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Migration associated with movements between breeding and wintering areas allow animals to maximize fitness in response to seasonal changes in resources (Dingle 2014). Some of the most incredible migrations in the animal ...
The development of two Arctic Trough Mouth Fans (TMFs), the Storfjorden and Kveithola TMFs, is investigated by means of sub-bottom and seismic reflection profiles, multibeam bathymetry and sediment samples allowing their ...
How can we use immersive and interactive technologies to portray stories? How can we take advantage of the fact that within immersive virtual environments people tend to respond realistically to virtual situations and ...
The aim of the thesis is to contribute to a better understanding of the strategic and dynamic interactions in some marketing problems by using a differential game approach. Specifically, in the first study, we analyze a ...
[eng] COVID-19 crisis marked a milestone for all organizations to reconsider digitalization priorities. Coworking spaces, as digitally underdeveloped components of the sharing economy, carried out a series of digital ...
Every year, through mass drug administration (MDA), hundreds of millions of the world’s poorest people receive a single annual dose of one or more drugs to eliminate certain parasitic worm or bacterial infections. Some of ...
The energy demand increase and the generation of wastes is being the major problem regarding the next generation sustainability. Both problems can be corrected through the implementation of anaerobic digestion, a waste ...
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has emerged as a promising alternative host for recombinant protein expression. Despite its advantageous characteristics and low-cost production, its use is hampered by low expression levels of ...
Iron deficiency is the most prevalent nutritional issue worldwide. The fortification of food products could help covering the iron requirements, mainly in certain population groups where prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia ...
The objectives of this thesis are to evaluate the strategies for expanding the donor pool by using expanded criteria donors and for increasing patient and graft survival by optimization of immunosuppression strategies. It ...
[eng] Conventional catalysts for polymer electrolyte fuel cells are based on Pt supported on porous carbons, generally carbon blacks. However, Pt is expensive and scarce and is poisoned by CO, which is present in the ...
El Street Art será la espina dorsal sobre la que se articulará esta tesis doctoral, podremos extrapolar ciertas conclusiones y teorías desarrolladas en la presente tesis hacia aquellas opciones plásticas que surjan de la ...
The present study aims to contribute to the analysis on the capacity of contract enforcement institutions in early modern Spain to protect private property rights, thus encouraging the development of markets. In order to ...
[eng] Streptococcus pneumoniae is an important human pathogen, being one of the main etiological agents of serious infectious diseases such as pneumonia or meningitis and other less serious like otitis media. S. pneumoniae ...
The world is facing an unprecedented situation: soon the number of people over 60 years old will exceed the number of children, and more people at extreme old age than ever before. This is due to medical advances that have ...
Nowadays, advances in affective and social neuroscience have shown how the exposure to environmental factors has an impact on the structure and functioning of the brain being thus, active agents in the formation of an ...
Esta tesis doctoral introduce los aquí llamados lenguajes estricto-débiles, y los analiza desde diversos puntos de vista. Los lenguajes estricto débiles son aquellos lenguajes formales que constan de conjunción, disyunción, ...
La investigación presentada está centrada en la mejora de sensores de gas conductométricos de Sn02. Se analizan sensores en capa gruesa y en capa delgada. En el primer caso, el polvo de Sn02 necesario para fabricar los ...
Determining and understanding protein structure in atomic detail is a fundamental process to the advancement of biotechnology and biomedicine, shedding light the role of macromolecules and their complexes, their biological ...
[eng] Several proteases and their antagonistic protein or peptide inhibitors sparked researchers’ interest due to their potential as therapeutic targets. The present thesis, which compiles results obtained in three independent ...
