Researchers at the UAB's Department of Chemistry have developed a ruthenium catalyst supported in silica gel which is recyclable in alkene metathesis reactions. The immobilization of the catalyst allows its easy recycling and, thus, to save money, because catalysts are expensive and, although they are not...
Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that affects each year to 8.8 million people and produces about 1.4 million deaths worldwide, mostly in poor countries. The problem of its frequent association with HIV, has been added increasing antibiotic resistance mainly due to poor...
Moroccan Immigrants in the Pitiüses Islands are the focus of Ivone Puig Artigas's doctoral thesis, read at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at UAB. Puig has studied the factors that help or hinder integration and acculturation of the immigrants, their status and...
ICTA-UAB researchers have conducted a study to understand how learning strategies within a society change over the individual's life-cycle. This research has analyzed how honey collecting knowledge is transfered across generations in the Scheduled Tribe community of the Jenu Kuruba in south...
