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Open AccessAge-associated polyamines in peripheral blood cells and plasma in 20 to 70 years of age subjects
Dietary polyamines have been associated with slowing ageing processes and various pathologies, raising the importance of establishing reference values at different ages throughout life. This study aimed to ana...
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Open AccessSo different yet so alike: micro and macro labour market outcomes in Germany and Spain
It is well known that German and Spanish labour markets are quite different from a macro point of view. In this paper, we look at these markets through the lenses of individual unstable spells. These include all ...
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Correction to: Is FDG-PET texture analysis related to intratumor biological heterogeneity in lung cancer?
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-020-07619-6
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Is FDG-PET texture analysis related to intratumor biological heterogeneity in lung cancer?
We aimed at investigating the origin of the correlations between tumor volume and 18F-FDG-PET texture indices in lung cancer.
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Shorter Lattice-Based Zero-Knowledge Proofs for the Correctness of a Shuffle
In an electronic voting procedure, mixing networks are used to ensure anonymity of the casted votes. Each node of the network re-encrypts the input list of ciphertexts and randomly permutes it in a process na...
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Fog computing for the integration of agents and web services in an autonomic reflexive middleware
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has emerged as a dominant architecture for interoperability between applications, by using a weakly coupled model based on the flexibility provided by web services, which ha...
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Learning analytics tasks as services in smart classrooms
A smart classroom integrates the different components in a traditional classroom, by using different technologies as artificial intelligence, ubiquitous, and cloud paradigms, among others, in order to improve...
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Cryopreservation of Pinus radiata embryogenic tissue: effects of cryoprotective pretreatments on maturation ability
The goal of the study was to quantify the effect of different cryoprotective pretreatments on the maturation ability of cryopreserved Pinus radiata embryogenic tissue. Fourteen cell lines were evaluated under fiv...
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Open AccessAre we near to the end of the standard dose of micafungin?
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Quantifying the Usability Through a Variant of the Traditional Heuristic Evaluation Process
Usability has become in an essential aspect for the success of E-Commerce applications, especially in the current context in which there is high competitiveness because of a large number of websites that are a...
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Open AccessRole of endoplasmic reticulum stress in the protective effects of PPARβ/δ activation on endothelial dysfunction induced by plasma from patients with lupus
We tested whether GW0742, a peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor beta/delta (PPARβ/δ) agonist, improves endothelial dysfunction induced by plasma from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) inv...
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Antihypertensive Effects of Probiotics
The present review focuses in the hypertension-associated changes in the microbiota and the current insights regarding the impact of probiotics on blood pressure in animal models and in human hypertensive pati...
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Application of the Semiotic Inspection Method: A Case Study in Web Domain
This paper presents the results of a case study, in which the Semiotic Inspection Method (SIM) was applied to a transactional Web application of hotel reservations. The purpose of this assessment was to determ...
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Estradiol-modified prolactin secretion independently of action potentials and Ca2+ and blockade of outward potassium currents in GH3 cells
Estrogens facilitate prolactin (PRL) secretion acting on pituitary cells. In GH3 cells, estradiol induces acute action potentials and oscillations of intracellular Ca2+ associated with the secretagogue function. ...
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Cloud Computing in Smart Educational Environments: Application in Learning Analytics as Service
In this paper, we present an extension of a Middleware for Smart Educational Environments based in agents, using the paradigm of Cloud Computing. In that sense, we detail the Middleware components, which enabl...
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MiSCi: Autonomic Reflective Middleware for Smart Cities
Context analysis in intelligent environments allows making the services and information available to support the activities of individuals ubiquitously. Under this premise we define smart cities, which are int...
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Androgens block outward potassium currents and decrease spontaneous action potentials in GH3 cells
Androgens produce nongenomic effects in several cells by different mechanisms, including ion channel modulation. Adenohypophyseal cells express several K+ channels, including voltage and Ca2+-dependent K+ (BK) ch...
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ROS Methodology to Work with Non-ROS Mobile Robots: Experimental Uses in Mobile Robotics Teaching
This paper presents a robotics platform for experimental and teaching purposes that allows control and remote access by using plain sockets (regular TCP/IP sockets) and websockets respectively. The system has ...
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Open AccessA protocol for resuscitation of severe burn patients guided by transpulmonary thermodilution and lactate levels: a 3-year prospective cohort study
The use of urinary output and vital signs to guide initial burn resuscitation may lead to suboptimal resuscitation. Invasive hemodynamic monitoring may result in over-resuscitation. This study aimed to evaluat...
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Role of ß-adrenoceptors, cAMP phosphodiesterase and external Ca2+ on polyamine-induced relaxation in isolated bovine tracheal strips
Polyamines relax several smooth muscles and elicit cardiotonic effects in the rat heart via interactions with ß-adrenoceptors. The aim of this work was to establish whether ß2-adrenoceptors were involved in polya...
