Offers a look on how Australian humor describes the status of women in several literary works. Women writers' treatment of their marginalization in society; Creation of a world where gender power relations are reversed; Description of male myths of nationhood; Satirical presentation of gender bias..

BACKGROUND To analyze the association between the OHIP-14 and the different subtypes making up the clinical and psychological axis obtained using the RDC/TMD. MATERIAL AND METHODS 407 patients treated at the TMD unit of the Andalusian Healthcare Service were administered the Spanish version of the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders questionnaire (RDC/TMD), together w...

OBJECTIVES To calculate the prevalence of disabling chronic pain (DCP) and to offer a more representative and accurate estimation by applying different calibration techniques. SETTINGS 2011 Andalusian Health Survey, a cross-sectional population survey based on face-to-face home interviews. PARTICIPANTS 6507 people aged 16 years or older and living in Andalusia, Spain. OUTCOMES Design weig...

This article reports the results of a series of experiments (acceptability rating tasks) on a group of speakers of Andalusian Spanish. The main result is that, contrary to previous claims in the literature (cf. Jaeggli 1982 et seq), Spanish does exhibit a Superiority effect in multiple whquestions. However, this effect can be subsumed under a generalized mild penalty on object whfronting, also ...

Research on innovation in the tourism industry has gained relevance, and in recent years knowledge of this complex phenomenon has increased. The article proposes a two-stage interactive model based on innovative capability, environment and other contextual factors of firms, in order to explain first, the innovative outcomes in products and processes and, subsequently, the influence of these out...

NanoSpain2009 09-12 March, 2009 Zaragoza-Spain CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE (VIP) SILVER-PROTECTED NANOPARTICLES David Pozo, Paula M Castillo, Rebecca Klippstein, Rafael Fernandez-Montesinos, Ana P Zaderenko CABIMER-Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CSICUniversity of Seville-UPO-Junta de Andalucia), Americo ...

The karyotypes of three species of Timarcha Latreille, 1829 have been analysed. Timarcha (Metallotimarcha) metallica (Laicharting, 1781), has 18 + Xyp male meioformula and 2n = 38 chromosomes, similar to those found in the two species of subgenus Americanotimarcha Jolivet, 1948, in agreement with morphological and molecular phylogenetic grounds. Timarcha (Timarcha) carmelenae Petitpierre, 2013 ...