Magaña Fernández, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)
This thesis provides a systematic analysis and a defense of the claim that at least some nonhuman animals (i.e. mammals) ought to be granted political standing, understood here as a (pro tanto) duty of ...
Aguadé Gorgorió, Guim (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
Despite decades of scientific effort, cancer remains a major cause of death worldwide. Through the accumulation of genome alterations, tumor populations evolve the capacity to circumvent the selective ...
Pardo Lorente, Natalia (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
Subcellular compartmentalisation of metabolic enzymes may elicit specific cellular functions by establishing a unique metabolic environment. Indeed, the nuclear translocation of certain metabolic enzymes ...
Zacharakis, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2022-10-10)
Succinct non-interactive arguments (snarks) are cryptographic constructions that allow a prover to convince a verifier about the validity of a statement regarding some computation. We consider ...
Celma Herrada, Òscar (Date of defense: 2009-02-16)
Avui en dia, la música està esbiaixada cap al consum d'alguns artistes molt populars. Per exemple, el 2007 només l'1% de totes les cançons en format digital va representar el 80% de les vendes. De la ...
Soria Jiménez, Luis (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)
Although the dual anti-HER2 blockade with trastuzumab and pertuzumab monoclonal antibodies has improved the outcome of patients with HER2+ breast cancer, a significant number of patients relapse. ...
Capouskova, Katerina (Date of defense: 2023-02-03)
Dynamic brain states, temporal functional unions of diverse brain areas, are the driving force in our everyday cognition. They help us to flexibly integrate and segregate the assorted information that ...
Duarte Salles, Talita (Date of defense: 2012-07-31)
Introduction: Prenatal exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and to acrylamide has been suggested to reduce fetal growth. The role of diet, the main source of exposure to these compounds ...
Ruíz Hernández, Diego (Date of defense: 2007-04-13)
In this Thesis, we first deploy Gittins index theory to establish the indexability of inter-alia general families of restless bandits that arise in problems of stochastic scheduling with switching ...
Plana Carmona, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-03-17)
Continuous C/EBPa expression converts B cells into macrophages while its transient upregulation before the Yamanaka factors yields highly efficient iPSC reprogramming. C/EBP members regulate Il6 ...