• The fitness cost and benefit of phase-separated protein deposits

  Sanchez de Groot, Natalia; Torrent, Marc; Ravarani, Charles N.J.; Trusina, Ala; Ventura, Salvador; Babu, M. Madan (Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2019)

  Phase separation of soluble proteins into insoluble deposits is associated with numerous diseases. However, protein deposits can also function as membrane-less compartments for many cellular processes. What are the fitness ...
• RNA as a key factor in driving or preventing self-assembly of the TAR DNA-binding protein 43

  Zacco, Elsa; Graña-Montes, Ricardo; Martin, Stephen R.; Sanchez de Groot, Natalia; Alfano, Caterina; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano; Pastore, Annalisa (Elsevier, 2019)

  Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal lobar degeneration are incurable motor neuron diseases associated with muscle weakness, paralysis and respiratory failure. Accumulation of TAR DNA-binding protein 43 (TDP-43) ...
• Mutagenesis scanning uncovers evolutionary constraints on tobacco etch potyvirus membrane-associated 6K2 protein

  González, Rubén; We, Beilei; Li, Xianghua; Martínez, Fernando; Elena, Santiago F. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  RNA virus high mutation rate is a double-edged sword. At the one side, most mutations jeopardize proteins functions; at the other side, mutations are needed to fuel adaptation. The relevant question then is the ratio between ...
• The effects of transport mode use on self-perceived health, mental health, and social contact measures: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study

  Avila-Palencia, Ione, 1985-; Int Panis, Luc; Dons, Evi; Gaupp-Berghausen, Mailin; Raser, Elisabeth; Götschi, Thomas; Gerike, Regine; Brand, Christian; De Nazelle, Audrey; Orjuela, Juan Pablo; Anaya, Esther; Stigell, Erik; Kahlmeier, Sonja; Iacorossi, Francesco; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Transport mode choice has been associated with different health risks and benefits depending on which transport mode is used. We aimed to evaluate the association between different transport modes use and several ...
• Assessing green gentrification in historically disenfranchised neighborhoods: a longitudinal and spatial analysis of Barcelona

  Anguelovski, Isabelle; Connolly, James; Masip, Laia; Pearsall, Hamil (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  To date, little is known about the extent to which the creation of municipal green spaces over an entire city addresses social or racial inequalities in the distribution of environmental amenities – or whether such an ...
• A microtonal tuning method: test & discussion on the use of microtonal intervals for the performance of traditional Turkish music

  Tamer, Yahya Burak; Bozkurt, Barış (Journal of interdisciplinary music studies, 2013)

  Background in music computing: An automatic method for tuning analysis of recordings was presented in (Bozkurt 2008). Data collected from this method have been used to develop a new microtonal tuner system implemented in ...
• Circulating metabolic biomarkers of renal function in diabetic and non-diabetic populations

  Barrios Barrera, Clara; Otero, Sol; Rodríguez García, Eva; Pedro-Botet, Juan Carlos; Pascual Santos, Julio; Menni, Cristina (Nature Research, 2018)

  Using targeted NMR spectroscopy of 227 fasting serum metabolic traits, we searched for novel metabolic signatures of renal function in 926 type 2 diabetics (T2D) and 4838 non-diabetic individuals from four independent ...
• The MTG-Jamendo dataset for automatic music tagging

  Bogdanov, Dmitry; Won, Minz Sanghee; Tovstogan, Philip; Porter, Alastair; Serra, Xavier (2019)

  We present the MTG-Jamendo Dataset, a new open dataset for music auto-tagging. It is built using music available at Jamendo under Creative Commons licenses and tags provided by content uploaders. The dataset contains ...
• Whole-genome sequencing of the opportunistic yeast pathogen candida inconspicua uncovers its hybrid origin

  Mixão, Verónica; Perez Hansen, Antonio; Saus Martínez, Ester; Boekhout, Teun; Lass-Florl, Cornelia; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Frontiers Media, 2019)

  Fungal infections such as those caused by Candida species are increasingly common complications in immunocompromised patients. The list of causative agents of candidiasis is growing and comprises a set of emerging species ...
• Towards concurrent multi-tasking in shareable interfaces

  Fernandez Julià, Carles, 1984-; Jordà Puig, Sergi (Springer, 2015)

  Shareable interfaces, those that can be interacted simultaneously by several users, are a common tool used both in CSCW research and in real world applications. They tend however to lack a capability that has been traditionally ...
• The AcousticBrainz genre dataset: Multi-source, multi-level, multi-label, and large-scale

  Bogdanov, Dmitry; Porter, Alastair; Schreiber, Hendrik; Urbano, Julián; Oramas, Sergio (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2019)

  This paper introduces the AcousticBrainz Genre Dataset, a large-scale collection of hierarchical multi-label genre annotations from different metadata sources. It allows researchers to explore how the same music pieces ...
• European birth cohorts for environmental health research

  Vrijheid, Martine; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Kogevinas, Manolis; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2012)

  BACKGROUND: Many pregnancy and birth cohort studies investigate the health effects of early-life environmental contaminant exposure. An overview of existing studies and their data is needed to improve collaboration, ...
• Lifestyle factors and visceral adipose tissue: results from the PREDIMED-PLUS study

  Galmes-Panades, Aina M.; Goday Arno, Alberto; Romaguera Bosch, Dora; PREDIMED-Plus investigators (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)

  BACKGROUND: Visceral adipose tissue (VAT) is a strong predictor of cardiometabolic health, and lifestyle factors may have a positive influence on VAT depot. This study aimed to assess the cross-sectional associations between ...
• Don’t blame distributional semantics if it can’t do entailment

  Westera, Matthijs (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2019)

  Distributional semantics has had enormous empirical success in Computational Linguistics and Cognitive Science in modeling various semantic phenomena, such as semantic similarity, and distributional models are widely used ...
• Linear distributed source modeling of local field potentials recorded with intra-cortical electrode arrays

  Hindriks, Rikkert; Schmiedt, Joscha; Arsiwalla, Xerxes D.; Peter, Alina; Verschure, Paul F. M. J.; Fries, Pascal; Schmid, Michael C.; Deco, Gustavo (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017)

  Planar intra-cortical electrode (Utah) arrays provide a unique window into the spatial organization of cortical activity. Reconstruction of the current source density (CSD) underlying such recordings, however, requires ...
• The Effect of foreign language in fear acquisition

  García Palacios, Azucena; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Castilla, Diana; del Río, Eva; Casaponsa, Aina; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni (Nature Research, 2018)

  Emotions are at the core of human nature. There is evidence that emotional reactivity in foreign languages compared to native languages is reduced. We explore whether this emotional distance could modulate fear conditioning, ...
• Hormone-control regions mediate steroid receptor-dependent genome organization

  Le Dily, François; Vidal, Enrique; Cuartero, Yasmina; Quilez Oliete, Javier; Nacht, A. Silvina; Vicent, Guillermo Pablo; Carbonell-Caballero, Jose; Sharma, Priyanka; Villanueva Cañas, José Luis, 1984-; Ferrari, Roberto; De Llobet, Lara Isabel; Verde, Gaetano; Wright, Roni H.G.; Beato, Miguel (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2019)

  In breast cancer cells, some topologically associating domains (TADs) behave as hormonal gene regulation units, within which gene transcription is coordinately regulated in response to steroid hormones. Here we further ...
• Intergenerational and transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in animals

  Perez, Marcos Francisco; Lehner, Ben, 1978- (Nature Research, 2019)

  Animals transmit not only DNA but also other molecules, such as RNA, proteins and metabolites, to their progeny via gametes. It is currently unclear to what extent these molecules convey information between generations and ...
• Visual stimulation quenches global alpha range activity in awake primate V4: a case study

  Deneux, Thomas; Masquelier, Timothée; Bermudez, Maria A.; Masson, Guillaume S.; Deco, Gustavo; Vanzetta, Ivo (Society of Photo Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), 2017)

  Increasing evidence suggests that sensory stimulation not only changes the level of cortical activity with respect to baseline but also its structure. Despite having been reported in a multitude of conditions and preparations ...
• A quantitative comparison of different approaches for melody extraction from polyphonic audio recordings

  Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Streich, Sebastian; Ong, Bee Suan; Paiva, Rui Pedro; Tappert, Sven; Batke, Jan-Mark; Poliner, Graham; Ellis, Dan; Bello, Juan Pablo (2006)

  This paper provides an overview of current state-of-the-art approaches for melody extraction from polyphonic audio recordings, and it proposes a methodology for the quantitative evaluation of melody extraction algorithms. ...

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