The Research Group on Plurilingual Interaction and Teaching (GREIP) works to contribute to plurilingual education at all educational levels, with a global and inclusive approach from the perspectives of interactional sociolinguistics, conversation...
A study on the economic impact of the activities conducted by the entrepreneurial universities in the UK used data from 147 universities for the period 2005-2007. The results show the significant positive economic impact of the activities of...
This article investigates the relationship between inter-generational changes and social differences in sexual stature dimorphism and the evolution of living conditions in...
World Mental Health Day is held annually on the 10th of October, to raise awareness and inform on mental health issues and win support. At the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, the group of researchers that make up the CORE-Mental Health network are...
The increasing amount of people over 65 years in Europe has led authorities and researchers to wonder insistently how to achieve a ‛successful aging’. New assistive technologies and new discourses on aging are emerging in response to this question. The answer does not only...
Physical inactivity is associated with a higher prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease or type 2 diabetes mellitus, and risk factors such as overweight, obesity and high blood pressure. This study evaluated the...
The aim of this research was to demonstrate that food intake, in addition to digestive and cognitive responses, also has a hedonic component. We therefore conducted a study with 42 healthy subjects, to whom the response to intake of 240 ml of broth or water was measured....
Energy Harvesting, Solar Oxides, Siterm and Fuelium were chosen from among over 200 proposals based on innovative solutions in the field of energy efficiency and energy saving.
Cathy Yule, an Australian aquatic ecologist, is professor of the Faculty of Sciences at Monash University Malaysia. She specialises in the biology of peat swamp forests. These regions are unique and of global importance given their large biodiversity and role as carbon storers, but are now being seriously threatened.
In 2007, various organisations launched the "Beyond GDP" campaign, which aimed to assess complex issues such as social welfare, sustainability and economic development using more indicators, and which resulted in an overwhelming production of sustainability indicators.The authors of this...
