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European biofuels policy and its contribution to a low carbon future
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2015-12)
•There is an increasing urgency of decarbonising the EU transport sector. •Biofuels are expected to play a significant role in the transition to a low-carbon economy. •The EU has intensively promoted biofuels since 2000, ...
Urban research at BC3: How climate change science can support urban policy making
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2016-06)
Cities are becoming key actors to successfully achieve climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives. . -Science can play a crucial role in supporting local decision-makers by providing top level information and ...
Engaging the Public with Science in the Basque Country: On scientists’ experiences and perspectives
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2016-09)
Public participation in the development of science and technology is key in modern societies, and scientists’ understanding of their responsibility and agency within this practice is still underexplored. - Face-to-face ...
Analysis of Spanish text-thesaurus as a complex network
(2014-02-06)
[EN]Based on the theoretical tools of Complex Networks, this work provides a basic descriptive study of a synonyms dictionary, the Spanish Open Thesaurus represented as a graph. We study the main structural measures of the ...
Learning from human teaching strategies
(2012)
Recent works in the area of adaptive education systems point out the importance of aumenting the student model to improve the personalization and adaptation to the learner by means of several aspects such as emotions, user ...
Obtaining teaching expertise from F2F learning interactions
(2012)
Learning environments are commonly used nowadays, but they exclude face-to-face interaction among teachers and students what is a successful basis of traditional education. On the other hand, in many cases teachers are ...
Environmental fiscal reform and unemployment in Spain in the presence of an informal sector
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10-26)
This policy briefing reports the results obtained in two recent papers (Markandya et al 2012 and Gonzalez-Eguino et al 2012) where the role of Enviromental Fiscal Reform (EFR) is revisited for the case of Spain. We analyse ...
An R package for permutations, Mallows and Generalized Mallows models
(2014-01-22)
[EN]Probability models on permutations associate a probability value to each of the permutations on n items. This paper considers two popular probability models, the Mallows model and the Generalized Mallows model. We ...
Learning Bayesian network classifiers for multidimensional supervised classification problems by means of a multiobjective approach
(2010)
A classical supervised classification task tries to predict a single class variable based on a data set composed of a set of labeled examples. However, in many real domains more than one variable could be considered as a ...
A Preprocessing Procedure for Haplotype Inference by Pure Parsimony
(2010)
Haplotype data is especially important in the study of complex diseases
since it contains more information than genotype data. However,
obtaining haplotype data is technically difficult and expensive. Computational
methods ...