Publications by authors named "G B Schofield"
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- This study examines a new healthcare model in New Zealand that combines a low-carbohydrate diet and health coaching to help manage prediabetes and Type 2 diabetes.
- Participants reported health benefits like weight loss and increased energy, while also facing challenges such as resistance from some healthcare providers and misconceptions about low-carb diets.
- The model shows promise for improving patient outcomes and reducing the workload on healthcare professionals, though further education and awareness are needed for wider adoption.
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- People in dangerous jobs, like first responders and soldiers, have to make tough decisions quickly while facing serious risks.
- Researchers created a virtual game that simulates a life-threatening situation where players must make choices to escape a collapsing building.
- The study found that when under threat, players made more impulsive decisions and focused on quick rewards instead of thinking ahead, showing that stress can change how we make choices.
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- The reasons behind female sea turtles mating with multiple partners and having multiple fathers for their clutches or litters are debated, with theories ranging from potential benefits to simply being a result of frequent male-female interactions.
- Research across 30 sea turtle rookeries found a weak correlation between multiple paternity and the size of the rookeries, suggesting that female mating behavior is influenced more by movement patterns than just the number of males present.
- When taking into account how sea turtles move and interact during the breeding season, a strong correlation was found (r=0.96) between the density of males and multiple paternity, indicating that multiple mating may not provide benefits but is primarily a consequence of higher encounters with males.
Feeding ecology is an essential component of an organism's life, but foraging comes with risks and energetic costs. Species in which populations exhibit more than one feeding strategy, such as sea turtles, are good systems for investigating how feeding ecology impacts life-history traits, reproduction and carried over effects across generations. Here, we investigated how the feeding ecology of loggerhead sea turtles () nesting at the Cabo Verde archipelago correlates with reproductive outputs and offspring quality.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe development of believable, natural, and interactive digital artificial agents is a field of growing interest. Theoretical uncertainties and technical barriers present considerable challenges to the field, particularly with regards to developing agents that effectively simulate human emotions. Large language models (LLMs) might address these issues by tapping common patterns in situational appraisal.
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