Miguel Alonso investigates in an article the perception of the Spanish Civil War which shared foreign combatants who fought alongside the rebel side. Through the analysis of this combatants memoirs, war diaries and letters, the author finds that besides...
Lecturer in Educational Policy Studies in the School of Education at University of Wisconsin - Madison. Out-standing anthropologist scholar, her main areas of interest are literacy studies, migration and educator professional development. One of her more relevant and recent contributions are the formalization of...
Graphene-based materials are an efficient, cheap, abundant and non-toxic alternative for catalysing the obtaining of hydrogen, which can be used as a removable fuel, through the photoinduced water splitting. A group from the Instituto de Ciencias de los Materiales (ICMAB) has...
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A team of paleontologists led by the Director of the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), David M. Alba, has reported in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology a 16-million-year-old pangolin femur from the site of Can...
In his thesis, Daniel Vera has studied the effect of Musaceae mixed-species plantations on improving the ecosystems degradation in Ecuador due to monocultures. He performed two comparative parallel studies at two sites in Ecuador, with...
A new ICTA-UAB project led by researcher Jordina Belmonte will study the effects of extreme meteorological events on the biological biodiversity present in the atmosphere in order to predict changes in the environment and possible affectations on...
Sergio Manrique, doctoral student of the Ph.D. in Economics, Management and Organization at the Business Department of UAB, and Dr. Carmen Pilar Martí-Ballester, associate professor of the same Department, have...
Calotriton arnoldi is a newt species which lives exclusively in the Montseny massif. With a very low number of representatives, isolated in subpopulations, one could expect the species to present genetic endogamy problems. However, studies investigating the genetic “health status” of...
Researchers from the Barcelona Laboratoy for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability (BCNUEJ) from the ICTA-UAB, in partnership with the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), will coordinate and...
The Composting Research Group (GICOM) from the Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering Departament at UAB has developed an aroma producing process by yeast solid state fermentation (SSF) of organic waste from the sugar industry. This process is cleaner and more economic than the...
