A methodology for mapping urban land-use types integrating information from multiple data sources (high spatial resolution imagery, LiDAR data, and cadastral plots) is presented. A large set of complementary descriptive ...
[EN] In this paper, the eco‐efficiency of citrus farms operating under two different conventional and organic technological systems is analyzed. The methodology combines Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), to estimate the environmental ...
Carrillo-Del Teso, Alfonso Juan; Pizarro, Patricia; Coronado, Juan M.(Elsevier, 2021-01)
[EN] Widening the use of renewable sources requires more efficient energy storage systems to overcome the inherent intermittence of solar energy. In this respect, thermal energy storage coupled to concentrated solar power ...
Morales Fusco, Pau; Saurí Marchán, Sergi; Lekka, Anna Maria; Karousos, Iosif(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016-06-01)
[EN] The seamless flow of goods, people and investments across the Mediterranean necessitates a well-functioning port and transport system. More efficient port operations enhance seamless logistics and promote safety, ...
Martín-Rodilla, Patricia; Panach Navarrete, Jose Ignacio; González-Pérez, César Augusto; Pastor López, Oscar(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] Any knowledge generation process involves raw data comprehension, evaluation and inferential reasoning. These practices, common to different disciplines, are known as data analysis, and represent the most important ...
Lang, Michael(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-07-26)
[EN] This paper reports on the experiences of assessing a large postgraduate module in Database Systems using an on-line MCQ test under COVID-19 conditions with no remote proctoring. While the technology and the “higher ...
Sustainability analysis requires a joint assessment of environmental, social and economic aspects of production processes. Here we propose the use of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), a metafrontier (MF) directional distance ...
[EN] Evaluation of tolerance to temperatures in the germination stage is an important tool to foresee the possible effect of global warming. Moreover, establishing germination protocols for endemic and threatened species ...
[EN] Given the importance of competition in the retail sector, this research builds on spatial interaction theory to develop the competition index (CI). For this, geographic information systems (GIS) and the analytic ...
Throughout the centuries, utilities have been an important and sometimes decisive instrument in human development. Municipal policy-makers and engineers have been playing a key role in improving management and technology ...
Schmidt, F.C.; Fuentes López, Ana; Masot Peris, Rafael; Alcañiz Fillol, Miguel; Laurindo, J.B.; Barat Baviera, José Manuel(SAGE Publications, 2017)
[EN] The aim of this work was to develop a new system based on impedance spectroscopy to assess the heat treatment of previously cooked chicken meat by two experiments; in the first, samples were cooked at different ...
[EN] In the European context, several methodologies have been developed to assess the ecological status and, specifically, the hydromorphological status of running surface waters. Although these methodologies have been ...
Jiménez Bello, Miguel Ángel; López Pérez, Esther; Manzano Juarez, Juan; Palau Estevan, Carmen Virginia; Royuela Tomás, Álvaro; INTRIGLIOLO MOLINA, DIEGO SEBASTIANO(Patron Editore, 2015)
[EN] In order to asses water use in large areas, the most widely used method for estimating crops water
requirements is the FAO approach, which takes into account: i) climatic variables included in the reference
evapotranspiration ...
Pardo-Ballester, Cristina(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-07-05)
[EN] This longitudinal study examines students’ learning strategies of 222 Spanish intermediate learners when taking several listening tests. It also examines the effect of different instructional formats (online-hybrid ...
[EN] There is growing interest in the automatic detection of animals' behaviors and body postures within the field of Animal Computer Interaction, and the benefits this could bring to animal welfare, enabling remote ...
Electrification systems based on renewable energy have proven suitable for providing electricity autonomously to rural communities, thus reducing poverty. When implementing these systems, a management model is usually ...
There are an increasing number of individual or corporate investors who demand
Social Responsibility (SR) to a financial asset. Social responsibility is a multidimensional
concept that requires identifying a number of ...
Norova, Nasiba(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-11-21)
[EN] The purpose of the study was to measure inter-rater agreement in assessing oral English proficiency in a simulation and gaming context using Common European Framework criteria. Results showed low agreement, which leads ...
Beaven, Ana; Neuhoff, Antje(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-03-22)
[EN] Technology has been part of the language learning process, both inside and outside the classroom, for decades, helping to bridge the gap between different contexts of learning. At the same time, the concept of ...
Mengual-Chuliá, Beatriz; Bedhomme, Stephanie; Lafforgue, Guillaume; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco; Bravo, Ignacio G.(BioMed Central, 2016-02-05)
Background: The increasing abundance of sequence data has exacerbated a long known problem: gene trees and species trees for the same terminal taxa are often incongruent. Indeed, genes within a genome have not all followed ...