Mariotti, Marco (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
Selenoproteins are a diverse class of proteins containing selenocysteine, the 21st aminoacid. Selenocysteine is inserted co-translationally, recoding very specific UGA codons through a dedicated ...
Gomis Porquet, Roger Magí (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
In this thesis I analyze 3 current empirical questions of interest in macroeconomics. The first concerns the effect of competition on cash holdings. The large increase in cash held by US firms has ...
Pons Puig, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
Automatic music and audio tagging can help increase the retrieval and re-use possibilities of many audio databases that remain poorly labeled. In this dissertation, we tackle the task of music and audio ...
Segura Puimedon, Maria (Date of defense: 2012-11-20)
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder caused by the common deletion of 26-28 contiguous genes in the 7q11.23 region, which poses difficulties to the establishment of ...
Timón Pérez, Krystal (Date of defense: 2018-12-18)
During mitosis, the microtubules organize a bipolar spindle that segregates the chromosomes. In higher eukaryotes, these microtubules are nucleated through three different pathways involving the centrosomes ...
Carrignon, Simon (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
In this thesis, we have quantified the influence of content-dependent biases in social learning strategies. Our theoretical framework combines agent-based models and Bayesian inference to measure ...
Manaca, Maria Nélia Joquim (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
Past and present uses of DDT and pyrethroids have led to their incorporation into humans, mainly through the food chain and sometimes by direct exposure. The present work focuses on establishing the ...
Serra Pascual, Selma A. (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)
Migraine is one of most disabling neurological disorders for which the genetic and molecular mechanisms are not fully resolved. This PhD thesis has focused on the functional characterization of two new ...
Solé Morata, Neus (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The Y chromosome is the longest non-recombining DNA sequence of the human genome. This avoidance of recombination, together with its paternal inheritance, makes the Y chromosome a powerful tool with ...
Ibáñez Lillo, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)
In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations. Currently, little is known about how language environment influences referent identification. ...