Clusa Ferrand, Marcel (Date of defense: 2014-02-18)
With more than 40% of the world’s population living in coastal areas, oceans have become an indispensable resource for humankind but many coastal and marine regions are suffering from multiple anthropogenic ...
Quifer Rada, Paola (Date of defense: 2017-06-26)
Beer is by far the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. Moderate alcohol consumption in general has been inversely associated with incident cardiovascular disease in observational ...
Polat, Ibrahim H. (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
In this thesis, tumor metabolic reprogramming has been exploited in order to propose new targets in cancer treatment. On one hand, we explored the pentose phosphate pathway (PPP) enzymes as putative ...
Alfonso Pardo, Wilmer (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
The present doctoral thesis is framed in the research and development (R & D) project between a private biotechnology company of molecular diagnostics Genomica SAU, the Institute for Bioengineering of ...
Vila Rigat, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
Paraphrasing is generally understood as approximate sameness of meaning between snippets of text with a different wording. Paraphrases are omnipresent in natural languages demonstrating all the aspects ...
López Romero, Marisol (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)
INTRODUCCIÓN: El objetivo de este trabajo es profundizar sobre las razones por las cuales existe una escasa concesión del crédito en México. En particular, el crédito que va dirigido a promover el ...
Vitos Faleato, Jessica (Date of defense: 2018-01-19)
Tumors evolve by sequentially acquiring genetic abnormalities, like K-Ras activation and Tp53 loss of function, which enable transformed cells to survive, proliferate, invade, and reprogram their ...
Nichkova, Mikaela Ivanova (Date of defense: 2003-05-30)
The thesis presents the development of immunochemical methods for detection of trichlorophenols (TCP) in environmental and biological samples. An indirect enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for ...
Mackay, Jessica (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)
El Sistema Motivacional del Yo L2 (L2MSS) propuesto por Dörnyei (2005, 2009a) reconceptualiza la motivación en el aprendizaje de la segunda lengua (L2) en un contexto globalizado. Basándose en las teorías ...
Vilardell Sallés, Francesc (Date of defense: 2009-03-09)
The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is an excellent distance calibrator in the Cosmological Distance Ladder. We present the first direct distance determination to M31 using eclipsing binaries (EBs). EBs provides ...