• closedAccess   Partially-coherent spirally-polarized gradual-edge imaging 

      Pérez-Aviñoa, Marcos; Martínez-Herrero, Rosario; Vallmitjana, Santiago; Latorre Carmona, Pedro; Juvells, Ignasi; Carnicer, Artur Elsevier (2019)
      In this work we develop a partially-coherent spirally-polarized imaging system for generating gradual edge detection images. A rotating diffuser is used for producing illumination sources with tunable degree of coherence. Using ...
    • openAccess   Performance of random walks in one-hop replication networks 

      Rodero Merino, Luis; Fernández Anta, Antonio; López, Luis; Cholvi, Vicent Elsevier (2010)
      Random walks are gaining much attention from the networks research community. They are the basis of many proposals aimed to solve a variety of network-related problems such as resource location, network construction, nodes ...
    • openAccess   Place and city: Operationalizing sense of place and social capital in the urban context 

      Acedo Sánchez, Albert; Painho, Marco; Casteleyn, Sven John Wiley & Sons Ltd (2017)
      The academic interest in social concepts in city contexts, such as sense of place and social capital, has been growing in the last decades. We present a systematic literature review that confirms the strong relationship between ...
    • openAccess   Población de un almacén de datos con datos enriquecidos semánticamente. 

      Nebot Romero, Victoria; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2010)
      Debido al auge de la Web Semántica cada vez existen más repositorios con grandes cantidades de datos semánticos (datos anotados con elementos de ontologías), con una estructura compleja, semi-estructurada y heterogénea. ...
    • openAccess   Pollution and noise reduction through missed approach maneuvers based on aircraft reinjection 

      Casado González, Rafael; Bermúdez, Aurelio; Hernández-Orallo, Enrique; Boronat, Pablo; Pérez-Francisco, Miguel; Calafate, Carlos Elsevier (2023-01)
      Skyrocketing prices of fuel and increasing concerns towards achieving lower carbon footprints favor any improvements towards a greener transportation ecosystem. In this work we focus on missed approaches, which are forced ...
    • openAccess   Polymorphism of the Transcription Factor 7-Like 2 Gene (TCF7L2) Interacts with Obesity on Type-2 Diabetes in the PREDIMED Study Emphasizing the Heterogeneity of Genetic Variants in Type-2 Diabetes Risk Prediction: Time for Obesity-Specific Genetic Risk Scores 

      Corella, Dolores; Coltell, Oscar; Sorlí, José V; Estruch, Ramon; Quiles Guiñau, Laura; Martínez González, Miguel Ángel; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Castañer, Olga; Arós, Fernando; Ortega-Calvo, Manuel; Serra-Majem, Lluis; Gómez Gracia, Enrique; Portolés, Olga; Fiol Ramis, Miquel; Díez Espino, Javier; Basora, Josep; Fitó, Montserrat; Ros, Emilio; Ordovás Muñoz, José M. MDPI (2016)
      Nutrigenetic studies analyzing gene–diet interactions of the TCF7L2-rs7903146 C > T polymorphism on type-2 diabetes (T2D) have shown controversial results. A reason contributing to this may be the additional modulation by ...
    • openAccess   Polyphenol intake from a Mediterranean dietdecreases inflammatory biomarkers related toatherosclerosis: a substudy of the PREDIMED trial 

      Medina Remón, A.; Casas, Rosa; Tresserra-Rimbau, Anna; Ros, Emilio; Martínez González, Miguel Ángel; Fitó, Montserrat; Corella, Dolores; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Lamuela Raventós, Rosa María; Estruch, Ramon; PREDIMED Investigators (2017)
      High dietary polyphenol intake is associated with reduced all-cause mortality and a lower incidence of cardiovascular events. However, the mechanisms involved are not fully understood. The aim of the present substudy of ...
    • closedAccess   PPAR-α L162V and PGC-1 G482S gene polymorphisms, but not PPAR-γ P12A, are associated with alcohol consumption in a Spanish Mediterranean population 

      Francés, F.; Verdú, Fernando; Portolés, Olga; Castello, A.; Sorlí, José V; Guillen, M.; Corella, Dolores Elsevier (2008)
      Background: Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptors (PPARs) and its co-activators are regulatory elements of the cellular lipid homeostasis and have been associated with feeding behavior modulation. Animal models suggest ...
    • closedAccess   PREDIMED Investigators 

      Díez Espino, Javier; Basterra-Gortari, Francisco Javier; Salas-Salvadó, Jordi; Buil-Cosiales, Pilar; Corella, Dolores; Schröder, Helmut; Estruch, Ramon; Ros, Emilio; Gómez-Gracia, Enrique; Arós, Fernando; Fiol Ramis, Miquel; Lapetra, José; Serra-Majem, Lluis; Pintó, Xavier; Babio, Nancy; Quiles Guiñau, Laura; Fitó, Montserrat; Marti, Amelia; Toledo, Estefanía; PREDIMED Investigators Elsevier (2017)
      Background Eggs are a major source of dietary cholesterol and their consumption has been sometimes discouraged. A relationship between egg consumption and the incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has been suggested ...
    • openAccess   PRIDE Inspector: a tool to visualize and validate MS proteomics data 

      Wang, Rui; Fabregat Mundo, Antonio; Ríos, Daniel; Ovelleir, David; Foster, Joseph M.; Cote, Richard G.; Griss, Johannes; Csordas, Attila; Pérez Riverol, Yasset; Reisinger, Florian; Reisinger, Florian; Hermjakob, Henning; Martens, Lennart; Vizcaino, Juan Antonio Nature Publishing Group (2012)
      PRIDE Inspector thus provides a user-friendly, comprehensive tool for the browsing, inspection, and evaluation of data in the PRIDE database, or in a compatible standard file format. As such, we believe that PRIDE Inspector ...
    • openAccess   Publication and Discovery of Semantically Annotated Geospatial Web Services 

      Larizgoitia, Iker; Beltran Fonollosa, Arturo; Toma, Ioan; Maué, Patrick Shaker Verlag Aachen (2012)
      Environmental information and services have become a crucial asset in the creation of decission support systems. Unfortunately, this information and services are not usually exposed in an interoperable and ...
    • closedAccess   Qualitative distances and qualitative image descriptions for representing indoor scenes in robotics 

      Falomir, Zoe; Museros, Lledó; Castelló, Vicente; Gonzalez Abril, Luis Elsevier (2013)
      Patterns of qualitative concepts are extracted from robot sensors in order to describe the shapes, colours, spatial orientations and topology situations of natural landmarks in the robot environment and also the distance ...
    • openAccess   Quantum Byzantine agreement for any number of dishonest parties 

      Cholvi, Vicent Springer Nature (2022-04-07)
      Reaching agreement in the presence of arbitrary faults is a fundamental problem in distributed computation, which has been shown to be unsolvable if one-third of the processes can fail, unless signed messages are used. In ...
    • openAccess   Ranking European capitals by exposure to heat waves and cold waves 

      Smid, M.; Russo, S.; Costa, Ana Cristina; Granell, Carlos; Pebesma, Edzer Elsevier (2019)
      In warming Europe, we are witnessing a growth in urban population with aging trend, which willmake the society more exposed and vulnerable to extreme weather events. In the period1950–2015 the occurrence of extreme heat ...
    • closedAccess   Ranking-based MCDM models in financial management applications: analysis and emerging challenges 

      Marqués Marzal, Ana Isabel; García, Vicente; Sánchez Garreta, Josep Salvador Springer (2020)
      Over the last decades, the academic and professional communities have paid much attention toward the use of multi-criteria decision-making methods in a range of business and financial problems due to the variety and ...
    • openAccess   Recommendation-Based Conceptual Modeling and Ontology Evolution Framework (CMOE+) 

      Gailly, Frederik; Alkhaldi, Nadejda; Casteleyn, Sven; Verbeke, Wouter Springer Verlag (2017-08)
      Within an enterprise, various stakeholders create different conceptual models, such as process, data, and requirements models. These models are fundamentally based on similar underlying enterprise (domain) concepts, but ...
    • openAccess   Reconstruction of noisy signals by minimization of non-convex functionals 

      Mederos, Boris; Mollineda, Ramón A.; Camarena, Julián Antolín Elsevier (2016-12)
      Non-convex functionals have shown sharper results in signal reconstruction as compared to convex ones, although the existence of a minimum has not been established in general. This paper addresses the study of a general ...
    • openAccess   Reliability Validation of a Low-Cost Particulate Matter IoT Sensor in Indoor and Outdoor Environments Using a Reference Sampler 

      Trilles, Sergio; Vicente, Ana Belen; Juan, Pablo; Ramos, Jose Francisco; Meseguer Costa, Sergio; Serra, Laura MDPI (2019)
      A suitable and quick determination of air quality allows the population to be alerted with respect to high concentrations of pollutants. Recent advances in computer science have led to the development of a high number of ...
    • openAccess   Remotely Sensed Data Fusion for Spatiotemporal Geostatistical Analysis of Forest Fire Hazard 

      Sakellariou, Stavros; Cabral, Pedro; Caetano, Mario; Pla, Filiberto; Painho, Marco; Christopoulou, Olga; Sfougaris, Athanassios; Dalezios, Nicolas; Vasilakos, Christos MDPI (2020)
      Forest fires are a natural phenomenon which might have severe implications on naturaland anthropogenic ecosystems. Future projections predict that, under a climate change environment,the fire season would be lengthier with ...
    • closedAccess   Rendering continuous level-of-detail meshes by Masking Strips 

      Ripollés Mateu, Oscar Enrique; Chover, Miguel; Gumbau Portalés, Jesús; Ramos, Jose Francisco; Puig Centelles, Anna Elsevier (2009)
      In this paper we present a new continuous multiresolution approach which has been developed for the interactive visualization of meshes in real-time applications. Our interest is to offer an efficient solution which considers ...