Dietary Proteins, Brown Fat, and Adiposity

High protein diets have become popular for body weight maintenance and weight loss despite controversies regarding efficacy and safety.Although both weight gain and weight loss are determined by energy consumption and expenditure, data from rodent trials consistently demonstrate that the protein:carbohydrate ratio in high fat diets strongly influen

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Contributions of Hedgerows to People: A Global Meta-Analysis

Hedgerows are linear landscape features of woody vegetation usually located around agricultural fields.An increasing number of studies have addressed the effects of hedgerows on biodiversity and ecosystem services.This study is aimed to synthesize these effects and compare the levels of biodiversity and ecosystem services in farmland with hedgerows

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GBMix: Enhancing Fairness by Group-Balanced Mixup

Mixup is a powerful data augmentation strategy that has been shown to improve the generalization and adversarial robustness of machine learning classifiers, particularly in computer vision applications.Despite its simplicity and effectiveness, the impact of Mixup on the fairness of a model has not been thoroughly investigated yet.In this paper, we

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