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Removal of an emergent contaminant by a palygorskite from Pontezuela/Cuban region
Water pollution associated to pharmaceutical and personal care products has become a serious environmental issue. A reasonable strategy to mitigate the problem involves adsorbing materials. In particular, the ...
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Modeling single-phase fluid flow in porous media through non-local fractal continuum equation
Modeling fluid flow in highly heterogeneous porous media is an open research topic due to the degree of complexities and uncertainties attributable mainly to the spatial variations of media properties. Mathema...
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Dosimetric impact of rectum and bladder anatomy and intrafractional prostate motion on hypofractionated prostate radiation therapy
The objective of this study was to evaluate the dosimetric impact on hypofractionated prostate radiation therapy of two geometric uncertainty sources: rectum and bladder filling and intrafractional prostate mo...
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Reimaging the Book ... Again! A New Framework for Smart Books Using Digital Twins Technology
Technology enabled learning and communication are at the crossroads, which need flexible solutions. Flexible learning enables a learner to move seamlessly between the real and virtual world. We propose a novel...
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Impact of rectum and bladder anatomy in intrafractional prostate motion during hypofractionated radiation therapy
The objective was to determine the magnitude of the prostate intrafractional motion relative to bony pelvis anatomy, and to evaluate the relationship between this displacement and some clinical and anatomical ...
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Semi-numerical solution to a fractal telegraphic dual-porosity fluid flow model
We present a semi-numerical solution to a fractal telegraphic dual-porosity fluid flow model. It combines Laplace transform and finite difference schemes. The Laplace transform handles the time variable wherea...
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Incorporation of tramadol drug into Li-fluorohectorite clay: A preliminary study of a medical nanofluid
During the last years, clays have been increasingly explored as hosts for drugs. In the present paper, we have been able to host the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, Tramadol, into the clay Li-fluorohectorit...
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Applications of georeferenced high-resolution images obtained with unmanned aerial vehicles. Part I: Description of image acquisition and processing
There are many aspects of crop management that might benefit from aerial observation. Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) platforms are evolving rapidly both technically and with regard to regulations. The purpose o...
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Applications of georeferenced high-resolution images obtained with unmanned aerial vehicles. Part II: application to maize and onion crops of a semi-arid region in Spain
Leaf area index (LAI) is involved in biological, environmental and physiological processes, which are related to photosynthesis, transpiration, interception of radiation and energy balance. Thus, most crop mod...
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Design of microirrigation subunit of minimum cost with proper operation
Matlab software named PRESUD (Pressurized Subunit Design) was developed to identify the optimum microirrigation subunit design using the annual water application cost per unit of irrigated area (C ...
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Open AccessLeptonic dynamical Yukawa couplings
A dynamical origin of the Yukawa couplings is a promising scenario to explain the flavour puzzle. The focus of this letter is set on the role of the neutrino Majorana character: when an O(2)N flavour symmetry act...
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Vitamin D deficiency in Spain: a population-based cohort study
Vitamin D deficiency is common worldwide. No homogenous reference values have yet been established and no studies of values have been conducted in Spain involving a large number of participants.
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Soliton behaviour in a bistable reaction diffusion model
We analyze a generic reaction-diffusion model that contains the important features of Turing systems and that has been extensively used in the past to model biological interesting patterns. This model presents...
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40th EASD Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Type 1 diabetes islet associated antibodies in subjects infected by echovirus 16
To determine whether the emergent infection by echovirus 16 that occurred in Cuba during the year 2000 was related to the presence of Type 1 diabetes associated autoantibodies.
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Characterization of deposits build-up on austenitic stainless steel AISI 316L exposed in high purity water system
For the characterization of deposit layers on AISI 316L surfaces in high purity water systems, operating up to 80 °C Mössbauer spectroscopy (ME), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray fluorescence (XRF) an...
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DESEO: An Active Vision System for Detection Tracking and Recognition
In this paper, a basic conceptual architecture aimed at the design of Computer Vision System is qualitatively described. The proposed architecture addresses the design of vision systems in a modular fashion us...
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Eight Year of Follow up in Early Diagnosed Phenylketonuria
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Representational Levels for the Perception of the Courses of Motion
The problem of representation and processing of motion information is addressed from an integrated perspective covering the range from early visual processing to higher-level cognitive aspects.
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Adenovirus-mediated gene transfer into human hepatocytes: analysis of the biochemical functionality of transduced cells
The use of replication-defective adenoviruses to deliver transgenes into hepatocytes seems to be a promising approach to human liver gene therapy. However, the effects that the adenovirus-mediated expression o...
