Seismic signals generated by avalanches have been studied by the avalanche team of the Universitat de Barcelona since 1994. The aim of the study is to understand the avalanche seismic signals in relation to their sources to obtain information on the avalanche dynamics and hence use seismic measurements for monitoring purposes. To this end, experiments focused on improving the knowledge of seism...

In this paper, we describe the language and features of our graph transformation tool, GReAT. We begin with a brief introduction and motivation, followed by an overview of the actual language, the modeling framework, and the tools that were written to support transformations. Finally, we compare GReAT to other similar tools, discuss additional functionality we are currently implementing, and de...

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In the United States, mitigating the adverse impacts of flooding has increasingly become the responsibility of local decision-makers. Despite the importance of understanding how and why flood mitigation techniques are implemented at the local level, few large-scale, empirical studies have been conducted in recent years. Our study examines the current status and extensiveness of flood mitigation...

The study of the dynamics of Posidonia oceanica beds, and more particularly, the position of their lower limit, are usually carried out by the installation and monitoring of markers set on the sea bottom. Acoustic telemetry could constitute an interesting alternative solution to the marking of the lower limit seagrass beds. In order to test the potentialities of this system, an experiment was c...

Local and long-range transport of beech (Fagus sylvatica) pollen was analysed by using 23-year data (1983-2007) at six stations in Catalonia, Spain, and numerical simulations. Back trajectories and synoptic meteorology indicated a consistent north European provenance during beech pollen peak days. Specifically, the area from northern Italy to central Germany was the most probable source, as ind...

In this issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, Schoenfeld et al. report a qualitative analysis of Shared decision-making (SDM) from the perspective of Emergency Department (ED) patients. Shared decision-making is "a collaborative process in which patients and providers make health care decisions together, taking into account the best evidence available, as well as the patient's values and prefer...

Deposition of reactive nitrogen (N) from the atmosphere is expected to be the third greatest driver of biodiversity loss by the year 2100. Chemistry-transport models are essential tools to estimate spatially explicit N deposition but the reliability of their predictions remained to be validated in mountains. We measured N deposition and air concentration over the subalpine Pyrenees. N depositio...