Arnedo Pac, Claudia Rosario (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)
Sequencing of cancer genomes reveals the story of mutational events shaping the distribution of somatic mutations across the nucleotide sequence. A particular pattern of such distribution, mutational ...
Morrison Esteve, Joana (Date of defense: 2015-06-05)
Las ciudades están densamente pobladas y ofrecen una diversidad cultural, religiosa, étnica, y de costumbres. Suele estar dividida por demarcaciones socioeconómicas. Las desigualdades en el desarrollo ...
Perales Puchalt, Jaime (Date of defense: 2014-10-27)
The continuing growth of older age groups worldwide needs an increased understanding of the ageing phenomena. For this reason, the present thesis is aimed at two very important outcomes in the elderly, ...
González Ramírez, Mar (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)
Appropriate regulation of gene expression is necessary for correct development and homeostasis of organisms. Epigenetic mechanisms represent an additional layer of information, besides the genetic ...
Turino, Francesco (Date of defense: 2009-11-30)
My dissertation is a collection of three essays that study various aspects of non-price competition among firms using fully microfounded general equilibrium models. The first two chapters, both coauthored ...
Hinchliffe, Alice (Date of defense: 2023-03-02)
Heat exposure is a growing concern for many workers around the world as climate change is causing global average temperatures to rise. Heat exposure has been linked to a number of key carcinogenic ...
Batlle Gómez, Raquel (Date of defense: 2011-12-19)
The Snail1 transcriptional repressor is a key factor responsible in triggering epithelial to mesenchymal transition. Although Snail1 is widely expressed in early development, it is limited in adult ...
Prieto Barja, Pablo (Date of defense: 2017-01-12)
In this PhD I have used NGS technologies in different organisms and scenarios such as in ENCODE, comparing the conservation and evolution of long non-coding RNA sequences between human and mouse, using ...
Mechaly, Alejandro S. (Date of defense: 2011-06-27)
The recently discovered decapeptide kisspeptin and its G-protein coupled receptor form a signaling system expressed ubiquitously and are implicated in a variety of still poorly characterized functions. ...
Signorini, Matteo (Date of defense: 2015-12-10)
La Internet de las Cosas está avanzando lentamente debido a la falta de confianza en dispositivos que puedan interactuar de manera autónoma. Además, se requieren nuevos enfoques para mitigar o al menos ...