• Exploring through prototyping embodied interaction design developing systems for mathematics learning for children with visual impairments and without

  Marichal Baráibar, Sebastián (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-09)

  In the last decades new interaction paradigms have emerged: Tangible User Interfaces, ubiquitous computing, wearable devices, mixed- reality among others. Such paradigms extended the user interface beyond the keyboard and ...
• Los Órdenes regionales en Oriente Medio y el Norte de África (1945-2011)

  Quero Arias, Jordi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-10-02)

  La tesis doctoral Los órdenes regionales en Oriente Medio y el Norte de África (1945-2011) analiza el conjunto de normas e instituciones primarias que han regulado el comportamiento de los actores internacionales del ...
• From pixels to particles: multi-physics meshless model of the heart

  Lluc Álvarez, Èric (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-21)

  The functioning of the heart, which main role is pumping blood to the rest of the body, is the result of a complex combination of multi-scale physical processes from the molecular to the tissue level. The predominance of ...
• La Tentativa y el nacimiento de la ciencia penal europea: bases para una reconstrucción contemporánea

  Garcóa de la Torre, Héctor (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-10-02)

  La presente tesis doctoral pone de manifiesto la necesidad de revisar el concepto de tentativa con el que trabaja la dogmática jurídico-penal contemporánea. Buena parte de los problemas que se discuten en ese ámbito son, ...
• Strategy selection and function learning in decision making

  Stojić, Hrvoje (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-01-17)

  This thesis consists of three studies investigating the strategy selection problem and the role of function learning in human decision making. Chapter 1 examines how people learn which decision strategy to use when ...
• Low density lipoproteins, vascular smooth muscle cell function and vascular remodeling

  Lugano, Roberta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2013-12-10)

  High levels of circulating low-density lipoproteins (LDL) are one of the major cardiovascular risk factors. Hypercholesterolemia induces endothelial dysfunction and chronic intimal inflammatory cell accumulation, hallmarks ...
• Electroporation and peripheral nerve stimulation

  Mercadal Cavaller, Borja (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-16)

  This thesis aimed at addressing questions within the fields of electroporation and peripheral nerve stimulation and, in particular, those that arise from the interaction between the two phenomenona. On the one hand, ...
• MIRages: an account of music audio extractors, semantic description and context-awareness, in the three ages of MIR

  Herrera Boyer, Perfecto (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-12-12)

  This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical reflection along ...
• Essays in development economics

  Heusch, Niklas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-09-28)

  This thesis combines three independent articles. In the first chapter, I examine the health care that drug sellers, common medical providers in many developing coun-tries, provide for childhood illness in Ghana, and study ...
• Molecular analysis of ovarian resorption by hydric stress in Blatella germanica

  Herráiz Yebes, Alba (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-01-31)

  In the present thesis we studied the effects of hydric stress in the ovary of the cockroach Blattella germanica. At morphological level, we described ovarian resorption induced by water deprivation. At a molecular level, ...
• Thrombus composition in acute coronary syndrome

  Ramaiola, Ilaria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2015-03-24)

  Atherothrombosis and, specifically intracoronary thrombosis is a major cause of acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and consequently of morbidity and mortality throughout the world. While management of acute ST-elevation ...
• Some problems in depth enhanced video processing

  Lazcano, Vanel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-02-04)

  In this thesis we tackle two problems, namely, the data interpolation prob- lem in the context of depth computation both for images and for videos, and the problem of the estimation of the apparent movement of objects in ...
• Family dynamics of international migrants and their descendants

  Kraus, Elisabeth Katharina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-09-18)

  This dissertation tries to shed new light on the relationship between migration and fertility by concentrating on two migration contexts and applying different quantitative methods and taking various perspectives. The ...
• Antitumor effects of novel targeted therapies (TAK-228 and TAK-117) with high selectivity againts PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in bladder cancer : Defining molecular markers

  Hernández Prat, Anna, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-12-15)

  El càncer de bufeta avançat s'associa amb un mal pronòstic i amb opcions limitades de tractament. Tot i l’èxit recent amb l'ús d'inhibidors immunitaris, no tots els pacients responen a la teràpia i encara hi ha la necessitat ...
• Policy, social capital and health: the multiple implications of immigrant economic incorporation

  Malancu, Natalia-Cornelia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-03-27)

  For many the success of a migration decision depends on making a successful transition into the new labor market. The objective of this dissertation is to shine light on the link between the labor market outcomes of ...
• Brain training - brain draining : skilled migration, student mobility, and transnational higher education

  Levatino, Antonina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-04-22)

  The cross-border mobility of educational services, commonly known as transnational higher education (TNHE), represents an important dimension of the internationalisation of higher education. Its relationship with the ...
• Role and therapeutic potential of the endocannabinoid system in animal models of intellectual disability

  Navarro Romero, Alba, 1990- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-11-27)

  Intellectual disability encompasses several neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairments in cognitive and adaptive functioning with onset during the developmental period. Currently, treatment of intellectual ...
• Involvement of pre-proenkephalin and sigma-1 receptors in nicotine addiction

  Kummer, Sami, 1985- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-09-29)

  El tabaquismo es la principal causa de muerte evitable en todo el mundo, responsable de más de 7 millones de muertes al año. La nicotina es el principal componente psicoactivo del tabaco y la responsable de sus propiedades ...
• La Responsabilidad civil objetiva derivada de la información alimentaria: el caso de los alimentos ultraprocesados

  Durón Miranda, José Ángel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-09-21)

  La ciencia del Derecho, en su carácter rector del comportamiento social, es ante todo una disciplina cuya vigencia depende de que sus herramientas y mecanismos de aplicación sean eficaces y estén al alcance de todas las ...
• Media performance during the "Catalan process": trends in mainstream media audiences and news framing in the course of the independence debate in Catalonia

  Martínez Amat, Marc (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-09-01)

  This thesis analyses the processes undergone by mainstream media during the independence debate in Catalonia, focusing on the relationship among media, their audiences and governments through different empirical perspectives. ...

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