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Comparison between Sexes of the Relationships between Body Composition and Maximum Oxygen Volume in Elderly People
(Sustainability, 2020-04)
Background: Performing physical activity can provide a variety of benefits; for example, it can improve one's physical condition, decrease one's fat mass, and increase one's muscle mass. The objective of the present study ...
A new technique for studying the convergence of Newton’s solver with real life applications
(Journal of Mathematical Chemistry, 2020-04)
The convergence domain for both the local and semilocal case of Newton’s method for Banach space valued operators is small in general. There is a plethora of articles that have extended the convergence criterion due to ...
HTLV-1 infection and health outcomes
(The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 2020-04)
The meta-analysis published by Gill Schierhout and colleagues1 reported an increased relative risk of premature death in individuals infected with HTLV-1 compared with individuals not infected with HTLV-1 (RR 1·57, 95% CI ...
Minimal green energy consumption and workload management for data centers on smart city platforms
(Sustainability, 2020-04)
Presently, energy is considered a significant resource that grows scarce with high demand and population in the global market. Therefore, a survey suggested that renewable energy sources are required to avoid scarcity. ...
Cyberbullying among adolescents: Psychometric properties of the CYB-AGS cyber-aggressor scale
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020-05)
The present study aims to analyze the psychometric properties of the revised version of the Adolescent Cyber-Aggressor scale (CYB-AGS). This scale is composed of 18 items that measure direct and indirect cyberbullying. A ...
Bibliometric studies and worldwide research trends on global health
(International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020-08-09)
Global health, conceived as a discipline, aims to train, research and respond to problems of a transboundary nature in order to improve health and health equity at the global level. The current worldwide situation is ruled ...
NFC and VLC based Mobile Business Information System for Registering Class Attendance
(International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2020-06)
This work proposes a Mobile Information System for class attendance control using Visible Light Communications (VLC), and the students' own mobile devices for automatic clocking in and clocking out. The proposed information ...
Rojava: a state subverted or reinvented?
(Postcolonial Studies, 2020-04-02)
This article discusses how Rojava and its ‘Autonomous Administration’ simultaneously subvert and reinstate the state(s) they are fighting. Based on Abdullah Öcalan’s (b. 1948) conversion to libertarianism after his ...
A spatial analysis of the Spanish tobacco consumption distribution: Are there any consumption clusters?
(Public Health, 2020-09)
Objectives: The objective of this short communication is to provide a previous empirical analysis to locate the regions that have distortions in per capita tobacco consumption. The location of these regions and their ...
Academic Literacy and Student Diversity: Evaluating a Curriculum-Integrated Inclusive Practice Intervention in the United Kingdom
(Sustainability, 2020-02)
The sustainability of universities is based, among other aspects, on their ability to adapt to changes and the needs of students, an increasingly diverse population. In this sense, Academic literacy provision at universities ...