BACKGROUND The therapeutic and health promoting role of highly unsaturated fatty acids (HUFAs) from fish, i.e. eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5n-3) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6n-3) are well known. These same benefits may however be shared by some of their precursors, the polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), such as stearidonic acid (SDA, 18:4 n-3). In order to obtain alternative sources ...

Linear discriminant analysis is a popular multivariate statistical approach for classification of observations into groups because the theory is well described and the method is easy to implement and interpret. However, an important limitation is that linear discriminant functions need to be pre-specified. That is, specific variables need to be selected and added linearly into the model. Only t...

Structural decomposition techniques are widely used to break down the growth in some variable into the changes in its determinants. Over the past two decades, input-output structural decomposition analysis (SDA) has developed into a major analytical tool. We review the development of SDA and its relationship to other methodologies. We present the fundamental principle of alternative approaches ...

The best spatial design condition to satisfy the occupancy needs of amenity and efficiency is determined through analyzing the spatial design adequacy (SDA). In this study, the relationship between the space design elements and space on future occupants' perception are analyzed. The thirty-three participants reported their self-evaluated SDA that describes the quality of eight alternative housi...

BACKGROUND Little is known about interest in faith-based health promotion programs among Asian American populations. Among the Christian denominations, the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) church is known to place a strong doctrinal emphasis on health. OBJECTIVES To understand appropriate ways to develop and implement health promotion programs and to conduct research among Korean American SDAs. ...

Temperature acclimation may offset the increased energy expenditure (standard metabolic rate, SMR) and reduced scope for activity (aerobic scope, AS) predicted to occur with local and global warming in fishes and other ectotherms. Yet, the time course and mechanisms of this process is little understood. Acclimation dynamics of SMR, maximum metabolic rate, AS and the specific dynamic action of f...

Coordination of DNA replication with cellular development is a crucial problem in most living organisms. Bacillus subtilis cells switch from vegetative growth to sporulation when starved. Sporulation normally occurs in cells that have stopped replicating DNA and have two completed chromosomes: one destined for the prespore and the other for the mother cell. It has long been recognized that ther...

Specific dynamic action (SDA), the increase in metabolic rate above resting levels that accompanies the processes of digestion and assimilation of food, can form a substantial part of the daily energy budget of free-ranging animals. We measured heart rate (fH) and rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) in 12 little penguins while they digested a meal of sardines in order to determine whether they sho...

We present the framework of generalised supply-demand analysis (SDA) of a kinetic model of a cellular system, which can be applied to networks of arbitrary complexity. By fixing the concentrations of each of the variable species in turn and varying them in a parameter scan, rate characteristics of supply-demand are constructed around each of these species. By inspecting the shapes of the rate c...

CDMA Sectorized Distributed Antenna System Halim Yanikomeroglu Elvino S. Sousa Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering | University of Toronto E-mails: fhalim,[email protected] ABSTRACT The CDMA sectorized distributed antenna (SDA) is a novel antenna architecture which yields an increase in the reverse link capacity, in the order of the number of antenna elements used [1]. In an...