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Pilot program allows gypsy students to improve school performance and integration

Scholars from the University of Granada, Spain, and the National University of Comahue, Argentina, designed an educational intervention programme that achieved the integration of 100% of gypsy students in their Secondary School Centre, in the province of Granada. The programme ran for two academic years and was proven to be successful in improving gypsy students’… Seguir Leyendo Pilot program allows gypsy students to improve school performance and integration

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Researchers from the UGR recover and restore 1 of the 2 oldest copies of the Quran

Researchers from the UGR recover and restore 1 of the 2 oldest copies of the Quran On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Fundación Tres Culturas del Mediterráneo in September 30th, 2009, José Antonio Griñán, president of the Junta de Andalucía, presented a facsimile edition of a 13th century Andalusian Qur\’an at the… Seguir Leyendo Researchers from the UGR recover and restore 1 of the 2 oldest copies of the Quran

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Spanish scientists cooperate to fight against child trafficking in Haiti

Spanish scientists cooperate to fight against child trafficking in Haiti Spain\’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodríguez, has presented today a new cooperation program aimed at helping the human tragedy in Haiti. The project called DNA-Prokids in Haiti will enable to initially take 6.000 samples of genetic data from adults who have reported… Seguir Leyendo Spanish scientists cooperate to fight against child trafficking in Haiti

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Right-handed and left-handed people do not see the same bright side of things

Right-handed and left-handed people do not see the same bright side of things Despite the almost universal association of the right with life, right, positive and good things, and the left with death, inadequacy, negative and bad things, recent researches show that left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become a critical case in… Seguir Leyendo Right-handed and left-handed people do not see the same bright side of things

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Andalusian Parliament is the first European one with a documental search engine based on AI

Andalusian Parliament is the first European one with a documental search engine based on AI Researchers of the University of Granada have developed an intelligent engine searcher to catalogue the documentary collections of the Andalusian Parliament. This prototype, so called SEDA, is an information recovery system for structured documents, based on artificial intelligence techniques, to… Seguir Leyendo Andalusian Parliament is the first European one with a documental search engine based on AI

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Small faults in southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones

Small faults in southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones A team of Spanish scientists, studying recent, active deformations in the Baetic mountain range, have shown that the activity of smaller tectonic structures close to larger faults in the south east of the Iberian Peninsula partially offsets the risk of earthquakes. «There are large… Seguir Leyendo Small faults in southeast Spain reduce earthquake risk of larger ones

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Achieve early diagnosis of ocular pathologies such as keratitis and macular degeneration

Achieve early diagnosis of ocular pathologies such as keratitis and macular degeneration Researchers from the University of Granada have provided an early diagnosis of certain ocular diseases that are very common today, such as age-related macular degeneration and keratitis, by applying an existing optical technique that, nevertheless, had never before been used for this purpose.… Seguir Leyendo Achieve early diagnosis of ocular pathologies such as keratitis and macular degeneration

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Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage

Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage Researchers at the University of Granada have found a suicide gene, called \’gene E\’, which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. The importance of this new gene is that… Seguir Leyendo Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage

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The use of stem cells in regenerative medicine may also be detrimental for health

The use of stem cells in regenerative medicine may also be detrimental for health The use of stem cells in regenerative medicine is not always beneficial for human health, it may even be harmful according to a work done by the University of Granada and University of León. Scientists have demonstrated that transplantation of human… Seguir Leyendo The use of stem cells in regenerative medicine may also be detrimental for health

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Adolescents think school bullying ‘will keep on happening’ and resign themselves to it

Adolescents think school bullying \’will keep on happening\’ and resign themselves to it Most of the adolescents think that bullying in the school context «has always happened and will continue happening», and present «a negative, pessimistic and resigned attitude» towards this social problem, which makes difficult the intervention and leaves few hopes for its eradication.… Seguir Leyendo Adolescents think school bullying ‘will keep on happening’ and resign themselves to it