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A new generation of smart windows for energy saving

The Department of Chemistry of the UAB in collaboration with the ICN2 have developed a new class of smart windows of low cost and facile fabrication based on polymeric coatings loaded with organic wax nanoparticles. Thus, at low ambient temperatures or with little...

Is there a truly satisfactory mechanism to assign students to public schools?

Flip Klijn, researcher at the Institute for Economic Analysis (CSIC) and the Barcelona School of Economics (UAB-participated center), has studied the existence of fair mechanisms for assigning students to public schools, as an...

How did vaccination of pregnant women against pertussis affect hospitalizations of infants at Children's Hospital Vall d'Hebron?

In 2014, a vaccination program for pregnant women against whooping cough began in Catalonia due to the increase in hospitalizations of young infants for...

A framework for a just circular economy

This study, in which Mario Pansera from the Department of Business of the UAB participates, proposes to modify the circular economy approach by also including the perspective of social justice. This new paradigm, the just circular economy, would put the focus of the transition to this...

How can we guarantee privacy in federated learning algorithms?

A study in which the Department of Information and Communications Engineering of the UAB participates presents a new framework for machine learning algorithms in a distributed fashion that increases the privacy guarantees of the clients. To this end,...

Anxiety Relief with Tibetan Singing Bowl Sound-Based Treatment: A Promising Complementary Approach

A new study conducted with the collaboration of Institut de Neurociències (INc-UAB) researchers demonstrates that the use of Tibetan singing bowls is a promising approach for reducing anxiety...

Against the reductionism of creativity

Within the naturalistic paradigm, the Sociology of Culture sees creativity as a phenomenon with different definitions structured by factors such as gender, social class, and the national framework. Sociologically, creativity is an activity that takes place in the social world, far from...

MOTEMO-OUTDOOR: A teaching experience in the outdoor spaces of the UAB campus pandemic-proof

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, professors of the Psychology Degree at UAB implemented a new teaching experience in a first year subject. MOTEMO-OUTDOOR is an active learning program applied to three...

Transmedia communication, a new way to disseminate... the old?

Transmedia communication is based on creating narratives using different media and platforms. A study by Carme Ferré-Pavia, professor at UAB, and Diego Montoya Bermúdez (Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia) analyzes whether digital...