Publications by authors named "A Orduna Domingo"
Background/objectives: Populations in Mediterranean countries are abandoning the traditional Mediterranean diet (MD) and lifestyle, shifting towards unhealthier habits due to profound cultural and socioeconomic changes. The SWITCHtoHEALTHY project aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of a multi-component nutritional intervention to improve the adherence of families to the MD in three Mediterranean countries, thus prompting a dietary behavior change.
Methods: A parallel, randomized, single-blinded, and controlled multicentric nutritional intervention study will be conducted over 3 months in 480 families with children and adolescents aged 3-17 years from Spain, Morocco, and Turkey.
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- Pharmaceutical pollutants in water are a serious environmental and health issue, leading to concerns like antibiotic resistance.
- Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs), particularly using peroxymonosulfate (PMS) with bismuth oxyiodide (BiOI), show promise in degrading these contaminants effectively.
- A study found that BiOI composites with barium ferrite (BFO) significantly improved the degradation of tetracycline (TC), achieving nearly complete removal under ideal conditions, but faced challenges in more complex water environments; increasing PMS concentration improved results notably.
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- Trachoma is aimed for global elimination by 2030, with a focus on using IgG antibody measurements in children for monitoring and decision-making in public health programs.
- There are no existing guidelines for using serology in trachoma control, highlighting a larger issue in the field of disease elimination and epidemiology.
- Researchers analyzed IgG levels in 63,911 children from various regions to determine seroconversion rates and proposed a method to assess when population transmission falls below or exceeds intervention thresholds, aiding trachoma program strategies.
The combined release of the predatory mite Amblyseius swirskii (Athias-Henriot) and the mirid Nesidiocoris tenuis (Reuter) provides effective biological control of the tobacco whitefly (Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius)) in greenhouse eggplant. However, knowing how plants' trichomes affect pest-predator interactions could improve whitefly management. Here, the effect of two varieties with either the presence or absence of trichomes was assessed on naturally occurring whitefly populations and predator abundance in a first experiment under field conditions.
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