San Cornelio, Gemma; Martorell, Sandra; Ardèvol, Elisenda(Frontiers Media SA, 2024-01-03)
[EN] IntroductionIn the face of the current climate crisis, environmental communication can contribute to providing new frames of understanding and promoting social change and positive citizen action. Through social media, ...
Catalán, Sandra; Herrero, José R.; Quintana Ortí, Enrique Salvador; Rodríguez-Sánchez, Rafael; van de Geijn, Robert(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2019-01-31)
[EN] We propose two novel techniques for overcoming load-imbalance encountered when implementing so-called look-ahead mechanisms in relevant dense matrix factorizations for the solution of linear systems. Both techniques ...
Gené Gil, Maria; Juan Garau, Maria; Salazar Noguera, Joana(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2012-07-01)
[EN] This case study explores the purposes for which the target language (TL) and the L1s were used orally by students (N=60) and teachers (N=3) in a mainstream CLIL secondary education context compared to EFL instruction ...
Salas-Molina, Francisco; Bistaffa, Filippo; Rodríguez-Aguilar, Juan A.(Elsevier, 2023-10)
[EN] We tackle the problem of computing a consensus according to multiple ethical principles - which can include, for example, the principle of maximum freedom associated with the Benthamite doctrine and the principle of ...
[EN] Potassium homeostasis is crucial for living cells. In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the uptake of potassium is driven by the electrochemical gradient generated by the Pma1 H +-ATPase, and this process represents ...
[EN] Cash management is concerned with optimizing costs of short-term cash policies
of a company. Different optimization models have been proposed in the literature whose
focus has been only placed on a single objective, ...
[EN] In the melon exotic accession PI 161375, the gene cmv1, confers recessive resistance to Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) strains of subgroup II. cmv1 prevents the systemic infection by restricting the virus to the bundle ...
[EN] A nanoporous anodic alumina (NAA)-based sensor system for the detection of Mycoplasma was developed through the implementation of "molecular gates" selective to the presence of this bacterium. The capped support showed ...
Beneyto, Aleix; Bertachi, Arthur; Bondía Company, Jorge; Vehí, Josep(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2020-03)
[EN] The artificial pancreas (AP) system or closed-loop blood glucose (BG) regulation is a technological advancement that aims to relieve diabetic subjects from their current decision-making burden while tightening their ...
[EN] A qPCR-based method was developed to detect and quantifyPodosphaera pannosa, the main causal agent of peach powdery mildew. A primer pair was designed to target part of the ITS region of the fungal ribosomal DNA, which ...
Cordero, Teresa; Mohamed, M.A.; Lopez Moya, J.J.; DAROS ARNAU, JOSE ANTONIO(Frontiers Media SA, 2017-04-06)
[EN] Potato virus Y (PVY) is a major threat to the cultivation of potato and other solanaceous plants. By inserting a cDNA coding for the Antirrhinum majus Rosea1 transcription factor into a PVY infectious clone, we created ...
[EN] Background:
Estimating the rate of glucose appearance (Ra) after ingestion of a mixed meal may be highly valuable in diabetes management. The gold standard technique for estimating Ra is the use of a multitracer oral ...
Salas-Molina, Francisco; Rodriguez-Aguilar, Juan A.; Pla Santamaría, David(Springer-Verlag, 2020-02)
[EN] In this paper, we consider cash management systems with multiple bank accounts described by a given particular relationship between accounts and by a linear state transition law. Since cash managers may simultaneously ...
[EN] Plant survival under environmental stress requires the integration of multiple signaling pathways into a coordinated response, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this integration are poorly understood. Stress-derived ...
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Shade caused by the proximity of neighboring vegetation triggers a set of acclimation responses to either avoid or tolerate shade. Comparative analyses between the shade-avoider Arabidopsis thaliana and the shade-tolerant ...
Gutiérrez-Carcedo, Patricia; Navalón Oltra, Sergio; Simó, Rafael; Setoain, Xavier; Aparicio-Gómez, Carolina; Abasolo, Ibane; Victor, Victor Manuel; García Gómez, Hermenegildo; Herance, José Raúl(MDPI AG, 2020-04)
[EN] Ceria nanoparticles are cell compatible antioxidants whose activity can be enhanced by gold deposition and by surface functionalization with positive triphenylphosphonium units to selectively target the mitochondria. ...
[EN] Carotenoids are lipophilic plastidial isoprenoids highly valued as nutrients and natural pigments. A correct balance of chlorophylls and carotenoids is required for photosynthesis and therefore highly regulated, making ...
Ardid-Ramírez, Joan Salvador; Wang, Xiao-Jing; Compte, A.(Society for Neuroscience, 2007-08-08)
[EN] Selective attention is a fundamental cognitive function that uses top-down signals to orient and prioritize information processing in the brain. Single-cell recordings from behaving monkeys have revealed a number of ...
Pascual-Jose, B.; De la Flor, S.; Serra, A.; Ribes-Greus, A.(American Chemical Society, 2023-02-10)
[EN] The dielectric spectra of the poly(thiourethane) network, HDI-S3, have been analyzed to know the nature and the cooperativity of each of the six dielectric processes observed. At low temperatures, ¿1, ¿2, and ß ...
Bermúdez, Lluís; Morillo, Isabel(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-09-22)
[EN] We study the severity of traffic accidents in the city of Barcelona during the period from 2010 to 2019. We intend to measure the performance of Local Road Safety Plan in Barcelona 2013-2018 actions in reducing fatal/ ...