• Personal exposure to particulate matter in peri-urban India: predictors and association with ambient concentration at residence

  Sanchez, Margaux; Milà, Carles; Sreekanth, V.; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Sambandam, Sankar; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Kinra, Sanjay; Marshall, Julian D.; Tonne, Cathryn (Nature Research, 2019)

  Scalable exposure assessment approaches that capture personal exposure to particles for purposes of epidemiology are currently limited, but valuable, particularly in low-/middle-income countries where sources of personal ...
• The role of blank filter mass in attenuation measurements using an off-line transmissometer

  Sreekanth, V.; Tonne, Cathryn; Salmon, Maëlle; Arulselvan, S.; Marshall, Julian D. (Elsevier, 2019)

  We describe how reference filter characteristics (unexposed weights) can influence instrument-reported attenuation (thereby black carbon concentrations) using the OT21 (SootScan Optical Transmissometer), in the case of ...
• Integrated assessment of exposure to PM2.5 in South India and its relation with cardiovascular risk: Design of the CHAI observational cohort study

  Tonne, Cathryn; Salmon, Maëlle; Sanchez, Margaux; Sreekanth, V.; Bhogadi, Santhi; Sambandam, Sankar; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Kinra, Sanjay; Marshall, Julian D. (Elsevier, 2017)

  While there is convincing evidence that fine particulate matter causes cardiovascular mortality and morbidity, little of the evidence is based on populations outside of high income countries, leaving large uncertainties ...
• Empirical mean-noise fitness landscapes reveal the fitness impact of gene expression noise

  Schmiedel, Jörn M.; Carey, Lucas; Lehner, Ben, 1978- (Nature Research, 2019)

  The effects of cell-to-cell variation (noise) in gene expression have proven difficult to quantify because of the mechanistic coupling of noise to mean expression. To independently quantify the effects of changes in mean ...
• Characterization of the non-stationary nature of steady-state visual evoked potentials using echo state networks

  Ibáñez Soria, David, 1983-; Soria Frisch, Aureli; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Ruffini, Giulio (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019)

  State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) arise from a resonance phenomenon in the visual cortex that is produced by a repetitive visual stimulus. SSVEPs have long been considered a steady-state response resulting from purely ...
• Blockade of the sigma-1 receptor relieves cognitive and emotional impairments associated to chronic osteoarthritis pain

  Carcolé, Mireia; Zamanillo, Daniel; Merlos, Manuel; Fernández-Pastor, Begoña; Cabañero Ferri, David; Maldonado, Rafael, 1961- (Frontiers, 2019)

  Osteoarthritis is the most common musculoskeletal disease worldwide, often characterized by degradation of the articular cartilage, chronic joint pain and disability. Cognitive dysfunction, anxiety and depression are common ...
• Community assessment to advance computational prediction of cancer drug combinations in a pharmacogenomic screen

  Menden, Michael P.; AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination DREAM Consortium; Saez-Rodriguez, Julio (Nature Research, 2019)

  The effectiveness of most cancer targeted therapies is short-lived. Tumors often develop resistance that might be overcome with drug combinations. However, the number of possible combinations is vast, necessitating data-driven ...
• The role of socioeconomic status in the association of lung function and air pollution-A pooled analysis of three adult ESCAPE cohorts

  Keidel, Dirk; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Burte, Marthe-Emilie, 1989-; Carsin, Anne-Elie; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Jacquemin Leonard, Bénédicte; Probst-Hensch, Nicole (MDPI, 2019)

  Ambient air pollution is a leading environmental risk factor and its broad spectrum of adverse health effects includes a decrease in lung function. Socioeconomic status (SES) is known to be associated with both air pollution ...
• Identification of potential Music Information Retrieval technologies for computer-aided jingju singing training

  Gong, Rong; Serra, Xavier (2017)

  Music Information Retrieval (MIR) technologies have been proven useful in assisting western classical singing training. Jingju (also known as Beijing or Peking opera) singing is different from western singing in terms ...
• Early positivity signals changes in an abstract linguistic pattern

  Monte Ordoño, Julia, 1989-; Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976- (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017)

  The extraction of abstract structures from speech (or from gestures in the case of sign languages) has been claimed to be a fundamental mechanism for language acquisition. In the present study we registered the neural ...
• Early neural responses underlie advantages for consonance over dissonance

  Crespo Bojorque, Paola, 1985-; Monte Ordoño, Julia, 1989-; Toro Soto, Juan Manuel, 1976- (Elsevier, 2018)

  Consonant musical intervals tend to be more readily processed than dissonant intervals. In the present study, we explore the neural basis for this difference by registering how the brain responds after changes in consonance ...
• Learning a new selection rule in visual and frontal cortex

  van der Togt, Chris; Stănişor, Liviu; Pooresmaeili, Arezoo; Albantakis, Larissa; Deco, Gustavo; Roelfsema, Pieter R. (Oxford University Press, 2016)

  How do you make a decision if you do not know the rules of the game? Models of sensory decision-making suggest that choices are slow if evidence is weak, but they may only apply if the subject knows the task rules. Here, ...
• Human consciousness is supported by dynamic complex patterns of brain signal coordination

  Demertzi, A.; Tagliazucchi, Enzo; Dehaene, Stanislas; Deco, Gustavo; Barttfeld, P.; Raimondo, F.; Martial, C.; Fernández-Espejo, D.; Rohaut, B.; Voss, H. U.; Schiff, N. D.; Owen, A. M.; Laureys, S.; Naccache, L.; Sitt, J. D. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019)

  Adopting the framework of brain dynamics as a cornerstone of human consciousness, we determined whether dynamic signal coordination provides specific and generalizable patterns pertaining to conscious and unconscious states ...
• Data augmentation for instrument classification robust to audio effects

  Ramires, António; Serra, Xavier (2019)

  Reusing recorded sounds (sampling) is a key component in Electronic Music Production (EMP), which has been present since its early days and is at the core of genres like hip-hop or jungle. Commercial and non-commercial ...
• The (Trans) gang: notes and queries on youth street group research

  Feixa, Carles, 1962-; Sánchez-García, José; Ballesté, Eduard; Cano, Ana Belén; Masanet, Maria-Jose; Mecca, Margot; Oliver, María (Universitat Pompeu FabraEuropean Research Council, 2019)

  This text presents the key concepts of the TRANSGANG project, displayed as answers to seven research questions: what, when, who, why, where, how and what for. It starts by defining the conceptual triangle that the title ...
• Legal considerations concerning youth street groups in TRANSGANG regions

  Sánchez García, José; García Berrio, Andrés; Brisley, Adam; Masanet, Maria-Jose; Grassi, Paolo; Mansilla, Juan Camilo; Márquez, Fulvia; Lavielle, Ligia; Chévez, Candy; Touhtouh, Rachid; Najjar, Sihem; Larbi, Beladici; Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Universitat Pompeu FabraEuropean Research Council, 2019)
• Restrictive spirometry pattern is associated with low physical activity levels. A population based international study

  Carsin, Anne-Elie; Fuertes, Elaine; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Guerra, Stefano; García Aymerich, Judith (Elsevier, 2019)

  Introduction: Restrictive spirometry pattern is an under-recognised disorder with a poor morbidity and mortality prognosis. We compared physical activity levels between adults with a restrictive spirometry pattern and with ...
• Isotopologue multipoint calibration for proteomics biomarker quantification in clinical practice

  Chiva, Cristina; Pastor, Olga; Trilla Fuertes, Lucía; Gámez Pozo, Angelo; Fresno Vara, Juan Ángel; Sabidó Aguadé, Eduard, 1981- (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2019)

  Targeted proteomics has become the method of choice for biomarker validation in human biopsies due to its high sensitivity, reproducibility, accuracy, and precision. However, for targeted proteomics to be transferred to ...
• Uplink fractional power control for cell-free wireless networks

  Nikbakht, Rasoul; Lozano Solsona, Angel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  This paper proposes a power control policy for the uplink of cell-free wireless networks. Such policy, which generalizes the fractional power control used extensively in cellular networks, relies only on large-scale ...
• Unraveling the cellular origin and clinical prognostic markers of infant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia using genome-wide analysis

  Agraz-Doblas, Antonio; Bueno, Clara; Bashford-Rogers, Rachael; Roy, Anindita; Schneider, Pauline; Bardini, Michela; Ballerini, Paola; Cazzaniga, Gianni; Moreno, Thaidy; Revilla, Carlos; Gut, Marta; Valsecchi, Maria G.; Roberts, Irene; Pieters, Rob; De Lorenzo, Paola; Varela, Ignacio; Menéndez, Pablo; Stam, Ronald W. (Ferrata Storti Foundation, 2019)

  B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the commonest childhood cancer. In infants, B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia remains fatal, especially in patients with t(4;11), present in ~80% of cases. The pathogenesis of ...

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