Alert Zenón, Ricard (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
In this thesis, we have studied mechanical aspects of some biological processes in cells and tissues, which we addressed by developing theoretical models based on the physics of soft active matter. The ...
Silveira Quelhas, Diana Iris (Date of defense: 2011-06-29)
Malaria has a high toll on the lives of infants and children under the age of five in endemic areas. Control, and more recently, elimination agendas consist on implementing several measures simultaneously, ...
Rudoy, Andrey (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)
In the present work I analysed different aspects of the evolution of genus Limnebius (Coleoptera, Hydraenidae), including its molecular evolution using mitochondrial (COI, 16S, tRNA-leu, NAD1) and nuclear ...
Martínez Montoya, Jairo Javier (Date of defense: 2022-01-13)
This thesis is devoted to the study of radiation in generic conformal field theories in four dimensions. In the first part of the thesis we explain at the classical level the implications of ...
Capdevila Busquets, Eva (Date of defense: 2016-03-17)
Breast cancer is a very heterogeneous disease with a poor prognostic outcome, largely due to its resistance to current cancer therapies. The balance between cell proliferation and apoptosis plays a ...
Alderborn, Joakim (Date of defense: 2023-01-17)
[eng] The thesis is divided into three chapters (excluding the concluding chapter and this introduction). Each of them falls within a separate field in Economics. The first is on business cycle theory, ...
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 ...