Collaboration Engineering in Distributed Environments (2008)
Halbana Tarmizi, Matt Payne, Cherie Noteboom, Chi Zhang, Lucas Steinhauser, ...
e-Service Journal - Volume 6, Number 1, Fall 2007
Adiabatic Quantum Counting by Geometric Phase Measurement (2008)
We design an adiabatic quantum algorithm for the counting problem, i.e., approximating the proportion of the marked items in a given database. As the quantum system undergoes a designed cyclic...
Guodong Tang, Jinfang Zhang, Chi Zhang
A new W/S/Cu cluster, [Cu3WIS4(C21H21O3P)3]·C3H7NO, was formed by the reaction of ammonium tetrathiotungstate(VI), cuprous iodide and tris(4-methoxyphenyl)phosphine in N,N-dimethylformamide. The...
Guodong Tang, Jinfang Zhang, Chi Zhang, Lude Lu
Hexamethylphosphoramide (hmp), tetrathiotungstate(VI), silver sulfide and lanthanum(III) nitrate are self-assembled to form discrete cations one-dimensional poylmeric anionic chains [AgWS4]nn−...
Guodong Tang, Jinfang Zhang, Chi Zhang
In the title compound, {[Nd(NO3)2(C6H18N3OP)4][AgWS4]}n, the central Nd atom of the monovalent cation is coordinated by eight O atoms from two nitrate and four hexamethylphosphoramide ligands. The...
Study of energy storage systems based on axial-flux flywheel-rotor electric machines / (2007)
"Supervisor, Prof. Tseng King Jet."
A Study of Phase Noise and Jitter in Submicron CMOS Phase-Locked Loop Circuits (2006)
Phase-locked loops (PLLs) are widely used in communication systems. With the continuously expanding of market for high speed, portable communication devices, low noise CMOS submicron integrated...
A Study of Phase Noise and Jitter in Submicron CMOS Phase-Locked Loop Circuits (2006)
Phase-locked loops (PLLs) are widely used in communication systems. With the continuously expanding of market for high speed, portable communication devices, low noise CMOS submicron integrated...
Discrimination between pure states and mixed states (2006)
Zhang, Chi, Wang, Guoming, Ying, Mingsheng
In this paper, we discuss the problem of determining whether a quantum system is in a pure state, or in a mixed state. We apply two strategies to settle this problem: the unambiguous discrimination...
Universal programmable devices for unambiguous discrimination (2006)
We discuss the problem of designing unambiguous programmable discriminators for any $n$ unknown quantum states in an $m$-dimensional Hilbert space. The discriminator is a fixed measurement which has...
Optimal universal programmable detectors for unambiguous discrimination (2005)
Zhang, Chi, Ying, Mingsheng, Qiao, Bo
We discuss the problem of designing unambiguous programmable discriminators for any n unknown quantum states in an m-dimensional Hilbert space. The discriminator is a fixed measurement that has two...
Vita.
Potential energy surface to kinetics and thermodynamics of atomic clusters / (2005)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Chemistry, December 2005.
Promoting Cardiac Cell Differentiation (2004)
Lemanski, Larry E., Zhang, Chi
Compositions and methods for including a cardiac muscle phenotype, such as rhythmic contraction and formation of myofibrils, in a cell are described. Disclosed are nucleic acids encoding...
Unambiguous discrimination of mixed quantum states (2004)
Zhang, Chi, Feng, Yuan, Ying, Ming Sheng
In this paper, we consider the problem of unambiguous discrimination between a set of mixed quantum states. We first divide the density matrix of each mixed state into two parts by the fact that it...
Radiative neutron beta-decay in effective field theory (2004)
Bernard, Veronique, Gardner, Susan, Meissner, Ulf-G., Zhang, Chi
The shape of the electron energy spectrum in 3H beta-decay permits a direct assay of the absolute scale of the neutrino mass; a highly accurate theoretical description of the electron energy spectrum...
Unbound Protein-Protein Docking Selections by the DFIRE-based Statistical Pair Potential (2004)
Liu, Song, Zhang, Chi, Zhou, Yaoqi
A newly developed statistical pair potential based on Distance-scaled Finite Ideal-gas REference (DFIRE) state is applied to unbound protein-protein docking structure selections. The performance of...
Radiative neutron beta-decay in effective field theory (2004)
Bernard, Veronique, Gardner, Susan, Meissner, Ulf-G., Zhang, Chi
The shape of the electron energy spectrum in 3H beta-decay permits a direct assay of the absolute scale of the neutrino mass; a highly accurate theoretical description of the electron energy spectrum...
Radiative neutron beta-decay in effective field theory (2004)
Bernard, Veronique, Gardner, Susan, Meissner, Ulf-G., Zhang, Chi
The shape of the electron energy spectrum in 3H beta-decay permits a direct assay of the absolute scale of the neutrino mass; a highly accurate theoretical description of the electron energy spectrum...
Distance Learning Technologies for Basic Education in Disadvantaged Areas (2004)
Junwen Lai, Elisha Ziskind, Fengzhou Zheng, Yilei Shao, Chi Zhang, Ming Zhang, ...
Basic education plays a crucial role in uplifting disadvantaged areas from the grip of poverty. Distance learning systems are a promising option to deliver education to children who have access to...
Approaches to Congestion Control in packet networks (2004)
L. Mamatas, V. Tsaoussidis, Xanthi Greece, Chi Zhang
We discuss congestion control algorithms, using network awareness as a criterion to categorize di#erent approaches. The first category ("the box is black") consists of a group of algorithms that...
Network-Embedded Programmable Storage and Its Applications (2004)
Sumeet Sobti, Junwen Lai, Yilei Shao, Nitin Garg, Chi Zhang, Ming Zhang, ...
We consider the utility of two key properties of network-embedded storage: programmability and network-awareness. We describe two extensive applications, whose performance and functionalities are...
Segank: A Distributed Mobile Storage System (2004)
Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Fengzhou Zheng, Junwen Lai, Yilei Shao, Chi Zhang, ...
This paper presents a distributed mobile storage system designed for storage elements connected by a network of non-uniform quality. Flexible data placement is crucial, and it leads to challenges for...
[School of Medicine] Department of Pharmacology.
Considering the Energy Consumption of Mobile Storage Alternatives (2003)
Fengzhou Zheng, Nitin Garg, Sumeet Sobti, Chi Zhang, Russell E. Joseph, Arvind Krishnamurthy, ...
This paper is motivated by a simple question: what are the energy consumption characteristics of mobile storage alternatives? To answer this question, we are faced with a design space of multiple...
Zhang, Chi, Dowd, Diane R., Staal, Ada, Gu, Chun, Lian, Jane B., Van Wijnen, Andre J., ...
Nuclear coactivator-62 kDa/Ski-interacting protein (NCoA62/SKIP) is a putative vitamin D receptor (VDR) and nuclear receptor coactivator protein that is unrelated to other VDR coactivators such as...
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy.
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, but available to University of Auckland users by individual request, use the feedback form to request access.
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, but available to University of Auckland users by individual request, use the feedback form to request access.
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, but available to University of Auckland users by individual request, use the feedback form to request access.
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, but available to University of Auckland users by individual request, use the feedback form to request access.
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy.
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy.
Whole document restricted at the request of the author, see Access Instructions file below for details of how to access the print copy.
Configuring and Scheduling an Eager-Writing Disk Array for (2002)
Chi Zhang, Xiang Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
exemplified by the TPC-C benchmark are among the most demanding I/O applications for conventional storage systems. Two complementary techniques exist to improve the performance of these systems....
Chi Zhang, Xiang Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
exemplified by the TPC-C benchmark are among the most demanding I/O applications for conventional storage systems. Two complementary techniques exist to improve the performance of these systems....
PersonalRAID: Mobile Storage for (2002)
Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Chi Zhang, Xiang Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
This paper presents the design and implementation of a mobile storage system called a PersonalRAID. PersonalRAID manages a number of disconnected storage devices. At the heart of a PersonalRAID...
PersonalRAID: Mobile Storage for Distributed and Disconnected Computers (2002)
Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Chi Zhang, Xiang Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
This paper presents the design and implementation of a mobile storage system called a PersonalRAID. PersonalRAID manages a number of disconnected storage devices. At the heart of a PersonalRAID...
Configuring and Scheduling an Eager-Writing Disk Array for a Transaction Processing Workload (2001)
Chi Zhang, Xiang Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
Transaction processing applications such as those exemplified by the TPC-C benchmark are among the most demanding I/O applications for conventional storage systems. Two complementary techniques exist...
PersonalRAID: Mobile Storage for Distributed and Disconnected Computers (2001)
Sumeet Sobti, Nitin Garg, Chi Zhang, Xiang Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
This paper presents the design and implementation of a mobile storage system called a PersonalRAID. PersonalRAID manages a number of disconnected storage devices. At the heart of a PersonalRAID...
Configuring and Scheduling an Eager-Writing Disk Array for a Transaction Processing Workload (2001)
Chi Zhang, Xiang Yu, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Randolph Y. Wang
Transaction processing applications such as those exemplified by the TPC-C benchmark are among the most demanding I/O applications for conventional storage systems. Two complementary techniques exist...
Persistent Virtual Storage Address Translation (2001)
Ruoming Pang, Chi Zhang, Zhifeng Chen
Introduction In traditional storage systems, physical device geometry information are exposed to le systems. File system can obtain the physical address of logical disk blocks, and utilize this...
Thesis (doctoral)--Eberhard-Karls-Universität zu Tübingen, 2001.
Devising a software process improvement models for small-scale software development / (2000)
Typescript.
Regulation of human breast cancer cell death by sphingolipids /--by Chi Zhang. (1998)
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Food Science and Human Nutrition, 1998.
Compelling histopathic, biochemical and genetic data have implicated the amyloid $\beta$ peptide (A$\beta$) in Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis (AD). Consistent with this putative link to AD, an...
Vita.
Thesis (Ph. D., Neurobiology and Physiology)--Northwestern University, 1997.
Extensive phosphorylation of Smoothened in Hedgehog pathway activation
Zhang, Chi, Williams, Elizabeth H., Guo, Yurong, Lum, Lawrence, Beachy, Philip A.
The transmembrane protein Smoothened (Smo) is activated in response to the extracellular protein signal, Hedgehog (Hh), and transmits this state of pathway activity into the cell. Previous studies in...
Zhou, Hongyi, Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Yaoqi
We have developed the following web servers for protein structural modeling and analysis at : THUMBUP, UMDHMMTMHP and TUPS, predictors of transmembrane helical protein topology based on a...
The Dependence of All-Atom Statistical Potentials on Structural Training Database
Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Hongyi, Zhou, Yaoqi
An accurate statistical energy function that is suitable for the prediction of protein structures of all classes should be independent of the structural database used for energy extraction. Here, two...
Liu, Ai-Lin, Lu, Wen-Qing, Wang, Zeng-Zhen, Chen, Wei-Hong, Lu, Wen-Hong, Yuan, Jing, ...
To investigate associations among occupational exposure to coke oven emissions (COEs), oxidative stress, cytogenotoxic effects, change in the metabolizing enzyme glutathione S-transferase (GST), and...
SOX7 and SOX18 are essential for cardiogenesis in Xenopus1
Zhang, Chi, Basta, Tamara, Klymkowsky, Michael W.
Early in vertebrate development, endodermal signals act on mesoderm to induce cardiogenesis. The F-type SOXs SOX7 and SOX18β are expressed in the cardiogenic region of the early Xenopus embryo....
Protein binding site prediction using an empirical scoring function
Liang, Shide, Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Yaoqi
Most biological processes are mediated by interactions between proteins and their interacting partners including proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. This work establishes a method called...
Mapping of multiple quantitative trait loci affecting bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Zhang, Chi, De Koning, Dirk-Jan, Hernández-Sánchez, Jules, Haley, Chris S, Williams, John L, Wiener, Pamela
A whole-genome scan was conducted to map quantitative trait loci (QTL) for BSE resistance or susceptibility. Cows from four half-sib families were included and 173 microsatellite markers were used to...
Extensive phosphorylation of Smoothened in Hedgehog pathway activation
Zhang, Chi, Williams, Elizabeth H., Guo, Yurong, Lum, Lawrence, Beachy, Philip A.
The transmembrane protein Smoothened (Smo) is activated in response to the extracellular protein signal, Hedgehog (Hh), and transmits this state of pathway activity into the cell. Previous studies in...
Zhou, Hongyi, Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Yaoqi
We have developed the following web servers for protein structural modeling and analysis at : THUMBUP, UMDHMMTMHP and TUPS, predictors of transmembrane helical protein topology based on a...
The Dependence of All-Atom Statistical Potentials on Structural Training Database
Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Hongyi, Zhou, Yaoqi
An accurate statistical energy function that is suitable for the prediction of protein structures of all classes should be independent of the structural database used for energy extraction. Here, two...
Liu, Ai-Lin, Lu, Wen-Qing, Wang, Zeng-Zhen, Chen, Wei-Hong, Lu, Wen-Hong, Yuan, Jing, ...
To investigate associations among occupational exposure to coke oven emissions (COEs), oxidative stress, cytogenotoxic effects, change in the metabolizing enzyme glutathione S-transferase (GST), and...
Mapping of multiple quantitative trait loci affecting bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
Zhang, Chi, De Koning, Dirk-Jan, Hernández-Sánchez, Jules, Haley, Chris S, Williams, John L, Wiener, Pamela
A whole-genome scan was conducted to map quantitative trait loci (QTL) for BSE resistance or susceptibility. Cows from four half-sib families were included and 173 microsatellite markers were used to...
Protein binding site prediction using an empirical scoring function
Liang, Shide, Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Yaoqi
Most biological processes are mediated by interactions between proteins and their interacting partners including proteins, nucleic acids and small molecules. This work establishes a method called...
An NF-κB and Slug Regulatory Loop Active in Early Vertebrate Mesoderm
Zhang, Chi, Carl, Timothy F., Trudeau, Evan D., Simmet, Thomas, Klymkowsky, Michael W.
Protein flexibility prediction by an all-atom mean-field statistical theory
Pandey, B.P., Zhang, Chi, Yuan, Xianzhang, Zi, Jian, Zhou, Yaoqi
We extended a mean-field model to proteins with all atomic detail. The all-atom mean-field model was used to calculate the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of a three-helix bundle fragment of...
Accurate and efficient loop selections by the DFIRE-based all-atom statistical potential
Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Yaoqi
The conformations of loops are determined by the water-mediated interactions between amino acid residues. Energy functions that describe the interactions can be derived either from physical...
Zhang, Chi, Liu, Song, Zhou, Hongyi, Zhou, Yaoqi
Structure prediction on a genomic scale requires a simplified energy function that can efficiently sample the conformational space of polypeptide chains. A good energy function at minimum should...
Carbon intensity of electricity generation and CDM baseline: case studies of three Chinese provinces
J. David Richardson, Chi Zhang
We map United States comparative advantage between 1980 and 1995, by trading partner and region, using Balassa's export-based index of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA). We find: temporally stable...
Inhibition of Wnt signaling by the osteoblast-specific transcription factor Osterix
Zhang, Chi, Cho, Kyucheol, Huang, Yehong, Lyons, Jon P., Zhou, Xin, Sinha, Krishna, ...
The recent identification of the genes responsible for several human genetic diseases affecting bone homeostasis and the characterization of mouse models for these diseases indicated that canonical...