Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Enviaments recents
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Treatment planning in electroporation-based therapies
Diverses teràpies mèdiques es basen en l’electroporació. Entre d’altres, l’electroporació s'usa per al tractament de tumors sòlids. Com que només afecta les cèl·lules i la matriu extracel·lular queda intacta, amb ...
Violencia y discriminación contra las personas LGBT. Los derechos de las víctimas
La investigación pretende ofrecer elementos de juicio para cuestionar los alcances actuales de las garantías de las víctimas de violaciones a los derechos humanos en el caso de los sujetos con orientaciones sexuales y ...
Organized class struggle against the financialization of housing in Spain: the case of the PAHC Sabadell
This doctoral thesis studies class-based social movements as a response to the collapse of the Spanish mode of capital accumulation, based on the financialization of housing and the extraction of rents. It argues that the ...
Training sound event classifiers using different types of supervision
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 this thesis started, ...
Digging into biologically-driven injury mechanisms in the intervertebral disc: an evidence-based network modelling approach to estimate cell dynamics within complex multicellular systems
It is well known that injuries affect the tissue integrity. It might be less known that injury mechanisms could be initiated through a compromised cell response, which subsequently affects the tissue integrity. Such injuries ...
La interculturalidad en el aula de español para adultos migrantes: Aportaciones desde la investigación educativa basada en diseño
La educación intercultural es una respuesta a las actuales realidades sociales y políticas queclaman por la formación de ciudadanos críticos que contribuyan al desarrollo social sostenible.Sin embargo, en el ámbito de ...
The Role of positive selection on zinc transporter genes : From genomic signals to adaptive phenotypes
Zinc is an essential micronutrient involved in many different biological processes. Zinc homeostasis is mainly regulated by 24 zinc transporters coded by the Zinc Transporter Genes (ZTGs). Notably, zinc body content is ...
Constructing the other: Analysis of foreign correspondent's discourses and practices during the Coronavirus crisis in China
This dissertation examines foreign correspondents’ discourses and professional practices during their coverage of the coronavirus crisis in China from the perspective of intercultural communication. On the one hand, it ...
Imágenes que liberan: Shock moral y comunicación visual estratégica en el activismo por la liberación animal
Esta tesis doctoral explora la efectividad y la ética comunicativa de las producciones visuales activistas antiespecistas, especialmente las imágenes de violencia y la estrategia comunicativa del shock moral. El objetivo ...
Evaluación de calidad en sitios web: Factores de análisis, métodos y propuesta de un modelo para el desarrollo de nuevos instrumentos
El objetivo de esta investigación es caracterizar la calidad web como campo de estudio, examinar sus métodos e instrumentos de evaluación –identificando sus enfoques y los factores que analizan–, y formular un modelo para ...
El espacio biográfico en comunicación política: un análisis de las narrativas biográficas en las estrategias electorales de Argentina 2015 y Ecuador 2017
La investigación estudia las estrategias y narrativas biográficas que se desarrollan en contexto electoral. Tras una exhaustiva revisión bibliográfica, se propone una original tipología de narrativas biográficas: i) orígenes ...
Blockchain technology: driving innovation in the supply chain
This thesis presents a study of blockchain impacts for supply chain (SC) application. By conducting explorative research, the thesis presents a grounded theory analysis based on eighteen interviews with international experts ...
Essays in economic forecasting
This dissertation consists of two independent chapters on economic and financial forecasting. The first chapter introduces a nonlinear forecasting framework that combines forecasts of the sign and absolute value of a ...
The Contribution of roots: the division of labor between grammar and the lexicon in meaning composition
This dissertation explores the division of labor between grammar and the lexicon from the viewpoint of event structural theories which take verb meanings to decompose into event templates and roots. Event templates ...
Development of tools for the analysis of cell-free DNA in human blood : Application in the noninvasive prenatal testing field
discovery of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in blood and the advent of massive parallel sequencing technologies has revolutionized the prenatal screening field by providing a better risk assessment of fetal chromosomal alterations ...
Exogenous expression of chemokine receptors improves mouse mesenchymal stem cell migration towards the degenerating retina
Retinopathies are a heterogeneous group of conditions that inevitably lead to vision incapacitation and blindness. Currently, they are incurable. Cell therapy has been proposed as a potential solution, but further development ...
Neural substrates of psychotic-like states and cognitive impairment in a mouse model of schizophrenia and subsequent rescue by antipsychotic drugs
Disruption of communication in brain circuits involving the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and the hippocampus (HPC) has been suggested to be a hallmark characteristic of schizophrenia. Therefore, a better understanding of the ...
Capturing the Y chomosome diversity across specific European populations : From the data to the experiment
Europe is a rich combination of diversities, cultures, and populations. Roma is the largest ethnic minority of Europe, accounting for an estimated >10 million citizens, although no official census is available. In this ...
Early life predictors of child growth trajectories and early adolescent cardiovascular health
Research over the previous decades has shown us that early life influences have long-term effects on health and disease. Emerging science supports a role in the pathogenesis of obesity and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) for ...
Strategic planning proliferation and city aspiration-crafting: investigating city strategic plans through publications, contents and triggers
This thesis explores a peculiar phenomenon of urban governance: namely, the recent rise of strategic city planning. Over the last decades, a growing number of cities adopted strategic plans that—following a strikingly ...
