• The Origin of multicellularity in animals : a functional approach from a unicellular perspective : Developing Capsaspora owczarzaki as an emerging model

  Ros i Rocher, Núria, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-02-15)

  The origin of animal multicellularity is a major evolutionary question. Recent genome data from the closest extant unicellular relatives of animals revealed that they actually possess and express a complex repertoire of ...
• La Protección del diseño industrial en la encrucijada entre el derecho de propiedad industrial, el de propiedad intelectual y el derecho contra competencia desleal

  Stamate, Ecaterina Anca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-02-16)

  El sistema de protección del diseño industrial representa una de las cuestiones más debatidas en el ámbito del Derecho de propiedad industrial, un debate estrechamente vinculado a su discutida naturaleza jurídica, así como ...
• What do we owe parents?: distributing the costs of children

  Trifan, Isabella Ana-Maria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-26)

  The topic of this thesis is the just distribution of the costs of children. In particular, it asks whether an ideal liberal egalitarian society owes it to the parents to ensure that the costs of children are shared between ...
• La prensa nacionalista catalana y vasca ante la Constitución, los Estatutos de Autonomía y la consolidación del autogobierno en Cataluña y Euskadi (1977-1981)

  Caminada Díaz, David (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-18)

  La presente tesis doctoral analiza el comportamiento político de la prensa nacionalista catalana y vasca durante la Transición a la democracia y en especial, en relación a la aprobación de la Constitución, los Estatutos ...
• El Yo en serie: variaciones identitarias en el drama televisivo contemporáneo norteamericano

  Crisóstomo Gálvez, Raquel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-17)

  Esta investigación persigue aproximarse a las distintas formas, variantes, matices y consecuencias de la narración subjetiva, identitaria, en el drama norteamericano contemporáneo de la tercera edad de oro. El objetivo ...
• From chronic obstructive pulmonary disease to lung cancer : an immunologic approach

  Ramis Cabrer, Daniel, 1993- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-11)

  Se ha establecido que un subconjunto de pacientes con cáncer debuta con infiltrados inmunes que se organizan en agregados en el nicho tumoral y sus alrededores. Estas estructuras linfoides se desarrollan en respuesta ...
• Strategies for creativity development in biomedical education through inquiry

  Rodríguez Fabià, Gemma, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-02-22)

  Els avenços tecnològics i científics que s’han produït durant les últimes dècades han constituït la recerca biomèdica tal i com la coneixem avui en dia. Per poder afrontar els reptes que proposa la ciència, en un futur ...
• Human population genomics of the Western Mediterranean

  Biagini, Simone Andrea, 1983- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-17)

  This work explores the genetic landscape of the Western Mediterranean basin. Genome-wide data have been used in order to describe the genetics of the Island of Ibiza and France. In the first case, we found Ibiza being ...
• La Responsabilidad patrimonial de la Administración Pública por ataques terroristas: análisis comparado y jurisprudencial en Colombia y España

  Cuenca Tovar, Ronald Edgardo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-30)

  Esta investigación tiene por finalidad realizar un estudio tanto descriptivo, histórico, comparativo y propositivo, de la responsabilidad patrimonial de la administración pública en España y Colombia; más específicamente ...
• Characterization of clinically relevant RNA alterations for personalized cancer medicine

  Trincado Alonso, Juan Luis, 1987- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-28)

  The following thesis tries to answer the question of wheter RNA processing alterations are informative for the clinical management of cancer patients. For this, the work is focused on solve two main issues: the development ...
• Maternidad y trabajo remunerado : utlización de las prestaciones sociales durante el embarazo en una muestra de trabajadoras de un hospital de Barcelona (España)

  Villar Vinuesa, Rocío, 1976- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-02-20)

  Introducción: La protección social a las trabajadoras embarazadas comprende la incapacidad temporal por contingencia común (ITcc) y la prestación por riesgo durante el embarazo y/o la lactancia (PRE). Objetivos: 1) Examinar ...
• La sepat dels dos ceptres-uas a la llum de les processons geogràfiques: recerques en Geografia sagrada i "teologia" local a l'antic Egipte

  Torras Benezet, Núria, (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-01-29)

  Aquest treball analitza la conceptualització i representació de la sepat dels dos ceptres-uas en el context de la Geografia sagrada d'Egipte des d'una perspectiva diacrònica a partir de la documentació papirològica i ...
• New roles for Snail1 -expressing CAF during primary tumor progression and secondary niche colonization

  Olivera-Salguero, Rubén, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-19)

  Snail1 is the master regulator of the Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition (EMT) and is also crucial for fibroblast activation upon TGFβ signaling. In cancer, Snail1 expression in primary tumors correlates with the appearance ...
• Co-design strategies with children in full-body interaction for situated non-formal learning experiences

  Schaper, Marie-Monique (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-25)

  This dissertation focuses on better achieving co-design of Full-Body interactive learning experiences with children and experts (teachers, museum curators, pedagogues, etc.). Hence, on the one hand, it has studies how to ...
• Piezo ion channels in cancer cell mechanotransduction

  Pardo Pastor, Carlos, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-01-24)

  The mechanical dependence of transformation and metastasis is an emerging field, but the role of mechanosensitive channels has been largely omitted. This thesis focuses on the roles played by the mechanosensitive ion ...
• The Influence of syllabic structure on computational processes : an electrophysiological and behavioural approach

  Torres Alvarado, Irene, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-24)

  In language learning two mechanisms are of critical importance, namely, rule learning and statistical learning. Additionally, an important linguistic unit, the syllable, has been proposed to be the unit of speech segmentation ...
• Neural correlates of memory impairment and rescue in a mouse model of Down syndrome

  Alemany González, Maria, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-09)

  Understanding the neural correlates of intellectual disability is still a central and unresolved problem in neuroscience. Here we have unravelled several candidate neural substrates of memory impairment and rescue using a ...
• Establishing an in vitro model for X chromosome reactivation in the germline

  Tarruell Pellegrin, Antonio,1990- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-06-26)

  In female mammals, one of the X chromosomes is epigenetically inactivated through X chromosome Inactivation (XCI) during the epiblast differentiation. However, XCI is later specifically reversed in female germ cells by ...
• Metabarcoding of the 18S rRNA gene to uncover new molecular biodiversity in Metazoa and unicellular Opisthokonta

  Sánchez Arroyo, Alicia, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-03)

  One of the main evolutionary transitions is the origin of animal and fungal multicellularity from single-cell ancestors. To address this change, it is necessary to study the extant unicellular relatives of animals (Metazoa) ...
• Cooperative interactions of stem and niche cells during skeletal muscle regeneration: role of IL-6 signaling

  Guerra Badell, Joana, 1986- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-10-13)

  Adult skeletal muscle has a remarkable capacity of self-repairing after damage. The cellular communication processes and mediator molecules in the regenerative microenvironment that control muscle stem cell functions are ...

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