• GWAS on longitudinal growth traits reveals different genetic factors influencing infant, child, and adult BMI

  Couto Alves, Alexessander; Estivill, Xavier, 1955-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Early Growth Genetics (EGG) Consortium (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2019)

  Early childhood growth patterns are associated with adult health, yet the genetic factors and the developmental stages involved are not fully understood. Here, we combine genome-wide association studies with modeling of ...
• Association of maternal iodine status with child IQ: a meta-analysis of individual participant data

  Levie, Deborah; Korevaar, Tim I. M.; Bath, Sarah C.; Murcia, Mario; Dineva, Mariana; Llop, Sabrina; Espada, Mercedes; van Herwaarden, Antonius E.; de Rijke, Yolanda B.; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Tiemeier, Henning; Rayman, Margaret P.; Guxens Junyent, Mònica; Peeters, Robin P. (Oxford University Press, 2019)

  Context: Although the consequences of severe iodine deficiency are beyond doubt, the effects of mild to moderate iodine deficiency in pregnancy on child neurodevelopment are less well established. Objective: To study the ...
• Maternal circulating Vitamin D3 levels during pregnancy and behaviour across childhood

  López Vicente, Mònica, 1988-; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Lertxundi, Nerea; González, Llúcia; Rodríguez Dehli, Cristina; Espada Sáenz-Torre, Mercedes; Vrijheid, Martine; Tardón, Adonina; Llop, Sabrina; Torrent Quetglas, Maties; Ibarluzea, Jesús; Guxens Junyent, Mònica (Nature Research, 2019)

  Vitamin D deficiency during critical periods of development could lead to persistent brain alterations. We aimed to assess the association between maternal vitamin D3, the major circulatory form of vitamin D, at pregnancy ...
• Da-TACOS: A dataset for cover song identification and understanding

  Yesiler, Furkan; Tralie, Chris; Correya, Albin Andrew; Silva, Diego F.; Tovstogan, Philip; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Serra, Xavier (International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), 2019)

  This paper focuses on Cover Song Identification (CSI), an important research challenge in content-based Music Information Retrieval (MIR). Although the task itself is interesting and challenging for both academia and ...
• Phrase-Level modeling of expression in violin performances

  Ortega, Fabio J. M.; Giraldo, Sergio; Pérez Carrillo, Alfonso Antonio, 1977-; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (Frontiers, 2019)

  Background: Expression is a key skill in music performance, and one that is difficult to address in music lessons. Computational models that learn from expert performances can help providing suggestions and feedback to ...
• Transmedia literacy in the new media ecology: an internacional map of teens' transmedia skills

  Scolari, Carlos Alberto, 1963-; Masanet, Maria-Jose; Guerrero Pico, María del Mar; Establés, María-José (ETC Press, 2019)

  The emergence of new media, devices, narratives, and practices has compelled media literacy scholars and professionals to review their theoretical frameworks and methodological approaches. Based on a new concept—transmedia ...
• Association of exposure to ambient air pollution with thyroid function during pregnancy

  Ghassabian, Akhgar; Pierotti, Livia; Julvez, Jordi; Vrijheid, Martine; Sunyer Deu, Jordi; Guxens Junyent, Mònica (American Medical Association, 2019)

  Importance: Air pollutants interact with estrogen nuclear receptors, but their effect on thyroid signaling is less clear. Thyroid function is of particular importance for pregnant women because of the thyroid’s role in ...
• Creating civil citizens? The value and limits of teaching civility in schools

  Cormier, Andrée Anne; Brighouse, Harry (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2019)

  Andrée-Anne Cormier and Harry Brighouse explore the question of whether there are good reasons for schools to try to produce citizens disposed to use, and practiced in, civil discourse and behavior, and if so, what this ...
• Dynamics of transcription regulation in human bone marrow myeloid differentiation to mature blood neutrophils

  Grassi, Luigi; Ullrich, Sebastian, 1984-; Merkel, Angelika; Gut, Marta; Heath, Simon; Gut, Ivo Glynne; Kuijpers, Taco W. (Elsevier, 2018)

  Neutrophils are short-lived blood cells that play a critical role in host defense against infections. To better comprehend neutrophil functions and their regulation, we provide a complete epigenetic overview, assessing ...
• MICU1 confers protection from MCU-dependent manganese toxicity

  Wettmarshausen, Jennifer; Goh, Valerie; Huang, Kai-Ting; Arduino, Daniela M.; Tripathi, Utkarsh; Leimpek, Anja; Cheng, Yiming; Pittis, Alexandros, 1982-; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973-; Mokranjac, Dejana; Hajnóczky, György; Perocchi, Fabiana (Elsevier, 2018)

  The mitochondrial calcium uniporter is a highly selective ion channel composed of species- and tissue-specific subunits. However, the functional role of each component still remains unclear. Here, we establish a synthetic ...
• Systems level expression correlation of Ras GTPase regulators

  Besray Unal, E.; Kiel, Christina; Benisty, Hannah; Campbell, Andrew; Pickering, Karen; Blüthgen, Nils; Sansom, Owen J.; Serrano Pubull, Luis, 1982- (BioMed Central, 2018)

  Background: Proteins of the ubiquitously expressed core proteome are quantitatively correlated across multiple eukaryotic species. In addition, it was found that many protein paralogues exhibit expression anticorrelation, ...
• FUS phase separation is modulated by a molecular chaperone and methylation of arginine cation-π interactions

  Qamar, Seema; Tartaglia, Gian Gaetano; St George-Hyslop, Peter (Elsevier, 2018)

  Reversible phase separation underpins the role of FUS in ribonucleoprotein granules and other membrane-free organelles and is, in part, driven by the intrinsically disordered low-complexity (LC) domain of FUS. Here, we ...
• A Framework for multi-f0 modeling in SATB choir recordings

  Cuesta, Helena; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975-; Chandna, Pritish (Sound and Music Computing, 2019)

  Fundamental frequency (f0) modeling is an important but relatively unexplored aspect of choir singing. Performance evaluation as well as auditory analysis of singing, whether individually or in a choir, often depend on ...
• Multi web audio sequencer: collaborative music making

  Favory, Xavier; Serra, Xavier (2018)

  Recent advancements in web-based audio systems have enabled sufficiently accurate timing control and real-time sound processing capabilities. Numerous specialized music tools, as well as digital audio workstations, are ...
• IKKα kinase regulates the DNA damage response and drives chemo-resistance in cancer

  Colomer Montañà, Carlota, 1990-; Margalef González, Pol, 1985-; Villanueva, Alberto; Vert, Anna; Pecharroman, Irene; Solé, Laura; González-Farré, Mónica; Alonso, Josune; Montagut Viladot, Clara; Martínez Iniesta, María; Bertran, Joan; Borràs, Eva; Iglesias, Mar; Sabidó Aguadé, Eduard, 1981-; Bigas Salvans, Anna; Boulton, Simon J.; Espinosa Blay, Lluís (Elsevier, 2019)

  Phosphorylated IKKalpha(p45) is a nuclear active form of the IKKalpha kinase that is induced by the MAP kinases BRAF and TAK1 and promotes tumor growth independent of canonical NF-¿B signaling. Insights into the sources ...
• Unliganded progesterone receptor governs estrogen receptor gene expression by regulating DNA methylation in breast cancer cells

  Verde, Gaetano; De Llobet, Lara Isabel; Wright, Roni H.G.; Quilez Oliete, Javier; Peiró Sales, Sandra; Le Dily, François; Beato, Miguel (MDPI, 2018)

  Breast cancer prognosis and response to endocrine therapy strongly depends on the expression of the estrogen and progesterone receptors (ER and PR, respectively). Although much is known about ERα gene (ESR1) regulation ...
• Adult content in social live streaming services: characterizing deviant users and relationships

  Lykousas, Nikolaos; Gómez, Vicenç; Patsakis, Constantinos (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2018)

  Social Live Stream Services (SLSS) exploit a new level of social interaction. One of the main challenges in these services is how to detect and prevent deviant behaviors that violate community guidelines. In this work, we ...
• What makes free riding wrongful? The shared preference view of fair play

  Trifan, Isabella Ana-Maria (Wiley, 2019)

  This article offers a systematic approach to Fair Play. It provides an account of the conditions that make free riding unfair that are derived from, and justified by reference to, a general understanding of why free riding ...
• Must schools teach religions neutrally? The Loyola case and the challenges of liberal neutrality in education

  Cormier, Andrée Anne (Taylor & Francis, 2018)

  This article explores the question of whether it is morally permissible for the liberal state to require schools to teach religions “neutrally” to children. I examine this question through the normative analysis of Canadian ...
• Is children’s wellbeing different from adults’ wellbeing?

  Cormier, Andrée Anne; Rossi, Mauro (Taylor & Francis, 2019)

  Call generalism about children’s and adults’ wellbeing the thesis that the same theory of wellbeing applies to both children and adults. Our goal is to examine whether generalism is true. While this question has not received ...

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