The time it takes to develop telecommunication standards must be reduced to allow companies to get features to the market faster. In order to achieve this objective, a process based on the combination of a set of modeling techniques has been proposed by Nortel Networks in the context of the Wireless Intelligent Network (WIN) standard development. This process combines the use of standard notati...

BACKGROUND Alcohol use in adolescents constitutes a major public health concern. Europe is the heaviest drinking region of the world. Several school-based alcohol prevention programs have been developed but it is not clear whether they are really effective. The present study was aimed at identifying the typology with the best evidence of effectiveness in European studies. METHODS A systematic...

Background. The functions of insulin in mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) remain poorly understood. Methods. MSC from human umbilical cord matrix (UCM) cultured in serum-free media (SFM) with or without insulin were subjected to various molecular biological analyses to determine their proliferation and growth states, expression levels of Akt-cyclin D1 signaling molecules, and in vitro differentiatio...

We propose the use of evolutionary algorithms (EAs) (Holland, 1992) to deal with the attribute selection task of referring expression generation. Evolutionary algorithms operate over a population of individuals (possible solutions for a problem) that evolve according to selection rules and genetic operators. The fitness function is a metric that evaluates each of the possible solutions, ensurin...

Javier R. Caso [email protected] PhD, Biological Sci 2007 Postdoctoral researcher Dpto. Farmacología. Fac. Medicina. UCM Stress-induced gastrointestinal processes. Beatriz Gómez Pérez-Nievas. [email protected] Bsc Pharmacy 2004. DEA 2006 Predoctoral researcher, PhD student Dpto. Farmacología. Fac. Medicina. UCM Markers of vulnerability of stress response. Molecular mechanisms of stress-induce...

Olive fruits contain an n-alkane series of saturated hydrocarbons mainly in the pulp. Lower amounts of a complex mixture of paraffins, unresolved by gas chromatography (UCM--unresolved complex mixture), have been found in cuticle, stone (woody shell and seed), olive leaves, and talc used as an aid to olive oil extraction. The amounts of both kinds of hydrocarbons are related to the olive cultiv...