Coines Lopez-Nieto, Juan (Date of defense: 2021-01-20)
Carbohydrates are essential molecules in biotechnology and for the proper functioning of living organisms. They are involved in energy storage, being structural components or participating in crucial ...
Malandrino, Maria Ida (Date of defense: 2013-10-04)
Current lifestyle with high-energy diets and little exercise is triggering an alarming growth in obesity. Excess of adiposity is leading to severe increase in associated pathologies, such as insulin ...
Arteaga Barriel, Daniel (Date of defense: 2007-06-28)
The basic aim of the thesis is the study of the propagation of particles and quasiparticles in non-trivial backgrounds from the quantum field theory point of view. By "non-trivial background" we mean ...
Zamora Ramírez, William J. (Date of defense: 2019-02-22)
Lipophilicity is a key physicochemical descriptor used to understand the biological profile of (bio)organic compounds, xenobiotics and a broad variety of biochemical, pharmacological, and toxicological ...
Casuso Páramo, Ignacio (Date of defense: 2008-03-11)
The assessment of the electrical properties of biomolecules at the nanoscale becomes necessary for gathering previous basic knowledge and for the control of the biosensor fabrication. I developed ...
Latella, Ivan (Date of defense: 2016-06-27)
Two main topics are examined in this thesis: classical systems with long-range interactions and thermal radiation in the near-field regime. In the first part, we present a thermodynamic approach describing ...
Kundisová, Ivana (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)
Table olives are an important source of phenolic compounds, whose beneficial health effects have been widely demonstrated. Therefore, the present thesis aims to assess the different phenolic compounds ...
Hyroššová, Petra (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK) is an enzyme that catalyses decarboxylation of oxaloacetate to phosphoenolpyruvate and it is part of gluconeogenic/glyceroneogenic pathway. There are two known ...
Sostoa Pomés, Jana de (Date of defense: 2019-05-31)
Oncolytic virus (OV)-based therapies have an emerging role in the treatment of solid tumors, involving both direct cell lysis and immunogenic cell death. Nonetheless, tumor- associated stroma limits the ...
Fernández Navia, Tania (Date of defense: 2020-07-20)
Esta tesis estudia dos factores clave para el funcionamiento adecuado del mercado de trabajo: la movilidad geográfica y los procesos de selección. Relacionado con el aspecto de movilidad geográfica, ...