Evelyn E. Feliciano, Amira Yahia Boshra, Paulo Carl G. Mejia, Alfredo Z. Feliciano, Jestoni D. Maniago, Hussain Mohammed Alsharyah, Mylene C. Malabanan, Abdalla Osman,
Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and health centers are the traditional places where nurses work, but nurses have recently started working in new areas such as government and private schools, and they play a critical role in better health outcomes in the education setting.In order to better understand these roles, this study aimed to investigate the factors affecting job satisfaction and the relationship between job satisfaction, autonomy, and self-efficacy amongst school nurses in Bahrain.This ...
Tópico(s): Healthcare Systems and Reforms
2019 - OMICS Publishing Group | Journal of Patient Care
Diego Rivera, Alejandra Morlett Paredes, Ana Ibis Peñalver, M.J. Irías Escher, Marcio Soto‐Añari, Adriana Aguayo Arelis, Sandra Rute-Pérez, Alberto Rodríguez‐Lorenzana, Yaneth Rodríguez‐Agudelo, Natalia Albaladejo-Blázquez, Claudia Garcı́a de la Cadena, Joaquín A. Ibáñez-Alfonso, W. Rodriguez-Irizarry, C.E. García-Guerrero, Iván Darío Delgado Mejía, Alfredo Padilla-López, Esperanza Vergara‐Moragues, M.D. Barrios Nevado, Mahía Saracostti, Juan Carlos Arango‐Lasprilla,
To generate normative data for the Stroop Word-Color Interference test in Spanish-speaking pediatric populations.The sample consisted of 4,373 healthy children from nine countries in Latin America (Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Puerto Rico) and Spain. Each participant was administered the Stroop Word-Color Interference test as part of a larger neuropsychological battery. The Stroop Word, Stroop Color, Stroop Word-Color, and Stroop Interference scores were ...
Tópico(s): Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
2017 - IOS Press | Neurorehabilitation
Hervey Rodríguez‐González, Javier Orduña‐Rojas, José P. Villalobos-Medina, Manuel García‐Ulloa, Arturo Polanco-Torres, Ely S. López-Álvarez, Magnolia Montoya-Mejía, Alfredo Hernández‐Llamas,
Tópico(s): Marine and coastal plant biology
2014 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Applied Phycology
Raúl A. Morales‐Luckie, Víctor Sánchez‐Mendieta, Oscar Olea-Mejía, Alfredo R. Vilchis-Néstor, Gustavo López‐Téllez, Víctor Varela-Guerrero, L. Huerta, Jesús Arenas‐Alatorre,
Silver nanoparticles were synthesized and supported on thin nylon membranes by means of a simple method of impregnation and chemical reduction of Ag ions at ambient conditions. Particles of less than 10 nm were obtained using this methodology, in which the nylon fibers behave as constrained nanoreactors. Pores on nylon fibres along with oxygen and nitrogen from amide moieties in nylon provide effective sites for in situ reduction of silver ions and for the formation and stabilization of Ag nanoparticles. ...
Tópico(s): Quantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
2013 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | International Journal of Polymer Science
Alfonso Alonso-Mejía, Alfredo Arellano-Guillermo,
We examined the interaction of ambient freezing temperatures, dew formation on the body surface, and perch height on monarch butterflies' survival. We demonstrate that crawling up on the understory vegetation not only directly lowers freezing mortality by reducing exposure to freezing temperatures, but it also reduces the likelihood of dew formation followed by invasive freezing, that nullifies the monarch's supercooling ability. Monarchs that crawled 3O-40 cm above the ground did not suffer freezing ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
1992 - Wiley | Biotropica
Produção Nacional
Ricardo Ribeiro Dias, Omar Asdrúbal Vilca Mejía, Alfredo Inácio Fiorelli, Pablo Maria Alberto Pomerantzeff, Altamiro Ribeiro Dias, Charles Mady, Noedir Antônio Groppo Stolf,
Comparative analysis of early and late results of aortic root reconstruction with aortic valve sparing operations and the composite mechanical valve conduit replacement.From November 2002 to September 2009, 164 consecutive patients with mean age 54 ± 15 years, 115 male, underwent the aortic root reconstruction (125 mechanical valve conduit replacements and 39 valve sparing operations). Sixteen percent of patients had Marfan syndrome and 4.3% had bicuspid aortic valve. One hundred and forty-four patients ( ...
Tópico(s): Cardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair
2010 - Brazilian Society of Cardiovascular Surgery | Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
Monica Y. Niño, Heidi Mateus, Dora Janeth Fonseca, Marian A. Kroos, Sandra Yaneth Ospina, Juan Fernando Mejía, Alfredo Uribe, Arnold Reuser, Paul Laissue,
Pompe disease (PD) is a recessive metabolic disorder characterized by acid α-glucosidase (GAA) deficiency, which results in lysosomal accumulation of glycogen in all tissues, especially in skeletal muscles. PD clinical course is mainly determined by the nature of the GAA mutations. Although ~400 distinct GAA sequence variations have been described, the genotype-phenotype correlation is not always evident. In this study, we describe the first clinical and genetic analysis of Colombian PD patients performed ...
Tópico(s): Trypanosoma species research and implications
2012 - Wiley | JIMD Reports
José C. Páez-Franco, Jiram Torres-Ruíz, Víctor A. Sosa‐Hernández, Rodrigo Cervantes‐Díaz, Sandra Romero‐Ramírez, Alfredo Pérez‐Fragoso, David Eduardo Meza-Sánchez, Juan Manuel Germán-Acacio, José Luis Maravillas‐Montero, Nancy R. Mejía‐Domínguez, Alfredo Ponce‐de‐León, Alfredo Ulloa‐Aguirre, Diana Gómez‐Martín, Luis Llorente,
Abstract We identified the main changes in serum metabolites associated with severe (n = 46) and mild (n = 19) COVID-19 patients by gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry. The modified metabolic profiles were associated to an altered amino acid catabolism in hypoxic conditions. Noteworthy, three α-hydroxyl acids of amino acid origin increased with disease severity and correlated with altered oxygen saturation levels and clinical markers of lung damage. We hypothesize that the enzymatic conversion ...
Tópico(s): Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
2021 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Natalia Mejia Jimenez, Alfredo Gómez,
Tópico(s): Breast Implant and Reconstruction
2021 - Springer Science+Business Media | Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
Andrew Berardy, Ujué Fresán, Rodrigo Aguilar Constantino Matos, Abigail Clarke-Sather, Alfredo Mejía, Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Joan Sabaté,
The objective of this study was to use life cycle assessment to estimate the environmental impacts (from farm to factory gate) of the 198 hard-coded line-items included in the food frequency questionnaire of the Adventist Health Study-2 survey and to assess differences among food groups. Life cycle inventories were created using existing data sources and primary data, and their global warming potential (GWP), land use, and water consumption impacts were assessed using the ReCiPe 2016 methodology. ...
Tópico(s): Nutritional Studies and Diet
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
Ujué Fresán, D. L. Marrin, Maximino Alfredo Mejía, Joan Sabaté,
Animal-based products reportedly have substantial water footprints. One alternative to meat products is meat analogs, which are processed plant-based foods mimicking real meat products. As data for the water footprints of meat analogs are limited, the present study assesses their water consumption and their potential for contributing to eutrophication and ecotoxicity in fresh and marine receiving waters. Life cycle assessments, which encompassed the generation of ingredients to the packaging of ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Impact and Sustainability
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Water
Ujué Fresán, Maximino Alfredo Mejía, Winston J. Craig, Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Joan Sabaté,
Meat analogs are processed foods designed to mimic meat products. Their popularity is increasing among people seeking foods that are healthy and sustainable. Animal-sourced protein products differ in both their environmental impact and nutritional composition. The protein sources to produce meat analogs come from different plants. There is a lack of published research data assessing differences in these two aspects of meat analogs according to the plant protein source. This study compared the greenhouse ...
Tópico(s): Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
Maximino Alfredo Mejía, Ujué Fresán, Helen Harwatt, Keiji Oda, Griselda Uriegas‐Mejia, Joan Sabaté,
Meat analogs have been proposed as a viable 'lower carbon' alternative to meats. However, data on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from those products are limited. We performed partial (farm to factory gate) life cycle assessment (LCA) with Simapro 8.1 to calculate the GHG emissions from a wide range of meat analog products from three factories. The mean GHG footprint was 2.19 kg CO2e/kg, and the range was from 1.33 kg CO2e/kg to 2.79 kg CO2e/kg. Most of the GHG emissions (45%) resulted from manufacturing ...
Tópico(s): Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
Albert Sanchez, Sang‐Jin Chung, Alfredo Mejía, Francisco Ramirez, Gerald W. Shavlik, Randall L. Bivens, Sherine Brown-Fraser, Roger D. Gallant,
Hypertension is worldwide and the most common problem in clinical practice in the United States. It is typically treated with medications, but it also responds to various lifestyle principles. This study assessed the effectiveness of reversing hypertension using a multi-lifestyle medical residential intervention. We evaluated retrospective data from the pretest-posttest intervention of the 114 subjects that were hypertensive from among all 173 enrolled in NEWSTART during 2014. Of the 114 individuals ...
Tópico(s): Nutritional Studies and Diet
2019 - Informa | Cogent Medicine
Omar Ortiz‐Avila, María del Consuelo Figueroa–García, Claudia Isabel Garcia‐Berumen, Elizabeth Calderón‐Cortés, Jorge A. Mejía‐Barajas, Alain R. Rodríguez-Orozco, Ricardo Mejía‐Zepeda, Alfredo Saavedra‐Molina, Christian Cortés‐Rojo,
Tópico(s): Pharmacology and Obesity Treatment
2017 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Bioenergetics and Biomembranes
Mónica Valdez‐Solana, Verónica Y. Mejía-García, Alfredo Téllez‐Valencia, Guadalupe García‐Arenas, José Salas-Pacheco, José J. Alba-Romero, Erick Sierra‐Campos,
Moringa oleifera is a tree distributed in Mexican semiarid and coastal regions. M. oleifera is used in practice in the treatment of various diseases and is available without a medical prescription, often in the form of an herbal infusion for everyday use. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the chemical composition and nutritional values of dried M. oleifera leaf powder collected from two different regions in Mexico. All samples of M. oleifera exhibited moisture levels varying from 3.06 ...
Tópico(s): Hibiscus Plant Research Studies
2015 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | Journal of Chemistry
Samuel Soret, Alfredo Mejía, Michael Batech, Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Helen Harwatt, Joan Sabaté,
Greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) are a major consequence of our dietary choices. Assessments of plant-based compared with meat-based diets are emerging at the intersection of public health, environment, and nutrition. The objective was to compare the GHGEs associated with dietary patterns consumed in a large population across North America and to independently assess mortality according to dietary patterns in the same population. Data from the Adventist Health Study 2 (AHS-2) were used to characterize ...
Tópico(s): Nutritional Studies and Diet
2014 - Elsevier BV | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Sujatha Rajaram, Ella Haddad, Alfredo Mejía, Joan Sabaté,
Background: Increased consumption of n-3 (omega-3) fatty acids decreases the incidence of coronary heart disease (CHD). Objective: The objective was to determine whether walnuts (plant n-3 fatty acid) and fatty fish (marine n-3 fatty acid) have similar effects on serum lipid markers at intakes recommended for primary prevention of CHD. Design: In a randomized crossover feeding trial, 25 normal to mildly hyperlipidemic adults consumed 3 isoenergetic diets (≈30% total fat and <10% saturated fat) for 4 wk ...
Tópico(s): Meat and Animal Product Quality
2009 - Elsevier BV | American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Christian T. Bautista, Alfredo Mejía, Luis G. Leal, Claudia Ayala, José Luis Sánchez‐Ramos, Silvia M. Montano,
Background The primary objective was to estimate the lifetime prevalence of abortion and the secondary objective was to describe the use of contraceptive methods among female sex workers (FSW) in Bogota, Colombia. Study Design A cross-sectional survey was conducted among FSW. Information on sociodemographic characteristics, contraceptive methods, number of abortions, reasons for abortions and sexual practices was collected. Results A total of 514 FSW were enrolled. Of these, 264 (53%) had a lifetime ...
Tópico(s): Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
2008 - Elsevier BV | Contraception
Rodrigo Vega, Ella Vázquez‐Domínguez, Anahí Mejía-Puente, Alfredo D. Cuarón,
Oryzomys couesi cozumelae is an endemic, threatened rodent from Cozumel Island, Mexico. We estimated its genetic diversity and structure by analyzing microsatellite loci in 228 samples from 12 sampling sites widely distributed throughout the island. Unexpected high levels of genetic and allelic diversity were found: a total of 54 alleles, an average of 10.8 alleles per locus, and high heterozygosity values (mean HO = 0.624, HE = 0.690 and HNei = 0.689). These values are higher than those reported for small ...
Tópico(s): Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
2007 - Elsevier BV | Biological Conservation
Richard W. Hubbard, Alfredo Mejía, M.C. Horning,
Diet is a strong factor in the control of atherosclerosis relating to general vascular disease, coronary heart disease and stroke. The interrelated disorders in atherosclerosis of hyperinsulinemia, hyperlipidemia and hypertension are strongly subject to dietary influence. The type of dietary protein, animal versus plant, appears to be as important as the type of lipid, animal versus plant, in atherosclerosis. Dietary protein type, with its differing amino acid ratios, appears to be a major secretagogue ...
Tópico(s): Nutritional Studies and Diet
1994 - Elsevier BV | Nutrition Research
Alfredo Mejía, Helen Harwatt, Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Kitti Sranacharoenpong, Samuel Soret, Joan Sabaté,
The objective of this study was to evaluate the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGEs) generated by the production of tofu. A partial life cycle assessment (LCA) was performed using SimaPro 8 software with a functional unit of 1 kg of packaged tofu and a farm to factory gate boundary. Original production data for the period of 1 year were obtained from a tofu manufacturer based in the United States and used with soybean production data from SimaPro 8 Ecoinvent 3.1 and U.S. Life Cycle Inventory databases ...
Tópico(s): Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
2017 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition
Albert Sanchez, Alfredo Mejía, J. Casas Sánchez, Eric Runte, Sherine Brown-Fraser, Randall L. Bivens,
The primary cause of death worldwide is heart disease and the most common type of heart disease is coronary artery disease. While coronary artery disease is treated with medications, it responds to lifestyle interventions. A low-fat plant-based diet was designed for reversing coronary artery disease and it is effective in reversing the disease. It has not been tested, however, as far as we know, whether diets with customary levels of fat can also reverse coronary artery disease. Nevertheless, evidence ...
Tópico(s): Nutritional Studies and Diet
2018 - Elsevier BV | Medical Hypotheses
Alfredo Mejía, Christian T. Bautista, Luis G. Leal, Claudia Ayala, F. Alvarado, Fernando de la Hoz, Martha Lucia Alzate, Jacqueline Acosta, José Luis Sánchez‐Ramos,
Tópico(s): HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
2007 - Springer Science+Business Media | Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Niv Drory, Guillermo A. Blanc, Kathryn Kreckel, S. F. Sánchez, Alfredo Mejía-Narváez, Evelyn J. Johnston, Amy Jones, E. Pellegrini, Nicholas P. Konidaris, Tom Herbst, José Sánchez-Gallego, Juna A. Kollmeier, Florence de Almeida, J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Dmitry Bizyaev, Joel R. Brownstein, Mar Canal i Saguer, Brian Cherinka, Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Enrico Congiu, Maren Cosens, B. Dias, John Donor, Oleg V. Egorov, Evgeniia Egorova, Cynthia S. Froning, Pablo García, Simon C. O. Glover, Hannah Greve, Maximilian Häberle, Kevin Hoy, H. Ibarra, Jing Li, Ralf S. Klessen, Dhanesh Krishnarao, Nimisha Kumari, Knox S. Long, J. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, S. A. Popa, Solange Ramírez, Hans‐Walter Rix, Aurora Mata Sánchez, Ravi Sankrit, Natascha Sattler, Conor Sayres, Amrita Singh, Guy S. Stringfellow, Stefanie Wachter, Elizabeth J. Watkins, Tony Wong, Aida Wofford,
Abstract We present the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V Local Volume Mapper (LVM). The LVM is an integral-field spectroscopic survey of the Milky Way, Magellanic Clouds, and a sample of local volume galaxies, connecting resolved parsec-scale individual sources of feedback to kiloparsec-scale ionized interstellar medium (ISM) properties. The 4 yr survey covers the southern Milky Way disk at spatial resolutions of 0.05–1 pc, the Magellanic Clouds at 10 pc resolution, and nearby large galaxies at larger scales ...
Tópico(s): Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
2024 - Institute of Physics | The Astronomical Journal
Magnolia Montoya-Mejía, Alfredo Hernández‐Llamas, Manuel García‐Ulloa, Héctor Nolasco‐Soria, Roberto Gutiérrez‐Dorado, Hervey Rodríguez‐González,
The objective of our study was to assess the apparent digestibility of plant ingredients in diets for juvenile (50 g) and adult (220 g) Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus). Dietary dry matter and protein apparent digestibility coefficients of four plant-derived feedstuffs (chickpea, maize, high-quality maize protein, and beans) were tested. The beans diet had the lowest apparent digestibility coefficient of dry matter (ADCDM) (69.41%), while no significant differences were detected in ADCDM among the ...
Tópico(s): Child Nutrition and Water Access
2016 - Sociedade Brasileira de Zootecnia | Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
Maximino Alfredo Mejía, Helen Harwatt, Karen Jaceldo‐Siegl, Sam Soret, Joan Sabaté,
Animal products, particularly meat, are increasingly being questioned in terms of their role in an environmentally sustainable food system. Concurrently, there is a rising public consumption of meat analogs, largely driven by health concerns, with environmental concerns, taste and convenience also being important. Meat analogs are high‐protein, manufactured products with some taste and texture resemblance to meats. Hence, meat analogs could play a key role in replacing meat in the diet, however, ...
Tópico(s): Environmental Impact and Sustainability
2016 - Wiley | The FASEB Journal
David R. King, Olimpia Meglio, Luis R. Gómez‐Mejía, Florian Bauer, Alfredo De Massis,
Abstract Although business restructuring occurs frequently and it is important for the prosperity of family firms across generations, research on family firms has largely evolved separately from research on business restructuring. This is a missed opportunity, since the two domains are complementary, and understanding the context, process, content, and outcome dimensions is relevant to both research streams. We address this by examining the intersection between research on business restructuring ...
Tópico(s): Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
2021 - Wiley | Journal of Management Studies
Joseph A. Pinto, Luis Pinillos, Cynthia Villarreal‐Garza, Zaida Morante, Manuel Villarán, Gerson Mejía, Christian Caglevic, Alfredo Aguilar, Williams Fajardo, Franz Usuga, Marcia Carrasco, Pamela Rebaza, Ana M. Posada, Indira Tirado-Hurtado, Claudio Flores, Carlos Vallejos,
Breast cancer (BC) is a highly prevalent malignancy in Latin American women, most cases being diagnosed at locally advanced or metastatic stages when options for cancer care are limited.Despite its label as a public health problem in the region, Latin American BC patients face several barriers in accessing standard of care treatment when compared with patients from developed countries.In this review, we analyse the landscape of the four main identified barriers in the region: i) high burden of locally ...
Tópico(s): Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
2019 - Cancer Intelligence | ecancermedicalscience
José Antonio Mata‐Marín, Jesús Gaytán‐Martínez, Bernardo Horacio Grados-Chavarría, José Luis Fuentes-Allen, Carla Ileana Arroyo-Anduiza, Alfredo Alfaro-Mejía,
Abnormalities in liver function tests could be produced exclusively by direct inflammation in hepatocytes, caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Mechanisms by which HIV causes hepatic damage are still unknown. Our aim was to determine the correlation between HIV viral load, and serum levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) as markers of hepatic damage in HIV naive infected patients. We performed a concordance cross-sectional study. Patients with antiviral ...
Tópico(s): Hepatitis C virus research
2009 - BioMed Central | Virology Journal