• Oral microbiome : composition, interactions and shaping factors

  Willis, Jesse, 1990- (2021-11-18)

  Microbiome studies have burgeoned in the last few decades, largely thanks to the innovations in high throughput sequencing, affording researchers the opportunity to categorize nearly the entirety of the microbial population ...
• A 3D culture system to study gene regulation in breast cancer cells

  Ramírez Cuéllar, Angélica Julieta, 1990- (2022-05-12)

  In this Thesis we report the successful growth of hormone responsive T47D cells as 3D spheroids in Matrigel mimicking the ECM. A detailed characterization by using a genome-wide approach of the main physical and biochemical ...
• A physician-in-the-loop approach by means of machine learning for the diagnosis of lymphocytosis in the clinical laboratory

  Bigorra López, Laura, 1984- (2022-04-08)

  The complete blood count (CBC) is one of the most commonly performed test due to its clinical utility, versatility and safety. Thus, there are well established consensus rules to review a CBC through the peripheral blood ...
• Evaluación de un programa para reducir la pobreza energética en Barcelona: "Energía, la justa"

  Carrere Balcells, Juli, 1988- (2021-05-14)

  La pobreza energética es una problemática grave de salud pública que ha aumentado en los últimos años en el contexto español. La evidencia sobre medidas para reducir la pobreza energética se restringe a programas de mejora ...
• Development of computational and experimental tools for the identification of small proteins in bacterial genomes

  Miravet Verde, Samuel, 1992- (2021-05-14)

  Small proteins (SEPs; <100aa) are involved in essential processes such as cell homeostasis, signalling, or metabolism. However, they have been overlooked because of computational and experimental difficulties that prevent ...
• The Developing architecture of expressive pragmatics in preschoolers: multimodal and structural language trumps social cognition

  Pronina, Mariia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-05-06)

  Pragmatics, defined as the ability to use language socially, matters enormously in our day-to-day life and involves both the linguistic and social aspects of human communication. The literature focusing on developmental ...
• A deep learning perspective on linguistic ambiguity

  Aina, Laura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-25)

  This thesis studies the information that an expression and its context contribute to ambiguity resolution, focusing on the syntactic, lexical, and referential levels, and on the English language. I adopt computational ...
• Where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is generated? : An integrated perspective to strengthen understanding of health inequalities research capacities : Key insights from the United Kingdom and the city of Barcelona

  Cash-Gibson, Lucinda, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-11-12)

  This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this capacity. It consists ...
• Efectividad de las estrategias de comunicación en la entrevista laboral: estudio perceptivo y psicofisiológico del impacto de las estrategias comunicativas basadas en sesgos cognitivos en la selección de personal

  Abuin Lorenzo, Lorena (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-04-01)

  El presente estudio parte de una premisa relacionada tanto con intereses investigadores como con una voluntad de aplicación práctica. Tras la identificación de un vacío en la literatura científica referido a la investigación ...
• The Structural and functional organization of the language network in non- or minimally verbal autism spectrum disorders

  Slušná, Dominika (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-31)

  Language impairment forms a broader spectrum in humans than current diagnostic labels such as specific language impairment suggest. This thesis is about language capacities at the neglected bottom end of severity across ...
• Diseño, aplicación y evaluación de un programa CLIL y EPI de Música en inglés, en el ciclo superior de Educación Primaria

  Asensio Arjona, Verónica (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-04-05)

  Esta investigación tiene como objeto de estudio la elaboración, aplicación y evaluación de un programa de mejora del nivel de inglés a partir de una propuesta CLIL en Música, desde un enfoque plurilingüe integrador de las ...
• Differential genetic events in the two main pathways of prostate carcinogenesis : Molecular, pathological and clinical analysis of crucial genetic alterations in ETS fusion-positive and negative prostate cancer

  Segalés Tañà, Laura, 1994- (2022-05-06)

  S'han identificat dues vies carcinogèniques en el càncer de pròstata (CaPr): la positiva i la negativa per a fusions dels gens ETS. L’objectiu d’aquest estudi ha estat entendre el significat biològic i la posició jeràrquica ...
• Learning to identify and encode entities with deep learning models

  Sorodoc, Ionut-Teodor (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-04-11)

  In this thesis, I tackle the ability of deep neural networks to represent entities, and I assess the extent to which this feature impacts tasks involving entities. I consider two standard architectures, LSTM and Transformer, ...
• A machine learning approach to computer modeling of musical expression for performance learning and practice

  Muneratti Ortega, Fábio José (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-03-11)

  Aquesta tesi tracta sobre el disseny i la implementació de sistemes informàtics per a l'execució musical expressiva (CSEMP), explorant diferents mètodes de l'aprenentatge automàtic i reflexionant sobre el paper de l'estructura ...
• Comparative analysis of vertebrates reveals that mouse primordial oocytes do not contain a Balbiani body

  Dhandapani, Laasya (2022-04-04)

  En este proyecto, hemos desarrollado métodos que permiten la caracterización comparativa basada en imágenes en vivo de ovocitos primordiales de humano, ratón y Xenopus. Mostramos que los ovocitos primordiales en las tres ...
• Targeting endogenous analgesia systems for endometriosis treatment

  Escudero Lara, Alejandra, 1992- (2021-05-06)

  Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects 1 in 10 women of childbearing age. It is characterized by the growth of endometrium in extrauterine locations and is associated with chronic pelvic pain, ...
• Computational modeling of user activity in full-body interaction environments for ASC children: multimodal analysis of social interaction behaviors through psychophysiology, system activity, video coding, questionnaires, and body cues

  Sayis, Batuhan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-05-04)

  Full-body Interaction experiences based on Mixed Reality (MR) systems are already playing an important role in encouraging socialization behaviors in children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC), as seen in the state of ...
• Social media and body image in adolescent males: An experimental research on the influence of Instagram use on drive for muscularity, body esteem and appearance comparison

  Aziz, Jwana (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-11-05)

  La preocupación por la imagen corporal es cada vez más prominente entre los jóvenes varones. Los investigadores han señalado que los roles de género y las redes sociales son los principales impulsores de este fenómeno. Las ...
• Illuminating the chemical space of therapeutical relevance : from pharmaceutical patents to untargeted proteins

  Falaguera Mata, Maria José, 1994- (2022-04-26)

  Systems pharmacology is the discipline that studies the so-called ‘pharmacological space’ with a holistic and network-based perspective. Its challenge is to shed light on the astonishingly sophisticated biological processes ...
• Characterization of fluid biomarker profiles in the preclinical stage of the Alzehimer's continuum

  Milà Alomà, Marta, 1989- (2022-04-29)

  La malaltia d’Alzheimer (MA) està precedida per una llarga etapa preclínica, en la qual es desenvolupa la patologia cerebral en absència de simptomatologia. La identificació acurada d’aquesta fase preclínica, i un millor ...

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