Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Enviaments recents
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Exploring graphic pathographies construction: a multimodal analysis
In the last couple of years, medical information has been presented across different digital and visual forms of communication. Mainly, comics are published on various social media platforms and websites to submit a ...
Machine translation in a professional translation workflow: post-editing or computer aided translation
Localization is a fascinating field which has changed dramatically in the last years and it is still changing and adapting itself as society is. The use of machine translation has developed this field astonishingly. Many ...
Developing a multimodal pedagogical approach for English literature teaching
In the field of teaching English literature to Spanish adolescents, a multimodal approach offers diverse modes of representation and brings potential for meaning making. However, teaching with digital technology or using ...
Charting the heterogeneity of healthy and malignant immune cells, one cell at a time
Specialization and plasticity are hallmarks of immune cells. Thus, charting their heterogeneity is crucial to understand their function and role in diseases. In this setting, single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has ...
Decoding the immune evasive properties of cancer stem cells in breast cancer immunotherapy resistance
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) fuels tumours and are involved in therapy resistance, yet their contribution immunotherapy resistance and immunological properties are poorly understood. Herein, we show that within tumour phenotypic ...
Greener on the other side?: greenspace exposure and cardiovascular health
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 health concern, and ...
Análisis de contenidos y resultados diagnósticos en la evaluación del trastorno depresivo mayor
Introducción: El Trastorno Depresivo Mayor (TDM) es una enfermedad común que limita severamente el funcionamiento psicosocial y disminuye la calidad de vida. Clínicamente, el diagnóstico pasa por la entrevista clínica ...
Essays on international trade and economic geography
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 in trade costs ...
Genetic associations on major depression: curation and functional analysis
Major depression (MD) is the leading cause of impairment worldwide. The lack of understanding of its biological underpinnings hampers the development of better diagnostic tools and treatments. Thanks to the advances in ...
The Role of the LRRC8A anion channel in adaptation to stress
Cell volume regulation is essential for cellular homeostasis and adaptation to environmental osmotic changes. Upon hyperosmotic stress, cells need to rapidly restore osmotic balances in order to preserve the function of ...
International juridical double taxation and individuals' ability to pay in the light of EU law
According to the CJEU’s case law, the tax disadvantage suffered by taxpayers in a cross-border situation arising from international juridical double taxation does not constitute a forbidden obstacle to free movement because ...
A Genome-wide CRISPR screen to identify novel pathways involved in reprogramming and x-chromosome reactivation
During reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), the epigenome needs to be reset. A prime example of this is the reversal of the silent state of the inactive X chromosome in female cells, ...
Occupational heat exposure and cancer risk
Heat exposure is a growing concern for many workers around the world as climate change is causing global average temperatures to rise. Heat exposure has been linked to a number of key carcinogenic processes, but current ...
La financiación ilegal de los partidos políticos: un estudio sobre la intervención penal en la materia
La tesis elaborada centra su objeto de estudio en la financiación ilegal de los partidos políticos, en particular, en la intervención y respuesta penal en este ámbito. La principal meta que persigue el estudio es dilucidar ...
Two mental disorders as disease models of language: linguistic (dis)organisation in schizophrenia and Huntington's disease
Language is a core aspect of human cognition and richly interacts with aspects of nonverbal cognition, as evidence from normal development (Perszyk & Waxman, 2018), abnormal development (Schroeder et al., 2020), and aphasia ...
La difamación lingüística : delito, concepto y sistema
En esta investigación haremos un análisis sistemático-conceptual del delito de difamación lingüística desde una perspectiva suprapositiva. Para ello, usaremos nociones propias de la teoría del lenguaje vinculadas a esta ...
Smart legal contracts: el uso de tecnologías emergentes para la automatización de todo o parte del ciclo de vida del contrato
El uso de las tecnologías emergentes de registro distribuido y las tecnologías que se enmarcan bajo el término paraguas "inteligencia artificial" para la automatización (total o parcial) del ciclo de vida del contrato, ...
Cellular dynamics and molecular mechanisms underlying the 3D organization and connectivity of the statoacoustic ganglion
The statoacoustic ganglion (SAG) is a complex 3D structure composed by neurons in charge of transmitting the information from inner ear hair cells to the CNS. During development, SAG copes with otic tissue demands to ...
Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of subterranean Coleoptera
Under very specific pressures, evolution turns extremely convergent, to the extent that distantly-related organisms show highly similar morphological, physiological and behavioral adaptations. Life into the perpetual ...
Translational control by differential expression of tRNAs
Malgrat teixits diferents presenten diferències en l'ús de codons i en els repertoris d'anticodons dels ARNt, el coneixement sobre la co-adaptació entre codó-anticodó en eucariotes multicel·lulars és incomplet. D'una banda, ...
