Demirtaş, Murat (Date of defense: 2015-12-15)
Brain activity, on every scale, spontaneously fluctuates, thereby exhibiting complex, dynamic interactions that manifest rich synchronization patterns. The past ten years have been dominated by studies ...
Ill-Raga, Gerard (Date of defense: 2010-09-28)
Nitric oxide (NO) is a neurotransmitter involved in memory processes. Currently, the only recognized physiological signalling pathway controlled by NO is the activation of guanylyl cyclase. In this ...
Srinivasamurthy, Ajay (Date of defense: 2016-11-17)
Las colecciones de música son cada vez mayores y más variadas, haciendo necesarias nuevas fórmulas para su organización automática. El análisis automático del ritmo tiene como fin la extracción de ...
Rankothge, Windhya (Date of defense: 2017-04-06)
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a promising technology that proposes to move packet processing from dedicated hardware middle-boxes to software running on commodity servers. As such, NFV brings ...
Wei, Jianxing (Date of defense: 2018-06-25)
This thesis focuses on the issue of bank funding structure and its implications for financial instability. The first chapter investigates how the dynamic interaction between the regulator and banks can ...
Mejetta, Stefania (Date of defense: 2013-09-12)
Jarid2 is required for the genomic recruitment of the polycomb repressive complex-2 (PRC2) in embryonic stem cells. However, its specific role during late development and adult tissues remains ...
Cornelio, Cecilia Inés (Date of defense: 2014-04-01)
Physical inactivity is a major public health problem, and evidence suggests that it is a contributing factor in numerous chronic diseases and conditions. Along with smoking and poor dietary habits, ...
Rubio Ballester, Belén (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Stroke represents one of the main causes of adult disability and will be one of the main contributors to the burden of disease in 2030. However, our healthcare systems do not have enough resources to ...
Pant, Devesh Chandra (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)
In spite of recent advances in understanding the genetic bases of leukodystrophies, a large number of clinical cases remain unexplained, suggesting that many leukodystrophy-associated genes have yet to ...
Figueiredo, Ana (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
This thesis studies the mechanisms behind talent misallocation, how it varies over the business cycle and its implications for wage cyclicality. The first chapter shows that uncertainty about education ...