Landscape and quality of life in the awards Josep Maria Bernabé

19 April 2012 No Comments

The award of Introduction to research Josep Maria Bernabé organized by the Interuniversity Institute for Local Development (IIDL), of which the Universitat Jaume I and the Universitat de Valencia-General Studies re part, recognizes excellence among students and doctoral students from these universities in the field of Social Sciences. Here we retake the reflections of the geographer Xavier Amat, winner of the third edition of the Award of Introduction to research José María Bernabé on the landscape as “an essential element of quality of life” and the cultural and social factors involved in its transformation, using local and regional examples, and showing the latest trends. After the brick geography, what landscape will our children see?

Video taken from the canal petreraldiavideos (original in Spanish), February 2011

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Virtual reality for the welfare of cancer patients

19 April 2012 No Comments

Researchers of the LabPsitec Laboratory of the Universitat Jaume I are working on the program Psychooncology which consists in applying virtual reality techniques to contribute to the emotional well-being in hospitalized adult cancer patients who are in advanced stage of the disease. It already has an application that exposes patients to two different environments: Joy and Relaxation, which bring them welfare, entertainment and relaxation. This application has already been incorporated and is currently being validated in a clinical environment. Besides, they are designing other applications to be validated in a second phase of the project. According to Cristina Botella, director of LabPsitec, “in coping cancer, the psychological aspects are of enormous importance and our applications are intended to improve the psychological state of patients even in advanced stages of the disease and in the context of a hospital “. The program is part of the project ONCOTIC (Collaborative Therapies for Oncology Treatments) that develops new technologies to improve the diagnosis and treatment against cancer.

Video: ONCOTIC Project, February 2012. Original video in Spanish

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Awarded the project OPTIMI for early detection of depression

19 April 2012 No Comments

The project Online Predictive Tools for Intervention in Mental Illness (OPTIMI) for early detection of depression through new technologies has earned the Award of Actualidad Económica for the 100 best ideas of the year in the category of health. In the European project take part, at the national level, the Universitat Jaume I together with the Technical University of Valencia, the University of Valencia and the company Everis. The aim of OPTIMI is to design a system capable of preventing depression, one of the most common mental illnesses in the European Union, where mental health care represents more than a third of the cost of total health care. The LabPsitec of the Department of Basic Psychology and Clinical Psychobiology of the UJI, participates in the project with the design of evaluation strategies for people at risk and then, with the implementation of an online prevention system.

Xiwrite. January, 2012

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Espaitec, the Science, Technology and Business Park of Castelló

19 April 2012 No Comments

Espaitec is the Science, Technology and Business Park of Castelló. Promoted by the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) and the Confederation of Businesses of Castelló (CEC), it began its task in 2007 with the aim to contribute, in a quantified and recognized way, to the socio-economic development of the province of Castelló and to the diversification of its network system. Currently it houses more than 30 companies, and among its own staff and the external staff, it generates more than 150 qualified jobs.

The goal of Espaitec is to create an environment of reference in Castelló led to embrace, support, enhance and make grow innovative business initiatives, and to facilitate active technology transfer developed at the University.

Espaitec1 Canal, March 2012

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The exile of the Valencian culture

10 February 2012 No Comments

Catalan Language and Literature Professor Lluís Meseguer presents the book La cultura exiliada, published by the university press Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I, which he has edited together with Santiago Fortuño, Eloísa Nos and Juan Luis Porcar. The biographies and works of the culture exiled after the Spanish War (1936-39), and the historical period in which they took place, are a scientific, historical and literary matter at once. The authors of the book are a few dozen personalities, researchers and specialists related to the culture of the first half of the twentieth century. The studies come from the congress ‘Cultura i exili’ organized by Universitat Jaume I and Fundación Max Aub in December 2009 and held at the international conference ‘Setenta años después’ [‘Seventy years later’], commemorating the exile of the War and the Franco regime in Spain.

Editors Pais Valencià, February 2012. Original video in Catalan.

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Adell: “In education, pedagogy is more important than technology”.

6 February 2012 No Comments

Jordi Adell, lecturer from the Department of Education and director of the Centre for Education and New Technologies (CENT), argues that “we must put technology in the hands of students,” always orchestrated by the knowledge of contents, teaching and technology that lectures have because “the most important aspect is pedagogy rather than technology.” In this sense, Adell stresses that the most crucial issue in learning is not the use of technology by teachers, but the planning of learning and technology activities that students will use to achieve the objectives set in the subject. The director of CENT addressed the implications of Web 2.0 on learning at the conference that put the end to a workshop on educational applications of Web 2.0 and Google Apps. It can also be seen complete at UJI video server.

Original video in Catalan. SCP UJI, January 2011

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Nao robots’ monologues

31 January 2012 No Comments

Students from the Master’s Degree in Intelligent Systems at the Universitat Jaume I have produced a series of videos in which Nao robots from the Robotic Intelligence Laboratory show their technical and artistic skills as monologuists. Stories of robots, legendary characters as Tombatossals, girls and robots… told and staged by robots can be found in the RobotIntelligenceLab YouTube channel.

Original language of the video: Spanish RobotIntelligenceLab

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Cosmic science in soap bubbles

17 January 2012 No Comments

Bereshit is the first word of the first paragraph in the Bible. It means ‘the beginning’. Reality is about 13,500 million years old. Space and time were born at the same time. Bereshit. La historia más bella del cosmos, by the Catalan company Pep Bou, offers a journey through the history of reality that tells that this reality is made up of many stories that have a common bond: they are grounded on the most symmetrical and perfect form, the best protection. We can be sure that reality is round, and its history, the most beautiful in the cosmos, is a history of soap bubbles. The show, with Pep Bou and Jorge Wagensberg, could be seen on Friday 28 October 2011 on the occasion of Week of Science and the celebration of International Year of Chemistry.

Full video: http://www.svideo.uji.es/peli.php?codi=811&lg=
SCP UJI, December 2011

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Monitored heart bracelets against sudden death in sport

16 January 2012 No Comments

The use of heart bracelets connected via ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to a system of tracking and monitoring could prevent cases of sudden death in sports activities. It could also enable an early detection of cardiac abnormalities, the prevention of certain muscle injuries and the improvement in health care times to the athlete. The business project IC-Life, developed by the young entrepreneur from the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló Hugo Alberto Ferrer, has been awarded by the INCREA Chair of Innovation, Creativity and Learning with a second prize of the 9th Creativity and Innovation Awards 2011.

Video: SCP UJI 2011

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Mathematical modeling

16 December 2011 No Comments

‘Modelització matemàtica’ is an exhibition that presents the diversity of areas of science that can be modelled mathematically and also the different areas of mathematics involved in these models. The exhibition, which can be seen until 23 December 2011 in the entrance hall of the School of Technology and Experimental Sciences at Universitat Jaume I, has been lent by the Department of Mathematics from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and is made up of posters and videos.
Mathematical theory is connected bidirectionally with the real world and the different sciences that deal with it. Mathematics save thinking twice: on the one hand, their deductive power makes it possible to summarize a large volume of knowledge in a few axioms, and on the other hand its abstract nature enables that the same mathematical theory can find an application in many different fields.

SCP UJI 2011

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