Repeated administration of highly purified eicosapentaenoic acid (as ethyl ester) resulted in a decrease in plasma triglycerides
and high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol. This was accompanied by a stimulation in the activities of carnitine palmitoyltransferase,
fatty acyl-CoA oxidase and peroxisomal β-oxidation in the liver. The results suggest that the triglyceride-lowering effect
observed with eicosapentaenoic acid may be due to a reduced supply of fatty acids for hepatic triglyceride synthesis because
of increased fatty acid oxidation. Eicosapentaenoic acid feeding marginally affected the triglyceride content of heart and
mitochondrial and peroxisomal enzyme activities. 相似文献
Micro-mesoporous aluminosilicates based on ZSM-5 zeolite, obtained by a dual template method, as well as in the presence of a dual-functional template (i.e. a Gemini-type surfactant), were tested in the oxidation of furfural with hydrogen peroxide. Even substantial changes in acidity and porosity of the catalysts result in minor variations of selectivity towards the desired products. Application of the synthesized zeolite-based materials in the oxidation of furfural with hydrogen peroxide leads to formation of 2(5H)-furanone (yield up to 28.5%) and succinic acid (up to 19.5%) as the main C4 reaction products. The kinetic model developed previously to treat the results for oxidation of furfural over sulfated zirconia was able to describe the data also for micro-mesoporous aluminosilicates.
The aim of the study was to ascertain whether the amino acid 3-methylhistidine can be used to quantify skeletal meat protein in meat trimmings. 3-Methyhistidine from different carcass trimmings was quantified by a fluorescent HPLC method. Four trimmings with three subsamples each were examined. The subsamples were analysed in duplicate. The results showed high analytical variations between duplicates and subsamples. The average concentration of 3-methylhistidine in the four trimmings was 135 μg/g fat-free and connective tissue-free meat. Compared to earlier studies this value is high. Because of the rather high analytical variation, further research must be done to evaluate the use of 3-methylhistidine as an indicator for skeletal meat proteins in whole carcass trimmings. 相似文献
The infiltration of molten electrolyte and sodium is known to deteriorate the refractory in aluminum electrolysis. The mineralogical
changes due to reactions with molten fluorides have previously been described throughly, while the effect of sodium has not
been considered in detail. This paper presents an experimental study of the chemical stability of some refractory materials
in sodium-rich environments. The materials were exposed to sodium vapor at 800°C for 4 hours. The mineralogical transformations
and deterioration of the materials due to reactions with sodium were analyzed by x-ray diffraction and optical and electron
microscopy. 相似文献
This paper investigates whether employees’ assessment of their primary task quality has a significant impact on their well‐being and job satisfaction, respectively. Furthermore, the paper hypothesizes that professional values and norms affect employees’ quality expectations on their work tasks and thus their assessment of primary task quality. The paper proposes a measure for primary task quality and uses it in the analyses of responses from 1,247 preschool teachers and teaching assistants in 94 public daycare centers in Denmark. The results indicate that an important factor for employees is their experience of quality in the job they perform. Moreover, quality expectations can differ between employees performing the same task due to, for example, difference in professional training. This leads us to propose a new research direction for job design theory that addresses employees’ assessment of the quality of their primary task job performance. 相似文献
Multi-stream automatic speech recognition (MS-ASR) has been confirmed to boost the recognition performance in noisy conditions. In this system, the generation and the fusion of the streams are the essential parts and need to be designed in such a way to reduce the effect of noise on the final decision. This paper shows how to improve the performance of the MS-ASR by targeting two questions; (1) How many streams are to be combined, and (2) how to combine them. First, we propose a novel approach based on stream reliability to select the number of streams to be fused. Second, a fusion method based on Parallel Hidden Markov Models is introduced. Applying the method on two datasets (TIMIT and RATS) with different noises, we show an improvement of MS-ASR. 相似文献