Certainly, one of the prominent ideas of Professor Mira was that it is absolutely mandatory to specify the mechanisms and/or processes underlying each task and inference mentioned in an architecture in order to make operational that architecture. The conjecture of the last fifteen years of joint research of Professor Mira and our team at University of Castilla-La Mancha has been that any bottom...

Of the many studies estimating effectiveness of policy reforms most have been considering various types of policy reforms in isolation from each other. Such pattern has also been the case in water resource regulations. In the case of groundwater almost all policy interventions considered in the literature have been implemented individually, without taking into account the possible interactions ...

The Iberian Peninsula possesses a particular richness of inland saline lakes which mainly occur in three endorheic regions in Aragón, La Mancha and Andalucía. The distribution of benthic microbial mat communities in these lakes is described and related to the ionic composition, salinity fluctuations, inundation period and sediment features. It was found that the cyanobacterium Microco1eu.s chth...

The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence of primary and secondary resistance to antituberculosis drugs and the risk factors associated with the resistance in southeast Spain. Our research was based on the clinical histories of 276 patients, diagnosed as having tuberculosis by positive culture, who were tested for drug susceptibility between January 1988 and October 1994. The clini...

Cervantes understood that models–be they physical or moral lessons–are valid only in as much as they mirror that which they seek to mimic. This is the essential issue presented by Diego et al. in the article published in Revista Española de Cardiologı́a. Drugeluting stents have changed the practice of medicine and are perhaps the most common intervention used today. Millions of stents are placed...

S. Varela ([email protected]), Dept of Ecology, Faculty of Science, Charles Univ., Vinicná 7, CZ-128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic. – SV, R. García-Valdés and F. Fernández-González, Inst. of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Castilla-La Mancha, ES-45071 Toledo, Spain. RG-V also at: Dept of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural Sciences, CSIC, Calle José Gutié...