Hisham Abdelradi Khalaf, Fadi Mohamed (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
The guiding theme of this thesis is the empirical analysis of recent food price behavior. It is composed of three applied studies that address the impacts of energy prices on both food price levels and ...
Muriel Goñi, Sara (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
The herpesvirus diseases are increasing in importance as a public health problem throughout the world. Members of the human herpesvirus family are global in distribution and infect 60-95% of the world's ...
Soria Florido, María Trinidad (Date of defense: 2019-01-11)
Cardiovascular disease remains the first cause of death worldwide. Pharmacological trials and Mendelian randomization studies have failed to unequivocally prove an inverse association between HDL-C ...
Vais, Ricardo Silva dos Santos (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The γ-‐tubulin ring complex (γTuRC) is required to efficiently generate new microtubules (MT) in a process known as MT nucleation. In mitotic cells, MT nucleation by γTuRC occurs from the centrosome, ...
Martí Martí, Sara (Date of defense: 2008-11-26)
La capacidad de <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> para causar infecciones nosocomiales se relaciona con su habilidad para desarrollar rápidamente resistencia a los antibióticos, junto con la capacidad que ...
Tahirbegi, Islam Bogachan (Date of defense: 2013-11-05)
In this thesis, pH and potassium all-solid-state ISE based on potentiometry and bioimpedance sensors were designed, fabricated and integrated in a miniaturized array for its application in endoscopic ...
Talló Domínguez, Kirian (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
Lipids are essential components in most living organisms whose functionality varies with their chemical structure. In an aqueous environment, diluted dispersions of phospholipids tend to form vesicles ...
Trindade, Ana Filipa Mestre (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
[eng] Heat, moisture, gas, and momentum exchanges at the oceanic and atmospheric interface modulate, inter alia, the Earth’s heat and carbon budgets, global circulation, and dynamical modes. Sea surface ...
Pozuelo Ruiz, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
Electron Transfer (ET) is undoubtedly one of the most important processes in life. Molecularly well-defined ET pathways in complex protein ensembles play a vital role in biological processes such as ...
Pujals Pruneda, Mireia (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
RAGE is a transmembrane protein of the immunoglobulin family highly expressed during embryonic development but rarely expressed in adult healthy tissues. However, under cellular stress RAGE is re-expressed ...