Tejero Cicuéndez, Héctor (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
Biodiversity patterns result from the interplay of evolutionary, ecological, and environmental processes. Investigating the drivers of such patterns is central to evolutionary biology, and it is further ...
Sfairopoulou, Anna (Date of defense: 2008-07-28)
In IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Link Adaptation mechanisms, which choose the transmission rate of each node, provoke unexpected and random variations on the effective channel capacity. When these changes are ...
Crespo Bojorque, Paola (Date of defense: 2016-12-02)
La consonancia es una de las características más salientes de la música. A pesar de su papel fundamental en la música occidental, sus orígenes siguen siendo controversiales. Por lo tanto, la comprensión ...
Ferreira Santos Luís, Rita (Date of defense: 2015-05-11)
The end of both Iberian Dictatorships, the New State in Portugal and Francoism is Spain, distanced more or less a year and a half. During this period, while Spain discussed a way out of Francoism, ...
Millán Ariño, Lluís (Date of defense: 2013-11-25)
Seven linker histone H1 variants exist in human somatic cells with distinct prevalence among cell types and during differentiation. Despite being key chromatin structural components, it remains elusive ...
Betella, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
Due to the complexity of the natural world, scientific studies on cognitive, behavioral and physiological phenomena are typically conducted under strict laboratory conditions. Nonetheless, recent ...
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 ...
Vives, Marc-Lluís (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Foreign language processing is hard, sometimes the right words do not come out, sometimes phonemes are incompressible. Words also lose their emotional appeal in a foreign language. How does this affect ...
Jarocinska, Elena (Date of defense: 2006-10-27)
Esta tesis investiga la economía política de las transferencias intergubernamentales. Se centra en los factores políticos que determinan la asignación de fondos bajo control de gobiernos centrales a las ...