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.
Esta tesis tiene como objetivo estudiar a los germanófilos españoles durante la Primera Guerra Mundial. En ella se examinan las iniciativas llevadas a cabo por este sector de la opinión pública española, que se formó poco ...
This PhD thesis investigates the relationship between temperature and mortality at different spatial and temporal scales, addressing a crucial issue in the context of rising temperatures due to anthropogenic climate change. ...
Cancer develops from healthy cells due to mutations in around 600 cancer driver genes. These mutations, along with neutral ones, are generated from DNA mutational processes, creating distinct patterns known as mutational ...
This thesis investigates the integration and analysis of OMICs data to enhance in silico modelling of real-world patients, with a special focus on prostate cancer. By leveraging publicly available transcriptomics data, ...
In breast cancer, the tumor microenvironment includes adipocytes and fibroblasts. When in contact with breast tumor cells, adipocytes undergo lipolysis and dedifferentiation. This thesis demonstrates that cancer-associated ...
La tesis presenta un estudio de la fundación ontológica de la temporalidad y la historicidad en el pensamiento filosófico occidental. Realiza una revisión teórica del dominio del tiempo sobre el espacio y argumenta ...
The resilience of proteins against degradation makes them the longest surviving resource for genomic information. Knowing how much information we can obtain from an ancient sample is crucial because most sampling strategies ...
Ranganathan, Sai Natarajan Thrissur(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2024-11-19)
This thesis addresses the growing problem of degenerative disorders of the intervertebral discs (IVD). Intervertebral Disc Degeneration (IDD) represents a progressive degradation of the IVDs compromising their biomechanical ...
The expansion of the Roman Empire throughout the Mediterranean region and West Eurasia severely shaped the world culturally and politically. This period has been traditionally studied and researched by historians and ...
The current and projected rapid urbanization rates underscore the critical role of cities and the urgent need to prioritize the development of healthy and sustainable urban environments. Rising temperatures, intensified ...
When referring to the objects they see, speakers choose a word from the lexical system
to name them. This process involves using a word with a general meaning to refer to
a specific object, which possesses unique features ...
The advent of spatial content and increasingly advanced mixed reality devices is set to
revolutionise the manner in which we interact with digital content, becoming the
predominant human-computer interface in the not-too-distant ...
This thesis, a compendium of publications, aims at contributing knowledge to better design
CSCL tools for promoting socioemotional interactions and regulation. We started with a field
study in which we observed groups of ...
Aquesta tesi estudia la morfologia de la llengua de signes catalana (LSC)
des d’un punt de vista lexicalista i morfofonològic a través del procés
de la derivació. Les anàlisis es basen en un model integrat a partir
de ...
Attention toward textile production and clothing consumption in Spanish Latin American increased during the end of the colonial period and was reflected in new regulations, newspaper articles, tighter control by the Catholic ...
The spatiotemporal properties of the cerebral and behavioral networks are key elements to understand normal brain functioning and their breakdowns. This dissertation focuses on the cerebral networks of the brain regions’ ...
Este trabajo pretende reflexionar sobre cómo el aburrimiento se ha convertido en un recurso estético en la novela contemporánea; cómo, a través de una serie de estrategias, los autores consiguen despertar en los lectores ...
RNA metabolism is dynamically orchestrated by RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) in different
subcellular spaces. Aberrant regulation of the subcellular RNA-protein interactions leads
to severe diseases, such as neural degenerations ...
This thesis is focused on studying the causes and consequences of political professionalisation, by analyzing empirically the cross-country differences. Despite the literature claiming that political professionalisation ...
Esta tesis consiste en la edición anotada del Epítome historial del Reino de la China (1620) de Francisco de Herrera Maldonado y en la investigación sistemática sobre aspectos textuales y contextuales de la obra. El ...