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García Beyaert, Marina (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
Regulation of msl2 translation is a key step in the modulation of X-chromosome dosage compensation. MSL2 is the limiting subunit of the dosage compensation complex, an assembly that promotes hyper-transcription of the ...
Puighermanal Puigvert, Emma (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
The endocannabinoid system is an endogenous neuromodulatory system that regulates a plethora of physiological functions, including the control of movement, memory, anxiety, and pain, among others. Cannabinoid compounds are ...
Cerdà Serrano, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-06-16)
Esta tesis aborda cómo se construyó jurídicamente la monarquía de la Ley de Sucesión en la Jefatura del Estado (1947) en la España franquista desde una perspectiva tanto formal como doctrinal. Primero, considerando el ...
Pagà Peris, Roger (Date of defense: 2016-11-02)
The present thesis focuses on three topics within the domain of consumer behavior: self-regulation, the psychological consequences of money, and consumption rituals. The first chapter, devoted to self-regulation, presents ...
Puig i Barrachina, Vanessa (Date of defense: 2013-11-20)
This PhD dissertation aims to advance knowledge on monitoring employment-related health inequalities, focusing on arguably the two most relevant employment conditions in high-income regions like Europe, namely unemployment ...
Sanjaume Calvet, Marc (Date of defense: 2013-12-17)
This doctoral thesis examines the legitimacy of secession in the context of liberal democracies. This is a recent debate in political theory since secession has been an excluded issue by liberal theories of democracy. ...
Weber, Bernadette (Date of defense: 2023-09-26)
Aquest estudi es proposa interrogar-se sobre la noció de progrés moral en el marc del pragmatisme lingüístic de Richard Rorty per tal de contribuir en el debat acadèmic actual a l’entorn d’aquest concepte. Al temps que ...
Portugal Celaya, Bolívar Gerardo (Date of defense: 2020-12-03)
This thesis investigates the Mexican regulatory reforms focusing on the evolution of the institutional arrangements of the regulatory state across policy regimes. It is based on a qualitative research design and the results ...
Fargas Madriles, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
L’orella interna dels vertebrats és una estructura altament organitzada i complexa on cadascun dels específics tipus cel•lulars és generat a dominis concrets. Per aquest motiu, l’especificació cel•lular i la seva organització ...
Meinhardt Llopis, Enric (Date of defense: 2011-03-03)
Aquesta tesi proposa una estructura de dades per emmagatzemar imatges tridimensionals. L'estructura da dades té forma d'arbre i codifica les components connexes dels conjunts de nivell de la imatge. Aquesta estructura ...
Martínez Sanromà, Oriol (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)
La presente tesis doctoral efectúa una aproximación a la motivación al delito desde una perspectiva dogmática. El objetivo es doble. Por un lado, establecer una base de incriminación materialmente legítima para este fenómeno. ...
Lobo Quintero, René Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation explores motivation within Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns (CLFP), focusing on the Pyramid CLFP. It investigates how incorporating game mechanics (GM) can foster both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation ...
Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás Felipe (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, open online ...
Machin, Elizabeth Anne-Marie (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
The main aim of this doctoral research was to explore the motivations of foreign language learners / users, and to offer insights into what a foreign language means to them in the here-and-now, and how they experience ...
Espeso Gil, Sergio (Date of defense: 2016-12-05)
El reguloma està constituït per un sistema complex de factors que controlen el fenotip molecular de la cèl·lula, que al seu torn està influenciada pel medi ambient. Qualsevol pertorbació pot desencadenar canvis que poden ...
Missarova, Alsu (Date of defense: 2018-04-09)
Isogenic cells exhibit a large degree of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in proliferation, with a subpopulation of cells growing at a substantially lower rate. We conducted a high throughput microscopy screen to determine the ...
Benkarim, Mohamed Oualid (Date of defense: 2018-09-14)
Nowadays, imaging of the human brain is vastly used in clinical settings and by the neuroscientific research community. There is an ever-increasing demand for novel biomedical image analysis approaches and tools to study ...
Porras Pérez, Antonio Reyes (Date of defense: 2015-06-08)
Una caracterización precisa y completa del tejido cardíaco es esencial para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de problemas cardíacos. Para caracterizar la función cardíaca desde diferentes perspectivas, en la práctica clínica, ...
Forner, Mar (Date of defense: 2021-02-24)
Vaccination constitutes one of the most efficient and cost-effective methods of promoting global health. Nevertheless, few vaccines are fully effective, for manifold reasons ranging from intrinsic limitations to more ...
Sánchez Martínez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)
This thesis focuses on the development of machine learning tools to better characterize the cardiac anatomy and function in the context of heart failure, and in particular their extension to consider multiple parameters ...