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Is Anyone Listening? Audience Engagement through Public Media Related to the Scottish Independence Referendum
(MDPI, 2019-08-23)This paper explores perspectives from which citizen participation in media debates on civic issues can be reconsidered by means of a review of the existing literature on this subject and a qualitative study of how one ... -
Is Basque a difficult language to learn for students? Teachers’ beliefs on the complexity to learn the curricular languages in the Basque Country
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-01-10)The present research focuses on studying teachers’ beliefs about the complexity of learning the curricular languages in the Basque Country, with special focus on Basque, the minority language. The study adopts a mixed-methods ... -
Is Basque an Agglutinative Language? A Proposal for the Diachrony of Nominal Morphology
(University of California, Santa Barbara, 2009)The title of this paper is reminiscent of de Rijk’s (1969) “Is Basque an SOV language?”. This SOV pattern, together with agglutination and ergativity are maybe the most characteristic features of Basque, or at least the ... -
Is Brief Exposure to Green Space in School the Best Option to Improve Attention in Children?
(MDPI, 2021-07-13)The positive effects of Green Spaces on health are thought to be achieved through the mechanisms of mitigation, instoration and restoration. One of the benefits of Green Spaces may be the restoration of attention and so ... -
Is clindamycin effective in preventing infectious complications after oral surgery? Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
(Springer, 2022)[EN] Objective To determine the effect of clindamycin in the prevention of infection after oral surgery. Material and Methods This systematic review and meta-analysis followed the PRISMA statement, the PICO-framework ... -
Is digital slow journalism valued? An analysis of its audience in Spain
(OberCom, 2022-06-09)[EN] Due to the emergence of rapid information consumption habits, journalism has been submerged into a deep crisis of credibility. There is a need to rethink the direction of the sector and find ways in which the relevance ... -
Is Gender Inequality a Barrier to Economic Growth? A Panel Data Analysis of Developing Countries
(MDPI, 2021-01-03)This study provides empirical evidence about the effects of various dimensions of gender inequalities (education, labour market and institutional representation) on economic growth. We use data from the World Bank Development ... -
Is high-speed rail a sustainable mobility option? A life-cycle assessment of the Basque Y project in Spain
(Elsevier, 2023-11)The Basque Y High Speed Rail connection between Madrid and the Basque Autonomous Community is, quite exceptionally, a mixed freight and passengers HSR line, that has been presented as a fundamental step towards a more ... -
Is It Possible to Monetarily Quantify the Emotional Value Transferred by Companies and Organizations? An Emotional Accounting Proposal
(Frontiers Media, 2022-01)[EN] Social accounting focuses on value transactions between organizations and their stakeholders; both market ones, where the value perceived by the different stakeholders is identified, and non-markets ones, where ... -
Is Longevity Acceleration Sustainable? An Entropy-Based Trial of the Population of Spain vs. Japan
(MDPI, 2021-07-30)Longevity risk is a major concern for governments around the world as they have to address social benefits, whether in the form of pensions, healthcare, or caring for dependents and providing long-term care, and so forth, ... -
Is national identity in crisis? An assessment of national imaginations in the early 2020s
(Wiley, 2022-04)[EN] The current context of a worldwide pandemic has once again sparked debate about the bleak future of nationalism. For those who support this view, the fact that long-lasting national identities are being decisively ... -
Is plastidic glutamine synthetase essential for C-3 plants? A tale of photorespiratory mutants, ammonium tolerance and conifers
(Wiley, 2022-06)[EN] Agriculture faces the considerable challenge of having to adapt to a progressively changing climate (including the increase in CO2 levels and temperatures); environmental impact must be reduced while at the same time ... -
Is segmental foreign accent perceived categorically?
(Elsevier, 2020-01-15)The second language learning process involves acquisition of sounds that differ to varying degrees from the sounds of a learner’s native language. Learners’ productions are strongly influenced by their native language par- ... -
Is Social Media a New Type of Social Support? Social Media Use in Spain during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mixed Methods Study
(MDPI, 2022-03-26)This study examines Spanish adults’ social media use during the COVID-19 pandemic using mixed-methods to assess and understand frequency, context, and changes in social media use during two critical time points in Spain. ... -
Is the Current Regulation of the VIII Division European Anchovy Optimal?
(Kluwer Academic Publ., 2001-05)This paper sets out to assess the workability of the regulation currently in force in the European anchovy fishery of the VIII division. Particular attention is paid to the importance of the institutional regime in the ... -
Is the effect of Airbnb on the housing market different in medium-sized cities? Evidence from a Southern European city
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-02-20)Academic literature has analysed the effects of renting vacation homes in recent years from the perspective of large cities. This paper aims to test whether these effects also occur in smaller tourist cities. For this ... -
Is the global reporting initiative suitable to account for university social responsibility? Evidence from European institutions
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-09-27)[EN] Purpose – Recognising the importance of universities in the achievement of social and global objectives, this paper aims to study the relevance of the global reporting initiative (GRI) methodology for reporting University ... -
Is the National Question a Problem for Social Movements? Activist Discourses from the Basque Country
(Taylor & Francis, 2023-08-23)This article describes the impact of the national issue in the contemporary context of Basque social movements. Feminist, socio-ecology, pro-migrant and pro-language activists participated in this qualitative research. Our ... -
Is there a subgroup of long-term evolution among patients with advanced lung cancer?: Hints from the analysis of survival curves from cancer registry data
(Biomed Central, 2014-12-11)Background: Recently, with the access of low toxicity biological and targeted therapies, evidence of the existence of a long-term survival subpopulation of cancer patients is appearing. We have studied an unselected ... -
Is there life after degeneration? The organizational life cycle of cooperatives under a ‘grow-or-die’ dichotomy
(Wiley, 2019-10-16)This article provides an in-depth, longitudinal analysis combining real-time and retrospective data on a set of Mondragon's industrial cooperatives that are organized as international groups. We examine the life cycle of ...