Universitat de Barcelona
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¿Cómo resuelven los animales las discriminaciones espaciales o encuentran el camino a una meta situada en una determinada localización? O'Keefe y Nadel (1978) consideran que las ratas pueden aprender el camino hacia una ...
The primary topic of this thesis lies at the crossroads of Commutative Algebra and its interactions with Algebraic Geometry and Combinatorics. It is mainly focused around the following themes: I Defining equations ...
My dissertation aims at analyzing the impact of State intervention in Bolivia by looking at the long term evolution of Bolivian Public Finances, 1882-2007. My dissertation is compound by four different chapters. In the ...
This dissertation addresses the emergence of emotional involvement in the interaction with social robots. More specifically, we investigate the dynamics of children bonding with robotic pets to design robot based programs ...
Amb la consolidació d’un sistema educatiu comprensiu i obligatori fins als setze anys es fa evident el desencaix entre un grup d’adolescents i l’institut, entre l’escola i joves que abans de fer setze anys diuen no a ...
La presente tesis describe y analiza la serie de antologías de literatura fantástica realizadas por el autor argentino Jorge Luis Borges entre los años 1940 (fecha de la publicación de la selección Antología de la literatura ...
[eng] This thesis focuses on RNA, one of the most versatile molecules in biological systems, and how intermolecular interactions with ions and proteins govern RNA folding. On its way to biological function, RNA transits a ...
[cat] La present tesi pretén reflexionar sobre els canvis territorials i paisatgístics en dues zones de Catalunya rurals i forestals: Les Gavarres i la Catalunya Central, a través de la mirada de persones representatives ...
Bottled mineral water has managed to become a commodity and can be found virtually anywhere in the world. However, even if it is a very common and well recognized product, little it is known about its history, about how, ...
Forty-five years after the death of the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dealing with the legacies of the country's repressive past and addressing the needs of the regime's victims of human rights violations continues to ...
In this thesis, it is detailed the bottom-up production and characterization of thermoelectric (TE) nanomaterials with significant enhanced performance by using colloidal nanocrystals (NCs) as building blocks. The production ...
In the world around us, it is easy to think in different situations in which there are temperature gradients available. These could be converted into a great source of energy if using the proper technology. Thermoelectric ...
The main goal of this thesis is to characterize the weak-type (resp. strong-type) boundedness of the Hilbert transform H on weighted Lorentz spaces Λpu(w). The characterization is given in terms of some geometric ...
Desde mi llegada al pueblo de Nunkiní en el año 2004, observé tres cosas: la primera fue la incesante vida ritual de los pobladores y la importancia de los yumtsilo’ob o dueños del monte; la segunda fue la devoción a San ...
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative process with several motor and non-motor manifestations. Among non-motor symptoms, cognitive decline is a major cause of disability, and its neural bases are poorly understood. ...
This PhD thesis is focused in the application of brain network models obtained from different modalities of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to characterize anomalies in neurodevelopment of a prenatal origin, using ...
Esta tesis busca contribuir al estudio de los correlatos neurobiológicos de los síntomas obsesivos-compulsivos subclínicos (SOCS) con la esperanza de que sus hallazgos puedan ser eventualmente vinculados al desarrollo del ...
BACKGROUND: Chronic hypoxia due to placental insufficiency and prenatal undernutrition are probably the two major causes worldwide of an adverse intrauterine environment having an impact on neurodevelopment. Clinically, ...
[eng] Impairment in social functioning is a common diagnostic criteria for most psychiatric disorders (1,2). Multiples causes may be involved in the loss, or the lack of acquisition, of social skills in psychopathological ...
Neuroinflammation is present in practically all neurological disorders. Microglial cells, the main representatives of the endogenous immune system of the brain, play a key role in neuroinflammation, although peripheral ...
