Serra Pagès, Conrad (Date of defense: 2020-02-21)
The aim of this thesis is to assess David Malouf’s contribution to the field of gender and men studies in his fiction books. In order to do so, I have proceeded by offering a close reading of each of ...
Blanch Gorriz, Xabier (Date of defense: 2022-03-17)
In recent years, photogrammetric models have become a widely used tool in the field of geosciences thanks to their ability to reproduce natural surfaces. As an alternative to other systems such as LiDAR ...
Rotondo, Floriana (Date of defense: 2018-02-19)
The current theories about endothelial inflammation in the adipose tissue in metabolic syndrome point to hypoxia as one of its main causes. Nevertheless, our group has found that both 3T3L1 adipocytes, ...
Garrido Charles, Aida (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Light-controlled manipulation of neuronal activity has transformed the field of neurobiology. Light provides temporal and spatial resolution over activation or inhibition of targeted populations of ...
Posada Pérez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)
Our society has a problem with the use of fossil fuels, due to the vast and exceeding emissions derived from human activities. Two ways could be consider to mitigate these harmful effects. On the one ...
Martínez Delgado, Paula (Date of defense: 2018-10-11)
Mitosis is a process that ensure the correct distribution of the chromosomes between the two newly generated cells, is tightly regulated by two main processes, protein degradation controlled by the APC ...
Domènech Andreu, Marc (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)
Unveiling the patterns and identifying the factors that drive community assembly are key questions in ecology and evolution, especially in the current state of climate change and biodiversity loss. ...
Pijuán Jiménez, Isabel (Date of defense: 2019-12-02)
During the process of corticogenesis, cortical radial glial cells (RGs) generate sequentially most of the distinct types of neurons and glial cells that will populate the neocortex. The generation of ...
Zapata Corella, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-09-19)
In the present thesis, analytical methods based on gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry, both single (GC-MS) or tandem (GC-MS/MS), have been developed and optimized for the detection and ...
Petrova, Desislava Bozhidarova (Date of defense: 2017-09-13)
El Niño Southern Oscillation arises in the tropical Pacific due to coupled atmosphere-ocean interactions. The nature of the dynamical system of the atmosphere is chaotic and its predictability is sensitive ...