We propose a new transport protocol, TCP Boston, that turns ATM's 53-byte cell-oriented switching architecture into an advantage for TCP/IP. At the core of TCP Boston is the Adaptive Information Dispersal Algorithm (AIDA), an efficient encoding technique that allows for dynamic redundancy control. AIDA makes TCP/IP's performance less sensitive to cell losses, thus ensuring a graceful degradatio...

BACKGROUND Idiopathic recurrent acute pericarditis (IRAP) is a rare disease of suspected, yet unproved, immune-mediated origin. The finding of serum heart-specific autoantibodies in IRAP would strengthen the autoimmune hypothesis and provide aetiology-specific non-invasive biomarkers. Objective To assess frequency of serum anti-heart (AHA), anti-intercalated-disk (AIDA) and non-cardiac-specific...

Autotransporters of gram-negative bacteria are single-peptide secretion systems that consist of a functional N-terminal alpha-domain ("passenger") fused to a C-terminal beta-domain ("translocator"). How passenger proteins are translocated through the outer membrane has not been resolved, and at present essentially three different models are discussed. In the widely accepted "hairpin model" the ...

The outpatient clinic of special study group on AIDS (POKDISUS) FKUI/RSCM provides health service for most of patients with HIV infection/AIDS in Jakarta. According to information center currently there are approximately 1800 cases and most of them (67%) are intravenous drug users. The study to obtain the profile of opportunistic infection in hospital had been initiated by Aida et al (1999). Th...

289 Dear Editor: In a recent issue of the journal, Dr. Biermann1 raised various issues regarding the randomised controlled trial (RCT) assessment of diabetes simulation programs. As the results of a pilot RCT have recently been published,2 making use of our proposed protocol,3,4 we thought it might be helpful to overview here the key study findings. AIDA is a freeware computer program that perm...

This column reports a detailed, questionnaire-based, post-release feedback survey of 200 users of the AIDA version 4 educational diabetes simulator. AIDA is a freeware computer program that permits the interactive simulation of plasma insulin and blood glucose profiles for educational, demonstration, self-learning, and research purposes. Since its Internet launch in 1996 over 700,000 visits hav...

BACKGROUND The construct "identity" was discussed to be integrated as an important criterion for diagnosing personality disorders in DSM-5. According to Kernberg, identity diffusion is one of the relevant underlying structures in terms of personality organization for developing psychopathology, especially borderline personality disorder. Therefore, it would be important to differentiate healthy...

83 Received May 21, 2015; revised and accepted August 31, 2015. Published online September 17, 2015; doi: 10.1620/tjem.237.83. Correspondence: Jun Aida, Division of International and Community Oral Health, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, 4-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan. e-mail: [email protected] Periodontal Disease Is Associated with Insomnia among Vict...

We report, the surface presentation of organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) and green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions by employing the adhesin-involved-in-diffuse-adherence (AIDA-I) translocator domain as a transporter and anchoring motif. The surface location of the OPH-GFP fusion protein was confirmed by immunofluorescence microscopy, and protease accessibility, followed by Western blotting ana...