Delgado Sallent, Cristina (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Disruption of communication in brain circuits involving the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus (HPC) has been suggested to be a hallmark characteristic of schizophrenia. Therefore, a better ...
Ruiz Carreras, María (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
El objetivo general de esta investigación es estudiar el discurso de los grupos de presión de la industria láctea europea (ILE) desde una perspectiva antiespecista. Para ello se examina a la ILE como ...
Martínez Salom, Maria Àngels (Date of defense: 2021-02-01)
This doctoral thesis makes a critical review of the current descriptions of lexical collocations, since there is no consensus on the differentiation between collocations and other combinations, nor on ...
Parés-Badell, Oleguer (Date of defense: 2021-02-01)
Harm reduction is a set of programs and interventions that aim to reduce health and social harms of drug use. The Barcelona model aims to maximize access to harm reduction services and to integrate them ...
Bofill Pumarola, Andreu (Date of defense: 2021-03-09)
A great deal of efforts has been made to improve and expand pharmacological testing and optimisation of drug candidates during the discovery process. However, we are yet to understand fully why drugs ...
Beardsley, Marc Yoshimi (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
Reports from the OECD and the World Economic Forum highlight that rapid technological and social change are demanding much more of students. Yet, research indicates that many students are not developing ...
Willis, Sébastien (Date of defense: 2021-02-04)
This thesis consists of three independent articles. In the first chapter, I test whether tipping points can explain observed workplace segregation between immigrants and natives in Germany over the ...
Fraile Beneitez, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)
Eukaryotic DNA is condensed inside the nucleus, compacted into chromatin. The structure of chromatin is dynamic, and its accessibility to cellular machinery can be altered depending on the level of ...
Gómez Artiola, Xavier (Date of defense: 2021-11-15)
El presente texto realiza una interpretación creativa y novedosa de la obra del artista Juan Muñoz, uno de los más influyentes no sólo a nivel nacional sino a escala internacional en las dos últimas ...
Vidal Sabanés, Laia (Date of defense: 2021-06-07)
Les pacients de càncer de mama de l’Institut Català d’Oncologia tenen a l'abast, des del 2016, una comunitat virtual de pacients per tractar temes relacionats amb la seva malaltia. En aquest context i ...