Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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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 ...
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 ...
This work describes the discovery and optimization of efficient, selective, cost-effective and proteolytic-resistant antimicrobial and antitumoral peptides. To this end, we first identified novel cathelicidin-related ...
Classically it was assumed that the compounds with therapeutic effect exert their action interacting with a single receptor. Nowadays it is widely recognized that the pharmacological effect of most drugs is more complex ...
Las hormonas tiroideas (HT) son esenciales para el desarrollo normal del cerebro. El desbalance tiroideo en la etapa fetal y postnatal puede producir retraso neuroconductual. La exposición a compuestos organoclorados (OCs) ...
Aquesta tesi doctoral consisteix en una sèrie de deu articles (8 publicats y 2 en premsa) basats en dades recollides a l'estudi AMICS (Asthma Multicentre Infant Cohort Study), portat a terme a Ashford (UK) a Barcelona y a ...
Uno de los problemas principales de la literature moderna de ciclos es la imposibilidad de replicar el comportamiento de los rendimientos de activos financieros. Varios autores han incorporado mercados financieros en el ...
Much of the information infants acquire they learn it by observing and interacting with others. However, not all individuals provide information that is functionally and/or culturally relevant. Infants’ capacity of identifying ...
This dissertation investigates how new technologies such as social media, digitalizing workplaces, and robotization change society and politics. The first chapter focuses on new technologies affecting the democratic ...
Aquesta tesi presenta una recerca entorn de les traduccions que de Friedrich Hölderlin van realitzar, a quatre mans, el poeta i editor alemany Hans Gebser i el poeta sevillà Luis Cernuda per a la revista Cruz y Raya de ...
From Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, many years elapsed before human diseases were considered in an evolutionary framework. Besides theoretical and empirical advances, we are far from the complete understanding of ...
La tesi que teniu a les mans recull quatre treballs amb un objectiu comú; determinar si els patògens (virus, bacteris, paràsits.) han exercit pressions selectives sobre els genomes dels seus hostes (com per exemple els ...
Since the origins of humankind, North Africa has been involved in many demographic events, leading to a heterogeneous cultural and genetic landscape. However, it is largely underrepresented in genetic studies, and many ...
This work explores the genetic landscape of the Western Mediterranean basin. Genome-wide data have been used in order to describe the genetics of the Island of Ibiza and France. In the first case, we found Ibiza being ...
To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in all stages of the ...
This doctoral thesis is focused on music in terms of emotion -- such algorithms compose the computational task of music emotion recognition (MER). MER evaluates emotionally relevant features from music, correlates them ...
L'envelliment de la població i la importància de les TIC a la societat actual han motivat la necessitat d'integrar més a les persones grans en la interacció persona-ordinador. La investigació actual es centra en factors ...
The present thesis analyses political humour as an opinion and critical discourse of political power. This kind of discourse is reviewed historically on one hand and placed in the context of political debate in contemporary ...
Candida species are among the most important fungal pathogens. Although Candida albicans is the most common cause of Candida infections, many other Candida species have emerged as pathogens. How pathogenicity is evolutionary ...
This dissertation analyzes the representation of body image in television advertising and its mediating role in children’s body imaginaries. Based on a theoretical framework supported on the social theories of the body and ...
