Recasens Álvarez, Carles (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
During my thesis I studied the developmental roles of the JAK/STAT pathway in the wing imaginal disc and we show that it controls organ size and fate specification by regulating morphogen production and ...
Oliver Vendrell, Roc (Date of defense: 2017-09-14)
The main goal of this work is to study vector-valued Bergman spaces and to obtain the weak factorization of these spaces. In order to do that we need to study small Hankel operators with operator-valued ...
Páez Avilés, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-02-20)
Transferring nanotechnology into marketable products and services is still considered a major challenge. In Europe, this issue has been identified as a weakness, not only for nanotechnology, but also ...
Aliaga-Garcia, Cristina (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Adult second language learners often experience major difficulties in perceiving and producing non-native speech sounds. Several perception training studies (Iverson & Evans, 2007; Nishi, & Kewley-Port, ...
Lucariello, Mario (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
STUDY I HYPOTHESIS Genetic alterations have already been recognized as major etiological factors for ASD and ID, of which RTT is an example. In addition to the contribution of polymorphic variants ...
Vidu Afloarei, Ana (Date of defense: 2017-02-21)
According to the United States Department of Justice (Krebs et al., 2016), 1 in 5 women are sexually assaulted in college. Gender-based violence occurring in universities and on university campuses is ...
Román Moreno, Sara (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Submarine canyons are major topographic structures forming deep incisions in shelfs and continental margins around the globe. Due to their topographic characteristics, canyons influence both local ...
Styrczewska, Katarzyna (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Voltage-gated K channels (Kv) is large family of channels that are expressed in both excitable and non-excitable cells. In excitable cells they contribute to the control of resting membrane potential ...
Gásquez Mendoza, Roberto (Date of defense: 2017-09-06)
La industria deportiva es hoy en día un sector con una importante influencia económica. Dimitrov et al. (2006), citado en el Libro Blanco sobre el Deporte de la Comisión Europea, estimó el tamaño de la ...
Valls Margarit, Maria (Date of defense: 2017-07-07)
Ischemic heart disease is a major cause of human death worldwide owing to the heart minimal ability to repair following injury. Other than heart transplantation, there are currently no effective or ...