Carvalho, Tiago Loureiro de (Date of defense: 2016-01-21)
Genetic variation in humans and the great apes has been amply explored using a wide variety of markers, among them tandem repeats (TRs). Because of the nature of TRs, highly variable in length due to ...
Appiah, Eric Yeboah (Date of defense: 2017-04-20)
Fair trial in the criminal process of Ghana has been violated, constrained and compromised because procedural rights of the accused remain unenforceable. The current legal instruments within the liberal ...
Inostroza, Maria Victoria (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
The focus of this dissertation is the globalized world of today. As a complex phenomenon, globalization has many and varied effects on our lives. Some of them are paradigmatically negative such as the ...
Pereira Garmendia, Diego (Date of defense: 2011-09-05)
La presente tesis estudia la correlación negativa entre inflación y precios reales de las acciones. En primer lugar, muestro evidencia de que la inflación impone costos reales en la economía, en particular ...
Hafez Khafaga, Ahmed Ibrahem (Date of defense: 2021-03-12)
Aquesta tesi presenta una sèrie de recursos bioinformàtics desenvolupats per a donar suport en l'anàlisi de dades de NGS i altres òmics en el camp d'estudi i diagnòstic d'infeccions fúngiques. Hem ...
Sala Romanyà, Laura (Date of defense: 2018-06-20)
Snail1 is a transcription factor which activity is required for the fibroblasts-to-myofibroblast differentiation. In the first part of the thesis we characterize a protein complex involving Snail1, PRMT1 ...
Mansouri, Leila (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
El continuo aumento de los proyectos de producción de datos genómicos a gran escala, como el "Earth BioGenome Project" (Lewin et al., 2018), pone los métodos de análisis de datos bajo una presión sin ...
Găluşcă, Cristina-Ioana (Date of defense: 2019-01-25)
Human cultures abound in arbitrary symbols and behaviors acquired effortlessly, mostly through social interactions. Here we explore how social aspects of an interaction (ostensive signals) affect the ...
Martínez Torres, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is an endogenous neuromodulatory system widely expressed in the central nervous system and peripheral organs, where it fine-tunes numerous physiological functions. ...
Molas Casacuberta, Susanna (Date of defense: 2012-06-22)
The CHRNA5/A3/B4 genomic cluster encodes for the alpha5, alpha3 and beta4 subunits of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs). Human genetic studies have revealed a significant association of ...