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    • Understanding patients’ experiences of the wish to hasten death: an updated and expanded systematic review and meta-ethnography 

      Rodríguez-Prat, Andrea; Balaguer Santamaría, Albert; Booth, Andrew; Monforte Royo, Cristina (BMJ Open, 2017)
      Objectives: Patients with advanced disease sometimes express a wish to hasten death (WTHD). In 2012, we published a systematic review and meta-ethnography of qualitative studies examining the experience ...
    • Understanding peace, conflict and security through alternative narratives 

      Mateos, Oscar; Rodríguez, Ana Isabel (Tripodos, 2021)
      We do not need alternatives so much as we need an alternative thinking of alternatives” (Santos, 2014: 70). In recent years, critical peace and security studies have called into question the conflict ...
    • Understanding perceived availability and importance of tobacco control interventions to inform European adoption of a UK economic model: a cross-sectional study 

      Kulchaitanaroaj, Puttarin; Kaló, Zoltán; West, Robert; Cheung, Kei Long; Evers, Silvia; Vokó, Zoltán; Hiligsmann, Mickael; de Vries, Hein; Owen, Lesley; Trapero-Bertran, Marta; Leidl, Reiner; Pokhrel, Subhash (BMC Health Services Research, 2018-02-14)
      Background: The evidence on the extent to which stakeholders in different European countries agree with availability and importance of tobacco-control interventions is limited. This study assessed and ...
    • Unemployment in Japan: a look at the lost decade 

      Agnese, Pablo; Sala, Hector (Asia Pacific Journal of Economics and Business, 2008)
      The ‘lost decade’ in Japan was a period of steep surge in unemployment. It started in 1991 with the unemployment rate at 2.1%, and ended in 2002 when it reached a historical maximum of 5.5%. To assess ...
    • Unha nova base de datos para a romanística a partir do "Atlas Linguistique Roman" 

      Valls, Esteve; GONZÁLEZ-GONZÁLEZ, MANUEL (Verba: Anuario Galego de Filoloxía, 2014)
      O Centro Ramón Piñeiro para a Investigación en Humanidades (CRPIH) está a elaborar, a partir da explotación do "Atlas Linguistique Roman" (ALiR), unha gran base de datos informatizada con información ...
    • Unilateral hypertrophy of the inner lip 

      Cutrone, Mario; Valerio, Enrico; Grimalt Santacana, Ramon (Journal of Biomedical and Allied Research, 2019-09-30)
      Variations on normality on the vulvar aspect have generated many difficulties among general pediatricians.The great amount of aesthetical perfection has led to an increasing number of adolescents seeking ...
    • Unitat de Bibliometria 

      Servei de Biblioteca - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Instagram - Servei de Biblioteca (@bibliouic) - UIC Barcelona, 2021-11-23)
      UIC Barcelona posa a l'abast del personal investigador i docent de la universitat una aplicació informàtica per agilitzar la gestió del seu currículum i els grups de recerca. En aquesta publicació ...
    • Unitat de Bibliometria: acreditació de professorat 

      Servei de Biblioteca - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Instagram - Servei de Biblioteca (@bibliouic) - UIC Barcelona, 2022-03-25)
      El post d'avui va dirigit al personal investigador i professorat a qui volem recordar que està oberta la convocatòria a Informe de lector de l'AQU. La figura de professorat lector obre les portes de la ...
    • Unitat de bibliometria: acreditació de recerca 

      Servei de Biblioteca - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Instagram - Servei de Biblioteca (@bibliouic) - UIC Barcelona, 2022-04-11)
      Avui s'obre el termini de presentació a les convocatòries d'Acreditació de Recerca i d'Acreditació de Recerca Avançada, per poder accedir a una plaça de professor agregat i de professor catedràtic ...
    • Unitat de bibliometria: suport a la investigació 

      Servei de Biblioteca - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Instagram - Servei de Biblioteca (@bibliouic) - UIC Barcelona, 2022-04-05)
      Biblioteca estrena una nova pàgina web de suport a la investigació amb una nova estructura. Podeu accedir a les diferents guies dividides entre els objectius: buscar, publicar, difondre i avaluar. Teniu ...
    • Unitat de Bibliometria: valoració científica 

      Servei de Biblioteca - Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (Instagram - Servei de Biblioteca (@bibliouic) - UIC Barcelona, 2022-02-28)
      Des de la Unitat de Bibliometria hem preparat un recull de diferents eines per poder valorar la vostra producció científica. Malgrat la Web of Science o Scopus són les bases de dades més importants i ...
    • United Creative Culinary Centers 

      Beacham, Siena; Capa, Marta; Mijares Cisneros, Andreina; Viteri, Maria Emilia (2020)
      The United Creative Culinary Centers (UCCC) project emerged from a desire to alleviate the problem of Global Malnourishment, affecting regional governments and economies. The UCCC replicable model ...
    • El universo metatextual de Fariña: cuatro medios, una historia 

      García Avis, Isadora; Narberhaus, Marta (Palabra Clave, 2024)
      En 1948 André Bazin profetizó el advenimiento de un “reinado de la adaptación” en el que un crítico del año 2050 se encontraría “no con una novela de la que se habrían ‘obtenido’ una obra de teatro y ...
    • UnivQual: a holistic scale to assess student perceptions of service quality at universities 

      Marimon, Frederic; Mas-Machuca, Marta; Berbegal-Mirabent, Jasmina; Llach Pagès, Josep (Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, 2017-03-20)
      The aim of this study is twofold. First, we validate a scale to assess the quality of the university experienced by students (UnivQual). Three main dimensions are envisioned: (i) “curriculum”, which ...
    • Unliganded progesterone receptor governs estrogen receptor gene expression by regulating DNA methylation in breast cancer cells 

      Verde, Gaetano; Lara, de Llobet; Wright, Roni; Quilez, Javier; Peiró, Sandra; Le Dily, François; Beato, Miguel (Cancers, 2018)
      Breast cancer prognosis and response to endocrine therapy strongly depends on the expression of the estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PR, respectively). Although much is known about ERα gene ...
    • Unmasking the barriers to financing social enterprises 

      Magomedova, Nina; Bastida-Vialcanet, Ramon (VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2022)
      The institutional complexity of social enterprises (SEs) often hinders their access to financing from conventional investors. To align the interests of SEs and their investors, innovative investment ...
    • Unmet needs in Cushing’s syndrome: the patients’ perspective 

      Valassi, Elena; Chiodini, Iacopo; Feelders, Richard A.; Andela, Cornelie D.; Abou-Hanna, Margueritta; Idres, Sarah; Tabarin, Antoine (Endocrine Connections, 2022)
      Background: Cushing’s syndrome (CS) is a rare condition of chronically elevated cortisol levels resulting in diverse comorbidities, many of which endure beyond successful treatment affecting the quality ...
    • Unravelling the encapsulation of DNA and other biomolecules in HAp microcalcifications of human breast cancer tissues by raman imaging 

      Marro, Monica; Rodríguez-Rivero, Anna M.; Araujo-Andrade, Cuauhtémoc; Fernández-Figueras, María-Teresa; Pérez-Roca, Laia; Castellà, Eva; Navinés, Jordi; Mariscal, Antonio; Julián, Joan Francesc; Turon, Pau; Loza-Alvarez, Pablo (Cancers, 2021)
      Microcalcifications are detected through mammography screening and, depending on their morphology and distribution (BI-RADS classification), they can be considered one of the first indicators of suspicious ...