Is civil discourse simply about good manners

Campuses around the country are confronting a movement that represents a segment of students and faculty who claim to have been forced into silence for decades. Civil discourse cannot be promoted as a means of suppressing this movement. Rather, civil discourse must be a mechanism for engaging faculty and students alike on our common ground

Ambient particulate air pollution (PM2.5) is associated with the ratio of type 2 diabetes to obesity

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Mice that gorged during dietary restriction increased foraging related behaviors and differed in their macronutrient preference when released from restriction

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Type 2 diabetes, but not obesity, prevalence is positively associated with ambient temperature

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Low resting metabolic rate is associated with greater lifespan because of a confounding effect of body fatness

Acknowledgments: This work was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) grant BB/C516228/1 to J.R.S. We thank Jackie Duncan and Sarah Johnston for helping with DNA protocol assays and Lobke Vaanholt for helping with antioxidant enzyme protocols. We are grateful to the staff of the animal house for the care of our animals and to Paula Redman and Peter Thomson who provided technical support for the DLW assays. Open Access: This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Accelerometers can measure total and activity-specific energy expenditures in free-ranging marine mammals only if linked to time-activity budgets

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High fat diet causes rebound weight gain

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The '39 steps' : an algorithm for performing statistical analysis of data on energy intake and expenditure

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Limits to sustained energy intake XII : is the poor relation between resting metabolic rate and reproductive performance because resting metabolism is not a repeatable trait?

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