Universidad de Granada

Stage-to-Stage Changes in Heart Rate–Power Output Coupling During Cycling Stage Races: Associations with Race-Derived Performance and Stage Context

This study examines whether model-derived heart rate–power output (HR–PO) parameters changed across consecutive stages of elite under-23 stage races and whether their longitudinal trajectories were associated with race-derived performance characteristics and stage context. Race f...

Comparative analysis of blood inflammatory profile and intestinal microbiota in late-fetal growth restriction vs. normal pregnancy

To determine the association of blood inflammatory biomarkers and intestinal microbiota composition in women with late-onset fetal growth restriction. Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is a pathological condition in which fetus fails to achieve its genetically determined growth pote...

Endocannabinoid system dysregulation in oral diseases: mechanistic insights and therapeutic modulation

Abstract Background Chronic inflammatory and neoplastic diseases of the oral cavity, including periodontitis, oral lichen planus (OLP), oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), and oral mucositis, represent a significant global health burden. Current therapeutic strategies face limit...

Analyzing and Mitigating Asymmetric Learning for Product Cold-Start in E-Commerce Purchase Prediction with Graph Neural Networks: Similarity-Driven History Augmentation

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a foundational tool for e-commerce recommendation systems, yet they consistently fail in zero-shot cold-start scenarios where new products enter the market without prior interactions. In this paper, we diagnose this failure as a structural...

Artificial Neural Networks in Smart City Service Delivery: A Systematic Review of Architectures, Evidence Quality, and the Missing Link to Urban Economic Development

Although smart city investments have surged in fields such as healthcare, infrastructure and waste management, very little is known about the quality of evidence or its association with urban economic development. This systematic review, based on PRISMA 2020 guidelines, searched...

Stable Black Strings from Warped Backgrounds

A bstract We show that spacetime curvature alone can classically stabilize black strings. Working within a consistent five-dimensional dilaton-gravity system with a flat brane, we find that sufficiently large black strings are classically stable when they extend from the brane to...

Disease progression in hidradenitis suppurativa: A multidimensional framework

Abstract Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is increasingly recognized as a progressive inflammatory disease in which recurrent follicular inflammation, tunnel formation and systemic inflammation drive cumulative, largely irreversible tissue damage, quality‐of‐life impairment and card...

Athletic Performance after Complex Training Compared to Traditional Strength Training

Effects of ≥4‑week Complex Training (CT) in trained/developmental athletes (≥3×/week, local competition) are unclear. This review addressed this gap. Five databases were searched for RCTs (updated June 2025) comparing CT vs. traditional strength training on jump, agility, and spr...

Identifying Core Persistence Areas for Emys orbicularis Through an Integrated Environmental—Spatial Modelling Framework in the Andalusia Region (Spain)

Understanding the distribution of Emys orbicularis in Andalusia is essential for assessing its conservation status within one of the most fragmented sectors of its Iberian range. In this study, we applied a modelling framework integrating environmental favourability, spatial stru...

Immunomodulatory Amacstatins facilitate feeding and Rickettsia parkeri transmission by Amblyomma maculatum ticks

Ticks rely on salivary immunomodulators to sustain prolonged blood feeding and transmit pathogens, yet the protein effectors that mediate these processes remain incompletely defined. Here, we characterize three divergent cysteine protease inhibitors—Amacstatins—from the Gulf Coas...

Individual and Combined Effects of Acute Caffeine and Sodium Bicarbonate Supplementation on Exercise Performance and Metabolic Responses: A Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis of Co-Supplementation Trials

Background: Caffeine and sodium bicarbonate (SB) are widely used ergogenic supplements that influence exercise performance through distinct physiological mechanisms and may differentially modulate exercise-related metabolic responses. Whether their co-ingestion provides benefits...

Sorption of Pharmaceuticals onto Polyethylene Terephthalate and Medium-Density Polyethylene: Influence of Plastic Polymer Type and Water Medium

The growing accumulation of microplastics in marine ecosystems, coupled with the presence of emerging contaminants such as pharmaceuticals, represents an environmental problem that has received little attention to date. The present study evaluates the potential of microplastics t...

Improving soil thermal conductivity measurements with a heat-pulse probe: Thermal efficiency and energy demand across tillage systems

Soil thermal conductivity (λ) is a key parameter influencing seed germination, root growth, and soil-atmosphere energy exchange. Accurate and energy-efficient in-situ measurement of λ is essential for optimising tillage practices and improving soil management. This study evaluate...

Het-node2vec: second-order random walk sampling for heterogeneous graph embedding

Abstract Many real-world problems are naturally modeled as heterogeneous graphs, where nodes and edges represent multiple types of entities and relations. Existing learning models for heterogeneous graph representation usually depend on the computation of specific, user-defined h...

A Dynamic Hydrogen‐Bonded Organic Framework With Giant OFF–ON Birefringence

ABSTRACT Birefringence, the optical property enabling materials to split light based on polarization and propagation direction, is crucial for many technological fields, spanning from telecommunications to imaging and photonics. Particularly, controlling the birefringence is vita...

Tail Connectedness in European Equity Markets: Regime Persistence and the Role of Geopolitical Risk

Financial networks are typically summarised by a single average-regime connectedness estimate that treats transmission as symmetric across calm and turbulent markets. Using a quantile vector autoregression on nine European equity indices from 2000 to 2026, we show that crash-regi...

Cargo-specific platelet reprogramming and education mediated by pancreatic cancer-derived extracellular vesicles

The systemic progression of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is tied to a hypercoagulable state, yet early tumor secretome–platelet interactions remain poorly defined. Prevailing models regard platelet education by tumor-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) as a passive, d...

Understanding rhythmic behavior in infancy: Perspectives for addressing developmental, methodological, and analytical challenges

Neural sensitivity to rhythm emerges prenatally, yet observable movement synchronization to an external beat occurs later and more gradually over development. Integrating findings from developmental psychology, neuroscience, music cognition, and social interaction research, we pr...

Chemical and Enantioselective Characterization and Preliminary Biological Activities of Aristolochia lingulata Aerial-Part Essential Oil

Species of the genus Aristolochia are recognized as a rich source of structurally diverse specialized metabolites; however, the volatile chemical composition and biological properties of several Neotropical species remain poorly characterized. In particular, no information is cur...

Raw and UGR collection data for the article "Distribution and ecology of myrmecophilous crickets in the province of Granada (Spain)"

Supplementary Material 1 – Raw data used for the analysisSupplementary Material 2 – Data on specimens deposited at the University of Granada