Glucose allostasis: Disrobing common wisdom

Testing BPR Common Wisdom

The purpose of this research was to empirically determine what benefits were realized by organizations that have undertaken a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project. The survey’s respondents indicated that they were general& satis$ed with their BPR projects. The findings suggest that BPR enabled organizations to increase productivity+ to raise the qua@ of products and services, to increas...

Common Wisdom: Peer Production of Educational Materials

Degree of obesity and glucose allostasis are major effectors of glucose tolerance dynamics in obese youth.

OBJECTIVE One of the signals for the beta-cell to maintain an adequate response to worsening insulin sensitivity is elevated ambient glycemia, namely the concept of "glucose allostasis." We examined whether glucose allostasis can be demonstrated using oral glucose tolerance tests (OGTTs) and the effects of the dynamics of beta-cell demand on longitudinal changes of glucose tolerance in obese yo...

Allostasis and Emotion

The recently-described Stress Repair Mechanism (SRM) automatically repairs and maintains vertebrate body structure, but it lacks the ability to adjust to changing environmental circumstances. Therefore its operation cannot explain allostasis, which refers to the ability of vertebrates to adapt to changing environmental allostatic load by altering their hormonal and physiological reactions. Allo...

Ground Wheat Grain for Midlactation Cows: Challenging a Common Wisdom

The objective was to determine the effects of ground wheat grain (GW) inclusion rate, grinding extent (GE), and their interaction on lactating cow performance. Eight midlactation cows in 3 × 4 m individual boxes were used in a 4 × 4 replicated Latin square design study with 4 21 d periods. GW was fed at either 10% or 20% of diet dry matter (DM), as either finer or coarser particles. DM intake i...