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    Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of cross-modal enhancement for unaware visual events 

    Pápai, Márta Szabina (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)

    Diariamente recibimos mucha información que procede simultáneamente de distintos sentidos, que se combina en el cerebro para conseguir una respuesta rápida y precisa. Muchas veces, esto ocurre mediante la integración ...

    Behavioral and neural correlates of logical inferences 

    Martín Salguero, Ana María (Date of defense: 2021-03-25)

    The aim of the dissertation is to explore behavioral and neuropsychological correlates of elementary deductive processes in infants and adults. To this purpose, we introduce a novel non-verbal task presenting scenes ...

    Behavioural Biases and Chief Executive Officers Compensation 

    Kolev, Gueorgui I. (Date of defense: 2009-12-11)

    Esta tesis consiste de tres ensayos. En el primero, documentamos la correlación imaginaria entre las decisiones de compensación de los ejecutivos (CEO) al demostrar que el hándicap de los ejecutivos que juegan al golf no ...

    Behind Left and Right. The meaning of left-right orientation in Europe 

    Weber, Wiebke (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)

    The left-right concept is considered to facilitate communication and orientation in the political world. It has a long tradition in European politics due to its capacity to absorb different associations over time. ...

    Beijing's Road to Southeastern Europe: Chinese infrastructural investments in the Balkans and the case study of the Highway Project in Montenegro 

    Grgić, Mladen (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)

    La tesis doctoral analiza los principales proyectos de infraestructura desarrollados por la República Popular China en la región de los Balcanes. En particular, la tesis pone el foco en los aspectos políticos y económicos ...

    Belief tracking for multi-agent planning 

    Kominis, Filippos (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)

    Classical planning is the problem of finding a sequence of actions that achieve a desired goal from an initial state, assuming deterministic actions. Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) on the other hand, provides formal ...

    Between logic and language, a quest for primitives of thought: investigations on the origin of logical operators and their relationship with language 

    Canudas Grabolosa, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)

    In this thesis we focus on the relationship between language and logic, to try to find potential primitives of thought. We depart from a well-established linguistic theory (the theory of exhaustification), which claims ...

    Between public and private spaces: photographic visions in contemporary China 

    Figliulo, Roberto (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)

    The aim of this dissertation is to present a particular point of view on the contemporary Chinese photographic production. We will analyze the photographic works that deal directly or indirectly with the representation of ...

    Beyond language : How linguistic input shapes attention in non-linguistic environments 

    Ayneto Gimeno, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)

    Infants can live in a monolingual or a bilingual environment from birth. While being exposed to one or two language does not influence when infants achieve the main language milestones it may require different adaptations ...

    Biased behavior in web activities: from understanding to unbiased visual exploration 

    Graells-Garrido, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2015-05-25)

    Las tendencias actuales en la Web apuntan hacia la personalización de contenido, lo que no sería un problema en un mundo uniforme y sin sesgos, pero nuestro mundo no es ni uniforme ni libre de sesgos. En esta tesis ...

    Big behavioral data analysis : computational methods for the study of continuous recordings behavior 

    Espinosa-Carrasco, José (Date of defense: 2016-11-08)

    New high-throughput behavioral systems enable the recording of continuous behavioral sequences with an unprecedented richness of signals and a deep temporal resolution. Automated systems offer neuroscience the opportunity ...

    Big complexity in a minimal bacterium 

    Güell Cargol, Marc (Date of defense: 2010-04-16)

    With only 689 genes Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is among the simplest known organisms. Because of this simplicity, mycoplasma represents an attractive organism for systems-wide analyses. Such approaches aiming ...

    Big data, poder y libertad. Sobre el impacto social y político de la vigilancia masiva 

    Suárez Gonzalo, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)

    Esta tesis doctoral reflexiona sobre el impacto social y político de la explotación de datos masivos a nivel europeo. Cumple dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, define el contexto general en el que se produce esta ...

    Bilingual insights into the initial lexicon: the role of cognates in word acquisition 

    García de Castro García, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2024-03-11)

    Bilingual infants acquire words at a similar rate as monolingual ones, despite navigating a more intricate linguistic environment. The mechanisms behind this phenomenon remain elusive. Our project addressed the potential ...

    Bilingual language control : Evidence from Parkinson's disease 

    Cattaneo, Gabriele (Date of defense: 2017-01-23)

    How can bilinguals easily and flexibly switch between languages without errors? The aim of this thesis is to advance our knowledge about the control mechanisms involved in bilingual language production. I investigated ...

    Bioarqueología de la necrópolis fenicia de Tiro al-Bass (S. IX-VI a.C.), Líbano 

    Trelliso Carreño, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)

    El proyecto de investigación tiene como objetivo principal la reconstrucción de los parámetros bioarqueológicos de la sociedad fenicia de Tiro (Líbano) a partir del análisis osteoarqueológico de los restos humanos incinerados ...

    Biochemoinformatics: integrative computational tools at the interface between chemistry and biology 

    García Serna, Ricard (Date of defense: 2010-09-27)

    The work on this thesis has focused on the development of integrated databases and visualization tools for three related areas of biomedical sciences involved in the drug discovery process. An annotated chemical library ...

    Bioinformatic analysis of epigenetic regulatory mechanisms in development and disease 

    González Ramírez, Mar (Date of defense: 2021-03-19)

    Appropriate regulation of gene expression is necessary for correct development and homeostasis of organisms. Epigenetic mechanisms represent an additional layer of information, besides the genetic sequence, crucial for the ...

    Bioinformatic characterization and analysis of polymorphic inversions in the human genome 

    Martínez Fundichely, Alexander (Date of defense: 2013-12-12)

    Within the great interest in the characterization of genomic structural variants (SVs) in the human genome, inversions present unique challenges and have been little studied. This thesis has developed "GRIAL", a new ...

    Bioinformatic tools for exposome data analysis : application to human molecular signatures of ultraviolet light effects 

    Hernandez-Ferrer, Carles (Date of defense: 2017-11-14)

    Las enfermedades complejas se encuentran entre las más comunes y son causadas por una combinación de factores genéticos y ambientales (contaminación ambiental, estilo de vida, etc). Entre las enfermedades complejas que se ...