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Could Children’s Myopization Have Been Avoided during the Pandemic Confinement? The Conjunctival Ultraviolet Autofluorescence (CUVAF) Biomarker as an Answer

Biomedicines
Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate the association of the presence of conjunctival ultraviolet autofluorescence (CUVAF) with the level and progression of myopia and the impact of reduced sunlight exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic
Miriam de la Puente, Cristina Irigoyen-Bañegil, Aura Ortega Claici, Jorge González-Zamora, Valentina Bilbao-Malavé, Patricia Fernandez-Robredo, María Hernández, Jesús Barrio, Alfredo García-Layana, Sergio Recalde   +9 more
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The relations between sleep, time of physical activity, and time outdoors among adult women.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Physical activity and time spent outdoors may be important non-pharmacological approaches to improve sleep quality and duration (or sleep patterns) but there is little empirical research evaluating the two simultaneously.
Kate Murray, Suneeta Godbole, Loki Natarajan, Kelsie Full, J Aaron Hipp, Karen Glanz, Jonathan Mitchell, Francine Laden, Peter James, Mirja Quante, Jacqueline Kerr   +10 more
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Inspiration from the outdoors [PDF]

Science, 2018
It was an extraordinarily busy time of year, with deadlines fast approaching for reporting my progress to donors and a journal article requiring major revisions. I felt some pressure to head straight home after the conference I had attended at the last-minute request of my major research funder.
openaire   +2 more sources

Backstepping and Robust Control for a Quadrotor in Outdoors Environments: An Experimental Approach

IEEE Access, 2019
This paper addresses the tracking control of quadrotors flying outdoors. Two control laws are combined and tested in real-time experiments. The aircraft attitude and the translational displacement are controlled using the backstepping approach, while the
Orlando García, P. Ordaz, O. Santos-Sánchez, S. Salazar, R. Lozano   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ANÁLISIS DE CRECIMIENTO DE RUGULA (Eruca sativa Mill.) EN LA SABANA DE BOGOTÁ, BAJO DOS CONDICIONES AMBIENTALES GROWTH ANALYSIS OF RUGULA (Eruca sativa Mill.) IN THE SABANA OF BOGOTA UNDER TWO ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS

Revista U.D.C.A Actualidad & Divulgación Científica, 2010
La rúgula es una hortaliza que ha empezado a despertar interés como producto gourmet, por sus porciones comestibles en fresco, las hojas jóvenes; sin embargo, falta desarrollar tecnología para su producción y conocer sus características de crecimiento y ...
Fernando Colorado, Dolly Rodríguez, Jairo Cortés   +2 more
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Small-Scale Fisheries Are Predominant Among Human Factors Influencing Cuban Coral Reefs

Fishes
Coral reefs provide environmental goods and services that support biodiversity and people but face diverse threats. To assess the human factors that might be influencing the status of Cuban coral reefs, we collected and analyzed data from three sources ...
Tamara Figueredo-Martín, Fabián Pina-Amargós, Consuelo Aguilar-Betancourt, Gaspar González-Sansón, Leonardo Espinosa-Pantoja, Dorka Cobián-Rojas, Joan I. Hernández-Albernas, Ariandy González-Gonsález, Yandy Rodríguez Cueto, Kendra Anne Karr, Julia Grace Mason, Kristin Kleisner, Valerie Miller   +12 more
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Choosing Whether to Use Mobile Technology Outdoors

Education Sciences
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experience behind the choice of whether to bring mobile technologies along while engaging in outdoor activities.
Trina J. Kilty
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Association of time spent outdoors with the risk of Parkinson’s disease: a prospective cohort study of 329,359 participants

BMC Neurology
Background Studies on the association between time spent outdoors and the development of Parkinson’s disease (PD) are lacking, and whether this relationship differs in different subgroups (age, sex) remains unclear.
Ling Hu, Yisen Shi, Xinyang Zou, Zhaohui Lai, Fabin Lin, Guoen Cai, Xianghong Liu   +6 more
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Pilot Survey of Outdoor Radon and Thoron Levels in Bulgaria Using an Innovative DVD-Based Method

Atmosphere
This study presents the results of a pilot survey utilizing an innovative DVD-based method to measure outdoor radon and thoron levels. Twenty-six discriminative radon/thoron detectors were deployed across four different territorial zones in Bulgaria ...
Dobromir Pressyanov, Dimitar Dimitrov
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Time outdoors and the prevention of myopia: School-based implementation works

Taiwan Journal of Ophthalmology
Increased time outdoors has been convincingly associated with less myopia in observational studies. School-based interventions using increased time outdoors have been shown to reduce myopia onset, even in large-scale implementation.
Amanda French, Regan Ashby, Cindy Karouta, Kathryn Rose, Ian Geoge Morgan   +4 more
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