• Sox17 controls emergence and remodeling of Nestin-expressing coronary vessels

  González Hernández, Sara; Gómez, Manuel J.; Sánchez Cabo, Fátima; Méndez Ferrer, Simón; Muñoz Cánoves, Pura, 1962-; Isern, Joan (American Hearth Association, 2020)

  Rationale: The molecular mechanisms underlying the formation of coronary arteries during development and during cardiac neovascularization after injury are poorly understood. However, a detailed description of the relevant ...
• Language background shapes third-party communication expectations in 14-month-old infants

  Colomer, Marc; Sebastián-Gallés, Núria (Elsevier, 2020)

  Infants expect native and non-native speech to communicate, i.e. to transfer information between third-parties. Here, we explored if infants understand that communication depends on the use of shared conventional systems ...
• The genome sequence of the grape phylloxera provides insights into the evolution, adaptation, and invasion routes of an iconic pest

  Rispe, Claude; Fernández, Rosa; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973-; Guigó Serra, Roderic; Ripoll Cladellas, Aida; Tagu, Denis (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Although native to North America, the invasion of the aphid-like grape phylloxera Daktulosphaira vitifoliae across the globe altered the course of grape cultivation. For the past 150 years, viticulture relied ...
• The EU-ToxRisk method documentation, data processing and chemical testing pipeline for the regulatory use of new approach methods

  Krebs, Alice; Pastor Maeso, Manuel; Leist, Marcel (Springer, 2020)

  Hazard assessment, based on new approach methods (NAM), requires the use of batteries of assays, where individual tests may be contributed by different laboratories. A unified strategy for such collaborative testing is ...
• The LifeCycle Project-EU child cohort network: a federated analysis infrastructure and harmonized data of more than 250,000 children and parents

  Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Duijts, Liesbeth; LifeCycle Project Group (SpringerOpen, 2020)

  Early life is an important window of opportunity to improve health across the full lifecycle. An accumulating body of evidence suggests that exposure to adverse stressors during early life leads to developmental adaptations, ...
• Aural-based detection and assessment of real versus artificially synchronized string quartet performance

  Papiotis, Panagiotis, 1985-; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Marchini, Marco, 1984-; Maestre Gómez, Esteban (University of Jyväskylä, 2013)

  In a musical ensemble musicians can influence each other’s performance in terms not only of timing but also in other aspects of the performance such as dynamics, intonation, and timbre. The goal of this work is to test ...
• Characterization of partially ordered states in the intrinsically disordered N-terminal domain of p53 using millisecond molecular dynamics simulations

  Herrera Nieto, Pablo; Pérez, Adrià; De Fabritiis, Gianni (Nature Research, 2020)

  The exploration of intrinsically disordered proteins in isolation is a crucial step to understand their complex dynamical behavior. In particular, the emergence of partially ordered states has not been explored in depth. ...
• Two data sets for tempo estimation and key detection in electronic dance music annotated from user corrections

  Knees, Peter; Faraldo Pérez, Ángel; Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964-; Vogl, Richard; Böck, Sebastian; Hörschläger, Florian; Le Goff, Mickael (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2015)

  We present two new data sets for automatic evaluation of tempo estimation and key detection algorithms. In contrast to existing collections, both released data sets focus on electronic dance music (EDM). The data sets ...
• Unsupervised-learning power allocation for the cell-free downlink

  Nikbakht, Rasoul; Jonsson, Anders, 1973-; Lozano Solsona, Angel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2020)

  This paper applies feedforward neural networks to the problem of centralized power allocation in the downlink of cell-free wireless systems with conjugate beamforming. The formulation relies only on large-scale channel ...
• Youth cultures and identities: the surfaces of the underground

  Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Brill, 2020)

  The chapter aims to analyze "the surface of the underground", that is, the cultural images that construct and deconstruct youth identities through language, music, aesthetics, cultural productions and focal identities, as ...
• Transnationalism and postnational identities: the three lives of a Latin King

  Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020)
• Researching transnational gangs as agents of mediation in the digital era

  Fernández-Planells, Ariadna; Sánchez García, José; Oliver, Maria; Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Springer, 2020)

  In the XXI century, the traditional conformation of gangs has been altered for several reasons. The present global economic situation changed the context of gangs, and as a feature of this century, Internet and social media ...
• Structure and agency in life stories: how to become a gang member

  Feixa, Carles, 1962- (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020)

  The text is an attempt to rethink the structure / agency dilemma from life stories, putting into practice Franco Ferrarotti's (1981) proposal to ‘read a society through a biography’. To do so, we focus on a singular ...
• A multi-omic analysis of birthweight in newborn cord blood reveals new underlying mechanisms related to cholesterol metabolism

  Alfano, Rossella; Kogevinas, Manolis; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine; Plusquin, Michelle (Elsevier, 2020)

  Background: Birthweight reflects in utero exposures and later health evolution. Despite existing studies employing high-dimensional molecular measurements, the understanding of underlying mechanisms of birthweight remains ...
• Organic air quality markers of indoor and outdoor PM 2.5 aerosols in primary schools from Barcelona

  van Drooge, Barend L.; Rivas, Ioar; Querol, Xavier; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Grimalt, Joan O. (MDPI, 2020)

  Airborne particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter smaller than 2.5 µg, PM2.5 was regularly sampled in classrooms (indoor) and playgrounds (outdoor) of primary schools from Barcelona. Three of these schools were ...
• The rate and spectrum of mosaic mutations during embryogenesis revealed by RNA sequencing of 49 tissues

  Muyas Remolar, Francesc, 1992-; Zapata Ortiz, Luis, 1985-; Guigó Serra, Roderic; Ossowski, Stephan (BioMed Central, 2020)

  Background: Mosaic mutations acquired during early embryogenesis can lead to severe early-onset genetic disorders and cancer predisposition, but are often undetectable in blood samples. The rate and mutational spectrum of ...
• Low serum DHEA-S is associated with impaired lung function in women

  Pesce, Giancarlo; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; García Aymerich, Judith; Leynaert, Bénédicte (Elsevier, 2020)

  Background: Emerging evidence suggests that androgens and estrogens have a role in respiratory health, but it is largely unknown whether levels of these hormones can affect lung function in adults from the general population. ...
• Web interface for exploration of latent and tag spaces in music auto-tagging

  Tovstogan, Philip; Serra, Xavier; Bogdanov, Dmitry (ICML, 2020)

  We present an online graphical web interface for the exploration and evaluation of embedding and tag spaces of music auto-tagging systems. It allows for quick and qualitative evaluation of individual and pairwise tag ...
• Assessing the ecological and societal impacts of alien parrots in Europe using a transparent and inclusive evidence-mapping scheme

  White, Rachel L.; Strubbe, Diederik; Dallimer, Martin; Davies, Zoe G.; Davis, Amy J.S.; Edelaar, Pim; Groombridge, Jim; Jackson, Hazel A.; Menchetti, Mattia; Mori, Emiliano; Nikolov, Boris P.; Pârâu, Liviu G.; Pečnikar, Živa F.; Pett, Tristan J.; Reino, Luís; Tollington, Simon; Turbé, Anne; Shwartz, Assaf (Pensoft Publishers, 2019)

  Globally, the number of invasive alien species (IAS) continues to increase and management and policy responses typically need to be adopted before conclusive empirical evidence on their environmental and socioeconomic ...
• El Rey: diario de un Latin King

  Feixa, Carles, 1962-; Andrade, César (King Manaba) (NED Ediciones, 2020)

  El Rey. Diario de un Latin King és la impactant crònica de tres viatges: el viatge de César Andrade (aka King Manaba) al seu passat migrant, Inca, rei i pres; el viatge de Carles Feixa (aka King Book) a la trobada dels ...

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