PURPOSE This study examines possible interactions between behavioral effects and mGluR1 (class I metabotropic glutamate receptor) by injecting AIDA [(RS)-1-aminoindan-1,5-dicarboxylic acid] in rats with experimental chronic hyperammonemia (chHA). MATERIAL/METHODS The effects of mGluR1 antagonist on some behaviors were tested in control groups of rats and in rats with chHA. Experimental chHA w...

The Escherichia coli adhesin involved in diffuse adherence (AIDA-I) is a multifunctional autotransporter protein that mediates bacterial aggregation and biofilm formation, as well as adhesion and invasion of cultured epithelial cells. To elucidate the structure-function relationships of AIDA-I, we performed transposon-based linker scanning mutagenesis and constructed mutants with site-directed ...

Nowadays the interoperability in Healthcare Information Systems (HIS) is a fundamental requirement. The Agency for Integration, Diffusion and Archive of Medical Information (AIDA) is an interoperability healthcare platform that ensures these demands and it is implemented in Centro Hospitalar do Porto (CHP), a major healthcare unit in Portugal. Therefore, the overall performance of CHP HIS depen...

We present AIDA*, a generic adaptable scheme for highly parallel iterative-deepening search on large-scale asynchronous MIMD systems. AIDA* is based on a data partitioning scheme, where the di erent parts of the search space are processed asynchronously in parallel. Existing sequential solution algorithms can be linked to the AIDA* routines to build a fast, highly parallel search program. Takin...

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...