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EFL self-concept at a highly internationalized university: A mixed-methods study of profiles, Plurilingual and Pluricultural Competence, EFL Anxiety and the EMI context 

Ibáñez Miralles de Imperial, Socorro (Date of defense: 2024-12-17)

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 

Dong, Linlin (Date of defense: 2024-12-03)

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 

Gorbaneva, Polina (Date of defense: 2024-12-04)

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 

Sánchez Callado, Jordi (Date of defense: 2024-12-19)

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 

Palominos Flores, Claudio (Date of defense: 2025-02-21)

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 

Marín López, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2024-04-29)

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 

Moccia, Carmen (Date of defense: 2024-04-12)

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 

Manero Rupérez, Noemí (Date of defense: 2023-03-30)

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 

Rea, Anna (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)

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 

Kheirabadi, Elaheh (Date of defense: 2024-02-22)

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 

Batet Palau, Marta (Date of defense: 2025-04-09)

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 

Mackensen , Tahnee (Date of defense: 2025-04-07)

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 

Granés González, Laura (Date of defense: 2025-04-04)

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 

Zhou, Ting (Date of defense: 2025-04-04)

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 

Diver, W. Ryan (Date of defense: 2025-04-02)

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 

Infante Molina, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2025-02-21)

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 

Cabello Bàrzanas, José M. (Date of defense: 2025-03-14)

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 ...

Structural basis of the early exocytosis : a spatio-temporal model of the vesicle tethering machinery 

Chinchilla Hernández, Altaïr (Date of defense: 2025-03-24)

El proyecto tiene como objetivo general descifrar el mecanismo de la exocitosis utilizando biología estructural integrativa, lo cual ayudará a entender cómo las células controlan su crecimiento. Para ello, planteamos generar ...

New insights in cell cycle and meiosis regulation in fission yeast 

Murciano Julià, Guillem (Date of defense: 2025-03-21)

This thesis is divided into three different sections. The first two sections involve the study of cell cycle and the third section is focused on meiosis. In the first chapter, we have developed a fluorescent-localized cell ...

Implicaciones clínicas de las pruebas de imagen en la evaluación de la sarcopenia asociada a las bronquiectasias 

Alvarado Miranda, Mariela N. (Date of defense: 2025-03-21)

La bronquiectasia es una enfermedad pulmonar compleja cuyas manifestaciones sistémicas han sido poco estudiadas. La presente tesis explora en profundidad la presencia y características de la sarcopenia en pacientes con ...

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