The Basque country declaration: Gerontechnology comments

The Basque Country University system: English and Basque tasks

Our group participated in the Basque and English lexical sample tasks in Senseval-3. A language-specific feature set was defined for Basque. Four different learning algorithms were applied, and also a method that combined their outputs. Before submission, the performance of the methods was tested for each task on the Senseval-3 training data using cross validation. Finally, two systems were sub...

A drug consumption room in the Spanish Basque country.

Changes in social inequalities in health in the Basque Country.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the extent of the inequalities in self reported health between socioeconomic groups and its changes over time in the Basque Country (Spain). DESIGN Cross sectional data on the association between occupation, education and income and three health indicators was obtained from the Basque Health Surveys of 1986 and 1992. Representative population samples were analysed...

Patent overlay maps: Spain and the Basque Country

This study uses the new global patent map developed by Rafols et al. (2012) to reflect the patenting activity of Spain together with the activity of the Basque Country, a highly industrialized region in Spain, for the time interval 2000-2006. The global patent map reflects the technological categories where a patent could be categorized according to the International Patent Classification (IPC)...

Cancer Survival (1995-2004) in the Basque Country, Spain

Background: geographic differences described in the prognosis of cancer patients in the Basque Country have been attributed to a different incidence in tumours with different lethality. Therefore, cancer relative survival adjusted by case-mix was included to estimate cancer survival by provinces and health regions, using data from 1995 to 2004. Methods: a total of 93 585 cases of malignant tumo...