Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Insights into interaction management through backchannels

Abstract This paper analyzes backchannel signals in two signed languages: French Belgian Sign Language (LSFB) and Catalan Sign Language (LSC). While backchannels have been extensively studied in spoken languages, their documentation across signed languages remains sparse in compa...

Quality of guidelines for the management and prevention of occupational risks during pregnancy: a systematic quality assessment using the Appraisal of Guidelines for Research and Evaluation (AGREE II)

OBJECTIVE: This review aimed to appraise the quality of existing guidelines on the management of occupational risks for employed women during pregnancy, identifying and describing their characteristics. METHODS: We systematically identified guidelines in MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL,...

Synthetic horizontal gene transfer for ecosystem restoration

Abstract Restoring endangered ecosystems has become a pressing issue as the effects of global warming continue to harm existing communities. During the last decade, several studies have suggested the use of synthetic biology as a tool to protect these biodiverse communities by in...

Adaptive oncogenesis of β-catenin emerges from declining liver tissue integrity

Abstract Mutations are fundamental to oncogenesis, yet they cannot fully explain cancer progression, as oncogenic mutations frequently accumulate in healthy tissues without immediate malignancy. In the liver, β-catenin mutations are highly prevalent in hepatocellular carcinoma bu...

The sweet spot in protein design—Where deep learning meets first principles

This Perspective explores recent methods and prospective ideas for developing hybrid AI-physics-based pipelines for protein and antibody de novo design. We argue that the highest-confidence candidates emerge where deep learning and first-principles models agree, a "sweet spot" th...

The 6‐Form Model of Re/Integration: From Prison to Community

ABSTRACT In spite of a substantial rise in academic, policy and research interest in life after prison worldwide, people often face acute, compounded and permanent adversities on release. Despite this growing interest, our knowledge on re/integration and life after prison remains...

Improving Function-Hiding Functional Commitments

Function-hiding functional commitment schemes allow one party to commit to a private function f and later prove f(x)=y for public x and y without revealing additional information about the function. We construct efficient function-hiding functional commitment schemes for arithmet...

Efficacy, Effectiveness, and Efficiency of Nurse‐Led Interventions: Insights From a Critical Systematic Review

Healthcare systems worldwide face mounting pressure to deliver high-quality care while enhancing efficiency and sustainability. Nurse-led interventions have emerged as promising strategies to optimize care delivery, particularly within value-based health systems. However, a compr...

The first 72 hours of acute pancreatitis: patterns of variability in early clinical decision-making

To assess real-world adherence to evidence-based international guidelines in the early management of acute pancreatitis (AP), and to identify how variability in clinical decision-making is distributed during the first 72 h of care. This multicentre, cross-sectional survey was con...