• Studying the flow experience in computer-supported collaborative learning: a study with pyramidApp

  Lobo-Quintero, René; Sánchez Reina, Jesús Roberto; Hernández-Leo, Davinia (Society for Learning Analytics Research, 2024)

  Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is recognized as an effective methodology for fostering social interaction mediated by technology in ways that potentially trigger learning. The successful implementation ...
• Music-enhanced emotion identification of facial emotions in autistic spectrum disorder children: a pilot EEG study

  Ramírez, Rafael,1966-; Matamoros, Elisabet; Hernández-Leo, Davinia; Mirabel, Júlia; Sánchez, Elisabet; Escude, Núria (MDPI, 2022)

  The Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by a difficulty in expressing and interpreting others’ emotions. In particular, people with ASD have difficulties when interpreting emotions encoded in facial expressions. ...
• Repertoire-specific vocal pitch data generation for improved melodic analysis of carnatic music

  Plaja-Roglans, Genís; Nutall, Thomas; Pearson, Lara; Serra, Xavier; Miron, Marius (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2023)

  Deep Learning methods achieve state-of-the-art in many tasks, including vocal pitch extraction. However, these methods rely on the availability of pitch track annotations without errors, which are scarce and expensive to ...
• Electrical conductivity measurement in human liver tissue: assessment on normal vs. tumor tissue and under in vivo vs. ex vivo conditions

  Sarreshtehdari, Amirhossein; García Sánchez, Tomás; Sánchez Velázquez, Patricia, 1985-; Ielpo, Benedetto; Berjano, Enrique J.; Villamonte, Maria; Moll, Xavier; Burdío Pinilla, Fernando (MDPI, 2024)

  Background: This study evaluated electrical conductivity in human liver tissue in the 3-1000 kHz frequency range to compare normal versus tumor tissues under in vivo versus ex vivo conditions. Methods: Previous informed ...
• A review of heart chamber segmentation for structural and functional analysis using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

  Peng, Peng; Lekadir, Karim, 1977-; Gooya, Ali; Shao, Ling; Petersen, Steffen E.; Frangi Caregnato, Alejandro (Springer, 2016)

  Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) has become a key imaging modality in clinical cardiology practice due to its unique capabilities for non-invasive imaging of the cardiac chambers and great vessels. A wide range of ...
• Cartilaginous endplates: A comprehensive review on a neglected structure in intervertebral disc research

  Crump, Katherine B.; Alminnawi, Ahmad; Bermúdez-Lekerika, Paola; Compte, Roger; Gualdi, Francesco; McSweeney, Terence; Muñoz-Moya, Estefano; Nüesch, Andrea; Geris, Liesbet; Dudli, Stefan; Karppinen, Jaro; Noailly, Jérôme; Le Maitre, Christine L.; Gantenbein, Benjamin (Wiley, 2023)

  The cartilaginous endplates (CEP) are key components of the intervertebral disc (IVD) necessary for sustaining the nutrition of the disc while distributing mechanical loads and preventing the disc from bulging into the ...
• Dutch-Cantonese bilinguals show segmental processing during sinitic language production

  Timmer, Kalinka; Chen, Yiya (Frontiers, 2017)

  This study addressed the debate on the primacy of syllable vs. segment (i.e., phoneme) as a functional unit of phonological encoding in syllabic languages by investigating both behavioral and neural responses of Dutch-Cantonese ...
• Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower and higher and use more stable pitches than speech: a registered report

  Ozaki, Yuto; Rocamora, Martín; Gómez-Cañon, Juan Sebastián; Savage Patrick E. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2024)

  Both music and language are found in all known human societies, yet no studies have compared similarities and differences between song, speech, and instrumental music on a global scale. In this Registered Report, we analyzed ...
• Door-to-door transportation services for reduced mobility population: a descriptive analytics of the city of Barcelona

  Portell, Laura; Morera, Sergi; Ramalhinho-Lourenço, Helena (MDPI, 2022)

  A central issue in modern cities is providing inclusive transportation services for people with reduced mobility. In particular, Barcelona is offering a public door-to-door pickup transportation service complementary to ...
• How do table shape, group size, and gender affect on-task actions in computer education open-ended tasks

  Vujovic, Milica; Hernández Leo, Davinia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2022)

  This article presents a study that adds evidence to the field of computer education by focusing on the interaction between shapes of tables, group size, and gender, and their effects on on-task collaborative learning ...
• Inducing a meditative state by artificial perturbations: a mechanistic understanding of brain dynamics underlying meditation

  Dagnino, Paulina Clara; Galadí, Javier Alejandro; Càmara, Estela; Deco, Gustavo; Escrichs, Anira (MIT Press, 2024)

  Contemplative neuroscience has increasingly explored meditation using neuroimaging. However, the brain mechanisms underlying meditation remain elusive. Here, we implemented a mechanistic framework to explore the spatiotemporal ...
• Selective annotation of few data for beat tracking of latin american music using rhythmic features

  Maia, Lucas S.; Rocamora, Martín; Biscainho, Luis W.; Fuentes, Magdalena (Ubiquity Press, 2024)

  Training state-of-the-art beat tracking models usually requires large amounts of annotated data. It is widely known that data annotation is a time-consuming process and generally involves expert knowledge in the context ...
• Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries

  Jacoby, Nori; Rocamora, Martín; McDermott, Josh H. (Springer, 2024)

  Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 39 participant groups in 15 ...
• Measuring gender bias in student satisfaction in higher education: a cross-department study

  Marques, Francielle; Hernández-Leo, Davinia; Castillo, Carlos (Taylor & Francis, 2024)

  Student satisfaction surveys are widely accepted for measuring the quality of students’ overall experience with the received teaching and informing the design of improvements in higher education. However, several studies ...
• Intein-mediated thyroid hormone biosensors: towards controlled delivery of hormone therapy

  Martí Baena, Quim; Pascuet Fontanet, Andreu; Berjaga Buisan, Tomas; Caravaca Rodríguez, Miriam; Puig Costa-Jussà, Jaume; Sánchez Mejías, Avencia; Ivančić, Dimitrije; Mogas Díez, Sira; Güell Cargol, Marc, 1982-; Macía, Javier (Frontiers, 2024)

  Although blood sampling and medical imaging are well-established techniques in clinical diagnostics, they often require long post-processing procedures. Fast and simple quantification of signaling molecules can enable ...
• Towards citizen science-inspired learning activities: the co-design of an exploration tool for teachers following a human-centred design approach

  Calvera-Isabal, Miriam; Santos, Patricia; Hernández-Leo, Davinia (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  The integration of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) activities into formal education is encouraged by policy makers to promote engineering and science studies among young people. Studies show that students ...
• A hybrid-flipped classroom approach: students’ perception and performance assessment

  Yalcinkaya Gokdogan, Bengisu; Busra Coruk, Remziye; Benzaghta, Mohamed; Kara, Ali (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2023)

  This study presents an improved hybrid-flipped classroom (hybrid-FC) education method based on technology-enhanced learning (TEL) along with diluted classes for a course on probability and random processes in engineering. ...
• Surviving and thriving: how changes in teaching modalities influenced student satisfaction before, during and after COVID-19

  Ortiz Beltrán, Ariel; Hernández Leo, Davinia; Amarasinghe, Ishari (Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education, 2023)

  This paper leverages analytics methods to investigate the impact of changes in teaching modalities shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic on undergraduate students’ satisfaction within a Spanish brick-and-mortar higher education ...
• Unveiling women’s needs and expectations as users of bike sharing services: the H2020 DIAMOND Project

  Gorrini, Andrea; Choubassi, Rawad; Messa, Federico; Saleh, Wafaa; Ababio-Donkor, Augustus; Chiara Leva, Maria; D’Arcy, Lorraine; Fabbri, Francesco; Laniado, David; Aragón, Pablo (MDPI, 2021)

  Within the objectives of the H2020 DIAMOND project, the paper investigates women’s needs and expectations as users of the bike-sharing service managed by Syndicat Mixte Autolib et Velib Métropole in the territory of Paris ...
• What I am and what I am not: destruktion of the mind–body problem

  Galadí, Javier Alejandro (MDPI, 2023)

  The German word destruktion is used here in the sense that philosophy should destroy some ontological concepts and the everyday meanings of certain words. Tradition allows the transmission of knowledge, but it can perpetuate ...

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