Manuel Jiménez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620828 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manuel Jiménez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiménez |
| SIGNATURE | JIMENEZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0497-1480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten: A Collaborative Multilingual Family Involvement Program Created by Teachers, Pediatricians, and Parents
Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten is a Spanish/English multilingual family involvement program that is grounded in sociocultural and family literacy theories since it focuses on health and literacy development. The program’s development reflects a collaborative partnership of teachers, pediatricians, families, and an advisory board of multilingual parents dedicated to preparing preschoolers and their families for kindergarten. Health themes are …
Chronic health conditions and adolescents’ social connectedness
This study investigated associations between chronic developmental/behavioral and physical health conditions and social connectedness of adolescents using rich population-based data from a national U.S. birth cohort study. Potentially disabling health conditions were reported by caregivers and categorized by our team as developmental/behavioral or physical. Social connectedness was assessed using a validated scale that measured adolescents' repor…
Community partners’ experiences with medical students’ service-learning activities
Background: The perspectives of community partners about their experiences working with medical students and how service-learning experiences affect the communities they serve remains understudied. Objective: This study addressed gaps in the literature by reporting on in-depth interviews conducted with community partners who participated in a well-established medical school service-learning programme. Design: A qualitative study was undertaken us…
Connect: Cultivating Academic–Community Partnerships to Address Our Communities' Complex Needs During Public Health Crises
This model demonstrates how academic/community partnerships can work together during public health emergencies to develop sustainable relationships
Psychological Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Dentists in Latin America’s Epicenter: São Paulo, Brazil
The present study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of stress and anxiety symptoms among dentists during the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. A structured questionnaire was sent electronically to 93,280 dentists with active registration in the Dental Council of São Paulo, Brazil, enquiring about information regarding the first-wave peak period in Brazil. Descriptive analyses of background characteristics, p…
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home Covid-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021
At-home COVID-19 testing offers convenience and safety advantages. We evaluated at-home testing in Black and Latino communities through an intervention comparing community-based organization (CBO) and health care organization (HCO) outreach. From May through December 2021, 1100 participants were recruited, 94% through CBOs. The odds of COVID-19 test requests and completions were significantly higher in the HCO arm. The results showed disparities …
A New Methodology to Study Street Accessibility: A Case Study of Avila (Spain)
Taking into account that accessibility is one of the most strategic and determining factors in economic models and that accessibility and tourism affect each other, we can say that the study and improvement of one of them involved the development of the other. Using network analysis, this study presents an algorithm for labeling the difficulty of the streets of a city using different accessibility parameters. We combine network structure and acce…
Is a letterbox always a letterbox? The role of affordances in guiding perceptual categorization
The Role of Experience, Perceived Match Importance, and Anxiety on Cortisol Response in an Official Esports Competition
The aim of the present study was to analyse the neuroendocrine stress response, psychological anxiety response, and perceived match importance (PMI) between expert and non-expert control gamers in an official competitive context. We analyzed, in 25 expert esports players and 20 control participants, modifications in their somatic anxiety, cognitive anxiety, self-confidence, PMI, and cortisol in a League of Legends competition. We found how expert…
Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten: A Bilingual Family Literacy Program in Primary Care
Low-Cost Robotic Guide Based on a Motor Imagery Brain–Computer Interface for Arm Assisted Rehabilitation
Motor imagery has been suggested as an efficient alternative to improve the rehabilitation process of affected limbs. In this study, a low-cost robotic guide is implemented so that linear position can be controlled via the user's motor imagination of movement intention. The patient can use this device to move the arm attached to the guide according to their own intentions. The first objective of this study was to check the feasibility and safety …
Challenging the Top Player: A Preliminary Study on Testosterone Response to An Official Chess Tournament
According to the Challenge Hypothesis, high levels of testosterone (T) are associated with status-seeking behaviors, especially in competitive situations. However, there have not been many studies about rivals' social status and pre-competition neuroendocrine responses. The aim of this study was to analyze whether the participants in a chess tournament showed different pre-match testosterone and cortisol levels depending on differences in ELO (i.…
Competition Seriousness and Competition Level Modulate Testosterone and Cortisol Responses in Soccer Players
This study aimed to analyze the modulating effect of competition seriousness and competition level in the testosterone and cortisol responses in professional soccer player. Ninety five (95) soccer players were included in this study (professional, n = 39; semiprofessional, n = 27; amateur, n = 29) before and after training, friendly game and official games. Repeated measures ANOVA showed higher testosterone levels (F (1,89) = 134, p 2 p = 0.75) i…
Differences in Psychoneuroendocrine Stress Responses of High-Level Swimmers Depending on Autocratic and Democratic Coaching Style
The aim of the present study was to analyse differences in the psychoneuroendocrine stress responses of high-level, young swimmers depending on whether an autocratic and democratic coaching style was applied. Modifications in cortisol and the motivational climate of 18 young swimmers (15.3 ± 1.86 years, 10 females and 8 males) were analysed before and after two training sessions with equivalent training loads but directed by two coaches applying …
Engaging a Community Leader to Enhance Preparation for In-Depth Interviews With Community Members
In-depth interviews allow for rich exploration of stakeholders' experiences. Preparation for in-depth interviews generally consists of literature reviews and researchers' review of their own culture and understanding of a topic. We supplemented these strategies with serial "ethnographic interviews" with a single community leader to enhance our preparation for community-based in-depth interviews with Latina, immigrant, Spanish-speaking mothers and…
Infant Health and Future Childhood Adversity
Adverse Experiences in Early Childhood and Kindergarten Outcomes
OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood and teacher-reported academic and behavioral problems in kindergarten. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national urban birth cohort. Subjects with primary caregiver-reported information on ACE exposures ascertained at 5 years and teacher-reported outcomes at the end of the chil…
Global Justice Movement: Cross-National and Transnational Perspectives
Southern European Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective
Differential national responses to the European Union's environmental policy have led to the idea that two worlds of environmentalism exist in Europe. In its harsh version, Europe is divided into North and South, with the South suffering from a Mediterranean syndrome. Southern European countries are viewed as environmental laggards, a perception attributed to, among other factors, a weak civil society intertwined with political systems characteri…
Mobilizations against the Iraq War in Spain: Background, Participants and Electoral Implications
This paper aims to explain the nature of recent mobilizations against the Iraq War in Spain and their electoral implications. It first examines the evolution of the organizational features of Spanish peace movements since their emergence during the transition, linking them to both the broader evolution of the (leftist) social movements sector and the changing political context. The relationship between previous peace mobilization experiences and …
The Environmental Movement in Spain: A Growing Force of Contention
This paper analyses the evolution of the environmental movement in Spain, its organizational origins during the transition to democracy, its consolidation during the 1990s and its configuration as a central actor in the country's current contestation panorama. The movement's specific pattern of evolution is interpreted as the result of the interplay between political context (political opportunities) and movement identity features. The main concl…
Cuando la protesta importa electoralmente. El perfil sociodemográfico y político de los manifestantes contra la guerra de Irak
Aquest treball analitza el perfil sociodemogràfic i les actituds i els comportaments polítics dels participants en la manifestació contra la guerra de l’Iraq del 15 de febrer de 2003. L’objectiu d’aquesta anàlisi és respondre a tres preguntes: qui es va manifestar?, quines van ser les motivacions per fer-ho?, i quines van ser les implicacions electorals de la qüestió de l’Iraq des de la perspectiva dels manifestants? La resposta a aquestes pregun…
Le blanchiment de dollars en Colombie par le biais des Sanandresitos
Gonzalez Jorge Ivan, Jimenez Manuel. Le blanchiment de dollars en Colombie par le biais des Sanandresitos. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 40, n°158, 1999. pp. 347-354
Consolidation through institutionalisation? Dilemmas of the Spanish environmental movement in the 1990s
Opportunities offered by the political context have decisively influenced the evolution of the Spanish environmental movement, in relation to both changes in its political tactics and strategies and the consolidation of its organisational base. The configuration of diverse environmental policy arenas has facilitated access of environmental movement organisations (EMOs) to the decision‐making sphere. Consequently, conventional forms of participati…
Consolidation through institutionalisation? Dilemmas of the Spanish environmental movement in the 1990s
Opportunities offered by the political context have decisively influenced the evolution of the Spanish environmental movement, in relation to both changes in its political tactics and strategies and the consolidation of its organisational base. The configuration of diverse environmental policy arenas has facilitated access of environmental movement organisations (EMOs) to the decision‐making sphere. Consequently, conventional forms of participati…
Engaging a Community Leader to Enhance Preparation for In-Depth Interviews With Community Members
In-depth interviews allow for rich exploration of stakeholders' experiences. Preparation for in-depth interviews generally consists of literature reviews and researchers' review of their own culture and understanding of a topic. We supplemented these strategies with serial "ethnographic interviews" with a single community leader to enhance our preparation for community-based in-depth interviews with Latina, immigrant, Spanish-speaking mothers and…
Southern European Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective
Differential national responses to the European Union's environmental policy have led to the idea that two worlds of environmentalism exist in Europe. In its harsh version, Europe is divided into North and South, with the South suffering from a Mediterranean syndrome. Southern European countries are viewed as environmental laggards, a perception attributed to, among other factors, a weak civil society intertwined with political systems characteri…
Mobilizations against the Iraq War in Spain: Background, Participants and Electoral Implications
This paper aims to explain the nature of recent mobilizations against the Iraq War in Spain and their electoral implications. It first examines the evolution of the organizational features of Spanish peace movements since their emergence during the transition, linking them to both the broader evolution of the (leftist) social movements sector and the changing political context. The relationship between previous peace mobilization experiences and …
The Environmental Movement in Spain: A Growing Force of Contention
This paper analyses the evolution of the environmental movement in Spain, its organizational origins during the transition to democracy, its consolidation during the 1990s and its configuration as a central actor in the country's current contestation panorama. The movement's specific pattern of evolution is interpreted as the result of the interplay between political context (political opportunities) and movement identity features. The main concl…
Le blanchiment de dollars en Colombie par le biais des Sanandresitos
Gonzalez Jorge Ivan, Jimenez Manuel. Le blanchiment de dollars en Colombie par le biais des Sanandresitos. In: Tiers-Monde, tome 40, n°158, 1999. pp. 347-354
Consolidation through institutionalisation? Dilemmas of the Spanish environmental movement in the 1990s
Opportunities offered by the political context have decisively influenced the evolution of the Spanish environmental movement, in relation to both changes in its political tactics and strategies and the consolidation of its organisational base. The configuration of diverse environmental policy arenas has facilitated access of environmental movement organisations (EMOs) to the decision‐making sphere. Consequently, conventional forms of participati…
Cuando la protesta importa electoralmente. El perfil sociodemográfico y político de los manifestantes contra la guerra de Irak
Aquest treball analitza el perfil sociodemogràfic i les actituds i els comportaments polítics dels participants en la manifestació contra la guerra de l’Iraq del 15 de febrer de 2003. L’objectiu d’aquesta anàlisi és respondre a tres preguntes: qui es va manifestar?, quines van ser les motivacions per fer-ho?, i quines van ser les implicacions electorals de la qüestió de l’Iraq des de la perspectiva dels manifestants? La resposta a aquestes pregun…
Mobilizations against the Iraq War in Spain: Background, Participants and Electoral Implications
This paper aims to explain the nature of recent mobilizations against the Iraq War in Spain and their electoral implications. It first examines the evolution of the organizational features of Spanish peace movements since their emergence during the transition, linking them to both the broader evolution of the (leftist) social movements sector and the changing political context. The relationship between previous peace mobilization experiences and …
The Environmental Movement in Spain: A Growing Force of Contention
This paper analyses the evolution of the environmental movement in Spain, its organizational origins during the transition to democracy, its consolidation during the 1990s and its configuration as a central actor in the country's current contestation panorama. The movement's specific pattern of evolution is interpreted as the result of the interplay between political context (political opportunities) and movement identity features. The main concl…
Southern European Environmental Movements in Comparative Perspective
Differential national responses to the European Union's environmental policy have led to the idea that two worlds of environmentalism exist in Europe. In its harsh version, Europe is divided into North and South, with the South suffering from a Mediterranean syndrome. Southern European countries are viewed as environmental laggards, a perception attributed to, among other factors, a weak civil society intertwined with political systems characteri…
Global Justice Movement: Cross-National and Transnational Perspectives
Adverse Experiences in Early Childhood and Kindergarten Outcomes
OBJECTIVE: To examine associations between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in early childhood and teacher-reported academic and behavioral problems in kindergarten. METHODS: We conducted a secondary analysis of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a national urban birth cohort. Subjects with primary caregiver-reported information on ACE exposures ascertained at 5 years and teacher-reported outcomes at the end of the chil…
Infant Health and Future Childhood Adversity
Differences in Psychoneuroendocrine Stress Responses of High-Level Swimmers Depending on Autocratic and Democratic Coaching Style
The aim of the present study was to analyse differences in the psychoneuroendocrine stress responses of high-level, young swimmers depending on whether an autocratic and democratic coaching style was applied. Modifications in cortisol and the motivational climate of 18 young swimmers (15.3 ± 1.86 years, 10 females and 8 males) were analysed before and after two training sessions with equivalent training loads but directed by two coaches applying …
Engaging a Community Leader to Enhance Preparation for In-Depth Interviews With Community Members
In-depth interviews allow for rich exploration of stakeholders' experiences. Preparation for in-depth interviews generally consists of literature reviews and researchers' review of their own culture and understanding of a topic. We supplemented these strategies with serial "ethnographic interviews" with a single community leader to enhance our preparation for community-based in-depth interviews with Latina, immigrant, Spanish-speaking mothers and…
Low-Cost Robotic Guide Based on a Motor Imagery Brain–Computer Interface for Arm Assisted Rehabilitation
Motor imagery has been suggested as an efficient alternative to improve the rehabilitation process of affected limbs. In this study, a low-cost robotic guide is implemented so that linear position can be controlled via the user's motor imagination of movement intention. The patient can use this device to move the arm attached to the guide according to their own intentions. The first objective of this study was to check the feasibility and safety …
Challenging the Top Player: A Preliminary Study on Testosterone Response to An Official Chess Tournament
According to the Challenge Hypothesis, high levels of testosterone (T) are associated with status-seeking behaviors, especially in competitive situations. However, there have not been many studies about rivals' social status and pre-competition neuroendocrine responses. The aim of this study was to analyze whether the participants in a chess tournament showed different pre-match testosterone and cortisol levels depending on differences in ELO (i.…
Competition Seriousness and Competition Level Modulate Testosterone and Cortisol Responses in Soccer Players
This study aimed to analyze the modulating effect of competition seriousness and competition level in the testosterone and cortisol responses in professional soccer player. Ninety five (95) soccer players were included in this study (professional, n = 39; semiprofessional, n = 27; amateur, n = 29) before and after training, friendly game and official games. Repeated measures ANOVA showed higher testosterone levels (F (1,89) = 134, p 2 p = 0.75) i…
A New Methodology to Study Street Accessibility: A Case Study of Avila (Spain)
Taking into account that accessibility is one of the most strategic and determining factors in economic models and that accessibility and tourism affect each other, we can say that the study and improvement of one of them involved the development of the other. Using network analysis, this study presents an algorithm for labeling the difficulty of the streets of a city using different accessibility parameters. We combine network structure and acce…
Is a letterbox always a letterbox? The role of affordances in guiding perceptual categorization
The Role of Experience, Perceived Match Importance, and Anxiety on Cortisol Response in an Official Esports Competition
The aim of the present study was to analyse the neuroendocrine stress response, psychological anxiety response, and perceived match importance (PMI) between expert and non-expert control gamers in an official competitive context. We analyzed, in 25 expert esports players and 20 control participants, modifications in their somatic anxiety, cognitive anxiety, self-confidence, PMI, and cortisol in a League of Legends competition. We found how expert…
Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten: A Bilingual Family Literacy Program in Primary Care
Psychological Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Dentists in Latin America’s Epicenter: São Paulo, Brazil
The present study aimed to assess the prevalence and associated factors of stress and anxiety symptoms among dentists during the COVID-19 pandemic in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. A structured questionnaire was sent electronically to 93,280 dentists with active registration in the Dental Council of São Paulo, Brazil, enquiring about information regarding the first-wave peak period in Brazil. Descriptive analyses of background characteristics, p…
Community- Versus Health Care Organization–Based Approaches to Expanding At-Home Covid-19 Testing in Black and Latino Communities, New Jersey, 2021
At-home COVID-19 testing offers convenience and safety advantages. We evaluated at-home testing in Black and Latino communities through an intervention comparing community-based organization (CBO) and health care organization (HCO) outreach. From May through December 2021, 1100 participants were recruited, 94% through CBOs. The odds of COVID-19 test requests and completions were significantly higher in the HCO arm. The results showed disparities …
Community partners’ experiences with medical students’ service-learning activities
Background: The perspectives of community partners about their experiences working with medical students and how service-learning experiences affect the communities they serve remains understudied. Objective: This study addressed gaps in the literature by reporting on in-depth interviews conducted with community partners who participated in a well-established medical school service-learning programme. Design: A qualitative study was undertaken us…
Connect: Cultivating Academic–Community Partnerships to Address Our Communities' Complex Needs During Public Health Crises
This model demonstrates how academic/community partnerships can work together during public health emergencies to develop sustainable relationships
Chronic health conditions and adolescents’ social connectedness
This study investigated associations between chronic developmental/behavioral and physical health conditions and social connectedness of adolescents using rich population-based data from a national U.S. birth cohort study. Potentially disabling health conditions were reported by caregivers and categorized by our team as developmental/behavioral or physical. Social connectedness was assessed using a validated scale that measured adolescents' repor…
Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten: A Collaborative Multilingual Family Involvement Program Created by Teachers, Pediatricians, and Parents
Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten is a Spanish/English multilingual family involvement program that is grounded in sociocultural and family literacy theories since it focuses on health and literacy development. The program’s development reflects a collaborative partnership of teachers, pediatricians, families, and an advisory board of multilingual parents dedicated to preparing preschoolers and their families for kindergarten. Health themes are …
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Logistic regression (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Medical education (4 works) · Nursing (4 works)