• openAccess   Do Monetary Incentives Influence Users’ Behavior in Participatory Sensing? 

      Ngo, Manh Khoi; Casteleyn, Sven; Moradi, Mehdi; Pebesma, Edzer MDPI (2018)
      Participatory sensing combines the powerful sensing capabilities of current mobile devices with the mobility and intelligence of human beings, and as such has to potential to collect various types of information at a high ...
    • openAccess   Downstream Services for Rice Crop Monitoring in Europe: From Regional to Local Scale 

      Busetto, Lorenzo; Casteleyn, Sven; Granell, Carlos; Pepe, Monica; Barbieri, Massimo; Campos-Taberner, Manuel; CASA, Raffaele; Collivignarelli, Francesco; Confalonieri, Roberto; Crema, Alberto; García Haro, Francisco Javier; Luca Gatti; Gatti, Luca; Gitas, Ioannis; González-Pérez, Alberto; Grau Muedra, Gonçal Andreu; Guarneri, Tommaso; Holecz, Francesco; Katsantonis, Dimitrios; Minakou, Chara; Miralles, Ignacio; Movedi, Ermes; Nutini, Francesco; Pagani, Valentina; Palombo, Angelo; DI Paola, Francesco; Pascucci, Simone; Pignatti, Stefano; RAMPINI, ANNA; Ranghetti, Luigi; Ricciardelli, Elisabetta; Romano, Filomena; Stavrakoudis, Dimitris; STROPPIANA, DANIELA; VIGGIANO, MARIASSUNTA; BOSCHETTI, MIRCO Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2017-04)
      The ERMES agromonitoring system for rice cultivations integrates EO data at different resolutions, crop models, and user-provided in situ data in a unified system, which drives two operational downstream services for rice ...
    • openAccess   Dual electro-optic comb spectroscopy using a single pseudo-randomly driven modulator 

      Durán, Vicente; Escobar-Vera, Camilo; Soriano-Amat, Miguel; Martins, Hugo; Martin-Lopez, Sonia; Gonzalez-Herraez, Miguel; Fernández Ruiz, María del Rosario Optica Publishing Group (2022-07-04)
      We present a dual-comb scheme based on a single intensity modulator driven by inexpensive board-level pseudo-random bit sequence generators. The result is a simplified architecture that exhibits a long mutual coherence ...
    • openAccess   Dual-mode optical microscope based on single-pixel imaging 

      Rodríguez Jiménez, Ángel David; Clemente Pesudo, Pedro Javier; Tajahuerce, Enrique; Lancis, Jesús Elsevier (2016-03)
      We demonstrate an inverted microscope that can image specimens in both reflection and transmission modes simultaneously with a single light source. The microscope utilizes a digital micromirror device (DMD) for patterned ...
    • openAccess   Dynamic Control of Interference Effects Between Optical Filaments through Programmable Optical Phase Modulation 

      Borrego Varillas, Rocío; Pérez Vizcaíno, Jorge; Mendoza-Yero, Omel; Vázquez de Aldana, Javier R.; Mínguez-Vega, Gladys; Lancis, Jesús IEEE (2016-06)
      Light beams shaped by programmable megapixel spatial light modulators (SLMs) are key to broadening the applications of photonics. In this paper, we consider the application of a SLM for the generation of two mutually ...
    • openAccess   Dynamic freeform diffractive lens 

      Mendoza-Yero, Omel Optica Publishing Group (2023-03-31)
      In the framework of the scalar theory of diffraction a surface-pixeled convergent lens for arbitrary amplitude and phase modulation along the depth of focus is introduced. This complex diffractive lens is computer-generated ...
    • openAccess   Dynamics of Fractional Vortex Beams at Fraunhofer Diffraction Zone 

      Peters, Eduardo; Funes, Gustavo; Martínez-León, Lluís; Tajahuerce, Enrique MDPI (2022-07-09)
      Fractional vortex beams (FVBs) possess unique topological properties that are manifested in the vortex distribution. However, there are still discrepancies in the value of the vortex strength of FVBs at the far field. In ...
    • openAccess   E-participation adoption models research in the last 17 years: A weight and meta-analytical review 

      Naranjo-Zolotov, Mijail Juanovich; Oliveira, Tiago; Casteleyn, Sven Elsevier (2018-04)
      This article explores the main factors that drive the adoption of e-participation. A weight and meta-analysis was carried out from previous quantitative research studies related to individual e-participation adoption ...
    • openAccess   Easily Solving Dynamic Programming Problems in Haskell by Memoization of Hylomorphisms 

      Llorens, David; Vilar Torres, Juan Miguel Wiley (2020)
      Dynamic Programming is a well known algorithmic technique that solves problems by a combination of dividing a problem into subproblems and using memoization to avoid an exponential growth of the costs. We show how to ...
    • openAccess   Edge modes for flexural waves in quasi-periodic linear arrays of scatterers 

      Martí-Sabaté, Marc; Torrent, Daniel American Institute of Physics (2021-08-13)
      We present a multiple scattering analysis of robust interface states for flexural waves in thin elastic plates. We show that finite clusters of linear arrays of scatterers built on a quasi-periodic arrangement support ...
    • openAccess   Educación para el Desarrollo en los Programas Universitarios para Mayores (PUM) en España 

      Martínez Martínez, Miguel Ángel; Caballer Miedes, Antonio Universidad Loyola Andalucía (2019)
      En las últimas décadas, los Programas Universitarios para Mayores (PUM) han experimentado un importante desarrollo y crecimiento en España como respuesta a los cambios socio–demográficos acaecidos en nuestro país, en ...
    • openAccess   Educational Videogame to Learn the Periodic Table: Design Rationale and Lessons Learned 

      Traver, V. Javier; Leiva, Luis A.; Martí-Centelles, Vicente; RUBIO-MAGNIETO, JENIFER American Chemical Society (2021-06-08)
      The periodic table allows students to easily understand the chemical elements and predict the behavior of theoretical yet undiscovered new elements. Many memorization techniques have been used for learning the periodic ...
    • closedAccess   Effect of a cyberbullying prevention program integrated in the primary education curriculum 

      Flores Buils, Raquel; Caballer Miedes, Antonio; Romero Oliver, Mercedes Elsevier (2020)
      Most cases of cyberbullying occur in secondary education, which is the stage where many cyberbullying programs are focused. This situation has given rise to the design, implementation and evaluation of a cyberbullying ...
    • openAccess   Effect of Denoising in Band Selection for Regression Tasks in Hyperspectral Datasets 

      Latorre Carmona, Pedro; Martínez Sotoca, José; Pla, Filiberto; Bioucas-Dias, José; Julià Ferré, Carme Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2013)
      This paper presents a comparative analysis of six band selection methods applied to hyperspectral datasets for biophysical variable estimation problems, where the effect of denoising on band selection performance has ...
    • openAccess   Effects of femtosecond laser and other surface treatments on the bond strength of metallic and ceramic orthodontic brackets to zirconia 

      García-Sanz, Verónica; Paredes-Gallardo, Vanessa; Bellot-Arcís, Carlos; Mendoza-Yero, Omel; Doñate-Buendía, Carlos; Montero, Javier; Albadalejo, Alberto Public Library of Science (2017)
      Femtosecond laser has been proposed as a method for conditioning zirconia surfaces to boost bond strength. However, metallic or ceramic bracket bonding to femtosecond lasertreated zirconia surfaces has not been tested. ...
    • openAccess   Effects of green space spatial pattern on land surface temperature: Implications for sustainable urban planning and climate change adaptation 

      Maimaitiyiming, Matthew; Ghulam, Abduwasit; Tiyip, Tashpolat; Pla, Filiberto; Latorre Carmona, Pedro; Halik, Ümüt; Sawu, Mamat; Caetano, Mário Elsevier (2014-03)
      The urban heat island (UHI) refers to the phenomenon of higher atmospheric and surface temperatures occurring in urban areas than in the surrounding rural areas. Mitigation of the UHI effects via the configuration of ...
    • openAccess   Effects of mitigation of pixel crosstalk in the encoding of complex fields using the double-phase method 

      Carbonell Leal, Miguel; Mendoza-Yero, Omel Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (2020)
      We report on unwanted effects of pixel cross-talk and its mitigation on the experimental realization of the double-phase method with phase-only spatial light modulators. We experimentally demonstrate that a generalized ...
    • closedAccess   Efficient Management of Multicast Traffic in Directional mmWave Networks 

      Chukhno, Nadezhda; Chukhno, Olga; Pizzi, Sara; Molinaro, Antonella; IERA, Antonio; ARANITI, Giuseppe Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2021-03-11)
      Multicasting is becoming more and more important in the Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable applications (e.g., high definition video streaming, virtual reality gaming, public safety, among others) that require high ...
    • closedAccess   Efficient visualization of 3D models on hardware-limited portable devices 

      Ramos, Jose Francisco; Ripollés Mateu, Oscar Enrique; Chover, Miguel Springer (2014)
      Managing the geometry of a 3D scene efficiently is a key aspect of an interactive 3D application. This aspect is more important if we target at portable devices, which have limited hardware capabilities. Developing new ...
    • openAccess   Egocentric video summarisation via purpose-orientedframe scoring and selection 

      Traver, V. Javier; Damen, Dima Elsevier (2021-11-02)
      Existing video summarisation techniques are quite generic in nature, since they generally overlook the important aspect of what actual purpose the summary will be serving. In sharp contrast with this mainstream work, it ...