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The distributional implications of a carbon tax in the transportation sector in Barcelona: a micro-econometric simulation analysis of the potential effects on different socio-economic groups and its policy implications

Furriol, Lluís; Navarro, Daniel; Pérez, Marc; Pla, Eduard (2023-10-02)

Climate change and the possible tools to mitigate it have been at the center of public debate for the last decades. One of the most interesting instruments is the carbon tax. Besides its effectiveness, the distributional ...
From acting to activism: unveiling the construction of the distant sufferer: a critical analysis of celebrity advocacy’s representation of the distant sufferer

Pennington, Madeleine; Rodríguez-Reche, Cristina (2023-10-02)

This paper delves into the convergence of racialisation and feminisation within the framework of Celebrity Advocacy (CA) as it relates to the portrayal of distant sufferers. While previous discussions of CA have explored ...
Traumatic stress symptoms among Spanish healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective study

Portillo-Van Diest, Ana; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; Alayo, Itxaso; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Amigo, Franco; Amann, Benedikt Lorenz; Rius, Cristina; Sanz, Ferran; Serra, Consol; Pérez Solá, Victor; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Mortier, Philippe; MINDCOVID Working group (Cambridge University Press, 2023)

Aim: To investigate the occurrence of traumatic stress symptoms (TSS) among healthcare workers active during the COVID-19 pandemic and to obtain insight as to which pandemic-related stressful experiences are associated ...
How do cancer-related mutations affect the oligomerisation state of the p53 tetramerisation domain?

Nicolini, Federica; Todorovski, Toni; Puig, Eduard; Díaz-Lobo, Mireia; Vilaseca, Marta; García, Jesús; Andreu Martínez, David; Giralt, Ernest (MDPI, 2023)

Tumour suppressor p53 plays a key role in the development of cancer and has therefore been widely studied in recent decades. While it is well known that p53 is biologically active as a tetramer, the tetramerisation mechanism ...
An ethical framework for human embryology with embryo models

Rivron, Nicolas C.; Martínez Arias, Alfonso; Pera, Martin F.; Moris, Naomi; M'hamdi, Hafez Ismaili (Elsevier, 2023)

A human embryo's legal definition and its entitlement to protection vary greatly worldwide. Recently, human pluripotent stem cells have been used to form in vitro models of early embryos that have challenged legal definitions ...