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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 ...

On Mediasport consumption

López González, Hibai (Date of defense: 2015-12-20)

This thesis dissertation reflects on the way fans consume mediated sport today. The work is comprised of four articles. In Manufacturing conflict narratives in Real Madrid versus Barcelona football matches we challenged ...

On the association between chromosomal rearragements and genic evolution in mammals

Marquès i Bonet, Tomàs (Date of defense: 2007-01-15)

The main objectives of this work are:<br/>a) To test the predictions of suppressed-recombination chromosomal speciation models on two different lineages of mammals: rodents and rimates. Suppressed-recombination chromosomal ...

On the characterization of protein-DNA interactions using statistical potentials and protein-protein interactions

Fornés Crespo, Oriol (Date of defense: 2015-01-21)

Protein-DNA interactions are indispensable players in the daily activities of cells. DNA-binding proteins regulate gene expression and are responsible of DNA replication, packaging, repair and recombination. Among them, ...

On the development of computational tools for the study of protein-protein interactions and protein-protein binding

Marín López, Manuel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2017-01-13)

Proteins are involved in almost all cell processes, with physical interaction between them being key to their function and dictated by its 3D structure. Hence, the study of protein-protein interactions and protein-protein ...

On the evaluation of temporally extended experiences

Cojuharenco, Irina (Date of defense: 2007-06-27)

La evaluación de las experiencias extendidas en el tiempo se puede hacer de muchas formas. El paradigma --hedometer' en economía sugiere que la evaluación global de la experiencia se puede explicar por las impresiones de ...

On the evolution of cancer genomes : Signatures of selection reveal cancer genes across multiple tumor types

Zapata Ortiz, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-10-05)

Tumors are composed of fast-growing cells that become malignant under selection of biological functions needed for cancer development. In this thesis, I intend to uncover the basic evolutionary principles underlying cancer ...

On the flexibility of the perception and cognition of broken harmonic expectations

Pagès-Portabella, Carlota (Date of defense: 2023-10-19)

La música està present en totes les cultures. Tot i tenir les mateixes habilitats auditives, la manera en la què experimentem la música depèn del context cultural, la música que escoltem en el dia a dia o si hem rebut ...

On the legitimacy of Nationalism: minorities, majorities, and the multinational state

Costa, Josep (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)

This thesis develops normative arguments about nationalism in multinational contexts. It draws consequences from the arguments used by advocates of nationalism, and analyzes their implications for a theory of the multinational ...

On the orchestration of dorsal closure in Drosophila melanogaster : from tissue-scale control to cellular-scale remodeling

Hayes, D. Peran (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)

The vast diversity of life on Earth develops from relatively uniform beginnings via self-organised movements occurring between groups of cells. Whilst the variety of shapes resulting from morphogenesis is boundless, the ...

On the prevalence and role of epistasis in shaping fitness within and between populations

Söylemez, Onuralp (Date of defense: 2015-10-09)

The role of epistasis – inter-dependent contributions of alleles to fitness – in shaping genetic variation within and between populations is an important question in evolutionary biology with significant implications for ...

On the relationship between native and non-native speech perception and speech production

Schmitz, Judith (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)

Models of speech perception differ in the nature of the relationship between speech perception and production. Whether speech perception and production processes are based on a common representations ̶ the articulatory ...

On the relationship between structure and function of gene circuits : Study of evolvability and multi-functionality

Jiménez Asins, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-05-11)

Per tal d'estudiar la relació complexa entre l'estructura d'un circuit genètic i la seva funció, ens centrem en estudiar dues proprietas: la seva capacitat evolutiva i la seva multi-functionalitat. Primer, fins a quin punt ...

On the study of 3D structure of proteins for developing new algorithms to complete the interactome and cell signalling networks

Planas Iglesias, Joan (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)

Proteins are indispensable players in virtually all biological events. The functions of proteins are determined by their three dimensional (3D) structure and coordinated through intricate networks of protein-protein ...