Hui Zhao

Expression of Human Semenogelin I-52 and Antibacterial Activity Investigation of Recombinant Peptide (2008)

Zhao, Hui, Liu, Xiao-dong, Gao, Zhen-hua, Zhang, Jian-hua, Li, Hong, Zhang, Yun, ...

Nucleotide sequence coding for SgI-52 with amino acid residues of 85-136 form mature human semenogelin I was amplified by PCR technique from the cDNA of a human seminal vesicle. The obtained PCR...

Controllable spin-current blockade in a Hubbard chain (2008)

Yao, Yao, Zhao, Hui, Moore, Joel E., Wu, Chang-Qin

We investigate the spin/charge transport in a one-dimensional strongly correlated system by using the adaptive time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group method. The model we consider is a...

Temperature dependence of ambipolar diffusion in silicon-on-insulator (2008)

Zhao, Hui

Spatiotemporal dynamics of electron-hole pairs locally excited in a silicon-on-insulator structure by indirect interband absorption are studied by measuring differential transmission caused by...

All-optical generation and detection of sub-picosecond ac spin current pulses in GaAs (2008)

Ruzicka, Brian A., Higley, Karl, Werake, Lalani K., Zhao, Hui

Sub-picosecond ac spin current pulses are generated optically in GaAs bulk and quantum wells at room temperature and 90K through quantum interference between one-photon and two-photon absorptions...

Estimation of Phytoplankton Responses to Hurricane Gonu over the Arabian Sea Based on Ocean Color Data (2008)

Dongxiao Wang, Hui Zhao

In this study the authors investigated phytoplankton variations in the Arabian Sea associated with Hurricane Gonu using remote-sensing data of chlorophyll-a (Chl-a), sea surface temperature (SST) and...

The value of mediastinoscopy in the staging of lung cancer with clinical N2 disease (2008)

Hui ZHAO, Jun WANG, Jun LIU, Jianfeng LI, Guanchao JIANG, Yun LI, ...

Background and objective To determine the value of mediastinoscopy in the mediastinal staging of lung cancer with clinical N2 disease. Methods We retrospectively reviewed 87 patients received...

Determination of Topology Skeleton of Magnetic Fields in a Solar Active Region (2007)

Zhao, Hui, Wang, Jing-Xiu, Zhang, Jun, Xiao, Chi-Jie, Wang, Hai-Min

The knowledge of magnetic topology is the key to understand magnetic energy release in astrophysics. Based on observed vector magnetograms, we have determined threedimensional (3D) topology skeleton...

Confinement and Manipulation of Actin Filaments by Electric Fields (2007)

Arsenault, Mark E, Zhao, Hui, Purohit, Prashant, Goldman, Yale E, Bau, Haim H

When an AC electric field was applied across a small gap between two metal electrodes elevated above a surface, rhodamine-phalloidin-labeled actin filaments were attracted to the gap and became...

Confinement and Manipulation of Actin Filaments by Electric Fields (2007)

Arsenault, Mark E, Zhao, Hui, Purohit, Prashant K, Goodman, Yale E, Bau, Haim H

When an AC electric field was applied across a small gap between two metal electrodes elevated above a surface, rhodamine-phalloidin-labeled actin filaments were attracted to the gap and became...

Microfluidic chaotic stirrer utilizing induced-charge electro-osmosis (2007)

Zhao, Hui, Bau, Haim H

Recently, there has been a growing interest in using induced electro-osmosis to pump fluids in microfluidic devices. We show that induced electro-osmosis can also be used to promote stirring and...

Suppression of Rayleigh-Benard Convection with Proportional-Derivative Controller (2007)

Remillieux, Marcel C, Zhao, Hui, Bau, Haim H

We study theoretically (linear stability) and experimentally the use of proportional and derivative controllers to postpone the transition from the no-motion state to the convective state in a...

A coalescent analysis for modeling the mutation process in colorectal cancer (2007)

Zhao, Hui

Colorectal cancer is the forth most common diagnosed cancer in the United States. Every year about a hundred forty-seven thousand people will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer and fifty-six...

Expressive facial animation transfer for virtual actors / (2007)

Zhao, Hui.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007.

Expressive facial animation transfer for virtual actors / (2007)

Zhao, Hui.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007.

Limitations of Linear Control of Thermal Convection in a Porous Medium (2006)

Zhao, Hui, Bau, Haim H

The ability of linear controllers to stabilize the conduction (no-motion) state of a saturated porous layer heated from below and cooled from above is studied theoretically. Proportional, suboptimal...

Phonon Effects on Spin-Charge Separation in One Dimension (2005)

Ning, W. Q., Zhao, Hui, Wu, C. Q., Lin, H. Q.

Phonon effects on spin-charge separation in one dimension are investigated through the calculation of one-electron spectral functions in terms of the recently developed cluster perturbation theory...

Correlations of spin-polarized and entangled electrons with Berry phase (2005)

Zhao, Xuean, Zhao, Hui, Wang, Pei, Li, You-Quan

The correlation and fluctuation of both entangled electrons and spin-polarized pairs affected by two rotating magnetic fields in a setup proposed by J. Carlos Egues etc. (Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf...

Shot Noise for Entangled Electrons with Berry Phase (2005)

Zhao, Hui, Zhao, Xuean, Li, You-Quan

We study shot noise for entangled electrons in a 4-lead beam-splitter with one incoming lead driven by adiabatically rotating magnetic fields. We propose a setup of an adiabatically rotating magnetic...

Sterol Composition of Pneumocystis jirovecii with Blocked 14α-Demethylase Activity (2004)

JOSÉ-LUIS GINER, HUI ZHAO, ZUNIKA AMIT, EDNA S. KANESHIRO

Several drugs that interact with membrane sterols or inhibit their syntheses are effective in clearing a number of fungal infections. The AIDS-associated lung infection caused by Pneumocystis...

A Note on Entanglement of Formation and Generalized Concurrence (2004)

Fei, Shao-Ming, Wang, Zhi-Xi, Zhao, Hui

We discuss a kind of generalized concurrence for a class of high dimensional quantum pure states such that the entanglement of formation is a monotonically increasing convex function of the...

m1202 Gao et al. [Co(C 10 H 8 O 6 )(C 10 H 8 N 2 ) 2 (H 2 O)]4H 2 O DOI: 10.1107/S160053680401846X Acta Cryst. (2004). E60, m1202m1204 Acta Crystallographica Section E (2004)

Shan Gao, Ji-wei Liu, Hui Zhao, Key Indicators

Co(H 2 O) 6 ](1,4-BDOA) (Liu, Gao et al., 2004), and [Co(triethanolamine) 2 ](1,4-BDOA) (Gao, Liu, Huo & Ng, 2004), in which the carboxylate ligands do not coordinate to metal ions but rather...

m976 Zhen-Zhong Lu et al. [Cu 2 (C 2 H 3 O 2 ) 4 (C 5 H 5 NO) 2 ] DOI: 10.1107/S1600536804014278 Acta Cryst. (2004). E60, m976m978 Acta Crystallographica Section E (2004)

Zhen-zhong Lu, Shan Gao, Li-hua Huo, Hui Zhao, Jing-gui Zhao, Key Indicators

dination behavior of the metal with 4-hydroxypyridine or 4-pyridone, we used Cu(acetate) 2 2 O instead of cobalt salts in the reaction and synthesized the novel copper complex [Cu 2 (acetate) 4...

Mice with cardiac-restricted angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) have atrial enlargement, cardiac arrhythmia, and sudden death. (2004)

Xiao, Hong D., Fuchs, Sebastien, Campbell, Duncan J., Lewis, William, Dudley, Samuel C., Kasi, Vijaykumar S., ...

To investigate the local effects of angiotensin II on the heart, we created a mouse model with 100-fold normal cardiac angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE), but no ACE expression in kidney or vascular...

A candidate metastasis-associated DNA marker for ductal mammary carcinoma (2003)

Achary, Patnala, Zhao, Hui, Fan, Zuoheng, Gogineni, Swarna, Pulijaal, Venkat R, Herbst, Lawrence, ...

Abstract Background Molecular genetic markers to identify the 13% lymph node-negative mammary carcinomas that are prone to develop metastases would clearly be of considerable value in indicating...

Managing service parts logistics: Inventory sharing and rationing in decentralized and centralized distribution networks (2003)

Zhao, Hui

In this dissertation, we consider an inventory sharing and rationing problem in continuous-review, infinite-horizon, distribution networks. Unlike previous literature on inventory sharing, we model...

Studies of isochron luminescence dating with sand-sized grains (2003)

Zhao, Hui

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled STUDIES OF ISOCHRON LUMINESCENCE DATING WITH SAND-SIZED GRAINS Submitted by Zhao Hui for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong...

Studies of isochron luminescence dating with sand-sized grains (2003)

Zhao, Hui

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled STUDIES OF ISOCHRON LUMINESCENCE DATING WITH SAND-SIZED GRAINS Submitted by Zhao Hui for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong...

Studies of isochron luminescence dating with sand-sized grains (2003)

Zhao, Hui

(Uncorrected OCR) Abstract of thesis entitled STUDIES OF ISOCHRON LUMINESCENCE DATING WITH SAND-SIZED GRAINS Submitted by Zhao Hui for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at The University of Hong...

An Analysis (2002)

Jennifer Black, Hui Zhao

The MINIMUM COVER problem is one of the class of NP-Complete problems which has applicability to the eld of software testing. MINIMUM COVER is considered in the context of software testing due to its...

Hot exciton transport in ZnSe quantum wells (2002)

Zhao, Hui, Moehl, Sebastian, Wachter, Sven, Kalt, Heinz

The in-plane transport of excitons in ZnSe quantum wells is investigated directly by microphotoluminescence in combination with a solid immersion lens. Due to the strong Froehlich coupling, the...

Functional studies of novel genes involved in embryogenesis of the vertebrate Xenopus laevis (2002)

Zhao, Hui

In this study, the large-scale whole-mount in situ hybridization was employed to screen an activin-treated ectoderm cDNA library of Xenopus laevis, leading to the isolation of 51 novel cDNA sequences...

Spatio-temporal dynamics of quantum-well excitons (2002)

Zhao, Hui, Don, B. Dal, Moehl, S., Kalt, H., Ohkawa, K., Hommel, D.

We investigate the lateral transport of excitons in ZnSe quantum wells by using time-resolved micro-photoluminescence enhanced by the introduction of a solid immersion lens. The spatial and temporal...

Solid immersion lens-enhanced micro-photoluminescence: principle and applications (2002)

Moehl, S., Zhao, Hui, Don, B. Dal, Wachter, S., Kalt, H.

We demonstrate the combination of a hemispherical solid immersion lens with a micro-photoluminescence setup. Two advantages introduced by the SIL, an improved resolution of 0.4 times the wavelength...

Coherence Length of Excitons in a Semiconductor Quantum Well (2002)

Zhao, Hui, Moehl, Sebastian, Kalt, Heinz

We report on the first experimental determination of the coherence length of excitons in semiconductors using the combination of spatially resolved photoluminescence with phonon sideband...

Effect of quantum confinement on exciton-phonon interactions (2002)

Zhao, Hui, Wachter, Sven, Kalt, Heinz

We investigate the homogeneous linewidth of localized type-I excitons in type-II GaAs/AlAs superlattices. These localizing centers represent the intermediate case between quasi-two-dimensional (Q2D)...

Functional studies of novel genes involved in embryogenesis of the vertebrate Xenopus laevis (2002)

Zhao, Hui

In this study, the large-scale whole-mount in situ hybridization was employed to screen an activin-treated ectoderm cDNA library of Xenopus laevis, leading to the isolation of 51 novel cDNA sequences...

Energy relaxation during hot-exciton transport in quantum wells: Direct observation by spatially resolved phonon-sideband spectroscopy (2002)

Zhao, Hui, Moehl, Sebastian, Kalt, Heinz

We investigate the energy relaxation of excitons during the real-space transport in ZnSe quantum wells by using microphotoluminescence with spatial resolution enhanced by a solid immersion lens. The...

A fuzzy rule-based enhancement on routing in mobile ad-hoc networks / (2002)

Zhao, Hui.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Computer Science)--University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002.

Collaborative Virtual Environments: Managing the Shared Spaces (2001)

Hui Zhao, Nicolas D. Georganas

The High Level Architecture (HLA) is a reusable software architecture for the development and execution of distributed simulation applications. It is fostered by the Defense Modelling and Simulation...

HLA streaming and real-time extensions. (2001)

Zhao, Hui.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Ottawa, 2002.

An Approach for Stream Retrieval over HLA-RTI in Distributed Virtual Environments (2000)

Hui Zhao, Nicolas D. Georganas

The HLA-RTI provides a general-purpose network communication mechanism for Distributed Virtual Environments (DVE), but it does not support stream transmission and control directly. This paper...

Biochemical characterization of yeast cell adhesion proteins / (2000)

Zhao, Hui.

"A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Biochemistry ... "

SHORT FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION MECHANISM IN SIC/AL 2024 COMPOSITES. (1998)

Zhao, Hui, Zhao, Changzheng, Jin, Xiaodong

Metal Matrix Composites; Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Composite Materials (ICCM-10); Held Aug 1995, British Columbia, Canada; Edited by Anoush Poursartip and Ken Street;...

The use of nondestructive damping measurements to characterize interlaminar fracture toughness in polymer composite materials (1997)

Zhao, Hui

This study shows that there is an interrelationship between fracture toughness and non-destructively measured vibration damping capacity of composite laminates under conditions often encountered in...

Optical characterization of gallium nitride / (1997)

Zhao, Hui.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Arizona State University, 1997.

Multi-echo methods for fast MRI and MRS of ³¹P containing compounds (1997)

Zhao, Hui

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Whitaker College of Health Sciences and Technology, 1997.

The human decatenation checkpoint

Deming, Paula B., Cistulli, Cheryl A., Zhao, Hui, Graves, Paul R., Piwnica-Worms, Helen, Paules, Richard S., ...

Chromatid catenation is actively monitored in human cells, with progression from G2 to mitosis being inhibited when chromatids are insufficiently decatenated. Mitotic delay was quantified in normal...

ATR-Mediated Checkpoint Pathways Regulate Phosphorylation and Activation of Human Chk1

Zhao, Hui, Piwnica-Worms, Helen

Chk1 is an evolutionarily conserved protein kinase that regulates cell cycle progression in response to checkpoint activation. In this study, we demonstrated that agents that block DNA replication or...

Interaction of α-Agglutinin and a-Agglutinin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sexual Cell Adhesion Molecules

Zhao, Hui, Shen, Zheng-Ming, Kahn, Peter C., Lipke, Peter N.

α-Agglutinin and a-agglutinin are complementary cell adhesion glycoproteins active during mating in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They bind with high affinity and high specificity: cells of...

Use of Green Fluorescent Protein To Assess Urease Gene Expression by Uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis during Experimental Ascending Urinary Tract Infection

Zhao, Hui, Thompson, Richard B., Lockatell, Virginia, Johnson, David E., Mobley, Harry L. T.

Proteus mirabilis, a cause of complicated urinary tract infection, expresses urease when exposed to urea. While it is recognized that the positive transcriptional activator UreR induces gene...

In Vivo Phase Variation of Escherichia coli Type 1 Fimbrial Genes in Women with Urinary Tract Infection

Lim, Jean K., Gunther, Nereus W., Zhao, Hui, Johnson, David E., Keay, Susan K., Mobley, Harry L. T.

Type 1 fimbriae, expressed by most Escherichia coli strains, are thought to attach to human uroepithelium as an initial step in the pathogenesis of urinary tract infections (UTI). Numerous reports...

Visualization of Proteus mirabilis within the Matrix of Urease-Induced Bladder Stones during Experimental Urinary Tract Infection

Li, Xin, Zhao, Hui, Lockatell, C. Virginia, Drachenberg, Cinthia B., Johnson, David E., Mobley, Harry L. T.

The virulence of a urease-negative mutant of uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis and its wild-type parent strain was assessed by using a CBA mouse model of catheterized urinary tract infection. Overall,...

Disruption of the checkpoint kinase 1/cell division cycle 25A pathway abrogates ionizing radiation-induced S and G2 checkpoints

Zhao, Hui, Watkins, Janis L., Piwnica-Worms, Helen

Checkpoint kinase (Chk)1 is an evolutionarily conserved protein kinase that was first identified in fission yeast as an essential component of the DNA damage checkpoint. In mice, Chk1 provides an...

Replication Checkpoint Protein Mrc1 Is Regulated by Rad3 and Tel1 in Fission Yeast

Zhao, Hui, Tanaka, Katsunori, Nogochi, Eishi, Nogochi, Chiaki, Russell, Paul

Fission yeast Mrc1 (mediator of replication checkpoint 1) is an adaptor checkpoint protein required for Rad3-dependent activation of the checkpoint kinase Cds1 in response to arrest of replication...

A dual role for zinc fingers in both DNA binding and zinc sensing by the Zap1 transcriptional activator

Bird, Amanda J., Zhao, Hui, Luo, Huan, Jensen, Laran T., Srinivasan, Chandra, Evans-Galea, Marguerite, ...

The Zap1 transcriptional activator of Saccharomyces cerevisiae controls zinc homeostasis. Zap1 induces target gene expression in zinc-limited cells and is repressed by high zinc. One such target gene...

An insulator blocks spreading of histone acetylation and interferes with RNA polymerase II transfer between an enhancer and gene

Zhao, Hui, Dean, Ann

We studied the mechanism by which an insulator interrupts enhancer signaling to a gene using stably replicated chromatin templates containing the human β-globin locus control region HS2 enhancer and...

Functional characterization of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA C1494T mutation associated with aminoglycoside-induced and non-syndromic hearing loss

Zhao, Hui, Young, Wie-Yen, Yan, Qingfeng, Li, Ronghua, Cao, Juyang, Wang, Qiuju, ...

In this study, we report the biochemical characterization of the deafness-associated mitochondrial 12S rRNA C1494T mutation using 27 cybrid cell lines constructed by transferring mitochondria from 9...

AML1-ETO fusion protein up-regulates TRKA mRNA expression in human CD34+ cells, allowing nerve growth factor-induced expansion

Mulloy, James C., Jankovic, Vladimir, Wunderlich, Mark, Delwel, Ruud, Cammenga, Jorg, Krejci, Ondrej, ...

The AML1-ETO fusion protein, generated by the t(8;21) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), exerts dominant-negative functions and a variety of gains of function, including a positive effect on the growth...

Clinical and Molecular Characterization of a Chinese Patient With Auditory Neuropathy Associated With Mitochondrial 12S rRNA T1095C Mutation

Wang, Qiuju, Li, Roughua, Zhao, Hui, Peters, Jennifer L., Liu, Qiong, Yang, Li, ...

Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), particularly those in the 12S rRNA gene, have been shown to be associated with sensorineural hearing loss. Recently, a systematic and extended mutation...

Ectopic expression of a Chlamydomonas mt+-specific homeodomain protein in mt− gametes initiates zygote development without gamete fusion

Zhao, Hui, Lu, Min, Singh, Ritu, Snell, William J.

The molecular mechanisms that activate expression of zygote genes after fertilization are obscure. In animals, receptor-ligand interactions during sperm–egg membrane fusion as well as delivery of...

Electrical coupling and release of K+ from endothelial cells co-mediate ACh-induced smooth muscle hyperpolarization in guinea-pig inner ear artery

Jiang, Zhi-Gen, Nuttall, Alfred L, Zhao, Hui, Dai, Chun-Fu, Guan, Bing-Cai, Si, Jun-Qiang, ...

The physiological basis of ACh-elicited hyperpolarization in guinea-pig in vitro cochlear spiral modiolar artery (SMA) was investigated by intracellular recording combined with dye labelling of...

Human Neutralizing Fab Molecules against Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Generated by Phage Display

Kang, Xiaoping, Yang, Bao-an, Hu, Yuyang, Zhao, Hui, Xiong, Wei, Yang, Yinhui, ...

Human recombinant Fab fragments specific for the spike protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) were screened from a human Fab library, which was generated from RNAs from...

The human decatenation checkpoint

Deming, Paula B., Cistulli, Cheryl A., Zhao, Hui, Graves, Paul R., Piwnica-Worms, Helen, Paules, Richard S., ...

Chromatid catenation is actively monitored in human cells, with progression from G2 to mitosis being inhibited when chromatids are insufficiently decatenated. Mitotic delay was quantified in normal...

ATR-Mediated Checkpoint Pathways Regulate Phosphorylation and Activation of Human Chk1

Zhao, Hui, Piwnica-Worms, Helen

Chk1 is an evolutionarily conserved protein kinase that regulates cell cycle progression in response to checkpoint activation. In this study, we demonstrated that agents that block DNA replication or...

Interaction of α-Agglutinin and a-Agglutinin, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Sexual Cell Adhesion Molecules

Zhao, Hui, Shen, Zheng-Ming, Kahn, Peter C., Lipke, Peter N.

α-Agglutinin and a-agglutinin are complementary cell adhesion glycoproteins active during mating in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They bind with high affinity and high specificity: cells of...

Use of Green Fluorescent Protein To Assess Urease Gene Expression by Uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis during Experimental Ascending Urinary Tract Infection

Zhao, Hui, Thompson, Richard B., Lockatell, Virginia, Johnson, David E., Mobley, Harry L. T.

Proteus mirabilis, a cause of complicated urinary tract infection, expresses urease when exposed to urea. While it is recognized that the positive transcriptional activator UreR induces gene...