The advent of spatial content and increasingly advanced mixed reality devices is set to
revolutionise the manner in which we interact with digital content, becoming the
predominant human-computer interface in the not-too-distant ...
El objetivo de esta tesis es ampliar la comprensión de la relación entre vivienda y salud desde una perspectiva interseccional, y analizar los mecanismos que operan en esta relación. Realizamos tres estudios: 1) una revisión ...
Although the use of volumetric conduction to power wireless implants has been experimentally validated in recent years, a theoretical framework to determine the power and efficiency obtained by minimally invasive implants ...
Dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinases (DYRKs) are a conserved family of protein kinases present in all eukaryotes. In mammals, the association of DYRKs with a wide variety of putative substrates and interactors, in ...
Alonso Jiménez, Pablo(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-10-24)
Music audio tagging is the Music Information Retrieval task of assigning one or multiple labels to
an audio signal. Current state-of-the-art music taggers rely on deep learning approaches, which
offer high performance but ...
Microorganisms exhibit remarkable adaptability and represent a vast genetic resource. Synthetic biology aims to leverage this diversity for sustainability and medicine. However, many microbes remain unexplored due to limited ...
This thesis investigates the development of core Music Information Retrieval (MIR) technologies for Violin Performance Analysis, addressing both data and label scarcity. To mitigate data scarcity, the Violin Repertoire ...
Deus Ramos, Tais(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-11-11)
La cooperación judicial penal en la UE resulta necesaria para garantizar la seguridad y evitar la impunidad en un espacio sin fronteras interiores. El principio de reconocimiento mutuo garantiza que esa cooperación sea ...
Acute myeloid leukemia is an aggressive type of blood cancer with a poor survival rate. Leukemic stem cells (LSCs) govern the disease by producing rapidly dividing progenitor cells and driving relapse. Molecular characterization ...
Cross-modal and intra-modal language transfer divergences were
analysed along with developmental ones from the multilingual texts
written by 13 deaf sign-multilingual teenage learners whose L1 and
language of instruction ...
Manaca, Maria Nélia Joquim(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012-01-16)
Past and present uses of DDT and pyrethroids have led to their incorporation into humans, mainly through the food chain and sometimes by direct exposure.
The present work focuses on establishing the levels of DDT, its ...
La coordinació de la citocinesis amb la segregació cromosòmica és essencial per mantenir l’estabilitat cromosòmica durant la proliferació cel•lular. Tant en llevat com en cèl•lules animals, els ponts de cromatina en anafase ...
Mina Ibarra, Leonardo Bruno(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011-04-12)
The group of positive strand RNA ((+)RNA) viruses includes numerous plant, animal and human pathogens such as the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Their viral genomes mimic cellular mRNAs, however, besides acting as messengers for ...
The c-Myc transcription factor is a key player in cell homeostasis, being commonly
deregulated in human carcinogenesis. In this PhD thesis we have addressed the question
how regulatory mechanisms restrain the oncogenic ...
García Fernández, Jéssica(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-06-27)
The term "neurodegenerative disorder" refers to a set of illnesses in which the neurological system gradually deteriorates and is characterized by cognitive impairment, motor degradation, and behavioural changes. The ...
Zanon i Pérez, Marc(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-04-27)
La societat civil catalana va viure un procés de gran mobilització antifranquista a partir de la dècada dels anys seixanta. Una part important de la població va vehicular els seus anhels de llibertat a través d’entitats ...
Evans, Christopher Michael(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-17)
This thesis consists of three chapters on monetary economics. In the first chapter,
I explore if a benchmark Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model
fits the heterogeneous response of monetary policy shocks observed ...
Closa i Cortada, Jordi(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-11-09)
A principis del segle XX, l'arqueologia hispànica, que fins al moment havia anat a càrrec d'aficionats, començà un procés professionalitzador de la mà d'investigadors de formació germànica. Així, la seva metodologia i la ...
S'ha estudiat la variabilitat genètica de les poblacions del nord d'Àfrica a partir de l'anàlisi de diverses regions genòmiques per tal d'entendre les poblacions analitzades d'una banda, i comprendre la dinàmica del genoma ...
En aquest treball es pretén utilitzar la informació que deixa la recombinació al nostres genomes per fer inferències sobre la història evolutiva recent de les poblacions humanes. Per fer-ho, s’ha desenvolupat un mètode ...