131,351 research outputs found
Vista d' Almenar
No full textVista del poble d' Almenar, municipi del Segrià, situat a la dreta de la Noguera Ribagorçana, al límit amb la Llitera i la Noguera
Jornada 'El Santo Grial. Sentido y significado del Cáliz de la Última Cena'
No full textEl Instituto Superior de Ciencias Religiosas (ISCCRR) organizó el 7 de mayo de 2018 la jornada de Extensión Universitaria "El Santo Grial. Sentido y significado del Cáliz de la Última Cena". La conferencia fue impartida por D. Jorge Manuel Rodríguez Almenar, Presidente del Centro Español de Sindonología (CES)
SEEA-EA ecosystem accounts as an opportunity for standardization of ecosystem services assessment and its intertwining with life cycle assessment
No full textDuring the last decade there has been an increasing interest in the development of national ecosystem accounts, which has led to the recent adoption of the statistical framework for Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) of the United Nations. SEEA-EA is a system composed of five types of accounts which are developed integrated: ecosystem extent, ecosystem condition, ecosystem services flow (biophysical and monetary), and monetary ecosystem asset. Its clear systems of rules and the integration of anthropocentric, ecocentric, intrinsic and utilitarian perspectives offer a great opportunity for standardization of ecosystem assessments, and ecosystem services assessments from local to international levels. In the case of anthropogenic ecosystem types, e.g., urban ecosystems, ecosystem accounts also present an opportunity window for integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) to achieve ecosystem condition accounts that take into account global and local changes. In this presentation, we introduce initial works on SEEA-EA urban ecosystem accounts for EU to
reflect on the potential value of SEEA-EA ecosystem accounts for standardisation of ecosystem services assessments. We also introduce current gaps of urban ecosystem accounts, common for other anthropogenic ecosystems, which could be minimised or tackled via the integration of life cycle assessment, especially a territorial life cycle assessment approach. As a final output, this research draw lines to integrated ecosystem services assessment guidelines, territorial life cycle assessment, and previous works on the intertwining of ES and LCA, highlighting the potential value of ecosystem accounts for
standardisation of integrated ecosystem services assessments
MeSH term explosion and author rank improve expert recommendations
No full textInformation overload is an often-cited phenomenon that reduces the productivity, efficiency and efficacy of scientists. One challenge for scientists is to find appropriate collaborators in their research. The literature describes various solutions to the problem of expertise location, but most current approaches do not appear to be very suitable for expert recommendations in biomedical research. In this study, we present the development and initial evaluation of a vector space model-based algorithm to calculate researcher similarity using four inputs: 1) MeSH terms of publications; 2) MeSH terms and author rank; 3) exploded MeSH terms; and 4) exploded MeSH terms and author rank. We developed and evaluated the algorithm using a data set of 17,525 authors and their 22,542 papers. On average, our algorithms correctly predicted 2.5 of the top 5/10 coauthors of individual scientists. Exploded MeSH and author rank outperformed all other algorithms in accuracy, followed closely by MeSH and author rank. Our results show that the accuracy of MeSH term-based matching can be enhanced with other metadata such as author rank
Integration of ecosystem services into a conceptual spatial planning framework based on a landscape ecology perspective
No full textContext: The study of ecosystem services has extended its influence into spatial planning and landscape ecology, the integration of which can offer an opportunity to enhance the saliency, credibility, and legitimacy of landscape ecology in spatial planning issues. Objectives: This paper presents a conceptual framework suitable for spatial planning in human dominated environments supported by landscape ecological thinking. It seeks to facilitate the integration of ecosystem services into current practice, including landscape metrics as suitable indicators. Methods: A literature review supported the revision of existing open questions pertaining to ecosystem services as well as their integration into landscape ecology and spatial planning. A posterior reflection of the current state-of-the-art was then used as a basis for developing the spatial planning conceptual framework. Results and conclusion: The framework is articulated around four phases (characterisation, assessment, design, and monitoring) and three concepts (character, service, and value). It advocates integration of public participation, consideration of “landscape services”, the inclusion of ecosystem disservices, and the use of landscape metrics for qualitative assessment of services. As a result, the framework looks to enhance spatial planning practice by providing: (i) a better consideration of landscape configuration in the supply of services (ii) the integration of anthropogenic services with ecosystem services; (iii) the consideration of costs derived from ecosystems (e.g. disservices); and (iv) an aid to the understanding of ecosystem services terminology for spatial planning professionals and decision makers
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Donor/recipient sex mismatch and survival after heart transplantation: only an issue in male recipients? An analysis of the Spanish Heart Transplantation Registry
No full textMartinez-Selles, M., Almenar, L., Paniagua-Martin, M.J., Segovia, J., Delgado, J.F., Arizõn, J.M., Ayesta, A., Lage, E., Brossa, V., Manito, N., Pérez-Villa, F., Diaz-Molina, B., Rábago, G., Blasco-Peirõ, T., De La Fuente Galán, L., Pascual-Figal, D., Gonzalez-Vilchez, F
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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