[EN] Concrete exposed to fire can experience spalling when the pore pressure increases due to water evaporation resulting in damage to part of the concrete cross-section which causes the loss of the initial cross-sectional ...
[EN] This paper describes a jet ejection cycle coupled to a 1.5 L diesel engine to reduce the intake air temperature using the waste heat of the exhaust gases. This cycle is evaluated by means of conventional and advanced ...
López-Martín, María; Pérez De Castro, Ana María; Picó Sirvent, María Belén; Gómez-Guillamon, Maria Luisa(MDPI AG, 2022-10)
[EN] Cucurbits powdery mildew (CPM) is one of the main limiting factors of melon cultivation worldwide. Resistance to races 1, 2, and 5 has been reported in the African accession TGR-1551, whose resistance is controlled ...
González, Claudia; Solanes Galbis, Juan Ernesto; Muñoz García, Adolfo; Gracia Calandin, Luis Ignacio; Girbés-Juan, Vicent; Tornero Montserrat, Josep(Elsevier, 2021-04)
[EN] There are some industrial tasks that are still mainly performed manually by human workers due to their complexity, which is the case of surface treatment operations (such as sanding, deburring, finishing, grinding, ...
[EN] This paper presents a new approach for the multiobjective optimal design of robust controllers in systems with stochastic parametric uncertainty. Traditionally, uncertainty is incorporated into the optimization process. ...
Herrera-Luna, Jorge Carlos; Díaz Díaz, David; Abramov, Alex; Encinas Perea, Susana; Jiménez Molero, María Consuelo; Pérez-Ruiz, Raúl(American Chemical Society, 2021-03-19)
[EN] Heteroarene boronate esters constitute valuable intermediates in modern organic synthesis. As building blocks, they can be further applied to the synthesis of new materials, since they can be easily transformed into ...
Ferrer Contreras, Miguel; Diego Antón, María de; Piñero, Gema; Gonzalez, Alberto(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021)
[EN] Acoustic sensor networks (ASNs) are an effective solution to implement active noise control (ANC) systems by using distributed adaptive algorithms. On one hand, ASNs provide scalable systems where the signal processing ...
Hernández-Olivas, Ever; Muñoz-Pina, Sara; Andrés Grau, Ana María; Heredia Gutiérrez, Ana Belén(Elsevier, 2021-06)
[EN] Aging is accompanied by changes in gastrointestinal functions. The impact of the gastrointestinal (GI) conditions of the elderly on the extent of proteolysis and glycolysis as well as calcium bioaccessibility in some ...
Giner-Sanz, Juan José; Leverick, Graham; Giordano, Livia; Pérez-Herranz, Valentín; Shao-Horn, Yang(Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc., 2022-05-19)
[EN] The salicylate method has been extensively used for quantifying ammonia in the emerging field of nitrogen (electro)fixation. Alkali metal salts are widely used as supporting electrolytes for nitrogen reduction, ...
Garcia-Mulero, Ana; Asiri, Abdullah M; Albero-Sancho, Josep; Primo Arnau, Ana Maria; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022-08-18)
[EN] Microporous graphitic carbon (mp-C) derived from the pyrolysis of alpha-, beta-, and gamma-cyclodextrins exhibited photocatalytic activity in CO2-saturated acetonitrile-water upon irradiation with UV-Vis light and in ...
Parra Gómez, Jorge; Ivanova-Angelova, Todora; Menghini, Mariela; Homm, Pía; Locquet, Jean-Pierre; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-05-01)
[EN] Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is one of the most promising materials for developing hybrid photonic integrated circuits (PICs). At telecommunication wavelengths, VO2 exhibits a large change on the refractive index (¿n ~ 1 ...
Parra Gómez, Jorge; Pernice, Wolfram H. P.; Sanchis Kilders, Pablo(Nature Publishing Group, 2021-05-04)
[EN] A wide variety of nanophotonic applications require controlling the optical phase without changing optical absorption, which in silicon (Si) photonics has been mostly pursued electrically. Here, we investigate the ...
Muñoz-Pellicer, David; Nadal, Enrique; Albelda Vitoria, José; CHINESTA SORIA, FRANCISCO JOSE; Ródenas, Juan José(Elsevier, 2022-07-01)
[EN] Structural optimization is part of the mechanical engineering field and, in most cases, tries to minimize the overall weight of a given design domain, subjected to functionality constraints given in terms of stresses ...
Dhakshinamoorthy, Amarajothi; Alvaro Rodríguez, Maria Mercedes; Asiri, Abdullah M.; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(MDPI AG, 2021-06)
[EN] Cu-3(BTC)(2) (BTC: 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylate) as a heterogeneous catalyst in the presence of cesium carbonate as a base is reported for the borylation of alpha,beta-conjugated enones by bis(pinacolato)diboron ...
[EN] The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the need for rapid, cost-effective, and reliable point-of-care testing (POCT) devices for massive population screening. The co-circulation of SARS-CoV-2 with several ...
[EN] Melanoma is an aggressive neoplasm responsible for the majority of deaths from skin cancer. Specifically, spitzoid melanocytic tumors are one of the most challenging melanocytic lesions due to their ambiguous morphological ...
[EN] Local activation waves (LAWs) detection in complex fractionated atrial electrograms (CFAEs) during catheter ablation (CA) of atrial fibrillation (AF), the commonest cardiac arrhythmia, is a complicated task due to ...
Uban, Ana-Sabina; Chulvi-Ferriols, María Alberta; Rosso, Paolo(Elsevier, 2021-11)
[EN] Mental disorders can severely affect quality of life, constitute a major predictive factor of suicide, and are usually underdiagnosed and undertreated. Early detection of signs of mental health problems is
particularly ...
[EN] The deployment of a charging infrastructure to cover the increasing demand of electric vehicles (EVs) has become a crucial problem in smart cities. Additionally, the penetration of the EV will increase once the users ...
[EN] Determining the temporal behavior of an IoT platform is of utmost importance as IoT systems are time-sensitive. IoT platforms play a central role in the operation of an IoT system, impacting the overall performance. ...