The brain is one of the organs that generate most research, especially because there is still a lack of understanding of its operating mechanisms. Two examples are the cause and development of neurodegenerative diseases, widespread in Western countries, which cause a significant loss of quality of...
Josep Call is Director of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) and a lecturer in the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews (UK). He specialises in the study of the cognitive processes that distinguish humans from...
Josep Call, head of the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and lecturer at the University of Saint Andrews. A graduate in Psychology from the UAB, he delivered the lecture...
Selenium is an essential element for human beings. One of the most important sources of selenium is wheat, which obtains selenium from the soil. A study in hydroponics explains how the two main inorganic forms behave and shows that low concentrations of selenium act as a...
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...
Fernando Rodríguez de Fonseca (IBIMA Institute - Regional University Hospital of Malaga) gave a seminar at the UAB Institut de Neurociències (INC)...
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...
