Gutierrez Prat, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-10-03)
Cells often need to respond to damaging internal and external stimuli. One of the pathways that is frequently activated by stress stimuli involves activation of the kinase p38alpha, which can phosphorylate ...
Burgués Calderón, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-07-09)
Chemical source localization (CSL) by autonomous robots has been a topic of research since the early 1990s and still today remains elusive beyond simple scenarios. It has numerous potential applications, ...
Ortiz Carbonell, Ada Natalia (Date of defense: 2003-10-10)
The aim of this thesis is the study of the total and spectral solar irradiance variability induced by the presence of small magnetic elements that emerge into the solar photosphere. It is important to ...
Cabrera Brufau, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)
[eng] Marine phytoplankton are responsible for approximately half of the photosynthetic production of organic matter (OM) and oxygen in Earth. The composition and reactivity of phytoplankton- derived ...
Mira Martínez, Sofía (Date of defense: 2018-02-23)
Malaria is responsible of almost half a million deaths every year. Currently, campaigns for the control and elimination of malaria are implemented in malaria endemic areas. However, drug resistance is ...
Bartumeus i Ferré, Frederic (Date of defense: 2005-06-17)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT:<br/><br/>The general aim of this thesis was to develop a theoretical framework in order to study large-scale animal movements and/or dispersal processes as random search strategies. ...
Granados Sánchez, Cristian (Date of defense: 2018-11-07)
In the last few decades Creative Industries (CIs) have been gaining ground as an important topic in academic and political agendas. CIs have their origin in creativity and individual talent to produce ...
Badiola Mateos, Maider (Date of defense: 2021-03-10)
Movement of skeletal-muscle fibres is generated by the locomotion circuit, in which many cells play a different role. Failures in any part of the circuit can cause or define the severity of neuromuscular ...
Roig Merino, Sara Raquel (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
Voltage-gated potassium channels are proteins that allow the flux of potassium ions across the plasma membrane in response to a voltage stimulus. Those proteins were initially described in nervous system ...
Mondelo González, José María (Date of defense: 2001-07-13)
This works has been organized in three parts. The first (Chapter 1 to 5) is dedicated to the development and study of a procedure for the accurate computation of frequencies, as well ans the related ...