Rocío de Oña, José Luis Machado-León, Juan de Oña,
This paper investigates the relationship between perceived service quality, customer satisfaction, and behavioral intentions for Metro of Seville, Spain, a metropolitan, partially underground light rail transit (LRT) service. A total of 3,211 users participated in the case study by completing a questionnaire with four parts: users' attitudes about the public transit service, users' perceptions of service quality, travel habits, and socioeconomic characteristics of the participants. A seven-step analytic ...
Tópico(s): Urban Transport and Accessibility
2015 - SAGE Publishing | Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
José Luis Machado-León, Juan de Oña, Rocío de Oña, Laura Eboli, Gabriella Mazzulla,
Drivers are estimated to contribute an overwhelming proportion to the burden of traffic crashes, as factors that increase crash risk are frequently due to unsafe driving behaviours. The relationship between risk perceptions and people’s risky driving behaviours is still not well understood. This paper aims to further analyse the potential effect of risky driving behaviours on drivers’ perceptions of crash risk and differences in perceptions among drivers. Crash risk perceptions in an inter-city, ...
Tópico(s): Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
2016 - Elsevier BV | Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
José Luis Machado-León, Rocío de Oña, Tahar Baouni, Juan de Oña,
The Algerian Government has recently promoted transportation projects such as the Algiers metro and tramway services that represent a key part of its political and financial effort to improve mobility in the country. However, public transport systems' profitability requires a thorough diagnosis of the services provided based on users' perceptions and expectations. That is, to invest money according to users' requirements. A methodological approach, which combines an Importance-Performance Analysis ...
Tópico(s): Customer Service Quality and Loyalty
2016 - Elsevier BV | Transport Policy
José Luis Machado-León, Rocío de Oña, Juan de Oña,
Research on involvement of public transit customers, which can be defined as the level of interest or importance of public transit to a passenger, is scarce and no study has attempted to comprehensively analyze this concept in the public transit sector. Based on behavioral and marketing literature, this paper tests three possible roles of involvement in regards to passengers' perceptions of a Light-Rail Transit (LRT) service in Seville (Spain): the mediator, moderator and antecedent roles. The structural ...
Tópico(s): Consumer Retail Behavior Studies
2016 - Elsevier BV | Transport Policy
José Luis Machado-León, Rocío de Oña, Francisco Díez-Mesa, Juan de Oña,
Existing approaches dealing with customer perception data have two fundamental challenges: heterogeneity of customer perceptions and simultaneous interrelationships between attitudes that explain customer behaviour. This paper aims to provide practitioners with a methodology of service quality (SQ) evaluation based on public transit customers behavioural theory and advanced market segmentation that deals with these two fundamental challenges. The original contributions of this paper are: the definition ...
Tópico(s): Transportation Planning and Optimization
2018 - Taylor & Francis | Transportmetrica A Transport Science
Gabriela del Carmen Girón-Valderrama, José Luis Machado-León, Anne Goodchild,
Rapid urban growth puts pressure on local governments to rethink how they manage street curb parking. Competition for space among road users and lack of adequate infrastructure force delivery drivers either to search for vacant spaces or to park in unsuitable areas, which negatively impacts road capacity and causes inconvenience to other users of the road. The purpose of this paper is to advance research by providing data-based insight into what is actually happening at the curb. To achieve this ...
Tópico(s): Transportation and Mobility Innovations
2019 - SAGE Publishing | Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
José Luis Machado-León, Anne Goodchild,
Community resilience depends on the resilience of the lifeline infrastructure and the performance of the disaster-related functions of local governments. State and federal resilience plans and guidelines acknowledge the importance of the transportation system as a critical lifeline in planning for community resilience and in helping local governments to set recovery goals. However, a widely accepted definition of the resilience of the transportation system and a structure for its measurement are ...
Tópico(s): Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
2017 - SAGE Publishing | Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Polina Butrina, Gabriela del Carmen Girón-Valderrama, José Luis Machado-León, Anne Goodchild, Pramod C. Ayyalasomayajula,
Pickup and delivery operations are an essential part of urban goods movements. However, rapid urban growth, increasing demand, and higher customer expectations have amplified the challenges of urban freight movement. In recent years, the industry has emphasized improving last-mile operations with the intent of focusing on what has been described as the last leg of the supply chain. In this paper, it is suggested that solving urban freight challenges requires an even more granular scale than the ...
Tópico(s): Maritime Ports and Logistics
2017 - SAGE Publishing | Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Andisheh Ranjbari, José Luis Machado-León, Giacomo Dalla Chiara, Don MacKenzie, Anne Goodchild,
Increased use of ridesourcing leads to increased pick-up and drop-off activity. This may slow traffic or cause delays as vehicles increase curb use, conduct pick-up and drop-off activity directly in the travel lane, or slow to find and connect with passengers. How should cities respond to this change in an effort to keep travel lanes operating smoothly and efficiently? This research evaluates two strategies in Seattle, WA, in an area where large numbers of workers commute using ridesourcing services: ( ...
Tópico(s): Smart Parking Systems Research
2020 - SAGE Publishing | Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
José Luis Machado-León, Gabriela del Carmen Girón-Valderrama, Anne Goodchild,
Abstract There is growing pressure in cities to unlock the potential of every public infrastructure element as density and demand for urban resources increase. Despite their historical role as providing access to land uses for freight and servicing, alleys have not been studied as a resource in modern freight access planning. The authors developed a replicable data collection method to build and maintain an alley inventory and operations study focused on commercial vehicles. A Seattle Case study ...
Tópico(s): Urban Design and Spatial Analysis
2020 - Elsevier BV | Cities
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Renato José Pires Machado, Leon Gustavo de Miranda Tavares,
This study focuses on the Brazilian species of the genus Purenleon Stange (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae). A total of five species are herein reported to Brazil: Purenleon clavatus (Navás), Purenleon fernandezi Miller & Stange (first record for Brazil), Purenleon cautus (Walker) comb. n. , and two new species: Purenleon limeirai sp. n. and Purenleon rafaeli sp. n. The taxonomical status of other two species was reevaluated: Formicaleo bipunctatus Navás was synonymized under P. cautus and Feinerus nebulosus ...
Tópico(s): Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
2018 - Brill | Insect Systematics & Evolution
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
J.C.A. Tanaka, C.C. da Silva, Izabel Cristina Piloto Ferreira, Gérzia M. C. Machado, Leonor L. Leon, Arildo José Braz de Oliveira,
The present study was designated to evaluate the antileishmanial activity of acid and basic fractions that were obtained after acid-basic extraction, from ethanolic 70% crude extract and pure compounds from the stem bark of Aspidosperma ramiflorum. The basic alkaloidal fraction presented a good activity against the extracellular form (promastigotes) of Leishmania (L.) amazonensis (LD50 value<47 μg/ml). Based on these findings, the basic fraction was fractionated on silica gel column chromatography ...
Tópico(s): Plant Toxicity and Pharmacological Properties
2006 - Elsevier BV | Phytomedicine
Juan de Oña, Rocío de Oña, Laura Eboli, Carmen Forciniti, José Luis Machado-León, Gabriella Mazzulla,
A relevant aspect of traffic accident analysis is to identify the key factors affecting road users' driving behaviour and attitudes. Traditional considerations of traffic safety focus on physical environment, vehicle and road user. Among these, road users' driving behaviour plays an important role. The aim of our work is to investigate the relationship among road accident severity, users' driving behaviour and socio-economic characteristics, by comparing data from two urban areas having different ...
Tópico(s): Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
2014 - Elsevier BV | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
... https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz163Erik García-Machado, José L. Ponce de Léon, María A. Gutiérrez-Costa, Alice Michel-Salzat, Isabelle ...
Tópico(s): Fern and Epiphyte Biology
1950 - University of Chicago Press | The American Naturalist
José Luis Machado-León, Juan de Oña, Rocío de Oña, Laura Eboli, Grabiella Mazzulla,
Because most traffic accidents are caused by the human factor, intervention programs should work to prevent and reduce these fatal incidents by focusing on drivers. The human factor relates to aspects of risk that are controlled by people, for example, whether or not people follow driving rules, their attitude and behavior while driving, and so on. Furthermore, road userś perception of risk influences their driving behavior. As a result, this study investigates the key factors that affect drivers' ...
Tópico(s): Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
2014 - Elsevier BV | Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Jefferson Rocha de Andrade Silva, Dominique F. Moura do Carmo, Érika Marques Reis, Gérzia M. C. Machado, Leonor L. Leon, Bianca O. da Silva, José Luiz P. Ferreira, Ana Cláudia F. Amaral,
This work compares the chemical composition of the essential oils from the leaves of Licaria canella collected in two different seasons. The results of this investigation were compared with the leaf essential oils of other species of the Lauraceae family, Aniba canelilla, collected at the same time. Both essential oils were analyzed by GC-FID and GC-MS. The results demonstrated a larger predominance of benzenoids, being the main constituent benzyl benzoate for L. canella and 1-nitro-2-phenylethane ...
Tópico(s): Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae
2009 - Brazilian Chemical Society | Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Iraci Lucena da Silva Torres, Carla Denise Bonan, Leonardo Machado Crema, Marcele de Leon Nunes, Ana Maria Oliveira Battastini, João José Freitas Sarkis, Carla Dalmaz, Maria Beatriz Cardoso Ferreira,
Hyperalgesia and altered activities of enzymes involved in nucleotide hydrolysis are observed after exposure to repeated restraint in rats. Here, we investigated the effect of an adenosine A1 receptor agonist, N6-cyclopentyladenosine (CPA, 3.35 mg/kg, i.p.), adenosine A1 receptor antagonist, 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (DPCPX, 0.8 mg/kg, i.p.) as well the effect of an adenosine reuptake blocker, dipyridamole (5 mg/kg, i.p.), on nociception in chronically stressed and control rats. We repeatedly ...
Tópico(s): Pharmacological Receptor Mechanisms and Effects
2003 - Elsevier BV | European Journal of Pharmacology
Alejandro E. Castellanos, José Manuel Llano-Sotelo, Luis I. Machado-Encinas, José E. López-Piña, José Raúl Romo-León, Jordi Sardans, Josep Peñuelas,
Ecological processes are centered to water availability in drylands; however, less known nutrient stoichiometry can help explain much of their structure and ecological interactions. Here we look to the foliar stoichiometry of carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) of 38 dominant plant species from the Sonoran Desert, grouped in four different functional types to describe ecological characteristics and processes. We found that foliar N, C:N, C:P, and N:P stoichiometric ratios, but not P, were ...
Tópico(s): Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
2018 - Springer Science+Business Media | Plant Ecology
Francisco Machado, Carmen Vegas, Josefa León, Antonio Perez, Rafael Florenciano Sánchez, Juan José Parrilla, Lorenzo Abad,
Our goal was to analyze and describe cases of ovarian cancer in pregnant women treated at our hospital.Retrospective study based on clinical histories from patients diagnosed and treated at our hospital for ovarian cancer and pregnancy from 1987 to 2005.Fifteen cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed among pregnant women; the ratio is 0.11/1000 deliveries. Among them, 66.6% of patients were asymptomatic, and 86.6% had been diagnosed via ultrasound. Of the diagnosed tumors, 40% were malignant epithelial ...
Tópico(s): Multiple and Secondary Primary Cancers
2007 - Elsevier BV | Gynecologic Oncology
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Izabel Cristina Piloto Ferreira, Maria Valdrinez Campana Lonardoni, Gérzia M. C. Machado, Leonor L. Leon, Lucílio Gobbi Filho, Luís Henrique Bissoli Pinto, Arildo José Braz de Oliveira,
Infections due to protozoa of the genus Leishmania are a major worldwide health problem, with high endemicity in developing countries. The drugs of choice for the treatment of leishmaniasis are the pentavalent antimonials (SbV), which present renal and cardiac toxicity. Besides, the precise chemical structure and mechanism of action of these drugs are unknown up to date. In order to find new drugs against leishmaniasis, we have been studying extracts of Brazilian trees. In the present study, we have ...
Tópico(s): Insect Pest Control Strategies
2004 - Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Ministério da Saúde | Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Francisco Machado‐Linde, Pablo Pelegrı́n, María Luisa Sánchez-Ferrer, Josefa León, P. Sánchez, Juan José Parrilla,
Tópico(s): Estrogen and related hormone effects
2012 - Springer Nature | Reproductive Sciences
This article analyzes Jose Leon Machado's novel, Memoria das Estrelas sem Brilho , as a multilayered historical novel in which a war story provides a ...
Tópico(s): Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies
2011 - American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese | Hispania
Vincent D. de Jager, Wim Timens, Arnaud Bayle, Johan Botling, Luka Brčić, Reinhard Büttner, Gabriela Fernandes, Libor Havel, Maximilian J. Hochmair, Paul Hofman, Annelies Janssens, Léon C.L.T. van Kempen, Izidor Kern, José Carlos Machado, Katja Mohorčič, Sanjay Popat, Aleš Ryška, Jürgen Wolf, Ed Schuuring, Anthonie J. van der Wekken,
For patients with advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), treatment strategies have changed significantly due to the introduction of targeted therapies and immunotherapy. In the last few years, we have seen an explosive growth of newly introduced targeted therapies in oncology and this development is expected to continue in the future. Besides primary targetable aberrations, emerging diagnostic biomarkers also include relevant co-occurring mutations and resistance mechanisms involved in ...
Tópico(s): RNA modifications and cancer
2024 - Elsevier BV | The Lancet Regional Health - Europe
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Marcelo Genestra, Wilson Jacinto Silva de Souza, Damiana Guedes-Silva, Gérzia M. C. Machado, Léa Cysne‐Finkelstein, Rômulo José Soares Bezerra, Fabiane Pereira Monteiro, Leonor L. Leon,
Tópico(s): Nitric Oxide and Endothelin Effects
2006 - Springer Science+Business Media | Archives of Microbiology
Marisela Suárez, J.A. Martín Rubí, Danny Pérez Pérez, Vladimir Cordova, Yader Salazar, Adelquis Vielma, Fabio Barrios, Carlos Antonio Gil, Nerio Segura, Yermina Carrillo, Ruben Cartaya, Mariela Palacios, E.M. Rubio, Claudibeth Escalona, Ricardo Chacon Ramirez, Roberto Basulto Baker, Héctor Machado, Yusmel Sordo-Puga, Jonathan Bermudes, Milagros Vargas, Carlos Montero, A. León Cruz, Pedro Puente, José Luis Rodríguez-Bautista, Ernesto Mantilla, Osvaldo Oliva, Eduardo Smith, Andrés Castillo, Boris Ramos, Yamilka Ramirez, Zoila Abad, Antonio Morales, Ernesto M González, Abel Hernández, Yanaysi Ceballo, Danay Callard, Amaurys Cardoso, Mónica Navarro, Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Ricardo Pina, Madaisy Cueto, Carlos Borroto, Eulogio Pimentel, Yamila Carpio, Mario Pablo Estrada,
The 80% of the world's cattle population (approximately 1281 million), 80% are at risk for ticks and tick-borne diseases. Over a decade ago, the estimated global costs of control measures and productivity losses amounted to $7.0 billion USD annually (7 USD/head/years). Tick control in livestock remains, to a large extent, based on chemical acaricides, but their use in combination with anti-tick vaccines and utilization of host resistance to ticks should reduce dependency on chemical tick control. Currently ...
Tópico(s): Insect and Pesticide Research
2016 - Elsevier BV | Livestock Science
Erik García‐Machado, José Luis Ponce de León, María A. Gutiérrez-Costa, Alice Michel‐Salzat, Isabelle Germon, Didier Casañe,
The main drivers of diversification of freshwater fishes in Cuba are not yet well understood. For example, salt tolerance was thought as the main factor involved in the diversification of Gambusia punctata species group in this archipelago. However, evidence from a recent DNA barcoding survey suggested the presence of cryptic species and no correlation between species delimitation and level of salinity. In this study, we analyzed the cryptic diversification of G. punctata species group in Cuba, ...
Tópico(s): Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
2019 - Elsevier BV | Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Bárbara Goettsch, Craig Hilton‐Taylor, Gabriela Cruz-Piñón, James P. Duffy, Anne Frances, Héctor M. Hernández, Richard Inger, Caroline M. Pollock, Jan Schipper, Mariella Superina, Nigel P. Taylor, Marcelo F. Tognelli, Agustín M. Abba, Salvador Arias, Hilda Julieta Arreola-Nava, Marc A. Baker, Rolando T. Bárcenas, Duniel Barrios, Pierre Braun, Charles A. Butterworth, Alberto Búrquez, Fátima Cáceres, Miguel Cházaro‐Basáñez, Rafael Corral-Díaz, Mario Perea, Pablo Demaio, Williams A. Duarte de Barros, Rafael Durán, Luis Faúndez Yancas, Richard S. Felger, Betty Fitz-Maurice, Walter A. Fitz-Maurice, George D. Gann, Carlos Gómez-Hinostrosa, Luis R. Gonzales-Torres, M. Patrick Griffith, Pablo Guerrero, Barry E. Hammel, Kenneth Heil, José Guadalupe Hernández-Oria, Michael Hoffmann, Mario Ishiki Ishihara, Roberto Kiesling, João Larocca, José Luis León de la Luz, Christian R. Loaiza S., Martin Lowry, Marlon C. Machado, Lucas C. Majure, José Guadalupe Martínez-Ávalos, Carlos Martorell, Joyce Maschinski, Eduardo Méndez, Russell A. Mittermeier, Jafet M. Nassar, Vivian Negrón‐Ortíz, Luis J. Oakley, Pablo Ortega‐Baes, Ana Beatriz Pin Ferreira, Donald J. Pinkava, J. Mark Porter, Raúl Puente‐Martínez, José Roque, Patricio Pérez, Emiliano Sánchez Martínez, M. Kyle S. Smith, JOSHI M.C, Simon N. Stuart, José Luis Tapia Muñoz, Teresa Terrazas, Martin Terry, Marcelo Trevisson, Teresa Valverde, Thomas R. Van Devender, Mario Esteban Véliz-Pérez, Henrik Walter, Sarah A. Wyatt, Daniela C. Zappi, José Alejandro Zavala‐Hurtado, Kevin J. Gaston,
A high proportion of plant species is predicted to be threatened with extinction in the near future. However, the threat status of only a small number has been evaluated compared with key animal groups, rendering the magnitude and nature of the risks plants face unclear. Here we report the results of a global species assessment for the largest plant taxon evaluated to date under the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List Categories and Criteria, the iconic Cactaceae (cacti). ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
2015 - Nature Portfolio | Nature Plants
Carmen León–Mantero, José Carlos Casas‐Rosal, Cristina Pedrosa-Jesús, Alexander Maz–Machado,
In the research on mathematics education, numerous Likert-type instruments estimating attitudes toward mathematics are sometimes composed of factors with a high correlation, which can make it difficult to assign the statements from the scale to each estimated factor. Further, the measurement of attitudes is usually done by adding the scores but ignoring the existence of possible differences in the importance that each item can have in its factor estimation. A revision of the methodology for the ...
Tópico(s): Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
2020 - Public Library of Science | PLoS ONE
José Díaz Novás, Bárbara Gallego Machado, Aracelys León González,
En nuestro medio se han publicado algunos trabajos 1,4-9 sobre el diagnostico medico, pero creemos que no se ha abordado el tema con la frecuencia requerida. Si bien es cierto que no pocos aspectos de este proceso son ignorados o mal comprendidos, tener una orientacion sobre sus bases y reglas, constituye una valiosa ayuda para el trabajo diario.4 En una publicacion anterior 9 se abordo el tema del diagnostico en la atencion primaria, insistiendose en sus particularidades. En el presente trabajo ...
Tópico(s): Ethics and bioethics in healthcare
2006 - Editorial Ciencias Médicas | Revista cubana de medicina general integral
José L. Machado-León, Don MacKenzie, Anne Goodchild,
Tópico(s): Traffic control and management
2023 - Springer Science+Business Media | Transportation