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Assessing Bioprinted Functionalized Grafts for Biological Tendon Augmentation In Vitro
(MDPI, 2024-04-26)Tendinopathy, characterized by inflammatory and degenerative changes, presents challenges in sports and medicine. In addressing the limitations of conservative management, this study focuses on developing tendon grafts ... -
Unlocking Preclinical Alzheimer’s: A Multi-Year Label-Free In Vitro Raman Spectroscopy Study Empowered by Chemometrics
(MDPI, 2024-04-26)Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, the early detection of which is crucial for timely intervention and enrollment in clinical trials. However, the preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s encounters ... -
Unique specific jumping test for measuring explosive power in young basketball players: Differences by gender, age, and playing positions
(MDPI, 2024-04-27)When playing basketball, players are required to have high explosive power, which requires the ability to move in efficient, specific, and game-specific movement patterns that combine both horizontal and vertical abilities. ... -
Analyses of Physical and Physiological Responses during Competition in Para-Footballers with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review
(MDPI, 2024-04-29)Background: Classification of athletes in cerebral palsy (CP) football is a key action that aims to promote the participation of all players by minimizing the impact of their physical disabilities on the outcome of the ... -
Nutritional Quality and Socio-Ecological Benefits of Mare Milk Produced under Grazing Management
(MDPI, 2024-05-04)This review discusses the scientific evidence that supports the nutritional value of mare milk and how its properties are essentially achieved when mares are managed under grazing conditions. Mare milk’s similarity with ... -
Generalizability theory in the evaluation of psychological profile in track and field
(MDPI, 2024-05-04)Generalizability theory (GT) has been used throughout the scientific literature to ensure validity, reliability, and generalizability in different sport contexts. However, there is a small number of studies examining the ... -
A Sustainable Material for Sheep’s Cheese Wedges Stored under Different Atmosphere Conditions
(MDPI, 2024-05-06)This study is based on the need to improve packaging sustainability in the food industry. Its aim was to assess the performance of a recyclable plastic material for semi-hard sheep’s cheese wedges packaging as an alternative ... -
Global approach to follow-up of celiac disease
(MDPI, 2024-05-08)Celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder induced by the ingestion of gluten, affects approximately 1.4% of the population. Gluten damages the villi of the small intestine, producing symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating ... -
Alcohol triggers the accumulation of oxidatively damaged proteins in neuronal cells and tissues
(MDPI, 2024-05-08)Alcohol is toxic to neurons and can trigger alcohol-related brain damage, neuronal loss, and cognitive decline. Neuronal cells may be vulnerable to alcohol toxicity and damage from oxidative stress after differentiation. ... -
The impact of biases on health disinformation research
(MDPI, 2024-05-08)This work analyses the treatment of elements such as biases and their relationship with disinformation in international academic production. The first step in this process was to carry out a search for papers published in ... -
The role of healthcare professionals in the transition process: A qualitative study of families of trans children and adolescents
(MDPI, 2024-05-09)The aim of this study was to explore the role that healthcare professionals, such as pediatricians, psychologists, psychiatrists and sexologists, play in supporting trans children and adolescents in their transition ... -
Wireless power transfer for unmanned underwater vehicles: Technologies, challenges and applications
(MDPI, 2024-05-10)Unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) are key technologies to conduct preventive inspection and maintenance tasks in offshore renewable energy plants. Making such vehicles autonomous would lead to benefits such as improved ... -
Taking charge of one’s own safety while collaborating with robots: Enhancing situational awareness for a safe environment
(MDPI, 2024-05-11)Collaborative robots, designed to work alongside humans in industrial manufacturing, are becoming increasingly prevalent. These robots typically monitor their distance from workers and slow down or stop when safety thresholds ... -
Profile of accelerations and decelerations in young basketball players
(MDPI, 2024-05-13)Accelerometry is a crucial tool in basketball for quantifying the external load borne by players in response to the demands of intermittent high-intensity sports. To advance scientific knowledge in this field, it is ... -
Devices for gait and balance rehabilitation: General classification and a narrative review of end effector-based manipulators
(MDPI, 2024-05-14)Gait and balance have a direct impact on patients’ independence and quality of life. Due to a higher life expectancy, the number of patients suffering neurological disorders has increased exponentially, with gait and balance ... -
Communications and data science for the success of vehicle-to-grid technologies: Current state and future trends
(MDPI, 2024-05-15)Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology has emerged as a promising solution for enhancing the integration of electric vehicles (EVs) into the electric grid, offering benefits, such as distributed energy resource (DER) integration, ... -
Mediatised Participation: Citizen Journalism and the Decline in User-Generated Content in Online News Media
(MDPI, 2024-05-16)The second generation of web tools shook the journalist profession approximately two decades ago with the proactive incorporation of audiences into the media. Citizen journalism and user-generated content arose as an object ... -
Smart IoT irrigation system based on fuzzy logic, LoRa, and cloud integration
(MDPI, 2024-05-16)Natural resources must be administered efficiently to reduce the human footprint and ensure the sustainability of the planet. Water is one of the most essential resources in agriculture. Modern information technologies are ... -
COVID-19: Uses and perceptions of music during lockdown from a gender perspective
(MDPI, 2024-05-16)Starting in the middle of March 2020, various lockdown measures and degrees of confinement were put in place in most European countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although this situation meant that more people ... -
Exercise addiction and intimate partner violence: The role of impulsivity, self-esteem, and emotional dependence
(MDPI, 2024-05-17)Given the scarcity of studies linking exercise addiction to intimate partner violence, the present study aims to analyze the relationship between these variables and examine the potential mediating roles of emotional ...