Ministerio De Economia Y Competitividad Research Articles

Correlation function and the inverse problem in the BD interaction* *This study is partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11975083, 12365019, 12275076), the Central Government Guidance Funds for Local Scientific and Technological Development, China (Guike ZY22096024), the Natural Science Foundation of Changsha (kq2208257), the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan province (2023JJ30647), and the Natural Science Foundation

We study the correlation functions of the system, which develops a bound state of approximately , using inputs consistent with the state. Then, we address the inverse problem starting from these correlation functions to determine the scattering observables related to the system, including the existence of the bound state and its molecular nature. The important output of the approach is the uncertainty with which these observables can be obtained, considering errors in the correlation functions typical of current values in correlation functions. We find that it is possible to obtain scattering lengths and effective ranges with relatively high precision and the existence of a bound state. Although the pole position is obtained with errors of the order of 50% of the binding energy, the molecular probability of the state is obtained with a very small error of the order of 6%. All these findings serve as motivation to perform such measurements in future runs of high energy hadron collisions.

Autonomous metabolic reprogramming and oxidative stress characterize endothelial dysfunction in acute myocardial infarction.

Compelling evidence has accumulated on the role of oxidative stress on the endothelial cell (EC) dysfunction in acute coronary syndrome. Unveiling the underlying metabolic determinants has been hampered by the scarcity of appropriate cell models to address cell-autonomous mechanisms of EC dysfunction. We have generated endothelial cells derived from thrombectomy specimens from patients affected with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and conducted phenotypical and metabolic characterizations. AMI-derived endothelial cells (AMIECs) display impaired growth, migration, and tubulogenesis. Metabolically, AMIECs displayed augmented ROS and glutathione intracellular content, with a diminished glucose consumption coupled to high lactate production. In AMIECs, while PFKFB3 protein levels of were downregulated, PFKFB4 levels were upregulated, suggesting a shunting of glycolysis towards the pentose phosphate pathway, supported by upregulation of G6PD. Furthermore, the glutaminolytic enzyme GLS was upregulated in AMIECs, providing an explanation for the increase in glutathione content. Finally, AMIECs displayed a significantly higher mitochondrial membrane potential than control ECs, which, together with high ROS levels, suggests a coupled mitochondrial activity. We suggest that high mitochondrial proton coupling underlies the high production of ROS, balanced by PPP- and glutaminolysis-driven synthesis of glutathione, as a primary, cell-autonomous abnormality driving EC dysfunction in AMI.

Dual Purpose Measurements with Displacement Sensors

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the projects ENE/2015-69203-R from Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (Spain), and DGAPA-PAPIIT IG100618 and DGAPA-PAPIIT IN-114818 (Mexico) and also thanks to Raul Reyes Ortiz and Alberto Lopez Vivas for technical assistance.

Summarizing the impacts of future potential global change scenarios on seawater intrusion at the aquifer scale

This work has been partially supported by the GeoE.171.008-TACTIC and GeoE.171.008-HOVER projects from GeoERA organization funded by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program; Plan de Garantia Juvenil from MINECO (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad), co-inancing by BEI (Banco Europeo de Inversiones) and FSE (Fondo Social Europeo); and SIGLO-AN (RTI2018-101397-B-I00) project from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Programa Estatal de I+D+I orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad). The authors also thank AEMET and UC for the data provided for this work (Spain02 dataset, https://www.meteo.unican.es/datasets/spain02).

Predicting Climate‐Driven Coastlines With a Simple and Efficient Multiscale Model

Ocean‐basin‐scale climate variability produces shifts in wave climates and water levels affecting the coastlines of the basin. Here we present a hybrid shoreline change—foredune erosion model (A COupled CrOss‐shOre, loNg‐shorE, and foreDune evolution model, COCOONED) intended to inform coastal planning and adaptation. COCOONED accounts for coupled longshore and cross‐shore processes at different timescales, including sequencing and clustering of storm events, seasonal, interannual, and decadal oscillations by incorporating the effects of integrated varying wave action and water levels for coastal hazard assessment. COCOONED is able to adapt shoreline change rates in response to interactions between longshore transport, cross‐shore transport, water level variations, and foredune erosion. COCOONED allows for the spatial and temporal extension of survey data using global data sets of waves and water levels for assessing the behavior of the shoreline at multiple time and spatial scales. As a case study, we train the model in the period 2004–2014 (11 years) with seasonal topographic beach profile surveys from the North Beach Sub‐cell (NBSC) of the Columbia River Littoral Cell (Washington, USA). We explore the shoreline response and foredune erosion along 40 km of beach at several timescales during the period 1979–2014 (35 years), revealing an accretional trend producing reorientation of the beach, cross‐shore accretional, and erosional periods through time (breathing) and alternating beach rotations that are correlated with climate indices.

Temperature and salinity tolerance of the larval stages of the African pea crab Afropinnotheres monodi Manning, 1993: implications for its dispersal along European waters

This study was partially funded by the Spanish “Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO), Plan Nacional I+D” and the European FEDER funds through project AFROBIV (CGL2014-53557-P). The MINECO also supported an FPI PhD contract to MPM (BES-2015-072703). We want to thank “Consejeria de Agricultura, Pesca y Desarrollo Rural” and “Consejeria de Medio Ambiente y Ordenacion del Territorio” of Junta de Andalucia by supporting the development of AFROBIV project.

IdmTPreg: Regression Model for Progressive Illness Death Data

This work was supported by funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2011: Marie Curie Initial Training Network MEDIASRES (“Novel Statistical Methodology for Diagnostic/Prognostic and Therapeutic Studies and Systematic Reviews”; www.mediasres-itn.eu) with the Grant Agreement Number 290025, by the Basque Government through the BERC 2014-2017 program, by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO: BCAM Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2013-0323, Grant MTM2016-76969-P and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). The second author acknowledges financial support from Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad Grant MTM2016-76969-P and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)

Numerical Methodology for Optimization of Compression-Ignited Engines Considering Combustion Noise Control

The equipment used in this work was partially supported by FEDER and the Spanish Government through grant no. DPI2015-70464-R and by FEDER project funds “Dotacion de infraestructuras cientifico tecnicas para el Centro Integral de Mejora Energetica y Medioambiental de Sistemas de Transporte (CiMeT), (FEDER-ICTS-2012-06)”, framed in the operational program of unique scientific and technical infrastructure of the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad. J. Gomez-Soriano was partially supported through contract FPI-S2-2016-1353 of the “Programa de Apoyo para la Investigacion y Desarrollo (PAID-01-16)” of Universitat Politecnica de Valencia. The submitted manuscript was created partly by UChicago Argonne, LLC, Operator of Argonne National Laboratory. Argonne, a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science laboratory, is operated under Contract No. DE-AC02- 06CH11357. This research was partly funded by U.S. DOE Office of Vehicle Technologies, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02- 06CH11357. The authors wish to thank Gurpreet Singh and Leo Breton, program managers at DOE, for their support. The authors would also like to express their gratitude to CONVERGENT SCIENCE Inc. and Convergent Science GmbH for their kind support for performing the CFD calculations using CONVERGE software.

Satellite tracking and stable isotope analysis highlight differential recruitment among foraging areas in green turtles

P.J.B. is funded by a National Environment Research Council grant 1353865. C.C. is supported by the project CTM2013-48163 from Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad. We thank the following for their support: Marine Turtle Conservation Project (MTCP), Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles (MEDASSSET), North Cyprus Department of Environmental Protection, seaturtle. org, Society for the Protection of Sea Turtles in North Cyprus (SPOT); and for funding: Apache, British Chelonia Group, BP Egypt, the British High Commission and British Residents Society of North Cyprus, Darwin Initiative, Erwin Warth Foundation, Friends of SPOT, INNPA, Kuzey Kibris Turkcell, NERC, Marine Conservation Society Sea Turtle Conservation Fund, and MEDASSET, UK.

One-way quasiplanar terahertz absorbers using nonstructured polar dielectric layers

This work is supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (TEC2014-51902- C2-2-R). P.R.U. is sponsored by the Public University of Navarra via a predoctoral scholarship, and A.E.S. is sup- ported by the National Science Center of Poland (NCN) (MetaSel DEC-2015/17/B/ST3/00118). We are very thankful to Prof. S. Nojima, YCU (Yokohama, Japan), for valuable discussions.

Eggshell pigmentation in the blue tit: male quality matters

This study was funded by projects CGL2012-40026-C02-01 to SM and CGL2012-40026-C02-02 to JM from the MEC (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad). EPB was supported by a JAE grant from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).

ChemInform Abstract: Heterocycle‐Based Bifunctional Organocatalysts in Asymmetric Synthesis

The Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (MICINN) (projects CTQ2010-20387, and Consolider Ingenio 2010, CSD2007-00006), the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) (projects CTQ2013-43446-P and CTQ2014-51912-REDC), FEDER, the Generalitat Valenciana (PROMETEO 2009/039 and PROMETEOII/2014/017), the Basque Government (GV Grant IT-291-07), the FP7 Marie Curie Actions of the European Commission via the ITN ECHONET network (MCITN-2012-316379) and the Universities of Alicante and Basque Country are gratefully acknowledged for financial support. We also thank for technical and human support provided by IZO-SGI SGIker of UPV-EHU and European funding (ERDF and ESF).

Graphene Synthesis by Plasma-Enhanced CVD Growth with Ethanol

This work was supported by the Spanish Education and Research Ministry (MEC) under Grant MAT2010- 19804 and from Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) of Spain, through the grant ENE2014-57977-C2-1-R. Financial support from the U.S. Department of Energy, through the Massie Chair Project at Turabo University and from the U.S. Department of Defense under Grant W911NF-14-1- 0046, are also acknowledged

PRACTICAL DESIGN OF FILTERS USING EBG WAVEGUIDES PERIODICALLY LOADED WITH METAL RIDGES

This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO), Spanish Government, under the R&D projects TEC2013-47037-C5-1-R and TEC2013-47037-C5-4-R. The authors would like to thank ITACA (Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologias y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas), from Technical University of Valencia (Valencia, Spain), for their support in the accurate manufacturing of the low-pass filter prototype

Morita equivalence of partial group actions and globalization

We consider a large class of partial actions of groups on rings, called regular, which contains all s-unital partial actions, as well as all partial actions on C∗-algebras. For them the notion of Morita equivalence is introduced, and it is shown that any regular partial action is Morita equivalent to a globalizable one, and the globalization is essentially unique. It is also proved that Morita equivalent s-unital partial actions on rings with orthogonal local units are stably isomorphic. In addition, we show that Morita equivalent s-unital partial actions on commutative rings must be isomorphic, and an analogous result for C∗-algebras is also established. Date: November 8, 2015. This work was partially supported by CNPq of Brazil (Proc. 305975/2013-7, Proc. 300362/20102), Fapesp of Brazil (Proc. Proc. 2009/52665-0), MINECO (Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad), (Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional) project MTM2012-35240, Spain, and Fundacion Seneca of Murcia, Programa Hispano Brasileno de Cooperacion Universitaria PHB2012-0135, Spain. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 16S35; Secondary 16W22, 46L05.

ChemInform Abstract: Hydrogen Bond Controlled anti‐Aza‐Michael Addition: Diastereoselective Synthesis of Cyclobutene‐Containing Amino Acid Derivatives.

This research was supported by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO), the European FEDER and Regional Development Fund (grant numbers CTQ2011-28417-C01-02, CTQ-2013-44303-P), and the Red de Excelencia Consolider (grant number CTQ2014-51912-REDC). G. M.-A. thanks the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (MEC) for an FPU grant. The ORFEO-CINQA network is also acknowledged.

Swivel-Cruciform Stilbenes Based on Bithiophene

This research was funded by the Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad (MINECO) and the European Union (EU) (FEDER project BFU2011-30161-C02-02). The Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha (JCCM) is thanked for financial support (FEDER project PEII-2014-005-A) and a doctoral fellowship to A. G.-R.

ChemInform Abstract: Coinage Metal Complexes as Chiral Catalysts for 1,3‐Dipolar Cycloadditions

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Structures of Hemi‐Curcuminoids in the Solid State and in Solution

AbstractHemi‐curcuminoids are derivatives of the antioxidant radical scavenger curcumin in which one styryl moiety is missing but the β‐diketone functionality is maintained. Five such derivatives have been prepared, and the X‐ray molecular structures for all of them have been determined. The tautomerism of the five compounds has been studied by NMR in the solid state and in solution. An enol–enol proton transfer barrier has been determined.