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Strategic Sustainability Assessment in the Construction Sector: A Multidimensional Index for Decision Making in Decentralised Economies

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article evaluates the average business performance of construction firms across Spain's 17 autonomous communities within a decentralised governance framework. A regional composite sustainability index is developed, integrating economic, social and environmental intensity indicators.
Francisco José Castillo‐Díaz, Luis J. Belmonte‐Ureña, Pedro Fernandes da Anunciação, Francisco Camacho‐Ferre   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficiency and Perceptions in Public CSR: An Integrated Efficiency–Perception Analysis of Spanish Defence Delegations

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public organisations often experience a discrepancy between improvements in technical efficiency and stakeholders' perceptions of integrity and performance. This study analyses the mechanisms that may underlie this efficiency–perception discrepancy in Spanish Defence Delegations during 2020–2023.
José Solana‐Ibáñez, Manuel Caravaca‐Garratón   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Projected Evolution of Climatic Aridity in Spain: Robust Signals and Model Uncertainties

International Journal of Climatology, EarlyView.
This study examines the projected evolution of climatic aridity in Spain throughout the 21st century, using the UNEP Aridity Index and CMIP6 simulations under different emission scenarios and global warming levels. Despite model biases, results show a general increase in aridity across the country, particularly in southern regions and the Canary ...
Víctor Trullenque‐Blanco, María del Mar Rondón Velasco, Maialen Iturbide, José Manuel Gutiérrez, Sergio M. Vicente‐Serrano, Santiago Beguería   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing high‐resolution numerical models and bottom‐boundary factors for a Mediterranean heavy precipitation event

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, EarlyView.
State‐of‐the‐art, convection‐permitting NWP models reproduced the main features of the October 22–23, 2019 heavy precipitation event in Catalonia. However, slight configuration changes yielded varying streamflow responses and statistical performance, highlighting the challenge of simulating these events in Mediterranean medium‐sized basins ...
D. Ramonell, D. S. Carrió, A. Amengual, R. Romero   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enabling Under Ice Glider Operations: A Backseat Driver Approach

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polar Oceans are key locations for forcing global ocean circulation, influencing both global climate and biogeochemical cycles. Due to restricted access to these seasonally and perennially ice‐covered regions, these areas are severely undersampled.
Yaomei Wang, Benjamin Allsup, Georgios Salavasidis, Stephen Woodward, Adeniyi Adenaya, Mike Smart, Alexis Johnson, Felipe Marques Dos Santos, Jake Ludgate, Daniel Matterson, Alvaro Lorenzo, J. Alexander Brearley, Alexander Brian Phillips   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Selective estrogen receptor modifiers on the antidepressant-like effects of electroconvulsive seizures in adolescent rats

Translational Psychiatry
During the past decade, our group has induced electroconvulsive seizures (ECS) in rodent models of early-life stress to prove clear differences in antidepressant-like efficacy mainly driven by sex and age, with females and adolescents showing diminished ...
Celia Garau, Sandra Ledesma-Corvi, Yaiza Jiménez-Marín, Rubén García-Cabrerizo, M. Julia García-Fuster   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toward Establishing a Tourism Data Space: Innovative Geo-Dashboard Development for Tourism Research and Management

Smart Cities
The data sharing strategy involves understanding the challenges and problems that can be solved through the collaboration of different entities sharing their data.
Dolores Ordóñez-Martínez, Joana Maria Seguí-Pons, Maurici Ruiz-Pérez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

ESG Debt Issued by Regional Governments in Spain: Financing Sustainable Development or Usual Public Expenditure?

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable debt bond is an emerging instrument aiming at providing companies and governments with extra resources for financing social and environmental policies and attempting to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Regional governments in Spain have issued sustainable bonds in recent years to finance different spending ...
Alberto Turnes, Xavier Vence, Angeles Pereira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aesthetic appreciation: from time-frequency analysis to synchronization

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012
Improvements in neuroimaging methods have afforded significant advances in our knowledge of the cognitive and neural foundations of aesthetic appreciation.
Enric eMunar, Marcos eNadal, Nazareth P Castellanos, Albert eFlexas, Fernando eMaestú, Claudio eMirasso, Camilo J Cela-Conde   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source