• 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 ...
• A novel protein domain in an ancestral splicing factor drove the evolution of neural microexons

  Torres Méndez, Antonio; Bonnal, Sophie; Marquez, Yamile; Roth, Jonathan; Iglesias, Marta; Permanyer, Jon; Almudí, Isabel; O'Hanlon, Dave; Guitart, Tanit; Soller, Matthias; Gingras, Anne-Claude; Gebauer, Fátima; Rentzsch, Fabian; Blencowe, Benjamin J.; Valcárcel, J. (Juan); Irimia, Manuel (Nature Research, 2019)

  The mechanisms by which entire programmes of gene regulation emerged during evolution are poorly understood. Neuronal microexons represent the most conserved class of alternative splicing in vertebrates, and are critical ...
• Variability of urinary concentrations of non-persistent chemicals in pregnant women and school-aged children

  Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Manzano Salgado, Cyntia Beatriz, 1987-; de Bont, Jeroen; Donaire González, David; Gonzalez, Juan Ramon; Gracia Lavedan, Esther; Pañella, Pau; Robinson, Oliver; Urquiza, José M.; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Exposome studies are challenged by exposure misclassification for non-persistent chemicals, whose temporal variability contributes to bias in dose-response functions. Objectives: We evaluated the variability ...
• Urine metabolic signatures of multiple environmental pollutants in pregnant women: an exposome approach

  Maitre, Léa; Robinson, Oliver; Martínez, David; Toledano, Mireille B.; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Marina, Loreto Santa; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Villanueva, Cristina M.; Keun, Hector C.; Vrijheid, Martine; Coen, Muireann (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018)

  Exposure to environmental pollutants, particularly during pregnancy, can have adverse consequences on child development but little is known about the effects of pollutant mixtures on endogenous metabolism in pregnant women. ...
• Long-term exposure to residential green and blue spaces and anxiety and depression in adults: A cross-sectional study

  Gascon Merlos, Mireia, 1984-; Sánchez Benavides, Gonzalo; Dadvand, Payam; Martínez, David; Gramunt Fombuena, Nina; Gotsens, Xavier; Cirach, Marta; Vert, Cristina; Molinuevo, José Luis; Crous-Bou, Marta; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Although exposure to natural outdoor environments has been consistently associated with improved perceived general health, available evidence on a protective association between this exposure and specific mental ...
• The effect of early growth patterns and lung function on the development of childhood asthma: a population based study

  Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; den Dekker, Herman T.; Kruithof, Claudia J.; Reiss, Irwin K.; Vrijheid, Martine; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; de Jongste, Johan; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Duijts, Liesbeth (BMJ Publishing Group, 2018)

  Background: Infant weight gain is associated with lower lung function and a higher risk of childhood asthma. Detailed individual childhood growth patterns might be better predictors of childhood respiratory morbidity than ...
• MusicCritic: A technological framework to support online music teaching for large audiences

  Bozkurt, Baris; Gulati, Sankalp; Romani Picas, Oriol; Serra, Xavier (International Society for Music Education, 2018)

  This paper concerns online music education and as contribution, it proposes a new technological framework to support online music performance teaching to reduce loads on teachers for assessing large number of student ...
• When, where, and what? characterizing personal PM2.5 exposure in periurban India by integrating GPS, wearable camera, and ambient and personal monitoring data

  Milà, Carles; Salmon, Maëlle; Sanchez, Margaux; Ambros, Albert; Bhogadi, Santhi; Sreekanth, V.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Kinra, Sanjay; Marshall, Julian D.; Tonne, Cathryn (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2018)

  Evidence identifying factors that influence personal exposure to air pollutants in low- and middle-income countries is scarce. Our objective was to identify the relative contribution of the time of the day ( when?), location ...
• Drinking water disinfection by-products during pregnancy and child neuropsychological development in the INMA Spanish cohort study

  Villanueva, Cristina M.; Gracia Lavedan, Esther; Julvez, Jordi; Santa Marina, Loreto; Lertxundi, Nerea; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Llop, Sabrina; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Fernández Somoano, Ana; Tardón, Adonina; Vrijheid, Martine; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Disinfection by-products (DBPs) constitute a complex mixture of prevalent chemicals in drinking water and there is evidence of neurotoxicity for some of them. Objectives: We evaluated the association between ...

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