Pretreatment of miscanthus is essential for efficient enzymatic production of cellulosic ethanol. This study reports a possible pretreatment method for miscanthus using aqueous ethylenediamine (EDA) for 30 min at 180 °C with or without ammonia. The mass ratio of miscanthus to EDA was varied from 1:3, 1:1, and 1:0.5, keeping the mass ratio of miscanthus to liquid (EDA + Water) constant at 1:8. T...

The adsorption process on mineral oxide surfaces is one of the most important factors influencing the migration and distribution of contaminants in the environment. Although there have been numerous studies carried out at the macroscopic scale, there is a lack of molecular-scale interfacial information. The molecular-scale information is often crucial for the determination of sorption mechanism...

The article by Chauhan et al in the current issue of Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology1 adds a new complexity to the roles of fibronectin in formation of hemostatic plugs and thrombotic occlusions. Normal mice, in which 99.5% of plasma fibronectin lacks the alternatively spliced EDA domain, were compared with mice genetically engineered to have only EDA-containing (EDA ) fibron...

Guided Local Search (GLS) is a general meta-heuristic that sits on top of local search algorithms and help them escape from local minima. However, GLS is often trapped in a small local area. Estimation of Distribution Algorithm(EDA) is a new evolutionary algorithm in which statistical information are explicitly extracted from the current population and then used for generating new solutions. Th...

Armor plate changes in sticklebacks are a classic example of repeated adaptive evolution. Previous studies identified ectodysplasin (EDA) gene as the major locus controlling recurrent plate loss in freshwater fish, though the causative DNA alterations were not known. Here we show that freshwater EDA alleles have cis-acting regulatory changes that reduce expression in developing plates and spine...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES As a well-established technique for postoperative pain relief, the benefits of epidural analgesia (EDA) have been under debate recently. This study aimed to determine whether EDA could improve perioperative outcomes and survival in patients undergoing esophagectomy. METHODS From January 2010 to December 2012, 587 consecutive cases undergoing McKeown-type esohpageacto...

Fibronectin (FN) is an extracellular matrix (ECM) protein including numerous fibronectin type III (FNIII) repeats with different functions. The alternatively spliced FN variant containing the extra domain A (FNIII EDA), located between FNIII 11 and FNIII 12, is expressed in sites of injury, chronic inflammation, and solid tumors. Although its function is not well understood, FNIII EDA is known ...

How can measuring children’s Electrodermal Activity (EDA) help improve the design of an occupational therapy experience? Twenty-two children with sensory challenges such as Autism and ADHD participated in the study. Children attended occupational therapy as usual, while their physiological arousal (i.e., EDA) was measured with a wireless device on the bottom calf. Combining the EDA signal with ...

Fibronectin containing an alternatively spliced extra domain A (EDA-FN) participates in diverse biological cell functions, being also directly or indirectly engaged during an inflammatory response to brain injury and/or neuron regeneration. We analyzed FN and EDA-FN isoform levels by ELISA in 85 cerebrospinal fluid samples and 67 plasma samples obtained from children suffering from bacterial or...

Over the last decade, we have seen an increasing interest in the event-driven architecture (EDA) approach. EDA allows the transmission of events among loosely coupled and highly-distributed software components, which is totally adequate to peer-to-peer based applications mainly considering features of scalability and flexibility. In this paper, we present the initial steps towards the design an...