Aspandi Latif, Decky (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)
Automatic Facial Analysis is one of the most important field of computer vision due to its significant impacts to the world we currently live in. Among many applications of Automatic Facial Analysis, ...
Koreny, Maria (Date of defense: 2021-03-25)
Background: Although physical activity is key to improve prognosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), information to tailor interventions individually is still required. This ...
Giangregorio, Luca (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)
The following thesis aims to provide a general picture of to what extent different important sources – at the macro and the micro level – affect income inequality over time. Indeed, given the natural ...
Karimi-Haghighi, Marzieh (Date of defense: 2023-01-20)
We try to address some challenges in structured risk assessment tools in two application areas of recidivism risk in criminal justice and dropout risk in higher education domain. Using Machine Learning ...
Romero, Damián (Date of defense: 2021-07-30)
This thesis contributes to the understanding of the effect and transmission of commodity price shocks in commodityexporting economies. The first chapter studies the role of domestic production linkages ...
Perera Bel, Enric (Date of defense: 2021-12-17)
Diverses teràpies mèdiques es basen en l’electroporació. Entre d’altres, l’electroporació s'usa per al tractament de tumors sòlids. Com que només afecta les cèl·lules i la matriu extracel·lular queda ...
Mendieta Esteban, Julen (Date of defense: 2020-12-10)
Genome spatial organisation and transcriptional activity are tightly coordinated to ensure the correct function of the cell. Thus, proper understanding of the chromatin organisation is needed to deepen ...
Silva Velón, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-03-11)
In this thesis, we present some public-key cryptographic schemes. This work is divided in two halves. The rst half deals with zero-knowledge proofs in the classical setting and under falsi able ...
Sinigaglia, Barbara (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)
Several rainforest hunter-gatherer groups in south-east Asia are characterized by specific morphological features including a particularly dark skin color (D), an extremely short stature (S), the ...
Ramirez-Ruiz, Jorge (Date of defense: 2023-06-22)
The idea of optimal decision-making presupposes certain features about the agent and their environment. This thesis examines two common assumptions in disciplines that study natural and artificial ...