Cojuharenco, Irina (Date of defense: 2007-06-27)
La evaluación de las experiencias extendidas en el tiempo se puede hacer de muchas formas. El paradigma --hedometer' en economía sugiere que la evaluación global de la experiencia se puede explicar por ...
Kozyczkowska, Aleksandra (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)
To address one of the most fascinating questions in the history of life, the origin of animal multicellularity, we needed experimentally tractable representatives from each of the unicellular lineages, ...
De Filippi, Eleonora (Date of defense: 2022-11-23)
En las últimas décadas, un cambio de paradigma en el estudio y el tratamiento de los trastornos cerebrales ha hecho que se preste más atención a nuevas intervenciones terapéuticas. En esta línea, las ...
Zejcirovic, Dijana (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first two chapters study the impact of pharmaceutical promotion of opioid analgesics in the US. In the first chapter, we find that counties, where sales ...
Sottile, Francesco (Date of defense: 2017-01-18)
Homotypic and heterotypic cell-cell fusion are key processes during development and tissue regeneration. On the other hand, aberrant heterotypic cell fusion between cancer and normal cells can contribute ...
Steccanella, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) has the potential to simplify the solution of environments with long horizons and sparse rewards. The idea behind HRL is to decompose a complex decision-making ...
Vamvakousis, Zacharias (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
Playing a musical instrument has been shown to have a positive impact in the life of individuals in many different ways. Nevertheless, due to physical disabilities, some people are unable to play ...
Lagerwaard, Hendrik Dirk (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
Nowadays, we still witness many foreign language classrooms where traditional teaching methods do not enable students to further expand their communicative development. The aim of the sociocultural ...
Pasenkova, Irina (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
In this dissertation we examine the sphere of the English verbs of speaking (VoS) with 2 components: the manner of speaking component (MoSC) and the component of non-standard speech (CoNS), and their ...
Sikora, Martin (Date of defense: 2010-06-04)
Una de les forces selectives més fortes que han afectat a les poblacions humanes en la història més recent és el paràsit de la malària: Plasmodium falciparum, que és la causa de varis exemples d'adaptació ...