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Incorporating the life-course approach into shrinking cities assessment: the uneven geographies of urban population decline
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-24)
The demographic dynamics of urban areas is highly relevant for urban and regional planning, in a global context marked by rapid socioeconomic changes and growing competition between cities. Demographic and economic decline ...
Patentometric: monitoring the scientific and technological trends of Additive Manufacturing in Medical Applications
(Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, 2019)
Patents are a means of protecting inventions developed by firms, institutions or individuals, and they may be interpreted as indicators of invention. Patents indicators convey information on the processes of inventive ...
A Method for the Detection and Characterization of Technology Fronts: Analysis of the Dynamics of Technological Change in 3D Printing Technology
(Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, 2019-01-07)
This paper presents a method for the identification of the "technology fronts"-core technological solutions-underlying a certain broad technology, and the characterization of their change dynamics. We propose an approach ...
Velocity and power–load association of bench-press exercise in wheelchair basketball players and their relationships with field-test performance
(Human Kinetics, 2019-07)
Purpose: To analyze the relationship between mean propulsive velocity (MPV) of the bar and relative load (percentage of the 1-repetition maximum [%1RM]) in the bench-press (BP) exercise and to determine the relationship ...
Modelling the wear evolution of a single alumina abrasive grain: analyzing the influence of crystalline structure
(Elsevier, 2019-10-17)
The grinding process is continuously adapting to industrial requirements. New advanced materials have beendeveloped, which have been ground. In this regard, new abrasive grains have emerged to respond to the demands of ...
Failure-Analysis Based Redesign of Furnace Conveyor System Components: A Case Study
(MDPI, 2019-08)
Any manufacturing equipment designed from scratch requires a detailed follow-up of the performance for the first units placed in service during the production ramp-up, so that lessons learned are immediately implemented ...
An archaeology of “small worlds”: social inequality in early medieval Iberian rural communities
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-17)
This paper uses the archaeological record to analyse the forms of social inequality that existed within early medieval rural communities. The paper takes as its case study Álava, where there is a significant density of ...