Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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This thesis examines the relationships among managerial justice and employee attitudes, emotions and behaviors to re-conceptualize the traditional causal frameworks of the justice literature. In the first chapter, I propose ...
This doctoral thesis studies class-based social movements as a response to the collapse of the Spanish mode of capital accumulation, based on the financialization of housing and the extraction of rents. It argues that the ...
The origin of eukaryotic compartmentalization stands as a major conundrum in biology. Current evidence indicates that the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) already possessed many eukaryotic hallmarks, including a ...
Post-transcriptional networks control multiple aspects of neuronal biology and their deregulation has been associated with human neurological disorders. This thesis focuses on regulation at the level of pre-mRNA splicing, ...
Successful chromosome segregation is crucial for the survival of a cell and to avoid diseases such as cancer. Anaphase bridges are a type of segregation defect that can arises from structurally compromised chromosomes. ...
From a developmental perspective, propositional logical reasoning has been often characterized either as the peak of cognitive development or as an innate property of human cognition. Our ignorance of the origin of logical ...
Many human languages in the world exhibit phrase structure. Phrase structure combines words, phrases, and both, into phrases, and it may empower language systems to exploit recursion. This thesis pushes forward the hypothesis ...
La voz como problema ha sido abordado desde distintos campos. Se ha identificado filosóficamente con la capacidad intrínsecamente humana de narrar la propia historia. En relación a la movilización social, se ha visto ...
El propósito de este estudio es abordar el concepto de espacio y, en particular, su desocupación, a través de tres obras: Caja Vacía/Metafísica de Jorge Oteiza, Who´s afraid of red, yellow and blue de Barnett Newman y el ...
Environmental noise pollution has become a major public health concern due to its increase during the last decades as a result of urbanization processes. Environmental noise can be produced by different sources but the ...
This dissertation studies overeducation incidence and persistence among graduates from different fields of study and social origin from a social stratification standpoint. Empirical research has shown that overeducation ...
La tesis estudia la evolución de la estructura de propiedad de compañías y de sus efectos sobre resultados económicos reales. El capítulo 1 proporciona un análisis empírico de la privatización en Rusia en los años 90. Se ...
Schizosaccharomyces pombe, com tots els organismes aeròbics, requereix l’oxigen per viure i té que lidiar amb la conseqüent toxicitat associada dels productes derivats de l’oxigen. Per mantenir l’ambient intracel·lular, ...
The emergency to obtain effective substances against cancer, and the awareness to protect natural resources make plant biofactories a promising alternative for obtaining plant-derived compounds. In this context, the ...
Esta investigación propone una “historia del cine” a través de dos figuras que recorren todas sus historias, el padre y el hijo. La hipótesis principal de la que partimos es que el modelo paterno-filial es una trama heredada ...
Elliptic curves with a bilinear map, or pairing, have a rich algebraic structure that has been fundamental to develop practical Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs. On the theoretical side, we explore how efficient ...
El país enemigo: México en la obra de Roberto Bolaño, 1980-2004 propone, en un primer momento, un análisis del papel central que juega México en la obra del autor chileno, Roberto Bolaño. La exploración de la obsesiva ...
Esta tesis presenta un análisis de la presencia del silencio como forma de tensión en la construcción del discurso cómico contemporáneo. Para llegar hasta este punto, no obstante, hemos considerado esencial articular una ...
La malària és una malaltia infecciosa causada per diverses espècies de protozous del gènere Plasmodium, capaces d’infectar eritròcits humans. La malària és probablement la patologia infecciosa que ha causat més morts al ...
Pancreatic acinar cells display plasticity to acquire distinct differentiation programs, being involved in diseases as chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. This work shows that acinar cells cultured ...
