Barbieri, Maria Vittoria (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
The assessment of pesticide occurrence in different environmental compartments has become a matter of outstanding importance since its effects on exposed organisms may be considered a warning on the ...
Heredia Pimienta, Carlos (Date of defense: 2023-03-31)
[eng] This thesis aims to study nonlocal Lagrangians with a finite and an infinite number of degrees of freedom. We obtain an extension of Noether's theorem and Noether's identities for such Lagrangians. ...
Vidal Antich, Carme (Date of defense: 2022-06-14)
Rapid population growth is leading to many environmental problems, among which a large waste generation should be highlighted. More than 40% of these wastes correspond to organic wastes that are mainly ...
Licht, David (Date of defense: 2021-04-14)
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 ...
Pallares Pallares, Macià Esteve (Date of defense: 2022-03-08)
Cell migration is essential to many biological processes. In adult organisms, it is crucial for wound healing, homeostasis, and immune response, whereas aberrant cell migration potentially leads to ...
Figueras Valls, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
Over the recent decades, several studies revealed the precarious climate situation which is threatening all Life forms on earth, including mankind, even if sometimes we tend to ignore the actual fragility ...
Ferrández Roldán, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2021-02-22)
The bloom of genomic data has revealed a vast amount of gene losses across all life kingdoms. However, the impact of gene loss on the evolution of the mechanisms of embryo development remains an important ...
Montagut Cañete, Enrique José (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
The final goal of the thesis was to improve the diagnostic of infections caused by P. aeruginosa and S. aureus through a better understanding of the bacterial communication process known as Quorum Sensing ...
Guberović, Iva (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
The histone variant macroH2A is the only structural chromatin component containing a macrodomain. In vertebrates, two genes and one event of alternative splicing give rise to three macroH2A proteins ...
Gironella Gironell, Pere (Date of defense: 2023-03-28)
[eng] This thesis focuses in the analysis of radative b-decays and rare strange decays, using data recorded by the LHCb, at the LHC during the Run 2 period. Two analyses are presented in the thesis, ...