Resultados de investigación

The files contain the final version of the replication material and the operational dataset employed in the relative research article: Perarnaud C, Arregui J. Do Member States’ Permanent Representations matter for their bargaining success? Evidence from the EU Council of Ministers (2004-2019). Special Issue, Journal of European Public Policy. In press 2021

"WeAreHere!" questionnaires. This dataset includes the WaH children's and management and teaching teams' questionnaires (instrument). Children's questionnaire: 20 questions including 5-point Likert scale questions, dichotomous questions and an open space for comments. There are two versions of the questionnaire, according to the age: for primary school children and for secondary school children. Management and teaching teams' questionnaire: 21 questions including 5-point Likert scale questions, dichotomous questions, multiple choice questions, open questions and an open space for comments. The Catalan version (original), and the Spanish and English versions of the questionnaires can be found in this dataset in pdf format.

This dataset includes the informed consent forms template used in the research projecte "WeAreHere!"(WaH) ["SomAquí!"] for children's questionnaire, for teachers' questionnaire and for advisory groups. Children under 14 years old doing the questionnaire or participating in the advisory groups needed also the consent of their parents (informed consent forms also included in this dataset). It also includes the image rights forms template for children under 14 years old and 14 and over. All the documents are in Catalan language, except the informed consent forms for parents, that have a Catalan and Spanish version. The informed consent forms have been designed according to the Organic Law 3/2018 on Data Protection and Guarantee of Digital Rights and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council and have been approved by the Ethical Committee of the University of Girona (CEBRU0009-21).

The data reported in the dataset refers to accumulation of dry matter, β-glucans, arabinoxylans, phenolic compounds and antioxidant capacity in the course of grain filling for four barley genotypes under two contrasting temperatures.

The DEU-III dataset is the product of several data iterations carried out by several researchers. In order to use the integrated dataset, all three iterations should be referenced:

DEU-III - Arregui, J. & Perarnaud, C. (2021). "A new dataset on legislative decision-making in the European Union: the DEU III dataset", https://doi.org/10.34810/data53, Repositori de Dades de Recerca, V1, UNF:6:QhhMr5aOxF70lckkESrl9A== [fileUNF]

DEU-II - Thomson, R., Arregui, J., Leuffen, D., Costello, R., Cross, J., Hertz, R., & Jensen, T. (2012). A new dataset on decision-making in the European Union before and after the 2004 and 2007 enlargements (DEUII). Journal of European Public Policy, 19(4), 604-622. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2012.662028

DEU-I - Thomson, R., Stokman, F., Achen, C., & König, T. (Eds.). (2006). The European Union Decides (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511492082",

The DEU Dataset helps EU studies scholars to develop an extensive range of research questions regarding EU legislative policy-making. This latest updated version 69 legislative dossiers from the EU-15 (Thomson & Stokman, 2006), 56 dossiers from the EU-27 (covering the 2004-2007 EU enlargement) (Thomson et al., 2012) and 16 legislative dossiers from the EU-28 that cover the time framework between 2016 and 2019 (Arregui and Perarnaud). In total, the new DEU-III dataset now covers systematic information for over twenty years of EU decision-making (1999-2019), and it includes 141 legislative proposals and 363 controversial issues. This makes the DEU dataset the largest existing dataset in the literature on EU decision-making with a great potential to identify the main driving forces of EU decision-making over the last two decades.The legislative dossiers include a broad range of policy areas in legislative decision-making. Altogether, DEU-III provides information on the policy positions of member states´ representatives in the Council of Ministers, the European Commission (EC), and the European Parliament (EP). The new dataset (DEUIII) also provides information on the salience scores that each actor attaches to the issues subjected to a final decision.

Corpus de les construccions comparatives intensificadores en català, espanyol, anglès i francés. Les ocurrències que composen cadascun dels corpus han estat extretes a partir del programari de gestió de corpus i anàlisi de dades Sketch Engine. En cadascun dels corpus, hi ha una graella en la primera pàgina dels documents amb els resultats quantitatius de l'anàlisi que es duu a terme en la tesi: etiqueta de la construcció, el corpus del qual s'han extret les instàncies, la fixació cognitiva, la polisèmia, els camps conceptuals de la casella X i la productivitat. Tot seguit, les ocurrències s'oganitzen atenent a la variant semàntica de significat., Corpus of intensifying comparative constructions in Catalan, Spanish, English, and French. The occurrences that make up each corpus are from the corpus manager and text analysis Sketch Engine. In each corpus, there is a table in the first page of each document containing the quantitative results of the thesis dissertation: construction’s name, the corpus name from which occurrences were extracted, its entrenchment, its polysemy, the conceptual fields of the slot X, and its productivity. After this, occurrences are classified according to the semantic variant of meaning.

Dades experimentals a partir de les quals s'han calculat activitats enzimàtiques i expressions d'enzims (i altres proteïnes) relacionats amb el cicle de la urea en diferents localitzacions (masses) de teixit adipós blanc de rates (mascles i femelles). Els arxius contenen les dades experimentals directes i els paràmetres de control i de referència, derivats dels animals, que han estat processats per a la publicació. També inclouen algunes fases del processament de les dades per assolir els resultats finals, de forma que el conjunt es pugui comprendre globalment.

Raw data from the study Validation of the Spanish Version of the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS). The study is centered in adapting and validating a Spanish version of the Irrational Procrastination Scale (IPS). Results suggested that the Spanish version of the IPS offer valid and reliable scores when applied to adult population.

Background. White adipose tissue (WAT) is a complex, diffuse, multifunctional organ which contains adipocytes, and a large proportion of fat, but also other cell types, active in defence, regeneration and signalling functions. Studies with adipocytes often require their isolation from WAT by breaking up the matrix of collagen fibres, however, it is unclear to what extent adipocyte number in primary cultures correlates with their number in intact WAT, since recovery and viability are often unknown. Experimental design. Epididymal WAT of 4-6 young adult rats was used to isolate adipocytes with collagenase. Careful recording of lipid content of tissue, and all fraction volumes and weights, allowed us to trace the amount of initial WAT fat remaining in the cell preparation. Functionality was estimated by incubation with glucose and measurement of lactate, glycerol and NEFA production. Non-adipocyte cells were also recovered and their sizes (and those of adipocytes) were also measured. The presence of non-nucleated cells (erythrocytes) was also estimated. Results. Cell numbers and sizes were correlated from all fractions to intact WAT. Tracing the lipid content, the recovery of adipocytes in the final, metabolically active, preparation was in the range of 70-75%. Adipocytes were 7%, erythrocytes 68% and other stromal (nucleated cells) 24% of total WAT cells. However, their overall volumes were, 91%, 0.05%, and 0.2% of WAT. Non-fat volume of adipocytes was 2.5% of WAT. Conclusions. The methodology presented here allows for a direct quantitative reference to the original tissue of studies using isolated cells. We have found, also, that the "live cell mass" of adipose tissue is very small (about 25 µL/g for adipocytes and 2 µL/g stromal, plus about 1 µL/g blood). This fact, translates (with respect to the actual "live cytoplasm" size) into an extremely high metabolic activity, which make WAT an even more significant agent in the control of energy metabolism.

Background: Diet deeply affects the food selection and ingestion both in humans and rodents, often resulting in excess energy intake. Methods: We investigated this process comparing two different high-fat dietary approaches to induce obesity, in which all rats received about 40% of their energy intake as lipids. The main nutrient difference between the diets, when compared with controls fed standard lab chow, was the lipid content. Cafeteria diets (K) were devised to be tasty, and thus highly desirable to the rats, mainly for its diverse mix of tastes, particularly salty and sweet. This diet was compared with another high-fat (HF) potentially obesogenic diet, devised not to be as tasty as K, and prepared just supplementing standard chow pellets with fat. We also analysed the influence of sex on the effects of the diets. Results: K rats grew faster, especially the males, although females showed a higher proportion of body lipid, because of a high lipid, sugar and protein intake. HF weight change rates were not different from those of controls. In addition to high sugar, K rats also ingested large amounts of salt. With this study we have shown that the key factor eliciting the excess energy intake in a high-energy diet rat model was not solely or mainly their fat intake. The changes in body fat accrual were more a consequence of their appetence for the food. Conclusions: The results show that the significant presence of sugar and salt is a powerful factor promoting excess food intake, more effective than increasing diet lipid content. These effects were already observed after a relatively short treatment, additionally confirming the differential effects of sex on the hedonic and obesogenic response to diet.