Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesProbiotics the Good Neighbor: Guarding the Gut Mucosal BarrierR. K. Rao, D. B. Polk, A. Seth, F. YanProblem statement: The disruption of gut barrier function plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of not only gastrointestinal diseases, but also the diseases of liver and other organs. Mucosal protective factors that preserve the gut barrier integrity are beneficial in the prevention and treatment of such diseases. Probiotics is a group of helpful bacteria that protect the gastrointestinal mucosa … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 5, Issue 3 · 30 Sep 2009 · 7,417 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesWhat these Trends Suggest?Shaomin Yan, Guang WuProblem statement: Global warming is one of most significant factors affecting the biological evolution and the influenza is the disease that threatens humans with possible epidemics or pandemics. It would be important to understand if the global warming would have potential impact on the evolution of influenza virus. For this aim, the first would be to study the trend of … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 6 · 30 Jun 2009 · 6,886 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesNarrow-band ultraviolet B and Conventional UVB phototherapy in Psoriasis: a Randomised Controlled TrialYan Yuehua, Ahmad T. Khalaf, Zhai Xiaoxiang, Wang XinggangThe narrow-band (NB-UVB) was developed for use in phototherapy, as an alternative to a broad-band UVB source and to photochemotherapy, both of which have significant side effects and carry a risk of carcinogenesis. NB-UVB is a new phototherapy option that has proved to be particularly effective at clearing psoriasis vulgaris, with a reduced capacity to produce erythema. This study was … …American Journal of Applied Sciences, Vol. 5, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2008 · 6,953 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesCentral Nervous System Tuberculomas: A Review ArticleMutasem Abuhamed, Xiao Bo, Cai YanCentral Nervous System Tuberculomas (CNSTs), the most dangerous form of tubercolomas, remains a public health problem, particularly in the developing country. Central nervous system tuberculomas, either single or multiple, usually presents as a diagnostic challenge because it resembles many other infectious and non-infectious medical conditions, particularly in patients without constitutional symptoms or evidence of tuberculosis elsewhere in the body. Here … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2008 · 7,489 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesAppraisal of Thermal Properties of Mud in the Ariake Sea, JapanM. Azizul Moqsud, Shigenori Hayashi, Yan Jun Du, Daisuke SuetsuguIn order to explore the thermal properties of the Ariake Sea mud and to find out the affecting factors which affect these values, a portable thermal properties analyzer was used. Thermal conductivity, thermal resistivity, thermal diffusivity and volumetric heat capacity of the mud samples collected from both the tidal flat and inside the deep sea were measured in the laboratory. … …American Journal of Environmental Sciences, Vol. 4, Issue 2 · 30 Apr 2008 · 6,969 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesComparison of Approaches for Predicting Break Indices in Mandarin Speech SynthesisShao Yan-qiu, Zhao Yong-zhen, Han Ji-qing, Liu TingThis study adopts a large-scale corpus with five-tier break indices annotated according to C-TOBI. Based on it, several approaches, N-gram, Markov model and decision tree learning are applied to predict break indices automatically for unrestricted mandarin text. These approaches differ mutually not only in model, but also on features and even part-of-speech tag size. A deep comparison and analysis among … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 2, Issue 8 · 31 Aug 2006 · 6,216 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesVirus Dynamics in VivoGuang Wu, Shaomin YanIn this study, we model the interaction among antibody, virus, host cell, immune cell and normal cell as random collisions, because antibody and virus are unlikely to have efficient driving systems. Then we use the model II of waiting times to analyze the collision between antibody and virus with a certain number of normal cells, and use the Monte-Carlo simulation … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 1, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2005 · 6,274 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesThe Design and Implementation of Parallel Digital Library Management SystemYang Yan, Li Jianzhong, Kan ZhongliangAs the number of documents in digital library grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to store, manage the large amount of documents and finding requested relevant documents by users. Parallel Digital Library management System (PDLS) is used for this purpose. PDLS is a general tool for building and managing digital libraries of all kinds of documents to meet user needs. It … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 7,286 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesSearching of Main Cause Leading to Severe Influenza A Virus Mutations and Consequently to Influenza Pandemics/EpidemicsGuang Wu, Shaomin YanThe unpredictable mutations in the proteins from influenza A virus lead to the great difficulty in prevention of possible outbreak of bird flu and pandemic/epidemic of influenza. This unpredictability is due to the fact that we know little about the causes that lead to the mutations. In three of our recent studies on the hemagglutinins from influenza A virus, we … …American Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 1, Issue 2 · 30 Jun 2005 · 9,975 accessesView PDFCite
Research ArticleOpen accessIn the author namesInterest-based Recommendation in Digital LibraryYan Yang, Jian Zhong LiWith the huge amount and large variety of information available in a digital library, it’s becoming harder and harder for users to identify and get hold of their interested documents. To alleviate the difficulty, personalized recommendation techniques have been developed. Current recommendation techniques rely on similarity between documents. In our work, recommendations are made based on three factors: similarity between … …Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 1, Issue 1 · 31 Mar 2005 · 7,015 accessesView PDFCite