Gallo, María (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
This thesis focuses on one of the biggest challenges facing drug discovery field: the efficient targeted delivery of therapeutic compounds, and how cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) acting as drug delivery ...
Escrich Montañana, Ainoa (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The emergency to obtain effective substances against cancer, and the awareness to protect natural resources make plant biofactories a promising alternative for obtaining plant-derived compounds. In this ...
Mestres Gonzalvo, Enric (Date of defense: 2022-02-18)
The embryo culture system is composed by all those elements with the potential to impact embryo development. Its optimization is required to stabilize in vitro embryo culture and produce reliable and ...
Sönmez, İbrahim (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
This PhD dissertation addresses how stress regarding one’s sexual identity relates to health-related adverse outcomes. It is composed of four articles. The first one examines how internalized ...
Fernández López, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
In the last decades, there has been an increased interest in decoding speech exclusively using visual cues, i.e. mimicking the human capability to perform lip-reading, leading to Automatic Lip-Reading ...
Falaguera Mata, Maria José (Date of defense: 2022-04-26)
Systems pharmacology is the discipline that studies the so-called ‘pharmacological space’ with a holistic and network-based perspective. Its challenge is to shed light on the astonishingly sophisticated ...
Ramírez López, Ángela (Date of defense: 2021-07-28)
The endocannabinoid system is a natural modulatory system that participates in multiple physiological processes, including nociceptive, emotional and rewarding responses. These central responses are ...
Janezic, Katharina A. (Date of defense: 2021-05-18)
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and ...
Ginovart Cid, Clara (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
While (translation) technology and the language industry continue to evolve, varieties of professional profiles and nuances to the relevant skillsets emerge. The field of machine translation post-editing, ...
Tassinari, Andrea (Date of defense: 2020-05-19)