OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) membership on 'immunity' to the secular effects of changes in BMI. DESIGN Three independent, cross-sectional, screening surveys conducted by Sydney Adventist Hospital in 1976, 1986 and 1988 and a survey conducted among residents of Melbourne in 2006. SUBJECTS Two hundred and fifty-two SDA and 464 non-SDA in 1976; 166 SDA and 291...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of sodium diacetate (SDA) on fermentation profile, chemical composition and aerobic stability of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) silage. METHODS Fresh alfalfa was ensiled with various concentrations of SDA (0, 3, 5, 7, and 9 g/kg of fresh forage). After 60 days of the ensiling, the samples were collected to examine the fermentative...

Listeria monocytogenes, a psychrotrophic foodborne pathogen, is a frequent postprocessing contaminant of ready-to-eat (RTE) meat products, including frankfurters and bologna. Ionizing radiation can eliminate L. monocytogenes from RTE meats. When they are incorporated into fine-emulsion sausages, sodium diacetate (SDA) and potassium lactate (PL) mixtures inhibit the growth of L. monocytogenes. T...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have grown in popularity as a network method. However, owing to the broadcast communication method and unsupervised deployment nature of WSNs, Sensor Nodes (SN) often becomes targets attackers. Due few processing energy resources, basic data aggregation methods such averaging are required. While it may prevent sensitive from being hacked, requires regular message...

This chapter details similarity discriminant analysis (SDA), a new framework for similaritybased classification. The two defining characteristics of the SDA classification framework are similarity-based and generative. The classifiers in this framework are similarity-based, because they classify based on the pairwise similarities of data samples, and they are generative, because they build clas...

Symbolic data analysis (SDA) has gained popularity over the past few years because of its potential for handling data having a dependent and hierarchical nature. Amongst many methods for analyzing SDA data, exploratory data analysis (EDA: Tukey, (1977)) with graphical presentation is an important one. Recent developments of graphical and visualization tools for SDA include zoom star, closed sha...

The distribution of vasopressin-immunoreactive fibers in the forebrain of male and female gerbils was studied, focusing on the lateral septum and the sexually dimorphic area (SDA) found at the border between the medial preoptic area and the anterior hypothalamus. To study hormonal influences on the densities of these fibers, some animals of each sex were gonadectomized or gonadectomized and giv...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to validate the performance of a seizure detection algorithm (SDA) developed by our group, on previously unseen, prolonged, unedited EEG recordings from 70 babies from 2 centres. METHODS EEGs of 70 babies (35 seizure, 35 non-seizure) were annotated for seizures by experts as the gold standard. The SDA was tested on the EEGs at a range of sensitivity s...

We quantified the specific dynamic action (SDA) resulting from the ingestion of various meal types in Burmese pythons (Python molurus) at 30 degrees C. Each snake was fed a series of experimental meals consisting of amino acid mixtures, simple proteins, simple or complex carbohydrates, or lipids as well as meals of whole animal tissue (chicken breast, beef suet, and mouse). Rates of oxygen cons...