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Int.eu.grid
The int.eu.grid project aims to provide a production quality grid computing infrastructure for e-Science supporting parallel and interactive applications. The infrastructure capacity is presently about 750 cor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Hybrid Robotic Control System Using Neuroblastoma Cultures
The main objective of this work is to analyze the computing capabilities of human neuroblastoma cultured cells and to define connection schemes for controlling a robot behavior. Multielectrode Array (MEA) setu...
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Practical Mechanisms for Managing Parallel and Interactive Jobs on Grid Environments
The CrossBroker is a Grid Resource Management System that provides transparent and reliable support for the execution of parallel and interactive applications on a Grid environment. In this chapter, we outline...
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Neural Prosthetic Interfaces with the Central Nervous System: Current Status and Future Prospects
Rehabilitation of sensory and/or motor functions in patients with neurological diseases is more and more dealing with artificial electrical stimulation and recording from populations of neurons using biocompat...
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Analysis of Retinal Ganglion Cells Population Responses Using Information Theory and Artificial Neural Networks: Towards Functional Cell Identification
In this paper, we analyse the retinal population data looking at behaviour. The method is based on creating population subsets using the autocorrelograms of the cells and grou** them according to a minimal E...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Int.eu.Grid Project Approach on Supporting Interactive Applications in the Grid Environment
In this chapter we describe the Interactive European Grid project approach to handling interactive grid applications. Interactivity is an important feature that gives users the possibility to interact with app...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Activity Modulation in Human Neuroblastoma Cultured Cells: Towards a Biological Neuroprocessor
The main objective of this work is to analyze the computing capabilities of human neuroblastoma cultured cells and to define stimulation patterns able to modulate the neural activity in response to external st...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Functional Identification of Retinal Ganglion Cells Based on Neural Population Responses
The issue of classification has long been a central topic in the analysis of multielectrode data, either for spike sorting or for getting insight into interactions among ensembles of neurons. Related to coding...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Adaptable Multichannel Architecture for Cortical Stimulation
An architecture for a cortical stimulator with visual neuroprosthetic purposes is presented. This device uses a 3D penetrating multielectrode array, which will be implanted in V1, offering different signal amp...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
End-to-side nerve neurorrhaphy: critical appraisal of experimental and clinical data
End-to-side neurorrhaphy (ESN) or terminolateral neurorraphy consists of connecting the distal stump of a transected nerve, named the recipient nerve, to the side of an intact adjacent nerve, named the donor n...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Multiplexed Current Source Portable Stimulator Architecture for a Visual Cortical Neuroprosthesis
A multiplexed current source architecture for neuroprosthetic purposes is presented. This device uses a penetrating multielectrode array which will be implanted in visual cortex, offering different signal ampl...
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Formulation and Validation of a Method for Classifying Neurons from Multielectrode Recordings
The issue of classification has long been a central topic in the analysis of multielectrode data, either for spike sorting or for getting insight into interactions among ensembles of neurons. Related to coding...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quixote: Supporting Group Decisions Through the Web
We describe a web-based architecture to support participation in group decision making. Emphasis is placed on security aspects related with our architecture, designed to enhance trust on the system.
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Gradient Descent MRI Illumination Correction Algorithm
Magnetic Resonance Images(MRI) are piecewise constant functions that can be corrupted by an inhomogeneous illumination field. We propose a gradient descent parametric illumination correction algorithm for MRI....
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Participatory Budget Formation Through the Web
We describe a web-based system to support groups in elaborating participatory budgets. Rather than using physical meetings with voting mechanisms, we promote virtual meetings with explicit preference elicitati...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Validation of a Cortical Electrode Model for Neuroprosthetics purposes
A study of the electrical parameters of a microelectrode array designed for chronic current stimulation through cortical tissue was carried out. The microelectrode array was inmersed in ringer solution for mea...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Neural Coding Analysis in Retinal Ganglion Cells Using Information Theory
Information Theory is used for analyzing the neural code of retinal ganglion cells. This approximation may quantify the amount of information transmitted by the whole population, versus single cells. The redun...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Advanced Visualization of 3D data of Intravascular Ultrasound images
Intravascular ultrasound images (IVUS) have allowed deepening in the knowledge of the true extension of the coronary vessel illness. Today, vessel diagnosis is limited to observation and measurements in the IV...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Decoding the Population Responses of Retinal Ganglions Cells Using Information Theory
In this paper information theory is used to analyze the coding capabilities of populations of retinal ganglions cells for transmitting information. The study of a single code versus a distributed code has been...
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Climate Variability Analysis of Temperature Series in the Medium Ebro River Basin
Moberg and Alexandersson’s (1997) methodology has been applied to homogenize series of monthly mean values of maximum and minimum daily temperature recorded in observatories located at the medium Ebro river ba...