In this study, a method of supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) with carbon dioxide of polyisoprenoids from plant photosynthetic tissues is described. SFE was an effective extraction method for short- and medium-chain compounds with even higher yield than that observed for the "classical extraction" method with organic solvents. Moreover, SFE-derived extracts contained lower amounts of impuriti...

For estimations of P-T conditions of igneous and metamorphic rocks, Fe31 in coexisting minerals is either assumed to be zero or is calculated from electron microprobe analyses (EMPA) based upon stoichiometry and charge balance. Geothermobarometers that involve Fe21-Mg21 exchange can be significantly affected by either neglecting Fe31 or using incorrect values. Ratios of Fe31/SFe in garnet and c...

To determine whether or not a "bolus injection" of soybean-based fat emulsion (SFE), which contains oleic acid (OA), a potent lung-toxic unsaturated C-18 fatty acid, can induce pulmonary dysfunction, we examined the effect of SFE injection on the partial oxygen pressure of arterial blood (Pao2) and pulmonary vascular permeability. In addition, we compared the effect of an injection of SFE with ...

The effect of 3d and 4d transition metal (TM) additions on the intrinsic stacking fault energy (SFE) in fcc Fe is studied to elucidate the role of alloying in the deformation mechanisms in austenitic steels. The results of ab initio calculations reveal that only Mn reduces the SFE, stabilizing the local hcp structure, whereas all other d-additions are expected to decrease the hcp? fcc transform...

BACKGROUND Sophorae Flos (SF) is a composite of flowers and buds of Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) Schott and has been used in traditional Korean and Chinese medicine for the treatment of hemostasis and inflammation. Previous studies reported that SF possesses anti-obesity properties, as well as anti-allergic, anti-proliferative, and anti-inflammatory activities. However, the effect of SF in bone...

PURPOSE To investigate the effects of acute exercise on serum hepcidin and iron (sFe) in active women. Changes in interleukin-6 (IL-6), hepcidin, ferritin, and sFe in response to 2 different exercise durations were compared. METHODS Twelve women age 19-32 yr performed 2 treadmill runs (60 and 120 min) at 65% of VO2max. Blood samples were obtained before, immediately after, and 3, 6, 9, and 24...

Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) can lead to lower urinary tract symptoms. Rape pollen is an apicultural product that is composed of nutritionally valuable and biologically active substances. The aim of the present study was to investigate the protective effect of rape pollen supercritical CO2 fluid extract (SFE-CO2) in BPH development using a testosterone-induced BPH rat model. BPH was induc...

Stacking fault energy (SFE) is considered an important parameter to predict the prevalent plastic deformation mechanism in face-centered cubic (fcc) alloys. Experimental methods for determining SFE presuppose that positive. Density functional theory (DFT) a promising tool alloy compositions with low SFEs and desirable mechanical properties. For metastable fcc alloys, DFT predicts negative value...

A new evaluation method is presented that employs cut sequence set (CSS) to analyze fault trees. A cut sequence is a set of basic events that fail in a specific order that can induce top event. CSS is the aggregate of all the cut sequences in a fault tree. The paper continues its former researches on CSS and uses CSS, composed of sequential failure expressions (SFE), to represent the occurrence...

We show that there is a computational primitive which can be used (in a blackbox manner) to securely implement certain 3-party SFE tasks which do not have secure protocols otherwise, but is “useless” for any finite, deterministic 2-party SFE: that is, the only finite, deterministic 2-party SFE that have a secure protocol using this primitive are those which have a secure protocol unconditionall...