Carreras Salinas, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-12-21)
[eng] The bacterial colonisation of the respiratory tract is critical for health as it establishes a symbiotic relationship between the bacterial community and the host. Haemophilus influenzae and ...
Hervés Carrete, Carmen (Date of defense: 2023-05-24)
[eng] The main objective of this dissertation has been to stablish a bridge between materials science and its fields of application. The scope of this thesis work, under this premise, is aimed towards ...
Ospina Álvarez, Natalia (Date of defense: 2012-06-27)
This doctoral thesis deals with the biogeochemical processes taking place in estuarine systems known as 'rias', located at the NW of the Iberian Peninsula. Its realization has been possible thanks to ...
Rey Carrizo, Matías (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
Influenza is a major health problem worldwide, as the periodic pandemics of the 20th century have highlighted. Some countermeasures have been developed and have indeed diminish the devastating effects ...
Short, Kathleen (Date of defense: 2022-12-12)
[eng] The overwhelming evidence for the existence of dark matter in the Universe, and the discovery of the neutrino masses, are striking indicators of the need for new physics beyond the ΛCDM and Standard ...
Rodríguez Urgellés, Ened (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
Huntington’s Disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant inherited neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor, psychiatric, and cognitive manifestations. The disease is caused by an unstable expansion ...
León Moreno, Theresa Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2013-10-30)
Nuclear receptor LXR is a ligand dependent transcription factor. The activating ligands of LXR are specific oxidized forms of cholesterol (oxysterols) and intermediate products of the cholesterol ...
Mathbout, Shifa (Date of defense: 2016-02-17)
As precipitation is a very important parameter of climate and hydrology, exploring spatial and temporal distribution and variation of this variable can give an idea about climate conditions and water ...
Pascal i Capdevila, Mariona (Date of defense: 2012-02-24)
Currently food allergy diagnostic tests are not able to predict clinical reactivity in sensitized patients (those with specific IgE against a particular allergen). Traditionally, allergy diagnostic tests ...
Fullana Rivera, Natalia (Date of defense: 2005-11-04)
The present dissertation aims to contribute to the to date more limited findings of studies examining the factor of starting age in second language (L2) phonological learning in a formal instruction ...