The Group of Sensors and Biosensors at the UAB has developed an electronic tongue to analyze and identify different types of beer, as well as to estimate their alcohol content. This device is a combination of chemical sensors that simulate the sense of taste with...
A study to assess social learning in piglets for accepting new foods shows that these animals can change their feeding behaviour by this mechanism, but also highlights the importance of familiarity among piglets. The transfer of...
A doctoral thesis analyzes climate change impacts and politics from the perspective of happiness. For the purpose, it takes the case of floods of varying intensity as examples of extreme climate events and compares the decrease in income resulting from the current crisis with...
The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) has been colonizing Catalonia since 2004. Native to Southeast Asia, it has spread throughout Europe and around the world. It is essential to curb its expansion, to relieve the discomfort of bites,
The construction of networks required to supply drinking water to the population generates environmental impacts that must be assessed in order to be minimized. The article develops a methodology that allows calculation of...
A novel argument assesses that the success of a collaborative partnership in R&D agreements depends on its length and on identifying suitable efficient combinations of the initial technological endowments of partners. As the time horizon of the agreement expands, the probability of identifying a...
