Lloret Llinares, Marta (Date of defense: 2011-05-17)
La metilació de les lisines de les histones està implicada en les funcions associades a la cromatina, com l’expressió gènica o la formació d’heterocromatina. És una modificació covalent afegida per ...
Santesmasses Ruiz, Didac (Date of defense: 2016-12-12)
La selenocïsteina és coneguda com a l'aminoàcid 21. Les selenoproteïnes incorporen selenocïsteina en resposta a codons UGA específics mitjançant un mecanisme de recodificació, el qual és present en els ...
Pagès Pinós, Amadís (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
El processament de les cadenes d’àcids ribonucleics (ARN) és un mecanisme mol·lecular crucial gràcies al qual els precursors delsARN missatgers es converteixen en ARN missatgers madurs. L’exemple més ...
Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)
This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic ...
Wohlmuth, Kata (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Mereological models are often used to account for distributive reference, which arises when the denotation of a linguistic expression holds of certain parts of the plurality to which it is applied. It ...
Pallarès Albanell, Joan (Date of defense: 2017-12-14)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the commonest movement disorder and a devastating neurodegenerative condition. Although PD motor symptoms arise from the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons on the ...
Puerta, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2011-06-03)
This thesis studies the economic effects of child labor and compulsory schooling laws (CLLs and CSLs). In the first two chapters I study the consequences of the enactment of CSLs on education and ...
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 ...
Guix Arnau, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-12-19)
Targeted therapies against the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) are useful to treat many human cancers such as non-small cell lung cancer, colorectal cancer and head and neck cancer. However, the ...
Vouloutsi, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2017-11-07)
Due to technological advancements, robots will soon become part of our daily lives and interact with us on a frequent basis. Robot acceptance is important, as it delineates whether users will potentially ...