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Conde Pueyo, Núria (Date of defense: 2014-09-18)
Ongoing efforts within synthetic biology have been directed towards the building of artificial computational devices using engineered biological units as basic building blocks. Such efforts, are limited by the wiring ...
Crespo Bojorque, Paola (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)
La consonancia es una de las características más salientes de la música. A pesar de su papel fundamental en la música occidental, sus orígenes siguen siendo controversiales. Por lo tanto, la comprensión de los mecanismos ...
Puig Vilanova, Ester (Date of defense: 2014-07-16)
Skeletal muscle dysfunction and wasting are major comorbidities of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer (LC). Despite that the lower limb muscles are usually more severely affected, the respiratory ...
Xicota Vila, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
Clinical trials seeking to improve cognitive performance are in dire need of biochemical biomarkers that reflect the processes taking place in the brain. In Down syndrome, this information is crucial to understand the ...
Häkkinen, Hanna-Maria (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
Cellular errors can spontaneously occur during vertebrate embryo development and can lead to apoptosis. Recent work in our lab revealed a novel function of the embryonic epithelium as an efficient phagocytic scavenger of ...
Sánchez Muñoz, Raúl (Date of defense: 2018-11-29)
Plant secondary metabolism generates a wide range of molecules, some of them with valuable pharmacological properties. Taxanes are a good example, as since their discovery no other compound has shown their specific ...
Duran-Frigola, Miquel (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
The avalanche of data that followed the sequencing of the human genome has revealed an overwhelming biological complexity. No simple molecular explanation exists for most of the diseases and, in consequence, simple therapies ...
Della Valle, Fabio (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with international experts ...
Taberner Pérez, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Cranial sensory ganglia are groups of neurons located in the head of chordates outside the central nervous system that allow individuals to sense and perceive information from the outer world. The regulation of neural ...
Kamaid Toth, Andres (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are diffusible molecules involved in a variety of cellular interactions during development. In particular, Bmp4 expression accompanies the development of the ear sensory organs during ...
Han, Sojung (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
Bonobos are an interesting species to study due to their unique evolutionary features such as a peaceful social nature and hypersexual behavior. The prolonged exaggerated sexual swelling in females is a notable difference ...
Salvador Vélez, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2009-03-16)
El presente trabajo estudia la recepción de la Biblia por parte de Jorge Luis Borges a partir del análisis de su obra completa. Se compone de tres partes. En la primera, contextual, después de perfilar la fortuna literaria ...
Cabral, Joana R. B. (Date of defense: 2012-07-18)
La actividad cerebral exhibe complejos fenómenos oscilatorios similares a los que se observan en modelos de redes artificiales con osciladores acoplados. Por un lado, estudios sobre la actividad cerebral durante el reposo ...
Escrichs, Anira (Date of defense: 2022-12-12)
Spontaneous brain activity persists and transitions between brain states, such as from wakefulness to sleep, from development to ageing, or it may transition to pathological states such as coma. Nevertheless, a consensual ...
Levatino, Antonina (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)
The cross-border mobility of educational services, commonly known as transnational higher education (TNHE), represents an important dimension of the internationalisation of higher education. Its relationship with the ...
Fullana, Blanca (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
The present investigation is an approach to brand value from a top-management perspective, asserting that a brand is not merely a commercial value portrayed by a product placed in a market; even less so, a public relations ...
Membrive Conejo, Ismael (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
La braquiterapia de superficie o plesioterapia es uno de los tratamientos recomendados en cáncer de piel localizado. Los estudios presentados en esta tesis tratan sobre nuestra experiencia con estos tratamientos. El ...
Pons i Vigués, Mariona (Date of defense: 2010-11-23)
The general objective of this dissertation is to study breast cancer screening and specifically social inequalities by social class and country of origin and its relationship with decreasing mortality. Therefore, four ...
Beardsley, Marc Yoshimi (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
Reports from the OECD and the World Economic Forum highlight that rapid technological and social change are demanding much more of students. Yet, research indicates that many students are not developing into effective ...
Fleta Soriano, Eric (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
Hundreds of host factors related to viral infections like HIV, hepatitis C virus, dengue virus or West Nile virus have been identified. As many of these host factors are shared by different viruses, chemical blockade of ...