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Ventura Alemany, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2011-12-16)
The use of hair and oral fluid for drugs of abuse testing has increased over the last years. For this reason, the assurance that results provided using these matrices are reliable and error-free is needed. The objective ...
Glass, James (Date of defense: 2020-01-24)
This research examines Subscription Video On-Demand (SVOD) using Netflix as one of the main examples that has seen a dramatic increase in usage in recent years compared to the traditional way of viewing content through ...
Adrover Nadal, Miguel Angel (Date of defense: 2009-09-18)
Control of cell cycle by Stress Activated Protein Kinases (SAPKs) is an essential aspect for adaptation to extracellular stimuli. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the activation of the Hog1 SAPK, results in a delayed transcription ...
Schmidt, Stefanie (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)
The overall objective of this thesis was to describe the evolution of Health-Related Quality of Life in Spanish patients with urologic tumours; and to the examine clinical and treatment-related factors associated with ...
Liaghat, Zeinab (Date of defense: 2017-03-09)
Nowadays, the amount of available digital documents is rapidly growing, expanding at a considerable rate and coming from a variety of sources. Sources of unstructured and semi-structured information include the World ...
Sancho Fibla, Sergi (Date of defense: 2015-12-04)
En este trabajo reivindicamos la necesidad de contextualizar las obras de Marguerite d'Oingt en el entorno cultural en el que fueron realizadas. Esto significa tener en cuenta toda una serie de prácticas creativas, cognitivas ...
Sacco, Federica (Date of defense: 2019-10-07)
In the last decade, computational modelling has been playing an important role as a non-invasive technology that may significantly impact the diagnosis as well as the treatment of cardiac diseases. As an example, the Food ...
Maliar, Lilia (Date of defense: 1999-09-08)
The thesis studies quantitative implications of the real business cycle models with heterogeneous agents. The questions I ask are: First, Can the studied models not only replicate the aggregate time series facts but also ...
Böhm, Bernd R. (Date of defense: 2011-05-18)
In this thesis we combine quantitative measurements of mouse limb morphogenesis and computer modelling to test a well established theory about the cellular mechanisms promoting limb elongation. A distally directed gradient ...
Muntalt Sánchez, Isabel (Date of defense: 2018-03-19)
Partiendo del modelo de Sociedades de Casa de Claude LéviStrauss stricto sensu, la presente tesis analiza las comunidades de Mari y Ebla durante los cambios socio-políticos acaecidos en la transición entre el Bronce Antiguo ...
Poblete Labra, Bárbara (Date of defense: 2009-10-01)
El objetivo de esta tesis es estudiar diferentes aplicaciones de la minería de consultas Web para mejorar el ranking en motores de búsqueda, mejorar la recuperación de información en la Web y mejorar los sitios Web. La ...
Cecovniuc, Ioana (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
Los falsos amigos constituyen una de las dificultades principales que afrontan los discentes que persiguen hablar, escribir e interaccionar en una lengua extranjera. Con un falso amigo se indica una palabra o estructura ...
Garcia Garcia, Núria (Date of defense: 2009-05-25)
Esta tesis doctoral se enmarca en la temática de Gestion de Recursos Radioelectricos en los sistemas de comunicaciones móviles, 3G, B3G y 4G. Como es ampliamente conocido los recursos radios son escasos, particularmente ...
Cabré-Riera, Alba (Date of defense: 2011-11-20)
The use of mobile communication devices (e.g. mobile phones, tablets, and laptops) increased during the last few years, especially in preadolescents and adolescents. In order to function, mobile communication devices require ...
Quesada Casado, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-12-02)
El siguiente documento estudia la obra de Javier Cercas desde su primera publicación, El móvil (1987) hasta el reciente título del nuevo ciclo de novelas iniciado con Terra Alta (2019). La tesis consta de cinco partes. ...
Pellegrini, Pasquale (Date of defense: 2014-04-10)
RESUME RANK signaling is essential for mammary gland development and progesterone induced tumorigenesis. Here we show that RANK controls mammary stem cell fate; increased RANK signaling results in accumulation of stem and ...
Fabregat Rossell, Andreu (Date of defense: 2014-07-16)
The detection of endogenous anabolic androgenic steroids (EAAS) is one of the most difficult analytical challenges in the doping control field. The main problem for their detection is to distinguish between normally ...
Righi, Valeria (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
This dissertation analyses, reflects on, and re-thinks the way in which Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) research is conducted with a growing ageing population. This dissertation draws upon a 5-year research-through design ...
Teixeira Fortuna, Paula Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-03-06)
The detection of hate speech in online spaces is traditionally conceptualized as a classification task that uses Machine Learning (ML)-driven Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In accordance with this ...
Romero Arandia, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2017-06-19)
Entendre l'origen i la funció de l'activitat de poblacions neuronals, i com aquesta activitat es relaciona amb els estímuls sensorials, les decisions o les accions motores és un gran repte per les neurociències. En ...