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Žakelj, Blaž (Data de defensa: 2012-03-23)
This thesis is a collection of three essays on inflation expectations, forecasting uncertainty, and the role of uncertainty in sequential auctions, all using experimental approach. Chapter 1 studies how individuals forecast ...
Rode, Julian (Data de defensa: 2007-10-25)
The dissertation employs laboratory experimental methodology to study decision-making when people face trade-offs between ethical and economic values. More explicitly, the three chapters investigate 1) consumer behaviour ...
Maras, Marta (Data de defensa: 2012-09-03)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the decision-making processes behind financial and donation behaviour of individuals. Chapter One studies the impact of prior learning and competition on the presence of the ...
Reutskaja, Elena (Data de defensa: 2008-12-10)
Whereas people are typically thought to be better off with more choices, large sets may lead to "choice paralysis". This thesis explores the processes underlying the choice from multiple alternatives in different settings. ...
Trevisiol, Michele (Data de defensa: 2014-10-15)
This thesis explores in depth how to use the user browsing behavior, and in particular the referrer URL, in order to understand the interest of the users. The aim is, first, to understand the preferences of the users from ...
Bonet Martínez, Jaume (Data de defensa: 2015-01-30)
Proteins are the basic functional and structural blocks of life. Knowledge of their structure and function is key to understand how it works. Lately, the gap between new discovered proteins and systematically studied ones ...
Gomà Llairo, Eduard (Data de defensa: 2014-03-07)
Residential access networks provide always-on connectivity at a constant maximum speed and constant energy consumption. However, their usage is not constant. Users combine disconnection periods with light usage periods and ...
Rosàs Tosas, Mar (Data de defensa: 2012-04-27)
This thesis explores the sense and the implications of the messianicity without messianism, a quasi-concept coined by the thinker Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) in the 1990s that refers to a “structure of experience” characterized ...
Vàllez Letrado, Mari (Data de defensa: 2015-12-22)
La ingente cantidad de información que existe actualmente hace necesario el desarrollo de herramientas, métodos y procesos que faciliten el acceso a la misma. Especialmente, se requieren sistemas de información que sean ...
Teixidó i Compañó, Ester (Data de defensa: 2021-03-05)
El consum de substàncies psicoactives té importants conseqüències sanitàries, socials, econòmiques i laborals. Tot i així, el seu consum i les seves conseqüències no es distribueixen homogèniament en tota la població, ...
Tovstogan, Philip (Data de defensa: 2022-07-12)
Music recommendation systems (RecSys) are integral to modern music streaming services. While there is much research on many aspects of RecSys, there is not enough research on exploration and discovery that contributes to ...
Meer, Margarita V. (Data de defensa: 2015-12-09)
Fitness landscape is a concept, which describes the dependence of phenotype on genotype. It was proposed almost a hundred years ago but only recent burst of technologies finally allowed exploring it. We studied different ...
Demirtaş, Murat (Data de defensa: 2015-12-15)
Brain activity, on every scale, spontaneously fluctuates, thereby exhibiting complex, dynamic interactions that manifest rich synchronization patterns. The past ten years have been dominated by studies intended to further ...
Santamaría Martínez, Mezteli Suyapa (Data de defensa: 2023-02-08)
In the last couple of years, medical information has been presented across different digital and visual forms of communication. Mainly, comics are published on various social media platforms and websites to submit a ...
Salselas, Inês (Data de defensa: 2013-04-26)
This dissertation concerns the computational modelling of early life development of music perception and cognition. Experimental psychology and neuroscience show results that suggest that the development of musical ...
Hinojosa Galisteo, Joan Carles (Data de defensa: 2021-06-23)
Butterflies are among the best studied animals, but despite the research efforts carried out during centuries, our knowledge on their diversity and on the mechanisms generating it is still incomplete. In order to understand ...
González i Colell, Marc (Data de defensa: 2024-02-23)
Engineering biology requires a clear set of rules that ensure design predictability. However, certain biological processes difficult the application of these rules, impairing prediction. In the first section of this PhD ...
Menchetti, Mattia (Data de defensa: 2024-06-07)
Biodiversity encompasses the great variety of organisms that exist on Earth, as well as their genetic variation and the ecosystems of which they are part. In this thesis, two diverse and ecologically important groups are ...
Awad, Hiltrud (Data de defensa: 2019-10-07)
Intercultural education is one way of responding to the current political and social realities resulting from globalization, migration, and political and economic crises. It puts emphasis on educating young people and ...
Juan Blanco, Teresa (Data de defensa: 2018-07-20)
Las enfermedades y otros procesos biológicos son complejos y están producidos por la interacción de múltiples factores genéticos y ambientales. En las últimas décadas, los métodos tradicionales reduccionistas han dado paso ...