Sodaei, Reza (Date of defense: 2020-05-22)
How do genomes generate different tissues, behaviours, individuals or species? We try to identify parts of the human transcriptome that we found only in a tissue. Then, we focus on inter-individual ...
Spotorno, Riccardo Maria (Date of defense: 2020-10-06)
This thesis is a comprehensive study and defence of parental licensing, i.e. the proposal of making the right to parent one’s biological conditional to the successful completion of a series of checks ...
Wilhelmi Roca, Francesc (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)
The Spatial Reuse (SR) operation is gaining momentum in the latest IEEE 802.11 family of standards due to the overwhelming requirements posed by next-generation wireless networks. In particular, the ...
Pidde, Aleksandra (Date of defense: 2020-12-04)
Fluctuations are fundamental for living organisms. They arguably result from interactions with the complex, and unpredictable environment, and can often be manifested as temporal variability. The cell ...
Hernando Rodríguez, Julio César (Date of defense: 2020-11-20)
Background: Previous studies have focused on analysing specific labour market situations and their relationship with sickness absence (SA). However, little is known about the relationship between ...
Serani, Danilo (Date of defense: 2020-03-04)
This thesis revolves around the relationship between distrust in the main actors of political representation (political parties and politicians) and voting for anti-establishment parties (AEP). While ...
Blevins, William Robert (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)
All living organisms respond to environmental stimuli by modulating the activity of different genes. This response can occur across many locations throughout the cell such as at the level of transcription, ...
Kamsoi, Orathai (Date of defense: 2020-09-21)
The project consists in studying different aspects of the regulation of insect metamorphosis, using the cockroach Blattella germanica and the mayfly Cloeon dipterum, as laboratory models. In B. germanica ...
Liu, Shangyu (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)
This thesis explores the linkages among resource allocation, industry dynamics, and asset price bubbles in China. In the first chapter, I break the source of misallocation into four groups: uncertainty, ...
Preller Bórquez, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
This work examines the place that sustainable development has in the field of international policy and law. The thesis argues that a narrative of balance between different economic, social and environmental ...