Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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This thesis consists of three empirical papers that all study relationship processes and their effects on divorce. Of particular interest is the role that socio-economic resources play in this story. In the first empirical ...
Introduction The influence of the environment, and its interplay with genetics, can account for up to half of the variance of neurodevelopmental disorders. In this thesis we reviewed previous literature on air pollution ...
The general objective of this dissertation was to study the state of sexual and reproductive health of the Spanish population in reproductive age, especially focusing on individual and contextual socioeconomic inequalities. ...
This PhD dissertation analyses the socioeconomic inequalities in teenage motherhood considering its influencing factors and social determinants. This doctoral thesis is structured in four research papers. In paper I, we ...
The aim of this thesis was to describe inequalities in the use of different health care services according to socioeconomic position (SEP) in Catalonia, Spain and Europe. In addition, we intended to assess whether the ...
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) has become a major health problem worldwide. The St. Vincent declaration emphasized the urgent need to improve the epidemiological knowledge of this disease in Europe. Within Europe, research ...
High Throughput Sequencing technologies (HTS) are becoming the standard in genomic regulation analysis. During my thesis I developed software for the analysis of HTS data. Through collaborations with other research groups, ...
Con frecuencia, los daños que sufren las víctimas de accidentes pueden ser puestos a cargo de varias personas. Sin embargo, el ordenamiento jurídico español no dispone de un régimen que regule las relaciones de los ...
La hipótesis general de esta tesis consiste en que durante el proceso de cancerificación del epitelio pulmonar, las “driver-mutations” pueden aparecer no solamente en las células malignas sino también en cualquier célula ...
Partiendo de los conceptos de figura y fondo, procedentes del campo de la teoría del arte, el trabajo investiga en primera instancia su posible aplicación al ámbito de lo cinematográfico, vinculándolos al discurso más ...
Aquesta tesi està constituïda per diverses activitats de recerca, entre les quals trobam principalment articles i capítols publicats. Es descriu el disseny d'una joguina robòtica que facilita la metacognició dels nens. Es ...
Esta tesis examina un modelo de intercambio en el que un vendedor posee una o más unidades de un determinado bien que puede vender a diferentes compradores potenciales. Cada comprador conoce su propia disponibilidad de ...
La tesis tiene dos partes. La primera parte desarrolla un modelo para evaluar los efectos del comercio internacional al crecimiento de economías en transito. Identifica desventaja del argumento "Infant Industry" que ha ...
In this thesis we tackle two problems, namely, the data interpolation prob- lem in the context of depth computation both for images and for videos, and the problem of the estimation of the apparent movement of objects ...
Video editing and object recognition are two significant fields in computer vi- sion: the first has remarkably assisted digital production and post-production tasks of a digital video footage; the second is considered ...
Stem cell-based in vitro systems have recently been used to complement the study of developmental processes in the embryo. Somitogenesis, which segments a vertebrate body axis to establish its characteristic body plan, ...
Aquesta tesi pretén demostrar que l’Odissea constitueix un dels eixos vertebradors del cinema modern, ja que actua com a signe des del qual s’estableix un paradigma interpretatiu de la pròpia modernitat cinematogràfica i ...
Humans are able to distinguish between various sound sources in their environment and selectively attend to specific ones. However, it is a difficult task to teach a computer to automatically separate the acoustic scene ...
Human memory is fundamentally linked to experience. Traditionally, however, it has been studied in restricted tasks, under constrained experimental conditions. Understanding memory from a situated, embodied, spatial ...
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, Portugal embarked on a ...
