Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs, LA and ALA) are not synthesized in mammals in the absence of their essential fatty acid precursors. However, hibernating animals and animals sleeping through the winter need sufficiently high amounts of these acids. The Eurasian badger does not hibernate, but sleeps over winter. In the autumn the body weight of adult badgers increases even twofold, since they put on fat before the winter. Fat...

W lipidach wyizolowanych z różnych partii ciała bobrów, borsuków i jenotów stwierdzono obecność znaczących ilości niezwykłych jak na zwierzęta jednożołądkowe kwasów tłuszczowych - nieparzystowęglowych nasyconych i jednonienasyconych KT (15:0, 17:0, 15:1 i 17:1) oraz (w lipidach tkanek bobra i jenota) oktadecenowych KT konfiguracji trans, w tym kwasu wakcenowego - KT charakterystycznych dla tkanek i mleka przeżuwaczy. Obecność tych...

Recently, Electric Vehicles (EV) have been providing fast response and substantial progress in the power generation model. Further, EVs are exploited as adaptable Energy Storage Systems (ESSs) and show a promising performance in ancillary service markets to increase the demand of Smart Grid (SG) integration. The expansion of Vehicle-to-Grid concept has created an extra power source when renewable energy sources are not available....