Llorens DeCesaris, Gerard (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
This thesis explores the interconnections between the U.S. and the Spanish Empire in the late 19th century, adopting an approach that departs from the traditional historical narratives that have considered ...
Orejarena, Maria Juliana (Date of defense: 2010-09-06)
(+) 3,4-metilendioximetanfetamina (MDMA), popularmente conocida como "éxtasis", es una droga susceptible de producir adicción en algunos individuos. Actualmente es consumida principalmente por adolescentes ...
Higuera González, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-10-01)
Macrophages play crucial roles in the defense of the organism against a wide range of pathogens. Macrophages can rapidly adapt to perturbations in the microenvironment due to the existence of a network ...
Sanvicente García, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-05-18)
Precision and accuracy are paramount for the use of genome editing in clinic, environmental, and industrial applications. These fields require reliable and traceable results to ensure the safety and ...
Benkarim, Mohamed Oualid (Date of defense: 2018-09-14)
Nowadays, imaging of the human brain is vastly used in clinical settings and by the neuroscientific research community. There is an ever-increasing demand for novel biomedical image analysis approaches ...
Bauer, Moritz (Date of defense: 2020-02-14)
The reactivation of the inactive X chromosome has the potential to provide a unique system to study the developmentally induced formation of euchromatin. However, insights into this process were hampered ...
Robles Hellín, Claudia (Date of defense: 2014-07-07)
Polyomaviruses are suspected to cause cancer in humans although to date Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCPyV) is the only proven human carcinogen. Potential associations of up to nine polyomaviruses with 468 ...
Williams Camus, Julia T. (Date of defense: 2014-02-21)
This thesis provides an account of the metaphors of cancer in a comparable English and Spanish corpus of 300 press popularisation articles. The aim is to identify relevant source domains that are ...
Debroux, Tatsuro (Date of defense: 2018-07-02)
The thesis shows the result of the research on foreign policy during the first and second Abe administration. It focuses on the relations with the US, China, India, Australia, the Philippines, the ...
Bosch Vicente, Juan José (Date of defense: 2017-06-27)
The identification of the melody from a music recording is a relatively easy task for humans, but very challenging for computational systems. This task is known as "audio melody extraction", more formally ...