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      A Cross-Sectional Study about the Associations between Physical Activity Level, Self-Perceived Health Perception and Mental Health in Informal Caregivers of Elderly or People with Chronic Conditions in Spain (2024) 

      Denche-Zamorano, Ángel; Muñoz-Bermejo, Laura; Carlos-Vivas, Jorge; Mendoza-Muñoz, María; Franco-García, Juan Manuel; Rojo-Ramos, Jorge; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Barrios-Fernandez, Sabina (MDPI, 2022)
      Providing informal care for older people, or people with chronic conditions, is associated with poorer physical and mental health and reduced quality of life. This task, in many cases, often relies on the women in the ...
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      Associations between Body Image and Self-Perceived Physical Fitness in Future Spanish Teachers (2024) 

      Rojo-Ramos, Jorge; Gómez-Paniagua, Santiago; Carlos-Vivas, Jorge; Barrios-Fernandez, Sabina; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Mañanas-Iglesias, Carlos; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Adsuar, José Carmelo (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2022)
      Body image is a complex construct related to how each person perceives their own body and how they value it. Physical fitness and physical activity are factors that can influence the perception of a better or worse body ...
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      Associations between Physical Activity Level and Mental Health in the Spanish Population: A Cross-Sectional Study (2024) 

      Denche-Zamorano, Ángel; Barrios-Fernandez, Sabina; Gómez-Galán, Rafael; Franco-García, Juan Manuel; Carlos-Vivas, Jorge; Mendoza-Muñoz, María; Rojo-Ramos, Jorge; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Gianikellis, Konstantinos; ... (MDPI, 2022)
      Physical inactivity and sedentary lifestyles appear to be critical factors in developing mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, and other diseases in developed societies. This study analysed the associations ...
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      Bibliometric analysis of studies on coffee/caffeine and sport (2021) 

      Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Madrid-Casaca, Héctor; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; García-Gordillo, Miguel Ángel; Adsuar, Jose C.; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro (MDPI, 2021-09)
      This article provides an empirical overview of coffee/caffeine studies in relation to sport worldwide, an incipient but growing relationship that has existed since 1938, although systematized over time since 1999. The ...
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      Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on Whole Body Electromyostimulation (2024) 

      Rodrigues-Santana, Luiz; Adsuar, José Carmelo; Denche-Zamorano, Ángel; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Galán-Arroyo, Carmen; Louro, Hugo (MDPI, 2022)
      Whole Body Electromyostimulation [WB-EMS] is a training methodology that applies electrostimulation in the main muscle groups of the human body superimposed with active training exercises. This study aims to carry out a ...
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      Bibliometric Analysis on Ocean Literacy Studies for Marine Conservation (2024) 

      Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Castillo, Dante; Torres-Alcayaga, Mario; Cornejo-Orellana, Carolina (MDPI, 2023)
      The aim of this study is to present an overview of the current scientific literature pertaining to ocean literacy. We applied a bibliometric method to examine relational patterns among publications in a set of 192 papers ...
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      Bibliometric mapping of research trends on financial behavior for sustainability (2022) 

      López-Medina, Tania; Mendoza-Ávila, Isabel; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro (MDPI, 2022-01-01)
      This article presents a global empirical overview of studies on financial behavior in relation to education, money-saving, and consumption, contributing to research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to ...
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      Bibliometric Mapping of School Garden Studies: A Thematic Trends Analysis (2024) 

      Castillo, Dante; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Torres-Alcayaga, Mario (MDPI, 2023)
      This paper analyzes the thematic trends in school garden studies over the past few decades, using a relational bibliometric methodology on a corpus of 392 articles and review articles indexed in the Web of Science Core ...
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      Brand Love: Role of Online Customer Experience, Value Co-creation, and Relationship Quality (2024) 

      Mustafa, Khurram; Ahmad, Farooq; Qaisar, Muhammad Nawaz; Zada, Shagufta; Jamil, Saqib; Anwer, Naveed; Khawaja, Kausar Fiaz; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Hamid, Syed Ali Raza; ... (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022)
      Customer experience is a source of retailers’ long-term competitive advantage. This study has examined the relationship between online customer experience and brand love through the mechanism of relationship quality in the ...
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      Bullying and Self-Concept, Factors Affecting the Mental Health of School Adolescents (2024) 

      Galán-Arroyo, Carmen; Gómez-Paniagua, Santiago; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Adsuar, José Carmelo; Olivares, Pedro R.; Rojo-Ramos, Jorge (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023)
      Bullying is an aggressive and repetitive behavior, where one person or several people physically, socially, or emotionally harm a vulnerable person and provokean imbalance of power in a school setting. Several factors such ...
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      Effects of Active Breaks on Physical Literacy: A Cross-Sectional Pilot Study in a Region of Spain (2022) 

      Mendoza-Muñoz, María; Calle-Guisado, Violeta; Pastor-Cisneros, Raquel; Barrios-Fernandez, Sabina; Rojo-Ramos, Jorge; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Carlos-Vivas, Jorge (MDPI, 2022-07-01)
      Several studies have shown that active breaks (AB) lead to improvements in physical fitness, daily steps taken and participants’ health. However, there are no studies that have evaluated how they affect physical literacy ...
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      Entrepreneurial intention: A gender study in business and economics students from Chile (2021) 

      Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Espinosa-Cristia, Juan Felipe; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro (MDPI AG, 2021-05-01)
      The study of entrepreneurial intention sheds new light on the complex dynamics of entrepreneurial behavior. This research contributes to the academic debate by examining the gap in studies on entrepreneurial intention in ...
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      Environmental and Health Factors as Organic Fruit Purchase Drivers and the Mediating Role of Price and Effort (2024) 

      Llanos-Herrera, Gonzalo; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Gil-Marín, Miseldra (MDPI, 2022)
      This article analyzes the organic fruit consumption behavior associated with environmental and health care. The literature review focused on the relationship between attitudes and perceptions of health care through the ...
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      Female and Rural School Students Show More Positive Attitudes toward Disability during Physical Education Lessons (2022) 

      Rojo-Ramos, Jorge; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Barrios-Fernandez, Sabina (MDPI, 2022-05-02)
      Physical education (PE) lessons offer an excellent opportunity to encourage participation and learning for students with and without disabilities. However, there are still barriers that prevent educative inclusion (EI) ...
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      Gender Differences in Perceived Barriers and Benefitsof Whole-Body Electromyostimulation Users: A Pilot Study (2024) 

      Rodrigues-Santana, Luiz; Denche-Zamorano, Ángel; Galán-Arroyo, Carmen; Adsuar, José Carmelo; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Vera-Ruiz, Sandra; Louro, Hugo (MDPI, 2022)
      The importance of physical activity (PA) in people’s health is well known. Today, sedentary lifestyles constitute a serious risk to global health. The likelihood that an individual will engage in PA depends largely on the ...
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      Global trends in coffee agronomy research (2021) 

      Madrid-Casaca, Héctor; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Gil-Marín, Miseldra; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro (MDPI AG, 2021-08)
      This article empirically provides a scientific production trends overview of coffee agronomy at the global level, allowing us to understand the structure of the epistemic community on this topic. The knowledge contributions ...
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      Healthy Behavior and Sports Drinks: A Systematic Review (2024) 

      Muñoz-Urtubia, Nicolás; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Estrada-Muñoz, Carla; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Castillo, Dante (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023)
      This review article aims to systematically identify the relationship between sports drinks and healthy behavior. This systematic literature review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic ...
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      How Sustainable Transportation Can Utilize Climate Change Technologies to Mitigate Climate Change (2024) 

      Din, Ashraf Ud; Ur Rahman, Imran; Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Elahi, Ehsan; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Alhrahsheh, Rakan Radi (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023)
      The build-up of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is causing warmness in the Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in climate change. The transport sector is one of the active causes of GHG emissions and it is imperative to use sustainable ...
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      How to Measure Organic Fruit Consumer Behavior: A Systematic Review (2022) 

      Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Gil-Marín, Miseldra J.; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Losada, Analia Verónica (MDPI, 2022-04)
      This review article seeks to systematically identify appropriate ways to measure the consumption behavior of organic fruits. The systematic review of the literature was performed according to the criteria of the Preferred ...
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      Identifying the blue economy global epistemic community (2021) 

      Vega-Muñoz, Alejandro; Salazar-Sepúlveda, Guido; Contreras-Barraza, Nicolás (MDPI, 2021-11-02)
      The following article aims to identify the characteristics of the epistemic community of Blue Economy researchers, through the description of its scientific production, its special organization and clustering. The information ...