Casas Masnou, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
Gene regulation mechanisms control the level of transcription of each gene into RNA and the combination of expressed genes determines cell identity. Gene regulation is maintained by epigenetic mechanisms ...
Martí Coma-Cros, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
Malaria is an infectious disease that affects nearly half of the population in 90 countries around the world. In 2017 it was estimated that there were 219 million cases and 435,000 deaths disproportionately ...
Dodaro, Maria (Date of defense: 2019-07-25)
The thesis is framed in the disciplinary field of urban sociology and aims to analyse municipal entrepreneurship support policies promoted by the cities of Milan (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain), with a ...
Rabaneda Lombarte, Neus (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
Neuroinflammation is present in practically all neurological disorders. Microglial cells, the main representatives of the endogenous immune system of the brain, play a key role in neuroinflammation, ...
Jarque, Maria Josep (Date of defense: 2019-01-22)
[eng] This dissertation is framed in the overlap of two disciplines: educational linguistics and theoretical linguistics. We will focus on signed languages, the visual-gestural linguistic systems of the ...
Pérez Salvia, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2019-03-01)
Cancer is considered nowadays a genetic and epigenetic disease. Aberrancies in epigenetic marks in DNA and histone tails together with alterations in epigenetic regulators responsible of catalyzing ...
Bastos, Joaquim Manuel Camões Sobral de (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
In the continuous evolution of mobile communication systems, there are many issues and aspects to be addressed, as well as in their effective implementation and deployment on cellular networks. In a ...
Capera Aragonés, Jesusa (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Kv1.3 is a voltage-gated potassium channel mainly expressed at the plasma membrane and at the inner mitochondrial membrane of different cell types. A dual role for the channel has been suggested: Plasma ...
Santos Santos, Javier H. (Date of defense: 2019-01-17)
The thesis "Ecomorphological discrimination of vertebrate sister species with recent phylogenetic divergence using novel non-destructive morphometric methods” compares morphological evolution during ...
Ramírez Téllez, John Gabriel (Date of defense: 2019-11-11)
Small-scale fishers are often identified as key players in the recovery of overexploited fish and invertebrate stocks supplying food for rural people and contributing to achieving healthy marine ecosystems. ...