• The role of learning on bilinguals’ lexical architecture: beyond separated vs. integrated lexicons

  Costa, Albert, 1970-; Pickering, Martin J. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  How are the two lexicons of a bilingual represented and how do they interact during language processing? These questions are central to bilingualism and have been the topics of a large number of studies. Dijkstra, Wahl, ...
• On the bilingualism effect in task switching

  Branzi, Francesca Martina; Calabria, Marco; Gade, Miriam; Fuentes, Luis J.; Costa, Albert, 1970- (Cambridge University Press, 2018)

  In one task-switching experiment, we compared bilinguals and monolinguals to explore the reliability of the bilingualism effect on the n-2 repetition cost. In a second taskswitching experiment, we tested another group of ...
• Optimal information transfer in the cortex through synchronization

  Buehlmann, Andres; Deco, Gustavo (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010)

  In recent experimental work it has been shown that neuronal interactions are modulated by neuronal synchronization and that this modulation depends on phase shifts in neuronal oscillations. This result suggests that ...
• Functional connectivity dynamics: modeling the switching behavior of the resting state

  Hansen, Enrique C.A.; Battaglia, Demian; Spiegler, Andreas; Deco, Gustavo; Jirsa, Viktor K. (Elsevier, 2015)

  Functional connectivity (FC) sheds light on the interactions between different brain regions. Besides basic research, it is clinically relevant for applications in Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, presurgical planning, ...
• Facilitating the manual annotation of sounds when using large taxonomies

  Favory, Xavier; Fonseca, Eduardo; Font, Frederic; Serra, Xavier (FRUCT, 2018)

  Properly annotated multimedia content is crucial for supporting advances in many Information Retrieval applications. It enables, for instance, the development of automatic tools for the annotation of large and diverse ...
• General-purpose tagging of Freesound audio with audioSet labels: task description, dataset, and baseline

  Fonseca, Eduardo; Plakal, Manoj; Font, Frederic; Ellis, Daniel P. W.; Favory, Xavier; Pons, Jordi; Serra, Xavier (Tampere University of Technology, 2018)

  This paper describes Task 2 of the DCASE 2018 Challenge, titled “General-purpose audio tagging of Freesound content with AudioSet labels”. This task was hosted on the Kaggle platform as “Freesound General-Purpose Audio ...
• Human Early Life Exposome (HELIX) study: a European population-based exposome cohort

  Maitre, Léa; de Bont, Jeroen; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Robinson, Oliver; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Borràs, Eva; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; de Castro, Montserrat; Donaire González, David; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; Fossati, Serena; González, Juan R.; Hernández-Ferrer, Carles; Júlvez Calvo, Jordi; Manzano Salgado, Cyntia Beatriz, 1987-; Sabido Aguade, Eduard; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Tamayo-Uria, Ibon; Urquiza, José M.; van Gent, Diana; Vives Usano, Marta, 1990-; Warembourg, Charline; Nieuwenhuijsen, M.; Vrijheid, Martine (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)

  PURPOSE: Essential to exposome research is the collection of data on many environmental exposures from different domains in the same subjects. The aim of the Human Early Life Exposome (HELIX) study was to measure and ...
• Handling sign language data: the impact of modality

  Quer, Josep, 1965-; Steinbach, Markus (Frontiers, 2019)

  Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 years. By contrast, the impact of modality on ...
• Automatic assessment of violin performance using dynamic time warping classification

  Giraldo, Sergio; Ortega, Ariadna; Perez, Alfonso; Ramírez, Rafael; Waddell, George; Williamon, Aaron (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)

  The automatic assessment of music performance has become an area of special interest due to the increasing amount of technology-enhanced music learning systems. However, in most of these systems the assessment of the musical ...
• Expansion of the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) knowledge base and resources

  Köhler, Sebastian; Beltran, Sergi; Lochmüller, Hanns (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  The Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO)-a standardized vocabulary of phenotypic abnormalities associated with 7000+ diseases-is used by thousands of researchers, clinicians, informaticians and electronic health record systems ...
• RNAct: Protein-RNA interaction predictions for model organisms with supporting experimental data

  Lang, Benjamin; Armaos, Alexandros; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Protein-RNA interactions are implicated in a number of physiological roles as well as diseases, with molecular mechanisms ranging from defects in RNA splicing, localization and translation to the formation of aggregates. ...
• Annotation of regular polysemy and underspecification

  Martínez Alonso, Héctor; Sandford Pedersen, Bolette; Bel Rafecas, Núria (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2013)

  We present the result of an annotation task on regular polysemy for a series of semantic classes or dot types in English, Danish and Spanish. This article describes the annotation process, the results in terms of inter-encoder ...
• Impact of homologous recombination on the evolution of prokaryotic core genomes

  González-Torres, Pedro; Rodríguez-Mateos, Francisco; Antón, Josefa; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (American Society for Microbiology, 2019)

  Homologous recombination (HR) enables the exchange of genetic material between and within species. Recent studies suggest that this process plays a major role in the microevolution of microbial genomes, contributing to ...
• A Simple fusion of deep and shallow learning for acoustic scene classification

  Fonseca, Eduardo; Gong, Rong; Serra, Xavier (Cyprus University of Technology, 2018)

  In the past, Acoustic Scene Classification systems havebeen based on hand crafting audio features that are input toa classifier. Nowadays, the common trend is to adopt datadriven techniques, e.g., deep learning, where audio ...
• Allele balance bias identifies systematic genotyping errors and false disease associations

  Muyas, Francesc; Bosio, Mattia; Puig, Anna; Susak, Hana; Domènech Salgado, Laura, 1989-; Escaramís, Geòrgia; Zapata Ortiz, Luis, 1985-; Demidov, German; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; Rabionet, Raquel; Ossowski, Stephan (Wiley, 2019)

  In recent years, next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become a cornerstone of clinical genetics and diagnostics. Many clinical applications require high precision, especially if rare events such as somatic mutations in ...
• Rapid reversible changes in compartments and local chromatin organization revealed by hyperosmotic shock

  Amat, Ramon; Böttcher, René; Le Dily, François; Vidal Ocabo, Enrique; Quilez Oliete, Javier; Cuartero, Yasmina; Beato, Miguel; Nadal Clanchet, Eulàlia de; Posas Garriga, Francesc (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2019)

  Nuclear architecture is decisive for the assembly of transcriptional responses. However, how chromosome organization is dynamically modulated to permit rapid and transient transcriptional changes in response to environmental ...
• Early prediction of Alzheimer's disease with non-local patch-based longitudinal descriptors

  Sanromà, Gerard; Andrea, Víctor; Benkarim, Oualid M.; Manjón, José V.; Coupé, Pierrick; Camara, Oscar; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973- (Springer, 2017)

  Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by a progressive decline in the cognitive functions accompanied by an atrophic process which can already be observed in the early stages using magnetic resonance images (MRI). ...
• Cortical folding alterations in fetuses with isolated non-severe ventriculomegaly

  Benkarim, Oualid M.; Hahner, Nadine; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; Gratacós Solsona, Eduard; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973-; Eixarch, Elisenda; Sanromà, Gerard (Elsevier, 2018)

  Neuroimaging of brain diseases plays a crucial role in understanding brain abnormalities and early diagnosis. Of great importance is the study of brain abnormalities in utero and the assessment of deviations in case of ...
• Class-based word sense induction for dot-type nominals

  Romeo, Lauren; Martínez Alonso, Héctor; Bel Rafecas, Núria (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2013)

  This paper describes an effort to capture the sense alternation of dot-type nominals using Word Sense Induction (WSI). We propose dot-type nominals generate more semantically consistent groupings when clustered into more ...
• Genomes shed light on the secret life of Candida glabrata: not so asexual, not so commensal

  Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973-; Fairhead, Cécile (Springer, 2019)

  Candida glabrata is an opportunistic yeast pathogen, whose incidence has increased over the last decades. Despite its genus name, this species is actually more closely related to the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae ...

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