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Perez, S.; Iñarrea, A.; Pérez-Tanoira, R.; Gil, M.; López-Díez, E.; Valenzuela, O.; Porto, M.; Alberte-Lista, L.; Peteiro-Cancelo, M. A.; Treinta, A.; Carballo, R.; Reboredo, M. C.; Alvarez-Argüelles, M. E.; Purriños, M. J.
... After publication of the article [1], it was brought to our attention that the author E. López-Díez is missing their second affiliation. The author would also like to indicate an affiliation to “Universidade de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain”. ...
... The Segura basin in south-eastern Spain is one of the most water-scarce regions in Europe. Its water economy has characteristics that constitute very favourable conditions for water market activity, and there are significant trading opportunities. However, the traded volumes have been rather small even though most of the water market activity in continental Spain is concentrated there. This paper ...
... The main objective of this paper is to analyze and evaluate the impact of time resolution when estimating self-consumption and self-sufficiency in grid-connected photovoltaic facilities. The consumption data were obtained from a photovoltaic facility installed in Malaga (Spain). They were extrapolated to analyze other PV facility sizes for the same location. The size of the PV installation that ge ...
... Conflicting relationships between the economic, social and environmental elements of business sustainability, which are also referred to as the Triple Bottom Line (TBL), characterise today's business environment. While the TBL has recently attracted considerable research, not a single study has empirically tested the direct and indirect effects between the TBL elements. By addressing this gap in r ...
... This study analyses the effect of the spatial factor, location, and interaction effects among peer companies, on the productivity growth of agri‐food companies in Spain. With this aim, we build a productivity growth index and apply a multiequational Seemingly Unrelated Regression on a sample of 344 Spanish cooperatives and investor‐owned firms for the period 2010–2012. Our findings show that agri‐ ...
Spain, etc ; energy density; estuaries; hydrodynamics; models; streams; tides; water power; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The availability of tidal stream energy in the Ría of Ferrol (NW Spain) has been assessed using a long term hydrodynamic simulation (351 days). A priori, a strait in the central part of the estuary seems a promising site for tidal energy tapping, but the results show that barotropic currents rarely exceed 0.9 m/s during spring tides, with a maximum peak power density of 0.45 kW/m2 estimated at a s ...
Spain, etc ; arid zones; governance; hygiene; models; modernization; socioeconomics; water distribution; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Growing global scarcity of water is forcing a change in their management models and the need to implement good governance schemes, understood as the implementation of legal, institutional and economic mechanisms that enable the efficient organisation of the activity developed by all of the agents involved in water management. In this sense, one of the greatest achievements in Spanish hydraulic his ...
Spain, etc ; geomorphology; hydrograph; models; rain; rain gauges; runoff; subwatersheds; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Two variants of the Instantaneous Unit Hydrograph model based on a Geomorphological association of linear Reservoirs (IUHGR), incorporating the Spatial Variability of Rainfall (SVR), have been developed. The proposed models are based on the Geomorphological Reservoirs (GR) scheme consisting of a cascade of linear reservoirs aggregating sub-watersheds. The model, in its first version, was formulate ...
... Traditionally, studies of Palaeolithic cave art have largely ignored or directly overlooked the red marks of anthropogenic origin that do not belong to figurative categories, in spite of their importance in quantitative terms in this type of art. This paper highlights their importance for better understanding the significance of the cave remains commonly classified as “rock or cave art.”To this en ...
... Photovoltaic demand-side generation (PV-DSG), defined as the production of electricity by means of panels or arrays which are installed on the customer's side of the meter, has received much attention lately by academics and policy-makers all over the world. Some countries have promoted this form of generation, whereas others have lagged behind. This is the case of Spain, where PV-DSG has not take ...
Spain, etc ; dissolved organic matter; ionic liquids; kerosene; microextraction; mixing; pH; seawater; silver; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Ag can be found in the ocean at the ultra-trace level, mainly as AgCln⁽ⁿ⁻¹⁾⁻ and complexed by dissolved organic matter (Ag-DOM). However, methods for studying Ag speciation in marine waters are limited by the lack of extractants capable to separate organic and inorganic silver species in natural conditions of seawater samples.In this work, a two-phase solvent bar micro-extraction method using the ...
Spain, etc ; air pollution; air quality; bicycling; cities; decision making; emissions; models; monitoring; nitrogen dioxide; traffic; Show all 11 Subjects
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... A methodology based on CFD-RANS simulations (WA CFD-RANS, Weighted Averaged Computational Fluid Dynamic-Reynolds–Averaged Navier–Stokes simulations) which includes appropriate modifications, has been applied to compute the annual, seasonal, and hourly average concentration of NO2 and NOX throughout the city of Pamplona (Spain) at pedestrian level during 2016. The results have been evaluated using ...
Spain, etc ; aerosols; case studies; dust; energy; optical properties; smoke; solar energy; solar farms; summer; wildfires; Show all 11 Subjects
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... We have estimated the radiative impact produced by an unusually extreme dust and wildfire episode on the performance of a photovoltaic (PV) plant. The dust and wildfire events were mostly active on 26–28 and 29–30 June 2012, respectively. We took advantage of the consecutiveness of both events to separate and derive empirically the radiative effect of dust and smoke aerosols. With this purpose, we ...
... The Portuguese (Crassostrea angulata) and Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), both from the genus Crassostrea, are two important species for production and conservation. Although they have common characteristics, different susceptibilities to rearing conditions have been described in these species. Overall, in the case of C. angulata, only a few remaining populations are present in the south of Po ...
Spain, etc ; convection; databases; global warming; hail; spatial variation; temporal variation; uncertainty; warm season; France; Show all 10 Subjects
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... One of the main challenges in studies of hail precipitation is the estimation of its trends in the context of global warming. The strong spatiotemporal variability of hailfalls, together with their small scale, makes it difficult to record all such events and build long and homogeneous databases. For this reason, obtaining direct observation trends yields large uncertainties. The study of atmosphe ...
Spain, etc ; European Union; coastal zone management; fisheries; fisheries law; United Kingdom; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Spain's accession to the European Union on 1 January 1986 meant the incorporation into its domestic law of the Union's acquis and, therefore, of the rules related to the Common Fisheries Policy. This was preceded by tough accession negotiations and the inclusion of a long transitional period with regard to fisheries that particularly affected the Galician fisheries sector, which has had to adapt t ...
... The objective of this research was to assess the effect of gullying on the erosive response at the basin scale by modeling. For this purpose, a distributed hydrological model, which includes erosion by raindrop, rilling and gullying, was configured and applied in a Mediterranean basin in southern Spain. The results show a range of parameters close to those provided by the literature and good agree ...
Spain, etc ; databases; engineering; issues and policy; microscopy; social networks; Brazil; Germany; Portugal; United Kingdom; United States; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Understanding how a technology is introduced and shared in a society has a strategic value for the planning of technological development and assessing new market opportunities. Among other technologies, microscopy has had a significant role in advancing different fields of science. In Brazil, its use spans from biomedical to engineering areas. Here, we used social network analysis (SNA) to map and ...
Spain, etc ; Citrullus colocynthis; deserts; dormancy; germination; seeds; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Following publication of the original article author Hatem Shabana wrote to say that one of her affiliations was missing. The affiliation is as follows:Departmento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Málaga, P. O. Box 59, 29080 Málaga, Spain ...
Spain, etc ; basins; deformation; gravity; kinematics; sediments; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Understanding the link between sedimentation and fault kinematics is important for reconstructing the evolution of sedimentary basins. The relationship between the mechanics of creating accommodation space and the sediment supply in asymmetric extensional basins is critical for quantifying their syn- and post-rift evolution, but is not yet well understood. One exceptional place to analyze such mec ...