Enterprise architecture (EA) management has not only recently gained importance as means to support enterprises in adapting to a changing market environment and in seizing new business opportunities. This twofold role of EA management in transforming enterprises is connected to describing the current state as well as future states of the EA. Although different information models for the descrip...

Ellagic acid (EA), a natural polyphenol evidence several pharmacological benefits. The binding profile of EA with human serum albumin (HSA) has been explored and investigated by Isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC), absorbance spectroscopy, steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy, and modelling studies. The I...

Enterprise Architecture (EA) management is a commonly accepted instrument to support strategic decision making. The objective of EA management is to improve business IT alignment by making the impact of planned changes explicit. The increasing interconnectivity of applications with other applications and with business processes however makes it di cult to get a complete view on change impacts a...

Occasionally there have been long debates on whether to use elitist selection or not. In the present paper the simple (1,λ) EA and (1+λ) EA operating on {0, 1}n are compared by means of a rigorous runtime analysis. It turns out that only values for λ that are logarithmic in n are interesting. An illustrative function is presented for which newly developed proof methods show that the (1,λ) EA—wh...

The search ability of an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) depends on the variation among the individuals in the population [3, 4, 8]. Maintaining an optimal level of diversity in the EA population is imperative to ensure that progress of the EA search is unhindered by premature convergence to suboptimal solutions. Clearer understanding of the concept of population diversity, in the context of evolut...

Electroacupuncture (EA), especially high-frequency EA, has frequently been used as an alternative therapy for Parkinson disease (PD) and is reportedly effective for alleviating motor symptoms in patients and PD models. However, the molecular mechanism underlying its effectiveness is not completely understood. To implement a full-scale search for the targets of 100 Hz EA, we selected rat models ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The present study was performed to demonstrate the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) and acupuncture on renal failure (RF)-induced hypertension. METHODS We stimulated the Zusanli (ST36) and Taixi (KI3) acupoints in a rat model of RF-induced hypertension. RESULTS EA significantly reduced RF-induced hypertension (p < 0.05). In a histopathological study, increments in RF-induce...

Motivation: The frequency of electroacupuncture (EA) could substantially influence the induced response. We compared the effects of EA at frequencies at around the heart rate (HR) and 50%-higher-than-HR frequency on the microcirculatory blood flow (MBF). Methods: Skin-surface laser Doppler measurements were performed in healthy volunteers in three groups: (1) Group A (n=14), premeasurement-HR-f...

Angiostrongylus cantonensis is mainly caused eosinophilic meningitis in humans, whereas a minority of patients develop encephalitic angiostrongyliasis (EA). EA is an extremely fatal condition, and the clinical factors predictive of EA have never been reported. A comparison study was conducted in a hospital situated in an endemic area of Thailand. We enrolled 14 and 80 angiostrongyliasis patient...