Publications by authors named "Mainar M"

Purpose: There is little scholarship on physical activity among children within outdoor spaces and work is needed to advance the design of these spaces from "best practices" towards evidence-based design. This project examined how playground feature density relates to children's physical activity.

Design: We used the System for Observing Play and Leisure Activity to observe children's physical activity.

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We have designed, manufactured and evaluated a prototype of a new stent based on the superelasticity of the NiTi alloy for colon obstruction, which is the first clinical manifestation of colorectal cancer in up to 29% of cases. The stent is auto-expandable diamond cell type, manufactured from a NiTi tube with 4.5 mm in diameter, in which longitudinal grooves were performed by cutting laser technique.

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