Agirre Ortiz de Guzmán, Eneritz (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)
Generalment s'ha pensat que la regulació de l'splicing alternatiu està controlada principalment per la interacció entre els factors reguladors de l'splicing i la taxa d'elongació de la ARN polimerasa ...
Mateu Huertas, Elisabet (Date of defense: 2013-11-15)
Male premutation carriers (PM) presenting between 55-200 CGG repeats in the Fragile X-associated (FMR1) gene are at risk to develop Fragile X Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS), and females to undergo ...
Reis, Kadri (Date of defense: 2016-03-23)
Una gran proporción del genoma de la mayoría de eucariotas superiores está formado por secuencias repetitivas de DNA que contienen señales de represión de la transcripción. Para entender mejor cómo ...
Calvé Pérez, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-07-04)
Food addiction is closely associated with eating disorders including obesity and binge eating. However, the neural alterations underlying this disorder have not been yet clarified. We have trained ...
Seiz Puyuelo, Marta (Date of defense: 2014-04-07)
This thesis analyzes whether there is an interdependence, at the intra-couple level, between men’s housework and childcare participation and women’s employment and economic position. The first empirical ...
Valls-Ratés, Ïo (Date of defense: 2023-05-05)
Training adolescent students to speak in public is crucial for the development of their oral competence but also beneficial for their social abilities, as it empowers them to engage in learning opportunities ...
Rojas Zea, Youel (Date of defense: 2022-05-13)
This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, using a series of identified monetary policy shocks for Peru, I show robust evidence of supply side mechanisms of monetary policy for ...
Brugulat Serrat, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)
White matter hyperintensities (WMH) have been associated with increased risk and progression of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the range to which this association can be extended to AD risk factors ...
Marcos Sanmartín, Encarni (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
Decisions are the result of a deliberative process that evaluates the suitability of specific options. Studies about decision making have been mainly conducted by using restricted tasks in which humans ...
Fonseca, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
The automatic recognition of sound events has gained attention in the past few years, motivated by emerging applications in fields such as healthcare, smart homes, or urban planning. When the work for ...