Policy and strategies addressing prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance in Brazil: A scoping review protocol. by Joslaine de Oliveira Nunes, Raissa Allan Santos Domingues, Roberto Mauro Pinto Coelho Barcellos, Bárbara Manuella Cardoso Sodré Alves, Isis Polianna Silva Ferreira de Carvalho, Noemia Urruth Leão Tavares

“…Indexed literature in English, Spanish and Portuguese published till December 2020 in Lilacs, PubMed, Embase, and official websites of the Brazilian government will be reviewed. …”
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Financing of municipal current expenditure through local taxes: a systematic review by Henry Bernardo Garay Canales, Julio Mayorga Challco, Wilson Eduardo Vargas Cubas, Fredy Roger Flores Flores

“…The review included 19 articles in Spanish and English published between 2014-2022. Findings indicate that local tax autonomy, diversified tax structures, economic cycles, tax culture, effective enforcement, and local political commitment significantly affect municipalities' self-financing capacity. …”
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External Constraints on the Development of Quality Assessment of Students’ Learning in Higher Education by Juan C. Manrique-Arribas, Víctor M. López-Pastor, Andrés Palacios-Picos

“…A questionnaire of assessment systems and instruments with a high level of reliability and validity was administered to a large and representative sample of the teaching staff from numerous Spanish universities. Multivariate analyses were carried out to try to achieve the research objective. …”
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Exploring motivation, goals, facilitators, and barriers to adopt health behaviors at retirement age: a focus group study by Paula Collazo-Castiñeira, Rocío Rodríguez-Rey, Gisela I. Delfino, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, Eva Topinková, Peter J. M. Weijs, Josje D. Schoufour, Macarena Sánchez-Izquierdo

“…Methods Two clinical psychologists conducted four focus groups with Spanish adults around retirement age. We conducted inductive and deductive content analysis. …”
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Contribución de las prácticas de producción de cultivos y las condiciones climáticas a la seguridad microbiológica de los tomates y pimientos by Massimiliano Marvasi, Max Teplitski, George Hochmuth

“…This 4-page fact sheet is the Spanish-language version of SL415/SS628: The Role of Crop Production Practices and Weather Conditions in Microbiological Safety of Tomatoes and Peppers. …”
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A Tale of Two Transcriptions. Machine-Assisted Transcription of Historical Sources by Gunnar Thorvaldsen, Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora, Trygve Andersen, Line Eikvil, Josep Lladós, Alicia Fornés, Anna Cabré

“…This article explains how two projects implement semi-automated transcription routines: for census sheets in Norway and marriage protocols from Barcelona. The Spanish system was created to transcribe the marriage license books from 1451 to 1905 for the Barcelona area; one of the world’s longest series of preserved vital records. …”
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Diabetic Gait Is Not Just Slow Gait: Gait Compensations in Diabetic Neuropathy by Adrienne D. Henderson, A. Wayne Johnson, Sarah T. Ridge, Jonathan S. Egbert, Kevin P. Curtis, Levi J. Berry, Dustin A. Bruening

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Modelling and in vivo evaluation of tendon forces and strain in dynamic rehabilitation exercises: a scoping review by Antonio I Cuesta-Vargas, Adrian Escriche-Escuder, Jose Casaña

“…The objective of this study was to review the techniques that have been applied in vivo to estimate the forces and strain that act on the human tendon in dynamic exercises used during rehabilitation.Design Scoping review.Data sources Embase, PubMed, Web of Science and Google Scholar were searched from database inception to February 2021.Eligibility criteria Cross-sectional studies available in English or Spanish language were included if they focused on evaluating the forces or strain of human tendons in vivo during dynamic exercises. …”
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Community hydric monitoring: homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia by Astrid Ulloa, Julieta Godfrid, Gerardo Damonte, Catalina Quiroga, Ana Paula López

“…As a response to this tendency, community hydric monitoring (MHC in Spanish) has been proposed in order to empower community-based knowledge. …”
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Prevalence of obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with schizophrenia treated with clozapine: a scoping review by Evelyn Moreno Tarazona, Mauricio Orozco Gonzalez, Andrea La Rosa Giron, Paulo Ruiz-Grosso, Maria Lazo-Porras

“…Observational studies in Spanish, English, Portuguese, and French reporting prevalence, incidence, or frequency of OCS in patients over 18 years with schizophrenia treated with clozapine were included. …”
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A severe microsporidian disease in cultured Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus) by Alejandro López-Verdejo, Francisco E. Montero, Fernando de la Gándara, Miguel A. Gallego, Aurelio Ortega, Juan Antonio Raga, José F. Palacios-Abella

“…A new microsporidian species is described from farmed bluefin tunas from the Spanish Mediterranean. This new pathogen is described in a juvenile associated with a highly severe pathology of the visceral cavity. …”
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Reading comprehension beliefs of Mexican pre-service language teachers: a Likert scale study by Moisés Damián Perales-Escudero, Mizael Garduño Buenfil, Vilma Esperanza Portillo Campos

“… This paper aims to report the adaptation of a new version of the Scale of Implicit Theories of Reading Comprehension (ETICOLEC as per its Spanish acronym) with a sample of 77 randomly chosen English majors at a peripheral campus of a small university in the Southeast of Mexico. …”
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Impact of Feedback in Flipped Learning on the Development of Soft Skills of University Students by Ricardo Sanchez-Gil-Machín, Salvador Baena Morales, Nuria Molina-García, Alberto Ferriz-Valero

“…This quasi-experimental study, conducted over three academic years, involved 255 s-year students (mean age = 20.47 ± 2.63; 60.4% female) enrolled in a Primary Education Teaching degree program at a Spanish public university. Participants were divided into two treatment groups: Feedback FL and Non-feedback FL. …”
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Diego Velázquez's Kings, Buffoons and Philosophers in the Context of His Religious Paintings: the View from Russia (Philosophical-Anthropological Analysis) by M. Silantieva

“…The article is dedicated to the analysis of philosophic anthropology of the great Spanish artist of the 17th century Diego Velazquez. …”
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Cross-cultural adaptation of the writer-reader relationship in non-translated and translated English health information websites on HIV and TB diagnostic testing by Amy Dara Hochberg

“…The study questions whether there exist differences between the translated and non-translated texts in English, Spanish and Catalan; this paper focuses on the two English sub-corpora. …”
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Cost–effectiveness of cetuximab combined with radiotherapy versus radiotherapy alone in locally advanced head and neck cancer in Spain by Ruth Alvarez Cabellos, Jon Cacicedo, Susana Redondo Capafons, Heidi De los Santos Real, Miriam Brines Julian, Dario Rubio-Rodriguez, Carlos Rubio-Terres

“…Methods: A probabilistic Markov model (second-order Monte Carlo simulation) with a five-year time horizon and quarterly Markov cycles was performed from the perspective of the Spanish National Health System (NHS). Results: The additional cost and quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) gain per patient receiving radiotherapy in combination with cetuximab compared with radiotherapy alone was €4356 (95% CI: €4350–4362) and 0.2380 (95% CI: 0.2370–0.2391) QALY, respectively. …”

Psychometric properties of the Stress Coping Scale Brief-COPE 28 in a Peruvian population by Neicer Joel Delgado-Requejo, Julio Cesar Castillo Ramos, Lourdes Carolina Cerda Sánchez

“…Objective: To determine the psychometric properties of reliability and validity of the BRIEF COPE 28, Spanish version. Method: The design used was instrumental; 530 people participated, 60% men and 40% women, between 18 and 60 years old, from different regions of Peru, selected by non-probability convenience sampling. …”
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Association Between Sociodemographic Variables, Healthy Habits, and Stress with Risk Scales for Liver Disease Associated with Metabolic Dysfunction by Ángel Arturo López-González, Emilio Martínez-Almoyna Rifá, Hernán Paublini Oliveira, Cristina Martorell Sánchez, Pedro Juan Tárraga López, José Ignacio Ramírez-Manent

“…Materials and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted on 16,708 Spanish workers to assess how sociodemographic variables (age, gender, and socioeconomic status), healthy habits (smoking, Mediterranean diet adherence, and physical activity), and stress correlate with values from three MAFLD risk scales: fatty liver index (FLI), hepatic steatosis index (HSI), and lipid accumulation product (LAP). …”
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Case Report: Two-month-old infant with PHACE syndrome: facial hemangioma and severe complex coarctation of the aorta by Sánchez-Ortiz David, Sánchez-Ortiz David, Deiros-Bronte Lucía, De la Hoz-Marañón Lucía, Feito-Rodríguez Marta, Rey-Lois Juvenal, Salas-Mera Diana, Labrandero-De Lera Carlos, López-Gutiérrez Juan Carlos, Gutiérrez-Larraya Federico

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Sideritis carpetana (Labiatae), a new high-mountain Mediterranean species from the marble outcrops of the Sierra de Guadarrama (Central System, Madrid, Segovia, Spain) by Jose Luis Izquierdo, Rosina Magaña Ugarte, Alba Gutiérrez-Girón, Concepción Obón de Castro, Diego Rivera Núñez, Rosario G. Gavilán

“…A new species of Sideritis (Sideritis carpetana) is described from the calcareous, high-mountain Spanish flora in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. …”
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