Viernes, 25 de Noviembre de 2005
The UGR pays homage to the historian José Szmolka Clares with a book written by more than sixty experts
In love with Granada and Ceuta, the places where he spent his childhood and adolescence, José Szmolka Clares was first a student and afterwards a professor of the Universidad de Granada, which today pays homage in a book with more than 900 pages, to his works as professor and researchers in the area of history.
This volume, which has just been published by the UGR Press, has been coordinated by professors Antonio Luis Cortés Peña, Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz and Francisco Sánchez-Montes González, who ...
This volume, which has just been published by the UGR Press, has been coordinated by professors Antonio Luis Cortés Peña, Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz and Francisco Sánchez-Montes González, who ...
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Miércoles, 19 de Octubre de 2005
Experts of the UGR detect new defining factors for extremely gifted children
The research group “Experimental and applied behaviour analysis” of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad de Granada has detected that the factor that sets extremely gifted children apart from the others is connected with their capacity to acquire knowledge in any context. This conclusion goes beyond the classis theories which base extremely gifted intelligence exclusively in the intelligence quotient.
The traditional studies that limit the concept of extremely gifted intelligence to the high marks in intelligence tests sometimes mistake extremely ...
The traditional studies that limit the concept of extremely gifted intelligence to the high marks in intelligence tests sometimes mistake extremely ...
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Viernes, 02 de Septiembre de 2005
The University of Granada publishes a book on “Europe and the new limits of private autonomy”
The unification of European contractual law has just started. However, the legislation from the Union influences deeply the internal laws of the member states, as undoubtedly Law is an instrument to favour determinate changes and protect certain interests.
The volume “Europe and the new limits of private autonomy” just published by the University de Granada, edited by Professor Juan Miguel Osorio Serrano, of the
The volume “Europe and the new limits of private autonomy” just published by the University de Granada, edited by Professor Juan Miguel Osorio Serrano, of the
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Lunes, 22 de Agosto de 2005
Researchers of the UGR develop a diagnostic method to determine gambling addiction
Family deception, hiding to be a gambler, gambling concern or the loss of personal relationships, work or education or labour opportunities are some of the unequivocal signs that alert to a gambling disorder. The professor of the University of Granada José María Salinas has developed in collaboration with the Federación Andaluza de Jugadores Rehabilitados (Andalusian Federation of Rehabilitated Gamblers) a diagnostic method to determine gambling addiction.
According to the professor of the department of ...
According to the professor of the department of ...
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Viernes, 01 de Julio de 2005
Five professors of the University of Granada publish a book on the relationship between peace and women
Three years of research work about the relationship between peace and women from the beginning of western history have become condensed in the book ”Women and peace: genesis and evolution of conceptualizations, symbols and practice”, published by the Institute of Women’s Affairs of the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs. The volume, written by the professors of the University of Granada, Dolores Mirón Pérez, Cándida Martínez López, Elena Dí...
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Lunes, 27 de Junio de 2005
Researchers of the UGR point out the lack of regulation on subcontracting as one of the main reasons for construction accidents
Chain subcontracting and the lack of prevention planning in the project stage are two of the main reasons for work accidents in the construction sector, according to a study developed by researchers of the University of Granada in collaboration with the University of Malaga. The project, which has been focused on the analysis of the in the transport infrastructure works of the Ministry for Public Works in Andalusia between August of 2001 and January of 2002, also points ...
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Lunes, 20 de Junio de 2005
Scientists of the UGR maintain that toys can foment aggressive conducts and communication problems in children
Toys can determine the personality of the child in future. War toys, isolationist or competitive during childhood influence the education of the child and can even foment aggressive conducts and communication problems. A study supervised by the professor of the department of Self-Expression Through Music, Plastic Art and Movement of the University of Granada, José Luis Conde, deals with all these aspects from the perspective of education and reveals some of the characteristics toys for children between 1 and 6 should have to prevent behaviour problems in ...
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Lunes, 13 de Junio de 2005
Scientists of the UGR warn that the young tend to a compulsive use of the Internet
Cyberspace, cybersex, cyberboyfriend or cyberfriendship are some of the terms that give evidence of the implantation of one of the most used communication systems by the young of the 21st century: Internet. But, to what extent a tool created with an eminently social function is keeping man away from society? How does the compulsive use of this tool affect the youngest? Which consequences will the abuse of this instrument have in the affective and social development of those who enjoy it? The professor of the University of Granada ...
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Jueves, 09 de Junio de 2005
Internet users remain faithful to web sites, according to a thesis of the University of Granada
After a decade of deceleration of digital economy, Internet has proved that it is possible to win users´ loyalty through the quality of the products and the contents. The results, obtained in a thesis of the University of Granada carried out by José Alberto Castañeda García and supervised by professor Teodoro Luque Martínez under the title “The behaviour of the Internet user: analysis of loyalty record and consequences, confirm this fact, besides the ...
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Martes, 07 de Junio de 2005
A research work of the University of Granada reveals two conceptions of Judaism through the Torah
Aurora Salvatierra Osorio, professor of Semitic Studies of the University of Granada, analyses the “Sefer ha-mebaqqes”, by Sem Tob ibn Falaquera, of the 13th century, and particularly an episode of this work, in which a believer and a Torah-wise man hold a dialogue through which two conceptions of Judaism can be extracted which that involve a different understanding of the biblical text.
Salvatierra explains that it is essential to deal with such episode of the “Sefer ha-mebaqqes” to consider the intellectual climate in which ...
Salvatierra explains that it is essential to deal with such episode of the “Sefer ha-mebaqqes” to consider the intellectual climate in which ...
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