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Cultivating trust in technology-mediated sustainable agricultural research
We formed the Precision Sustainable Agriculture (PSA) team to conduct interdisciplinary research and technology development to improve adoption and practice of knowledge-intensive sustainable agricultural practices such as cover cropping. In this paper, we share our approach to cultivating trust among diverse stakeholders (researchers, farmers, extensionists, agricultural and information specialists, private and public entities) vested in agricultural data collection, management, and use. Our trust framework describes how we aim to be trusted with data (through preserving privacy and increasing stakeholder agency) and trusted in the process (through practicing transparency and accountability). It is operationalized through a series of social and technical infrastructures. Our project governance, stakeholder engagement tools and activities, and technology development methods aim to promote transparency and accountability in our process. We use a maturity model to govern data acquisition to ensure that only robust, privacy-preserving technologies are deployed on our partner farms and describe evolving mechanisms for handling data with varying sensitivity. Finally, we share preliminary work aimed at anticipating data use, and identify challenges on the horizon for cultivating trust in agricultural technologies and data-driven agriculture.This article is published as Raturi, Ankita, Jennifer J. Thompson, Victoria Ackroyd, Carlene A. Chase, Brian W. Davis, Robert Myers, Aurelie Poncet et al. "Cultivating trust in technologyâmediated sustainable agricultural research." Agronomy Journal (2021). doi:10.1002/agj2.20974.
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Design, Synthesis, and Evaluation of Novel and Selective Gâprotein Coupled Receptor 120 (GPR120) Spirocyclic Agonists
Type 2 diabetes mellitus
(T2DM) is an ever increasing worldwide
epidemic, and the identification of safe and effective insulin sensitizers,
absent of weight gain, has been a long-standing goal of diabetes research.
G-protein coupled receptor 120 (GPR120) has recently emerged as a
potential therapeutic target for treating T2DM. Natural occurring,
and more recently, synthetic agonists have been associated with insulin
sensitizing, anti-inflammatory, and fat metabolism effects. Herein
we describe the design, synthesis, and evaluation of a novel spirocyclic
GPR120 agonist series, which culminated in the discovery of potent
and selective agonist <b>14</b>. Furthermore, compound <b>14</b> was evaluated <i>in vivo</i> and demonstrated
acute glucose lowering in an oral glucose tolerance test (oGTT), as
well as improvements in homeostatic measurement assessment of insulin
resistance (HOMA-IR; a surrogate marker for insulin sensitization)
and an increase in glucose infusion rate (GIR) during a hyperinsulinemic
euglycemic clamp in diet-induced obese (DIO) mice