Lopes, A. C.; Caparros, C.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís; Neves, I. C.; Lanceros-Mendez, Senentxu(Elsevier, 2012-10-01)
Poly(vinylidene fluoride), PVDF, based composites with increasing NaY zeolite content up to 32 wt.% have been processed by solvent casting and melt crystallization. Depending on the melting temperature of the polymer, the ...
[EN] Crocins and picrocrocin are high-value hydrophilic pigments produced in saffron and used commercially in the food and pharmaceutical industries. These apocarotenoids are derived from the oxidative cleavage of zeaxanthin ...
[EN] The use of a modified poly(Epsilon-caprolactone) (gPCL) to enhance polymer miscibility in films based on ther-moplastic starch (S) and poly(Epsilon-caprolactone) is reported. PCL was functionalized by grafting with ...
This work proposes a new coordination system for the environment of a Multi-Agent System by merging the features from two important contributions to this field of research, Organizational Mechanisms and Artifacts. ...
Ijaz, Muhammad; Ghassemlooy, Zabih; Perez, Joaquin; Brazda, Vladimir; Fiser, Ondrej(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-07-01)
[EN] In this letter, two methods for characterizing fog attenuation in terms of atmospheric visibility V in free space optics (FSO) communications are analyzed and compared. Both methods measure the fog attenuation based ...
[EN] The transportation sector is one of the largest sources of EU s greenhouse gas emissions. In 2011, trans-portation represented approximately 25 percent of total EU s greenhouse gas emissions. Urban mobility accounts ...
Novales, Margarita; Muñoz de Dios, Andrés; Carsi Perez, Joan; Ortiz Etxeberria, Olatz(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-06-01)
[ES] La COST Action 1103: “Operation and safety of tramways in interaction with public space”,desarrollada entre 2011 y 2015, tenía como objetivo alcanzar un mejor entendimiento de laseguridad del metro ligero en su relación ...
[EN] Background Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 5A (eIF-5A), an essential translation factor, is post-translationally activated by the polyamine spermidine. Two human genes encode eIF-5A, being eIF5-A1 constitutively expressed ...
[EN] Rivers condition natural and human ecosystems, providing fertile soils and water forirrigation and consumption in rural and urban uses. However, the intensification ofhuman activities and inherent environmental ...
[EN] Crocetin, one of the few colored apocarotenoids known in nature, is present in flowers and fruits and has long been used medicinally and as a colorant. Saffron is the main source of crocetin, although a few other ...
Ferrara, Liberato; Van Mullem, Tim; Alonso, Maria Cruz; Antonaci, Paola; Borg, Ruben Paul; Cuenca Asensio, Estefanía; Jefferson, Anthony; Ng, Pui-Lam; Peled, Alva; Roig-Flores, Marta; Sanchez-Moreno, M.; Schroefl, Christof; Serna Ros, Pedro; Snoeck, Didier; Tulliani, Jean Marc; De Belie, Nele(Elsevier, 2018-04-10)
[EN] Heuristically known at least since the first half of XIX century, the self-healing capacity of cement-based materials has been receiving keen attention from the civil engineering community worldwide in the last decade. ...
[EN] The telecommunication world is experiencing the 5th generation (5G) networks deployment including the use of millimeter wave (mmW) frequency bands to satisfy capacity demands. This leads to the extensive use of optical ...
Malléjac, M.; Merkel, A.; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José; Christensen, J.; Tournat, V.; Romero-García, V.; Groby, J.-P.(American Institute of Physics, 2021-04-14)
[EN] This paper examines the feasibility of cloaking an obstacle using Plate-type Acoustic Metamaterials (PAMs). We present two distinct strategies
to cloak this obstacle, using either the near-zero-density regime of a ...
[EN] Record linkage is a technique widely used to gather data stored in disparate data sources that presumably pertain to the same real world entity. This integration can be done deterministically or probabilistically, ...
Rincón Arango, Jaime Andrés; Poza Luján, José Luis; Julian Inglada, Vicente Javier; Posadas Yagüe, Juan Luís; Carrascosa Casamayor, Carlos(Public Library of Science, 2016-02)
[EN] This paper presents the extension of a meta-model (MAM5) and a framework based on the model (JaCalIVE) for developing intelligent virtual environments. The goal of this extension is to develop augmented mirror worlds ...
Person recognition using facial features, e.g., mug-shot images, has long been used in identity documents. However, due to the widespread use of web-cams and mobile devices embedded with a camera, it is now possible to ...
[EN] We propose a new programmable integrated photonic device, the Field Programmable Photonic Array, which follows a similar rationale as that of Field Programmable Gate Arrays and Field Programmable Analog Arrays in ...
[EN] We propose a stable full-duplex transmission of millimeter-wave signals over a hybrid single-mode fiber (SMF) and free-space optics (FSO) link for the fifth-generation (5G) radio access networks to accelerate the ...
Martínez Guillamón, Natividad; Piskuta, Agnes; Rossi, Rene Michel; Corberán, José M; Annaheim, Simon(Elsevier, 2016-05)
[EN] Predicting thermal comfort of protective headgear is of particular interest since the head is one of the
most heat-sensitive body parts. Thermal head manikins enable systematic investigation of heat transfer
properties ...
[EN] There is an increasing interest to study the interactions between atmospheric electrical parameters and living organisms at multiple scales. So far, relatively few studies have been published that focus on possible ...