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Beautiful and disgusting politics: Taming evil and the importance of controlling the uncontrollable
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2018)
Evil doing is part of everyday social life and is extremely difficult to be counter-balanced by “good”practices, let alone to be eliminated. Even in the realm of abstract politics, there is no simple solution or way to ...
Language and Math: What If We Have Two Separate Naming Systems?
(Languages, 2019)
The role of language in numerical processing has traditionally been restricted to counting and exact arithmetic. Nevertheless, the impact that each of a bilinguals’ languages may have in core numerical representations has ...
How are cities planning to respond to climate change? Assessment of local climate plans from 885 cities in the EU-28
(Elsevier, 2018)
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean temperature rise this century to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. This target has wide-ranging implications for Europe and its cities, which are the source of ...
Why do some economies benefit more from climate finance than others? A case study on North-to-South financial flows
(The International Input Output Association, 2018)
The Copenhagen and Paris Agreements, in which developed countries committed to mobilise USD 100 billion a year by 2020, indicate that climate finance will continue to grow. Even though economic development is not the aim ...
Restoration and repair of Earth s damaged ecosystems
(The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 2018)
Given that few ecosystems on the Earth have been unaffected by humans, restoring them holds great promise for stemming the biodiversity crisis and ensuring ecosystem services are provided to humanity. Nonetheless, few ...
A novel optimization approach incorporating non-stomatal limitations predicts stomatal behaviour in species from six plant functional types
(Oxford University Press, 2019)
The primary function of stomata is to minimize plant water loss while maintaining CO 2 assimilation. Stomatal water loss incurs an indirect cost to photosynthesis in the form of non-stomatal limitations (NSL) via reduced ...
Stochastic diffusion models to describe the evolution of annual heatwave statistics: A three-factor model with risk calculations
(Elsevier, 2019)
In view of risk assessments this paper proposes a stochastic diffusion model to characterise statistics of extreme events when climate- or environmental variables surpass critical thresholds. The proposed three-factor model ...
Study, revalorization and virtual musealization of a ceramic kiln based on information gathered from old excavations
(Elsevier, 2017-08)
[ES] Las posibilidades actuales de visualización y difusión a través de las tecnologías digitales tienen un efecto favorable en la conservación y la puesta en valor de los restos arqueológicos depositados en los museos. ...
The use of new web technologies for the analysis, preservation, and outreach of paleontological information and its application to La Rioja (Spain) paleontological heritage
(Coquina Press, 2019-02)
[ES] Este trabajo presenta un trabajo de preservación y difusión de la información relativa a yacimientos paleontológicos situados en el municipio de Enciso (La Rioja, España) a través del nodo IDE (Infraestructura de Datos ...
The Spanish Plurinational Labyrinth. Practical Reasons for Criticising the Nationalist Bias of Others While Ignoring One’s Own Nationalist Position
(MDPI, 2019-12-31)
To analyse the Spanish national question requires considering the relationship between the idea of the nation and the phenomenon of nationalism on one side, and the question of political plurality on the other. The approval ...