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    © 2016 Elsevier B.V.The evaporative-cooling roof is a popular passive energy conservation technique. This article presents a novel approach for modelling and analysing the influence of evaporation on roof thermal performance. A multivariate nonlinear model was developed for the prediction of the evaporation rate from porous tile. A computer program was then developed based on the one-dimensional roof unsteady heat transfer theory. Finally, the computer program and hourly weather data of Guangzho…Read more
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    Survival and Functionality of hESC-Derived Retinal Pigment Epithelium Cells Cultured as a Monolayer on Polymer Substrates Transplanted in RCS Rats
    with B. B. Thomas, D. Zhu, P. B. Thomas, Y. Hu, H. Nazari, F. Stefanini, P. Falabella, D. O. Clegg, D. R. Hinton, and M. S. Humayun
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    Stem cell based therapies for age-related macular degeneration: The promises and the challenges
    with H. Nazari, D. Zhu, G. J. Chader, P. Falabella, F. Stefanini, T. Rowland, D. O. Clegg, A. H. Kashani, D. R. Hinton, and M. S. Humayun
    © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.Age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness among the elderly in developed countries. AMD is classified as either neovascular or non-neovascular. Cumulative damage to the retinal pigment epithelium, Bruch's membrane, and choriocapillaris leads to dysfunction and loss of RPE cells. This causes degeneration of the overlying photoreceptors and consequential vision loss in advanced NNV-AMD. In NV-AMD, abnormal growth of capillaries under the retina and RPE,…Read more
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    Molecular architecture of contactin-Associated protein-like 2 and its interaction with contactin 2
    with Z. Lu, Mvvvs Reddy, J. Liu, A. Kalichava, F. Chen, Y. Wang, L. M. F. Holthauzen, M. A. White, S. Seshadrinathan, X. Zhong, G. Ren, and G. Rudenko
    Contactin-Associated protein-like 2 is a large multidomain neuronal adhesion molecule implicated in a number of neurological disorders, including epilepsy, schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder, intellectual disability, and language delay. We reveal here by electron microscopy that the architecture of CNTNAP2 is composed of a large, medium, and small lobe that flex with respect to each other. Using epitope labeling and fragments, we assign the F58C, L1, and L2 domains to the large lobe, the FB…Read more
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    Knowledge of three-dimensional structures of each individual particles of asymmetric and flexible proteins is essential in understanding those proteins' functions; but their structures are difficult to determine. Electron tomography provides a tool for imaging a single and unique biological object from a series of tilted angles, but it is challenging to image a single protein for three-dimensional reconstruction due to the imperfect mechanical control capability of the specimen goniometer under …Read more
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    DNA base pairing has been used for many years to direct the arrangement of inorganic nanocrystals into small groupings and arrays with tailored optical and electrical properties. The control of DNA-mediated assembly depends crucially on a better understanding of three-dimensional structure of DNA-nanocrystal-hybridized building blocks. Existing techniques do not allow for structural determination of these flexible and heterogeneous samples. Here we report cryo-electron microscopy and negative-st…Read more
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    Cholesteryl ester transfer protein mediates cholesteryl ester transfer from the atheroprotective high density lipoprotein cholesterol to the atherogenic low density lipoprotein cholesterol. In the past decade, this property has driven the development of CETP inhibitors, which have been evaluated in large scale clinical trials for treating cardiovascular diseases. Despite the pharmacological interest, little is known about the fundamental mechanism of CETP in CE transfer. Recent electron microsco…Read more
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    Commonly used methods for determining protein structure, including X-ray crystallography and single-particle reconstruction, often provide a single and unique three-dimensional structure. However, in these methods, the protein dynamics and flexibility/fluctuation remain mostly unknown. Here, we utilized advances in electron tomography to study the antibody flexibility and fluctuation through structural determination of individual antibody particles rather than averaging multiple antibody particl…Read more
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    HDL surface lipids mediate CETP binding as revealed by electron microscopy and molecular dynamics simulation
    with M. Zhang, Charles R., H. Tong, M. Patel, F. Wang, M. J. Rames, A. Ren, K. A. Rye, X. Qiu, D. G. Johns, Charles M. A., and G. Ren
    Cholesteryl ester transfer protein mediates the transfer of cholesterol esters from atheroprotective high-density lipoproteins to atherogenic low-density lipoproteins. CETP inhibition has been regarded as a promising strategy for increasing HDL levels and subsequently reducing the risk of cardiovascular diseases. Although the crystal structure of CETP is known, little is known regarding how CETP binds to HDL. Here, we investigated how various HDL-like particles interact with CETP by electron mic…Read more
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    Peptides show much promise as potent and selective drug candidates. Fusing peptides to a scaffold monoclonal antibody produces a conjugated antibody which has the advantages of peptide activity yet also has the pharmacokinetics determined by the scaffold antibody. However, the conjugated antibody often has poor binding affinity to antigens that may be related to unknown structural changes. The study of the conformational change is difficult by conventional techniques because structural fluctuati…Read more
  • Membrane-directed molecular assembly of the neuronal SNARE complex
    with W. J. Cho, J. S. Lee, G. Ren, L. Shin, C. W. Manke, J. Potoff, N. Kotaria, M. G. Zhvania, and Jena B. P.
    Since the discovery and implication of N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor -attachment protein receptor proteins in membrane fusion almost two decades ago, there have been significant efforts to understand their involvement at the molecular level. In the current study, we report for the first time the molecular interaction between full-length recombinant t-SNAREs and v-SNARE present in opposing liposomes, leading to the assembly of a t-/v-SNARE ring complex. Using high-resolution electron microsco…Read more
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    Targeted genome editing across species using ZFNs and TALENs
    with A. J. Wood, T. W. Lo, B. Zeitler, C. S. Pickle, E. J. Ralston, A. H. Lee, R. Amora, J. C. Miller, E. Leung, X. Meng, E. J. Rebar, Gregory P. D., F. D. Urnov, and B. J. Meyer
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    A shed NKG2D ligand that promotes natural killer cell activation and tumor rejection
    with W. Deng, B. G. Gowen, L. Wang, S. Lau, A. Iannello, J. Xu, T. L. Rovis, N. Xiong, and D. H. Raulet
    Immune cells, including natural killer cells, recognize transformed cells and eliminate them in a process termed immunosurveillance. It is thought that tumor cells evade immunosurveillance by shedding membrane ligands that bind to the NKG2D-activating receptor on NK cells and/or Tcells, and desensitize these cells. In contrast, we show that in mice, a shed form of MULT1, a high-affinity NKG2D ligand, causes NK cell activation and tumor rejection. Recombinant soluble MULT1 stimulated tumor reject…Read more
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    Cytokine therapy reverses NK cell anergy in MHC-deficient tumors
    with M. Ardolino, C. S. Azimi, A. Iannello, T. N. Trevino, L. Horan, W. Deng, A. M. Ring, S. Fischer, K. C. Garcia, and D. H. Raulet
    Various cytokines have been evaluated as potential anticancer drugs; however, most cytokine trials have shown relatively low efficacy. Here, we found that treatments with IL-12 and IL-18 or with a mutant form of IL-2 provided substantial therapeutic benefit for mice specifically bearing MHC class I-deficient tumors, but these treatments were ineffective for mice with matched MHC class I+ tumors. Cytokine efficacy was linked to the reversal of the anergic state of NK cells that specifically occur…Read more
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    The production of distinct sets of T cell receptor γδ+ T cells occurs in an ordered fashion in thymic development. The Vγ3 and Vγ4 genes, located downstream in the TCRγ Cγ1 gene cluster, are expressed by the earliest waves of developing TCRγδ+ T cells in the fetal thymus, destined for intraepithelial locations. Upstream Vγ2 and Vγ5 genes are expressed in later waves in the adult and constitute most TCRγδ + T cells in secondary lymphoid tissue. This developmental pattern is caused in part by a pr…Read more
  • Nuclear envelope protein MAN1 regulates clock through BMAL1
    with S. T. Lin, X. Lin, L. C. H. Zhang, V. E. L. Garcia, C. W. Tsai, L. Ptáček, and Y. H. Fu
    Copyright © 2014, Lin et al.Circadian clocks serve as internal pacemakers that influence many basic homeostatic processes; consequently, the expression and function of their components are tightly regulated by intricate networks of feedback loops that fine-tune circadian processes. Our knowledge of these components and pathways is far from exhaustive. In recent decades, the nuclear envelope has emerged as a global gene regulatory machine, although its role in circadian regulation has not been ex…Read more
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    Both thinkings on Dao in Chinese philosophy and metaphysics in Western philosophy investigate things on a spiritual level that transcends experience, but there are incommensurable differences between them. The objective of "metaphysics" is ontological knowledge about nature from the perspective of epistemological "truth-pursuing". Western metaphysics is thus a "metaphysics of nature". Dao in Chinese philosophy, on the other hand, more often manifests itself in "good-pursuing" by means of the int…Read more
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    This study explored the global cyberspace security issues, with the purpose of breaking the stereotype of people’s cognition of cyberspace problems, which reflects the relationship between interdependence and association. Based on the Apriori algorithm in association rules, a total of 181 strong rules were mined from 40 target websites and 56,096 web pages were associated with global cyberspace security. Moreover, this study analyzed support, confidence, promotion, leverage, and reliability to a…Read more
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    Early in Aristotle's terminology, and ever since, "essence" has been conceived as having two meanings, namely "universality" and "individuality". According to the tradition of thought that has dominated throughout the history of Western philosophy, "essence" unequivocally refers to "universality". As a matter of fact, however, "universality" cannot cover Aristotle's definition and formulation of "essence": Essence is what makes a thing "happen to be this thing." "Individuality" should be the dee…Read more
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    Do Returnee Executives Value Corporate Philanthropy? Evidence from China
    with Yuehua Xu and Honghui Chen
    Journal of Business Ethics 179 (2): 411-430. 2022.
    While past studies have enriched our understanding of the impact of returnee executives on firm market strategy and outcomes, we know relatively little about the relationship between returnee executives and firm nonmarket strategies. Grounded in upper echelons theory, this study explores the relationship between returnee executives and corporate philanthropy, the latter of which is an important nonmarket strategy in emerging economies such as China. Using data on publicly listed Chinese companie…Read more
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    Does environmental underperformance duration affect firms' green innovation? Evidence from China
    with Yuehua Xu and Honghui Chen
    Business Ethics, the Environment and Responsibility 31 (3): 1-20. 2022.
    Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, Volume 31, Issue 3, Page 662-681, July 2022.
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    A Heterogeneous Branching Process with Immigration Modeling for COVID-19 Spreading in Local Communities in China
    with Haochen Wang, Zhongyang Liu, Xiao Fan Liu, Xin Feng, and Ye Wu
    Complexity 2021 1-11. 2021.
    The COVID-19 pandemic spread catastrophically over the world since the spring of 2020. In this paper, a heterogeneous branching process with immigration is established to quantify the human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 in local communities, based on the temporal and structural transmission patterns extracted from public case disclosures by four provincial Health Commissions in China. With proper parameter settings, our branching model matches the actual transmission chains satisfactorily an…Read more
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    With the rapid development of the Internet information age, social networks, mobile Internet, and e-commerce have expanded the scope of Internet applications. The “big data” era is a challenge and chance for companies and has a great impact on social economy, politics, culture, and people’s lives. An accurate marketing system is developed based on J2EE, and the architecture is selected from the user layer, business logic layer, and data layer and the B/S3 layer application, including three layer…Read more
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    As of the end of October 2020, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has exceeded 45 million and the cumulative number of deaths has exceeded 1.1 million all over the world. Faced with the fatal pandemic, countries around the world have taken various prevention and control measures. One of the important issues in epidemic prevention and control is the assessment of the prevention and control effectiveness. Changes in the time series of daily new confirmed cases can reflect the imp…Read more
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    Self-Oriented Empathy and Compassion Fatigue: The Serial Mediation of Dispositional Mindfulness and Counselor’s Self-Efficacy
    with Zhihong Ren, Guangrong Jiang, Dilana Hazer-Rau, Chunxiao Zhao, Congrong Shi, Lizu Lai, and Yifei Yan
    Frontiers in Psychology 11. 2021.
    This study aimed to explore the association between self-oriented empathy and compassion fatigue, and examine the potential mediating roles of dispositional mindfulness and the counselor’s self-efficacy. A total of 712 hotline psychological counselors were recruited from the Mental Health Service Platform at Central China Normal University, Ministry of Education during the outbreak of Corona Virus Disease 2019, then were asked to complete the questionnaires measuring self-oriented empathy, compa…Read more
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    Knowledge Integration: Its Meaning and Measurement
    with Ronald Rousseau and Xiaojun Hu
    In Wolfgang Glänzel, Henk F. Moed, Ulrich Schmoch & Mike Thelwall (eds.), Springer Handbook of Science and Technology Indicators, Springer Verlag. pp. 69-94. 2019.
    Interdisciplinary research depends on research traditions and fields originating from different research teams, different countries and regions. Its essence is knowledge integration. As a dynamic and interactive process it continuously pushes the structure of science to become a complex diverse system.In this chapter, we provide a systematic review of interdisciplinary research. Starting from a definition of interdisciplinary research, its elements, and its role for scientific progress, we parti…Read more
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    The More Similar, the Healthier: The Effect of Perceived Parent-Child Facial Resemblance on Parental Physical Health
    with Quanlei Yu, Yafei Guo, Jianwen Chen, Xiaopeng Du, Xinhui Wei, Zhijin Zhou, Shumin Liu, and Xinlei Gao
    Frontiers in Psychology 9. 2019.