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Peruvians in Chile: the challenge of intercultural education
Peruvians form nowadays the group of largest presence in Chile. This phenomenon has caused a rise in discrimination, xenophobia and racism among the Chilean population. Therein lays the importance of intercultural education in our society; it is as a...
Biofuels: An Advisable Strategy?
Daniela Russi, Ph.D. Candidate of the UAB's Department of Economics and Economic History, has made a thesis to study the environmental consequences of the production and use of biofuels. She concludes that using public funding to support a large scale biofuel production is not an advisable strategy.
Cultural anthropologists find that the Darwinist explanation of sexual behavior have a lot of undesirable ideological slants. Machoism is an example. They are right, but only partly. Ambrosio Loyal Garcia exposes in his thesis how to detect these distorted visions about the adaptationist program. According to its conclusions we have to review...
The history of radioactivity, traditionally considered a mere antecedent of nuclear physics, in has in recent years been subject to a through a deeply historographical review. This new perspective takes into account the social, cultural and industrial implications of this science and serves as narrative framework in Néstor Herran?s thesis. In this...
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...
A new experimental model to study IBDs
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 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...
A Biophysical approach to the economic development
Economic development is related to the evolution of human systems as well as to interaction with the environment. Therefore, we need a biophysical analytical approach to complement the economic approach, to better understand its impact on the environment. This...
