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    The Politics of discrimination: a comparative study of the situation of Christian Arab minorities in Egypt and Syria 

    Anouti, Hani (Date of defense: 2018-04-16)

    This thesis investigates the puzzle of why the level of discrimination against religious minorities was higher in Egypt than in Syria, and therefore why the transition from "Arab" nationalism to "re-Islamization" of politics ...

    Política y literatura en el Perú del fujimorismo y la Venezuela del chavismo 

    Paredes Guinand, Claudia (Date of defense: 2020-06-23)

    El populismo es un fenómeno sociopolítico que cobra cada vez más importancia. Esta investigación propone que la ficción es una herramienta social para narrar y analizar hechos sociopolíticos como el populismo, independientemente ...

    Políticas elementales: Vida cotidiana y vanguardia cinematográfica en el Nueva York de los años 60 y 70 

    García García, Miguel (Date of defense: 2018-03-01)

    A partir de las obras cinematográficas surgidas alrededor del colectivo The Film-makers’ Cooperative se analizarán las implicaciones estéticas y políticas alrededor de la representación artística de la vida cotidiana, ...

    The Polycomb group protein Cbx6 is an essential regulator of embryonic stem cell identity 

    Santanach Buxaderas, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)

    Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are transcriptional repressors that control cell identity and development. In mammals, at least five different Cbx prorteins are believed to associate with the core Polycomb repressive complex ...

    Polycomb group proteins Bmi1 and Ring1B are involved in cell plasticity and tumorigenesis of the pancreas 

    Martínez Romero, Carles (Date of defense: 2009-12-21)

    L'adenocarcinoma ductal pancreàtic (PDAC) és un dels càncers més letals. Per tal de millorar el diagnòstic precoç, s'estan investigant les etapes inicials de la formació del càncer, com és el cas de les lesions preneoplàstiques, ...

    Polycomb repressive complex 2 deregulation in tissue homeostasis and cancer 

    Espejo Díaz, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)

    Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are transcriptional repressors that control development and cell fate. Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) misfunction has been recurrently associated with embryonic lethality and disease, ...

    Polyhistidine repeats and Dyrk 1a: from the localization on the function 

    Salichs Fradera, Eulàlia (Date of defense: 2008-12-15)

    PolyHistidine repeats and DYRK1A: from the localization to the function<br/>El principal objectiu d'aquesta tesi ha estat el d'esbrinar noves funcions de la proteína quinasa DYRK1A en el nucli cel.lular. Donat que el domini ...

    Polypharmacy in the elderly : data, models, and strategies 

    Szabó, Viktória (Date of defense: 2019-03-13)

    The demographic shift toward an aging population is increasing the burden of public health. On average, a person of 70 years can combine the intake of up to seven medications. The administration of multiple drugs at the ...

    Population genetic landscape of Basques 

    Flores Bello, André (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

    Basque people have been the focus of many studies in the last decades due to cultural and genetic characteristics that place them as an outlier population within the European landscape. Despite the existence of large amount ...

    Population genetics of Copy Number Variants: the case of the Romani population 

    Antinucci, Marco (Date of defense: 2023-03-23)

    Much information has been gathered for the Romani population so far, spanning historical, linguistics and genetics research. While whole genome analyses for this population started only recently, most studies using genetic ...

    Population genomics of the emerging yeast pathogen Candida glabrata 

    Carreté Muñoz, Laia (Date of defense: 2018-01-23)

    Infections caused by pathogenic fungi are becoming an increasingly serious threat for human health. Pathogenic fungi such as Candida glabrata or Candida albicans, belong to phylogenetically distinct clades and have ...

    Poseer e inventar: los objetos y la interpretación de las prácticas estéticas americanas en las casas reales europeas (1493-1565) 

    Escutia Sánchez, Erika (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)

    El presente estudio indaga en las interpretaciones y usos que las familias reinantes de Europa dieron a los artefactos americanos incorporados a sus posesiones entre 1493 y 1565. A través del análisis de documentos, imágenes ...

    Posicionamiento epistémico actitudinal en artículos de opinión y comentarios en línea: formas verbales y valores asociados 

    Battaglia, Gaetano Natale (Date of defense: 2021-02-26)

    El estudio analiza las evaluaciones modales, evidenciales y actitudinales del hablante ante un estado de cosas con el fin de explicar el proceso de formación de la evaluación a partir de la fuente de la actitud del hablante ...

    Posicionamiento web y dinámicas de información en motores de búsqueda: propuestas de análisis y estudio comparativo de visibilidad de contenidos digitales en el caso de procesos electorales 

    Gonzalo Penela, Carlos (Date of defense: 2015-03-20)

    Esta tesis tiene como objeto de estudio las características de las páginas web obtenidas a través de resultados de búsqueda (SERPs) durante los procesos electorales realizados en España entre los años 2010 y 2012. Partiendo ...

    Positive selection in humans : from singles to interaction maps 

    Luisi, Pierre (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)

    From Darwin’s Origin of the Species to the recent wealth in genomic data, many biologists have focused their research on understanding how natural selection has shaped the variability among and within species. ...

    Post-editing effort and linguistically motivated evaluation of machine translation 

    Álvarez Vidal, Sergi (Date of defense: 2021-09-28)

    The recent improvements in neural MT (NMT) have driven a shift from statistical MT (SMT) to NMT, which has propelled the use of post-editing (PE) in translation workflows. However, many professional translators state ...

    Post-transcriptional determinants of RAS protein abundance 

    Benisty, Hannah (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)

    The RAS oncogenes KRAS, NRAS and HRAS are mutated in one third of human cancers where they exhibit different mutation patterns. A potential factor contributing to this mutation bias is the variation of RAS expression ...

    Post-transcriptional regulation by UNR : insights into histone mRNA metabolism and cellular senescence 

    Inglés Ferrándiz, Marta (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)

    In this thesis, we have been studying the role of UNR, and RNA-binding protein that regulates translation and/or stability of its targets. The functional relevance of UNR was studied in two different molecular contexts: ...

    Post-transcriptional regulation of Alpha-synuclein and link to Parkinson's disease 

    Marchese, Domenica (Date of defense: 2016-11-14)

    The role of RNA processing in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases is still poorly understood. α-synuclein (SNCA) is a presynaptic neuronal protein known as the major component of Lewy bodies, the pathological ...

    Potenciación viral: el uso de las redes sociales como plataforma para generar experiencia de marca, interacción y participación en campañas publicitarias. Analisis del caso de los ganadores del premio 

    Romero Contró, Jenifher (Date of defense: 2016-01-28)

    El presente estudio analiza campañas publicitarias cuya estrategia de comunicación está basada principalmente en el uso de las Redes Sociales. Se buscó identificar las características de contenido y ejecución de dichas ...