Arias Badia, Blanca (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)
The specialised literature has suggested the intermediate position of television dialogue and subtitling along the continuum from spoken to written language (e.g. Díaz-Cintas 2003; Quaglio 2009; Forchini ...
Sumi, Angughali Aheto (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)
Epithelial tissues undergo extensive remodeling during embryonic development. Recent studies have revealed that, in a number of developmental processes, epithelial remodeling is associated with pulsations ...
Pallarès Albanell, Joan (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the commonest movement disorder and a devastating neurodegenerative condition. Although PD motor symptoms arise from the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons on the ...
Guix Arnau, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-12-19)
Targeted therapies against the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) are useful to treat many human cancers such as non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer and head and neck cancer. However, the ...
Vouloutsi, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2017-11-07)
Due to technological advancements, robots will soon become part of our daily lives and interact with us on a frequent basis. Robot acceptance is important, as it delineates whether users will potentially ...
Paun, Bruno (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
The role of trabeculations and their normal morphological expression in the human heart is still unclear. Clinical studies have shown that excessive trabeculation can cause heart failure due to diastolic ...
Jhanwar, Shalu (Date of defense: 2017-01-11)
Epigenetics provides a plausible link between the environment and changes in gene expression that might contribute to disease phenotypes. The main goal of the thesis is to study epigenomic variability ...
Reina Castillón, Judith (Date of defense: 2017-10-24)
Somatic genetic mosaicism can be present both in healthy individuals but also in subjects with certain conditions as ageing or cancer. Its detection by SNP array in blood can be used as biomarker of ...
Tang, Haozhou (Date of defense: 2017-12-11)
This thesis aims to better understand the interplay between financial markets and firm dynamics. In the first chapter I study the firm-level implications of asset bubbles. I relax the no-Ponzi-game ...
Jan, Budour H. (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is usually characterized by histological lesions of glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis (TIF). The progressive TIF is mediated by multiple mediators such as ...