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Soil Erosion Assessment Using the Intensity of Erosion and Outflow Model by Estimating Sediment Yield: Case Study in River Basins with Different Characteristics from Cluj County, Romania

As the fertile topsoil is constantly washed away and agricultural production is decreased, soil erosion is a serious environmental issue that affects the entire planet. All river basins experience changes in land use that affect sediment dynamics, soil erodibility, and hydrologic response. The main reason for the faster erosion rates is frequently attributed to those alterations. In the current study, the Intensity of Erosion and Outflow (IntErO) model was used to estimate the sediment yield and...

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MDPI AG

Using Smart Devices for Monitoring Elderly Patients in Rural Areas of Calabria after COVID-19 Vaccination: Experiences within the SI4CARE Project

The SI4CARE project is a transnational project which aims to develop both strategy and action plans to improve health and social care in the Adriatic–Ionian region. Starting from a survey of the status quo, each partner has developed some pilots to support the development and monitoring of the policy actions. In particular, partner number three, the Municipality of Miglierina, designed and developed a pilot related to the use of wearable devices for monitoring elderly patients in rural areas. With...

Download 2023 Katarina Vukojevic , Srdjan Kožetinac , Pietro Guzzi , , Dionysia Kontaxopolou , Danira Matijaca , Miodrag Miljkovic , Danica Stevovic , Vlatka Martinovic , Alessio Merola , ... Pogledajte sve

Romanian Association of Balneology

The effects of 6-weeks program of physical therapeutic exergames on cognitive flexibility focused by reaction times in relation to manual and podal motor abilities

The main purpose of the study was to identify the level of improvement in cognitive flexi-bility manifested by choice and cognition reaction times in relation to manual and podal skills as a result of the implementation of a program of therapeutic exergame exercises, for a time interval of 6 weeks at the level of students. 511 students participated in the cross-sectional study, of which 279 male (54.6%) and 232 female (45.4%), divided into two groups: the experimental group 266 (521%) subjects and...

Download 2023 Florin Cojanu , Cristian Graur , Virgil Ene-Voiculescu , George Mocanu , Valentina Stefanica , Dana Badau , Georgeta Gabriela Cornea , Adela Badau , Catalin Octavian Manescu , Adin Cojocaru , ... Pogledajte sve

Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb

Analysis of training load and performance in designing smart bodyweight power training

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of set structures in designing bodyweight power training (BWPT). Specifically, we compared the effects of Cluster set structure undulating variant (CSSUV) and Traditional set structure (TSS) on training load and performance during vertical jumping sessions. Sixteen active males participated in this study. We designed four training sessions that consisted of 144 countermovement jumps distributed into 12 sets, where number of repetitions varied...

Download 2023 Predrag R. Božić , Nemanja R. Pažin , Milan S. Matić , Bobana B. Berjan Bačvarević , Saša T. Jakovljević , Radenko S. Arsenijević

National Library of Serbia

The first test of indoor air quality in kindergartens of the Republic of Srpska

The first experimental results of the indoor air quality in two kindergartens located in the Republic of Srpska are presented in this paper. Kindergarten representatives for the year of construction (old and new), building materials, and energy efficiency have been chosen. Indoor air quality measurements (air temperature, relative humidity, ventilation rate, CO2, and radon concentration) were performed during the winter of 2015/2016. Measured indoor air quality parameters are discussed...

Download 2023 Milan Popovic , Jelena Rasovic , Zoran Curguz , Biljana Antunovic , Darija Gajic , Aleksandar Jankovic , Nevenka Antovic

Wiley

β‐diversity reveals ecological connectivity patterns underlying marine community recovery: Implications for conservation

AbstractAs β‐diversity can be seen as a proxy of ecological connections among species assemblages, modeling the decay of similarity in species composition at increasing distance may help elucidate spatial patterns of connectivity and local‐ to large‐scale processes driving community assembly within a marine region. This, in turn, may provide invaluable information for setting ecologically coherent networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) in which protected communities are potentially interrelated...

Download 2023 Ferdinando Boero , Lisandro Benedetti‐Cecchi , Stanislao Bevilacqua , Francesco De Leo , Simonetta Fraschetti , Giuseppe Guarnieri , Vesna Mačić , Antonio Terlizzi

MDPI AG

Identifying the Level of Symmetrization of Reaction Time According to Manual Lateralization between Team Sports Athletes, Individual Sports Athletes, and Non-Athletes

The present study aimed to investigate the impact of practicing sports activities on manual skills, focused on reaction time depending on manual laterality. The objectives of the study were to identify the differences in improving simple, optional, and cognitive reaction times in the manual executions of student athletes who practice team sports involving the manual handling of the ball (volleyball, basketball, handball) in comparison with student athletes who practice individual sports and with...

Download 2023 Iulius Radulian Margarit , Dan Cristian Manescu , Dragos Florin Teodor , Virgil Tudor , Dana Badau , Adela Badau , Adriana Neofit , Catalin Octavian Manescu , Corina Claudia Dinciu , Ana Maria Mujea , ... Pogledajte sve

Research Square Platform LLC

DNA barcode-based survey documents underestimated diversity and intricate phylogeographic patterns of aquatic Heteroptera in an endangered Balkan biodiversity hotspot: ancient Lake Skadar basin

Abstract Lake Skadar with its surrounding springs, wetlands and larger affluents is among the most diverse freshwater ecosystems in the Mediterranean region and a key biodiversity/endemism hotspot in Europe. It is also highly endangered due to climate change and rapid tourism development in the area. Being abundant, diverse and mostly predatory, true aquatic bugs play an important role in the functioning of freshwater ecosystems and are used as indicators of aquatic habitat quality. Nevertheless,...

Download 2023 Tomasz Rewicz , Grzegorz Tończyk , Tomasz Mamos , Piotr Gadawski , Vladimir Pešić , Andrzej Zawal , Łukasz Trębicki , Michał Grabowski

MDPI AG

In Vitro Antioxidant and In Vivo Antigenotoxic Features of a Series of 61 Essential Oils and Quantitative Composition–Activity Relationships Modeled through Machine Learning Algorithms

The antioxidant activity of essential oils (EOs) is an important and frequently studied property, yet it is not sufficiently understood in terms of the contribution of EOs mixtures’ constituents and biological properties. In this study, a series of 61 commercial EOs were first evaluated as antioxidants in vitro, following as closely as possible the cellular pathways of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. Hence, EOs were assessed for the ability either to chelate metal ions, thus interfering...

Download 2023 Roberta Astolfi , Nevena Tomašević , Rino Ragno , Milan Mladenović , Mijat Božović , Filippo Sapienza , Sanja Matić

MDPI AG

River Habitat Survey: Does This Help to Explain the Nature of Water Mite (Acari and Hydrachnidia) Assemblages?

In the European Union, assessments of the quality of the aquatic environment based on aquatic invertebrates are mandatory. Biological methods are supplemented with hydromorphological assessments of watercourses. There are many studies analysing the relationships between aquatic invertebrates and the hydromorphological assessment of the environment by the River Habitat Survey (RHS) method, but thus far, there has been no detailed study including water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) and the application...

Download 2023 Grzegorz Michoński , Joanna Pakulnicka , Iga Lewin , Agnieszka Szlauer-Łukaszewska , Vladimir Pešić , Ewa Filip , Robert Stryjecki , Andrzej Zawal , Aleksandra Bańkowska , Tapas Chatterjee