Hernáiz, Rodrigo, 1951- (Date of defense: 2018-05-30)
This thesis interrogates the extent to which a range of written variation in the Old Babylonian letters from the central area of Mesopotamia relate significantly to variables denoting temporal-historical ...
Bolaños Solà, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-04-09)
The world of Machine Learning and Computer Vision has experienced a revolution since the last years. The appearance of Deep Learning algorithms and Convolutional Neural Networks, altogether with the ...
Masó Ferrerons, Guillem (Date of defense: 2019-04-25)
A central theme in ecology and evolution is to understand whether and how species respond to environmental changes. The amount of studies focusing on how species might cope with climate change has been ...
Llaudó Vallmajor, Inés (Date of defense: 2013-12-17)
Both immunological and non immunological factors are involved in chronic allograft nephropathy such as donor specific alloreactivity, chronic inflammation and nephrotoxicity induced by anticalcineurinics. ...
Ribera Puig, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-06-16)
Orthopaedic device-related infections represent a health care problem of first magnitude due to the increasing incidence, complexity of management, and elevated cost. These device related infections ...
Hollstein, Till Ferdinand (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the impact of patterns of trade on the structural composition of an economy. We show that trade affects an economy’s productivity by shifting labor across ...
Martrus Zapater, Gloria (Date of defense: 2013-07-10)
Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) has a biased nucleotide composition different from human genes. This raises the question of how evolution has chosen the nucleotide sequence HIV-1 observed ...
Duart Castells, Leticia (Date of defense: 2020-02-25)
Drugs of abuse represent a global problem not only at a health level, but also at a social and economic extent. Recently, a tidal wave of new emerging psychoactive substances has completely modified the ...
Planas Marqués, Marc (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
The plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum is the causal agent of the devastating disease known as bacterial wilt. This disease affects more than 200 plant species in over 50 families, including economically ...
Lanuza Masdeu, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-04-05)
Es va generar un ratolí transgènic amb la capacitat d'activar JNK específicament al pàncrees. Tot i que aquests ratolins no tenen cap afectació morfoestructural en els seus illots pancreàtics ni diferències ...