Księżopolska, Ewa (Date of defense: 2021-07-05)
This project was set out to broaden our knowledge of the processes driving the emergence of antifungal drug resistance in an opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida glabrata. More precisely, we sought to ...
Saenger Amoore, Victor Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-02-26)
The activity of the brain at rest reveals an intricate functional architecture and yet, the underlying mechanisms generating it are still not well understood. Whole-brain computational models have turned ...
Sansó Martínez, Miriam (Date of defense: 2010-07-02)
In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the MAPK pathway Sty1 is activated upon several stress situations, like osmotic and oxidative stress, stationary phase, UV radiation or heat shock. Since the modulation ...
Buono, Inés (Date of defense: 2008-10-29)
This thesis deals with the integration of firms into export markets when trade barriers decrease. It consists in three chapters.<br/><br/>The first chapter focuses on how cross-industry differences in ...
Castellví Fernández, Quim (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Most physical ablation modalities for cancer treatment are focal and are based on thermal damage. Despite their regular clinical use as an alternative to surgical resection, their thermal principle of ...
López Montañés, María (Date of defense: 2016-11-25)
El citomegalovirus humano (HCMV) promueve una redistribución del compartimento de células Natural Killer (NK) marcada por un incremento de las células NK maduras que expresan niveles elevados del receptor ...
Almeida Cotrim, Bruno (Date of defense: 2011-01-10)
Obesity constitutes a problem whose manifestations have consequences in almost every field of the medicine and nowadays there is a lack of pharmacological therapy alternatives for its long term ...
Ramada Rodilla, José María (Date of defense: 2014-03-13)
Antecedentes: La traducción directa cuestionarios puede conducir a errores debido a diferencias culturales y lingüísticas. La utilización en estudios científicos de cuestionarios desarrollados en otros ...
Swenson, Benjamin J. (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
During the Peninsular War (1808-1814) the Spanish launched an unprecedented guerrilla insurgency that undermined Napoleon’s grip on that state. The advent of this novel and illegal “system” of warfare ...
Valls Ferrer, Margalida (Date of defense: 2011-09-09)
The present study examines the development of L2 fluency and rhythm in the extemporaneous speech of advanced EFL learners during a study abroad (SA) period, and the relationship between utterance ...