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Objective: The objective is to determine reported cases of co-creation methodology about the use of smart technologies in public spaces in order to create new forms of social interactions and practices, which in turn creates new socio-spatial relations and promotes interactions and communication between isolated and disperse communities. Methods: The literature published in the last 5 years (2016-2020) has been reviewed. Searches on Co-creation methodology and ICTs in Health and Biomedicine, on topics such as interaction among users, ICT and social behaviour, spatial analyses, planning methodologies and public involvement, on-line gaming, self‐learning, and the prevention of risky habbits are made manually. Results: Search strategies developed through electronic databases and manual search identified a total of 180 references, included in the supplementary material. They have been divided by the technologies used in the studies, co-creation methodology, and according to the type of socio-medical application. This research highlights the penetration of ICT in social and healthcare environments and clearly demonstrates the high number of publications that have come out over recent years and a lack of publications that evaluate co-creation methodology in this field. Conclusions: Most of the papers included only partially cover the subject matter of ICT in Health and Biomedicine and how to use smart technologies to transform public spaces in small communities into people-friendly human environments. The research carried out for this paper clearly demonstrates the high number of publications concerning technology assessment. However, there is a distinct lack of publications that evaluate co-creation methodology.

It includes the nutrients composition of food items reported in the dataset of the Equatorial Guinea National Malaria and Nutrition Survey 2004. Component values, including for beverages and other liquids, are presented per 100 g edible portion.

This dataset includes the raw data used to carry out a long-term study on press releases from Eurekalert! The file includes python scripts used to capture web-based data, supplementary material, and raw data from Twitter and the web-at-large.

Recopilación de datos sobre proyectos medioambientales financiados por el Fondo Europeo Marítimo y de Pesca (FEMP) y recogidos de la Red Española de Grupos de Pesca (REGP)., This work was supported by the National Plan for Scientific and Technological Research and Innovation (Spanish Economy and Competitiveness Ministry), the Research Project PID2019-105497 GB-I00, the European Fisheries Funds, opportunities for the fisheries sector through diversification, and the FLAGs management (DivPesc).

The aim of iCAREPLAST project is to provide a cost and energy-efficient alternative to recycle and valorise non-recycled plastic waste (ca. 70% of European plastic waste) that, due to their characteristics or their contamination, are currently disposed into landfills (27%) or underexploited through energy recovery (42%). iCAREPLAST project, summarized in Fig.1, combines pyrolysis, catalytic treatment and membrane separation technologies to obtain high added-value chemicals, as they are (alkyl-)aromatics (BTXs and medium to long-chain alkyl-aromatics), that can be used to produce virgin-quality polymers or as raw materials for other processes in petrochemicals, fine chemicals and surfactants industries. As in other production processes, process control represents a key issue in the efficient operation of the proposed plant. WP5: “Plant modelling, control and optimization” will try to apply some state-of-art control and optimization techniques with the purpose of manage the iCAREPLAST process as a whole, taking into account several key information related to yields, energy use, sustainability indicators, etc. to drive the process towards its optimum operating point. In iCAREPLAST project, several approaches of process model simulations are considered. The first one is known as steady-state simulation, where iCAREPLAST partners can model different scenarios by handling with design parameters. This type of simulation is typically done during the conceptual phase of a project in an effort to gain a better understanding of how a design can be altered to get the most out of the process from both a business standpoint and an engineering perspective. The datasets presented belongs to this kind of simulations where a steady-state model has been developed in Aspen Plus and several sensitivity analysis has been performed. The datasets comprises raw data from steady-state model simulations performed using Aspen Plus Software. Each dataset corresponds with each unit or subprocess belonging to the entire iCARPLAST process.

Data corresponding to properties of liquid iron at several pressures up to 323 GPa, including electronic, structural, dynamic and transport properties., Propiedades nanometricas de la materia

Cache pilferage by competing conspecifics is a very common hoarding behavior used by animals. Members of rodent communities use a wide variety of strategies to minimize this pilferage. In this work, we investigated one of these strategies. We observed that certain rodent species partially consume acorns, leaving the embryo intact. We investigated whether this strategy was used by Mus spretus Lataste 1883 (Algerian mouse) to avoid cache pilferage by competing conspecifics. Partially consumed acorn remains left in underground stores could be viewed as remains by competing conspecifics, and would therefore be rejected, preventing its consumption and pilferage. To test our hypothesis, we designed three experiments on the preference for intact acorns, acorns that had been partially consumed by the rodent itself or the remains from other competing conspecific rodents. The study verified whether the remains of partially consumed acorns were rejected. We verified that these remains are more highly valued than intact acorns or even the remains of the rodent’s own previous consumption, thus rejecting our hypothesis. Remains are not used as a strategy to prevent theft. However, preference for the remains of other rodents’ acorns could form part of an anti-theft strategy. If the acorn remains are used as a decoy to attract the attention of thieves to prevent the consumption of intact acorns, the intact acorns would be better preserved in the stores for longer periods of time. The remains were consumed before the intact acorns. We verified that rodents prefer the remains of other rodents’ acorns to their own, and even prefer them to intact acorns. This behavior may be part of a strategy to reduce other rodents’ reserves to avoid future competition by conspecifics.

The treatment of pig manure is a major environmental issue, and photobioreactors containing consortia of microalgae and bacteria have proven to be a promising and sustainable treatment alternative. This work studies the effect of Cu, Zn and As, three toxic elements frequently present in piggery wastewater, on the performance and microbiome of photobioreactors. After dopage with Zn (100 mg/L), Cu (100 mg/L), and As (500 µg/L), the high biomass uptake of Zn (69–81%) and Cu (81–83%) decreased the carbon removal in the photobioreactors, inhibited the growth of Chlorella sp., and affected heterotrophic bacterial populations. The biomass As uptake result was low (19%) and actually promoted microalgae growth. The presence of Cu and As decreased nitrogen removal, reducing the abundance of denitrifying bacterial populations. The results showed that metal(loid)s significantly affected 24 bacterial genera and that they did not recover after exposure. Therefore, this study makes an important contribution on the impact of the presence of metal(loid)s in piggery wastewater that compromises the overall performance of PBRs, and so, the environmental and health impact of treated effluents., Instituto de Procesos Sostenibles, Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Consejeria de Educacion Junta de Castilla y Leon, EU Feder Programme, National Research and Development Agency (ANID) of Chile

The removal of a mixture of four veterinary antibiotics (VA) – tetracycline (TET), ciprofloxacin (CIP), sulfadiazine (SDZ) and sulfamethoxazole (SMX) – via photo-degradation (UVC) and photocatalysis with TiO2 (UVC/TiO2) was investigated in a batch reactor under different initial concentrations (20, 100, 500 and 1000 μg/L per antibiotic). Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled to a mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) was used to determine the removal of these veterinary antibiotics. The removal of all antibiotics via photolysis was around 98–99% after 100 h for TET, 122 h for CIP, 212 h for SDZ and 240 h for SMX. Nevertheless, the removal of all antibiotics via photocatalysis was around 99–100% after 4.2 h for TET, 3.5 h for CIP, 7.1 h for SDZ and 16.5 h for SMX. The photolysis for the four veterinary antibiotics followed a first-order irreversible kinetic model. The photocatalysis of TET, CIP and SDZ followed a Langmuir-Hinshelwood kinetic model, and adsorption was considered the limiting step. SMX followed a first-order irreversible kinetic model. The photolytic degradation rate constant (k1) was 0.00073 min−1 for TET, 0.00055 min−1 for CIP, 0.00031 min−1 for SDZ and 0.00027 min−1 for SMX. While for photocatalysis k1 was 0.0044 min−1 for SMX; kL-H was 0.0284 min−1 for TET, 0.0379 min−1 for CIP and 0.0141 min−1 for SDZ. The VA degradation was enhanced by the use of a catalyst. Additionally, electrical energy per order (EEO) was assessed to estimate the electrical energy efficiency of each process. EEO values for photolysis were 339.06 kWh/m3/order for TET, 449.84 kWh/m3/order for CIP, 795.31 kWh/m3/order for SDZ and 897.71 kWh/m3/order for SMX. On the other hand, EEO values for photocatalysis were 14.96 kWh/m3/order for TET, 12.07 kWh/m3/order for CIP, 20.39 kWh/m3/order for SDZ and 62.10 kWh/m3/order for SMX. The energy consumption for photocatalysis was considerably lower than for photolysis. This study determined an overall degradation rate constant for a wide range of TET, CIP, SDZ and SMX concentrations. Furthermore, when working with a pH of 8 (a typical pH from wastewater from livestock farms) and a VA mixture whose concentrations resemble the characteristics of real water samples, that photolysis and photocatalysis are potential processes for wastewater treatment with low energy consumption., Instituto de Procesos Sostenibles, Departamento de Ingeniería Química y Tecnología del Medio Ambiente, Departamento de Química Analítica, Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades MICIU/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033, Consejería de Educación de la Junta de Castilla y León, EU Feder Programme

Es un corpus comparable inglés, Departamento de Filología Inglesa, This work was supported by the Spanish Government, Salvador de Madariaga Grant (grant number PRX22/00045).