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  • Finding the most sustainable wind farm sites with a hierarchical outranking decision aiding method 

    Afsordegan, Arayeh; Del Vasto, Luis; Valls Mateu, Aïda; Agell, Nuria; Sánchez Soler, Monica (2022-05-02)
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    This paper considers the problem of finding suitable sites for wind farms in a region of Catalonia (Spain). The evaluation criteria are structured into a hierarchy that identifies several intermediate sub-goals dealing ...

  • Structural morphology in architecture (SMIA) 

    Avellaneda, O. F. (International Assiociation for Shell and Spatial Structures, 2021-07-01)
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    The Structural Morphology in Architecture (SMiA) research group, part of the Innovation and Technology in Architecture Lab at the Valles School of Architecture (ETSAV) at the Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), is ...

  • An innovative protocol for the development and evaluation of the teamwork competency in virtual environments 

    Tejedor Herrán, Blanca; Canals Casals, Lluc; Gonçalves Ageitos, María; Amante García, Beatriz; Macarulla Martí, Marcel (Asociación Española de Ingeniería de Proyectos (AEIPRO), 2022)
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    Under COVID scenario, it has been observed that the constraints derived from remote teaching makes harder an already challenging task: the achievement of teamwork skills and their assessment. This study, which is part of ...

  • Are electric vehicle batteries being underused? A review of current practices and sources of circularity 

    Etxandi Santolaya, Maite; Canals Casals, Lluc; Montes Torre, Tomás; Corchero Garcia, Cristina (2023-07-15)
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    The increasing demand for Lithium-ion batteries for Electric Vehicle calls for the adoption of sustainable practices and a switch towards a circular economy-based system to ensure that the electrification of transportation ...

  • Automatic identification of the number of clusters in hierarchical clustering 

    Karna, Ashutosh; Gibert, Karina (Springer Nature, 2022-01)
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    Hierarchical clustering is one of the most suitable tools to discover the underlying true structure of a dataset in the case of unsupervised learning where the ground truth is unknown and classical machine learning classifiers ...

  • State of the art of molecular visualization in immersive virtual environments 

    Kuták, David; Vázquez Alcocer, Pere Pau; Isenberg, Tobias; Krone, Michael; Baaden, Marc; Byska, Jan; Kozliková, Barbora; Miao, Haichao (2023-02-24)
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    Visualization plays a crucial role in molecular and structural biology. It has been successfully applied to a variety of tasks, including structural analysis and interactive drug design. While some of the challenges in ...

  • A novel strategy to fit and validate physiological models: a case study of acardiorespiratory model for simulation of incremental aerobic exercise 

    Sarmiento, Carlos Andrés; Serna Higuita, Leidy Yanet; Hernández Valdivieso, Alher Mauricio; Mañanas Villanueva, Miguel Ángel (2023-03-01)
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    Applying complex mathematical models of physiological systems is challenging due to the large number of parameters. Identifying these parameters through experimentation is difficult, and although procedures for fitting and ...

  • Sistema inteligente de soporte a la decisión en digestión anaerobia 

    Cugueró Escofet, Miquel Àngel; Aguiló Martos, Pere; Sáenz de Cabezón Soriano, Berta; Sànchez-Marrè, Miquel (2017-10-09)
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  • Measurements and modeling of sediment transport during offshore and onshore bar migration 

    Grossmann, Florian; Hurther, David; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Alsina Torrent, José María (World Scientific, 2023)
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    Effective design of interventions in the coastal zone (flood defense, nourishments, etc.) requires understanding of long term coastal evolution. Historically, such evolution has been difficult to model because of different ...

  • Posidonia beach-cast and banquette: evaluation of sediment trapping and characterisation for coastal protection 

    Astudillo Gutiérrez, Carlos Salvador; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Sierra Pedrico, Juan Pablo; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín (World Scientific, 2023)
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    The accumulation of Posidonia meadow remains is a recurrent phenomenon along the Catalan coast. As we move along the coastline from Barcelona towards the south, during autumn and winter the remains of Posidonia Oceanica ...

  • Nature based solutions for sediment starved deltas: the Ebro case in the Spanish Mediterranean coast 

    Sánchez-Arcilla Conejo, Agustín; Ibañez, Carles; Gracia Garcia, Vicente; Garrote De marcos, Luis Maria; Cáceres Rabionet, Iván; López Gómez, David; de la Peña Olivas, José Manuel; Caiola, Nuno; Munne, Antoni; Espanya Forcadell, Antoni; Iglesias Picazo, Ana; Rovira, Albert; González Marco, Daniel; Grassa Garrido, José María (World Scientific, 2023)
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    Deltas in river regulated basins have become coastal vulnerability hotspots, for which traditional coastal engineering does not provide acceptable risk reductions. This is well illustrated by the Ebro delta (W Mediterranean) ...

  • Processing, mechanical and morphological properties of GTR modified by SBS copolymers 

    Susik, Agnieszka; Rodak, Agata; Cañavate Ávila, Francisco Javier; Colom Fajula, Xavier; Wang, Shifeng; Formela, Krzysztof (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-02-22)
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    In this work, ground tire rubber (GTR) was thermo-mechanically treated in the presence of styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) copolymers. During preliminary investigation, the effects of different SBS copolymer grades, the ...

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