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About: University of Greenwich is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 3749 authors who have published 9958 publications receiving 234340 citations.
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TL;DR: LCD can improve blood glucose more than LFD in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and can also regulate blood lipid, reduce BMI, and decrease insulin dose in patients with T2DM.
Abstract: Objective: In China, a low-fat diet (LFD) is mainly recommended to help improve blood glucose levels in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, a low-carbohydrate diet (LCD) has been shown to be effective in improving blood glucose levels in America and England. A few studies, primarily randomized controlled trials, have been reported in China as well. Method: Firstly, we designed two ‘six-point formula’ methods, which met the requirements of LCD and LFD, respectively. Fifty-six T2DM patients were recruited and randomly allocated to the LCD group (n = 28) and the LFD group (n = 28). The LCD group received education about LCD’s six-point formula, while the LFD group received education about LFD’s six-point formula. The follow-up time was three months. The indicators for glycemic control and other metabolic parameters were collected and compared between the two groups. Results: Forty-nine patients completed the study. The proportions of calories from three macronutrients the patients consumed met the requirements of LCD and LFD. Compared to the LFD group, there was a greater decrease in HbA1c level in the LCD group (−0.63% vs. −0.31%, p < 0.05). The dosages of insulin and fasting blood glucoses (FBG) in the third month were lower than those at baseline in both groups. Compared with baseline values, body mass index (BMI) and total cholesterol (TC) in the LCD group were significantly reduced in the third month (p < 0.05); however, there were no statistically significant differences in the LFD group. Conclusions: LCD can improve blood glucose more than LFD in Chinese patients with T2DM. It can also regulate blood lipid, reduce BMI, and decrease insulin dose in patients with T2DM. In addition, the six-point formula is feasible, easily operable, and a practical educational diet for Chinese patients with T2DM.
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TL;DR: Comparison with previous studies on lignin peroxidase catalysis suggests a second role for veratryl alcohol radical cation in the enzyme action: it may exist as an enzyme-bound species that has either a longer lifetime or a higher reduction potential than the free radical cations in bulk solution.
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TL;DR: A review of the potential technical and energy balance hurdles in the production of seaweed biofuel, and in particular for the MacroBioCrude processing pipeline for the sustainable manufacture of liquid hydrocarbon fuels from seaweed in the UK, finds Ensiling and gasification offer a potential solution.
Abstract: This review examines the potential technical and energy balance hurdles in the production of seaweed biofuel, and in particular for the MacroBioCrude processing pipeline for the sustainable manufacture of liquid hydrocarbon fuels from seaweed in the UK.
The production of biofuel from seaweed is economically, energetically and technically challenging at scale. Any successful process appears to require both a method of preserving the seaweed for continuous feedstock availability and a method exploiting the entire biomass. Ensiling and gasification offer a potential solution to these two requirements. However there is need for more data particularly at a commercial scale. © 2016 The Authors. Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Society of Chemical Industry.
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TL;DR: In this article, a methodology for evaluating, comparing and improving sustainability of maintenance strategies for port infrastructures is proposed based on a proposed randomized structural deterioration model, where costs due to retrofitting, operating loss and environmental loss are considered in the total life cycle cost estimation.
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Rolf Loeber | 128 | 470 | 58477 |
Robert West | 112 | 1061 | 53904 |
John C. Mitchell | 104 | 676 | 36467 |
Jian Chen | 96 | 1718 | 52917 |
Xiaojun Wu | 91 | 1088 | 31687 |
Lucilla Poston | 91 | 565 | 32452 |
Frank J. Kelly | 85 | 440 | 30005 |
Brendon Stubbs | 81 | 754 | 28180 |
Zongjin Li | 80 | 630 | 22103 |
Paul T. Seed | 79 | 472 | 21311 |
Suzanne G. Leveille | 74 | 234 | 19514 |
Ruth Duncan | 73 | 221 | 24991 |
Paul McCrone | 68 | 453 | 16632 |
Jonathan Hadgraft | 66 | 349 | 15661 |
Marc De Hert | 65 | 354 | 17566 |