Universidad de Oviedo

Vignettes and triadic games: Novel approaches to assess students’ declarative knowledge in physical education

The emergence of Teaching Games for Understanding aimed to promote a shift from teacher-centred to student-centred learning frameworks. The Tactical Games Model, a simplified version, aims to create players who are both technically and tactically intelligent. Triadic games are a...

Does increased staging complexity influence expert agreement in dental age estimation?

Dental age estimation (DAE) is a well-established procedure in current practice, and it is frequently required in forensic and legal investigations. This study aimed to evaluate the intra- and inter-observer reliability of dental development staging among forensic practitioners u...

Factors Associated with Smoking Status and Self-Reported Physical Activity Among Spanish Nursing Professionals: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Modifiable lifestyle behaviours, including physical activity and smoking, are important determinants of health and may influence the mental well-being of nursing professionals. However, evidence simultaneously examining these factors and their associations with sociod...

Policy Consequentiality in Tourism Discrete Choice Experiments

Stated preference methods are widely applied in tourism research, yet their validity depends on respondents perceiving surveys as policy consequential. This paper examines how such perceptions shape willingness-to-pay (WTP) estimates for redesigned tourism supply. Using a discret...

Microscopic screening theory for excitons in two-dimensional materials: a bridge between effective models and ab initio descriptions

We present a computational approach for exciton calculations in two-dimensional (2D) materials within the Bethe–Salpeter equation (BSE) framework, employing an atomistic description with point-like orbitals. Unlike widespread efficient calculations that rely on classical or effec...

Nanotechnology-Enabled Remediation of Contaminated Soils: Mechanisms, Soil Constraints, Environmental Risks, and Implications for Sustainable Land Management

Engineered nanomaterials have been increasingly proposed for the treatment of contaminated soils. Nevertheless, most available evidence has been obtained in water, artificial substrates or short-term laboratory experiments, and performance in real soil is substantially more varia...

A dual role for miR-210-3p in hypoxia-driven signaling and mitotic regulation in cancer

miR-210-3p is a well-established hypoxia-induced microRNA that is commonly upregulated in a wide range of solid tumors, traditionally linked to mitochondrial repression and hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) signaling. However, its functional role in cancer remains complex and highly...

Non-communicable disease care delivered by emergency medical teams during the Gaza Health Response in 2024–2025: an observational analysis of WHO Minimum Data Set Reports

The objective is to describe patterns of noncommunicable disease (NCD) service delivery and the operational roles of the different Emergency Medical Team (EMT) types-Type1 mobile (outpatient mobile primary care), Type1 fixed (outpatient static primary care), and Type2 (inpatient...

A narrative review of determinants consequences, and public health implications of vaccine hesitancy in Nigeria

Vaccine hesitancy remains a significant barrier to achieving optimal immunisation coverage in Nigeria, contributing to recurrent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases and limiting progress towards national and global public health goals. This narrative review synthesises rece...

Recreational versus self-medicated cannabis use among adolescents and young adults in Spain: associations with substance use and mental health

Abstract Background Cannabis use is common among adolescents and young adults, yet motives, especially self-medication, remain poorly understood in non-legalized contexts. This study explored differences among recreational, self-medicated, and dual (recreational + self-medicated)...

When Care Does Not Count: Epistemic Injustice and the Organisational Recognition of Nursing Knowledge

This discussion paper examines how care-based nursing judgement becomes recognised, narrowed or excluded as professional knowledge within healthcare organisations. Nursing care is often described as relational, ethical, practical or compassionate, yet these descriptions may obscu...

Barriers and facilitators to advance care planning implementation: a qualitative interprofessional study in the Spanish public health and social care system

Advance Care Planning (ACP) is essential for improving the quality of end-of-life care. Despite having a well-established legal framework, the implementation of ACP in Spain is limited and largely bureaucratic. The existing literature has primarily focused on knowledge deficits a...

MassCas tabletop game as a training tool in mass casualty incidents for undergraduate medical students: a quasi-experimental study with knowledge assessment at 6-month follow-up

Mass casualty incidents (MCI) require a coordinated prehospital response from multiple healthcare teams. Undergraduate medical students rarely receive systematic MCI training, and some of the methods that have shown good results so far, full-scale simulations and extended reality...

Genetic Testing After Heart Transplantation Uncovers Heritable Disease and Drives Family Screening

BACKGROUND: Genetic testing (GT) is established in ambulatory cardiomyopathy (CM), but its utility after heart transplantation (HTx) recipients remains poorly characterized. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to evaluate the clinical utility of GT in adult HTx recipients with CM, focus...