Mussons, Joan Maria (Date of defense: 2018-07-12)
Concerns over sustainability and the cyclical pattern of public finances have been especially great since the onset of the global financial crisis. This thesis comprises four essays which aim to examine ...
Gumí Audenis, Berta (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
Biological membranes (BMs) are self-sealing boundaries, which confine the permeability barriers of cells and organelles and provide the means to compartmentalize functions. Apart from being crucial for ...
Blázquez Gómez, Josep Oriol (Date of defense: 2018-12-13)
This Thesis has been focused on the fabrication and characterization of different CMOS- compatible materials in order to determine both their electro-optical and resistive switching properties. Basically, ...
Obaco Álvarez, Moisés Lenyn (Date of defense: 2018-09-25)
This thesis focuses on analyzing agglomeration effects in Ecuador. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is an introductory chapter where it is focused on the motivation of the ...
Terrades Garcia, Nekane (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)
Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a chronic granulomatous vasculitis affecting large- and medium-sized vessels. This disease can lead to different symptoms related to vascular or systemic inflammation, such ...
Amato, Roberta (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
The topics dealt with in this thesis are all part of the general problem of social consensus, namely how a convention flourish and decay and what motivates people to conform to it. Examples range from ...
Nieto Isabel, Delfina Isabel (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
This dissertation focuses on the application of the methods of Social Network Analysis to the study of religious dissident movements in late medieval Languedoc. The aim of the project is to analyse the ...
Altay, Gizem (Date of defense: 2018-12-20)
Intestinal epithelium is highly specialized tissue organized into crypt-villus units relevant for their effective barrier function and nutrient absorption. In the crypt units reside the proliferative ...
Gómez Miragaya, Jorge (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)
Chemotherapy is a general treatment for most breast tumors and depending on breast cancer subtype combination with targeted anti-hormonal or anti-HER2 therapy is conducted. Taxane-based regimens constitute ...
González Pampillón, Nicolás (Date of defense: 2018-06-25)
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 ...