The relative contents of the fatty acids 14 : 0, 15 : 0 and 17 : 0 in serum and adipose tissue may be used as biological markers of dairy fat intake. However, the determinants of these fatty acids are not fully understood. This study investigates the relationship between these fatty acids and the intake of macronutrients and physical activity in a cross-sectional study of 301 healthy men aged 6...

Extragalactic HI astronomy is half century old. Its maturity dramatically increased in the 1970s, with the commissioning of new powerful facilities. Its contributions to Cosmology are important, from the observation of galaxy rotation curves that showed the presence of dark matter in galaxies, to the measurement of cosmological parameters and the mapping of the large scale structure of the Univ...

Data on the epizootiological status of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in all districts of Saudi Arabia were obtained through responses to a specifically-designed questionnaire from field veterinarians working in different Directorates of Agriculture throughout the country. Suspected clinical occurrence of the disease was reported in seventeen of the twenty-three Directorates. The animal species a...

Under the deepening globalization, Vietnam is striving for the national goal of industrialization and modernization, a goal widely shared by other developing and transition countries. After seventeen years since the inception of the doi moi reform, and after roughly a decade of serious international integration, Vietnam is still not prepared to take full advantage of trade and investment libera...

The potential of instability indices in assessing atmospheric instability is examined for the areas of Attica, Thessaly and Central Aegean and Crete, Greece. Generally, many indices have been developed to estimate the troposphere’s stability for forecasting purposes. At this study several instability indices, commonly used in Meteorology, are computed based on radiosonde data. Firstly, the indi...

We study the location of the partition function zeros in the complex β plane (Fisher’s Zeros) for SU(2) lattice gauge theory on L4 lattices. We discuss recent attempts to locate complex zeros for L = 4 and 6. We compare results obtained using various polynomial approximations of the logarithm of the density of states and a straightforward MC reweighting. We conclude that the method based on a c...

Hands on Health Understanding manual therapy is a concise, and easily understood reference for those interested in learning the basics about manual therapy, its practitioners, applications and concepts. The book is divided into seventeen short and lucidly written chapters, covering topics ranging from basic anatomy of the musculoskeletal system to the controversial aspects of this mode of treat...