María Martínez‐Agüero, Sergio Flores-Ramírez, Manuel Ruiz‐García,
We report the first major histocompatibility complex (MHC) DQB1 sequences for the two species of pink river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis and Inia boliviensis) inhabiting the Amazon and Orinoco River basins. These sequences were found to be polymorphic within the Inia genus and showed shared homology with cetacean DQB-1 sequences, especially, those of the Monodontidae and Phocoenidae. On the other hand, these sequences were shown to be divergent from those described for other riverine dolphin species, ...
Tópico(s): Animal Genetics and Reproduction
2006 - Research Foundation of Ribeirão Preto | Genetics and Molecular Research
Juan José Agüero, Sergio Miguel Salazar, Daniel Santiago Kirschbaum, Elena F. Jerez,
Variations of strawberry fruit quality due to year, harvest date, cultivar, and nutrition were studied in Tucumán, Argentina. 'Camarosa', 'Camino Real', 'Candonga', and 'Ventana' were fertilized with "C" (control; 120 kg N/ha, 70 kg P2O5/ha, 220 kg K2O/ha, 40 kg CaO/ha, and 20 kg MgO/ha) and "1.5C" in 2006, "C", "1.33C", and "1.66C" in 2007, and "C", "1.5C", and "2C" in 2008, without affecting fruit quality. Fruit weight decreased with temperature and crop load. Firmness decreased with rainfall and temperature. ...
Tópico(s): Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
2015 - Taylor & Francis | International Journal of Fruit Science
Florian Sutter, Ceyhun Oskay, Mathias C. Galetz, Teresa C. Diamantino, Fátima Pedrosa, Isabel Figueira, Stefan Glumm, Alexander Bonk, Alina Agüero, Sergio Rodríguez, Tomás Jesús Reche-Navarro, Simon Caron,
Potassium nitrate and sodium nitrate in mixing proportion of KNO3–NaNO3 40-60 wt% (also called solar salt) has been successfully used for over a decade as heat storage medium for concentrated solar power parabolic-trough collector plants at temperatures up to 400 °C. At temperatures of 560 °C, reached in state-of-the-art solar tower systems, corrosion of metallic components in contact with solar salt can become an issue and has caused leaks and plant shut-downs in recently built tower projects. While ...
Tópico(s): Solar Energy Systems and Technologies
2021 - Elsevier BV | Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
María Verónica Fernández, Gabriela Inés Denoya, María Victoria Agüero, Sergio Ramón Vaudagna, Rosa J. Jagus,
This research aims to evaluate the effect of a previously optimized high-pressure processing (HPP) treatment on the vegetable smoothie stability during 28 days at 5 °C and on the inactivation of a contamination with Listeria monocytogenes and Escherichia coli O157:H7 surrogates during 12 days at 15 °C. HPP (630 MPa/6 min) reduced native microbiota to values below detection limit (DL = 1 log CFU/g) and significantly reduced polyphenol oxidase, peroxidase, and pectin methylesterase initial activities (16. ...
Tópico(s): Microencapsulation and Drying Processes
2019 - Wiley | Journal of Food Processing and Preservation
Iván Gutiérrez-Agüero, Sergio Anguita, Xabier Larrucea, Aitor Gómez-Goiri, Borja Urquizu,
The concept of identity has become one common research topic in security and privacy where the real identity of users must be preserved, usually covered by pseudonym identifiers. With the rise of Blockchain-based systems, identities are becoming even more critical than before, mainly due to the immutability property. In fact, many publicly accessible Blockchain networks like Ethereum rely on pseudonymization as a method for identifying subject actions. Pseudonyms are often employed to maintain anonymity, ...
Tópico(s): Cryptography and Data Security
2021 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Access
Simon Caron, Leslie Herding, Yaniv Binyamin, Mubeen Baidossi, Yelena Vinetsky, Ángel Morales, Christina Hildebrandt, Reine Reoyo-Prats, Olivier Faugeroux, Alina Agüero, Sergio Rodríguez, Florian Sutter, Marc Röger, Francisco Manzano‐Agugliaro,
Solar thermal absorber coatings play an important role in the opto-thermal efficiency of receivers in Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). Two standard figures of merit are the solar absorptance αsol and thermal emittance εth, derived from spectral directional hemispherical reflectance measurements at room temperature. These two figures of merit allow comparing coating formulations in terms of performance and durability. In this study, a black coating and a solar selective coating are optically characterized ...
Tópico(s): Photovoltaic System Optimization Techniques
2022 - Elsevier BV | Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Alina Agüero, Pauline Audigié, Sergio Rodríguez, V. Encinas-Sánchez, Ma Teresa de Miguel, F.J. Pérez,
Three Cr ferritic/martensitic containing-steels (P91, VM12 and MarBN) and one carbon steel (A516) were exposed to a mixture of molten nitrates salt (Solar Salt) at 580°C. P91 and MarBN were also exposed to a newly developed ternary carbonate eutectic salt mixture at 650°C under static conditions. In contact with molten nitrates, the uncoated substrates developed a complex, fast growing multilayered oxide scale, which includes NaFeO2. Significant spallation took place for all substrates. However, A516 ...
Tópico(s): Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
2018 - American Institute of Physics | AIP conference proceedings
Sergio Martínez-Agüero, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, Jon Lérida-García, J. Alvarez, Cristina Soguero-Ruíz,
The presence of bacteria with resistance to specific antibiotics is one of the greatest threats to the global health system. According to the World Health Organization, antimicrobial resistance has already reached alarming levels in many parts of the world, involving a social and economic burden for the patient, for the system, and for society in general. Because of the critical health status of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), time is critical to identify bacteria and their resistance ...
Tópico(s): Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections
2019 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Entropy
Sergio Martínez-Agüero, Cristina Soguero-Ruíz, José M. Alonso, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, J. Alvarez, Antonio G. Marqués,
Electronic health records provide rich, heterogeneous data about the evolution of the patients' health status. However, such data need to be processed carefully, with the aim of extracting meaningful information for clinical decision support. In this paper, we leverage interpretable (deep) learning and signal processing tools to deal with multivariate time-series data collected from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the University Hospital of Fuenlabrada (Madrid, Spain). The presence of antimicrobial ...
Tópico(s): Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
2022 - Elsevier BV | Future Generation Computer Systems
María Verónica Fernández, Gabriela Inés Denoya, María Victoria Agüero, Rosa J. Jagus, Sergio Ramón Vaudagna,
Fruit & Vegetable (F&V) smoothies are rich in nutrients and other health related compounds. However, they have a short shelf-life and the traditional methods applied to preserve them generate losses in their natural flavor and nutrients. The aim of this study was to optimize the pressure level (35–650 MPa) and holding time (1–9 min) of High Pressure Processing (HPP), performed at an initial temperature of 20 °C and only modified by adiabatic heating of a F&V smoothie in order to achieve microbial and enzymatic ...
Tópico(s): Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
2018 - Elsevier BV | Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies
Susana Jiménez‐Múrcia, Mónica Giménez, Roser Granero, Cristina Masuet‐Aumatell, Josep Ramón, Fernando Agüero, Sergio Morchón, Laura Moragas, Isabel Baenas, Amparo del Pino‐Gutiérrez, Ester Codina, Eduardo Valenciano‐Mendoza, Bernat Mora‐Maltas, Susana Valero-Solís, Mikel Etxandi, Elías Guillén‐Guzmán, José M. Menchón, Fernando Fernández‐Aranda,
Tobacco smoking and gambling disorder (GD) often co-occur. However, few studies have assessed the extent to which cigarette smoking may serve to classify and/or better define GD behaviour profiles. Among a large sample of n = 3,652 consecutive treatment-seeking patients with GD (91% men). Smokers were compared to non-smokers across different sociodemographic, clinical, psychopathological and personality variables. The effect sizes for the means and the proportion differences between the groups were ...
Tópico(s): Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
2020 - Elsevier BV | Addictive Behaviors
Fernando Agüero, Cristina Masuet‐Aumatell, Sergio Morchón, Josep Ramón,
Tópico(s): Sex work and related issues
2018 - Elsevier BV | Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Mauricio Uribe R, Francisca Santana‐Sagredo, Anahí Maturana F, Sergio Flores, Carolina Agüero,
En las últimas décadas los arqueólogos han tendido a examinar la problemática Tiwanaku fuera del núcleo altiplánico, principalmente en términos de acceso a recursos y/o complementariedad ecológica y religiosa, entre un centro y su periferia.Sin embargo, dominados por las ideas de Estados o imperios, estas reconstrucciones adolecen de reduccionismo económico e iconográfico, en perjuicio del entendimiento de los fenómenos políticos andinos.Dentro de esta problemática, retomamos la relación entre Tiwanaku ...
Tópico(s): Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America
2016 - University of Tarapacá | Chungara
Inés Luis de Redín, Carolina Boiero, Sergio Recalde, Maite Agüeros, Daniel A. Allemandi, Juan Manuel Llabot, Alfredo Garcı́a-Layana, Juan M. Irache,
Corneal neovascularization (CNV) is associated with different ocular pathologies, including infectious keratitis, trachoma or corneal trauma. Pharmacological treatments based on the topical application of anti-VEGF therapies have been shown to be effective in the treatment and prevention of CNV. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of bevacizumab-loaded albumin nanoparticles in a rat model of CNV. Bevacizumab-loaded nanoparticles, either “naked” (B-NP) or coated with PEG 35,000 (B-NP-PEG), ...
Tópico(s): Corneal surgery and disorders
2019 - Elsevier BV | Experimental Eye Research
Sergio Camacho-Aguero, Rosalia Balcazar-Orozco, Arturo Flores-Carreo ́n,
Abstract Most of the fucosyl transferase activity fromMucor rouxii was detected in a crude membrane fraction. The enzyme transferred l -fucose from GDP-fucose to endogenous and exogenous acceptors. When crude membrane fractions were treated with neutral detergents such as Trition X-100 or Brij 36 T enzyme activity became dependent on exogenous acceptors such as mucoric acid or mucoran. Brij-treated membrane fractions showed maximum fucosyl transferase activity at pH 6.5, and at a temperature between ...
Tópico(s): Seaweed-derived Bioactive Compounds
1990 - Academic Press | Experimental Mycology
Samuel Nossa Agüero, Sergio Montero,
Este artículo examina la transformación y aumento en el uso de mecanismos de auditoría social por parte de la ciudadanía, para incidir en asuntos de planeación urbana en Bogotá. Para ello, analizamos los cambios legales e institucionales de la figura de las veedurías ciudadanas que facilitaron su transformación de un mecanismo de vigilancia de los contratos públicos a una herramienta con capacidad de modificar e incluso bloquear proyectos estratégicos de la ciudad. Sin embargo, no todas las veedurías ...
Tópico(s): Indonesian Election Politics and Participation
2023 - Our Lady of the Rosary University | Territorios
Àlvar Hernàndez-Carnerero, Miquel Sànchez‐Marrè, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, Cristina Soguero-Ruíz, Sergio Martínez-Agüero, J. Alvarez,
Bacterial resistance to antibiotics has been rapidly increasing, resulting in low antibiotic effectiveness even treating common infections. The presence of resistant pathogens in environments such as a hospital Intensive Care Unit (ICU) exacerbates the critical admission-acquired infections. This work focuses on the prediction of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa nosocomial infections at the ICU, using Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) artificial neural networks as the predictive method. ...
Tópico(s): Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
2023 - Elsevier BV | Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Cristina Masuet‐Aumatell, Alba Sánchez-Mascuñano, Fernando Agüero Santangelo, Sergio Morchón Ramos, Josep Ramón,
Aims . Previous epidemiological investigations of the relationship between smoking and acute mountain sickness (AMS) risk yielded inconsistent findings. Therefore, a meta-analysis of observational studies was performed to determine whether smoking is related to the development of AMS. Methods . Searches were performed on PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and Web of Science for relevant studies that were published before November 2016 reporting smoking prevalence and AMS. Two evaluators independently selected studies, ...
Tópico(s): Travel-related health issues
2017 - Hindawi Publishing Corporation | BioMed Research International
Ángel Agüero, Diego Lascano, David García Sanoguera, O. Fenollar, Sergio Torres‐Giner,
This work reports the development and characterization of green composites based on polylactide (PLA) containing fillers and additives obtained from by-products or waste-streams from the linen processing industry. Flaxseed flour (FSF) was first produced by the mechanical milling of golden flaxseeds. The resultant FSF particles were melt-compounded at 30 wt% with PLA in a twin-screw extruder. Two multi-functionalized oils derived from linseed, namely epoxidized linseed oil (ELO) and maleinized linseed ...
Tópico(s): Nanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
Sergio Martínez-Agüero, Antonio G. Marqués, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, J. Alvarez, Cristina Soguero-Ruíz,
The COVID-19 pandemic presents unprecedented challenges to the healthcare systems around the world. In 2020, Spain was among the countries with the highest Intensive Care Unit (ICU) hospitalization and mortality rates. This work analyzes data of COVID-19 patients admitted to a Spanish ICU during the first wave of the pandemic. The patients in our study either died (deceased patients) or were discharged from the ICU (non-deceased patients) and underwent the following landmarks: beginning of symptoms; ...
Tópico(s): Tryptophan and brain disorders
2021 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
María Verónica Fernández, Gabriela Inés Denoya, Rosa J. Jagus, Sergio Ramón Vaudagna, María Victoria Agüero,
This study aims to evaluate the physicochemical, antioxidant and microbiological stability of a fruit and vegetable smoothie treated with a previously optimized high pressure processing treatment (HPP: 630 MPa, 6min, 20 °C), stored at 25 °C. The control samples presented a significant increase in microbiological counts during the first days, while treated samples showed counts below the detection limit (<1.0 logCFU/g) throughout the 26 days of storage. Total soluble solids and pH did not change with ...
Tópico(s): Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
2019 - Elsevier BV | LWT
Luis Pablo Ávila‐Barrientos, Luis Fernando Cofas‐Vargas, Guillermı́n Agüero-Chapin, Enrique Hernández‐García, Sergio Ruiz‐Carmona, Norma A. Valdez‐Cruz, Mauricio A. Trujillo‐Roldán, Joachim Weber, Yasser B. Ruiz‐Blanco, Xavier Barril, Enrique García‐Hernández,
With the uncontrolled growth of multidrug-resistant bacteria, there is an urgent need to search for new therapeutic targets, to develop drugs with novel modes of bactericidal action. FoF1-ATP synthase plays a crucial role in bacterial bioenergetic processes, and it has emerged as an attractive antimicrobial target, validated by the pharmaceutical approval of an inhibitor to treat multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. In this work, we aimed to design, through two types of in silico strategies, new allosteric ...
Tópico(s): Biochemical and Molecular Research
2022 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Antibiotics
Juan Manuel Pinos‐Rodríguez, R. Duque-Briones, Juan Antonio Reyes‐Agüero, Juan Rogelio Aguirre‐Rivera, Juan Carlos García-López, Sergio González-Muñoz,
Abstract Pinos-Rodríguez, J.M., Duque-Briones, R., Reyes-Agüero, J.A., Aguirre-Rivera, J.R., García-López, J.C. and González-Muñoz, S. 2006. Effect of species and age on nutrient content and digestibility of Opuntia spp. J. Appl. Anim. Res., 30: 13–17. Proximal and cell wall analysis, as well as in vitro dry matter digestibility (IVDMD) of Opuntia robusta, O. ficus-indica and O. rastrera (one, two and three years old cladodes) were performed in order to evaluate the effect of species and age on nutrients ...
Tópico(s): Ruminant Nutrition and Digestive Physiology
2006 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Applied Animal Research
Alina Agüero, I. Baráibar, Marcos Gutiérrez, M. Hernández, R. Muelas, Sergio Rodríguez,
Increasing the operating temperature in biomass-fueled power plants is a very difficult task as the corrosion rate generated by alkaline deposits, sulphur and/or chlorine present in biomass, will dramatically rise with increasing temperature, and a higher content of water vapor and SO2 characteristic of oxy-combustion will likely further increase it. Due to these aggressive conditions, it is very important to develop laboratory testing facilities to evaluate the viability of using new materials ...
Tópico(s): Coal and Its By-products
2018 - Elsevier BV | Surface and Coatings Technology
Carolina Dalmasso, Santiago J. Carmona, Sergio O. Ángel, Fernán Agüero,
Abstract Background Chromosome ends are composed of telomeric repeats and subtelomeric regions, which are patchworks of genes interspersed with repeated elements. Although chromosome ends display similar arrangements in different species, their sequences are highly divergent. In addition, these regions display a particular nucleosomal composition and bind specific factors, therefore producing a special kind of heterochromatin. Using data from currently available draft genomes we have characterized ...
Tópico(s): Cytomegalovirus and herpesvirus research
2014 - BioMed Central | BMC Genomics
Francisco Martín, Carlos Agüero Durán, José María Plaza, Gonzalo Abella Dago, Raúl Benítez Mejías, Sergio Rivero Espinosa, Meritxell Valentí‐Soler, Pablo Martínez Martín,
This work was supported by the project S2009/DPI-1559, RoboCity2030-II, from the Comunidad de Madrid, by the project PI10/02567 from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and project 231/2011 from IMSERSO.
Tópico(s): Transportation and Mobility Innovations
2013 - | Journal of Physical Agents (JoPha)
María Jezabel Haye Salinas, Ana M. Bertoli, Luís Lema, Carla Saucedo, Javier Rosa, Rosana Quintana, Verónica Bellomio, Santiago Agüero, Walter Spindler, Natalia Tamborenea, Marcela Schimid, Federico Ceccato, José Sala, Sergio Paira, Alberto Spindler, Enrique R. Soriano, Bernardo A. Pons Estel, Francisco Caeiro, Alejandro Alvarellos, Verónica Saurit,
Background The increased mortality reported among patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been attributed to cardiovascular disease. Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a cluster of major risk factors for cardiovascular disease such as dyslipidemia, obesity, hypertension, and diabetes. There is a lack of reporting on the prevalence of MS in RA patients in Argentina. Objectives The objectives of this study were to determine and compare the frequency of MS in patients with RA and a control group and to assess ...
Tópico(s): Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research
2013 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | JCR Journal of Clinical Rheumatology
Julio Núñez, José V. Monmeneu, Anna Mollar, Eduardo Núñez, Vicent Bodı́, Gema Miñana, Sergio García‐Blas, Enrique Santas, Jaume Agüero, Francisco J. Chorro, Juan Sanchís, María P. López‐Lereu,
Abstract Aims In patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and iron deficiency, treatment with intravenous iron has shown a clinical improvement regardless of anaemic status. Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) T2* sequence has shown a potential utility for evaluating myocardial iron deficiency. We aimed to evaluate whether T2* sequence significantly changes after ferric carboximaltose (FCM) administration, and if such changes correlate with changes in left ventricle ejection ...
Tópico(s): Heart Failure Treatment and Management
2016 - Wiley | ESC Heart Failure
Pauline Audigié, V. Encinas-Sánchez, Sergio Rodríguez, F.J. Pérez, Alina Agüero,
Tópico(s): Metallurgical Processes and Thermodynamics
2020 - Elsevier BV | Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Àlvar Hernàndez-Carnerero, Miquel Sànchez‐Marrè, Inmaculada Mora-Jiménez, Cristina Soguero-Ruíz, Sergio Martínez-Agüero, J. Alvarez,
One threatening medical problem for human beings is the increasing antimicrobial resistance of some microorganisms.This problem is especially difficult in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) of hospitals due to the vulnerable state of patients.Knowing in advance whether a concrete bacterium is resistant or susceptible to an antibiotic is a crux step for clinicians to determine an effective antibiotic treatment.This usual clinical procedure takes approximately 48 hours and it is named antibiogram.It tests ...
Tópico(s): Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
2021 - International University of La Rioja | International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence