Browsing by Author "Jimenez C."

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    Asthma programmes in diverse regions of the world: Challenges, successes and lessons learnt
    (2011) Lalloo U.G.; Walters R.D.; Adachi M.; De Guia T.; Emelyanov A.; Fritscher C.C.; Hong J.; Jimenez C.; King G.G.; Lin J.; Loaiza A.; Nadeau G.; Neffen H.; Sekerel B.E.; Yorgancioǧlu A.; Zar H.J.
    International surveys have demonstrated that asthma is still underdiagnosed and undertreated in many parts of the world. Despite improvements in the standard of asthma care delivered in many areas, as evidenced by improved global asthma mortality data, much information on projects and programmes undertaken in resource-limited regions of the world is not in the public domain. The aim of this report is to review projects and programmes in diverse regions around the world so that health care providers, planners and consumers may draw on the successes, failures and lessons learnt. Such real world experiences may contribute to achieving Global Initiative for Asthma goals of asthma control. Asthma projects and programmes in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, South Africa and Turkey were discussed by a group of experts in asthma care, the Advancing Asthma Care Network, from their respective countries, over a course of three satellite meetings in 2010. Collective analyses consistently identified low rates of dissemination and implementation of national and international treatment guidelines, low levels of continuing medical education and training of primary health care professionals and access and distribution of inhaled corticosteroids to be major barriers that are critical to the overall success of a national asthma management programme. In the less developed asthma programmes, under-recognition and undertreatment further limited the success of the programmes. Evidence from well-established national asthma management programmes suggests that establishment of a successful programme entails a logical progression through specific developmental stages, starting with political/stakeholder endorsement and commitment, followed by epidemiological evaluation, evaluation of disease burden, evaluation of access to care and best therapy, and finally optimisation and maintenance therapy for individual patients. © 2011 The Union.
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    Unpublished mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species
    (Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre, 2020) Katsanevakis S.; Poursanidis D.; Hoffman R.; Rizgalla J.; Rothman S.B.-S.; Levitt-Barmats Y.; Hadjioannou L.; Trkov D.; Garmendia J.M.; Rizzo M.; Bartolo A.G.; Bariche M.; Tomas F.; Kleitou P.; Schembri P.J.; Kletou D.; Tiralongo F.; Pergent C.; Pergent G.; Azzurro E.; Bilecenoglu M.; Lodola A.; Ballesteros E.; Gerovasileiou V.; Verlaque M.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi A.; Kytinou E.; Dailianis T.; Ferrario J.; Crocetta F.; Jimenez C.; Evans J.; Ragkousis M.; Lipej L.; Borg J.A.; Dimitriadis C.; Chatzigeorgiou G.; Albano P.G.; Kalogirou S.; Bazairi H.; Espinosa F.; Ben Souissi J.; Tsiamis K.; Badalamenti F.; Langeneck J.; Noel P.; Deidun A.; Marchini A.; Skouradakis G.; Royo L.; Sini M.; Bianchi C.N.; Sghaier Y.-R.; Ghanem R.; Doumpas N.; Zaouali J.; Tsirintanis K.; Papadakis O.; Morri C.; Çinar M.E.; Terrados J.; Insacco G.; Zava B.; Soufi-Kechaou E.; Piazzi L.; Ben Amor K.O.; Andriotis E.; Gambi M.C.; Ben Amor M.M.; Garrabou J.; Linares C.; Fortič A.; Digenis M.; Cebrian E.; Fourt M.; Zotou M.; Castriota L.; Di Martino V.; Rosso A.; Pipitone C.; Falautano M.; García M.; Zakhama-Sraieb R.; Khamassi F.; Mannino A.M.; Ktari M.H.; Kosma I.; Rifi M.; Karachle P.K.; Yapıcı S.; Bos A.R.; Balistreri P.; Esplá A.A.R.; Tempesti J.; Inglese O.; Giovos I.; Damalas D.; Benhissoune S.; Huseyinoglu M.F.; Rjiba-Bahri W.; Santamaría J.; Orlando-Bonaca M.; Izquierdo A.; Stamouli C.; Montefalcone M.; Cerim H.; Golo R.; Tsioli S.; Orfanidis S.; Michailidis N.; Gaglioti M.; Taşkın E.; Mancuso E.; Žunec A.; Cvitković I.; Filiz H.; Sanfilippo R.; Siapatis A.; Mavrič B.; Karaa S.; Türker A.; Monniot F.; Verdura J.; El Ouamari N.; Selfati M.; Zenetos A.
    Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien species are a prerequisite for assessing the spatio-temporal dynamics of biological invasions, their invasive potential, and the magnitude of their impacts. However, with the exception of first records on a country level or wider regions, observations of species presence tend to remain unpublished, buried in scattered repositories or in the personal databases of experts. Through an initiative to collect, harmonize and make such unpublished data for marine alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea available, a large dataset comprising 5376 records was created. It includes records of 239 alien or cryptogenic taxa (192 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 23 Chromista) from 19 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of records, the most reported Phyla in descending order were Chordata, Mollusca, Chlorophyta, Arthropoda, and Rhodophyta. The most recorded species was Caulerpa cylindracea, followed by Siganus luridus, Magallana sp. (cf. gigas or angulata) and Pterois miles. The dataset includes records from 1972 to 2020, with the highest number of records observed in 2018. Among the records of the dataset, Dictyota acutiloba is a first record for the Mediterranean Sea. Nine first country records are also included: the alga Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla, the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus, and the cleaner shrimp Urocaridella pulchella from Israel; the sponge Paraleucilla magna from Libya and Slovenia; the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus from Cyprus; the bryozoan Celleporaria vermiformis and the polychaetes Prionospio depauperata and Notomastus aberans from Malta. © Katsanevakis et al.
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    Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species
    (Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre, 2023) Ragkousis M.; Zenetos A.; Souissi J.B.; Hoffman R.; Ghanem R.; Taşkın E.; Muresan M.; Karpova E.; Slynko E.; Dağlı E.; Fortič A.; Surugiu V.; Mačić V.; Trkov D.; Bahri W.R.; Tsiamis K.; Ramos-Espla A.A.; Petović S.; Ferrario J.; Marchini A.; Sconfietti R.; Ammar I.; Alo A.; Edelist D.; Begun T.; Teaca A.; Tari G.; Huseyinoglu M.F.; Karachle P.K.; Dogrammatzi A.; Apostolopoulos G.A.; Crocetta F.; Kytinou E.; Digenis M.; Skouradakis G.; Tomas F.; Bariche M.; Kaminas A.; Konida K.; Deidun A.; Marrone A.; Fraschetti S.; Mihneva V.; Bianchi C.N.; Morri C.; Gerovasileiou V.; Lipej L.; Sini M.; Mangialajo L.; Zotou M.; Skolka M.; Azzurro E.; Vella A.; Dailianis T.; Grigoriou P.; Jimenez C.; Tsirintanis K.; Oikonomidis G.; Mancini E.; Papadakis O.; Di Martino V.; Chatzigeorgiou G.; Amor M.M.B.; Vernadou E.; Arda Y.; Minasidis V.; Azzola A.; Hadjioannou L.; Montefalcone M.; Baldacchino Y.; Stancanelli B.; Bonifazi A.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi A.; Smeraldo S.; Evans J.; Kondylatos G.; Falautano M.; Castriota L.; Lamprou A.; Rizgalla J.; Mavrič B.; Papadimitriou E.; Kersting D.K.; Schembri P.J.; Khamassi F.; Nikolaou A.; Ballesteros E.; Dimitriadis C.; García M.; Anastasiadis A.; Kalogirou S.; Nalmpanti M.; Altamirano M.; Grech D.; Mavrouleas D.; Vella N.; Darmanin S.A.; Dragičević B.; Poursanidis D.; Tsatiris A.; Corsini-Foka M.; Orlando- Bonaca M.; Insacco G.; Tsalapatis A.; Scannella D.; Tiralongo F.; Verdura J.; Vitale S.; Valsamidis M.A.; Bazairi H.; Mannino A.M.; Virgili R.; Coccia F.C.; Zrelli R.E.; Nikolidakis S.; Rabaoui L.J.; Yapıcı S.; Zaouali J.; Zava B.; Agrotis N.; Bilecenoglu M.; Çinar M.E.; Moraitis M.L.; Albano P.G.; Kaddouri N.; Kosma I.; Falsone F.; Fossati V.; Geraci M.L.; Zamuda L.L.; Mancuso F.P.; Petrou A.; Resaikos V.; Aydın İ.; Batjakas I.E.; Bos A.R.; Ouamari N.E.; Giallongo G.; Kampouris T.E.; Amor K.O.-B.; Doğan A.; Dulčić J.; Okudan E.Ş.; Rilov G.; Rosso A.; Royo L.; Selfati M.; Gaglioti M.; Giakoumi S.; Kousteni V.; Micu D.; Nicoară M.; Orfanidis S.; Papatheodoulou M.; Tempesti J.; Triantaphyllou M.; Tsourou T.; Yalgın F.; Baltag E.; Cerim H.; Filiz H.; Georgiadis C.G.; Papadamakis P.; Rammou D.L.; Samargiu M.D.; Sciuto F.; Sinopoli M.; Türker A.; Chiarore A.; Tamburello L.; Karray S.; Hassen B.; Katsanevakis S.
    To enrich spatio-temporal information on the distribution of alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, a collective effort by 173 marine scientists was made to provide unpublished records and make them open access to the scientific community. Through this effort, we collected and harmonized a dataset of 12,649 records. It includes 247 taxa, of which 217 are Animalia, 25 Plantae and 5 Chromista, from 23 countries surrounding the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Chordata was the most abundant taxonomic group, followed by Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Annelida. In terms of species records, Siganus luridus, Siganus rivulatus, Saurida lessepsianus, Pterois miles, Upeneus moluccensis, Charybdis (Archias) longicollis, and Caulerpa cylindracea were the most numerous. The temporal distribution of the records ranges from 1973 to 2022, with 44% of the records in 2020–2021. Lethrinus borbonicus is reported for the first time in the Mediterranean Sea, while Pomatoschistus quagga, Caulerpa cylindracea, Grateloupia turuturu, and Misophria pallida are first records for the Black Sea; Kapraunia schneideri is recorded for the second time in the Mediterranean and for the first time in Israel; Prionospio depauperata and Pseudonereis anomala are reported for the first time from the Sea of Marmara. Many first country records are also included, namely: Amathia verticillata (Montenegro), Ampithoe valida (Italy), Antithamnion amphigeneum (Greece), Clavelina oblonga (Tunisia and Slovenia), Dendostrea cf. folium (Syria), Epinephelus fasciatus (Tunisia), Ganonema farinosum (Montenegro), Macrorhynchia philippina (Tunisia), Marenzelleria neglecta (Romania), Paratapes textilis (Tunisia), and Botrylloides diegensis (Tunisia). © Ragkousis et al.