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Le Pannérer, Marguerite-Marie (Date of defense: 2022-01-21)
The relevance of epigenetics is increasingly recognized in haematopoietic diseases such as myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Variants of histones, such as macroH2As, and chromatin remodellers, ...
Dimitrova, Asya (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
El primer estudio de esta tesis doctoral demostró que tanto las temperaturas ambientales altas como las bajas y las olas de calor son factores de riesgo de mortalidad por todas las causas en la India, y el riesgo de ...
Bogaerts Márquez, María (Date of defense: 2022-01-11)
Entender cómo las especies se adaptan al ambiente es aún una pregunta sin resolver en el campo de la Biología Evolutiva. Mientras el foco principal siempre ha estado en la base genética, los factores ambientales responsables ...
Diviu Miñarro, Clàudia (Date of defense: 2021-12-20)
La comunicació científica ha evolucionat molt durant els darrers anys. L’interès dels científics i periodistes per divulgar ha augmentat, i el de la societat de rebre informació científica també. Tot i això, hi continuen ...
Perera Bel, Enric (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
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 ...
Páez Ramírez, Manuel Yasser (Date of defense: 2021-12-15)
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 ...
Jiménez Iglesias, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-12-13)
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 ...
Fonseca, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
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, ...
Baumgartner, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
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 ...
Holguín Vaca, Denise Paola (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
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 ...
Roca-Umbert Würth, Ana (Date of defense: 2021-12-22)
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 ...
Calatayud Vaello, Adrià (Date of defense: 2021-12-14)
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 ...
Fernández, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
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 ...
Morales-Vargas, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
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 ...
Castelo Heymann, Santiago (Date of defense: 2022-02-22)
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 ...
Della Valle, Fabio (Date of defense: 2021-11-29)
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 ...
Souza, André B. M. (Date of defense: 2021-11-02)
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 ...
Ausensi, Josep (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)
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 ...
Montaner Domènech, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-11-11)
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 ...
Pesaresi, Martina (Date of defense: 2019-11-25)
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 ...