R. Garcia

Publication List Details

Period

1991 - 2008

Number

123

Co-Authors

NAO influence on extreme winter temperatures in Madrid (Spain) (2008)

Prieto, L., Garcia, R., Diaz, J., Hernandez, E., Del Teso, T.

Extremely cold days (ECDs), with minimum temperatures lower than -4.6°C, have been analysed for Madrid. This threshold corresponds to the 5th percentile of the period 1963?1999. Adopting a case...

Synoptic conditions leading to extremely high temperatures in Madrid (2008)

Garcia, R., Prieto, L., Diaz, J., Hernández, E., Del Teso, T.

Extremely hot days (EHD) in Madrid have been analysed to determine the synoptic patterns that produce EHDs during the period of 1955?1998. An EHD is defined as a day with maximum temperature higher...

Letter to the editor: Are the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Southern Oscillation related in any time-scale? (2008)

Garcia, R., Ribera, P., Gimenoo, L., Hernández, E.

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Southern Oscillation (SO) are compared from the standpoint of a possible common temporal scale of oscillation. To do this a cross-spectrum of the temporal...

NAO influence on extreme winter temperatures in Madrid (Spain) (2008)

Prieto, L., Garcia, R., Diaz, J., Hernandez, E., Del Teso, T.

Extremely cold days (ECDs), with minimum temperatures lower than -4.6°C, have been analysed for Madrid. This threshold corresponds to the 5th percentile of the period 1963?1999. Adopting a case...

Synoptic conditions leading to extremely high temperatures in Madrid (2008)

Garcia, R., Prieto, L., Diaz, J., Hernández, E., Del Teso, T.

Extremely hot days (EHD) in Madrid have been analysed to determine the synoptic patterns that produce EHDs during the period of 1955?1998. An EHD is defined as a day with maximum temperature higher...

Letter to the editor: Are the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Southern Oscillation related in any time-scale? (2008)

Garcia, R., Ribera, P., Gimenoo, L., Hernández, E.

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and the Southern Oscillation (SO) are compared from the standpoint of a possible common temporal scale of oscillation. To do this a cross-spectrum of the temporal...

Integration of spatial and temporal data for the definition of different landslide hazard scenarios in the area north of Lisbon (Portugal) (2008)

Zêzere, J. L., Reis, E., Garcia, R., Oliveira, S., Rodrigues, M. L., Vieira, G., ...

A general methodology for the probabilistic evaluation of landslide hazard is applied, taking in account both the landslide susceptibility and the instability triggering factors, mainly rainfall. The...

Integration of spatial and temporal data for the definition of different landslide hazard scenarios in the area north of Lisbon (Portugal) (2008)

Zêzere, J. L., Reis, E., Garcia, R., Oliveira, S., Rodrigues, M. L., Vieira, G., ...

A general methodology for the probabilistic evaluation of landslide hazard is applied, taking in account both the landslide susceptibility and the instability triggering factors, mainly rainfall. The...

Feature-based matching of underwater images (2008)

Kudzinava, M., Garcia, R., Martí, J.

This work investigates performance of recent feature-based matching techniques when applied to registration of underwater images. Matching methods are tested versus diff erent contrast en¬hancing...

Visually pleasant blending techniques in underwater mosaicing (2008)

Prados, R., Neumann, L., Cufí, X., Garcia, R.

of two or more images that are then combined into a single and usually larger one. The applications of mosaicing comprehend panoramic photography, super-resolution, virtual environments and vision...

Climatology of mesopause region temperature, zonal wind, and meridional wind over Fort Collins, Colorado (41°N, 105°W), and comparison with model simulations (2008)

Yuan, T., She, C. Y., Krueger, D. A., Sassi, F., Garcia, R., Roble, R. G., ...

Between May 2002 and April 2006, many continuous observations of mesopause region temperature and horizontal wind, each lasting longer than 24 h (termed full-diurnal-cycle observations), were...

Thin-thick coexistence behavior of 8CB liquid crystalline films on silicon (2007)

Garcia, R., Subashi, E., Fukuto, M.

The wetting behavior of thin films of 4'-n-octyl-4-cyanobiphenyl (8CB) on Si is investigated via optical and x-ray reflectivity measurement. An experimental phase diagram is obtained showing a broad...

Validity of the "sharp-kink approximation" for water and other fluids (2007)

Garcia, R., Osborne, K., Subashi, E.

The contact angle of a liquid droplet on a solid surface is a direct measure of fundamental atomic-scale forces acting between liquid molecules and the solid surface. In this work, the validity is...

South-polar features on Venus similar to those near the north pole (2007)

Piccioni, G., Drossart, P., Sanchez-Lavega, A., Hueso, R., Taylor, F.W., Grassi, D., ...

Venus has no seasons, slow rotation and a very massive atmosphere, which is mainly carbon dioxide with clouds primarily of sulphuric acid droplets. Infrared observations by previous missions to Venus...

A dynamic upper atmosphere of Venus as revealed by VIRTIS on Venus Express (2007)

Drossart, P., Piccioni, G., Gerard, M., Sanchez-Lavega, A., Lopez-Valverde, M. A., Hueso, R., ...

The upper atmosphere of a planet is a transition region in which energy is transferred between the deeper atmosphere and outer space. Molecular emissions from the upper atmosphere (90–120 km...

Exploratory calcineurin inhibitor-free regimens in living-related kidney transplant recipients (2007)

Garcia,R., Machado,P.G., Felipe,C.R., Park,S.I., Spinelli,G.A., Franco,M.F., ...

Chronic allograft nephropathy is among the major causes of graft loss even in low-risk kidney transplant recipients and correlates with acute nephrotoxic events during the first year post-transplant....

Avaliação do vício de "tempo longo" de indicadores internos em ensaio de digestão com ruminantes (2007)

Detmann,E., Souza,A.L., Garcia,R., Valadares Filho,S.C., Cabral,L.S., Zervoudakis,J.T.

Realizou-se um ensaio de digestão com 20 ovinos machos, castrados, para avaliar o viés de "tempo longo" (VTL) dos indicadores internos: matéria seca indigestível (MSi) e fibra em detergente...

Critical Casimir force in $^4$He films: confirmation of finite-size scaling (2006)

Ganshin, A., Scheidemantel, S., Garcia, R., Chan, M. H. W.

We present new capacitance measurements of critical Casimir force-induced thinning of $^4$He films near the superfluid/normal transition, focused on the region below $T_{\lambda}$ where the effect is...

Relationship of cyclosporin and sirolimus blood concentrations regarding the incidence and severity of hyperlipidemia after kidney transplantation (2006)

Spinelli,G.A., Felipe,C.R., Machado,P.G., Garcia,R., Casarini,D.E., Moreira,S.R., ...

The influence of drug concentrations on the development of persistent posttransplant hyperlipidemia was investigated in 82 patients who received cyclosporin A (CsA) and prednisone plus sirolimus...

Impact of initial exposure to calcineurin inhibitors on kidney graft function of patients at high risk to develop delayed graft function (2006)

Silva,L.A., Felipe,C.R., Park,S.I., Pinheiro-Machado,P., Garcia,R., Franco,M., ...

We conducted a retrospective analysis of the influence of full doses of calcineurin inhibitors [8-10 mg kg-1 day-1 cyclosporine (N = 80), or 0.2-0.3 mg kg-1 day-1 tacrolimus (N = 68)] administered...

Effects of Lyngbya majuscula (Cyanophycea) blooms on sediment nutrients and meiofaunal assemblages in seagrass beds in Moreton Bay, Australia (2006)

Garcia, R, Johnstone, RW

Blooms of Lyngbya majuscula have been increasingly recorded in the waters of Moreton Bay, on the south-east coast of Queensland, Australia. The influences of these blooms on sediment infauna and the...

Pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic relationships of FTY720 in kidney transplant recipients (2005)

Park,S.I., Felipe,C.R., Machado,P.G., Garcia,R., Skerjanec,A., Schmouder,R., ...

FTY720 is a new and effective immunosuppressive agent, which produces peripheral blood lymphopenia through a lymphocyte homing effect. We investigated the relationship between the dose of FTY720 or...

Elimination of ie1 significantly attenuates murine cytomegalovirus virulence but does not alter replicative capacity in cell culture. (2005)

Ghazal, P., Visser, A.E., Gustems, M., Garcia, R., Borst, E.M., Sullivan, K., ...

The major immediate-early (MIE) genes of cytomegaloviruses (CMV) are broadly thought to be decisive regulators of lytic replication and reactivation from latency. To directly assess the role of the...

Chromosome 18 pairing behavior in human trisomic oocytes. Presence of an extra chromosome extends bouquet stage (2005)

Roig, I., Robles, P., Garcia, R., Martínez-Flores, I., Cabero, L. L., Egozcue, J., ...

Little is known about the first meiotic prophase stages in the human female because these occur during fetal life, and only a few studies have addressed aneuploid human oocytes. In this paper, the...

The Life of Stars and their Planets (2005)

Catala, C., Aerts, C., Aigrain, S., Antonello, E., Appourchaux, T., Auvergne, M., ...

We lack a reliable scenario for the formation and evollution of stars and their planetary systems, involving key factors such as magnetic fields and turbulence. We present the case for a mission...

Preservation of graft function in low-risk living kidney transplant recipients treated with a combination of sirolimus and cyclosporine (2004)

Machado,P.G.P., Felipe,C.R., Park,S.I., Garcia,R., Moreira,S., Casarini,D., ...

The use of sirolimus (SRL) in combination with full doses of cyclosporin A (CsA) results in reduced one-year kidney allograft function, which is associated with shorter long-term allograft survival....

Understanding cone distribution from saccadic dynamics. Is information rate maximized? (2004)

Lewis, A., Garcia, R., Zhaoping, L.

There is not yet a fully satisfactory and quantitative explanation as to why human cones have their particular distribution on the retina. If this distribution is to maximise the rate of the...

The distribution of visual objects on the retina: connecting eye movements and cone distributions (2003)

Lewis, A., Garcia, R., Zhaoping, L.

Experimental data on the accuracy and frequency of saccades are incorporated into a model of the visual world and eye movements to determine the spatial distribution of visual objects on the retina....

Principal Mean Curvature Foliations on Surfaces immersed in ${\mathbb R} ^4$ (2003)

Garcia, R., Mello, L. F., Sotomayor, J.

Here are studied qualitative properties of the families of curves --foliations-- on a surface immersed in ${\mathbb R}^4$, along which it bends extremally in the direction of the mean normal...

A Wavelet-based Image Codec for Interactive Network Applications (2003)

J. Oliver, M. P. Malumbres, J. Pons, R. Garcia

Multimedia network systems require image and video compression schemes in order to efficiently take profit from the available bandwidth.

Reactivity of [Re[kappa(3)-H(mu-H)B(tim(Me))(2)](CO)(3)] (tim(Me) = 2-mercapto-1-methylimidazolyl) toward neutral substrates. (2002)

Garcia, R, Domingos, A, Paulo, A, Santos, I G, Alberto, R

The complex [Re[kappa(3)-H(mu-H)B(tim(Me))(2)](CO)(3)] (2a) (tim(Me) = 2-mercapto-1-methylimidazolyl) reacts with a variety of neutral substrates to afford new complexes featuring the...

APENDICITE CRÔNICA E APENDICITE RECORRENTE: ARTIGO DE REVISÃO E APRESENTAÇÃO DE CASUÍSTICA (2001)

Aprilli,F., Feres,O., Garcia,R., Joviliano,O. F. D.

A apendicite crônica e a apendicite recorrente são condições patológicas que diferem da apendicite aguda, a afecção mais comum do apêndice vermiforme. O propósito desse artigo é decifrar...

A Methodology for Implementing Hybrid Expert Systems (2000)

L. M. Brasil, R. Garcia, J. M. Barreto

This paper deals with a new methodology for developing an Expert System (ES). It has the ability of learning to extract knowledge from a poor knowledge base using the learning by example paradigms....

Curvatures of conflict surfaces in Euclidean 3-space (1999)

Sotomayor, J., Siersma, D., Garcia, R.

This article extends to three dimensions results on the curvature of the conflict curve for pairs of convex sets of the plane established by Siersma In the present case a conflict surface arises...

On the monodromy at infinity of a polynomial map, II (1996)

Garcia, R., Nemethi, A.

In the last years a lot of work has been concentrated on the study of the behaviour at infinity of polynomial maps. This behaviour can be very complicated, therefore the main idea was to find special...

Chemical characterization of Chilean hardwoods (1991)

Mansilla, H., Garcia, R., Tapia, J., Duran, H., Urzua, S.

H. Mansilla, R. Garcia, J. Tapia, H. Durán and S. Urzúa. Department of Biological Sciences, Biorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Universidad de Talca, Casilla 747, Talca, Chile.

Crystal structure of an idiotype-anti-idiotype Fab complex.

Ban, N, Escobar, C, Garcia, R, Hasel, K, Day, J, Greenwood, A, ...

Anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibody 409.5.3 is raised against an antibody that neutralizes feline infectious peritonitis virus. This antibody, used as an immunogen, elicits the production of...

Two point mutations within the adducin genes are involved in blood pressure variation.

Bianchi, G, Tripodi, G, Casari, G, Salardi, S, Barber, B R, Garcia, R, ...

The Milan hypertensive strain of rats (MHS) develops a genetic form of renal hypertension that, when compared to its normotensive control (MNS), shows renal dysfunction similar to that of a subset of...

Activation of STAT transcription factors by herpesvirus Saimiri Tip-484 requires p56lck.

Lund, T C, Garcia, R, Medveczky, M M, Jove, R, Medveczky, P G

Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STATs) relay signals from activated cell surface receptors directly to the nucleus. Previously, a protein required for T-cell transformation by the...

Identification of epsilon-N-mono-, epsilon-N-di-, and epsilon-N-trimethyllysine by high-performance liquid chromatography.

Garcia, R, Hiatt, W R, Jasinski, S, Sypherd, P S

Dansyl derivatives of epsilon-N-mono-, epsilon-N-di-, and epsilon-N-trimethyllysine were resolved from other amino acids in proteins by the use of high-performance liquid chromatography. The system...

Dissociation of natriuresis and diuresis and heterogeneity of the effector system of atrial natriuretic factor in rats.

Willenbrock, R C, Tremblay, J, Garcia, R, Hamet, P

The hypotensive, natriuretic, and diuretic actions of human atrial natriuretic factor-(99-126) (hANF) are accompanied by an elevation of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in plasma and urine....

Amino acid sequence of homologous rat atrial peptides: natriuretic activity of native and synthetic forms.

Seidah, N G, Lazure, C, Chrétien, M, Thibault, G, Garcia, R, Cantin, M, ...

A substance called atrial natriuretic factor (ANF), localized in secretory granules of atrial cardiocytes, was isolated as four homologous natriuretic peptides from homogenates of rat atria. The...

Methylation of elongation factor 1 alpha from the fungus Mucor.

Hiatt, W R, Garcia, R, Merrick, W C, Sypherd, P S

A basic protein from the dimorphic fungus Mucor racemosus, found to be highly methylated, is shown to be protein synthesis elongation factor 1 alpha. This protein is the most abundant protein in...

Three sea urchin actin genes show different patterns of expression: muscle specific, embryo specific, and constitutive.

Garcia, R, Paz-Aliaga, B, Ernst, S G, Crain, W R

The expression of three different actin genes in the sea urchin, Strongylocentrotus purpuratus, was monitored in embryos and adult tissues by using untranslated mRNA sequences as specific...

Pathophysiology of HIV related thrombocytopenia: an analysis of 41 patients.

Domínguez, A, Gamallo, G, Garcia, R, Lopez-Pastor, A, Peña, J M, Vazquez, J J

AIM--To analyse the pathogenic mechanism of HIV related thrombocytopenia. METHODS--Forty one patients with thrombocytopenia and HIV-1 infection were investigated over two years. Anticardiolipin...