507 IN THE LAST TWO “Diabetes Information Technology & WebWatch” columns1,2 various user experience with two freeware interactive educational “virtual diabetes patient” simulators—called AIDA and AIDA online—were documented. In this column a look is made to the future—and various more sophisticated ways in which users may interact with future generations of such simulation programs are considered.

Burkholderia cenocepacia H111, which was isolated from a cystic fibrosis patient, employs a quorum-sensing (QS) system, encoded by cep, to control the expression of virulence factors as well as the formation of biofilms. The QS system is thought to ensure that pathogenic traits are expressed only when the bacterial population density is high enough to overwhelm the host before it is able to mou...

AIDA: ab initio domain assembly server, available at http://ffas.burnham.org/AIDA/ is a tool that can identify domains in multi-domain proteins and then predict their 3D structures and relative spatial arrangements. The server is free and open to all users, and there is an option for a user to provide an e-mail to get the link to result page. Domains are evolutionary conserved and often functio...

AIDA is a diabetes-computing program freely available at www.2aida.org on the Web. The software is intended to serve as an educational support tool and can be used by anyone who has an interest in diabetes, whether they be patients, relatives, health-care professionals, or students. In previous "Diabetes Information Technology & WebWatch" columns various indicators of usage of the AIDA program ...

AIDA { a novel elaboration on Michael O. Rabin's IDA 21] { is a communication protocol that uses redundancy to achieve both timeliness and reliability. In AIDA redundancy is used to tackle several crucial problems. In particular, redundancy is used to tolerate failures, to increase the likelihood of meeting tight time-constraints, and to ration (based on task priorities) the limited bandwidth i...

In 1996 an interactive educational diabetes simulator called AIDA was released without charge on the Internet as a non-commercial contribution to continuing diabetes education. Over the past 4+ years over 74,000 people have visited the AIDA Web pages at http://www.2aida.org and over 20,000 copies of the program have been downloaded from there free-of-charge. This article builds on the experienc...

We propose a new transport protocol, TCP Boston, that turns ATM's 53-byte cell-oriented switching architecture into an advantage for TCP/IP. At the core of TCP Boston is the Adaptive Information Dispersal Algorithm (AIDA), an efficient encoding technique that allows for dynamic redundancy control. AIDA makes TCP/IP's performance less sensitive to cell losses, thus ensuring a graceful degradatio...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis (IRAP) is a rare disease of suspected, yet unproved, immune-mediated origin. The finding of serum heart-specific autoantibodies in IRAP would strengthen the autoimmune hypothesis and provide aetiology-specific non-invasive biomarkers. Objective To assess frequency of serum anti-heart (AHA), anti-intercalated-disk (AIDA) and non-cardiac-specific...

Autotransporters of gram-negative bacteria are single-peptide secretion systems that consist of a functional N-terminal alpha-domain ("passenger") fused to a C-terminal beta-domain ("translocator"). How passenger proteins are translocated through the outer membrane has not been resolved, and at present essentially three different models are discussed. In the widely accepted "hairpin model" the ...

The outpatient clinic of special study group on AIDS (POKDISUS) FKUI/RSCM provides health service for most of patients with HIV infection/AIDS in Jakarta. According to information center currently there are approximately 1800 cases and most of them (67%) are intravenous drug users. The study to obtain the profile of opportunistic infection in hospital had been initiated by Aida et al (1999). Th...