Fencamfamine (FCF) is a central stimulant that facilitates central dopaminergic transmission through inhibition of dopamine uptake and enhanced release of the transmitter. We evaluated the changes in the inhibition of uptake and the release of striatal [3H]-dopamine at 9:00 and 21:00 h, times corresponding to maximal and minimal behavioral responses to FCF, respectively. Adult male Wistar rats ...

To determine the effects of push frequency changes on force application, fraction of effective force (FEF) and gross efficiency (GE) during hand-rim propulsion. 8 male able-bodied participants performed five 4-min sub-maximal exercise bouts at 1.8 ms(-1); the freely chosen frequency (FCF), followed by 4 counter-balanced trials at 60, 80, 120 and 140% FCF. Kinetic data was obtained using a SMART...

Fast Green (FCF) dye is commonly used in both cytology and histology applications. Previous studies have found that it can cause mutagenic and tumorigenic effects in experimental human and animal populations. It can also be a source of skin, eye, respiratory, and digestive irritation. The purpose of this study was to examine the use of thin film membranes to degrade FCF. A thin film membrane of...

Table 1-Composition of extended chicken nugget formulations in a threecomponent constrained simplex lattice mixture design evaluated for acA mixture design was used to optimize the sensory acceptability (appearance, color, flavor, texture, and overall liking) of chicken nuggets containing flours processed from fermented cowpeas (FCF) and fermented partially defatted peanuts (FPDPF). Flavor and ...

A viable vascular endothelial layer prevents vasomotor dysfunction, thrombosis, inflammation, and intimal hyperplasia. Injury to the endothelium occurs during harvest and "back table" preparation of human saphenous vein prior to implantation as an arterial bypass conduit. A subfailure overstretch model of rat aorta was used to show that subfailure stretch injury of vascular tissue leads to impa...

The correlation filters for pattern recognition, have been extensively studied in the areas of automatic target recognition(ATR) and biometrics. Whereas the conventional correlation filters perform directly on image pixels, in this paper, we propose a novel method, called “feature correlation filter (FCF)”, by extending the concept of correlation filter to feature spaces. The FCF preserves the ...

This paper introduces a filter, named FCF (Fuzzy Clusteringbased Filter), for removing redundant features, thus making it possible to improve the efficacy and the efficiency of data mining algorithms. FCF is based on the fuzzy partitioning of features into clusters. The number of clusters is automatically estimated from data. After the clustering process, FCF selects a subset of features from t...

Software Product-lines (SPLs) use modular software components that can be reconfigured into different variants for different requirements sets. Feature modeling is a common method for capturing the configuration rules for an SPL architecture. A key challenge for developers is determining how to optimally select a set of features while simultaneously honoring resource constraints. For example, o...

The potential feasibility of layered double hydroxides for removal of sunset yellow dye FCF from aqueous solution was investigated. The effects of various experimental parameters such as contact time, solution pH, dye concentrations and adsorbent dosage were investigated. The extent of sunset yellow FCF dye removal increased with the increased in contact time and amount of layered double hydrox...

a novel, simple and more sensitive spectrophotometric procedure has been developed for the determination of brilliant blue fcf and carmoisine in food samples by an aqueous two-phase system (atps). after extraction, the absorbance values were measured at 527 and 632 nm for carmoisine and brilliant blue fcf, respectively. the effects of different parameters such as, polyethylene glycol (type and ...