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Introduction: Monitoring the evolution of COVID-19 has been essential for health decision-making. But this requires reliable numbers of the infected, dead and hospitalized, often difficult to have for multiple reasons. The use of fast and reliable estimation techniques, such as indirect surveys, is an option. Objectives: To present the CoronaSurveys project, which monitors COVID-19 by combining indirect surveys with the Network Scaleup Method (NSUM). Methodology: The system uses indirect online anonymous surveys to inquire about COVID-19, and the NSUM method to estimate cases. The system offers multi-language surveys with questions to track active cases, new cases, and fatalities, among others. Results: CoronaSurveys has been operating since March 2020, and continues to collect data, with over one hundred responses to date (over one million samples). The system has made good estimates for Spain and the United Kingdom, among other countries. Conclusion: This system is suitable in countries with limited health infrastructure or in situations of lack of knowledge about the pandemic, such as at the beginning of COVID-19, because its implementation cost is small and it requires simple devices to use it and few participants to obtain good estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Southeast of the Yucatan Peninsula transformed from a territory of emancipation for the Mayans in the 17th century to a disputed region between the British and Spanish empires during the 18th century. In this conflict, stands out the role of the Mayans as historical actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Withdrawal Agreement protects most of the rights of nationals of the United Kingdom who came to work or retire in Spain before the end of 2020. Since 1 January 2021, British nationals are now subject to the more demanding Spanish rules governing immigration of thirdcountry nationals. This article seeks to highlight the position of British nationals and their families under the clauses of the Withdrawal Agreement - their rights to reside, work, healthcare and pensions - as well as the bilateral treaty between Spain and the United Kingdom that allows each other's nationals to vote in local elections in their country of residence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Se presenta un editorial a la revista que discute la relación de la Unión Europea con sus miembros, impacto del Brexit en la construcción política de Europa. El artículo también se centra en la relación política entre la Unión Europea y el Reino Unido, las relaciones internacionales y la relación del Reino Unido con España.

Scientific research in the communication field has experienced great growth in recent years. Recent technological changes, as well as the emergence of Web 2.0 and 3.0 and new forms of communication, such as social networks, have led to new and varied studies in the discipline. This paper analyzes the scientific production of the 27 countries with the greatest scientific production in the communication field in the period from 2003 to 2018. The results indicate that: the most productive countries are the USA, UK, and Spain; there is less international collaboration than in other disciplines, but there is a network of European collaboration that is quite dense and has great impact, and another network in Pacific countries (Asia + Oceania), albeit with lower density and impact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how governance actors in regional business systems engage with foreign-owned multinational corporations which are present within their territory, in attempts to retain investment and link their regions to global production networks. This is done through a qualitative analysis of policy and practice in six sub-national regions in three advanced industrialized economies (Canada, Spain and the UK), thus permitting both international and intra-national comparisons. We find that while there are broad similarities in the types of governance mechanisms used, there are notable differences in the extent and intensity of forms of market, state and associational governance of foreign direct investment. These differences partly correspond to broader institutional differences in the nature of business systems, and partly to the socio-political construction of sub-national governance space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Universal literature is a source of data to know diseases through history. Aims: Encourage readers to explore diseases and improve their health through literature. Methodology: The selected text is Oliver Twist for being the best known of Charles Dickens in his English and Spanish version. All the texts related to health are analyzed and the most representative ones are chosen, as well as those that are most repeated. A comparison is also made with the situation in Spain in those years. Results: The level of development of Great Britain was much higher than that of Spain. Technology had reached the countryside, the mines and the city. The epidemics, the health system, work accidents did not have many similarities due to the backwardness suffered by Spain. Conclusion: Literature serves to raise public awareness of the importance of health. Literature should be encouraged as an instrument for the prevention of diseases, even writers who describe diseases without knowing it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes how those young Spanish people (aged between 25 and 35) with a university degree, migrated to the United Kingdom and Chile between 2010 and 2014, build their adaptive processes in both countries. These processes are complex and they depend on a range of factors, such as the skills of migrants regarding the language of the arrival country, their habituation to the climate of such country, the social position they acquire after migration, their interaction with the local population, the images they construct about their society of origin, and the level of integration in the new social spaces they access, etc.. Depending on all these factors, multiple possible adaptation paths of migrants can be configured. These paths are systematized here by means of a three-dimensional analytical model that distinguishes among nostalgic, converse and cosmopolitan ways of adaptation. Such model is used to examine how university skilled migrants construct, deconstruct and reconstruct their adaptive strategies in the UK and Chile, two different socio-economic and cultural contexts. Firstly, in the UK, the adaptive processes reveal a more versatile character, showing adaptation paths of young Spanish immigrants that are classified, respectively, as nostalgic, converse and cosmopolitan. However, those young Spanish people settled in Chile manifest greatly affected by the high degree of privatization of problems and public services existing in this country, in which it is broadly assumed that the costs of such problems and services have to be individually paid. This causes that these young migrants, faced to this very difficult situation that is so hard to understand and accept by them, develop adaptation processes mainly characterized by the nostalgia for their origin society and the idealization of the return. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Radio and public service are often associated with information even though music programming has been part of public radio since its beginnings. The question is that not every audiovisual corporation shares the same notion of specialized music radio. Therefore, the aim of this article is to present a first exploratory approach by comparing the modus operandi of two public radio stations: iCat.cat and BBC Radio 6 Music. Within the framework of comparative media systems studies, we focus on studying the morning shows' playlists, as the flagship program of radio prime time and spearhead of the stations' programming policies. Obviously there are cultural differences between Catalonia and United Kingdom, nonetheless, we have chosen these stations because they both have similar approaches to a thematic conception that departs from commercial formula stations and operate under a programming strategy based on the so-called indie music. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The VFM audit has emerged as an increasingly influential force in the public sector. Nevertheless, as in new public management, vfm audit developments show differences among countries. This paper studies vfm auditing in Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom regional audit institutions. The aim is to evaluate the level of development of vfm auditing in these countries at regional space and to explain the factors that may create differences and similarities in those developments. Using actor-network theory, we describe two models of vfm audit development: the anglo-saxon model for the United Kingdom, based on the private sector, and the continental model, for Germany and Spain, based on a clear distinction between the public and the private sectors. The public administration style and the focus of public sector reforms have had a great influence on the final configuration of VFM auditing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]