• Experience-dependent information processing in biological systems

  Vidal, María Sol (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-19)

  Organisms need to integrate its previous experience with its current internal state in order to deliver a suitable response to dynamic changes in their environment. This thesis is devoted to analyze, using a mathematical ...
• Analysis of circulating RNAs for the early detection of complex diseases using liquid biopsy

  Cabús, Lluc (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-12)

  RNA is a molecule that is released by the different tissues into the circulation. When it is found in the circulation it is called cell-free RNA (cfRNA). This type of molecule has great potential as a noninvasive biomarker ...
• Towards stylised facts on international migration research: Immigrants' labor market integration, dynamics of remittance behaviour, and underlying mechanisms of migration rates

  Carrasco Armijo, José Ignacio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-11-14)

  This thesis touches upon three subjects within international migration, namely: immigrants’ labour market incorporation, dynamics of remittances behaviour, and the role of migrant networks as an underlying mechanism of ...
• Deciphering B lymphocyte dynamics in health and disease through the integrative analysis of multi-modal single-cell data

  Aguilar Fernández, Sergio (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-26)

  The intrinsic complexity and dynamic nature of B-lymphocytes make them ideal for in-depth analysis using single-cell technologies. Secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) are central in B-lymphocyte activation and differentiation, ...
• Multiscale behavior in living systems

  Kennedy, Keith Endres (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-06-27)

  This thesis focuses on the multiscale nature of the biological process that underpin the function of all living systems. A first project centers on the disease known as multiple sclerosis, and utilizes various datasets at ...
• Dynamics and biological information processing : from gene circuits to cellular populations

  Gabaldà Sagarra, Marçal (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-04-12)

  Living beings strive to survive and reproduce. To do so they need to monitor and adapt to a dynamic environment, taking advantage of the opportunities and dodging the threats that they may encounter. This thesis is devoted ...
• Exploring the role of climate variability and change in the spillover of zoonotic diseases: towards the development of Early Warning Systems (RWS)

  San José Plana, Adrià (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-19)

  The primary goal of this PhD is to deepen our understanding and improve the modeling capacity of zoonotic spillover, the multilevel process by which pathogens manage to overcome a series of natural barriers and infect other ...
• Bilingual insights into the initial lexicon: the role of cognates in word acquisition

  García-Castro, Gonzalo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-12)

  Bilingual infants acquire words at a similar rate as monolingual ones, despite navigating a more intricate linguistic environment. The mechanisms behind this phenomenon remain elusive. Our project addressed the potential ...
• Factors individuals i contextuals associats al consum de risc d'alcohol en joves de la Catalunya Central

  Obradors Rial, Núria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-05-16)

  The current doctoral thesis aims to know which individual and contextual factors determine risky alcohol consumption among adolescents, and concretely, to study the differences of consumption between rural and urban areas ...
• Analysis of brain dynamics using echo-state networks

  Ibáñez Soria, David (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-10-31)

  In the last decade recurrent neural networks have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Their cyclic connections provide them with memory and thus with the capability of modeling processes with temporal ...
• Health impacts and determinants of environmental exposures related to urban and transport planning practices in European cities

  Khomenko, Sasha (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-26)

  The rapid increase in urbanization underscores the need for healthy urban environments. Presently, European cities experience high levels of air pollution, noise, lack of green spaces, and increased local temperatures, all ...
• Influencias del entorno alimentario de los centros educativos sobre el peso de los escolares

  Londoño Cañola, Catalina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-16)

  Esta tesis tiene como objetivos evaluar el entorno alimentario alrededor de las escuelas de Barcelona en términos de proximidad y disponibilidad de establecimientos alimentarios y su relación con el nivel socioeconómico ...
• Computationl and modeling approaches to multi-scale anatomical description of neuronal circuitry

  Manubens-Gil, Linus, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-12-20)

  During the last century the nervous system has been mainly studied from a reductionistic approach, based on the hypothesis that understanding in depth single neurons or limited neuronal populations would lead to general ...
• Modelling spatiotemporal cell regulation

  Martínez Corral, Rosa, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-18)

  In this Thesis we have studied how dynamics and space modulate cellular behaviour, by means of mathematical modelling of particular biological examples. At the single cell level, we show how pulsatile input signals can be ...
• Dynamical aspects of the regulation of bacterial proliferation

  Galera Laporta, Letícia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-03-19)

  Bacterial proliferation has been studied for more than 100 years, but our knowledge of the mechanisms that control its dynamical aspects is still very limited. In this Thesis we have studied, at both singlecell and population ...
• Principles of distributed biological computation in non-growing cells : A rational architecture for chemical wires

  Toscano Ochoa, Carlos (2021-04-30)

  One of the branches of synthetic biology pursues the creation of a biological computer. Many have successfully implemented simple logic circuits rewiring cellular components. However, these circuits may aggressively compete ...
• Modeling cell type evolution using single-cell and chromatin profiling approaches

  Elek, Anamaria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-04-26)

  Single-cell genomics methods have revolutionized the study of gene expression and regulation at the cell type level. Generating single-cell atlases for species at key phylogenetic positions of the animal tree of life (e.g.. ...
• Complexity changes in neuroimaging signals point to mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disease

  Blair, David Sutherland (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-18)

  The past decade has seen several attempts to employ the entropy of neuroimaging signals as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline or traumatic brain injury (C. Y. Liu et al. 2013; Adhikari et al. 2017; Li et al. 2018). ...
• La mirada internacional de Joan Estelrich en su etapa catalanista, entre redes y culturas

  Lo Giudice, Ivan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-07-04)

  Joan Estelrich Artigues (Felanitx 1896 – París 1958) es un personaje histórico ideal para acercarse al estudio de los nacionalismos españoles y, al mismo tiempo, observar la manera en la que el catalanismo de entreguerras ...
• Essays in learning uncertainty

  Ghifrani, Erfan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-11-18)

  Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ ...

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