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Hydrothermal treatments of walnut shells: a potential pretreatment for subsequent product obtaining
(Elsevier, 2020-10-08)
Walnuts are nowadays widely consumed. Since the edible part of walnuts does not account more than 50-60% of their total weight, the total amount of shells produced annually is huge. However, as walnut shells are part of ...
Grigorchuk-Gupta-Sidki groups as a source for Beauvile surfaces
(EMS Press, 2020-06-25)
If G is a Grigorchuk-Gupta-Sidki group defined over a p-adic tree, where p is an odd prime, we study the existence of Beauville surfaces associated to the quotients of G by its level stabilizers stG(n). We prove that if G ...
Inflection, Canards and Folded Singularities in Excitable Systems: Application to a 3D FitzHugh–Nagumo Model
(Springer, 2020-09-07)
Specific kinds of physical and biological systems exhibit complex Mixed-Mode Oscillations mediated by folded-singularity canards in the context of slow-fast models. The present manuscript revisits these systems, specifically ...
Environmental management certification and environmental performance: Greening or greenwashing?
(Wiley, 2020-09)
This article analyzes the contribution of certifiable environmental management
standards—such as ISO 14001 and the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme
(EMAS)—to corporate environmental performance. Based on a content analysis ...
Expression of Resilience, Coping and Quality of Life in people with cancer
(PLoS ONE, 2020)
Considering the importance of coping strategies and resilience in adapting to the stress
caused by cancer, the objective of this research is to explore which coping strategies are the
most used, in order to know whether ...
Deciphering past and present atmospheric metal pollution of urban environments: The role of black crusts formed on historical constructions
(Elsevier, 2020-01)
Construction materials affected by black crusts (BCs) can be subjected to restoration, demolition, recycling or even to their management as waste products. Therefore, the determination of their chemical features should be ...
Influence of morphology of zirconium-doped mesoporous silicas on 5-hydroxymethylfurfural production from mono-, di- and polysaccharides
(Elsevier, 2020-02-21)
[EN] Different zirconium-doped mesoporous silicas (Zr-KIT-6, Zr-SBA-15, Zr-MCM-41 and Zr-HMS) were synthesized and evaluated in the glucose dehydration to 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). A Si/Zr molar ratio of 5 was chosen ...
Tourists’ Willingness to Pay for Holiday Trip Characteristics: A Discrete Choice Experiment
(Sage Journals, 2020-09-21)
This paper studies the marginal rates of substitution and Willingness to Pay for holiday trip characteristics. By means of a Discrete Choice Experiment, we specifically examine how much individuals from four cities in ...
The use of eco-efficiency indicators by environmental frontrunner companies
(Elsevier, 2020-08)
Eco-efficiency is considered as a relevant practice for corporate sustainability as this concept addresses both
environmental and economic issues. Similarly, eco-efficient indicators are seen as useful instrument for ...
Logros y retos en analítica del aprendizaje en España: La perspectiva de SNOLA
(Asociación Iberoamericana de Educación Superior a Distancia, 2020-07)
As in other research fields, the development of learning analytics is influenced by the networks of researchers that contribute to it. This paper describes one of such networks: the Spanish Network of Learning Analytics ...