Mathbout, Shifa (Date of defense: 2016-02-17)
As precipitation is a very important parameter of climate and hydrology, exploring spatial and temporal distribution and variation of this variable can give an idea about climate conditions and water ...
Canal de la Iglesia, Mercè (Date of defense: 2016-06-01)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by the loss of dopaminergic neurons of the Substantia Nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and the presence of cytoplasmic protein inclusions named Lewy Bodies. Current ...
Afán Asencio, Isabel (Date of defense: 2016-10-10)
Seabirds have evolved within an open and dynamic environment, the ocean. As meso-top predators, seabirds are greatly influenced by the oceanographic conditions driving marine productivity, and therefore, ...
Colom Sanmartí, Glòria (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)
In the course of this thesis, the optimal epitopes for the subsequent polyclonal rabbit antibody production for cTnI and NT-proBNP have been studied and chosen. cTnI and NT-proBNP are the most relevant ...
Garcia Garcia, Josep (Date of defense: 2016-07-04)
During the past years working in Ernest Giralt’s group, I’ve been involved in three different subprojects that constitute one of the three chapter of my thesis and have the same common link: the use of ...
Ruiz Lozano, Tania Pamela (Date of defense: 2016-11-30)
Currently, the most effective treatment for severe obesity resulting in a large and marked weight loss is bariatric surgery (BS) (Courcoulas, AP et al. 2013).However, several studies have shown that ...
Requena-Méndez, Ana (Date of defense: 2016-03-29)
BACKGROUND For drug-compliant patients, poor responses to tuberculosis (TB) treatment might be attributable to subtherapeutic drug concentrations. An impaired absorption of rifampin and isoniazid was ...
Herraiz Martínez, Adela (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)
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 ...
Mariani, Francesco (Date of defense: 2016-07-05)
Although sygma-aryl and sygma-vinylpalladium(II) complexes are commonly used as electrophiles in C—C bond forming reactions, recent research has demonstrated that the same palladium intermediates can ...
Florian Baron, Camilo (Date of defense: 2016-07-26)
Digital manufacturing constitutes a real industrial revolution that is transforming the production processes from the early stages of research and development to mass production and marketing. The biggest ...