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    Study of the role of the overexpression of the high mobility group-AT-hook-1 (HMGA1) protein in the adipose tissue and its implications in the development of obesity and insulin resistance 

    Arce Cerezo, Altamira (Date of defense: 2013-07-12)

    La obesidad es un trastorno metabólico complejo que ha alcanzado proporciones epidémicas en los países desarrollados y en desarrollo. Por otra parte, la obesidad es un factor de riesgo importante que a su vez aumenta el ...

    Study of the Secundary Neurulation in the chick embryo, a model to understand neural tube defects = Estudio de la neurulación secundaria en el embrión del pollo, un modelo para entender los defectos del tubo neural 

    González Gobartt, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)

    Body axis elongation is a hallmark of the vertebrate embryo, which also comprises the morphogenesis of the caudal neural tube (NT). The contribution of bipotential neuromesodermal progenitors (NMPs) to the cranio-caudal ...

    A study of the shortwave schemes in the Weather Research and Forecasting model 

    Montornès Torrecillas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-02-09)

    The radiative transfer cannot be explicitly resolved in the atmospheric models for two reasons: i) a full treatment of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) requires a high amount of computational resources and ii) the ...

    Study of the structural behavior of hybrid elements of carbon fiber reinforced polymer and concrete 

    Mahboob, Amir (Date of defense: 2021-11-30)

    Creating sustainability and public infrastructure is a fairly recent subject the engineering community has been debating. Introducing new building materials or introducing new structural designs is a strategy for constructing ...

    Study of the structure-properties relationship of Fe-Al, Nb-Al and Ni-Ti intermetallic coatings obtained by thermal spray technologies 

    Cinca i Luis, Núria (Date of defense: 2008-12-03)

    Due to the current interest on intermetallic compounds (IMCs), specially for their use at high temperatures being capable to substitute superalloys and, for the lately improvement of their lack of ductility, this work ...

    Study of the theoretical bounds and practical limits of time synchronization protocols using an Ethernet FPGA platform 

    Nicolau Jené, Carles (Date of defense: 2011-02-07)

    The goal of synchronization is to align/synchronize the time and frequency scales of all nodes within a network. In industrial applications, synchronization enables simultaneous triggering of distributed events and ...

    Study of the transport mechanism of the melibiose permease from Escherichia coli 

    Ying Wang, Li (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)

    El transportador de melibiosa d'Escherichia coli (MelB) pot utilitzar l'energia electroquímica tant de H+, Na+ o Li+ per transportar la melibiosa a l'interior de les cèl·lules en contra del seu gradient de concentració. ...

    Study of the tumor sensitivity of the marine compound elisidepsin and her3 receptor in breast carcinomas 

    Teixidó Febrero, Cristina (Date of defense: 2012-04-23)

    Elisidepsin es un nuevo depsipéptido sintético resultante del programa de investigación interna de PharmaMar para la obtención de productos sintéticos derivados de compuestos naturales de origen marino. Elisidepsin es un ...

    Study of the Ultra High Pressure Homogenization (UHPH) technology for producing high quality soymilk 

    Poliseli Scopel, Fábio Henrique (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)

    El consumo de licuado de soja está experimentado un notable incremento debido a su consideración de producto saludable. El licuado de soja, además de ser una alternativa a la leche de vaca, sobre todo para las personas que ...

    Study of the vμ interactions via charged current in the T2K near detector 

    García Soto, Alfonso Andrés (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)

    T2K es un experimento de largo recorrido situado en Japón que pretende medir oscillación de neutrinos. Los neutrinos se producen usando un acelerador y son detectados en un detector lejano (Super- Kamiokande) y un complejo ...

    Study of thermal transitions in polymers by a multifrequency modulated DSC technique 

    Fraga Rivas, Iria (Date of defense: 2010-02-26)

    Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) is one of the most widely used thermal analysis techniques for the study of transitions and relaxation processes in polymers and also in other materials. It measures the heat flow ...

    Study of thyroid hormone disruption by the environmental contaminant bde-99 in perinatal rats 

    Blanco Pérez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)

    Los contaminantes ambientales difenil éteres polibromados (PBDEs) se encuentran en altas concentraciones en mujeres. El propósito de la presente tesis es el estudio de la toxicidad ocasionada por el traspaso materno de ...

    Study of transition metal carbide catalysts of group 5 in the RWGS reaction 

    Pajares Rojas, Arturo Javier (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)

    Nowadays there is a growing interest in the capture and utilization of CO2 because of the increase of its concentration in the atmosphere. Captured CO2 can be recycled through different processes to obtain several value-added ...

    Study of two analogues of pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide as novel therapeutic compounds for Huntington’s disease 

    Solés Tarrés, Irene (Date of defense: 2023-06-14)

    Huntington’s disease (HD) is a neurodegenerative genetic disorder with no effective treatment characterized by motor discoordination, deficits in cognitive function (acquiring new knowledges, memory, understanding…), and ...

    Study of urine extracellular vesicles-derived protein biomarkers for the non-invasive monitoring of kidney-transplanted patients 

    Carreras Planella, Laura (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)

    El rebuig crònic en el trasplantament renal és la causa principal de fallada de l’empelt. Donat que la biòpsia renal (l’actual mètode diagnòstic considerat com a el ‘gold standard’) és invasiva, costosa, implica una alta ...

    Study of vaccines and new strategies for the control of goat tuberculosis 

    Arrieta Villegas, Claudia Cecilia (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)

    La tuberculosi (TB) és una malaltia infecciosa causada per diferents membres del complex Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTBC), que pot afectar un ampli ventall d’hostes, inclosos els éssers humans i diferents espècies d’animals ...

    Study of vegetation dynamics from satellite: phenological responses to climate change 

    Bórnez Mejías, Kevin (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)

    La fenologia és la clau per a controlar els processos fisicoquímics i biològics, especialment l’albedo, la rugositat superficial, conductància de les fulles, fluxos de carboni, aigua i energia. Per tant, l’estimació de la ...

    Study of viscoelasticity and adhesion of human alveolar epithelial cells by atomic force microscopy. The importance of probe geometry 

    Rico Camps, Félix (Date of defense: 2006-01-27)

    During the last century, cellular biology has been mostly assessed from the biochemical point of view: studying how biochemical stimuli modify the biochemical composition of living cells. However, most of the cells that ...

    Study on adsorption behavior of rare earth elements onto magnetic nanocomposites of carboxymethyl chitosan, alginate and novel biodegradable polyamide 

    Javadian, Hamedreza (Date of defense: 2020-07-16)

    Rare Earth Elements (REEs) are known as the remarkable components in many technologies that are driving the modern world. They are widely used in chemical engineering, permanent magnets, fluorescent lighting, sensors, cell ...

    A study on autocatalysis through synthetic biology. Exploration of spatiotemporal dynamics in the presence or absence of synthetic autocatalytic Hepatocyte Growth Factor signaling in mammalian cells 

    Bárcena Menéndez, Diego (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)

    Una de las preguntas sin resolver en la biologia celular, es como las células mamíferas logran generar patrones estables como organos o seres vivos, en un entorno variable. El concepto matemático del bucle de retreoalimentación, ...