Ziegenbein, Alexander (Date of defense: 2018-07-04)
The thesis is a collection of three self-contained essays. In the first chapter, I present evidence that the effects of US tax changes on output depend on the level of economic slack. Tax cuts have large ...
Ramis Cabrer, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-07-11)
Se ha establecido que un subconjunto de pacientes con cáncer debuta con infiltrados inmunes que se organizan en agregados en el nicho tumoral y sus alrededores. Estas estructuras linfoides se desarrollan ...
Toll i Riera, Macarena (Date of defense: 2012-03-28)
Actualment, degut a la disponibilitat d’un gran nombre de genomes seqüenciats, el camp de la genòmica comparativa està experimentant grans avenços. Ara són possibles una àmplia gama d’estudis que fins ...
Sun, Yucheng (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
Based on high-frequency price data, this thesis focuses on estimating the realized covariance and the integrated volatility of asset prices, and applying volatility estimation to price jump detection. ...
Luisi, Pierre (Date of defense: 2014-10-31)
From Darwin’s Origin of the Species to the recent wealth in genomic data, many biologists have focused their research on understanding how natural selection has shaped the variability among and within ...
Cimentada, Jorge (Date of defense: 2019-09-25)
By placing particular attention to the socio-economic dimension, this thesis explores the role of three pillars of an educational system: decentralization, early education and curricular tracking. The ...
Delaspre, Fabien (Date of defense: 2011-02-04)
Tot i que es coneix l’involucrament de les cèl·lules pancreàtiques acinars en patologies exocrines (pancreatitis i càncer de pàncrees), la manca de models normals basats en cèl·lules ha limitat ...
Quintana Rubio, Oriol (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
Coming Up For Air (1939) fou escrita en una dècada més convulsa que la nostra, que culminaria amb l’inici de la Segona Guerra Mundial. Però les condicions vitals que retrata són estranyament similars ...
Kuzmicheva, Maria (Date of defense: 2013-11-05)
The present piece of research is concerned with 12 Northern stories written by the American writer Jack London. Its goal is to apply discourse analysis as a framework to the study of narrative texts ...
Göksu, Fatih (Date of defense: 2017-01-20)
European education programs and European identity are acknowledged as inextricable concepts considering the fact that education programs such as Erasmus plays an important role on the construction of ...