Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Recent submissions
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Paclitaxel: new insights into its regulation, biosynthesis and biotechnological production
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 ...
Analyzing the role of activated fibroblasts in the activation of macrophages
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 ...
Deciphering adaptation in the human genome : the case of CaSR in south-east Asian hunter-gatherers
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 ...
Regulatory arrangements and electricity governance : India in a comparative perspective
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 ...
Contamination effects in mixed-member electoral systems: a dissemination of measurement techniques
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 ...
The Process of political professionalisation in small scale democracies: a comparative study of European micro-states
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 ...
Characterizing brain mechanisms underlying Neurofeedback and Meditation through whole-brain computational modeling and artificial intelligence
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, ...
Essays in learning uncertainty
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’ ...
Grounding brain mechanisms in the spatiotemporal properties of cerebral and behavioral networks
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’ ...
Essays in macroeconomics and firm dynamics
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 ...
Los derechos fundamentales y el reconocimiento mutuo en el ámbito penal de la Unión Europea
La cooperación judicial penal en la UE resulta necesaria para garantizar la seguridad y evitar la impunidad en un espacio sin fronteras interiores. El principio de reconocimiento mutuo garantiza que esa cooperación sea ...
Animal personhood: a legal and moral defense
The thesis defends the plausibility of nonhuman animal personhood from a legal and moral perspective. It offers an ecumenical defense as it argues that animals can be considered persons from very different, even rival, ...
Essays in financial economics
This dissertation studies financial technology adoption, learning from financial information, and inter-temporal decisions. It contains three chapters. Chapter one examines the impact of bank branch closures on ...
Algorithmic bias in graph-based recommender systems
Recommender Systems represent a key instrument to convey consumption of contents available on the Web. They enhance the engagement among the users and the online platforms through algorithmic personalization. Injecting ...
The Next Wi-Fi Generation: towards intelligent and multi-link enabled networks
The next Wi-Fi generation poses in front of a massive challenge as the main enabler for new services and applications. Traffic requirements are expected to keep rising year over year, challenging Wi-Fi networks to cope ...
Hölderlin, Cernuda y Gebser: historia de una traducción
Aquesta tesi presenta una recerca entorn de les traduccions que de Friedrich Hölderlin van realitzar, a quatre mans, el poeta i editor alemany Hans Gebser i el poeta sevillà Luis Cernuda per a la revista Cruz y Raya de ...
Human-centered machine learning for music emotion recognition
This doctoral thesis is focused on music in terms of emotion -- such algorithms compose the computational task of music emotion recognition (MER). MER evaluates emotionally relevant features from music, correlates them ...
El cuidado como horizonte de trabajo: los/as trabajadores/as de la cultura como cuidadores/as populares: una mirada desde la comunicación
A partir de las múltiples correlaciones que permite la lectura de los trabajadores de la cultura ante la emergencia digital desde su dimensión política, cultural y cognitiva, la presente investigación busca proponer la ...
The influence of meal timing and residential artificial light-at-night in the development of non-communicable diseases
Les malalties no transmissibles (MNT) causen cada any 41 milions de morts en tot el món. Arran del descobriment del rellotge circadiari i dels efectes nocius del treball de nit continuat, s'ha enfocat molta atenció de la ...
Coupling by volume conduction as a wireless power transfer and communications method for threadlike biomedical implants.
Although the use of volumetric conduction to power wireless implants has been experimentally validated in recent years, a theoretical framework to determine the power and efficiency obtained by minimally invasive implants ...
