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Unsupervised Identification of the User’s Query Intent in Web Search

Calderón-Benavides, Liliana (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)

This doctoral work focuses on identifying and understanding the intents that motivate a user to perform a search on the Web. To this end, we apply machine learning models that do not require more information than the one ...

Unsupervised learning for expressive speech synthesis

Jauk, Igor (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)

Nowadays, especially with the upswing of neural networks, speech synthesis is almost totally data driven. The goal of this thesis is to provide methods for automatic and unsupervised learning from data for expressive speech ...

Unsupervised learning for parametric optimization in wireless networks

Nikbakht Silab, Rasoul (Date of defense: 2021-03-17)

This thesis studies parametric optimization in cellular and cell-free networks, exploring data-based and expert-based paradigms. Power allocation and power control, which adjust the transmit power to meet different fairness ...

Unsupervised learning of relation detection patterns

Gonzàlez Pellicer, Edgar (Date of defense: 2012-06-01)

L'extracció d'informació és l'àrea del processament de llenguatge natural l'objectiu de la qual és l'obtenir dades estructurades a partir de la informació rellevant continguda en fragments textuals. L'extracció d'informació ...

Unveiling Nanomedicine Using Correlative Super-Resolution and Electron Microscopy

Andrian, Teodora (Date of defense: 2022-06-30)

Els tractaments actuals contra el càncer més enllà de la cirurgia inclouen teràpies que tenen un èxit limitat. Això és degut a efectes secundaris greus, que condueixen a una qualitat de vida reduïda i una baixa efectivitat. ...

Unveiling new molecular Opisthokonta diversity : A perspective from evolutionary genomics

López Escardó, David (Date of defense: 2018-01-15)

Opisthokonta is an eukaryotic supergroup that contains Metazoa, Fungi and their unicellular relatives. Therefore, this group provides an ideal framework to study distinct unicellular-multicellular transitions, among them, ...

Unveiling novel components of the protein complex responsible for cGMP synthesis in retinal photoreceptors: role in cell physiology and disease

López Begines, Santiago (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)

In photoreceptor cells of the retina, light triggers a protein G-mediated enzymatic cascade that leads to hydrolysis of cGMP. The drop in cGMP levels causes the closure of cGMP-channel at the plasma membrane, decreasing ...

Unveiling novel functions of the trascriptional repressor HDAC7 in B lymphocyte development

Azagra Rodríguez, Alba (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)

B lymphopoiesis is the result of several cell lineage choices and differentiation steps whose perturbation leads to B cell malignancies. Cellular transitions for B cell generation have been associated with gene activation ...

Unveiling Protein-Substrate Interactions and Conformations that Influence Catalysis in Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes

Raich Armendáriz, Lluís Adrià (Date of defense: 2018-06-14)

Enzymes have attracted the attention of chemists and biologists since long ago due to their molecular complexity and tremendous efficiency. They are highly specific catalysts that make chemical reactions possible at mild ...

Unveiling the biological role of stigmasterol biosynthesis in tomato plants

Gutiérrez García, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-10-31)

In plants, the sterol biosynthetic pathway leads to the production of a complex mixture of end-products, among which β-sitosterol, stigmasterol, campesterol, and cholesterol are the most abundant ones. Stigmasterol, the ...

Unveiling the Catalyzing Power of Emotional Intelligence over General Intelligence and Learning Performance

Trüninger Albuquerque, Margarida (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

La present tesi investiga el paper catalitzador de la intel·ligència emocional (IE) comportamental, sobre la relació entre la intel·ligència general, o g, i l'acompliment en la aprenentatge. La tesi comprèn tres articles ...

Unveiling the molecular and behavioral properties of hindbrain rhombomere centers

Belmonte Mateos, Carla (Date of defense: 2022-02-03)

Precise regulation of neurogenesis is achieved by differentially allocating the neurogenic competence along the tissue. In the hindbrain proneural gene expression is stereotypically confined in segment boundary-adjacent ...

Unveiling the multifaceted antimicrobial mechanism of action of human host defence RNases

Arranz Trullén, Javier (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)

La presente tesis doctoral se encuentra integrada dentro del estudio a gran escala de la estructura-función de las ribonucleasas antimicrobianas humanas. Estas proteínas catiónicas y de bajo peso molecular son secretadas ...

Unveiling the Potential: Exploring Gelation Mechanisms in Alginate Beads Crosslinked with Calcium, Copper and Zinc and their Versatile Applications in Agriculture and Biomedicine

Reig Vañó, Belén (Date of defense: 2023-10-23)

La tecnologia d'encapsulació ofereix protecció, estabilitat i una alliberació controlada dels compostos encapsulats. L'alginate és un polisacàrid natural que s'ha aplicat de manera freqüent com a material encapsulant. No ...

Unveiling the role of DXS-Interacting (DXI) proteins in the regulation of plastidial isoprenoid biosynthesis

Llamas Pámanes, Ernesto (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)

Chloroplasts provide plants with metabolic pathways that are unique among eu- karoytes, including the methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway (MEP) for the pro- duction of isoprenoids essential for photosynthesis and plant ...

Unveiling the role of FAIM in the retina: Characterization of the neurodegenerative and functional alterations of a FAIM knockout mouse model and associated molecular mechanisms

Martinez Sires, Anna (Date of defense: 2022-12-20)

Fas Apoptotic Inhibitory Molecule (FAIM) va ser descrita per primer cop com un antagonista de receptors de mort i un regulador de l’apoptosi. Tot i això, durant els últims anys se li ha atribuït nous rols com la modulació ...