Hernández García, Iker (Date of defense: 2007-09-26)
Flavonoids have received much attention in biology and medicine because of their high in vitro antioxidant activities. However, little is known about the physiological significance of this capacities ...
Minguet Parramona, Carla (Date of defense: 2015-12-11)
The rapid increase on world’s population is threatening food security, mainly in developing countries, where poverty and hunger are already a big concern. However, a growth in agriculture generates an ...
Fornaguera Puigvert, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)
Multifunctional polymeric nanoparticles (NP) represent a promising alternative for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases using the intravenous route (i.v.). In current treatments, the effects of ...
Alarcón Lladó, Esther (Date of defense: 2009-07-07)
[spa] Esta tesis consiste en el estudio de las propiedades vibracionales de materiales de interés para la fabricación de dispositivos optoelectrónicos, operando en distintos rangos espectrales, desde ...
Riaño Canalias, Ferran (Date of defense: 2017-09-29)
Ribosome biogenesis is one of the most energy consuming anabolic processes in a cell, required for the generation of the translational machinery to grow and proliferate. Moreover, this process necessitates ...
Madrid Castillo, María Dolores (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
Infant and child mortality have played a crucial role in health transition patterns and both have been considered as good indicators of development and demographic modernization. The establishment of ...
Bouman, Walter Pierre (Date of defense: 2017-05-05)
There is an increasing awareness and visibility of transgender people, particularly in Europe and North America. Compared to the non-trans general population transgender people remain a vulnerable group ...
Fernández Carasa, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-06-29)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable, chronically progressive disorder of old age leading to premature invalidity and death. Clinically, PD is characterized by classical motor syndrome linked to a ...
Vasylets, Olena (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
One of the major areas of interest in task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) has been the psycholinguistically-oriented strand, which explores the way in which task design may interact with ...
Legnaioli, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2013-02-26)
The increase in water use efficiency in order to maintain or improve crop yields in times of global warming and progressive reduction of water resources is one of the major challenges faced by agricultural ...