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Exploring age-friendly urban design through co-creation: insights from EngAGE4Change, a Health CASCADE study
(Journal of Urban Design, 1–23, 2025-07)This study showcases a co-creative approach to urban design spe-cifically tailored to meet the physical activity and socializationneeds of older adults in Barcelona, Spain. It explores how olderadults ... -
Needs of Families of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness in Psychosocial Rehabilitation: A Focus Group-Based Qualitative Study
(Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 2025)Objective: To explore the needs of families of individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) within the context of a public psychosocial rehabilitation service (PSR). A second aim was to identify and ... -
Weight discrimination, BMI, or weight bias internalization? Testing the best predictor of psychological distress and body dissatisfaction
(Obesity, 31(8), 2178-2188, 2023-08)Objective: This study aimed: (1) to compare psychological distress (PD) and body dissatisfaction (BD) in terms of BMI, weight bias internalization (WBI), and weight discrimination (current and past); ... -
Impact of strategic capabilities on digital transformation success and firm performance: theory and empirical evidence
(European Journal of Information Systems 2025, 34 (3), 415–435, 2025-06)What is needed for organisations to succeed in digital transformation, and what is its advantage? Motivated by the ongoing high amount of failing digital transformations, this study identifies necessary ... -
3D Printing of Silicone Organogel Elastomers for Structured Soft Biomaterials
(ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2025, 11 (3), 1806–1817, 2025-03-10)Creating customizable soft medical implants and devices tailored to patient-specific anatomy represents a significant challenge in healthcare, requiring 3D-printable materials with viscoelastic properties ... -
From Françafrique to Chinafrica? Ecologically unequal exchange, neocolonialism, and environmental conflicts in Africa
(World Development 2025, 193, 2025-09)Africa stands out as the continent where the legacies of colonialism and the ongoing dynamics of neo- and post-colonialism are felt most profoundly. In its role as the primary global supplier of raw ... -
A comprehensive fatigue analysis of high performance polyetherimide parts fabricatedusing extrusion-based additive manufacturing
(International Journal of Fatigue 2025, 200, 2025-11)This paper investigates the fatigue behavior of high-performance polyetherimide components manufactured via MEX-AM, focusing on the influence of key process parameters. Thirty configurations were tested ... -
Achieving 17-4 PH parts with comparable performance to high-investment technologies through a multivariable Doehlert design optimization and material extrusion
(Rapid Prototyping Journal 2025, 31 (7), 1362-1382, 2025-06-27)Purpose: This study aims to optimize Metal Additive Manufacturing (MAM) via Material Extrusion (MEX) using desktop equipment to produce high-performance 17-4 PH stainless steel parts. This research seeks ... -
Spanish validation of the Modified Weight Bias Internalization Scale (WBIS-M) for adolescents
(Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity (2022) 27:3245–3256, 2022-12)Purpose Weight Bias Internalization (WBI) is pervasive and potentially damaging for health. Little is known about WBI in youth. As negative effects of WBI have been observed when controlling for BMI, ... -
Assessing Motivational Stages and Processes of Change for Weight Management Around Bariatric Surgery: a Multicenter Study
(Obesity Surgery, 29, 3348–3356 (2019), 2019-10)Introduction/purpose: The assessment of the patients' motivation as a predictor of behavioral change via five stages (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance) and four ... -
Eating Disorder Symptoms in Elite Spanish Athletes: Prevalence and Sport-Specific Weight Pressures
(Frontiers in Psychology, volum 11, 2021-01)We determined the prevalence of eating disorder (ED) symptoms among elite Spanish athletes from a broad range of sports and levels of competition and examined the associations between the presence of ... -
The impact of COVID-19 lockdown on social network sites use, body image disturbances and self-esteem among adolescent and young women
(Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Volum 110, 110293, 2021-08)Objective This study aimed to determine the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on social network sites (SNS) use and to explore whether SNS use is associated with body image disturbances and low self-esteem ... -
Women's body dissatisfaction, physical appearance comparisons, and Instagram use throughout theCOVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study
(International Journal of Eating Disorders, 56, 118-131, 2023-01)Objective: This study aimed to determine the evolution of Instagram use, body dis-satisfaction and physical appearance comparisons throughout the coronavirusdisease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, and to ... -
Surface and contour-preserving origamic architecture paper pop-ups
(IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics , Vol. 20, Núm.: 2, Febrer 2014, 2014-02-02)Origamic architecture (OA) is a form of papercraft that involves cutting and folding a single sheet of paper to produce a 3D pop-up, and is commonly used to depict architectural structures. Because of ... -
Automatic Paper Sliceform Design from 3D Solid Models
(IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. Vol. 19, Nú. 11, Novembre 2013, 2013-05-13)A paper sliceform or lattice-style pop-up is a form of papercraft that uses two sets of parallel paper patches slotted together to make a foldable structure. The structure can be folded flat, as well ... -
Generating animated paper pop-ups from the motion of articulated characters
(The Visual Computer 31, 925–935 (2015), 2015-05-10)Pop-up books are fascinating books comprised of paper pieces that pop out when opened to form interesting three-dimensional structures. But more than just reproducing 3D shapes, pop-up artists also use ... -
Animation toolkit based on a database approach for reusing motions and models
(Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 32, 2006-11-30)As animations become more readily available, simultaneously the complexity of creating animations has also increased. In this paper, we address the issue by describing an animation toolkit based on a ... -
Julio Broutá’s Translations of Bernard Shaw
(Bernard Shaw and the Spanish-Speaking World. Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries., 2022)It is well known that Bernard Shaw was deeply concerned with the translations of his works, to the point that he kept a thorough record of the whole process of translation and performances of his plays ... -
Visualizing animation databases
(International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 13, Núm. 1, 2003, 2003)We consider a repository of animation models and motions that can be reused to generate new animation sequences. For instance, a user can retrieve an animation of a dog kicking its leg (in air) and ... -
Joan Estelrich and the reception of vives in interwar Europe
(Acta Conventus Neo-Latini Vindobonesis: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress of Ne-Latin Studies (Vienna 2015). Vol. 16 (2018), pp. 197-205, 2018)