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Gastrointestinal handling of [1-13C]palmitic acid in healthy controls and patients with cystic fibrosis
No full textThere does not appear to be a specific defect in the absorption of [1-13C]palmitic acid in patients with cystic fibrosis. The reasons why cystic fibrosis patients appear to absorb more of this saturated fatty acid than healthy children is not clear and requires further investigation
The effect of age and gender on the metabolic disposal of [1-13C] palmitic acid
No full textOur observations that children oxidised nearly twice the amount of [1-13C]palmitic acid than adults in conjunction with greater net fat oxidation in children than adults in both the postabsorptive and postprandial states should be considered before current UK dietary recommendations for fat and saturated fats, developed for adults, are applied to growing children. For dietary recommendations to be developed further more information is required, particularly in groups of infants and the elderly, about the factors that influence the postprandial handling of dietary fat
Effect of fatty acid chain length and saturation on the gastrointestinal handling and metabolic disposal of dietary fatty acids in women
Get PDFThe gastrointestinal handling and metabolic disposal of [1-13C]palmitic acid, [1-13C]stearic acid and [1-13C]oleic acid administered within a lipid-casein-glucose-sucrose emulsion were examined in normal healthy women by determining both the amount and nature of the 13C label in stool and label excreted on breath as 13CO2. The greatest excretion of 13C label in stool was in the stearic acid trial (9.2% of administered dose) whilst comparatively little label was observed in stool in either the palmitic acid (1.2% of administered dose) or oleic acid (1.9% of administered dose) trials. In both the palmitic acid and oleic acid trials, all of the label in stool was identified as being present in the form in which it was administered (i.e. [13C]palmitic acid in the palmitic acid trial and [13C]oleic acid in the oleic acid trial). In contrast, only 87% of the label in the stool in the stearic acid trial was identified as [13C]stearic acid, the remainder was identified as [13C]palmitic acid which may reflect chain shortening of [1-13C]stearic acid within the gastrointestinal tract. Small, but statistically significant, differences were observed in the time course of recovery of 13C label on breath over the initial 9 h of the study period (oleic acid = palmitic acid > stearic acid). However, when calculated over the 24 h study period, the recovery of the label as 13CO2 was similar in all three trials (approximately 25% of absorbed dose). These results support the view that chain length and degree of unsaturation may influence the gastrointestinal handling and immediate metabolic disposal of these fatty acids even when presented within an emulsion
Stable-isotope method for determining the gastrointestinal handling of [1-13C]palmitic acid
No full textThe 13C enrichment in individual fatty acids extracted from human feces following the oral administration of [1-13C]palmitic acid has been determined using a novel approach based upon gas chromatography-isotope ratio mass spectrometry. The method was established and tested for precision and repeatability. Analytical precision was determined from 10 repeated injections of a sample containing 16:0 and 18:0 with levels of delta 13C abundance measured at -34.01 +/- 0.60 and -23.62 +/- 0.95 delta per mil (parts per thousand) (/1000), respectively (mean +/- SD). For the repeatability study, measurement of enrichment of the same mixture of unlabeled fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) standards (13:0, 14:0, 16:0, and 18:0) was found to have standard deviations (0.45, 0.56, 1.46 and 1.54/1000, respectively). When labeled [1-13C]palmitic acid was serially diluted with naturally enriched palmitic acid, a linear relationship was obtained to a dilution of 10% enriched compound (530/1000). FAME were prepared from two fecal samples from a normal healthy adult; the first, a baseline specimen, containing no added label and the second, followed a single oral dose of [1-13C]palmitic acid and was enriched. Enrichment in 13C was confined to the solvent-soluble fraction following lipid extraction, and was only identified with prior acidification. The enrichments were measured in triplicate, baseline sample -32.66 +/- 0.5/1000, enriched sample +268.61 +/- 8.0/1000. Enrichment was restricted to the labeled species consumed, 16:0. The methodology described here allows for the separation of compounds prior to the determination of enrichment and can be utilized to contribute to a more complete description of the gastrointestinal handling of labeled substrates than previously obtained
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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