• Negative monetary policy rates and systemic banks' risk‐taking: evidence from the euro area securities register

  Bubeck, Johannes; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis (Wiley, 2020)

  We show that negative monetary policy rates induce systemic banks to reach‐for‐yield. For identification, we exploit the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities ...
• Feed-forward information and zero-lag synchronization in the sensory thalamocortical circuit are modulated during stimulus perception

  Tauste Campo, Adrià; Vázquez, Yuriria; Álvarez, Manuel; Zainos, Antonio; Rossi-Pool, Román; Deco, Gustavo; Romo, Ranulfo (National Academy of Sciences, 2019)

  The direction of functional information flow in the sensory thalamocortical circuit may play a role in stimulus perception, but, surprisingly, this process is poorly understood. We addressed this problem by evaluating a ...
• How large is the periablational zone after radiofrequency and microwave ablation? Computer-based comparative study of two currently used clinical devices

  Trujillo Guillén, Macarena; Prakash, Punit; Faridi, Pegah; Radosevic, Aleksandar; Curto, Sergio; Burdío Pinilla, Fernando; Berjano, Enrique J. (Taylor & Francis, 2020)

  Purpose: To compare the size of the coagulation (CZ) and periablational (PZ) zones created with two commercially available devices in clinical use for radiofrequency (RFA) and microwave ablation (MWA), respectively. Methods: ...
• Places and preferences: a longitudinal analysis of self-selection and contextual effects

  Gallego Dobón, Aina; Buscha, Franz; Sturgis, Patrick; Oberski, Daniel (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

  Contextual theories of political behaviour assert that the contexts in which people live influence their political beliefs and vote choices. Most studies, however, fail to distinguish contextual influence from self-selection ...
• Inequality and the erosion of trust among the poor: experimental evidence

  Gallego Dobón, Aina (Oxford University Press, 2016)

  This article uses a subtle experimental treatment to examine how perceptions of income inequality affect generalized trust and the willingness to cooperate with others. It hypothesizes that inequality reduces prosocial ...
• Spatial variability of heat-related mortality in Barcelona from 1992-2015: A case crossover study design

  Ingole, Vijendra; Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc, 1978-; Deluca, Anna; Quijal, Marcos; Borrell i Thió, Carme; Rodríguez Sanz, Maica, 1974-; Achebak, Hicham; Lauwaet, Dirk; Gilabert, Joan; Murage, Peninah; Hajat, Shakoor; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Ballester, Joan (MDPI, 2020)

  Numerous studies have demonstrated the relationship between summer temperatures and increased heat-related deaths. Epidemiological analyses of the health effects of climate exposures usually rely on observations from the ...
• Effect of the recent economic crisis on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in nine urban areas in Europe

  Palència Fernàndez, Laia; Gotsens Miquel, Mercè, 1983-; Marí Dell'Olmo, Marc, 1978-; Bosakova, Lucia; Burström, Bo; Costa, Claudia; Deboosere, Patrick; Dzúrová, Dagmar; Lustigova, Michala; Morrison Esteve, Joana, 1977-; Santana, Paula; Borrell i Thió, Carme (Elsevier, 2020)

  Objective: To analyse socioeconomic inequalities in all-cause mortality among men and women in nine European urban areas during the recent economic crisis, and to compare the results to those from two periods before the ...
• Whsc1 links pluripotency exit with mesendoderm specification

  Tian, Tian V.; Di Stefano, Bruno, 1984-; Stik, Grégoire; Vila-Casadesús, Maria; Sardina, Jose Luis; Vidal Ocabo, Enrique; Dasti, Alessandro, 1988-; Segura-Morales, Carolina; de Andrés-Aguayo, Luisa; Gómez, Antonio; Goldmann, Johanna; Jaenisch, Rudolf; Graf, T. (Thomas) (Nature Research, 2019)

  How pluripotent stem cells differentiate into the main germ layers is a key question of developmental biology. Here, we show that the chromatin-related factor Whsc1 (also known as Nsd2 and MMSET) has a dual role in ...
• Color illusions also deceive CNNs for low-level vision tasks: analysis and implications

  Gómez Villa, Alexander; Martín, Adrian; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo; Malo, Jesús (Elsevier, 2020)

  The study of visual illusions has proven to be a very useful approach in vision science. In this work we start by showing that, while convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained for low-level visual tasks in natural ...
• Evaluation of audio-based feedback technologies for bow learning technique in violin beginners

  Blanco, Angel David; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2017)

  We present a study of the effects of feedback technologies on the learning process of novice violin students. Twenty-one subjects participated in our experiment, divided into two groups: Beginners (participants with no ...
• bsAS, an antisense long non-coding RNA, essential for correct wing development through regulation of blistered/DSRF isoform usage

  Pérez-Lluch, Sílvia; Klein, Cecilia C.; Breschi, Alessandra, 1988-; Ruiz-Romero, Marina; Abad, Amaya; Palumbo, Emilio; Bekish, Lyazzat; Arnan Ros, Carme; Guigó Serra, Roderic (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)

  Natural Antisense Transcripts (NATs) are long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) that overlap coding genes in the opposite strand. NATs roles have been related to gene regulation through different mechanisms, including post-transcriptional ...
• A reevaluation of Whittle (1986, 1992) reveals the link between detection thresholds, discrimination thresholds, and brightness perception

  Kane, David; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), 2019)

  In 1986, Paul Whittle investigated the ability to discriminate between the luminance of two small patches viewed upon a uniform background. In 1992, Paul Whittle asked subjects to manipulate the luminance of a number of ...
• Mitigating the impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic on neuroscience and music research protocols in clinical populations

  Papatzikis, Efthymios; Zeba, Fathima; Särkämö, Teppo; Ramírez, Rafael,1966-; Grau-Sánchez, Jennifer; Tervaniemi, Mari; Loewy, Joanne (Frontiers, 2020)

  The COVID-19 disease and the systemic responses to it has impacted lives, routines and procedures at an unprecedented level. While medical care and emergency response present immediate needs, the implications of this ...
• Applying deep learning techniques to estimate patterns of musical gesture

  Dalmazzo, David; Waddell, George; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (Frontiers, 2021)

  Repetitive practice is one of the most important factors in improving the performance of motor skills. This paper focuses on the analysis and classification of forearm gestures in the context of violin playing. We recorded ...
• Evaluation of computationally designed peptides against TWEAK, a cytokine of the tumour necrosis factor ligand family

  Badia Villanueva, Miriam; Defaus, Sira; Foj, Ruben; Andreu Martínez, David; Oliva Miguel, Baldomero; Sierra, Angels; Fernández Fuentes, Narcís (MDPI, 2021)

  The tumour necrosis factor-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) is a member of the tumour necrosis factor ligand family and has been shown to be overexpressed in tumoral cells together with the fibroblast growth ...
• Determination of benchmark concentrations and their statistical uncertainty for cytotoxicity test data and functional in vitro assays

  Krebs, Alice; Nyffeler, Johanna; Karreman, Christiaan; Schmidt, Béla Z.; Kappenberg, Franziska; Mellert, Jan; Pallocca, Giorgia; Pastor Maeso, Manuel; Rahnenführer, Jörg; Leist, Marcel (Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, 2020)

  Many toxicological test methods, including assays of cell viability and function, require an evaluation of concentration-response data. This often involves curve fitting, and the resulting mathematical functions are then ...
• Accurate and scalable version identification using musically-motivated embeddings

  Yesiler, Furkan; Serrà Julià, Joan; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  The version identification (VI) task deals with the automatic detection of recordings that correspond to the same underlying musical piece. Despite many efforts, VI is still an open problem, with much room for improvement, ...
• Neural percussive synthesis parameterised by high-level timbral features

  Ramires, António; Chandna, Pritish; Favory, Xavier; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Serra, Xavier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  We present a deep neural network-based methodology for synthesising percussive sounds with control over high-level timbral characteristics of the sounds. This approach allows for intuitive control of a synthesizer, enabling ...
• Sequence-to-sequence singing synthesis using the feed-forward transformer

  Blaauw, Merlijn; Bonada, Jordi, 1973- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  We propose a sequence-to-sequence singing synthesizer, which avoids the need for training data with pre-aligned phonetic and acoustic features. Rather than the more common approach of a content-based attention mechanism ...
• Content based singing voice extraction from a musical mixture

  Chandna, Pritish; Blaauw, Merlijn; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  We present a deep learning based methodology for extracting the singing voice signal from a musical mixture based on the underlying linguistic content. Our model follows an encoder-decoder architecture and takes as input ...

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