Life Cycle Analysis of a Geothermal Heatpump Installation and Comparison with a Conventional Fuel Boiler System in a Nursery School in Galicia (Spain) by Castro M., Bangueses I., Rodriguez J.

“…Within the work lines in sustainable energy field of the EnergyLab Technology Centre (Vigo, Spain), associated with the technologies that are under investigation by this centre, it is developed a study about the Life Cycle Analysis (hereinafter, LCA) over a geothermal heatpump (hereafter, GSHP) installation in a nursery school in the province of Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain), and its comparison with the fuel boiler system prior to GHP. …”
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"Festival de Cans": Rethinking the Film Festival through Parody in Rural Galicia by Rosana Vivar Navas, Luís Román Suárez-Canedo

“…This article focuses on the Festival de Cans, a picturesque film event that takes place in Cans, a rural hamlet in the heart of the West Galician province of Pontevedra. Through an ethnographic approach, this research seeks to understand how Cans’ peculiar rituals and the organization’s rhetoric uses parody as an aesthetic vehicle that allows us to reinterpret dominant meanings, allowing the conversion of the Galician rural landscape, its community, and settings into a location of cultural importance. …”
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Estrategias en la comunicación corporativa en la publicidad impresa de Pontevedra entre 1932 y 2000. Características e influencias histórico-artísticas / Corporate communication s... by Ana Belén Fernández Souto, Montse Vázquez Gestal

“…In this paper we analyze the technical and sociocultural features permeated the actions of corporate image and identity that had emerged from business and guvernamental organizations that had appeared in the province of Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain) from the post-war until 2000. …”
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Emotional intelligence and academic motivation in primary school students by Julia Arias, Jorge G. Soto-Carballo, Margarita R. Pino-Juste

“…For this, a quasi-experimental design has been used with an accidental sample of 541 students from public centers in the province of Pontevedra (Spain). The instruments used were a School Motivation Scale and an EI questionnaire for primary school students, based on the five areas of Goleman EI. …”
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Assessing the Importance of Biomass-Based Heating Systems for More Sustainable Buildings: A Case Study Based in Spain by Juan E. Pardo, Ana Mejías, Antonio Sartal

“…Evidence stems from a case study in public buildings in the province of Pontevedra, in the northwest of Spain. The results of this research not only show a huge impact on CO₂ emission reduction just by adapting the kind of fuel use, but also considerable annual cost reduction without compromising activity development and workers’ comfort. …”
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Smoking: Habit repercusion on the breastfeeding establishment and maintenance by Susana Iglesias Casás

“…Passive smoking might produce in newborns a higher risk of sudden death and respiratory diseases, having breastfeeding a protective effect on these complications.This study research the association between smoking on women, the kind of lactation that she determines and the total duration of breastfeeding.The study population were all the women who had just given birth in two hospitals from the province of Pontevedra, between August and September 2005, whom were interviewed when discharged from hospital. …”
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UAV AND SATELLITE IMAGERY APPLIED TO ALIEN SPECIES MAPPING IN NW SPAIN by J. Martínez-Sánchez, J. Martínez-Sánchez, L. M. González-de Santos, L. M. González-de Santos, A. Novo, H. González-Jorge, H. González-Jorge

“…In this work, a methodology for semi-automatic detection of invasive alien species through UAV surveying and Sentinel 2 satellite monitoring is presented and particularized for <i>Acacia dealbata</i> Link species in the province of Pontevedra, in NW Spain. We selected a scenario with notable invasion of <i>Acaciae</i> and performed a UAS surveying to outline feasible training areas. …”
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Tabaquismo: Repercusión del hábito en el inicio y mantenimiento de la lactancia materna by Susana Iglesias Casás

“…The study population were all the women who had just given birth in two hospitals from the province of Pontevedra, between August and September 2005, whom were interviewed when discharged from hospital. …”
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Los prioratos cistercienses y benedictinos como ejemplo del protagonismo monástico en la Galicia del antiguo régimen by María SEIJAS MONTERO

“…</p><p>ABSTRACT: In this article we have tried to know the important role of the cistercienses and benedictines priories, located in the currents provinces of Pontevedra and Ourense, during Old Regime and in the Galician monkhood context. …”
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