PUBLICATION | 2007 The Common Agricultural Policy SIMulation (CAPSIM) Model: Structure and Applications The Common Agricultural Policy SIMulation (CAPSIM) model is one of the European Commission in-house models used for impact analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It is a calibrated...
PUBLICATION | 2005 Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Techniques as Tools for the Quality Assessment of Composite Indicators Composite indicators are increasingly used for bench-marking countries performances. Yet doubts are often raised about the robustness of the resulting countries rankings and about the significance...
PUBLICATION | 2005 Determination of the Geographical Origin of Green Coffee by Principal Component Analysis of Carbon, Nitrogen and Boron Stable Isotope Ratios Due to the ever increasing amount of attention paid to the 'naturalness' of ingredients in food and beverages by both consumers and controlling authorities, the search for suitable methods for the characterization of origin is of primary...
PUBLICATION | 2006 A new estimator for Sensitivity analysis of model output: An application to the e-Business Readiness Composite Indicator In this paper we propose and test a generalisation of the method originally proposed by Sobol’, and recently extended by Saltelli, to estimate the first order and total effect sensitivity indices. Exploiting...
PUBLICATION | 2005 13C and 18O Isotopic Analysis to Determine the Origin of L-Tartaric Acid see attached
PUBLICATION | 2005 Geostatistical Investigation of ETEX - 1: Structural Analysis The surface concentration data collected during the European Tracer Experiment (ETEX) are analysed for the first time by means of geostatistical techniques. The aim of the analysis is to determine the self-consistency...
PUBLICATION | 2007 Application of Support Vector Machines to 1H NMR Data of Fish Oils: Methodology for the Confirmation of Wild and Farmed Salmon and their Origins Support vector machines (SVMs) were used as a novel learning machine in the authentication of the origin of salmon. SVMs have the advantage of relying on a well developed theory and have...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Authentication of Farmed and Wild Turbot (Psetta maxima) by Fatty Acid and Isotopic Analyses Combined with Chemometrics Fatty acid composition and stable isotope ratios of carbon (d13C) and nitrogen (d15N) were determined in muscle tissue of turbot (Psetta maxima). The multivariate analysis of the data...
PUBLICATION | 2008 Geographical Origin Classification of Olive Oils by PTR-MS The volatile compositions of 192 olive oil samples from five different European countries were investigated by PTR-MS sample headspace analysis. The mass spectra of all samples...
PUBLICATION | 2007 Control of Oenological Products: Discrimination between Different Botanical Sources of L-tartaric Acid by Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry Following previous studies on counterfeit of wines with synthetic ingredients, the possibility of frauds by natural external L-tartaric acid has also been investigated. The aim of this research was...
