The modifying effect of four dose levels of butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) on liver and bladder carcinogenesis by N-2-fluorenylacetamide (FAA) was studied in rats. FAA (200 ppm) was fed simultaneously with four levels of BHT (300, 1000, 3000, and 6000 ppm) to male F344 Fischer strain rats. Groups of animals were killed at 6, 12, 18, and 25 weeks. Hepatocellular-altered foci in the liver were id...

We derive a generalization of the prolongation formula for tensorvalued functions, by taking into account the natural action of di eomorphisms on tensor elds. This di ers from the usual procedure, where such elds are viewed as de ning \multi-component scalars;" it replaces the ordinary derivative in the expression of the \characteristic" by a Lie derivative. The resulting version of Noether's t...

The existence of food anticipatory activity (FAA) in animals subjected to daily feeding schedules seems to be mediated by a feeding-entrainable oscillator (FEO). Such an FEO may help in anticipating meal time and so optimizing food acquisition and nutrient utilization. In this study we investigated the existence of FAA and whether digestive enzymes, plasma cortisol, hypothalamic NPY and gastroi...

Dedicated to Yuri Manin on the occasion of his 70th birthday O simili o dissimili che sieno questi mondi non con minor raggione sarebe bene a l'uno l'essere che a l'altro Giordano Bruno – De l'infinito, universo e mondi Contents 1. Introduction 2 2. A look at the Weil proof 4 2.1. Correspondences and divisors 7 2.2. The explicit formula 8 2.3. Riemann–Roch and positivity 9 2.4. A tentative dict...

The feasibility of using biochemical assays of gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (gamma-GTP) and N-hydroxy-N-2-fluorenylacetamide sulfotransferase (N-OH-2-FAA ST) activities to monitor the effects of treatment of male Sprague-Dawley rats with a two-stage hepatocarcinogenic regimen was investigated. One week after initiation with diethylnitrosamine (200 mg/kg of bw), the rats were treated with 10 ora...

In two experiments the potential value of diets based on casein or free amino acids (FAA) for amino acid utilization experiments were examined. In Expt 1 the optimum dietary electrolyte balance (dEB) for a casein-based diet was estimated by supplemention with 10 or 20 g NaHCO3/kg, to produce diets containing 64, 183 or 302 mmol/kg. In addition, piglet growth performance and efficiency of nutrie...

We introduce an approach to model-free relational reinforcement learning in finitehorizon, undiscounted domains with a single terminal reward of success or failure. We represent the value function as a relational naive Bayes network and show that both the value (parameters) and structure of this network can be learned efficiently under a minimum description length (MDL) framework. We describe t...

Effect of Allium sativum Linn. (Alliaceae) (Raw Garlic Extract (RGE)) was studied on free amino acids (FAA) level in female albino rats. The garlic extract was tested in three different doses 1ml, 2ml and 4ml/ kg body weight daily as low, medium and high dose respectively for a period of 7, 14, 21 and 28 days. The significant (P<0.01) increase in Free amino acid (FAA) level was observed when ra...

Both the AVSP and FAA conferences have a common focus on facial communication research. The AVSP conference concentrates on how auditory and visual speech information plays a role in human perception, machine recognition, and human-machine interaction. FAA focuses on facial animation analysis and synthesis addressed in the fields of computer graphics, computer vision and psychology. The aim of ...

Basic research has established a strong relationship between stimulus induced human motivation for approach-related behavior and left-frontal electrophysiological activity in the alpha band, i.e. frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA). Since approach motivation is also of interest for various fields of applied research, several recent studies investigated the usefulness of FAA as a diagnostic tool of st...