Quintana Rubio, Oriol (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
Coming Up For Air (1939) fou escrita en una dècada més convulsa que la nostra, que culminaria amb l’inici de la Segona Guerra Mundial. Però les condicions vitals que retrata són estranyament similars ...
Canal de Torres, Berta (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
In response to multiple internal and external stresses, yeast cells activate a common transcriptional response known as the Environmental Stress Response (ESR), which can be problematic in S phase, when ...
Valls Comamala, Victòria (Date of defense: 2018-09-07)
Aging is the main challenge that humanity will face on the near future. Brain aging is associated with cognitive deficiencies and is the main risk factor for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). AD is the most ...
Monte Ordoño, Julia (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
L’extracció de regles de la parla és crucial per a l’adquisició del llenguatge. La present dissertació estudia el mecanisme d’aprenentatge de regles explorant com el cervell detecta regularitats rellevants ...
Tejedor Vaquero, Sonia (Date of defense: 2018-03-16)
Glucose is a key nutrient for T cells. Despite that T cell activation is impaired when they are deprived of glucose, it has also been shown that T effector responses can be elicited in vivo in glucose-poor ...
Birks, Laura Ellen (Date of defense: 2018-12-03)
With the recent evolution of mobile communication, there is a lack of understanding of increased radiofrequency (RF) exposure from these new technologies, especially among children. Little is known about ...
Chalela Rengifo, Roberto José (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
La hipótesis general de esta tesis consiste en que durante el proceso de cancerificación del epitelio pulmonar, las “driver-mutations” pueden aparecer no solamente en las células malignas sino también ...
Suades González, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2018-05-15)
Introduction The influence of the environment, and its interplay with genetics, can account for up to half of the variance of neurodevelopmental disorders. In this thesis we reviewed previous literature ...
Sánchez Martínez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
This thesis focuses on the development of machine learning tools to better characterize the cardiac anatomy and function in the context of heart failure, and in particular their extension to consider ...
Herrera Boyer, Perfecto (Date of defense: 2018-12-12)
This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical ...