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Open AccessMental health and COVID-19 in a general population cohort in Spain (COVICAT study)
Mental health conditions may affect outcome of COVID-19 disease, while exposure to stressors during the pandemic may impact mental health. The purpose of this study was to examine these factors in relation to...
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Open AccessCombination of white matter hyperintensities and Aβ burden is related to cognitive composites domain scores in subjective cognitive decline: the FACEHBI cohort
To explore whether the combination of white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) and amyloid-beta (Aβ) deposition is associated with worse cognitive performance on cognitive composites (CCs) domain scores in individ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Accelerating Wild Fire Simulator Using GPU
In the last years, forest fire spread simulators have proven to be ...
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Open AccessCorrelations between plasma and PET beta-amyloid levels in individuals with subjective cognitive decline: the Fundació ACE Healthy Brain Initiative (FACEHBI)
Peripheral biomarkers that identify individuals at risk of develo** Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or predicting high amyloid beta (Aβ) brain burden would be highly valuable. To facilitate clinical trials of disea...
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Open AccessMaternal and fetal genetic contribution to gestational weight gain
Clinical recommendations to limit gestational weight gain (GWG) imply high GWG is causally related to adverse outcomes in mother or offspring, but GWG is the sum of several inter-related complex phenotypes (ma...
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Open AccessGenome-wide significant risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease: role in progression to dementia due to Alzheimer's disease among subjects with mild cognitive impairment
Few data are available concerning the role of risk markers for Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in progression to AD dementia among subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We therefore investigated the role of ...
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Improving the Execution Performance of FreeSurfer
A scheme to significantly speed up the processing of MRI with FreeSurfer (FS) is presented. The scheme is aimed at maximizing the productivity (number of subjects processed per unit time) for the use case of r...
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Open AccessATP5H/KCTD2 locus is associated with Alzheimer's disease risk
To identify loci associated with Alzheimer disease, we conducted a three-stage analysis using existing genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and genoty** in a new sample. In Stage I, all suggestive single-n...
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Open AccessFollow-up of loci from the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Disease Project identifies TRIP4 as a novel susceptibility gene
To follow-up loci discovered by the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Disease Project, we attempted independent replication of 19 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in a large Spanish sample (Fundació ...
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Magnetic properties of iron oxide nanoparticles prepared by seeded-growth route
In this work we investigate the magnetic properties of iron oxide nanoparticles obtained by two-step synthesis (seeded-growth route) with sizes that range from 6 to 18 nm. The initial seeds result monocrystall...
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Analysis and improvement of map-reduce data distribution in read map** applications
The map-reduce paradigm has shown to be a simple and feasible way of filtering and analyzing large data sets in cloud and cluster systems. Algorithms designed for the paradigm must implement regular data distr...
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Management science methodologies in environmental management and sustainability: discourses and applications
This paper investigates and discusses the use of systemic methodologies (SMs) developed in management science/operational research (MS/OR), in particular, those SM that have been informing the complexity inher...
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Introduction to this Special Issue ‘Action Research in Organisational Cybernetics’
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Ralf-Eckhard Turke: Governance: Systemic Foundation and Framework
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Team syntegrity and democratic group decision making: theory and practice
Stafford Beer created Team Syntegrity as a methodology for social interaction that predisposes participants towards shared agreement among varied and sometimes conflicting interests, without compromising the l...
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Radiochemical determination of 237Np in soil samples contaminated with weapon grade plutonium
The Palomares terrestrial ecosystem (Spain) constitutes a natural laboratory to study transuranics. This scenario is partially contaminated with weapon-grade plutonium since the burnout and fragmentation of tw...
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Study on the contamination by transuranides of pulmonata gastropoda collected in Palomares (Spain)
A study on the contamination levels and distribution of plutonium in gastropods collected in Palomares (south-east Spain) has been performed. This region is partially contaminated with actinides following the ...
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Study on the contamination by transuranides of pulmonata gastropoda collected in palomares (Spain)
A study on the contamination levels and distribution of plutonium in gastropods collected in Palomares (south-east Spain) has been performed. This region is partially contaminated with actinides following the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Develo** Multi-agent Systems in Ada
Agent-oriented technology is a rising paradigm for develo** quality software in complex domains. Currently, no Ada interface or middleware exist for the development of agent-based applications. In this paper...
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Radiochemical determination of 237NP in soil samples contaminated with weapon grade plutonium
The Palomares terrestrial ecosystem (Spain) constitutes a natural laboratory to study transuranics. This scenario is partially contaminated with weapon-grade plutonium since the burnout and fragmentation of tw...
