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Cash-Gibson, Lucinda (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this capacity. It consists ...
Costantino, Fabrizio (Date of defense: 2014-02-21)
This thesis aims to provide quantitative evidence on the flows of illegal immigrants in the U.S. and the E.U. After describing the flows in space and time (years 2000-2011), the actors involved, and the role of criminal ...
Çineli, Beyda (Date of defense: 2021-09-27)
This PhD dissertation addresses how couples manage their money in intimate relationships. It is composed of 4 articles. The first one focuses on the individual and couple level dynamics behind money management systems in ...
Perarnaud, Clément (Date of defense: 2021-07-29)
How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at the EU level? Based on new datasets collected via 145 semi-structured interviews with national negotiators and EU officials ...
Riera Gil, Elvira (Date of defense: 2016-10-03)
This dissertation examines two ideological clashes underlying contemporary political theories of linguistic justice (instrumentalism/constitutivism; monism/pluralism) with the aim to elucidate (a) why languages matter to ...
Junyent Barbany, Miquel (Date of defense: 2021-10-15)
Optimal sequential decision making is a fundamental problem to many diverse fields. In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have experienced unprecedented success, largely enabled by the use of deep learning ...
Khandelwal, Avinash (Date of defense: 2017-01-19)
Drosophila larvae present unique opportunity for anatomical and functional mapping of their nervous system because of features such as numerical simplicity of neurons its nervous system is composed of, and ability to exhibit ...
Whissell, Gavin (Date of defense: 2013-12-03)
The recent discovery that intestinal adenomas are built on a stem cell hierarchy has raised great interest in understanding the signals that maintain tumor stem cells. We unveiled the existence of a transcriptional circuit ...
Theka, Ilda (Date of defense: 2017-02-06)
Las células madre embrionarias (ESCs) derivan de la masa cellular interna de los blastocistos y son capaces de generar las tres capas germinales. Muchos factores controlan la pluripotencia incluyendo la ruta Wnt/β-catenina. ...
Claveria i Alias, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
This thesis is focused on women in executive office. Whereas the literature on women's political representation in national parliaments is now well established, analyses of women in cabinets are rather limited. The ...
Edizel, Necati Bora (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
Word embeddings are a building block of many practical applications across NLP and related disciplines. In this thesis, we present theoretical analysis and algorithms to learn word embeddings. Moreover, we present applications ...
Ayala García, Amaya (Date of defense: 2023-12-04)
The project focuses on cancer and its effects on work trajectories from a life course perspective, both from a qualitative and quantitative approach. Quantitative analyses were based on a retrospective dynamic cohort of ...
Hochberg, Amy Dara (Date of defense: 2023-10-02)
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate multilingual health information websites in English, Spanish, and Catalan for comprehensibility and cultural adaptation in terms of language. This study questions whether there ...
Barquin, Elisa Leslie (Date of defense: 2012-10-29)
While study abroad at the university level has been shown to benefit many aspects of second language proficiency, little is known about how this affects participants’ writing skills. The present study explores ...
Severino, Jacqueline (Date of defense: 2021-03-30)
X chromosome reactivation in female mouse germ cells is essential for the transmission of one active X chromosome to the progeny. However, despite its key role in development, the mechanistic details and kinetics still ...
Planas Penadés, Ricard (Date of defense: 2019-10-28)
En esta tesis se analizará la obra de Yuan Muzhi, especialmente los filmes que dirigió, su debut, Scenes of City Life (都市風光,1935) y su segunda y última obra Street Angel (马路天使, 1937). Para ello se propone el concepto comedia ...
Guaita Esteruelas, Sandra (Date of defense: 2005-09-21)
Durant la transició Epiteli-Mesènquima (TEM), el factor de transcripció Snail reprimeix la transcripció de l'E-cadherina unint-se a les caixes E presents en el promotor d'aquest gen.<br/>Les cèl·lules que expressen Snail ...
Wibowo, Indra (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)
The purpose of this thesis is to introduce and demonstrate several biological processes or phenomena using posterior lateral line system of zebrafish as a model. The first part of this work focuses on the highly dynamic ...
Silva Velón, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-03-11)
In this thesis, we present some public-key cryptographic schemes. This work is divided in two halves. The rst half deals with zero-knowledge proofs in the classical setting and under falsi able assumptions. In particular, ...
Salleras, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Telecommunication systems such as mobile communications are evolving over time, and thanks to that, many digital services have arisen in the last decade. Usually, these services ask their users to provide sensitive information ...