Youssif, Catrin (Date of defense: 2017-10-27)
Chronic inflammation is a hallmark of colon cancer, and patients with inflammatory bowel disease are prone to developing colon tumors. In recent years, many efforts have been devoted to characterize the ...
Sessa, Clarimma (Date of defense: 2014-11-24)
The main scope of this doctoral thesis was the evaluation of micro- and non-destructive techniques applied to artwork characterization. The need to study capabilities and limitations of these techniques ...
Menéndez Serra, Mateu (Date of defense: 2022-06-16)
Understanding the mechanisms and processes driving biological com- munities assembly, i.e. determining why a specific community is found under certain circumstances, is one of the fundamental questions ...
Sanz Fernández, Àlex (Date of defense: 2016-01-11)
In this thesis I analyze access problems to basic services like water and energy in developing countries. The objective of the thesis is to show how to improve access to water services and clean energies ...
Robles Jiménez, Francisco Javier (Date of defense: 2017-06-09)
This thesis is devoted mainly to the study of assignment problems in two- sided markets. The thesis is divided into three parts. The underlying objective of this division is to provide different ...
Albuquerque, Hugo Cardoso (Date of defense: 2016-03-16)
This dissertation presents the results of our research on some recent devel-opments in Abstract Algebraic Logic (AAL), namely on the Suszko operator, the Leibniz filters, and truth-equational logics. ...
Sebé Pedrós, Arnau (Date of defense: 2013-06-07)
The origin of animal multicellularity is a major evolutionary transition and a poorly understood one. In recent years, the sequencing of the genomes of several earlybranching metazoans, such as sponges ...
Bosch, Marta (Bosch Vilarrubias) (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
This dissertation provides an analysis of the representation of Arab American men in post-9/11 writings by Arab American women. This thesis contributes a new inquiry regarding Arab American literature ...
Centelles Aixalà, Mario (Date of defense: 1992-07-30)
The nuclear many-body problem is nowadays being increasingly approached on the basis of a relativistic formalism. Microscopic Dirac-Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (DBHF) calculations starting from a realistic ...
El Moussaoui El Masnaoui, Salima (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
[eng] Pain and inflammation are the most common and recurrent side effects after surgery and, understandably, the patient's most feared, affecting treatment adherence. The present work aims to characterize ...