The interactions between national and global phenomena not only affect public policy areas such as finance, trade, climate change and migration, but also take place in education, a traditionally national policy area. At present, all schools in Brazil are committed to...
The increasing mobility of university students and teachers has led to the emergence of new scenarios of language contact, while English has become the lingua franca for international activities in higher education. Researchers from the UAB have participated in a European...
Criticism of the journalistic practices related to the audiovisual representation of migration led to the creation of ethical recommendations and entities such as the Mesa per a la Diversitat en l’Audiovisual to regulate...
This doctoral thesis examines the existence of a series of activities that sought to sound out the inner side of prisoners of the Model Prison of Barcelona with the aim of correcting the thinking and behaviour of inmates. Analysis of the registry of...
With the arrival of people from other parts of the Spanish state, the towns of Badalona, Santa Coloma de Gramenet and Sant Adrià de Besòs underwent a large population growth starting in the 1940s. The fight against substandard housing and lack of...
In recent years many devices have been developed to detect very small concentrations of elements, compounds or substances, such as biosensors, which are based on biological recognition systems. The authors of this study have developed a particular type of biosensor, that uses aptamers, for...
Relations between groups or communities, especially economic, political and socio-legal relations, are a current topic but have a long history. The Research Group on Population Contact and Immigration Matters in Ancient Greece...
A sedentary lifestyle could be considered one of the great epidemics of the century. In the past 100 years, technological advances and socioeconomic development have shaped society, eliminating much of the...
The study of the microstructure of the eggshell of Cairanoolithus conducted by Albert G. Sellés and Angel Galobart, both researchers at the ICP, reveals that this egg type does not belong to sauropod dinosaurs but to ankylosaurs, and probably to...
In 1995, the General Spatial Planning of Catalonia (PGTC) was passed in order to obtain a more balanced distribution of the territory’s population. Two decades later, the evaluation of the territorial and socio-environmental consequences of PGTC shows...
