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    Novel transcription regulators of tissue macrophages and alternative macrophage polarization 

    Higuera González, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)

    Macrophages play crucial roles in the defense of the organism against a wide range of pathogens. Macrophages can rapidly adapt to perturbations in the microenvironment due to the existence of a network of transcription ...

    De novo heterochromatin establishment in 2C-like cells and early embryonic development 

    Sebastián Perez, Rubén (Date of defense: 2021-09-10)

    Chromocenters are established after the 2-cell (2C) stage during mouse embryonic development, but the factors that mediate chromocenter formation remain largely unknown. To identify regulators of 2C heterochromatin ...

    Nuclear and non-nuclear roles of the MAP kinase Sty1 on cell cycle, cell polarity and transcription 

    Salat Canela, Clàudia (Date of defense: 2020-09-30)

    Living organisms must respond to changes in their environment in order to overcome stress situations. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Sty1 MAP kinase is required to survive to a wide range of environmental stresses. The main ...

    Nuclear DYRK1A :new insights into its role within the nucleus 

    Di Vona, Chiara (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)

    The view on how protein kinases regulate gene expression have recently expanded to include not only transcription factors but also histones, chromatin remodelers or components of the basal transcription machinery, which ...

    Nucleosome dynamics and analysis in breast cancer cells 

    Pohl, Andy (Date of defense: 2014-10-03)

    Genome-wide analysis of the nucleosome positioning and histone H1 isoform content of the T47D breast cancer cell line has found a number of observations, namely that with a gentle digestion of microccocal nuclease (MNase), ...

    Nueva nomenclatura para componer a futuro el diccionario de uso del quechua cusqueño 

    Jara Luna, César (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)

    El objeto de estudio de esta investigación es formular los fundamentos teóricos y metodológicos de un ordenamiento morfológico para el establecimiento de una Nueva Nomenclatura (NN) del futuro Diccionario de uso del quechua ...

    Nuevas técnicas de control social: análisis jurídico de las bases de datos de ADN 

    Valerio Jiminián, Miguel Ernesto (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    La posibilidad estatal de almacenar información genética plantea importantes retos para las ciencias penales, pues las Bases de Datos de ADN agudizan la tensión entre los principios de libertad, seguridad e igualdad. ...

    Numerical simulation of shallow water equations and some physical models in image processing 

    Haro Ortega, Gloria (Date of defense: 2005-07-11)

    There are two main subjects in this thesis: the first one deals with the numerical simulation of shallow water equations, the other one is the resolution of some problems in image processing<br/><br/>The first part of this ...

    ¿Numerus clausus? : crítica al sistema de incriminación de los delitos de las personas jurídicas 

    Vargas Ovalle, María Alejandra (Date of defense: 2018-01-12)

    El Código penal español reconoce desde 2010 la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas, aunque limitada a un catálogo cerrado de delitos. La configuración del sistema de numerus clausus -como sucede con la práctica ...

    Nutritional factors in asthma = Facteurs nutritionels dans l'asthme 

    Bédard, Annabelle (Date of defense: 2015-01-30)

    The general aim of the thesis was to assess the role of nutritional factors in asthma in the French E3N study. The first objective was to compare principal component (PCA) with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) to identify ...

    An Object-oriented metamodel for digital signal processing with a focus on audio and music 

    Amatriain, Xavier (Date of defense: 2005-01-27)

    Classical models for information transmission such as Shannon and Weaver's still tend to be looked at as the only possible scenarios where signal processing applications can be formally modeled. Meanwhile, other disciplines ...

    Objetos mágicos: los objetos como transformadores de la Subjetividad virtual en la creación de aventuras interactivas en sistemas de realidad mixta 

    Platero Vázquez, Carmen (Date of defense: 2016-01-18)

    Dentro de las experiencias interactivas en tiempo real, y en concreto de los sistemas de realidad mixta, buscamos nuevas formas de comunicación en la ficción interactiva que enriquezcan la experiencia de usuario. Partimos ...

    OccRF-Health study: occupational exposure of workers to RF-EMF 

    Turuban, Maxime (Date of defense: 2024-05-15)

    Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF) exposure, ubiquitous in our environment due to the rise in mobile phones and wireless technology, has grown significantly in the last 30 years. This exposure is generally ...

    Occupational exposures and asthma in domestic cleaning women 

    Medina Ramón, Mercedes (Date of defense: 2005-03-10)

    El objetivo del estudio era identificar las exposiciones ocupacionales relacionadas con asma en empleadas de limpieza doméstica. Un estudio poblacional transversal realizado en 4,521 mujeres mostró que las empleadas del ...

    Occupational heat exposure and cancer risk 

    Hinchliffe, Alice (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)

    Heat exposure is a growing concern for many workers around the world as climate change is causing global average temperatures to rise. Heat exposure has been linked to a number of key carcinogenic processes, but current ...

    Octavio Paz: el poema y sus epifanías: De camino a una teopoética 

    Meléndez Guerrero, Luis Gustavo (Date of defense: 2016-12-09)

    Esta investigación pretende incursionar en la obra de Octavio Paz con el ánimo de descubrir una serie de recurrencias o inquietudes 'religiosas' por parte del poeta mexicano, una búsqueda de lo divino fuera de un ...

    Oligopoly models and competition 

    Fumagalli, Chiara (Date of defense: 2000-09-26)

    Esta tesis estudia el comportamiento estratégico de las empresas en mercados oligopolísticos y su interacción con otros agentes como compradores potenciales y autoridades públicas. En el Capítulo 2 se estudia si la ...

    On contractile actomyosin waves and their role in junctional remodeling during epithelial constriction 

    Sumi, Angughali Aheto (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)

    Epithelial tissues undergo extensive remodeling during embryonic development. Recent studies have revealed that, in a number of developmental processes, epithelial remodeling is associated with pulsations of individual ...

    On data-driven models for image restoration 

    Vitoria Carrera, Patricia (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)

    Restoration of a high-quality image from a degraded recording is an important problem in early vision processing. In this thesis, we tackle three image restoration problems: image inpainting, colorization, and motion ...

    On estimate aggregation : studies of how decision makers aggregate quantitative estimates in three different cases 

    Sereevinyayut, Piya (Date of defense: 2013-09-25)

    This dissertation examines how people aggregate quantitative advices to reach their own estimates. Each chapter explores a different situation that could affect how advices are evaluated, and consequentially how advices ...