Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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The spleen contains a unique subset of innate-like marginal zone (MZ) B cells that rapidly mount protective antibody responses to invasive encapsulated bacteria. Here we show that human splenic MZ B cells also mount ...
The present dissertation inquires into Nishitani Keiji’s nonreductionism in the context of the conflict between science and religion. Even though it is largely implicit, his nonreductionism proves relevant to the interpretation ...
El presente estudio examina la vida y el pensamiento de Mijaíl Bakunin. A base de su amplia correspondencia y su extensa obra política se analiza la evolución intelectual que llevó a este extraordinario hombre desde las ...
Presenta, a partir de las bases teóricas de la Teoría Comunicativa de la Terminología , una propuesta de modelo de construcción y gestión de un banco de datos terminológicos para el Mercado Común del Sur. Para llegar ...
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, I develop a two-period small open economy with banks. The interaction of the limited liability faced by banks and the bank deposit insurance results in ...
El trabajo pretende explicar cuales fueron las estrategias de la burguesiabarcelonesa en la construcción del Estado liberal español, y especificamentea lo largo de la década moderada. Durante este periodo, singularizado ...
Aquesta Societat volia assolir l'objectiu d'incloure Barcelona i per extensió tota Catalunya dins dels circuits europeus de turisme. Creia que el turisme era una forma de modernitzar Catalunya, a més d'una manera d'enriquir-la ...
En les últimes dècades, les desigualtats socials en salut ha estat una prioritat per la salut pública. L’any 2007 es va iniciar el programa Barcelona Salut als Barris (BSaB), una estratègia en salut comunitària per a ...
Throughout all the chapters we have considered some union variables (particularly the proportion of workers representatives belonging to a given union) to capture any difference in bargaining power amongst unions.Concerning ...
La present tesi doctoral estudia la biografia del metge i dirigent catalanista Bartomeu Robert Yarzábal.<br/>Figura destacada de la Catalunya de finals del segle XIX i començaments del XX, el doctor Robert va ser considerat ...
The task of this work is to discuss issues conceming the specification, estimation, inference and forecasting in multivariate dynamic heterogeneous panel data models from a Bayesian perspective. Three essays linked by a ...
Previous research has shown that gestures are beneficial for language learning. This doctoral thesis centers on the effects of beat gestures– i.e., hand and arm gestures that are typically associated with prosodically ...
Speakers naturally accompany their speech with hand gestures and extend the auditory prosody to visual modality through rapid beat gestures that help them to structure their narrative and emphasize relevant information. ...
Es diu que és impossible que els països autoritaris tinguin una opinió pública plenament desenvolupada. Jürgen Habermas criticava Internet per la dispersió dels continguts i la manca de mediadors. No obstant això, a països ...
Infants start their lives with a universal ability to perceive speech and during the first months of life they attune to the language(s) they are exposed to in their environment, i.e. perceptual narrowing. Research has ...
Current biomedical research needs to leverage the large amount of information reported in scientific publications. Automated text processing, commonly known as text mining, has become an indispensable tool to identify, ...
Diariamente recibimos mucha información que procede simultáneamente de distintos sentidos, que se combina en el cerebro para conseguir una respuesta rápida y precisa. Muchas veces, esto ocurre mediante la integración ...
The aim of the dissertation is to explore behavioral and neuropsychological correlates of elementary deductive processes in infants and adults. To this purpose, we introduce a novel non-verbal task presenting scenes ...
Esta tesis consiste de tres ensayos. En el primero, documentamos la correlación imaginaria entre las decisiones de compensación de los ejecutivos (CEO) al demostrar que el hándicap de los ejecutivos que juegan al golf no ...
The left-right concept is considered to facilitate communication and orientation in the political world. It has a long tradition in European politics due to its capacity to absorb different associations over time. ...
