Moles, Juan (Date of defense: 2016-09-23)
This thesis covers three important aspects of Antarctic heterobranchs: ecology, taxonomy, and systematics. The first section deals with ecological interactions of several nudibranchs. In Chapter 1, we ...
Rodríguez Monforte, Míriam (Date of defense: 2017-03-06)
Las enfermedades cardiometabólicas son la primera causa de muerte a nivel mundial. La prevención primaria de dichas enfermedades es el pilar fundamental para una salud óptima de los adultos, debiendo ...
Ribó Gené, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)
Childhood obesity and overweight can often cause severe complications, including hypertension, dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, amongst other ...
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 ...
Aristizábal Corrales, David (Date of defense: 2012-06-13)
14-3-3 proteins have been extensively studied from yeast to mammals, and are associated with multiple roles ranging from fundamental processes such as cell cycle, apoptosis and stress response to diseases ...
Rodríguez, Miguel (Date of defense: 2003-05-30)
Up until relatively recently, the discharging of waste in the environment was the way of eliminating them, until the auto-purifying capacity of the environment was not sufficient. The permitted levels ...
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 ...
Bayés-García, Laura (Date of defense: 2013-07-10)
Esta tesis se basa fundamentalmente en el estudio in situ del polimorfismo de triacilgliceroles (TAGs) mayoritarios de aceites y grasas alimentarios, la determinación del comportamiento de fases de ...
Grau Olivares, Marta (Date of defense: 2008-06-25)
L’infart cerebral és la segona causa de mort, així com d’incapacitació a nivell mundial (Di Carlo et al.,2000), essent responsable de múltiples seqüeles físiques i cognitives, incloent la demència. ...
Fernández Golbano, Isabel M. (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)
S. cerevisiae (budding yeast) is particularly powerful to study the relation between the molecular mechanisms of actin regulation and its biological significance due to its powerful molecular and genetic ...