To develop criteria for deficiency of essential fatty acids (EFA), we used capillary-column gas-liquid chromatography to determine fatty acids (percentage of total fatty acids) in plasma obtained in the fasting state from 56 reference subjects and from 10 patients with intestinal fat malabsorption and suspected EFA deficiency. Fatty acid evaluations (percentage of total fatty acids) that allowe...

An important issue for peer-to-peer application is to locate content within the network. There are many existing solutions to this problem, however, each of them addresses different aspects and each has its deficiencies. In this paper, we focus on the unstructured peer-to-peer scenario and present a constrained flooding routing algorithm, Efa, which overcomes some of the deficiencies of those e...

The present study was conducted to investigate the possible anxiolytic and sedative ofan acute administration and 4-day repeated dosing of an aqueous extract of flowers of Alceaaucheri (Boiss.) Alef. (EFA) in rats subjected to the elevated plus-maze (EPM), open-field, andhorizontal wire tests. All drugs were administered intraperitoneally. Phytochemical screeningconfirmed the presence of phenol...

72 m9 sis performed with WL obtained 83.7% of correct classification. RMSAC and RMSECV are lower in the EFA model. Length values predicted by PLS models were regressed on observed otolith length for both EFA and WL7 shape descriptions. PLS model generated values much efficiently related with measured lengths. In both cases a significant high correlation was found (puncorr.<0.01); EFA model show...

RESULTS: A total of 46,617 patients with orofacial clefts were identified, 14.6% with isolated cleft lip (CL), 51.7% with cleft lip and palate (CLP), and 33.7% with isolated cleft palate (CP). The incidence of patients requiring EFA increased from 2000 (3.7%) to 2012 (5.8%) (p<0.001). After controlling for comorbidities, the incidence was again found to increase throughout the study period (3.3...

BACKGROUND Multi attribute utility instruments (MAUIs) are preference-based measures that comprise a health state classification system (HSCS) and a scoring algorithm that assigns a utility value to each health state in the HSCS. When developing a MAUI from a health-related quality of life (HRQOL) questionnaire, first a HSCS must be derived. This typically involves selecting a subset of domains...

Coincident with the discovery of the essential fatty acids (EFA), the symptoms of their deficiency were thoroughly delineated. The mechanisms by which these symptoms were produced, however, and the intimate functions of these substances remained obscure for many years. Smedley-MacLean and Hume (1) considered that the EFA are involved in the formation of new cells, and a careful consideration of...

RESULTS: A total of 46,617 patients with orofacial clefts were identified, 14.6% with isolated cleft lip (CL), 51.7% with cleft lip and palate (CLP), and 33.7% with isolated cleft palate (CP). The incidence of patients requiring EFA increased from 2000 (3.7%) to 2012 (5.8%) (p<0.001). After controlling for comorbidities, the incidence was again found to increase throughout the study period (3.3...

The relationship between essential fatty acid (EFA) status and degree of hyperbilirubinaemia and oxidant stress in infants and children with chronic liver diseases was evaluated. Thirty patients with chronic cholestasis and 30 with liver cirrhosis were examined; 30 healthy subjects served as controls. Patient groups had significant decreases in EFAs and significant elevation of total bilirubin....

This paper describes Entity Flow-phase Analysis (EFA) which is a method for fast performance estimation of organisational process systems. Entity Flow-phase Analysis extends the approach of the promising Traffic-Flow Analysis (TFA) method – created for the rapid analysis of communications networks – for BP (Business Process) systems. EFA operates on the possibilities determined by the similarit...