The presence of shrub vegetation is very significant in Mediterranean ecosystems. However, the difficulty involved in shrub management and the lack of information about behavior of this vegetation means that these areas ...
Gomar Llario, Juan(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2015-06-30)
The deployment of small cells is one of the solutions used by the operators in
order to improve their coverage and the quality of service (QoS) offered in urban
scenarios. However, an increase in the amount of available ...
[EN] The quantitative estimation of changes in terrain surfaces caused by water erosion can be carried out from precise descriptions of surfaces given by means of digital elevation models (DEMs). Some stages of water erosion ...
[EN] Juglans regia L. (walnut) is a tree of significant economic importance, usually cultivated for its seed used in the food market, and for its wood used in the furniture industry. The aim of this work was to develop ...
[EN] Flavor release from powders depends on the glass transition temperature (Tg) and water absorption. This study reports a simple method to estimate the apparent Tg by aroma sensing upon flavor release from spray-dried ...
Garzón Roca, Julio; Adam Martínez, José Miguel; Sandoval, C.; Roca, P.(Elsevier, 2013-09)
Estimating the load-bearing capacity of brick masonry walls is a fundamental aspect of the design or retrofitting of this type of structures. This paper presents a new ANN-based proposal as an alternative to the different ...
Arevalo-Verjel, Alba Nely; Lerma, José Luis; Prieto, Juan F.; Carbonell-Rivera, Juan Pedro; Fernández, José(MDPI AG, 2022-06)
[EN] UAV-DAP (unmanned aerial vehicle-digital aerial photogrammetry) has become one of the most widely used geomatics techniques in the last decade due to its low cost and capacity to generate high-density point clouds, ...
Reig, Juan; Rubio Arjona, Lorenzo(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-08)
In this work, we propose a framework to obtain estimators from a variety of distributions used in composite fast fading and shadowing modeling with applications in wireless communications: the Suzuki (Rayleigh-lognormal), ...
[EN] Sewage discharges through marine outfalls are an important anthropogenic source of nutrients to marine
waters, which may cause undesired impact such as eutrophication. However, few authors have evaluated the
contribution ...
Martínez Martínez, Francisco; Rupérez Moreno, María José; Martín Guerrero, José David; Monserrat Aranda, Carlos; Lago, M. A.; Pareja, E.; Brugger, S.; López-Andújar, R.(Elsevier, 2013-09)
This paper presents a method to computationally estimate the elastic parameters of two
biomechanical models proposed for the human liver. The method is aimed at avoiding the
invasive measurement of its mechanical response. ...
[EN] Drying is considered one of the industrial processes that requires more energy than other processes, being a topic of much interest to the agricultural sector, especially the evaluation of energy consumption for rice ...
[EN] The two-parameter gamma function (G2P) design storm is a recent methodology used to obtain synthetic hyetographs especially developed for urban hydrology applications. Further analytical developments on the G2P design ...
Tromas, Nicolas; Zwart, Mark Peter; Poulain, Maite; Elena Fito, Santiago Fco(Microbiology Society, 2014)
[EN] Phylogenomic evidence suggested that recombination is an important evolutionary force for potyviruses, one of the larger families of plant RNA viruses. However, mixed-genotype potyvirus infections are marked by low ...
[EN] New combustion concepts and engine designs are being currently investigated in order to comply with upcoming pollutant regulations and reduce fuel consumption. In this context, two-stroke architectures appear as a ...
Serrano, A.; Espinach, F. X.; Julian, F.; Rey Tormos, Romina María del; Mendez, J. A.; Mutje, P.(Elsevier, 2013-07)
The present paper investigates the suitability of old newspapers (ONPs) as a source of reinforcing fibers for composite materials. Different percentages of ONP fibers were compounded with polypropylene (PP). A coupling ...
Fuente, David; Lizama, Carlos; Urchueguía Schölzel, Javier Fermín; Conejero, J. Alberto(Elsevier, 2018-01)
[EN] Light attenuation within suspensions of photosynthetic microorganisms has been widely described by the Lambert-Beer equation. However, at depths where most of the light has been absorbed by the cells, light decay ...
[EN] Many tasks in hyperspectral imaging, such as spectral unmixing and sub-pixel matching, require knowing how many substances or materials are present in the scene captured by a yperspectral
image. In this paper, we ...
Sánchez-Jiménez, David; Buchón Moragues, Fernando Francisco; Bravo, Jose Maria; Sánchez Pérez, Juan Vicente(MDPI AG, 2019-11-14)
[EN] The conservation and authentication of pictorial artworks is considered an important part of the preservation of cultural heritage. The use of non-destructive testing allows the obtention of accurate information about ...
Berna Escriche, César(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2017-11-06)
The turbulent submerged jets can be found fairly frequently in a great variety of processes, their study is essential in many industrial processes and engineering applications, such as in underwater propulsion, in metallurgical ...
In this work, an estimation of the reinforcement factor n of the Halpin Tsai equations used to calculate the transverse stiffness E2 is provided. An improved estimation of the value xi=2 originally proposed by Halpin and ...