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A New Mental Treatment Based On Attention Improves Anxiety And Depression In Secondary Education Teachers

A New Mental Treatment Based On Attention Improves Anxiety And Depression In Secondary Education Teachers A doctoral thesis carried out at the University of Granada has proved that a mental training based on mindfulness –an emotional self-regulating tool that consists in focusing on what we are doing, thinking about or feeling at every moment- helps… Seguir Leyendo A New Mental Treatment Based On Attention Improves Anxiety And Depression In Secondary Education Teachers

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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 SE Spain Reduce Earthquake Risk Of Larger Ones

Small Faults In SE 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 SE Spain Reduce Earthquake Risk Of Larger Ones

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Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer, Allows Dosage Reduction

Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer, Allows Dosage Reduction Researchers at the University of Granada have found a suicide gene, called \’gene E\’, which leads to the death of tumor cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth. The importance of this new gene is that its use… Seguir Leyendo Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer, Allows Dosage Reduction

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Antioxidant Compounds Found In Foods Such As Olive Oil, Honey And Nuts

Antioxidant Compounds Found In Foods Such As Olive Oil, Honey And Nuts Scientists at the University of Granada have identified and characterized for the first time different antioxidant compounds from foods such as olive oil, honey, walnuts and a medicinal herb called Teucrium polium. They have used two new techniques, capillary electrophoresis and high resolution… Seguir Leyendo Antioxidant Compounds Found In Foods Such As Olive Oil, Honey And Nuts

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Stem Cell Use In Regenerative Medicine May Also Be Bad For Health

Stem Cell Use In Regenerative Medicine May Also Be Bad For Health Posted on: Friday, 13 November 2009, 07:51 CST 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… Seguir Leyendo Stem Cell Use In Regenerative Medicine May Also Be Bad For Health

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Consumption Of Certain Fish During Pregnancy Associated With Poorer Cognitive Performance

Consumption Of Certain Fish During Pregnancy Associated With Poorer Cognitive Performance Children who eat fish more than 3 times per week show a worse performance in the general cognitive, executive and perceptual-manipulative areas. Those with higher levels of exposure to mercury show a generalized delay in cognitive, memory and verbal areas. Mercury is a contaminant… Seguir Leyendo Consumption Of Certain Fish During Pregnancy Associated With Poorer Cognitive Performance

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Computer Simulator Allows To Design Military Strategies Based On Ants’ Movements

Computer Simulator Allows To Design Military Strategies Based On Ants\’ Movements A researcher of the University of Granada has designed a new system for the mobility of military troops within a battlefield based on the mechanisms used by ant colonies to move using a commercial videogame. This work, developed at the department of Computer Architecture… Seguir Leyendo Computer Simulator Allows To Design Military Strategies Based On Ants’ Movements

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Melatonin Consumption Regulates Sleep Better Than Somniferous

Melatonin Consumption Regulates Sleep Better Than Somniferous Melatonin, a natural hormone segregated by the own human body, is an excellent sleep regulator expected to replace somniferous, which are much more aggressive, to correct the sleep/wakefulness pace when human biological clock becomes altered. Those are the conclusions of a research work carried out by Darío Acuña-Castroviejo… Seguir Leyendo Melatonin Consumption Regulates Sleep Better Than Somniferous

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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