Some of those who suffer a severe or moderate head injury experience a ventricular dilatation in the brain that may cause unnecessary suffering to patients. UAB Scientists have studied the origin of these ventricular dilatation. They have concluded that...
A multidisciplinary research group has been awarded with a presitigius international prize. Their work consisted in to developed a satellites image fusion technique. This equipment, in wich he UAB collaborated, has win the 2006 Data Contest "Fusion of Multispectral and Panchromatic Images", organized by the Technical Committee of the IEEE...
The UAB has taken part in a research project that has just made a discovery which questions one of the paradigms of vertebrate immunology, by which phagocytosis (the ability to ”ingest” and destroy microbes) is exercised mainly by...
Josep Maria Folch i Torres (1880-1950) is seen as one of the major writers of Catalan literature and the creator of the Catalan Theatre for children. The author of this thesis studies the fundamental contribution of the writer to the literature and culture of Catalonia in the the first third of the 20th Century using a scientific and impartial...
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are two types of chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) of unknown origin, which are characterized by phases of activity and remission that vary depending on the patient. In this thesis, the author has defined a new experimental model of chronic...
The mood state with which we face stressful situations has a decisive influence on the strategies that we prepare to get through them and is not consequence of situations themselves, as was believed until now. This was the conclusion made by a UAB research team after monitoring more than 300 university students to examine how they prepared for...
It is detected an increase of the diabetes prevalence in patients infected by the Hepatitis C virus (HCV), as well as a greater prevalence of infection by HCV in diabetic people. UAB researchers from the Endocrinology Department of the Hospital Vall d'Hebron review the information available and study the mechanisms by which HCV triggers the...
The implantation of the Franco regime meant a deep restructuring in the Spanish society. In his doctoral thesis Javier Tébar submerged in the history of that time through a specific group: the Brotherhoods of Farmers and Cattle Rearers in Catalunya. In order to accomplish this research Tébar analysed the organization and the social...
In our chromosomes there are small disorders that generally do not affect us but that can be decisive for reproduction. This is the case for the so-called chromosomal inversions (a change in direction of a chromosomal fragment within the original chromosome). UAB researchers have studied these alterations and concluded that the larger a...
The Little Ice Age (LIA), a significate climatic cooling of the Northern Hemisphere between the end of Middle Ages and the 18th century, also ocurred in the tropics, and the more likely cause was a minimum in the solar cycles. This has been confirmed after...
