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    Qualitat en l’anàlisi de drogues d’abús en cabell i en fluid oral 

    Ventura Alemany, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-12-16)

    The use of hair and oral fluid for drugs of abuse testing has increased over the last years. For this reason, the assurance that results provided using these matrices are reliable and error-free is needed. The objective ...

    Qualitative analysis: viewing, consumption and usability of SVO 

    Glass, James (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)

    This research examines Subscription Video On-Demand (SVOD) using Netflix as one of the main examples that has seen a dramatic increase in usage in recent years compared to the traditional way of viewing content through ...

    Qualitative and quantitative study of the effect of osmotress on cell cycle of Saccharomyces cerevisiae 

    Adrover Nadal, Miguel Angel (Date of defense: 2009-09-18)

    Control of cell cycle by Stress Activated Protein Kinases (SAPKs) is an essential aspect for adaptation to extracellular stimuli. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the activation of the Hog1 SAPK, results in a delayed transcription ...

    Quality of life in urinary bladder and prostate cancer patients 

    Schmidt, Stefanie (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)

    The overall objective of this thesis was to describe the evolution of Health-Related Quality of Life in Spanish patients with urologic tumours; and to the examine clinical and treatment-related factors associated with ...

    Quality-efficiency trade-offs in machine learning applied to text processing 

    Liaghat, Zeinab (Date of defense: 2017-03-09)

    Nowadays, the amount of available digital documents is rapidly growing, expanding at a considerable rate and coming from a variety of sources. Sources of unstructured and semi-structured information include the World ...

    "Quando bene respicio": palabra, imagen y meditación en las obras de Marguerite d'Oingt 

    Sancho Fibla, Sergi (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)

    En este trabajo reivindicamos la necesidad de contextualizar las obras de Marguerite d'Oingt en el entorno cultural en el que fueron realizadas. Esto significa tener en cuenta toda una serie de prácticas creativas, cognitivas ...

    Quantification of the influence of detailed endocardial structures on human cardiac haemodynamics and electrophysiology using HPC 

    Sacco, Federica (Date of defense: 2019-10-07)

    In the last decade, computational modelling has been playing an important role as a non-invasive technology that may significantly impact the diagnosis as well as the treatment of cardiac diseases. As an example, the Food ...

    Quantitative effects of heterogeneity in dynamic macroeconomics 

    Maliar, Lilia (Date of defense: 1999-09-08)

    The thesis studies quantitative implications of the real business cycle models with heterogeneous agents. The questions I ask are: First, Can the studied models not only replicate the aggregate time series facts but also ...

    Quantitative modelling of mouse limb morphogenesis 

    Böhm, Bernd R. (Date of defense: 2011-05-18)

    In this thesis we combine quantitative measurements of mouse limb morphogenesis and computer modelling to test a well established theory about the cellular mechanisms promoting limb elongation. A distally directed gradient ...

    ¡Que esta Casa no perezca! = Bîtum šuú la iḫaliiq: La institución de la Casa en las comunidades levantinas del final del Bronce Antiguo a la Edad del Hierro (2500-1000 a.C.) 

    Muntalt Sánchez, Isabel (Date of defense: 2018-03-19)

    Partiendo del modelo de Sociedades de Casa de Claude LéviStrauss stricto sensu, la presente tesis analiza las comunidades de Mari y Ebla durante los cambios socio-políticos acaecidos en la transición entre el Bronce Antiguo ...

    Query-Based data mining for the web 

    Poblete Labra, Bárbara (Date of defense: 2009-10-01)

    El objetivo de esta tesis es estudiar diferentes aplicaciones de la minería de consultas Web para mejorar el ranking en motores de búsqueda, mejorar la recuperación de información en la Web y mejorar los sitios Web. La ...

    ¿Qué prefiere usted, pagar en metálico o con cardo?: los falsos amigos y su concienciación lingüística en las aulas plurilingües de ELE 

    Cecovniuc, Ioana (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)

    Los falsos amigos constituyen una de las dificultades principales que afrontan los discentes que persiguen hablar, escribir e interaccionar en una lengua extranjera. Con un falso amigo se indica una palabra o estructura ...

    Radio Resource Management strategies based hopfield neural networks 

    Garcia Garcia, Núria (Date of defense: 2009-05-25)

    Esta tesis doctoral se enmarca en la temática de Gestion de Recursos Radioelectricos en los sistemas de comunicaciones móviles, 3G, B3G y 4G. Como es ampliamente conocido los recursos radios son escasos, particularmente ...

    Radiofequency electromagnetic fields exposure, sleep, and neurodevelopment in preadolescents and adolescents 

    Cabré-Riera, Alba (Date of defense: 2011-11-20)

    The use of mobile communication devices (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, and laptops) increased during the last few years, especially in preadolescents and adolescents. In order to function, mobile communication devices require ...

    La raíz imaginada: Javier Cercas, biografía de una obra literaria 

    Quesada Casado, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)

    El siguiente documento estudia la obra de Javier Cercas desde su primera publicación, El móvil (1987) hasta el reciente título del nuevo ciclo de novelas iniciado con Terra Alta (2019). La tesis consta de cinco partes. ...

    RANK signaling, a master regulator of mammary stemness and cancer : characterization of RANK and RANKL pathway stem cell fate, tumorigenesis and metastasis 

    Pellegrini, Pasquale (Date of defense: 2014-04-10)

    RESUME RANK signaling is essential for mammary gland development and progesterone induced tumorigenesis. Here we show that RANK controls mammary stem cell fate; increased RANK signaling results in accumulation of stem and ...

    Re-exploring testosterone metabolism : new insights for doping control 

    Fabregat Rossell, Andreu (Date of defense: 2014-07-16)

    The detection of endogenous anabolic androgenic steroids (EAAS) is one of the most difficult analytical challenges in the doping control field. The main problem for their detection is to distinguish between normally ...

    Re-thinking human-computer interaction research and design with a growing ageing population: widening contexts of technology use, changing the subject and object of design 

    Righi, Valeria (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)

    This dissertation analyses, reflects on, and re-thinks the way in which Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) research is conducted with a growing ageing population. This dissertation draws upon a 5-year research-through design ...

    Re-thinking large scale hate speech identification: beyond common NLP conventions and supervised machine learning 

    Teixeira Fortuna, Paula Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-03-06)

    The detection of hate speech in online spaces is traditionally conceptualized as a classification task that uses Machine Learning (ML)-driven Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In accordance with this ...

    Reading out neural populations: shared variability, global fluctuations and information processing 

    Romero Arandia, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2017-06-19)

    Entendre l'origen i la funció de l'activitat de poblacions neuronals, i com aquesta activitat es relaciona amb els estímuls sensorials, les decisions o les accions motores és un gran repte per les neurociències. En ...