Vidal, Alice (Date of defense: 2024-02-23)
Prendre decisions es un repte, i a la par un aspecte inevitable a les nostres vides. D’entre totes les opcions viables, hom ha de sotmetre a escrutini i avaluació les diverses alternatives en tant ...
Pérez Crespo, Laura (Date of defense: 2023-03-22)
Environmental noise pollution has become a major public health concern due to its increase during the last decades as a result of urbanization processes. Environmental noise can be produced by different ...
Ghose, Ritobrata (Date of defense: 2024-02-02)
Cancer cells are constantly subject to complex stresses in the tumour microenvironment. These stresses encapsulate a wide array of challenging stimuli from physical and mechanical forces to interference ...
González i Colell, Marc (Date of defense: 2024-02-23)
Engineering biology requires a clear set of rules that ensure design predictability. However, certain biological processes difficult the application of these rules, impairing prediction. In the first ...
Burriel Carranza, Bernat (Date of defense: 2024-02-26)
This thesis provides new insights into the evolution of biodiversity in arid regions by exploring the patterns and drivers of reptile diversity in the Hajar Mountains of Southeastern Arabia. We first ...
Carreras Gallo, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)
DNA methylation is really important because it is altered due to genetic and environmental factors, and it is associated with common diseases. In this thesis, we identified new factors altering DNA ...
Torregrosa Cortés, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2023-09-29)
This thesis is about development and its study from a theoretical point of view, with special interest in how to describe development as a dynamical systems' problem. The thesis digs into four directions ...
Díaz Esteve, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
This dissertation examines the transimperial intellectual exchanges between Britons from Hong Kong and Singapore and Filipinos during the Revolution of 1896-1902. It reveals that British newspapermen ...
Lizano-Barrantes, Catalina (Date of defense: 2024-02-29)
The general aim of this doctoral thesis was to examine the impact on persons with persistent asthma of inhaled treatment use and sociodemographic factors, in terms of patient-reported outcomes. To achieve ...
Herrero Vicente, Jorge (Date of defense: 2024-02-26)
Cancer cells exhibit a synthetic lethal (SL) phenotype when Myc upregulation is combined with antitumor drugs targeting the splicing factor SF3B1. However, the molecular events and mechanisms responsible ...