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    Microstructural characterization of rapidly solidified Al 90 Ce 10 alloy
    with Z. Zhang and X. Bian
    Philosophical Magazine 83 (7): 827-838. 2003.
    In the present work, the microstructure of the melt-spun Al 90 Ce 10 alloy has been characterized using X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy together with energy-dispersive spectrometry. It has been found that the microstructure of the melt-spun Al 90 Ce 10 alloy is composed of the amorphous phase, f -Al, f -Al 11 Ce 3 , Al 3 Ce and unidentified phases, quite different from that of the ingot-like alloy consisting of coarse primary f -Al- f -Al 11 Ce 3 dendrites embedded in the …Read more
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    CIDO, a community-based ontology for coronavirus disease knowledge and data integration, sharing, and analysis
    with Oliver He, John Beverley, Gilbert S. Omenn, Barry Smith, Brian Athey, Luonan Chen, Xiaolin Yang, Junguk Hur, Hsin-hui Huang, Anthony Huffman, Yingtong Liu, Edison Ong, and Hong Yu
    Scientific Data 181 (7): 5. 2020.
    Ontologies, as the term is used in informatics, are structured vocabularies comprised of human- and computer-interpretable terms and relations that represent entities and relationships. Within informatics fields, ontologies play an important role in knowledge and data standardization, representation, integra- tion, sharing and analysis. They have also become a foundation of artificial intelligence (AI) research. In what follows, we outline the Coronavirus Infectious Disease Ontology (CIDO), w…Read more
  •  7
    Molecular architecture of contactin-Associated protein-like 2 and its interaction with contactin 2
    with Z. Lu, Mvvvs Reddy, J. Liu, A. Kalichava, L. Zhang, F. Chen, 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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    Analysis of gene expression patterns in gastric cancer can help to identify a comprehensive panel of gene biomarkers for predicting clinical outcomes and to discover potential new therapeutic targets. Here, a multi-step bioinformatics analytic approach was developed to establish a novel prognostic scoring system for GC. We first identified 276 genes that were robustly differentially expressed between normal and GC tissues, of which, 249 were found to be significantly associated with overall surv…Read more
  •  3
    Nuclear phosphatase PPM1G in cellular survival and neural development
    with W. H. Foster, A. Langenbacher, C. Gao, and J. Chen
    Background: PPM1G is a nuclear localized serine/threonine phosphatase implicated to be a regulator of chromatin remodeling, mRNA splicing, and DNA damage. However, its in vivo function is unknown. Results: Here we show that ppm1g expression is highly enriched in the central nervous system during mouse and zebrafish development. ppm1g-/- mice were embryonic lethal with incomplete penetrance after E12.5. Rostral defects, including neural tube and craniofacial defects were observed in ppm1g-/- embr…Read more
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    Using the ER-fMRI technique, the present study was designed to investigate the neural substrates of language switching among second-language learners. Twelve Chinese college students who were learning English were scanned when they performed language switching tasks. Compared to non-switching conditions, language switching elicited greater activation in the right superior prefrontal cortex, left middle and superior frontal cortex, and right middle cingulum and caudate. When the direction of swit…Read more
  •  3
    Mapping abnormal subcortical brain morphometry in an elderly HIV+ cohort
    with Wade Bsc, Vg Valcour, L. Wendelken-Riegelhaupt, P. Esmaeili-Firidouni, sh JoShi, and Pm Thompson
    © 2015 IEEE. Over 50% of HIV+ individuals exhibit neurocognitive impairment and subcortical atrophy, but the pattern of brain abnormalities associated with HIV is still poorly understood. Using parametric surface-based shape analyses, we mapped the 3D profile of subcortical morphometry in 63 HIV+ participants and 31 uninfected controls. The thalamus, corpus striatum, hippocampus, amygdala, brainstem, callosum and ventricles were segmented from brain MRIs. To investigate subcortical shape, we ana…Read more
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    Background: Malaria around the China-Myanmar border is a serious health problem in the countries of South-East Asia. An. minimus is a principle malaria vector with a wide geographic distribution in this area. Malaria is endemic along the boundary between Yunnan province in China and the Kachin State of Myanmar where the local Anopheles community and the malaria transmission vectors have never been clarified. Methods. Adult Anopheles specimens were collected using CDC light traps in four villages…Read more
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    Fluence-dependent radiation damage in helium ion-irradiated Cu/V multilayers
    with E. G. Fu, H. Wang, J. Carter, Lin Shao, and X. Zhang
    Philosophical Magazine 93 (8): 883-898. 2013.
  •  21
    Strain-induced preferential dissolution at the dislocation emergences in MnS: an atomic scale study
    with Y. T. Zhou, S. J. Zheng, B. Zhang, and X. L. Ma
    Philosophical Magazine 95 (22): 2365-2375. 2015.
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    Microstructures of a single-crystal nickel-base superalloy after thermo-mechanical fatigue
    with S. X. Li †, L. Zhou, S. H. Ai, F. Liu, H. Zhang, and Z. G. Wang
    Philosophical Magazine 84 (31): 3335-3351. 2004.
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    Foundations of Generative AI
    with Ken Huang and Xiaochen Zhang
    In Ken Huang, Yang Wang, Ben Goertzel, Yale Li, Sean Wright & Jyoti Ponnapalli (eds.), Generative AI Security: Theories and Practices, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 3-30. 2024.
    This chapter offers an introduction to the field of Generative AI (GenAI), providing critical foundational knowledge on neural networks, deep learning, advanced architectures, and recent innovations propelling this domain. It delineates GenAI as a branch of AI focused on creating novel, coherent content, distinguishing it from discriminative models. Tracing the origins of GenAI, the chapter elucidates the concepts of neural networks, unraveling their components like input layers, hidden layers, …Read more
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    Generative AI Security: Theories and Practices (edited book)
    with Ken Huang, Ben Goertzel, Yale Li, Sean Wright, and Jyoti Ponnapalli
    Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024.
    This book explores the revolutionary intersection of Generative AI (GenAI) and cybersecurity. It presents a comprehensive guide that intertwines theories and practices, aiming to equip cybersecurity professionals, CISOs, AI researchers, developers, architects and college students with an understanding of GenAI’s profound impacts on cybersecurity. The scope of the book ranges from the foundations of GenAI, including underlying principles, advanced architectures, and cutting-edge research, to spec…Read more
  •  16
    Space-Focused Stereotypes About People Living With HIV/AIDS and the Effects on Community-Approaching Willingness
    with Fangfang Wen, Bin Zuo, Jian Yang, Yalan Qiao, Hanxue Ye, and Zengqi Luo
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    Targeting people living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, this research examined the prevalence of space-focused stereotypes and their underlying mechanism on behavioral inclinations. Study 1 adopted the explicit nomination and implicit Go/No-Go association tests to explore the existence of space-focused stereotypes of people living with HIV/AIDS. The results demonstrated that space-focused stereotypes were only manifested explicitly with characteristics such as messy, dirty, and gloomy. Study …Read more
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    Bayesian feature interaction selection for factorization machines
    with Yifan Chen, Pengjie Ren, Meng Wang, and Maarten de Rijke
    Artificial Intelligence 302 (C): 103589. 2022.
  •  22
    Atomic structure of the Fe/Fe3C interface with the Isaichev orientation in pearlite
    with Y. T. Zhou, S. J. Zheng, Y. X. Jiang, T. Z. Zhao, and X. L. Ma
    Philosophical Magazine 1-12. forthcoming.
  •  31
    The evolution of polarization inside ultrathin PbTiO3films: a theoretical study
    with Y. B. Xue, D. Chen, Y. L. Tang, Y. L. Zhu, and X. L. Ma
    Philosophical Magazine 95 (19): 2067-2077. 2015.
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    Indications of bulk property changes from surface ion implantation
    with B. Yang, N. Can, and P. D. Townsend
    Philosophical Magazine 91 (2): 250-262. 2011.
  •  4
    Lun li jie gou, zun bei yu she hui sheng chan
    Zhongguo jing ji chu ban she. 2011.
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    A new framework for host-pathogen interaction research
    with Hong Yu, Li Li, Anthony Huffman, John Beverley, Junguk Hur, Eric Merrell, Hsin-hui Huang, Yingtong Liu, Edison Ong, Liang Cheng, Tao Zeng, Jingsong Zhang, Pengpai Li, Zhiping Liu, Zhigang Wang, Xiangyan Zhang, Xianwei Ye, Samuel K. Handelman, Jonathan Sexton, Kathryn Eaton, Gerry Higgins, Gilbert S. Omenn, Brian Athey, Barry Smith, Luonan Chen, and Yongqun He
    Frontiers in Immunology 13. 2022.
    COVID-19 often manifests with different outcomes in different patients, highlighting the complexity of the host-pathogen interactions involved in manifestations of the disease at the molecular and cellular levels. In this paper, we propose a set of postulates and a framework for systematically understanding complex molecular host-pathogen interaction networks. Specifically, we first propose four host-pathogen interaction (HPI) postulates as the basis for understanding molecular and cellular host…Read more
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    A comprehensive update on CIDO: the community-based coronavirus infectious disease ontology
    with Yongqun He, Hong Yu, Anthony Huffman, Asiyah Yu Lin, Darren A. Natale, John Beverley, Ling Zheng, Yehoshua Perl, Zhigang Wang, Yingtong Liu, Edison Ong, Philip Huang, Long Tran, Jinyang Du, Zalan Shah, Easheta Shah, Roshan Desai, Hsin-hui Huang, Yujia Tian, Eric Merrell, William D. Duncan, Sivaram Arabandi, Lynn M. Schriml, Jie Zheng, Anna Maria Masci, Liwei Wang, Hongfang Liu, Fatima Zohra Smaili, Robert Hoehndorf, Zoë May Pendlington, Paola Roncaglia, Xianwei Ye, Jiangan Xie, Yi-Wei Tang, Xiaolin Yang, Suyuan Peng, Luxia Zhang, Luonan Chen, Junguk Hur, Gilbert S. Omenn, Brian Athey, and Barry Smith
    Journal of Biomedical Semantics 13 (1): 25. 2022.
    The current COVID-19 pandemic and the previous SARS/MERS outbreaks of 2003 and 2012 have resulted in a series of major global public health crises. We argue that in the interest of developing effective and safe vaccines and drugs and to better understand coronaviruses and associated disease mechenisms it is necessary to integrate the large and exponentially growing body of heterogeneous coronavirus data. Ontologies play an important role in standard-based knowledge and data representation, integ…Read more
  •  14
    Link Prediction Model for Weighted Networks Based on Evidence Theory and the Influence of Common Neighbours
    with Miaomiao Liu, Jing Chen, and Yongsheng Zhang
    Complexity 2022 1-16. 2022.
    A link prediction model for weighted networks based on Dempster–Shafer evidence theory and the influence of common neighbours is proposed in this paper. First, three types of future common neighbours and their topological structures are proposed. Second, the concepts of endpoint weight influence, link weight influence, and high-strength node influence are introduced. Then, the similarity based on the impacts of current common neighbours and FCNs is defined, respectively. Finally, the two similar…Read more
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    Understanding the role of teachers’ facial expressions in students’ learning is helpful to improve online teaching. Therefore, this study explored the effects of teacher’s facial expressions on students’ learning through analyzing three groups of video lectures. Participants were 78 students enrolled in three groups: one with an enhanced-expression teacher, one with a conventional-expression teacher, and one with the teacher’s audio only. ANOVA was used to explore whether video lectures instruct…Read more
  •  20
    Dynamic Analysis and Degenerate Hopf Bifurcation-Based Feedback Control of a Conservative Chaotic System and Its Circuit Simulation
    with Xiaojuan Zhang, Mingshu Chen, Huaigu Tian, and Zhen Wang
    Complexity 2021 1-15. 2021.
    A novel conservative chaotic system with no equilibrium is investigated in this study. Various dynamics such as the conservativeness, coexistence, symmetry, and invariance are presented. Furthermore, a partial-state feedback control scheme is proposed, and the stable domain of control parameters is analyzed based on the degenerate Hopf bifurcation. In order to verify the numerical simulation analysis, an analog circuit is designed. The simulation results show that the output of the analog circui…Read more
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    Our current work seeks to provide direct empirical evidence on whether Chinese international students’ experiences studying abroad promote dialectical thinking. We collected behavioral data from 258 Chinese international students studying in multiple regions. We found that there was a main effect among the four conditions. More specifically, when primed with studying abroad or typical day, participants were more likely to show tolerance for contradiction by deeming both sides of contradictory sc…Read more
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    For synchronization of a class of chaotic systems in the presence of nonvanishing uncertainties, a novel time-varying gain observer-based sliding mode control is proposed. First, a novel time-varying gain disturbance observer is developed to estimate the uncertainties. Then, by using the output of TVGDO to modify sliding mode control, a new TVGDO-based SMC scheme is developed. Although the observation and control precision of conventional fixed gain disturbance observer-based control for chaotic…Read more
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    Preparing Workplaces for Digital Transformation: An Integrative Review and Framework of Multi-Level Factors
    with Brigid Trenerry, Samuel Chng, Zainal Shah Suhaila, Sun Sun Lim, Han Yu Lu, and Peng Ho Oh
    Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
    The rapid advancement of new digital technologies, such as smart technology, artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, robotics, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT), is fundamentally changing the nature of work and increasing concerns about the future of jobs and organizations. To keep pace with rapid disruption, companies need to update and transform business models to remain competitive. Meanwhile, the growth of advanced technologies is changing the types of skills and compete…Read more