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    Experimental Study on Seismic Behavior of Liquid Storage Tanks Subjected to Vertical Earthquakes

    Previous studies on seismic performance of large-scale liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tanks mainly focused on the horizontal earthquake excitations. However, vertical earthquake actions may lead to struct...

    J. Y. Wu, Q. Q. Yu, X. L. Gu in Proceedings of The 17th East Asian-Pacific… (2023)

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    Analysis of Wind Induced Vibration of Stayed Cable of Sea-crossing Bridge Based on Monitoring Data

    Based on the real-time health monitoring system, the wind field changes and cable vibration at **tang Bridge site were continuously observed by using a three-dimensional supersonic anemometer, propeller anemo...

    J. Guo, J. X. He, C. J. Hu, J. Y. Wu in EASEC16 (2021)

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    Human Labour and Green Manure, Two Overlooked Factors for Energy Analysis in Agriculture

    Agriculture is both a “producer” and a “consumer” of energy. Since useful energy is in ever shorter supply and energy use is a pollution factor solutions are needed for enhancing production while reducing inpu...

    J. Y. Wu, M. Martinov, Vito I. Sardo in Genetics, Biofuels and Local Farming Systems (2011)

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    Wetting-Induced Geosynthetic Reinforced Slope Failure

    Failures of geosynthetic reinforced soil slope (RSS) initiated by intense rainfall have been often reported recently. These incidents were likely to be the effect of strength reduction upon wetting for unsatur...

    J. Y. Wu, A. H. Tang in Geosynthetics in Civil and Environmental Engineering (2009)

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    Can Tasers® directly cause ventricular fibrillation?

    Tasers are battery powered electrical devices used by law enforcement personnel to temporarily incapacitate a suspect. This study is a portion of a larger study to determine the probability of a Taser (X26 and...

    J G Webster, J A Will, H Sun, J-Y Wu… in World Congress on Medical Physics and Biom… (2007)

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    Alternative Pre-mRNA Splicing and Regulation of Programmed Cell Death

    Apoptosis or programmed cell death (PCD) is critical for development and homeostasis of multi-cellular organisms. It also plays an important role in pathogenesis of a large number of human diseases. PCD is und...

    J. Y. Wu, H. Tang, N. Havlioglu in Regulation of Alternative Splicing (2003)

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    Establishment of Callus Culture, Somatic Embryogenesis, and the Regeneration of Cotton Plants

    For the induction of genetic variability and genetic manipulation studies, it is essential that the cells in culture develop into complete plants. In cotton, callus capable of differentiation has been establis...

    J. Y. Wu, J. M. She, X. N. Cai, Y. P. S. Bajaj in Cotton (1998)

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    Biphasic Effect of Taurine on Excitatory Amino Acid-Induced Neurotoxicity

    In the past, the biological role of taurine as an end product of methionine metabolism and conjugation with bile acids in the liver was considered relatively trivial. However, the physiological role of taurine...

    X. W. Tang, D. L. Deupree, Y. Sun, J.-Y. Wu in Taurine 2 (1996)

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    Membrane Associated L-Glutamate Decarboxylase and Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM)

    Recently, three novel forms of membrane associated L-glutamate decarboxylase (M-GAD) referred to as M-GADI, M-GADII and M-GADIII were isolated and purified from porcine brain. M-GADI and M-GADII appear to be i...

    J.-Y. Wu, B. Nathan, C.-C. Hsu, C.-Y. Kuo… in GABA: Receptors, Transporters and Metaboli… (1996)

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    Regeneration of Plants from Protoplasts of Gossypium Species (Cotton)

    Cotton is a major industrial crop in the world, the current production of lint cotton being greater than 19 million t/year. This plant is a source of fiber, vegetable oil, and protein. Around 24 million t of l...

    J. M. She, J. Y. Wu, H. Y. Zhou in Plant Protoplasts and Genetic Engineering VI (1995)

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    Taurine Receptor: Kinetic Analysis and Pharmacological Studies

    Taurine is one of the most abundant amino acids in the vertebrate CNS and is believed to be involved in many important physiological functions such as in the development of the CNS at least in some species1,2, in...

    J.-Y. Wu, X. W. Tang, W. H. Tsai in Taurine (1992)

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    Endogenous Regulation of the Taurine Receptor

    Recently we have isolated and purified an endogenous brain modulator (EBM) which competes with 3H-flunitrazepam (FNZP) for binding to the benzodiazepine (BZ) binding site1. In addition, we have also isolated and ...

    X. W. Tang, Y. H. Lee, M. Yarom, B. Nathan, J. Baol, A. Bhattacharyya… in Taurine (1992)

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    L-Glutamate Decarboxylase Immunoreactivity in the Sympathoadrenal System

    The role of GABA as an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain has been well established. In recent years, increasing evidence has been presented to show that GABA may act as a neurotransmitter also...

    O. Häppölä, T. Karhula, H. Päivärinta, S. Soinila, J.-Y. Wu… in GABA Outside the CNS (1992)