The study investigated the dietary impact of 18:3n-3 vs. 18:2n-6 on fatty acid- and micronutrient concentration of beef muscle and the extent of diet- and processing-induced changes of lipid- and micronutrient concentrations of beef products made thereof (German Corned beef (GCB), tea sausage spread (TSS), scalded sausage (SS)). Beef and beef products were obtained from German Holstein bulls wh...

Little is known about the uptake or metabolism of essential fatty acids (EFAs) in various mammalian organs. Thus, the distribution of deuterated alpha-linolenic acid (18:3n-3) and linoleic acid (18:2n-6) and their metabolites was studied using a stable isotope tracer technique. Rats were orally administered a single dose of a mixture (20 mg each) of ethyl D5-18:3n-3 and D5-18:2n-6, and 25 tissu...

The photochromic properties of azobenzene, involving conformational changes occurring upon interaction with light, provide an excellent tool to establish new ways of selective regulation applied to biosystems. We report here on the binding of two water-soluble 4-(phenylazo)benzoic acid derivatives (Azo-2N and Azo-3N) with double stranded DNA and demonstrate that the photoisomerization of Azo-3N...

Given 3n points in the unit square, n ≥ 2, they determine n triangles whose vertices exhaust the given 3n points in many ways. Choose the n triangles so that the sum of their areas is minimal, and let a *(n) be the maximum value of this minimum over all configurations of 3n points. Then n − 1/2 << a *(n) << n − 1/9 is deduced using results on the Heilbronn triangle problem. If the triangles are...

The investigation of the possibility of a trineutron CSn) bound state has received considerable attention. The experimental evidence of the bound state of 3n with the binding energy of 1 MeV was once reported by Ajdacic et al. 1> and Kim et al.;> while all other numerous measurements could not find the evidence of the bound state.') In calculations of the bound state of 3n there exist contradic...

For a graph G, let γ(G) denote the domination number of G and let δ(G) denote the minimum degree among the vertices of G. A vertex x is called a bad-cut-vertex of G if G−x contains a component, Cx, which is an induced 4-cycle and x is adjacent to at least one but at most three vertices on Cx. A cycle C is called a special-cycle if C is a 5-cycle in G such that if u and v are consecutive vertice...

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of various cooking techniques on the fatty acid and oxylipin content of farmed rainbow trout. Rainbow trout is an excellent source of long-chain omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) which have beneficial health effects. Fillets of 2-year-old farmed rainbow trout were baked, broiled, microwaved, or pan-fried in corn (CO), canola (Ca...

An incomplete self-orthogonal Latin square of order v with an empty subarray of order n, an ISOLS(v, n), can exist only if v ~ 3n + 1. This necessary condition is known to be sufficient apart from 2 known exceptions (v, n) = (6,1) and (8,2) plus 14 possible exceptions (v, n) with v = 3n + 2. In this paper, we construct eleven new ISOLS(3n + 2, n) reducing unknown n to 6, 8,10 only. This result ...

Li, Nikiforov and Schelp [12] conjectured that any 2-edge coloured graph G with order n and minimum degree δ(G) > 3n/4 contains a monochromatic cycle of length `, for all ` ∈ [4, dn/2e]. We prove this conjecture for sufficiently large n and also find all 2-edge coloured graphs with δ(G) = 3n/4 that do not contain all such cycles. Finally, we show that, for all δ > 0 and n > n0(δ), if G is a 2-e...

Low-energy nuclear theory has entered an era of ab initio nuclear structure and reaction calculations based on QCD. One of the most promising paths from QCD to nuclear observables employs Hamiltonians constructed within chiral effective field theory as starting point for precise ab initio studies. However, the full inclusion of chiral twoplus three-nucleon (NN+3N) interactions in exact and appr...