Righi, Valeria (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
This dissertation analyses, reflects on, and re-thinks the way in which Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) research is conducted with a growing ageing population. This dissertation draws upon a 5-year ...
Titos Vivancos, Iris (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)
At the metaphase-to-anaphase transition, spindle microtubules pull replicated chromosomes to the daughter cells, but full separation of long chromosome arms is achieved in late anaphase. We have created ...
Porta de la Riva, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2009-09-22)
La transició epiteli-mesènquima (TEM) és un procés en què cèl lules epitelials, immòbils i amb polaritat apico-basal transiten cap un fenotip mesenquimal o fibroblàstic. L'expressió del factor de ...
Morazzoni, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows ...
Morral Martínez, Clara (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
El càncer de colon es caracteritza per presentar una composició cel·lular heterogènia en la qual només un subgrup de cèl·lules retenen la capacitat de contribuir en el manteniment i creixement del tumor. ...
Martínez Cebrián, Gerard (Date of defense: 2019-12-03)
Upon environmental stresses such as temperature fluctuations or increases in osmolarity, yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae induces a transcriptional reprograming in order to survive and adapt to the ...
Agostini, Federico (Date of defense: 2014-06-16)
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) control the fate of a multitude of coding and non-coding transcripts. Formation of ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complexes fine-tunes regulation of post-transcriptional events and ...
Martínez Carrasco, Miguel Ángel (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
New managerial practices are not use on isolation. Managers use different organizational tools to maximize their firm’s profits and they interact with the pre-established practices of the company. ...
Herreros Alonso, Ivan (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
Animals excel in skilled motor behavior, especially when compared to arti cial systems. Several adaptive and predictive motor control frameworks have been proposed to account for such performance, but ...
García Blanco, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)
The easy access to hypercaloric and palatable foods is a major contributing factor for compulsive eating and food addiction development. The prevalence of food addiction measured with the validated ...