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    Font Corbera, Frederic (Date of defense: 2015-06-11)

    Les plataformes d'intercanvi de recursos multimèdia contenen grans quantitats de contingut creat pels seus usuaris. Habitualment, aquest contingut no està ben anotat. En aquesta tesi, proposem mètodes per ajudar els ...

    Tailoring dependency models to NLP tasks 

    Kolz, Benjamin (Date of defense: 2016-04-22)

    Currently available dependency structures differ significantly in the linguistic criteria they are based on, but are not always adequate for their later use in natural language processing tasks. This dissertation analyses ...

    Tan lejos, tan cerca: la traducción y circulación de literatura latinoamericana en China 

    Chen, Yehua (Date of defense: 2020-01-28)

    Esta tesis investiga los criterios y mecanismos aplicados para la selección textual en la traducción de la literatura latinoamericana al chino y la imagen sobre América Latina que se ha construido por su producción literaria, ...

    Tandem repeat variation in human and great ape populations and its impact on gene expression divergence 

    Carvalho, Tiago Loureiro de (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)

    Genetic variation in humans and the great apes has been amply explored using a wide variety of markers, among them tandem repeats (TRs). Because of the nature of TRs, highly variable in length due to its high mutation rate, ...

    TANGO1 asembles a machine for collagen folding and export 

    Ashok, Anupama (Date of defense: 2019-01-21)

    COPII vesicles of 60-90nm diameter are known to export secretory cargoes from endoplasmic reticulum (ER). However, they cannot be employed to export bulky cargoes like the collagens that can reach up to 400 nm in length. ...

    Targeting aging and Alzheimer's disease : from GM1 ganglioside to amyloide-β peptide 

    Valls Comamala, Victòria (Date of defense: 2018-09-07)

    Aging is the main challenge that humanity will face on the near future. Brain aging is associated with cognitive deficiencies and is the main risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). AD is the most common neurodegenerative ...

    Targeting BRAF mutant pre-mRNA alternative splicing in melanoma 

    Aya Moreno, Francisco (Date of defense: 2023-02-15)

    Alternative splicing of BRAF mRNA can provide a resistance mechanism to BRAF and MEK inhibitors that has been described mostly in BRAF-mutant melanoma. The mechanisms underlying the production of a variety of BRAF mRNA ...

    Targeting endogenous analgesia systems for endometriosis treatment 

    Escudero Lara, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2021-05-06)

    Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. It is characterized by the growth of endometrium in extrauterine locations and is associated with chronic pelvic pain, ...

    Targeting glial cells as a therapeutic approach for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced neuropathic pain 

    Piedra Barrull, Sheila (Date of defense: 2022-01-25)

    Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is the most common adverse effect of many first-line antineoplastic agents, which negatively affects the quality of life and clinical outcome. Current clinical management ...

    Targeting the endocannabinoid system for therapeutic purposes 

    Busquets Garcia, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-07-04)

    The endocannabinoid system is an endogenous neuromodulatory system that regulates a plethora of physiological functions, including the modulation of memory, anxiety, pain, synaptic plasticity and neuronal excitability, ...

    Targeting the RB pathway in tumor cells 

    Caballero de la Torre, María (Date of defense: 2021-09-09)

    Retinoblastoma protein (RB) is a negative regulator of the cell cycle. In response to environmental stress, p38 MAPK phosphorylates RB in the N-terminal region, increasing the affinity of RB for E2F, repressing gene ...

    Tax competition: dynamic policy and empirical evidence 

    Luthi, Eva (Date of defense: 2010-07-02)

    This thesis studies tax competition from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. In chapter 1 we develop a dynamic two-country optimal taxation model to study tax competition. We find that tax competition is ...

    Techniques to accelerate the transition to a new generation of terrestrial digital TV 

    Soto, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-03-26)

    This thesis explores the problem of compatibility between generations in the field of Digital Television, and proposes solutions to this problem. Since its inception, the DTV has been under development without taking ...

    Technology support for scalable and dynamic collaborative learning: a pyramid flow pattern approach 

    Manathunga, Kalpani (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)

    Collaborative Learning is the pedagogical approach that considers social interactions as key means to trigger rich learning processes. Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns define best practices to orchestrate collaborative ...

    Tedio y narración: Contribución al estudio de la estética del aburrimiento en la novela contemporánea 

    Aljaro Fontalva, Immaculada (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)

    Este trabajo pretende reflexionar sobre cómo el aburrimiento se ha convertido en un recurso estético en la novela contemporánea; cómo, a través de una serie de estrategias, los autores consiguen despertar en los lectores ...

    Television dialogue and subtitling: a corpus-driven study of police procedurals 

    Arias Badia, Blanca (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)

    The specialised literature has suggested the intermediate position of television dialogue and subtitling along the continuum from spoken to written language (e.g. Díaz-Cintas 2003; Quaglio 2009; Forchini 2012). This ...

    Temperature control for cell division : from microfluidics to AI 

    Salaverria Izaguirre, Pablo G. (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)

    This PhD thesis aimed to understand the impact of temperature at different levels (biology to physics) while performing live-cell imaging. A study and characterization of the role of the temperature during the cell division ...

    Template tracking of articulated objects using active contours 

    Martinez Pujol, Oriol (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)

    En aquesta dissertació es fusionen dos dels temes tradicionals de la Visió per Computador: la segmentació i el seguiment d'objectes. Per a la segmentació s'utilitzen mètodes basats en "Active Contours (AC)" i per al seguiment ...

    Temporal analysis of large dynamic graphs 

    Tsalouchidou, Ioanna (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)

    The objective of this thesis is to provide a temporal analysis of the structural and interaction dynamics of large evolving graphs. In this thesis we propose new definitions of important graph metrics in order to include ...

    Temporal and spatial patterns differences of basal and cognitive brain states 

    Capouskova, Katerina (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)

    Dynamic brain states, temporal functional unions of diverse brain areas, are the driving force in our everyday cognition. They help us to flexibly integrate and segregate the assorted information that the environment is ...