Debeusscher, Juliane (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
This dissertation examines the circulation and visibilisation of Central European art during the Cold War, with a particular focus on Southern Europe as a space of reception and exhibition throughout ...
Feliu Josa, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2021-03-08)
[eng] INTRODUCTION. Smoking is one of the major public health problems of our times, killing eight-million people a year from direct tobacco-related diseases. Active smoking has been associated with an ...
Martínez Campanario, María del Carmen (Date of defense: 2021-05-27)
Macrophages polarization from an inflammatory to a tolerogenic state occurs in both physiological and pathological, and this reprogramming is key in the development of several diseases as different as ...
Sehgal, Sapna (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
This doctoral dissertation examines the effects of a short stay abroad (SA) experience on second language (L2) oral fluency development, taking into consideration individual differences in cognition and ...
Torrecillas Jódar, Juan (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
Esta tesis estudia la relación entre costes de movilidad y desigualdad de género en el mercado laboral. Se argumenta que, en un contexto de roles de género tradicionales, que imponen en las mujeres mayor ...
Rosselló Tortella, Margalida (Date of defense: 2021-12-09)
Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are essential molecules that allow the translation of the genetic code into amino acids. Extensive research during the last 50 years have revealed that, despite their apparently ...
Ayala Cabrera, Juan Francisco (Date of defense: 2021-10-02)
[eng] The environment sustainability is being threatened by the continuous release of pollutants that can negatively affect not only environmental compartments but also wildlife and human beings. Among ...
Martinez-Mazza, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
This Ph.D. dissertation contributes by shedding new light on three topics that significantly impact housing in urban areas, using fine-grained data. Chapter 2 studies how Airbnb affects a city's ...
Glaría Percaz, Estibaliz (Date of defense: 2021-06-16)
Macrophages exert potent microbicidal functions against pathogens; however, some intracellular bacteria have developed strategies to survive within intracellular phagolysosomes and use macrophages as a ...
Atla, Goutham (Date of defense: 2021-05-05)
Diabetes mellitus is a heterogeneous group of metabolic diseases characterized by impaired blood glucose homeostasis that affects more than 415 million people worldwide and is a leading cause of mortality. ...