Fetal sex ratios (FSRs) have important implications for managing small isolated populations. Mean male-biased FSRs ranging from 2.67:1 to 1:1 have been reported for the endangered Florida Key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium). Several general hypotheses have been proposed that describe the manner in which FSR may vary within a deer population over time: (1) tendency to equalize the sex rati...

Serum albumin, fibrinogen levels, and lean body mass are important predictors of outcome in end-stage renal disease (ESRD). We estimated the fractional synthesis rates of albumin (FSR-A), fibrinogen (FSR-F), and muscle protein (FSR-M) in nine ESRD patients and eight controls, using primed constant infusion of l-[ring-(13)C(6)]phenylalanine. Cytokine profile and arteriovenous balance of amino ac...

Whey protein (WP) is characterized as a "fast" protein and caseinate (CA) as a "slow" protein according to their digestion and absorption rates. We hypothesized that co-ingestion of milk proteins (WP and CA) may be effective for prolonging the muscle protein synthesis response compared to either protein alone. We therefore compared the effect of ingesting milk protein (MP) to either WP or CA al...

This paper explores the concept of a Forward Scattering Radar (FSR) system with a rotational transmitter for target detection and localization. Most of the research and development in FSR used a fixed dedicated transmitter; therefore, the detection of stationary and slow moving target is very difficult. By rotating the transmitter, the received signals at the receiver contain extra information ...

Fujita S, Dreyer HC, Drummond MJ, Glynn EL, Volpi E, Rasmussen BB. Essential amino acid and carbohydrate ingestion before resistance exercise does not enhance postexercise muscle protein synthesis. J Appl Physiol 106: 1730–1739, 2009. First published June 5, 2008; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.90395.2008.—Ingestion of an essential amino acid-carbohydrate (EAA CHO) solution following resistance exerc...

Caloric restriction (CR) delays the onset of age-related mitochondrial abnormalities but does not prevent the decline in ATP production needed to sustain muscle protein fractional synthesis rate (FSR) and contractile activity. We hypothesized that improving mitochondrial activity and FSR using a CR diet with maintained protein intakes could enhance myofibrillar protein FSR and consequently impr...

Fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (FSR) from crustacean muscle was examined following preparation by a variety of electron microscopic techniques. The 30-40 A particles which appeared on the outer surface of FSR vesicles following negative staining were not observed following preparation by freeze-drying, freeze-etching, thin sectioning, or critical-point drying. Crustacean FSR exhibited high v...

Inverse formulas for the tensor product are used to develop an algorithm to compute Schmidt decompositions of Finite Schmidt Rank (FSR) bounded operators on the tensor product of separable Hilbert spaces. The algorithm is then applied to solve inverse problems related to the tensor product of bounded operators. In particular, we show how properties of a FSR bounded operator are reflected by the...

An original multi-layer structure is proposed for the realization of monolithic differential inductors. Compared with standard differential topologies of equal inductance, it can reduce the area occupation by more than 50% and increase the self-resonance frequency fSR up to 30%. However, because of the high resistivity of the lower metal layers, the quality factor Q decreases by 25−40% and make...

Fragmented sarcoplasmic reticulum (FSR) from rabbit muscle was examined by positive staining, negative staining, and freeze-etch electron microscopic techniques in the absence and presence of calcium transport conditions. The existence of 30-40 A particles covering the outer surface of FSR vesicles was confirmed by two different negative stains in unfixed, glutaraldehyde-fixed and osmium tetrox...