Title of dissertation: MODELING AND DESIGN OF MICROWAVE-MILLIMETERWAVE FILTERS AND MULTIPLEXERS Yunchi Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Dissertation directed by: Professor Kawthar A. Zaki Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Modern communication systems require extraordinarily stringent speci…cations on microwave and millimeter-wave components. In mobile and integrated communicati...

Person re-identification (Re-ID) aims to match a target person across camera views at different locations and times. Existing Re-ID studies focus on the short-term cloth-consistent setting, under which re-appears in with same outfit. A discriminative feature representation learned by existing deep models is thus dominated visual appearance of clothing. In this work, we much more difficult yet p...

S-nitrosylation of several Ca2+ regulating proteins in response to β-adrenergic stimulation was recently described in the heart; however the specific nitric oxide synthase (NOS) isoform and signaling pathways responsible for this modification have not been elucidated. NOS-1 activity increases inotropism, therefore, we tested whether β-adrenergic stimulation induces NOS-1-dependent S-nitrosylati...

RATIONALE Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) exert their antihypertensive effect by reducing cardiac afterload but not preload, suggesting that Ca(2+) influx through L-type Ca(2+) channels (LTCC) mediates arterial but not venous tone. OBJECTIVE The object of this study was to resolve the mechanism of venous resistance to CCBs. METHODS AND RESULTS We compared the sensitivity of depolarization (...

Rationale: Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) exert their antihypertensive effect by reducing cardiac afterload but not preload, suggesting that Ca influx through L-type Ca channels (LTCC) mediates arterial but not venous tone. Objective: The object of this study was to resolve the mechanism of venous resistance to CCBs. Methods and Results: We compared the sensitivity of depolarization (KCl)-indu...