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 ...
Casso Carrasco, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-03-12)
Invasive species constitute a major threat to global biodiversity and cause important economic losses and ecological impacts. In the marine realm, ascidians include several aggressive invasive species, ...
Mas Moruno, Carlos (Date of defense: 2009-03-05)
La sepsis es un síndrome muy complejo de definir, diagnosticar y tratar. La patología de la sepsis se deriva de una respuesta perjudicial del organismo a una infección. La exposición a endotoxinas ...
Andrade Arvizu, Jacob Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-09-10)
The main subject of this work focuses on the development of advanced technological strategies for bandgap profile engineering on Earth-abundant and eco-friendly kesterite thin film solar cells which ...