González Torres, Sergio (Date of defense: 2024-05-15)
[eng] New pressures due to emerging trends in device manufacturing are driving research efforts in new materials and manufacturing processes to achieve new combinations of properties, including capabilities ...
Arazo Sánchez, Maria (Date of defense: 2024-05-16)
[eng] Bose-Einstein condensation is a direct consequence of quantum statistical effects. It occurs in ultradilute gases at very low temperatures: most atoms condense into the lowest-energy state and ...
Granados Leyva, Sergio (Date of defense: 2024-05-06)
[eng] This thesis will present a body of articles on the research topic of soft matter. Soft matter is a research subfield of condensed matter, where the energy required for deforming the media is ...
Jia Zheng, Yuan (Date of defense: 2023-05-31)
[eng] Over the last four decades, China has emerged as the world's main economic actor. This thesis aims to provide a new understanding of the re-emergence of the Chinese economy. The main hypothesis ...
Hernández Carro, Claudia (Date of defense: 2024-03-19)
[eng] Prostate and colorectal cancer are among the cancer types with the highest recurrence and mortality rates. The emergence of drug resistance poses a considerable challenge for effective treatment, ...
D’Agruma, Nicolò (Date of defense: 2024-05-09)
[eng] This dissertation champions the causal-historical theory of reference for proper names by using experimental methods, engaging with the debate that Machery, Mallon, Nichols, and Stich raised in ...
Navarro Ortiz, Josep Miquel (Date of defense: 2024-05-09)
[eng] This thesis provides research in the area of Monetary Economics. The thesis is divided in three main bodies in which three different but interrelated topics in the field of Monetary Economics are ...
Hernández Fresno, David (Date of defense: 2024-03-08)
[eng] Plants are not isolated organisms; instead, they constantly interact with the microorganisms in their environment, forming a holobiont that consists of the plants themselves and their entire ...
Creus Bachiller, Edgar (Date of defense: 2024-03-13)
[eng] Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors (MPNSTs) are aggressive soft-tissue sarcomas. They usually appear in the clinical context of Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), however, they also occur at a ...
Ramponi, Valentina (Date of defense: 2024-03-15)
[eng] Anti-cancer therapies are based on the infliction of damage or stress to cancer cells, with the aim of triggering cell death. In practice, a fraction of cancer cells often evades cell death and ...