The test, developed by a research team from the Rovira i Virgili University, is as reliable as traditional methods, gives a result in just 15 minutes and costs less than one euro
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14/02/2025
URV joins the Global Women’s Breakfast
The event, held this year in 78 countries, will reflect on the limitations and opportunities for women scientists in the field of chemistry
The research compares the performance of seven AI models with that of 400 humans in comprehension tasks and reveals a lack of stability and precision in the answers
According to data from the Fundación CyD Report, the URV is ranked second in terms of the number of its scientific papers cited in patents and third in the number of collaborations with companies
A URV research project has built a three-dimensional model of the human upper respiratory tract in order to reproduce intense respiratory episodes and has studied how particle nuclei are dispersed indoors so as to determine how to prevent the transmission of diseases by air
The study has been led by the URV’s Nutrition and Metabolic Health research group and its results will help to improve the prediction of Alzheimer’s disease and to design preventive and therapeutic strategies to mitigate its symptoms
Researchers from the URV and the University of Piraeus design a system to detect malware that modifies its behaviour to avoid detection
A team from the University together with 23 international experts promote a standardized method to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of these devices
The researcher, ICREA research professor at the URV, investigates chemical reactions conducted with electricity and the design of synthetic nanorobots for environmental and health applications
A study from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and ’Institut d’Investigació Sanitària Pere Virgili (IISPV) has investigated the patterns of supplementation and status in these vitamins in pregnant women, a lack of these vitamins is a risk factor for maternal and child health
Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia causes children to have blood cholesterol levels that are dangerous for their health. A study led by the URV has shown that a pill, lomitapide, can reduce cholesterol in these children by half
Over the next six years, the researcher from the URV’s Department of Chemical Engineering will co-lead a pioneering project to study how these circuits vary across different fly species and understand how they influence the insects’ behaviour
30/10/2024
Do we need to change the time?
The researcher from the Department of Economics, Josep Maria Arauzo, reflects on the clocks going back. He believes that a change is need at European-level to address problems that call into question the energy savings that are the main reason for changing the time
Stanford University updates its list of the world’s most important researchers with 2023 data. The URV has second highest rate of influential researchers among its permanent teaching and research staff out of all the universities in Spain and Catalonia
This discovery, made by a research team led by the URV, modifies the previously held conception of primitive fish and demonstrates that they were able to inhabit areas other than the seabed
The event brings together international experts in statistics, computer science, demography and law to find solutions that ensure privacy without compromising data quality
The University is the fourth-ranked in Catalonia and seventh in Spain in this classification, which evaluated the top 2,092 universities worldwide
Research by the URV’s Department of Electronic, Electrical and Automatic Engineering has produced an inexpensive and very practical instrument
A research project involving the URV has studied the presence of microplastics in bivalves cultured in Catalonia and has determined the effects of a purification process on the levels of these particles in mussels, oysters and clams
Around 250 researchers from the URV and local research centres have put forward fifty activities over two days aimed at bringing science closer to the public. Tomorrow at 12 p.m., there will be a workshop on microplastics in the Port of Tarragona