[EN] Breast augmentation surgery is a widespread practice for aesthetic purposes. Current techniques, however, are not able to reliably predict the desired final aspect of the breast after the intervention, whose success ...

[EN] In recent years, the application of risk analysis to inform dam safety governance has increased significantly. In this framework, considering explicitly and independently both natural and epistemic uncertainty in ...

[EN] Simple, rapid and highly sensitive assays, possibly allowing on-site analysis, are required in the security and forensic fields or to obtain early signs of environmental pollution. Several bioanalytical methods and ...

The potential of thiol-ene chemistry as a selective strategy to functionalize silicon materials for DNA microarraying is demonstrated and applied to discriminate genetic variations. © 2012 The Royal Society of Chemistry.

The fruit volatile fraction of 8 Capsicum annuum and 2 Capsicum chinense accessions as well as 6 intra-specific and 2 inter-specific hybrids developed from crossings between them was isolated by headspace-solid phase ...

[ES] La ciencia ciudadana, en la actualidad y de manera creciente, es una metodología de investigación que permite involucrar a la comunidad en la recolección y análisis de datos, esa misma comunidad que es usuaria final ...

[EN] This analysis of the material degradation processes most commonly found in half-timbered walls with earth infill in Spain is part of a much broader line of research aiming to analyze, catalogue and understand their ...

This research quantified the available residual biomass obtained from pruning vines stock. The additional biomass quantified could be used as a source of energy or as raw material for the wood industry and would provide ...

[EN] Regulated expression of the Ena1 Na+-ATPase is a crucial event for adaptation to high salt and/or alkaline pH stress in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. ENA1 expression is under the control of diverse ...

[EN] Risk analysis can provide very suitable and useful information to manage the safety of critical civil infrastructures. Indeed, results of quantitative risk models can be used to inform prioritisation of safety investments ...