• Border rescue

  Oberman, Kieran (Cambridge University Press - Core, 2019)

  Every year, thousands of refugees and other migrants die trying to cross borders. The dangers are many. Migrants die from exhaustion crossing deserts, freeze on mountain passes, drown at sea. One way states can save lives ...
• Anticipating the financial crisis: evidence from insider trading in banks

  Akin, Özlem; Marín Vigueras, José María; Peydró, José-Luis (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  Banking crises are recurrent phenomena, often induced by excessive bank risk-taking, which may be due to behavioural reasons (over-optimistic banks neglecting risks) and to conflicts of interest between bank shareholders/managers ...
• Evolutionary and functional patterns of shared gene neighbourhood in fungi

  Marcet Houben, Marina; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Nature Research, 2019)

  Gene clusters comprise genomically co-localized and potentially co-regulated genes that tend to be conserved across species. In eukaryotes, multiple examples of metabolic gene clusters are known, particularly among fungi ...
• Creating urban green infrastructure where it is needed - A spatial ecosystem service-based decision analysis of green roofs in Barcelona

  Langemeyer, Johannes; Wedgwood, Diego; McPhearson, Timon; Baró Porras, Francesc; Madsen, Anders L.; Barton, David N. (Elsevier, 2020)

  As cities face increasing pressure from densification trends, green roofs represent a valuable source of ecosystem services for residents of compact metropolises where available green space is scarce. However, to date ...
• The impact of e-procurement on institutional quality

  Mélon, Lela; Spruk, Rock (Emerald, 2020)

  We examine the contribution of e-procurement to the institutional quality. To this end, we exploit the early adoption of large-scale e-procurement platforms in three EU countries to consistently estimate the effect of ...
• Population health inequalities across and within european metropolitan areas through the lens of the EURO-HEALTHY Population Health Index

  Costa, Claudia; Santana, Paula; Dimitroulopoulou, Sani; Burström, Bo; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Schweikart, Jürgen; Dzúrová, Dagmar; Zangarini, Nicolás; Katsouyanni, Klea; Deboseree, Patrick; Freitas, Ângela; Mitsakou, Christina; Samoli, Evangelia; Vardoulakis, Sotiris; Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc, 1978-; Gotsens Miquel, Mercè, 1983-; Lustigova, Michala; Corman, Diana; Costa, Giuseppe (MDPI, 2019)

  The different geographical contexts seen in European metropolitan areas are reflected in the uneven distribution of health risk factors for the population. Accumulating evidence on multiple health determinants point to the ...
• Joseph Schumpeter Lecture: sharing a government

  Ventura, Jaume (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  This paper develops a simple theoretical framework to study a set of regions, each with its own regional government, who share a union or central government. These governments must decide whether to implement or discard a ...
• A theory of economic unions

  Gancia, Gino A.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M.; Ventura, Jaume (Elsevier, 2020)

  After decades of successful growth, economic unions have recently become the focus of heightened political controversy. To understand why, we develop a theoretical model of the effects on trade, income distribution and ...
• DNA methylation in inflammatory pathways modifies the association between BMI and adult-onset non-atopic asthma

  Jeong, Ayoung; Imboden, Medea; Ghantous, Akram; Novoloaca, Alexei; Carsin, Anne-Elie; Kogevinas, Manolis; Schindler, Christian; Lovison, Gianfranco; Herceg, Zdenko; Cuenin, Cyrille; Vermeulen, Roel; Jarvis, Deborah; Amaral, André F.S.; Kronenberg, Florian; Vineis, Paolo; Probst-Hensch, Nicole (MDPI, 2019)

  A high body mass (BMI) index has repeatedly been associated with non-atopic asthma, but the biological mechanism linking obesity to asthma is still poorly understood. We aimed to test the hypothesis that inflammation and/or ...
• Longitudinal association of changes in diet with changes in body weight and waist circumference in subjects at high cardiovascular risk: the PREDIMED trial

  Konieczna, Jadwiga; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; Pereira, Verónica; Fiol, Miquel; Razquin, Cristina; Estruch, Ramón; Asensio, Eva M.; Babio, Nancy; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Gómez Gracia, Enrique; Ros, Emilio; Lapetra, José; Arós, Fernando; Serra Majem, Lluís; Pintó Sala, Xavier; Toledo, Estefania; Sorlí, José V.; Bulló, Mònica; Schröder, Helmut, 1958-; Martínez-González, Miguel A. (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: Consumption of certain foods is associated with long-term weight gains and abdominal fat accumulation in healthy, middle-aged and young, non-obese participants. Whether the same foods might be associated with ...
• The paradox of global thrift

  Fornaro, Luca; Romei, Federica (American Economic Association, 2019)

  This paper describes a paradox of global thrift. Consider a world in which interest rates are low and monetary policy is constrained by the zero lower bound. Now imagine that governments implement prudential financial and ...
• Bathymetrical distribution and size structure of cold-water coral populations in the Cap de Creus and Lacaze-Duthiers canyons (northwestern Mediterranean)

  Gori, Andrea; Orejas, Covadonga; Madurell, Teresa; Bramanti, Lorenzo; Martins, M.; Quintanilla, Elena; Martí Puig, Patricia; Lo Iacono, Claudio; Puig, Pere; Requena Moreno, Susana; Greenacre, Michael; Gili, Josep Maria (European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2013)

  Submarine canyons are known as one of the seafloor morphological features where living cold-water coral (CWC) communities develop in the Mediterranean Sea. We investigated the CWC community of the two westernmost submarine ...
• Leisure-Time physical activity, sedentary behaviour and diet quality are associated with metabolic syndrome severity: the PREDIMED-Plus Study

  Gallardo-Alfaro, Laura; Fitó Colomer, Montserrat; Zomeño Fajardo, Maria Dolores; Pérez-Vega, Karla Alejandra; Tur, J. Antoni (MDPI, 2020)

  Healthy lifestyle factors, such as physical activity (PA) and Mediterranean diet (MD), decrease the likelihood of developing metabolic syndrome (MetS). The aim of this study was to report main lifestyle components and ...
• Manual metodológico: etnografía y análisis de datos

  Feixa, Carles, 1962-; Sánchez García, José; Soler-i-Martí, Roger; Ballesté Isern, Eduard; Hansen, Nele; Brisley, Adam (Universitat Pompeu FabraEuropean Research Council, 2020)

  Este documento comparte la perspectiva metodológica sobre etnografía y análisis de datos del proyecto TRANSGANG. El objetivo es proporcionar a los equipos de investigación locales una guía sobre la perspectiva etnográfica ...
• La (Trans) banda: notas y cuestiones para la investigación con grupos juveniles de calle

  Feixa, Carles, 1962-; Sánchez-García, José; Ballesté Isern, Eduard; Cano, Ana Belén; Masanet, Maria-Jose; Mecca, Margot; Oliver, Maria (Universitat Pompeu FabraEuropean Research Council, 2019)

  This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for. It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title ...
• Las Pandillas transnacionales como agentes de mediación: experiencias de resolución de conflictos en organizaciones juveniles callejeras en el sur de Europa, el norte de África y las Américas

  Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Universitat Pompeu FabraEuropean Research Council, 2019)

  TRANSGANG tiene como objetivo desarrollar un modelo renovado para el análisis de las pandillas juveniles transnacionales en la era global, en diálogo con dos clásicos de la etnografía urbana, publicados hace casi un siglo: ...
• Clinical presentation of young people (10-24 years old) with brain tumors: results from the international MOBI-Kids study

  Zumel Marne, María Ángela, 1984-; Castaño Vinyals, Gemma; Cardis, Elisabeth (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  Introduction: We used data from MOBI-Kids, a 14-country international collaborative case-control study of brain tumors (BTs), to study clinical characteristics of the tumors in older children (10 years or older), adolescents ...
• Adaptive conjunctive cognitive training (ACCT) in virtual reality for chronic stroke patients: a randomized controlled pilot trial

  Maier, Martina; Rubio Ballester, Belén; Leiva Bañuelos, Núria; Duarte Oller, Esther; Verschure, Paul F.M.J. (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Current evidence for the effectiveness of post-stroke cognitive rehabilitation is weak, possibly due to two reasons. First, patients typically express cognitive deficits in several domains. Therapies focusing ...
• Mucosa: a music content semantic annotator

  Celma Herrada, Òscar; Massaguer, Jordi; Cano Vila, Pedro; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Gouyon, Fabien; Koppenberger, Markus; García, David (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2005)

  MUCOSA (Music Content Semantic Annotator) is an environment for the annotation and generation of music metadata at different levels of abstraction. It is composed of three tiers: an annotation client that deals with ...
• Pro-sociality and strategic reasoning in economic decisions

  Arruñada, Benito; Casari, Marco; Pancotto, Francesca (Frontiers, 2015)

  We study the relationship between pro-social preferences and strategic reasoning. These aspects are typically studied separately but little is known about their joint distribution. In an experiment, for each participant ...

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