Antelo Muñiz, Fátima (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
This thesis is structured in three chapters. In chapter 1, I address managerial opportunism towards workers. I present a theoretical model and test it. Results suggest that outside opportunities are ...
Clinton, Peter (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)
This thesis tackles the issue of non-compliance in the European Union (EU). This is an important issue because without Member State (MS) compliance with EU policy outputs, collective policy goals may ...
Bravo Serrano, Àlex (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
Current biomedical research needs to leverage the large amount of information reported in scientific publications. Automated text processing, commonly known as text mining, has become an indispensable ...
Bas Serrano, Joan (Date of defense: 2022-06-28)
Reinforcement learning is an expanding field where very often there is a mismatch between the high performance of the algorithms and their poor theoretical justification. For this reason, there is a ...
Sáez-Trumper, Diego (Date of defense: 2013-12-05)
The objective of this thesis is to develop novel techniques to find relevant people in Online Social Networks (OSN). To that end, we consider different notions of relevance, taking the point of view of ...
Albó, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
This doctoral thesis focuses on a gap identified in the literature by investigating how visual representations, authoring support, and data analytics can aid teachers in designing for learning in complex ...
Bascones Gleave, Sabrina (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)
The spleen contains a unique subset of innate-like marginal zone (MZ) B cells that rapidly mount protective antibody responses to invasive encapsulated bacteria. Here we show that human splenic MZ B ...
Fargas Madriles, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-11-04)
L’orella interna dels vertebrats és una estructura altament organitzada i complexa on cadascun dels específics tipus cel•lulars és generat a dominis concrets. Per aquest motiu, l’especificació cel•lular ...
Sacco, Federica (Date of defense: 2019-10-07)
In the last decade, computational modelling has been playing an important role as a non-invasive technology that may significantly impact the diagnosis as well as the treatment of cardiac diseases. As ...
Batlle Garcia, Jordi de (Date of defense: 2011-05-09)
Background and objectives: Recent research has shown an association between a healthy diet and reduced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) incidence. However, the potential role of diet in ...