Vaquero Zamora, Lucía (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
It has been shown that music and language training can elicit plastic changes on brain structure and function bringing along behavioural benefits. For instance, musicians have been reported to have ...
Montornès Torrecillas, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-02-09)
The radiative transfer cannot be explicitly resolved in the atmospheric models for two reasons: i) a full treatment of the radiative transfer equation (RTE) requires a high amount of computational ...
Medina Bernal, Ana del Rocío (Date of defense: 2021-11-19)
Determining and understanding protein structure in atomic detail is a fundamental process to the advancement of biotechnology and biomedicine, shedding light the role of macromolecules and their complexes, ...
Rodríguez Herreros, Borja (Date of defense: 2014-06-03)
The complex voluntary motor behavior of higher primates is often regarded as a consequence of the development of sophisticated and adaptive perceptual and motor systems. Theoretical and behavioral ...
Bernardo Flórez, Marina (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
Chicano children’s literature was born in the wake of the so-called El Movimiento, the Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and especially the 1970s. In the 1990s, as a part of the rising trend ...
Nualart Riera, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
The main goal of this thesis is to contribute to the explicit hyperbolic uniformization of Shimura curves. We will restrict to the case of curves attached to Eichler orders in rational quaternion algebras ...
Baeta Alacio, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-04-29)
Bivalves living in large aggregations of individuals (reefs or beds), such as mussels, clams, cockles and some high trophic predators such as sea stars, play an essential ecological role in the structure, ...
Malgaretti, Paolo (Date of defense: 2013-10-23)
In this thesis we characterize the behavior of molecular motors when the properties of the cytoplasm they displace through are not homogeneous or isotropic. Anisotropies in the cytoplasm can be induced, ...
Castilla-Vallmanya, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-04)
Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are a group of chronic diseases in which the development of the central nervous system is impaired, resulting in disability at the neuropsychiatric, motor and/or ...
Camafort Blanco, Miquel (Date of defense: 2019-04-26)
This PhD thesis presents a geological and geophysical study that characterizes the Quaternary stratigraphy, geomorphology, recent tectonics, and discusses their implications to understand the geodynamic ...