Pellegrino, Gabriele (Date of defense: 2014-12-01)
The main aim of my doctoral thesis has been to provide new insights regarding the determinants, nature and effects of the barriers to innovation. The thesis is structured in three different but strictly ...
Vega Núñez, Adriana Patricia (Date of defense: 2018-10-18)
The dissertation deals with the analysis of informality in developing countries considering both the worker’s and the firm’s perspective. Within a context of a strong presence of this phenomenon in the ...
Romarri, Alessio (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
Understanding what drives individuals to vote for parties or individuals who have often used violent rhetoric toward women and minorities and enacted discriminatory laws is critical. At the same time, ...
Llovet Ximenes, Xavier (Date of defense: 1998-07-21)
Theoretical methods to compute accurate x-ray spectra emitted from targets bombarded with kV electrons are required for quantification in Electron Probe Microanalysis (EPMA), especially for the analysis ...
Fonoll i Rubio, Robert (Date of defense: 2023-03-06)
[eng] The thesis Advanced Characterization of Interfaces of the Chalcogenide-Based Absorbers for the Thin Film Photovoltaic Technologies is based on six articles that are published in high impact factor ...
Hisham Abdelradi Khalaf, Fadi Mohamed (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
The guiding theme of this thesis is the empirical analysis of recent food price behavior. It is composed of three applied studies that address the impacts of energy prices on both food price levels and ...
Muriel Goñi, Sara (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
The herpesvirus diseases are increasing in importance as a public health problem throughout the world. Members of the human herpesvirus family are global in distribution and infect 60-95% of the world's ...
Soria Florido, María Trinidad (Date of defense: 2019-01-11)
Cardiovascular disease remains the first cause of death worldwide. Pharmacological trials and Mendelian randomization studies have failed to unequivocally prove an inverse association between HDL-C ...
Vais, Ricardo Silva dos Santos (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The γ-‐tubulin ring complex (γTuRC) is required to efficiently generate new microtubules (MT) in a process known as MT nucleation. In mitotic cells, MT nucleation by γTuRC occurs from the centrosome, ...
Martí Martí, Sara (Date of defense: 2008-11-26)
La capacidad de <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> para causar infecciones nosocomiales se relaciona con su habilidad para desarrollar rápidamente resistencia a los antibióticos, junto con la capacidad que ...