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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-05)Perineal injuries during childbirth, especially severe perineal injuries, can lead to adverse health outcomes for women both in the short and longer term and can significantly affect women´s quality of life. The use of ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-29)The evolution of the human phenotype involved gene regulatory innovations. Comparative functional epigenomic studies are a powerful tool with potential to shed light on many long-standing questions regarding human evolution. ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-01-26)Esta tesis analiza la representación cinematográfica de Barcelona en dos períodos clave de su evolución urbanística: el desarrollismo franquista, que coincide con la larga alcaldía de Porcioles, y la etapa que va desde la ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-11)This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first chapter, I develop a two-period small open economy with banks. The interaction of the limited liability faced by banks and the bank deposit insurance results in an ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-29)Limited asset market participation is a well-known stylized fact and a widespread phenomenon even in developed economies. While existing models have already examined the effects of social security and its reforms on welfare ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-31)This thesis is composed of three articles. The first addresses the recent decline in worker mobility between jobs and links it to changes in demand for jobs along the skill distribution. I present a novel theoretical ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-10)Risk factors and diagnosis in young people have been little explored, despite brain tumours (BT) is one of the most frequent tumour type in children and adolescents. The purpose of this doctoral thesis is to study 1) the ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-19)El cáncer de mama HER2-positivo es un subtipo muy agresivo. El desarrollo de terapias anti-diana HER2, particularmente el anticuerpo monoclonal (Mab) trastuzumab, supuso una mejora significativa en el pronóstico de esta ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-01-23)Down syndrome (DS) is the most frequent genetic cause of intellectual disability. It is a multifaceted condition characterized by impairments in cognition, communication, behavior and/or motor skills resulting from abnormal ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-16)Hydroxytyrosol is a health-promoting dietary phenol mainly present in extra virgin olive oil. Wine and beer are sources of tyrosol, a related phenolic compound. We have demonstrated that in humans tyrosol is endogenously ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-17)All living organisms respond to environmental stimuli by modulating the activity of different genes. This response can occur across many locations throughout the cell such as at the level of transcription, translation, and ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-25)This thesis is structured in three chapters. In chapter 1, I address managerial opportunism towards workers. I present a theoretical model and test it. Results suggest that outside opportunities are key to hinder or ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-17)La rellevància clínica dels virus transmesos per mosquits, com el virus del dengue (DENV), el virus del zika (ZIKV), el virus del chikungunya (CHIKV) i el virus del Nil Occidental (WNV), ha augmentat dràsticament durant ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-21)COPII vesicles of 60-90nm diameter are known to export secretory cargoes from endoplasmic reticulum (ER). However, they cannot be employed to export bulky cargoes like the collagens that can reach up to 400 nm in length. ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-18)Durant la darrera dècada la seqüenciació massiva de pacients de cancer ha permés avançar de forma significativa el coneixement sobre les bases moleculars del càncer. Un cop assolit aquest primer pass, el repte que tenim ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-20)This PhD research has three main aims: first, to design a conceptual framework for studying health inequalities amongst women who are mothers; secondly, to describe inequalities in health and health behaviours between ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-01-22)This thesis consists of three chapters contributing to the broad field of financial economics. In the first chapter, I develop a theoretical model of bank bail-ins in order to analyze the effects of the implementation of ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-09)G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the main acceptors of neurotransmitters, and thus play an important role in communication between neurons. Because of this they are an attractive drug target for multiple neurodegenerative ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-20)The rapid development of high-throughput sequencing technologies pushed forward the fields of medical genomics and precision medicine, creating many new applications for diagnostics and clinical studies that require high ...
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(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 ...
