DNA methylation is really important because it is altered due to genetic and environmental factors, and it is associated with common diseases. In this thesis, we identified new factors altering DNA methylation, including ...
Environmental noise pollution has become a major public health concern due to its increase during the last decades as a result of urbanization processes. Environmental noise can be produced by different sources but the ...
González i Colell, Marc(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-03-22)
Engineering biology requires a clear set of rules that ensure design predictability. However, certain biological processes difficult the application of these rules, impairing prediction. In the first section of this PhD ...
Is linking migracion to security threats juscified? How is the secut1t1zacion of migracion applied in praccice? To what extent does it change the lives of migrants around the world? And in a wider context, does this have ...
This is a comparative study between the Greek and Egyptian cosmogonies in
addition to the kosmopoia in the Leiden J 395 papyrus. Without losing sight of the great
influence that the Near East exerted on the Greek cosmogonies, ...
Prendre decisions es un repte, i a la par un aspecte inevitable a les nostres vides. D’entre totes les opcions viables, hom ha de sotmetre a escrutini i avaluació les diverses alternatives en tant gestionant la frustració ...
This thesis provides new insights into the evolution of biodiversity in arid regions by exploring the patterns and drivers of reptile diversity in the Hajar Mountains of Southeastern Arabia. We first assemble a genomic ...
Acute myeloid leukemias (AMLs) are a type of cancer where undifferentiated myeloid cells
abnormally proliferate. Such phenotype can be caused by the expression of chimeric
proteins like PML-RARα and MLL-AF9. Many studies ...
Cancer cells are constantly subject to complex stresses in the tumour microenvironment. These stresses encapsulate a wide array of challenging stimuli from physical and mechanical forces to interference in major mechanistic ...
Costa, Ana Lúcia Correira da(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-24)
This work analyses the abolitionist feminist discourse on prostitution as elaborated by second-wave feminists in the last decades of the twentieth century. Its aim is to deconstruct such a discourse, to locate the point ...
To ensure faithful segregation of the genetic material, cells build the mitotic spindle, a machinery made of dynamic microtubules (MTs) and MT associated proteins (MAPs). Chromosome bi-orientation is achieved through the ...
La voz como problema ha sido abordado desde distintos campos. Se ha identificado
filosóficamente con la capacidad intrínsecamente humana de narrar la propia historia. En
relación a la movilización social, se ha visto como ...
Font Ribera, Laia(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011-06-09)
ANTECEDENTS: La natació té beneficis per la salut, però l’assistència a piscines comporta l’exposició a
subproductes de la cloració (SPC). Els banyistes podrien tenir cert risc de patir efectes respiratoris, com
l’asma, ...
Martinez Sarmiento, Jose Angel(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-09)
Elucidating the mechanism of somatic cell reprogramming has been hampered by the limitations of iPSC systems to uncover the correctly reprogramming cells. Here, by using the highly efficient heterokaryon system we dissected ...
Environmental stress is a major aspect of life and a limiting factor for the survival and distribution of species. Understanding the organismal stress response and the developed coping mechanisms is indispensable in order ...
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, ...
La inflamación y el estrés oxidativo son mecanismos moleculares que contribuyen al daño y a la disfunción muscular. Existen procesos crónicos con fenómenos inflamatorios de bajo grado pero de larga duración (EPOC, con o ...
Páez Conesa, José Ezequiel(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-01-30)
En esta tesis me pregunto si, moralmente hablando, debemos concebir el aborto como matar a alguien o, más bien, como impedir que alguien exista. En primer lugar, presento algunas distinciones preliminares acerca de valores ...
Mental disorders have become a major concern in public health, since they are one of the main causes of the overall disease burden worldwide. Depressive disorders are the most common mental illnesses, and they constitute ...
Animals evolved to survive in dynamic environments by developing multiple behavioral strategies to adapt and to learn from their interaction with the world. Associative mechanisms and internal representations are at the ...