Comparison of occupation between parents and descendants has traditionally been made using only the male population, thus obscuring women. From INE data for 2011, this article compares the results obtained when taking into account only fathers and sons,...
This doctoral thesis analyses internal migration in Colombia during the period 1964-2005, together with residential mobility, individual sociodemographic and contextual factors associated with this phenomenon, and spatial components...
Classical Swine Fever is a highly contagious viral disease which affects domestic and wild pigs. One of the main characteristics of the virus that produces it is its ability to induce persistence after...
Bacterial inclusion bodies are nanostructured protein materials produced in bacteria with biomedical applications such as protein drug release and biofunctional topographies. However, many enzymes with possible biomedical or...
Protein misfolding and aggregation is associated with numerous degenerative human disorders such as type-II-diabetes or Alzheimer’s disease. In previous research we identifieda threshold abovewhich a cell began to actively accumulate protein aggregates. The data obtained in this new...
The Research Group on Plurilingual Interaction and Teaching (GREIP) works to contribute to plurilingual education at all educational levels, with a global and inclusive approach from the perspectives of interactional sociolinguistics, conversation...
A study on the economic impact of the activities conducted by the entrepreneurial universities in the UK used data from 147 universities for the period 2005-2007. The results show the significant positive economic impact of the activities of...
This article investigates the relationship between inter-generational changes and social differences in sexual stature dimorphism and the evolution of living conditions in...
World Mental Health Day is held annually on the 10th of October, to raise awareness and inform on mental health issues and win support. At the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the group of researchers that make up the CORE-Mental Health network are...
The increasing amount of people over 65 years in Europe has led authorities and researchers to wonder insistently how to achieve a ‛successful aging’. New assistive technologies and new discourses on aging are emerging in response to this question. The answer does not only...
