Prasličková, Aurélia (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Animal welfare has emerged as a pervasive concern in modern international law. Although the question of animal welfare is one of the greatest social justice issues of our times, there is a surprising ...
Riquelme Esteve, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
Our everyday life is plenty of social interactions, but there are still many unknowns about the mechanisms supporting them. The current dissertation aims to explore the neurocognitive processes that ...
Jiménez Arteaga, Carolina (Date of defense: 2023-07-24)
The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC) is the earliest known urban culture of South Asia (2600-1900 BCE). While archaeological research has been conducted in the region for over a century, systematic ...
Cubas Landaluce, Laura de (Date of defense: 2024-01-19)
Los efectos del H2O2 en la fisiología celular, como oxidante y como señalizador es un campo que aún esta en expansión. Para intentar desvelar como ocurren estos fenómenos, hemos utilizado sondas ...
Santiago-Marrero, Carlos G. (Date of defense: 2022-12-09)
Çatalhöyük is a 9,000-year-old settlement located in the Konya Plain, Turkey. Thanks to the remarkable preservation of its material culture, Çatalhöyük expanded our understanding of the neolithic lifeways ...
Slidders, Charles Winton (Date of defense: 2023-07-10)
Localization and Participation: Democracy from Below analyses the emerging normative value of local governance and participatory democracy. Democratic legitimacy has, historically, been of little relevance ...
Llorens DeCesaris, Gerard (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
This thesis explores the interconnections between the U.S. and the Spanish Empire in the late 19th century, adopting an approach that departs from the traditional historical narratives that have considered ...
Higuera González, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
Macrophages play crucial roles in the defense of the organism against a wide range of pathogens. Macrophages can rapidly adapt to perturbations in the microenvironment due to the existence of a network ...
Caro Consuegra, Rocío (Date of defense: 2023-02-15)
As a result of local selective pressures, genetic adaptation leaves distinct recognisable marks in the genomes of human populations. Several cases of positive natural selection have been described in ...
Huidobro Torres, Alba (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)
This Ph.D. dissertation examines the extent to which the personal characteristics of political leaders affect their political ambition and government formation processes. While the literature shows ...