• Foreword

  Joan J. Guinovart

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Distinguished lectures. Ramon Margalef Award for Ecology 2012

• The European Space Agency Gaia mission: exploring the Galaxy

  Carme Jordi

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• Can two languages coexist within the same community of speakers?

  Jorge Mira, Luís F. Seoane, Ángel Paredes

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• The use of mathematics to read the book of nature. About Kepler and snowflakes

  Capi Corrales

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Articles

• "Catalonia and the Sciences", sculptoric group by Josep Llimona at the Institute for Catalan Studies

  Francesc Fontbona

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• Gaudí and the enigma of the modernist architectural ensemble in the gardens of the former Sant Boi Mental Hospital

  David Agulló-Galilea

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• The therapeutic garden: Gaudí and the patients of the former Sant Boi Mental Hospital

  Daniel Barbé-Farré

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• Mercantile arithmetic and the incunable Catalan printing. Suma de la art de arismètica, by Francesc Santcliment (1482)

  Joana Escobedo

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• The MERIDIÀ web portal: the study and dissemination of Catalan science

  Llorenç Arguimbau, Aldara Cervera, Mercè Martí, Robert Latorre

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• Estimation of aquifer recharge by means of atmospheric chloride deposition balance in the soil

  Emilio Custodio

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• 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

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• Micellar liquid cromatography in bioanalytical chemistry

  Josep Esteve-Romero, Samuel Carda-Broch, Maria Rambla-Alegre

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• Deficit irrigation and rootstock effects on water stress, growth, and grape composition in a Mediterranean climate

  Montserrat Nadal, Josep Maria Vernet

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Biography and Bibliography

• Professor ENRIC RAS I OLIVA (1915–2007)

  Joaquim Agulló

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