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Miguel López, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 1985-10-06)
Our main goal is to study certain aspects of the dynamics of fluids with magnetic particles in suspension, based on their promising practical applications as new materials as welI as on its fundamental scientific interest. In ...
Fernández López, Clara (Date of defense: 2024-01-12)
[eng] In this PhD thesis, we leverage the well established foundations of complex systems physics and integrate insights from medicine and materials engineering to advance our understanding of neuroscience. Our primary ...
Jiménez Arranz, Óscar (Date of defense: 2024-04-08)
[eng] The more clearly visible galaxies to the naked eye in the night sky are the Magellanic Clouds (MC), the biggest galaxies in the Milky Way (MW) neighbourhood. Because they are so close, the Large and Small Magellanic ...
Lu, Zujia (Date of defense: 2022-04-26)
Star formation is a fundamental and still largely unsolved problem of astrophysics and cosmology. Its complexity stems from the complex interaction of turbulence, magnetic fields and gravity, and from the onset of different ...
Pérez Palau, Daniel (Date of defense: 2015-11-30)
L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi és afegir una petita fulla a l’arbre del coneixement. En particular a la branca del sistemes dinàmics. La teoria de sistemes dinàmics és la branca de les matemàtiques que estudia l’evolució del ...
Estévez Priego, Estefanía (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This thesis was part of the European consortium MESOBRAIN, a team of 5 organizations that joined efforts in nanofabrication, cell culturing, imaging and data analysis to build tailored human 3D networks. The thesis timing ...
Geyer Traver, Adelina (Date of defense: 2007-03-28)
Collapse calderas are defined as the volcanic depression that result from the disruption of the geometry of the magma chamber roof due to down faulting during the course of an eruption. These structures have received ...
Palau Ortin, David (Date of defense: 2016-02-02)
Cells, either as unicellular organisms or as part of a tissue of a multicellular organism, can acquire different functions thanks to their capability of changing their expression state. The enzyme synthesis, cell division ...
Leal Martín, Antonio Jesús (Date of defense: 2016-07-05)
Helium is the second lightest element and the second most abundant element in the universe. It is named for the Greek god of the sun, Helios, and it was first discovered by French astronomer Jules Janssen as an unknown ...
Olea, Rodica-Alis (Date of defense: 2024-01-15)
[eng] In the last decades, great research effort was focused towards designing nanocarriers for cancer therapy. However, nanoparticle translation from basic research to the clininc has proven to be a challenging task, with ...
Jercog, Daniel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2013-10-24)
Spontaneous activity in the cerebral cortex changes in different brain states. During desynchronized brain states (e.g. wakefulness, REM sleep), populations of neurons in the cerebral cortex fire action potentials in a ...
Domenech Pena, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-12-03)
It is estimated that within a few years chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third leading cause of death worldwide. The morbidity and mortality associated with COPD are due, in part to acute exacerbation ...
Peral, Mireia, 1979- (Date of defense: 2020-03-20)
The objective of this thesis is to study the first-order dynamics of subduction systems characterized by opposite dip polarity in adjacent plate segments. The absence of previous studies analyzing the geodynamic evolution ...
Mezzina, Bianca (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)
The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a natural mode of climate variability in the tropical Pacific, which not only perturbs the local atmosphere, but whose impacts can also reach remote, extra-tropical regions through ...
Ruiz Gómez, Vicenç (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
El present estudi pretén analitzar el procés de conformació política d’una comunitat local a l’edat mitjana. Tal com la historiografia ha posat de manifest, poden ser diversos els factors que intervenen en la consolidació ...
Plana Casado, María José (Date of defense: 2018-05-28)
E-grocery shopping is increasingly popular, but a significant part of the food products available online do not comply with food law requirements. The official control systems designed by Member States on the basis of the ...
Etxeberria Urra, Marina (Date of defense: 2015-07-27)
E-glass fiber-reinforced composites (FRC) have become popular in dental and medical applications for load-bearing applications. This is due to their enhanced biomechanical matching with living tissues compared to traditional ...
Córdova Palomera, Aldo (Date of defense: 2015-09-21)
In the behavioral sciences, the concept of phenotypic plasticity can be roughly categorized into two classes: developmental and activational plasticity. Developmental plasticity denotes the capacity of an individual carrying ...
Santa Bárbara Ruiz, Paula (Date of defense: 2017-07-28)
Countless environmental aggressors could damage the integrity of tissues and organs. In humans, the limited regenerative ability prevents often the recovery of injured tissues, but this is not the case of the fruit fly ...
Sánchez Tilló, Ester (Date of defense: 2006-05-18)
Macrophages are key regulators of immune system connecting innate and specific immune responses. Macrophages proliferate in presence of their growth factor, M-CSF. The addition of bacterial lipopolysacharide, LPS, induces ...