• Consensus paper: towards a systems-level view of cerebellar function: the interplay between cerebellum, basal ganglia, and cortex

  Caligiore, Daniele; Pezzulo, Giovanni; Baldassarre, Gianluca; Bostan, Andreea C.; Strick, Peter L.; Doya, Kenji; Helmich, Rick C.; Dirkx, Michiel; Houk, James; Jörntell, Henrik; Lago-Rodriguez, Angel; Galea, Joseph M.; Miall, R. Chris; Popa, Traian; Kishore, Asha; Verschure, Paul F. M. J.; Zucca, Riccardo; Herreros, Ivan (Springer, 2017)

  Despite increasing evidence suggesting the cerebellum works in concert with the cortex and basal ganglia, the nature of the reciprocal interactions between these three brain regions remains unclear. This consensus paper ...
• A systematic review on the development of asthma and allergic diseases in relation to international immigration: the leading role of the environment confirmed

  Cabieses, Báltica; Uphoff, Eleonora P.; Pinart, Mariona; Antó i Boqué, Josep Maria; Wright, John (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014)

  The prevalence of asthma and allergic diseases is rising worldwide. Evidence on potential causal pathways of asthma and allergies is growing, but findings have been contradictory, particularly on the interplay between ...
• State representation learning for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning

  Steccanella, Lorenzo; Jonsson, Anders (Springer, 2022)

  This paper presents a novel state representation for reward-free Markov decision processes. The idea is to learn, in a self-supervised manner, an embedding space where distances between pairs of embedded states correspond ...
• Putting hornets on the genomic map

  Favreau, Emeline; Cini, Alessandro; Taylor, Daisy; Câmara Ferreira, Francisco; Bentley, Michael A.; Cappa, Federico; Cervo, Rita; Privman, Eyal; Schneider, Jadesada; Thiéry, Denis; Mashoodh, Rahia; Wyatt, Christopher Douglas Robert, 1988-; Brown, Robert L.; Bodrug-Schepers, Alexandrina; Stralis-Pavese, Nancy; Dohm, Juliane C.; Mead, Daniel; Himmelbauer, Heinz; Guigó Serra, Roderic; Sumner, Seirian (Nature Research, 2023)

  Hornets are the largest of the social wasps, and are important regulators of insect populations in their native ranges. Hornets are also very successful as invasive species, with often devastating economic, ecological and ...
• Making in silico predictive models for toxicology FAIR

  Cronin, Mark T. D.; Belfield, Samuel J.; Briggs, Katharine; Enoch, Steven J.; Firman, James W.; Frericks, Markus; Garrard, Clare; Maccallum, Peter H.; Madden, Judith C.; Pastor Maeso, Manuel; Sanz, Ferran; Soininen, Inari; Sousoni, Despoina (Elsevier, 2023)

  In silico predictive models for toxicology include quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) and physiologically based kinetic (PBK) approaches to predict physico-chemical and ADME properties, toxicological effects ...
• Past connectivity but recent inbreeding in cross river gorillas determined using whole genomes from single hairs

  Alvarez-Estape, Marina; Pawar, Harvinder; Fontseré Alemany, Clàudia, 1992-; Trujillo, Amber E.; Gunson, Jessica L.; Bergl, Richard A.; Bermejo, Magdalena; Linder, Joshua M.; McFarland, Kelley; Oates, John F.; Sunderland-Groves, Jacqueline L.; Orkin, Joseph D.; Higham, James P.; Viaud-Martinez, Karine A.; Lizano González, Esther, 1974-; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975- (MDPI, 2023)

  The critically endangered western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) are divided into two subspecies: the western lowland (G. g. gorilla) and the Cross River (G. g. diehli) gorilla. Given the difficulty in sampling wild great ape ...
• A male mouse model of WIN 55,212-2 self-administration to study cannabinoid addiction

  Cajiao-Manrique, María Del Mar; Maldonado, Rafael, 1961-; Martín García, Elena, 1975- (Frontiers, 2023)

  We have established for the first time a mouse model of cannabinoid addiction using WIN 55,212-2 intravenous self-administration (0.0125 mg/kg/infusion) in C57Bl/6J mice. This model allows to evaluate the addiction criteria ...
• A decision support system based on artificial intelligence and systems biology for the simulation of pancreatic cancer patient status

  Junet, Valentin; Matos Filipe, Pedro; García-Illarramendi, Juan Manuel; Ramírez, Esther; Oliva Miguel, Baldomero; Farrés, Judith; Daura, Xavier; Mas, José Manuel; Morales, Rafael (Wiley, 2023)

  Oncology treatments require continuous individual adjustment based on the measurement of multiple clinical parameters. Prediction tools exploiting the patterns present in the clinical data could be used to assist decision ...
• Asking between the lines: elicitation of evoked questions in text

  Westera, Matthijs; Rohde, Hannah (Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), 2019)

  We introduce a novel, scalable method aimed at annotating potential and actual Questions Under Discussion (QUDs) in naturalistic discourse. It consists of asking naive participants first what questions a certain portion ...
• Global fovernance research: exploring patterns of growth, diversity, and inclusion

  Roger, Charles B.; Jordana, Jacint; Holesch, Adam, 1977- (Brill Academic Publishers, 2022)

  Global governance has been widely embraced as an object of analysis and as a way of “seeing” world politics. Yet we still know little about how publishing has evolved. This article presents the first systematic exploration ...
• Networks of injectable microdevices powered and digitally linked by volume conduction for neuroprosthetics: a proof-of-concept

  Becerra Fajardo, Laura; Minguillon, Jesus; Comerma-Montells, Albert; Ivorra Cano, Antoni, 1974- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023)

  Wireless power transfer (WPT) methods such as inductive coupling and ultrasounds are used as an alternative to electrochemical batteries to energize active implantable medical devices. However, existing WPT methods require ...
• Run Like a Girl! Sport-Related Gender Bias in Language and Vision

  Harrison, Sophie; Gualdoni, Eleonora; Boleda, Gemma (ACL (Association for Computational Linguistics), 2023)

  Gender bias in Language and Vision datasets and models has the potential to perpetuate harmful stereotypes and discrimination. We analyze gender bias in two Language and Vision datasets. Consistent with prior work, ...
• Attentional pragmatics: a pragmatic approach to exhaustivity

  Westera, Matthijs (Linguistic Society of America, 2022)

  The neo-Gricean approach to exhaustivity is based on the idea that exhaustivity arises when relevant propositions are not asserted. This paper presents a new pragmatic approach based on the idea that exhaustivity arises ...
• Identifying multiscale translational safety biomarkers using a network-based systems approach

  Callegaro, Giulia; Schimming, Johannes P.; Piñero González, Janet, 1977-; Kunnen, Steven J.; Wijaya, Lukas; Trairatphisan, Panuwat; van den Berk, Linda; Beetsma, Kim; Furlong, Laura I.; Sutherland, Jeffrey J.; Mollon, Jennifer; Stevens, James L.; van de Water, Bob (Elsevier, 2023)

  Animal testing is the current standard for drug and chemicals safety assessment, but hazards translation to human is uncertain. Human in vitro models can address the species translation but might not replicate in vivo ...
• Childhood exposure to non-persistent endocrine disrupting chemicals and multi-omic profiles: a panel study

  Fabbri, Lorenzo; Garlantézec, Ronan; Audouze, Karine; Bustamante Pineda, Mariona; Carracedo, Ángel; Chatzi, Leda; González, Juan Ramón; Gražulevičienė, Regina; Keun, Hector C.; Lau, Chung-Ho E.; Sabidó, Eduard; Siskos, Alexandros P.; Slama, Rémy; Thomsen, Cathrine; Wright, John; Yuan, Wen Lun; Casas, Maribel; Vrijheid, Martine; Maitre, Léa (Elsevier, 2023)

  Individuals are exposed to environmental pollutants with endocrine disrupting activity (endocrine disruptors, EDCs) and the early stages of life are particularly susceptible to these exposures. Previous studies have focused ...
• Sirtuin-2, NAD-Dependent Deacetylase, is a new potential therapeutic target for HIV-1 infection and HIV-Related Neurological Dysfunction

  Duran-Castells, Clara; Kobayashi-Ishihara, Mie; Meyerhans, Andreas; Ruiz Riol, Marta (American Society for Microbiology, 2023)

  The implementation and access to combined antiretroviral treatment (cART) have dramatically improved the quality of life of people living with HIV (PLWH). However, some comorbidities, such as neurological disorders associated ...
• Role of CB2 cannabinoid receptor in the development of food addiction in male mice

  García Blanco, Alejandra; Ramírez López, Ángela, 1992-; García-Gutiérrez, María S.; Manzanares, Jorge; Martín García, Elena, 1975-; Maldonado, Rafael, 1961- (Elsevier, 2023)

  The endocannabinoid system plays an important role in multiple behavioral responses due to its wide distribution in the central nervous system. The cannabinoid CB1 receptor was associated to the loss of behavioral control ...
• Comparative metagenomics reveals poultry and swine farming are hotspots for multidrug and tetracycline resistance

  Osorio, Victoria; Sabater i Mezquita, Arnau; Balcázar, José Luis (Elsevier, 2023)

  Antibiotic misuse in livestock is a major threat to human health, as bacteria are quickly developing resistance to them. We performed a comparative analysis of 25 faecal metagenomes from swine, poultry, cattle, and humans ...
• Antiviral peptide-based conjugates: state of the art and future perspectives

  Todorovski, Toni; Kalafatovic, Daniela; Andreu Martínez, David (MDPI, 2023)

  Infectious diseases caused by microbial pathogens (bacteria, virus, fungi, parasites) claim millions of deaths per year worldwide and have become a serious challenge to global human health in our century. Viral infections ...
• Longitudinal effects of environmental noise and air pollution exposure on autism spectrum disorder and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder during adolescence and early adulthood: the TRAILS study

  Li, Yiran; Xie, Tian; Cardoso Melo, Raniere Dener; de Vries, Maaike; Lakerveld, Jeroen; Zijlema, Wilma; Hartman, Catharina A. (Elsevier, 2023)

  Exposure to ambient noise and air pollution may affect the manifestation and severity of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). However, evidence is limited, and most studies ...

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