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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]

The Arabs never could have burned the Library of Alexandria in 642 A.D. for the simple reason that it was 250 years that no longer existed. It had been destroyed in 391 by the same fanatics who 25 years later murdered Hypatia, the most clear-thinking woman of Classical times. This research is based on sources which specifies the origin and the reason of the forgery. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technical advances applied to e-commerce, have reduced costs of sales through the Internet, but criminals have been taking advantage of this technology, using it as way to commit unlawful actions. On the other hand, several countries seek to punish four basic behaviors: 1) computer fraud, 2) digital document forgery, 3) misleading advertising, and 4) personal data theft. That is the aim of this paper: the analysis of said crimes, in order to demonstrate that it is not necessary to adopt new laws, in order to punish the criminal behavior already condemned by the Uruguayan legal system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Audiovisual forgery is a filmic practice -which has undergone a certain rise since the mid-1970s- that simulates aesthetic modes and the strategies of discursive construction of the documentary genre. Together with this stylistic appropriation, the fake also proposes a self-reflexive meditation on the limits of representation, the credibility of the image and its potentially lying and manipulative character. This article approaches the phenomenon from a historical perspective in order to then define the reflexive, poetic and rhetorical characteristics that define it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ten years ago, the author of this article Publisher a book on the famous bust called the Dama de Elche; this book was immediately translated into Spanish. In that book, some 30 different, but complementary, reasons were presented to the reader to support the author's wholly new argument that de Dama de Elche--rather than being an authentic example of ancient Iberian sculpture, and one commonly dated by Spanish archeologists to around 450 BC--was (instead) created in 1897 AD. Besides giving a succinct account of those thirty theses arguing for the real status of the Dama de Elche as a modern art forgery, the author recounts his untiring efforts over the last ten years to induce Spanish authorities to apply a certain, standard tests and other means of specific analysis to the now-controversial bust in order to establish, and for once and for all, the real date of its manufacture: either «ancient» or «modern». It is hoped that publication of this article will finally force the Spanish authorities to perform those much needed tests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]