The aim of the study was to determine the ageand gender-specific prevalence, at symptom level and cluster level, of somatic symptoms in a sample of 1512 participants (52.7% females) aged 10 to 25 years old. Somatic complaints were measured with the Psychosomatic Symptoms Scale (PSS), a 35-item scale that inquires about 35 somatic symptoms and sensations in the last 3 months. PSS shows acceptabl...

1 Department of General Surgery, Abdominal Wall Surgery Unit and General and Digestive Surgery Research Group, Institut de Reserca Vall d’Hebron (VHIR), Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2 Servei de Cirurgia General, Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelon...

Andre Carus (Hegeler Institute): “Carnap and Phenomenology: What Happened in 1924?” Abstract: The sketch of the Aufbau system in "Vom Chaos zur Wirklichkeit" (1922) employs phenomenology to describe the system basis, as do other writings before 1924. But in January 1925, we find a new principle of " ̈Überwindung der Subjektivität" and a new emphasis on "Einheit des Gegenstandsbereichs." Russell'...

1Oncoloǵıa y Patoloǵıa Grupo, Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca, 08035 Barcelona, Spain 2Unitat de Recerca Biomédica, Instituto de Biomedicina de Sevilla, 41013 Sevilla, Spain 3Genomic Stability Laboratory, Leibniz Institute for Age Research, 07745 Jena, Germany 4Genome High-Throughput Sequencing Laboratory, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv Uni...

This paper examines ‘functionally-based optimality theory’ (FOT), the version of optimality theory that requires that each constraint be paired with an external functional motivation. It argues that, at least as far as syntactic constraints are concerned, FOT suffers from severe deficiencies. Such a pairing incorrectly locates the form-function interplay in the mental grammar itself, rather tha...

Author details Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hospital Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clinic-Universitat de Barcelona), Barcelona, Spain. Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Public Health Agency of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spai...

Little is known about the impact of globalization on the health and well-being of rural youth residing in low-income countries. The current study reports results from a youth-focused needs assessment conducted in seven rural villages in the Honduran department of Intibuc a. Honduras, among the poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, is a largely rural country where young people comprise ab...

a Sección de Alergia e Inmunología Clínica, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, Spain b Consulta Immunologia i Al·lèrgia Pediàtrica, Hospital General de Granollers, Barcelona, Spain c Unitat de Patologia Infecciosa i Immunodeficiències de Pediatria, Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron, Institut de Recerca Vall d’Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain d Grup d’Immunodefici...

This article defends the strong claim that contract law does not impose obligations to perform. This is not because there are no such obligations or because contract law is disconnected from morality. Far from it. This article argues that, rather than enforcing the obligations of promises, contract law concerns complaints against promissory wrongs. In order to draw out the distinction between t...