• Influence of metabolism in the regulation of T cell differentiation

  Tejedor Vaquero, Sonia, 1988- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-03-16)

  Glucose is a key nutrient for T cells. Despite that T cell activation is impaired when they are deprived of glucose, it has also been shown that T effector responses can be elicited in vivo in glucose-poor environments, ...
• Nuclear and non-nuclear roles of the MAP kinase Sty1 on cell cycle, cell polarity and transcription

  Salat Canela, Clàudia, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-09-30)

  Living organisms must respond to changes in their environment in order to overcome stress situations. In Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Sty1 MAP kinase is required to survive to a wide range of environmental stresses. The main ...
• Regulation of Piezo1 channels and its impact on cell division

  Carrillo García, Julia, 1993- (2021-09-30)

  This project has aimed to investigate the regulation of the mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 by proteins that sense and modify membrane curvature. Our second objective has been to study this interplay in the context of ...
• Precarious employment and mental health in Europe : Development, validation, and association with mental health of a novel cross-national measure

  Padrosa Sayeras, Eva, 1993- (2022-03-30)

  This dissertation aims to advance knowledge on the contours of precarious employment (PE) as a social determinant of health by developing, validating, and evaluating the association with mental health of a novel measure ...
• Procesos de mediación artística y sociotecnológica en la cocreación de sistemas comunicativos locativos disruptivos y comunitarios

  Olmedo Río, Andrea (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-02-21)

  Procesos de mediación artística y sociotecnológica en la cocreación de sistemas comunicativos locativos disruptivos y comunitarios. Esta investigación se centra en las prácticas artísticas con medios locativos disruptivas ...
• Decision-making during action

  Ozbagci, Duygu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-09-12)

  Decision making requires coordinating motor actions that are necessary to report the choices and sample relevant information from the environment. For instance, when riding a bike on a busy road, rider must both pedal while ...
• Towards audio-visual deep learning methods for singing voice separation and lip synchronization

  Shenoy Kadandale, Venkatesh (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-09-08)

  A typical music audio consists of different sounds spread across voices and musical instruments. We propose a low-cost deep learning (DL) method for simultaneously isolating multiple sound sources present in a music ...
• Pathophysiological regulation of the production, aggregation and toxicity of the amyloid beta-peptide in Alzheimer's disease

  Picón Pagès, Pol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-09-09)

  Society increase in live expectancy will cause a rise in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis, thus, there is a need to further understand how it works. One of the main culprits of this disease amyloid-β peptide (Aβ), this ...
• Decentralized cellular networks: Towards blockchain enabled cellular overlays

  Platt, Steven (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-09-27)

  This thesis undertakes an investigation into the fit and utility of blockchain technologies within cellular networks. The core of this writing is a new 5G core network blockchain designed to be compatible with, and paired ...
• La condició de l'home corrent: un estudi sobre Coming Up For Air (1939) i l'humanisme de George Orwell

  Quintana Rubio, Oriol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-09-28)

  Coming Up For Air (1939) fou escrita en una dècada més convulsa que la nostra, que culminaria amb l’inici de la Segona Guerra Mundial. Però les condicions vitals que retrata són estranyament similars a les d’avui. Per ...
• Information representation and processing in neuronal networks: from biological to artificial systems and from first to second-order statistics

  Lawrie, Sofía (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-28)

  Neuronal networks are today hypothesized to the basis for the computing capabilities of biological nervous systems. In the same manner, artificial neuronal systems are intensively exploited for a diversity of industrial ...
• Computational image analysis methods for the study of perinatal brain development

  Urru, Andrea (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-28)

  Perinatal medicine has drawn increasing attention by the neuroscientific research community, as an early detection of most pathologies leads to more effective therapies and treatments. Monitoring fetal and neonatal brain ...
• Joan Fuster i la traducció: les actuacions i les idees en el seu context històric. La llengua literària i les solucions de traducció de La Pesta (1962) i L'estrany (1967) d'Albert Camus

  Cerdà Mollà, Francesca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-22)

  Joan Fuster és una de les personalitats que més han contribuït a la cultura catalana contemporània des del País Valencià. La traducció va ser una de les nombroses activitats literàries i culturals que va realitzar. Això ...
• Essays on the political economy of development

  Ge, Erqi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-09-22)

  This thesis consists of three chapters about political economy in China. The first chapter focuses on the interregional trade. Taking advantages of direct allocations of regional leaders by central government in China, ...
• Managing crises beyond the EU borders: a network-based analysis

  Bravo Laguna, Carlos D. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-14)

  This thesis discusses the role and weight of the European Union institutions and Member States in the responses to three crises whose epicenters are located beyond the EU borders. To do so, it examines the responses to the ...
• The Role of leaders' characteristics on governments formation

  Huidobro Torres, Alba (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-15)

  This Ph.D. dissertation examines the extent to which the personal characteristics of political leaders affect their political ambition and government formation processes. While the literature shows that government performance ...
• Banco de datos terminológicos para el Mercosur: una propuesta de modelo

  Amaro de Melo, Bianca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2003-12-05)

  Presenta, a partir de las bases teóricas de la Teoría Comunicativa de la Terminología , una propuesta de modelo de construcción y gestión de un banco de datos terminológicos para el Mercado Común del Sur. Para llegar a ...
• Aguinaldo’s British Men: defending the Philippine Revolution through the Hong Kong and Singapore Press, 1896-1902

  Díaz Esteve, Laura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-31)

  This dissertation examines the transimperial intellectual exchanges between Britons from Hong Kong and Singapore and Filipinos during the Revolution of 1896-1902. It reveals that British newspapermen supported the Filipino ...
• Les Partícules prefixals en català

  Solivellas i Ugena, Ivan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-07-14)

  L’objectiu principal d’aquesta tesi és estudiar les partícules prefixals des d’una perspectiva teòrica, a partir de la revisió crítica de diferents fonts bibliogràfiques, i aplicada, mitjançant un corpus de dades exhaustiu ...
• 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 ...

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