Grit, Self-Efficacy, Motivation and the Readiness to Change Index Toward Exercise in the Adult Population.

This study examined the relationships between grit personality, self-efficacy, motivation (autonomous, controlled, and amotivation), and the readiness to change index toward exercise. Participants were 391 adults aged between 18 and 64 years old ( = 31.16; = 12.

The Father in Youth Baseball: A Self-Determination Theory Approach.

This study based on the self-determination theory aims to examine the relationship among the aspirations that fathers have about their children's youth baseball practice, the children's basic psychological needs (satisfaction and frustration), and their intentions to either continue or drop out of baseball practice in a sample of children from Hermosillo, Mexico. A cross-sectional study was carried out involving 533 fathers (M = 44.30, SD = 5.

Description of new species of Ambrosiodmus Hopkins and Dryocoetoides Hopkins (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini) from Mexico.

Two new species of ambrosia beetles in the Xyleborini from southeastern Mexico are described and illustrated: Ambrosiodmus spinosus n. sp. and Dryocoeetoides tuberculatus n.

Characterization of a recent malaria outbreak in the autonomous indigenous region of Guna Yala, Panama.

Background: This study aims to describe the epidemiological and entomological factors associated with a recent malaria outbreak that occurred in 2012 in a socially marginalized population from Guna Yala Comarca in Panama.

Methods: A descriptive and observational study was conducted by analysing demographic and epidemiological data from all malaria cases registered during 2012 in the Comarca Guna Yala, Panama. Malaria intensity indicators were calculated during the study period.

[Determining the status of susceptibility to organophosphate, carbamate and pyrethroids insecticides in populations of Aedes aegypti Linneaus, 1762 (Diptera: Culicidae) in Panamá].

Introduction: We studied the susceptibility to organophosphate, carbamate and pyrethroid insecticides of Aedes aegypti from different regions of high transmission risk for dengue in Panama.

Objective: To evaluate the susceptibility to organophosphate, carbamate and pyrethroid insecticides in Ae. aegypti from eight sites belonging to seven municipalities in Panamá.

[Characterization of Plasmodium vivax malaria transmission at the border of Panamá and Costa Rica].

Introduction: Few studies have described the factors associated with Plasmodium vivax transmission dynamics in endemic regions from Panamá.

Objective: Malaria transmission dynamics produced by P. vivax were characterized at the border between Panamá and Costa Rica.

Hantavirus infection and habitat associations among rodent populations in agroecosystems of Panama: implications for human disease risk.

Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS), which is caused by infection with Choclo virus, is uncommon in Panama, yet seropositivity among rural residents is as high as 60%. To clarify the environmental risk factors favoring rodent-to-human transmission, we tested serum from 3,067 rodents captured over a five-year period for antibodies against recombinant N protein of hantavirus by enzyme immunoassay and strip immunoblot. Among 220 seropositive rodents, Oligoryzomys fulvescens, the reservoir of Choclo virus, had the highest overall seroprevalence (23.