5 results on '"Jie Liu"'
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2. Composing Semantic Services in Open Sensor-Rich Environments.
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Jie Liu and Feng Zhao
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COMPUTER architecture , *COMPUTER network architectures , *ELECTRONIC data processing , *INFORMATION networks , *WORLD Wide Web , *INTERNETWORKING devices - Abstract
The article elaborates the research conducted by Jie Liu and Feng Zhao on the significance of Service-Oriented Network of Generic Sensors (SONGS) projects in the U.S. Researchers focused on the architecture and techniques for declarative application composition through the notion of semantic services. They found that the SONGS project enables the users to issue declarative queries to interact with open-sensor-rich environments (OSRE) and rich service interfaces including data semantics, signal types and resource requirements, the declarative queries can be automatically compiled into composition of semantic services which are assigned to the sensor network nodes for resource-efficient execution. Presented are the details of the study.
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- 2008
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3. State-Centric Programming for Sensor-Actuator Network Systems.
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Jie Liu, Chu, Maurice, Liu, Juan, Reich, James, and Feng Zhao
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DETECTORS ,COMPUTER networks ,ACTUATORS ,DIGITAL communications - Abstract
Describes a design methodology to mediate between a system developer's mental model of physical phenomenon and the execution of distributed sensor-actuator network applications in the U.S. Advantages offered by sensor-actuator network systems; Goal of a tracking system; Examples of groups that could be reusable from application to application.
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- 2003
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4. Expression of biomarkers modulating prostate cancer angiogenesis: Differential expression of annexin II in prostate carcinomas from India and USA.
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Banerjee, Abhijit G ., Jie Liu, Yawei Yuan, Gopalakrishnan, Velliyur K., Johansson, Sonny L., Dinda, Amit K., Gupta, Narmada P., Trevino, Lindsey, and Vishwanatha, Jamboor K.
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GENE expression , *BIOMARKERS , *NEOVASCULARIZATION , *PROSTATE cancer , *ANNEXINS - Abstract
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) incidences vary with genetic, geographical and ethnic dietary background of patients while angiogenesis is modulated through exquisite interplay of tumor-stromal interactions of biological macromolecules. We hypothesized that comprehensive analysis of four biomarkers modulating angiogenesis in PCa progression in two diverse populations might explain the variance in the incidence rates. Results: Immunohistochemical analysis of 42 PCa biopsies reveals that though Anx-II expression is lost in both the Indian and American population with Gleason scores (GS) ranging between 6 and 10, up to 25 % of cells in the entire high grade (GS > 8) PD PCa samples from US show intense focal membrane staining for Anx-II unlike similarly graded specimens from India. Consistent with this observation, the prostate cancer cell lines PC-3, DU- 145 and MDA PCa 2A, but not LNCaP-R, LNCAP-UR or MDA PCa 2B cell lines, express Anx-II. Transcriptional reactivation of Anx-II gene with Aza-dC could not entirely account for loss of Anx-II protein in primary PCa. Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) was moderately expressed in most of high grade PIN and some MD PCa and surrounding stroma. COX-2 was not expressed in PD PCa (GS ~7--10), while adjacent smooth muscles cells stained weakly positive. Decorin expression was observed only in high grade PIN but not in any of the prostate cancers, atrophy or BPH while stromal areas of BPH stained intensively for DCN and decreased with advancing stages of PCa. Versican expression was weak in most of the MD PCa, moderate in all of BPH, moderately focal in PD PC, weak and focal in PIN, atrophy and adjacent stroma. Conclusions: Expression of pro- and anti-angiogenic modulators changes with stage of PCa but correlates with angiogenic status. Focal membrane staining of Anx-II reappears in high grade PCa specimens only from US indicating differential expression of Anx-II. COX-2 stained stronger in American specimens compared to Indian specimens. The sequential expression of DCN and VCN in progressive stages was similar in specimens from India and USA indicating no population-based differences. The mechanistic and regulatory role of Anx-II in PCa progression warrants further investigation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2003
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5. Detection of Diarrhea Etiology Among U.S. Military Personnel During Exercise Balikatan 2014, Philippines, Using TaqMan Array Cards.
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Lertsethtakarn, Paphavee, Kaewkanya Nakjarung, Silapong, Sasikorn, Neesanant, Pimmnapar, Sakpaisal, Pimmada, Bodhidatta, Ladaporn, Jie Liu, Houpt, Eric, Velasco, John Mark, Macareo, Louis R., Swierczewski, Brett E., Mason, Carl J., Nakjarung, Kaewkanya, and Liu, Jie
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DIARRHEA , *DISEASES in military personnel , *MILITARY medicine , *MILITARY maneuvers , *DIAGNOSIS of diarrhea , *AMERICAN military personnel , *PATHOGENIC microorganisms , *DIAGNOSTIC microbiology , *ETIOLOGY of diseases , *BACTERIA , *ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay , *ESCHERICHIA coli , *GRAM-negative bacteria , *POLYMERASE chain reaction , *MILITARY personnel , *TRAVEL - Abstract
Background: Military personnel are vulnerable to diarrhea. Diarrheal disease is common when deployed for operations or exercise in developing countries. Although diarrheal disease is transient, cumulative time lost and medical asset can have a significant impact on military operations. Currently, diagnostics of diarrheal etiology typically relies on a mixture of conventional bacteriology, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based methods including real-time PCR. These methods, however, can be time and labor intensive, although the identification of diarrheal etiology needs to be informative and rapid for treatment and prevention. Real-time PCR has been increasingly used to identify pathogens. Real-time PCR panels of common diarrheal pathogens have been developed, but several diarrheal pathogens are not included in the panel. An expanded and customizable panel to detect diarrhea etiology has been developed employing TaqMan Array Card (TAC) technology. TAC performs 384 real-time PCR reactions simultaneously. As currently configured for diarrheal disease by the University of Virginia, a maximum of 8 samples can be tested simultaneously with approximately 48 target pathogens per sample including bacteria, fungi, helminths, protozoan parasites, and viruses. TAC diarrheal disease panels have been successfully applied to detect pathogens in acute diarrheal stool samples from young children in several international multicenter diarrhea studies.Methods: In this study, TAC was applied to stool samples collected under an approved human use protocol from military personnel with acute diarrhea participating in the annual joint military exercise, Balikatan, between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States in 2014. Several established pathogen-specific real-time PCR detection assays were also performed in parallel for comparative purposes.Findings: TAC was applied to 7 stool samples. Campylobacter spp. was the most common diarrheal disease pathogen detected. Results from TAC matched 5 out of 6 pathogen specific real-time PCR assays. TAC required a total of 5-6 hours to complete all the procedures from nucleic acid extraction and data analysis, whereas a minimum of 18 hours and 4 hours are required for conventional bacteriology and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, respectively, per pathogen.Discussion: With TAC, pathogen load can be estimated from the amount of nucleic acid present for each pathogen, which can be analyzed further to better determine pathogen attribution and to compare pathogen load between case and control samples. Unfortunately, such correlative analysis was not possible because of the limited sample size available in this study. A larger sample size is needed for further evaluation of TAC on a specific population set, including military personnel. Regardless, TAC was found to be a useful and functional diagnostic platform that is less time-consuming, easy to use with high reproducibility, and costs less per sample compared to the current typically employed methods. The successful application of TAC in acute diarrhea stool samples from a US military population in the Philippines demonstrates its versatility as a potential candidate for a next-generation diagnostics platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
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