Delgado Bermúdez, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)
The spermatozoon is a highly specialised cell that travels along the female reproductive tract to deliver its genetic information into the oocyte. During this journey, the interaction with the varying ...
Vicens Bordas, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
The physical demands (high-intensity running and sprinting) of football match-play place footballers at increased risk of hamstring injuries. Some of the negative effects of a hamstring injury such ...
Puig Parnau, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-06-01)
Electrical stimulation of deep brain areas has been suggested as a novel approach to restore memory circuits in Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previous studies from our group have demonstrated that rewarding ...
Bitchatchi, Enrique Y. (Date of defense: 2021-04-15)
This thesis is aimed at demonstrating a sequential-based approach in detecting an epidemic of chronic diseases in small populations. Especially if commences at some unobserved point. Analyses encompassed ...
Muñoz San Martín, María (Date of defense: 2021-09-15)
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is considered a chronic inflammatory and neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the existence of demyelinated areas in the central nervous system, infiltration of inflammatory ...
Guerrero Barrado, Pedro Enrique (Date of defense: 2020-07-29)
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common pancreatic cancer, remains one of the most lethal tumor types, with extremely low survival rates due to late diagnosis and resistance to standard ...
Boada Cahueñas, Ellana (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Biogas is a highly recognized alternative to fossil fuels towards a sustainable energy production. Massive use of biogas depends on the removal of contaminants that may affect performance of processing ...
Jurado Bruggeman, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-03-16)
Introduction Different types of dose calculation algorithms for external beam radiation therapy with MV photons coexist nowadays. The oldest ones are convolution/superposition (C/S), which consider all ...
Mateo Otero, Yentel (Date of defense: 2023-06-13)
For many years, reproductive outcomes were considered as being solely determined by the genome of oocytes and sperm. Yet, in the last decades, many other female and male factors have also been found to ...
Caballero-Huertas, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)
Small pelagic fish play an important ecological role mainly due to their contribution in transferring energy from low to higher trophic levels. Likewise, the capture of these species is in many cases ...