• Language background shapes third-party communication expectations in 14-month-old infants

  Colomer, Marc; Sebastián-Gallés, Núria (Elsevier, 2020)

  Infants expect native and non-native speech to communicate, i.e. to transfer information between third-parties. Here, we explored if infants understand that communication depends on the use of shared conventional systems ...
• Non-human animals detect the rhythmic structure of a familiar tune

  Celma Miralles, Alexandre, 1991-; Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976- (Springer, 2020)

  The musical motives of a song emerge from the temporal arrangement of discrete tones. These tones normally have few durational values, and are organized in structured groups to create metrical patterns. In the present study ...
• ESSENTIA: an open source library for audio analysis

  Bogdanov, Dmitry; Wack, Nicolas; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Gulati, Sankalp; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Mayor, Oscar; Roma Trepat, Gerard; Salamon, Justin; Zapata González, José Ricardo; Serra, Xavier (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2014)

  Over the last decade, audio analysis has become afield of active research in academic and engineeringworlds. It refers to the extraction of information andmeaning from audio signals for analysis, ...
• On anisotropic optical flow inpainting algorithms

  Raad, Lara; Oliver Parera, Maria; Ballester, Coloma; Haro Ortega, Gloria; Meinhardt Llopis, Enric (IPOL, 2020)

  This work describes two anisotropic optical flow inpainting algorithms. The first one recovers the missing flow values using the Absolutely Minimizing Lipschitz Extension partial differential equation (also called infinity ...
• Environmental sound recognition using short-time feature aggregation

  Roma Trepat, Gerard; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Nogueira, Waldo (Springer, 2018)

  Recognition of environmental sound is usually based on two main architectures, depending on whether the model is trained with frame-level features or with aggregated descriptions of acoustic scenes or events. The former ...
• Mining arguments in scientific abstracts with discourse-level embeddings

  Accuosto, Pablo; Saggion, Horacio (Elsevier, 2020)

  Argument mining consists in the automatic identification of argumentative structures in texts. In this work we leverage existing discourse-level annotations to facilitate the identification of argumentative components and ...
• Pulsed radiofrequency for chronic pain: In vitro evidence of an electroporation mediated calcium uptake

  Mercadal, Borja; Vicente, Rubén; Ivorra Cano, Antoni, 1974- (Elsevier, 2020)

  Pulsed radiofrequency (PRF) treatments for chronic pain consist in the delivery of a train of sinusoidal electric bursts to the targeted nerve. Despite numerous clinical evidence of its efficiency, the mechanism of action ...
• Automatic related work section generation: experiments in scientific document abstracting

  AbuRa’ed, Ahmed; Saggion, Horacio; Shvets, Alexander; Bravo Serrano, Àlex, 1984- (Springer, 2020)

  Related work sections or literature reviews are an essential part of every scientific article being crucial for paper reviewing and assessment. However, writing a good related work section is an activity which requires ...
• Taking advantage of overhearing in low power listening WSNs: a performance analysis of the LWT-MAC protocol

  Cano Bastidas, Cristina; Bellalta, Boris; Sfairopoulou, Anna; Oliver Riera, Miquel; Barceló Vicens, Jaume (Springer, 2011)

  LWT-MAC is a new Low Power Listening MAC protocol for WSNs designed to rapidly react to instantaneous increases of the network load. It takes advantage of overhearing by waking up all nodes at the end of a transmission to ...
• A semi-dynamic, game based and interference aware channel assignment for multi-radio multi-channel wireless mesh networks

  Amiri Nezhad, Maryam; Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Bellalta, Boris; Guerrero Zapata, Manel (Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, 2013)

  Channel assignment (CA) has been extensively researched for multi-radio wireless mesh networks (WMNs), but it is still very challenging when it comes to its implementation. In this paper we propose a semi-dynamic and ...
• A distributed power sharing framework among households in microgrids: a repeated game approach

  AlSkaif, Tarek; Guerrero Zapata, Manel; AlSkaif, Tarek; Bellalta, Boris; Nilsson, Anders (Springer, 2016)

  In microgrids, the integration of distributed energy resources (DERs) in the residential sector can improve power reliability, and potentially reduce power demands and carbon emissions. Improving the utilization of renewable ...
• Current approaches for solving over-constrained problems

  Meseguer, Pedro; Bouhmala, Noureddine; Bouzoubaa, Taoufik; Irgens, Morten; Sànchez Fibla, Martí (Springer, 2003)

  We summarize existing approaches to model and solve overconstrained problems. These problems are usually formulated as combinatorial optimization problems, and different specific and generic formalisms are discussed, ...
• Handling confounding variables in statistical shape analysis - application to cardiac remodelling

  Bernardino Perez, Gabriel; Benkarim, Oualid M.; Sanz de la Garza, Maria; Prat Gonzàlez, Susanna; Sepúlveda Martínez, Álvaro; Crispi Brillas, Fàtima; Sitges, Marta; Butakoff, Constantine; De Craene, Mathieu; Bijnens, Bart; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973- (Elsevier, 2020)

  Statistical shape analysis is a powerful tool to assess organ morphologies and find shape changes associated to a particular disease. However, imbalance in confounding factors, such as demographics might invalidate the ...
• Generalized path–permutation codes for reliable end-to-end networking of opportunistic links

  Lai, I-Wei; Shih, Jhih-Wei; Chen, Kwang-Cheng; Biglieri, Ezio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  Opportunistic links are emerging as a novel technology for state-of-the-art wireless networks, such as cognitive radio networks, energy-harvesting networks, and low-latency vehicular networks. To increase the reliability ...
• Uplink fractional power control and downlink power allocation for cell-free networks

  Nikbakht, Rasoul; Mosayebi, Reza; Lozano Solsona, Angel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  This letter proposes respective policies for uplink power control and downlink power allocation in cell-free wireless networks. Both policies rely only on large-scale quantities and are expressed in closed form, being ...
• Subset MMSE receivers for cell-free networks

  Attarifar, Masoud; Abbasfar, Aliazam; Lozano Solsona, Angel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  This paper formulates linear MMSE receivers that are both network- and user-centric for the uplink of cell-free wireless networks with centralized processing. Precisely, every user’s reception involves a distinct subset ...
• Fast quasi-conformal regional flattening of the left atrium

  Nuñez-Garcia, Marta; Bernardino Perez, Gabriel; Alarcón, Francisco; Caixal, Gala; Mont, Lluís; Camara, Oscar; Butakoff, Constantine (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  Two-dimensional representation of 3D anatomical structures is a simple and intuitive way for analysing patient information across populations and image modalities. While cardiac ventricles, especially the left ventricle, ...
• Concurrent decentralized channel allocation and access point selection using multi-armed bandits in multi BSS WLANs

  López Raventós, Álvaro; Bellalta, Boris (Elsevier, 2020)

  Enterprise Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) consist of multiple Access Points (APs) covering a given area. In these networks, interference is mitigated by allocating different channels to neighboring APs. Besides, ...
• Learning design and learning analytics in mobile and ubiquitous learning: a systematic review

  Pishtari, Gerti; Rodríguez-Triana, María Jesús; Sarmiento Márquez, Edna M.; Pérez Sanagustín, Maria del Mar; Ruiz Calleja, Adolfo; Santos Rodríguez, Patrícia; Prieto, Luis P.; Serrano Iglesias, Sergio; Väljataga, Terje (Wiley, 2020)

  Mobile and Ubiquitous Learning (m/u‐learning) are finding an increasing adoption in education. They are often distinguished by hybrid learning environments that encompass elements of formal and informal learning, in ...
• Possible molecular and cellular mechanisms at the basis of atmospheric electromagnetic field bioeffects

  Cifra, Michal; Apollonio, Francesca; Liberti, Micaela; García Sánchez, Tomás; Mir, Lluis M. (Springer, 2020)

  Mechanisms of how electromagnetic (EM) field acts on biological systems are governed by the same physics regardless of the origin of the EM field (technological, atmospheric...), given that EM parameters are the same. We ...

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