Puig Castellví, Francesc (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is able to produce by a single direct measurement a very high amount of chemical information. However, this information is not always easy to interpret. In ...
Borgman, Kyra J. E. (Date of defense: 2018-10-26)
Discrimination between foreign and potentially harmful antigens, and the body’s own tissue is one of the most crucial first steps that lays at the basis of a proper immune response. Immunoreceptors are ...
Delgado Aqueveque, Laura Angelina (Date of defense: 2018-05-25)
This essay is devoted to the study of proper names. Although the view that sees proper names as referential singular terms is widely considered orthodoxy, there is a growing popularity to the view that ...
Christou, Spyros (Date of defense: 2018-03-04)
[eng] Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show considerable difficulties in the linguistic production of verbal morphology marks and function words. The present study analyzes the capacity ...
Rodilla Martín, Ananda Marina (Date of defense: 2018-04-10)
Oral and lung cancer are included in the most prevalent respiratory diseases, being the latter one of the main causes of mortality worldwide. Despite new advances in diagnosis and clinical care, success ...
Millán Nebot, Claudia Lucía (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
Phasing X-ray data within the frame of the ARCIMBOLDO programs requires very accurate models and a sophisticated evaluation of the possible hypotheses. ARCIMBOLDO uses small fragments, that are placed ...
Ninot Pedrosa, Martí (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
Amyloid-beta peptide (Aβ) is strongly linked to the aetiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Aβ is the main component of the amyloid plaques found in the brain of AD patients, however, Aβ is also present ...
Navarro Argemí, Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-10-25)
The goal of this thesis is studying hydrodynamic effects on active colloidal suspensions. Hydrodynamic interaction is propagated through the fluid in which the colloids displace due to the flow they ...
Padró i Caminal, Roc (Date of defense: 2018-02-15)
The fundamental objective of this thesis is setting up a model to optimize the functioning of agricultural activity at the landscape level. It is a thesis with a strong methodological component. However, ...
Suelves Caballol, Núria (Date of defense: 2018-07-23)
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a rare genetic disorder caused by an aberrant expansion of a CAG trinucleotide in the huntingtin gene (Htt). The neuropathology of the disease is characterized by progressive ...