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Conde Pueyo, Núria (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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. (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...