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LUCAS Copernicus 2018: Earth-observation-relevant in situ data on land cover and use throughout the European Union [PDF]

Earth System Science Data, 2021
The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) is an evenly spaced in situ land cover and land use ground survey exercise that extends over the whole of the European Union. LUCAS was carried out in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018.
R. d'Andrimont, A. Verhegghen, M. Meroni, G. Lemoine, P. Strobl, B. Eiselt, M. Yordanov, L. Martinez-Sanchez, M. van der Velde   +8 more
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EUSECTRA: European Nuclear Security Training Centre providing hands-on training and education in Nuclear Security and Safeguards

International Journal of Nuclear Security, 2020
The European Nuclear Security Training Centre (EUSECTRA) inaugurated under this global name about 10 years ago and operated by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), located both on the Karlsruhe (Germany) and Ispra (Italy) sites, includes ...
Willem Janssens, Veronique Berthou, Abbas Kamel, Jean Galy, Klaus Luetzenkirchen, Klaus Mayer, Stefan Nonneman   +6 more
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Vanquishing the computational cost of passive gamma emission tomography simulations leveraging physics-aware reduced order modeling

Scientific Reports, 2023
Passive Gamma Emission Tomography (PGET) has been developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency to directly image the spatial distribution of individual fuel pins in a spent nuclear fuel assembly and determine potential diversion.
Nicola Cavallini, Riccardo Ferretti, Gunnar Bostrom, Stephen Croft, Aurora Fassi, Giovanni Mercurio, Stefan Nonneman, Andrea Favalli   +7 more
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Neutron induced fission cross section measurements of 240Pu and 242Pu

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
Accurate neutron induced fission cross section of 240Pu and 242Pu are required in view of making nuclear technology safer and more efficient to meet the upcoming needs for the future generation of nuclear power plants (GEN-IV).
Belloni F., Eykens R., Heyse J., Matei C., Moens A., Nolte R., Plompen A.J.M., Richter S., Sibbens G., Vanleeuw D., Wynants R.   +10 more
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Invasive alien species of policy concerns show widespread patterns of invasion and potential pressure across European ecosystems

Scientific Reports, 2023
Animals, plants, and other organisms unintentionally or deliberately brought into a natural environment where they are not normally found, and where they cause harmful effects on that environment, are known also as invasive alien species (IAS).
Chiara Polce, Ana Cristina Cardoso, Ivan Deriu, Eugenio Gervasini, Konstantinos Tsiamis, Olga Vigiak, Grazia Zulian, Joachim Maes   +7 more
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Grouping of nanomaterials to read-across hazard endpoints: from data collection to assessment of the grouping hypothesis by application of chemoinformatic techniques

Particle and Fibre Toxicology, 2018
Background An increasing number of manufactured nanomaterials (NMs) are being used in industrial products and need to be registered under the REACH legislation.
L. Lamon, D. Asturiol, A. Richarz, E. Joossens, R. Graepel, K. Aschberger, A. Worth   +6 more
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European annual cosmic-ray dose: estimation of population exposure

Journal of Maps, 2017
The earth is continually bombarded by high-energy cosmic ray particles, and the worldwide average exposure to cosmic rays represents about 13% of the total annual effective dose received by the population.
Giorgia Cinelli, Valeria Gruber, Luca De Felice, Peter Bossew, Miguel Angel Hernandez-Ceballos, Tore Tollefsen, Stefan Mundigl, Marc De Cort   +7 more
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What if meat consumption would decrease more than expected in the high-income countries?

Bio-based and Applied Economics, 2017
Changes in meat consumption patterns could induce significant adjustments in agricultural markets. In this paper alternative scenarios envisaging lower meat consumption over the coming decade in high income countries and some selected emerging economies ...
Fabien Santini, Tévécia Ronzon, Ignacio Perez Dominguez, Sergio René Araujo Enciso, Ilaria Proietti   +4 more
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How effective are VAT reforms in improving healthy dietary choices by EU consumers?

Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales
Governments are increasingly considering fiscal instruments to improve dietary health. This paper quantifies the medium-term impacts on European food markets of a differentiated VAT policy that promotes healthy food consumption while discouraging intake ...
Beatrice Farkas, Ignacio Pérez-Domínguez, Simone Pieralli, Christian Elleby   +3 more
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Assessment of developmental neurotoxicity induced by chemical mixtures using an adverse outcome pathway concept

Environmental Health, 2020
Background In light of the vulnerability of the developing brain, mixture risk assessment (MRA) for the evaluation of developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) should be implemented, since infants and children are co-exposed to more than one chemical at a time ...
Francesca Pistollato, Emilio Mendoza de Gyves, Donatella Carpi, Stephanie K. Bopp, Carolina Nunes, Andrew Worth, Anna Bal-Price   +6 more
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