Palacios Fenech, Javier (Date of defense: 2011-10-07)
Diffusion of 31 durable goods in 70 countries over a period of 32 years is analyzed using principal component analysis biplots. While marketers have focused on adoption of innovations, studying ...
Garcia-Elias Heras, Anna (Date of defense: 2011-06-30)
TRPV4 is a non-selective cation channel with a wide expression and multiple cellular and systemic functions. Described initially as an osmosensor, it can also be activated by temperature and cell swelling. ...
Carnero-Montoro, Elena (Date of defense: 2013-10-25)
The genetic basis of phenotypes that have contributed to the adaptation of species and organisms to new environments is a central question in evolutionary genetics. The recent accumulation of genetic ...
Moret Miranda, Karina (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
During the nineteenth century, the secret societies Ekpe (Egbo) of the Cross River and Cuban Abakuá, were called "a kind of black masonry." Ekpe (Egbo) had a social, political and economic function ...
Canet, Maëlle (Date of defense: 2023-03-30)
Though Computed Tomography (CT) plays an essential role in healthcare, several large-scale cohort studies have reported an increased cancer risk following CT-radiation exposure in childhood. Results ...
Ballana Guix, Ester (Date of defense: 2007-05-04)
La seqüenciació del genoma humà ha marcat una fita important en la història de la biologia. Com a conseqüència, la genètica i la genòmica han experimentat un progrés enorme. Això ha permès un millor ...
Salaverria Izaguirre, Pablo G. (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)
This PhD thesis aimed to understand the impact of temperature at different levels (biology to physics) while performing live-cell imaging. A study and characterization of the role of the temperature ...
Bosch Morató, Mònica (Date of defense: 2015-07-17)
The Amyloid β-peptide (Aβ) is accumulated in several diseases including GNE myopathy and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). GNE myopathy is a skeletal muscle disorder caused by biallelic mutations in the ...
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 ...