Some nematodes that parasite on insects can cause their hosts to look halfway between a male and a female. In the case of Culicoides mosquitoes, males are feminized. Francesc...
This study aims to stimulate the discussion on the effect of working time on environmental pressures. By distinguishing between different time periods for developed and developing country groups respectively, we confirmed the significant relationship between...
Personality disorders are mental health problem whose prevalence in the general population is 10%, a much higher percentage compared to other mental disorders. The authors of this paper have conducted a study of nearly a thousand people whose...
The Study Group on Contemporary Catalan Translation (GETCC) studies the history of translations into Catalan. Since its formation, it has focused on the research into Catalan translations from linguistic, socio-linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives in different...
Overweight and obesity continue to rise due to unhealthy diets, especially in adolescences. A recent study on the effects of a cafeteria diet with regard to coping strategies in female rats has shown, on the one hand, that this type of diet is not only metabolically harmful but...
This thesis focuses its research on the study of the Tell Halula settlement in the Euphrates Valley, Syria, with the main objective of offering an overview of the life of the tools, from obtaining the raw materials to...
The brain can be conceptualized as a thermodynamic system and as an information processor. Consequently, brain activity can be modelled in terms of thermodynamics and cognitive activity in information theoretic terms. The...
Concepts such as environmental racism, popular epidemiology, environmentalism of the poor and the indigenous, biopiracy or food sovereignty, and many others, serve to describe and participate in ecological distribution conflicts. They are conflicts related to the extraction...
The links between climate change, economic development, and poverty reduction have gained increasing attention over recent years. However, most of the existing literature tends to focus on direct, short-run...
Jaume Sastre-Juan, post-doctoral researcher at the Centro Interuniversitário de História das...
