Universitat de Barcelona
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This dissertation seeks to contribute to a better understanding of the roles that universities currently play in economic development. This topic is particularly relevant in the current situation, in the aftermath of the ...
In this dissertation I aim at documenting costs and benefits of cities through the lenses of transport economics. In the second chapter of this dissertation, I analyse on the long-term economic effects of transportation ...
This thesis contributes with empirical evidence on policies that attempt to reduce spatial inequalities and also studying the drivers of residential segregation. Specifically, the second chapter assesses the impact on ...
Cities present high levels of worker and business productivity thanks to their agglomeration economies, which are usually capitalised in higher wages. Cities are, moreover, the perfect environment for consumption, thanks ...
[eng] The dissertation examines how rising housing costs and booming tourism affect local economies. The first chapter provides an introduction to the topic. The second chapter studies developers' influence on housing ...
Esta tesis estudia la relación entre costes de movilidad y desigualdad de género en el mercado laboral. Se argumenta que, en un contexto de roles de género tradicionales, que imponen en las mujeres mayor responsabilidad ...
[eng] Violence is a pervasive societal challenge with profound economic implications. The experience of violence can have durable impacts on the life-outcomes of victims: their health; labor market opportunities, educational ...
El objetivo de la tesis es analizar la desigualdad y la movilidad salarial en México en el periodo de 1987 a 2008. La tesis está dividida en cinco partes. En el Capítulo 1 se plantean la introducción y los objetivos de la ...
This PhD thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about wealth taxation by providing empirical evidence on this matter. On the one hand, it studies behavioural responses to taxes that levy broad stocks of wealth - i.e. the ...
Dispositional Essentialism is the view that fundamental properties essentially confer nomic roles on their bearers and as such are the sources of natural modality. The view offers an intriguing account of natural modality. ...
The Cytoplasmic Polyadenylation Element Binding (CPEB)-family of RNA-binding proteins is composed of four paralogs in mammals, CPEB1-4. The CPEBs control the translation of the targeted mRNAs by modulating the length of ...
Estudiar la relación que mantiene la personalidad y el Trastorno Mental (TM) resulta de gran interés en el momento actual. Uno de los objetivos principales de esta investigación es valorar la estabilidad-cambio de los ...
La memòria recull contribucions a diversos aspectes del problema de l'estabilitat en sistemes hamiltonians quasi-integrables. Aquests aspectes inclouen resultats d'estabilitat efectiva, que comporten el confinament de ...
[cat] La pioglitazona (PGZ) és un fàrmac que s’utilitza per al tractament de la diabetis tipus 2 ja que incrementa la sensibilitat de les cèl·lules a la insulina plasmàtica. La PGZ actua com a agonista del receptor nuclear ...
El objetivo final de esta tesis doctoral ha sido el establecimiento de metodologías analíticas para la separación y caracterización de mezclas complejas de péptidos y proteínas de gran interés terapéutico, empleando para ...
En aquesta tesi doctoral, s’ha desenvolupat metodologia analítica per a la purificació, separació i caracterització de prió cel•lular (PrPC) i superòxid dismutasa (SOD-1), dues proteïnes relacionades amb les Encefalopaties ...
Food and drinking water are the principal routes of exposure to arsenic (As) for humans. More than 50 different naturally occurring As-containing compounds have been identified. Regarding the toxicological aspects of arsenic ...
The development of sensitive analytical methods has allowed identifying non- nutrient chemicals in food that may affect the human health and are recognised as food chemical contaminants. Some of these compounds are originated ...
La clasificación de extensión anatómica del cáncer de pulmón, definida según el tumor primario, los ganglios linfáticos y las metástasis (TNM), permite agrupar tumores con una extensión anatómica similar y diferenciarlos ...
[spa] INTRODUCCION: La diabetes mellitus (DM) se define como un desorden metabólico de causas múltiples caracterizado por una hiperglucemia crónica asociada a alteraciones en el metabolismo de hidratos de carbono, proteínas ...
