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  • Implementació a l’aula del projecte BOSC i sostenibilitat: Curs de formació del professorat 

    Mulero Jiménez, Lorena; Cunill Solà, Jordi; Grau Vilalta, Maria Dolors (Congrés Internacional de Docència Universitària i Innovació (CIDUI), 2023)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access
    S’analitzarà la singularitat del curs de formació per al professorat “Implementació a l’aula del Projecte Bosc i sostenibilitat” (110 inscrits en les tres edicions). El professorat assistent té un paper de co-creació, ...
  • Nitrogen dioxide gas levels in TBM tunnel construction with diesel locomotives based on directive 2017/164/EU 

    García-González, Hector; Rodríguez, Rafael; Bascompta Massanes, Marc (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023-09-21)
    Article
    Open Access
    Directive 2017/164/EU proposed a drastic reduction of nitrogen monoxide (NO) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels, thereby fortifying the health protection framework within the mining industry. Despite the commendable record ...
  • Adapted assistance and resistance training with a knee exoskeleton after stroke 

    Miguel Fernández, Jesús de; Rey Prieto, Marta; Salazar Del Rio, Miguel Antonio; López Matas, Helena; Guirao Cano, Lluís; Font Llagunes, Josep Maria; Lobo Prat, Joan (2023-08-09)
    Article
    Open Access
    Studies on robotic interventions for gait rehabilitation after stroke require: (i) rigorous performance evidence; (ii) systematic procedures to tune the control parameters; and (iii) combination of control modes. In this ...
  • Inertial sensors for gait monitoring and design of adaptive controllers for exoskeletons after stroke: a feasibility study 

    Miguel Fernández, Jesús de; Salazar Del Rio, Miguel Antonio; Rey Prieto, Marta; Bayón, Cristina; Guirao Cano, Lluís; Font Llagunes, Josep Maria; Lobo Prat, Joan (Frontiers Media SA, 2023-08-07)
    Article
    Open Access
    Introduction: Tuning the control parameters is one of the main challenges in robotic gait therapy. Control strategies that vary the control parameters based on the user’s performance are still scarce and do not exploit the ...
  • The impact of the european green deal from a sustainable global food system approach 

    Pío Beltrán, José; Clotet, Ramon; Colomer Xena, Yvonne; Gil Martín, Joan Carles; Jarauta Bragulat, Eusebio (2022)
    Article
    Open Access
    The Green Deal made public by the European Com-mission includes the Farm to Fork strategy, which aims to implement actions for a transition towards more environmentally friendly agricultural systems, capable of adapting ...
  • Advancements in sustainable natural dyes for textile applications: a review 

    Pizzicato, Barbara; Pacifico, Severina; Cayuela Marín, Diana; Mijas Vélez, Gabriela Dayana; Riba Moliner, Marta (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-08-08)
    Article
    Open Access
    The dyeing and finishing step represents a clear hotspot in the textile supply chain as the wet processing stages require significant amounts of water, energy, and chemicals. In order to tackle environmental issues, natural ...
  • Integration of ion exchange resins and membrane technology for purification of boron from seawater desalination brines 

    Figueira Alves, Mariana; Reig i Amat, Mònica; Cortina Pallás, José Luís; Valderrama Angel, César Alberto (Elsevier BV, 2023-05)
    Article
    Open Access
    Boron is considered a critical raw material (CRM) to the European Union (EU) due to its economic importance and supply risk. To ensure the sustainable supply of boron and other CRMs to EU industry in a circular economy ...
  • Machine learning-based recovery of thermophysical information from velocity data in supercritical fluids turbulence 

    Masclans Serrat, Núria; Vázquez-Novoa, Fernando; Bernades, Marc; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Jofre Cruanyes, Lluís (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence, and Conbustion (ERCOFTAC), 2023)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    Recent research has shown the possibility to achieve microconfined turbulence utilizing supercritical fluids under high-pressure transcritical conditions. This has generated increasing interest in the hybrid nature of the ...
  • Coupling capillary-driven microfluidics with lateral flow immunoassay for signal enhancement 

    Azizian, Pooya; Casals Terré, Jasmina; Guerrero-SanVicente, Elena; Grinyte, Ruta; Ricart Campos, Jordi; Cabot, Joan Marc (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-08-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    Microfluidics has emerged as a versatile technology that is applied to enhance the performance of analytical techniques, among others. Pursuing this, we present a capillary-driven microfluidic device that improves the ...
  • Quantum-inspired protocol for measuring the degree of similarity between spatial shapes 

    Urrego González, Daniel Fernando; Pérez Torres, Juan (2022-11)
    Article
    Open Access
    We put forward and demonstrate experimentally a quantum-inspired protocol that allows us to quantify the degree of similarity between two spatial shapes embedded in two optical beams without the need to measure the amplitude ...
  • Green approaches in rubber recycling technologies: present status and future perspective 

    Wisniewska, Paulina; Haponiuk, Josef T; Colom Fajula, Xavier; Saeb, Mohammad Reza (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2023-06-05)
    Article
    Restricted access - publisher's policy
    As a consequence of massive production and consumption of rubbers, rubber blends, and rubber composites for myriad applications, elastomeric products have enormously accumulated and become an environmental threat. The ...
  • Operando high-pressure investigation of size-controlled CuZn catalysts for the methanol synthesis reaction 

    Jiménez Divins, Nuria; Kordus, David; Timoshenko, Janis; Sinev, Ilya; Zegkinoglou, Ioannis; Bergmann, Arno; Chee, See Wee; Widrinna, Simon; Karslioglu, Osman; Mistry, Hemma; Lopez Luna, Mauricio; Zhong, Jian Qiang; Hoffman, Adam S.; Anibal Boscoboinik, Jorge; Heggen, Marc; Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E.; Roldan Cuenya, Beatriz (2021-03-04)
    Article
    Open Access
    Although Cu/ZnO-based catalysts have been long used for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol, open questions still remain regarding the role and the dynamic nature of the active sites formed at the metal-oxide interface. ...

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