Boronat Rigol, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)
Hydroxytyrosol is a health-promoting dietary phenol mainly present in extra virgin olive oil. Wine and beer are sources of tyrosol, a related phenolic compound. We have demonstrated that in humans tyrosol ...
Pindado, Zaira (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Elliptic curves with a bilinear map, or pairing, have a rich algebraic structure that has been fundamental to develop practical Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs. On the theoretical side, ...
Vila-Vidal, Manel (Date of defense: 2021-09-30)
Intracranial electroencephalography (iEEG) is an invasive diagnostic procedure used in severe drug-resistant epilepsy patients that provides simultaneous recordings of multiple brain regions at a very ...
Dovelos, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2021-11-05)
Undoubtedly, spectrum scarcity constitutes the main bottleneck of current wireless networks. It is therefore imperative to move beyond the sub-6 GHz band in order to overcome this limitation. Toward ...
Prado Peralta, María Gabriela (Date of defense: 2020-07-14)
Background: There is evidence suggesting that body weight is associated with lung function, but results are contradictory and suffer from important limitations. We aimed to assess the association of ...
Ferrández Peral, Luis (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)
The evolution of transcriptomes has been linked to the emergence of novel phenotypes. However, our knowledge on how isoform diversity has impacted recent human evolution is very limited. To fill this ...
Cruzat Grand, Josefina (Date of defense: 2020-10-09)
Cognitive processing requires to flexibly combine information from functionally specialized neural processes that are widely distributed throughout the brain. Neuroimaging studies have consistently ...
Bou de Pieri, Francesc (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
Tot i que l’obesitat és clarament deguda a un desequilibri entre la ingesta d’energia i la despesa, i està molt associada a l’estil de vida, es considera una malaltia multifactorial amb una alta ...
Torrens Fontanals, Mariona (Date of defense: 2022-02-11)
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a well-established technique to characterize the structural motions of biological systems at atomic resolution. However, accessing, viewing, and sharing MD ...
Wang, Xinghua (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible ...