Star formation properties of Universidad Complutense de Madrid survey galaxies

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This work is based on observations obtained at the Lick Observatory, operated by the University of California and on observations collected at the German-Spanish Astronomical Centre, Calar Alto, Spain, operated by the Max-Planck Institute fur Astronomie (MPIE), Heidelberg, jointly with the Spanish Commission for Astronomy. It is also partly based on observations made with the Isaac Newton Telescope operated on the island of La Palma by the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. A. Gil de Paz thanks the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge for all the facilities and support during his stay there. J. Gallego and A. Gil de Paz acknowledge the invitation, hospitality and facilities provided during the 3rd Guillermo Haro Workshop, included in the Guillermo Haro Programme at the INAOE (Mexico). We also thank C.E. García Dabó, C. Sánchez Contreras and R. Guzmán for stimulating conversations and the referee Dr. M. Edmunds for his useful comments and suggestions. A. Gil de Paz acknowledges the receipt of a Formación del Profesorado Universitario fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education. A. Aragón Salamanca acknowledges generous financial support from the Royal Society. A. Alonso Herrero was supported by NASA on grant NAG 5-3042. This research was also supported by the Spanish Programa Sectorial de Promoción General del Conocimiento under grants PB96-0610 and PB96-0645. This work was partially carried out under the auspices of EARA, a European Association for Research in Astronomy, and the TMR Network on Galaxy Formation and Evolution funded by the European Commission.