Parrondo Tort, Luz (Date of defense: 2016-04-04)
This thesis revolves around financial transparency and its relationship with social transparency (CSR disclosure) and risk management at the managerial level. The first chapter identifies regulatory ...
Schmitz, Judith (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
Models of speech perception differ in the nature of the relationship between speech perception and production. Whether speech perception and production processes are based on a common representations ̶ ...
Ferruz Capapey, Noelia (Date of defense: 2016-03-04)
Understanding how receptor-ligand interactions occur is a first step towards designing new drugs. The complete reconstruction of the binding process in a drug-receptor system provides all the ...
López Gómez, María Andreé (Date of defense: 2016-09-12)
Background: Recent labor market changes as a consequence of a more globalized economy have modified employment and working conditions, well-known determinants of health. In order to study the consequences ...
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 ...
Blasco Moreno, Bernat (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)
The exonuclease Xrn1 degrades messenger RNAs (mRNAs) and controls transcription. By using a model system that replicates brome mosaic virus (BMV) in yeast, here we show that Xrn1 promotes translation ...
Fullana, Blanca (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
The present investigation is an approach to brand value from a top-management perspective, asserting that a brand is not merely a commercial value portrayed by a product placed in a market; even less ...
Sinha, Roshani (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)
Rearrangements involving the mixed lineage leukemia gene (MLL) are found in majority of human infant leukemias (>60% of ALLs, 35% of AMLs) and are associated with dismal prognosis of these patients. ...
Bárcena Menéndez, Diego (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)
Una de las preguntas sin resolver en la biologia celular, es como las células mamíferas logran generar patrones estables como organos o seres vivos, en un entorno variable. El concepto matemático del ...
Aulicino, Francesco (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)
The adaptive response of cells to external stimuli is an intriguing mechanism at the basis of the existence of life itself. For this purpose, signalling pathways and gene regulatory networks elegantly ...