This video explains the characteristics of PPS (polyphenylene sulfide) and POM (polyoxymethylene), both within the polymer family. The video has been made by the UJIDesigners group from the Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering at the UJI. The animated puppets give life to polymers and explain in an entertaining way the features, [...]
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The scientific news agency SINC has just turned five
March 12th, 2013
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The Scientific Information and News Service (SINC), part of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT), is the first Spanish public agency specialized in information science, technology and innovation in Spanish. The Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC + i) from the Universitat Jaume I cooperates with this agency spreading through its digital platform [...]
Solar fuels to change the energy model
February 20th, 2013
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‘Artificial photosynthesis constitutes a promising alternative to change the current energy model’, said Sixto Giménez, coordinator of the first Workshop on Advanced Materials for Solar Fuel Applications that was held at the UJI. In the workshop -that has made possible to join first-rate research groups from the Valencian Community and Catalonia and to establish collaborations [...]
Paints with greater anti-corrosive protection
February 19th, 2013
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Researchers from the UJI are working in a new coating that provides metals with a greater protection against corrosion thanks to its better adhesion to the metal surface and its anti-corrosive properties. More information. UCC+i UJI. February 2013
Salanova claims that achieving a welfare state requires continuous effort
February 15th, 2013
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‘In order to reach happiness or well-being, it is necessary to make a proactive and continuous effort to favour positive emotions’, assured Marisa Salanova, chair professor of Social Psychology at the Universitat Jaume I and director of the research group WONT, during the summer course ‘Be positive: develop your happiness and strengths’, which took place [...]
John Keane: “Citizens can break the silence of public actors”
February 7th, 2013
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John Keane opened the 4th series of lectures La democracia hoy: el fin de la representación, on the 16th of January, 2013, at the social centre San Isidro of Castelló, with the talk Democracy and the Dangers of Silence. The Australian philosopher said, “we are entering the era of mega-projects” and warned that these projects [...]
The art critic Miguel Cereceda assures that the concept of the sublime exceeds criticisms
January 17th, 2013
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‘There is not a true valuation criterion for the sublime, because the sublime does not accept criteria and exceeds opinions and criticism. This fact limits it to a formal and political correction that does not face the events of the present, because it overwhelms the field of correction, where the criticism develops’ said Miguel Cereceda, [...]
Railway freight transport in Spain, in a critical situation
December 11th, 2012
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The summer course at the Universitat Jaume I ‘The intermodality in the freight transport: a forward-looking approach’, counted with the intervention of Jorge Ballesteros, the assistant director general of the Planning and Projects unit of the General Railway Department belonging to the Ministry of Development. He talked about the modernisation of the railway freight transport. [...]
DNA as evidence to exonerate in many cases
December 4th, 2012
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‘DNA testing has served to exonerate in many cases and not just to charge, because for this latter option they take into account other evidences’, has assured Manuel-Jesús Dolz Lago, public prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Spain during his presentation about ‘DNA and fundamental rights’ within the summer course ‘Scientific evidences, DNA and criminal [...]
