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Wear in two cases of ceramic on ceramic total hip arthroplasty after 30 years follow up
(Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2018)Background: Ceramic-on-ceramic (CoC) bearings have been in use in total hip replacement (THR) for more than 40 years, with excellent long-term survivorship but concerns over the ceramic-on-ceramic ... -
Wh-movement, islands, and resumption in L1 and L2 Spanish: is (un)grammaticality the relevant property?
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2020)This study reflects on the meaning of the results of a self-paced grammaticality judgment task that tested island configurations (with gaps and resumptive pronouns) in L1 and L2 speakers of Spanish. ... -
What attributes should be included in a discrete choice experiment related to health technologies? A systematic literature review
(PLoS One, 2019-07-18)Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are a way to assess priority-setting in health care provision. This approach allows for the evaluation of individuals’ preferences as a means of adding criteria to ... -
What do freshmen know about sustainability? Analysing the skill gap among university business administration students
(Sustainability, 2021)This study aims at creating and validating an instrument to assess the level of mastery in sustainability competencies of freshmen students in business-related studies. To reach this goal, a questionnaire ... -
What do we know about co-working spaces? Trends and challenges ahead
(Sustainability, 2021-01)Co-working spaces (CWSs) have emerged as a distinctive phenomenon in the sharing economy. They are collaborative environments that feed innovation and creativity under the slogan “working alone together”. ... -
What drives project management success in developing countries? The case of Ghana
(TEC Empresarial, 2022)Many projects in developing countries (DCs) have been recognised as crucial forces for poverty reduction and making people’s lives easier. Despite their relevance, projects in these countries typically ... -
What makes the palliative care initial encounter meaningful? A descriptive study with patients with cancer, family carers and palliative care professionals
(Sage Journals, 2023)Background: The palliative care initial encounter can have a positive impact on the quality of life of patients and family carers if it proves to be a meaningful experience. A better understanding of ... -
Where do nursing students make mistakes when calculating drug doses? A retrospective study
(BMC Nursing, 2022)Background: Research internationally shows that nursing students find dosage calculation difficult. Identifying the specific aspects of dose calculation procedures that are most commonly associated with ... -
Which athletes fail faster to send weekly questionnaires or to comply with an injury risk reduction program?
(German Journal of Sports Medicine, 2023)Problem: Low response rate to weekly self-reported questionnaires used to obtain athlete health-related and risk exposure data and low compliance with intervention have been reported. We thus aimed to ... -
Which parenting style encourages healthy lifestyles in teenage children? Proposal for a model of integrative parenting styles
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019-06-11)Given that we live in an environment in constant change—a liquid society, according to Bauman—we propose a versatile parenting style with the capacity to adapt to the variations of socio-temporal ... -
Who smokes in Europe? Data from 12 european countriesin the TackSHS survey (2017–2018)
(Journal of Epidemiology, 2021)Background: Population data on tobacco use and its determinants require continuous monitoring and careful inter-country comparison. We aimed to provide the most up-to-date estimates on tobacco smoking ... -
Why methylene blue should be blacklisted in neonatology
(Journal of Respiratory Research, 2019)We here present a case of neonatal skin damage due to application of methylene blue (MB) on a newborn's skin. MB use should be completely eliminated in neonatal intensive care units and nurseries, because ... -
Women’s safety perception assessment in an urban stream corridor: developing a safety map based on qualitative GIS
(Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020)Perceived safety influences women’s use of green environments (GE) for physical activity with considerable implications on health. In order to address gender inequality in GE use, the effects of physical ... -
Word frequency cues word order in adults: cross-linguistic evidence
(Frontiers in Psychology, 2013-10-02)One universal feature of human languages is the division between grammatical functors and content words. From a learnability point of view, functors might provide entry points or anchors into the syntactic ... -
Work distributions in the T = 0 random field Ising model
(Physical Review E, 2008)We perform a numerical study of the three-dimensional random-field Ising model at T= 0. We compare work distributions along metastable trajectories obtained with the single-spin flip dynamics with the ... -
“The world is still beautiful”: an eco-philosophical reading of Eugene McCabe’s victims trilogy
(Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies, 2023)This paper focuses on Irish writer, playwright and television screenwriter Eugene McCabe’s fictional representation of the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ in his trilogy Victims, published in the collection ... -
X-linked Inhibitor of Apoptosis Protein negatively regulates neuronal differentiation through interaction with cRAF and Trk
(Scientific Reports, 2013-08-09)X-linked Inhibitor of apoptosis protein (XIAP) has been classically identified as a cell death regulator. Here, we demonstrate a novel function of XIAP as a regulator of neurite outgrowth in neuronal ...