Electrodermal Activity (EDA) – a peripheral index of sympathetic nervous system activity is a primary measure used in psychophysiology. EDA is widely accepted as an indicator of physiological arousal, and it has been shown to reveal when psychologically novel events occur. Traditionally, EDA data is collected in controlled laboratory experiments. However, recent developments in wireless biosens...

The Escherichia coli eda gene, which encodes the Entner-Doudoroff aldolase, is central to the catabolism of several sugar acids. Here, we show that Eda synthesis is induced by growth on gluconate, glucuronate, or methyl-beta-D-glucuronide; phosphate limitation; and carbon starvation. Transcription of eda initiates from three promoters, designated P1, P2, and P4, each of which is responsible for...

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...

Within the familiy of organic compounds with jr-systems, N-benzylideneaniline (NBA) is inter­ esting because of the nature of the phenyl-N, N=C and C-phenyl bonds, and the influence of the p,p'substituents on the molecular conformation (see Fig. 1). As a consequence of the electron donor and acceptor ability of the substituents, N-benzylideneanilines adopt different conformations. A l­ though s...

Sequential Monte Carlo/Quantum Mechanical calculations of the interaction energy of hydrogen-bonded methanol in liquid water gives the same result for methanol acting either as the proton donor or the proton acceptor. For the complex-optimized cases methanol acting as the proton acceptor, CH3HO· · ·H2O, is more stable than the proton donor, CH3OH· · ·OH2, by ∼ 0.5 kcal/mol. In the case of metha...

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...