(English) People with spinal cord injury (SCI) may suffer lifelong sequels that influence every aspect of their lives, including motor and/or sensory impairment, difficulty breathing and/or swallowing, bladder/bowel weakness, ...

The synthetic psychostimulant MDMA (63,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, ecstasy) acts as an indirect serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine agonist and as a mechanism-based inhibitor of the cytochrome P-450 2D6 (CYP2D6). ...

Conclusions from randomized clinical trials (RCT) rely primarily on the primary endpoint (PE) chosen at the design stage of the study. There should generally be only one PE which should be able to provide the most clinically ...

In this work, we present the clinical validation of a new system based on a HartmannShack aberrometer that allows monitoring the accommodation dynamics while performing the far subjective refraction. Such a validation is ...

Clip of the promotional video of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, with the motto ‘Change the world with the UPC. It’s your turn now!’ The clip shows UPC images and faces, through which the University invites ...

We prove that for k ≪ 4√n regular resolution requires length nΩ(k) to establish that an Erdős–Rényi graph with appropriately chosen edge density does not contain a k-clique. This lower bound is optimal up to the multiplicative ...

Un jove arquitecte com jo era coautor de la “deconstrucció” d’un dels edificis del mestre. Enrere quedava la trobada casual, demanar-li el parer, la visita i... ara la resposta. “Us he de dir que malgrat que m’ha sabut ...

Transactional Memory (TM) is an emerging technology which promises to make parallel programming easier compared to earlier lock based approaches. However, as with any form of speculation, Transactional Memory too wastes a ...

In seismology, the time of the signal acquisition is highly important in order to know the magnitude and location of the earthquake. This paper presents the tests carried out to synchronize the seismometer clock through ...