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Thje circulation of misinformation increased by 365% in 2017 according to the report Approaching the Future (2018). In 2019, almost a third of the queries received by Maldita.es media corresponded to gender issues, according to the same report. ^is research aims to study, through the analysis of the denials on gender issues published in the sections of the media dedicated to the Spanish verification Newtral and Maldito Feminismo and the perception of expert journalists, the transit of falsehoods around women's equality. ^e results show how most hoaxes resort to the myth of false reports of gender violence and manipulate official data to question the usefulness of the Law against Gender Violence. ^ey are mainly disseminated through social networks, messaging channels and pseudo-media and, for the most part, can be verified by resorting to easily accessible documentary sources open to the public. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is obvious that musical interactions between siblings take place within the family environment and are significant for their musical development. This paper presents data from a study on these interactions about which even now very little is known. Participants are siblings from two to six years old from three Catalan families with similar characteristics. Data is collected by LENA®’s DLP (Digital Language Processor) tool, an audio recorder capable of recording for 16 hours, with high quality and in a non-intrusive way, that is worn by the younger sibling. Recordings were collected periodically and for a whole day and were complemented with some voice messages narrated by the parents to contextualize the recording day. Data has been analysed using a validated table to extract information about four dimensions: 1) participation order, 2) place, 3) interaction type, and 4) source. Results reveal, among other information, that: a) in most of the interactions the older sibling starts the musical episode and the younger one finishes it, b) the interactions happen mostly at home; c) imitation and synchrony are very used, and d) interactions are based equally on songs and improvisations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article invites us to reflect on the public faith in registration and the property rights in the case of real estate fraud (falsification of documents or identities theft). In our country, there are two positions that seem to be irreconcilable: On the one hand, those who defend the public faith in registration above the property rights; on the other hand, those who defend the property rights above the public faith in registration. It is important to assume one of the two positions in this confrontation, because only from the academic discussion will be possible to find an effective solution to this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The explanation for the origin of the name "Mula" (Spanish mule) from an etiological story about a mule that gave birth, a miracle announcing the conquest of the city by Prince Alfonso in 1244, may actually be considered a distant literary echo of a passage from Herodotus which relates the fall of Babylon into the hands of the Persians, -considering that such natural wonders appear frequently in the work of Herodotus and that of other historians from Antiquity-. The author or authors of the so-called Mula Muncipal Charter (a literary forgery dating from the second half of the 16th century) may well have been familiar with Herodotus' account through Renaissance epitomists like Johannes Textor and Pierus Valerianus and writers as Erasmus. The use of ancient accounts is common in modern Spanish historical and pseudo-historical literature, with its abundance of false or, at the very least, dubious documents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]