Navarrete Terrassa, Antonio (Date of defense: 2006-09-05)
Els datasets geogràfics representen la realitat mitjançant un conjunt d'entitats temàtiques que sovint no estan definides d'una manera precisa i que diferents persones poden entendre de diferents formes. ...
Horváth, Vivien (Date of defense: 2020-09-28)
Environmental stress is a major aspect of life and a limiting factor for the survival and distribution of species. Understanding the organismal stress response and the developed coping mechanisms is ...
Stahl, Jörg Rolf (Date of defense: 2017-07-13)
This thesis explores the interactions between the political and corporate environment. In the first chapter, I examine the high concentration of headquarters in capital cities and the incentives for ...
Qasrawi, Radwan (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
Two treatment modalities based on the electroporation phenomenon, electro-chemotherapy and irreversible electroporation, have been developed in the last decades to destroy solid tumors. These treatments ...
González Chapela, Jorge (Date of defense: 2004-09-17)
This thesis studies from the theoretical and empirical points of view the allocation of time by part of rational individuals motivated by technological changes in the economy. Drawing upon the labor ...
Whitmarsh, Tristan (Date of defense: 2012-09-25)
In this thesis a method was developed to reconstruct both the 3D shape and the BMD distribution of bone structures from Dual-energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) images. The method incorporates a statistical ...
Mana, Ludovica (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
Psychotic disorders are highly heterogeneous, complicating diagnosis and treatment. The mechanisms underlying these disorders are still unclear, and bridging the gap between neural properties and ...
Tovar, Antonia (Date of defense: 2022-11-11)
Language is a core aspect of human cognition and richly interacts with aspects of nonverbal cognition, as evidence from normal development (Perszyk & Waxman, 2018), abnormal development (Schroeder et ...
Ros i Rocher, Núria (Date of defense: 2019-02-15)
The origin of animal multicellularity is a major evolutionary question. Recent genome data from the closest extant unicellular relatives of animals revealed that they actually possess and express a ...
Garcia Lausin, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
Perineal injuries during childbirth, especially severe perineal injuries, can lead to adverse health outcomes for women both in the short and longer term and can significantly affect women´s quality ...