Lema Asqui, Saúl Stalin (Date of defense: 2018-06-08)
The hypersensitive response (HR) is a paradigmatic type of programmed cell death, that occurs in response to pathogen recognition at the site of attempted invasion. Notwithstanding more than a century ...
Izquierdo Bouldstridge, Andrea (Date of defense: 2018-03-13)
Seven linker histone H1 variants are present in human somatic cells with distinct prevalence across cell types. Using variant-specific antibodies to H1 and hemagglutinin-tagged recombinant H1 variants ...
Madrid Castillo, María Dolores (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
Infant and child mortality have played a crucial role in health transition patterns and both have been considered as good indicators of development and demographic modernization. The establishment of ...
Hernáiz, Rodrigo, 1951- (Date of defense: 2018-05-30)
This thesis interrogates the extent to which a range of written variation in the Old Babylonian letters from the central area of Mesopotamia relate significantly to variables denoting temporal-historical ...
Hollstein, Till Ferdinand (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the impact of patterns of trade on the structural composition of an economy. We show that trade affects an economy’s productivity by shifting labor across ...
Forero-Laverde, Germán (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)
This dissertation discusses the accumulation and unwinding of financial imbalances in stock markets and credit aggregates in advanced economies since the interwar years until the present. The project ...
Giménez, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis fills important gaps of knowledge that will help to develop a proper conservation strategy for cetaceans in southern Iberian waters. We were able to define different ecological management ...
Carella, Mirco (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
The Antarctic bottoms harbour rich communities of sponges, which play an important role in structuring benthic habitats. Many Antarctic sponge species have been discovered in the past but most of them ...
Rodríguez Nuevo, Aida (Date of defense: 2018-04-12)
Opa1 is a mitochondrial dynamics protein responsible for the fusion of the inner mitochondrial membrane, the maintenance of cristae morphology, and involved in mitochondrial DNA stability. In this study ...
Gaviria Marín, Magaly (Date of defense: 2018-12-21)
Esta tesis doctoral se presenta como un compendio de cuatro contribuciones científicas que contribuyen al campo de la gestión del conocimiento. Se presentan dos capítulos teóricos que utilizan metodologías ...