Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-17eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.24170.2
Esteban Morelle-Hungría
{"title":"Ecological harm and criminal thresholds: A pilot legal-ecological coding framework for environmental crime judgments.","authors":"Esteban Morelle-Hungría","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.24170.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.24170.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Environmental criminal law frequently relies on open-textured threshold concepts such as \"substantial damage, \" \"serious harm, \" and \"serious risk\" to distinguish administrative unlawfulness from criminally relevant conduct. Yet courts often apply these thresholds without a reproducible framework for structuring ecological seriousness across cases. This article introduces LEDAT ® (Legal-Ecological Damage Assessment Tool), a structured coding framework that combines legal and ecological variables into a Material Environmental Criminal Damage Index (IDPAm), while distinguishing material seriousness from procedural and evidential enforceability. IDPAm measures the material legal-ecological seriousness of a case as structured by the framework; it does not measure criminal liability, ecological damage alone, or the likelihood of conviction. The framework is piloted on 36 Spanish first-instance environmental crime judgments issued between 2020 and 2025, identified through a systematic search of a national jurisprudential database followed by qualitative screening. Cases were independently coded by two trained researchers using a shared coding manual and reconciled after comparison; pending formal agreement measures, coding convergence is reported as descriptive. IDPAm values ranged from 0.7 to 9.3. Most cases fell within predominantly administrative or intermediate grey-area bands, while four reached high material criminal significance. Convictions showed higher descriptive IDPAm values than acquittals, although distributions overlapped substantially and eleven of twenty convictions were conformity-based. Sensitivity checks indicate high ordinal stability under alternative legal/ecological weights, while trigger removal affects band classification. The article makes no predictive, causal, or inferential claims. Its contribution is methodological: LEDAT offers a transparent, contestable, and reproducible framework for empirical analysis of environmental criminal thresholds.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13612999/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149066210","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-16eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.23443.2
Andrijana Lazarevic, Aleksandra Markovic
{"title":"EUPopLink Country report - Serbia.","authors":"Andrijana Lazarevic, Aleksandra Markovic","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.23443.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.23443.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This country report, prepared as part of the EUPopLink COST Action, explores Serbia's political dynamics in the context of European integration and Euroscepticism. It traces the rise of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012 and its impact on Serbia's political landscape, with a focus on populist actors and their relationship with the EU. The report highlights the complex Euroscepticism in Serbia, where public support for EU membership has fluctuated and remains influenced by national sovereignty concerns, especially in relation to Kosovo. Populist parties, including SNS, Dveri, and Zavetnici, exhibit varying degrees of opposition to the EU, from pragmatic Euroscepticism to hard rejection, while balancing their domestic and foreign policy priorities. The analysis examines the shifting nature of populist Euroscepticism in Serbia, illustrating how it influences the country's EU integration process, political discourse, and electoral strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13247566/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148221174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-15eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.22188.3
Ayodele Arinola Feyisara, Noah David, Etim Utibe Efre, Kevin Dofwah Nuhu, Azibadighi Walter, Olufunmilayo Ibitola Fawole, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Segun Bello, Onoja Matthew Akpa
{"title":"Preparedness for diphtheria epidemic among healthcare workers in Kano State, Nigeria.","authors":"Ayodele Arinola Feyisara, Noah David, Etim Utibe Efre, Kevin Dofwah Nuhu, Azibadighi Walter, Olufunmilayo Ibitola Fawole, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Segun Bello, Onoja Matthew Akpa","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.22188.3","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.22188.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Diphtheria remains a significant public health threat in Nigeria, highlighting the need for an adequately prepared healthcare workforce and health system. This study assessed healthcare workers' knowledge of diphtheria, infection prevention and control (IPC) practices, and preparedness for diphtheria outbreaks in Kano State, Nigeria. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 421 healthcare workers selected using a multistage sampling technique. Data were collected using a semi-structured interviewer-administered questionnaire, while facility preparedness was assessed using a structured checklist completed by designated facility focal persons in 24 selected health facilities. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analyses were performed at a 5% significance level using SPSS version 28. Results showed that overall, 51.3% of healthcare workers had poor knowledge of diphtheria, while 53.4% demonstrated poor IPC practices. Healthcare workers in primary healthcare facilities had significantly lower odds of reporting good IPC practices than those in tertiary facilities (OR = 0.097, 95% CI: 0.041-0.232; p < 0.001). Overall, 70.8% of health facilities were classified as poorly prepared. Substantial gaps were identified in healthcare workers' knowledge, IPC practices, and facility-level preparedness. Strengthening healthcare worker training, improving adherence to IPC measures, and enhancing facility-level outbreak preparedness are essential to improve readiness and response to future diphtheria outbreaks.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"107"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13560850/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148957154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-12eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.23220.2
Tanya Zerbian, Violeta Furlan, Daniel López-García
{"title":"Advancing relational methods in agri-food governance research and beyond: Introducing the Socio-Material Actor-Network Analysis (SMANA) methodology.","authors":"Tanya Zerbian, Violeta Furlan, Daniel López-García","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.23220.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.23220.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To better grasp the messiness of agri-food governance, recent scholarship has called for approaches that foreground its relational, territorial and power-laden character. This paper contributes to this agenda by presenting the Socio-Material Actor-Network Analysis (SMANA) methodology developed in the context of the research project AETERAKIS - A territorialised Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) framework for agroecological transitions. Building on a hybrid theoretical foundation based on Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and Social Network Analysis (SNA), the SMANA methodology centres its attention on unpacking the agencies, formal and informal interactions, and capacities of different actors in agri-food governance processes, focusing on what infrastructures - physical and non-physical - hold actor relationships together. Based on its implementation during the AETERAKIS project, the paper proposes the operationalisation of the SMANA methodology through an adaptation of the Net-Map toolkit - a visual-based method for participatory network mapping. This approach enables collective reflection throughout its application and subsequent analysis, supporting local transformation processes. Beyond the immediate purpose of guiding data collection and analysis within the AETERAKIS project, the proposed methodology can assist researchers working on other components or relational aspects of complex, territorial and multi-actor governance processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13583356/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149003025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-09eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.23457.3
Marius F Maurstad, Dominik Kusy, Eivind A B Undheim, Kjetill S Jakobsen, Astrid Böhne, Rita Monteiro, Thomas Marcussen, Torsten H Struck, Rebekah A Oomen, Ignas Bunikis, Christian Tellgren-Roth, Julia Heintz, Susana Häggqvist, Linnea Jonsäll, Nina Lager, Tuuli Larva, Mai-Britt Mosbech, Martin Pippel, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Chiara Bortoluzzi
{"title":"ERGA-BGE chromosome-level genome assembly of the giant stream lacewing <i>Osmylus fulvicephalus</i> (Scopoli, 1763).","authors":"Marius F Maurstad, Dominik Kusy, Eivind A B Undheim, Kjetill S Jakobsen, Astrid Böhne, Rita Monteiro, Thomas Marcussen, Torsten H Struck, Rebekah A Oomen, Ignas Bunikis, Christian Tellgren-Roth, Julia Heintz, Susana Häggqvist, Linnea Jonsäll, Nina Lager, Tuuli Larva, Mai-Britt Mosbech, Martin Pippel, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Chiara Bortoluzzi","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.23457.3","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.23457.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The giant stream lacewing, <i>Osmylus fulvicephalus</i> (Scopoli, 1763), is a widespread European species belonging to the insect order Neuroptera. Its cryptic larvae are predators found at the banks of streams and smaller rivers where they use their piercing, lance-shaped stylets to inject venom into their arthropod prey. Here, we present the reference genome of the giant stream lacewing as a crucial resource for uncovering the genetic basis of venom evolution in Neuroptera. The chromosome-level genome encompasses 674.7 Mb and is composed of 60 contigs and 24 scaffolds where 99.2% of the assembly is distributed among the 6 contiguous chromosomal pseudomolecules and two sex chromosomes (X and Y). Contig and scaffold N50 have a value of 51.5 Mb and 116.2 Mb, respectively. This reference genome is the first genomic resource from the family of lance lacewings, providing valuable data for clarifying the phylogenetic placement of the family <i>Osmylidae</i> within Neuroptera.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13554741/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148932055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LMDmapper: an open-source desktop tool for spatial mapping of laser microdissection samples.","authors":"Antton Alberdi, Jaime Ramirez, Nanna Gaun, Zoé Horisberger, Bryan Wang, Urvish Trivedi, Amalia Bogri","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.24543.2","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.24543.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Laser microdissection (LMD) enables researchers to isolate targeted microsamples from microscopy slide specimens for downstream molecular analyses. While traditionally employed for isolating eukaryotic cells from complex tissues, LMD is starting to be used for micro-scale spatial microbiome analyses, which require the precise location of the microsamples to be tracked for downstream spatial analyses. To address this need, we present LMDmapper, an open-source desktop application that allows designing, tracking and logging micron-scale spatial microsample data and metadata from LMD sessions. The software parses Leica Database LIF image files (containing stage coordinates), imports laser microdissection CSV exports (containing image pixel coordinates), transforms and maps image pixel coordinates into stage coordinates, and presents the resulting cut points together with user-defined plate layouts and collection metadata. LMDmapper supports a variety of microdissection designs, including multiple slides, specimens, collection plates and plate layouts. The application is implemented in TypeScript using Electron, React, Vite, and fast-xml-parser. LMDmapper outputs include a metadata CSV linking microsample identifiers to plate positions, collection information, image labels, pixel coordinates and stage coordinates, as well as the possibility to create overview images of the specimens, and automatically calculating distances between cutting points and regions of interest. With these capabilities, LMDmapper is intended as a practical bridge between microscope-side laser microdissection records and downstream spatial omics sample tracking.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"257"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13586599/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149009562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Multiple Compression Approach using Attribute-based Signatures.","authors":"Constantinos Costa, Panos Chrysanthis, Herodotos Herodotou, Marios Costa, Efstathios Stavrakis, Nicolas Nicolaou","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.19247.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.19247.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>With the increasing volume of data collected for advanced analytical and AI applications, data storage remains a significant challenge. Despite advancements in storage technologies, the cost of maintaining vast datasets continues to grow. Compression techniques have been widely used to address this issue, but existing systems primarily rely on a single, typically lossless method, which limits adaptability to varying data characteristics.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This paper introduces COMPASS, a multiple compression approach that applies different compression techniques to distinct subsets of data within a database. COMPASS partitions relational data into rows or columns and selects the most suitable compression scheme for each column or column group. Two versions of COMPASS are proposed: (i) COMPASS-D, which utilizes K-Means clustering based on data values; and (ii) COMPASS-E, which employs K-Means clustering based on column entropy to group similar columns efficiently. The effectiveness of COMPASS is evaluated using the Envmon dataset, a real-world environmental monitoring database, and compared against monolithic compression methods.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Experimental results demonstrate that COMPASS significantly reduces disk space usage compared to traditional compression techniques. COMPASS-E achieves superior performance in terms of compression time and proximity to the optimal compression ratio, outperforming COMPASS-D. In worst-case scenarios, COMPASS methods offer 22% more savings compared to baseline techniques, with best-case savings reaching 56% (~2× improvement).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The proposed COMPASS framework offers a flexible and adaptive approach to database compression by leveraging multiple schemes tailored to different data subsets. This results in improved storage efficiency and reduced computational overhead. Future work will explore additional data characteristics and clustering methods to further enhance COMPASS's adaptability and efficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13571026/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148972705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-08eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.23294.2
Malay Bera, Michaela Bitsakis, Audrey Arfi, Laurence Marrama-Rakotoarivony, Teresa Cuartero-Lausin, Gergana Simeonova-Arida, Thomas Vyzikas, Helena Magliarelli
{"title":"Added value of MSCA doctorates: A mixed-methods study.","authors":"Malay Bera, Michaela Bitsakis, Audrey Arfi, Laurence Marrama-Rakotoarivony, Teresa Cuartero-Lausin, Gergana Simeonova-Arida, Thomas Vyzikas, Helena Magliarelli","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.23294.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.23294.2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study presents the first comprehensive and robust assessment of the added value of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) doctoral programmes funded under the Innovative Training Networks (ITN) and Doctoral Networks (DN) calls, relative to non-MSCA doctoral programmes. Drawing on a mixed-methods design (qualitative and quantitative) combining a literature review, interviews, and a large-scale survey involving supervisors and doctoral researchers (current and graduates; MSCA and non-MSCA), the study reinforces that the programme's added values and impacts come from the doctoral ecosystem it creates integrating its core dimensions: triple \"i\" mobility (international, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary), training, supervision, social innovation and working conditions, career development and networking, and structuring effects on European doctoral education. Findings demonstrate that ITN/DNs deliver a significantly higher and more integrated triple \"i\" mobility experience. 90% of MSCA fellows collaborate internationally, and 88% demonstrate intersectoral mobility (around three times the rate of non-MSCA), broadening career trajectories. Interdisciplinary training further enables well-rounded skill acquisition across fields. MSCA fellows report substantially higher satisfaction with transferable skills development, particularly in networking, public speaking, teamwork, and intersectoral knowledge transfer. Supervision quality is markedly stronger, with more multidisciplinary supervisory teams and formalised supervision agreements. Working conditions are also better, with MSCA fellows reporting greater satisfaction with salary, and supervisors, with budgets for research, training, and mobility. Career impact is stronger as well, with 92% of MSCA graduates securing employment within one year of graduation, and one third transitioning successfully beyond academia, 3.5 times the rate among non-MSCA. At the systemic level, MSCA ITN and DN generate lasting structuring effects, strengthening doctoral training and research frameworks across Europe. The study recommends increasing programme visibility, raising funding levels, extending programme duration, and pursuing administrative simplification to maximise long-term impact and advance alignment with doctoral education across the European Education Area and European Research Area.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13650323/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149170629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-07eCollection Date: 2026-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.24615.1
Constant Vinatier, Guillaume Freyermuth, Margaux Millour, Gauthieu Le Bartz Lyan, Sarah Buet, Perrine Lunel, Nicolas Robillard, Florian Naudet, Mathieu Acher
{"title":"Core open science practices in major medical journals: development of an automatized tool based on a Large Language Model.","authors":"Constant Vinatier, Guillaume Freyermuth, Margaux Millour, Gauthieu Le Bartz Lyan, Sarah Buet, Perrine Lunel, Nicolas Robillard, Florian Naudet, Mathieu Acher","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.24615.1","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.24615.1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Open science practices are increasingly promoted to improve the transparency and reproducibility of biomedical research, and their large-scale monitoring has been identified as a priority by initiatives such as the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science. Existing automated tools cover only narrow subsets of practices. We developed and validated an automated tool, based on locally run open-weights large language models (LLMs), to extract a core set of 13 open science practices from published medical research articles.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We built a validation database of 303 research articles published in 2020-2021 in 10 major general medical journals, stratified across randomized controlled trials (RCTs), meta-analyses, and other designs. Duplicate manual extraction with expert adjudication served as the reference standard. The pipeline combined document conversion (GROBID), BM25-based chunk retrieval, and classification by three Llama models (3-8B, 3-70B, 3.3-70B) run entirely locally, with and without supplementary materials. Diagnostic performance (sensitivity, specificity, predictive values, F1) was computed against the reference standard.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Usable outputs were obtained for 301/303 articles. Performance was heterogeneous across criteria rather than across models: practices reported in standardized statements (conflicts of interest, funding, author contributions, data sharing, pre-registration, reporting guidelines) were extracted reliably (F1 ≥ 0.75 for at least one model), whereas rare or inconsistently reported practices (code sharing, statistical analysis plan, protocol sharing, ORCID, open access status, preprints) remained difficult regardless of model size. Study-type classification exceeded 0.90 on all metrics. Larger models improved several criteria at a 6.6-7.5× computational cost, and adding supplementary materials did not improve performance, mainly due to conversion failures.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>A fully local, open-weights LLM pipeline can reliably monitor a substantial subset of open science practices. Document conversion and layout heterogeneity, rather than language understanding, constitute the main barrier to scaling automated open science monitoring.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"6 ","pages":"326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13612992/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149066223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Open research EuropePub Date : 2026-09-02eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.21538.4
Flávio Ferreira, Kieran Dowd, Alan Coffey, Greet Cardon, Evelien Iliano, Jan Dygrýn, Jana Pelclová, António Labisa Palmeira, Eco J C de Geus
{"title":"Moderate and vigorous physical activity show intensity specific familial and interpersonal association patterns in 9-12-year-olds: A cross-sectional DE-PASS study.","authors":"Flávio Ferreira, Kieran Dowd, Alan Coffey, Greet Cardon, Evelien Iliano, Jan Dygrýn, Jana Pelclová, António Labisa Palmeira, Eco J C de Geus","doi":"10.12688/openreseurope.21538.4","DOIUrl":"10.12688/openreseurope.21538.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Research on children's physical activity often examines interpersonal associations but commonly aggregates MPA and VPA into a single MVPA outcome. This approach may obscure intensity-specific association patterns, particularly in intergenerational analyses.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This cross-sectional study used harmonized data from the European DE-PASS project, including children aged 9-12 years and one of their parents. Waist-worn accelerometry was used to assess MPA and VPA. Perceived parental, peer, and teacher support were measured using validated questionnaires. Intensity-specific associations between parent and child physical activity and between interpersonal support variables and children's activity were examined, including sex-stratified and socioeconomic sensitivity analyses.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Parent-child associations differed by activity intensity. Parent-child resemblance was numerically larger for MPA than for VPA, although the difference between intensities was not statistically significant when formally compared; associations involving VPA were weaker and less consistent. Parental co-participation support showed a weak positive association (which did not survive correction for multiple testing) with children's MPA, whereas peer and teacher support showed limited or no associations with children's activity at either intensity. Sex-stratified analyses indicated similar MPA associations across boys and girls, while associations for VPA were not observed among girls. Aggregating MPA and VPA into MVPA may obscure these intensity-specific patterns.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings indicate that interpersonal associations with children's physical activity differ by intensity and support examining MPA and VPA as intensity-specific outcomes in intergenerational analyses. Family-based approaches focusing on MPA may represent a pausible direction for future longitudinal and intervention research, while different strategies may be needed to address VPA.</p>","PeriodicalId":74359,"journal":{"name":"Open research Europe","volume":"5 ","pages":"331"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13586601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149009622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}