• The Interrelationship between migration and family behaviours: internal migration within China and international migration from China to the U.S. 

  Nie, Wanli (Date of defense: 31-10-2019)

  The dissertation investigates the interrelationship between migration and family behaviours, marriage and fertility, in the Chinese context. I apply event history techniques using data from an ethno-survey, several ...
• Political and discursive opportunities for institutional change: the case of marriage equality in the United States 

  Mariani, Giulia (Date of defense: 25-10-2019)

  This dissertation employs a multi-method research design to analyze the political and discursive opportunities for gradual institutional change in the case of marriage equality in the American states. It comprises three ...
• Towards the improvement of decision tree learning: a perspective on search and evaluation 

  Nunes, Cecília (Date of defense: 25-10-2019)

  Data mining and machine learning (ML) are increasingly at the core of many aspects of modern life. With growing concerns about the impact of relying on predictions we cannot understand, there is widespread agreement regarding ...
• From pixels to particles: multi-physics meshless model of the heart 

  Lluc Álvarez, Èric (Date of defense: 21-10-2019)

  The functioning of the heart, which main role is pumping blood to the rest of the body, is the result of a complex combination of multi-scale physical processes from the molecular to the tissue level. The predominance of ...
• Electroporation and peripheral nerve stimulation 

  Mercadal Cavaller, Borja (Date of defense: 16-10-2019)

  This thesis aimed at addressing questions within the fields of electroporation and peripheral nerve stimulation and, in particular, those that arise from the interaction between the two phenomenona. On the one hand, ...

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