• k-Best hidden Markov model decoding for unit selection in concatenative sound synthesis

  Nuanáin, Cárthach Ó; Jordà Puig, Sergi; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (Springer, 2018)

  Concatenative synthesis is a sample-based approach to sound creation used frequently in speech synthesis and, increasingly, in musical contexts. Unit selection, a key component, is the process by which sounds are chosen ...
• Drum rhythm spaces: from global models to style-specific maps

  Gómez Marín, Daniel; Jordà Puig, Sergi; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (Springer, 2018)

  This paper presents two experiments carried out to find rhythm descriptors that allow the organization of drum patterns in spaces resembling subjects similarity sensations. We revisit rhythm spaces published by Alf Gabrielsson ...
• Neural mechanisms mediating degrees of strategic uncertainty

  Nagel, Rosemarie; Brovelli, Andrea; Heinemann, Frank; Coricelli, Giorgio (Oxford University Press, 2018)

  In social interactions, strategic uncertainty arises when the outcome of one’s choice depends on the choices of others. An important question is whether strategic uncertainty can be resolved by assessing subjective ...
• Matching information

  Chade, Hector; Eeckhout, Jan (Wiley, 2018)

  We analyze the optimal allocation of experts to teams, where experts differ in the precision of their information, and study the assortative matching properties of the resulting assignment. The main insight is that in ...
• Does the oxidative stress play a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and persistent asthma in adults? Findings from the EGEA study

  Havet, Anaïs; Li, Zhen; Zerimech, Farid; Sanchez, Margaux; Siroux, Valérie; Le Moual, Nicole; Brunekreef, Bert; Künzli, Nino; Jacquemin Leonard, Bénédicte; Varraso, Raphaëlle; Matran, Regis; Nadif, Rachel (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: Evidences that oxidative stress plays a role in the associations between outdoor air pollution and asthma are growing. We aimed to study the role of plasma fluorescent oxidation products levels (FlOPs; an ...
• Trihalomethanes in drinking water and bladder cancer burden in the European Union

  Evlampidou, Iro; Font-Ribera, Laia; Kogevinas, Manolis; Villanueva Belmonte, Cristina (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2020)

  Background: Trihalomethanes (THMs) are widespread disinfection by-products (DBPs) in drinking water, and long-term exposure has been consistently associated with increased bladder cancer risk. Objective: We assessed THM ...
• Associations of black carbon with lung function and airway inflammation in schoolchildren

  Paunescu, Alexandra-Cristina; Casas Sanahuja, Maribel; Ferrero, Amparo; Pañella, Pau; Bougas, Nicolas; Beydon, Nicole; Just, Jocelyne; Lezmi, Guillaume; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Ballester Díez, Ferran; Momas, Isabelle (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Few studies have investigated the 24-hour respiratory health effects of personal black carbon (BC) and ultrafine particles (UFP) exposure in schoolchildren. The objective of this study was to investigate these ...
• Organophosphate pesticide metabolite concentrations in urine during pregnancy and offspring attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder and autistic traits

  van den Dries, Michiel; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Pronk, Anjoeka; Spaan, Suzanne; El Marroun, Hanan; Jusko, Todd A.; Longnecker, Matthew P.; Ferguson, Kelly K.; Tiemeier, Henning (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Prenatal exposure to organophosphate (OP) pesticides has been associated with altered neuronal cell development and behavioral changes in animal offspring. However, the few studies investigating the association ...
• A decade of structural variants: description, history and methods to detect structural variation

  Escaramís, Geòrgia; Docampo, Elisa; Rabionet, Raquel (Oxford University Press, 2015)

  In the past decade, the view on genomic structural variation (SV) has been changed completely. SVs, previously considered rare events, are now recognized as the largest source of interindividual genetic variation affecting ...
• Moment bounds for some fractional stochastic heat equations on the ball

  Nualart, Eulàlia (The Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society, 2018)

  In this paper, we obtain upper and lower bounds for the moments of the solution to a class of fractional stochastic heat equations on the ball driven by a Gaussian noise which is white in time and has a spatial correlation ...
• “Betting on nature” or “betting on others”: anti-coordination induces uniquely high levels of entropy

  Chierchia, Gabriele; Nagel, Rosemarie; Coricelli, Giorgio (Nature Research, 2018)

  Uncertainty in the form of risk or ambiguity can arise from the interaction with nature and other players, while strategic uncertainty arises only in interactions with others. Here, we systematically compare binary decisions ...
• Functional roles and redundancy of demersal Barents Sea fish: ecological implications of environmental change

  Aune, Magnus; Aschan, Michaela M; Greenacre, Michael; Dolgov, Andrey V.; Fossheim, Maria; Primicerio, Raul (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2018)

  When facing environmental change and intensified anthropogenic impact on marine ecosystems, extensive knowledge of how these systems are functioning is required in order to manage them properly. However, in high-latitude ...
• Lack of association between particulate air pollution and blood glucose levels and diabetic status in peri-urban India

  Curto Tirado, Ariadna, 1987-; Ranzani, Otavio; Milà, Carles; Sanchez, Margaux; Marshall, Julian D.; Kulkarni, Bharati; Bhogadi, Santhi; Kinra, Sanjay; Wellenius, Gregory A.; Tonne, Cathryn (Elsevier, 2019)

  Background: Limited evidence exists on the effect of particulate air pollution on blood glucose levels. We evaluated the associations of residential and personal levels of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and black carbon ...
• A unicellular relative of animals generates a layer of polarized cells by actomyosin-dependent cellularization

  Dudin, Omaya; Ondracka, Andrej; Grau Bové, Xavier; Haraldsen, Arthur A. B.; Toyoda, Atsushi; Suga, Hiroshi; Bråte, Jon; Ruiz Trillo, Iñaki (eLife, 2019)

  In animals, cellularization of a coenocyte is a specialized form of cytokinesis that results in the formation of a polarized epithelium during early embryonic development. It is characterized by coordinated assembly of an ...
• Integrating lexical and prosodic features for automatic paragraph segmentation

  Lai, Catherine; Farrús, Mireia; Moore, Johanna D. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Spoken documents, such as podcasts or lectures, are a growing presence in everyday life. Being able to automatically identify their discourse structure is an important step to understanding what a spoken document is about. ...
• Centiloid cut-off values for optimal agreement between PET and CSF core AD biomarkers

  Salvadó, Gemma; Molinuevo, José Luis; Brugulat Serrat, Anna, 1986-; Falcón, Carles; Grau-Rivera, Oriol; Suárez-Calvet, Marc; Pavía Segura, Javier; Niñerola-Baizán, Aida; Perissinotti, Andrés; Lomeña, Francisco; Minguillón, Carolina; Fauria, Karine; Zetterberg, Henrik; Blennow, Kaj; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (BioMed Central, 2019)

  Background: The Centiloid scale has been developed to standardize measurements of amyloid PET imaging. Reference cut-off values of this continuous measurement enable the consistent operationalization of decision-making for ...
• Las dimensiones sociales de la percepción de la energía nuclear: un análisis del caso español (1960-2015)

  Espluga Trenc, Josep; Medina, Beatriz; Presas, Albert; Rubio Varas, Mar; De la Torre, Joseba (CSIC, 2017)

  Nuclear energy is a complex technology that requires intensive use of resources and high centralized decision-making processes, whose governance poses a real challenge for democratic societies. In this article we explore ...
• Benchmarking single-cell RNA sequencing protocols for cell atlas projects

  Mereu, Elisabetta; Lafzi, Atefeh; Moutinho, Catia; Gut, Marta; Gut, Ivo Glynne; Heyn, Holger (Nature Research, 2020)

  Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is the leading technique for characterizing the transcriptomes of individual cells in a sample. The latest protocols are scalable to thousands of cells and are being used to compile ...
• Fungal evolution: cellular, genomic and metabolic complexity

  Naranjo Ortiz, Miguel Ángel, 1989-; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Wiley, 2020)

  The question of how phenotypic and genomic complexity are inter-related and how they are shaped through evolution is a central question in biology that historically has been approached from the perspective of animals and ...
• HaploTypo: a variant-calling pipeline for phased genomes

  Pegueroles Queralt, Maria Cinta; Mixão, Verónica; Carreté Muñoz, Laia, 1990-; Molina, Manuel; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (Oxford University Press, 2020)

  SUMMARY: An increasing number of phased (i.e. with resolved haplotypes) reference genomes are available. However, the most genetic variant calling tools do not explicitly account for haplotype structure. Here, we present ...

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