Costa, Ana Lúcia Correira da (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
This work analyses the abolitionist feminist discourse on prostitution as elaborated by second-wave feminists in the last decades of the twentieth century. Its aim is to deconstruct such a discourse, ...
Zadra, Ivan (Date of defense: 2022-03-17)
To ensure faithful segregation of the genetic material, cells build the mitotic spindle, a machinery made of dynamic microtubules (MTs) and MT associated proteins (MAPs). Chromosome bi-orientation is ...
Planas Gifra, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-09-24)
Is linking migracion to security threats juscified? How is the secut1t1zacion of migracion applied in praccice? To what extent does it change the lives of migrants around the world? And in a wider ...
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 ...
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 ...
Serradell Noguera, Jose Miguel (Date of defense: 2024-03-01)
Since the first peopling of the region, multiple demographic events have occurred generating a complex genetic landscape in North Africa characterized by high genetic heterogeneity and constant gene ...
Martin, Olivier M. F. (Date of defense: 2022-04-05)
Gràcies als amplis esforços d'investigació, la nostra comprensió dels mecanismes fisiològics de l'envelliment ha progressat enormement. Recentment, les tecnologies òmiques han permès l'estudi a tot el ...