• Quantifying the role of individual flood drivers and their correlations in flooding of coastal river reaches 

      Sopelana Peralta, Javier; Bermúdez, María; Cea, Luis (Springer, 2019)
      [Abstract:] Flooding in coastal river reaches is the result of complex interactions between coastal and inland drivers. Flood hazard assessments need to consider how these drivers interact in space and time, for which a ...
    • Quantum Arithmetic for Directly Embedded Arrays 

      Manzano, Alberto; Musso, Daniele; Leitao, Álvaro; Gómez, Andrés; Vázquez, Carlos; Ordóñez, Gustavo; Rodríguez Nogueiras, María (MDPI, 2021)
      [Abstract] We describe a general-purpose framework to implement quantum algorithms relying upon an efficient handling of arrays. The cornerstone of the framework is the direct embedding of information into quantum amplitudes, ...
    • Quantum Computing for Dealing with Inaccurate Knowledge Related to the Certainty Factors Model 

      Moret-Bonillo, Vicente; Magaz Romero, Samuel; Mosqueira-Rey, E. (MDPI, 2022)
      [Abstract] In this paper, we illustrate that inaccurate knowledge can be efficiently implemented in a quantum environment. For this purpose, we analyse the correlation between certainty factors and quantum probability. We ...
    • Rationale and Design of a Scope 3 Capital Charge 

      Trevisani, Davide; López, José Germán; Kenyon, Chris; Vázquez, Carlos; Berrahoui, Mourad (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2023)
      [Abstract] Climate change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and governments have introduced over seventy carbon pricing instruments (CPIs). Banks finance a significant fraction of global emissions, and many have ...
    • Reactive transport modelling of a low-pH concrete / clay interface 

      Idiart, Andrés; Laviña, Marcelo; Kosakowski, Georg; Cochepin, Benoit; Meeussen, Johannes C.L.; Samper, Javier; Mon, Alba; Montoya, Vanessa; Munier, Isabelle; Poonoosamy, Jenna; Montenegro, Luis; Deissmann, Guido; Rohmen, Stephan; Damiani, Leonardo Hax; Coene, Emilie; Naves, Acacia (Elsevier, 2020)
      [Abstract:] Cement-based materials are key components in the barrier system and structural support of repositories for disposal of nuclear waste. As such, increased understanding of their long-term performance under ...
    • Reactive transport modelling of the long-term interactions of corrosion products and compacted bentonite in a HLW repository in granite: Uncertainties and relevance for performance assessment 

      Samper, Javier; Naves, Acacia; Montenegro, Luis; Mon, Alba (Elsevier, 2016)
      [Abstract:] Here we present a long-term nonisothermal reactive transport model for the interactions of the corrosion products of a carbon-steel canister and the compacted bentonite of the engineered barrier of a high-level ...
    • Reactive transport models of the geochemical interactions at the iron/bentonite interface in laboratory corrosion tests 

      Montenegro, Luis; Samper, Javier; Mon, Alba; De Windt, Laurent; Torres, Elena; Cuevas, Jaime; Fernández, Raúl; Turrero, Maria J. (Elsevier, 2023)
      [Abstract:] Carbon steel and compacted bentonite have been proposed as candidate materials for the overpack and buffer, respectively, of the multi-barrier system of a geological high-level radioactive waste repository. ...
    • Reactivity of a Recombinant Esterase from Thermus thermophilus HB27 in Aqueous and Organic Media 

      González González, Roberto; Fuciños, Pablo; Beneventi, Elisa; López-López, Olalla; Pampín, Begoña; Rodríguez, Ramón; González-Siso, María-Isabel; Cruces, Jacobo; Rúa Rodríguez, María Luisa (MDPI, 2022-04-27)
      [Abstract] The thermoalkalophilic membrane-associated esterase E34Tt from Thermus thermophilus HB27 was cloned and expressed in Kluyveromyces lactis (KLEST-3S esterase). The recombinant enzyme was tested as a biocatalyst ...
    • Real quantum amplitude estimation 

      Manzano, Alberto; Musso, Daniele; Leitao, Álvaro (Springer, 2023)
      [Abstract]: We introduce the Real Quantum Amplitude Estimation (RQAE) algorithm, an extension of Quantum Amplitude Estimation (QAE) which is sensitive to the sign of the amplitude. RQAE is an iterative algorithm which ...
    • Real time optimization of the sterilization process in a canning industry 

      Vilas, Carlos; Alonso, Antonio (Área de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de Extremadura, 2018)
      [Abstract] Sterilization process is aimed to inactivate potentially harmful microorganisms. To that purpose the packaged food is subject to a time/temperature profile. In the canning industry such profiles are chosen based ...
    • Real-time optimisation for a heat-recovery section with equipment degradation 

      Marcos, María P.; Pitarch, José Luis; Prada, César de (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2019)
      [Abstract] This work aims to optimise the operation of an industrial heat-recovery section in a fibre-production factory. The section is formed by a network of heat exchangers able to be supplied with different hot sources. ...
    • Relationship of Weather Types on the Seasonal and Spatial Variability of Rainfall, Runoff, and Sediment Yield in the Western Mediterranean Basin 

      Peña-Angulo, Dhais; Taboada-Castro, M.T. (MDPI, 2020-06-09)
      [Abstract] Rainfall is the key factor to understand soil erosion processes, mechanisms, and rates. Most research was conducted to determine rainfall characteristics and their relationship with soil erosion (erosivity) ...
    • Report on Future Lifestyle Scenarios and Backcasting Vision Workshops 

      Blöbaum, Anke; Brizi, Ambra; Carrus, Giuseppe; Díaz-Ayude, Alberto; Dumitru, Adina; García-Mira, Ricardo; Krause, Karen; Lauer, Paul; Leising, Eline; Lema-Blanco, Isabel; Macsinga, Irina; Maricchiolo, Fridanna; Martínez-Cabrera, Helena; Omann, Ines; Pandur, Vlad; Panno, Angelo; Pesch, Udo; Petri, Moritz; Quist, Jaco; Schulte, Maxie; Spekkink, Wouter; Thronicker, Ines (GLAMURS: EU SSH.2013.2.1-1, 2016-06)
      [Abstract] A participatory backcasting methodology has been developed for the GLAMURS project, entitled participatory backcasting for sustainable lifestyles and a green economy. It consists of two stakeholder workshops; a ...
    • Resilience and Social Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts in Small-Scale Fisheries 

      Villasante, Sebastián; Macho, Gonzalo; Silva, Monalisa R.O.; Lopes, Priscila F.M.; Pita, Pablo; Simón, Andrés; Mariño Balsa, José Carlos; Olabarría, Celia; Vázquez, Elsa; Calvo, Nuria (2022)
      [Abstract] Small-cale fisheries are important for livelihoods, food security, jobs and income worldwide. However, they face major challenges, including the increasing effects of climate change that pose serious risks to ...
    • Resolving Sets Tolerant to Failures in Three-Dimensional Grids 

      Mora, Mercè; Souto Salorio, María José; Tarrío-Tobar, Ana D. (Springer Nature, 2022)
      [Abstract] An ordered set S of vertices of a graph G is a resolving set for G if every vertex is uniquely determined by its vector of distances to the vertices in S. The metric dimension of G is the minimum cardinality of ...
    • Retórica y poética de las relaciones de desastres en verso: las relaciones en romance (ss. XVI-XVII) 

      Molinaro, Antonietta (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2023-01-25)
      [Resumen] El artículo propone el estudio de un corpus de doce relaciones de desastres en romance desde la perspectiva retórico-poética. A través de un amplio recorrido entre los textos considerados, analizados en sus ...
    • Reversible Control of DNA Binding with Cucurbit[8]uril-Induced Supramolecular 4,4′-Bipyridinium–Peptide Dimers 

      Novo, Paula; García, Marcos D.; Peinador, Carlos; Pazos, Elena (American Chemical Society, 2021-03-08)
      [Abstract] Many cellular processes in living organisms are regulated by complex regulatory networks, built from noncovalent interactions between relatively few proteins that perform their functions by switching between ...
    • Roma migration in the EU: the case of Spain between ‘new’ and ‘old’ minorities 

      Magazzini, Tina; Piemontese, Stefano (Transnational Press London, 2016)
      [Abstract] The 2004 and 2007 EU Eastern enlargements facilitated the mobility of citizens from CEE countries, including European citizens of Roma ethnicity, which in turn contributed to the Europeanization of the ‘Roma ...
    • Scheduling óptimo de procesos Batch de duración interdependiente 

      Palacín, Carlos; Riquelme, Pablo; Prada, César de (Universidade da Coruña, Servizo de Publicacións, 2019)
      [Resumen] Cuando distintos equipos similares trabajan de manera concurrente compartiendo un recurso, los perfiles de trabajo de cada uno se pueden ver afectados por un consumo simultáneo. De esta manera, surge un problema ...
    • Self-Assembled Peptide–Inorganic Nanoparticle Superstructures: From Component Design to Applications 

      Pigliacelli, Claudia; Sánchez-Fernández, Rosalía; García, Marcos D.; Peinador, Carlos; Pazos, Elena (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020-06-04)
      [Abstract] Peptides have become excellent platforms for the design of peptide–nanoparticle hybrid superstructures, owing to their self-assembly and binding/recognition capabilities. Morover, peptide sequences can be encoded ...