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    Molecular mechanisms of msl2 mRNA translational regulation 

    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 ...

    Molecular mechanisms underlying the effects of cannabinoids in the brain 

    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 ...

    La monarquía franquista: discursos doctrinales y legislativos (1936-1947) 

    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 ...

    Money, rituals, and self-control: essays on consumer behaviour 

    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 ...

    Monitoring employment-related heath inequalities in Europe : the case of unemployment and precarious employment 

    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 ...

    Moral and political legitimacy of secession : a theoretical and comparative analysis 

    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. ...

    Moral Progress in Linguistic Pragmatism: On the Rortyan advocacy for greater human solidarity 

    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 ...

    More than a regulatory state: divergent trajectories in the Mexican polymorphous state 

    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 ...

    Morphogenetic mechanisms in zebrafish inner ear neurogenesis 

    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 ...

    Morphological and statistical techniques for the analysis of 3D images 

    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 ...

    Motivación e intervención delictiva: una revisión de la "participación psíquica" 

    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. ...

    Motivation-driven mechanics in computer-supported collaborative learning scripts 

    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 ...

    Motivations, engagement, and incentives in online communities: contributions to theory, data analytics and design 

    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 ...

    Motivations, identities and selves in the here-and-now of learners of a foreign language 

    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 ...

    The mouse cortex regulome. Effects of environmental enrichment on postnatal brain development 

    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 ...

    mtDNA dynamics are a driving force of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 

    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 ...

    Multi-atlas segmentation and analysis of the fetal brain in ventriculomegaly 

    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 ...

    Multi-cue image integration for cardiac tissue characterization 

    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, ...

    Multi-epitope peptide platforms for vaccine applications 

    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 ...

    Multi-feature machine learning analysis for an improved characterization of the cardiac mechanics 

    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 ...