• Integration and discrimination of Chinese ethnic minority in Spain

  Wang, Yang (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-09-10)

  This thesis uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore the integration of Chinese minorities living in Spain – especially, of the second generation born or educated in the country – and the problems of discrimination. ...
• The Role of chromatin-associated factors in genome topology

  Mugianesi, Francesca, 1992- (2022-06-08)

  Gene expression, epigenetic states and topological conformation are three fundamental aspects of genome organization that are tightly regulated in space and time. Epigenetic states, protein occupancy and chromatin modifications ...
• Towards stigmergic heterogenous symbiotic robot teams: enhancing RFID-based stigmergic robots for mapless environments

  ALAJAMI, Abdussalam A. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-06-02)

  The study in this thesis presents new solutions for increasing the performance of RFID-based inventory robots. The first novel solution is the design of an RFID-based inventory aerial robot for the problem of stock-counting ...
• Crítica de la razón virtual: las ciencias humanas del castigo y las personas jurídicas: un debate contemporáneo

  Ballerini, Sebastián (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-06-02)

  1. ¿Es correcto llamar al Derecho en general y al Derecho penal en particular bajo el rotulo de ciencia? 2. ¿Es posible todavía hablar de libre albedrío como fundamento último de la responsabilidad penal? 3. ¿Cómo es posible ...
• 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 ...
• The effect of foreign language on emotion regulation

  Ortigosa Beltrán, Isabel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-12)

  Hay personas que se pueden enfrentar, por unas razones u otras, a un tratamiento terapéutico en un idioma que no es su idioma nativo. Hasta la fecha, no hay apenas información de qué efecto tendría usar una lengua no nativa ...
• Estiba portuaria y libre mercado europeo: debates de derecho del trabajo en el marco del proceso de liberalización del sector en España

  Güell Bargalló, Judit (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-31)

  El propósito liberalizador de la Unión Europea en el sector de la estiba portuaria español marcado por la STJUE de 11 de diciembre de 2014 (C-576/13), que llevó al ejecutivo a iniciar la reforma del sistema de gestión ...
• La contribución delictiva simulada

  Gálvez Santibáñez, Jorge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-31)

  El presente trabajo aborda el problema de la provocación a la comisión de delitos, el agente provocador y el delito provocado. Tras evidenciar las deficiencias terminológicas y conceptuales de la doctrina científica del ...
• Tracking lexical processing in bimodal bilingualism: evidence from Catalan sign language

  Gimeno-Martínez, Marc (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-30)

  This dissertation focuses on the study of bimodal bilingual lexical processing in two different populations, deaf signers and hearing early sign language learners. We report evidence that iconicity influences sign retrieval ...
• Investigating sperm RNA dynamics in intergenerational inheritance using nanopore sequencing

  Lucas, Morghan C. (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-03)

  The aim of this thesis is to delve into sperm RNA dynamics during maturation and paternal inheritance. To obtain an integrative multi-omics view of sperm RNA during these processes, I turned to the new direct RNA sequencing ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...
• 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 ...
• 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 ...
• 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, ...

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