• Prevención de la hernia incisional tras laparotomía urgente mediante malla profiláctica

  Bravo Salvá, Alejandro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-12-15)

  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 ...
• Eukaryotic diversity through the lens of metabarcoding and metagenomics

  Mitsi, Konstantina, 1990- (2021-06-02)

  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 ...
• Study of molecular targets and neurobiologial mechanisms involved in compulsive overeating

  Gallego Román, Ana María, 1991- (2022-05-27)

  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 ...
• Essays in industrial organisation

  Ilango, Akhil (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)

  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 ...
• Contributions to secure genomic human data sharing for precision medicine

  Rambla, Jordi (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)

  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 ...
• Unveiling the role of Her9/Notch pathway in the maintenance of stemness in the hindbrain boundaries

  Engel-Pizcueta, Carolyn (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-09)

  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 ...
• Caracterización del papel de la ínsula en el control cardiovascular: estudio mediante estimulación eléctrica intracraneal

  Sánchez Larsen, Álvaro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)

  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 ...
• Representation learning for hierarchical reinforcement learning

  Steccanella, Lorenzo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)

  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, ...
• Essays on behavioral economics

  Puig Pomés, David (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)

  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 ...
• The nuclear pore complex in muscle stem cell function and aging

  Cuenca Cortés, Alejandro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)

  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 ...
• Modelling the dawn of simple multicellularity : Cooperation, physics and evolutionary branching

  Bonforti, Adriano (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-28)

  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 ...
• Terraforming Earth's ecosystems : engineering ecosystems to avoid anthropogenic tipping points

  Vidiella Rocamora, Blai (2022-03-14)

  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, ...
• Attenuation of information during native/non-native interactions

  Rodríguez Cuadrado, Sara, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-02-06)

  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 ...
• Cancer as a complex adaptive system : Mathematical models of tumor ecology, evolution and development

  Aguadé Gorgorió, Guim (2021-09-13)

  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 ...
• The Effect of foreign language processing on moral decision-making

  Corey, Joanna Darrow, 1986- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-03-15)

  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 ...
• Assessment of CRISPR-based genome editing tools for enhancing precision: a computational platform and novel factors for homology-directed repair

  Sanvicente García, Marta (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-25)

  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 ...
• Evolution of tissue-specific transcriptomes across bilaterian animals

  Mantica, Federica (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-25)

  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 ...
• The Effects of foreign-accented speech on language comprehension and retrieval processes

  Romero Rivas, Carlos, 1986- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-01-26)

  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 ...
• Bilingual language control : Evidence from Parkinson's disease

  Cattaneo, Gabriele, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-04-17)

  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 ...
• Labeling, word mapping and categorization in monolingual and bilingual infants

  Ibáñez Lillo, Alexandra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-06-06)

  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 ...

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