Browsing Universitat Pompeu Fabra by Title

A Screen for novel factors involved in pluripotency and X-chromosome reactivation

Generoso, Serena Francesca (Date of defense: 2019-03-21)

X-Chromosome Reactivation (XCR) occurs in the epiblast cells of the blastocyst and in germ cells, thereby coupling XCR with pluripotency. We performed a screen in iPS cells by knocking down the expression of candidate ...

¿Se debe obligar a declarar a las mujeres? : una aportación criminológica a la discusión sobre la dispensa de las víctimas de violencia en la pareja a declarar en el proceso penal

Reneaum Panszi, Tania (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

El tema de esta tesis doctoral se inserta en un debate que cobra actualidad cada vez que la Fiscalía General del Estado da a conocer que las cifras de mujeres víctimas de malos tratos que deciden no declarar contra su ...

Search of prognostic biomarkers in patients with multiple sclerosis

Malhotra, Sunny (Date of defense: 2014-01-15)

The aim of the thesis was to identify biomarkers for multiple sclerosis (MS) prognosis, in particular disease activity biomarkers and interferon-β (IFNβ) treatment response biomarkers. The results presented in this ...

Searching for a functional relationship between the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 and the progesterone receptor in breast cancer cells

Calvo Vidal, Verónica Alejandra (Date of defense: 2009-07-17)

Germ-line mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 strongly increase the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer in women. Different hypothesis have been proposed to explain this tissue specificity. ...

Searching for autonomy and prefiguration: resisting the crisis of social reproduction through housing and health care struggles in Spain and the UK

Ribera-Almandoz, Olatz (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

This doctoral thesis studies the ways in which resistance and self-organisation have emerged in the sphere of social reproduction in the post-2008 global financial crisis context. It argues that social reproduction and ...

Secondhand smoke exposure in outdoor settings in Europe

Henderson Mercader, Elisabet-Mae (Date of defense: 2021-11-25)

Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure causes death, disease, and disability among children and non-smoking adults. Total smoking bans have proven effective in preventing and reducing indoor SHS exposures. However, little is known ...

Securitizing migration in a changing international order: a critical comparative analysis of the cases of the European Union, the United States, and South Africa

Planas Gifra, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-09-24)

Is linking migracion to security threats juscified? How is the secut1t1zacion of migracion applied in praccice? To what extent does it change the lives of migrants around the world? And in a wider context, does this have ...

Seguro y responsabilidad patrimonial de la administración: los problemas del aseguramiento de la responsabilidad civil de las administraciones públicas y sus soluciones jurídicas

Arquillo Colet, Begoña (Date of defense: 2007-03-23)

Seguro y Responsabilidad Patrimonial de la Administración presenta un detallado estudio del derecho de seguros y de la responsabilidad de la Administración Pública por las acciones y omisiones de funcionarios en la prestación ...

Selection and linkage desequilibrium tests under complex demographies and ascertainment bias

Ramírez i Soriano, Anna (Date of defense: 2008-11-19)

L'estudi de la variació genòmica ens pot ajudar a entendre la història demogràfica de les poblacions i els events de selecció que hi han influït. Normalment això es fa mitjançant els tests de neutralitat, una eina estadística ...

Selective antagonism of sigma-1 receptors as a new strategy for pain treatment : behavioural and neurochemical studies

Vidal Torres, Alba (Date of defense: 2013-11-20)

In the present thesis, and in the context of the Sigma-1 receptor (σ1R) research project running at the pharmaceutical company ESTEVE, we addressed, at the preclinical level, the role played by selective σ1R antagonism/blockade ...

Selective deployment of attention to time and modality and its impact upon behavior and brain oscillations

Mühlberg, Stefanie (Date of defense: 2016-07-18)

This thesis investigates the relationship between attention to time and modality at the levels of behavior and pre-stimulus brain oscillations, measured with EEG. Participants were presented with target stimuli from one ...

Selenoproteins across the tree of life: Methods and applications

Santesmasses Ruiz, Didac (Date of defense: 2016-12-12)

La selenocïsteina és coneguda com a l'aminoàcid 21. Les selenoproteïnes incorporen selenocïsteina en resposta a codons UGA específics mitjançant un mecanisme de recodificació, el qual és present en els tres dominis de la ...

The Seller's right to cure under article 48 United Nations Convention on contracts for the international sale of goods

Mirambell i Fargas, Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)

In principle, contracts are enforceable mutually beneficial agreements. In the event of a breach of contract, many national, supranational, and international legal systems—as well as recent European harmonization projects ...

Semantic annotation of music collections: A computational approach

Sordo, Mohamed (Date of defense: 2012-02-27)

El consum de la música ha canviat dràsticament en els últims anys. Amb l’arribada de la música digital, el cost de producció s’ha reduït considerablement. L’expansió de la Web ha ajudat a promoure l’exploració de molt ...

Semantic integration of thematic geographic information in a multimedia context

Navarrete Terrassa, Antonio (Date of defense: 2006-09-05)

Els datasets geogràfics representen la realitat mitjançant un conjunt d'entitats temàtiques que sovint no estan definides d'una manera precisa i que diferents persones poden entendre de diferents formes. La integració ...

Semantically-oriented text planning for automatic summarization

Casamayor, Gerard (Date of defense: 2021-04-26)

Text summarization deals with the automatic creation of summaries from one or more documents, either by extracting fragments from the input text or by generating an abstract de novo. Research in recent years has become ...

Sentiment induction for attention and lexicon regularized neural sentiment analysis: improving aspect-based neural sentiment analysis with lexicon enhancement, attention regularization and sentiment induction

Bao, Lingxian (Date of defense: 2021-11-11)

Deep neural networks as an end-to-end approach lacks flexibility and robustness from an application point of view, as one cannot easily adjust the network to fix an obvious problem, especially when new training data is ...

Senyoriu i Municipi a la Catalunya Nova: Batllia de Miravet, Comandes d'Horta, d'Ascó i de Vilalba, i Baronies de Flix i d'Entença

Serrano Daura, Josep (Date of defense: 1996-05-31)

EL OBJETO CENTRAL DE LA TESIS ES EL ESTUDIO INSTITUCIONAL DEL SEÑORIO Y EL MUNICIPIO EN UNO TERRITORIOS DE LA CATALUÑA NUEVA, CONCRETAMENTE EN LOS DISTRITOS QUE SE INDICAN EN SU TITULO. SE DIVICE EN CUATRO PARTES, CON UNA ...

SEO, periodismo y comunicación: conceptos, herramientas y procesos para optimizar la visibilidad web de los medios digitales

Lopezosa García, Carlos (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)

La difusión de noticias de actualidad a través de plataformas digitales ofrece a los medios de comunicación la oportunidad de obtener más lectores, sin embargo, para que las noticias aparezcan en posiciones destacadas en ...

Sequence-Dependent nucleosome positioning and chromatin remolleing of hormone-responsive genes

Zaurín Quer, Roser (Date of defense: 2009-07-16)

Evidències recents han remarcat la importància del paper de l'estructura de la cromatina i el posicionament de nucleosomes en processos cel·lulars bàsics com és la regulació de la transcripció gènica. L'avenç de noves ...