Pantano Rubiño, Lorena (Date of defense: 2011-09-26)
In this thesis we have developed a user-friendly tool, SeqBuster, for the analysis of small RNA (sRNA) data generated by next generation sequencing strategies, with special emphasis on deep characterization ...
Torre Fernández, Margarita (Date of defense: 2011-05-26)
This dissertation seeks to expand and refine our understanding of sex-segregation in the labor market. The rapid changes in women’s roles that have taken place in recent decades have made traditional ...
Brusattin, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2012-07-20)
This research project assesses the role played by political sophistication in terms of itsimpact on the voters’ resort to cognitive shortcuts, with reference both to the consciousand non-conscious ...
Berger, Stefan (Date of defense: 2010-09-16)
This thesis consists of three essays on the regulation of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and trade in open economies. The rst chapter investigates the di erences in Intellectual Property ...
Vujatovic, Olivera (Date of defense: 2012-07-27)
We did functional characterisation of Drosophila melanogaster linker histone, dH1. In the mutant state for this protein, we observed structural changes in polytene chromosomes chromocenter and nucleoli ...
Cobler Moncunill, Lara (Date of defense: 2013-09-09)
The infection of gastric mucosa by Helicobacter pylori is a key step in the initiation and evolution to gastric adenocarcinomas. Prolonged infection promotes the infiltration of inflammatory cells and ...
Piñero González, Janet (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)
In the last two decades, the volume and variety of biomedical data has dramatically increased. The data is heterogeneous and scattered across many resources. This produces bottlenecks in the analysis ...
Foraster Pulido, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-07-25)
Epidemiological evidence is limited regarding the effects of long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and to traffic noise on blood pressure (BP). This thesis aims at (a) assessing the ...
Monte Ordoño, Julia (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
L’extracció de regles de la parla és crucial per a l’adquisició del llenguatge. La present dissertació estudia el mecanisme d’aprenentatge de regles explorant com el cervell detecta regularitats rellevants ...
Burokas, Aurelijus (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)
The rapid increase of obesity has encouraged the study of the aetiology of eating disorders. Besides genetic, social and metabolic factors, obesity is caused by over-eating and has high rate of relapse ...