Europium doped hydroxyapatite (EDA) nanorods with linoleic acid passivated silver ions on their surfaces were synthesized using facile, one-step hydrothermal route. Annealing the samples at 250 °C resulted in formation of ultra-small silver (USS) nanoparticles on the surface by nucleation through diffusion process. EDA exhibited luminescence properties due to the presence of europium ions doped...

Here we report two unrelated Chinese families with congenital missing teeth inherited in an X-linked manner. We mapped the affected locus to chromosome Xp11-Xq21 in one family. In the defined region, both families were found to have novel missense mutations in the ectodysplasin-A (EDA) gene. The mutation of c.947A>G caused the D316G substitution of the EDA protein. The mutation of c.1013C>T fou...

New treatment options may make "no evidence of disease activity" (NEDA: no relapses or disability progression and no new/enlarging MRI lesions, as opposed to "evidence of disease activity" (EDA) with at least one of the former), an achievable goal in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The objective of the present study was to determine whether early RRMS patients with EDA at one-yea...

Pre-fibronectin mRNA is subject to alternative splicing at three sites, EDA, EDB and IIICS. We analyzed the alternative splicing of fibronectin mRNA in a single cell. Reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction analyses showed cells that produced a single form of mRNA at each one of these sites as well as cells that produced multiple forms at a given site: for example, some cells produced e...

Estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) can solve more complicated problems than its predecessor (Genetic Algorithm). EDA uses various methods to probabilistically model a group of highly fit individuals. Calculating the model in sophisticated EDA is very time consuming. To reduce the model building time, the authors propose compressed chromosome encoding. A chromosome is encoded using a for...

: This paper proposes a novel niching estimation of distribution algorithm (EDA) based on fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering for solving the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MRCPSP). FCM clustering is employed to partition the population into niches to avoid premature convergence of the EDA. Then, the niche capacity is determined by Boltzmann scheme according to the adapt...

Different phases of iron oxide were obtained by hydrothermal treatment of ferric solution at 200°C with the addition of either KOH, ethylenediamine (EDA), or KOH and EDA into the reaction system. As usually observed, the α-Fe2O3 hexagonal plates and hexagonal bipyramids were obtained for reaction with KOH and EDA, respectively. When both KOH and EDA were added into the reaction system, we obser...

Alopex is a correlation-based algorithm, which shares characteristics of both gradient descent approach and simulated annealing. It has been successfully applied to continuous and combinatorial optimization problems for years. Estimation of Distribution Algorithms (EDAs) is a class of novel evolutionary algorithms (EAs) proposed in recent years. Compared with the traditional EAs, it possesses u...

This paper presents an extension to our work on estimating the probability distribution by using a Markov Random Field (MRF) model in an Estimation of Distribution Algorithm (EDA) [1]. We propose a method that directly samples a MRF model to generate new population. We also present a new EDA, called the Distribution Estimation Using MRF with direct sampling (DEUMd), that uses this method, and i...

Extended Dependency Analysis (EDA) is a heuristic search technique for finding significant relationships between nominal variables in large datasets. The directed version of EDA searches for maximally predictive sets of independent variables with respect to a target dependent variable. The original implementation of EDA was an extension of reconstructability analysis. Our new implementation add...