Morais Leitão de Almeida, Bruno Alexandre (Date of defense: 2022-05-26)
[eng] INTRODUCTION: Peri-implantitis is an inflammatory condition that affects soft and hard tissues around dental implants and that can lead to implant failure. Implantoplasty is a procedure that allows ...
González Gómez, Belén (Date of defense: 2023-10-25)
[eng] Math anxiety is an emotional response that arises in math-related contexts. It is described as a general dread of contact with math and a feeling of tension while dealing with it. In addition to ...
Silva, Marta Marques de Almeida e (Date of defense: 2023-10-13)
[eng] Since the moment of our birth, we are driven by an insatiable urge to understand and make sense of the world around us. To navigate the continuous flow of experiences, our minds instinctively break ...
López Caicoya, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-07-28)
[eng] The study of animal cognition has advanced greatly over the century. We now know that many cognitive processes are shared among several species in the animal kingdom. The interest over the evolution ...
Santano García, Rebeca (Date of defense: 2022-06-17)
[eng] INTRODUCTION: Some of the infectious agents that affect the largest proportion of the world population are Plasmodium falciparum and helminths such as soil-transmitted helminths (STH) and Schistosoma ...
Montironi, Carla (Date of defense: 2022-06-20)
[eng] INTRODUCTION: Liver cancer is a devastating disease and represents the seventh most common cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer-related death globally. Hepatocellular carcinoma ...
Macho García, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-10-26)
[eng] Weight discrimination (WD) has existed for decades, and it is well spread in our societies. However, it has received less attention from authorities and society than other forms of discrimination. ...
Arias Díaz-Faes, Diego (Date of defense: 2023-11-29)
[eng] Bias-motivated violence encompasses various types of targeted violence against underrepresented groups and is considered more potentially harmful than non-based biasmotivated violence. Research ...
Pavlov, Goran (Date of defense: 2023-11-24)
[eng] Structural equation modeling (SEM) is a versatile framework that allows researchers to estimate systems of equations and test theoretical models. A significant portion of the literature on SEM ...
Folle, Camila (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
The skin is major organ of the human body, and its function is to protect the internal tissue from environmental changes, maintains the body temperature and avoid penetration of contaminants. Therefore, ...