Universitat de les Illes Balears

Early‐Life Betaine Supplementation Drives Sex‐Specific Metabolic Programming in Rats, Affecting FGF21 Signaling and Energy Balance

ABSTRACT We aimed to evaluate the effects of maternal diet and betaine supplementation during the suckling period on Fgf21 expression and metabolic pathways related to FGF21 signaling and metabolic programming. Offspring of Wistar rats fed either a chow diet (CD) or a Western die...

Effects of a Chilean Hazelnut-Supplemented Diet on Oxidative Stress and Cytokine Expression in PBMCs of Hypercholesterolemic Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Background/Objectives: Hypercholesterolemia is characterized by alterations in lipid metabolism, oxidative stress, and inflammatory status. Nuts have been shown to mitigate these alterations; however, limited evidence is available regarding their effects in the Chilean population...

LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Parts of the Fourth Observing Run

Abstract LIGO detector characterization efforts enabled the confident detection of gravitational waves from hundreds of compact binary coalescences during the fourth observing run. Reliable production of high quality detector data and rapid noise mitigation efforts allow the extr...

Heterogeneous patience, population growth, and wealth accumulation

Abstract We study a neoclassical growth model with population growth and heterogeneous agents. The model can be interpreted as either a Ramsey model with heterogeneous discounting and entry of new agents with zero endowments or an OLG model with infinitely-lived agents with diffe...

Identifying Galactic Binary Systems of Neutron Stars and Black Holes with LISA

Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect ∼100 Galactic binary systems comprised of black holes and neutron stars. Distinguishing these binaries from the ∼10 4 double white dwarfs detectable by LISA will be challenging. In the absence of any other informa...

Phytate and L-methionine for preventing recurrence of infection renal stones

BACKGROUND: Urine acidification and inhibition of crystallization are strategies that can be employed to prevent recurrent infection stones and calcium phosphate stones. METHODS: A series of cases demonstrating the beneficial effects of treatment with phytate and L-methionine in...

Rethinking Organisational Justice in Healthcare Through Nurses' Voices: Insights From Nancy Fraser's Theory of Justice

ABSTRACT Organisational justice has emerged as a key area of interest given the challenges of protecting the health and well‐being of nurses in healthcare organisations. Existing research shows significant conceptual and methodological limitations that must be addressed to achiev...

Diet quality and environmental sustainability: integrating dietary indices and planetary impacts

Dietary patterns are major determinants of nutritional status and environmental sustainability. Despite growing interest in sustainable diets, limited research has examined how dietary carbon footprints differ across age groups and how age-specific dietary behaviors interact with...

Fifteen years of regional climate downscaling in CORDEX-Australasia

Regional climate modelling plays a central role in understanding and projecting climate change across Australasia, a region characterised by complex topography, diverse climate regimes, and high exposure to climate extremes. Over the past fifteen years, CORDEX-Australasia has coo...

Mapping the evidence on interventions to reduce potentially inappropriate prescriptions in older adults: a scoping overview of 127 systematic reviews

Potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIPs) are highly prevalent among older adults and associated with adverse outcomes, including hospitalisations and mortality. Numerous interventions have been evaluated and synthesised in reviews, but the review-level evidence remains hete...

Assessing the effects of climate change and fishing management on demersal stocks in the western Mediterranean: Rethinking WestMed-MAP effort reductions in the Balearic Islands

Bottom trawl fishing effort in the Balearic Islands has decreased considerably in recent decades due to a progressive fleet reduction and the implementation, since 2020, of the effort regime under the multiannual plan for demersal fisheries in the western Mediterranean (WestMed-M...

“It’s not you, it’s me”: how sensitive an adolescent is to disgust affects their moral judgments

The relationship between disgust sensitivity and negative biases towards creepy faces requires further investigation. Further, little is known about how adolescents use facial appearance to make inferences about the morality of strangers. With this aim, we assess whether disgust...

Evaluating Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Proactive Conversational Agents: A User Study

ABSTRACT This article presents a multimodal emotion recognition module integrated into a proactive Socially Interactive Agent (SIA) powered by generative artificial intelligence. The system evaluates real‐time affective states through two distinct channels: a computer vision‐base...

Light-Enhanced Synthesis of TiSb2 and TiBi2 Metallacycles

Abstract The synthesis of small metallacycles of early transition metals and heavy pnictogens has been primarily achieved by reductive coupling of the pnictane moiety with a transition metal fragment. Herein, we report a light-enhanced synthesis of titanocene Sb2 and Bi2 metallac...

An improvement to short term variability in Global Mean Sea Level reconstruction

Abstract. We hypothesise that there is an overestimation of Global Mean Sea Level (GMSL) variability from GMSL empirical orthogonal function (EOF) reconstructions due to differences between the tide gauge observations and their corresponding altimetry data. We show that these dif...

The fitness landscape of a form II rubisco in a photosynthetic bacterium guides engineering of oxygen tolerance

Abstract Rubisco is an important but challenging protein engineering target. Fast and selective rubiscos could enhance photosynthesis in plants and accelerate biobased production processes. To facilitate engineering of rubisco, we applied an in vivo screen that couples rubisco ac...

Technostress and Insulin Resistance Risk: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of 104,175 Spanish Workers Using TyG, TyG-BMI, METS-IR, and SPISE Indices

Background: Technostress has emerged as a growing occupational health concern in increasingly digitalized workplaces. Although its psychological consequences have been extensively investigated, little is known about its potential association with metabolic health and insulin resi...

Psychological interventions for individuals affected by Huntington’s disease: effects on depression, anxiety, and emotional well-being

Abstract Introduction The literature provides limited evidence on the effectiveness of psychological interventions for individuals living with Huntington’s Disease (HD). This study aims to examine the role of psychological support in improving the well-being of individuals and fa...

Emergent spatiotemporal dynamics in large-scale brain networks with next generation neural mass models

Understanding the dynamics of large-scale brain models remains a central challenge due to the inherent complexity of these systems. In this work, we explore the emergence of complex spatiotemporal patterns in a large-scale brain model composed of 90 interconnected brain regions c...

Closing the Objectivity Loophole in Bell Tests on a Public Quantum Computer

ABSTRACT We have constructed and run a Bell test of local realism focusing on the objectivity criterion. Objectivity means that the outcomes are macroscopically confirmed by a few observers at each party. The IBM Quantum and IonQ devices turn out to be sufficiently accurate to pa...