Martínez García, Antonio (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
I joined the lab of Dra. Pura Muñoz to study the capacity of self-repair of skeletal muscle after an acute injury. During this process many different cell types interact to coordinate and regulate muscle ...
Maras, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-09-03)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and donation behaviour of individuals. Chapter One studies the impact of prior learning and competition on ...
Posavec, Melanija (Date of defense: 2014-06-17)
MacroH2A1.1 is one of the least understood histone variants and structural components of chromatin. Generated by alternative splicing, macroH2A1.1 differs from the other macroH2A1 isoform in its ...
Popota, Foteini D. (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
Positron emission tomography (PET) has been well established the last years as a powerfull tool in research and clinical applications. Advances in technology have enabled the use of small animal PET ...
Torrents Barrena, Jordina (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
This thesis focuses on the development of deep learning-based image processing techniques for the detection and segmentation of fetal structures in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and 3D ultrasound ...
Mercadal Cavaller, Borja (Date of defense: 2019-10-16)
This thesis aimed at addressing questions within the fields of electroporation and peripheral nerve stimulation and, in particular, those that arise from the interaction between the two phenomenona. On ...
Petrella, Andrea (Date of defense: 2017-11-06)
This thesis investigates different aspects of firm behavior. In the first chapter I study if the quality of civil justice affects the firms’ participation to Global Value Chains. I find that firms ...
Bogunovic, Hrvoje (Date of defense: 2012-09-28)
Los derrames cerebrales son una de las causas principales de morbilidad y mortalidad en los países desarrollados. Esto ha motivado una búsqueda de configuraciones del sistema vascular que se cree que ...
Dzhambazov, Georgi (Date of defense: 2017-06-28)
This thesis proposes specific signal processing and machine learning methodologies for automatically aligning the lyrics of a song to its corresponding audio recording. The research carried out falls ...
Plass Pórtulas, Mireya (Date of defense: 2011-07-12)
L’splicing és el mecanisme pel qual els introns són eliminats del pre-mRNA per generar un trànscrit madur. Aquest procés és dut a terme per un complex macromolecular anomenat spliceosoma i requereix el ...