• Associations of green space metrics with health and behavior outcomes at different buffer sizes and remote sensing sensor resolutions

  Su, Jason; Dadvand, Payam; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Bartoll, Xavier; Jerrett, Michael (Elsevier, 2019)

  Satellite data is increasingly used to characterize green space for health outcome studies. Literature suggests that green space within 500 m of home is often used to represent neighborhood suitable for walking, air pollution ...
• Ambient air pollution and overweight and obesity in school-aged children in Barcelona, Spain

  de Bont, Jeroen; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Barrera Gómez, Jose; Cirach, Marta; Rivas, Ioar; Valvi, Damaskini, 1983-; Álvarez Pedrerol, Mar; Dadvand, Payam; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Ambient air pollution may increase the risk of overweight and obesity in children. However, available evidence is still scarce and has mainly focused on ambient air pollution exposure occurring at home without ...
• Personal exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields in Europe: Is there a generation gap?

  Eeftens, Marloes; Struchen, Benjamin; Birks, Laura Ellen, 1983-; Cardis, Elisabeth; Estarlich, Marisa; Fernandez, Mariana F.; Gajšek, Peter; Gallastegi, Mara; Huss, Anke; Kheifets, Leeka; Meder, Inger Kristine; Olsen, Jørn; Torrent Quetglas, Maties; Trček, Tomaž; Valič, Blaž; Vermeulen, Roel; Vrijheid, Martine; van Wel, Luuk; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Röösli, Martin (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) from mobile communication technologies is changing rapidly. To characterize sources and associated variability, we studied the differences and correlations ...
• In-utero and childhood chemical exposome in six European mother-child cohorts

  Haug, Line Småstuen; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Maitre, Léa; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; de Bont, Jeroen; González, Juan Ramón; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Urquiza, José M.; Vrijheid, Martine; Thomsen, Cathrine (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Harmonized data describing simultaneous exposure to a large number of environmental contaminants in-utero and during childhood is currently very limited. Objectives: To characterize concentrations of a large ...
• Active commuting through natural environments is associated with better mental health: Results from the PHENOTYPE project

  Zijlema, Wilma; Avila Palencia, Ione; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985-; Gidlow, Christopher J.; Maas, Jolanda; Kruize, Hanneke; Andrušaitytė, Sandra; Grazuleviciene, Regina; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Background: Commuting routes with natural features could promote walking or cycling for commuting. Commuting through natural environments (NE) could have mental health benefits as exposure to NE can reduce stress and improve ...
• Do physical activity, social cohesion, and loneliness mediate the association between time spent visiting green space and mental health?

  Berg, Magdalena van den; van Poppel, Mireille; van Kamp, Irene; Ruijsbroek, Annemarie; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985-; Gidlow, Christopher J.; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J.; Gražulevičiene, Regina; van Mechelen, Willem; Kruize, Hanneke; Maas, Jolanda (SAGE Publications, 2019)

  This cross-sectional study investigated whether physical activity, social cohesion, and loneliness mediate the association between time spent visiting green spaces and perceived mental health and vitality. Questionnaire ...
• A Fluctuation-driven mechanism for slow decision processes in reverberant networks

  Martí, Daniel; Deco, Gustavo; Mattia, Maurizio; Gigante, Guido; Del Giudice, Paolo (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008)

  The spike activity of cells in some cortical areas has been found to be correlated with reaction times and behavioral responses during two-choice decision tasks. These experimental findings have motivated the study of ...
• INGENIOUS: the first responder of the future. A next generation integrated toolkit for collaborative response, increasing protection and augmenting operational capacity.

  Institute of Communications and Computer Systems; Universiteit Twente; Deutsches Zentrum Fuer Luft – Und Raumfahrt; Diginext; Fundacion Tekniker; Exus; SINTEF; Center for Research & Technology Hellas; Totalförvarets Forskningsinstitut; SATWAYS; Alpes Lasers; Technische Universitaet Wien; Cyprus Research & Innovation Center; Universitat Pompeu Fabra; SingularLogic; Korea Institute of Robot & Convergence; Gobierno Vasco, Departamento de Seguridad; Hopitaux de Paris (SafeCorfu, 2019)

  The INGENIOUS project (EU Horizon 2020) aims to develop, integrate, test, deploy, demonstrate and validate a Next Generation Integrated Toolkit (NGIT) for Collaborative Response, which ensures high level of Protection & ...
• Dog ownership, the natural outdoor environment and health: a cross-sectional study

  Zijlema, Wilma; Christian, Hayley; Triguero Mas, Margarita, 1985-; Cirach, Marta; Berg, Magdalena van den; Maas, Jolanda; Gidlow, Christopher J.; Kruize, Hanneke; Wendel-Vos, Wanda; Andrušaitytė, Sandra; Grazuleviciene, Regina; Litt, Jill; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. (BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)

  Objectives: Dog owners walking their dog in natural outdoor environments (NOE) may benefit from the physical activity facilitated by dog walking and from time spent in nature. However, it is unclear whether dog owners ...
• Gestational weight gain charts for different body mass index groups for women in Europe, North America, and Oceania

  Santos, Susana; Vrijheid, Martine; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V. (BioMed Central, 2018)

  Background: Gestational weight gain differs according to pre-pregnancy body mass index and is related to the risks of adverse maternal and child health outcomes. Gestational weight gain charts for women in different ...
• Determinants of the urinary and serum metabolome in children from six European populations

  Lau, Chung-Ho E.; Maitre, Léa; Urquiza, José M.; Casas, Maribel; Vrijheid, Martine; Coen, Muireann (BioMed Central, 2018)

  Background: Environment and diet in early life can affect development and health throughout the life course. Metabolic phenotyping of urine and serum represents a complementary systems-wide approach to elucidate ...
• Childhood body composition trajectories and adolescent lung function. Findings from the ALSPAC study

  Peralta, Gabriela P.; Fuertes, Elaine; Granell, Raquel; Mahmoud, Osama; Roda, Célina; Serra Pons, Ignasi; Jarvis, Deborah; Henderson, John; García Aymerich, Judith (American Thoracic Society, 2019)

  Rationale: Body composition changes throughout life may explain the inconsistent associations reported between body mass index and lung function in children. Objectives: To assess the associations of body weight and ...
• Adherence to reporting guidelines increases the number of citations: the argument for including a methodologist in the editorial process and peer-review

  Vilaró, Marta; Cortés, Jordi; Selva-O'Callaghan, Albert; Urrutia, Agustín; Ribera, Josep Maria; Cardellach, Francesc; Basagaña Flores, Xavier; Elmore, Matthew; Vilardell, Miquel; Altman, Douglas; González, José-Antonio; Cobo Valeri, Erik (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: From 2005 to 2010, we conducted 2 randomized studies on a journal (Medicina Clínica), where we took manuscripts received for publication and randomly assigned them to either the standard editorial process or ...
• Associations of maternal cell-phone use during pregnancy with pregnancy duration and fetal growth in 4 birth cohorts

  Tsarna, Ermioni; Reedijk, Marije; Birks, Laura Ellen, 1983-; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Ha, Mina; Jiménez-Zabala, Ana; Kheifets, Leeka; Lertxundi, Aitana; Lim, Hyung-Ryul; Olsen, Jørn; González-Safont, Llúcia; Sudan, Madhuri; Cardis, Elisabeth; Vrijheid, Martine; Vrijkotte, Tanja; Huss, Anke; Vermeulen, Roel (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Results from studies evaluating potential effects of prenatal exposure to radio-frequency electromagnetic fields from cell phones on birth outcomes have been inconsistent. Using data on 55,507 pregnant women and their ...
• Association of iron status and intake during pregnancy with neuropsychological outcomes in children aged 7 years: the prospective birth cohort Infancia y Medio Ambiente (INMA) study

  Arija, Victoria; Hernández-Martínez, Carmen; Tous, Mónica; Canals, Josefa; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Fernández Barres, Silvia; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Babarro, Izaro; Soler Blasco, Raquel; Llop, Sabrina; Vioque, Jesus; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Julvez, Jordi (MDPI, 2019)

  Early iron status plays an important role in prenatal neurodevelopment. Iron deficiency and high iron status have been related to alterations in child cognitive development; however, there are no data about iron intake ...
• DeltaDelta neural networks for lead optimization of small molecule potency

  Jiménez Luna, José, 1993-; Pérez Benito, Laura; Martínez Rosell, Gerard, 1990-; Sciabola, Simone; Torella, Rubben; Tresadern, Gary; De Fabritiis, Gianni (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019)

  The capability to rank different potential drug molecules against a protein target for potency has always been a fundamental challenge in computational chemistry due to its importance in drug design. While several ...
• Enhancing music learning with smart technologies

  Ramírez, Rafael,1966-; Canepa, Corrado; Ghisio, Simone; Kolykhalova, Ksenia; Mancini, Maurizio; Volta, Erica; Volpe, Gualtiero; Giraldo, Sergio; Mayor, Oscar; Perez, Alfonso; Waddell, George; Williamon, Aaron (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2018)

  Learning to play a musical instrument is a difficult task, requiring the development of sophisticated skills. Nowadays, such a learning process is mostly based on the master-apprentice model. Technologies are rarely ...
• A Machine learning approach to violin bow technique classification: a comparison between IMU and MOCAP systems

  Dalmazzo, David; Tassani, Simone; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2018)

  Motion Capture (MOCAP) Systems have been used to analyze body motion and postures in biomedicine, sports, rehabilitation, and music. With the aim to compare the precision of low-cost devices for motion tracking (e.g. Myo) ...
• Can faces prime a language?

  Woumans, Evy; Martin, Clara D.; Vanden Bulcke, Charlotte; Van Assche, Eva; Costa, Albert, 1970-; Hartsuiker, Robert J.; Duyck, Wouter (SAGE Publications, 2015)

  Bilinguals have two languages that are activated in parallel. During speech production, one of these languages must be selected on the basis of some cue. The present study investigated whether the face of an interlocutor ...
• Auricular transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation improves memory persistence in naïve mice and in an intellectual disability mouse model

  Vázquez-Oliver, Anna; Brambilla Pisoni, Cecilia; Domingo-Gainza, Mikel; Maldonado, Rafael, 1961-; Ivorra Cano, Antoni, 1974-; Ozaita Mintegui, Andrés, 1969- (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) using non-invasive approaches have attracted great attention due to their anti-epileptic, anti-depressive and pro-cognitive effects. It has been proposed that auricular transcutaneous ...

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