Publications by authors named "N Gains"

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  • Scientists did a big survey with over 59,000 people from 63 countries to understand how people think about climate change!
  • They tested different ways to encourage people to believe in climate change and support actions to help the environment!
  • The study includes lots of information and data that can help others learn more about what influences people's actions on climate change around the world!
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  • Effective global behavior change is crucial for reducing climate change, but it's unclear which strategies motivate people to shift their beliefs and actions.
  • A study tested 11 interventions on nearly 60,000 participants across 63 countries, finding small effectiveness primarily among non-skeptics and varied results across different outcomes.
  • Key results showed that reducing psychological distance strengthened beliefs, writing a letter to a future generation increased policy support, and inducing negative emotions encouraged information sharing, but no strategy successfully boosted tree-planting efforts.
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Orlistat, a selective inhibitor of gastrointestinal lipases, was used to investigate triacylglycerol absorption. Using mice and a variety of emulsified dietary lipids we found that the absorption of radiolabelled tripalmitin (containing the fatty acid 16:0), but not of triolein (18:1n-9) or tri-gamma-linolenin (18:3n-6), was incomplete from meals rich in esterified palmitate. Further, the absorption of radiolabelled tri-gamma-linolenin, from both saturated and unsaturated dietary triacylglycerols, was 1.

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Starch that escapes digestion in the small intestine increases the elimination of chenodeoxycholate and its metabolites in the faeces of both mice and hamsters. In contrast, the elimination of cholate and its metabolites is not increased. In vitro, the affinity of starch for chenodeoxycholate is about 90-fold greater than for cholate.

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