Several reviews and meta-analyses on modulated inflammatory and immunologic responses after the administration of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) in different diseases and conditions have been published. However, omega-3 PUFAs exert several other actions which are not directly related to immunologic or inflammatory responses. The aim of this paper was to review the effects which are...

PURPOSE To investigate the effects of docosahexaenoic-(DHA)-rich fish oil (FO) supplementation on lymphocyte function before and after a marathon race. METHODS Twenty-one athletes participated in this study. Eight marathon runners were supplemented with 3 g of FO daily for 60 d (FO group), and 13 athletes were not supplemented (C group). The following measures of lymphocytes were taken before...

OBJECTIVE Fish oil (FO), and specifically omega 3 fatty acids, has favorable effects on cardiovascular outcomes. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of FO on the process of macrophage reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) in an in vivo mouse model. METHODS AND RESULTS C57BL/6J mice were fed a FO diet, whereas control mice were fed diets containing alternative sources of fats, s...

In this paper we present two techniques to improve the capacity of video on demand sysrems. Video on demand is an elecrronic video rental system in which clients requesr and play videos on-demand. Video on demand system can be implemented over an existing cable TV network or an upgraded ADSL network. The two techniques used to improve rhe capacity of video on-demand systems are segmentation and...

fn t h i s paper we propose a new h i e r a r c h i c a l s t r u c t u r e fo r d e s c r i b i n g 5-0 o b j e c t s , c a l l e d the Prism Tree. This ternar> t ree s t r u c t u r e , i n s p i r e d from the p lanar S t r i p Tree, is b u i l t from an i n i t i a l t r i a n g u i a t i o n o f the ob jec t by us ing a po l yhed ra l approx imat ion a l g o r i t h m . D i f f e r e n t p...

This is apreliminary report on the phonetic interaction of tone and consonant voicing in K m u , a language where some dialects use Fo for producing distinctive word tones, while others do not have tones but rely on the contrastive voicing of initial consonants to distinguish words which tonal dialects distinguishes with tones. Speakers of non-tonal dialects produce no significant Fo diflerence...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Health-care expenditures and their driving forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Past trends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Factors underlying past and future spending pres...

In this paper, we present an analysis based on linguistic and typographic features that allows for the identification of titles in web documents. We focus in particular on procedural texts. Identifying texts is a difficult task because ways pf encoding them are very diverse. A number of titles are also incomplete because fo context, we propose also a way to retrieve the missing elements, in par...

The key to developing highly active α-Fe2O3-based photocatalysts is improve the charge separation and efficiently utilize electrons with sufficient thermodynamic energy. Herein, α-Fe2O3 nanosheets (FO) were synthesized using a metal-ion-intervened hydrothermal method then coupled SnO2 (SO) obtain SO/FO nanocomposites. Subsequently, nanosized Ag was selectively loaded on SO photo-deposition resu...

The objectives were to examine the effects of bovine somatotropin (bST), pregnancy, and dietary fatty acids on expression of key endometrial genes and proteins regulating prostaglandin synthesis in lactating dairy cows. Two diets were fed, at about 17 d in milk (DIM), in which oil of whole cottonseed (control diet) was compared with calcium salts of fish oil-enriched lipid (FO). Ovulation was s...