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Artificial intelligence for autism diagnosis: Algorithms, data and challenges
(Artificial Intelligence Research and Development: Proceedings of the 27th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, 2025)Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) presents diverse and complex diagnostic challenges, traditionally reliant on subjective behavioral assessments. Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers a transformative approach ... -
Volver a leer inocentemente: Una crítica a la hermenéutica historicista desde el pensamiento de Leo Strauss
(Cuadernos salmantinos de filosofía. 2025. Vol. 52, 2025-03-24)El presente artículo recupera las lecciones hermenéuticas del filósofo Leo Strauss (1899-1973) y, participando en el debate sobre cómo deben ser comprendidas, las contrapone al modo de leer propuesto ... -
Evaluating the effectiveness of public subsidies for energy-efficient retrofit: a comparative study of two next-generation programs with standard market interventions in Catalonia
(Energy and Buildings, 2026. Vol. 352, Febrer 2026, 2026-02-01)Assessing the impact of past and current renovation efforts is essential for refining decarbonisation mechanisms and ensuring the effective use of public resources. In this context, this paper examines ... -
Comedia y existencia: A propósito de cine y teatro en Edgar Neville, Enrique Jardiel Poncela y Miguel Mihura
(Creneida. Anuario de literaturas hispánicas. 2026. Nº 13, 2026-01-06)A partir de una relectura de la categoría de Comedia sobre la base de la Poética de Aristóteles y El banquete de Platón, este artículo propone una revisión de la percepción cómica de la existencia humana. ... -
La cultura de la rebelión. La Ciudad en el espacio de Moratalaz. Taller de Arquitectura (1969-1970)
(Bitácora Arquitectura, 2020, (44), 2020-10-07)En abril de 1968 se celebra en Barcelona la exposición colectiva MENTE 1, en la que el Taller de Arquitectura, liderado por Ricardo Bofill, expuso su propuesta de Ciudad en el espacio. La presentación, ... -
Social transformation for an inclusive architecture
(2025)In times of growing social, environmental, and spatial inequality, architecture plays a crucial role in doing more than just shaping spaces, assuming responsibility for fostering communities. The built ... -
Efficient 3D acoustic simulation of the vocal tract by combining the multimodal ,method and finite elements
(IEEE Access, 2022, Vol. 10, pp. 69922-69938, 2022-07-07)Acoustic simulation of sound propagation inside the vocal tract is a key element of speech research, especially for articulatory synthesis, which allows one to relate the physics of speech production ... -
Evaluating airborne sound insulation in dwellings constructed with hollow ceramic blocks under Brazilian housing policies
(Buildings, 2024, Vol. 14, Nº 3, 2024-03-16)In Brazil, there is a shortage of approximately 5.80 million residences, a challenge that intensified during the pandemic. Since 2013, there has been a mandate to implement specific performance criteria ... -
Indoor plant health monitoring system using NDVI imaging, PMFC sensing and soil moisture data
(IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT (MetroInd4.0 & IoT), 2025, 2025-08)Monitoring plant health is essential for ecosystem stability and sustainable environments. While satellite-based systems like Copernicus support large-scale outdoor vegetation analysis, indoor plants ... -
Enhancing connectivity with leaf-based ground planes for IoT devices embedding antenna boosters
(IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT (MetroInd4.0 & IoT), 2025, 2025-08)The increasing prevalence of Internet of Things (IoT) devices necessitates energy-efficient innovations to prolong battery life and reduce environmental impact. This study explores the potential of using ... -
Wake-up radio with plant-microbial fuel cells power budget
(IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT (MetroInd4.0 & IoT), 2025, 2025-08)This paper introduces a sustainable IoT framework combining Plant-Microbial Fuel Cells (P-MFCs) and wakeup radio technology within the EcoSentinel project. P-MFCs generate renewable energy from ... -
Stand-alone green twin for plant microbial fuel cell (PMFC) monitoring and optimization
(IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT (MetroInd4.0 & IoT), 2025, 2025-08)In the current context of energy transition and sustainability, the need for natural systems capable of generating and managing their own energy is increasingly relevant. This work presents the development ... -
EcoSentinel: Towards a techno natural internet of things approach for large scale sustainable remote monitoring of soil and wilderness
(10th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech). 2025, 2025-07)Monitoring soil and wilderness is essential for environmental sustainability, biodiversity conservation, and climate resilience. Healthy soils support carbon sequestration, regulate water cycles, and ... -
Influence of vocal tract geometry simplifications on the numerical simulation of vowel sounds
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2016), Vol. 140, Nº3, pp 1707-1718, 2016-09-15)For many years, the vocal tract shape has been approximated by one-dimensional (1D) area functions to study the production of voice. More recently, 3D approaches allow one to deal with the complex 3D ... -
Influence of lips on the production of vowels based on finite element simulations and experiments
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2016), Vol. 139, Nº5, pp 2858-2859, 2016-05-19)Three-dimensional (3-D) numerical approaches for voice production are currently being investigated and developed. Radiation losses produced when sound waves emanate from the mouth aperture are one of ... -
Effects of higher order propagation modes in vocal tract like geometries
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2015), Vol. 137, Nº2, pp 832-843, 2015-02-01)In this paper, a multimodal theory accounting for higher order acoustical propagation modes is presented as an extension to the classical plane wave theory. This theoretical development is validated ... -
Two-dimensional vocal tracts with three-dimensional behavior in the numerical generation of vowels
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2014), Vol. 135, Nº1, pp 369-379, 2014-01-01)Two-dimensional (2D) numerical simulations of vocal tract acoustics may provide a good balance between the high quality of three-dimensional (3D) finite element approaches and the low computational cost ... -
Effects of head geometry simplifications on acoustic radiation of vowel sounds based on time-domain finite-element simulations
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2013), Vol. 134, Nº4, pp 2946-2954, 2013-10-01)One of the key effects to model in voice production is that of acoustic radiation of sound waves emanating from the mouth. The use of three-dimensional numerical simulations allows to naturally account ... -
Finite element computation of elliptical vocal tract impedances using the two-microphone transfer function method
(Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2013), Vol. 133, Nº6, pp 4197-4209, 2013-06-05)A two-microphone transfer function (TMTF) method is adapted to a numerical framework to compute the radiation and input impedances of three-dimensional vocal tracts of elliptical cross-section. In its ... -
Reconstruction of vocal tract geometries from biomechanical simulations
(International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2019; 35:e3159, 2018-09-22)Medical imaging techniques are usually utilized to acquire the vocal tract geometry in 3D, which may then be used, eg, for acoustic/fluid simulation. As an alternative, such a geometry may also be ...