Universitat de Barcelona
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[eng] Obesity has become exceedingly pervasive, a resultant of amplified food availability and reshaped human behavior stimulated by urbanization. It poses as a major challenge for human metabolic physiology testing ...
This PhD thesis explores the use of wide band gap chalcopyrite (CIGS) material and its application in thin film solar cells onto transparent back contacts, as a way to promote the use of thin film technologies in novel and ...
One type of photon detector is the photomultiplier tube (or PMT), most commonly used in Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACTs). A PMT has a photoelectric cathode that absorbs light and emits an electron. A PMT ...
Forest fires are a common phenomenon in the Mediterranean ecosystem. These wildfires, post-fire weather conditions and forest management before and after the fire can cause irreversible damage to the soil. This thesis aims ...
Wildfire effects on macroinvertebrate communities have not been intensively studied in other areas than the Western US, and the results in fire prone areas like NE Mediterranean and SE Australia are scarce. In this study, ...
Wind observations are essential for determining the atmospheric flow. In particular, sea-surface wind observations are very useful for many meteorological and oceanographic applications. In this respect, most of the satellite ...
The main objective of this thesis is to analyse the variation in non-breeding social systems within the group of parids and to identify the main factors involved. More specifically, I studied the role of food hoarding on ...
El trabajo de investigación se propone medir la influencia y recepción de Wittgenstein y Gadamer en el debate del pluralismo teórico contemporáneo. El pluralismo se comprende como una pluralidad de marcos conceptuales ...
El objetivo central de esta tesis doctoral es intentar establecer una aproximación entre los programas filosóficos de Wittgenstein y Heidegger, de forma particular, en lo que se refiere al grado de influencia de ambos con ...
Colorectal tumors with mutations on Wnt family members show an overexpression of several Notch target genes, suggesting a link between Wnt and Notch signaling pathways. In this work, we have demonstrated that there is ...
The main objective of this thesis work is to assess and map international research concerning gender in science and higher education. To do this, two different studies were designed: first, to examine the development and ...
Exposure to particulate matter in work environments has been linked to ischemic heart, cardiovascular and respiratory-related disease risk increase due to inhalation. Increased adverse health effects have been linked to ...
This thesis is concerned with the relationship between disability and working conditions. In the first two chapters we investigate how past and current working conditions, in conjunction with other socio-demographic ...
Novel events in the context generate an involuntary orienting response which may have a different impact on the performance of ongoing tasks depending on the specific situation in which humans are immersed. The five studies ...
My aim is to recreate from the texts and films the world which is shown, and then examine it in order to demonstrate a number of points. I hope to show that there is such a phenomenon as an English working class, and that ...
This doctoral thesis explores the relationship between archaeological tourism, World Heritage and social value in contemporary China. It intends to provide an innovative insight into such connections by scrutinizing the ...
This thesis examines the sub-genre of the literary biopic and its intersections with literary texts and other film genres through the lens of the melodramatic mode. It explores the dramatization of the ‘life-text’, defined ...
This thesis has four chapters which, together, offer a non-exhaustive but still quite extensive account of social reality. In Chapter 1, I defend an analysis of the notion of sociality which has it that to be social is ...
This dissertation aims to put forward a thorough reflection on contemporary processes of identity constructions, both individual and collective, which are criss-crossed by experiences of migration inscribed within the ...
Wt1 is a complex gene that encodes a protein whose best described function is to act as a transcription factor. Wt1 plays a crucial role in several organ developments, including kidneys, liver, heart or gonads. Moreover, ...
