Modelling of engineered barrier systems (EBS) in deep geological disposals spent nuclear fuel requires sophisticated approaches that include highly nonlinear constitutive models. The Barcelona Basic Model for Expansive soils (BBMEx) is an extension expansive unsaturated the (BBM) slightly-to-moderately soils. In this extension, parameter ...

Hawking’s zeta function regularization procedure is shown to be rigorously and uniquely defined, thus putting and end to the spreading lore about different difficulties associated with it. Basic misconceptions, misunderstandings and errors which keep appearing in important scientific journals when dealing with this beautiful regularization method —and other analytical procedures— are clarified ...

This paper describes the Barcelona Media SMT system in the IWSLT 2009 evaluation campaign. The Barcelona Media system is an statistical phrase-based system enriched with source context information. Adding source context in an SMT system is interesting to enhance the translation in order to solve lexical and structural choice errors. The novel technique uses a similarity metric among each test s...

F. Ancilotto, D. G. Austing,* M. Barranco, R. Mayol, K. Muraki, M. Pi, S. Sasaki, and S. Tarucha Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy NTT Basic Research Laboratories, 3-1 Morinosato Wakamiya, Atsugi, Kanagawa, 243-0198, Japan Departament ECM, Facultat de Fı́sica, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain D...

5 Department of Oral Cell Biology, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, VU University Medical Center/ACTA, MOVE Research Institute Amsterdam, The Netherlands Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Interna...

This work aims to evaluate the settlement induced by river Tiber groundwater table oscillations. A representative section of subsoil beneath courthouse “Palazzaccio”, close in city centre Rome, is analysed via finite element method with a fully coupled hydro-mechanicalmodel. The effects wetting-drying cycles water oscillation are accounted for adopting Barcelona Basic Model unsaturated layers, ...

1 Earlier versions of this paper were presented at a seminar at the sociology department of the K.U.Leuven (20/5/2004), Midis intimes de la Chaire Hoover (Louvain-la-Neuve-25/5/2004), the ESF-workshop 'Towards a European Basic Income' (Barcelona-18/9/2004) and the 10 th BIEN congress (Barcelona – 20/9/2004). We are very grateful to all the participants. Special thanks to Jos Berghman for his su...

The computation, starting from basic principles, of chemical reaction rates in realistic systems (with three or more degrees of freedom) has been a longstanding goal of the chemistry community. Our current work, which merges tube dynamics with Monte Carlo methods provides some key theoretical and computational tools for achieving this goal. We use basic tools of dynamical systems theory, mergin...

Abstract This work focuses on the implications of introducing a variation Basic Income for individuals in grim socio-economic conditions Barcelona (Spain). We explore happiness and socio-psychological imprint living material deprivation metropolitan city. Surveying people who joined two-year Municipal Inclusion Support (MIS) scheme launched by Municipality Barcelona, we first identify major con...

An enhanced filter for floating Doppler wind lidar motion correction is presented. The relies on an unscented Kalman prototype floating-lidar without access to the internal line-of-sight measurements of lidar. In present work, we implement a new architecture based two cooperative estimation filters and study impact different initial scan phase models performance in coastal environment Barcelona...