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MicroRNA genetic variation: from population analysis to functional implications of three allele variants associated with cancer
Nucleotide variants in microRNA regions have been associated with disease; nevertheless, few studies still have addressed the allele-dependent effect of these changes. We studied microRNA genetic variation in human populations ...
Conventionalism and the causal theory of reference
An intuitive view of language is frequently assumed: words are related by competent speakers to descriptions that determine reference. Such a view is generally understood as convention-based in the sense that it emphasises ...
Legal disagreements: a pluralist reply to Dworkin's challenge
In this paper I analyse the problem of legal disagreements, initially raised by Ronald Dworkin against Hartian positivism. According to Dworkin, disagreements are pervasive, since law is an argumentative practice in which ...
Tolerance, flexibility and the application of kind terms
We explore two ways of distinguishing the semantic operation of kind terms. First, we focus on a distinction between terms with a flexible versus terms with an inflexible semantics. Flexibility depends on whether some ...
A genome-wide survey does not show the genetic distinctiveness of Basques
Basques are a cultural isolate, and, according to mainly allele frequencies of classical polymorphisms, also a genetic isolate. We investigated the differentiation of Spanish Basques from the rest of Iberian populations ...
Francophone: le cas de l'Algérie et de Montréal, une étude sociolinguistique
Ce travail aborde l¿évolution de la langue française au sein de deux sociétés : l¿Algérie et Montréal, dans le but d¿analyser leurs caractéristiques du point de vue sociolinguistique. Les variétés de la langue française ...
Analysis of the Algerian novel Fahla (Rabah Sbaa) from a sociolinguistic approach
This study analyzes the Algerian novel Fahla from a sociolinguistic point of view. The author has taken the initiative to write his novel in Algerian and in Latin characters and Arabic characters for both Arabic and ...
Cohort profile: health inequalities in Catalonia (the HEALIN cohort)
I.P. and A.S.-A. acknowledge financial support for this research from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation under the program Generación de Conocimiento Project LONGHEALTH [PID2021-128892OB-I00; co-PIs: I.P. ...
Rural spaces/narratives in flux: an emerging literature?
This article aims to study the phenomenon of the appearance of a large number of rural-themed literary works in recent Catalan literature. This phenomenon will be approached from two perspectives. First, I critically review ...
El Reglamento UE 2016/1104 en materia de efectos patrimoniales de las uniones registradas: un análisis de su ámbito de aplicación ante la pluralidad legislativa española
La compleja pluralidad normativa del ordenamiento español en materia de uniones registradas supone un importante reto para el Reglamento 2016/1104. En efecto, el hecho de que distintas CCAA hayan establecido la creación ...
A new dataset on legislative decision-making in the European Union: the DEU III dataset
This paper introduces the updated version of our dataset, which is the third iteration of the Decision-making in the European Union (DEU-III) dataset. We outline the DEU project before describing the dataset in detail, ...
Algeria's 2019 uprising and the significance of slogans: a discourse analysis
In 2019, millions of Algerians staged demonstrations, throughout the entire country, for months against the whole political regime calling for change and democracy. The protesters used the medium of slogans to both communicate ...
Changes in cardiovascular health at midlife and subsequent cardiovascular outcomes in individuals with diabetes
Background: Whether improvements in cardiovascular health (CVH) in midlife mitigate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in patients with diabetes remains underexplored. Objectives: The aim of the study was to examine the ...
Representations of hegemonic masculinities in Medieval Leonese-Castilian and Almohad chronicles
This article compares two twelfth-century Iberian dynastic chronicles to show the ways in which Muslim and Christian hegemonic masculinities were textually constructed as relational to high-status males of the same and ...
Problemas de Derecho interregional suscitados a raíz de la aprobación de la Ley 8/2021 por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica
El trabajo analiza el impacto producido por la Ley 8/2021 sobre el ordenamiento plurilegislativo español, atendiendo primero a las dificultades para encajar los distintos planos normativos, estatal y autonómico, en función ...
