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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploring the Role of Blockchain in Agrifood: An Application Case in the Aquafarming Industry
The agrifood supply chain has grown more complex as a result of recent pressure on feed producers to adopt healthier and more environmentally friendly production techniques. While some technological advancemen...
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Article
Open AccessParallelisation of decision-making techniques in aquaculture enterprises
Nowadays, the Artificial Intelligent (AI) techniques are applied in enterprise software to solve Big Data and Business Intelligence (BI) problems. But most AI techniques are computationally excessive, and they be...
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Article
Open AccessOn the Physical Nature of the so-Called Prominence Tornadoes
The term ‘tornado’ has been used in recent years to describe several solar phenomena, from large-scale eruptive prominences to small-scale photospheric vortices. It has also been applied to the generally stabl...
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Article
Advanced smart materials for preserving concrete heritage buildings
Despite concrete being the most prominent building material of the twentieth century, the cultural heritage relevance of concrete buildings and the importance of their preservation is not widely recognized. Th...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Production Scheduling in the Aquaculture Industry Based on Bio-economic Simulation and Genetic Algorithms
Production scheduling is a key process to optimize the operational activities in most production industries. Aquaculture is not an exception, especially considering that its decision-making processes are espec...
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Determination of feeding strategies in aquaculture farms using a multiple-criteria approach and genetic algorithms
Since the 1990s, fishing production has stagnated and aquaculture has experienced an exponential growth thanks to the production on an industrial scale. One of the major challenges facing aquaculture companies...
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Development and Planning of the Strategy against Food Waste in the Spanish Region of Cantabria
The need to establish actions to reduce food waste is part of the European Union’s comprehensive approach to efficient use of resources so that economic development must derive from a linear economy to a circu...
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Market reaction to supranational banking supervision in Europe: Do firm- and country-specific factors matter?
This paper investigates the financial market´s perception regarding the effectiveness of the Single Supervisory Mechanism in Europe. Do investors believe that centralized supervision adds value compared to mul...
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The Impact of Internal Corporate Governance Mechanisms on Corporate Social Performance in the Banking Industry
The purpose of this chapter is to explore the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) by analysing the effect of internal governance and monitoring mechanisms o...
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Preserving Cultural Heritage Stone: Innovative Consolidant, Superhydrophobic, Self-Cleaning, and Biocidal Products
Most products commonly employed in the restoration and conservation of cultural heritage stone have not been specifically developed to preserve such elements. In addition, they are plagued by limited performan...
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Active Crustal Deformation in the Area of San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico as Shown by Data of Local Earthquake Sequences
We analyzed earthquakes of sequences that occurred at different times near San Carlos, a town of approximately 5000 inhabitants. The seismic sequences happened during March–April 1989, October 2000–June 2001, ...
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The 2006 Bahía Asunción Earthquake Swarm: Seismic Evidence of Active Deformation Along the Western Margin of Baja California Sur, Mexico
The study of the Bahía Asunción earthquake swarm is important for two reasons. First, the earthquakes are clear evidence of present activity along the zone of deformation on the Pacific margin of Baja Californ...
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Article
The 2006 Bahía Asunción Earthquake Swarm: Seismic Evidence of Active Deformation Along the Western Margin of Baja California Sur, Mexico
The study of the Bahía Asunción earthquake swarm is important for two reasons. First, the earthquakes are clear evidence of present activity along the zone of deformation on the Pacific margin of Baja Californ...
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Article
Active Crustal Deformation in the Area of San Carlos, Baja California Sur, Mexico as Shown by Data of Local Earthquake Sequences
We analyzed earthquakes of sequences that occurred at different times near San Carlos, a town of approximately 5000 inhabitants. The seismic sequences happened during March–April 1989, October 2000–June 2001, ...
