• Impacto de la disfunción muscular y de los microorganismos resistentes en las exacerbaciones de la enfermedad pulmonar obstructiva crónica

  Estirado Vera, Cristina, 1968- (2022-05-25)

  La Enfermedad Pulmonar Obstructiva crónica (EPOC) presenta afectación pulmonar y sistémica y periodos de exacerbación (AEPOC), que contribuyen a su progresión. En algunas ocasiones la AEPOC está causada por microorganismos ...
• Study of molecular targets and neurobiologial mechanisms involved in compulsive overeating

  Gallego Román, Ana María, 1991- (2022-05-26)

  Binge-eating disorder (BED) is a chronic eating disturbance that affects 1.6-2.0% of people worldwide. It is characterised by recurrent episodes of consuming large amounts of food in a short period, together with a sense ...
• 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 ...
• Interpretable machine learning through radiomics and attribute-regularized neural networks for cardiology

  Cetin, Irem (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-05-23)

  El diagnóstico asistido por ordenador de enfermedades cardiovasculares (CVD) con resonancia magnética cardíaca (CMR) es un campo importante de investigación para el fenotipado avanzado de imágenes cardíacas. Las mediciones ...
• Analysis of citizen participation in science : perceptions of the different actors involved

  Llorente Lope, Carolina, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-11-27)

  The main objective of this thesis is to improve understanding of citizen participation in science in Spain. Specifically, it analyses the characteristics of current participatory practices and the opinions and attitudes ...
• Categories and levels of aggregation: essays on judgment and decision making

  Woiczyk, Thomas Karl Alfred (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-05-25)

  In this thesis I explore how people form and are affected by judgments about objects, people, and categories. In particular, I show how the implications are affected by the level of aggregation; both for human judgment and ...
• Essays on the economic psychology of well-being

  Pirla Lopez, Sergio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-05-04)

  This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived framework to conduct ...
• Gender agreement in Russian : a study of young heritage speakers in Spain

  Vorobyeva, Tamara (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-11-24)

  Previous research has demonstrated the difficulty of the grammatical gender category for L2 learners and bilingual speakers. The main goal of this study is to investigate the gender agreement by 30 young L1 heritage speakers ...
• Oral microbiome : composition, interactions and shaping factors

  Willis, Jesse, 1990- (2021-11-18)

  Microbiome studies have burgeoned in the last few decades, largely thanks to the innovations in high throughput sequencing, affording researchers the opportunity to categorize nearly the entirety of the microbial population ...
• A 3D culture system to study gene regulation in breast cancer cells

  Ramírez Cuéllar, Angélica Julieta, 1990- (2022-05-12)

  In this Thesis we report the successful growth of hormone responsive T47D cells as 3D spheroids in Matrigel mimicking the ECM. A detailed characterization by using a genome-wide approach of the main physical and biochemical ...
• A physician-in-the-loop approach by means of machine learning for the diagnosis of lymphocytosis in the clinical laboratory

  Bigorra López, Laura, 1984- (2022-04-08)

  The complete blood count (CBC) is one of the most commonly performed test due to its clinical utility, versatility and safety. Thus, there are well established consensus rules to review a CBC through the peripheral blood ...
• Evaluación de un programa para reducir la pobreza energética en Barcelona: "Energía, la justa"

  Carrere Balcells, Juli, 1988- (2021-05-14)

  La pobreza energética es una problemática grave de salud pública que ha aumentado en los últimos años en el contexto español. La evidencia sobre medidas para reducir la pobreza energética se restringe a programas de mejora ...
• Development of computational and experimental tools for the identification of small proteins in bacterial genomes

  Miravet Verde, Samuel, 1992- (2021-05-14)

  Small proteins (SEPs; <100aa) are involved in essential processes such as cell homeostasis, signalling, or metabolism. However, they have been overlooked because of computational and experimental difficulties that prevent ...
• The Developing architecture of expressive pragmatics in preschoolers: multimodal and structural language trumps social cognition

  Pronina, Mariia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-05-06)

  Pragmatics, defined as the ability to use language socially, matters enormously in our day-to-day life and involves both the linguistic and social aspects of human communication. The literature focusing on developmental ...
• A deep learning perspective on linguistic ambiguity

  Aina, Laura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-25)

  This thesis studies the information that an expression and its context contribute to ambiguity resolution, focusing on the syntactic, lexical, and referential levels, and on the English language. I adopt computational ...
• Where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is generated? : An integrated perspective to strengthen understanding of health inequalities research capacities : Key insights from the United Kingdom and the city of Barcelona

  Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-11-12)

  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 ...
• Efectividad de las estrategias de comunicación en la entrevista laboral: estudio perceptivo y psicofisiológico del impacto de las estrategias comunicativas basadas en sesgos cognitivos en la selección de personal

  Abuin Lorenzo, Lorena (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-04-01)

  El presente estudio parte de una premisa relacionada tanto con intereses investigadores como con una voluntad de aplicación práctica. Tras la identificación de un vacío en la literatura científica referido a la investigación ...
• The Structural and functional organization of the language network in non- or minimally verbal autism spectrum disorders

  Slušná, Dominika (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-31)

  Language impairment forms a broader spectrum in humans than current diagnostic labels such as specific language impairment suggest. This thesis is about language capacities at the neglected bottom end of severity across ...
• Diseño, aplicación y evaluación de un programa CLIL y EPI de Música en inglés, en el ciclo superior de Educación Primaria

  Asensio Arjona, Verónica (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-04-05)

  Esta investigación tiene como objeto de estudio la elaboración, aplicación y evaluación de un programa de mejora del nivel de inglés a partir de una propuesta CLIL en Música, desde un enfoque plurilingüe integrador de las ...
• Differential genetic events in the two main pathways of prostate carcinogenesis : Molecular, pathological and clinical analysis of crucial genetic alterations in ETS fusion-positive and negative prostate cancer

  Segalés Tañà, Laura, 1994- (2022-05-06)

  S'han identificat dues vies carcinogèniques en el càncer de pròstata (CaPr): la positiva i la negativa per a fusions dels gens ETS. L’objectiu d’aquest estudi ha estat entendre el significat biològic i la posició jeràrquica ...

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