The adequate supply of essential fatty acids (EFA) to the body depends upon sufficient dietary intake and subsequent efficient intestinal absorption. Lipid malabsorption is not only a leading cause of EFA deficiency (EFAD), but also occurs secondarily to EFAD. Understanding the relationship between EFAD and lipid malabsorption may be helpful in the development and optimization of oral treatment...

In this document we describe the Mixture EFA model estimated in Mplus. Four types of dependent variables are possible in this model: normally distributed, ordered categorical with logit or probit link, Poisson distributed with the exponential link function, and censored variables. Inflation is not available for the Censored and Poisson variables. Suppose that we estimate a K class model with M ...

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) strains comprise a broad group of bacteria, some of which cause attaching and effacing (AE) lesions and enteritis in humans and animals. Non-O157:H7 EHEC strains contain the gene efa-1 (referred to in previous publications as efa1), which influences adherence to cultured epithelial cells. An almost identical gene in enteropathogenic E. coli (lifA) media...

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) methods are used extensively in the field of assessment and evaluation. Due to EFA’s widespread use, common methods and practices have come under close scrutiny. A substantial body of literature has been compiled highlighting problems with many of the methods and practices used in EFA, and, in response, many guidelines have been proposed with the aim to improve...

This article concerns the power of various data analytic strategies to detect the effect of a single genetic variant (GV) in multivariate data. We simulated exactly fitting monozygotic and dizygotic phenotypic data according to single and two common factor models, and simplex models. We calculated the power to detect the GV in twin 1 data in an ANOVA of phenotypic sum scores, in a MANOVA, and i...

OBJECTIVE Pre-pregnancy obesity has been associated with adverse birth outcomes. Poor essential fatty acid (EFA) and micronutrient status during pregnancy may contribute to these associations. We assessed the associations between pre-pregnancy BMI and nutritional patterns of maternal micronutrient and EFA status during mid-pregnancy. DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis from a prospective cohort...

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Mon information to assist in drafting the 2003/4 report. It has not been e and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and s EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The papers can reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monitoring Equality”. For further information, please contact efareport@unesco 1 200...

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Globa background information to assist in drafting the 2003/4 report. It ha team. The views and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the be attributed to the EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. with the following reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA G 2003/4, The Leap to Equality”. For further informa [email protected]...

This paper was commissioned by the Education for All Global Mon information to assist in drafting the 2007 report. It has not been e and opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and s EFA Global Monitoring Report or to UNESCO. The papers can reference: “Paper commissioned for the EFA Global Monit foundations: early childhood care and education”. For further [email protected]...

Since the deficiency syndrome caused by lack of essential fatty acids (EFA) was first described by Burr & Burr (1929) many species besides rats have been shown to require EFA, but evidence about the pig is rather sparse and conflicting. Ellis & Isbell (1926) and Ellis & Zeller (1930) reared pigs on diets containing only 0 . 5 7 ~ 'ether extract', but observed none of the classical signs of EFA ...