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Rasouligandomani, Morteza (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)
Adult Spine Deformity (ASD) leads to abnormal spine curvature causing imbalance, pain, and fall risk. Spinal surgery is common but carries the risk of Mechanical Complications (MC), notably Proximal Junctional Failure ...
Pagès-Portabella, Carlota (Date of defense: 2023-10-19)
La música està present en totes les cultures. Tot i tenir les mateixes habilitats auditives, la manera en la què experimentem la música depèn del context cultural, la música que escoltem en el dia a dia o si hem rebut ...
Platania, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2023-10-11)
The South Pacific is an intriguing region for studying evolutionary biology, presenting an exceptional diversity and complex geological and environmental characteristics. New Caledonia, in particular, hosts a rich and ...
Soldevila Domènech, Natàlia (Date of defense: 2023-10-05)
Les intervencions que milloren l’estil de vida (dieta, exercici físic i entrenament cognitiu) poden frenar el declivi cognitiu en persones a risc de demència. En el context d’intervencions en l’estil de vida, aquesta ...
Cianferoni, Damiano (Date of defense: 2023-10-09)
Aquesta tesi presenta diversos avenços que inclouen: (i) noves funcionalitats afegides a la “suite” d'eines de disseny de proteïnes FoldX per permetre als usuaris treballar amb qualsevol tipus de molècula; (ii) estudis ...
Pardo Lorente, Natalia (Date of defense: 2023-10-06)
Subcellular compartmentalisation of metabolic enzymes may elicit specific cellular functions by establishing a unique metabolic environment. Indeed, the nuclear translocation of certain metabolic enzymes impacts epigenetics ...
Torregrosa Cortés, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2023-09-29)
This thesis is about development and its study from a theoretical point of view, with special interest in how to describe development as a dynamical systems' problem. The thesis digs into four directions embedded in this ...
Martí Castellote, Pablo-Miki (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)
This PhD thesis explores how data science can be leveraged to learn from diverse cohorts and fuse information from heterogeneous data, aiming to advance understanding and improve prediction in healthcare settings. It covers ...
Soberats, Clara (Date of defense: 2023-09-26)
Meaning in any naturalistic utterance has a dual aspect: one is lexical-semantic memory, which enters into utterances in the form of words that we remember and retrieve; the other is the specific kind of meaning carried ...
Xi, Xiatong (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)
In the realm of second language acquisition of pronunciation, perception-based phonetic training has been shown to be effective in improving L2 perception and production. By incorporating the visual modality of the speaker’s ...
Mestre Farràs, Neus (Date of defense: 2021-09-16)
La tesi doctoral aquí presentada busca entendre quin és el paper de les proteïnes d’unió a l’ARN en la progressió tumoral, ja que s’ha demostrat que aquestes proteïnes poden regular aspectes que permeten o inhibeixen la ...
Espejo Díaz, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
Polycomb group (PcG) proteins are transcriptional repressors that control development and cell fate. Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) misfunction has been recurrently associated with embryonic lethality and disease, ...
Camps Durban, Eloi (Date of defense: 2023-09-18)
Els darrers quinze anys ha crescut l’experimentació amb els models d’organització periodística. La cooperativa és un dels més destacats. Malgrat que estiguin implantades arreu del món des de fa dècades, les cooperatives ...
Lucas-Sánchez, Marcel (Date of defense: 2023-09-18)
Since the origins of humankind, North Africa has been involved in many demographic events, leading to a heterogeneous cultural and genetic landscape. However, it is largely underrepresented in genetic studies, and many ...
García Baos, Alba (Date of defense: 2023-09-13)
Alcohol exposure during gestation and lactation leads to physical and behavioral disabilities known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorder. Although cognitive dysfunction is highly frequent and compromises the patients’ quality ...
Reymond, Loïc (Date of defense: 2023-09-20)
This thesis introduces SIMPLE (Structured Illumination based Point Lo- calization Estimator), a novel super-resolution technique in fluorescence microscopy. By combining standing-wave patterned illumination with single-molecule ...
Barrera Conde, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-09-08)
Els pacients diagnosticats amb esquizofrènia o un primer episodi psicòtic (PEP) que consumeixen cànnabis presenten alteracions clíniques diferencials comparats amb els no consumidors. En aquesta tesi doctoral, hem emprat ...
Tolosa Ramon, Queralt (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
The outer epithelial layer is the first cell type that emerges during development, providing essential mechanical protection and is indispensable for morphogenesis. Here, we study how the interplay between molecular and ...
Alegre Zurano, Laia (Date of defense: 2023-07-26)
Cocaine use profoundly disrupts the neuronal circuits that regulate reward processing, motivation and decision making, resulting in long-lasting neuroplastic adaptations in the mesocorticolimbic system. The endocannabinoid ...
Tu, Xiaochuan (Date of defense: 2023-07-27)
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are derived from the inner cell mass of the pre-implantation embryo and can recapitulate early developmental stages of the embryo. ESCs have the ability to continuously propagate while maintaining ...