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Is Aging a Disease? The Philosophical Debate between Bioconservatives and Transhumanists on Life Extension
(UMA Editorial, 2020-09-04)A profound revolution is afoot in the biomedical sciences. Aging is typically understood as a biological process of growing older with deleterious effects on our cognitive and physical capacities—a natural, normal, and ... -
Is aging a disease? The theoretical definition of aging in the light of the philosophy of medicine
(2019-11-19)In this talk, I attempt to shed light on the philosophical debate about the theoretical definition of aging from the discussion of the notion of disease in the philosophy of medicine. As a result, I introduce a concrete ... -
Is Aging a Disease? The Theoretical Definition of Aging in the Light of the Philosophy of Medicine.
(Oxford University Press, 2022-12)In the philosophical debate on aging, it is common to raise the question of the theoretical definition of aging in terms of its possible characterization as a disease. Understanding aging as a disease seems to imply its ... -
Is asking only one member of a couple sufficient to determine who influences tourism decisions?
Rojas-de-Gracia, María Mercedes
; Alarcón-Urbistondo, María del Pilar; Casado-Molina, Ana María (Elsevier, 2019-06)
Research on consumer behavior has placed considerable importance on identifying which member of a couple makes purchase decisions. However, numerous studies have relied solely on the response of one member, assuming that ... -
Is contact with birth parents beneficial to children in non-kinship foster care? A scoping review of the evidence
Ruiz-Romero, Kevin J.; Salas-Martínez, María Dolores; Fernández-Baena, Francisco Javier; González-Pasarín, Lucía (Elsevier, 2022-12)
Many children in non-kinship foster care maintain contact with their birth parents, although debate continues about whether or not, or under what circumstances, it is beneficial to the child. In this scoping review we ... -
Is emotional intelligence an effective ability to prevent risk behaviours?
Sánchez López, María Teresa; Megías-Robles, Alberto; Gutiérrez-Cobo, María José; Fernández-Berrocal, Pablo (2021-07)
Attention to emotions, emotional clarity, and emotional repair are three of the abilities that make up emotional intelligence (EI). Several studies have shown how these abilities interact with risk behaviour. Having a ... -
Is grade retention the solution for failing?
The convenience of grade retention for students’ adequate progression in the education system has been the focus of great debate. However, the characteristics that the grade retention variable presents when explaining ... -
Is homework the solution to low academic performance?
Parental associations have long held the view that Spanish elementary school pupils spend too much time undertaking homework. This situation is so alarming that it has recently (2016) caused a ‘homework strike’, which has ... -
Is it possible to diagnose the therapeutic adherence of patients with COPD in clinical practice? A cohort study.
Barnestein-Fonseca, Pilar; Leiva-Fernández, José; Vidal-España, Francisca; García-Ruiz, Antonio J.; Prados-Torres, Daniel; Prados-Torres, Francisca[et al.] (Biomed Central LTD, 2011)
The purpose of this study was to analyse the diagnostic validity of indirect adherence methods. Methods: Sample: 195 COPD patients undergoing scheduled inhaled treatment attending 5 Primary Care Centres of Malaga, Spain. ... -
Is it possible to reduce pain-related fear in individuals with knee osteoarthritis? a systematic review of randomised clinical trials
Martinez Calderon, Javier; Flores Cortés, Mar; Morales-Asencio, José Miguel; Pineda-Galán, Consolación; García-Ríos, María Carmen; Torróntegui-Duarte, Marcelino; Luque-Suárez, Alejandro[et al.] (Taylor and Francis Group, 2022-06-07)
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of different interventions in reducing pain-related fear outcomes in people with knee osteoarthritis who have or have not had previous knee surgery, and to analyze whether included ... -
Is learning for the unit commitment problem a low-hanging fruit?
Pineda-Morente, Salvador; Morales-González, Juan Miguel (Elsevier, 2022-06)
The blast wave of machine learning and artificial intelligence has also reached the power systems community, and amid the frenzy of methods and black-box tools that have been left in its wake, it is sometimes difficult ... -
Is learning for the unit commitment problem a low-hanging fruit?
Pineda-Morente, Salvador; Morales-González, Juan Miguel (Elsevier, 2022-02-16)
The blast wave of machine learning and artificial intelligence has also reached the power systems community, and amid the frenzy of methods and black-box tools that have been left in its wake, it is sometimes difficult to ... -
Is math anxiety caused by a deficit in basic numerical skills? A study using numerical and non-numerical tasks
García-Orza, Javier; Carratalá Cepedal, Patricia (2013-12-20)
Recent research found differences between high and low anxiety adults in basic numerical tasks like Arabic number comparison and dot enumeration (Maloney et al., 2010; 2011). This led some researchers to consider that math ... -
Is phraseology the third articulation of language? Fresh insights into a theoretical conundrum
(2016-05-20)Is phraseology the third articulation of language? Fresh insights into a theoretical conundrum Jean-Pierre Colson University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Although the notion of phraseology is now used ... -
Is Qualitative Research in Education Being Lost in Spain? Analysis and Reflections on the Problems Arising from Generating Knowledge Hegemonically
Fernández-Navas, Manuel; Alcaraz-Salarirche, Noelia; Pérez-Granados, Laura; Postigo-Fuentes, Ana Yara (The Qualitative Report, 2020-06-13)
In this paper we reflect on how qualitative research in education in Spain has become invisible, by asking a series of questions. What are the effects of this? What are the keys to understand this marginalisation of ... -
Is social tourism a vector for destination resilience to external shocks? Evidence from Spain.
Fernández-Morales, Antonio; McCabe, Scott; Cisneros-Martínez, José David (SAGE, 2023-10-05)
Unpredictable external shocks exacerbate the negative effects usually attributed to cyclical seasonality. Two such recent shocks, the Global Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic, shifted debates from crisis management ... -
Is southern Europe environmentally favourable for the long-term establishment of Rüppell's Vulture (Gyps rueppelli)?
Ongoing climate change is causing latitudinal shifts in many species to adjust their distributions to climatic conditions. These changes are of particular relevance in southern Europe and northern Africa where a short-distance ... -
Is Spain an alternative destination for South Korean tourists? Motivations and Destination Image
Pérez-Tapia, Gema; Mercade-Mele, Pere; Almeida-García, Fernando (2019-07-08)
Tourists may have greater motivation or predisposition for visiting tourist destination when they consider, a priori, that the atributes of the places can meet their needs and make them achieve the desired benefits. This ... -
Is the Articular Cartilage Regeneration Approachable Through Mesenchymal Stem Cells Therapies?
López-Puerta, José María; Zamora-Navas, Plácido; Claros-Gil, Silvia; Rico-Llanos, Gustavo Adolfo; Avedillo, Inés; Andrades-Gómez, José Antonio; Becerra-Ratia, José[et al.] (InTech, 2013)
oday great hope is set on regenerative medicine in all medical fields. Leland Kaiser introduced the term “Regenerative Medicine” in 1992. He forecasted that a “new branch of medicine will develop that attempts to change ... -
Is the bulbus arteriosus of fish homologous to the mamalian intrapericardial thoracic arteries?
López‐García, Alejandro; Fernández-Domínguez, María Carmen; Fernández-Tamayo, Alejandro; Durán-Boyero, Ana Carmen; Fernández-Corujo, Borja (2013-07-26)
Two major findings have significantly improved our understanding of the embryology and evolution of the arterial pole of the vertebrate heart (APVH): 1) a new embryonic presumptive cardiac tissue, named second heart field ...