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Palma Gudiel, Helena (Date of defense: 2019-02-15)
Psychiatric disorders are highly prevalent and one of the leading causes of disease burden worldwide. Nevertheless, there are no validated biomarkers to be used for either diagnostic or prognostic purposes and their etiology ...
Ejarque Gonzalez, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2014-11-17)
Rivers play a key role in the global biogeochemical functioning, as they link the biogeochemical cycles of the terrestrial and oceanic systems. In the framework of the carbon cycle, streams and rivers receive dissolved ...
García-Granero Fos, Juan José (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
Understanding how human societies adapted to past environmental and climatic variability is fundamental to face present and future climatic events, particularly in highly vulnerable arid and semi-arid regions. Northern ...
Renes, Cornelis Martin (Date of defense: 2010-01-28)
[eng] This dissertation and its prequel, my minor thesis, have their seeds in a concern with a certain uncanniness embedded in multicultural developments in Western society. In his 1919 essay “The Uncanny”, Freud explains ...
Sessa, Clarimma (Date of defense: 2014-11-24)
The main scope of this doctoral thesis was the evaluation of micro- and non-destructive techniques applied to artwork characterization. The need to study capabilities and limitations of these techniques arises from their ...
Campàs i Rigau, Otger (Date of defense: 2006-01-01)
[eng] The propulsion mechanisms that drive the movements of living cells constitute perhaps the most impressive engineering works of nature. Still, it is simply the interaction between molecules which is responsible for ...
Okenve Ramos, Pilar Moyong (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
How a chemoattractant can act on a tissue to induce its migration towards that source? I have tried to answer this question in this research using as migratory tissue model the Drosophila respiratory organ (trachea) during ...
Díaz Perlas, Cristina (Date of defense: 2018-03-07)
Peptides play a critical role in human physiology and harbour a huge potential as therapeutic agents. In this thesis, new peptides have been discovered as ligands for the epidermal growth factor (EGF) and as new BBB-shuttles, ...
Hernández-Vela, Antonio (Date of defense: 2015-03-09)
The visual analysis of humans from images is an important topic of interest due to its relevance to many computer vision applications like pedestrian detection, monitoring and surveillance, human-computer interaction, ...
Sánchez-Fortún Burriel, Moisès (Date of defense: 2022-07-20)
Mercury pollution is of great concern for the scientific community due to their ubiquity and persistence in the environment. Its bioaccumulation and biomagnification capacities along food webs enhance their toxicity both ...
Magkanas, Georgios (Date of defense: 2023-09-18)
[eng] The present PhD thesis is focused on the study of the compositional, morphological and formal characteristics of medieval cultural heritage objects, and more specifically manuscripts and champlevé enamels of Limoges, ...
Codony Gisbert, Sandra (Date of defense: 2020-09-17)
Epoxieicosatrienoic acids acids (EETs) are endogenous chemical mediators derived from arachidonic acid that show anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, analgesic, angiogenic and antiatherosclerotic effects. Soluble epoxide ...
Alonso Parrilla, Lorena (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] One of the major and most challenging goals of Biomedicine during the last centuries has been the study of the human biological mechanisms, and its relation with traits and diseases. Particularly, in the case of ...
Migliari, Wellington (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
The conflict between property system and the right to housing has evolved into a more complex inquiry since the beginning of the present research. Our initial analysis on the effectiveness of the social function in ownership ...
Brieden, Samuel (Date of defense: 2022-09-14)
[eng] Despite the successes of the cosmological ΛCDM model and having entered the "Precision Era of Cosmology" there are still open questions. The principal model ingredients, ΛCDM, contribute to ~95% of the total energy ...
Fontanals García, David (Date of defense: 2020-03-02)
In July 1941, Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), finished the first draft of his memoirs, which he titled Blick auf mein Leben. One month later, in August 1941, he and his wife Lotte would leave for Brazil never to return. The last ...
Brines Pérez, Mariola (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
Air pollution is a major environmental and public health concern, especially in urban areas where both emission sources and population are concentrated. The pollution sources and the evolution of aerosols and gaseous ...
Yildirim, Almila (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
[eng] The Western calligraphy tradition, with more than a two-thousand-year-old, evolved depending on the technical possibilities and various vernacular needs of the time. It has been utilized as a functional entity, which ...
Trejo Soto, Claudia Andrea (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
Since Poiseuille times, several techniques has been developed to measure the viscosity of blood. During the 60's and 70's, with the appearance of the first rheomethers, the rheological properties of blood were accurately ...
Gutiérrez Bonilla, Juan Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)
La investigación <<Fronteras y transmigraciones del diálogo intercultural: implicancias del acto educativo como acción estética y emancipadora>> consiste en el diseño (en el marco de la metodología de modelización ecosistémica) ...