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Human health hazards appear in wine production. Wineries have implemented food safety management systems to control food hazards through Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP). Wine-making industry applies HACCP by evaluating Critical Control Points (CCPs). One of the CCPs that exhibits inadequate control is the potential contamination risk...
Agricultural production, the main pillar of food security, is highly dependent on soil quality, and threatened by erosion processes that degrade soil quality. This article is part of a research to verify the usefulness of differential interferometric analysis on TopSAR (Terrain Observation with Progressive Scans SAR, Synthetic Aperture Radar) image...
Wine production has food safety hazards. A Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) system makes it possible to identify, evaluate, and control significant food safety hazards throughout the wine production process. The Prerequisites Programs (PPRs) and HACCP performance in Protected Denomination of Origin "Vinos de Madrid" wineries were anal...
Erosion is a major problem on agricultural lands in Europe. Erosion measurement tools have traditionally been focused on delocalized quantification but without mapping the real places inside the basin where the erosion took effect. In this article, we use new space missions, such as Sentinel-1, and the opportunity they offer to obtain SAR (Syntheti...
Humanity must face the challenge of making viable a world of environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable cities, as it is recognized by the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in its Goal 11. This problem is so wide and complex that it does not admit a short-term solution; rather, it must be addressed through measures in a proces...
EcoLab-UPM is an initiative of professors from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería y Diseño Industrial, the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Agronómica, Alimentaria y de Biosistemas and the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Montes, Forestal y del Medio Natural of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and aims to analyse problem...
This project aims at implementing the technology of augmented reality in the studies of Industrial Design Engineering. Initial trials have been done considering the subject “Representation techniques for Industrial Design”, which is part of the degree of Engineering in Industrial Design and Product Development in the Technical University of Madrid...
During the last years, engineering projects of buildings and infrastructures make use of a new methodology, based on the 3D simulation of the elements of the project. It is the BIM (Building Information Modeling) methodology. In some countries it is already a common practice in large projects. Europe countries are developing legislation for public...
La realización de videos por parte de los estudiantes sobre temas relacionados con las materias objeto de estudio puede utilizarse como instrumento motivador y como una herramienta práctica para la adquisición y evaluación de competencias transversales tales como la comunicación oral, creatividad, aprendizaje de idiomas, trabajo en equipo o uso de...
This paper describes the entire process of the implementation of the Spanish low volume road network, including the design criteria, the construction techniques and the management policies during all the periods. The current situation of low volume roads in Spain was analyzed with respect to the legal framework and their actual condition. In additi...
During the final decades of the 19th century and first half of the 20th, over 2100 public abattoirs were built in Spain with the aim of improving the hygiene conditions associated with the processing of meat for human consumption, and to facilitate its marketing. Strict new health requirements that came into force in the 1970s, and the progressive...
With the development of the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), academic training at the University level has acquired a new dimension, focused on the implementation of active learning approaches and the achievement by the students, not only of specific technical skills, but also of cross-curricular competencies, such as oral or written communic...
The growth of large cities often involves changes in territorial and landscape structures. Modern procedures for classifying land cover, based on mapping involving territorial databases (such as the European CORINE database) and geographic information systems, allow changes in land use, the spatial distribution of land use, and territorial dynamics...
The general goal of this study was the built environment analysis of small to medium-sized farm wineries, which are strategic for Italian wine production. The specific aim was the identification of significant correlations between the dimensional features of spatial units and the production capacity in a context characterized by broad product diver...
Assessment of learning processes is an essential part of the educational practice. On the one hand, it allows evaluating the knowledge, skills and attitudes achieved by the students; on the other hand, results can be used to make decisions for the improvement of the educational practices.
The success of e-learning has allowed the emergence of new...
European Universities are involved in series of great changes regarding teaching and education organization during the last few years. The origin of these changes is the creation of the so-called European Higher Education Area (EHEA), which main target is to harmonize the different University studies throughout Europe. As a consequence, most of the...
Web-based education or "e-learning" has become a critical component in higher education for the last decade, replacing other distance learning methods, such as traditional computer training or correspondence learning. The number of university students who take on-line courses is continuously increasing all over the world. In Spain, nearly a 90% of...
Climate change, drought and the world’s growing population are increasing the demand for water which in turn requires improved water resources management. The sustainable management of a watershed requires a thorough knowledge of its water resources, including monthly streamflow. Spain is home to a large number of ungauged watersheds, the streamflo...
According to UN provisions in the period from 2007 to 2050 world population will grow up to 9200 million people. In fact, for the first time in history, in the year 2008 world urban population became higher than rural population. The increase of urban areas and their transport infrastructures has influenced agricultural land use due to their irreve...
Nearly 3000 slaughterhouses (74% of them public facilities) were built in Spain during the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. The need to comply with new technical requirements and regulations on the hygiene of the meat passed in the 70s and the gradual replacement of public facilities by larger and...
Low-volume roads play an essential role in the development of rural areas in Spain, yet most are in a poor condition since hardly any money is designated for their upkeep. This work proposes a management system for the Spanish low-volume road system based on an analysis of the present management of the country’s road and low-volume road networks, t...
The present work proposes a simplified model for assessing the quality of landscapes from rural roads in Spain. The proposed model is based on the full Cañas method but takes into account only four of the 16 factors, the latter contemplates: vegetation, land use, form (elements differing from the background) and texture (reflection of light from su...
Web-based education or e-learning has become an essential matter in the university studies during the last decade. Over 80% of teachers in Spanish universities currently use this technology for delivering distance courses or as a supplement to the traditional face-to-face classes. This new form of learning allows the disappearance of geographical b...
This paper reports the results obtained in an aid project designed to improve transport in the municipal area of Jocotán (Guatemala). The rural road network of an area occupied by indigenous people was analysed and a road chosen for repair using the labour-intensive method-something never done before in this area. The manpower required for the proj...
The second half of the 19th century, along with the first three decades of the 20th, saw the building of hundreds of flour mills in Spain, all based on new milling and sieving machinery developed after the industrial revolution. Unfortunately, very few of these early mills are now in use: most have disappeared, and many of those that are left have...
La agricultura ecológica ha experimentado un gran auge a nivel mundial en los últimos años. España no ha estado ajena a este fenómeno y, dentro de Europa, ha sido uno de los países con mayor tasa de crecimiento en lo que se refiere tanto a superficie y operadores como a valor de la comercialización. En este artículo se exponen parte de las conclusi...
Traditional buildings are important features of the rural landscape and a valuable documental source about rural technology and ways of life in the countryside. For the last 60 years many traditional farm buildings have lost their original function because of the great changes in the European agricultural sector. Their respectful conversion to adop...
Low volume roads play an essential role in the development of rural areas in Spain. They provide access to farms and food industries, and they also provide services traditionally assumed by major roads, e.g., the connection of small towns or their use by emergency services. The construction of most part of the Spanish low volume roads network took...
In rural societies, low volume roads play important social and economic roles. Nevertheless,
as yet few developed countries, and practically no developing countries, have programmes
for maintaining them. Disrepair is therefore a frequent situation. In Spain, the
absence of technical procedures for their inspection and assessment hinders the develop...
En el presente trabajo se realiza un estudio de las series de temperaturas medias anuales en diferentes ciudades españolas. Se clasifican diversas ciudades españolas en tres grupos de clima homogéneo y se toman las series de Huelva, Madrid y Barcelona representativas de cada uno de dichos grupos. En las series (con datos de más de 100 años cada una...
In many fields of biosystems engineering, it is common to find works in which statistical information is analysed that violates the basic hypotheses necessary for the conventional forecasting methods. For those situations, it is necessary to find alternative methods that allow the statistical analysis considering those infringements. Non-parametric...
Since the 1950s, there has been a Europe-wide fall in the number of farmers and in the rural population in general. Agricultural and rural activities now represent a smaller percentage of the gross domestic product than in years past. One of the immediate consequences of this decline has been the large number of redundant buildings in the countrysi...
La obtención de datos foronómicos de calidad es fundamental para la evaluación de modelos hidrológicos. Con el fin de evaluar distintos modelos distribuidos, propuestos para la predicción de avenidas de diseño en pequeñas cuencas rurales no aforadas, se instalaron a principios de 1998 dos estaciones de aforo en sendos cauces naturales de la Comunid...
The increasing interest in small irrigation reservoirs in rural areas of Mediterranean countries requires detailed hydrologic analyses in order to assess water resources and design runoff discharges. Emerging technologies, such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and remote sensing, enhance the possibilities of distributed modeling in hydrology...
En este artículo se expone la investigación realizada con el fin de desarrollar una herramienta basada en S.I.G. para analizar la localización de las construcciones rurales en orden a mejorar su integración en el paisaje. El programa informático generado está fundamentado en el desarrollo metodológico de nuevas variables para valorar el impacto vis...
In present paper would be analyzed which are the most important variables that have influence on landscape integration of agricultural constructions. A bibliographic study, an "in situ" study and an oblique aerial photography study have been carried out for this.
Check list of the most important variables that take part on visual impact of agricult...
