BACKGROUND Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are associated with protection from obesity-related phenotypes in adults; however, the relation between reported intake of PUFAs with body-composition outcomes in children remains unknown. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine how self-reported intakes of PUFAs, including total, n-6 (ω-6), and n-3 (ω-3) PUFAs and ratios of n-6 to n-3 PUFAs and P...

The problems of reprocessing and long-term storage spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at power plants with RBMK reactors have not been fully resolved so far. For this reason, are forced to search for new options the disposal fuel, which can provide least temporary SNF storage. One possible solutions problem is switch compacted in reactor pools (SFPs). As number assemblies (SFAs) SFPs increases, a greater...

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved high performance in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR). However, the of CNNs depends heavily on a large amount training data. The insufficiency labeled SAR images limits and even invalidates some ATR methods. Furthermore, under few data, many existing are ineffective. To address these challenges, we propose Semi-s...

The fatty acid (FA) profile of lipids extracted from the Varroa destructor parasitic mite and its host, drone-prepupae of Apis mellifera, was determined by gas chromatography (GC). The percentages of saturated fatty acids (SFAs), monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) were generally similar in parasites and their hosts. Fatty acids were arranged in the follo...

Accounting regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are working towards global convergence of U.S. and international accounting standards by 2005. One of the areas that the regulators have identified as a necessary requirement for convergence is the treatment of financial instruments such as derivatives. In the U.S., the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) released Statement of Financia...

BACKGROUND Stearoyl-CoA desaturase (SCD) is a key enzyme that converts saturated fatty acids (SFAs) to monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) in fat biosynthesis. Despite being crucial for interpreting SCDs' roles across species, the evolutionary relationship of SCD proteins across species has yet to be elucidated. This study aims to present this evolutionary relationship based on amino acid seque...

BACKGROUND The killing of vascular cells by activated macrophages is an important step in the process of destabilization of the arterial wall. The death receptor Fas is implicated in vascular cell death. Hence, we extended our studies in a rat aortic allograft model, using adenovirus-mediated overexpression of soluble Fas (sFas) to block Fas binding to Fas ligand (Fas-L). The contribution of Fa...

AIM To identify APO1/FAS promoter (-670A/G) genotypes in Indian Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) patients and correlate with clinical presentation and serum FAS (sFAS) levels. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventy clinically diagnosed SLE patients and seventy healthy normals were included. SLE patients were classified according to the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) criteria. Disease severity...

The commensal Streptococcus gordonii expresses numerous surface adhesins with which it interacts with other microorganisms, host cells and salivary proteins to initiate dental plaque formation. However, this Gram-positive bacterium can also spread to non-oral sites such as the heart valves and cause infective endocarditis. One of its surface adhesins, Sgo0707, is a large protein composed of a n...