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Stability and C–H Bond Activation Reactions of Palladium(I) and Platinum(I) Metalloradicals: Carbon-to-Metal H-Atom Transfer and an Organometallic Radical Rebound Mechanism
(ACS, 2023-06-15)
One-electron oxidation of palladium(0) and platinum(0) bis(phosphine) complexes enables isolation of a homologous series of linear d9 metalloradicals of the form [M(PR3)2]+ (M = Pd, Pt; R = tBu, Ad), which are stable in ...
Darwin Puzzled? A Computer-assisted Analysis of Language in the Origin of Species
(Springer, 2021-06-05)
The aesthetically optimistic view of life in the last paragraph of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species contrasts with the evidence in his autobiography of a supposed perceptive colour blindness to the magnificence of nature. ...
Procedural Factors Influencing Forest Certification Audits: An Empirical Study in Romania
(MDPI, 2021-02-02)
In the recent decades, forest certification based on third-party external audits has gained momentum. This type of certification has been developed as a monitoring tool aimed at improving governance in corporate environmental ...
Triple exposure: Reducing negative impacts of climate change, blue growth, and conservation on coastal communities
(One Earth, 2023-02-17)
Coastal communities are on the frontlines of three accelerating global change drivers, climate change, blue growth, and the expansion of area-based conservation, leading to a “triple exposure” scenario. Despite efforts to ...
How to Get Coal Country to Vote for Climate Policy: The Effect of a Just Transition Agreement on Spanish Election Results
(American Political Science Review, 2023-01-01)
Enacting stringent climate policy has proven politically challenging, not least because of concentrated losses in fossil fuel-producing communities. Just transition strategies have been proposed to mitigate this distributional ...
Reseach and Implementation of Network Reduction Methods for District Cooling Systems
(2021-11-23)
Los District Energy Systems son una de las formas más eficientes de suministrar calor y frio a un grupo de consumidores. Aun así, es necesario hacer funcionar estos sistemas de la manera más eficiente posible, sobre todo ...
Thermal Performance Assessment of Walls Made of Three Types of Sustainable Concrete Blocks by Means of FEM and Validated through an Extensive Measurement Campaign
(MDPI, 2021-01-04)
The thermal behavior of three different walls, made with and without by-products, is assessed by means of the Finite Element Method, aiming to evaluate its performance in terms of the sustainable construction of the blocks. ...
Intrinsic Motivation mechanisms for a better sample efficiency in deep reinforcement learning applied to scenarios with sparse rewards
(2023-10-20)
Driven by the quest to create intelligent systems that can autonomously learn to make optimal decisions, Reinforcement Learning has emerged as a powerful branch of Machine Learning. Reinforcement Learning agents interact ...
Identity orientations of Latino print media in Spain: the reinforcement of Latino popular culture
(Universidad de Navarra, 2023-06-15)
The evolution of Latino print media in Spain has coincided with the demographic increase of Latin American immigrants in the country since the early 1990s. Starting with one publication in
1992, the market started to grow ...
Wheel-rail interaction and conformal contact analysis
(2023-10-20)
Se estudia el contacto conforme rueda-carril, 3D y con fricción, mediante simulaciones por ordenador con modelos numéricos, incluyendo una versión de la teoría exacta de contacto de Kalker extendida para contacto conforme ...