• Differences between the child and adult brain in the local functional structure of the cerebral cortex

  Pujol, Jesús; Blanco Hinojo, Laura, 1981-; Macià, Dídac; Martínez-Vilavella, Gerard; Deus, Joan; Pérez Solá, Victor; Cardoner, Narcís; Soriano Mas, Carles; Sunyer Deu, Jordi (Elsevier, 2021)

  Imaging studies on neuronal network formation provide relevant information as to how the brain matures during adolescence. We used a novel imaging approach combining well-established MRI measures of local functional ...
• Winners and losers from sovereign debt inflows

  Broner, Fernando; Martin, Alberto; Pandolfi, Lorenzo; Williams, Tomas (Elsevier, 2021)

  We study the effects of sovereign debt inflows on domestic firms. To do so, we exploit episodes of large sovereign debt inflows, which follow the announcements of the inclusion of six emerging countries into major sovereign ...
• Effects of visual and auditory feedback in violin and singing voice pitch matching tasks

  Blanco, Angel David; Tassani, Simone; Ramírez, Rafael,1966- (Frontiers, 2021)

  Auditory-guided vocal learning is a mechanism that operates both in humans and other animal species making us capable to imitate arbitrary sounds. Both auditory memories and auditory feedback interact to guide vocal learning. ...
• NGS-based liquid biopsy profiling identifies mechanisms of resistance to ALK inhibitors: a step toward personalized NSCLC treatment

  Sánchez-Herrero, Estela; Serna-Blasco, Roberto; Ivanchuk, Vadym; García-Campelo, Rosario; Dómine Gómez, Manuel; Sánchez, José M.; Massutí, Bartomeu; Reguart, Noemí; Camps, Carlos; Sanz-Moreno, Sandra; Calabuig-Fariñas, Sílvia; Jantus-Lewintre, Eloisa; Arnal, Magdalena; Fernández-Orth, Dietmar; Calvo, Virginia; González-Rumayor, Víctor; Provencio, Mariano; Romero, Atocha (Wiley, 2021)

  Despite impressive and durable responses, nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients treated with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitors (ALK-Is) ultimately progress due to development of resistance. Here, we have ...
• Fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt

  Broner, Fernando; Clancy, Daragh; Erce, Aitor; Martin, Alberto (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  This paper explores a natural connection between fiscal multipliers and foreign holdings of public debt. Although fiscal expansions can raise domestic economic activity through various channels, they can also have crowding-out ...
• Sensing low intracellular potassium by NLRP3 results in a stable open structure that promotes inflammasome activation

  Tapia-Abellán, Ana; Angosto-Bazarra, Diego; Alarcón-Vila, Cristina; Baños, María C.; Hafner-Bratkovič, Iva; Oliva Miguel, Baldomero; Pelegrín, Pablo; Pelegrín, Pablo (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021)

  The NLRP3 inflammasome is activated by a wide range of stimuli and drives diverse inflammatory diseases. The decrease of intracellular K+ concentration is a minimal upstream signal to most of the NLRP3 activation models. ...
• In vitro evaluation of a protocol and an architecture for bidirectional communications in networks of wireless implants powered by volume conduction

  Becerra Fajardo, Laura; Minguillon, Jesus; Rodrigues, Camila; Barroso, Filipe O.; Pons, José L.; Ivorra Cano, Antoni, 1974- (Springer, 2020)

  Wireless active implantable medical devices (AIMDs) can be an alternative for overcoming the drawbacks faced with superficial and percutaneous technologies. However, current AIMDs require bulky and rigid components for ...
• Ancient and modern genomes unravel the evolutionary history of the rhinoceros family

  Liu, Shanlin; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975-; Gilbert, M Thomas (Elsevier, 2021)

  Only five species of the once-diverse Rhinocerotidae remain, making the reconstruction of their evolutionary history a challenge to biologists since Darwin. We sequenced genomes from five rhinoceros species (three extinct ...
• CHD4 ensures stem cell lineage fidelity during skeletal muscle regeneration

  Sreenivasan, Krishnamoorthy; Rodríguez de la Rosa, Alejandra; Kim, Johnny; Mesquita, Diana; Segalés Dalmau, Jessica; Gómez del Arco, Pablo; Espejo, Isabel; Ianni, Alessandro; Di Croce, Luciano; Relaix, Frederic; Redondo, Juan Miguel; Braun, Thomas; Serrano Sánchez, Antonio L.; Perdiguero, Eusebio, 1968-; Muñoz Cánoves, Pura, 1962- (Elsevier, 2021)

  Regeneration of skeletal muscle requires resident stem cells called satellite cells. Here, we report that the chromatin remodeler CHD4, a member of the nucleosome remodeling and deacetylase (NuRD) repressive complex, is ...
• Comparison of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 pneumonia in Down syndrome

  Real de Asua, Diego; Mayer, Miguel Ángel, 1960-; Ortega, María del Carmen; Borrel, Jose M.; Bermejo, Teresa de Jesús; González Lamuño, Domingo; Manso, Coral; Moldenhauer, Fernando; Carmona Iragui, María; Hüls, Anke; Sherman, Stephanie L.; Strydom, Andre; Torre Fornell, Rafael de la; Dierssen, Mara (MDPI, 2021)

  Whether the increased risk for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) hospitalization and death observed in Down syndrome (DS) are disease specific or also occur in individuals with DS and non-COVID-19 pneumonias is unknown. ...
• HuConTest: testing human contamination in great ape samples

  Kuhlwilm, Martin; Fontseré Alemany, Clàudia, 1992-; Han, Sojung; Alvarez-Estape, Marina; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975- (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Modern human contamination is a common problem in ancient DNA studies. We provide evidence that this issue is also present in studies in great apes, which are our closest living relatives, for example in noninvasive samples. ...
• An information sampling explanation for the in-group heterogeneity effect

  Konovalova, Elizaveta; Le Mens, Gaël (American Psychological Association (APA), 2020)

  People often perceive their in-groups as more heterogeneous than their out-groups. We propose an information sampling explanation for this in-group heterogeneity effect. We note that people frequently obtain larger samples ...
• Evaluating categories from experience: the simple averaging heuristic

  Woiczyk, Thomas Karl Alfred; Le Mens, Gaël (American Psychological Association (APA), 2021)

  We analyze how people form evaluative judgments about categories based on their experiences with category members. Prior research suggests that such evaluative judgments depend on some experience average, but is unclear ...
• A theory of monetary union and financial integration

  Fornaro, Luca (Oxford University Press, 2021)

  Since the creation of the euro, capital flows among member countries have been large and volatile. Motivated by this fact, I provide a theory connecting the exchange rate regime to financial integration. The key feature ...
• Metabolic, affective and neurocognitive characterization of metabolic syndrome patients with and without food addiction. Implications for weight progression

  Camacho Barcia, Lucía; Munguía, Lucero; Lucas, Ignacio; Torre Fornell, Rafael de la; Salas Salvadó, Jordi; Pintó Sala, Xavier; Corella, Dolores; Granero, Roser; Jiménez Murcia, Susana; González Monje, Inmaculada; Esteve Luque, Virginia; Cuenca Royo, Aida Ma, 1981-; Gómez Martínez, Carlos; Paz-Graniel, Indira; Forcano, Laura; Fernández Aranda, Fernando (MDPI, 2021)

  According to the food addiction (FA) model, the consumption of certain types of food could be potentially addictive and can lead to changes in intake regulation. We aimed to describe metabolic parameters, dietary ...
• Translational control by DHX36 binding to 5'UTR G-quadruplex is essential for muscle stem-cell regenerative functions

  Chen, Xiaona; Muñoz Cánoves, Pura, 1962-; Wang, Huating (Nature Research, 2021)

  Skeletal muscle has a remarkable ability to regenerate owing to its resident stem cells (also called satellite cells, SCs). SCs are normally quiescent; when stimulated by damage, they activate and expand to form new fibers. ...
• Adaptation and psychometric validation of Diabetes Health Profile (DHP-18) in patients with type 2 diabetes in Quito, Ecuador: a cross-sectional study

  Benazizi, Ikram; Bernal Soriano, Mari Carmen; Pardo Cladellas, Yolanda; Ribera Solé, Aida; Peralta Chiriboga, Alejandro Andrés, 1985-; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Alonso Jaquete, Alfonso; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Lumbreras, Blanca; Parker, Lucy Anne (BioMed Central, 2021)

  Introduction: The Diabetes Health Profile (DHP-18), structured in three dimensions (psychological distress (PD), barriers to activity (BA) and disinhibited eating (DE)), assesses the psychological and behavioural burden ...
• Perivascular spaces are associated with tau pathophysiology and synaptic dysfunction in early Alzheimer's continuum

  Vilor Tejedor, Natàlia, 1988-; Ciampa, Iacopo; Operto, Grégory; Falcón, Carles; Suárez-Calvet, Marc; Crous-Bou, Marta; Shekari, Mahnaz; Arenaza Urquijo, Eider M.; Milà Alomà, Marta; Grau-Rivera, Oriol; Minguillón, Carolina; Kollmorgen, Gwendlyn; Zetterberg, Henrik; Blennow, Kaj; Guigó Serra, Roderic; Molinuevo, José Luis; Gispert López, Juan Domingo; ALFA Study (BioMed Central, 2021)

  Background: Perivascular spaces (PVS) have an important role in the elimination of metabolic waste from the brain. It has been hypothesized that the enlargement of PVS (ePVS) could be affected by pathophysiological mechanisms ...
• A mouse model suggests that heart failure and its common comorbidity sleep fragmentation have no synergistic impacts on the gut microbiome

  Khannous Lleiffe, Olfat; Willis, Jesse R.; Saus Martínez, Ester; Cabrera-Aguilera, Ignacio; Almendros, Isaac; Farré, Ramon; Gozal, David; Farré López, Núria; Gabaldón Estevan, Juan Antonio, 1973- (MDPI, 2021)

  Heart failure (HF) is a common condition associated with a high rate of hospitalizations and adverse outcomes. HF is characterized by impairments of either the cardiac ventricular filling, ejection of blood capacity or ...
• Deep daxes: mutual exclusivity arises through both learning biases and pragmatic strategies in neural networks

  Gulordava, Kristina; Brochhagen, Thomas; Boleda, Gemma (Cognitive Science Society, 2020)

  Children’s tendency to associate novel words with novel referents has been taken to reflect a bias toward mutual exclusivity. This tendency may be advantageous both as (1) an ad-hoc referent selection heuristic to single ...

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