Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Recent submissions
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Novel geometric representations and optimized frameworks for deep learning models of interatomic potentials
Aquesta tesi explora avenços en potencials de xarxes neuronals per a simulacions atomístiques, abordant el doble repte de la precisió i l'eficiència. Mitjançant noves representacions geomètriques i marcs optimitzats, té ...
A deep cascaded, biomechanics-driven framework for medical image registration
Aquesta tesi presenta un marc que combina una xarxa neuronal profunda en cascada amb un modelatge biomecànic per millorar el registre d’imatges mèdiques, amb aplicacions en la imatge cerebral perinatal i l’anàlisi de ...
La terminología floral: variación terminológica y estandarización comercial en el sector de flores cortadas
El desenvolupament de la indústria de les flors tallades ha aconseguit una notorietat considerable dins de l'àmbit econòmic mundial com a sector emergent. Xina i Espanya són al centre del creixement d'aquest sector, amb ...
EFL self-concept at a highly internationalized university: A mixed-methods study of profiles, Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence, EFL Anxiety and the EMI context
This dissertation investigates the evolution of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) selfconcept of local, first-year undergraduates within a multilingual and multicultural university. It analyzes changes in students’ EFL ...
Study of the Chinese Collection at the Victor Balaguer Library Museum: Analysing Material Characteristics, Provenance, and the Conservation States of the Artistic and Documentary Holdings
By examining the unique Chinese collection at the Biblioteca Museo Víctor Balaguer, this study will provide insights into the material characteristics, provenance, and conservation status of the artistic and documentary ...
El "vestigio del pasado" [perezhitok proshlogo] en el cine y la literatura soviética entre 1926 y 1936
El marco cronológico de esta investigación doctoral, titulada El "vestigio del pasado" [perezhitok proshlogo] en el cine y la literatura soviética entre 1926 y 1936 analiza cómo en el cine y en la literatura soviéticos ...
La Vanguardia y la Segunda República española (1931-1936): De defender la Monarquía a proteger la República
La presente tesis se centra en el estudio de La Vanguardia como principal periódico de la prensa catalana. Hemos empezado la tesis estudiando los artículos que delataban el sesgo ideológico de La Vanguardia durante el ...
Lexical versus referential meaning in spontaneous speech in psychosis: computational explorations of the semantic space
Disorders of thought involve alterations in linguistic meaning, which can now be approximated using computational models. This thesis targets two dimensions of meaning separately, lexical-conceptual and referential meaning, ...
Immunotherapeutic strategies for HIV cure: advancements in the characterisation and development of novel immune checkpoints therapeutics for combinatorial HIV1 immune interventions
Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1) remains a global pandemic requiring the development of curative strategies due to the limitations of current antiretroviral treatments (ART). This thesis focuses on the need for ...
A Model of mammary microvasculature: evaluating hormone responsiveness and luminal-like tumor integration
This thesis aims to fill gaps in the research on breast microvasculature by creating a perfusable microvasculature system within a microfluidic platform. For the first time, we co-cultured primary breast endothelial cells ...
Unravelling new targets for pancreatic cancer: Galectin-1 and Parp-2
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is an unmet medical need characterized by a poor prognosis and high mortality. Until now, no effective therapies have been discovered to achieve disease control. Thus, there is an ...
Engineering TGF-B resistant NK cells for cancer immunotherapy
Natural killer (NK) cells are cytotoxic innate lymphocytes which can recognize tumor targets or virus-infected cells. Adoptive transfer of primary or genetically engineered NK cells for cancer immunotherapy is an attractive ...
Biotechnologies of the future: novel cyanobacteria-based solutions for sustainable industries
This thesis delves into the indispensable role of bacteria across our planet and their profound impact on various industries, encompassing health, agriculture, cosmetics, and materials science. It sheds light on the inherent ...
Mechanobiology of apoptotic cell clearance in the early embryo
Spontaneous cellular errors can lead to cell death already in early embryo development. Apoptotic cell clearance is thus essential for tissue homeostasis and embryo survival. The outer epithelial layer of the embryo ...
Understanding the impact of early microexon misregulation on zebrafish sleep/wake behaviour
The developing nervous system requires a well-orchestrated and diverse set of proteins, setting the foundation of how an animal perceives the world. Disruptions may result in neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism ...
Temperature exposure and children's brain development
In the context of the ongoing climate change emergency, there is growing concern about the impacts of increasingly extreme temperatures on children’s health, but the effects of extreme temperatures on children's brain ...
Nanosensors quantifying the role of labile zinc on metastasis
This thesis focuses on developing surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)-based nanosensors for real-time quantification of labile zinc in cancer cells and investigating the relationship between zinc dyshomeostasis and ...
Ambient air pollution, cancer risk, and survival using an American Cancer Society prospective cohort
Outdoor air pollution is an established lung carcinogen. In this thesis, we examined associations of outdoor air pollution and incidence of cancers other than lung cancer, as well as the role of air pollution in lung cancer ...
Compositionality for hierarchical reinforcement learning
Recent breakthroughs in AI have proven that reinforcement learning can be used successfully to solve complex sequential decision problems to achieve near-optimal solutions. However, despite the successful applications ...
La Sintaxis en el cine inmersivo las posibilidades plásticas y expresivas del montaje en la Cinematic Virtual Reality
La Realidad Virtual Cinemática (Cinematic Virtual Reality, CVR) está emergiendo como un medio narrativo que combina elementos del cine, el teatro y los videojuegos, ofreciendo a los usuarios experiencias inmersivas de ...
