Liu, Mengxiong

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, School of Informational & Library Studies, Ph.D., 1990 University of Denver, Denver, CO, Graduate School of Librarianship & Information Management, M.L.S., 1983 International Studies University, Shanghai, China, English Department, B.A., 1968https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/erfa_bios/1273/thumbnail.jp

Legislative Alert: Nomination of Goodwin Liu

[Excerpt] I am writing on behalf of the AFL-CIO in support of the nomination of Professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Professor Liu is extraordinarily well-qualified and I urge you to vote for cloture, and to vote for his confirmation

Support and density of the limit mm-ary search trees distribution

The space requirements of an $m$-ary search tree satisfies a well-known phase transition: when $m\leq 26$, the second order asymptotics is Gaussian. When $m\geq 27$, it is not Gaussian any longer and a limit $W$ of a complex-valued martingale arises. We show that the distribution of $W$ has a square integrable density on the complex plane, that its support is the whole complex plane, and that it has finite exponential moments. The proofs are based on the study of the distributional equation W\egalLoi\sum_{k=1}^mV_k^{\lambda}W_k, where $V_1, ..., V_m$ are the spacings of $(m-1)$ independent random variables uniformly distributed on $[0,1]$, $W_1, ..., W_m$ are independent copies of W which are also independent of $(V_1, ..., V_m)$ and $\lambda$ is a complex number

Rodent Management - Session 2

Enabling effective rodent pest research in African smallholder farming systems Steven R. Belmain, StopRats project colleagues, EcoRodMan project colleagues Effect of synthetic hormones on reproduction in Mastomys natalensis Apia W. Massawe, Rhodes H. Makundi, Zhibin Zhang , Ginethon Mhamphi, Liu Ming, Li Hong-Jun, Steven R. Belmain An Africa Centre of Excellence for Innovative Rodent Pest Management and Biosensor Technology Development (ACE IRPM&BTD) in sub-Saharan Africa Rhodes H. Makundi, Apia W. Massawe Population dynamics and breeding patterns of Mastomys natalensis (Smith 1834) in three different agricultural practices Loth S. Mulungu, Borremans Benny, Mashaka E. Mdangi, Apia W. Massawe, Rhodes H. Makundi, Happiness Lopa, Georgies F. Mgode, Herwig Leirs, Steven R. Belmain A large-scale experiment to evaluate the effects of trapping on muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) population development in The Netherlands E. Emiel van Loon, Daan Bos, Ron C. Ydenberg Aspects of good practice rodent control that affect exposure of non-target vertebrates to anticoagulant rodenticides Bernd Walther, Sam Lucy Behle, Hendrik Ennen, Detlef Schenke, , Jens Jacob Dynamic of the invasive rodent ranges in Russia: facts and forecast Liudmila A. Khlyap, Varos G. Petrosyan, Andrey A. Warshavskiy The black rat (Rattus rattus) in Madagascar: threat to health and livelihoods Kathryn Scobie, Soanandrasana Rahelinirina, Minoarisoa Rajerison, Marie-Marie Olive, Jean-Michel Héraud, Juliette C. Young, Xavier Lambin, Sandra Telfer What the uninvited guests eat: dietary analysis of rodent pests present in the rural human dwellings of Pothwar, Pakistan Surrya Khanam, Muhammad Mushtaq Low frequency of warfarin resistance in Norway rats in China after 30 years usage of anticoagulant rodenticides Xiaohui Ma, Dawei Wang, Ning Li, Lan Liu, Lin Tian, Chan Luo, Lin Cong, Zhiyong Feng, Xiao-Hui Liu, Ying Song Comparative biological properties of the four stereoisomers of difethialone – a way to reduce the tissue persistence of difethialone Virginie Lattard, Isabelle Fourel, Nolan Chatron, Sébastien Lefebvre, Claire Hascoët, Hervé Caruel, Etienne Benoit Management of rodent pests in pig farming in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany Odile Hecker, Marc Boelhauve, Marcus Mergenthaler Experimental evidence for the effects of muskrat control (Ondatra zibethicus) on abundance in The Netherlands. Daan Bos, Rosemarie Kentie, Maurice LaHaye, Ron C. YdenbergEnabling effective rodent pest research in African smallholder farming systems Steven R. Belmain, StopRats project colleagues, EcoRodMan project colleagues Effect of synthetic hormones on reproduction in Mastomys natalensis Apia W. Massawe, Rhodes H. Makundi, Zhibin Zhang , Ginethon Mhamphi, Liu Ming, Li Hong-Jun, Steven R. Belmain An Africa Centre of Excellence for Innovative Rodent Pest Management and Biosensor Technology Development (ACE IRPM&BTD) in sub-Saharan Africa Rhodes H. Makundi, Apia W. Massawe Population dynamics and breeding patterns of Mastomys natalensis (Smith 1834) in three different agricultural practices Loth S. Mulungu, Borremans Benny, Mashaka E. Mdangi, Apia W. Massawe, Rhodes H. Makundi, Happiness Lopa, Georgies F. Mgode, Herwig Leirs, Steven R. Belmain A large-scale experiment to evaluate the effects of trapping on muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus) population development in The Netherlands E. Emiel van Loon, Daan Bos, Ron C. Ydenberg Aspects of good practice rodent control that affect exposure of non-target vertebrates to anticoagulant rodenticides Bernd Walther, Sam Lucy Behle, Hendrik Ennen, Detlef Schenke, , Jens Jacob Dynamic of the invasive rodent ranges in Russia: facts and forecast Liudmila A. Khlyap, Varos G. Petrosyan, Andrey A. Warshavskiy The black rat (Rattus rattus) in Madagascar: threat to health and livelihoods Kathryn Scobie, Soanandrasana Rahelinirina, Minoarisoa Rajerison, Marie-Marie Olive, Jean-Michel Héraud, Juliette C. Young, Xavier Lambin, Sandra Telfer What the uninvited guests eat: dietary analysis of rodent pests present in the rural human dwellings of Pothwar, Pakistan Surrya Khanam, Muhammad Mushtaq Low frequency of warfarin resistance in Norway rats in China after 30 years usage of anticoagulant rodenticides Xiaohui Ma, Dawei Wang, Ning Li, Lan Liu, Lin Tian, Chan Luo, Lin Cong, Zhiyong Feng, Xiao-Hui Liu, Ying Song Comparative biological properties of the four stereoisomers of difethialone – a way to reduce the tissue persistence of difethialone Virginie Lattard, Isabelle Fourel, Nolan Chatron, Sébastien Lefebvre, Claire Hascoët, Hervé Caruel, Etienne Benoit Management of rodent pests in pig farming in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany Odile Hecker, Marc Boelhauve, Marcus Mergenthaler Experimental evidence for the effects of muskrat control (Ondatra zibethicus) on abundance in The Netherlands. Daan Bos, Rosemarie Kentie, Maurice LaHaye, Ron C. Ydenber

Multi-Estimator Full Left Ventricle Quantification through Ensemble Learning

Cardiovascular disease accounts for 1 in every 4 deaths in United States. Accurate estimation of structural and functional cardiac parameters is crucial for both diagnosis and disease management. In this work, we develop an ensemble learning framework for more accurate and robust left ventricle (LV) quantification. The framework combines two 1st-level modules: direct estimation module and a segmentation module. The direct estimation module utilizes Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to achieve end-to-end quantification. The CNN is trained by taking 2D cardiac images as input and cardiac parameters as output. The segmentation module utilizes a U-Net architecture for obtaining pixel-wise prediction of the epicardium and endocardium of LV from the background. The binary U-Net output is then analyzed by a separate CNN for estimating the cardiac parameters. We then employ linear regression between the 1st-level predictor and ground truth to learn a 2nd-level predictor that ensembles the results from 1st-level modules for the final estimation. Preliminary results by testing the proposed framework on the LVQuan18 dataset show superior performance of the ensemble learning model over the two base modules.Comment: Jiasha Liu, Xiang Li and Hui Ren contribute equally to this wor