Fan, Cong (Date of defense: 2020-10-28)
A partir de los principales estudios sobre el eufemismo en la lengua castellana y en la lengua china, esta Tesis Doctoral propone una aproximación a las similitudes y diferencias en los usos eufemísticos ...
Castro Zavala, Adriana (Date of defense: 2020-11-06)
Early-life stress is associated with maladaptive long-lasting brain effects. Such alterations increase the likelihood of developing several psychiatric disorders. However, the molecular consequences of ...
Slizovskaia, Olga (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)
In music perception, the information we receive from a visual system and audio system is often complementary. Moreover, visual perception plays an important role in the overall experience of being exposed ...
Jiménez García, Juan Ramón (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
This thesis analyzes ethnics and gender inequalities in access to the labor market during the Great Recession in Spain. The first article illustrates the probabilities of unemployed people to get a job ...
Hafner, Flavio (Date of defense: 2020-11-27)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility ...
Frigola Rissech, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-03-13)
The rate at which mutations accumulate along the genome is not uniform but influenced by factors such as chromatin compactness, replication time or transcription. Most of these factors create mutational ...
Lubczyńska, Małgorzata Joanna (Date of defense: 2020-02-18)
Air pollution is a major public health concern, leading to worldwide morbidity and premature mortality. In the recent years, exposure to air pollution has also been linked to neurological and ...
De Bont, Jeroen (Date of defense: 2020-12-11)
Understanding the determinants of childhood obesity has never been more urgent given the high levels across the world. It is increasingly recognized that the urban environment may affect childhood growth ...
Garrido Martín, Diego (Date of defense: 2020-01-30)
We have developed an efficient and reproducible pipeline for the identification of genetic variants affecting splicing (splicing quantitative trait loci or sQTLs), based on an approach that captures the ...
Mina, Prokic (Date of defense: 2020-01-23)
The main aim of the thesis is to explain intercultural relations between immigrant and native families in the school context and how these reflect in their trust in local schools. For this purpose, I ...