Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This thesis examines the relationships among managerial justice and employee attitudes, emotions and behaviors to re-conceptualize the traditional causal frameworks of the justice literature. In the first chapter, I propose ...
This doctoral thesis studies class-based social movements as a response to the collapse of the Spanish mode of capital accumulation, based on the financialization of housing and the extraction of rents. It argues that the ...
The origin of eukaryotic compartmentalization stands as a major conundrum in biology. Current evidence indicates that the last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA) already possessed many eukaryotic hallmarks, including a ...
Post-transcriptional networks control multiple aspects of neuronal biology and their deregulation has been associated with human neurological disorders. This thesis focuses on regulation at the level of pre-mRNA splicing, ...
Successful chromosome segregation is crucial for the survival of a cell and to avoid diseases such as cancer. Anaphase bridges are a type of segregation defect that can arises from structurally compromised chromosomes. ...
From a developmental perspective, propositional logical reasoning has been often characterized either as the peak of cognitive development or as an innate property of human cognition. Our ignorance of the origin of logical ...
Many human languages in the world exhibit phrase structure. Phrase structure combines words, phrases, and both, into phrases, and it may empower language systems to exploit recursion. This thesis pushes forward the hypothesis ...
La voz como problema ha sido abordado desde distintos campos. Se ha identificado filosóficamente con la capacidad intrínsecamente humana de narrar la propia historia. En relación a la movilización social, se ha visto ...
El propósito de este estudio es abordar el concepto de espacio y, en particular, su desocupación, a través de tres obras: Caja Vacía/Metafísica de Jorge Oteiza, Who´s afraid of red, yellow and blue de Barnett Newman y el ...
Environmental noise pollution has become a major public health concern due to its increase during the last decades as a result of urbanization processes. Environmental noise can be produced by different sources but the ...
This dissertation studies overeducation incidence and persistence among graduates from different fields of study and social origin from a social stratification standpoint. Empirical research has shown that overeducation ...
