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Localising urban sustainability indicators: The CEDEUS indicator set, and lessons from an expert-driven process
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-06)
The development and application of urban sustainability indicators has gained momentum in recent years, especially since the generation of specific urban indicators for the Agenda 2030. Urban sustainability is a broad ...
Melatonin triggers metabolic and gene expression changes leading to improved quality traits of two sweet cherry cultivars during cold storage
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-07)
Sweet cherry is a valuable non-climacteric fruit with elevated phytonutrients, whose fruit quality attributes are prone to rapid deterioration after harvest, especially peel damage and water loss of stem. Here the metabolic ...
Magnon valley Hall effect in CrI3-based van der Waals heterostructures
(American Physical Society, 2020-05)
Magnonic excitations in the two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnet chromium triiodide (CrI3) are studied. We find that bulk magnons exhibit a nontrivial topological band structure without the need for ...
Mapping Land Cover and Tree Canopy Cover in Zagros Forests of Iran: Application of Sentinel-2, Google Earth, and Field Data
(MDPI Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020-06)
The Zagros forests in Western Iran are valuable ecosystems that have been seriously damaged by human interference (harvesting the wood and forest sub-products, converting the forests to the agricultural lands, and grazing) ...
MeV irradiation of tungsten nanowires: structural modifications
(IOP Publishing Ltd., 2020-05)
In this work we use the Two Temperature Model coupled to Molecular Dynamics (TTM-MD) to study swift heavy ion irradiation of W finite nanowires. Au projectiles are considered with energies ranging from 20 to 50 MeV, which ...
Looking for the Past: History and Change in Traditional Music Studies in Chile (1990-2020)
(International Council for Traditional Music, 2020-11)
This article presents a historical overview of traditional music studies in Chile, pointing out some of the main achievements and problems. It describes the origins of traditional music studies through the establishment ...
On the Right Track to Treat Movement Disorders: Promising Therapeutic Approaches for Parkinson's and Huntington's Disease
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-09)
Movement disorders are neurological conditions in which patients manifest a diverse range of movement impairments. Distinct structures within the basal ganglia of the brain, an area involved in movement regulation, are ...
Nanoindentation of polycrystalline Pd hollow nanoparticles: Grain size role
(Elsevier, 2020-06)
Polycrystalline hollow nanoparticles present a unique combination of strength and flexibility. However, the exact role displayed by their grain structure in mechanical properties has not been yet fully understood. Here, ...
Personas mayores en Chile: el nuevo desafío social, económico y sanitario del siglo XXI
(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2020-06)
Ageing will be one of the most significant social transformations of the 21st century worldwide. In the last 40 years, Chile has tripled its older adult population. As a result, by 2050 the country will have the highest ...
Multi-Objective Optimization for Personalized Prediction of Venous Thromboembolism in Ovarian Cancer Patients
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020-05)
Thrombotic events are one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity related to cancer, with ovarian cancer having one of the highest incidence rates. The need to prevent these events through the prescription of ...