How many times have we heard about the difficulty of reconciling work and family life? Ethnographic research (funded by the EOI) carried out before and during the economic crisis of 2008 in 20 Spanish SMEs in the new economy sector analyses...
A comparative study of the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of a group of adolescent survivors of a Central Nervous System (CNS) Tumour, with a survivor group of other neoplasms has shown that having had a CNS Tumour has a negative impact on HRQoL issues. These...
A new study from the UAB has identified the most ancient case of isolated bilateral macrodontia of mandibular second premolars reported to date. It is a relatively uncommon dental malformation that has been found in...
We have developed novel hybrid microrobots for wastewater treatment. These microrobots consist of a ferromagnetic piece stacked onto a porous semiconducting segment containing photocatalytic properties. These microstructures were found to be...
Through the study of the vegetation succession and sedimentological, geochemical and geomorphological data from the Lake of Banyoles (Girona, Spain), one study has shown that the Middle Holocene was marked by drying and cooling oscillations and by...
Specialists in oceanography and the study of climate change have studied fossil remains of planktonic foraminifera from the Gulf of Mexico with the aim of investigating temperature, salinity and oceanic productivity during...
A study onstorage systems of drinking water in 147 municipal deposits confirms that the material characteristics of these are the main contributors to their environmental impact, rather than transportation or the installation system. The storage capacity,...
Researchers from UAB describe for the first time, in a work published in PLOS ONE, a model of behaviour of a bacterial colony that shows how the colony protects itself against toxic substances, like antibiotics, during the colonisation process. The...
Researchers from the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA) of UAB, in collaboration with the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the University of Bologna,...
The tradition of burning the dead and placing their remains and those of the funeral pyre in ceramic urns spread in the second millennium BC throughout Europe, from the Carpathians and the Danube valley to the northeast of the...
