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    • 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   How Earth Observation, Crop Modeling, and ICT can help rice cultivation: the ERMES project 

      Casteleyn, Sven; Granell, Carlos; Trilles, Sergio; Huerta, Joaquin; BOSCHETTI, MIRCO; Busetto, Lorenzo; Pepe, Monica; Katsantonis, Dimitrios; Confalonieri, Roberto; Holecz, Francesco; García Haro, Javier; Gitas, Ioannis AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Due to pressure of food demand, increased price competition and demand for sustainable farming practices, it’s increasingly important to optimize agricultural practices. The European FP7 project ERMES focuses specifically ...

    • openAccess   How to implement scrum manager in the software engineering route? 

      Grangel Seguer, Reyes; Segarra-Ciprés, Mercedes; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar International Academy of Technology, Education and Development (IATED) (2019)
      Teaching in Software Engineering has evolved in recent years at the same time that software development methodologies have. Therefore, there are a lot of good examples in the literature on how to use Agile Methods in the ...

    • openAccess   How to visualize the geography of Swiss history 

      Bruggmann, André; Fabrikant, Sara I. AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Efficient and effective access to and knowledge construction from massively growing spatial and non-spatial databases available online today have become major bottlenecks for the rapidly evolving information society at ...

    • 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   IDE-OTALEX C. The big challenge of the first Crossborder SDI between Spain and Portugal 

      Batista, Teresa; Caballero, Carmen; Ceballos, Fernando; Carriço, Cristina; Vivas White, Pedro; Cabezas, José; Ferdández, Luis; Pinto-Gomes, Carlos AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The SDI implementation is an average difficult work. There should be an understanding between political and scientific interests, technological advances and it is also quite recommended to meet the needs of citizens. A ...

    • 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 equity of public transportation planning. The case of Palma de Mallorca (Spain) 

      Ruiz Pérez, Maurici; Seguí Pons, Joana Maria; Mateu Lladó, Jaume; Martínez Reynés, María Rosa AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Public transport planning requires consideration of equity in access of the population to the transport service. This paper presents a methodology for the analysis of public transport in the city of Palma and its evaluation ...

    • 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   Improving Risk Predictions by Preprocessing Imbalanced Credit Data 

      García, Vicente; Marqués Marzal, Ana Isabel; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2012)
      Imbalanced credit data sets refer to databases in which the class of defaulters is heavily under-represented in comparison to the class of non-defaulters. This is a very common situation in real-life credit scoring ...

    • 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 ...