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Exploring the Aroma Profile of Traditional Sparkling Wines: A Review on Yeast S...
Pinheiro, Sara Sofia; Campos, Francisco; Cabrita, Maria João; Gomes da Silva, MarcoSparkling wine is a complex alcoholic beverage with high economic value, produced through a secondary fermentation of a still wine, followed by a prolonged aging period that may last from nine months to several years. With the growing global demand for high-quality sparkling wines, understanding the biochemical mechanisms related to aroma development has become increasingly relevant. This review provides a comp...
The Image of Group Fitness Instructors: An Intra- and Inter-Country Comparison ...
Ardelean, Viorel Petru; Geantă, Vlad Adrian; Dulceanu, Corina; Bulzan, Claudiu; Brito-Costa, Sónia; Furtado, Guilherme Eustáquio; Gomes, RicardoFitness instructors play an essential role in fitness services, as they require both technical and interpersonal skills. A good image of a fitness instructor can be defined as having a pleasant appearance and good presentation in terms of hygiene and/or clothing used, which is appropriate for the context and characteristics of the participants. Their image significantly influences participants’ perceptions and ...
Impact of fitness coach behavior on exercise motivation, commitment, and enjoym...
Braga-Pereira, Ricardo; Furtado, Guilherme Eustáquio; Campos, Francisco; Sampaio, António Rodrigues; Teques, PedroFitness coaches seem to play an essential role in the field of exercise as they help prevent sedentary lifestyles and promote overall health, quality of life, and well-being. This study aimed to explore the effects of fitness coaches’ behavior perceptions, intrinsic motivation, and enjoyment of exercisers on their long-term fitness and health, as well as their commitment to exercise. A total of 202 individuals ...
The COVID-19 pandemic impact on the Portuguese Physical Education classes
Mendes, Pedro; Fachada, Miguel; Melo, Ricardo; Campos, Francisco; Nobre, Paulo; Machado-Rodrigues, Aristides M.The restrictions “imposed” to avoid the spread of Covid-19 disease have strongly conditioned the school life of millions of children and youth. However, little is known about the impact of the pandemic on PE classes in Portugal. The purpose of the present study is to describe the perception of secondary and high school students about the impact of the pandemic on PE classes, after the first wave of the COVID-19...
The Gaze Patterns of Group Fitness Instructors Based on Different Levels of Tra...
Campos, Francisco; Amaro, Catarina M.; Duarte, João P.; Mendes, Rui; Martins, FernandoThe way in which group fitness instructors observe participants has a great influence on their pedagogical intervention. Based on the above, the main objective of this research is to characterize and compare their gaze patterns according to their training and professional experience. Twenty group fitness instructors of choreographed classes participated, aged between 18 and 42 years old, and for the comparison,...
Predation by the common kingfisher Alcedo atthis of non-native fish species dur...
García, José Antonio; Hernández, Maria Ángeles; Nunes, Luísa; Sánchez-Sastre, Luis Fernando; Casanueva, Patricia; Campos, FranciscoCapsule:ThewinterdietofCommonKingfishersAlcedoatthisusingtworiversincentralSpainwas 94.9% fish, all of which were non-native species. Aims: To determine the composition Common Kingfisher diet in an area recently colonized by non-native fish species, and to compare estimated prey size during the winter to that of fish fed to nestlings during the breeding season. Methods: The diet was studied by analysis of pelle...
Patterns of variation in wing venation of Iberian Cordulegaster boltonii (Donov...
Nunes, Luísa; Santamaria, Tomás; Casanueva, Patricia; Sánchez-Sastre, Luis Fernando; Ferreras-Romero, Manuel; Romero, Ángel; Campos, FranciscoSome structural characters, such as wing venation, have been used in odonates to differentiate taxa. In Cordulegaster boltonii, a species widely distributed throughout the western Palaearctic, the main characteristics of its wing venation have not been quantified until now. A six-variable analysis of wing venation (number of antenodal and postnodal cross-veins, number of cells in the anal triangle and in the an...
The COVID-19 pandemic impact on the Portuguese Physical Education classes
Mendes, Pedro Cabral; Fachada, Miguel; Melo, Ricardo; Campos, Francisco; Nobre, Paulo; Machado-Rodrigues, Aristides M.The restrictions “imposed” to avoid the spread of Covid-19 disease have strongly conditioned the school life of millions of children and youth. However, little is known about the impact of the pandemic on PE classes in Portugal. The purpose of the present study is to describe the perception of secondary and high school students about the impact of the pandemic on PE classes, after the first wave of the COVID-19...
The Gaze Patterns of Group Fitness Instructors Based on Different Levels of Tra...
Campos, Francisco; Amaro, Catarina M.; Duarte, João P.; Mendes, Rui; Martins, Fernando Manuel LourençoThe way in which group fitness instructors observe participants has a great influence on their pedagogical intervention. Based on the above, the main objective of this research is to characterize and compare their gaze patterns according to their training and professional experience. Twenty group fitness instructors of choreographed classes participated, aged between 18 and 42 years old, and for the comparison,...
Pedagogical feedback for group exercise fitness activities
Campos, Francisco; Curado, Daniela; Simões, Duarte; Martins, Fernando Manuel LourençoIn the fitness area, the pedagogical feedback is a determining tool for the teaching-learning process, and principally present three functions: motivation, reinforcement and information. The aim of the present study is to characterize the pedagogical feedback provided by the Aerobics fitness instructor, in a specific phase of thesession (warm-up), and compare it according to their training and professional expe...