With the title ‘Algunas de las nuevas miradas’, this session featured contributions from some of the new lecturers at DAFiTS: Elisa Alegre, Daniel Malet and Laia Ventura.
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Shibata took part in a conference as part of the MyRobot project, which uses his therapeutic robot to improve the quality of life of elderly people living in care homes
This is the objective of the second edition of an international conference being held by the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy, and Social Work at the URV
The five projects focus on improving the lifestyle of the young elderly, overcoming social exclusion through education, creating polymers that help reduce waste production, studying the consequences of femicides on the victims’ sons and daughters and designing a nutritional support programme for people with dementia
The URV is taking part in this European project, which for four years will engage in a variety of projects to achieve systemic change in maternity care.
A URV researcher has analysed the implications of these tools on the experience of users. The main conclusion is that they are still close to the traditional gender binary system
The project aims to improve the legislation and intervention that conceal the consequences of gender-based violence
The index Scholarly Publishers Indicators, which assesses the prestige of academic publishers, ranks URV Publications in third position in absolute terms in the state as a whole and in first position in relation to other university press
Developed by a research team from the URV and the UOC, this tool was designed so that users of psychotropic drugs could have access to mechanisms of participation and take co-responsibility for their treatment
Lagarde is known for her scientific and political contributions to the struggle against feminicides
30 groups from all over Europe competed to design a digital application to improve accessibility for the disabled
The informative workshops in Reus and the Antoni de Martí i Franquès scientific tour of the city complete a weekend devoted to scientific communication.
To find out, the researchers have generated a 3D model, the first of its kind in this type of geological structures
Despite currently having a small-scale excavated area, it has been possible to distinguish several moments of occupation and, within them, to identify areas of activity
The series “Meet our fellows” highlights the profile of the PhD fellows, their research projects and their experience at the URV as beneficiaries of a grant from the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
Its name, Canis orcensis, is dedicated to the Andalusian town where it has been found
Some of the samples were obtained from Atapuerca, a confirmed international benchmark for genetic studies of the first hominin populations
The presence of macaques in northern Africa dates back to the upper Miocene, about 6-7 million years ago. Shortly thereafter (about 5,5 million years ago), first representatives are found in Europe (Spain and Italy), which migrated on during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Now, an article published in Journal of Human Evolution and led by research staff from the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (ICP), the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA), the Universitat Rovira i Virgili
This is revealed by a new site, yielding the oldest stone tools documented to date in the Oldupai Gorge
First author is Marina Lozano (IPHES-URV), who has published a paper about this research in the Journal of Archaeological Science