Gilabert-Chirivella, Eduardo; Pérez-Feito, Ricardo; Ribeiro, Clarisse; Ribeiro, Sylvie; Correia, Daniela M.; González-Martín, Maria Luisa; Manero, Jose Maria; Lanceros-Mendez, S.; Ferrer, GG; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís(Elsevier, 2017-10)
[EN] Titanium and its alloys are widely used in medical implants because of their excellent properties. However, bacterial infection is a frequent cause of titanium-based implant failure and also compromises its osseointegration. ...
[EN] Chitosan is used in a wide range of applications due to its intrinsic properties. Chitosan is a biopolymer obtained from chitin and among their most important aspects highlights its bonding with cotton and its ...
[EN] Dodecacarbonyltriruthenium Ru-3(CO)(12) has been immobilized onto a biopolymer (chitosan) supported on SiO2 (Ch@SiO2) to give Ru-Ch@SiO2. Ch@SiO2 behaves as a soft, recoverable and bulky ligand allowing the stabilization ...
Pandis, Christos; Madeira, Sara; Matos, Joana; Kyritsis, Apostolos; Mano, Joao; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís(Elsevier, 2014-09-01)
Chitosan-silica porous hybrids were prepared by a novel strategy in order to improve the mechanical properties of chitosan (CHT) in the hydrogel state. The inorganic silica phase was introduced by sal-gel reactions in ...
Primo Arnau, Ana María; Navalón Oltra, Sergio; Asiri, Abdullah M; García Gómez, Hermenegildo(Wiley, 2015-01-02)
A novel procedure for the preparation of fewlayers boron nitride (BN), either as films or as suspended BN platelets, is presented, based on the pyrolysis of chitosan, which serves both as a matrix to embed ammonium borate ...
Caregnato, Paula; Rosso, Janina A.; Soler Escoda, Juan Miguel; Arques Sanz, Antonio; Martire, Daniel O.; González, Mónica C.(ElsevierIWA Publishing, 2013-01-01)
The reaction of phosphor-containing pesticides such as methidathion (MT) and dimethoate (DM) with dichloride radical anions (Cl-2(center dot-)) was investigated. The second order rate constants (1.3 +/- 0.4) x 10(8) and ...
Franco-Navarro, Juan D.; Díaz-Rueda, Pablo; Rivero-Núñez, Carlos M.; Brumós, Javier; Rubio-Casal, Alfredo E.; de Cires, Alfonso; Colmenero-Flores, José M.; Rosales, Miguel A.(Oxford University Press, 2021-07-10)
[EN] Chloride (Cl-), traditionally considered harmful for agriculture, has recently been defined as a beneficial macronutrient with specific roles that result in more efficient use of water (WUE), nitrogen (NUE), and CO2 ...
Sablok, Gaurav; Mudunuri, Suresh B.; Patnana, Sujan; Popova, Martina; Fares Riaño, Mario Ali; La Porta, Nicola(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-04)
[EN] Microsatellites or simple sequence repeats (SSRs) are repetitive stretches of nucleotides (A, T, G, C) that are distributed either as single base pair stretches or as a combination of two- to six-nucleotides units ...
Falco, S.; Romero Gil, Inmaculada; Rodilla, M; Sierra, J.P.; González del Rio Rams, Julio; Mösso, C; Pérez Baliero, Mª del Carmen(Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF), 2006)
The Ebro River flows into the Mediterranean coast of Spain and its last stretch behaves most of the time as a highly
stratified estuary. Four field campaigns were carried out during years 1999-2000 to study water quality ...
Martínez Guijarro, Mª Remedios; Romero Gil, Inmaculada; Pachés Giner, María Aguas Vivas; Martí Insa, Carmen Mª; Ferrer Polo, José(Elsevier, 2013-04)
The Júcar River, characterized by a very irregular freshwater flow, discharges into the Spanish Mediterranean coastal waters. However, the flow at its mouth is usually insignificant due to the overexploitation of upstream ...
Penella-Casañ, Consuelo; Pina, A.; San Bautista Primo, Alberto; López Galarza, Salvador Vicente; Calatayud, A.(Springer-Verlag, 2017-12-01)
[EN] Graft union development in plants has been studied mainly by destructive methods such as histological studies. The aim of this work was to evaluate whether the chlorophyll fluorescence imaging (CFI) technique is ...
[EN] The impact of microwave (1000 W – 340 s) and conventional heat (97 C – 30 s) pasteurisation and storage
(4, 10, 22 C for up to 63 d) on total and individual carotenoids and chlorophylls in kiwifruit puree
was ...
[EN] This paper presents the results of a computational investigation of the aerodynamic choking mechanism
in a variable geometry turbine, which is widely used in automotive turbocharging. RANS and URANS
numerical ...
[EN] The aim of this study was to evaluate whether mechanical stimulation helps to modulate the redifferentiation of human chondrocytes on adhesive 3D substrates. In a previous work, it was shown that chondrocytes seeded ...
Terencio, María Carmen; Ferrandiz, María Luisa; Carceller, Carmen; Ruhi, Ramón; Dalmau, Pere; Verges, Josep; Montell, Eulalia; Torrent, Anna; Alcaraz, María José(Elsevier, 2016-04)
[EN] Context: The efficacy of the combination chondroitin sulfate-glucosamine (CS-GlcN) in the treatment of
knee osteoarthritis (OA) has been suggested in recent clinical studies. In vitro reports have also suggested
ant ...
[EN] The success rate of a university should be calculated taking into account, in addition to students who complete
their studies, if they do it with the feeling that the choice of the grade has not been wrong. In this ...
Barreiro-Hurle, Jesús; Espinosa-Goded, María; Martínez-Paz, José Miguel; Perni, Ángel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-06-28)
[EN] Discrete choice experiments (DCE) normally include in their choice sets an option described as the status quo (i.e. no change to current situation; SQ). The literature has identified Status Quo Effect (SQE) as the ...
Cordero Barbero, Alicia; Guasp, Lucia; Torregrosa Sánchez, Juan Ramón(Elsevier, 2018)
[EN] In this manuscript, we analyze the dynamical anomalies of a parametric family of iterative schemes designed by Kou et al. It is known that its order of convergence is three for any arbitrary value of the parameter, ...
[EN] Natural Language Processing problems has recently been benefited for the advances in Deep Learning. Many of these problems can be addressed as a multi-label classification problem. Usually, the metrics used to evaluate ...
Canet Centellas, Fernando Javier(University of Pittsburgh, University Library System, 2013)
Capturing reality has been a constant aim of different movements throughout the
history of the cinema. Historically, this challenge has been taken up by makers of both documentaries and fiction, through hybrid proposals ...