Doria Belenguer, Sergio (Date of defense: 2023-10-07)
[eng] Advances in capturing technologies have yielded a massive production of large-scale molecular data that describe different aspects of cellular functioning. These data are often modeled as networks, ...
Garcia Porta, Joan (Date of defense: 2014-10-10)
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is understanding the main drivers that underlie morphological and species diversity. Ecological opportunity—access to new or previously inaccessible niches—has ...
Andreu Saumell, Irene (Date of defense: 2024-06-19)
[eng] Adoptive T cell transfer (ACT) therapy designed to express chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) has produced impressive clinical responses in certain cancer patients. Together with immune checkpoint ...
Serramia Amoros, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-09-29)
Norms have been widely enacted in both human and agent societies to regulate the actions that individuals can perform. However, although legislators may have ethics in mind when establishing norms, moral ...
Canales, Cristian M. (Date of defense: 2016-10-25)
The population structure of fishery resources and the impact of environmental factors over its productivity are important processes to be considered in fisheries management. Environmental factors could ...
Moscoso Miranda, Henry Bernard (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)
Development economics seeks to provide evidence to improve life quality standards of the societies. This thesis contributes to this field with a multidisciplinary research on health, environmental and ...
Demiroglu, Ilker (Date of defense: 2014-02-27)
Throughout this thesis, we have studied ZnO and its properties in a bottom-up manner through a dimensionality range starting from 0D nanoparticles to 3D bulk phases. For the 0D clusters and the 2D ...
Buchaillot, Maria Luisa (Date of defense: 2023-02-10)
[eng] Personal food security means that they have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe, and quality food. On the other hand, there are three main causes of food insecurity: 1. the high ...
Wang, Xiang (Date of defense: 2022-07-11)
Cobalt-based nanomaterials are an important class of electrocatalysts that own abundant and diverse d-orbital electronic structures, and can exhibit excellent HER, OER, EOR catalytic activity and stability ...
Seelbach, Ryan (Date of defense: 2015-06-12)
Regenerative medicine takes multifaceted approaches towards healing complex injury and restoring normal tissue function by combining biomaterials with cells and drugs. Recently, naturally occurring ...