The Experimental characterization and modeling of the binomial distribution system-drift eliminator in cooling towers doctoral thesis by Javier Ruiz Ramírez of the Mechanical Engineering and Energy department at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) proposes improvements in the designs of distribution system-drift eliminators to improve the energy efficiency of these installations and prevent cases [...]
Music in Today’s Cinema, Emotional Intelligence, and Theatre Therapy are just a few of the 66 winter courses that the Vice Rectorate for Culture and University Extension at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) has organized. The activities are to take place between November 2014 and May 2015 on the four UMH campuses (Elche, [...]
UMH Moto Experience, a prototype motorcycle designed by six engineering students from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), has finished first in the Maximum Speed at Speed Trap test at the III International MotoStudent Competition held the weekend of October 4-5 at the MotorLand Aragón (Teruel, Spain) circuit. The UMH team earned this prize, [...]
The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) has conferred the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa to cartoonist Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, better known as Forges, in a ceremony that took place during the official opening of the 2014/2015 academic year. José Juan López Espín, a UMH associate professor and Director of the Office for Communication, [...]
The Nutritional Epidemiology Unit at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), led by Professor Jesús Vioque, has participated in a study that associates the Mediterranean diet with a 30% reduction in the risk of breast cancer. The study, published in the British Journal of Cancer, was led by researchers Adela Castelló and Marina Pollán [...]
The Executive Board of the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche has approved to confer cartoonist Antonio Fraguas de Pablo, better known as Forges, as Doctor Honoris Causa. The investiture is to take place on October 3, the opening day of the 2014/2015 academic year. José Juan López Espín, a UMH faculty member and Director [...]
Seventy-five percent of the patients with hemiplegia who have undergone tests at the Hospital of Alicante with a robotic arm or exoskeleton have managed to move it through a brain interface. Participating in this project, called Brain2Motion, are researchers from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), the Cajal Institute at the Spanish National Research [...]
A group 60 podiatry, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy students from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) will assist pilgrims along the Route of Santiago for a period of five weeks in the towns of Astorga and Villadangos del Páramo in the province of León. This activity, included among the activities of Healthy UMH, was [...]
The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) is pleased to offer, for the first time, the Bachelor’s in Audiovisual Communication for the 2014/15 academic year. This new undergraduate program will be included within the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Elche, and in its first year, 60 positions will be made available. This program will [...]
A study coordinated by Jorge Manzanares, Professor of Pharmacology at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH), shows that child maltreatment, whatever its form, produces functional brain changes that increase vulnerability to alcohol consumption when reaching adolescence. The results determined that the brains of some young abused people perceived the intake of substances positively and [...]
