Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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This thesis focuses on the complexity of the fixed-template Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) and its variants. Our contributions are two-fold. On the one hand, we study how closure of the space of CSP instances under ...
Obesity constitutes a problem whose manifestations have consequences in almost every field of the medicine and nowadays there is a lack of pharmacological therapy alternatives for its long term treatment. Lipidic compounds ...
M. pneumoniae is one of the smallest self-replicating organisms. Many organism wide studies have been performed on M. pneumoniae and provide a wealth of information on the bacteria. However, the genetic tools to manipulate ...
In this thesis, two approaches of information presentation on indoor view have been presented using Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and camera sensors on a robot. The goal is to capture images of the indoor environment ...
Spatial frequency reuse is a long-established approach for enhancing the capacity of wireless systems through increased spectral efficiency (bits per second per unit bandwidth). The future 5th generation of wireless systems ...
The embryo of Caenorhabditis elegans is a model system in which development can be studied at single cell resolution. In this thesis I describe the use of a semi-automatic nuclear tracking algorithm to analyze cellular ...
Alternative splicing is an essential regulatory layer of gene expression that expands the coding potential of the genome in multicellular organisms. The spliceosome -the sophisticated machinery involved in intron removal- ...
Alterations in developmental transitions are common among animals to compensate for growth disturbances. These variations are usually a consequence of altered steroidal hormone production resulting in puberty delays. ...
This thesis investigates various aspects of systemic risk in nancial networks. Chapter 1 explores the existence of a contagion channel to security returns given that banks are connected via overlapping portfolios. Making ...
A fundamental property of living cells is the ability to sense and respond appropriately to changing environmental conditions. In budding yeast (Sacharomyces cerevisiae), changes in extracellular osmotic conditions are ...
Les plataformes d'intercanvi de recursos multimèdia contenen grans quantitats de contingut creat pels seus usuaris. Habitualment, aquest contingut no està ben anotat. En aquesta tesi, proposem mètodes per ajudar els ...
Currently available dependency structures differ significantly in the linguistic criteria they are based on, but are not always adequate for their later use in natural language processing tasks. This dissertation analyses ...
Esta tesis investiga los criterios y mecanismos aplicados para la selección textual en la traducción de la literatura latinoamericana al chino y la imagen sobre América Latina que se ha construido por su producción literaria, ...
Genetic variation in humans and the great apes has been amply explored using a wide variety of markers, among them tandem repeats (TRs). Because of the nature of TRs, highly variable in length due to its high mutation rate, ...
COPII vesicles of 60-90nm diameter are known to export secretory cargoes from endoplasmic reticulum (ER). However, they cannot be employed to export bulky cargoes like the collagens that can reach up to 400 nm in length. ...
Aging is the main challenge that humanity will face on the near future. Brain aging is associated with cognitive deficiencies and is the main risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). AD is the most common neurodegenerative ...
Alternative splicing of BRAF mRNA can provide a resistance mechanism to BRAF and MEK inhibitors that has been described mostly in BRAF-mutant melanoma. The mechanisms underlying the production of a variety of BRAF mRNA ...
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. It is characterized by the growth of endometrium in extrauterine locations and is associated with chronic pelvic pain, ...
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is the most common adverse effect of many first-line antineoplastic agents, which negatively affects the quality of life and clinical outcome. Current clinical management ...
The endocannabinoid system is an endogenous neuromodulatory system that regulates a plethora of physiological functions, including the modulation of memory, anxiety, pain, synaptic plasticity and neuronal excitability, ...
