Picardo, Massimo (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
Natural toxins include a multitude of toxic secondary metabolites produced by animals, bacteria, fungi algae, and plants that are generally not intended as environmental contaminants of concern for water ...
Munar i Adrover, Pere (Date of defense: 2014-03-28)
The high energy astrophysics, specifically the gamma-ray astrophysics, studies the processes that cannot be caused by hot matter but by other mechanisms colled non thermaland processes, which involve ...
Moncunill Massaguer, Cristina (Date of defense: 2015-07-23)
The pro-apoptotic effects of two new drugs have been studied for the development of new strategies for cancer treatment. On the one hand, we proved that AICAR induces apoptosis in an AMPK- and p53-independent ...
Gamboa Badilla, Nancy (Date of defense: 2017-12-19)
Biological diversity in a global scale has been threaten seriously by anthropogenic disturbances in ecosystems. Changes in land cover and land use affect biodiversity, causing habitat loss and species ...
Llorens Palomo, Lluís (Date of defense: 2019-10-28)
Cucurbiturils are known to present potential applications in molecular recognition, self- assembly, and nanotechnology. The discovery of ultra-high affinity CB–guest complexes with binding constant ...
González Ricoy, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2012-03-14)
The dissertation analyzes the scope and limits of democracy both historically and normatively. It has two main goals. First, it historically explains how a number of institutional devices that had been ...
Etxebarria i Jardí, Gorka (Date of defense: 2010-10-04)
La tesis doctoral consta de dos bloques principales. El primero es un estudio metodológico donde se estudia la preparación enantioselectiva de derivados de la cetona de Wieland-Miescher que posteriormente ...
Vilella Figueras, Eva (Date of defense: 2013-11-22)
The next generation of particle colliders will be characterized by linear lepton colliders, where the collisions between electrons and positrons will allow to study in great detail the new particle ...
Gregori Font, Josep (Date of defense: 2014-07-11)
In this work it has been developed and implemented a data analysis pipeline for the discovery of biomarkers by high throughput shotgun proteomics. Specifically the solution has been optimized for the ...
Candotti, Michela (Date of defense: 2016-12-09)
This work aims to analytically understand the impact of two diametric opposite environments on protein structure and dynamics and compared them to the most common solvent on earth: water. The first ...