In the past three decades, total fat and saturated fat intake as a percentage of total calories has continuously decreased in Western diets, while the intake of omega-6 fatty acid increased and the omega-3 fatty acid decreased, resulting in a large increase in the omega-6/omega-3 ratio from 1:1 during evolution to 20:1 today or even higher. This change in the composition of fatty acids parallel...

Yannis Haralambous’ and John Plaice’s Omega system employs Unicode as its coding system. This short note (which previously appeared in the UKTUG magazine Baskerville volume 5, number 3) considers the rationale behind Unicode itself and behind its adoption for Omega.

nuclear level densities and spin cut-off factors have been deduced for nuclei in the mass region 24‹a‹63,from a microscopic theory, which includes nuclear pairing interaction. single particle levels for both seeger and nilsson potentials were used in the calcdations. level densities extracted from the theory are compared with their conesponding experimental values, it is found that the overall ...

BACKGROUND Because knowledge about the type of calcium channels involved in action potential-induced norepinephrine release from the human peripheral sympathetic nervous system is sparse, we investigated which types of calcium channels are functionally important in the sympathetic nerves of human cardiac tissue. METHODS AND RESULTS In superfused segments of human right atrial appendages, the ...

Daily June-July melt fraction variations over the Greenland ice sheet (GIS) derived from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) (2000-2013) are associated with atmospheric blocking forming an omega-shape ridge over the GIS at 500 hPa height. Blocking activity with a range of time scales, from synoptic waves breaking poleward (<5 days) to full-fledged blocks (≥5 days), brings ...

This study aimed to investigate the function of the cannabinoid receptor in the neuromuscular junction of the frog (Rana pipiens). Miniature end-plate potentials were recorded using the intracellular electrode recording technique in the cutaneous pectoris muscle in the presence of the cannabinoid agonists WIN55212-2 (WIN; R-(+)-[2,3-dihydro-5-methyl-3-[(morpholinyl)]-pyrolol[1,2,3de]-1,4-benzox...

Lamprey spinal cord neurons possess N-, L-, and P/Q-type high-voltage-activated (HVA) calcium channels. We have analyzed the role of the different HVA calcium channels subtypes in the overall functioning of the spinal locomotor network by monitoring the influence of their specific agonists and antagonists on synaptic transmission and on N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-elicited fictive locomotion. T...

The fluctuation theorem (FT) describes how a system's thermodynamic irreversibility develops in time from a completely thermodynamically reversible system at short observation times, to a thermodynamically irreversible one at infinitely long times. In this paper, we present a general definition of the dissipation function Omega(t), the quantitative argument in the fluctuation theorem (FT), that...

to compare intubating conditions and hemodynamic changes between bonfils intubation fiberscope and macintosh laryngoscopy without administering neuromuscular blocking drugs (nmbds). methods: in this randomized controlled trial,80 male and female patients, scheduled for elective surgery, aged 15 to 60 years, asa class ii or i, non-obese, non smokers, without anticipated difficult intubation; wer...