Lunes, 29 de Diciembre de 2003
A thesis of the University of Granada compares the possibilities of ecotourism in Cabo de Gata Coast and Bañados del Este (Uruguay)
A trip responsible with the environment to enjoy, appreciate and study nature at the time as promotes its preservation with a low environmental and cultural impact. This could be a definition of ecotourism, a practice that attracts more and more people, interested in giving their leisure time a different dimension, distant from the concept of massive tourism so frequent in coast areas.
It is about walking in the country, rambling, observing the fauna and flora typical of the place, en an activity that includes local population, who usually play a constructive function and are not kept out the ...
It is about walking in the country, rambling, observing the fauna and flora typical of the place, en an activity that includes local population, who usually play a constructive function and are not kept out the ...
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Social, Economic and Legal Sciences
Jueves, 18 de Diciembre de 2003
A UGR study tackles occupational hazard prevention in construction industry from a scientific and independent perspective
Construction sector reports the highest industry accident rate in the world of work. Construction workers are also those who perceive more clearly the lack of job safety. In all, 97.8% of them, according to the Department of Employment. In fact, one of every three work accidents takes place in a building site.
With things as they are, scientific work on the subject is almost non-existent. We have found an exception in the Higher Technical School of Civil Engineering of the UGR. The area of <...
With things as they are, scientific work on the subject is almost non-existent. We have found an exception in the Higher Technical School of Civil Engineering of the UGR. The area of <...
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Production Technologies
Jueves, 11 de Diciembre de 2003
Spanish university graduates are the Europeans who take more time to find a job
Spanish graduates are the Europeans who take more time to find their first job. The time of search reaches 11.6 months, which almost doubles the European average, 6.1 months. Likewise, 18 per cent of the Spanish graduates remain unemployed four years after finishing their course; whereas the European average, including Spain, is 5 per cent. The second country with more university unemployed persons is Italy, with 9 per cent; this is, half as many as Spain, according to the “Cheers” survey, a study coordinated by Ulrich Teichler, professor of the
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Social, Economic and Legal Sciences
Miércoles, 10 de Diciembre de 2003
A UGR group studies the uses of the alpechín (seepage from olives pressings) in the drug and food industries
The Paenibacillus jamilae bacterium is a microorganism capable of developing in alpeorujo, and was described as a new species in the year 2001. The interest of the research of the group directed by Alberto Ramos Cormenzana is due, to a great extent, to the jamilano, a substance produced by this bacterium. At the moment, according to Professor Ramos Cormenzana, “we are in conversations with the DOMCA Company, from Granada, to use it in the food sector”. In this sense, it could be used for giving consistence and texture to products like creme caramels or cremes.
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Food and Agriculture
Martes, 09 de Diciembre de 2003
Violence and cultural ideology, closely connected
Professor Martín Morillas, of Institute for Peace and Conflicts Studies of the Universidad de Granada, author of the book “The senses of violence”, which has just been published by the academic institution of Granada, says that “violence and ideology are closely connected, not just when producing violence but also antiviolence, and that ideologization is, very often, deeply irrational.”
According to professor José Manuel Martín Morillas, who has analysed in more than 320 pages the signs, concepts, words and speeches of violence as ...
According to professor José Manuel Martín Morillas, who has analysed in more than 320 pages the signs, concepts, words and speeches of violence as ...
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Social, Economic and Legal Sciences
Viernes, 05 de Diciembre de 2003
A research work warns of biodiversity loss in urban environment
According to the thesis “Antropization effects on natural systems in Greater Granada: the rural-urban gradient”, carried out by Francisco Tarragona Gómez, directed by Professors José Luis Rosúa Campos and José Antonio Hódar Correa, from the Department of Botany of the University of Granada, progressive loss of biodiversity and transformation of complex habitats in simple ones is already an evidence in cities.
According to the author of the thesis, Francisco Tarragona, “landscape around cities is determined by ...
According to the author of the thesis, Francisco Tarragona, “landscape around cities is determined by ...
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Natural Resources and Environment
Jueves, 04 de Diciembre de 2003
A UGR student publishes a book on the history of the Military Hospital of Granada
The book forms part of the work carried out in the Laboratory of Architectural Restoration, supervised by professor Javier Gallego Roca --author of the prologue of this volume—about the study and maintenance of Granada’s architectural heritage, especially the convents and palaces of the city, deals with the history of the building of the School of Architecture in the Campo del Príncipe, from the urbanization of the square in 1513 to present, emphasizing its different uses.
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Social, Economic and Legal Sciences
Miércoles, 03 de Diciembre de 2003
A study reveals a progressive loss of faith of citizens in the institutions
The general long-term trend to a loss of faith in the political institutions of European and American citizens is one of the variants of the results of a thesis carried out by Antonio Manuel Jaime Castillo and supervised by professor Julio Iglesias de Usell, of the department of Sociology of the Universidad de Granada. The researcher explains in his research work titled “The change of attitudes towards the State in Europe and the United States. A comparative study” that this tendency is due to the social and cultural changes occurred in the western countries in the last three decades.
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Social, Economic and Legal Sciences
Martes, 02 de Diciembre de 2003
UGR researchers warn of the biological activity of environmental pollutants and food containers
Human exposure to chemical substances, environmental pollutants, which interfere in hormonal function, is an actual and worrying fact. There is scientifical proof that some chemical compounds outside the organism, natural o synthetic, behave as if they were, interfering in hormona production, liberation, biological activity and removal through different action mechanisms. Humans are exposed to a complex mixture of such substances.
The Environmental Medicine-Food Disruptors research group of the University of Granada, directed by Professor Nicolás Olea Serrano, deals with basic ...
The Environmental Medicine-Food Disruptors research group of the University of Granada, directed by Professor Nicolás Olea Serrano, deals with basic ...
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Health Science and Technology
Lunes, 01 de Diciembre de 2003
UGR researchers apply microwave technology to detect from underground hidden objects to breast tumors
The group Electromagnetism of the University of Granada (UGR), supervised by Prof. Rafael Gómez Martín, is working in the design of microwave systems to detect hidden objects. Specifically, materials with earth penetration radars and breast tumors. The projects of these researchers have not only focused on the design of this technology, but also on its specific application. Thus, they have favoured the removal of some marble blocks to the Faculty of Sciences to analyse them and see their fissures and impurities. The final aim is to improve marble pit ...
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Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics