Amador Rios, Raziel (Date of defense: 2022-02-10)
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have proven biological roles in plethora cellular contexts. Nonetheless, only a handful have been clearly characterized, leaving thousands of newly discovered lncRNAs without ...
Valero Alzaga, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)
This PhD Dissertation explores a variety of topics in relation with metaphysical naturalness and the assessment of our conceptual and classificatory practices. It is divided in three self-standing—albeit ...
Unceta, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-03-01)
Despite the rapid growth of machine learning in the past decades, deploying automated decision making systems in practice remains a challenge for most companies. On an average day, data scientists face ...
Kukhtar Kukhtar, Dmytro (Date of defense: 2021-06-18)
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a rare, heterogenic, and hereditary disease that produces gradual loss of the visual field and can cause blindness. Mutations causing RP are still unknown in about 50% of ...
Valverde Pérez, Ángel (Date of defense: 2021-01-27)
This thesis aims at improving the current understanding of the geodynamic controls on tectonic deformation during plate collision, using the Cenozoic evolution of Iberia as a case scenario. Despite the ...
Pomar-Portillo, Vicenç (Date of defense: 2021-12-21)
The increased presence of nano-enabled products in multiple applications has raised concerns about its potential risks to human health and the environment. Therefore, there is a need for a responsible ...
López Begines, Santiago (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
In photoreceptor cells of the retina, light triggers a protein G-mediated enzymatic cascade that leads to hydrolysis of cGMP. The drop in cGMP levels causes the closure of cGMP-channel at the plasma ...
Torrents Vivó, Jordi (Date of defense: 2017-06-07)
The last half of twentieth century has witnessed a key shift in the production process of knowledge: the most important discoveries and innovations in science and technology are not anymore the result ...
Navarrete Sánchez, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2007-01-10)
Speaking can be considered a goal-directed behavior because speakers have to retrieve the appropriate words and phonemes from their mental lexicon. However, observational and experimental evidence ...
Rosa Agostinho, Nuno Filipe (Date of defense: 2019-10-17)
For more than half a century, colliders have been in the forefront of studying the Standard Model (SM) predictions. The pinnacle of both SM and colliders occurred when on July the 4th 2012, at CERN Large ...