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Understanding resilience through biodiversity: developing systemic tools for marine conservation in temperate rocky reefs
The degradation of natural diversity results in the erosion of key systemic properties such as resilience, or the capacity to recover from disturbances. Resilience loss leads to an increase in the fragility and vulnerability ...
Understanding Road Scenes using Deep Neural Networks
La comprensió de les escenes de la carretera és fonamental per als automòbils autònoms. Això requereix segmentar escenes de carreteres en regions semànticament significatives i reconèixer objectes en una escena. Tot i que ...
Understanding secondary emission processes and beam matter interactions for optimization of diagnostic wire grid system in particle accelerators : thermal modeling for beam power limits calculation
(English) Thin targets, in form of foils, stripes or wires, are widely used in beam instrumentation to measure various beam parameters, such as intensity, position and size. All these monitors can differ in geometry and ...
Understanding size-resolved dust emission from field measurements in Morocco
(English) Atmospheric mineral dust is composed of a variety of mineral particles exhibiting distinct composition, shape, and size. The wide range of diameters exhibited by dust particles, spanning more than three orders ...
Understanding Small Business Growth and Development in the Context of an Extreme, Transitional and Marginalized Environment
La literatura sobre el creixement de la petita empresa és àmplia. No obstant, una qüestió important que encara no ha estat aclarida és si els models de creixement de les petites empreses als països occidentals i desenvolupats ...
Understanding split family expatriations: An exploratory study with multiple stakeholder views
Expatriacions amb famílies dividides (SFE) són un fenomen creixent on l'expatriat es trasllada sol i treballa a l'estranger a llarg termini mentre la seva família es queda a casa. Informes recents afirmen que el vint-i-set ...
Understanding stochastic and deterministric microbial assembly processes in ephemeral saline lakes
Understanding the mechanisms and processes driving biological com- munities assembly, i.e. determining why a specific community is found under certain circumstances, is one of the fundamental questions in ecology. The ...
Understanding Sustainable Transformation: Business Model Adaptation in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Aquesta tesi investiga la intersecció de l'adaptació dels models de negoci i la sostenibilitat en el context de les indústries culturals. L'estudi es compon de tres parts principals. En primer lloc, s'examinen les diverses ...
Understanding the behavior of materials for caputre of greenhouse gases by molecular simulations
Establecer una cota global a las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero ha sido imposibilitado por la complejidad que conlleva demostrar los efectos de la contribución humana al efecto invernadero. Para alcanzar un ...
Understanding the development of MLL-Rearranged leukemias : developing disease models
Rearrangements involving the mixed lineage leukemia gene (MLL) are found in majority of human infant leukemias (>60% of ALLs, 35% of AMLs) and are associated with dismal prognosis of these patients. They are also found in ...
Understanding the dynamics of cultural stratification: the case of Spain
Advanced societies have witnessed unprecedented socioeconomic and technological changes in the last 50 years. The growth of the service sector has transformed the class structure, and social mobility has increased for ...
Understanding the dynamics of pursuing reconcilitation and peacebuilding in intractable intergroup conflict situations using multi-track diplomacy: A case study of Somalia's diaspora in Denmark
The project sought to deepen current understanding on how to overcome intractable conflicts. It equips intervening parties with knowledge to boost their efforts for greater results. Intractable conflicts are conflicts that ...
Understanding the ecological success of two worldwide fish invaders (Gambusia holbrooki and Gambusia affinis)
This thesis aims to contribute to the understanding of the invasive success of two invasive fishes (Gambusia affinis and G. holbrooki). We reviewed four Internet databases and the literature to clarify their introduction ...
Understanding the ethical consumer. Collective and individual projects and derived meanings. An exploratory study in the cooperatives of responsible consumption
El objetivo de la tesis es hacer una contribución a la creciente línea de investigación del consumidor ético. Se estudia el comportamiento del consumidor ético tanto como proyecto grupal, como proyecto individual, buscando ...
Understanding the factors governing the reaction specificity of lipoxygenases. A theoretical approach
Las lipoxigenasas (LOXs) constituyen una familia de enzimas dioxigenasas con hierro no hémico, que catalizan la oxidación de ácidos grasos poliinsaturados generando derivados hidroperóxidos conjugados. En mamíferos el ...
Understanding the fertility gap: new modelling approaches to reproductive decision-making
The three chapters included in this dissertation aim to improve our understanding of the distance between people's desires regarding the timing and the number of children they want to have and what they finally achieve. ...
Understanding the genomic makeup of tumors to guide personalized medicine
Cancer is a disease of the genome. The study of tumor genomic alterations is used to guide several precision medicine strategies, some approved and a large number under clinical development. On the other hand, the study ...
Understanding the health effects of low doses of ionizing radiation from medical procedures : Challenges for epidemiology
La aplicación de la radiación ionizante (RI) en ámbito médico ha llegado, sin duda, para salvar vidas. Sin embargo, hay una preocupación entre los expertos de salud pública y protección radiológica con relación al incremento ...
Understanding the immunomodulatory role of PARP proteins in the response against tumors
Los inhibidores de PARP han surgido como nuevas terapias basadas en el papel essencial de las Poly (ADP-ribosa) polimerasas PARP-1 y PARP-2 en la respuesta a daño en el DNA, explotando el efecto de las mismas en la célula ...
Understanding the impact of Management Control Systems over capabilities and organizational performance, under the influence of perceived environmental uncertainty
La literatura de los sistemas de control administrativo muestra que en general las empresas creen que los sistemas de control administrativo ayudan a entregar valor (Ittner et al., 2003), facilitando la implementación de ...
