Universitat de Barcelona
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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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
[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, ...
Epoxieicosatrienoic acids acids (EETs) are endogenous chemical mediators derived from arachidonic acid that show anti-inflammatory, antihypertensive, analgesic, angiogenic and antiatherosclerotic effects. Soluble epoxide ...
[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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[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 ...
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 ...
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) ...
Aquest treball és una contribució a la recerca d’una filosofia transdisciplinar, transcultural i emancipadora. En la primera part (“L’estètica transcendental en la fenomenologia genètica de Husserl”) ens proposem comprendre ...
DE LA TESIS:<br/><br/>Los fondos de inversión han permitido, desde sus orígenes, canalizar el exceso de capital o ahorro de distintos agentes económicos hacia los demandantes de capital. En España este vehículo se popularizó ...
¿Cómo y cuando llegaron a España disciplinas de lucha japonesa como el Ju-Jutsu, el Judo y el Aikido? ¿Y cómo se difundieron en nuestro país? <br/> <br/>El Ju-Jutsu fue el primer Arte Marcial japonés en llegar a España. ...
This doctoral thesis raises the idea that 3D printing can change the paradigm of radio- frequency electronics, which has been traditionally developed mainly conceiving planar topologies. A review on additive manufacturing ...
[spa] El problema principal tras una resección oncológica a nivel lingual o de suelo de boca, es el déficit funcional causado por la falta de volumen o fijación cicatricial. Basándonos en una revisión sistemática de la ...
INTRODUCCIÓN: El envejecimiento empeora la funcionalidad física y capacidades motrices de las personas incluyendo la velocidad de marcha, la fuerza y el equilibrio. Los objetivos de este proyecto fueron: describir una ...
