The vast majority of children aged 5 to 10 years do some extracurricular activity. Sporting activities entail benefits like increased self-esteem...
Sostenipra research group (ICTA-UAB) has studied the sewer networks of 68 Spanish cities to perform an environmental and economic analysis of the urban water cycle. The results show differences in electricity consumption between Atlantic and Mediterranean...
This doctoral thesis describes socio-residential patterns in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona and studies residential mobility flows in order to determine the migrant spaces within the metropolitan area. The sources are the Census of Population and...
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...
