Risk of cognitive decline progression is associated to increased blood-brain-barrier permeability: A longitudinal study in a memory unit clinical cohort. [PDF]
Abstract INTRODUCTION This study examined the relationship between blood‐brain‐barrier permeability (BBBp), measured by cerebrospinal fluid/serum albumin ratio (QAlb), and cognitive decline progression in a clinical cohort. METHODS This prospective observational study included 334 participants from the BIODEGMAR cohort.
Puig-Pijoan A +14 more
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Joan Maragall and the english world: Notes on literature, aesthetics and society from his personal library [PDF]
La figura de Joan Maragall ha estat molt estudiada com a pensador cívic, com a intel·lectual que es projecta des del Modernisme barceloní, com a crític atent als nous aires europeistes, i com a periodista compromès en la transformació de la Barcelona del
Coll-Vinent Puig, Sílvia
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October 2017 in Catalonia: The anarchists and the procés
Abstract The circumstances surrounding the call for a referendum on national independence in Catalonia in October 2017 led to high levels of collaboration between two, at first sight, unlikely partners: anarchists and Catalan independentists. Unlikely as this alliance may seem, it was well grounded on a number of factors: first of all, in the State ...
José A Gutiérrez, Jordi Martí Font
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Computational Models for Forecasting Electric Vehicle Energy Demand
Electric vehicles (EV) are fast becoming an integral part of our evolving society. There is a growing movement in advanced countries to replace gas‐driven vehicles with EVs towards cutting down pollution from emissions. When fully integrated into society, electric vehicles will share from energy available on the grid; therefore, it is important to ...
Mojeed O. Oyedeji +4 more
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Spirituality and joie de vivre: “Spiritual” by Joan Maragall vs. “Spiritual” by Josep Palau i Fabre [PDF]
Anàlisi d’alguns aspectes del «Cant espiritual» de Joan Maragall com són el fet d’interrogar-se sobre el sentit de la vida a partir de la bellesa del món i la celebració dels sentits.
Balaguer Pascual, Enric
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Our Man in Madrid: Bullfighting Enters the Political Arena
Abstract Four bullfighters stood as MPs in the April 2019 Spanish general elections: Miguel Abellán and Salvador Vega for the PP; and Serafín Martín and Pablo Ciprés for Vox. None was elected, although Abellán and Martín came close. The former's allegiance was rewarded with his political appointment by the PP's Isabel Díaz Ayuso as Director‐General of ...
Duncan Wheeler
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Abstract Scholars of participatory democracy have long noted dynamic interactions and transformations within and between political spaces that can foster (de)democratisation. At the heart of this dynamism lie (a) the processes through which top‐down “closed” spaces can create opportunities for rupture and democratic challenges and (b) vice‐versa, the ...
ADRIAN BUA, SONIA BUSSU
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Abstract Background We classified non‐demented European Prevention of Alzheimer's Dementia (EPAD) participants through the amyloid/tau/neurodegeneration (ATN) scheme and assessed their neuropsychological and imaging profiles. Materials and methods From 1500 EPAD participants, 312 were excluded.
Silvia Ingala +29 more
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URBAN PLANNING PARADOXES AND SOCIOSPATIAL FRAGMENTATION: The Superblock Barcelona Case (2016–2023)
Abstract Barcelona is an interesting living laboratory for studying the role of the local scale in urban planning. Since the early stages of what is known as the Barcelona Model (1979–1994), analysis of Barcelona's urban planning based on the creation of public spaces at a local scale has become a priority. More recently, micro‐scale urban planning has
Lluís Frago, Alejandro Morcuende
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Alzheimer's Disease and Small Vessel Disease Differentially Affect White Matter Microstructure
Abstract Objective Alzheimer's disease (AD) and cerebral small vessel disease (cSVD), the two most common causes of dementia, are characterized by white matter (WM) alterations diverging from the physiological changes occurring in healthy aging. Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a valuable tool to quantify WM integrity non‐invasively and identify the ...
Mario Tranfa +25 more
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