Recent research about languages in the EU has reported that English is the most widely known language besides the mother tongue in the EU member states, and it is also the most widely spoken language at country level in sixteen…

In this communication, we report a new method to determine the wavefront
aberration function of personalized eyes. We obtain corneal surface data and
axial lengths for different eyes. With these data, we construct a diffractive model
of a human eye,…

This special issue of the Journal of Physical Agents is devoted to multi-robot systems. Some might perhaps argue that the term should have been ”multi-agent systems” or ”physical multi-agent systems”, in accordance with the title of the journal. In any…

The adsorption and reactivity of citrate anions, cyanide anions, and the Au(I) and Au(III) cyanocomplexes (KAu(CN)2 and KAu(CN)4, respectively) on gold polycrystalline electrodes have been investigated by means of cyclic voltammetry and in situ FTIR spectroscopy in pH 7 sodium…

En aquest article s’analitzen les relacions existents entre l’ús de la llengua catalana al País Valencià i la inseguretat lingüística. La mostra estudiada, representativa de l’univers estudiat, està formada per 2190 estudiants dels últims anys de l’ensenyament obligatori (entre 14…

This paper presents a new approach to the delineation of local labor markets based on evolutionary computation. The aim of the exercise is the division of a given territory into functional regions based on travel-to-work flows. Such regions are defined…

Contributions from the Spanish Research Network for Health and Gender

During circuit weight training (CWT), workloads, index of intensity as well as estimation of energy expenditure (EE) have been under estimated. The aim of this study was to describe and evaluate physiological variables and gender related differences, including intensity prediction…

Declining health status of youth assumes considerable proportions. The continuously growing number of children with bad body positions, overweight and obesity, diabetes and asthma has been subject to several national or international publications. The number of state surveys, assessments of…

The decreasing costs and increasing availability of electronic products of all kinds, including mobile phones, audio and video equipment, and personal computers and their accessories, coupled with advances in technology that rapidly make these products obsolete, foretell a growing disposal…