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Ondategui Parra, Silvia (Date of defense: 2008-04-21)
PURPOSE: To determine the management performance indicators most frequently utilized in academic radiology departments in the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This investigation met the criteria for an exemption from ...
Salvador-Mata, Bertran (Date of defense: 2024-06-25)
Aquesta recerca analitza la producció científica en la disciplina acadèmica del periodisme a Espanya (1980-2022). Per fer-ho, utilitza l’eina de clusterització algorítmica citation topic (InCites Clarivate Analytics, Web ...
Gascon Merlos, Mireia (Date of defense: 2014-07-03)
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), bisphenol A (BPA) and pthalates may increase the risk of respiratory infections and allergic diseases in infants and the effects might last until, at least, adolescence. Cytokines and ...
Veiga Busto, Raquel (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
Languages use different resources to specify the numerosity of the referents and to denote the speech act participants. This thesis describes the morphophonological strategies used in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal ...
Ferrer Dupuy, Plàcida (Date of defense: 2001-11-30)
Este trabajo plantea el estudio del concepto del medio ambiente y de los principios que lo informan desde el gasto público. El marco teórico es el Derecho financiero constitucional y el Derecho de los gastos públicos. Se ...
Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)
A inicios del siglo XXI, se puede observar como se ha creado una codependencia entre el cine independiente americano y la industria de Hollywood, por lo que el objetivo de esta tesis ha sido investigar si siguen persistiendo ...
Shekari, Mahnaz (Date of defense: 2024-04-03)
This thesis explores technical factors influencing brain PET quantification, developing brain PET harmonization framework, assessing Centiloid robustness as a clinical biomarker, and evaluating the associations between ...
Fonseca Casals, Francina (Date of defense: 2010-11-17)
Although the well established efficacy of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in the opioid dependence disorder, there is a group of patients that are poor responders. The study of the influence of methadone pharmacodynamics ...
Espinoso Palacín, Anaïs (Date of defense: 2023-12-12)
This thesis presents new phase-based signal analysis techniques to study brain dynamics from patients with pharmacoresistant focalonset epilepsy. We analyze electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings from seizure and ...
Musse, Mariana (Date of defense: 2016-11-23)
Les noves formes de sociabilitat i d'autorepresentació, a partir d'avenços tecnològics i Internet, i el paper central de la imatge en la contemporaneïtat són els principals temes que es tracten en aquesta investigació, que ...
Han, Jingyi (Date of defense: 2017-12-13)
Parallel data scarcity problem is a major challenge faced by Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). The aim of this thesis is to enrich a SMT system by adding more morphological variants and new translation lexicon ...
Rees, Geraint Paul (Date of defense: 2018-04-16)
This study is motivated by concerns about the adequacy of current corpus-based methods for the selection of vocabulary in studies of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) lexis. It is hypothesised that lists of general-academic ...
Serrano Candelas, Eva (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)
The protein phosphatase calcineurin (Cn), together with its substrates, the transcription factors NFATc, play an essential role in several physiological processes of vertebrates, such as the immune response, angiogenes ...
Balart i García, Pau (Date of defense: 2023-02-24)
Under very specific pressures, evolution turns extremely convergent, to the extent that distantly-related organisms show highly similar morphological, physiological and behavioral adaptations. Life into the perpetual ...
López Vicente, Mònica (Date of defense: 2016-12-14)
This thesis aims to study the determinants and trajectories of cognitive development, as well as the role of physical activity on cognitive and brain development in children aged 4 to 14 years old. We used data from two ...
Gimeno Santos, Elena (Date of defense: 2014-12-22)
Physical inactivity is a hallmark of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which relates to outcomes relevant for patients and healthcare providers. Despite its importance, no patient reported outcome (PRO) instrument ...
Cornelio, Cecilia Inés (Date of defense: 2014-04-01)
Physical inactivity is a major public health problem, and evidence suggests that it is a contributing factor in numerous chronic diseases and conditions. Along with smoking and poor dietary habits, physical inactivity is ...
Bigorra López, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)
The complete blood count (CBC) is one of the most commonly performed test due to its clinical utility, versatility and safety. Thus, there are well established consensus rules to review a CBC through the peripheral blood ...
Alegre Zurano, Laia (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
Cocaine use profoundly disrupts the neuronal circuits that regulate reward processing, motivation and decision making, resulting in long-lasting neuroplastic adaptations in the mesocorticolimbic system. The endocannabinoid ...
Ruiz Pérez, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-04-16)
In pre-Columbian times thousands of raised and ditched agricultural fields were built in the seasonally inundated savannah of the Llanos de Moxos, southwestern Amazonia. How they functioned is still poorly understood. An ...