Cigarette smoking continues to be leading cause of preventable cause of death worldwide. Cognitive modulation by nicotine seems to be a key factor in nicotine addiction. Several studies indicate that initial nicotine intake ...
Los acuerdos de intenciones o cartas de intenciones vinculantes están presentes en las adquisiciones de empresas, sin embargo, subiste la controversia respecto de su naturaleza. La jurisprudencia estadounidense y española ...
Candida pathogenic yeasts represent a global healthcare problem. They comprise phylogenetically diverse species, including newly emerged pathogens. How human-Candida interactions vary across species, and what processes ...
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 ...
The engineering of biology strives on the creation of biological devices concerning society-impact applications. In this PhD thesis, we developed mathematical and experimental tools for the standard and rational design of ...
Hernando Rodríguez, Julio César, 1988-(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-11-20)
Background: Previous studies have focused on analysing specific labour market
situations and their relationship with sickness absence (SA). However, little is known
about the relationship between mobility between different ...
Vargas Ovalle, María Alejandra(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-01-12)
El Código penal español reconoce desde 2010 la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas, aunque limitada a un catálogo cerrado de delitos. La configuración del sistema de numerus clausus -como sucede con la práctica ...
Wild chimpanzee populations are considered to be under threat of extinction due to the damaging consequences of human impact into their natural habitat and illegal trade. Conservation genomics is an emerging field that has ...
De Bont, Jeroen, 1989-(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-11)
Understanding the determinants of childhood obesity has never been more urgent given the high levels across the world. It is increasingly recognized that the urban environment may affect childhood growth and obesity, and ...
This thesis contributes to the understanding of systemic risk in the financial sector and its interrelation to the macroeconomy. The first chapter documents that misallocation of resources increased in the German manufacturing ...
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 ...
Bou de Pieri, Francesc, 1992-(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-17)
Tot i que l’obesitat és clarament deguda a un desequilibri entre la ingesta d’energia i la despesa, i està molt associada a l’estil de vida, es considera una malaltia multifactorial amb una alta heretabilitat (50-75%), ...
En Discurso, Figura, el filósofo francés Jean-François Lyotard acuña un término: figural, que teóricos como Nicole Brenez, Philippe Dubois o Jean-Michel Durafour, entre otros, han llevado al terreno del análisis de la ...
Poch i Rodrigo, Chantal(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-11)
Aquesta tesi és una interpretació de l’obra dels cineastes Andrei Tarkovski, Terrence Malick i Werner Herzog des de la idea de la pèrdua d’un vincle entre home i món i la possibilitat de restaurar-lo a través del cinema.
This dissertation analyzes the representation of body image in television advertising and its mediating role in children’s body imaginaries. Based on a theoretical framework supported on the social theories of the body and ...
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility can improve the labor ...
Genome spatial organisation and transcriptional activity are tightly coordinated to ensure the correct function of the cell. Thus, proper understanding of the chromatin organisation is needed to deepen into the processes ...
This dissertation takes an integrated approach to the study of audiovisual cues to verbal irony. While pragmatic studies have mainly focused on the role of the discourse context in irony detection, little is known about ...
Sáez de Adana Herrero, Francisco Manuel(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-11)
Este trabajo se centra en el papel de crónica de una época de la serie de cómics de prensa Terry y los piratas de Milton Caniff. Se analiza cómo la serie llegó a convertirse en una de las fuentes principales de información ...
This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this capacity. It consists ...