Balducci, Elisa (Date of defense: 2012-02-24)
Cerebral cortex is essential to exert the highest functions in mammals. Understanding the developmental processes that underlie the generation and functionality of cortical cell populations represents ...
Ramírez Jávega, Miquel (Date of defense: 2012-05-17)
Plan recognition is the problem of inferring the goals and plans of an agent after partially observing its behavior. This is the inverse of planning, the problem of finding the actions that need to ...
Özaslan, Tan Hakan (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
L’estudi de l’expressivitat musical és un camp molt actiu en la computació musical. El seu interès ve donat per diverses motivacions: entendre i modelitzar l’expressivitat musical; identificar els ...
Sousa, Filipe Pinto Teixeira (Date of defense: 2012-02-17)
Per a aquesta tesi, utilitzo la línia lateral del peix zebra com a sistema model per adreçar dues qüestions fonamentals: En una primera línia d’investigació exploro la relació entre la funció d’un òrgan ...
Igualada Pérez, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
In everyday interactions, speakers integrate gestures and speech sounds at a temporal level. One of the linguistic functions of temporally synchronous gesture-speech combinations is to provide prominence ...
Maier, Michael (Date of defense: 2017-03-30)
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 ...
Canal de Torres, Berta (Date of defense: 2018-02-16)
In response to multiple internal and external stresses, yeast cells activate a common transcriptional response known as the Environmental Stress Response (ESR), which can be problematic in S phase, when ...
Najas Sales, Sònia (Date of defense: 2014-10-10)
In this work we have assessed the possible contribution of the human chromosome-21 gene DYRK1A in the developmental cortical alterations associated with Down Syndrome using the mBACTgDyrk1a mouse, which ...
Lazcano, Vanel (Date of defense: 2016-02-04)
In this thesis we tackle two problems, namely, the data interpolation prob- lem in the context of depth computation both for images and for videos, and the problem of the estimation of the apparent ...
Aparicio i Prat, Estel (Date of defense: 2014-02-07)
Non-coding RNA functions are emerging in the recent years. In this thesis we describe a Natural Antisense Transcript (NAT) that controls the expression of LEF1 transcriptional factor. This LEF1 NAT ...