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A climate change adaptive dynamic programming approach to optimize eucalypt stand management scheduling: a Portuguese application
(NRC Research Press (Canadian Science Publishing), 2016-05-24)The aim of this paper is to present approaches to optimize stand-level, short-rotation coppice management planning, taking into account uncertainty in stand growth due to climate change. The focus is on addressing growth ... -
A data-driven method for unsupervised electricity consumption characterisation at the district level and beyond
(Elsevier, 2021)A bottom-up electricity characterisation methodology of the building stock at the local level is presented. It is based on the statistical learning analysis of aggregated energy consumption data, weather data, cadastre, ... -
A decision support tool for assessing the impact of climate change on multiple ecosystem services
(MDPI, 2019-05-21)In the climate change era, forest managers are challenged to use innovative tools to encourage a sustained provision of goods and services. Many decision support tools (DSTs), developed to address global changes in forest ... -
A framework for modeling adaptive forest management and decision making under climate change
(Resilience Alliance, 2017)Adapting the management of forest resources to climate change involves addressing several crucial aspects to provide a valid basis for decision making. These include the knowledge and belief of decision makers, the mapping ... -
A framework for the optimal integration of solar assisted district heating in different urban sized communities: A robust machine learning approach incorporating global sensitivity analysis
(Elsevier, 2020)A promising pathway towards sustainable transaction to clean energy production lies in the adoption of solar assisted district heating systems (SDHS). However, SDHS technical barriers during their design and operation ... -
A general method to obtain the spectrum and local spectra of a graph from its regular partitions
(International Linear Algebra Society, 2020-07-12)It is well known that, in general, part of the spectrum of a graph can be obtained from the adjacency matrix of its quotient graph given by a regular partition. In this paper, a method that gives all the spectrum, and also ... -
A golden era—pro-vitamin A enhancement in diverse crops
(Springer Verlag, 2011)Numerous crops have been bred or engineered to increase carotenoid levels in an effort to develop novel strategies that address vitamin A deficiency in the developing world. The pioneering work in rice (not covered in ... -
A method for characterizing nilpotent centers
(Elsevier, 2014)To characterize when a nilpotent singular point of an analytic differential system is a center is of particular interest, first for the problem of distinguishing between a focus and a center, and after for studying the ... -
A new approach to gross error detection for GPS networks
(Elsevier, 2019)We present a new matrix-based approach to detect and correct gross errors in GPS geodetic control networks. The study is carried out by introducing a new matrix, whose entries are powers of a (real or complex) variable, ... -
A new family of standardized and symmetric indices for measuring the intensity and importance of plant neighbour effects
(Wiley, 2016)1. Measurements of competition and facilitation between plants often rely upon intensity and importance indices that quantify the net effect of neighbours on the performance of a target plant. A systematic analysis of the ... -
A new general family of mixed graphs
(Elsevier, 2018)A new general family of mixed graphs is presented, which generalizes both the pancake graphs and the cycle prefix digraphs. The obtained graphs are vertex transitive and, for some values of the parameters, they constitute ... -
A new methodological approach for the evaluation of scaling up a latent storage module for integration in heat pumps
(MDPI, 2021)A clear gap was identified in the literature regarding the in-depth evaluation of scaling up thermal energy storage components. To cover such a gap, a new methodological approach was developed and applied to a novel latent ... -
A note on a new general family of deterministic hierarchical networks
(World Scientific Publishing, 2019)It is known that many networks modeling real-life complex systems are small-word (large local clustering and small diameter) and scale-free (power law of the degree distribution), and very often they are also hierarchical. ... -
A novel carotenoid, 4-keto-a-carotene, as an unexpected by-product during genetic engineering of carotenogenesis in rice callus
(Elsevier, 2014)Rice endosperm is devoid of carotenoids because the initial biosynthetic steps are absent. The early carotenogenesis reactions were constituted through co-transformation of endosperm-derived rice callus with phytoene ... -
A question of balance: achieving appropriate nutrient levels in biofortified staple crops
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)The biofortification of staple crops with vitamins is an attractive strategy to increase the nutritional quality of human food, particularly in areas where the population subsists on a cereal-based diet. Unlike other ... -
A retrospective, dual-isotope approach reveals individual predispositions to winter-drought induced tree dieback in the southernmost distribution limit of Scots pine
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2013)Winter-drought induced forest diebacks in the low-latitude margins of species’ distribution ranges can provide new insights into the mechanisms (carbon starvation, hydraulic failure) underlying contrasting tree reactions.We ... -
A Review of the Potential Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Options for European Viticulture
(MDPI, 2020-04-29)Viticulture and winemaking are important socioeconomic sectors in many European regions. Climate plays a vital role in the terroir of a given wine region, as it strongly controls canopy microclimate, vine growth, vine ... -
A simple model to predict the thermal performance of a ventilated facade with phase change materials
(Elsevier, 2015)Appropriate design and control strategies are crucial for the implementation of certain complex active systems in the building sector. Suitable and user-friendly numerical tools have to be available to architects and ... -
A sufficient condition in order that the real Jacobian conjecture in R^2 holds
(Elsevier, 2016)Let F=(f,g):R2→R2 be a polynomial map such that detDF(x,y) is different from zero for all (x,y)∈R2 and F(0,0)=(0,0). We prove that for the injectivity of F it is sufficient to assume that the higher homogeneous terms of ... -
A survey on the missing Moore graph
(Elsevier, 2019-01-16)This is a survey on some known properties of the possible Moore graph (or graphs) ϒ with degree 57 and diameter 2. Moreover, we give some new results about it, such as the following. When we consider the distance partition ...