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. (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Viernes, 28 de Noviembre de 2003
The Fountain of Tears gave the first population of Granada something to drink
“A rural society of Medieval Mediterranean: the Nazari agricultural world” is a study on the Nazari rural world (centuries 13th-15th) of 218 pages and 19 plates and pictures and includes a glossary of Arab terms used in the text.Up to now –according to the author, Carmen Trillo—the Nazari agricultural field had been studied from the perspective of the Christian inhabitants, particularly of the land distribution among the new occupiers. This point of view allowed to (...)
Jueves, 27 de Noviembre de 2003
UGR specialists do research into the effects of antiretrovirals and the incidence of hepatitis C in AIDS patients
In the eighties and the nineties, it was frequent that viruses that cause AIDS and hepatitis C affected patients at the same time, since both of them are intravenously transmitted as people share syringes when injecting drugs. Some years ago patients died of AIDS prematurely; nowadays, with the new treatments, survival is improving and there is enough time for hepatitis C, which has a protracted course, to progress to advanced forms hat may be the (...)
Jueves, 27 de Noviembre de 2003
A group of psychologists of the UGR assesses the wrong ideas and attitudes which affect AIDS prevention in adolescents
The studies show that the young know what they have to do to prevent the disease, but the data point out that the HIV (human immunodeficiency virus, which provokes AIDS) is still transmitting in this age group. In fact, 53.8% of the new sick persons diagnosed with AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) are between 25 and 34 years old. This shows that many of them contracted the virus in the adolescence. In this sense, “information (...)
Martes, 25 de Noviembre de 2003
Chlorine and decibels
Essential analytical processes to know, and treat waters, solid waste and air pollution and such are showed in the book “Analytical Techniques in Environmental Engineering Control”; Professors Miguel Ángel Gómez Nieto and Ernesto Hontoria García, from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Granada, are responsible for the edition.The volume, about 300 pages long, is an essential guide --not only for professionals and specialists, but also for students and anyone interested in such (...)
Lunes, 24 de Noviembre de 2003
A team of the Universidad de Granada analyses the effects of ultraviolet radiation in the pools of the high summits of Sierra Nevada
This study allows to know the influence of the spectrum of solar radiation on water communities from four Andalusian ecosystems: pools of Padul, Antequera, Cordova and Sierra Nevada. The research work involves an experimental analysis “in situ” by using certain areas of these water systems where the quality of solar radiation will be manipulated and changes in living creatures will be analyzed.The research work is carried out in collaboration with the team Photobiology and Biotechnology (...)
Jueves, 20 de Noviembre de 2003
Medicines from inside
The “Manual of Practical Pharmacy”, by Mª Adolfina Ruiz Martínez, edited by the University of Granada in a 885 pages long volume, is an ambitious research and compilation work in which medicines, properties and active principles used in certain pathologies are studied, “by compillating --the author says— the different properties of these compounds from a pharmaceutical point of view.”Adolfina Ruiz Martínez says that practical pharmacy aims “to study the commonly-used medicines in some of the (...)
Lunes, 17 de Noviembre de 2003
Trypanosomas similar to those that cause the Yellow Spot disease have been isolated in tomato, cherimoya and mango fruit
In this research line, scientists work in the identification and diagnosis of the Phytomonas, parasitic protozoans of plants which have devastating consequences in American tropical crops (like coffee tree, coconut palm, oil palm, cassava plot) and is the cause of serious economic and ecological losses, due to that there is not a treatment against this kind of infection and they can only be intensively treated with insecticide.According to Professors Manuel Sánchez Moreno and Clotilde Marín (...)