Codina Sala, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-10-09)
In this thesis we asses the phenomena of arising interactions in soft matter in coexistence with soft active matter. As a non-equilibrium bath we introduce ensembles of self-propelled particles, granular ...
Cañellas Fontanilles, Marina (Date of defense: 2018-07-17)
It is widely known that the development of modern chemistry and the consequent world industrialization have improved our quality of life to unimaginable levels. However, these advances have come with a ...
Cortés Serra, Verònica (Date of defense: 2018-02-05)
La mortalitat per captura accidental en les pesqueres de palangre representa una de les principals amenaces per a nombroses espècies d’ocells marins a nivell mundial. En el Mediterrani, aquesta mortalitat ...
Velez, Maria Rita Perdigão (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
Leishmaniosis is an important vector-borne zoonosis caused by Leishmania infantum. The disease is widespread across several continents and endemic in the Mediterranean region. The domestic dog is the ...
Harjung, Astrid (Date of defense: 2018-04-03)
Headwater streams essentially link the terrestrial and the aquatic carbon cycle because they transport terrestrial organic and inorganic carbon downstream towards the oceans. However, most of these ...
Carvalho Simoes, Francisco Manuel de (Date of defense: 2018-07-06)
Glucose transporters (GLUTs) are extremely important for glucose metabolism. Glucose transporters uptake glucose from blood stream into the cells where it can be metabolized. Among the glucose transporters ...
Poblador Ibáñez, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)
During the last decades, most of the studies based on climate change effects on vegetation physiology have focused on upland forests and species at their border of distribution, since, in both conditions, ...
Tarrats Sada, Pol (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)
The study of past ecological changes is highly useful for understanding how ecosystems have responded to climate and human-induced disturbances. It is thus relevant in the context of climate change, as ...
Fernández Núñez, Isabel (Date of defense: 2018-07-19)
In physics, it is common to find different phenomena being described by similar equations. A good analogy can make us look at a problem from a different point of view. In that way, ideas may be transferred ...
Esteve-Solé, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-05-18)
IL-12/IFN-γ axis is a principal pathway for intramacrophagic pathogens immunity such as leishmania or mycobacteria. Alterations in this axis, being both congenic (causing the primary immunodeficiency ...