Introduction: This study applies bibliometric methods to analyse 853 papers on Latin dance in the field of sports, covering publications in the Web of Science database from 1989 to 2024. The aim was to identify development trends, research focuses, and collaboration patterns within this domain. Methods: A bibliometric analysis was conducted using quantitative indicators such as publication trends, country and institutional distributions, thematic clusters, and co-authorship networks. Data were extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection, and analyses were performed using Bibliometrix. Results: The results indicate steady growth in this field, with the United States and the United Kingdom maintaining leading positions, while countries such as China and South Korea have shown rapid development in recent years. Research has mainly focused on 2 themes: dance therapy for psychological intervention and sports rehabilitation for elderly health, with recent extensions to topics such as Down syndrome intervention and cultural identity. Collaboration networks reveal a core-periphery structure centred on leading scholars, with limited participation from developing countries. Conclusions: Overall, Latin dance research has established a preliminary framework in health promotion and psychological healing, with growing global participation.Further work is required to strengthen cross-cultural perspectives, refine intervention mechanisms, and enhance international cooperation.
Over the last few decades, the globe is facing tremendous effects due to the unnecessary piling of municipal solid waste among which food waste holds a greater portion. This practice not only affects the environment in terms of generating greenhouse gas emissions but when left dumped in landfills will also trigger poverty and malnutrition. This review focuses on the global trend in food waste management strategies involved in the effective utilization of food waste to produce various value-added products in a microbiology aspect, thereby diminishing the negative impacts caused by the unnecessary side effects of non-renewable energy sources. The review also detailed the efficiency of microorganisms in the production of various bio-energies as well. Further, recent attempts to the exploitation of genetically modified microorganisms in producing value-added products were enlisted. This also attempted to address food waste valorization techniques, the combined applications of various processes for an enhanced yield of different compounds, and addressed various challenges. Further, the current challenges involved in various processes and the effective measures to tackle them in the future have been addressed. Thus, the present review has successfully addressed the circular bio-economy in food waste valorization.
Rumba turning involves continuous whole-body reorientation, but discrete kinematic summaries do not localise where consistent directional deviations occur across the turn. This exploratory study examined rotational-progress-dependent patterns of pelvic obliquity, thoracic frontal-plane angle, and right support-foot progression angle during the initial 360° Rumba spiral turn in highly trained adolescent female Latin dancers. Fifteen dancers aged 14-16 years completed five valid trials each (75 trials). Three-dimensional kinematics were recorded using a 10-camera Vicon system at 100 Hz. For each trial, accumulated pelvic rotation was used to define rotational progress, and the three outcome waveforms were resampled to 101 points across 0%-100% of the turn. The five trials from each participant were averaged point by point, yielding 15 participant-level representative waveforms per outcome. Two-tailed one-sample statistical parametric mapping (SPM{t}) tests identified intervals in which group mean waveforms differed from their corresponding Plug-in Gait model-defined 0° references, using a Bonferroni-adjusted primary α = 0.0167 across the three outcomes. Pelvic obliquity showed a positive deviation at 11.3%-47.2% and a negative deviation at 56.5%-97.3% of rotational progress. Thoracic frontal-plane angle showed a negative deviation at 13.2%-41.9% and positive deviations at 57.6%-83.0% and 85.7%-92.0%. Right support-foot progression angle showed negative, positive, and negative deviations at 0.0%-4.8%, 10.4%-49.1%, and 56.2%-100.0%, respectively. Sensitivity analyses without the additional across-outcome Bonferroni adjustment preserved the principal directional patterns, with only modest changes in cluster extent and continuity. These findings identify where, across rotational progress, the measured segmental orientations consistently departed from model-defined references during a standardised Rumba spiral turn, without implying normative targets of optimal dance technique.