Prado Bert, Paula de (Date of defense: 2022-10-17)
L'exposició a factors de risc ambientals durant la vida intrauterina o la infància ha estat relacionada amb un major risc a desenvolupar diverses malalties. Tot i això, els mecanismes biològics subjacents ...
Henderson Mercader, Elisabet-Mae (Date of defense: 2021-11-25)
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure causes death, disease, and disability among children and non-smoking adults. Total smoking bans have proven effective in preventing and reducing indoor SHS exposures. ...
Solé, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-02-11)
The EMS negotiations were centred on the debate on symmetry. High inflation countries struggled to introduce elements to force a more symmetrical functioning of the system than the Snake. However, these ...
Salleras, Xavier (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Telecommunication systems such as mobile communications are evolving over time, and thanks to that, many digital services have arisen in the last decade. Usually, these services ask their users to provide ...
Bellés Muñoz, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-10-10)
In recent years, zero-knowledge proofs have come to play a crucial role in distributed systems where there is no trust between the parties involved. Most popular proof systems are for the NP-complete ...
Blaauw, Merlijn (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Singing synthesis has seen a notable surge in popularity in the last decade and a half. Music producers use this technology as an instrument, there is an audience for music with synthetic vocals, and ...
Butti, Silvia (Date of defense: 2022-10-20)
This thesis focuses on the complexity of the fixed-template Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) and its variants. Our contributions are two-fold. On the one hand, we study how closure of the space of ...
Hoesch, Lukas (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 develops a hypothesis test to evaluate economic models and their forecasts robust to instabilities. The test is ...
Teixidó i Compañó, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)
El consum de substàncies psicoactives té importants conseqüències sanitàries, socials, econòmiques i laborals. Tot i així, el seu consum i les seves conseqüències no es distribueixen homogèniament en ...
Kantorovitch, Ilja (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the role of information and beliefs in financial markets and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, I develop a macroeconomic model in which ...