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The adoption of ecosystem-based adaptation in the international climate agenda
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-05-02)
There is a growing recognition of the role that healthy ecosystems play in helping people to adapt to climate change through the delivery of ecosystem services. • Ecosystem-based Adaptation promotes the sustainable use of ...
Discounting the value of natural resources in costbenefit analysis: a case study for policy making
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-10)
The issue of discounting (i.e. how future cost and benefits are valued today) plays a major role in policies with long-term effects on the natural environment, such as those required in a climate change context, or decisions ...
Warning to navigators: IPCC report on climate change mitigation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-05-13)
Despite the proliferation of climate change plans and strategies, global emissions have accelerated over the last decade. *If the present trends continue, temperatures will have risen between 3.7 and 4.3ºC by the end of ...
Optimizing the Curie temperature of pseudo-binary RxR2-x ' Fe-17 (R, R ' = rare earth) for magnetic refrigeration
(IOP Publishing, 2014)
Several pseudo-binary RxR2-x'Fe-17 alloys (with R = Y, Ce, Pr, Gd and Dy) were synthesized with rhombohedral Th2Zn17-type crystal structure determined from x-ray and neutron powder diffraction. The choice of compositions ...
Pivoting between Calmodulin Lobes Triggered by Calcium in the Kv7.2/Calmodulin Complex
(Public Library Science, 2014-01-28)
Kv7.2 (KCNQ2) is the principal molecular component of the slow voltage gated M-channel, which strongly influences neuronal excitability. Calmodulin (CaM) binds to two intracellular C-terminal segments of Kv7.2 channels, ...
Predictive score for mortality in patients with COPD exacerbations attending hospital emergency departments
(Biomed Central, 2014-04-23)
Background: Limited information is available about predictors of short-term outcomes in patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (eCOPD) attending an emergency department (ED). Such information ...
One-dimensional potential for image-potential states on graphene
(IOP Publishing, 2014-02-05)
In the framework of dielectric theory, the static non-local self-energy of an electron near an ultra-thin polarizable layer has been calculated and applied to study binding energies of image-potential states near free-standing ...
Higher order vortex gyrotropic modes in circular ferromagnetic nanodots
(Nature Publishing Group, 2014-04-25)
Magnetic vortex that consists of an in-plane curling magnetization configuration and a needle-like core region with out-of-plane magnetization is known to be the ground state of geometrically confined submicron soft magnetic ...
Microwave absorption properties of permalloy nanodots in the vortex and quasi-uniform magnetization states
(IOP Publishing, 2014-06-19)
When the in-plane bias magnetic field acting on a flat circular magnetic dot is smaller than the saturation field, there are two stable competing magnetization configurations of the dot: the vortex and the quasi-uniform ...
Pata contractions and coupled type fixed points
(Springer International Publishing, 2014-06-02)
A new coupled fixed point theorem related to the Pata contraction for mappings having the mixed monotone property in partially ordered complete metric spaces is established. It is shown that the coupled fixed point can be ...