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A practical approach to improve the statistical performance of surface water monitoring networks

2019

The representativeness of aquatic ecosystem monitoring and the precision of the assessment results are of high importance when implementing the EU’s Water Framework Directive that aims to secure a good status of waterbodies in Europe. However, adapting monitoring designs to answer the objectives and allocating the sampling resources effectively are seldom practiced. Here, we present a practical solution how the sampling effort could be re-allocated without decreasing the precision and confidence of status class assignment. For demonstrating this, we used a large data set of 272 intensively monitored Finnish lake, coastal, and river waterbodies utilizing an existing framework for quantifying…

Todos a la derecha

2007

ASSESSMENT OF BEACH LITTER ALONG THE COAST: CASE STUDY OF THE CITY OF CADIZ (SPAIN)

2016

The United Nations Environment Program defines as waste all the persistent marine debris deposited or abandoned in the sea (marine litter) and beach (beach litter) environment. Thus including all substances or products abandoned or involuntarily dispersed into the sea or on the coastline. It has been estimated that, all around the world, about 10 million tons of waste coming from domestic, commercial and industrial activities reach the seas every year. Moreover, waste floating adrift in the seas and oceans can be carried very far away, reaching different places from the ones they were originated. Further, damage may result to various human activities and equipment, such as navigation, energ…

Razón de un disentimiento

1983

Se trata de una carta de José Vidal-Beneyto dirigida a Basilio Martín Patino, destinada a ser publicada en forma de carta al director, pero que finalmente no se publicó. Se adjunta en el mismo fichero un pequeño artículo sobre la vuelta de Martín Patino a la televisión: Portuondo, Javier (7 de agosto de 1985). Tras ocho años de inactividad, Martín Patino rueda para TV. La Vanguardia.

Sobre 'Montenegro libre'

2006

Interrelation Between European Union Protection and National Protection

2014

In addition to registration requirements, registration procedure, and the protection of registered IGOs, namely PDOs and PGIs, as well as protected indications of origin (within the Aromatised Wines Regulation), the EU law on IGOs also includes the regulation of other aspects. Competence of state institutions of EU Member States to ensure the observance of the regulation of IGOs as it is provided in the EU law or interrelation with other EU legal acts relating to IGOs already discussed in Part II of this book should be mentioned among such aspects.

COMPLEMENTARITY BETWEEN LOCAL KNOWLEDGE AND INTERNATIONALIZATION IN REGIONAL TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS

2006

Trade, foreign direct investment, and inter-regional R&D spillovers facilitate competition, the spread of knowledge, and the adoption of more advanced technologies, which in turn hastens total factor productivity (TFP) growth. The spread of these efficiency gains from internationalization requires a sufficient local knowledge to enable them to be adapted to the domestic productive environment. Thus, higher local knowledge and internationalization will lead to TFP growth, and the greater the complementarity between variables the higher the TFP growth. We test the complementarity hypothesis using Spanish regional data over the period 1980–1995 in which both regional local knowledge and intern…

SEGMENTACIÓN DEL COMPRADOR A DISTANCIA: UN ANÁLISIS DE LOS MEDIOS INTERNET Y TELEVISIÓN /

2005

La aparición de nuevos canales de venta como Internet y la Televisión está generando nuevas oportunidades de mercado para las empresas y está cambiando los hábitos de compra de los consumidores. No obstante, debido a la escasa experiencia de consumidores y empresas en este nuevo medio, la influencia del perfil del consumidor en la decisión de compra en los entornos virtuales es todavía desconocida. El objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar y comparar el perfil sociodemográfico y comportamental de los compradores que utilizan los medios Internet y Televisión, con el fin de identificar los segmentos prioritarios de consumidores para las empresas interesadas en la realización de una campaña…

Teletraffic Engineering for Direct Load Control in Smart Grids

2018

International audience; The traditional paradigm for power grid operation is to continuously adapt energy production to demand. This paradigm is challenged by the increasing penetration of renewable sources, that are more variable and less predictable. An alternative approach is the direct load control of some inherently flexible electric loads to shape the demand. Direct control of deferrable loads presents analogies with flow admission control in telecommunication networks: a request for network resources (bandwidth or energy) can be delayed on the basis of the current network status in order to guarantee some performance metrics. In this paper we go beyond such an analogy, showing that u…

Evaluating State-Based Intention Recognition Algorithms against Human Performance

2014

In this paper, we describe a novel intention recognition approach based on the representation of state information in a cooperative human-robot environment. We compare the output of the intention recognition algorithms to those of an experiment involving humans attempting to recognize the same intentions in a manufacturing kitting domain. States are represented by a combination of spatial relationships in a Cartesian frame along with cardinal direction information. Based upon a set of predefined high-level states relationships that must be true for future actions to occur, a robot can use the approaches described in this paper to infer the likelihood of subsequent actions occurring. This wo…