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Hayes, D. Peran (Date of defense: 2016-12-13)
The vast diversity of life on Earth develops from relatively uniform beginnings via self-organised movements occurring between groups of cells. Whilst the variety of shapes resulting from morphogenesis is boundless, the ...
Söylemez, Onuralp (Date of defense: 2015-10-09)
The role of epistasis – inter-dependent contributions of alleles to fitness – in shaping genetic variation within and between populations is an important question in evolutionary biology with significant implications for ...
Schmitz, Judith (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
Models of speech perception differ in the nature of the relationship between speech perception and production. Whether speech perception and production processes are based on a common representations ̶ the articulatory ...
Jiménez Asins, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-05-11)
Per tal d'estudiar la relació complexa entre l'estructura d'un circuit genètic i la seva funció, ens centrem en estudiar dues proprietas: la seva capacitat evolutiva i la seva multi-functionalitat. Primer, fins a quin punt ...
Planas Iglesias, Joan (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)
Proteins are indispensable players in virtually all biological events. The functions of proteins are determined by their three dimensional (3D) structure and coordinated through intricate networks of protein-protein ...
Corominas Bosch, Margarida (Date of defense: 1999-10-13)
Esta tesis está centrada en el estudio de mercados bilaterales en los cuales la comunicación no es completa, sino que viene dada por una red de comunicación. Las principales preguntas formuladas en la tesis son determinar ...
Kramcsak Muñoz, Xuksa (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
Esta investigación analiza el discurso de cuatro ONGs ecologistas con sede en España —Greenpeace, WWF, Amigos de la Tierra y Ecologistas en Acción— con relación al negacionismo ideológico del cambio climático desde el 2004 ...
Ogundeji, Olusegun Israel (Date of defense: 2024-02-02)
There are several reasons why politics is the most discussed topic on Nigeria’s and perhaps Africa’s largest online discussion forum, Nairaland. As Nigeria grows in its population and digital landscape, including with ...
Pérez Sanagustín, Maria del Mar (Date of defense: 2011-07-01)
Portable and interactive technologies are changing the nature of collaborative learning practices. Learning can now occur both in and beyond the classroom and furthermore combine formal and informal activities monitored ...
Castellano García, Manuel Alejandro (Date of defense: 2018-01-09)
Concluir la guerra de Sucesión española supuso un ingente esfuerzo que obligó al gobierno de Robert Harley a usar todos los medios a su alcance. El presente trabajo estudia los movimientos diplomáticos y las estrategias ...
Guilanyà Serrano, Rubèn (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)
This dissertation argues that the deadlock that constitutional courts find themselves in when justifying decisions on cases that involve conflicting constitutional norms can be best resolved by appealing to a particular ...
Palomares, Roberto P. (Date of defense: 2017-04-06)
Motion estimation plays a key role in many of the image processing and computer vision problems. This thesis addresses the problem of recovering a dense motion field from a scene through the Calculus of Variations. In ...
Caprioli, Francesco (Date of defense: 2009-07-03)
Esta tesis trata sobre cómo la autoridad fiscal debe fijar los impuestos distorsivos de manera óptima. El capítulo 1 analiza el problema de la política fiscal cuando el gobierno tiene un incentivo a hacer default con su ...
Bauducco, Sofia (Date of defense: 2009-07-03)
Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura de política fiscal y monetaria óptima. Primero analizo cómo el resultado de tasas impositivas suaves, que habitualmente se obtiene en modelos de política fiscal óptima, se ve alterado ...
Álvarez Serrano, José Fernando (Date of defense: 2008-09-29)
El plan de carga del buque debe adherirse a las instrucciones de estiba del operador del buque. Estas instrucciones especifican las características generales de cada contenedor que habrá de ccargarse. El plan de carga ...
Sidorova, Julia (Date of defense: 2009-12-15)
Hay tres aspectos innovadores. Primero, un algoritmo novedoso para calcular el contenido emocional de un enunciado, con un diseño mixto que emplea aprendizaje estadístico e información sintáctica. Segundo, una extensión ...
Vicencio, Jeremy (Date of defense: 2021-09-03)
In this thesis, I present an alternative, cloning-free method for the generation of endogenous fluorescent reporters in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. I demonstrate that Nested CRISPR is an efficient method that can ...
Willis, Jesse (Date of defense: 2021-11-18)
Microbiome studies have burgeoned in the last few decades, largely thanks to the innovations in high throughput sequencing, affording researchers the opportunity to categorize nearly the entirety of the microbial population ...
Amarasinghe, Ishari (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) creates avenues for productive collaboration between students. In CSCL, collaborative learning flow patterns (CLFPs) provide pedagogical rationale and constraints for ...
Flores de los Heros, África (Date of defense: 2016-06-22)
Orexin-A and orexin-B (also known as hypocretin-1 and hypocretin-2) are two neuropeptides exclusively expressed by a small subpopulation of neurons located within the lateral hypothalamic area. These neuromodulators were ...