuian, R, Shay, S, Vela, M, Zhang, X, ...
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Empiric proton pump inhibitor (PPI) trials have become increasingly popular leading to gastroenterologists frequently evaluating gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD) patients...
cisRED: a database system for genome-scale computational discovery of regulatory elements (2006)
Robertson, G., Bilenky, M., Lin, K., He, A., Yuen, W., Dagpinar, M., ...
We describe cisRED, a database for conserved regulatory elements that are identified and ranked by a genome-scale computational system (www.cisred.org). The database and high-throughput predictive...
A convenient A(2)+B-3 approach to hyperbranched poly(arylene oxindole)s (2005)
We developed a facile approach to hyperbranched polymers by applying a superelectrophilic reaction within an A(2) + B-3 strategy. A significant reactivity difference between the intermediate and the...
High Diversity of the Chicken Growth Hormone Gene and Effects on Growth and Carcass Traits (2005)
Nie, Q., Sun, B., Zhang, D., Luo, C., Ishag, N. A., Lei, M., ...
The chicken growth hormone (cGH) gene plays a crucial role in controlling growth and metabolism, leading to potential correlations between cGH polymorphisms and economic traits. In this study, DNA...
Abu-Zayyad, T, Amann, J F, Archbold, G, Bellido, J A, Belov, K, ...
We have measured the cosmic ray spectrum above 10(17.2) eV using the two air-fluorescence detectors of the High Resolution Fly's Eye observatory operating in monocular mode. We describe the detector,...
Stassen, M, Losen, M, Zhang, X, Machiels, B
Experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis (EAMG) can be induced in a large number of animal species by active immunization (AI) AChR, by passive transfer (PT) of anti-AChR antibodies, by autologous...
Detection of essential surfaces (2001)
Mathematische Annalen, S. Schanuel, X. Zhang
According to Bass-Serre theory [Se],given a field F with a discrete valuation v: F ∗→Z,there is a canonical way to construct a simplicial tree T = TF,v on which SL2(F) acts simplicially without...
On the algebraic components of the SL(2,�) character varieties
NON-INTEGRAL TOROIDAL SURGERY ON HYPERBOLIC KNOTS IN S 3 (1999)
C. Mca Gordon, Y-q. Wu, X. Zhang
Abstract. It is shown that a hyperbolic knot in S 3 admits at most one nonintegral Dehn surgery producing a toroidal manifold. Let K be a knot in the 3-sphere S3 and M = MK the complement of an open...
Virtual Haken 3-manifolds and Dehn "lling (1998)
The study of 3-manifolds splits nicely into the cases of "nite fundamental groups and in"nite fundamental groups. Concerning 3-manifolds with in"nite fundamental groups, the following...
Inhibitory effects of oxidants on n-type K+ channels in T lymphocytes and Xenopus oocytes (1997)
Zhang, X, Busch, A E, Gulbins, E, Suessbrich, H, ...
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) appear to be involved in Fas-induced programmed cell death. We have previously demonstrated a tyrosine-kinase-dependent inhibition of the n-type K+ channels (Kn) by Fas...
Allamand, V, Sunada, Y, Salih, MA, Straub, V, Ozo, CO, Al-Turaiki, MH, ...
Premplantation embryology (1996)
Khamsi, F., Armstrong, D.T., Zhang, X.
During embryo implantation in the human trophoblast cells invade the endometrium and plasminogen activators (PA) are implicated in this tissue invasion process. Our studies on surplus embryos from...
Finite Dehn surgery on knots (1996)
Let K be a knot with a closed tubular neighbourhood N(K) in a connected orientable closed 3-manifold W, such that the exterior of K, M = W −intN(K), is irreducible. We consider the problem of which...
It is shown that if M is a compact, connected, orientable hyperbolic 3-manifold whose boundary is a torus, and 7‘1, FZ are two slopes on i7M whose associated fillings are respectively a reducible...
Exceptional surgery on knots (1994)
Abstract. Let M be an irreducible, compact, connected, orientable 3-manifold whose boundary is a torus. We show that if M is hyperbolic, then it admits at most six finite/cyclic fillings of maximal...
Mn-DPDP enhanced MRI in experimental bile duct obstruction (1993)
Zhang, X, Yu, J, Lodemann, K P, Baert, A L
To assess both the effect of Mn-DPDP as a hepatobiliary-specific contrast agent in bile duct obstruction and the relative role of liver and kidney in the elimination of this agent from the body, an...
The behaviour of two liver-specific contrast MR agents, Gd-EOB-DTPA and Mn-DPDP and one nonspecific contrast agent, Gd-DTPA, was compared in a rat model of chemically induced hepatocellular carcinoma...