Increasing amounts of organic synthetic chemicals are currently emitted to the environment by human activities. The more recalcitrant fraction of this pollutant mixture reaches marine ecosystems mainly through rivers, ...

Health Information Technologies (HIT) play an important role in supporting decisions making, health care delivery, and management of health services. In recent years, new technologies have emerged in this field, such as ...

Managing Wildland-Urban-Interface (WUI) fires is a challenging task due to the inherent complexity of the WUI environment. To ensure the success of strategies for the protection of population and structures, safety measures ...

In this paper, the implementation of effective waste management practices in construction projects and sites is analyzed, using data from a survey answered by 74 Spanish construction companies based in Catalonia. Most ...

The paper presents the results of research carried out in the framework of the project PANDORA financed by the European Social Fund. In the first phase of the research, the initial state of implementation of professional ...

Predictive simulations are useful in biomechanics to determine the optimal trajectories between two mechanical states and their forces in an in-silico approach. To perform these predictions, optimal control problems are ...

The turbid plume formed at many river mouths influences the adjacent coastal area because it transports sediments, nutrients, and pollutants.; The effects of the main forcings affecting the Ebro turbid plume were analyzed ...

The formation of heterostructures has proven to be a viable way to achieve high photoelectrochemical water splitting efficiencies with BiVO4 based photoanodes. Especially, cobalt and nickel based oxides are suitable low ...

This report starts with the general trading considerations to be taken into account for this market, then a clear explanation about the current commercial situation followed by a more in-depth description of the different ...