Using the popular, multi-platform, Catalan children's channel Super3 as a case study, a doctoral thesis at the UAB has studied interactivity in children's television and in Internet content. This research has tried to see how children interact with this type of entertainment...
Despite the ideological prejudices that for many years have accompanied the analysis of the work of Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, this doctoral thesis at the Department of Philosophy of the UAB shows how Menéndez Pelayo's contributions to Spanish...
The process by which plants are used to remove metals from contaminated soils is called phytoremediation. Phytoremediation plants must have a very high tolerance to metals, must be resistant to various factors and should not transfer the metals to their leaves,...
Researchers at the Department of Neurology of the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Badalona have developed a new protocol to treat relapses of multiple sclerosis. This protocol classifies the intensity of relapses as mild, moderate or severe, according to their score on the EDSS...
In October 2003, several representatives of European institutions and a group of scientists inaugurated the first MAGIC telescope. MAGIC was realized by a collaboration of few European institutes, mostly Spanish, Italian and German. It was...
In democratic societies, mass media have been defined as the "fourth power" because of their social influence and their function as a counterbalance to possible abuses by the other powers. In this sense, the media are seen as a tool for invigorating the...
