NATURAL LIPIDS HAVE RECENTLY BEEN PROPOSED TO BE INVOLVED IN THE REGULATION OF PHYSIOLOGIC FUNCTIONS IN THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM. For example, N-arachidonoyl ethanolamine (anandamide), an endogenous ligand for cannabinoids receptors, induces hypothermia, analgesia, sleep, and locomotor and memory deficits in vivo.1-4 Whereas 9-(Z)-octadecenamide (oleamide) promotes sleep, hypothermia, and alt...

Securely processing data in the cloud is still a difficult problem, even with homomorphic encryption and other privacy preserving schemes. Hardware solutions provide additional layers of security and greater performance over their software alternatives. However by definition the cloud should be flexible and adaptive, often viewed as abstracting services from products. By creating services relia...

The main scope of this paper is first of all to verify the efficiency of the flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS) method for analysis of some trace elements in extracts of fractionation analysis of the gravitation dust sediments. Investigation was oriented to the analysis of some markedly toxic trace elements in the extracts of gravitation dust sediments as well as on efficiency evaluati...

A simple and sensitive method is described for the determination of trace lead in Chinese herbs by derivative atom trapping flame atomic absorption spectrometry (D-AT-FAAS) with a modified water-cooled quartz atom-trapping tube. The effects that influence the sensitivity of the derivative method, such as the trap position, the flame conditions and the collection time, were studied. The characte...

In this paper the evaluation of the dry, wet and microwave digestion methods applied on certified bovine liver (CRM 12-02-01) has been performed. The microwave digestion method was selected and validated for the copper, manganese and zinc determination in liver samples by FAAS, because it is simple, rapid (digestion was done in 2.5 hours, with reduced chemical use) and reliable. Furthermore, mi...

Flow accumulation algorithms (FAAs) predict the cumulative upstream drainage but each FAA generates a different map and this uncertainty still remains unsolved. This study makes advances in flow path research by testing 8 FAAs and analyzing the uncertainties of 15 simulations. The DR2-2013 © SAGAv1.0 hydrological software is presented in a study carried out for two catchment lakes (NE Spain) ov...

The identification of odor-active sulfur and nitrogen compounds formed during the processing of dry fermented sausages was the objective of this study. In order to elucidate their possible origin, free amino acids (FAAs) were also determined. The volatile compounds present in the dry sausages were extracted using solvent assisted flavor evaporation (SAFE) and monitored by one and two-dimensiona...

Abstract This paper presents a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) approach for deploying managed cloud functions onto heterogeneous infrastructures. Current FaaS systems, such as AWS Lambda, allow domain-specific functionality, AI, HPC and image processing, to be deployed in the while abstracting users from infrastructure platform concerns. Existing approaches, however, use single type of resource co...

In this paper, we address the problem of supporting stateful workflows following a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) model in edge networks. particular focus on data transfer, which can be performance bottleneck due to limited speed communication links some scenarios and propose three different schemes: pure FaaS implementation, StateProp, i.e., propagation application state throughout entire chain ...

A simple attachment to enhance the sensitivity of flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) is described along with some performance results and practical applications. An historical review is also presented.