Universitat de Barcelona
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[eng] Food intake and energy homeostasis are tightly regulated by the brain through a complex neuronal network located in the hypothalamus. Within this region, the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) acts as an interface between ...
Throughout this thesis, we have studied ZnO and its properties in a bottom-up manner through a dimensionality range starting from 0D nanoparticles to 3D bulk phases. For the 0D clusters and the 2D nanofilms studied we also ...
Adult language learners often experience difficulty acquiring a new sound system. Empirical studies have shown that native phonetic categories function as a filter that removes specific acoustic cues for non-native sounds ...
Ribosome biogenesis is one of the most energy consuming anabolic processes in a cell, required for the generation of the translational machinery to grow and proliferate. Moreover, this process necessitates the coordination ...
One of the key players in the regenerating injured skeletal muscle fibers are their surrounding satellite cells (specific stem cells), arranged between the basal lamina and the sarcolemma, in relatively few numbers per ...
Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of mortality in newborns born in Mozambique. Transplacental transfer of antibodies is essential for conferring protection during the first months of life against these ...
[eng] Beer is one of the most widely consumed alcoholic beverages in the world and has been crafted for many years, while the enhancement of post-menopausal women’s health through the bioactive compounds of this beverage ...
The measurement of sales force performance is an issue of the upmost importance. Research in this area has primarily focused on cross-sectional studies establishing a link between various types of predictors and sales ...
The development of treatment processes to reduce or reuse sewage sludge is crucial for a proper environmental management. Segregating primary from secondary sludge allows for better reuse of secondary sludge, since digested ...
In this thesis we present a new aspect pertaining to the effective field theory of general relativity in the limit of a large number D of dimensions. We demonstrate that the theory initially developed to capture the physics ...
This thesis deals with the jet transport for numerical integrators and the effective invariant object computation of delay differential equations. Firstly we study how automatic differentiation (AD) affects when ...
For many decades after the conception of the quark model in 1964, and the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) a few years later as the theory governing the strong interaction between quarks and gluons, there was ...
[eng] Bioactive compounds have long been proposed as a tool to help facing both obesity and its comorbidities pandemic. Knowledge on their properties, together with the discovery of new therapeutic targets in animals and ...
Background Ageing is a risk factor that promotes common cardiovascular diseases such as atrial fibrillation (AF) or heart failure (HF), which in turn are associated with pathological changes in intracellular calcium ...
The main objective of this thesis was to evaluate the potential impacts of alternative VO–based feed formulations on the regulation of appetite and food intake in a commercial marine aquaculture species (Senegalese sole) ...
Climate change, caused by anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, is producing profound impacts on ecosystems. The Arctic Ocean is one of the most vulnerable regions ...
[eng] The overall objective of this thesis is to explore the effects of DD on C cycling in reservoirs because there are many dams under removal and many more predicted in the near future. To answer this question, we conducted ...
[eng] INTRODUCTION: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of different cardiovascular and cardiometabolic risk factors. In developed countries, MetS prevalence has risen to 20- 25% in the adult population, and its ...
This thesis focuses on different spatial issues in relation to the commonest weed species (<i>Avena sterilis</i> L. and <i>Lolium rigidum</i> Gaudin) in dryland cereal crops.<br/>A 3-year detailed study of <i>L. rigidum</i> ...
A central theme in ecology and evolution is to understand whether and how species respond to environmental changes. The amount of studies focusing on how species might cope with climate change has been steeply growing, ...
