Perarnaud, Clément (Date of defense: 2021-07-29)
How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at the EU level? Based on new datasets collected via 145 semi-structured interviews with national negotiators ...
Mas Martín, Glòria (Date of defense: 2007-07-20)
En la levadura S. cerevisiae, un incremento de la osmolaridad extracelular activa la vía de Hog1, lo que produce una compleja respuesta adaptativa. Entre las respuestas adaptativas que Hog1 coordina, ...
Çavusoglu, Kader (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
This project was carried out in the Cell Signaling Research Group headed by Dr. Carme Caelles at IRB Barcelona. As a part of the research-line that deals with physiological and pharmacological ...
Grippa, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2015-06-12)
Most cells store energy in lipid droplets (LDs), specialized storage organelles composed of a neutral lipid core that, during their biogenesis, is packaged into a single phospholipid monolayer decorated ...
Barbaglia, María Gabriela (Date of defense: 2014-11-24)
The general aim of this Doctoral Thesis was to assess the association of common mental disorders with disability and socioeconomic factors. These factors were considered both as important consequences ...
Magaña Fernández, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)
This thesis provides a systematic analysis and a defense of the claim that at least some nonhuman animals (i.e. mammals) ought to be granted political standing, understood here as a (pro tanto) duty of ...
Aguadé Gorgorió, Guim (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Despite decades of scientific effort, cancer remains a major cause of death worldwide. Through the accumulation of genome alterations, tumor populations evolve the capacity to circumvent the selective ...
Pardo Lorente, Natalia (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
Subcellular compartmentalisation of metabolic enzymes may elicit specific cellular functions by establishing a unique metabolic environment. Indeed, the nuclear translocation of certain metabolic enzymes ...
Zacharakis, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2022-10-10)
Succinct non-interactive arguments (snarks) are cryptographic constructions that allow a prover to convince a verifier about the validity of a statement regarding some computation. We consider ...
Celma Herrada, Òscar (Date of defense: 2009-02-16)
Avui en dia, la música està esbiaixada cap al consum d'alguns artistes molt populars. Per exemple, el 2007 només l'1% de totes les cançons en format digital va representar el 80% de les vendes. De la ...