Electroacupuncture (EA) has been shown to improve impaired gastric motility and slow waves in both humans and animals. However, its effects on colonic motility have rarely been investigated. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects and underlying mechanisms of EA on impaired colonic motility induced by rectal distension (RD)in dogs. Colon contractions and transit were measured in va...

In this study, drying characteristics, kinetic modelling, energy and exergy analyses of a convective hot air dryer are presented for water yam. The experiments were carried out at temperature levels 50, 60, 70°C slice thicknesses 3, 6, 9 mm. effects variables on the rate (DR), moisture diffusivity (Deff), activation (Ea), utilization (EU), ratio (EUR), loss (EXL), efficiency (EXeff), improvemen...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) tightly integrate physical and IT (cyber) worlds based on interactions between these worlds in real time. The focus of this paper is on the question how CPS can be integrated the enterprise architecture (EA) and how CPS potentially affect the EA. The approach used in this paper is to evaluate a case study from transportation showing the development of a CPS. The con...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Carrier screening for Tay-Sachs disease is performed by sequence analysis of the HEXA gene and/or hexosaminidase A enzymatic activity testing. Enzymatic analysis (EA) has been suggested as the optimal carrier screening method, especially in non-Ashkenazi Jewish (non-AJ) individuals, but its utilization and efficacy have not been fully evaluated in the general population. Thi...

Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a blueprint of an organisation’s current and desirable future IT infrastructure, systems, data, processes and capabilities, together with a roadmap for achieving the desirable future state. Despite significant interest and investment in EA, organisations still have difficulty articulating the business benefits of EA. In this research in progress paper we co...

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) is increasing faster than any other cancer in the U.S. In this report, we first show that EA can be distinguished from normal esophagus (NE) and esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by plotting expression values for EpCam, TFF1, and SBEM in three-dimensional Euclidean space. For monitoring progression of Barrett's esophagus (BE) to EA, we developed a highly sensitiv...

A mouse pulmonary hypersensitivity experimental model that mimics human asthma was developed, and electroacupuncture (EA) treatment was shown to reduce allergic inflammatory processes. In addition, we also assessed whether the beneficial effects of EA on allergic asthma could be correlated with CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (Treg). Cellular profiles and histopathologic analysis demon...

The present study was aimed at determining if the electroacupuncture (EA) is able to protect degenerated disc in vivo. New Zealand white rabbits (n = 40) were used for the study. The rabbits were randomly assigned to four groups. EA intervention was applied to one of the four groups. Magnetic resonance imaging and Pfirrmann's classification were obtained for each group to evaluate EA treatment ...

Background. The objective of this study was to identify potential biomarkers of electroacupuncture (EA) on relieving acute migraine through metabolomic study. Methods. EA treatments were performed on both acupoints and nonacupoints on the nitroglycerin (NTG)-induced migraine rat model. NMR experiments and multivariate analysis were used for metabolomic analysis. Results. The number of head-scra...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is one of the most important tools for implementing e-government effectively and delivering high-quality information technology services to citizens. To develop a robust EA research model with key success factors, we apply the theory of organizational change proposed by Burke and Litwin, using the concepts of transformational and transactional change. The analysis i...