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Aulicino, Francesco (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)
The adaptive response of cells to external stimuli is an intriguing mechanism at the basis of the existence of life itself. For this purpose, signalling pathways and gene regulatory networks elegantly evolved translating ...
Storer, Mekayla (Date of defense: 2014-12-18)
Cellular senescence is an irreversible form of proliferative arrest, historically linked to tumour suppression and aging. Recent discoveries, however, have extended its known role to include complex biological processes ...
Valério, Miguel Filipe Grandão (Date of defense: 2016-04-08)
The aim of this dissertation is to advance our knowledge of Cypro-Minoan, a group of undeciphered syllabic inscriptions dated roughly to the 16th or 15th through the 11th centuries BCE and found mostly on Cyprus, with small ...
Martí Coma-Cros, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
Malaria is an infectious disease that affects nearly half of the population in 90 countries around the world. In 2017 it was estimated that there were 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths disproportionately distributed ...
Batet Torrell, Óscar (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)
The techniques for detection of the atmosphere constituents and their distribution in the space have evolved in the last years driven by needs in the environmental, meteorological and climate science fields and backed by ...
Buch Mundó, Ignasi (Date of defense: 2012-06-29)
Investigation of protein-ligand interactions has been a long-standing application for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations given its importance to drug design. However, relevant timescales for biomolecular motions are orders ...
Arellano Pinilla, Cristina (Date of defense: 2007-07-25)
Esta investigación está conducida a la resolución del problema de encontrar soluciones rentables para el despliegue de redes de fibra hasta el hogar (Fibre to the Home - FTTH). En una red de FTTH, el equipo transmisor-receptor ...
Azman, Nurul Aini Binti Mohd (Date of defense: 2015-12-22)
In this PhD it has been analyzed the antioxidant activity of five plants: Camelia sinensis, Gentian lutea, Betula pendula, Convolvulus arvensis and Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. An Electronic Paramagnetic Resonance has been ...
Bruzzese Novoa, Agustín Alberto (Date of defense: 2021-02-24)
Els receptors acoblats a proteïnes G (GPCRs) són importants dianes terapèutiques per a nombroses malalties. Si bé els GPCRs s’han estudiat àmpliament en les últimes dècades, els mecanismes moleculars que determinen la seva ...
Suárez Germà, Carme (Date of defense: 2013-11-07)
The interaction between a membrane protein and its surrounding phospholipids is thought to be crucial for the correct folding and function of the protein. This thesis is focused on the investigation of the interplay between ...
Leiva Rodríguez, Tatiana (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
Lesiones en el nervio periférico causan una disrupción axonal que puede producir una neurodegeneración retrograda. Las neuronas axotomizadas sufren una serie de cambios fenotípicos a nivel molecular y celular, algunos de ...
Aulinas Masó, Anna (Date of defense: 2015-06-19)
La síndrome de Cushing (SC), una malaltia minoritària per secreció excessiva de cortisol, s'associa a augment de morbi-mortalitat, inclús després del tractament, comparat amb població de referència i s'associa a processos ...
Ortega Comino, Raquel (Date of defense: 2003-06-27)
Mas Soler, Josep (Date of defense: 2017-01-09)
Optical Tweezers (OT) are a light-based non-invasive tool that has played an important role during the last decades in the field of biophotonics, together with the advances in optical microscopy techniques. Optical trapping ...
García Serra, Anna (Date of defense: 2021-09-14)
[eng] BACKGROUND: Anti-N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis is a neuronal antibody-mediated disease that associates with prominent neuropsychiatric symptoms and predominantly affects women of childbearing ...
Moraschini, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2016-06-08)
This memoir is divided into two parts, devoted to two topics in (ab-stract) algebraic logic. In the first part we develop a hierarchy in which propositional logics “L” are classified according to the definability conditions ...
Tirrito, Emanuele (Date of defense: 2020-07-13)
For a long time, quantum states of matter have been successfully characterized by the Ginzburg-Landau formalism that was able to classify all different types of phase transitions. This view changed with the discovery of ...
Ugarte Ruiz, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2011-03-21)
This thesis studies how firms’ investment and credit are affected by different financial imperfections related to firm and bank learning, relationship lending and financial wealth. After reviewing in chapter 2 the related ...
Rodon Guinjoan, Ramón María (Date of defense: 2015-10-10)
Aquesta tesi la portava reflexionant el seu autor des de feia força temps; és una visió del Carlisme com a col·lectiu polític, des de la Guerra Civil fins a 1976, a través de tot el Règim franquista i els inicis d’una ...
Lluva-Castaño, Alicia (Date of defense: 2023-04-20)
Introducció: Quan es parla del VIH, queda implícita la creença que el seu contagi és per transmissió sexual i que es majoritàriament en homes gai, bisexuals i altres HSH. Les estratègies de prevenció han anat encaminades ...