1 Hauk acknowledges financial support from DGES, Grant BEC 2000-1029. Hurkens gratefully acknowledges partial financial support from CIRIT, Generalitat de Catalunya, Grant 1997SGR 00138 and from DGES, Grant BEC 2000-1029. We thank Jean-Francois Mertens, Klaus Ritzberger, Hari Govindan, Robert Wilson, two anonymous referees, and the seminar audiences at UPF and ESEM 1999 for helpful discussions....

OBJECTIVES Policymakers face many decisions when considering public financing for health, including the kind of health interventions to include in a publically financed package. The consequences of these choices will influence health outcomes as well as the financial risk protection provided to different segments of the population. The purpose of this study is to illustrate the size and distrib...

There is growing evidence that consumption of ultra-processed food (UPF) has become a leading cause global premature deaths and preventable diet-related diseases. To reduce UPF requires an understanding the multiple forces behind it, including understudied question what makes appealing. This critical scan literature across disciplines aims to fill this gap. We conclude appeal multi-dimensional ...

This study aims to compare the classification of foods available in Portuguese market using Nutri-Score and NOVA classifications analyse their ability discriminate fat, saturated sugar, salt content foods. A sample 2682 food products was collected. The nutritional quality established Nutri-Score, classifying them into five categories (from E). used classify according degree processing unprocess...

†ISCTE/DCTI/ADETTI, Ed. ISCTE, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Dep. Ciências e Tecnologias de Informação, Av. Das Forças Armadas, 1600-082 Lisboa, Portugal ††UPF – Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Departament de Tecnologia, Pg. Circumvallació 8, E-08003 Barcelona, Spain †††UPC – Universitat Polytècnica de Catalunya, Dept. AC, DMAG, Campus Nord Mòdul D6, E-08034 Barcelona, Spai...

EMBL/CRG Systems Biology Research Unit, Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Dr. Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution & Cognition Research (KLI), Klosterneuburg, Austria Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berli...

The prediction of Remaining useful life (RUL) and the estimation State health (SOH) are extremely important issues for operating performance Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries in Battery management system (BMS). A multi-scale approach RUL SOH is presented, which combines Wavelet neural network (WNN) with Unscented particle filter (UPF) model. capacity degradation data Li-ion decomposed into low-fre...

The purpose of this work was to evaluate the effectiveness Gamification as an innovation tool in process developing new businesses. Qualitative and quantitative study approaches were used research. For qualitative research, non-participant observation technique applied, performed throughout event. data collection employed application a questionnaire, which sent potential participants through el...