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Are local climate adaptation policies credible? A conceptual and operational assessment framework
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)After the Paris Agreement that put stronger emphasis on the development of climate change adaptation policies and on the definition of financing mechanisms, there is a patent need to track whether actual planning efforts ... -
Are protected areas covering important biodiversity sites? An assessment of the nature protection network in Sicily (Italy)
(Land Use Policy, 2018-11-01)GIS spatial analysis of three indicators (vegetation value, faunal richness and landscape heterogeneity) was used to detect and map High-Value Biodiversity Areas (HVBAs), estimate the coverage of biodiversity in the Sicilian ... -
Are there gender differences in household carbon footprints? Evidence from Spain
(Ecological Economics, 2024-05-01)Identifying the main drivers of the household carbon footprint (HCF) is a priority to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and move towards a more sustainable economy. Among the multiple factors that explain the HCF, some ... -
Are we on the right path? Measuring progress towards environmental sustainability in European countries
(Sustainability Science, 2022-01-01)Current environmental and sustainable development metrics fail to capture environmental sustainability from a strong sustainability perspective, which can lead to misleading messages around the urgency to reduce environmental ... -
Artificial Life in Quantum Technologies
(Nature Publishing, 2016-02-08)We develop a quantum information protocol that models the biological behaviours of individuals living in a natural selection scenario. The artificially engineered evolution of the quantum living units shows the fundamental ... -
Assessing risks of low-carbon transition pathways
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Assessing stakeholder preferences on low-carbon energy transitions
(Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning and Policy, 2020-01-01)Low carbon transition pathways entail diverse uncertainties and risks in the underlying environmental, social, political, economic and technological factors. Inadequate information about such risks could affect the achievement ... -
Assessing synergies and trade-offs of diverging Paris-compliant mitigation strategies with long-term SDG objectives
(Elsevier, 2023-01)The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement are the two transformative agendas, which set the benchmarks for nations to address urgent social, economic and environmental challenges. Aside from setting ... -
Assessing the feasibility of near-ambient conditions superconductivity in the Lu-N- H system
(Springer Nature, 2024-04-24)The report of near-ambient superconductivity in nitrogen-doped lutetium hydrides (Lu-N-H) has generated a great interest. However, conflicting results raised doubts regarding superconductivity. Here, we combine high-throughput ... -
Assessment of Different Niosome Formulations for Optogenetic Applications: Morphological and Electrophysiological Effects
(MDPI, 2023-07-01)Gene therapy and optogenetics are becoming promising tools for treating several nervous system pathologies. Currently, most of these approaches use viral vectors to transport the genetic material inside the cells, but ... -
Assessment of product yields and catalyst deactivation in fixed and fluidized bed reactors in the steam reforming of biomass pyrolysis volatiles
(Elsevier, 2020-08-02)[EN] The performance of fixed and fluidized bed reactors in the steam reforming of biomass fast pyrolysis volatiles was compared, with especial attention paying to the differences observed in catalysts deactivation. The ... -
Assessment of sustainable land management practices in Mediterranean rural regions
(Journal of Environmental Management, 2022-12-15)Sustainable land management practices can be suitable vehicles to simultaneously address the causes and consequences of land degradation, desertification, and climate change in land managed systems. Here, we assess the ... -
Association of Maternal Iodine Status With Child IQ: A Meta-Analysis of Individual Participant Data
(Endocrine Society, 2019-03-28)Context: Although the consequences of severe iodine deficiency are beyond doubt, the effects of mild to moderate iodine deficiency in pregnancy on child neurodevelopment are less well established. Objective: To study the ... -
Associations of Maternal Cell-Phone Use During Pregnancy With Pregnancy Duration and Fetal Growth in 4 Birth Cohorts
(Oxford University Press, 2019-04-17)Results from studies evaluating potential effects of prenatal exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields from cell phones on birth outcomes have been inconsistent. Using data on 55,507 pregnant women and their ... -
Atomic and Specificity Details of Mucin 1 O-Glycosylation Process by Multiple Polypeptide GalNAc-Transferase Isoforms Unveiled by NMR and Molecular Modeling
(American Chemical Society, 2022-02-24)[EN] The large family of polypeptide GalNAc-transferases (GalNAc-Ts) controls with precision how GalNAc O-glycans are added in the tandem repeat regions of mucins (e.g., MUC1). However, the structural features behind the ... -
Atomically-Precise Texturing of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Nanostripes
(Wiley, 2021-09)Monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is attracting considerable attention because of its potential applications in areas such as nano- and opto-electronics, quantum optics and nanomagnetism. However, the implementation ... -
Authoritative subspecies diagnosis tool for European honey bees based on ancestryinformative SNPs
(BMC, 2021-02-03)Background With numerous endemic subspecies representing four of its five evolutionary lineages, Europe holds a large fraction of Apis mellifera genetic diversity. This diversity and the natural distribution range have ... -
Autofluorescence Image Reconstruction and Virtual Staining for In-Vivo Optical Biopsying
(IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021-02-22)Modern photonic technologies are emerging, allowing the acquisition of in-vivo endoscopic tissue imaging at a microscopic scale, with characteristics comparable to traditional histological slides, and with a label-free ... -
Automatic Identification of Emotional Information in Spanish TV Debates and Human-Machine Interactions
(MDPI, 2022-02-11)Automatic emotion detection is a very attractive field of research that can help build more natural human–machine interaction systems. However, several issues arise when real scenarios are considered, such as the tendency ... -
Avoiding Thermal Issues During Fast Charging Starting with Proper Cell Selection Criteria
(Electrochemical Society, 2021-11-01)[EN] Proper cell selection is determinant to optimize systems and reduce risks for new and high demanding areas such as electromobility. Thermal performance must be an indispensable selection criterion to avoid thermal ...