Imago Dei y Lux Mundi en el siglo XII: La recepción de la teología de la luz en la iconografía del Pantocrátor en Cataluña 

    Puigarnau Torelló, Alfons (Fecha de defensa: 1999-06-01)

    En el contexto del siglo XII europeo, se impone la iconografía del Cristo Luz aureolado por una almendra mística, sosteniendo un libro abierto con inscripciones alusivas a una teología de la luz. <br/><br/>La proliferación ...

    Les Imatges del Tarot Rider-Waite: el seu significat iconogràfic i simbòlic en relació al procés d'individuació 

    Amaro, Antoni (Fecha de defensa: 2015-11-25)

    Aquesta tesi planteja l’estudi del Tarot Rider – Waite. Per fer-ho hem anat a les fonts del Tarot, fent una anàlisi sobre la imatge dels Tarots Tradicionals {Visconti-Sforza, Mantegna (Segle XV) i Marsella (segle XVIII)} ...

    Imágenes del horror en el cine contemporáneo: de lo irrepresentable a las imágenes del límite en el documental 

    Hachero Hernández, Bruno (Fecha de defensa: 2019-01-28)

    Esta tesis propone un estudio estético de la representación documental del horror en el cine contemporáneo, analizando cómo el cine articula modos puesta en escena para documentar genocidios, guerras, matanzas, crímenes o ...

    Imágenes que liberan: Shock moral y comunicación visual estratégica en el activismo por la liberación animal 

    Fernández, Laura (Fecha de defensa: 2021-12-10)

    Esta tesis doctoral explora la efectividad y la ética comunicativa de las producciones visuales activistas antiespecistas, especialmente las imágenes de violencia y la estrategia comunicativa del shock moral. El objetivo ...

    Immigrant's subjective well-being and in origin acquired beliefs, attitudes and values: the analysis of counterfactual thinking as a reliable approach 

    Arruda, Eliana (Fecha de defensa: 2015-06-18)

    In recent years, the academic literature on the well-being of immigrants has expanded far from the study of economic factors by including psychological elements. Subjective well-being and life satisfaction have been ...

    Immigrants, work and health: a qualitative study 

    Ahonen, Emily (Fecha de defensa: 2009-04-17)

    Este estudio cualitativo, exploratorio y descriptivo en cinco ciudades examina las condiciones de trabajo, los riesgos, los factores influyentes y los efectos en salud experimentados por trabajadores inmigrantes en España. ...

    Immigration and health : heterogenous patterns in Spain 

    Villarroel Williams, Nazmy Katherine (Fecha de defensa: 2015-01-26)

    Objective: To compare health status (sub-study 1), sleep health (sub-study 2) and health care use (sub-study 3) between the Spanish population and immigrants from the seven leading countries in terms of number of immigrants; ...

    Immunotherapy of chronic virus infections : Exhausted CD8+ T cell subsets are differentially regulated by XCR1 + DC 

    Domenjó Vila, Eva (Fecha de defensa: 2022-06-01)

    The contribution of cross-presenting XCR1+ dendritic cells (DC) in maintaining T cell function during exhaustion and immuno-therapeutic interventions of chronic infections remains poorly characterized. Using the mouse model ...

    Impact of Alzheimer's disease risk factors on white matter hyperintensities and cognition in cognitively unimpaired individuals 

    Brugulat Serrat, Anna (Fecha de defensa: 2019-06-21)

    White matter hyperintensities (WMH) have been associated with increased risk and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the range to which this association can be extended to AD risk factors and WMH burden in ...

    The impact of chromosome positioning in nuclear functions 

    Di Giovanni, Francesca (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-24)

    Chromatin is not randomly organized inside the eukaryotic nucleus in interphase. In budding yeast gene expression of some specific loci is affected by their positioning in the nucleus. Replication firing of early origins ...

    Impact of recent protein structure prediction methods on homology, evolutionary and functional inference 

    Baltzis, Athanasios (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-20)

    Recent advances in deep learning techniques have revolutionised protein structure modelling. Since AlphaFold2’s release, a set of tools have now become available to predict native-like structures at near-experimental ...

    The Impact of the human endogenous metabolome on drug pharmacology and safety 

    Bofill Pumarola, Andreu (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-09)

    A great deal of efforts has been made to improve and expand pharmacological testing and optimisation of drug candidates during the discovery process. However, we are yet to understand fully why drugs require certain ...

    Impact of the linguistic environment on speech perception : comparing bilingual and monolingual populations 

    Roessler, Abeba (Fecha de defensa: 2012-09-14)

    The present dissertation set out to investigate how the linguistic environment affects speech perception. Three sets of studies have explored effects of bilingualism on word recognition in adults and infants and the impact ...

    Impact of the mode of data collection on the quality of survey questions in social sciences 

    Revilla, Melanie (Fecha de defensa: 2012-09-26)

    This dissertation studies the impact of the mode of data collection on the quality of answers to survey questions, defined as the product of reliability and validity. Using data from the Netherlands about different topics ...

    Impacto de la disfunción muscular y de los microorganismos resistentes en las exacerbaciones de la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica 

    Estirado Vera, Cristina (Fecha de defensa: 2022-06-15)

    La Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva crónica (EPOC) presenta afectación pulmonar y sistémica y periodos de exacerbación (AEPOC), que contribuyen a su progresión. En algunas ocasiones la AEPOC está causada por microorganismos ...

    Implicaciones clínicas y biológicas del déficit de hierro en pacientes con enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica : Efectos tras la reposición con hierro carboximaltosa 

    Martín Ontiyuelo, Clara (Fecha de defensa: 2022-01-28)

    El déficit de hierro (DH) podría jugar un papel en la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica (EPOC) dado que es fundamental en la bioenergética celular. Estudio 1: Se analizaron 18 pacientes EPOC con DH y 18 pacientes ...

    Implicaciones de la participación en grupos de apoyo online en el bienestar emocional y la salud física de las personas con diabetes: cómo el consulmo de información puede llevar a los pacientes a tomar decisiones erróneas sobre su enfermedad y qué hacer desde una aproximación comunicativa 

    Herrero, Noelia (Fecha de defensa: 2022-03-07)

    The thesis “Implications of participation in online support groups on the emotional well-being and physical health of people with diabetes” is a compendium of three articles that critically and interrelatedly addresses the ...

    Implication of the disease-associated ORMDL3 in macrophage physiology 

    Kiefer, Kerstin (Fecha de defensa: 2016-05-12)

    Genome-wide association studies linked increased ORMDL3 expression levels to several inflammatory diseases via single nucleotide polymorphisms. However, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying this association are ...

    Improvements to incentives in incentive-driven blockchain technologies 

    McMenamin, Conor (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-17)

    In this thesis, we present a set of protocols in areas at the core of current blockchain technology literature; consensus, decentralized finance and distributed computing. These areas are bound by a critical dependency ...

    Improving detection capabilities of doping agents by identification of new phase I and phase II metabolites by LC-MS/MS 

    Gómez Castellà, Cristina (Fecha de defensa: 2014-03-07)

    Metabolic studies of doping agents have been traditionally performed by using gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS). In the last years, liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has ...