Ramírez Mahaluf, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2015-05-14)
This thesis is composed of two complementary projects. One focuses on the study of the dynamics between emotional and cognitive networks in healthy subjects using functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
Castells-Quintana, David (Date of defense: 2015-04-10)
This thesis focuses on the study of two global trends characteristic of modern economic development, namely increased agglomeration and inequalities within countries. The thesis contributes to the ...
Arizmendi Mejía, Rosana (Date of defense: 2015-11-25)
Climate change, along with other anthropogenic pressures (e.g. water pollution, overfishing and habitat degradation), is severely impacting oceans around the world, producing important changes in its ...
Atcher Ubiergo, Joan (Date of defense: 2015-07-28)
Dynamic combinatorial chemistry proposes the creation of a library of compounds (dynamic combinatorial library, DCL) inter-connected through reversible chemical processes. The concentrations in a DCL ...
Guo, Ying (Date of defense: 2015-11-05)
The Amaryllidaceae alkaloids represent a large and still expanding group of isoquinoline alkaloids, usually classified into nine skeleton types whose representative compounds are: norbelladine, lycorine, ...
Chiesa, Giulio (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
Spinal bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a member of the polyglutamine (polyQ) expansion diseases family; the most famous of which is Huntington disease (HD). SBMA is caused by the expansion of the ...
Lúcia Pérez, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-02-14)
Despite the outstanding progress made in the understanding of the immune response against viral pathogens as well as on the care-management of transplant patients since the beginning of organ transplantation, ...
Di Pietro, Ornella (Date of defense: 2015-11-06)
The aim of this PhD thesis consists of the synergistic combination of both highly efficient synthetic approaches and molecular modelling tools for the structure-based drug design and synthesis of novel ...
Javed, Omer (Date of defense: 2015-09-10)
This study is motivated by the overall poor performance of International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs in recipient countries in terms of economic growth consequences, and tries to explore the relevance ...
López Asamar, Abraham (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
Prolyl oligopeptidase (POP) is an 81-KDa bidomain enzyme which hydrolyses short proline-containing peptides. This enzyme is involved in mnemonic and cognitive processes, and the dysregulation of POP ...