A macro-survey in more than one hundred countries aims to reveal and define a health problem that is of increasing concern for health and government institutions
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The research project of the Chemical Engineering Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili should help reduce the accumulation of plastics in the environment
Organised by the NEPHOS research group, the objective is to share advances to further increase the functionality and reduce the cost of semiconductor devices, such as chips
He is the first researcher in Spain to receive this European recognition in its more than thirty years of history. Fundamental factors in the award were his long professional career and his research on the effects of environmental and food pollutants on human health.
A hydroalcoholic gel with a QR code enables people to access to a test that assesses their ability to identify the smell of the product and eight symptoms of the disease. Using artificial intelligence techniques, it instantly evaluates the risk of having Covid. The first prototype of this system is being used in the Emergency Department of Hospital Sant Joan de Reus
A study carried out by the URV’s SeesLab research group has shown for the first time that machine learning algorithms do not always succeed in finding interpretable models from data
Video Games for Skills Training (VERSA) shows that students have better interdisciplinary skills and are more prepared for the world of work if they play commercial video games
The SMARTDEST project, led by the URV, has studied the conditions of the workforce in the tourism sector in Barcelona to determine the social consequences of intensive tourism in cities
A research group of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, led by Professor Domènec Puig, classifies types of breast cancer and predicts the likelihood of metastasis
A research team from the URV has developed a system that identifies feelings in evaluative language. The results of their research have been published in the scientific journal Mathematics