[EN] Control strategies such as variations in injection pressure and timing have been used by researchers to reduce in-cylinder exhaust emissions and meet legislation standards. Postinjection has been studied for several ...
Lapuebla-Ferri, Andrés; Perez del Palomar, Amaya; Herrero, Javier; Jimenez Mocholi, Antonio José(Elsevier, 2011)
[EN] Breast augmentation surgery is a widespread practice for aesthetic purposes. Current techniques, however, are not able to reliably predict the desired final aspect of the breast after the intervention, whose success ...
Badía Valiente, José David; Strömberg, Emma Marie; Ribes Greus, María Desamparados; Karlsson, Sigbritt(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2011)
[EN] The sample preparation procedure for MALDI-TOF MS of polymers is addressed in this study by the application of a statistical Design of Experiments (DoE). Industrial poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) was chosen as ...
Prats Boluda, Gema; Garcia Casado, Francisco Javier; Martínez De Juan, José Luís; Ye Lin, Yiyao(Elsevier, 2011-05)
[EN] Although the surface electroenterogram (EEnG) is a weak signal contaminated by strong physiological interference, such as ECG and respiration, abdominal surface recordings of the EEnG could provide a non-invasive ...
In this study, we show the use of direct external electrical stimulation of a jellyfish luminescent calcium-activated protein, aequorin, expressed in a transgenic yeast strain. Yeast cultures were electrically stimulated ...
Guerrero Cortina, Francisco; Santonja, Francisco-José; Villanueva Micó, Rafael Jacinto(Elsevier, 2011-07)
Background: There are many models that study aspects of smoking habits: the influence of price, tax, relapse time, and the effects of prohibition. There are also studies examining the effects of the Spanish smoke-free law. ...
Brun, Eva M.; Puchades, Rosa; Maquieira Catala, Ángel(Elsevier, 2011-05)
[EN] Doping control in sport is mandatory to detect and to control the use of prohibited substances. Due to the growing number of targets, the analysis of doping compounds and their metabolites is carried out using established ...
The implementation of the Water Framework Directive implies the determination of an environmental flow (E-flow) in each running water body. In Spain, many of the minimum flow assessments were determined with the physical ...
Sirera Pérez, Rafael; Bremnes, Roy M.; Cabrera, Andrea; Jantus Lewintre, Eloisa; Sanmartin, Elena; Blasco, Ana; del Pozo, Nieves; Rosell, Rafael; Guijarro, Ricardo; Galbis, Jose; Sanchez, Jose Javier; Camps, Carlos(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2011-02)
Background: Circulating DNA is observed at higher concentrations in patients with lung cancer than in controls. Qualitative and quantitative analysis of circulating DNA is a promising noninvasive tool. Our aim was to ...
[EN] A set of elastomeric scaffolds with a well defined porous structure was prepared with a template leaching procedure and coated with hyaluronic acid solutions. Depending on the coating process parameters the hyaluronic ...
Introduction: The vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) family of ligands and receptors (VEGFR) play an important role in tumor angiogenesis. Increased expression of angiogenic factors in tumors or in blood is associated ...
Objective: There is an ongoing research effort devoted to characterize the signal regularity metrics approximate entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) in order to better interpret their results in the context of ...
[EN] Radioprotection with natural products may be relevant to the mitigation of ionizing radiation-induced damage in mammalian systems; in this sense, propolis extracts have shown effects such as antioxidant, antitumoral, ...
Martí Calatayud, Manuel César; García Gabaldón, Montserrat; Pérez-Herranz, Valentín; Ortega Navarro, Emma María(Elsevier, 2011-07-07)
The transport properties of a cation-exchange membrane in the presence of nickel sulphate solutions were investigated by means of chronopotentiometry. The interest of this study relies on the application to the treatment ...
[EN] Simple, rapid and highly sensitive assays, possibly allowing on-site analysis, are required in the security and forensic fields or to obtain early signs of environmental pollution. Several bioanalytical methods and ...
[EN] A reliable multi-residue method for determining gaseous and particulate phase pesticides in atmospheric samples has been developed. This method, based on full scan gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), allowed ...
Tarazona Campos, Sonia; García-Alcalde, Fernando; Dopazo, Joaquín; Ferrer Riquelme, Alberto José; Conesa, Ana(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2011-09-08)
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies are revolutionizing genome research, and in particular, their application to transcriptomics (RNA-seq) is increasingly being used for gene expression profiling as a replacement ...
Jiménez Douglas, Emérita; Giménez García, Juan Bautista; Ruano García, María Victoria; FERRER, J.; Serralta Sevilla, Joaquín(Elsevier, 2011-07-29)
The effect of pH and nitrite concentration on the activity of the nitrite oxidizing bacteria (NOB) in an activated sludge reactor has been determined by means of laboratory batch experiments based on respirometric techniques. ...
Igual Muñoz, Anna Neus; Mischler, Stefano(SPRINGER, 2011)
[EN] The corrosion behaviour and the wear ranking of biomedical high carbon (HC) and low carbon (LC) CoCrMo alloys sliding against an alumina ball in four different simulated body fluids [NaCl and phosphate buffered solutions ...
[EN] Fibronectin (FN) assembles into fibrillar networks by cells through an integrin-dependent mechanism. We have recently shown that simple FN adsorption onto poly(ethyl acrylate) surfaces (PEA), but not control polymer ...