Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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From Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, many years elapsed before human diseases were considered in an evolutionary framework. Besides theoretical and empirical advances, we are far from the complete understanding of ...
La tesi que teniu a les mans recull quatre treballs amb un objectiu comú; determinar si els patògens (virus, bacteris, paràsits.) han exercit pressions selectives sobre els genomes dels seus hostes (com per exemple els ...
Since the origins of humankind, North Africa has been involved in many demographic events, leading to a heterogeneous cultural and genetic landscape. However, it is largely underrepresented in genetic studies, and many ...
This work explores the genetic landscape of the Western Mediterranean basin. Genome-wide data have been used in order to describe the genetics of the Island of Ibiza and France. In the first case, we found Ibiza being ...
To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in all stages of the ...
This doctoral thesis is focused on music in terms of emotion -- such algorithms compose the computational task of music emotion recognition (MER). MER evaluates emotionally relevant features from music, correlates them ...
L'envelliment de la població i la importància de les TIC a la societat actual han motivat la necessitat d'integrar més a les persones grans en la interacció persona-ordinador. La investigació actual es centra en factors ...
The present thesis analyses political humour as an opinion and critical discourse of political power. This kind of discourse is reviewed historically on one hand and placed in the context of political debate in contemporary ...
Candida species are among the most important fungal pathogens. Although Candida albicans is the most common cause of Candida infections, many other Candida species have emerged as pathogens. How pathogenicity is evolutionary ...
This dissertation analyzes the representation of body image in television advertising and its mediating role in children’s body imaginaries. Based on a theoretical framework supported on the social theories of the body and ...
Ptf1a/p48 is a pancreas specific bHLH transcription factor that is required at early stages of embryonic development for pancreas formation and, during adulthood, for the proper exocrine pancreatic function. P48 also exerts ...
The aim of this research is to analyze the apearance of theye's visual motif, interpreted in its corespondence betwen the iner eye and the outer eye. This corelation wil be studied in the films: Emak Bakia (1926), ...
Este trabajo pretende establecer una teoría de la imagen en San Juan de la Cruz a partir de los textos del autor y de la interpretación del dibujo del Monte de perfección o Monte Carmelo (ca.1580). Nuestro estudio parte ...
A la primera part, l'autor tracta de demostrar que certs criteris formals d'identitat d'un ordre jurídic (com els defensats per Austin, Kelsen y Hart) no resulten satisfactoris, perquè ignoren la repercussió que sobre ...
L’ús generalitzat de les tecnologies de la informació i comunicació (TIC) i la connectivitat ha comportant un canvi social determinant en el context actual, la Societat de la Informació. Aquest treball planteja un exercici ...
We found that IgM+IgD- memory (ME-M) B cells formed a large reservoir of intestinal antigen-selected IgM+ lymphocytes distinct from antigen-naïve IgM+ lymphocytes. Human ME-M B cells colonized the intestine early in life, ...
L’IKKα nuclear regula la transcripció gènica i ha estat relacionada amb la progressió del càncer i la metàstasis, tot i que la connexió mecanística no s’entén massa bé. Hem observat que les ...
The self-renewing nature of embryonic stem cells (ESCs) is a consequence of their ability to proliferate while maintaining pluripotency, by means the capacity to differentiate into all adult cell types. Despite the remarkable ...
The first chapter of this thesis describes the study of intestinal stem cells (ISCs) and their relationship to colon cancer. We describe the transcriptional landscape of intestinal epithelial populations through the use ...
La evolución del lenguaje médico refleja los avances médicos y se caracteriza por la creación neológica destinada a nombrar nuevos descubrimientos e innovaciones. Por lo tanto, la creación neológica, la variación terminológica ...
