Publications by authors named "N E Simons"
We aimed to examine the effects of isocaloric fructose restriction on adipose tissue distribution and serum adipokines. Individuals with BMI >28 kg/m (n = 44) followed a 6-week fructose-restricted diet and were randomly allocated to (double-blind) oral supplementation with fructose (control) or glucose (intervention) powder three times daily. Visceral (VAT) and subcutaneous (SAT) adipose tissue was quantified with MRI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Obstetric interventions can have unexpected long-term effects on child development. However, evaluation of these outcomes is not standard in current research.
Objectives: To give an overview of long-term follow-up studies after randomised controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating interventions to prevent preterm birth in asymptomatic pregnancies.
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- - Adults with intellectual disabilities often struggle with high unemployment rates, and some employers are hesitant to adopt inclusive hiring practices due to a lack of knowledge and successful examples.
- - The Down Syndrome Program (DSP) at a pediatric hospital in New England created an inclusive employment program to train young adults with Down syndrome in essential job skills within a clinical setting.
- - The case study highlights that the program's success relied on customized strategies to cater to individual needs and resulted in a framework of best practices that other organizations can use to employ individuals with disabilities effectively.
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- * Analyzing 11 years of data from 111 plots in Germany, the research highlights that different mowing techniques negatively affect the abundance and species richness of key arthropod groups, with the lowest numbers occurring immediately after mowing.
- * The study suggests that modified mowing practices and reduced frequency could mitigate some of the harmful effects on arthropods, although mowing is identified as a significant stressor overall.
Organismal functional strategies form a continuum from slow- to fast-growing organisms, in response to common drivers such as resource availability and disturbance. However, whether there is synchronisation of these strategies at the entire community level is unclear. Here, we combine trait data for >2800 above- and belowground taxa from 14 trophic guilds spanning a disturbance and resource availability gradient in German grasslands.
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