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Decarbonising urban transportation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-12-13)
The transportation sector is a major contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for around one-quarter of current annual emissions. Surface transportation (passenger vehicles, buses, rail, and freight ...
Budget-Neutral Financing to Unlock Energy Savings Potential: An Analysis of the ESCO Model in Barcelona
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
The objective of this article is to introduce an increasingly popular business model known as the Energy Service Company (ESCO) model and bring to light the principal barriers to its widespread implementation both ...
Development of a new modelling framework to estimate the C footprint from Basque dairy farms
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2013-01-01)
There is world-wide concern for the contribution of dairy farming to global warming. However, there is still a need to improve the quantification of the C-footprint of dairy farming systems under different production systems ...
Use of generalised additive models to categorise continuous variables in clinical prediction
(BioMed Central, 2013-06-26)
Background: In medical practice many, essentially continuous, clinical parameters tend to be categorised by physicians for ease of decision-making. Indeed, categorisation is a common practice both in medical research and ...
Asymptotic Hyperstability of a Class of Linear Systems under Impulsive Controls Subject to an Integral Popovian Constraint
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
This paper is focused on the study of the important property of the asymptotic hyperstability of a class of continuous-time dynamic systems. The presence of a parallel connection of a strictly stable subsystem to an ...
Best Proximity Points of Generalized Semicyclic Impulsive Self-Mappings: Applications to Impulsive Differential and Difference Equations
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
This paper is devoted to the study of convergence properties of distances between points and the existence and uniqueness of best proximity and fixed points of the so-called semicyclic impulsive self-mappings on the union ...
Towards complex system design and management in the engineering domain – the smart grid challenge
(Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2013-06-30)
Our world is facing a significant challenge from climate change and global warming, coupled with an increased awareness about the importance of preserving the environment. This challenge calls for us to use our resources ...
On language production principles and the form of language: a más cómo, menos por qué
(Frontiers Editorial (Lausanne), 2013-04-30)
Zientzia eta Teknologia Fakultateko III. Ikerkuntza Jardunaldiak ; Enpresa eta Berrikuntza Teknologikoko Zentroen Aurkezpenerako VII. Jardunaldiak
(Servicio Editorial de la Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatearen Argitalpen Zerbitzua, 2013)
[ES]El objetivo de estas jornadas es, por una parte, mostrar a nuestro alumnado la investigación que llevan a cabo los diferentes grupos de la facultad, de cara a despertar vocaciones investigadoras. Por otro lado, como ...
Socioeconomic status, parental support, motivation and self-confidence in youth competitive sport
(Elsevier, 2013)
[EN] The relationship between family and competitive sport and its complex interactions has been studied as a key factor by several authors. However, many questions about how psychological, cultural and social variables ...