García Blanco, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)
The easy access to hypercaloric and palatable foods is a major contributing factor for compulsive eating and food addiction development. The prevalence of food addiction measured with the validated ...
Gómez Cerdà, Vicenç (Date of defense: 2008-06-23)
Aquesta tesi tracta d'algoritmes i fenòmens complexos en xarxes.<br/><br/>En la primera part s'estudia un model de neurones estocàstiques inter-comunicades mitjançant potencials d'acció. Proposem una ...
Yeşilbayraktar, Uğur (Date of defense: 2023-01-24)
This thesis explores how international trade shapes economic geography and analyses the effects of borders and other trade costs on the pattern of trade. In the first chapter, I study how the reduction ...
Rangel Hilt, Thomas Alexander (Date of defense: 2007-09-14)
Se ha escrito mucho sobre la valoración de derivados financieros, pero no se ha estudiado tanto las razones, los costes, las ventajas y el impacto económico de su uso. Esto es sorprendente dada la ...
Rubio Pérez, Carlota (Date of defense: 2017-11-28)
Cancer is a disease of the genome. The study of tumor genomic alterations is used to guide several precision medicine strategies, some approved and a large number under clinical development. On the other ...
Pich Roselló, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Cells of our body are constantly exposed to events that can create lesions in the DNA. If unremoved by the DNA repair mechanisms, the lesion may lead to a mutational event. Some of these events might ...
Pecoraro, Matteo (Date of defense: 2014-10-02)
La senescencia celular es una detención irreversible del ciclo celular que tiene lugar en respuesta a diversos estímulos de estrés, actuando como un mecanismo supresor de tumores para impedir la ...
Malinverni, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)
Full-Body interaction represents a branch of research in embodied interaction that addresses the use of the whole body to interact with the physical and digital environment. Several researchers have ...
Spalek, Alexandra Anna (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)
Even though it is an intuitive and perhaps obvious idea that composition leads to non-trivial semantic interactions between words, and these interactions affect the contents of predication, there has ...
Stein, Amelie (Date of defense: 2010-06-11)
Proteins and protein interactions are involved in virtually all processes of life. Here we study interactions between globular domains and short linear motifs, which form a small interface ideal for ...