Rodilla Benito, Verónica (Date of defense: 2011-05-13)
Colorectal tumors with mutations on Wnt family members show an overexpression of several Notch target genes, suggesting a link between Wnt and Notch signaling pathways. In this work, we have ...
Siegert, Anna-Maria Elisa (Date of defense: 2017-10-20)
Marfan Syndrome (MFS) is a rare, autosomal dominant disorder of the connective tissue that affects between 1.5 and 17.2 in 100.000 live births. MFS is caused by mutations in the extracellular matrix ...
Vilela, Belmiro (Date of defense: 2012-12-18)
Plant growth and productivity are compromised by environmental stresses such as pathogens, extreme temperatures, drought and high salinity. Being sessile organisms, plants had to develop different ...
Roure Perdices, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
A remarkable result in Harmonic Analysis is the so-called Rubio de Francia’s extrapolation theorem. Roughly speaking, it says that if one has an operator T that is bounded on Lp(v), for some p 1 and ...
Bassat Orellana, Quique (Date of defense: 2009-06-22)
Despite a renewed impetus on bringing together efforts to wipe malaria from the globe, the truth is that this ancient disease remains one of the principal threats to child survival in vast areas of the ...
García de la Chica, Alba Tamara (Date of defense: 2021-01-13)
Understanding how a social organization and mating system can be beneficial, and hence, persist in populations, requires that we investigate the perspective of all individuals involved. However, in ...
Casasayas i Mas, Josefa (Date of defense: 1984-01-01)
The anisotropic Kepler problem was introduced by Gutzwiller as a classical mechanical system which approximates the following quantum mechanical system: the study of bound states of an electron near a ...
Jung, Juan (Date of defense: 2017-09-04)
The objective of this thesis is to make a theoretical and empirical contribution, decoding the nature of productivity disparities across different economic actors, and providing reflections for policy ...
Khaizourane, Héléa (Date of defense: 2016-03-11)
The Pauson-Khand reaction (PKR), introduced by Pauson and Khand in 1973, is an efficient method to access the synthesis of five-membered rings in one single step. This reaction is a transition metal-mediated ...
Caballero Arredondo, Mariana (Date of defense: 2023-01-24)
[eng] This research aims to study the effect of supplementation with docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and antioxidants in older adults diagnosed with age-related macular degeneration or cataracts to contribute ...