The aim of this work is to study some physical and mechanical properties of oaks wood in Galicia. Several physical (shrinkage, wood moisture and hardness) and mechanical parameters (static bending strength, elasticity ...

A plant of water treatment consists of an installation in which the water is treated and submitted to diverse processes depending on the industrial use to which it is destined. In case of a plant of treatment of waters ...

Fair Trade has consolidated itself during the last decades as a useful instrument in cooperation for development, especially for small producers in the South. However, there is some concern that a situation of dependency ...

The Law 2/2007, of March 15, regularizes the carrying out of a professional activity for a group of graduates and who belong to a professional college. This law tries to guarantee the juridical safety for the society, as ...

Thermoplastic materials used in the field of electronics are usually given a metallic surface coating treatment after their shaping process. The purpose of this -aesthetic changes aside-, is to create an electrically ...

The first producer of copper of world is Chile, and the principal deposits with the best laws of this metal, they are located in the Atacama Desert, North of Chile. In latter 20 years the increase of the explosive consumption ...

The skin-pass is a cold-rolling process located at the final stage of the steel strip manufacturing line. Its main objective is to modify the strip material properties and its surface structure to be the suited for the ...

AWARE is a research project, at “The Interactive Institute” (Stockholm, Sweden) which investigates interaction design as a means of increasing social awareness of how energy is used and for stimulating changes in energy ...

Tacking the research line developed up to now as a starting point, which studied the influence of the accident rate in project planning (see abstract book of VIII Congress of Project Engineering, Bilbao, 2004), it is ...

The European Union and Mexico designed different models to reduce the regional disparities. The generation of financing instruments for the application and management of resources is an important element of these models. ...