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Closed lists in political elections make people take greater account of ideology and the party brand when voting, while in electoral systems with open lists, people vote in a more personal and less ideological way. This is the main conclusion of a study carried out by researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the University of Houston, in the US, which analyses certain characteristics of democratic elections.

Antonio Cano, full professor of the Department of Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Valencia and coordinator of the Women's Health Research Group at the INCLIVA Health Research Institute, of the Clinical Hospital of Valencia, participates in an international investigation published in The Lancet magazine that has released the results of the SKYLIGHT 1 clinical trial.

AI researchers at Queen Mary University of London and UPF in Barcelona are building a dataset that will enable the development of better music description tools - but they need music fans' help. Song Describer is a collaborative platform for people to write descriptions of music under Creative Commons licenses, creating an open database of music with natural language description.

Juan Nácher Roselló, full professor of Cellular Biology at the University of Valencia (UV), is one of the main researchers of the Spanish Network for Cooperative Study in Mental Health (CIBERSAM), as

The international scientific collaborations operating the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) has just announced the first observation of the simultaneous production of four top quarks in the same week. The Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC, UV-CSIC) has a prominent role in this finding, considered key to searching for new particles beyond the Standard Model.

A research group from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has participated in the development of a new technique based on medical imaging which makes it possible to non-invasively estimate the location of a tumour in the surgical position required for breast cancer surgery.

A study co-led by Asbel Bohigues, a professor at the University of Valencia (UV), explains that holding opinions in favour of equality (opposed to sexist ones), recognising that gender inequality is a

A team from the Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC/UV-CSIC) is developing a photon detection and imaging system that will allow visualising, during a medical treatment, the distribution of the radiopharmaceutical in the patient's body. This technology verifies the final destination of the drug and allows a better estimate of the radiation dose received by both the tumour itself and the vital organs.

The Commission of experts coordinated by UPF Prof. Joan Benach, together with the Second Vice-President of the Spanish Government and Minister of Labor and Social Economy, Yolanda Díaz, presented on Friday, March 17 the first government-driven report on the effects of work precariousness on mental health: "Precarious work and mental health: knowledge and policies".

In the study led by the UPF Molecular Physiology Laboratory, 238 genes have been identified that regulate Alzheimer's disease, including Surf4, which contributes to the disease by altering the regulation of calcium within the cell. An international study led by the Molecular Physiology Laboratory at the UPF Department of Medicine and Life Sciences ( MELIS ) identifies new genes that modulate the toxicity of the protein -amyloid, responsible for causing Alzheimer's disease.

Recerca La sarcopènia és una malaltia degenerativa caracteritzada per una disminució patològica de la força muscular que afecta especialment les persones de més edat. Investigadors de la Universitat de Barcelona han desenvolupat una nova eina per avaluar la presència i la gravetat d'aquesta insuficiència muscular.

A research team from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Valencia, in collaboration with Sarel Fleishman's group, from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, has developed a computer-assisted approach to modulate intramembrane interactions between proteins.

The Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has patented a new system for capturing hyperspectral images (those capable of collecting information across the entire electromagnetic spectrum), which can operate in real time and provides a higher resolution than any other existing technology. This development could mean a breakthrough for scientific and industrial applications related to chemical analysis.

Recerca Space travel has always tested the human body by the effects of the new conditions of altered gravity on biological systems. It has long been known that continuous exposure to microgravity conditions human physiology and causes effects that compromise muscular, sensory, endocrine and cardiovascular functions.

An international research team led by the University of Valencia manages to automatically identify the most relevant changes that have occurred on planet Earth in the last 10 years and determine whether their causes are natural or anthropogenic. The results of the work, published in National Science Review, are obtained by combining a new statistical method with data from ESA-s SMOS satellite, which regularly provides global maps of soil and vegetation water content.

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have created software and hardware for a 4D printer with applications in the biomedical field. In addition to 3D printing, this machine allows for controlling extra functions: programming the material's response so that shape-changing occurs under external magnetic field, or changes in its electric properties develops under mechanical deformation.

Recerca Bones remain healthy thanks to the fact that they are in continuous remodelling, a process that is given by the balance between the activity of osteoblasts —cells that create bone tissue— and the osteoclasts, which reabsorb it. An imbalance between these two can disrupt bone homeostasis and lead to diseases such as osteopenia, i.e. a loss of bone mass.

Sharks acquired bioluminescence in a unique event during the Jurassic Period, after colonising the deep sea.

A study by the University of Valencia (UV) on the time spent using the shared bicycle system (SBC) in Valencia and its relationship with physical activity concludes that older people, those with a lower socioeconomic level and men are the ones who use the Valenbisi system the most. The work, on 6,946 users, has been published in the magazine Retos .

A study by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and IMDEA Networks analyses fake interaction services on social media. In addition to cataloguing the fraudulent ecosystem of "likes", views, followers or online visits, the study points out the economic models that sustain it and the high level of personalisation that these services offer.