Li, Hongbin., Zhang, Junsen., Zhu, Yi.
Demography - Volume 45, Number 1, February 2008
Differential Space-Time Modulation for Wideband Wireless Networks (2007)
This project investigated differential modulation for broadband wireless communication systems equipped with multiple transmit antennas operating in frequency-selective channels. The objective was to...
Hongbin Li, Qing Zhao, Zhenyu Yang
This paper proposes a reliability monitoring scheme for active fault tolerant control systems using a stochastic modeling method. The reliability index is defined based on system dynamical responses...
Distributed Event Region Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks (2007)
We propose a graph-based method for distributed event-region detection in a wireless sensor network (WSN). The proposed method is developed by exploiting the fact that the true events at...
INEMO: Distributed RF-Based Indoor Location Determination with Confidence Indicator (2007)
Hongbin Li, Xingfa Shen, Jun Zhao, Zhi Wang, Youxian Sun
Using radio signal strength (RSS) in sensor networks localization is an attractive method since it is a cost-efficient method to provide range indication. In this paper, we present a two-tier...
Li, Hongbin, Zhang, Junsen, Zhu, Yi
Testing the tradeoff between child quantity and quality within a family is complicated by the endogeneity of family size. Using data from the Chinese Population Census, this paper examines the effect...
Visiting Faculty Research Program (2006)
Li, Hongbin, Chen, Roger, Abu-Ghazaleh, Nael, Zhang, Shuqun, Campbell, Alistair, Chen, Peter, ...
The Research Foundation, for and on behalf of SUNY Institute of Technology (SUNYIT), has contributed significant research capability and capacity to the in-house program at the Air Force Research...
Blind channel estimation for multicarrier systems with narrowband interface suppression (2005)
We present herein a novel blind channel estimator for multicarrier (MC) systems in the presence of unmodeled narrowband interference. A generalized multichannel minimum variance principle is invoked...
Differential space-time-frequency modulation over frequency-selective fading channels (2003)
We present herein a differential space-time-frequency (DSTF) modulation scheme for systems with two transmit antennas over frequency-selective fading channels. The proposed DSTF scheme employs a...
Filterbank-based code synchronization for DS-CDMA systems in multipath fading channels (2003)
We present a filterbank approach to blind code synchronization for asynchronous direct-sequence (DS) code-division multiple-access (CDMA) systems. The key idea of the proposed scheme is to first pass...
It has been known, MT1-, 2-, 3-, 5-MMP have a transmembrane (TM) domain and MT4-, 6-MMP contain a GPI anchor, both of which are supposed to localize these proteins on cell surface. However, a...
Bielefeld, University, Diss., 2003 (Nicht für den Austausch).
Space-Time Coded MC-CDMA: Blind Channel Estimation, Identifiability, and Receiver Design (2003)
Integrating the strengths of multicarrier (MC) modulation and code division multiple access (CDMA), MC-CDMA systems are of great interest for future broadband transmissions. This paper considers the...
Bank Discrimination in Transition Economies: Ideology, Information or Incentives? (2002)
We study bank discrimination against private firms in transition countries. Theoretically, we show that banks may discriminate for non-profit reasons, but this discrimination diminishes with a...
PEVK Domain of Titin: An Entropic Spring with Actin-Binding Properties (2002)
Linke,Wolfgang A., Kulke,Michael, Li,Hongbin, Fujita-Becker,Setsuko, Neagoe,Ciprian, Manstein,Dietmar J., ...
The PEVKdomain of the giant muscle protein titin is a proline-rich sequence with unknown secondary/tertiary structure. Here we compared the force-extension behavior of cloned cardiac PEVK titin...
Capon Multiuser Receiver for CDMA Systems With Space-Time Coding (2002)
Hongbin Li, Xuguang Lu, Georgios B. Giannakis
We present in this paper a linear blind multiuser receiver, referred to as the Capon receiver, for code-division multiple -access (CDMA) systems utilizing multiple transmit antennas and space-time...
PEVK Domain of Titin: An Entropic Spring with Actin-Binding Properties (2002)
Linke,Wolfgang A., Kulke,Michael, Li,Hongbin, Fujita-Becker,Setsuko, Neagoea,Ciprian, Manstein,Dietmar J., ...
The PEVKdomain of the giant muscle protein titin is a proline-rich sequence with unknown secondary/tertiary structure. Here we compared the force-extension behavior of cloned cardiac PEVK titin...
PEVK Domain of Titin: An Entropic Spring with Actin-Binding Properties (2002)
Linke, Wolfgang A., Kulke, Michael, Li, Hongbin, Fujita-Becker, Setsuko, Neagoe, Ciprian, Manstein, Dietmar J., ...
The PEVKdomain of the giant muscle protein titin is a proline-rich sequence with unknown secondary/tertiary structure. Here we compared the force-extension behavior of cloned cardiac PEVK titin...
PEVK Domain of Titin: An Entropic Spring with Actin-Binding Properties (2002)
Linke, Wolfgang A., Kulke, Michael, Li, Hongbin, Fujita-Becker, Setsuko, Neagoea, Ciprian, Manstein, Dietmar J., ...
The PEVKdomain of the giant muscle protein titin is a proline-rich sequence with unknown secondary/tertiary structure. Here we compared the force-extension behavior of cloned cardiac PEVK titin...
Why do Governments Privatize (2001)
Brandt, Loren, Li, Hongbin, Roberts, Joanne
The role of township-owned enterprises in the rapid growth of the Chinese economy during reform is widely acknowledged. Beginning in the mid-1990s, however, these firms began to be privatized....
Li, Hongbin, Rozelle, Scott D.
This paper studies insider privatization in transition economies. We show theoretically that the underperformance of insider-privatized firms could be due to the manager-cum-owner's lack of...
-D Sinusoidal Amplitude Estimation With Application To 2-D System Identification (2001)
Hongbin Li, Wei Sun, Peter Stoica, Jian Li
In [1], we studied amplitude estimation of one-dimensional (1-D) sinusoidal signals from measurements corrupted by possibly colored observation noise. We herein extend the results for twodimensional...
Blind Multiuser Detection For Space-Time Coded Cdma Systems (2001)
We propose here a linear blind multiuser detector, referred to as the Capon receiver, for space-time coded CDMA (code division multiple access) systems. The proposed Capon receiver is designed to...
Submitted to the Department of Economics.
Performance Analysis of Forward-Backward Matched-Filterbank Spectral Estimators (2000)
Hongbin Li, Student Member, Jian Li, Senior Member, Petre Stoica
The problem of complex spectral estimation is of great interest in many applications. This paper studies the general class of the forward-backward matched-filterbank (MAFI) spectral estimators...
D Sinusoidal Amplitude Estimation With Application (2000)
Hongbin Li, Wei Sun, Petre Stoica, Jian Li
In [1], we studied amplitude estimation of one-dimensional (1-D) sinusoidal signals from measurements corrupted by possibly colored observation noise. We herein extend the results for twodimensional...
Decoupled MultledF Code-Timing Est3F for Code-Division MultisionF5342 Communicat Systt (2000)
Multisionf Communicat Systt, Hongbin Li, Jian Li, S L. Miller
h the Department of Electrical and CompuD( Engineering, Stevens Institu3 of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA (e-mail: hli@stevens-tech.edu3 # Jian Li is with the Department of Electrical and...
Computationally Efficient Parameter Estimation for . . . (2000)
A Markov-like weighted least squares (WLS) estimator is presented herein for harmonic sinusoidal parameter estimation. The estimator involves two distinct steps whereby it "rst obtains a set of...
Amplitude Estimation of Sinusoidal Signals: Survey, (2000)
Petre Stoica, Hongbin Li, Jian Li, Senior Member
This paper considers the problem of amplitude estimation of sinusoidal signals from observations corrupted by colored noise. A relatively large number of amplitude estimators, which encompass least...
Computationally Efficient Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Structured Covariance Matrices (2000)
Hongbin Li, Student Member, Petre Stoica, Jian Li, Senior Member
By invoking the extended invariance principle (EXIP), we present herein a computationally efficient method that provides asymptotic (for large samples) maximum likelihood (AML) estimation for...
A New Derivation of the APES Filter (2000)
Petre Stoica, Hongbin Li, Jian Li, Senior Member
We introduce a novel design criterion for datadependent narrowband filters that are of interest in temporal or spatial spectral analysis applications. The solution to the design problem considered is...
Channel Order and RMS Delay Spread Estimation for AC Power Line Communications (2000)
Li, Hongbin, Bi, Zhaoqiang, Liu, Duixian, Stoica, Petre
AC power lines have been considered as a convenient and low-cost medium for intra-building automation systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of estimating the channel order and root mean...
Guoqing Liu, Hongbin Li, Jian Li
High Range Resolution #HRR# Moving Target Indication #MTI# is becoming increasingly important for many military and civilian applications such as the detection and classi#cation of moving targets in...
Channel Order and RMS Delay Spread Estimation for AC Power Line Communications (2000)
Hongbin Li, Zhaoqiang Bi, Duixian Liu, Jian Li, Petre Stoica
ACpower lines have been considered as a convenient and low-cost medium for intrabuilding automation systems. In this paper, weinvestigate the problem of estimating the channel order and root mean...
Computationally Efficient Parameter Estimation for Harmonic Sinusoidal Signals (1999)
A Markov-like weighted least squares (WLS) estimator is presented herein for harmonic sinusoidal parameter estimation. The estimator involves two distinct steps whereby it first obtains a set of...
Efficient Implementation of Capon and APES for Spectral Estimation (1999)
Zheng-she Liu, Hongbin Li, Jian Li
Both the Capon and APES estimators can be shown to belong to the class of matched-filterbank spectral estimators and can be used to obtain complex spectral estimates that have more narrow spectral...
Hongbin Li, Petre Stoica, Jian Li, Andreas Jakobsson
This paper makes use of a Matched-Filterbank (MAFI) approach to study the forward-only and forward-backward Capon (termed FCapon and FBCapon, respectively) as well as the forward-only and...
Hongbin Li, Petre Stoica, Jian Li, Andreas Jakobsson
This paper makes use of a Matched-Filterbank (MAFI) approach to study the forward-only and forward-backward Capon (termed FCapon and FBCapon, respectively) as well as the forward-only and...
A Novel Angle Estimator for Signals with Known Waveforms (1970)
Hongbin Li, Guoqing Liu, Jian Li
A large-sample decoupled maximum likelihood angle estimator for signals with known waveforms is presented by exploiting the a priori knowledge that the observation noise can be modeled as spatially...
Hongbin Li, Petre Stoica, Jian Li, Andreas Jakobsson
This paper makes use of a Matched-Filterbank (MAFI) approach to study the forward-only and forward-backward Capon (termed FCapon and FBCapon, respectively) as well as the forward-only and...
Performance Analysis of Forward-Backward Matched-Filterbank Spectral Estimators (1970)
Hongbin Li, Jian Li, Petre Stoica
The problem of complex spectral estimation is of great interest in many applications. This paper studies the general class of the forward-backward MAtched-FIlterbank (MAFI) spectral estimators...
Capon Estimation of Covariance Sequences (1970)
Hongbin Li, Petre Stoica, Jian Li
Estimating the covariance sequence of a wide-sense stationary process is of fundamental importance in digital signal processing (DSP). A new method, which makes use of Fourier inverting the Capon...
Hongbin Li, Jian Li, Scott L. Miller
We present herein a DEMA (DEcoupled Multiuser Acquisition) algorithm for code-timing estimation in asynchronous code-division multiple-access (CDMA) communication systems. The DEMA estimator is an...
Partial privatization and screening
It is shown that the government, in privatizing state owned enterprises, can use partial privatization as a screening mechanism to elicit private information from the manager about the firm's value....
Parental childcare and children's educational attainment: evidence from China
Hongbin Li, Xianguo Yao, Junsen Zhang, Li-An Zhou
This paper examines the determinants of child educational attainment. In addition to those examined in previous studies, it is found that maternal childcare is another important determinant of child...
Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Chinese Twins
Hongbin Li, Pak Wai Liu, Ning Ma, Junsen Zhang
This paper empirically estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data that the authors collected from urban China. Our ordinary least squares estimate...
Loren Brandt, Hongbin Li, Joanne Roberts
The role of township-owned enterprises in the rapid growth of the Chinese economy during reform is widely acknowledged. Beginning in the mid-1990s, however, these firms began to be privatized....
Hongbin Li, Junsen Zhang, Yi Zhu
This paper measures the effect of China's one-child policy on fertility by exploring the natural experiment that has been created by China's unique affirmative birth control policy, which is possibly...
Why Does Spousal Education Matter for Earnings? Assortative Mating or Cross-productivity
Chong Huang, Hongbin Li, Pak Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang
In interpreting the positive relationship between spousal education and one's earnings, economists have two major hypotheses: cross-productivity between couples and assortative mating. However, no...
Mother's Education and Child Health: Is There a Nurturing Effect?
In this paper, we examine the effect of maternal education on the health of young children by using a large sample of adopted children from China. As adopted children are genetically unrelated to the...
Atomic force microscopy captures quantized plastic deformation in gold nanowires
Marszalek, Piotr E., Greenleaf, William J., Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fernandez, Julio M.
Scanning probe microscopy has become a powerful tool to detect structural changes in small clusters of atoms. Herein, we use an atomic force microscope to measure the length of gold nanowire...
Atomic force microscopy reveals the mechanical design of a modular protein
Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fowler, Susan B., Clarke, Jane, Fernandez, Julio M.
Tandem modular proteins underlie the elasticity of natural adhesives, cell adhesion proteins, and muscle proteins. The fundamental unit of elastic proteins is their individually folded modules. Here,...
Atomic levers control pyranose ring conformations
Marszalek, Piotr E., Pang, Yuan-Ping, Li, Hongbin, Yazal, Jamal El, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fernandez, Julio M.
Atomic force microscope manipulations of single polysaccharide molecules have recently expanded conformational chemistry to include force-driven transitions between the chair and boat conformers of...
Multiple conformations of PEVK proteins detected by single-molecule techniques
Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Redick, Sambra D., Carrion-Vazquez, Mariano, Erickson, Harold P., Fernandez, Julio M.
An important component of muscle elasticity is the PEVK region of titin, so named because of the preponderance of these amino acids. However, the PEVK region, similar to other elastomeric proteins,...
Chair-boat transitions in single polysaccharide molecules observed with force-ramp AFM
Marszalek, Piotr E., Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fernandez, Julio M.
Under a stretching force, the sugar ring of polysaccharide molecules switches from the chair to the boat-like or inverted chair conformation. This conformational change can be observed by stretching...
The unfolding kinetics of ubiquitin captured with single-molecule force-clamp techniques
Schlierf, Michael, Li, Hongbin, Fernandez, Julio M.
We use single-molecule force spectroscopy to study the kinetics of unfolding of the small protein ubiquitin. Upon a step increase in the stretching force, a ubiquitin polyprotein extends in discrete...
The Force-Driven Conformations of Heparin Studied with Single Molecule Force Microscopy
Marszalek, Piotr E., Oberhauser, Andres F., Li, Hongbin, Fernandez, Julio M.
Using single molecule force spectroscopy we examine the response of heparin chains to mechanical stretching. We find that at forces below 200 pN heparin behaves as a simple entropic spring. At ∼200...
Banks and Enterprise Privatization in China
Loren Brandt, Hongbin Li, Joanne Roberts
Drawing on a unique dataset we collected in 1998 and 2000, this article examines the determinants of privatization of township and village enterprises in China. Our theoretical model explicitly...
Atomic force microscopy captures quantized plastic deformation in gold nanowires
Marszalek, Piotr E., Greenleaf, William J., Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fernandez, Julio M.
Scanning probe microscopy has become a powerful tool to detect structural changes in small clusters of atoms. Herein, we use an atomic force microscope to measure the length of gold nanowire...
Atomic force microscopy reveals the mechanical design of a modular protein
Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fowler, Susan B., Clarke, Jane, Fernandez, Julio M.
Tandem modular proteins underlie the elasticity of natural adhesives, cell adhesion proteins, and muscle proteins. The fundamental unit of elastic proteins is their individually folded modules. Here,...
Atomic levers control pyranose ring conformations
Marszalek, Piotr E., Pang, Yuan-Ping, Li, Hongbin, Yazal, Jamal El, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fernandez, Julio M.
Atomic force microscope manipulations of single polysaccharide molecules have recently expanded conformational chemistry to include force-driven transitions between the chair and boat conformers of...
Multiple conformations of PEVK proteins detected by single-molecule techniques
Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Redick, Sambra D., Carrion-Vazquez, Mariano, Erickson, Harold P., Fernandez, Julio M.
An important component of muscle elasticity is the PEVK region of titin, so named because of the preponderance of these amino acids. However, the PEVK region, similar to other elastomeric proteins,...
Chair-boat transitions in single polysaccharide molecules observed with force-ramp AFM
Marszalek, Piotr E., Li, Hongbin, Oberhauser, Andres F., Fernandez, Julio M.
Under a stretching force, the sugar ring of polysaccharide molecules switches from the chair to the boat-like or inverted chair conformation. This conformational change can be observed by stretching...
The unfolding kinetics of ubiquitin captured with single-molecule force-clamp techniques
Schlierf, Michael, Li, Hongbin, Fernandez, Julio M.
We use single-molecule force spectroscopy to study the kinetics of unfolding of the small protein ubiquitin. Upon a step increase in the stretching force, a ubiquitin polyprotein extends in discrete...
The Force-Driven Conformations of Heparin Studied with Single Molecule Force Microscopy
Marszalek, Piotr E., Oberhauser, Andres F., Li, Hongbin, Fernandez, Julio M.
Using single molecule force spectroscopy we examine the response of heparin chains to mechanical stretching. We find that at forces below 200 pN heparin behaves as a simple entropic spring. At ∼200...
Sharma, Deepak, Perisic, Ognjen, Peng, Qing, Cao, Yi, Lam, Canaan, Lu, Hui, ...
It is recognized that shear topology of two directly connected force-bearing terminal β-strands is a common feature among the vast majority of mechanically stable proteins known so far. However,...
Contour Length and Refolding Rate of a Small Protein Controlled by Engineered Disulfide Bonds
Ainavarapu, Sri Rama Koti, Brujić, Jasna, Huang, Hector H., Wiita, Arun P., Lu, Hui, Li, Lewyn, ...
The introduction of disulfide bonds into proteins creates additional mechanical barriers and limits the unfolded contour length (i.e., the maximal extension) measured by single-molecule force...
A functional single-molecule binding assay via force spectroscopy
Cao, Yi, Balamurali, M. M., Sharma, Deepak, Li, Hongbin
Protein–ligand interactions, including protein–protein interactions, are ubiquitously essential in biological processes and also have important applications in biotechnology. A wide range of...
Bank Discrimination in Transition Economies: Ideology, Information or Incentives?
We study bank discrimination against private firms in transition countries. Theoretically, we show that banks may discriminate for non-profit reasons, but this discrimination diminishes with a...
Incentive contracts and bank performance
Hongbin Li, Scott Rozelle, Li-An Zhou
This paper, using unique survey data from the banking industry in rural China, investigates the effect of incentive contracts on performance. In the context of China's economic transition, we find...