• Gangs and social media: a systematic literature review and an identification of future challenges, risks and recommendations

  Fernández-Planells, Ariadna; Orduña Malea, Enrique; Feixa, Carles, 1962- (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  Gang literature increasingly reflects the importance of social media in gang lifestyle, as gang members adopt new communicative practices. Yet, because of the multifaceted nature of online gang activity and the diversity ...
• WGansing: a multi-voice singing voice synthesizer based on the Wasserstein-Gan

  Chandna, Pritish; Blaauw, Merlijn; Bonada, Jordi, 1973-; Gómez Gutiérrez, Emilia, 1975- (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  We present a deep neural network based singing voice synthesizer, inspired by the Deep Convolutions Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) architecture and optimized using the Wasserstein-GAN algorithm. We use vocoder ...
• A missense variant in mitochondrial amidoxime reducing component 1 gene and protection against liver disease

  Emdin, Connor A.; Elosua Llanos, Roberto; Kathiresan, Sekar (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020)

  Analyzing 12,361 all-cause cirrhosis cases and 790,095 controls from eight cohorts, we identify a common missense variant in the Mitochondrial Amidoxime Reducing Component 1 gene (MARC1 p.A165T) that associates with ...
• Cooperative epithelial phagocytosis enables error correction in the early embryo

  Hoijman, Esteban; Häkkinen, Hanna-Maria; Tolosa-Ramon, Queralt; Jiménez-Delgado, Senda; Wyatt, Christopher Douglas Robert, 1988-; Miret-Cuesta, Marta; Irimia, Manuel; Callan-Jones, Andrew; Wieser, Stefan; Ruprecht, Verena (Nature Research, 2021)

  Errors in early embryogenesis are a cause of sporadic cell death and developmental failure1,2. Phagocytic activity has a central role in scavenging apoptotic cells in differentiated tissues3-6. However, how apoptotic cells ...
• Convolutional neural networks deceived by visual illusions

  Gómez Villa, Alexander; Martín, Adrian; Vazquez-Corral, Javier; Bertalmío, Marcelo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)

  Visual illusions teach us that what we see is not always what is represented in the physical world. Their special nature make them a fascinating tool to test and validate any new vision model proposed. In general, current ...
• Killing and rescuing: why necessity must be rethought

  Oberman, Kieran (Duke University Press, 2020)

  This article addresses a previously overlooked problem in the ethics of defensive killing. Everyone agrees that defensive killing can only be justified when it is necessary. But necessary for what? That seemingly simple ...
• The Phase of Theta oscillations modulates successful memory formation at encoding

  Cruzat, Josephine; Torralba, Mireia; Ruzzoli, Manuela; Fernández, Alba; Deco, Gustavo; Soto-Faraco, Salvador, 1970- (Elsevier, 2021)

  Several studies have shown that attention and perception can depend upon the phase of ongoing neural oscillations at stimulus onset. Here, we extend this idea to the memory domain. We tested the hypothesis that ongoing ...
• Phytolith analyses from Khil and Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Western Maghreb): plant use trajectories in a long-term perspective

  Lancelotti, Carla; Martínez Sánchez, Rafael M.; Vera Rodríguez, Juan Carlos; Pérez Jordà, Guillem; Peña Chocarro, Leonor; Biagetti, Stefano; Madella, Marco (Elsevier, 2021)

  In this paper we present the results of phytolith investigations at two archaeological sites in northwestern Morocco: Khil (Tangier) and Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Tétouan). The two sites located in Western Maghreb, one on the ...
• Copy number variation underlies complex phenotypes in domestic dog breeds and other canids

  Serres Armero, Aitor; Davis, Brian W.; Povolotskaya, Inna, 1986-; Morcillo Suárez, Carlos, 1969-; Plassais, Jocelyn; Juan, David; Ostrander, Elaine A.; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975- (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2021)

  Extreme phenotypic diversity, a history of artificial selection, and socioeconomic value make domestic dog breeds a compelling subject for genomic research. Copy number variation (CNV) is known to account for a significant ...
• Medical-based deep curriculum learning for improved fracture classification

  Jiménez Sánchez, Amelia; Mateus, Diana; Kirchhoff, Sonja; Kirchhoff, Chlodwing; Biberthaler, Peter; Navab, Nassir; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973-; Piella Fenoy, Gemma (Springer, 2019)

  Current deep-learning based methods do not easily integrate to clinical protocols, neither take full advantage of medical knowledge. In this work, we propose and compare several strategies relying on curriculum learning, ...
• Self-supervised small soccer player detection and tracking

  Hurault, Samuel; Ballester, Coloma; Haro Ortega, Gloria (ACM Association for Computer Machinery, 2020)

  In a soccer game, the information provided by detecting and tracking brings crucial clues to further analyze and understand some tactical aspects of the game, including individual and team actions. State-of-the-art tracking ...
• Mapping food production in hyper-arid and arid Saharan Africa in the holocene: a view from the present

  Lancelotti, Carla; Biagetti, Stefano (MDPI, 2021)

  The reconstruction of land use practices in hyper-arid Saharan Africa is often hampered by the accuracy of the available tools and by unconscious biases that see these areas as marginal and inhospitable. Considered that ...
• Comorbidity between Alzheimer's disease and major depression: a behavioural and transcriptomic characterization study in mice

  Martín Sánchez, Ana; Piñero González, Janet, 1977-; Nonell Mazelón, Lara; Arnal, Magdalena; Ribe, Elena; Nevado-Holgado, Alejo J.; Lovestone, Simon; Sanz, Ferran; Furlong, Laura I., 1971-; Valverde, Olga (BioMed Central, 2021)

  Background: Major depression (MD) is the most prevalent psychiatric disease in the population and is considered a prodromal stage of the Alzheimer's disease (AD). Despite both diseases having a robust genetic component, ...
• Increased brain atrophy and lesion load is associated with stronger lower alpha MEG power in multiple sclerosis patients

  Van Schependom, Jeroen; Vidaurre, Diego; Costers, Lars; Sjøgård, Martin; Sima, Diana M.; Smeets, Dirk; D'hooghe, Marie Beatrice; D'haeseleer, Miguel; Deco, Gustavo; Wens, Vincent; De Tiège, Xavier; Goldman, Serge; Woolrich, Mark W.; Nagels, Guy (Elsevier, 2021)

  In multiple sclerosis, the interplay of neurodegeneration, demyelination and inflammation leads to changes in neurophysiological functioning. This study aims to characterize the relation between reduced brain volumes and ...
• Bridging the gap between single receptor type activity and whole-brain dynamics

  Jancke, Dirk; Herlitze, Stefan; Kringelbach, Morten L.; Deco, Gustavo (Wiley, 2021)

  What is the effect of activating a single modulatory neuronal receptor type on entire brain network dynamics? Can such effect be isolated at all? These are important questions because characterizing elementary neuronal ...
• Skip prediction using boosting trees based on acoustic features of tracks in sessions

  Ferraro, Andrés; Bogdanov, Dmitry; Serra, Xavier (2019)

  The Spotify Sequential Skip Prediction Challenge focuses on predicting if a track in a session will be skipped by the user or not. In this paper, we describe our approach to this problem and the final system that was ...
• Enriched music representations with multiple cross-modal contrastive learning

  Ferraro, Andrés; Favory, Xavier; Drossos, Konstantinos; Kim, Yuntae; Bogdanov, Dmitry (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2021)

  Modeling various aspects that make a music piece unique is a challenging task, requiring the combination of multiple sources of information. Deep learning is commonly used to obtain representations using various sources ...
• Right ventricular global and regional remodeling in american-style football athletes: A longitudinal 3D echocardiographic study

  Hodzic, Amir; Bernardino Perez, Gabriel; Legallois, Damien; Gendron, Patrick; Langet, Hélène; Craene, Mathieu de; González Ballester, Miguel Ángel, 1973-; Milliez, Paul; Normand, Hervé; Bijnens, Bart; Saloux, Eric; Tournoux, Francois (MDPI, 2021)

  Few data exist concerning the right ventricular (RV) physiological adaptation in American-style football (ASF) athletes. We aimed to analyze the RV global and regional responses among ASF-trained athletes. Fifty-nine (20 ...
• The diversity of primates: from biomedicine to conservation genomics

  Orkin, Joseph D.; Kuderna, Lukas F.K.; Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs, 1975- (Annual Reviews Inc, 2021)

  Until now, the field of primate genomics has focused on two major themes: understanding human evolution and advancing biomedical research. We propose that it is now time for a third theme to receive attention: conservation ...
• An atlas of alternative splicing profiles and functional associations reveals new regulatory programs and genes that simultaneously express multiple major isoforms

  Tapial Rodríguez, Javier, 1990-; Ha, Kevin C. H.; Sterne-Weiler, Thimothy; Gohr, André; Braunschweig, Ulrich; Hermoso Pulido, Antonio; Quesnel-Vallières, Mathieu; Permanyer, Jon; Sodaei, Reza, 1988-; Marquez, Yamile; Cozzuto, Luca; Wang, Xinchen; Gómez-Velázquez, Melisa; Rayon, Teresa; Manzanares, Miguel; Ponomarenko, Julia; Blencowe, Benjamin J.; Irimia, Manuel (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL Press), 2017)

  Alternative splicing (AS) generates remarkable regulatory and proteomic complexity in metazoans. However, the functions of most AS events are not known, and programs of regulated splicing remain to be identified. To address ...

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