OBJECTIVE The aim of this research was to examine the association between body mass index, physical activity, adherence to the Mediterranean diet, and health-related quality of life in a sample of Spanish adolescents. METHOD The study involved 456 adolescents aged between 11 and 14 years. They completed questionnaires on the Mediterranean diet (KIDMED), physical activity (Physical Activity Qu...

Human population pressures upon land resources have increased the need to assess impacts of land use change on soil quality. In order to assess effects of land use changes on soil quality properties in a tropical forest ecosystem of Bangladesh, soil samples were collected from adjacent well-stocked Shorea robusta natural forest, land reforested with Acacia, grassland and cultivated land. Land u...

The importance of soil biodiversity and soil-based ecosystem services in the context viticulture has recently been emphasized. Over 85% fauna species richness is represented by edaphic arthropod communities. Edaphic responses to characteristics management practices can be considered as good bioindicators quality. Here, 168 samples that were collected from 2014 2019 several vineyards different I...

increasing attention has recently been given to sweet sorghum as a renewable raw material for ethanol production, mainly because its cultivation can be fully mechanized. however, the intensive use of agricultural machinery causes soil structural degradation, especially when performed under inadequate conditions of soil moisture. the aims of this study were to evaluate the physical quality of a ...

knowledge about spatial soil variation in terms of measured pedodiversity offers the possibility to estimate the quality and variance within a soil map. diversity indices and abundance distribution models are statistical tools which ecologists have applied for decades for analyzing the intrinsic regularities of various ecological entities. in this study relationships between soils evolution, la...

Laterite soil is an embankment that often used because it easy to find and widely found in South Kalimantan. However, this land has many shortcomings be as soil. This the lateritic a clay content high Plasticity Index (PI) value. So quality still questionable landfill. To overcome this, necessary improve or stabilize In study, was stabilized by addition of slag nickel study aims determine physi...