Gavalyugova, Dimitria (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)
This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian ...
Renom, Pere (Date of defense: 2023-02-22)
According to estimates, over the 3.5 billion years that have elapsed since the appearance of life, the Earth has been inhabited by some 4 billion different species, of which 99.99% have already become ...
Fabri Lima, Marcelus (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
This thesis focus on internal logistics flows (ILF), which is defined as the flows of materials inside the same business or the same plant. Precisely, this work approaches the ILF of SEAT, a company in ...
Liaudinskas, Karolis (Date of defense: 2020-06-26)
Financial intermediation helps the economy allocate capital, presumably, in an efficient, safe and rational way (Manove and Padilla, 1999; Coval and Thakor, 2005). This dissertation studies if financial ...
Solans Noguero, David (Date of defense: 2022-09-14)
The fast-growing adoption of technologies based on Machine Learning (ML), in addition to the large scale at which they operate, makes them a potential source of systematic discrimination against ...
Salvador Piedrafita, María (Date of defense: 2020-02-17)
El trabajo de cuidados a familiares provoca un coste elevado para la salud de las cuidadoras y además no es asumido de manera equitativa socialmente, por lo que puede generar desigualdades en la salud. ...
Montesinos García, Juan Felipe (Date of defense: 2023-03-31)
Nuestro cerebro tiene la habilidad innata de aislar diferentes sonidos en ambientes ruidosos (Efecto de fiesta de coctel), así como de entender la relación entre aquello que vemos y oímos. Esta tesis ...
Canet, Maëlle (Date of defense: 2023-03-30)
Though Computed Tomography (CT) plays an essential role in healthcare, several large-scale cohort studies have reported an increased cancer risk following CT-radiation exposure in childhood. Results ...
Costa, Ana Lúcia Correira da (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
This work analyses the abolitionist feminist discourse on prostitution as elaborated by second-wave feminists in the last decades of the twentieth century. Its aim is to deconstruct such a discourse, ...
Zadra, Ivan (Date of defense: 2022-03-17)
To ensure faithful segregation of the genetic material, cells build the mitotic spindle, a machinery made of dynamic microtubules (MTs) and MT associated proteins (MAPs). Chromosome bi-orientation is ...