[EN] In several phytophagous hemipterans, behavior appears to be mediated by both visual and chemical cues. For the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP)Diaphorina citri(Hemiptera: Liviidae), olfactometric assays are generally difficult ...
[EN] Precise description of behavioral signs denoting transition from unresponsive wakefulness syndrome/vegetative state (UWS/VS) to minimally conscious state (MCS) or emergence from MCS after severe brain injury is crucial ...
[EN] Currently most railway bridges in Australia require the replacement of the timber transoms that reside in the railway system. Composite steel and precast reinforced concrete transoms have been proposed as the replacement ...
[EN] At 33 d of age, 376 crossbred rabbits of both genders were housed in sex-mixed groups in 16 open-top collective pens (1.68 m2) in a factorial arrangement, with 2 types of flooring (wooden slats vs. plastic grid, W vs. ...
[EN] In a recent work, a protocol to measure the relaxation time of dilute polymer solutions, known to be challenging,
has been established [1]. This protocol is based on a 2D multi-scale description of free-falling low ...
Pallarés Rubio, Luis; Aguero Ramón Llin, Antonio; Martí Vargas, José Rocío; Pallarés Rubio, Francisco Javier(Elsevier, 2020-11-30)
[EN] Headed studs are often used to facilitate composite actions between steel and concrete structures. In steel building structures, reinforced concrete walls are commonly used to ensure composite action to stiffen steel ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Adam Martínez, José Miguel; Calderón García, Pedro Antonio(Elsevier, 2011-05)
The steel caging technique is used to strengthen RC columns all over the world, as it has been shown to be effective, economical and easy to apply. Most studies carried out to date on this strengthening technique have ...
[EN] In this paper an experimental program on concrete-filled steel tubular columns subjected to eccentric loads is presented. The columns have different cross-sectional configurations, including single concrete-filled ...
Chen, Kang; Tan, Kang Hai(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-06-05)
[EN] The behaviour of steel and composite beam-column joints was investigated in this paper. A test programme on typical beam-column joints subjected to quasi-static and impact loads was presented. A comparison of different ...
Caballero Morrison, Karen Elena; Bonet Senach, José Luís; Navarro Gregori, Juan; Martí Vargas, José Rocío(Elsevier, 2012)
The inclusion of ductility requirements is necessary to guarantee the safety design of any concrete structure
subjected to unexpected and/or reversal loads. It is important to outline that plastic hinges may be
developed ...
Rodríguez Álvarez, María José; Sanchez, F.(Springer VerlagAkadémiai Kiadó, 1995-02)
The uranium concentration and the U-234/U-238, U-235/U-238 activity ratios were studied in water samples from Jucar River, using low-level alpha-spectrometry. The effects of pH, temperature and salinity were considered and ...
[EN] In any alive and nontrivial program, the source code naturally evolves along the lifecycle for many reasons such as the implementation of new functionality, the optimization of a bottleneck, or the refactoring of an ...
Esnal-Angulo, Iñaki; Hernandis Ortuño, Bernabé(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2019-07-01)
[EN] This paper describes a case study carried out on the behaviour of an eccentric pulley transmission system housed in a manually operated abdominal-intestinal assistant device for human use. The aim is to establish a ...
Díez Valle, Carlos; Sánchez García-Abad, Carlos; Pérez Garrido, José Antonio; Bartolomé, Daniel José; González Eguren, Vicente; Wheatley, Chris; Alonso de la Varga, Marta Elena; Gaudioso Lacasa, Vicente Ramiro(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2013-12-27)
[EN] The activity of 2 populations of wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus, L. 1758), consisting of 14 adults (>9 mo of age) each (4 males and 10 females), was analysed over 2 consecutive years. Rabbits were captured in the ...
The objective of the present study was to characterise the behaviour of Holstein steers in three different production systems. Forty-eight castrated Holstein males were randomly divided into three groups and allocated to ...
Montero Fleta, Maria Begoña; Pérez Peñalver, María José; Aznar-Mas, Lourdes E.(Sciencepark Research Organization and Counseling, 2017-06-08)
[EN] Introducing greater innovation into the culture and capabilities of organizations worldwide, a requirement of today¿s society,is an issue currently in need of scholarly attention. The present investigation is being ...
[EN] The rise of collaborative robots urges the consideration of them for different industrial tasks such as sanding. In this context, the purpose of this article is to demonstrate the feasibility of using collaborative ...
[EN] The competition between universities for qualified students has gradually increased, at the same time, the number of students acquiring higher education is dropping. In this article, the authors analyse what factors ...