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1. Nonparametric estimation of the cumulative incidences of competing risks under double truncation: (Publication); Registry data typically report incident cases within a certain calendar time interval. Such interval sampling induces double truncation on the incidence times, which may result in an observational bias. ...; Created on 21 January 2020
2. On interactive sequencing situations with exponential cost functions: (Publication); This paper addresses interactive one-machine sequencing situations in which the costs of processing a job are given by an exponential function of its completion time. The main difference with the standard ...; Created on 24 September 2019
3. Multiscale supervised classification of point clouds with urban and forest applications: (Publication); We analyze the utility of multiscale supervised classification algorithms for object detection and extraction from laser scanning or photogrammetric point clouds. Only the geometric information (the point ...; Created on 22 November 2019
4. Structural, Dermal and Ungual Characteristics of the Foot in Patients with Type II Diabetes: (Publication); Background and Objectives: Diabetes is a chronic and metabolic disease, considered as an important public health problem. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of podiatric pathology ...; Created on 20 November 2019
5. Assessing a single SNP located at TERT/CLPTM1L multi-cancer risk region as a genetic modifier for risk of pancreatic cancer and melanoma in Dutch CDKN2A mutation carriers: (Publication); Carriers of pathogenic variants in CDKN2A have a 70% life-time risk of developing melanoma and 15–20% risk of developing pancreatic cancer (PC). In the Netherlands, a 19-bp deletion in exon 2 of CDKN2A ...; Created on 26 September 2019
6. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); Childhood obesity estimates are steadily increasing worldwide. There is strong evidence that overweight children before puberty maintain this nutritional status for life. This study aimed to estimate the ...; Created on 25 September 2019
7. Time trends in prevalence and incidence rates of childhood overweight and obesity in Portugal: Generation XXI birth cohort: (Publication); Childhood obesity estimates are steadily increasing worldwide. There is strong evidence that overweight children before puberty maintain this nutritional status for life. This study aimed to estimate the ...; Created on 25 September 2019
8. Late HIV Diagnosis but Earlier Antiretroviral Treatment Initiation in Northwest Spain: Impact of Current Treatment Guidelines: (Publication); Background: Current HIV treatment guidelines recommend antiretroviral treatment (ART) initiation for all HIV-infected individuals regardless of CD4 count. This study evaluates the immunological and virological ...; Created on 24 September 2019
9. Prevalence of knee osteoarthritis in a random population sample in people aged 40 and over: (Publication); Introduction: Osteoarthritis is the osteoarticular disease with the highest prevalence worldwide. In industrialized countries, 80% of the population > 65 years suffers from it. Objectives: To determine ...; Created on 24 September 2019
10. Complex decongestive therapy in the early stages of breast cancer-related lymphoedema: (Publication); Objectives To analyse the outcomes of Complex Decongestive Therapy (CDT) applied for the first time in patients with Breast Cancer-Related Lymphoedema (BCRL) stages 0-I. Material and methods A descriptive ...; Created on 24 September 2019
11. Discovery of an autoantibody signature for the early diagnosis of knee osteoarthritis: Data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative: (Publication); Objective: To find autoantibodies (AAbs) in serum that could be useful to predict incidence of radiographic knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Design: A Nucleic-acid Programmable Protein Arrays (NAPPA) platform ...; Created on 24 September 2019
12. Predicting pollution incidents through semiparametric quantile regression models: (Publication); In this paper we present a method to forecast pollution episodes using measurements of the pollutant concentration along time. Specifically, we use a backfitting algorithm with local polynomial kernel ...; Created on 18 September 2019
13. Goodness-of-fit tests for parametric specifications of conditionally heteroscedastic models: (Publication); We consider a goodness-of-fit test for certain parametrizations of conditionally heteroscedastic time series with unobserved components. Our test is quite general in that it can be employed to validate ...; Created on 17 September 2019
14. Estimation in the progressive illness-death model: a non-exhaustive review: (Publication); Multistate models can be successfully used for describing complex event history data, for example, describing stages in the disease progression of a patient. The so‐called “illness‐death” model plays a ...; Created on 23 August 2019
15. A method for determining groups in multiple survival curves: (Publication); Survival analysis includes a wide variety of methods for analyzing time‐to‐event data. One basic but important goal in survival analysis is the comparison of survival curves between groups. Several nonparametric ...; Created on 23 August 2019
16. Circulating microRNAs in suspected stable coronary artery disease: A coronary computed tomography angiography study: (Publication); Objectives To explore the diagnostic performance of circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) as biomarkers in patients with suspected stable coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods Plasma samples were collected ...; Created on 22 August 2019
17. Plasma microRNA Profiling Reveals Novel Biomarkers of Epicardial Adipose Tissue: A Multidetector Computed Tomography Study: (Publication); Epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) constitutes a novel parameter for cardiometabolic risk assessment and a target for therapy. Here, we evaluated for the first time the plasma microRNA (miRNA) profile as ...; Created on 22 August 2019
18. Adverse Events After Atherectomy: Analyzing Long‐Term Outcomes of Endovascular Lower Extremity Revascularization Techniques: (Publication); Background The long-term effectiveness of atherectomy treatment for peripheral arterial disease is unknown. We studied 5-year clinical outcomes by endovascular treatment type among patients with peripheral ...; Created on 22 August 2019
19. Long-term Reintervention After Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: (Publication); Objective: To describe the long-term reintervention rate after endovascular abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (EVR), and identify factors predicting reintervention. Summary of Background Data: EVR is ...; Created on 22 August 2019
20. An instrumental variable procedure for estimating Cox models with non‐proportional hazards in the presence of unmeasured confounding: (Publication); Two‐stage instrumental variable methods are commonly used for estimating average causal effects in the presence of an unmeasured confounder. In the context of the proportional hazard Cox regression models, ...; Created on 22 August 2019
21. A hybrid ARIMA–SVM model for the study of the remaining useful life of aircraft engines: (Publication); In this research, an algorithm is presented for predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of aircraft engines from a set of predictor variables measured by several sensors located in the engine. RUL prediction ...; Created on 10 October 2018
22. Body mass index transitions during childhood: a multiple-state model approach: (Publication); Introduction Childhood obesity is of major public health concern with significant health, social and economic impacts, having even potential to reverse the increase in longevity that has been observed. ...; Created on 06 March 2019
23. Percentile curves and reference values for 2000-m rowing ergometer performance time in international rowers aged 14-70 years: (Publication); The aim of this study was to provide percentile curves and reference values for the performance in 2000-m maximal effort on rowing ergometer. A cross-sectional study was carried out with a non-probabilistic ...; Created on 11 October 2018
24. Game-Related Statistics in the Spanish Water Polo League: Differences between Seasons: (Publication); The aim of this study was to identify the differences between seasons in men´s water polo regular competition by analysing the changes of game-related statistics. The sample comprised 88 games from the ...; Created on 11 October 2018
25. On Interactive Sequencing Situations with Exponential Cost Functions: (Publication); This paper addresses interactive one-machine sequencing situations in which the costs of processinga job are given by an exponential function of its completion time. The main difference with thestandard ...; Created on 10 October 2018
26. nsROC: An R package for non-standard ROC curve analysis: (Publication); The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve is a graphical method which has become standard in the analysis of diagnostic markers, that is, in the study of the classiﬁcation ability of a numerical ...; Created on 10 October 2018
27. Plasma microRNAs as biomarkers for Lamin A/C-related dilated cardiomyopathy: (Publication); Lamin A/C gene (LMNA)-related familial dilated cardiomyopathy (fDCM) is an aggressive heart disease that often leads to transplantation and sudden death. The aim of our study was to evaluate the circulating ...; Created on 01 October 2018
28. MUL plus DO: a multicomponent index for the quick diagnosis of peritonitis in peritoneal dialysis patients: (Publication); Peritoneal infection is a common problem that has a negative impact on the survival of patients and the technique. The early administration of peritoneal infection treatment reduces complications. The ...; Created on 01 October 2018
29. Quantile regression and its empirical likelihood with missing response at random: (Publication); In this paper, we study the linear quantile regression model when response data are missing at random. Based on the inverse probability weight method, we establish an estimation equation on quantile regression ...; Created on 01 October 2018
30. Penalized empirical likelihood for quantile regression with missing covariates and auxiliary information: (Publication); Based on the inverse probability weight method, we, in this article, construct the empirical likelihood (EL) and penalized empirical likelihood (PEL) ratios of the parameter in the linear quantile regression ...; Created on 01 October 2018
31. Levels of anti-CMV antibodies are modulated by the frequency and intensity of virus reactivations in kidney transplant patients: (Publication); Anti-CMV (cytomegalovirus) antibody titers are related to immune alterations and increased risk of mortality. To test whether they represent a marker of infection history, we analyzed the effect of viral ...; Created on 22 May 2018
32. Helmet Versus Nasal-Prong CPAP in Infants With Acute Bronchiolitis: (Publication); BACKGROUND: Nasal prongs are frequently used to deliver noninvasive CPAP in bronchiolitis, especially in the youngest children. A helmet interface is an alternative that might be comparable to nasal prongs. ...; Created on 22 May 2018
33. Smooth time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve estimators: (Publication); The receiver operating characteristic curve is a popular graphical method often used to study the diagnostic capacity of continuous (bio)markers. When the considered outcome is a time-dependent variable, ...; Created on 22 May 2018
34. Nonparametric Estimation of Transition Probabilities for a General Progressive Multi-State Model Under CrossSectional Sampling: (Publication); Nonparametric estimation of the transition probability matrix of a progressive multi-state model is consideredunder cross-sectional sampling. Two diﬀerent estimators adapted to possibly right-censored ...; Created on 20 February 2018
35. Quantile regression for partially linear varying-coefficient model with censoring indicators missing at random: (Publication); In this paper, we focus on the partially linear varying-coefficient quantile regression model when the data are right censored and the censoring indicator is missing at random. Based on the calibration ...; Created on 24 January 2018
36. Determining optimum wavelengths for leaf water content estimation from reflectance: A distance correlation approach: (Publication); This paper proposes a method to estimate leaf water content from reflectance in four commercial vineyard varieties by estimating the local maxima of a distance correlation function. First, it applies four ...; Created on 24 January 2018
37. Plasma mitochondrial DNA levels are inversely associated with HIV-RNA levels and directly with CD4 counts: potential role as a biomarker of HIV replication: (Publication); Objectives: To evaluate plasma mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) levels among HIV-infected patients and its potential role as a biomarker of residual viral replication. Methods: HIV-infected patients on follow-up ...; Created on 08 October 2018
38. Quality of life and anxiety in women with breast cancer before and after treatment.: (Publication); Objectives: to determine the quality of life and anxiety in patients with breast cancer and the changes they experience after treatments. Method: prospective study. Breast cancer statistics (n=339, confidence=95%, ...; Created on 08 October 2018
39. Hábitos podológicos en personas con alteraciones ungueales: (Publication); Objective: To determine the prevalence of onychocryptosis and onychomycosis confirmed by culture in subjects attending a Podiatric University Hospital and to describe their podiatric habits. Method: ...; Created on 08 October 2018
40. Jackknife empirical likelihood of error variance in partially linear varying-coefficient errors-in-variables models: (Publication); For the partially linear varying-coefficient model when the parametric covariates are measured with additive errors, the estimator of the error variance is defined based on residuals of the model. At the ...; Created on 22 May 2018
41. Copula-graphic estimation with left-truncated and right-censored data: (Publication); In Survival Analysis and related fields of research right-censored and left-truncated data often appear. Usually, it is assumed that the right-censoring variable is independent of the lifetime of ultimate ...; Created on 23 January 2018
42. Comparing some production functions for inpatient health services in selected public hospitals in Spain: (Publication); To investigate the adequacy of the widely used Cobb-Douglas and transcendental logarithmic (translog) models of the production functions of hospital inpatient services, the authors fitted these and additive ...; Created on 18 September 2017
43. Comparison of two discrimination indexes in the categorisation of continuous predictors in time-to-event studies: (Publication); The Cox proportionalhazards model is the most widely used survival predictionmodel for analysing time-to-event data. To measure the discrimination ability of a survival model the concordance probability ...; Created on 18 September 2017
44. On the 1-nucleolus: (Publication); This paper analyzes the 1-nucleolus and, in particular, its relation to the nucleolus. It is seen that, contrary to the nucleolus, the 1-nucleolus can be computed in polynomial time due to a characterization ...; Created on 18 September 2017
45. The adverse prognostic effect of tumor budding on the evolution of cutaneous head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.: (Publication); Background: Tumor budding is a readily detectable histopathologic feature that has been recognized as an adverse prognostic factor in several human cancers. Objective: We sought to assess the correlation ...; Created on 18 September 2017
46. Pillar[5]arene-based supramolecular plasmonic thin films for label-free, quantitative and multiplex SERS detection: (Publication); Novel plasmonic thin films based on electrostatic layer-by-layer (LbL) deposition of citrate-stabilized Au nanoparticles (NPs) and ammonium pillar[5]arene (AP[5]A) have been developed. The supramolecular-induced ...; Created on 18 September 2017
47. Direct modeling of regression effects for transition probabilities in the progressive illness-death model: (Publication); In this work, we present direct regression analysis for the transition probabilities in the possibly non-Markov progressive illness–death model. The method is based on binomial regression, where the response ...; Created on 18 September 2017
48. Epidemiology of traumatic spinal cord injury in Galicia, Spain: trends over a 20-year period: (Publication); Study design: Observational study with prospective and retrospective monitoring. Objective: To describe the epidemiological and demographic characteristics of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI), and ...; Created on 18 September 2017
49. Incidence of cardiovascular events and associated risk factors in kidney transplant patients: a competing risks survival analysis: (Publication); Background: The high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors among the renal transplant population accounts for increased mortality. The aim of this study is to determine the incidence of cardiovascular ...; Created on 18 September 2017
50. condSURV: An R Package for the Estimation of the Conditional Survival Function for Ordered Multivariate Failure Time Data: (Publication); One major goal in clinical applications of time-to-event data is the estimation of survival with censored data. The usual nonparametric estimator of the survival function is the time-honored Kaplan-Meier ...; Created on 22 May 2018