Joan Oró

Biografia del Doctor Joan Oró, especialista en bioquímica i biofísica i autor d'importants estudis sobre els compostos orgànics existents en sediments terrestres, meteorits i mostres de la Lluna, així com col·laborador en projectes de la NASA.

Martí de Riquer

Biografia del filòleg Martí de Riquer, l’obra del qual es centra en tres eixos: la literatura medieval provençal i catalana, el Quixot i la vida cavallersca medieval i la literatura francesa.

Miquel Batllori

Biografia de Miquel Batllori, historiador de la cultura i de l’Església a Catalunya, Europa i Hispanoamèrica.

Creu Casas

Biografia de la doctora Creu Casas, gran impulsora dels estudis sobre briòfits (molses, hepàtiques i anterocerotes) als països catalans i a tot l’Estat espanyol.

Josep Egozcue

Biografia de Josep Egozcue, primer catedràtic a Espanya de Biologia Cel•lular i un dels introductors de la citogenètica al nostre país. Ha estat una autoritat científica en el camp de l’evolució cromosòmica, de la citogenètica del càncer, de la biologia de la reproducció i en temes de bioètica.

Ramon Margalef

Biografia del Doctor Ramon Margalef, figura senyera en el món de les Ciències Naturals i autor de treballs capdavanters en el camp de la limnologia, la biologia marina i l'ecologia.

Full informatiu. Cultius extensius - Febrer 2008

- Recomanacions de fertilització per a la sembra del blat de moro. - Dosis agronòmiques d’aplicació de fems i purins. - Jornada sobre fertilització nitrogenada.

Diagnosis socioambiental y presupuesto para el Parque Nacional Los Quetzales (Costa Rica)

Se realiza una diagnosis socioambiental y un presupuesto para el Plan de Manejo del Parque Nacional Los Quetzales (PNLQ). El PNLQ ocupa una superficie de 4117 ha. Presenta un régimen hí­drico elevado favorecido por la topografí­a quebrada que permite la presencia de fajas de condensación. Estas condiciones favorecen la presencia del bosque nublado que como se ha observado es el hábitat de innumerables especies, algunas de las cuales presentan gran valor ecológico. El presupuesto para el Plan de Manejo refleja cómo los gastos superan en una proporción importante a los ingresos, por lo que se recomienda centrar los esfuerzos en la búsqueda de formas de financiación (pago por servicios ambientales, convenios, co-manejo y donaciones). También se hace precisa una aportación anual del Gobierno Central para la ejecución del Plan.

Convergence of singular integrals with general measures

We show that L2-bounded singular integrals in metric spaces with respect to general measures and kernels converge weakly. This implies a kind of average convergence almost everywhere. For measures with zero density we prove the almost everywhere existence of principal values.

Encryption methods using formal power series rings

Recently there has been a great deal of work on noncommutative algebraic cryptography. This involves the use of noncommutative algebraic objects as the platforms for encryption systems. Most of this work, such as the Anshel-Anshel-Goldfeld scheme, the Ko-Lee scheme and the Baumslag-Fine-Xu Modular group scheme use nonabelian groups as the basic algebraic object. Some of these encryption methods have been successful and some have been broken. It has been suggested that at this point further pure group theoretic research, with an eye towards cryptographic applications, is necessary.In the present study we attempt to extend the class of noncommutative algebraic objects to be used in cryptography. In particular we explore several different methods to use a formal power series ring R && x1; :::; xn && in noncommuting variables x1; :::; xn as a base to develop cryptosystems. Although R can be any ring we have in mind formal power series rings over the rationals Q. We use in particular a result of Magnus that a finitely generated free group F has a faithful representation in a quotient of the formal power series ring in noncommuting variables.

Discriminating groups: a comprehensive overview

Discriminating groups were introduced by G.Baumslag, A.Myasnikov and V.Remeslennikov as an outgrowth of their theory of algebraic geometry over groups. However they have taken on a life of their own and have been an object of a considerable amount of study. In this paper we survey the large array results concerning the class of discriminating groups that have been developed over the past decade.

Incentives for interdisciplinary research

This paper is a positive analysis of the driving forces in interdisciplinary research. I take the perspective of a research institution that has to decide how to apply its resources among the production of two types of knowledge: specialized or interdisciplinary. Using a prize mechanism of compensation, I show that the choice of interdisciplinarity is compatible with profit maximization when the requirement for the production is sufficiently demanding, and when the new interdisciplinary field is not too neutral. Productive gains due to complementarities of efforts is the main advantage of interdisciplinary organization.