• openAccess   Heterogeneity of the Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 (SCD1) Gene and Metabolic Risk Factors in the EPIC-Potsdam Study 

      Arregui, María; Buijsse, Brian; Stefan, Norbert; Corella, Dolores; Fisher, Eva; Di Giuseppe, Romina; Coltell, Oscar; Knüppel, Sven; Aleksandrova, Krasimira; Joost, Hans-Georg; Boeing, Heiner; Weikert, Cornelia Public Library of Science (2012)
      Background: Stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 (SCD1) is an enzyme involved in lipid metabolism. In mice and humans its activity has been associated with traits of the metabolic syndrome, but also with the prevention of saturated ...
    • openAccess   Highly-efficient sustainable ionic thermoelectric materials using lignin-derived hydrogels 

      Muddasar, Muhammad; Menéndez, Nicolás; Quero, Ángela; Nasiri, Mohammad A.; Cantarero, Andrés; García-Cañadas, Jorge; Gómez, Clara M.; Collins, Maurice N.; Culebras, Mario Springer (2024)
      The efficient and economical conversion of low-grade waste heat into electricity has promising potential to combat the greenhouse effect and expedite the shift towards sustainable development. This study presents an ...
    • openAccess   Human or Computer Assisted Interactive Transcription: Automated Text Recognition, Text Annotation, and Scholarly Edition in the Twenty-First Century 

      Castro Bleda, María José; Vilar Torres, Juan Miguel; España Boquera, Salvador; Llorens Piñana, David; Marzal Varó, Andrés; Prat Villar, Federico; Zamora, F. Institut d'Estudis Medievals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2014)
      Computer assisted transcription tools can speed up the initial process of reading and transcribing texts. At the same time, new annotation tools open new ways of accessing the text in its graphical form. The balance and ...
    • openAccess   Human recognition based on gait poses 

      Martín Félez, Raúl; Mollineda, Ramón A.; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador Springer (2011)
      This paper introduces a new approach for gait analysis based on the Gait Energy Image (GEI). The main idea is to segment the gait cycle into some biomechanical poses, and to compute a particular GEI for eachpose. Pose-based ...
    • openAccess   Hypnos: a Hardware and Software Toolkit for Energy-Aware Sensing in Low-Cost IoT Nodes 

      González-Pérez, Alberto; Casteleyn, Sven Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2022)
      Through the Internet of Things, autonomous sensing devices can be deployed to regularly capture environmental and other sensor measurements for a variety of usage scenarios. However, for the market segment of stand-alone, ...
    • openAccess   Image mapping system for simulating ceramic environments 

      Remolar, Inmaculada; Chover, Miguel; Rebollo Santamaría, Cristina; Gasch, Cristina Springer (2018)
      Minimizing costs and increasing sales are a goal for every busi- ness nowadays. This fact, together with the development of new technologies, have driven the emergence of virtual applications where the customers can ...
    • closedAccess   Impact of the -1438G>A polymorphism in the serotonin 2A receptor gene on anthropometric profile and obesity risk: A case-control study in a Spanish Mediterranean population 

      Sorlí, José V; Francés, F.; González, José I.; Guillen, Montserrat; Portolés, Olga; Sabater, Antonio; Coltell, Oscar; Corella, Dolores (2008)
      Research into the genetic factors that regulate food intake is arousing great interest. The polymorphism -1438G>A in the serotonin 2A receptor or 5-hydroxytriptamine (5-HT) type 2A receptor (5-HTR2A) gene has been ...
    • closedAccess   Improving data fusion in personal positioning systems for outdoor environments 

      Pulido Herrera, Edith; Kaufmann, H.; Secue, J.; Quirós Bauset, Ricardo; Fabregat Llueca, German Elsevier (2013)
      A fault detection and correction methodology for personal positioning systems for outdoor environments is presented. We demonstrate its successful use in a system consisting of a global positioning system receiver and an ...
    • openAccess   Improving MQTT Data Delivery in Mobile Scenarios: Results from a Realistic Testbed 

      Luzuriaga, Jorge E.; Pérez-Francisco, Miguel; Boronat, Pablo; Calafate, Carlos; Manzoni, Pietro; Cano, Juan Carlos Hindawi (2016)
      MQTT is being widely used for data delivery in IoT applications but its architecture does not properly handle mobility when disconnection periods tend to be large. In this paper we describe an experimental evaluation, ...
    • closedAccess   Improving resource location with locally precomputed partial random walks 

      López Millán, Víctor M.; Cholvi, Vicent; López, Luis; Fernández Anta, Antonio Springer Vienna (2015-09)
      Random walks can be used to search complex networks for a desired resource. To reduce search lengths, we propose a mechanism based on building random walks connecting together partial walks (PW) previously computed at each ...
    • openAccess   In the pursuit of a semantic similarity metric based on UMLS annotations for articles in PubMed Central 

      García Castro, Leyla Jael; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Garcia, Alexander Elsevier (2015-10)
      Motivation Although full-text articles are provided by the publishers in electronic formats, it remains a challenge to find related work beyond the title and abstract context. Identifying related articles based on their ...
    • openAccess   Index of balanced accuracy: a performance measure for skewed class distributions 

      García, Vicente; Mollineda, Ramón A.; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador Springer Verlag (Germany) (2009)
      This paper introduces a new metric, named Index of Balanced Accuracy, for evaluating learning processes in two-class imbalanced domains. The method combines an unbiased index of its overall accuracy and a measure about how ...
    • openAccess   Indoor Positioning and Fingerprinting:The R Package ipft 

      Sansano-Sansano, Emilio; Montoliu Colás, Raul; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Torres-Sospedra, Joaquín The R Foundation (2019)
      Methods based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fingerprinting are in theforefront among several techniques being proposed for indoor positioning. This paper introducesthe R packageipft, which provides ...
    • closedAccess   Influence of a Mediterranean Dietary Pattern on Body Fat Distribution: Results of the PREDIMED-Canarias Intervention Randomized Trial 

      Álvarez-Pérez, Jacqueline; Sánchez-Villegas, Almudena; Díaz-Benítez, Elena María; Ruano-Rodríguez, Cristina; Corella, Dolores; Martínez González, Miguel Ángel; Estruch, Ramon; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Serra-Majem, Lluis; Coltell, Oscar; PREDIMED Investigators Taylor & Francis (2016-06)
      Objective: To assess the influence of a Mediterranean dietary pattern (MeDiet) on anthropometric and body composition parameters in one of the centers of the PREDIMED randomized dietary trial. Subjects/Settings: 351 ...
    • openAccess   Influence of color spaces over texture characterization 

      Rajadell Rojas, Olga; García-Sevilla, Pedro Instituto Politécnico Nacional (Mèxic). Centro de Investigación en Computación (2008)
      Images are generally represented in the RGB color space. This is the model commonly used for most cameras and for displaying on computer screens. Nevertheless, the representation of color images using this color space has ...
    • openAccess   Influence of Demographic and Lifestyle Variables on Plasma Magnesium Concentrations and Their Associations with Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Mediterranean Population 

      Barragán-Arnal, Rocío; Llopis, Juan; Portolés, Olga; Sorlí, José V; Coltell, Oscar; Rivas-García, Lorenzo; Asensio, Eva Maria; CAROLINA, ORTEGA-AZORÍN; Corella, Dolores; Sánchez-González, Cristina MDPI (2020)
      Several studies have shown that a low magnesium (Mg) intake in the diet is associated with greater cardiovascular risk and greater risk of diabetes. However, the results are not consistent in all populations. To minimize ...
    • openAccess   Influence of DNA-Polymorphisms in Selected Circadian Clock Genes on Clock Gene Expression in Subjects from the General Population and Their Association with Sleep Duration 

      Barragán-Arnal, Rocío; Sorlí, José V; Coltell, Oscar; Gonzalez-Monje, Inmaculada; Fernández-Carrión, Rebeca; Villamil, Laura V.; Portolés, Olga; Corella, Dolores; Ortega-Azorín, Carolina; Asensio, Eva Maria MDPI (2022)
      Background and Objectives: Circadian rhythms have an important implication in numerous physiological and metabolic processes, including the sleep/wake cycle. Inter-individual differences in factors associated with circadian ...
    • openAccess   Information theory tools for viewpoint selection, mesh saliency and geometry simplification 

      Sbert Casasayas, Mateu; Feixas, Miguel; Castelló Boscá, Pascual; Chover, Miguel Springer (2009)
      In this chapter we review the use of an information channel as a unified framework for viewpoint selection, mesh saliency and geometry simplification. Taking the viewpoint distribution as input and object mesh polygons as ...
    • openAccess   Iniciativas globales para la Observación de la Tierra: Contribuciones europeas a GEOSS 

      Díaz Sánchez, Laura; Granell, Carlos; Huerta, Joaquin; Simonazzi Domínguez, Walter Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (2009)
      El presente trabajo introduce las iniciativas europeas en materia de política espacial y datos medioambientales que contribuyen al Sistema Global de Sistemas para la Observación de la Tierra (Global Earth Observation ...
    • closedAccess   Innovación Abierta 

      Granell, Carlos; Moreno, Carlos Asociación de Técnicos de Informática (ATI) (2015-06)
      Nuestro objetivo en esta monografía sobre Innovación Abierta es ofrecer experiencias y casos de uso de la mano de actores relevantes implicados directamente en procesos de innovación. Pero, antes de introducir cada uno ...