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Rozas Belmonte, Miquel (Date of defense: 2022-10-03)
Certain skin disorders are associated with skin microbiome dysbiosis, highlighting the importance of the microbiome in the maintenance of the skin's healthy state. Modulating the microbiome to reestablish its healthy state ...
Arnedo Pac, Claudia Rosario (Date of defense: 2022-12-15)
Sequencing of cancer genomes reveals the story of mutational events shaping the distribution of somatic mutations across the nucleotide sequence. A particular pattern of such distribution, mutational clustering, can inform ...
Pallarès-Masmitjà, Maria (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)
The need for efficient targeted integration of large DNA fragments in mammalian genomes is indisputable, although several nuclease-based technologies have been lately developed for small allele genome editing. In this ...
Mestre Nogué, Josep Vicenç (Date of defense: 2022-05-18)
Paraules de president busca descobrir si els presidents de Catalunya entre 1914 i 1933 defensaven la secessió durant el seu mandat al capdavant del govern. Per això, formulem una proposta d’anàlisi dels seus discursos ...
Galceran-Vercher, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The doctoral thesis City Networks in Global Governance: Practices, Discourses and Roles analyses the implications of the revamping international activism of cities for global governance. The central argument is that the ...
Magaña Fernández, Pablo (Date of defense: 2022-11-17)
This thesis provides a systematic analysis and a defense of the claim that at least some nonhuman animals (i.e. mammals) ought to be granted political standing, understood here as a (pro tanto) duty of political institutions ...
El-Samadoni, Shahinaz (Date of defense: 2022-11-12)
The relationship between humanitarian campaigns and celebrity industry is complex and debatable. The pervasiveness of celebrity led campaigns has recently become a prominent issue in the non-profit sector. The current study ...
García Vera, María (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
Esta tesis trata ciertas relaciones entre el cine y el teatro desde mi práctica escénica y fílmica como actriz y creadora. La perspectiva de género, la performatividad y la interdisciplinariedad (la traslación de códigos ...
Bravo Salvá, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)
Esta Tesis Doctoral estudia la prevención de la hernia incisional en la cirugía urgente abdominal mediante el uso de malla profiláctica de refuerzo en la pared abdominal en posición suprafascial. Este aspecto está poco ...
Meza de Valderrama, Delky (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)
La presente tesis doctoral se basa en el compendio de tres estudios de investigación, que tenían como objetivo evaluar: (1) la factibilidad y la fiabilidad de la medición del grosor del músculo del antebrazo (MT), (2) los ...
Escrich Montañana, Ainoa (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The emergency to obtain effective substances against cancer, and the awareness to protect natural resources make plant biofactories a promising alternative for obtaining plant-derived compounds. In this context, the ...
Bruch Oms, Marina (Date of defense: 2022-12-12)
Tumors are complex masses composed by multiple cell types, such as cancer associated fibroblasts (CAFs) and macrophages, that interact with each other promoting the tumor progression. Snail1 is a transcription factor ...
Sinigaglia, Barbara (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
Several rainforest hunter-gatherer groups in south-east Asia are characterized by specific morphological features including a particularly dark skin color (D), an extremely short stature (S), the development of woolly hair ...
Kumar, Shashwat (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
This doctoral dissertation examines the role of Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) in the macro institutional setup with an objective to understand what factors affected or continue to affect their functioning after ...
Gómez Díaz, Abelardo (Date of defense: 2022-11-29)
This dissertation is about ‘contamination’, or the interaction between the two built-in arenas found in mixed-member electoral systems: the single-seat district (SSD) and proportional representation (PR) arenas. Contamination ...
Paneque Martin, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-11-04)
This thesis is focused on studying the causes and consequences of political professionalisation, by analyzing empirically the cross-country differences. Despite the literature claiming that political professionalisation ...
De Filippi, Eleonora (Date of defense: 2022-11-23)
En las últimas décadas, un cambio de paradigma en el estudio y el tratamiento de los trastornos cerebrales ha hecho que se preste más atención a nuevas intervenciones terapéuticas. En esta línea, las técnicas de autorregulación, ...
Ghifrani, Erfan (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ ...
Ulysse, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-11-04)
The spatiotemporal properties of the cerebral and behavioral networks are key elements to understand normal brain functioning and their breakdowns. This dissertation focuses on the cerebral networks of the brain regions’ ...
Chiavari, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel quantitative firm dynamics ...