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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Scientific goals for the observation of Venus by VIRTIS on ESA/Venus Express mission (2007)
Drossart, P., Piccioni, G., Adriani, A., Angrilli, F., Arnold, G., Baines, K. H., ...
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., Wilson, C. F., ...
A dynamic upper atmosphere of Venus as revealed by VIRTIS on Venus Express (2007)
Drossart, P., Piccioni, G., Gerard, J. C., Lopez-Valverde, M. A., Sanchez-Lavega, A., Zasova, L., ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Georeferenced Photo-Mosaicing of the Seafloor (2005)
Garcia, R., Cufí, X., Prados, R., Elibol, A., Ferrer, J., Villanueva, M., ...
Georeferenced Photo-Mosaicing of the Seafloor (2005)
Garcia, R., Cufí, X., Prados, R., Elibol, A., Ferrer, J., Villanueva, M., ...
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...
NM 25. Chicken performance under feed restriction (2005)
Garcia, R.; Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro. Saltillo, Coah., México; Cienani@uaaan.mx, Villanueva, V.; Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro. Mexico; Cienani@uaaan.mx, Cepeda, A.; Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro. Mexico; Cienani@uaaan.mx, Padron, E.; Universidad Autónoma Agraria Antonio Narro. Mexico; Cienani@uaaan.mx
Two hundred and one (201) five days old chicks were used in a time access feed restriction program. T1, free feed access; T2, 18 hs of feed access; and T3, 12 hs of feed access from the sixth to the...
Middle atmosphere summer duration as an indicator of long-term circulation changes (2005)
Offermann, D., Jarisch, M., Donner, M., Oberheide, J., Wohltmann, I., Garcia, R., ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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)
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...
Bruhn, C.G., Ambiado, F.E., Cid, H.J., Woerner, R., Tapia, J., Garcia, R.
Tapia, J. Instituto de Química de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Talca, Casilla 747 Talca, Chile.
Bruhn, C.G., Ambiado, F.E., Cid, H.J., Woerner, R., Tapia, J., Garcia, R.
Tapia, J. Instituto de Química de Recursos Naturales, Universidad de Talca, Casilla 747 Talca, Chile.
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.
Georeferenced Photo-Mosaicing of the Seafloor (1970)
R. Garcia, X. Cufí, R. Prados, A. Elibol, J. Ferrer, M. Villanueva, ...
Georeferenced Photo-Mosaicing of the Seafloor (1970)
R. Garcia, X. Cufí, R. Prados, A. Elibol, J. Ferrer, M. Villanueva, ...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...