Table of Contents
Foreword
| Foreword | |
| Joan J. Guinovart | 9 |
| The European Space Agency Gaia mission: exploring the Galaxy | |
| Carme Jordi | 11 |
| Can two languages coexist within the same community of speakers? | |
| Jorge Mira, Luís F. Seoane, Ángel Paredes | 21 |
| The use of mathematics to read the book of nature. About Kepler and snowflakes | |
| Capi Corrales | 27 |
| "Catalonia and the Sciences", sculptoric group by Josep Llimona at the Institute for Catalan Studies | |
| Francesc Fontbona | 35 |
| Gaudí and the enigma of the modernist architectural ensemble in the gardens of the former Sant Boi Mental Hospital | |
| David Agulló-Galilea | 41 |
| The therapeutic garden: Gaudí and the patients of the former Sant Boi Mental Hospital | |
| Daniel Barbé-Farré | 49 |
| Mercantile arithmetic and the incunable Catalan printing. Suma de la art de arismètica, by Francesc Santcliment (1482) | |
| Joana Escobedo | 59 |
| The MERIDIÀ web portal: the study and dissemination of Catalan science | |
| Llorenç Arguimbau, Aldara Cervera, Mercè Martí, Robert Latorre | 75 |
| Estimation of aquifer recharge by means of atmospheric chloride deposition balance in the soil | |
| Emilio Custodio | 81 |
| Reflections on biosafety: do we really know what biosafety, biocontainment, and biosecurity mean? | |
| F. Xavier Abad Morejón de Girón, David Solanes Foz, Mariano Domingo Álvarez | 99 |
| Micellar liquid cromatography in bioanalytical chemistry | |
| Josep Esteve-Romero, Samuel Carda-Broch, Maria Rambla-Alegre | 105 |
| Deficit irrigation and rootstock effects on water stress, growth, and grape composition in a Mediterranean climate | |
| Montserrat Nadal, Josep Maria Vernet | 115 |
Biography and Bibliography
| Professor ENRIC RAS I OLIVA (1915–2007) | |
| Joaquim Agulló | 121 |
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ISSN: 2013-410X (electronic edition); 1575-6343 (print edition)