• Effectiveness of the Spanish plan to prevent the health effects of high temperatures

  Martínez Solanas, Èrica (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-02-28)

  Exposure to ambient temperatures has been widely described as an important health hazard. The most studied effect of temperatures is an increase on mortality; however, there is less evidence on other health impacts. In ...
• Airpollution exposure, and child's neuropsychological and neurobiological department

  Lubczyńska, Małgorzata Joanna, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-02-18)

  Air pollution is a major public health concern, leading to worldwide morbidity and premature mortality. In the recent years, exposure to air pollution has also been linked to neurological and neuropsychological diseases, ...
• Retorno(s) a Europa: genealogía de un modelo de reconstrucción histórica en el cine y la televisión contemporáneos

  Freijomil Seoane, Mariana (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-31)

  Esta tesis se centra en las reconstrucciones históricas en el cine europeo y su principal objetivo es delimitar la genealogía de un modelo de figuración y transmisión de la historia, enraizado en la modernidad y que emerge ...
• Modelling spatiotemporal cell regulation

  Martínez Corral, Rosa, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-09-28)

  In this Thesis we have studied how dynamics and space modulate cellular behaviour, by means of mathematical modelling of particular biological examples. At the single cell level, we show how pulsatile input signals can be ...
• Understanding the political integration outcomes of enfranchised and high socioeconomic status immigrants in host societies

  Nguyen, My Land Do (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-31)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to systematically investigate the theoretical perspective that political power derives from socioeconomic power—a fundamental tenet of both sociological theories of assimilation and ...
• Exposure to air pollution and links with cardiometabolic health in low- and middle-income countries

  Curto Tirado, Ariadna, 1987- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-03-01)

  The aims of this thesis are: 1) to evaluate the performance of low-cost air quality monitors to monitor long-term exposure in rural areas from low- and middle-income countries; 2) to identify the determinants of personal ...
• Using deep mutagenesis to understand genetic and physical interactions

  Domingo Espinós, Júlia, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-02-21)

  The first aim of this thesis was to tackle a core question in biology—to understand how large numbers of mutations combine together to influence phenotypes. In order to do so, we built a combinatorially-complete library ...
• Palabra y silencio en la comedian comedy contemporánea: trasvases entre cine, televisión y stand-u

  Pérez Dios, Álvaro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-02-07)

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

  Di Mauro, Gianmarco, 1985- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 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 ...
• Big data, poder y libertad. Sobre el impacto social y político de la vigilancia masiva

  Suárez Gonzalo, Sara (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-16)

  Esta tesis doctoral reflexiona sobre el impacto social y político de la explotación de datos masivos a nivel europeo. Cumple dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, define el contexto general en el que se produce esta ...
• Revealing local information : Identification of salient functional brain links in resating state brain

  Sengupta, Pallabi, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-02-23)

  Communication amongst various regions of our brain makes it possible for us to perform a wide array of cognitive tasks. To capture these communications at a local level has remained challenging in the field of neuroimaging ...
• Image analysis and deep learning to support endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms

  López-Linares, Karen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-06-11)

  An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a focal dilation of the aorta that may lead to its rupture. The most common treatment for AAAs is endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). EVAR implies lifelong postoperative surveillance ...
• Dinámica del léxico en las Constituciones españolas

  Demol, Ségolène (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-31)

  El objetivo principal es realizar un estudio contrastivo del léxico de tres textos constitucionales de la historia de España: la Constitución liberal de 1812, la Constitución republicana de 1931 y la Constitución actual ...
• DNA methylation and its relationship with lifestyle, environmental and cardiovascular risk factors

  Sayols Baixeras, Sergi, 1988- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-02-18)

  La malaltia cardiovascular, que és primera causa de mortalitat al món, com a fenotip complex depèn tant dels factors ambientals com dels genètics. Les variants genètiques comunes expliquen un 15-20% de l’heretabilitat de ...
• The Good, the bad, and the hairy : Comparative genomics of great apes from the point of view of human cancer

  Heredia Genestar, José María, 1985- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-28)

  La mutació és un procés essencial per l’evolució, tot i que també té un rol important tant en el càncer com en altres malalties. Les mutacions no s’acumulen uniformement al llarg del genoma i la seva presència es veu ...
• The Role of cross-modal semantic interactions in real-world visuo-spatial attention

  Kvasova, Daria, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-02-13)

  In our everyday life we must effectively orient attention to relevant objects and events in multisensory environments. The impact of cross-modal links for attention orienting to spatial and temporal cues has been widely ...
• Schlafen 12, a novel HIV restriction factor involved in latency

  Smutná, Katarína, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-02-18)

  The process of HIV latency establishment and maintenance is not clearly understood. Homeostatic proliferation (HSP) is a major mechanism by which long-lived naive and memory CD4 T cells are maintained in vivo. HSP also ...
• Understanding dog breed copy number differences in the framework of gray wolf copy number variation

  Serres Armero, Aitor, 1992- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-02-03)

  L’estudi de la variació estructural complementa l’estudi de la variació de seqüència per revelar les complexitats de la variació fenotípica. Els gossos són l’espècie domesticada amb més variació fenotípica que existeix ...
• Development and validation of pharmacoinformatic similarity-based tools for safety assessment of chemicals

  Pinto Gil, Kevin, 1987- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-31)

  Despite the investment of vast amounts of money over the last decades, drug discovery and development remains an inefficient process, which can be stopped at different steps, leading to the loss of all resources invested. ...
• RNA-binding and prion domains : The Yin and Yang of phase separation

  Lorenzo Gotor, Nieves, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-24)

  Biomolecular condensates act as indispensable membrane-less organelles for intracellular organization and regulation of biochemical reactions. Proteins and RNAs are known to phase separate into condensates, however the ...

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