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Khomenko, Sasha (Date of defense: 2024-04-19)
The rapid increase in urbanization underscores the need for healthy urban environments. Presently, European cities experience high levels of air pollution, noise, lack of green spaces, and increased local temperatures, all ...
Silva-Peñaherrera, Michael (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Objective: To examine health inequities in the working population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) according to sex, age, level of study, occupation and formality or informality in employment. Methods: We collected ...
Parés-Badell, Oleguer (Date of defense: 2021-02-01)
Harm reduction is a set of programs and interventions that aim to reduce health and social harms of drug use. The Barcelona model aims to maximize access to harm reduction services and to integrate them with treatment ...
García Gómez, Pilar (Date of defense: 2008-07-02)
Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura analizando los efectos causales que el estado de salud tiene sobre la participación laboral en la población en edad de trabajar. De este modo, analiza los efectos que un deterioro en ...
Gómez Urban, Carlos (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
Se presenta esta investigación a partir de una teoría que toma el nombre de hegemonikón y de hegemonía. Cultura como decantación de una mirada dinámica sobre la evolución del pensamiento de Simone Weil y Antonio Gramsci, ...
Geers, Adrianus Johannes (Date of defense: 2015-01-12)
Cerebral aneurysms are localized, pathological dilatations of cerebral arteries. Their rupture causes a subarachnoid hemorrhage and is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Over the last decade, the ...
Millanes Romero, Alba (Date of defense: 2014-01-21)
Although heterochromatin is enriched with repressive traits, it is actively transcribed, giving rise to large amounts of non-coding RNAs. These transcripts are responsible for the formation and maintenance of heterochromatin, ...
Maliar, Serguei (Date of defense: 1999-09-08)
La tesis se centra en las aplicaciones macroeconómicas del consumidor representativo. El primer capítulo analiza la posibilidad de agregación en economías con varios bienes y varios periodos. Desarrollo una noción de ...
Secchi, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2005-07-01)
The main objective of this thesis is to offer empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis that differences in firms' balance sheet structures may generate heterogeneous responses to monetary policy innovations. To this ...
He, Xia (Date of defense: 2017-12-13)
This research aims to explore and evaluate thirty Chinese and thirty Occidental high reputation companies’ social media performance on two most popular Chinese social media platforms: Sina Weibo and WeChat. A synthetic ...
Costa Coto, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-05-28)
Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Preterm newborns require special care for surviving and may develop severe diseases related to prematurity, especially those born very early. ...
Roguski, Łukasz (Date of defense: 2017-10-03)
Thanks to advances in sequencing technologies, biomedical research has experienced a revolution over recent years, resulting in an explosion in the amount of genomic data being generated worldwide. The typical space ...
Muyas Remolar, Francesc (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
The rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies pushed forward the fields of medical genomics and precision medicine, creating many new applications for diagnostics and clinical studies that require high ...
Etchechury Barrera, Mario (Date of defense: 2013-11-20)
El siguiente estudio aborda el proceso de construcción social de la Hacienda pública en la ciudad-puerto de Montevideo, entre 1806 y 1860. A partir de un conjunto variado de fuentes públicas y privadas se analizarán las ...
Voltes Cobo, Adrià (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
The hindbrain boundary cell population (BCP) is specified at the interface between adjacent compartments during embryonic development of the posterior brain. Hindbrain BCP is a non-neurogenic population that acts as both ...
Torá Rocamora, Isabel (Date of defense: 2013-06-25)
Esta tesis doctoral está basada en el estudio de los factores determinantes de la duración de la incapacidad temporal por contingencia común (ITcc). Se examina la variabilidad geográfica de la duración de la ITcc entre ...
Fernandez-Meza, Juan Aurelio (Date of defense: 2023-11-11)
La presente investigación analiza las relaciones entre historia y ficción tomando por caso de estudio la novela Jan Karski (2009) de Yannick Haenel. Para ello, se empleará como marco teórico el género novela histórica ...
Guerrero Pico, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
Esta tesis tiene como objeto de estudio el fan fiction (historias derivadas escritas por los fans de un producto de la cultura de masas) como modalidad de expansión narrativa de universos ficcionales transmedia originados ...
Alsabah, Alanoud Ebraheem Duaij (Date of defense: 2020-03-06)
This research aims to explore the historic relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the State of Kuwait from 1961-1990. The key importance of establishing relationships with both blocs of the world post-cold ...
Lao Grueso, Oscar (Date of defense: 2004-11-26)
Las enfermedades genéticas se clasifican típicamente en dos grandes grupos: las enfermedades mendelianas y las enfermedades complejas. Mientras que las enfermedades mendelianas se caracterizan por ser de baja frecuencia ...