Tesis doctorals llegides a la UPF en format digital en accés obert introduïdes a la plataforma TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa), on també es poden consultar tesis d'altres centres.
This thesis is about development and its study from a theoretical point of view, with special interest in how to describe development as a dynamical systems' problem. The thesis digs into four directions embedded in this ...
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 ...
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 ...
The prenatal period is a stage of special sensitivity to the adverse effects of environmental agents for the developing fetus. The human placenta is an organ that, in the interface between mother and fetus, plays a key ...
The c-Myc transcription factor is a key player in cell homeostasis, being commonly
deregulated in human carcinogenesis. In this PhD thesis we have addressed the question
how regulatory mechanisms restrain the oncogenic ...
En aquesta tesi estudiem els neologismes des de la perspectiva de la seva funció comunicativa. Més concretament, revisem els conceptes neologia denominativa i neologia estilística, que es corresponen amb la classificació ...
COPII vesicles of 60-90nm diameter are known to export secretory cargoes from endoplasmic reticulum (ER). However, they cannot be employed to export bulky cargoes like the collagens that can reach up to 400 nm in length. ...
This dissertation aims to describe the main processes leading to interaction between safety representatives and workers and the factors influencing it, as well as analysing its effects. Adopting a multi-method approach, ...
El propòsit d'aquesta tesi es fonamenta en demostrar que el producte és un mitjà de comunicació social del que les persones es serveixen comunicativament -en funció del seu caràcter simbòlic- que permet a l'ésser humà ...