Bio-Inspired Systems: Computational and Ambient Intelligence
10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Part I
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Open AccessA case report of fatal feline babesiosis caused by Babesia canis in north western Spain
In Europe, Babesia infections in cats are sporadic and only partial knowledge is currently available since the number of described cases including both the clinical presentation and the molecular identification o...
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Open AccessEnvironmental distribution of Porcine Circovirus Type 2 (PCV2) in swine herds with natural infection
Porcine circovirus type 2 (PCV2) is the aetiological agent of PCV2-Systemic Disease (PCV2-SD) and PCV2-Subclinical Infection (PCV2-SI). PCV2 is highly resistant to environmental conditions, being able to remai...
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Prevalence and molecular characterization of Rickettsia spp. in questing ticks from north-western Spain
Tick-borne rickettsioses, most of them belonging to the spotted fever group (SFG), have been recognized as important emerging vector-borne zoonotic diseases. In order to determine the presence of Rickettsia spp. ...
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Open AccessMolecular identification of Borrelia spirochetes in questing Ixodes ricinus from northwestern Spain
Ixodes ricinus, the predominant tick species in Europe, can transmit the causative agents of important human diseases such as Lyme borreliosis (LB), caused by Borrelia spirochetes. In ...
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Cryptosporidium species and subtype analysis in diarrhoeic pre-weaned lambs and goat kids from north-western Spain
Faecal specimens from diarrhoeic pre-weaned lambs (n = 171) and goat kids (n = 118) were collected in 37 sheep and 23 goat flocks, respectively, from NW Spain and microscopically examined for the presence of Cryp...
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Affinity-Based Network Interfaces for Efficient Communication on Multicore Architectures
Improving the network interface performance is needed by the demand of applications with high communication requirements (for example, some multimedia, real-time, and high-performance computing applications), ...
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Network Intrusion Prevention by Using Hierarchical Self-Organizing Maps and Probability-Based Labeling
Nowadays, the growth of the computer networks and the expansion of the Internet have made the security to be a critical issue. In fact, many proposals for Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) have ...
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Statistical Characterization of Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials and Their Use in Brain–Computer Interfaces
Steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP)-based brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) use the spectral power of the potentials for classification as they can be voluntarily enhanced or diminished by the subject ...
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Independent Component Analysis Aided Diagnosis of Cuban Spino Cerebellar Ataxia 2
Precedent studies have found abnormalities in the oculomotor system in patients with severe SCA2 form of autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCA), including the latency, peak velocity, and deviation in sac...
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Improving the Performance of Bandwidth-Demanding Applications by a Distributed Network Interface
In the last years, the market is demanding (scientific, multimedia, real-time, etc.) applications with high bandwidth requirements. To support this, the bandwidth of the network links has increased to reach mu...
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Computer Aids for Visual Neuroprosthetic Devices
Given that vision is the sense providing most information to the human being, any affection related to it significantly reduces the quality of life of the patients. Computing is showing to be a promising appro...
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Book and Conference Proceedings
Computational and Ambient Intelligence
9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2007, San Sebastián, Spain, June 20-22, 2007. Proceedings
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Surface Modelling with Radial Basis Functions Neural Networks Using Virtual Environments
Modelling capabilities of Radial Basis Function Neural Networks (RBFNNs) are very dependent on four main factors: the number of neurons, the central location of each neuron, their associated weights and their ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analyzing a Web-Based Social Network Using Kohonen’s SOM
In this paper the utility of using the Self Organizing Maps (SOM), in conjunction with U-matrix, to visualize the evolution of a social network community formed by a set of blogs is shown. Weblogs are dynamic ...
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Use of Kohonen Maps as Feature Selector for Selective Attention Brain-Computer Interfaces
Selective attention to visual-spatial stimuli causes decrements of power in alpha band and increments in beta. For steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) selective attention affects electroencephalogram...
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Use of ANNs as Classifiers for Selective Attention Brain-Computer Interfaces
Selective attention to visual-spatial stimuli causes decrements of power in alpha band and increments in beta. For steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) selective attention affects electroencephalogram...
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A Canonical Genetic Algorithm for Blind Inversion of Linear Channels
It is well known the relationship between source separation and blind deconvolution: If a filtered version of an unknown i.i.d. signal is observed, temporal independence between samples can be used to retrieve...
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Motion-Driven Segmentation by Competitive Neural Processing
Bio-inspired energy models compute motion along the lines suggested by the neurophysiological studies of V1 and MT areas in both monkeys and humans: neural populations extract the structure of motion from loca...
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Computational Intelligence and Bioinspired Systems
8th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2005, Vilanova i la Geltrú, Barcelona, Spain, June 8-10, 2005. Proceedings
