Serrano Aparicio, Natalia (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)
The human 20S proteasome activity and malfunction has been related to numerous diseases and validated as a protein target for inhibition in the treatment of cancer, with three proteasome inhibitors ...
Marín Marín, Lidón (Date of defense: 2022-05-18)
Multiple studies have found that bilinguals show the first symptoms of dementia later than monolinguals. Therefore, it is hypothesized that bilingualism could protect against dementia, but the neural ...
Cerqueira, Andreia Filipa Lages (Date of defense: 2022-04-04)
Titanium is among the most commonly used metals as a standard treatment for bone defects. Despite its excellent mechanical and biocompatibility properties, Ti is relatively bioinert and surface modifications ...
Vidal Arenas, Verónica (Date of defense: 2022-10-17)
This doctoral dissertation aims to increase the knowledge of relevant factors involved in the aetiology of internalising psychopathology, and to improve their assessment. To this end, five studies have ...
Marín Lora, Carlos (Date of defense: 2022-10-06)
Video game development is a multidisciplinary process that requires both technical and artistic knowledge. Even though there are tools to ease the creation of video games, they are still complex ...
Biz, Chiara (Date of defense: 2022-02-24)
Fuel cells represent one of the most promising energy storage system nowadays. Nonetheless, several obstacles need to be overcome in order to commercially exploit this technology. One of them lies in ...
Macias Pinilla, David Francisco (Date of defense: 2022-11-14)
Nanoplatelets (NPLs) are of particular interest for their unique properties, they have a precisely controlled thickness of a few atomic monolayers (MLs), and lateral dimensions ranging from hundreds of ...
Galmés Ordinas, Miquel Àngel (Date of defense: 2022-01-20)
Two serine hydrolases, Candida antarctica Lipase B (CALB) and para-nitrobenzyl (Bs2) esterase from Bacillus subtilis, were used as a model to study enzyme promiscuity through QM/MM methods and experimental ...
Hernández Puertas, Tamara (Date of defense: 2022-02-18)
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to compare the feedback provided by the teacher to that obtained by the software called Grammar Checker on grammatical errors in the written production of English as ...
Martínez Borba, Verónica (Date of defense: 2022-09-21)
Emotional disorders are highly prevalent in women in the reproductive period, particularly in women in the perinatal period and women undergoing fertility treatments. This dissertation aims to develop ...