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    From site to inter-site user engagement : fundamentals and applications 

    Lehmann, Janette (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)

    L’objetiu d’aquesta tesi és aprofundir en el concepte de participació i compromís dels usuaris en pàgines web i analitzar com mesurar aquesta interacció. Comencem estudiant les mètriques del comportament online, les quals ...

    From the Mesolithic to the Bronze Age: unraveling 5.000 years of European population history with paleogenomics 

    Olalde Marquínez, Íñigo (Date of defense: 2016-07-22)

    The general objective of this thesis is to use ancient genomic data to study the European prehistory. Thanks to the latest advances in DNA sequencing technologies, the field of ancient DNA has suffered a profound transformation ...

    From viral marketing to social advertising: ad allocation under social influence 

    Aslay, Çiğdem (Date of defense: 2016-12-16)

    This thesis constitutes one of the first investigations that lie at the intersection of social influence propagation, viral marketing, and social advertising. The objective of this thesis is to take the algorithmic aspects ...

    Full characterization of the small RNA transcriptome using novel computational methods for high-throughput sequencing data: study of miRNA variability in eukaryote organisms. 

    Pantano Rubiño, Lorena (Date of defense: 2011-09-26)

    In this thesis we have developed a user-friendly tool, SeqBuster, for the analysis of small RNA (sRNA) data generated by next generation sequencing strategies, with special emphasis on deep characterization of miRNA ...

    Full-body interaction and autism : design, development and evaluation of experiences as tools for intervention on motivation and social initiation for ASD children 

    Mora Guiard, Joan (Date of defense: 2016-09-19)

    This thesis focuses on the design, development and evaluation of a series of full-body interaction experiences as tools for intervention on motivation and social initiation for children with Autism. Autism Spectrum Disorders ...

    Funció i evolució de la premsa de Barcelona durant la transició democràtica ( 1975-1978) 

    Mauri, Marcel (Date of defense: 2010-07-23)

    La fi del franquisme i l'inici del període conegut com la transició democràtica va significar un canvi a diversos nivells en el panorama comunicatiu que, fins aquell moment, hi havia a Barcelona. El final de les limitacions ...

    Función biológica y regulación de la ciclina específica de meiosis Rem1 en Schizosaccharomyces Pombe 

    Malapeira Argilaga, Jordi (Date of defense: 2006-11-30)

    Esta tesis doctoral consiste en la caracterización de la ciclina meiótica Rem1, de Schizosaccharomyces pombe. En este trabajo se analizó, inicialmente, el patrón de transcripción y expresión de rem1 durante la meiosis ...

    La Función evocadora de la fraseología en la oralidad ficcional y su traducción 

    Schellheimer, Sybille (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

    El objetivo de esta tesis doctoral es investigar el potencial evocador que tiene la fraseología en el marco de la oralidad ficcional. Para ello, se anali-zará un corpus paralelo constituido por una novela infantil del autor ...

    Functional analysis of Drosophila melanogaster linker histone dH1 

    Vujatovic, Olivera (Date of defense: 2012-07-27)

    We did functional characterisation of Drosophila melanogaster linker histone, dH1. In the mutant state for this protein, we observed structural changes in polytene chromosomes chromocenter and nucleoli of mutant larvae. ...

    Functional analysis of JmjC+N histone demethylases in Drosophila melanogaster 

    Lloret Llinares, Marta (Date of defense: 2011-05-17)

    La metilació de les lisines de les histones està implicada en les funcions associades a la cromatina, com l’expressió gènica o la formació d’heterocromatina. És una modificació covalent afegida per metiltransferases ...

    Functional analysis of the extraproteasomal ubiquitin receptor Dsk2/UBQLN in Drosophila and human cells 

    Di Mauro, Gianmarco (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)

    Dsk2/UBQLN is a conserved extraproteasomal ubiquitin receptor that has been widely described as a protein involved in the ubiquitin proteasome pathway. In Drosophila, this protein has been recently reported in a non-proteolitic ...

    Functional and evolutionary implications of single nucleotide substitutions in human microRNAs across primates 

    López Valenzuela, María (Date of defense: 2015-01-15)

    MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are major contributors to phenotypic diversity and have a demonstrated role in evolution. We performed an analysis on how miRNA nucleotide substitutions may have contributed to human divergence from their ...

    Functional characterization of the CD300e leukocyte receptor 

    Brckalo, Tamara (Date of defense: 2011-01-24)

    The focus of this work was to functionally characterize the CD300e receptor expressed in human monocytes and myeloid dendritic cells and investigate the implications that receptor engagement has on their biology. We provide ...

    Functional connectivity anomalies in the neural networks mediating motivated behavior : assessong obsessive-compulsive disorder , chronic cannabis use, Prader-Willi syndrome and Down syndrome 

    Blanco Hinojo, Laura (Date of defense: 2015-12-09)

    Compulsive, impulsive, and addictive disorders display some behavioral commonalities associated with a dysfunction in the regulation of motivated, goal-directed behavior. Relevant to motivated behavior, there is a set of ...

    Functional impact of alternative splicing in vertebrate proteomes across tissues and cell types 

    Tapial Rodríguez, Javier (Date of defense: 2018-12-14)

    Alternative splicing (AS) is a post-transcriptional mechanism for gene expression regulation affecting almost every multiexonic gene in mammals. However, the impact of AS at the proteomic level remains under debate. In ...

    Functional impact of frequent cancer mutations in the splicing regulatory protein RBM10 and discovery of cancer relevant targets 

    Hoffmann, Tobias (Date of defense: 2021-04-08)

    The splicing regulatory protein RBM10 is frequently mutated in bladder carcinomas. Analysis of RNA sequencing data of 476 bladder tumours (UROMOL) identified 469 alternative splicing (AS) events associated with RBM10 ...

    Functional interplay of two SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling accessory subunits during C. elegans development 

    Ertl, Iris Elisabeth (Date of defense: 2015-02-20)

    El complexos SWI/SNF són remodeladors de cromatina dependents d’ATP que es troben altament conservats al llarg de l’evolució. Aquests complexos poden regular l’accessibilitat a una zona genòmica alterant l’estat de la ...

    Fundamento y límites de la responsabilidad jurídico-penal del superior jerárquico de organizaciones delictivas por los delitos cometidos por sus subordinados: sobre 

    Rojas Salas, Jose Manuel (Date of defense: 2022-07-05)

    En esta investigación doctoral se estudian los fundamentos y límites de la responsabilidad jurídico-penal del jefe o superior jerárquico de organizaciones delictivas por los delitos cometidos por sus subordinados. En ...

    Fundamentos filosóficos de la doctrina del margen de apreciación del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos 

    Andrade Moreno, Marcos Antonio (Date of defense: 2017-07-12)

    The purpose of this research is to elucidate the philosophical foundations of the Margin of Appreciation Doctrine of the European Court of Human Rights. For this, two basic problems are distinguished: the conceptual problem ...

    Fundamentos y límites de la analogía in bonam partem en el derecho penal 

    Montiel Fernández, Juan Pablo (Date of defense: 2008-09-20)

    Una adecuada interpretación del principio de legalidad ofrece buenas razones para admitir la analogía in bonam partem en el Derecho penal aunque de un modo limitado. Incluso cuando el juez mediante ésta excluye o limita ...