Huella de carbono en una industria de bebidas

[ES] El interés de la sociedad por el medio ambiente es cada vez mayor. Los consumidores se preocupan cada vez más por que las empresas que suministran los alimentos que consumen tengan el menor impacto ambiental posible. Por ello, para una empresa alimentaria es muy importante calcular su Huella de Carbono. Esto le permite identificar aquellos puntos del proceso de producción que tengan una mayor contribución a la misma, de modo que pueda mejorar sus procesos con el objetivo de reducir las emisiones de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GEI). En este TFG se va a calcular la Huella de Carbono de una industria de bebidas. Para ello en primer lugar se va a realizar un dimensionado de los procesos empleados en la producción de diferentes productos, concretamente, un zumo de frutas, un refresco con gas y una bebida vegetal. Esto permitirá identificar las distintas etapas de los procesos, así como la maquinaria empleada y el consumo energético requerido para cada una de las diferentes líneas de producción. La Huella de Carbono se calculará siguiendo la Guía para el cálculo de la Huella de Carbono y para la elaboración de un plan de mejora de una organización, publicada por el Ministerio para la Transición Ecológica. Tras realizar el cálculo se podrán establecer posibles acciones de mejora sobre las líneas de producción, que permitan a nuestra empresa reducir el impacto ambiental, y contribuir en menor medida al cambio climático.[EN] As we move forward in time, the population’s concern about climate change grows. Similarly, consumers worry that the companies that supply the food they consume have the least possible impact. Therefore, it is necessary to calculate the Carbon Footprint of the company, which allows us to identify those points of the roduction process that have the greatest impact on the environment, so that we can optimize the process, with the objective of reducing Greenhouse Effect Gas Emissions. To calculate the Carbon Footprint, a sizing of the production lines of a cola soft drink, a squeezed orange juice and a UHT horchata is carried out. This allows us to identify the different stages that will make up the final product, as well as the machinery used and the energy consumption required for each of the different production lines. After performing this calculation, the carbón footprint for each of the process is obtained, with the UHT horchata production line being the one that generates the most emissions, as well as the cola soft drink production line being the one that generates the least emissions. This is mainly due to the thermal stages of the production process of the UHT horchata and the squeezed orange juice, because these stages tend to have a higher consumption than those stages that use electrical energy. After obtaining the results for the carbón footprint of each line, possible improvements are studied to reduce the emissions of the different processes, such as the use of other more efficient machinery models, as well as working with marketers that work with renewable energies.Sendra Domenech, C. (2021). Huella de carbono en una industria de bebidas. Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/173649TFG

L'abast ambiental del Pla Territorial Metropolità de Barcelona

L'article tracta els aspectes ambientals del PTMB, els quals van tenir una especial importància i varen constituir un interessant assaig metodològic en el procés d'elaboració del Pla. Els autors són membres de la Diputació de Barcelona i de l'Agència Barcelona Regional entitas que van col·laborar en l'elaboració del Pla pel que fa a la temàtica ambiental

Proyectos de intervención en Gambia de alimentación

II Congreso de Alimentación, Nutrición y Dietética. Avances en Nutrición y Dietética Clínica: Prevención, Tratamiento y Gestión - Rol del Dietista-Nutricionist

Looking for old grapevine varieties

This work was supported by the MINECO project CGL2015-70843-R co-funded with FEDER Funds. The authors would like to thanks several cellars ("Rafael Cambra", "Vins del Comtat" and "El Pinaret") and particulars (D. Garcia, T. Doménech, J. Soler and J. Carlos Pavía) for helping us in the localization of old vineyards. We thank the IMIDRA and The Domain de Vassal Collection that provided two accessions each used as controls in our work.Jiménez, C.; Peiró Barber, RM.; Yuste Del Carmen, A.; García, J.; Martínez-Gil, F.; Gisbert Domenech, MC. (2019). Looking for old grapevine varieties. VITIS. 58(2):59-60. https://doi.org/10.5073/vitis.2019.58.59-60S596058

Sexing juvenile Great tits Parus major on plumage colour

The Great Tit Parus major has been the target of many kinds of studies. Unfortunately, as in many other passerine species, juveniles (3.4 show a duller plumage, less intensely coloured than that of adults, which do not allows sexing of the birds; this prevents muny kinds of studies in which fhe sex of the birds is of importance. Given that in cardueline finches body plumage coloration, in conjunction with wing length, has been proved to be useful for sexing juvenile birds (EURING age 34, in this paper we test the usefulness of these characters for sexing juvenile Great Jits. The data are based on 127 juvenile Greaf Jits (28 of them with colour data) capfured in a suburban urea of Barcelona (NE Spain) frorn 1997 to 1999. When using wing length, the percentage of individuals correctly classified by discriminant analysis was 74%. Using colour data alone allowed correct classification in 89% of cases. Stepwise discriminant analysis including plumage colour data and wing length classified 93% of cases correctly. The results show the presence of plumage dichrornatisrn in juvenile Great Tits. This supports our earlier suggestion that plurnage colour may be used to sex juveniles in several species, as in cardueline finches and probably ofher tits (e.g. Blue Jit Parus caeruleus). This paper also shows the usefulness of a digital chrornameter for field rneasurement of colour, since it allows the user to obtain quantitative data that can improve the percentage of correctly sexed juveniles

Weekly administration of docetaxel in combination with estramustine and celecoxib in patients with advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer: final results from a phase II study

The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety profile of weekly docetaxel, estramustine and celecoxib in patients with advanced hormone-refractory prostate cancer. Forty-eight patients received 35 mg m−2 of weekly docetaxel for 3 out of every 4 weeks, 280 mg of estramustine twice daily on days 1–3, 8–10, 15–17 and 400 mg of celecoxib twice daily until progression or toxicity. Cycles were repeated every 28 days for at least six cycles. Patients were evaluated for response and toxicity. Patients received a median of four cycles (range: 1–9). On an intention-to-treat analysis, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) was decreased greater than 50% in 28 out of 48 patients (overall response rate: 58%, 95% confidence interval (CI): 44–72) and median duration of PSA response was 8.0 months (95% CI: 6.9–9.0). After a median follow-up of 11.3 months, the median time to progression was 7.1 months and the median overall survival was 19.2 months. The most frequent severe toxicity was asthenia (15% of patients), diarrhoea and stomatitis (8% of patients, each). Grade 3/4 neutropenia was reported in two patients. There was a toxic death during the study due to a gastric perforation. Celecoxib with weekly docetaxel and estramustine is an effective and safe treatment for patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer, but it does not seem to add any benefit to docetaxel

Impact of interstitial lung disease on the survival of systemic sclerosis with pulmonary arterial hypertension

To assess severity markers and outcomes of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) with or without pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH-SSc/non-PAH-SSc), and the impact of interstitial lung disease (ILD) on PAH-SSc. Non-PAH-SSc patients from the Spanish SSc registry and PAH-SSc patients from the Spanish PAH registry were included. A total of 364 PAH-SSc and 1589 non-PAH-SSc patients were included. PAH-SSc patients had worse NYHA-functional class (NYHA-FC), worse forced vital capacity (FVC) (81.2 ± 20.6% vs 93.6 ± 20.6%, P < 0.001), worse tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) (17.4 ± 5.2 mm vs 19.9 ± 6.7 mm, P < 0.001), higher incidence of pericardial effusion (30% vs 5.2%, P < 0.001) and similar prevalence of ILD (41.8% vs. 44.9%). In individuals with PAH-SSc, ILD was associated with worse hemodynamics and pulmonary function tests (PFT). Up-front combination therapy was used in 59.8% and 61.7% of patients with and without ILD, respectively. Five-year transplant-free survival rate was 41.1% in PAH-SSc patients and 93.9% in non-PAH-SSc patients (P < 0.001). Global survival of PAH-SSc patients was not affected by ILD regardless its severity. The multivariate survival analysis in PAH-SSc patients confirmed age at diagnosis, worse NYHA-FC, increased PVR, reduced DLCO, and lower management with up-front combination therapy as major risk factors. In conclusion, in PAH-SSc cohort risk of death was greatly increased by clinical, PFT, and hemodynamic factors, whereas it was decreased by up-front combination therapy. Concomitant ILD worsened hemodynamics and PFT in PAH-SSc but not survival regardless of FVC impairment

Impact of interstitial lung disease on the survival of systemic sclerosis with pulmonary arterial hypertension

To assess severity markers and outcomes of patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) with or without pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH-SSc/non-PAH-SSc), and the impact of interstitial lung disease (ILD) on PAH-SSc. Non-PAH-SSc patients from the Spanish SSc registry and PAH-SSc patients from the Spanish PAH registry were included. A total of 364 PAH-SSc and 1589 non-PAH-SSc patients were included. PAH-SSc patients had worse NYHA-functional class (NYHA-FC), worse forced vital capacity (FVC) (81.2 +/- 20.6% vs 93.6 +/- 20.6%, P < 0.001), worse tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) (17.4 +/- 5.2 mm vs 19.9 +/- 6.7 mm, P < 0.001), higher incidence of pericardial effusion (30% vs 5.2%, P < 0.001) and similar prevalence of ILD (41.8% vs. 44.9%). In individuals with PAH-SSc, ILD was associated with worse hemodynamics and pulmonary function tests (PFT). Up-front combination therapy was used in 59.8% and 61.7% of patients with and without ILD, respectively. Five-year transplant-free survival rate was 41.1% in PAH-SSc patients and 93.9% in non-PAH-SSc patients (P < 0.001). Global survival of PAH-SSc patients was not affected by ILD regardless its severity. The multivariate survival analysis in PAH-SSc patients confirmed age at diagnosis, worse NYHA-FC, increased PVR, reduced DLCO, and lower management with up-front combination therapy as major risk factors. In conclusion, in PAH-SSc cohort risk of death was greatly increased by clinical, PFT, and hemodynamic factors, whereas it was decreased by up-front combination therapy. Concomitant ILD worsened hemodynamics and PFT in PAH-SSc but not survival regardless of FVC impairment

How Iberian are we? Mediterranean climate determines structure and endemicity of spider communities in Iberian oak forests

Understanding the causes behind species richness and endemicity is fundamental to explain biodiversity and assist conservation management, especially in biodiversity hotspots like the Mediterranean Basin. Here we investigate the patterns in Iberian forest spider communities and the processes behind their assembly, by testing hypotheses about the effects of climate and habitat on species richness, endemicity and structure of communities at different spatial scales, and about how microhabitat and dispersal affect the level of endemicity of species. We studied 16 spider communities in IberianQuercusforests from different climatic zones, applying a standardised sampling protocol. We examined the contribution of habitat, climate, and geography to the differences in the composition of spider communities across spatial scales using distance-based redundancy analysis models (dbRDA) and principal coordinates of neighbour matrices (PCNM). We assessed the effects of the same variables on the endemicity of communities (measured by a weighted index), and tested the correlation between the microhabitat and the ballooning frequency (obtained from bibliography), and the endemicity of species through generalised linear models. Spider communities formed two groups-one southern and one northern-based on similarity in species composition. Precipitation and temperature were inversely related with the number of species while geography and forest type explained the compositional similarities between communities at different spatial scales. Endemicity of communities increased with temperature and decreased with precipitation, whereas species endemicity decreased with ballooning frequency. Our findings illustrate how niche-related processes may drive spider diversity while dispersal determines species distribution and identity and, ultimately, community composition. From a conservation viewpoint, when maximising species richness is incompatible with prioritising endemicity, the criteria to follow may depend on the geographic scale at which decisions are made.Peer reviewe

Proceeding of the III International Conference on Cluster Research [Online]

[ES] En este libro se recogen las comunicaciones presentadas al Congreso Internacional Rethinking Clusters, que tuvo lugar en Valencia en noviembre de 2020. Los argumentos de los trabajos presentados se refieren a la innovación, industria 4.0 y sostenibilidad pero sobre todo están relacionados con clústeres y la investigación sobre clústeres. Los temas van desde los ciclos de vida de los clústeres, pasando por la creatividad, la competitividad, las redes conocimiento, las cuestiones de política de clústeres, la internacionalización y por último la variedad y relación entre clústeres.[EN] This book contains the papers presented at the international conference 'Rethinking Clusters', which took place in Valencia in November 2020. The topics of the papers presented include innovation, industry 4.0 and sustainability but above all, they are related to clusters and cluster's research. Topics range from the life cycles of clusters, through creativity, competitiveness, knowledge networks, cluster policy issues, internationalization and finally the variety and relationship between clusters.Hervás Oliver, JL.; Rafael Boix-Domenech; Estelles Miguel, S.; Boronat Moll, C. (2021). Rethinking Clusters 2020. Place-Based Initiatives for Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies. Universitat Politècnica de València. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/181243