Esta Tesis Doctoral estudia la prevención de la hernia incisional en la cirugía urgente abdominal mediante el uso de malla profiláctica de refuerzo en la pared abdominal en posición suprafascial. Este aspecto está poco ...
Los organismos eucariotas abarcan una diversidad inmensa de formas, tamaños y estilos
de vida. Sin embargo, abordar la verdadera amplitud de esa diversidad es una tarea
laboriosa. Durante las últimas decadas, los estudios ...
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 ...
This thesis contains three chapters, each developing a theory and providing evidence
on a unique and novel determinant of firms’ outcomes in the emerging and
developed economies of 21st century. The first chapter examines ...
The advance of precision medicine depends on the availability of data that is continuously being generated in universities, research centres and hospitals world-wide. That data represents 1) the diversity of the human ...
The generation of cell diversity in the embryonic brain relies on the balance
between cell proliferation and differentiation. The hindbrain boundary cells
specify at the interface between adjacent compartments. Boundary ...
La ínsula es una región cerebral que participa en la regulación del sistema nervioso autonómico, pero su papel en el control cardiovascular central no está bien definido en la actualidad. Realizamos un estudio observacional ...
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) has the potential to simplify the solution of
environments with long horizons and sparse rewards. The idea behind HRL is to decompose
a complex decision-making problem into smaller, ...
This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory,
behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article
(Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically
well-documented driver ...
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are necessary for stem cell maintenance, cell fate determination, and the aging process. The specific contribution of NPCs to the physiology of muscle stem cells (satellite cells, SCs) is ...
L'aparició de la pluricel·lularitat (MC) va definir un esdeveniment evolutiu important en la
història de la vida al nostre planeta. Ha tingut lloc diverses vegades dins de grups
independents i diferents enfocaments han ...
The idea of Terraformation comes from the science fiction literature,
where humans have the capability of changing a non-habitable planet to
an Earth-like one. Nowadays, Nature is changing rapidly, the poles are
melting, ...
The current dissertation deals with how attenuation of information works in relation to non-nativeness. It also deals with
the nature of the attenuation of information phenomenon per se. Attenuation of information refers ...
Despite decades of scientific effort, cancer remains a major cause of death worldwide. Through the accumulation of genome alterations, tumor populations evolve the capacity to circumvent the selective barriers of tissue ...
Millones de personas aprenden una lengua extranjera, y algunas de estas personas, como las que trabajan en organizaciones internacionales, la usan a diario como vehículo de comunicación, llevando a cabo juicios y decisiones ...
Precision and accuracy are paramount for the use of genome editing in clinic, environmental, and industrial applications. These fields require reliable and traceable results to ensure the safety and viability of the resulting ...
Regulated Gene Expression (rGE) and Alternative Splicing (rAS) are two of the main mechanisms contributing to tissue-phenotypic diversity within and between species. In this thesis, we aim at characterizing rGE and rAS ...
When people learn a second language, they typically speak with a foreign accent. Crucially, foreign-accented speech is more difficult to understand and requires more processing time than native speech. Nevertheless, native ...
How can bilinguals easily and flexibly switch between languages without errors?
The aim of this thesis is to advance our knowledge about the control mechanisms involved in bilingual language production. I investigated this ...
In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations. Currently, little is known about how language environment influences referent identification. Comparisons between ...