Defensive patterns of chestnut genotypes (Castanea spp.) against the gall wasp, Dryocosmus kuriphilus by María J. Lombardero, Matthew P. Ayres, Pedro Álvarez-Álvarez, Fernando Castedo-Dorado

“…We studied genetic variation in resistance and susceptibility to D. kuriphilus within a replicated blocked planting of 12 chestnut genotypes established in Galicia, Spain in 2004. We found very high genetic variation in susceptibility to D. kuriphilus. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Satellite Imagery (NDVI) to Identify <i>Terroir</i> and Vineyard Yeast Differences according to Appellation of Origin (AOP) and Biogeographic Origin by Sergio Vélez, Enrique Barajas, Pilar Blanco, José Antonio Rubio, David Castrillo

“…In this study, the NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) calculated from Landsat 8 imagery was used to perform a spatio-temporal analysis during 2013, 2014, and 2015 of several vineyards belonging to four different AOP in Galicia (Spain). This work shows that it is possible to use Remote Sensing for AOP delimitation. …”
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The Specific Immune Response after Vaccination against Neonatal Calf Diarrhoea Differs between Apparent Similar Vaccines in a Case Study by Román Gonzalez, Laura Elvira, Carlos Carbonell, Geert Vertenten, Lorenzo Fraile

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On the development of new cosine-based probabilistic methods with applications to univariate and bivariate analyses of the wind speed energy by Badr Alnssyan, Mohammed Ahmed Alomair

“…We apply the UMC-Weibull distribution for analyzing the wind energy data set taken from the weather station at Sotavento Galicia, Spain. Furthermore, we also introduce a bivariate version of the UMC-G method using the Farlie–Gumble–Morgenstern copula approach. …”
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Global Solar Irradiation Modelling and Prediction Using Machine Learning Models for Their Potential Use in Renewable Energy Applications by David Puga-Gil, Gonzalo Astray, Enrique Barreiro, Juan F. Gálvez, Juan Carlos Mejuto

“…To confront this issue, different locations in Rias Baixas (Autonomous Community of Galicia, Spain) and combinations of parameters (month and average temperature, among others) were used to develop various machine learning models (random forest -RF-, support vector machine -SVM- and artificial neural network -ANN-). …”
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Social inequalities in exposure to secondhand smoke in households with children under 12 in Spain by María José López, Teresa Arechavala, Xavier Continente, Anna Schiaffino, Mónica Pérez-Ríos, Esteve Fernández, Paula Lletjòs

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Unrecognized for centuries: distribution and sexual caste descriptions of the West European Aphaenogaster species of the subterranea group (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) by Enrico Schifani, Antonio Alicata, Lech Borowiec, Fede García, Vincenzo Gentile, Kiko Gómez, Elia Nalini, Fabrizio Rigato, Sämi Schär, Antonio Scupola, Roger Vila, Mattia Menchetti

“…Sicily is the only island to host the less thermophilous A. subterranea, which otherwise extends westward to Galicia (Spain). Sympatric occurrence is not rare along the contact zone. …”
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Developments in pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics, and personalized medicine by Francisco Abad-Santos, Salvador F. Aliño, Alberto M. Borobia, Elena García-Martín, Patricia Gassó, Olalla Maroñas, José A.G. Agúndez

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Opposite pattern of transcranial direct current stimulation effects in middle-aged and older adults: Behavioral and neurophysiological evidence by Chiara Bagattini, Chiara Bagattini, Susana Cid-Fernández, Martina Bulgari, Carlo Miniussi, Marta Bortoletto

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Evaluating the Impact of Indoor Insulation on Historic Buildings: A Multilevel Approach Involving Heat and Moisture Simulations by Ivana Mattea Lisitano, Deborah Laggiard, Stefano Fantucci, Valentina Serra, Elisa Fenoglio

“…In this paper, the Monastery of Santa Maria de Monfero in Galicia (Spain) has been adopted as a building case study to compare different technological solutions based on: (i) an insulating plaster layer, (ii) dry counter wall systems. …”
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Comparative Study of the Influence of Heat Treatment on Fracture Resistance of Different Ceramic Materials Used for CAD/CAM Systems by Andrea Ordoñez Balladares, Cristian Abad-Coronel, Joao Carlos Ramos, Jorge I. Fajardo, Cesar A. Paltán, Benjamín José Martín Biedma

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Factors That Affect Methane Yield Using Raw Olive Alperujo (Unhydrolyzed) as Substrate in BMP Assays by Valentina Ortega, Andrés Donoso-Bravo, Rolando Chamy-Maggy, José Luis Campos, Anuska Mosquera-Corral, Marisol Belmonte

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Evaluation of the VISAGE Basic Tool for Appearance and Ancestry Prediction Using PowerSeq Chemistry on the MiSeq FGx System by Leire Palencia-Madrid, Catarina Xavier, María de la Puente, Carsten Hohoff, Christopher Phillips, Manfred Kayser, Walther Parson

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Design of an Intelligent Decision Support System Applied to the Diagnosis of Obstructive Sleep Apnea by Manuel Casal-Guisande, Laura Ceide-Sandoval, Mar Mosteiro-Añón, María Torres-Durán, Jorge Cerqueiro-Pequeño, José-Benito Bouza-Rodríguez, Alberto Fernández-Villar, Alberto Comesaña-Campos

“…For the initial tests, a software artifact was built using a dataset with 4400 patients from the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital (Vigo, Galicia, Spain). The preliminary results obtained are promising and demonstrate the potential usefulness of this type of tool in the diagnosis of OSA.…”
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Pasture feeding strategy and milk fatty acid profile in small-scale dairy systems by D A PLATA-REYES, L E JUÁREZ-DÁVILA, E MORALES-ALMARAZ, F. LÓPEZ-GONZÁLEZ, G. FLORES-CALVETE, C M ARRIAGA-JORDÃN

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ResBaGAN: A Residual Balancing GAN with Data Augmentation for Forest Mapping by Alvaro G. Dieste, Francisco Arguello, Dora B. Heras

“…Experiments were conducted on large, very high-resolution multispectral images of riparian forests in Galicia, Spain, with limited training data and strong class imbalances, comparing ResBaGAN to other machine learning methods such as simpler GANs. …”
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Rootstock Effect on Volatile Composition of Albariño Wines by Mar Vilanova, Zlatina Genisheva, Miguel Tubío, Katia Alvarez, José Ramón Lissarrague, José Maria Oliveira

“…Conclusions: This work provides new information about the impact of rootstocks on Albariño wine volatile composition, where 110R had a positive influence on Albariño wines under the edaphoclimatic conditions of Salnés Valley (Galicia, Spain).…”
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Texture Extraction Techniques for the Classification of Vegetation Species in Hyperspectral Imagery: Bag of Words Approach Based on Superpixels by Sergio R. Blanco, Dora B. Heras, Francisco Argüello

“…The best classification results for each image in terms of Overall Accuracy (OA) range from 81.07% to 93.77% for images taken at a river area in Galicia (Spain), and from 79.63% to 95.79% for a vast rural region in China with reasonable computation times.…”
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The effect of flowering stage on distribution modelling performance: A case study of Acacia dealbata using maximum entropy modelling and RPA images by Antonio Vazquez de la Cueva, Fernando Montes Pita, Isabel Aulló-Maestro

“…Area of study: We selected three sites in the west of Ourense province (Galicia, Spain). This area is the eastern cluster of A. dealbata populations in Galicia. …”
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Potential hydrologic changes in the Amazon by the end of the 21st century and the groundwater buffer by Yadu N Pokhrel, Ying Fan, Gonzalo Miguez-Macho

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