Owing to the information overload we are faced with nowadays, personalization approaches are becoming almost a must, in order to provide relevant information for users. These personalization techniques retrieve results closer to the user interests and preferences, by using the information stored in the user profile. We have carried out a comparative study between six different user profile repr...

This article reports the results of a series of experiments (acceptability rating tasks) on a group of speakers of Andalusian Spanish. The main result is that, contrary to previous claims in the literature (cf. Jaeggli 1982 et seq), Spanish does exhibit a Superiority effect in multiple whquestions. However, this effect can be subsumed under a generalized mild penalty on object whfronting, also ...

Research on innovation in the tourism industry has gained relevance, and in recent years knowledge of this complex phenomenon has increased. The article proposes a two-stage interactive model based on innovative capability, environment and other contextual factors of firms, in order to explain first, the innovative outcomes in products and processes and, subsequently, the influence of these out...

NanoSpain2009 09-12 March, 2009 Zaragoza-Spain CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS AND FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERIZATION OF VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE (VIP) SILVER-PROTECTED NANOPARTICLES David Pozo, Paula M Castillo, Rebecca Klippstein, Rafael Fernandez-Montesinos, Ana P Zaderenko CABIMER-Andalusian Centre for Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine (CSICUniversity of Seville-UPO-Junta de Andalucia), Americo ...

The karyotypes of three species of Timarcha Latreille, 1829 have been analysed. Timarcha (Metallotimarcha) metallica (Laicharting, 1781), has 18 + Xyp male meioformula and 2n = 38 chromosomes, similar to those found in the two species of subgenus Americanotimarcha Jolivet, 1948, in agreement with morphological and molecular phylogenetic grounds. Timarcha (Timarcha) carmelenae Petitpierre, 2013 ...

We studied blood samples from 529 Spanish ibexes (Capra pyrenaica) from different Andalusian mountain ranges in southern Spain, primarily from Sierra Nevada. For each sample, 13 hematologic and 32 biochemical parameters were analyzed. Within this database, we selected values obtained from live, free-ranging, physically restrained, clinically normal animals to determine reference intervals for t...

ghāfiqī (6th/12th century) is an andalusian botanist whose al-jāmiʿ fī al-adwiya al-mufrada is one of the principal pillars of the science of botany in andalusia and one of the most important sources for knowing and reconstructing the past history of this science. this book ows much to earlier botanical works, especially al-nabāt of dīnawarī and al-qānūn of ibn sīnā. in this paper, first the mo...

The length of gestation in Andalusian, or Spanish Purebred (SPB) and Arabian (AB) mares reared in Spain was analysed, based on 766 spontaneous full-term deliveries appertaining to 141 mares of SPB breed and 72 mares of AB breed in 31 breeding seasons. The data were obtained from the Yeguada Militar de Jerez de la Frontera stud farm in Cádiz, Spain. The mean length of gestation was of 336.8+/-0....