Ruiz Romeu, Ester (Date of defense: 2017-03-07)
Psoriasis is an inflammatory immune-mediated skin disease that usually occurs in individuals with genetic susceptibility in conjunction with environmental triggers. Circulating effector memory skin-tropic ...
Eftekharzadeh, Bahareh (Date of defense: 2015-04-16)
Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a rare hereditary neuromuscular disease caused by the elongation of a polymorphic polyglutamine (polyQ) tract in the N-terminal region of the transactivation ...
Surdeanu, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-01-09)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays on non-stationary panel data. We propose novel approaches to both cointegration and unit root analysis in panel data models. The main contribution of ...
Baptista, Inês do Carmo Viegas (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Leukaemia is one of the types of cancer where treatment resistance is prevalent. Better understanding of leukemic cells metabolism opens possibilities for new therapeutic strategies and better prognosis ...
Vílchez Acosta, Alba del Valle (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Reelin is a large extracellular matrix glycoprotein with a crucial role both during brain development, where it is key for neuronal migration and for the formation of the layered structure of cerebral ...
Rodríguez Vaello, Victoria Eugenia (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
A fundamental step in embryo development is the transition through pluripotency. There are two known sequential states of pluripotency termed naïve and primed pluripotency. Considerable efforts have ...
Duch i Gavaldà, Jordi (Date of defense: 2008-04-18)
In a time when large amounts of data about social, economical, technological, and biological systems are produced in a daily bases, complex networks have become a powerful tool to represent the structure ...
Timoner Lledó, Pere (Date of defense: 2016-11-08)
This thesis concerns itself with the study of situations in which a group of agents lay separate claims to a scarce resource. These situations are as old as the discipline of economics itself; indeed, ...
Celis Plá, Paula Soledad María (Date of defense: 2015-09-29)
In this thesis, the vulnerability and capacity of acclimation to environmental stress related to Climate change mainly in Cystoseira tamariscifolia and other species as Ellisolandia elongata, Cystoseira ...
Juan Verger, Julia de (Date of defense: 2011-03-14)
This thesis presents a study of the application of Global Positioning System (GPS) techniques to the study of the dynamics of Helheim Glacier, one of the fastest-flowing outlet glaciers in the world, ...