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    Control of redox homeostasis : environmental and genetic regulation of oxidative protein damage in Schizosaccharomyces pombe 

    García Santamarina, Sarela (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)

    Oxidation of specific cysteines in proteins by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a cellular mechanism that triggers signalling pathways, such as the antioxidant responses in microbial systems. However, H2O2 can be transformed ...

    Control of S-phase progression in response to stress 

    Canal de Torres, Berta (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)

    In response to multiple internal and external stresses, yeast cells activate a common transcriptional response known as the Environmental Stress Response (ESR), which can be problematic in S phase, when DNA is being ...

    Control of transcription by the stress activated Hog1 kinase 

    Nadal Ribelles, Mariona (Date of defense: 2013-11-25)

    A fundamental property of living cells is the ability to sense and robustly respond to fluctuations in their environment. In budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) changes in extracellular osmolarity are sensed by the ...

    Control of transcription initiation by the stress activated hog1 kinase 

    Zapater Enrique, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2006-12-01)

    En el llevat Saccharomyces cerevisiae els canvis en les condicions osmòtiques del medi extracel.lular són sensades per la MAP cinasa Hog1, la qual permet dur a terme l'adaptació cel.lular mitjançant la modulació de l'expressió ...

    Convergència de redaccions i ensenyament universitari del periodisme : el cas del taller Integrat a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra 

    Da Rocha, Irene (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)

    La professió periodística afronta una època de canvis, experimentació i innovació. En el context actual, una de les principals dinàmiques dels mitjans és la convergència de redaccions. L'ensenyament del periodisme té davant ...

    Cooperative interactions of stem and niche cells during skeletal muscle regeneration: role of IL-6 signaling 

    Guerra Badell, Joana (Date of defense: 2016-10-13)

    Adult skeletal muscle has a remarkable capacity of self-repairing after damage. The cellular communication processes and mediator molecules in the regenerative microenvironment that control muscle stem cell functions are ...

    Coordination and conflict: an experimental approach 

    Gürgüç, Zeynep (Date of defense: 2009-10-02)

    Esta tesis consta de tres proyectos sobre coordinación y los conflictos utilizando un enfoque experimental. El capítulo 1 estudia si un mecanismo de votación incentiva una coordinación eficiente y concluye en comparación ...

    Coordination and gapping in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) 

    Zorzi, Giorgia (Date of defense: 2018-11-14)

    This thesis gives a description and a syntactic analysis for coordination and gapping in conjunction in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) within the framework of Generative Grammar and Minimalism. Regarding coordination, ...

    Copular inversion and non-subject agreement 

    Vigo, Eugenio M. (Date of defense: 2016-10-03)

    In this thesis I propose an explanation for the facts of copular inversion in Spanish, Catalan, and other Romance languages, as well as in German. Copular inversion is a phenomenon found in some languages, in which, at ...

    Copyright and news reporting: a comparative research study on the authors' rights of media companies, journalists and audiences 

    Díaz Noci, Javier (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

    WE EXAMINE IN THIS PHD DISSERTATION, from a comparative, empiri-cal and functionalist approach, the legal aspects related to the protection given by the intellectual property system to the production and dissemi-nation of ...

    Corporeidades al límite: El cuerpo femenino como territorio fronterizo desde la práctica artística como investigación 

    Bejarano Coca, Diana Carolina (Date of defense: 2023-11-24)

    En Corporeidades al límite. El cuerpo femenino como territorio fronterizo desde la práctica artística como investigación, planteo una aproximación teórico-práctica de la presentación y representación del cuerpo femenino ...

    Correlation between cognitive phenotype, neural morphology and molecular alterations in mouse models of Williams-Beuren syndrome : new therapeutic approaches 

    Borralleras Fumaña, Cristina (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)

    Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by a heterozygous deletion of 26-28 contiguous genes in the 7q11.23 region. So far, a great deal of attention has been focused on its unique and ...

    Cortical resting state circuits: connectivity and oscillations 

    Nakagawa, Tristan T. (Date of defense: 2015-03-11)

    Ongoing spontaneous brain activity patterns raise ever-growing interest in the neuroscience community. Complex spatiotemporal patterns that emerge from a structural core and interactions of functional dynamics have been ...

    Corylus avellana: a new biotechnological source of anticancer agents 

    Gallego Palacios, Ana (Date of defense: 2015-03-26)

    The difficulty of increasing taxane production and reducing its costs has prompted a search for new biotechnological sources. The unexpected discovery of taxanes in Corylus avellana has generated considerable interest in ...

    Costs and benefits of the use of derivatives 

    Rangel Hilt, Thomas Alexander (Date of defense: 2007-09-14)

    Se ha escrito mucho sobre la valoración de derivados financieros, pero no se ha estudiado tanto las razones, los costes, las ventajas y el impacto económico de su uso. Esto es sorprendente dada la importancia económica de ...

    Couples’ Decisions and Retirement Age in Europe. A comparative study of three traditions of the Welfare State 

    Recuenco, Luis (Date of defense: 2013-07-15)

    This research analyses from a theoretical, empirical and comparative perspective couples’ decision-making and retirement ages within seven European Union-15 countries belonging to three Welfare State traditions: Social ...

    Coupling by volume conduction as a wireless power transfer and communications method for threadlike biomedical implants. 

    Tudela Pi, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)

    Although the use of volumetric conduction to power wireless implants has been experimentally validated in recent years, a theoretical framework to determine the power and efficiency obtained by minimally invasive implants ...

    Covariance-based descriptors for pattern recognition in multiple feature spaces 

    Cirujeda Santolaria, Pol (Date of defense: 2015-11-12)

    En aquesta tesi s’explora l’ús de descriptors basats en la covariància per tal de traslladar la observació de característiques dins de regions d’interès a un determinat espai descriptiu que utilitzi les matrius de covariància ...

    CPEB4 replaces CPEB1 to complete meiosis 

    Igea Fernández, Ana (Date of defense: 2009-11-06)

    In vertebrate oocytes, meiotic progression is driven by the sequential translational activation of maternal messenger RNAs stored in the cytoplasm. This activation is mainly induced by the cytoplasmic elongation of their ...

    CPEBs studies on the cell cycle : mapping CPEBs network and unveiling a new function for CPEB-mediated cap-ribose methylation 

    Giangarrà, Valeria (Date of defense: 2013-07-25)

    En el capitulo I mostramos la caracterización funcional de la ribosa-metiltransferasa de cap I en Xenopus laevis. Se trata de una enzima localizada tanto en el núcleo como en el citoplasma y que tras la estimulación con ...