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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"FADS"”.
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Impact of fatty acid desaturase (FADS) genotypes on the relationship between serum lipids and dietary fat intake in young Mexican college students
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Design of Piezoresistive MEMS Force and Displacement Sensors
… micro-Force And Displacement Sensor (FADS) and Closed-LOop sensor (CLOO-FADS), were designed and fabricated. Although limited in its piezoresistive sensitivity and out-of-plane stability, the FADS design showed promise of future application in microactuator characterization. Similarly, …
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Environmental influences on tuna movement patterns in the Indian Ocean
… Free Schools (FS) and Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs). Using a multivariate approach, it was found that the years 2005 to 2007 were most abundant in recoveries of skipjack adults (77.45%) while yellowfin adults were mainly abundant during 2008 to 2011. It also showed that year and zone were …
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Expectations and Stress Related to Choosing and Providing Treatment: A Comparative Study of Parents of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders or with Down Syndrome
… the new Family Access to Disability Services (FADS) measure, it was discovered that parents of children with an autism spectrum diagnosis had more difficulty in accessing and providing the treatments they wanted for their children. Higher FADS scores predicted parenting stress, even when first …
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Surface and Hydrodynamic Forces in Wetting Films
… the force apparatus for deformable surfaces (FADS) developed in the present work. The former is designed to obtain spatiotemporal profiles of unstable wetting films by recording the optical interference patterns. The kinetic information derived from the spatiotemporal profiles were then used …
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Essays On Social Norms
… behavior, which I interpret as a model of `fads'. I show that the speed of the fads is driven by the information available to less well-informed players. In chapter two, I study the effect of such preferences in a static game of voting with many players. Prior work studies voting games in …
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THE ROLE OF BOTANICAL OILS ENRICHED IN FADS2-DERIVED N-3 VS. N-6 POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACIDS IN PREVENTION OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS
… the rate-limiting fatty acid desaturase-2 (FADS2, delta-6 desaturase) step of fatty acid desaturation and elongation results in 18 and ≥ 20 carbon PUFAs that are substrates for pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory eicosanoid production, which affect atherosclerosis progression and …
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The effects of whole-diet interactions on vascular health and inflammatory and fatty acid status.
… focussed on the fatty acid desaturase (FADS) enzymes which are responsible for the desaturation steps in the synthesis of EPA and DHA from α-linolenic acid (αLNA). Methods Diet, vascular and inflammatory health in NU-AGE; the effects of the one year NU-AGE intervention on vascular …
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Recrutamento de peixes no Atlântico Sul : experimentação com estruturas de agregação e fatores oceanográficos
… no seu recrutamento. Testou-se dois modelos de FADs empregados em pesquisas de recrutamento: unidade de padrão de monitoramento de recrutamento de peixes recifais (SMURF) e recifes artificiais ancorados (ARM). O estudo realizou-se entre 09/2016 a 02/2019 (30 expedições) e comparou a abundância …
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Diet of albacore (Thunnus alalunga) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) off the south-west coast of South Africa
… this upwelling region. Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs), otherwise used globally, are banned in South Africa therefore giving us a unique opportunity to examine the natural diet of the tuna surrounding our shores. Sixty-one stomachs were sampled from recreational fishing competitions in May 2016 …
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Conceptualising organisation development: practitioner and academic perspectives. A UK study
… the theories of Institutionalism, Fashions, Fads and the Dissemination of Management Ideas were applied. The work is situated within a Critical Realist ontology and in the research strategy three methods were applied. Content analysis was carried out on job advertisements in the trade press …
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An analysis of the fourth voyage of Gulliver's travels and its relevance to the twentieth century
… of artistic, political, economic, or ideological fads. To accept a work as art with anything less than these universalities is blind acceptance and pure idolatry. Each generation must determine the validity of the label art by determining the relevance of the work to its own generations. Unless a …
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Three Essays in Development Economics
… in adult health. The third essay, ”Foods and Fads: The Welfare Impacts of Rising Quinoa Prices in Peru,” shows that increases in the international price of quinoa, which have been driven by a high international demand of quinoa, are associated with a significant yet modest increase in the …
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Architectu(Re)mergence: A Solution for the Modern American Grocery Store
… the problem. While gimmicky short term dieting fads come and go, an architectural model solution can set the foundation and structure to sustain progress. Let's look to the origins of architecture, labyrinths are built of walls, but if we are not careful, we can let them lead us to dead ends. …
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A critical evaluation of corporate employee communication in the light of recent changes in workplace relations
… company, finding some evidence that "management fads" exist, and that quality circles in particular seem to have gone out of fashion. The linguistic content of specific examples of written communication is examined in some detail. Linguistic forms are identified which appear to be intended to …
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From Galton to Globalization: The Transatlantic Journey of Eugenics
… How did eugenics become one of the many fads of the 1920s? It was accepted not only as science, but popular science, science made for mass consumption by the public. Through the lens of four biographical essays, this dissertation traces the journey and transformation of eugenics by …
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Photo Art Therapy for the Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Program at McAuley Behavioral Health Services
… their lives with images to elicit fashionable fads and popular trends. Using</p> <p>the contemporary medium of photography as a therapeutic tool can effectively bring together art, drama and group therapy techniques.</p> <p>This proposal is designed to introduce and investigate the impact of …
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Ultrahigh-Throughput Microfluidic Droplet Screening of Metagenomic Libraries for Esterases and Kemp Eliminases
… fluorescence-activated droplet sorter (FADS) I developed for use with fluorogenic enzyme substrates. I improved this instrument incrementally based on the needs of collaborative projects, which ensured the success of these projects in screening enzyme libraries. In Chapter 3, I …
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The theatrical strategies of James Robinson Planché
… trends in entertainment, and even health fads and advertising), were often lampooned in Planché's work. Typical topical references are identified, especially those featured in many different pieces, such as a rash of reputed sea serpent sightings during the 1830s and 1840s. Also of …
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Biomarkers of fat intake
… (SNP) in the fatty acid desaturase (FADS) genes on the fatty acid composition of the biomarkers. Polymorphism in FADS1 rs174537 explained some of this variation. Carriage of the minor allele of rs174537 SNP also influenced the proportions of n-6 LC-PUFA in an RCT. Further research is …
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