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A bibliometric analysis of research production in scientific journals, of the Scopus subject category Food Science, between 2003 and 2013, from seventy-one Spanish institutions with at least fifty works published, is presented. Statistical z tests are used for an evaluation of the [...]

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Worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO members), whereby members (governmental and non-governmental organizations) have the right to be represented on such committees; approval of ISO procedures requires at least 75% approval by the members voting; standards are prepared [...]

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Crude oil and other liquid materials are transported in large quantities through pipelines. Pipelines are an efficient and safe transport way as compared to both rail and road transportation, both from the economical and environmental points of view. Nevertheless, loss of containment [...]

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Lifelines play a crucial and essential role in human life and in economic development. The resilience of those systems under extreme events as earthquakes is a primary requirement, especially when large amount of toxic and flammable material are transported. In this work, the seismic [...]

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The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of long-distance road transport (19 h, from Poland to Italy) during 2 seasons (summer vs. win- ter) on clinical and hematological variables in calves. The environmental temperature range that could com- promise the thermoregulation [...]

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Major accidents may cause both direct damages to the exposed population and damage to the environment, indirectly affecting the population by the contamination of land, surface water and groundwater. A wide attention was paid to date to the assessment of the direct risk for the population [...]

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The formation of a crater by the abrupt and catastrophic rupture of a high-pressure pipeline can be highly relevant, especially when the crater uncovers other pipelines, which could undergo a domino effect with a significant increase of the consequences on people or on the environment. [...]