in this paper we present a method to perform flood frequency analysis (ffa) when the assumption of stationary is not important (or not valid). a wavelet transform model is developed to ffa. a full series is applied to ffa using two different wavelet functions, and then a combined method is investigated. in the combined method, all discharge data which were less than the lowest value of annual m...

Cultured bovine aortic endothelial cells that have been previously enriched with fatty acid are able to release free fatty acid (FFA) into the extracellular fluid. No stimulus other than the presence of albumin in the medium is needed to elicit the FFA release. Intracellular triglycerides appear to be the source of most of the FFA that is released. The released FFA is composed of a mixture of f...

MILLER, H. I., B. ISSEKUTZ, JR., P. PAUL, AND K. RODAHL. Effect of lad tic acid on plasma free fatty acids in pancreatectomized dogs. Am. J. Physiol. 207(6): 1226-1230. rg64.-Sodium lactate infusions into unanesthetized pancreatectomized dogs, with indwelling arterial and venous catheters, markedly decreased the plasma free fatty acid (FFA) level. Infusions of palmitate-rCl4 at constant rates s...

The time course of the nicotinic acid-induced changes in levels of plasma free fatty acids (FFA) was examined. The plasma FFA response of fasted dogs to graded doses of nicotinic acid was shown to be biphasic: an initial depression of the level of plasma FFA was followed by a rebound elevation to supernormal levels. FFA rebound was not seen after the administration of the nicotinic acid homolog...

OBJECTIVE Relative to whites, African Americans have lower circulating triglycerides (TG) and greater highdensity lipoprotein cholesterol. The metabolic basis for this difference is not known. This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that insulin-induced suppression of free fatty acids (FFA) results in lower serum TG in African American versus white prepubertal children. RESEARCH METHO...

The fusiform face area (FFA) is known to play a pivotal role in face processing. The FFA is located in the ventral region, at the base of the brain, through which large blood vessels run. The location of the FFA via functional MRI (fMRI) may be influenced by these large blood vessels. Responses of large blood vessels may not exactly correspond to neuronal activity in a target area, because they...

Objectives: Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal gives a viable perception about the neurological action of human brain that aids detection epilepsy. The objective this study is to build an accurate automated hybrid model for epileptic seizure detection. Methods: This work develops computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) machine learning which can spontaneously classify pre-ictal and ictal EEG signals. In ...

was higher (P < 0.1) from S than from P adipose tissue, without changes in the FFA/glycerol ratio. The basal FFA/glycerol ratio tended to be higher in group 0 in both tissues (table I). However, the activity of perirenal 3-glycerol-P dehydrogenase, an enzyme involved in (re)esterification of FFA, was the same in both groups. Basal glycerol release, and the FFA/glycerol ratio, tended to be respe...

In human visual cortex, the primary visual cortex (V1) is considered to be essential for visual information processing; the fusiform face area (FFA) and parahippocampal place area (PPA) are considered as face-selective region and places-selective region, respectively. Recently, a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study showed that the neural activity ratios between V1 and FFA were co...

growth hormone (HGH) levels was investigated in normal young male subjects. The administration of nicotinic acid with its concomitant lowering of plasma FFA was followed by a rise of plasma HGH. The HGH rise could be inhibited by the simultaneous administration of heparin which prevented the fall of plasma FFA, or by glucose administration. The administration of heparin alone resulted in an inc...