The birth of bioethics in Spain—and the rest of Europe—has not necessarily been a replication of what happened in North America, despite the arguments made by a number of mainstream American authors. From a European perspective, this thesis looks incomplete at best, if not entirely erroneous. Let us see why. Spain has long served as a crossroads, a place of concurring civilizations from either ...

1 Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands, 2 Landscape Dynamics Unit, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, 3 Department of Forest Yield and Silviculture, Slovenian Forestry Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 4 CREAF, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain, 5 Laboratory of Plant Biology and Nature Man...

AIM The aim of this study was to investigate grip strength in a large sample of people with intellectual disabilities, to establish reference values for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and compare it to adults without intellectual disability. METHODS This study analysed pooled baseline data from two independent studies for all 1526 adults with ID: Special Olympics Funfitness Spain ...

After the Sorbonne Declaration, the idea of a European Higher Education Area was launched, and universities have been pushed into a restructuring process with a strong emphasis on quality and excellence. In Spain, the focus on graduate employability impelled academics and professionals towards the formulation of a White Book on the state and the future of Geography in Higher Education (2004). T...

Institute of Botany, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium, Azorean Biodiversity Group (CITA-A) and Platform for Enhancing Ecological Research & Sustainability (PEERS), Universidade dos Açores, Dep. Ciências Agrárias, Terceira, Portugal, Department of Plant Biology, La Laguna University, Tenerife, Spain, Biodiversity, Macroecology and Conservation Biogeography Group, University of Göttingen, Gött...

Research into the nature and function of curricular matters in applied geography has provided an opportunity to assess the penetration and relative importance of geospatial technology to the discipline of geography. Departments of Geography with degree programs in applied geography were surveyed to find out how important geospatial technology was in the preparation of students for meaningful jo...

1FWO Flanders Research Foundation, Geography Department, Ghent University, Belgium 2Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 3Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China 4Plant Biology Department, Unit of Botany, University of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain 5Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University ...