Bustamante, Alexander; Sebastiá Tarín, Laura; Onaindia De La Rivaherrera, Eva(MDPI AG, 2021-05)
[EN] Since 2007, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has issued data on the factors and policies that contribute to the development of tourism and competitiveness across countries worldwide. While WEF compiles the yearly report ...
Cortés Ortiz, William G.; Delgado-Muñoz, Daniel; Guerrero Fajardo, Carlos Alberto; Agouram, Said; Sanchís, Ruth; Solsona, Benjamín; López Nieto, José Manuel(Elsevier, 2020-08)
[EN] FeOx-, MoOx and FeMoOx-SiO2 materials prepared by a sol-gel procedure have been evaluated as catalysts for the partial oxidation of methane and methanol. The effect of decreasing the pH of the synthesis gel on the ...
[EN] The usage scenarios defined in the ITU-M2150-1 recommendation for IMT-2020 systems, including enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-reliable Low-latency Communication (URLLC), and massive Machine Type Communication ...
Rubio Arjona, Lorenzo; FERNÁNDEZ GONZÁLEZ, HERMAN ANTONIO; Rodrigo Peñarrocha, Vicent Miquel; Reig, Juan(IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, 2015-07-24)
[EN] In this work, we perform a path loss characterization of the vehicular-to-infrastructure (V2I) channel in an urban environment based on a log-distance path loss propagation model. The model parameters have been derived ...
[EN] Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFCs) are critical components in renewable hybrid systems, demanding reliable fault diagnosis to ensure optimal performance and prevent costly damages. This study presents a novel ...
[EN] Lulo (Solanum quitoense Lam.) is a Colombian fruit that is mostly used in the preparation of
homemade juice as well as natural remedy for hypertension. The aim of this study was to determine physicochemical and ...
Acosta-Coll, Melisa; Ballester Merelo, Francisco José; Martínez Peiró, Marcos Antonio; De la Hoz-Franco, Emiro(MDPI AG, 2018-07)
[EN] Pluvial flash floods in urban areas are becoming increasingly frequent due to climate change and human actions, negatively impacting the life, work, production and infrastructure of a population. Pluvial flooding ...
Saldarriaga, Juan; Salcedo, Camilo; Solarte, Laura; Pulgarín, Laura; Rivera, Maria Laura; Camacho, Mariana; Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luís; Martínez-Solano, F. Javier; Cunha, Maria(MDPI AG, 2020-09)
[EN] In recent years, there has been an increase in the frequency of urban floods as a result of three determinant factors: the reduction in systems' capacity due to aging, a changing environment that has resulted in ...
Bocanegra, Ricardo A.; Vallés-Morán, F. J.; Francés, F.(Wiley, 2020-03)
[EN] Flood water can affect vehicles significantly, which in turn can increase the negative effects of floods as vehicles are washed away by the flow and become a form of debris. In cities, most fatalities during floods ...
Guarnizo, J. G; Mellado Arteche, Martín(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016-08)
[EN] Coordination among the robots allows a robot soccer team to perform better through coordinated behaviors. This requires that team strategy is designed in line with the conditions of the game. This paper presents the ...
[EN] Underwater robots have considerably changed the exploration of deep sea. Even more, these robots allow performing opera- tions in remote subsea installations. The future of this techno- logy is promising. The purpose ...
Sierra, Jelver A.; Gilchrist, Katherine; Tabares-Guevara, Jorge H.; Betancur-Galvis, Liliana; Ramírez-Pineda, José R.; González-Cardenete, Miguel A(MDPI AG, 2022-10)
[EN] Abietic acid (AA), dehydroabietic acid (DHA) and triptoquinones (TQs) are bioactive abietane-type diterpenoids, which are present in many edible vegetables and medicinal herbs with health-promoting properties. Evidence ...
[EN] Inaccuracies introduced in quantitative phase digital holographic microscopy by the use of nontelecentric imaging systems are analyzed. Computer modeling of the experimental result shows that even negligible errors ...
Florez, Frank; Fernández de Córdoba, Pedro; Taborda, John; Polo, Miguel; Castro-Palacio, Juan Carlos; Pérez Quiles, María Jezabel(MDPI AG, 2020-06)
[EN] The analysis and modeling of unconventional thermal zones is a first step for the inclusion of low-cost spaces and for the assessment of the environmental impact among areas of human use in warm climates. In this ...
Lenis, J. A.; Rico Tortosa, Patricia María; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Pacha-Olivenza, M. A.; González-Martín, M. L.; Bolívar, F. J.(Elsevier BV, 2020-11)
[EN] Biocompatible and antibacterial multi-layer coatings of hydroxyapatite (HA)-Ag/SiO2/TiN/Ti were obtained on the Ti-6Al-4V alloy, by means of the magnetron sputtering technique. During characterization of the coatings, ...
Hamulic, Damir; Stadler, Marco; Hering, Steffen; Padron, Jose M.; Bassett, Rachel; Rivas, Fatima; Loza-Mejia, Marco; Dea-Ayuela, M. Auxiliadora; González-Cardenete, Miguel A(American Chemical Society, 2019-04)
[EN] The first semisynthesis and biological profiling of the new abietane diterpenoid (+)-liquiditerpenoic acid A (abietopinoic acid) (7) along with several analogues are reported. The compounds were obtained from readily ...
Mendez-Reyes, Daniel Alexander; Martínez-Abad, Antonio; Martínez-Sanz, Marta; López-Rubio, A.; Fabra Rovira, Maria José(Elsevier, 2022-08)
[EN] In this work, pectin extracts from watermelon rind (WRP) were enzymatically treated to evaluate their potential for preparing hydrogels with the addition of CaCl2. Based on a previous work, two different conditions ...
Vaca González, Juan Jairo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-05-02)
[ES] El cartílago hialino es un tejido conectivo denso con poca capacidad de auto regeneración cuando es afectado por patologías degenerativas. Por lo tanto, la estimulación eléctrica se ha propuesto como una terapia ...
[EN] Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) fuel cells is a technology successfully used in the production of energy from hydrogen, allowing the use of hydrogen as an energy vector. It is scalable for stationary and ...
[EN] This research develops an extension of the Model Conditional Processor (MCP), which merges clusters with Gaussian mixture models to offer an alternative solution to manage heteroscedastic errors. The new method is ...