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Open AccessA longitudinal causal graph analysis investigating modifiable risk factors and obesity in a European cohort of children and adolescents
Childhood obesity is a complex disorder that appears to be influenced by an interacting system of many factors. Taking this complexity into account, we aim to investigate the causal structure underlying childh...
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High incidence of stroke and mortality in pediatric critical care patients with COVID-19 in Peru
Pediatric critical care patients with COVID-19 treated in Peru have higher mortality than those previously reported from other countries. Pediatric providers have reported a high number of patients without com...
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Open AccessCommon genetic variation in obesity, lipid transfer genes and risk of Metabolic Syndrome: Results from IDEFICS/I.Family study and meta-analysis
As the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) in children and young adults is increasing, a better understanding of genetics that underlie MetS will provide critical insights into the origin of the disease. W...
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Open AccessLike me, like you – relative importance of peers and siblings on children’s fast food consumption and screen time but not sports club participation depends on age
Lifestyle interventions to prevent paediatric obesity often target family and peer settings; their success is likely to depend on the influence that peers and families exert on children’s lifestyle behaviors a...
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Visual and Tactile Fusion for Estimating the Pose of a Grasped Object
This paper considers the problem of fusing vision and touch senses together to estimate the 6D pose of an object while it is grasped. Assuming that a textured 3D model of the object is available, first, Scale-...
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Open AccessChannel network concept: an integrated approach to visualize solute transport in fractured rocks
The advection-dispersion equation, ADE, has commonly been used to describe solute transport in fractured rock. However, there is one key question that must be addressed before the mathematical form of the so-c...
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Open AccessSolute transport along a single fracture in a porous rock: a simple analytical solution and its extension for modeling velocity dispersion
A simple and robust solution is developed for the problem of solute transport along a single fracture in a porous rock. The solution is referred to as the solution to the single-flow-path model and takes the form...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quality Study of Robot Trajectories Based on the Anisotropic Fast Marching Method
Fast Marching Method has been applied to many fields such as image processing or path planning. For path planning, the Anisotropic Fast Marching Method can be used, which allows computing paths with small grad...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Tactile-Based In-Hand Object Pose Estimation
This paper presents a method to estimate the pose of an object inside a robotic hand by exploiting contact and joint position information. Once an initial visual estimation is provided, a Bootstrap Particle Fi...
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Pediatric cerebellar giant cavernous malformation: case report and review of literature
Giant cavernous malformations (GCM) are low flow, angiographically occult vascular lesions, with a diameter >4 cm. Cerebellar GCMs are extremely rare, with only seven cases reported based on English literature...
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Open AccessEffect and process evaluation of a kindergarten-based, family-involved cluster randomised controlled trial in six European countries on four- to six-year-old children’s steps per day: the ToyBox-study
The ToyBox-intervention is a theory- and evidence-based intervention delivered in kindergartens to improve four- to six-year-old children’s energy balance-related behaviours and prevent obesity. The current st...
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Dissolution Model of Multiple Species: Leaching of Highly Soluble Minerals
Dissolution of multi-species from a solid matrix is widely extended in different processes such as leaching of minerals; however, its modeling is often focused on a single species. A model for the simultaneous...
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Fast Marching-based globally stable motion learning
In this paper, a novel motion learning method is introduced: Fast Marching Learning (FML). While other learning methods are focused on optimising probabilistic functions or fitting dynamical systems, the propo...
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Social Capital and Rural Development in Europe: A Geographical Perspective
Social capital, local development and neo-endogenous approaches to rural development are described in a space-territory perspective, related to the diversity of European regions and rural areas. The European g...
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Differential Evolution Markov Chain Filter for Global Localization
A key challenge for an autonomous mobile robot is to estimate its location according to the available information. A particular aspect of this task is the global localization problem. In our previous work, we ...
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Comparison of different approaches to calculate nutrient intakes based upon 24-h recall data derived from a multicenter study in European adolescents
The European “Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence” (HELENA) project evaluated two different approaches to harmonize the matching procedures between 24-h recall data and food composition da...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Path Planning for Mars Rovers Using the Fast Marching Method
This paper presents the application of the Fast Marching Method, with or without an external vectorial field, to the path planning problem of robots in difficult outdoors environments. The resulting trajectory...
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3D Robot Formations Path Planning with Fast Marching Square
This work presents a path planning algorithm for 3D robot formations based on the standard Fast Marching Square (FM2) path planning method. This method is enlarged in order to apply it to robot formations motion ...
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RGB-D DE-based Scan Matching: Exploiting Colour Properties in Registration
Colour plays a fundamental role in the perception process of humans. In robotics, the exploitation of this type of information has become increasingly important in many different tasks. The development of new ...
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Open AccessLipase-catalyzed biodiesel production and quality with Jatropha curcas oil: exploring its potential for Central America
Extensive native Jatropha curcas L. (Jatropha) crop areas have been planted in Central America marginal lands since 2008 as a non-edible prospective feedstock alternative to high-value, edible palm oil. Jatropha ...
