• Foreword

  Lluís Tort

  1-3

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Distinguished lectures. Ramon Margalef Award for Ecology 2012

• Daniel Simberloff: Creative and devastating

  Joan L. Pretus

  5-6

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• Biological invasions: Much progress plus several controversies

  Daniel Simberloff

  7-16

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The Nobel Prizes of 2011

• Crystallography and the Nobel Prizes: On the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Dan Shechtman

  Joan F. Piniella

  17-23

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The Nobel Prizes of 2012

• Smart cell-surface receptors: On the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, awarded to Robert J. Lefkowitz and Brian K. Kobilka

  Rafael Franco, María S. Aymerich

  25-32

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• The Gedankenexperimente of quantum mechanics become reality: On the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, awarded to Serge Haroche and David J. Wineland

  Jordi Mompart

  33-41

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Celebration of the Centennial of the Catalan Society for Biology, 1912–2012

• First International Conference of Biology of Catalonia (CIBICAT), ‘Global questions on advanced biology’ (Barcelona, 9–12 July, 2012)

  Josep Clotet

  43-49

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• Bacterial pathogenesis as an imperfect symbiosis

  Josep Casadesús

  51-56

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• Multidisciplinary approaches towards compartmentalization in development: Dorsoventral boundary formation of the Drosophila wing disc as a case study

  Javier Buceta

  57-66

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• Anti-angiogenic therapy for cancer and the mechanisms of tumor resistance

  Gabriela Jiménez-Valerio, Oriol Casanovas

  67-73

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Research reviews

• Temperament and tuning of early 19th century Hispanic keyboard instruments: A study of the monochord integrated into a fortepiano made by Francisco Fernández (1828)

  Romà Escalas Llimona

  75-88

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• The contribution of the Barcelona World Race to improved ocean surface information. A validation of the SMOS remotely sensed salinity

  Jordi Salat, Marta Umbert, Joaquim Ballabrera-Poy, Pedro Fernández, Kintxo Salvador, Justino Martínez

  89-100

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Forum

• The United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM) in Barcelona: Mission and vision

  Parvati Nair

  101-106

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• The Institute for Catalan Studies and the International Women’s Day, 2006–2013

  Carme Puche

  107-108

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History corner

• The American dream of Rafael Guastavino (1842–1908)

  Mercè Piqueras

  109-112

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