Daniele, Federica (Date of defense: 2018-11-05)
This thesis is composed of three essays in which I analyze how heterogeneity in productivity, either on the worker or on the firm side, interacts with the size of local labor markets and a set of outcomes ...
Alba de la Torre, Celia (Date of defense: 2016-01-26)
This dissertation offers a characterization and an analysis of wh-questions in Catalan Sign Language, which show the particularity of placing wh-expressions canonically in sentence final position. This ...
Cort, Rianne Angelica (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The kinase DYRK1A (dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinase 1A) is a dosage-sensitive gene, since both haploinsufficiency and overexpression when in trisomy lead to pathological phenotypes in humans. ...
Mateo Ramos, Lídia (Date of defense: 2019-12-18)
Durant la darrera dècada la seqüenciació massiva de pacients de cancer ha permés avançar de forma significativa el coneixement sobre les bases moleculars del càncer. Un cop assolit aquest primer pass, ...
Sánchez Danés, Adriana (Date of defense: 2012-05-21)
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable, chronically progressive neurodegenerative disease leading to premature invalidity and death. The locomotor disability of PD patients is mainly rooted in the ...
Ferdous Wahid, Khan (Date of defense: 2011-05-26)
IEEE standardized a Layer-2 security, named Media Access Control security (MACsec), for interoperability. It provides link-based security through hop-by-hop operation. The link-constrained security of ...
García Cañadilla, Patricia (Date of defense: 2015-07-02)
Cardiovascular diseases are nowadays one of the major causes of death in developed countries. Besides the already known risk factors such as lifestyle and genetics, there is a growing evidence that ...
Font Corbera, Frederic (Date of defense: 2015-06-11)
Les plataformes d'intercanvi de recursos multimèdia contenen grans quantitats de contingut creat pels seus usuaris. Habitualment, aquest contingut no està ben anotat. En aquesta tesi, proposem mètodes ...
Wibowo, Indra (Date of defense: 2011-07-04)
The purpose of this thesis is to introduce and demonstrate several biological processes or phenomena using posterior lateral line system of zebrafish as a model. The first part of this work focuses on ...
García-Gavilanes, Ruth Olimpia (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)
The main objective of this thesis is to carry out a multidisciplinary study of the behavior of microblog users. To that end we first explore several user behavior patterns employing data mining techniques. ...