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Digital news start-ups in Spain: symbolic and social capital as drivers of success
(UCM, 2019-03-20)
Ongoing downsizing in the media sector has sparked a new start-up culture in the field of journalism. Over the past few years an increasing number of news organizations seeking to leverage social and symbolic rather than ...
Behind the Comments Section: The Ethics of Digital Native News Discussions
(Cogitatio Press, 2020-04-16)
Initially offered as a digital public sphere forum, comments sections became the preferred democratic arena for gatekeepers to encourage their readers to engage in constructive dialogue about relevant issues. However, news ...
Applying an integrated approach to social media communication training: how innovative thinking is changing the way universities teach (Web) journalism
(Universitat Politècnica de Valéncia, 2019)
This paper focuses on the challenges of teaching Internet-based communications, an inherently difficult task given the rapid pace of technological innovation in the discipline. The analysis it offers has been based on the ...
Properties of flexible polyurethane foams containing isocyanate functionalized kraft lignin
(Elsevier, 2017-02-20)
A commercial kraft lignin (k-lignin) was successfully functionalized by means of the reaction of an isocyanate group from isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI) with hydroxyl groups present in lignin (k-IPDI), for their further ...
Properties of Hydrophilic Mineral Wool for Desalination of Historical Masonry
(Kaunas University of Technology, 2016-01-20)
Hydrophilic mineral wool (HMW) is considered as a possible alternative to the commonly used cellulose in desalination of historical masonry. HMW also allows water and salt solutions transport along the hydrophilic fibres, ...
(Un)Plugging smart cities with urban transformations: Towards multistakeholder city-regional complex urbanity?
(Universidad de Almería, 2016)
The author argues that the development of the so-called buzzword smart city and its use in planning inner cities are intimately bound up with required current urban transformations. In this attempt to deconstruct or unplug ...
Secondary Phosphine Oxides: Bifunctional Ligands in Catalysis
(Willey, 2020-06-10)
Metal complexes of secondary phosphine oxides (SPOs) were introduced as homogeneous catalysts in the 1980s for hydroformylation and hydrogenation with platinum as the metal. As neutral species, the ligand properties resemble ...
Implementing strategies to reduce singly housed male mice
(Sage, 2019-05-01)
There are different husbandry situations that lead to social isolation of male mice. Besides legal considerations, single housing has a negative impact on behavioural and molecular studies. We have implemented two strategies, ...
Salt-Marsh Foraminiferal Distributions from Mainland Northern Georgia, USA: An Assessment of Their Viability for Sea-Level Studies
(Ubiquity Press, 2020-03-26)
We investigated foraminiferal distributions from two salt-marsh sites at Thunderbolt and Georgetown, in mainland northern Georgia, U.S. Atlantic coast. We analyzed modern epifaunal foraminiferal assemblages across multiple ...
Probing α‐Amino Aldehydes as Weakly Acidic Pronucleophiles: Direct Access to Quaternary α‐Amino Aldehydes by an Enantioselective Michael Addition Catalyzed by Brønsted Bases
(Wiley, 2020-10-09)
The high tendency of α-amino aldehydes to undergo 1,2-additions and their relatively low stability under basic conditions have largely prevented their use as pronucleophiles in the realm of asymmetric catalysis, particularly ...