Jueves, 05 de Junio de 2008
Scientists from Granada develop a new methodology for landfill management
Scientists of the University of Granada (Spain) have designed a novel and versatile environmental diagnostic method of landfills which is able to adapt to different places of the world and contributes to quantify the environmental impact.
The doctoral thesis "Landfill environmental diagnosis methodology. Adaptation to computerization using fuzzy techniques and its application in Andalusian landfills" has been carried out by Encarnación Garrido Vegara, under the supervision of Professors Montserrat Zamorano Toro and Ángel Ramos Ridao (Department of ...
The doctoral thesis "Landfill environmental diagnosis methodology. Adaptation to computerization using fuzzy techniques and its application in Andalusian landfills" has been carried out by Encarnación Garrido Vegara, under the supervision of Professors Montserrat Zamorano Toro and Ángel Ramos Ridao (Department of ...
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Martes, 03 de Junio de 2008
Post-menopausal therapy to improve women’s quality of life
The passing of time makes ovaries lose their ability to produce estrogens and progesterone, the hormones which regulate the menstrual cycle. In this stage, when menstruation cesses, there appear physical and psychical changes such as hot flushes, sweating, vaginal dryness, articulation and bone pain, headaches, insomnia, sadness, depression and loss of memory, known as climateric symptoms. In Spain, the average age for the cessation of the menstrual cycle is 50 years old. In the Western countries, about 17% of the population belongs to the post-menstrual group.
Against the discomfort derived from the cessation of menstruation, there are medical treatments which ...
Against the discomfort derived from the cessation of menstruation, there are medical treatments which ...
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Martes, 03 de Junio de 2008
Scientists identify for the first time the genes that cause blindness produced by corneal oedema
Scientists of the University of Granada (Spain) and the San Cecilio Teaching Hospital (Granada) have determined for the first time the causes for the blindness produced by corneal oedema and have identified the genes which cause it. The research group of Tissue Engineering of the UGR and the San Cecilio University Hospital, who has recently constructed the first complete artificial cornea, has established in a research work which has just been published in the journal ‘Experimental Eye Research’ new findings related to blindness caused by corneal ...
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Martes, 13 de Mayo de 2008
A new analysis method allows to find out the sex of the baby from the second month of pregnancy
The spin off of the University of Granada Lorgen, in collaboration with the Foetal Medicine Unit of the Maternity Hospital Virgen de las Nieves of Granada, has managed to develop a genetic trial that identifies the sex of the foetus from the eighth week of pregnancy separating the DNA found in the plasma of the pregnant woman.
This new finding has been tested through a clinical trial in 120 pregnant women, under the coordination Dr Sebastián Manzanares (Foetal Medicine Unit ...
This new finding has been tested through a clinical trial in 120 pregnant women, under the coordination Dr Sebastián Manzanares (Foetal Medicine Unit ...
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Lunes, 12 de Mayo de 2008
8 of every 10 Spanish adolescents who play a sport do not smoke, and more than 40% do not practice any physical activity
Sports and tobacco consumption are directly related, according to a study carried out by researchers of the University of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council-CSIC, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and Cantabria, and the Nuestra Señora de la Consolación School of Granada. This work has proved that those Spanish adolescents who play a sport do not smoke usually (8 of every 10), and more ...
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Miércoles, 16 de Abril de 2008
A scientific study confirms the usefulness of art therapy to treat mental disease
Elizaberta López Pérez, a Bachelor of Fine Arts and doctor in Painting at the University of Granada, has carried out one of the first studies in a Spanish university on the use of art therapy for the treatment of acute mental sick persons. Her work, based on psychoanalysis principles, starts from a basic premise: A work of art is a sign formed as a vital trace and its essential material is the humanity of the human being who leaves his memory in the world.
Art therapy or therapy ...
Art therapy or therapy ...
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Jueves, 10 de Abril de 2008
Fraud attempt in a paternity test modifies the action protocol in DNA tests
Researchers from all over the world have been carrying out paternity tests regularly. Samples are usually taken from mouth and saliva cells to carry out the DNA analysis.
The team of Dr José Antonio Lorente Acosta (director of the Laboratory of Genetic Identification of the University of Granada) carries out these forensic studies commissioned by the court in cases of paternity tests, for the identification of possible criminals or to carry out DNA databases (such as in the case of missing relatives).
The detection of a fraud attempts ...
The team of Dr José Antonio Lorente Acosta (director of the Laboratory of Genetic Identification of the University of Granada) carries out these forensic studies commissioned by the court in cases of paternity tests, for the identification of possible criminals or to carry out DNA databases (such as in the case of missing relatives).
The detection of a fraud attempts ...
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Martes, 08 de Abril de 2008
6 of every 100 patients die in hospital due to adverse drug reaction
Six of every 100 patients who die in hospital do so as a consequence of an adverse drug reaction or, in other words, a fatal reaction to medicines. Those are the conclusions of a research carried out at the Department of Medicine of the University of Granada, in collaboration with the Clinical Hospital San Cecilio of Granada, by Alfredo José Pardo Cabello and directed by Professors Emilio Puche Cañas (Department of Pharmacology
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Lunes, 10 de Marzo de 2008
One out of four obese school-aged children suffers metabolic syndrome forty years earlier than is typical
One out of every four obese school-aged children (6 to 12 years old) develops an illness typically associated with adults that are nearly 40 years old, metabolic syndrome, due to one clear reason: child obesity. It has been revealed in a study carried out by the department chair of the Institute of Food Nutrition and Technology of the University of Granada, Ángel Gil Hernández, who warns that this syndrome provokes arterial hypertension in children, insulin resistance, and, in ...
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Martes, 04 de Marzo de 2008
A study proves that children suffering from cancer, and their families, undergo social isolation
How does the suffering caused by childhood cancer develop? What feelings and worries arise? What are the patients’ needs and the experiences they live? And how does the disease affect the lives of both the children and their families? These are some of the issues analyzed by Pilar González Carrión, researcher from the Department of Social Anthropology of the University of Granada, in her doctoral thesis.
This study, led by Arturo Álvarez Roldán, aspired to understand the implications ...
This study, led by Arturo Álvarez Roldán, aspired to understand the implications ...
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