Trindade, Ana Filipa Mestre (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] Heat, moisture, gas, and momentum exchanges at the oceanic and atmospheric interface modulate, inter alia, the Earth’s heat and carbon budgets, global circulation, and dynamical modes. Sea surface ...
Pozuelo Ruiz, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
Electron Transfer (ET) is undoubtedly one of the most important processes in life. Molecularly well-defined ET pathways in complex protein ensembles play a vital role in biological processes such as ...
Pujals Pruneda, Mireia (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
RAGE is a transmembrane protein of the immunoglobulin family highly expressed during embryonic development but rarely expressed in adult healthy tissues. However, under cellular stress RAGE is re-expressed ...
Barahona Márquez, Felix (Date of defense: 2018-01-19)
During the last decade, the emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) appeared on the world scene, increasing their presence not only in emerging countries but in most of the developed countries ...
Cabanillas Costa, Josep (Date of defense: 2002-12-13)
The context of this thesis is the design of CMOS low power RFIC's suitable for direct conversion architectures. Our starting point is the analysis of the characteristics of the integrated passive ...
Wijsen, Nicolas (Date of defense: 2020-04-30)
Our modern society is becoming increasingly dependent on the constant stream of information sent out by satellites orbiting Earth. However, highly energetic rays traversing the near-Earth space environment ...
Lutfi Royo, Esmail (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
Obesity is traditionally defined as a complex and chronic health condition characterized by an abnormal or excessive fat accumulation in the body that relies upon the homeostatic relationship between ...
Escolà Jané, Anna (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Somatostatin (SST or SRIF14) is a peptidic hormone secreted throughout the central nervous system and in the gastrointestinal tract which has anti-secretory, anti-proliferative and anti-angiogenic ...
Guelman, Leo (Date of defense: 2015-03-02)
In many important settings, subjects can show significant heterogeneity in response to a stimulus or “treatment". For instance, a treatment that works for the overall population might be highly inefiective, ...
Portella Moll, Maria J. (Date of defense: 2005-06-01)
OF THE THESIS: <br/><br/>Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most common of the affective disorders and ranks among the major causes of disability worldwide. Some vulnerability factors for the ...