Salichs Fradera, Eulàlia (Date of defense: 2008-12-15)
PolyHistidine repeats and DYRK1A: from the localization to the function<br/>El principal objectiu d'aquesta tesi ha estat el d'esbrinar noves funcions de la proteína quinasa DYRK1A en el nucli cel.lular. ...
Albantakis, Larissa (Date of defense: 2011-11-29)
Neurophysiological brain processes during perceptual decision-making have mainly been investigated under the simplified conditions of two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) tasks. How do established ...
Ros i Simó, Clara (Date of defense: 2013-03-15)
Adolescence is a critical developmental period in which the brain emerges from an immature state to adulthood. This process of brain development is associated to greater cognitive capacity but also to ...
Guasch Mercadé, Martí (Date of defense: 2019-10-10)
This thesis focuses on the use of accounting information to mitigate the severe information asymmetries existing between young firms and capital providers. The first chapter studies the importance of ...
Puigbò Llobet, Jordi-Ysard (Date of defense: 2019-10-01)
Learning systems are, by default, adaptive. Experience shapes the parame- ters of artificial systems, as well as it changes the connectivity of biological brains. Nonetheless, our attempts to create ...
Jimenez-Martin, Sergi (Date of defense: 1994-11-02)
Throughout all the chapters we have considered some union variables (particularly the proportion of workers representatives belonging to a given union) to capture any difference in bargaining power ...
Tolosa Ramon, Queralt (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
The outer epithelial layer is the first cell type that emerges during development, providing essential mechanical protection and is indispensable for morphogenesis. Here, we study how the interplay ...
Martínez Fernández, Carmen (Date of defense: 2021-03-12)
Model organisms and gene-editing strategies are fundamental to address a variety of scientific questions from basic science to biomedical research. Here, we reinforced the use of two powerful tools, ...
Avila-Palencia, Ione (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
Urban environments are very complex systems with a myriad of factors intricately related. Built environment, transport, physical activity and sedentary behaviours, air pollution, and social contacts and ...
Jiménez Luna, José (Date of defense: 2019-10-24)
Deep learning approaches have become increasingly popular in the last years thanks to their state-of the-art performance in fields such as computer vision and natural language understanding. The first ...