Living monkeys were perfused via the anterior chamber by the two step constant pressure technique with the sulfhydryl (SH)-reactive diuretic, ethacrynic acid (ECA) at dosages from 0.1 to 1.0 mM. Above 0.37 mM a reproducible increase in outflow facility (C) was observed. At 0.5 mM C increased 115% with ECA compared to a 22% increase in control eyes (n = 9; P less than 0.01). In three monkeys sim...

Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general have advances this field in realizing the vision of a more humanoid interactive system with embodied conversation agent (ECA). This paper presented our development of the ECA called Artificial Intelligent Natural-language Identity or AINI. In this paper, we also present and discuss the use of such E...

Facial displays are an extremely important communication channel fulfilling a wide variety of functions in discourse and conversation. Humans use them naturally, often subconsciously, and are therefore very sensitive to the application of such displays in their computer-generated correspondents, Embodied Conversational Agents (ECA). In this chapter, we aim to provide an extensive survey of one ...

ECA (event/condition/action) rules have been developed for central active database systems. In distributed active database systems the problem of inaccessibility of partial systems raises and thus the undecidability of ECA conditions referring to remote systems. This work proposes an enhancement of ECA rules for distributed active database systems to react also in the case of inaccessibility an...

The assembly of the phosphoglyceride-linked form of enterobacterial common antigen (ECA(PG)) occurs by a mechanism that involves modulation of polysaccharide chain length. However, the genetic determinant of this modulation has not been identified. Site-directed mutagenesis of o349 of the Escherichia coli K-12 wec gene cluster revealed that this locus encodes a Wzz protein that specifically mod...

Abstract Extratropical cyclones are critical weather systems affecting climate change in mid and high-latitude regions. Researching the characteristics, patterns, movements of extratropical is helpful for improved prediction understanding global change. Currently, there still great difficulties predicting cyclones. Also, few prior studies have investigated potential impact Arctic sea ice on cyc...

PURPOSE One of the current limitations in developing novel glaucoma drugs that target the trabecular meshwork (TM) is the induced corneal toxicity from eyedrop formulations. To avoid the corneal toxicity, an alternative approach would be to deliver TM drugs through the sclera. To this end, we quantified ex vivo diffusion coefficient of a potential TM drug, ethacrynic acid (ECA), and investigate...

Between 60 and 70 million people in the United States are affected by gastrointestinal disorders. Many of these conditions are difficult to assess without surgical intervention and accurate noninvasive techniques to aid in clinical assessment are needed. Through the use of a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) gradiometer, the weak magnetic field generated as a result of muscula...

The study aimed at a critical assessment of the environmentalism components introduced in the civil engineering curriculum in India polytechnic colleges (state of Tamilnadu) and associate degree level Technical Institutions in Iran .The objective of study was to compare technical education curriculum in civil engineering with respect to environmentalism. Both qualitative and quantitative techni...

Knowledge systems are characterized by being active, uncertain and adaptive in pervasive computing environments, and Fuzzy Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules can effectively describe these features of knowledge systems. To analyze the static structure and dynamic behavior of fuzzy ECA rules, a fuzzy colored time Petri net model (FCTPN) is proposed. The FCTPN is able to model the fuzzy ECA rules...