A study by Universitat Rovira i Virgili shows that prioritising low-glycaemic-index foods, such as most fruits and whole grains, can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia
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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
The study demonstrates the need to improve policies that encourage the green economy in order to avoid environmental risks, monopolies or a lack of investment
Faculty members of ECO-SOS (URV) acknowledge the contributions of women to economics, from the early days of the discipline to the present. These contributions include the work of women who excelled in a male-dominated academy, those who hold managerial positions, and those who have disseminated knowledge from social movements
At times of high political, institutional or military uncertainty, prices become highly volatile (often rising) and the stock markets go into turmoil, as has happened with the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
Public administration actions that provide technological services to urban areas specialising in knowledge-intensive sectors help to attract new companies, improve the efficiency of existing ones and enhance the prestige of these areas
URV-led research analyses the relationship between high-growth companies, internationalization and the impact of digital technologies in the 27 member states of the EU and the United Kingdom.
Improving the communication skills of healthcare professionals and increasing the time they can devote to patients is a prerequisite for introducing shared decision-making in screening programmes. A proactive attitude from both sides would also facilitate its implementation
A study carried out by URV researchers in various districts of Barcelona confirms that the impact of the virus depends on the characteristics of each area
This drug is currently taken by one in four people to reduce cholesterol in the blood and thus prevent cardiovascular diseases. URV-IISPV researcher Lluís Masana has coordinated a study carried out at 19 Catalan hospitals during the first wave of the pandemic
An international team of archaeologists compiles recent research on the reconstruction of prehistoric technologies
Both tools have been found during this field-season at Unit TD08, and they are around 600,000 years old, a time characterized in Europe by a striking scarcity of human presence
The work is published in a scientific article led by Gizéh Rangel-de Lázaro of the Natural History Museum in London and an associated researcher of the IPHES-URV
It lived around 2.6 million years ago and was significantly larger than the extant members of the genus Golunda
The research opens the door to developing more natural drugs that are less toxic for patients with cancer. The results of this study led by researchers from the URV have been published in the journal Scientific Reports
Genetic material from an 800,000-year-old human fossil has been retrieved for the first time
This is not just a health crisis. It is a social and universal crisis
It has been revealed through the study of cut marks on fossils from Atapuerca and other European sites. The research has been led by Francesc Marginedas, a student of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution Degree at the Rovira i Virgili University
The journal Nature has reported the finding of a rhinoceros tooth at the site in Dmanisi, Georgia, where members of IPHES and the URV are working
Researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili research group Tecnatox have analysed the pollution of the sea, the marine sediment and the beaches of the Tarragona coast with microscopic plastic waste