Hernando Herráez, Irene (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
DNA methylation is a crucial epigenetic modification involved in numerous biological processes. However, despite its functional importance, the evolutionary history of this modification and the mechanisms ...
Awad, Hiltrud (Date of defense: 2019-10-07)
Intercultural education is one way of responding to the current political and social realities resulting from globalization, migration, and political and economic crises. It puts emphasis on educating ...
Bauwelinck, Mariska Georgette M. (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
The last century has been marked by perhaps the greatest demographic transition in human history. The processes related thereto, such as rapid urbanization and population ageing, pose a major public ...
López Picazo, Mirella (Date of defense: 2019-03-19)
Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease, with a significant morbidity and mortality caused by the increase of bone fragility and susceptibility to fracture. Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA) ...
Torcal Garcia, Guillem (Date of defense: 2022-02-10)
Lineage-instructive transcription factors orchestrate cell fate decisions by regulating gene expression programs. However, how their function is regulated throughout development is poorly understood. ...
Sajons, Gwendolin Beatriz (Date of defense: 2014-12-12)
This thesis examines the relationships among managerial justice and employee attitudes, emotions and behaviors to re-conceptualize the traditional causal frameworks of the justice literature. In the ...
Maier, Martina (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
The increase in stroke survivors poses a global challenge for the current health care system. The way that standard therapy is provided today impacts long-term disability and dependency in ADL insufficiently. ...
Bédard, Annabelle (Date of defense: 2015-01-30)
The general aim of the thesis was to assess the role of nutritional factors in asthma in the French E3N study. The first objective was to compare principal component (PCA) with confirmatory factor ...
Koudijs, Peter Arie Eliza (Date of defense: 2011-06-06)
The three chapters of this thesis revolve around the trade in English stocks in the Amsterdam market during the 18th century. In the first chapter I use the primitive communication technology of that ...
Pileckyte, Indre (Date of defense: 2023-12-12)
Oscillations at theta frequency (4-7 Hz) have been hypothesized to play an important functional role in brain processes associated to working memory. In this thesis, I investigate how the systematic ...