Avena Koenigsberger, Alexandra Danielle (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
This thesis analyses whether multiculturalism is an adequate framework in order to advance in ethnocultural justice in the Latin American region, with a special focus on Mexico. Simultaneously, it ...
Roguski, Łukasz (Date of defense: 2017-10-03)
Thanks to advances in sequencing technologies, biomedical research has experienced a revolution over recent years, resulting in an explosion in the amount of genomic data being generated worldwide. The ...
Vitoria Carrera, Patricia (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Restoration of a high-quality image from a degraded recording is an important problem in early vision processing. In this thesis, we tackle three image restoration problems: image inpainting, colorization, ...
Guiu Sagarra, Jordi (Date of defense: 2012-11-26)
La regió de l’aorta-gonada-mesonefros (AGM) és el primer nínxol de les cèl·lules mare hematopoètiques. Està descrit que la via de Notch és necessària per generar artèries i cèl·lules mare hematopoètiques. ...
Duran-Frigola, Miquel (Date of defense: 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 ...
Xiao, Ping (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)
Behind every good advertisement there is a creative concept, a Big Idea. In contrast to the countless number of ads, a small number of patterns of effective communication (idea templates) have been ...
Bahrehmand, Arash (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
Designing interior layouts is one of the most common elements of the immersive computer graphics projects (e.g., games, virtual reality and special effects). The design of 3D virtual environments aims ...
Forns i Guzman, Joan (Date of defense: 2012-04-03)
Introduction Neuropsychological development is a genetically guided process which is continuously modified by socio-environmental factors. This thesis aimed to study the main socio-environmental ...
Dumbović, Gabrijela (Date of defense: 2017-01-12)
DNA hypomethylation of repeats has been found in almost every tumor type studied. Hypomethylation of repetitive elements was shown to increase the likelihood of homologous recombination of these repeated ...
Rosas Salvans, Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-12-19)
Three microtubule (MT) assembly pathways participate in the assembly of the bipolar spindle: the centrosomal pathway, the augmin dependent amplification pathway and the RanGTP/chromosome dependent ...