Association of Dietary Intake of Polyphenols with an Adequate Nutritional Profile in Postpartum Women from Argentina.

HJ-Biplot analysis is a multivariate graphic representation that collects data covariation structure between variables and individuals to represent them in a low-dimensional space with the highest quality in the same reference system. Consequently, it is a promising technique for evaluating dietary exposure to polyphenols and accurately characterizing female nutrition. Herein, we hypothesized that polyphenol intake defines specific clusters with dietary impacts, which can be assessed using HJ-Biplot, based on a cross-sectional study in Argentina.

Disjoint and Functional Principal Component Analysis for Infected Cases and Deaths Due to COVID-19 in South American Countries with Sensor-Related Data.

In this paper, we group South American countries based on the number of infected cases and deaths due to COVID-19. The countries considered are: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The data used are collected from a database of Johns Hopkins University, an institution that is dedicated to sensing and monitoring the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Industry mimetic isomorphism and sustainable development based on the X-STATIS and HJ-biplot methods.

Based on both neo-institutional theory and comparative institutional analysis, this paper studies the role that mimetic forces play in the patterns and evolution of behavior concerning company sustainability. The panel data is composed of 6600 observations of 600 international large listed companies belonging to 39 different activity sectors for the period 2004-2014. Through employing the multivariate statistical methods HJ-biplot and X-STATIS, which provide a useful visualization of a complex data structure in a low-dimensional space, it can be observed that mimetic forces indicate that firms operating in high-impact sectors-sectors that operate under greater pressure from interest groups-face greater social and environmental risks and have higher corporate social responsibility (CSR) scores than companies from other sectors.

Estimating the effect of emotional intelligence in wellbeing among priests.

: Emotional intelligence is a variable which has been the subject of significantly increased research in recent years. Relationships have been shown with both physical and psychological problems. The aim of this study is to analyse the direct and indirect effect that emotional intelligence exerts over the manifestation of physical and psychological clinical symptomatology and to severe disorders such as burnout syndrome in a professional group in which social function is fundamental.

Introducing Meta-Partition, a Useful Methodology to Explore Factors That Influence Ecological Effect Sizes.

The study of the heterogeneity of effect sizes is a key aspect of ecological meta-analyses. Here we propose a meta-analytic methodology to study the influence of moderators in effect sizes by splitting heterogeneity: meta-partition. To introduce this methodology, we performed a meta-partition of published data about the traits that influence species sensitivity to habitat loss, that have been previously analyzed through meta-regression.

Clustering of lifestyle characteristics and their association with cardio-metabolic health: the Lifestyles and Endothelial Dysfunction (EVIDENT) study.

Little is known about the clustering patterns of lifestyle behaviours in adult populations. We explored clusters in multiple lifestyle behaviours including physical activity (PA), smoking, alcohol use and eating habits in a sample of adult population. A cross-sectional and multi-centre study was performed with six participating groups distributed throughout Spain.

Multivariate analysis of burnout syndrome in Latin-American priests.

Background: Burnout syndrome is a highly prevalent disorder in a wide range of professional groups, and is associated with substantial psychophysiological alterations. Nevertheless, this syndrome has not been analyzed in depth among the clergy, a group which fulfils a fundamental social function and has to deal with numerous stressors that increase the risk of burnout onset.

Method: In the present study, the authors assessed 881 Catholic priests from Latin America.