García-Carretero, Lucía (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
This thesis aims to analyse the use of digital networks as a tool for electoral communication by new political organisations. Thus, the research study is focused on Barcelona 2015 city council election ...
Rambhoros, Mizan (Date of defense: 2019-04-02)
As a psycho-spatial phenomenon, the inner geographies has seldom been investigated due to its abstract, intangible, and somewhat elusive nature, thereby evading definitive explanation. To derive a ...
Serra Bardenys, Gemma (Date of defense: 2019-12-12)
Oxidation of histone H3 (H3K4ox) by lysyl oxidase-like 2 (LOXL2) is important in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells to generate compacted heterochromatin regions. However, the molecular mechanisms ...
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 ...
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 ...
Kim, Ahrii (Date of defense: 2019-10-14)
From RBMT to SMT and NMT, the MT field witnessed, first, a conceptual turn —from rule-based to data-base— and now, a technological turn —from MT algorithm to ML algorithm. Now that NMT became a new state ...
Serbu, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
This study is aimed at exploring the meaning of literary thinking as revealed in J. M. Coetzee’s approach to fictional writing. Unlike other prominent figures in contemporary literature, Coetzee has ...
Demidov, German (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
Germline copy-number variants (CNVs), as well as somatic copy-number alterations (CNAs), play an important role in many phenotypic traits, including genetic diseases and cancer. Next Generation Sequencing ...
Castells García, Àlvaro (Date of defense: 2019-07-01)
Chromatin organization and gene expression are interdependent. Previously, our group showed that nucleosomes form groups, termed clutches, whose size correlates with cell state. In this thesis, we ...
Ramis Cabrer, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)
Se ha establecido que un subconjunto de pacientes con cáncer debuta con infiltrados inmunes que se organizan en agregados en el nicho tumoral y sus alrededores. Estas estructuras linfoides se desarrollan ...