Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Recent submissions
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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 ...
The Role of higher education in refugee integration: the case of Syrians in Turkey
This thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of higher education in refugees’ integration by focusing on urban refugees’ experiences who settled in a neighboring ...
Detection, quantification, malignancy prediction and growth forecasting of pulmonary nodules using deep learning in follow-up CT scans
Nowadays, lung cancer assessment is a complex and tedious task mainly per- formed by radiological visual inspection of suspicious pulmonary nodules, using computed tomography (CT) scan images taken to patients over ...
Patterns and drivers of desert reptile diversity at different phylogenetic and spatial scales
Biodiversity patterns result from the interplay of evolutionary, ecological, and environmental processes. Investigating the drivers of such patterns is central to evolutionary biology, and it is further essential to ...
Prospective association of HDL functions and coronary artery disease in the general population : Lifestyle interventions as a modulatory factor
Antecedents Les funcionalitats biològiques de les lipoproteïnes d’alta densitat (HDL) han sorgit com a marcadors alternatius als nivells de colesterol continguts en les HDL per explicar les capacitats protectores contra ...
Oral microbiome : composition, interactions and shaping factors
Microbiome studies have burgeoned in the last few decades, largely thanks to the innovations in high throughput sequencing, affording researchers the opportunity to categorize nearly the entirety of the microbial population ...
Procesos de mediación artística y sociotecnológica en la cocreación de sistemas comunicativos locativos disruptivos y comunitarios
Procesos de mediación artística y sociotecnológica en la cocreación de sistemas comunicativos locativos disruptivos y comunitarios. Esta investigación se centra en las prácticas artísticas con medios locativos disruptivas ...
Decentralized cellular networks: Towards blockchain enabled cellular overlays
This thesis undertakes an investigation into the fit and utility of blockchain technologies within cellular networks. The core of this writing is a new 5G core network blockchain designed to be compatible with, and paired ...
La responsabilidad social de los medios de comunicación en situaciones de crisis: Análisis del tratamiento deontológico del caso Ayotzinapa (México) en Noticieros Televisa
La presente investigación ha examinado en qué medida la principal cadena de televisión en México, Televisa, cumplió con los principios de la ética periodística —responsabilidad, verdad y justicia— en el tratamiento del ...
El papel de las neurociencias en el derecho penal: un alegato a favor de su progresiva integración
En los últimos tiempos se viene escribiendo mucho sobre el binomio Neurociencias y Derecho penal. Este debate, que pone en duda pilares hasta el momento incuestionados, se abre tanto en el campo de las ciencias como en ...
Transparencia administrativa sin Administración. El acceso a información en poder de sujetos privados
La Ley 19/2013, de 9 de diciembre, de transparencia, acceso a la información pública y buen gobierno (LTE) tiene un ámbito subjetivo de aplicación muy amplio, que incorpora no solo a la Administración pública y a otros ...
Secondhand smoke exposure in outdoor settings in Europe
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure causes death, disease, and disability among children and non-smoking adults. Total smoking bans have proven effective in preventing and reducing indoor SHS exposures. However, little is known ...
Estrategias terapéuticas en un modelo experimental de caquexia cancerosa : efectos de los polifenoles curcumina y resveratol
La caquexia es un síndrome metabólico complejo asociado con enfermedades crónicas como el cáncer, se caracteriza por una atrofia progresiva del músculo esquelético que conduce a una disminución del peso corporal, inicia ...
Multimodal 3D computer planning system for the implantation of stereotactic electrodes in refractory epilepsy
Neurosurgery is evolving towards the use of minimally invasive procedures. In this dissertation, we present several tools designed to fulfill the multimodal and multidisciplinary requirements of Stereoencephalography (SEEG) ...
Traducción y recepción de la literatura brasileña en España entre 1855 y 1936
El presente proyecto de tesis propone reconstruir y situar la primera etapa de la traducción y recepción de la literatura brasileña en España delimitada entre los años 1855 y 1936. Si por un lado se ocupa de arrojar luz ...
Essays in business cycles with household heterogeneity
This thesis contributes to understanding how inequality affects the transmission of aggregate fluctuations through aggregate demand. First, we document how labor earnings inequality (between skilled and unskilled workers) ...
Essays on gender, development and human capital investment
This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian garment industry on ...
