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  • From plans to practice: transformative gender-in-teaching training programs through GEPs in higher education 

    Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet; Peña Carrera, Marta; Lusa García, Amaia; Baltà Salvador, Rosó (2025-06-09)
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    Universities play a crucial role in advancing gender equality by implementing gender equality plans (GEPs). A key element of these plans is gender-in-teaching training for educators, which equips them to integrate gender ...
  • Emissivity and reflectivity measurements for passive radiative cooling technologies 

    Adibekyan, A.; Schumacher, J.; Pattelli, Lorenzo; Manara, Jochen; Meriç, S.; Bazkir, Ö.; Cucchi, Carlo; Sprengard, C.; Jaramillo Fernández, Juliana (Springer, 2025-05-01)
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    Due to their optical properties, passive radiative cooling (PRC) materials can effectively reflect solar radiation while simultaneously dissipating heat through the infrared transparency windows using outer space as a cold ...
  • Numerical study of high-temperature, disk-based tungsten and molybdenum thermophotovoltaic selective thermal emitters 

    Silva Oelker, Gerardo; Jaramillo Fernández, Juliana; Toledo, Nelson (Optical Society of American (OSA), 2025-02-24)
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    This work investigates the design of two-dimensional metal-disk-based selective thermal emitters (STEs) for thermophotovoltaic (TPV) applications. A parametric analysis is conducted to study the effect of geometrical ...
  • Numerical study of sodalime and PDMS hemisphere photonic structures for radiative cooling of silicon solar cells 

    Jaramillo Fernández, Juliana; Silva-Oelker, Gerardo (Optical Society of American (OSA), 2022-08-29)
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    This paper numerically explores the capability of an all-photonic approach to enhance radiative cooling, UV and sub-bandgap reflection, and light trapping as a path to improve solar cells efficiency. The structure is based ...
  • Giant injection-locking bandwidth of a self-pulsing limit-cycle in an optomechanical cavity 

    Navarro Urrios, Daniel; Arregui, Guillermo; Colombano Sosa, Martín Facundo; Jaramillo Fernández, Juliana; Pitanti, Alessandro; Griol Barres, Amadeu; Mercadé Morales, Laura; Martínez Abiétar, Alejandro; Capuj, Néstor Eduardo (Springer, 2022-12-17)
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    Locking of oscillators to ultra-stable external sources is of paramount importance for improving close-to-carrier phase noise in free running oscillators. In most of them, such as Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems or LC ...
  • Excitation and detection of acoustic phonons in nanoscale systems 

    Ng, Ryan C.; El Sachat, Alexandros; Céspedes Urquieta, Francisco; Poblet, Martín; Madiot, Guilhem; Jaramillo Fernández, Juliana; Florez Peñaloza, Omar; Xiao, Peng; Sledzinska, Marianna; Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M.; Chavez Angel, Emigdio (2022-09-09)
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    Phonons play a key role in the physical properties of materials, and have long been a topic of study in physics. While the effects of phonons had historically been considered to be a hindrance, modern research has shown ...
  • Highly-scattering cellulose-based films for radiative cooling 

    Jaramillo Fernández, Juliana; Yang, Han; Schertel, Lukas; Whitworth, Guy Luke; García Fernández, Pedro David; Vignolini, Silvia; Sotomayor Torres, Clivia M. (John Wiley & sons, 2022-03)
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    Passive radiative cooling (RC) enables the cooling of objects below ambient temperature during daytime without consuming energy, promising to be a game changer in terms of energy savings and CO2 reduction. However, so far ...
  • Strong cavity-optomechanical transduction of nanopillar motion 

    Jaramillo Fernández, Juliana; Poblet, Martín; Alonso Tomás, David; Bertelsen, Christian Vinther; López Aymerich, Elena; Arenas Ortega, Daniel; Svendsen, Winnie Edith; Capuj, N.E.; Romano Rodríguez, Albert; Navarro Urrios, Daniel (2024-09-03)
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    Nanomechanical resonators can serve as ultrasensitive, miniaturized force probes. While vertical structures such as nanopillars are ideal for this purpose, transducing their motion is challenging. Pillar-based photonic ...
  • First steps on key concepts related to autonomous shipping within maritime education and training framework 

    Campos Toresano, Cristina; Castells Sanabra, Marcel·la; Borén Altés, Clara (Universidad de Cantabria, 2024-08-16)
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    Advancements in telecommunications, computing, and sensors are driving ships towards greater autonomy each day. New projects aimed at achieving fully autonomous transport are already shaping the fleets of the future, ...
  • Including gender dimension in operations management teaching 

    Lusa García, Amaia; Peña Carrera, Marta; Mas de les Valls Ortiz, Elisabet (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Organització d'Empreses (OE), 2024-05-15)
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    Purpose: This paper aims at introducing the importance and the relevant concepts and tools for including gender dimension in teaching, with a special focus in the Operations Management knowledge field. Design/methodology/approach: ...
  • Probabilistic and physically-based modelling of rainfall-induced landslide susceptibility using integrated GIS-FORM algorithm 

    Cui, Hongzhi; Ji, Jian; Hurlimann Ziegler, Marcel; Medina Iglesias, Vicente César de (Springer, 2024-06)
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    The susceptibility mapping of rainfall-induced landslides is an effective tool for predicting and locating disaster-prone zones at the regional scale. One of the most important parts of landslide susceptibility models is ...
  • Fast physically-based probabilistic modelling of rainfall-induced shallow landslide susceptibility at the regional scale considering geotechnical uncertainties and different hydrological conditions 

    Cui, Hongzhi; Medina Iglesias, Vicente César de; Hurlimann Ziegler, Marcel; Ji, Jian (Elsevier, 2024-08)
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    The inherent uncertainty in hydro-geotechnical parameters presents a significant challenge for accurately predicting rainfall-triggered shallow landslides in mountainous regions. In this study, a novel probabilistic framework ...

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