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Jellyfish Impacts on Marine Aquaculture and Fisheries
2020
Over the last 50 years, there has been an increased frequency and severity of negative impacts affecting marine fishery and aquaculture sectors, which claimed significant economic losses due to the interference of stinging gelatinous organisms with daily operational activities. Nevertheless, original scientific information on jellyfish-related incidents, their consequences, and potential preventative and mitigation countermeasures is limited and scattered across gray literature, governmental technical reports, and communication media. A literature scan searching for records of any interactions between jellyfish and the marine fishery/aquaculture sectors were carried out. Out of 553 papers, …
Consumption of pelagic tunicates by cetaceans calves in the Mediterranean Sea
2018
Gelatinous zooplankton, including jellyfish, ctenophores and pelagic tunicates, constitutes fragile marine animals that live in the water column, and represent an important resource for marine food webs through their seasonal pulses. Although there is scarce evidence on the occurrence of gelatinous zooplankton in stomach contents of apex, endothermic predators such as cetaceans, the ecological significance of such observations requires consideration. In this study, we report on the occurrence of pelagic tunicates in the stomach of three individual calves of two cetacean species from the western Mediterranean, and collate all previous reports of gelatinous zooplankton in cetacean diets. We t…
Jellyfish blooms perception in Mediterranean finfish aquaculture
2017
7 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, supplemental material https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.11.005
Designing food packaging for the Spanish market: Do motivations differ between involved and non-involved adolescents?
2018
Abstract This paper investigates the relationships among food choice motivations and the relevance of packaging elements (visual and informative elements) in the adolescent market. In addition, these relationships are re-tested in two different frameworks: high-involved consumers and low-involved consumers. 590 young consumers between 13 and 17 years were interviewed at the door of their public or private schools. Structural Modelling was used to test our hypotheses. The first analysis was done considering the global sample. The second one split off the sample into two groups: 351 high-involved adolescents and 239 low-involved adolescents. Our results showed, on one side, that weight contro…
Exposure to Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Metabolic Outcomes in Pregnant Women: Evidence from the Spanish INMA Birth Cohorts
2017
BACKGROUND: Exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) may increase risk for metabolic diseases; however, epidemiologic evidence is lacking at the present time. Pregnancy is a period of enhanced tissue plasticity for the fetus and the mother and may be a critical window of PFAS exposure susceptibility. OBJECTIVE: We evaluated the associations between PFAS exposures and metabolic outcomes in pregnant women. METHODS: We analyzed 1,240 pregnant women from the Spanish INMA [Environment and Childhood Project (INfancia y Medio Ambiente)] birth cohort study (recruitment period: 2003-2008) with measured first pregnancy trimester plasma concentrations of four PFASs (in nanograms/milliliter). We u…
Los efectos de los medios de comunicación en el miedo entre los inmigrantes latinos en Massachusetts
2020
Poesía y conocimiento en la obra de dos escritoras argentinas contemporáneas: Olga Orozco y Alejandra Pizarnik
2013
El núcleo de esta tesis doctoral está dedicado al análisis de la obra poética de las autoras argentinas Olga Orozco (1920-1999) y de Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972), siguiendo la trayectoria de su escritura desde sus inicios —a partir de los años cuarenta en el primer caso y de la década del cincuenta en el segundo— hasta su término —a finales de siglo en el caso de Olga Orozco y en la década de los setenta en lo que respecta a Alejandra Pizarnik—. La lectura propuesta de la obra poética de estas dos autoras argentinas contemporáneas descubre una relación lingüístico-cognoscitiva que abre, en cada caso, horizontes distintos y reconoce también diferentes formas de conciencia y de escritura. T…
La novela de investigación de escritor : representaciones de la ambigüedad en la narrativa hispánica contemporánea (2001-2012)
2013
La investigación narrativa, en relación con el trabajo de escritura y con las motivaciones éticas del escritor, es un motivo recurrente en las letras hispánicas de la primera década del siglo XXI, que tiene sus precedentes en los años 90 y que recoge la estética y las tendencias de los años precedentes. En efecto, esta nueva investigación ha acudido como procedimiento vertebrador, retomando múltiples recursos discursivos y combinándolos en una fórmula que se ha convertido en signo de su época, a aquellos géneros populares que de los años 80 y a aquellas tendencias que llegan al cambio de siglo: la novela negra, la novela histórica, la novela de no-ficción, la novela de metaficción y autofic…
Los contextos del uso de marihuana en Latinoamérica y culturas juveniles urbanas en México
2005
La intención de éste trabajo es dar cuenta de los contextos sociales, políticos y cultu¬rales de América Latina, especialmente el caso de México, con respecto a la situación de la producción y el consumo de la marihuana. Se trabaja la hipótesis teórica de que los contextos nos ayudan a comprender las distintas prácticas sociales con su diversi¬dad de sentidos y significados que generan los usuarios y los públicos consumidores de este bien no sólo material sino desde su valor simbólico teniendo como referente los movimientos sociales. Dentro de los públicos usuarios nos interesa enfatizar al sector de los jóvenes, es decir, a las culturas juveniles urbanas o a las adscripciones identitarias …
A Validation Study of the Spanish Version of the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (HBI): Paper-and-Pencil Versus Online Administration.
2019
Hypersexuality is a problematic behavior characterized by the combination of an excessive sexual desire and the pathological inability to control it. This study presents the psychometric properties of the Spanish paper-and-pencil and online versions of the Hypersexual Behavior Inventory (HBI), one of the most popular scales to assess this issue. 2250 participants (1070 men) completed a translated version of the HBI (1450 in paper-and-pencil; 800 online). The EFA yielded three factors that explained 67.53% of total variance for the HBI paper-and-pencil version. This factor structure was confirmed in the HBI online version through CFA. Factorial, structural, scalar and error variance invarian…