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The Economic Impacts of Biodiversity Policy for Improving the Climate Regulating Services Provided by EU Natura 2000 Habitats
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
We adopted the state-of-the-art methodologies to quantify the total carbon stocked by Natura 2000 habitats as well as to project the future changes of carbon stocks influenced by alternative policy options for the management ...
Valuation of wind energy projects: A real options approach
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-10)
This paper addresses the valuation of an operating wind farm and the …nite-lived option to invest in such a farm under di¤erent reward and/or support schemes. They range from a feed-in tari¤ to a premium on top of ...
More than one language in the brain
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012)
[EN] What difference does it make to have one language in the brain or to have more
than one? This is an intriguing and currently much inquired question, which can
help us unravel more than one mystery concerning language ...
Forecasting accuracy of behavioural models for participation in the arts
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2012-01)
In this paper, we assess the forecasting performance of count data models applied to arts attendance. We estimate participation models for two artistic activities that differ in their degree of popularity -museum and jazz ...
The impacts of leadership in the quality of municipal public services: case study of a portuguese municipal council
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2012)
[EN]The present research work, based on some of the components of the Common Assessment Framework, sets to analyse the influence held by leadership in specific factors that constitute the organisational climate, and also ...
Influence of Training Set Selection in Artificial Neural Network-Based Propagation Path Loss Predictions
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2012)
This paper analyzes the use of artificial neural networks (ANNs) for predicting the received power/path loss in both outdoor and indoor links. The approach followed has been a combined use of ANNs and ray-tracing, the ...
Virtual Reconstruction of the Ancient State of a Ruined Church
(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012-11)
[EN] Three dimensional virtual models can represent both the existing and the already destroyed architectural heritage. This project deals with the 3D reconstruction and representation of the church of San Prudencio's ...
Ontologies for representation of folk song metadata
(2012)
The digital management of collections in museums, archives, libraries and galleries is an increasingly important part of cultural heritage studies. This paper describes a representation for folk song metadata, based on the ...
Key business factors for eco-innovation: an overview of recent firm-level empirical studies
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2012)
[EN] The increasing interest in eco-innovation or environmental innovation as a strategy not only to address the serious global environmental problems but also as a source of competitive advantages for companies and for ...
Technology Outlook as a tool for the management of innovation
(Instituto de Economía Aplicada a la Empresa de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2012)
[EN] The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical overview of innovation management and the tools that can aid in this endeavour. The paper adopts a user-oriented description, aiming at making SMEs familiar with ...