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Band Structure and Energy Level Alignment of Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons on Silver Surfaces
(MDPI, 2021-12-06)Chiral graphene nanoribbons are extremely interesting structures due to their narrow band gaps and potential development of spin-polarized edge states. Here, we study their band structure on low work function silver surfaces. ... -
Barriers to ecological restoration in Europe: expert perspectives
(RESTORATION ECOLOGY, 2021)Ecological restoration is key to counteracting anthropogenic degradation of biodiversity and to reducing disaster risk. However, there is limited knowledge of barriers hindering the wider implementation of restoration ... -
Bearing Assessment Tool for Longitudinal Bridge Performance
(Springer, 2020-11)This work provides an unsupervised learning approach based on a single-valued performance indicator to monitor the global behavior of critical components in a viaduct, such as bearings. We propose an outlier detection ... -
Bed symmetry in the fountain confined conical spouted beds with open-sided draft tubes
(Elsevier, 2022-05-13)Bed symmetry has been analysed in fountain confined conical spouted beds operating with fine particles. Thus, vertical particle velocities and the spout shape have been determined in a wide range of spouting air velocities ... -
Behavioral Activity Recognition Based on Gaze Ethograms
(World Scientific Publishing, 2020-07)Noninvasive behavior observation techniques allow more natural human behavior assessment experiments with higher ecological validity. We propose the use of gaze ethograms in the context of user interaction with a computer ... -
Behavioral anomaly detection system for the wellbeign assessment and lifestyle support of older people at home
(Elsevier B.V, 2021)The wellbeing assessment of older people is becoming crucial in today’s era of aging and home care in order to provide the best possible care. New technologies are being used to assist older people at home, which generates ... -
Benefits of cryopreservation as long-term storage method of encapsulated cardiosphere-derived cells for cardiac therapy: A biomechanical analysis
(Elsevier, 2021-09-25)[EN]Cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) encapsulated within alginate-poly-L-lysine-alginate (APA) microcapsules present a promising treatment alternative for myocardial infarction. However, clinical translatability of ... -
Bicolour fluorescent molecular sensor for cations: design and experimental validation
(Royal Society of Chemistry, 2021-07-02)Molecular entities whose fluorescence spectra are different when they bind metal cations are termed bicolour fluorescent molecular sensors. The basic design criteria of this kind of compound are presented and the different ... -
Bilinguals processing noun morphology: Evidence for the Language Distance Hypothesis from event-related potentials
(Pergamon-Elsevier, 2020-08)Evidence shows that second language (L2) processing depends on the Age of Acquisition (AoA), proficiency and differences between L1 and L2 grammar. Here we focus on the influence of the latter factor on L2 processing. To ... -
Biocultural vulnerability exposes threats of culturally important species
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023-01-01)There are growing calls for conservation frameworks that, rather than breaking the relations between people and other parts of nature, capture place-based relationships that have supported social-ecological systems over ... -
Biodegradable binary blends of poly (butylene succinate) or poly (ε-caprolactone) with poly (butylene succinate-ran-ε-caprolactone) copolymers: Crystallization behavior
(Elsevier, 2022-08-12)Poly (butylene succinate) (PBS) and polycaprolactone (PCL) are two immiscible biocompatible and biodegradable polymers. Aiming to combine the properties of these biodegradable polymers, this work explores for the first ... -
Biosulfidogenesis Mediates Natural Attenuation in Acidic Mine Pit Lakes
(MDPI, 2020-08-21)Acidic pit lakes are abandoned open pit mines filled with acid mine drainage (AMD)—highly acidic, metalliferous waters that pose a severe threat to the environment and are rarely properly remediated. Here, we investigated ... -
Black metal hydrogen above 360 GPa driven by proton quantum fluctuations
(Nature Physics, 2020-09-07)Hydrogen metallization under stable conditions is a major quest for realizing the first room temperature su- perconductor. Recent low-temperature experiments report different metallization pressures, varying from 360GPa ... -
Boosting background suppression in the NEXT experiment through Richardson-Lucy deconvolution
(Springer, 2021-07-21)Next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments aim for half-life sensitivities of similar to 10(27) yr, requiring suppressing backgrounds to < 1 count/tonne/yr. For this, any extra background rejection handle, ... -
Bottom-up Fabrication and Atomic-Scale Characterization of Triply Linked, Laterally π-Extended Porphyrin Nanotapes
(Wiley, 2021-07-12)Porphyrin nanotapes (Por NTs) are promising structures for their use as molecular wires thanks to a high degree of pi-conjugation, low HOMO-LUMO gaps, and exceptional conductance. Such structures have been prepared in ... -
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Study of Biobased Poly(alkylene 2,5-furanoate)s’ Molecular Dynamics
(MDPI, 2020-06-16)Abstract Poly(2,5-alkylene furanoate)s are bio-based, smart, and innovative polymers that are considered the most promising materials to replace oil-based plastics. These polymers can be synthesized using ecofriendly ... -
Brownian Dynamics Computational Model of Protein Diffusion in Crowded Media with Dextran Macromolecules as Obstacles
(MDPI, 2017-03-09)The high concentration of macromolecules (i.e., macromolecular crowding) in cellular environments leads to large quantitative effects on the dynamic and equilibrium biological properties. These effects have been experimentally ... -
Brønsted Base Catalyzed One-Pot Synthesis od Stereodefined Six-Member Carbocycles Featuring Transient Trienolates and a Key Intramolecular 1,6-Addition
(Wiley-VCH, 2019-07-31)Acatalyst-driven one-pot reaction sequence is developed for the enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of tetrasubstituted cyclohexenes from simple unsaturated ketones or thioesters.The method involves atertiary ... -
Building Risk into the Mitigation/Adaptation Decisions simulated by Integrated Assessment Models
(Springer Nature, 2019)This paper proposes an operationally simple and easily generalizable methodology to incorporate climate change damage uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). First uncertainty is transformed into a risk measure ... -
Building synthetic simulated environments for configuring and training multi-camera systems for surveillance applications
(SciTePress, Science and Technology Publications, Lda, 2021)[EN] Synthetic simulated environments are gaining popularity in the Deep Learning Era, as they can alleviate the effort and cost of two critical tasks to build multi-camera systems for surveillance applications: setting ...