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Vicente Lopes

Professor of Environmental Studies
Verified email at txstate.edu
Cited by 1793

On the effect of uncertainty in spatial distribution of rainfall on catchment modelling

VL Lopes - Catena, 1996 - Elsevier
The development of distributed modelling technology has been hampered by incomplete
understanding of spatially-variable processes and the lack of adequate data to characterize …

Bedload transport in alluvial channels

…, WR Osterkamp, VL Lopes - Journal of Hydraulic …, 2003 - ascelibrary.org
Hydraulic, sediment, land-use, and rock-erosivity data of 22 alluvial streams were used to
evaluate conditions of bedload transport and the performance of selected bedload-transport …

Impacts of water resources development on flow regimes in the Brazos River

AL Vogl, VL Lopes - Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2009 - Springer
The Brazos River, the second largest basin in Texas, represents one of the most highly
developed river systems in the state. Thirty-nine reservoirs with capacities greater than 5,000 acre…

Impacts of dam construction on streamflows during drought periods in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Texas

K Mix, AW Groeger, VL Lopes - Lakes & Reservoirs: Research …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to assess the impacts of dam construction on streamflow during
a severe drought in the upper Colorado River basin ( TX ), upstream of Lake Buchanan …

DEVS approximation of infiltration using genetic algorithm optimization of a fuzzy system

BP Zeigler, Y Moon, VL Lopes, J Kim - Mathematical and Computer …, 1996 - Elsevier
The infiltration process is generally described by a nonlinear differential equation, which
can be solved by iteration methods such as a Newton-Raphson method. In this paper we …

α-synuclein interacts with PrPC to induce cognitive impairment through mGluR5 and NMDAR2B

…, M Temido-Ferreira, H Vicente Miranda… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Synucleinopathies, such as Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies, are
neurodegenerative disorders that are characterized by the accumulation of α-synuclein (aSyn) in …

Recasting paradigm shift:" True" sustainability and complex systems

CL Smith, VL Lopes, FM Carrejo - Human Ecology Review, 2011 - JSTOR
Within environmental sociology there exists a debate between competing theories of societal
development and its accompanying ecological repercussions and possible solutions. …

Glycation potentiates α-synuclein-associated neurodegeneration in synucleinopathies

H Vicente Miranda, ÉM Szegő, LMA Oliveira, C Breda… - Brain, 2017 - academic.oup.com
α-Synuclein misfolding and aggregation is a hallmark in Parkinson’s disease and in several
other neurodegenerative diseases known as synucleinopathies. The toxic properties of α-…

SEDIMENT RATING CURVES FOR A CLEARCUT PONDEROSA PINE WATERSHED IN NORTHERN ARIZONA1

VL Lopes, PF Ffolliott - JAWRA Journal of the American Water …, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
Data from a 455‐acre clearcut ponderosa pine forest watershed in northern Arizona were
used to identify relationships between suspended sediment concentration and streamflow …

Parameter identifiability for catchment-scale erosion modelling: a comparison of optimization algorithms

VL Freedman, VL Lopes, M Hernandez - Journal of hydrology, 1998 - Elsevier
The Simplex and the Shuffled Complex Evolution—University of Arizona (SCE-UA)
optimization algorithms and the simple least-squares (SLS) and the heteroscedastic maximum …