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 ...
Ruiz Mejías, Marcel (Date of defense: 2013-09-23)
The present Thesis addressed different questions concerning spontaneous oscillatory activity in the cerebral cortex, including functional comparative studies, studies of mechanisms generating this ...
Hernández Del Valle, Karla Paola (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)
Nowadays entrepreneurs deal with new technological, social and environmental challenges. Faced with this unpredictable environment, personal values can help to understand the decisions that have to be ...
Ocampo-Corrales, Diego B. (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)
El núcleo de la tesis consta de tres capítulos en los que se explora la naturaleza de los flujos de conocimiento que influyen en la innovación en energías renovables. En los tres capítulos se utiliza ...
Silva, Rui Gonçalo Teixeira da (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
Steatotic livers are considerably more prone to IRI, in which turn, it is known to impair mitochondrial function. Our working hypothesis lies on the fact that impaired mitochondrial function and reduced ...
Ninfali, Chiara (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
Muscle atrophy, which is characterized by excessive protein catabolism, is one of the major adaptive processes that occur in several physiopathological and clinical conditions, to counteract stressing ...
González Burón, Helena (Date of defense: 2014-03-19)
The human Tousled-like kinases 1 and 2 (TLKs) are predicted serine/threonine kinases that show maximal activity in S phase and are transiently inhibited by the DNA damage response (DDR). Both TLKs ...
Castillo Figueroa, Ana Lucía (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
A number of recent studies in animals and humans have linked energy regulation and the circadian clock at the molecular, physiological and behavioral levels, concluding that disruption of clock genes ...
Creus i Cuadros, Anna (Date of defense: 2018-02-27)
The World Health Organization (WHO) 1 says that CVDs are number one cause of death globally. An estimated 17.7 million people died from CVDs in 2015, representing 31% of all global deaths. Over three ...