Ogundeji, Olusegun Israel (Date of defense: 2024-02-02)
There are several reasons why politics is the most discussed topic on Nigeria’s and perhaps Africa’s largest online discussion forum, Nairaland. As Nigeria grows in its population and digital landscape, ...
Lobo Quintero, René Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation explores motivation within Collaborative Learning Flow Patterns (CLFP), focusing on the Pyramid CLFP. It investigates how incorporating game mechanics (GM) can foster both intrinsic ...
Pezzano, Fabio (Date of defense: 2022-06-13)
Cells commonly live in a crowded environment, in a tissue or in a developing embryo. The extracellular matrix and/or surrounding neighboring cells can impose physical deformations to which cells need ...
Abad Cortel, Etna (Date of defense: 2023-12-13)
El conegut supressor tumoral p53 regula un ampli programa transcripcional que protegeix envers el càncer. No obstant, la complexitat d’aquest programa fa difícil determinar el rol de cada gen regulat ...
Cumplido Mayoral, Irene (Date of defense: 2024-06-07)
This thesis explores the links between neuroimaging-derived brain-age, which is computed using machine learning techniques, and different pathophysiological mechanisms, dementia risk factors and cognitive ...
Pallarès-Masmitjà, Maria (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)
The need for efficient targeted integration of large DNA fragments in mammalian genomes is indisputable, although several nuclease-based technologies have been lately developed for small allele genome ...
Galli, Marco (Date of defense: 2022-05-20)
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is one of the most studied personality disorders, given its prevalence and the severity of its symptoms. In the last years, several models of the disorder were ...
Álvarez González, Francisco Nurudín (Date of defense: 2024-03-20)
Representation learning is the field of modern machine learning focused on automatically producing useful representations from data. This thesis studies the impact of data volumes, annotation perspectives, ...
Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás Felipe (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, ...
Dessí, Roberto (Date of defense: 2024-04-12)
Recent advances in language modeling led to remarkable performance in many NLP applications. However, the static and passive learning imposed by the nexttoken- prediction objective makes models suboptimal ...