Compliance Behaviour After a Coronary Ischaemic Event: A Quasi-Experimental Study of Adherence to a Protocolised Follow-Up in Primary Care.

Following a coronary ischaemic event, it is essential to promote empowerment in self-care decision making. Primary care nursing is crucial for intensive follow-up to promote adherence to the therapeutic regimen. Objective: To ascertain whether adherence to a protocolised follow-up programme, with the support of a patient notebook, improves compliance behaviours in terms of physical activity, prescribed diet and medication.

Effect of Micro-Nanobubbles on Arsenic Removal by for Bioscorodite Generation.

The global environmental issue of arsenic (As) contamination in drinking water is a significant problem that requires attention. Therefore, the aim of this research was to address the application of a sustainable methodology for arsenic removal through mycoremediation aerated with micro-nanobubbles (MNBs), leading to bioscorodite (FeAsO·2HO) generation. To achieve this, the fungus was cultivated in a medium amended with 1 g/L of As(III) and 8.

Nanotechnology as an efficient and effective alternative for wastewater treatment: an overview.

The increase in the surface and groundwater contamination due to global population growth, industrialization, proliferation of pathogens, emerging pollutants, heavy metals, and scarcity of drinking water represents a critical problem. Because of this problem, particular emphasis will be placed on wastewater recycling. Conventional wastewater treatment methods may be limited due to high investment costs or, in some cases, poor treatment efficiency.

Exploring Tandem Breastfeeding Motivations Via Self-Determination Theory: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study.

Background: Tandem breastfeeding is defined as a situation in which a mother continues breastfeeding her child through a subsequent pregnancy, including after the new baby is born. In some countries where motherhood may be delayed and the time between births may be reduced, support for the promotion of tandem breastfeeding is necessary to help mothers continue to breastfeed their eldest child and avoid early weaning. There is no existing research about mothers' motivations to breastfeed in tandem.

Exploring Knowledge about Fang Traditional Medicine: An Informal Health Seeking Behaviour for Medical or Cultural Afflictions in Equatorial Guinea.

This study explores a range of informal health-seeking behaviors, including the use of Fang Traditional Medicine (FTM) for medical or cultural afflictions in Equatorial Guinea (EQ), the therapeutic methods used, the health problems handled, the learning process, traditional medicine user profiles and the social images of Fang Traditional Healers (FTHs). Ethnography was employed as a qualitative strategy using emic-etic approaches. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 45 individuals, including 6 community leaders, 19 tribal elders, 7 healthcare professionals, 11 FTHs and 2 relatives of traditional healers in 5 districts of EQ.

Removal of orange G dye by and its effect on organic acid production.

Azo dyes have been found in wastewater from textile industries. These compounds continuously persist in the environment for long periods of time and may be toxic for living beings. An alternative treatment for dye removal that has proven to be effective is aerobic treatment with fungi.

Stressors and difficulties perceived during the pandemic in the teaching activity of nursing professors.

Background: The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has prompted several changes in teaching methods in addition to the ways of learning by students.

Objective: To check whether a relationship between factors, such as resilience, self-esteem, depression, anxiety, academic stressors, and a change in teaching methods and learning since the first epidemic outbreak exists.

Materials And Methods: This study was a cross-sectional descriptive one with a non-random sample of nursing degree teachers who did or did not participate in clinical activities but had been teaching online since the start of the pandemic.

Comparative Proteomics of Potato Cultivars with a Variable Dormancy Period.

The control of the duration of the dormancy phase is a significant challenge in the potato industry and for seed producers. However, the proteome landscape involved in the regulation of the length of the dormancy period over potato cultivars remains largely unexplored. In this study, we performed for the first time a comparative proteome profiling of potato cultivars with differential duration of tuber dormancy.

Phosphoproteome Analysis Using Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Coupled with Chemical Dephosphorylation.

Protein phosphorylation is a reversible post-translational modification (PTM) with major regulatory roles in many cellular processes. However, the analysis of phosphoproteins remains the most challenging barrier in the prevailing proteome research. Recent technological advances in two-dimensional electrophoresis (2-DE) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS) have enabled the identification, characterization, and quantification of protein phosphorylation on a global scale.

Personal Tools and Psychosocial Resources of Resilient Gender-Based Violence Women.

Gender-based violence is considered a serious social and public health problem. Overcoming this situation implies a process that results in the favorable biopsychosocial rehabilitation of the resilience of women. The objective of this study was to analyze the tools, resources and personal and psychosocial mechanisms used by women survivors of gender-based violence.

Bioremediation of an agricultural saline soil contaminated with endosulfan and by an active surface agent induced in a culture.

This study evaluates the production of a biological active surface agent (BASA) through its surface tension (ST) and emulsifying activity (E) for endosulfan degradation (ED) and growth inhibition (GI) in an agricultural saline soil. The fungus, identified as was isolated from the peel (P), then the surface properties were evaluated in 9 culture media through a Taguchi L9 experimental design. The culture conditions included: stirring speed, pH, carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) sources; being glucose, NHN0, 120 rpm and pH of 5, the most significant parameters in the BASA production.

Mycoremediation of an agricultural salty soil contaminated with endosulfan by : and agronomic bioassays with .

The fungus was employed for endosulfan biodegradation, finding that sulphate endosulfan and mono alcohol endosulfan were the main compounds produced; therefore, an oxidative degradation pathway was suggested. A 93 ± 4.7% of Endosulfan degradation after one month of treatment of a highly salty agricultural soil was obtained, where ΔST was up to 17 ± 0.

Sensory and Physicochemical Analysis of Meat from Bovine Breeds in Different Livestock Production Systems, Pre-Slaughter Handling Conditions and Ageing Time.

Different bovine breeds and production systems are used worldwide, giving rise to differences in intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics of beef. In order to meet the consumer requirements, new approaches are currently being developed to guarantee tenderness, taste, and juiciness of beef. However, the final consumer perception is complex, and it is also affected by several interrelated variables.

Measuring quantitative proteomic distance between Spanish beef breeds.

Estimates of quantitative proteomic distance between populations have not been reported to date. Here, quantitative proteomic distances between three Spanish bovine breeds (Asturiana de los Valles, AV; Retinta, RE; and Rubia Gallega, RG) were estimated from two-dimensional electrophoresis profiles of meat samples of longissimus thoracis muscle at 2 h post-mortem. Statistically significant distances were detected between AV/RG and the most genetically different RE breed, using the novel QD measure of quantitative proteomic distance.

Effect of fungal co-cultures on ligninolytic enzyme activities, HO production, and orange G discoloration.

In this study, the effects of in coculture with the basidiomycetes, , a, and spp., were studied to assess HO production and laccase (Lac), Lignin Peroxidase (LiP), and manganese peroxidase (MnP) activities. The results indicated that maximum discoloration was of 97%, in the and coculture, where the concentration of HO was 5 mg/L and 6.

Intergenerational Transmissible Meanings in Breastfeeding in Spain: A Phenomenological Study.

Background: The process of breastfeeding is linked to intergenerational influences based on attitudes and messages of grandmothers about their own experience, and this can reinforce or interfere with the experiences of future mothers in breastfeeding. The aim of this study was to explore the meanings transmissible to the next generation of nursing mothers, based on the experiences of grandmothers.

Methods: We report the findings of an interpretive phenomenological qualitative research based on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

Azo dyes decolorization under high alkalinity and salinity conditions by Halomonas sp. in batch and packed bed reactor.

Biodecolorization and biodegradation of azo dyes are a challenge due to their recalcitrance and the characteristics of textile effluents. This study presents the use of Halomonas sp. in the decolorization of azo dyes Reactive Black 5 (RB5), Remazol Brilliant Violet 5R (RV5), and Reactive Orange 16 (RO16) under high alkalinity and salinity conditions.

Reliability and Repeatability of the Instrument for the Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students (ASNS).

: Stress in nursing students is a very common experience, especially when they face clinical practice. The aims of this study were to perform a transcultural adaptation and to examine the reliability and repeatability of the Instrument for the Assessment of Stress in Nursing Students for a Spanish population. : A test-retest analysis was carried out in two face-to-face sessions with the students with a lapse of 10 days between the two sessions.

The first evidence of global meat phosphoproteome changes in response to pre-slaughter stress.

Background: Pre-slaughter stress (PSS) impairs animal welfare and meat quality. Dark, firm and dry (DFD) are terms used to designate poor quality meats induced by PSS. Protein phosphorylation can be a potentially significant mechanism to explain rapid and multiple physiological and biochemical changes linked to PSS-dependent muscle-to-meat conversion.

Exploring the knowledge, explanatory models of illness, and patterns of healthcare-seeking behaviour of Fang culture-bound syndromes in Equatorial Guinea.

In 1994, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) included "culture-bound syndromes" in its classification of psychiatric disorders and associated them with disease processes that manifest in behavioural or thought disorders that develop within a given cultural context. This study examines the definitions, explanatory models, signs and symptoms, and healthcare-seeking behaviours common to Fang culture-bound syndromes (i.e.

Relationships between social skills and self-esteem in nurses: a questionnaire study.

Background: Our study attempts to evaluate whether nurses' social skills are related to their self-concept and self-esteem.

Methods: A descriptive survey study was developed to 464 nurses who had worked for a minimum of one year in adult or pediatric services. The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) and the Scale of Social Skills (SSS) by Gismero were used to measure nurses' self-esteem and social skills, respectively.

Investigating the mechanisms underlying phytoprotection by plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria in Spartina densiflora under metal stress.

Pollution of coasts by toxic metals and metalloids is a worldwide problem for which phytoremediation using halophytes and associated microbiomes is becoming relevant. Metal(loid) excess is a constraint for plant establishment and development, and plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) mitigate plant stress under these conditions. However, mechanisms underlying this effect remain elusive.

Attitudes and Expectations in the Intergenerational Transmission of Breastfeeding: A Phenomenological Study.

Background: The socially constructed meanings of breastfeeding that have been passed from generation to generation by grandmothers produce continuities and discontinuities in the practices of breastfeeding. Research aim: The aim of this study is to explore the objectives and positioning of women today with respect to their role as future grandmothers, based on their experiences with breastfeeding. That is, what role do future grandmothers wish to have in the lives of their breastfeeding daughters and grandchildren?

Methods: A qualitative study with interpretative phenomenological analysis was conducted based on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, using a sample of unstructured interviews from 20 women in Madrid.

Removal of phenanthrene in aqueous solution containing photon competitors by TiO-C-Ag film supported on fiberglass.

Surface interactions with pollutants and photons are key factors that affect the applications of TiO in environmental remediation. In this study, the solubilizing agents dimethylsulfoxide and polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate, which act as photon competitors, had no effect on the photocatalytic activity of TiO-C-Ag film in phenanthrene (PHE) removal. Fiberglass with TiO-C-Ag coating removed 91.