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Persistent organic pollutants, bisphenol A, phthalates and respiratory and immune health in childhood

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 ...

Person and number in Catalan Sign Language pronouns

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 ...

Perspectiva jurídico-financiera del medio ambiente

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 ...

Pervivencia del modelo narrativo clásico en el cine independiente de Estados Unidos: una perspectiva neuropscicológica

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 ...

PET in preclinical AD: image harmonization, characterization of the centiloid metric of Aβ load and associations with tau fluid biomarkers

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 ...

Pharmacogenomic study of oppioid addicts in methadone treatment / Francina Fonseca Casals

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 ...

Phase-based signal analysis measures applied to electroencephalographic recordings from epilepsy patients

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 ...

Photography on Instagram: self-representation, identities and new ways of sociability: an analysis about the representations of self on photos posted by students from Pompeu Fabra University and from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro on Instagram

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 ...

Phrase table expansion for statistical machine translation with reduced parallel corpora: the Chinese-Spanish case

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 ...

A Phraseological multi-discipline approach to vocabulary selection for English for academic purposes

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 ...

Phylogenomic analysis and genomic structure of human RCAN genes : Effect on RCAN overexpression on lymphocyte development and function

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 ...

Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of subterranean Coleoptera

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 ...

Physical activity and neurodevelopment in children

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 ...

Physical activity as a crucial patient-reported outcome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

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 ...

Physical activity in the community : correlates of change and overall mortality in two population-based cohorts

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 ...

A physician-in-the-loop approach by means of machine learning for the diagnosis of lymphocytosis in the clinical laboratory

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 ...

Phytocannabinoids and endocannabinoids as modulators of cocaine reinforcement in mice

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 ...

Phytolith analysis from raised and ditched fields of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia: A contribution to the understanding Pre-Columbian agriculture in southwestern Amazonia

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 ...

Phytoliths as proxies for plant water availability: An experimental approach on selected C4 species and its archaeological application in drylands

D'Agostini, Francesca (Date of defense: 2022-02-20)

Este trabajo investigó la relación entre los fitolitos de mijo de dedo, mijo perla y sorgo, y las condiciones hídricas en las que crecen estas especies. El debate arqueológico sobre el uso de los mijos sigue abierto y ...

Piezo ion channels in cancer cell mechanotransduction

Pardo Pastor, Carlos (Date of defense: 2018-01-24)

The mechanical dependence of transformation and metastasis is an emerging field, but the role of mechanosensitive channels has been largely omitted. This thesis focuses on the roles played by the mechanosensitive ion ...