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      Video Quality Prediction Models Based on Video Content Dynamics for H.264 Video over UMTS Networks 

      Khan, Asiya; Sun, Lingfen; Ifeachor, Emmanuel; Fajardo Portillo, José Oscar; Liberal Malaina, Fidel ORCID (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2010)
      The aim of this paper is to present video quality prediction models for objective non-intrusive, prediction of H.264 encoded video for all content types combining parameters both in the physical and application layer over ...
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      Ab initio molecular dynamics on the electronic Boltzmann equilibrium distribution 

      Alonso, J. L.; Castro, A.; Echenique, P.; Polo, V.; Rubio Secades, Angel; Zueco, D. (IOP Publishing, 2010-08-31)
      We prove that for a combined system of classical and quantum particles, it is possible to describe a dynamics for the classical particles that incorporates in a natural way the Boltzmann equilibrium population for the ...
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      Modeling the Effector - Regulatory T Cell Cross-Regulation Reveals the Intrinsic Character of Relapses in Multiple Sclerosis 

      Vélez de Mendizábal, Nieves; Carneiro, Jorge; Solé, Ricard V.; Goñi, Joaquín; Bragard, Jean; Martínez Forero, Ivan; Martínez Pasamar, Sara; Sepulcre, Jorge; Torrealdea Folgado, Francisco Javier; Bagnato, Francesca; Garcia Ojalvo, Jordi; Villoslada, Pablo (Biomed Central, 2011-07-15)
      Background: The relapsing-remitting dynamics is a hallmark of autoimmune diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Although current understanding of both cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the pathogenesis of ...
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      Polymer-Optical-Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers Doped with Organic Dyes 

      Arrue Aramburu, Juan Antonio ORCID; Jiménez Hernández, Felipe; Ayesta Ereño, Igor ORCID; Illarramendi Leturia, María Asunción ORCID; Zubia Zaballa, Joseba Andoni ORCID (MDPI, 2011-09)
      Polymer optical fibers (POFs) doped with organic dyes can be used to make efficient lasers and amplifiers due to the high gains achievable in short distances. This paper analyzes the peculiarities of light amplification ...
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      GABAergic and Cortical and Subcortical Glutamatergic Axon Terminals Contain CB1 Cannabinoid Receptors in the Ventromedial Nucleus of the Hypothalamus 

      Reguero Acebal, Leire ORCID; Puente Bustinza, Nagore ORCID; Elezgarai Gabantxo, Izaskun ORCID; Mendizabal Zubiaga, Juan Luis ORCID; Canduela Pérez, Miren Josune; Buceta Salazar, Ianire ORCID; Ramos Uriarte, Almudena ORCID; Suárez, Juan; Rodríguez de Fonseca, Fernando; Marsicano, Giovanni; Grandes Moreno, Pedro Rolando ORCID (Public Library of Science, 2011-10)
      Background: Type-1 cannabinoid receptors (CB1R) are enriched in the hypothalamus, particularly in the ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus (VMH) that participates in homeostatic and behavioral functions including food intake. ...
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      The interactive brain hypothesis 

      Di Paolo, Ezequiel; De Jaegher, Hanneke ORCID (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2012-06)
      Enactive approaches foreground the role of interpersonal interaction in explanations of social understanding. This motivates, in combination with a recent interest in neuroscientific studies involving actual interactions, ...
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      Multiple SNP Markers Reveal Fine-Scale Population and Deep Phylogeographic Structure in European Anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus L.) 

      Zarraonaindia Martínez, Iratxe ORCID; Iriondo Orensanz, Mikel ORCID; Albaina Vivanco, Aitor ORCID; Pardo, Miguel Ángel; Manzano Basabe, Carmen ORCID; Grant, W. Stewart; Irigoien, Xabier; Estomba Recalde, Miren Andone ORCID (Public Library of Science, 2012-07-30)
      Geographic surveys of allozymes, microsatellites, nuclear DNA (nDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have detected several genetic subdivisions among European anchovy populations. However, these studies have been limited in ...
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      Permutationally invariant state reconstruction 

      Moroder, Tobias; Hyllus, Philipp; Tóth, Géza; Schwemmer, Christian; Niggebaum, Alexander; Gaile, Stefanie; Guehne, Otfried; Weinfurter, Harald (IOP Publishing, 2012-10)
      Feasible tomography schemes for large particle numbers must possess, besides an appropriate data acquisition protocol, an efficient way to reconstruct the density operator from the observed finite data set. Since state ...
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      Dealing with Energy-QoE Trade-Offs in Mobile Video 

      Liberal Malaina, Fidel ORCID; Taboada Puente, Ianire ORCID; Fajardo Portillo, José Oscar (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
      Scalable video coding allows an efficient provision of video services at different quality levels with different energy demands. According to the specific type of service and network scenario, end users and/or operators ...
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      Empirical Doppler Characterization of Signals Scattered by Wind Turbines in the UHF Band under Near Field Condition 

      Angulo Pita, Itziar ORCID; Montalbán Sánchez, Jon ORCID; Cañizo Canales, Josune; Wu, Yiyan; De la Vega Moreno, David ORCID; Guerra Pereda, David ORCID; Angueira Buceta, Pablo ORCID; Arrinda Sanzberro, Amaia ORCID (Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2013)
      Time variability of the scattering signals from wind turbines may lead to degradation problems on the communication systems provided in the UHF band, especially under near field condition. In order to analyze the variability ...
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      Long-lived oscillatory incoherent electron dynamics in molecules: trans-polyacetylene oligomers 

      Franco, Ignacio; Rubio Secades, Angel; Brumer, Paul (IOP Publishing, 2013-04)
      We identify an intriguing feature of the electron-vibrational dynamics of molecular systems via a computational examination of trans-polyacetylene oligomers. Here, via the vibronic interactions, the decay of an electron ...
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      Efficient Gate-tunable light-emitting device made of defective boron nitride nanotubes: from ultraviolet to the visible 

      Attaccalite, Claudio; Wirtz, Ludger; Marini, Andrea; Rubio Secades, Angel (Nature Publishing Group, 2013-09)
      Boron nitride is a promising material for nanotechnology applications due to its two-dimensional graphene-like, insulating, and highly-resistant structure. Recently it has received a lot of attention as a substrate to grow ...
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      Two-magnon bound state causes ultrafast thermally induced magnetisation switching 

      Barker, J.; Atxitia Macizo, Unai; Ostler, T. A.; Hovorka, O.; Chubykalo-Fesenko, O.; Chantrell, R. W. (Nature Publishing Group, 2013-11)
      There has been much interest recently in the discovery of thermally induced magnetisation switching using femtosecond laser excitation, where a ferrimagnetic system can be switched deterministically without an applied ...
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      A Novel Scheduling Index Rule Proposal for QoE Maximization in Wireless Networks 

      Taboada Puente, Ianire ORCID; Liberal Malaina, Fidel ORCID (Hindawi Publishing, 2014)
      This paper deals with the resource allocation problem aimed at maximizing users' perception of quality in wireless channels with time-varying capacity. First of all, we model the subjective quality-aware scheduling problem ...
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      Transverse target single-spin asymmetry in inclusive electroproduction of charged pions and kaons 

      Airapetian, A.; Akopov, N.; Akopov, Z.; Aschenauer, E.C.; Augustynia, W.; Avakian, R.; Avetissian, A.; Avetisyan, E.; Belostotski, S.; Bianchi, N.; Blok, H.P.; Borissov, A.; Bowles, J.; Bryzgalov, V.; Burns, J.; Capiluppi, M.; Capitani, G.P.; Cisbani, E.; Ciullo, G.; Contalbrigo, M.; Dalpiaz, P.F.; Deconinck, W.; De Leo, R.; De Nardo, L.; De Sanctis, E.; Diefenthaler, M.; Di Nezza, P.; Dürenn, M.; Ehrenfried, M.; Elbakian, G.; Ellinghaus, F.; Fabbri, R.; Fantoni, A.; Felawka, L.; Frullani, S.; Gabberth, D.; Gapienko, G.; Gapienko, V.; Gavrilov, G.; Gharibyan, V.; Giordano, F.; Gliske, S.; Golembiovskaya, M.; Hadjidakis, C.; Hartig, M.; Hasch, D.; Hillenbrand, A.; Hoek, M.; Holler, Y.; Hristova, I.; Ivanilov, A.; Jackson, H.E.; Joosten, S.; Kaiser, R.; Karyan, G.; Keri, T.; Kinney, E.; Kisselev, A.; Korotkov, V.; Kozlov, V.; Kravchenko, P.; Krivokhijine, V.G.; Lagamba, L.; Lapikás, L.; Lehmann, I.; Lenisa, P.; López Ruiz, A.; Lorenzon, W.; Ma, B.-Q.; Mahon, D.; Makins, N.C.R.; Manaenkov, S.I.; Mao, Y.; Marianski, B.; Martínez de la Ossa, A.; Marukyan, H.; Miller, C.A.; Miyachi, Y.; Movsisyan, A.; Murray, M.; Mussgiller, A.; Nappi, E.; Naryshkin, Y.; Negodaev, M.; Nowak, W.-D.; Pappalardo, L.L.; Perez-Benito, R.; Petrosyan, A.; Raithel, M.; Reimer, P.E.; Reolon, A.R.; Riedl, C.; Rith, K.; Rosner, G.; Rostomyan, A.; Rubin, J.; Ryckbosch, D.; Salomatin, Y.; Sanftl, F.; Schäferv, A.; Schnell, Gunar; Seitz, B.; Shibata, T.-A.; Shutov, V.; Stancari, M.; Statera, M.; Steffens, E.; Steijger, J.J.M.; Stewart, J.; Stinzing, F.; Taroian, S.; Terkulov, A.; Truty, R.; Trzcinski, A.; Tytgat, M.; Van Haarlem, Y.; Van Hulse, Charlotte Barbara; Veretennikov, D.; Vikhrov, V.; Vilardi, I.; Wang, S.; Yaschenko, S.; Ye, Z.; Yen, S.; Yu, W.; Zagrebelnyy, V.; Zeiler, D.; Zihlmann, V.; Zupranski, P. (Elsevier, 2014-01-20)
      Single-spin asymmetries were investigated in inclusive electroproduction of charged pions and kaons from transversely polarized protons at the HERMES experiment. The asymmetries were studied as a function of the azimuthal ...
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      The MLH1 c.1852_1853delinsGC (p.K618A) Variant in Colorectal Cancer: Genetic Association Study in 18,723 Individuals 

      Abulí, Anna; Bujanda Fernández de Pierola, Luis ORCID; Mun, Jenifer; Buch, Stephan; Schafmayer, Clemens; Maiorana, Maria Valeria; Veneroni, Silvia; Van Wezel, Tom; Liu, Tao; Westers, Helga; Esteban-Jurado, Clara; Ocan, Teresa; Pique, Josep M.; Andreu, Montserrat; Jover, Rodrigo; Carracedo, Angel; Xicola, Rosa M.; Llor, Xavier; Castells, Antoni; The EPICOLON Consortium; Dunlop15, Malcolm; Hofstra, Robert; Lindblom, Annika; Wijnen, Juul; Peterlongo, Paolo; Hampe, Jochen; Ruiz- Ponte, Clara; Castellví-Bel, Sergi (Public Library Science, 2014-04-17)
      Colorectal cancer is one of the most frequent neoplasms and an important cause of mortality in the developed world. Mendelian syndromes account for about 5% of the total burden of CRC, being Lynch syndrome and familial ...
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      Dobutamine in Paediatric Population: A Systematic Review in Juvenile Animal Models 

      Mielgo, Victoria; Valls Soler, Adolfo; Rey Santano, María Carmen (Public Library Science, 2014-04-22)
      Objective: Although dobutamine is widely used in neonatal clinical practice, the evidence for its use in this specific population is not clear. We conducted a systematic review of the use of dobutamine in juvenile animals ...
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      Viral metagenomic analysis of feces of wild small carnivores 

      Bodewes, Rogier; Ruiz González, Aritz ORCID; Schapendonk, Claudia ME; Van den Brand, Judith MA; Osterhaus, Albert DME; Smits, Saskia L. (Biomed Central, 2014-05-15)
      Background: Recent studies have clearly demonstrated the enormous virus diversity that exists among wild animals. This exemplifies the required expansion of our knowledge of the virus diversity present in wildlife, as well ...
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      Dealing with the Effects of Sensor Displacement in Wearable Activity Recognition 

      Baños, Oresti; Mate, Toth Attila; Damas, Miguel; Pomares, Héctor; Rojas, Ignacio (MDPI, 2014-06)
      Most wearable activity recognition systems assume a predefined sensor deployment that remains unchanged during runtime. However, this assumption does not reflect real-life conditions. During the normal use of such systems, ...
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      Spinal circuits can accommodate interaction torques during multijoint limb movements 

      Buhrmann, Thomas; Di Paolo, Ezequiel (Frontiers Research Foundation, 2014-11-11)
      The dynamic interaction of limb segments during movements that involve multiple joints creates torques in one joint due to motion about another. Evidence shows that such interaction torques are taken into account during ...