Mendizábal Eceizabarrena, Isabel (Date of defense: 2012-07-27)
The human colonization of worldwide landmasses occurred through complex patterns of dispersal and admixture. At the same time, the survival in the different areas of the world depended on the adaptation ...
Ylla Bou, Guillem (Date of defense: 2018-01-24)
The evolutionary success of insects was particularly shaped by the innovation of the metamorphosis, especially by the transition from hemimetaboly to holometaboly. The mechanisms underlying this ...
Fouka, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2015-06-20)
This thesis examines how culture | in the sense of identity and preferences | relates to economic decision-making. The rst chapter investigates how a prohibition of their native language in school a ...
Mirambell i Fargas, Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
In principle, contracts are enforceable mutually beneficial agreements. In the event of a breach of contract, many national, supranational, and international legal systems—as well as recent European ...
Şentürk, Sertan (Date of defense: 2017-02-22)
This thesis addresses several shortcomings on the current state of the art methodologies in music information retrieval (MIR). In particular, it proposes several computational approaches to automatically ...
Seoane, Luís F. (Date of defense: 2016-05-13)
This thesis tackles a series of phenomena across diverse fields from the point of view of optimization. The problems studied often bring together diverse conflicting constraints that cannot be fully ...
Larsson, Johan P. (Date of defense: 2012-11-15)
S'ha investigat molt tant els mecanismes neuronals bàsics de l'audició com l'organització psicològica de la percepció de la parla. Tanmateix, en ambdós temes n'hi ha una relativa escassetat en quant ...
Laurie, Steven (Date of defense: 2013-07-25)
This thesis comprises comparative genomics analyses primarily focussing on the evolution of mammalian proteins. We concentrate on three species of direct relevance as model organisms, for which high ...
Landry, Pascal (Date of defense: 2016-01-25)
This thesis focuses on defining a set of design strategies to develop and assess video games that foster physical activity, commonly referred to as exergames. Regular physical activity is essential for ...
Saenger Amoore, Victor Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-02-26)
The activity of the brain at rest reveals an intricate functional architecture and yet, the underlying mechanisms generating it are still not well understood. Whole-brain computational models have turned ...