Histórico

Which factors determine the success or failure of engineering companies, one of the most powerful sectors of any country’s economy? Researcher Mª Carmen Haro Domínguez, from the Department of Business Management of the University of Granada, has thrown some light...

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The use of antibiotics for the treatment and prevention of diseases and as food additives to increase the weight of animals is a very widespread practice in the field of Zootechnics. Its overuse can cause the appearance of waste products...

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What happens if a big earthquake hits Spain? It is probable that a lot of buildings built before 1974 (the year in which the seismic regulation PDS-74 was passed, obligating all architects to prepare buildings against earthquakes) and even some...

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A doctoral thesis written in the UGR has revealed that the sexist ideology itself, which is very deep-seated both in women and in men, is the best way to eliminate the differences within the couple. Elena Morales Marente, a researcher...

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José Rivera Utrilla and Manuel Sánchez Polo, who are both scientists from the department of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Granada, have designed a material that can dispose of 100 % of the halide ions such as bromide, iodide...

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The Spanish Ageing Research Network (Red Nacional de Investigación del Envejecimiento), funded by Carlos III Health Institute and headed by professor Darío Acuña Castroviejo, from the University of Granada (Universidad de Granada), is very near to achieving one of today’s...

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The University of Granada, in association with the Valle del Genal study group and the Archaeological Museum of Estepona, will protect one of the few natural oases still left on the Spanish coastline which nowadays is full of building work....

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Tissue Engineering is an emerging field in Histology and Biotechnology which aims to create tissue equivalents from cells obtained from previous cultures and biomaterials which serve as support or scaffolding. These equivalents are important for clinical therapeutics because they could...

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In the short term, the current town planning boom in Spain will be extremely damaging for the management of natural resources such as water and energy. This is shown in a PhD thesis written by Juan Manuel Santiago Zaragoza, a...

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Something as common as Christmas shopping can develop into a serious psychological problem, whose long-term consequences are disastrous. Nearly every Spaniard goes on a shopping spree during Christmas, but for one in every ten people this habit turns into a...

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