• Urban policy interventions to reduce traffic-related emissions and air pollution: A systematic evidence map

  Khreis, Haneen; Sanchez, Kristen A.; Foster, Margaret; Burns, Jacob; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Jaikumar, Rohit; Ramani, Tara; Zietsman, Josias (Elsevier, 2023)

  Background: Urban areas are hot spots for human exposure to air pollution, which originates in large part from traffic. As the urban population continues to grow, a greater number of people risk exposure to traffic-related ...
• Benzophenone-3: Comprehensive review of the toxicological and human evidence with meta-analysis of human biomonitoring studies

  Mustieles, Vicente; Balogh, Ria K.; Axelstad, Marta; Montazeri, Parisa, 1988-; Márquez, Sandra; Vrijheid, Martine; Draskau, Monica K.; Taxvig, Camilla; Peinado, Francisco M.; Berman, Tamar; Frederiksen, Hanne; Fernández, Mariana F.; Vinggaard, Anne Marie; Andersson, Anna-Maria (Elsevier, 2023)

  Background: Benzophenone-3 (BP-3) and its major metabolite benzophenone-1 (BP-1) are widely used as UV filters in sunscreens and cosmetics to prevent sunburn and skin damage, or as stabilizers to prevent photodegradation ...
• The creative drummer: an eeg-based pilot study on the correlates of emotions and creative drum playing

  Ramírez, Rafael,1966-; Reija, Xavier (MDPI, 2023)

  It is reasonable to assume that emotional processes are involved in creative tasks and the generation of creative ideas. In this pilot study, we investigate the emotional correlates in professional drummers during different ...
• Domain expert evaluation of advanced visual computing solutions and 3D printing for the planning of the left atrial appendage occluder interventions

  Mill, Jordi; Montoliu, Helena; Moustafa, Abdel-Hakim; Olivares, Andy L.; Albors, Carlos; Aguado, Ainhoa M.; Medina, Elodie; Ceresa, Mario; Freixa, Xavier; Arzamendi, Dabit; Cochet, Hubert; Camara, Oscar (Whioce, 2023)

  Advanced visual computing solutions and three-dimensional (3D) printing are moving from engineering to clinical pipelines for training, planning, and guidance of complex interventions. 3D imaging and rendering, virtual ...
• Models of teaching science communication

  Llorente Lope, Carolina, 1989-; Revuelta, Gema (MDPI, 2023)

  Changes in the communication ecosystem have generated profound transformations in current science communication. In the same way, the coexistence of diverse actors with different objectives and professional standards also ...
• Inborn errors of OAS-RNase L in SARS-CoV-2-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

  Lee, Danyel; COVID Human Genetic Effort; Zhang, Shen-Ying (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023)

  Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare and severe condition that follows benign COVID-19. We report autosomal recessive deficiencies of OAS1, OAS2, or RNASEL in five unrelated children with MIS-C. ...
• Gestational age at birth and body size from infancy through adolescence: an individual participant data meta-analysis on 253,810 singletons in 16 birth cohort studies

  Vinther, Johan L.; Fernández-Barrés, Sílvia; Vrijheid, Martine; Nybo Andersen, Anne-Marie (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023)

  Preterm birth is the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality and is associated with adverse developmental and long-term health outcomes, including several cardiometabolic risk factors and outcomes. However, ...
• Cord blood epigenome-wide meta-analysis in six European-based child cohorts identifies signatures linked to rapid weight growth

  Alfano, Rossella; Zugna, Daniela; Barros, Henrique; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Chatzi, Leda; Ghantous, Akram; Herceg, Zdenko; Keski-Rahkonen, Pekka; Kok, Theo M. de; Nawrot, Tim S.; Relton, Caroline L.; Robinson, Oliver; Roumeliotaki, Theano; Scalbert, Augustin; Vrijheid, Martine; Vineis, Paolo; Richiardi, Lorenzo; Plusquin, Michelle (BioMed Central, 2023)

  Rapid postnatal growth may result from exposure in utero or early life to adverse conditions and has been associated with diseases later in life and, in particular, with childhood obesity. DNA methylation, interfacing ...
• A chromosome‐level genome assembly enables the identification of the follicule stimulating hormone receptor as the master sex‐determining gene in the flatfish Solea senegalensis

  de la Herrán, Roberto; Gómez-Garrido, Jèssica; Cruz, Fernando; Alioto, Tyler S; Martínez, Paulino (Wiley, 2023)

  Sex determination (SD) shows huge variation among fish and a high evolutionary rate, as illustrated by the Pleuronectiformes (flatfishes). This order is characterized by its adaptation to demersal life, compact genomes and ...
• Assessing the coupling between local neural activity and global connectivity fluctuations: application to human intracranial electroencephalography during a cognitive task

  Vila-Vidal, Manel, 1991-; Khawaja, Mariam; Carreño, Mar; Roldán, Pedro; Rumià, Jordi; Donaire, Antonio; Deco, Gustavo; Tauste Campo, Adrià, 1982- (Wiley, 2023)

  Cognitive-relevant information is processed by different brain areas that cooperate to eventually produce a response. The relationship between local activity and global brain states during such processes, however, remains ...
• Impact of COVID-19 inequalities on children: an intersectional analysis

  Lemkow–Tovías, Gabriel; Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, 1984-; Teixidó i Compañó, Ester, 1983-; Benach, Joan (Wiley, 2023)

  Societal concerns about the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have largely focussed on the social groups most directly affected, such as the elderly and health workers. However, less focus has been placed on understanding ...
• The PRALINE database: protein and Rna humAn singLe nucleotIde variaNts in condEnsates

  Vandelli, Andrea; Arnal, Magdalena; Monti, Michele; Fiorentino, Jonathan; Broglia, Laura; Colantoni, Alessio; Sanchez de Groot, Natalia; Torrent Burgas, Marc; Armaos, Alexandros, 1989-; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano (Oxford University Press, 2023)

  Biological condensates are membraneless organelles with different material properties. Proteins and RNAs are the main components, but most of their interactions are still unknown. Here, we introduce PRALINE, a database for ...
• Associations of green and blue space exposure in pregnancy with epigenetic gestational age acceleration

  Marques, Irene; Santos, Susana; Monasso, Giulietta S.; Fossati, Serena; Vrijheid, Martine; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Felix, Janine Frédérique (Taylor & Francis, 2023)

  Early life is seen as a particularly sensitive period for environmental exposures. Natural space exposure during pregnancy has been associated with offspring health. Epigenetic gestational age acceleration, a discrepancy ...
• Toward naturalistic neuroscience: Mechanisms underlying the flattening of brain hierarchy in movie-watching compared to rest and task

  Kringelbach, Morten L.; Sanz Perl, Yonatan; Tagliazucchi, Enzo; Deco, Gustavo (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023)

  Identifying the functional specialization of the brain has moved from using cognitive tasks and resting state to using ecological relevant, naturalistic movies. We leveraged a large-scale neuroimaging dataset to directly ...
• Distributed harmonic patterns of structure-function dependence orchestrate human consciousness

  Luppi, Andrea I.; Vohryzek, Jakub; Kringelbach, Morten L.; Martinez Mediano, Pedro Antonio; Adapa, Ram; Carhart-Harris, Robin L.; Roseman, Leor; Pappas, Ioannis; Peattie, Alexander R. D.; Manktelow, Anne E.; Sahakian, Barbara J.; Finoia, Paola; Williams, Guy B.; Allanson, Judith; Pickard, John D.; Menon, David K.; Atasoy, Selen; Stamatakis, Emmanuel A. (Nature Research, 2023)

  A central question in neuroscience is how consciousness arises from the dynamic interplay of brain structure and function. Here we decompose functional MRI signals from pathological and pharmacologically-induced perturbations ...
• Hearing “birch” hampers saying “duck”: an event-related potential study on phonological interference in immediate and delayed word production

  Mädebach, Andreas; Widmann, Andreas; Posch, Melina; Schröger, Erich; Jescheniak, Jörg D. (MIT Press, 2022)

  When speakers name a picture (e.g., “duck”), a distractor word phonologically related to an alternative name (e.g., “birch” related to “bird”) slows down naming responses compared with an unrelated distractor word. This ...
• Effects of microtubule length and crowding on active microtubule network organization

  Chew, Wei-Xiang; Henkin, Gil; Nédélec, François; Surrey, Thomas (Elsevier, 2023)

  Active filament networks can organize into various dynamic architectures driven by cross-linking motors. Densities and kinetic properties of motors and microtubules have been shown previously to determine active microtubule ...
• Remote visualization of large-scale genomic alignments for collaborative clinical research and diagnosis of rare diseases

  Corvò, Alberto; Matalonga, Leslie; Laurie, Steven, 1973-; Picó-Amador, Daniel; Fernández Callejo, Marcos; Paramonov, Ida; Gut, Ivo Glynne; Piscia, Davide; Beltran, Sergi (Elsevier, 2023)

  The Solve-RD project objectives include solving undiagnosed rare diseases (RD) through collaborative research on shared genome-phenome datasets. The RD-Connect Genome-Phenome Analysis Platform (GPAP), for data collation ...
• Network-based modelling of mechano-inflammatory chondrocyte regulation in early osteoarthritis

  Segarra-Queralt, Maria; Piella Fenoy, Gemma; Noailly, Jérôme (Frontiers, 2023)

  Osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating joint disease characterized by articular cartilage degradation, inflammation and pain. An extensive range of in vivo and in vitro studies evidences that mechanical loads induce changes ...
• A deep-learning based framework for source separation, analysis, and synthesis of choral ensembles

  Chandna, Pritish; Cuesta, Helena; Petermann, Darius; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Frontiers, 2022)

  Choral singing in the soprano, alto, tenor and bass (SATB) format is a widely practiced and studied art form with significant cultural importance. Despite the popularity of the choral setting, it has received little attention ...

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