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Value and barriers in the creation of intellectual property in advanced manufacturing: a country comparison
(Emerald, 2019)
Purpose:
The basic aim of this research is to determine to what extent intellectual property owners of advanced manufacturing technologies compensate the disadvantages of their small size and peripheral company location ...
Metaphors We Learn By: Directed motor action improves word learning
(COGNITION, 2019)
Can performing simple motor actions help people learn the meanings of words? Here we show that placing vocabulary flashcards in particular locations after studying them helps students learn the definitions of novel words ...
Salud y determinantes sociales de la salud en hijos e hijas de personas inmigrantes internacionales: ¿desigualdades sociales en salud desde la infancia?
(Elsevier, 2019-04)
OBJECTIVE: To analyse the social inequalities in health between children and youth population of an immigrant origin from low-income countries and those of native origin in the Basque Country.
METHOD: Cross-sectional ...
Flexible aromatic disulfide monomers for high-performance self-healable linear and cross-linked poly(urethane-urea) coatings
(Elsevier, 2019)
Implementation of the self-healing concept in coatings is challenging because they have to combine mechanical strength and chain mobility. This challenge is addressed in this work by studying the effect of the polymer ...
Rheological basis for a survey of complex and multiphasic polymer systems.
(2019-09-27)
The aim of this thesis is to establish a set of correlations between the rheological properties of complexand multiphasic polymer systems and different structural and physicochemical parameters, such asmorphology, ...
To what extent is climate change adaptation a novel challenge for agricultural modellers?
(Elsevier, 2019)
Modelling is key to adapting agriculture to climate change (CC), facilitating evaluation of the impacts and efficacy of adaptation measures, and the design of optimal strategies. Although there are many challenges to ...
Early-warning signals of individual tree mortality based on annual radial growth
(Frontiers, 2019)
Tree mortality is a key driver of forest dynamics and its occurrence is projected to increase in the future due to climate change. Despite recent advances in our understanding of the physiological mechanisms leading to ...
Participatory coastal management through elicitation of ecosystem service preferences and modelling driven by coastal squeeze
(Elsevier, 2019)
The Baixo Vouga Lagunar (BVL) is part of Ria de Aveiro coastal lagoon in Portugal, which is classified as a Special Protection Area under the European Habitats and Birds Directives. This part of the system, corresponding ...
Evaluating social learning in participatory mapping of ecosystem services
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)
Recent studies have shown the opportunities and limitations of participatory mapping for ecosystem services management, although it is an incipient research area. One of the research questions yet to be addressed is whether ...
Análisis de las rutinas profesionales para la construcción de una agenda temática de proximidad y servicio: el caso de 20 minutos Bilbao
(2019-01-31)
El proceso de construcción de la noticia es un fenómeno en constante cambio sometido a múltiples variables interdependientes. La agenda temática de los mass-media es, por lo tanto, el resultado de un proceso multifactorial ...