Recently added Publications
Azañón, J. M., Azor, A., Booth-Rea, G., Torcal, F.
9 pages, 5 figures.
Reevaluation of the earthquakes of 10 March and 19 May 1951 in southern Spain (2005)
Udías, A., Muñoz, D., Buforn, E., Del Fresno, C., Rodriguez, I.
12 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables.
Ahmed, A. M. H., Rodriguez-Navarro, A. B., Vidal, M. L., Gautron, J., Garciacutea-Ruiz, J. M., Nys, Y.
The effect of moult on eggshell mechanical properties, on composition and concentrations of organic matrix components and on eggshell microstructure was investigated. The observed changes were...
Structure of deviations from optimality in biological systems (2009)
Pérez-Escudero, Alfonso, Rivera-Alba, Marta, G. De Polavieja, Gonzalo
Optimization theory has been used to analyze evolutionary adaptation. This theory has explained many features of biological systems, from the genetic code to animal behavior. However, these systems...
The beginning of human life under time-laps Cinematography (2009)
Background and Purpose: The aim of this study was to follow and record the early stages of development of a human embryo using time-lapse cinematography, and to discuss the beginning of human life....
Biparental origin of the chromosome set is required for a developing human being (2009)
HAUZMAN, ERIK; First Department Of Obstetrics And Gynecology, Semmelweis University Faculty Of Medicine, Baross U. 27., H–1088 Budapest, Hungary; Hauzman.erih@no1.sote.hu, CSAPÓ, ZSOLT; First Department Of Obstetrics And Gynecology, Semmelweis University Faculty Of Medicine, Baross U. 27., H–1088 Budapest, Hungary, PAPP, ZOLTÁN; First Department Of Obstetrics And Gynecology, Semmelweis University Faculty Of Medicine, Baross U. 27., H–1088 Budapest, Hungary
Conception sometimes results in products that are not capable of developing into an embryo and fetus. This group, designated with the term gestational trophoblastic neoplasia, comprises the benign...
When does human life begin?: an evolutionary perspective (2009)
Abstract The question – »when does human life begin?« – is without doubt an important one, and the answer to it has different yet equally profound consequences in diverse fields such as...
Objective: When caring for a patient with Anorexia Nervosa (AN) it is difficult for the registered nurses to develop a good nurse-patient relationship due to a lack of...
Cytochrome P450 (CYP) family 4 constitutes monoxygenases responsible for hydroxylation of fatty acids and other lipids. For example, CYP4F3 metabolizes leukotrienes and CYP4F8 prostaglandin H....
The performance of an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system strongly depends on the representation used for the front-end. If the extracted features do not include all relevant information, the...
Magnetic and Structural Properties of f-electron Systems from First Principles Theory (2009)
A series of studies of f-electron systems based on density functional theory methods have been performed. The focus of the studies has been on magnetic and structural properties, as well as...
Developent of a Vending Cup.- Mistral Vending Cup. (2009)
This is a Bachelor Degree Project report based on the design of a plastic vending cup.The project is carried out in cooperation with the company Promens Lidköping,manufacturer of a wide range of...
Creative Distraction : The Digital Transformation of the Advertising Industry (2009)
This thesis is primarily based on a case study on how the Internet affects the advertising industry in Oslo, Norway, and on how the digitization of advertising adds to our understanding of the...
Modeling church services supply and performance, using geographically weighted regression (2009)
The objective of this study is to develop a multiple linear regression model that measures the relationship between the church services supply and the attendance to the services in the Uppsala...
Hernández, Armand, Bao, Roberto, Giralt, Santiago, Leng, Melanie J., Barker, Philips A., Sáez, Alberto, ...
Oxygen isotopes of diatom silica and petrographical characterisation of diatomaceous laminated sediments of Lago Chungará (northern Chilean Altiplano) have allowed us to establish its...
Giralt, Santiago, Moreno, Ana, Bao, Roberto, Sáez, Alberto, Prego, Ricardo, Valero-Garcés, Blas L., ...
A high resolution multiproxy study (magnetic susceptibility, X-ray diffraction, XRF scanner, gray-colour values, Total Organic Carbon, Total Inorganic Carbon, Total Carbon and Total Biogenic Silica)...
Monoglyceride surfactants from arginine: synthesis and biological properties (2004)
Pérez, Lourdes, Pinazo Gassol, Aurora, García Ramón, María Teresa, Morán, María Del Carmen, Infante, María Rosa
9 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables.-- Printed version published Nov 2004.
3D-Mapping Optimization of Embodied Energy of Transportation (2007)
Pearce, Joshua M., Johnson, Sara J., Grant, Gabriel B.
The recent development of Google Earth, an information service that provides imagery and three dimensional data depicting the entire Earth, provides an opportunity to use a new method of navigating...
May, Fiona C., Stocks, Nigel Phillip, Barton, Christopher Allan
Fiona C. May, Nigel Stocks, Christopher Barton
Razafison, Ulrich, Cordier, Stephane, Delestre, Olivier, Darboux, Frédéric, Lucas, Carine, James, Francois
We introduce here a shallow water model for the numerical simulation of overland flow with furrows effects without representing them explicitly. The model is obtained by adding to the classical...
A quantum trampoline for ultra-cold atoms (2009)
Brantut, Jean-Philippe, Bordé, Christian, Aspect, Alain, Bourdel, Thomas, Bouyer, Philippe
We have observed the interferometric suspension of a free-falling Bose-Einstein condensate periodically submitted to multiple-order diffraction by a vertical 1D standing wave. The various diffracted...
Asymmetric hysteresis of Néel caps in flux-closure magnetic dots (2009)
Fruchart, Olivier, Rougemaille, Nicolas, Bendounan, Azzedine, Toussaint, Jean-Christophe, Belkhou, Rachid, Tian, Yuan, ...
We investigated with XMCD-PEEM magnetic imaging the magnetization reversal processes of Néel caps inside Bloch walls in self-assembled, micron-sized Fe(110) dots with flux-closure magnetic state. In...
Isomorphisms of the De Bruijn digraph and free-space optical networks (2002)
Coudert, David, Ferreira, Afonso, Perennes, Stephane
The de Bruijn digraph B(d, D) has degree d, diameter D, dD vertices, and dD+1 arcs. It is usually defined by words of size D on an alphabet of cardinality d, through a cyclic left-shift permutation...
On DRC-covering of Kn by cycles (2003)
Bermond, Jean-Claude, Coudert, David, Yu, Min-Li
This paper considers the cycle covering of complete graphs motivated by the design of survivable WDM networks, where the requests are routed on INF-networks which are protected independently from...
Graph Theory and Traffic Grooming in WDM Rings (2003)
This paper has a double purpose. In the first part of the paper we give an overview of different aspects of graph theory which can be applied in communication engineering, not trying to present...
Bermond, Jean-Claude, J. Colbourn, Charles, Coudert, David, Ge, Gennian, C. H. Ling, Alan, Munoz, Xavier
SONET/WDM networks using wavelength add-drop multiplexing can be constructed using certain graph decompositions used to form a grooming, consisting of unions of primitive rings. The cost of such a...
Bermond, Jean-Claude, Coudert, David
State-of-the-art on traffic grooming with a design theory approach
Pathwidth of outerplanar graphs (2006)
Coudert, David, Huc, Florian, Sereni, Jean-Sebastien
We are interested in the relation between the pathwidth of a biconnected outerplanar graph and the pathwidth of its (geometric) dual. Bodlaender and Fomin [3], after having proved that the pathwidth...
Approximations for All-to-all Uniform Traffic Grooming on Unidirectional Ring (2008)
Bermond, Jean-Claude, Coudert, David, Leveque, Benjamin
Traffic grooming in a WDM network consists of assigning to each request (lightpath) a wavelength with the constraint that a given wavelength can carry at most C requests or equivalently a request...
Neighbourhood Broadcasting in Hypercubes (2007)
Bermond, Jean-Claude, Ferreira, Afonso, Pérennes, Stéphane, Peters, Joseph
In the broadcasting problem, one node needs to broadcast a message to all other nodes in a network. If nodes can only communicate with one neighbor at a time, broadcasting takes at least $\lceil...
Kinetic characterization of the substrate specificity and mechanism of mushroom tyrosinase (2000)
Espín De Gea, Juan Carlos, Varón, Ramón, Fenoll, Lorena G., Gilabert, M. Ángeles, García-Ruíz, Pedro, Tudela, José, ...
10 pages, 1 figure, 5 tables.-- Online version published Apr. 2002.
Illera, V., Garrido, Fernando, Serrano, S., García González, M. T.
11 pages, and figures, and tables statistics.
The effective and reliable coordination of agent activities is a momentous problem for Multi–Agent System (MAS) developers. Particularly challenging is the decentralized coordination of agents that...
Chablat, Damien, Wenger, Philippe
It was shown recently that parallel manipulators with several inverse kinematic solutions have the ability to avoid parallel singularities [Chablat 1998a] and self-collisions [Chablat 1998b] by...
Asymptotics of prediction in the functional linear regression with functional outputs (2009)
Crambes, Christophe, Mas, André
We study prediction in the functional linear model with functional outputs. We provide the asymptotic mean square prediction error with constants. The rates we obtain are optimal in minimax sense and...
Khan, AN, Hoosein, M, Khan, H, Grosvenor, L, Al-Attar, M
No abstract available.
The nature and role of workplace literacy and numeracy are the subject of considerable debate (Baker, 1998; Castleton, 2002; Gee & Lankshear, 1997; Hull, 1997; Jackson, 2000; Marr & Hagston, 2007)....
EFL learners in Vietnam: an investigation of writing strategies (2009)
Research into second language strategies has started as a result of the shift of focus, from teachers and teaching to learners and learning which has taken place in the field of education over the...
Analysis of Professional Practice of Being an Indigenous Cultural Awareness Trainer (2009)
The purpose of this research project has been to gain a deeper awareness of the practice of Cultural Awareness Training and to develop resources that will support other practitioners in the field. My...
Curvature Mode Shape Analyses of Damage in Structures. (2009)
In recent years, the use of composite structures in engineering application has increased. This is mainly due to their special advantages such as high structural performance, high corrosion...
Identification and clinical utility of subgroups of borderline personality disorder. (2009)
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a complex psychiatric condition whose severity is compounded by the heterogeneous psychological functioning of those who suffer from the disorder. This...
Post Apartheid South Africa presents a fascinating platform from which to discuss the complexity and contestations around the creation of memory space. Through examination of multiple modes of...
The Value of Wealth: Representing Contemporary Corporate Space (2009)
The objective of my research is to develop a body of work for exhibition based on an examination of the ways that corporate space, as exemplified by the foyers and conference rooms of contemporary...
Knowledge Management (KM) Using Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System (2009)
The construction industry has long been criticized as being not advance enough to use information communication technology (ICT) and slow to adopt knowledge management (KM). This research...
ROLE OF GALANIN AND ITS ANTAGONISTS IN EXPERIMENTAL ACUTE PANCREATITIS (2008)
The broad aim of the studies described in this thesis was to evaluate the role of neuropeptide galanin in acute pancreatitis (AP). Treatment of AP is mainly symptomatic and supportive and no...
Board Member development: Board Member learning and attributes of experienced Board Members (2009)
This research uses a grounded theory approach to explore the term ‘experienced Board Member’ with research into the learning experiences which bridge the gap between an inexperienced...
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the information and communication technology (ICT) industries play a crucial role in the new economy. Most SMEs operate in a fiercely competitive...
Evaluation of the vaccine potential of malarial TCTP (2009)
Malaria is a widespread parasitic disease, causing 300-500 million infections per year and resulting in over 1 million deaths. There is widespread resistance of the parasite to most of the...
The primary focus of this thesis was to examine the relationship of reward sensitivity and outcome expectancies, variables traditionally associated with alcohol use, to cannabis use behaviour and to...