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Finding genes related to homologous recombination as modifiers of the number of dermal neurofibromas in neurofibromatosis type 1 patients / Estudi sobre la implicació dels gens de recombinació homòloga com a modificadors del nombre de neurofibromes dèrmics en pacients amb Neurofibromatosi tipus 1

Garcia Linares, Carles (Date of defense: 2012-12-13)

Neurofibromatosis type 1 patients present a high variability in their clinical expressivity. The most common manifestation is the appearance of dermal neurofibromas, benign tumors that arise in the peripheral nervous system. ...

Finding relevant people in online social networks

Sáez-Trumper, Diego (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)

The objective of this thesis is to develop novel techniques to find relevant people in Online Social Networks (OSN). To that end, we consider different notions of relevance, taking the point of view of the OSN providers ...

Fine boundary properties in complex analysis and discrete potential theory

Levi, Matteo (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)

In this thesis we study some fine properties of sets in the boundary of continuous and discrete metric spaces. On the discrete side, we consider a Potential Theory on infinite trees. Using probabilistic methods, we derive ...

Fine-grained model of the sensorimotor control underlying Drosophila larval chemotaxis

Deogade, Ajinkya (Date of defense: 2017-11-23)

Chemotaxis is a powerful paradigm to study how sensory stimulations drive orientation behaviors in an organism. Drosophila larvae navigate odor gradients by controlling the duration of runs and the direction of turns. ...

Fine-motion planning for robotic assembly under modelling and sensing uncertainties

Rosell Gratacòs, Jan (Date of defense: 1998-10-13)

This thesis proposes a fine-motion planner for assembly tasks in the plane considering two degrees of freedom of translation and one of rotation, taking into account modelling and sensing uncertainties and the effect of ...

Finite calculus. A stabilized finite element method for solving the Navier-Stokes equations. Application to ocean turbulence

Lamorena German, Arnel (Date of defense: 2020-09-17)

Ocean turbulence is a classic example of turbulent motion and observations of turbulence in the ocean lack in regions of complex topography since in-situ and experimental data are complicated to obtain. As a result, ocean ...

Finite element methods for advection-diffusion-absorption and fluid flow problems

Puigferrat Pérez, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-07-20)

The objective of the thesis is to develop a numerical tool to describe how the concentration of one or more substances distributed in a fluid environment changes under the effect of three transport processes: advection, ...

Finite element modeling of delamination in advanced composite beams and plates using one- and two-dimensional finite elements based on the refined zigzag theory

Eijo, A. (Ariel) (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)

Although laminated materials have been used for decades, their employment has increased nowadays in the last years as a result of the gained confidence of the industry on these materials. This has provided the scientific ...

Finite Element Models of Volcano Deformational Systems Having Structural Complexity

Ronchin, Erika (Date of defense: 2015-01-09)

The main focus of this work is to build 3-D FEM models with structural complexities in order to simulate volcanic systems in a more realistic way. We use Rabaul as an example to show the application of the methods and ...

Finite element simulation of additive manufacturing with enhanced accuracy

Moreira Filho, Carlos Augusto (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)

This thesis develops numerical methods to improve the accuracy and computational efficiency of the part-scale simulation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) (or 3D printing) metal processes. AM is characterized by multiple ...

Finite element simulation of the healthy and degenerated lumbar spine : interplay between muscle activity and intervertebral disc multiphysics

Toumanidou, Themis (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)

The human spine provides mechanical support to the trunk while it protects the spinal cord and nerves from the external loads transferred during daily activities. Such loads are largely controlled by the spine muscles and ...

Finite groups acting on smooth and symplectic 4-manifolds

Sáez Calvo, Carles (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)

En esta tesis se estudian problemas relacionados con acciones de grupos finitos en 4-variedades diferenciables y simplécticas. Se prueba que toda 4-variedad diferenciable cerrada X admite una constante C>0 tal que cualquier ...

Finite Models of Splicing and Their Complexity

Loos, Remco (Date of defense: 2008-02-14)

Durante las dos últimas décadas ha surgido una colaboración estrecha entre informáticos, bioquímicos y biólogos moleculares, que ha dado lugar a la investigación en un área conocida como la computación biomolecular. El ...

Fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) of rosaceous plants. Pathogen virulence and selection and characterization of biological control agents

Cabrefiga Olamendi, Jordi (Date of defense: 2004-06-22)

El fuego bacteriano, causado por Erwinia amylovora, es una enfermedad muy importante a nivel comercial y económico porque afecta a plantas de la familia de las rosáceas y es especialmente agresiva en manzano (Pyrus malus) ...