Discurs de presentació del professor Jaume Gil Aluja, a càrrec del Dr. Joan Carles Ferrer

El Dr. Ferrer presenta i glossa la ingent tasca docent i científica del professor Gil Aluja, en la presentació a doctor honoris causa. Exposa un breu repàs de la trajectòria i la petja que el professor Jaume Gil ha exercit en la vida universitària

Discurs de presentació del professor Joan Rodés, a càrrec del Dr. Carles Abella

Joan Rodés, nascut a Barcelona el 1938 es va doctorar en Medicina el 1967 a la Universitat de Barcelona. És director de l’Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer; president del Consell d’Administració de l’Agència d’Avaluació de Tecnologia i Recerca Mèdiques; president del Consell Assessor del Ministeri de Sanitat i Consum; director general de l’Hospital Clínic; i president de la Comissió d’Avaluació de la Recerca de l’Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari a Catalunya (AQU)

Carles Cuadras i les probabilitats multivariants

Entrevista a Carles Cuadras Avellana

Carles Riba : passió i lucidesa. 'Carles Riba : pasión y lucidez'.

Resumen basado en el del vídeo en catalán

Miquel Mai (ca. 1480-1546). Art i cultura a la cort de Carles V

The doctoral thesis was an study about Miquel Mai, a polític, jurist, bibliophile and art collector in Barcelona in the first half of the XVI century. The thesis presents the figure of Miquel Mai by his biographic history, with emphasis in the principals chapters that he was participant. After, there was a chapter whose principal theme its the connection between Miquel Mai and the Erasmism movement. Third, it was an analysis of all the art objects that Miquel Mai accumulates. Fourth, the thesis explores the library (formed by more than 2000 books). And finally, we studied the relationship between the art objects who decorate the library and the same books that was in the library.

La particularitat rossellonesa a través de Carles Grandó

The Clara Vilarrasa Ruiz’s doctoral thesis entitled La particularitat rossellonesa a través de Carles Grandó is directed by Francesc Feliu Torrent. This thesis seeks to discover the essence of Roussillon world through the production and character of Carles Grandó, writer, playwright, poet, folklorist, grammar and cultural activist unknown in academic circles. This approach to Roussillon revolves around three main areas: inventory and classification of the Fons Grandó of Perpignan University Library, the publication of a grammar dialect unpublished El sota-dialecte català de Perpinyà i de la plana de Rosselló and, finally, presenting a documentation that will help contextualize and understand the society of the early twentieth century in Roussillon.

L'ús de la llengua valenciana a la Il·lustració: la figura de Carles Ros

L'arribada de la nova dinastia borbònica va suposar a nivell cultural la desaparició oficial del valencià en el llenguatge de l'administració i un retrocés de la llengua en tots els àmbits d'ús. El notari valencià Carles Ros va ser un ferm defensor de la llengua en un context poc favorable, com així ho demostra a les seues obres. Gran part de la seua producció literària, la qual inclou tractats gramaticals i lexicogràfics, vocabularis, obres apologètiques, col·loquis i romanços, està dedicada a defensar i promoure el valencià, així com facilitar-ne el seu coneixement.

"Monasterio de Sal" : Om elbasens introduktion i flamencovärlden via Carles Benavent

Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía, taking advantage of the ongoing cultural revolution in Spain during the seventies decided to break from tradition by shaping ”Nuevo Flamenco” through flamenco-jazz ensemble ”Paco de Lucía Sextet”. Within its repertoire, the first regular flamenco bass-line: ”Monasterio de Sal”. Electrical bassist Carles Benavent would have a key role in this development, a trait seldom found in academical works of musicology. The aim of the present thesis is to partially fill this void while shedding some light on the revolutionary contributions of Benavent. In order to do so, studying relevant literature, listening to phonograms comparatively, transcribing/analyzing ”Monasterio de Sal” and interviewing Mr. Benavent himself were used as main methods. The conclusion has been drawn that there was barely any electrical bass in flamenco before Benavent and that his work with de Lucía (and later others) would entirely reform the way electric bass was perceived from within and outside this genre of music. It is of no less interest to observe that Benavents main influences for this endeavor were the principal figures of contemporary jazz-bass (Jaco Pastorius) and flamenco-guitar (Paco de Lucía) respectively, infusing ”Monasterio de Sal”, with meaningful historical value.

Filosofía de la finitud Joan-Carles Mèlich Barcelona: Herder, 2002

Los mismos pasos que la escritura va marcando mien­tras se propone la semblanza del pensamiento empiezan a difuminarse como un pasado en riesgo de ser desmentido por el presente. La temporalidad de la existencia se cumple en actos ininterrumpidos que alteran lo que puede ser con­cebido como esencia. El espacio también es en el tiempo, así como los cuerpos y fenómenos que construyen los paisajes de la realidad en la cual habitamos. Pero habitar no significa corresponder con lo habitual del espacio, del tiempo, los acontecimientos y las circunstancias. Habitar es construir la vida en herme­néutica con la finitud, reinventándonos en la obra humana; en la escultura del lenguaje, de la narración; en el asombro por las nuevas facetas e identidades que logramos y abandonamos sin vestigios de apego.

Loss of the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase type IV in dopaminoceptive neurons enhances behavioral effects of cocaine

The persistent nature of addiction has been associated with activity-induced plasticity of neurons within the striatum and nucleus accumbens (NAc). To identify the molecular processes leading to these adaptations, we performed Cre/loxP-mediated genetic ablations of two key regulators of gene expression in response to activity, the Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase IV (CaMKIV) and its postulated main target, the cAMP-responsive element binding protein (CREB). We found that acute cocaine-induced gene expression in the striatum was largely unaffected by the loss of CaMKIV. On the behavioral level, mice lacking CaMKIV in dopaminoceptive neurons displayed increased sensitivity to cocaine as evidenced by augmented expression of locomotor sensitization and enhanced conditioned place preference and reinstatement after extinction. However, the loss of CREB in the forebrain had no effect on either of these behaviors, even though it robustly blunted acute cocaine-induced transcription. To test the relevance of these observations for addiction in humans, we performed an association study of CAMK4 and CREB promoter polymorphisms with cocaine addiction in a large sample of addicts. We found that a single nucleotide polymorphism in the CAMK4 promoter was significantly associated with cocaine addiction, whereas variations in the CREB promoter regions did not correlate with drug abuse. These findings reveal a critical role for CaMKIV in the development and persistence of cocaine-induced behaviors, through mechanisms dissociated from acute effects on gene expression and CREB-dependent transcription.