This paper is an elaborated version of the material presented by the author in a three hour minicourse at V International Course of Mathematical Analysis in Andalusia, at Almeria, Spain September 12-16, 2011. The author wishes to thank the scientific committee for the opportunity to present the course and to the organizing committee for their hospitality. The author also personally thanks Anton...

The 1101 km length of the Andalusian coast (Spain) was assessed for coastal scenery at 45 specific locations. Selected areas covered resort (3), urban (19), village (8), rural (10) and remote (5) bathing areas. Scenery was analyzed for physical and human parameters via 26 selected parameters. These parameters were obtained by interviews of 4500 people on European beaches. Each parameter was ass...

The Workshop on Cardiovascular Extracellular Matrix in Health and Disease, International University of Andalusia, Baeza, Spain, 6-8 October 2014 served to discuss the current knowledge on the mechanisms integral to extracellular matrix homeostasis that are fundamental to understanding the pathological basis of several cardiovascular diseases, including the development of cardiac fibrosis in res...

In this work, we perform the acoustic analysis of features harmonicity, sonority, duration and intensity each /g/ sound extracted from a sample spontaneous speech corpus collected recordings local television programs in Andalusia, Madrid Basque Country. This consists 1292 utterances, which velar appears on 151 occasions different contexts. These sounds are described categorized thanks to Praat ...

Between March and May of 2011, a cluster of three fatal cases of meningococcal sepsis occurred in Andalusia, Spain, in a municipality with a population of around 20,000 inhabitants. The cases were in their mid-teens to early thirties and were notified to the epidemiological surveillance system of Andalusia (Sistema de Vigilancia Epidemiológica de Andalucía, SVEA) during a 68-day period from Mar...

OBJECTIVE To describe trends in lung cancer mortality rates in the different provinces of Andalusia, Spain, from 1975 through 2002. MATERIAL AND METHODS Deaths from lung cancer during the period 1975 through 2002 were obtained from the Spanish national institute of statistics. Crude rates and age-adjusted rates (overall and truncated 35-64 year rates) were calculated. RESULTS In Andalusia i...

The last published figures have shown geographical variations in mortality with respect to female breast cancer in European countries. However, national health policies need a dynamic image of the geographical variations within the country. The aim of this paper was to describe the spatial distribution of age-specific mortality rates from female breast cancer in the municipalities of Andalusia ...

INTRODUCTION Rheumatologic care is offered by the National Health System in Spain. However, more than a quarter of health spending is carried out in private medicine. Currently, there are no data about the number of rheumatologists with private activity in Spain. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the number of rheumatologists with private activity in Spain and to describe the profile and location of the...