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Health impacts and determinants of environmental exposures related to urban and transport planning practices in European cities

Khomenko, Sasha (Date of defense: 2024-04-19)

The rapid increase in urbanization underscores the need for healthy urban environments. Presently, European cities experience high levels of air pollution, noise, lack of green spaces, and increased local temperatures, all ...

Health inequities and paid work in Latin America and the Caribbean : Better employment and working conditions for reducing health inequities

Silva-Peñaherrera, Michael (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)

Objective: To examine health inequities in the working population of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) according to sex, age, level of study, occupation and formality or informality in employment. Methods: We collected ...

Health outcomes and use of harm reduction services in people who use drugs in Catalonia

Parés-Badell, Oleguer (Date of defense: 2021-02-01)

Harm reduction is a set of programs and interventions that aim to reduce health and social harms of drug use. The Barcelona model aims to maximize access to harm reduction services and to integrate them with treatment ...

Health, informal care and labour market outcomes in Europe

García Gómez, Pilar (Date of defense: 2008-07-02)

Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura analizando los efectos causales que el estado de salud tiene sobre la participación laboral en la población en edad de trabajar. De este modo, analiza los efectos que un deterioro en ...

Hegemonikón y hegemonía: Una teoría de la cultura a partir de la obra de Simone Weil y Antonio Gramsci

Gómez Urban, Carlos (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)

Se presenta esta investigación a partir de una teoría que toma el nombre de hegemonikón y de hegemonía. Cultura como decantación de una mirada dinámica sobre la evolución del pensamiento de Simone Weil y Antonio Gramsci, ...

Hemodynamic modeling of cerebral aneurysms

Geers, Adrianus Johannes (Date of defense: 2015-01-12)

Cerebral aneurysms are localized, pathological dilatations of cerebral arteries. Their rupture causes a subarachnoid hemorrhage and is associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality. Over the last decade, the ...

Heterochromatin dynamics during epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

Millanes Romero, Alba (Date of defense: 2014-01-21)

Although heterochromatin is enriched with repressive traits, it is actively transcribed, giving rise to large amounts of non-coding RNAs. These transcripts are responsible for the formation and maintenance of heterochromatin, ...

Heterogeneity and the representative agent in macroeconomics

Maliar, Serguei (Date of defense: 1999-09-08)

La tesis se centra en las aplicaciones macroeconómicas del consumidor representativo. El primer capítulo analiza la posibilidad de agregación en economías con varios bienes y varios periodos. Desarrollo una noción de ...

Heterogeneous Effects of Monetary Policy

Secchi, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2005-07-01)

The main objective of this thesis is to offer empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis that differences in firms' balance sheet structures may generate heterogeneous responses to monetary policy innovations. To this ...

High reputation companies' social media performance in the context of Chinese digital market: based on Sina Weibo and WeChat platforms

He, Xia (Date of defense: 2017-12-13)

This research aims to explore and evaluate thirty Chinese and thirty Occidental high reputation companies’ social media performance on two most popular Chinese social media platforms: Sina Weibo and WeChat. A synthetic ...

High-throughput molecular profiling of the fetal inflammatory response in extremely low gestational age newborns

Costa Coto, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-05-28)

Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Preterm newborns require special care for surviving and may develop severe diseases related to prematurity, especially those born very early. ...

High-throughput sequencing data compression

Roguski, Łukasz (Date of defense: 2017-10-03)

Thanks to advances in sequencing technologies, biomedical research has experienced a revolution over recent years, resulting in an explosion in the amount of genomic data being generated worldwide. The typical space ...

Highly accurate variant detection for identification of tumor mutations and mosaic variants

Muyas Remolar, Francesc (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)

The rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies pushed forward the fields of medical genomics and precision medicine, creating many new applications for diagnostics and clinical studies that require high ...

Hijos de Mercurio, esclavos de Marte : mercaderes y servidores del estado en una frontera sud-atlántica : Montevideo, 1806-1860

Etchechury Barrera, Mario (Date of defense: 2013-11-20)

El siguiente estudio aborda el proceso de construcción social de la Hacienda pública en la ciudad-puerto de Montevideo, entre 1806 y 1860. A partir de un conjunto variado de fuentes públicas y privadas se analizarán las ...

Hindbrain boundaries : addressing the crossroad between tissue segmentation and cell fate regulation

Voltes Cobo, Adrià (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)

The hindbrain boundary cell population (BCP) is specified at the interface between adjacent compartments during embryonic development of the posterior brain. Hindbrain BCP is a non-neurogenic population that acts as both ...

Historia natural y factores determinantes de la duración de las incapacidades temporales por contingencia común en trabajadores afiliados a la Seguridad Social

Torá Rocamora, Isabel (Date of defense: 2013-06-25)

Esta tesis doctoral está basada en el estudio de los factores determinantes de la duración de la incapacidad temporal por contingencia común (ITcc). Se examina la variabilidad geográfica de la duración de la ITcc entre ...