Publications by authors named "Rowan Smith"
Geometric morphometrics is widely used to quantify morphological variation between biological specimens, but the fundamental influence of operator bias on data reproducibility is rarely considered, particularly in studies using photographs of live animals taken under field conditions. We examined this using four independent operators that applied an identical landmarking scheme to replicate photographs of 291 live Atlantic salmon ( L.) from two rivers.
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- The study investigated the effects of intermittent fasting (24-hour fasting with 150% energy intake on alternate days) compared to daily energy restriction and a fasting pattern without energy restriction among lean, healthy individuals for 3 weeks.* -
- Daily energy restriction resulted in greater fat loss and body mass reduction than intermittent fasting, which had limited effects on fat loss despite also reducing overall body mass.* -
- The trial found no significant differences in cardiometabolic health markers, gut hormones, or gene expression in adipose tissue across all groups, suggesting that alternate-day fasting doesn’t provide unique metabolic benefits compared to continuous energy restriction.*
The very first stars to form in the universe heralded an end to the cosmic dark ages and introduced new physical processes that shaped early cosmic evolution. Until now, it was thought that these stars lived short, solitary lives, with only one extremely massive star, or possibly a very wide binary system, forming in each dark-matter minihalo. Here we describe numerical simulations that show that these stars were, to the contrary, often members of tight multiple systems.
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