Sottile, Francesco (Date of defense: 2017-01-18)
Homotypic and heterotypic cell-cell fusion are key processes during development and tissue regeneration. On the other hand, aberrant heterotypic cell fusion between cancer and normal cells can contribute ...
Steccanella, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) has the potential to simplify the solution of environments with long horizons and sparse rewards. The idea behind HRL is to decompose a complex decision-making ...
Vamvakousis, Zacharias (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
Playing a musical instrument has been shown to have a positive impact in the life of individuals in many different ways. Nevertheless, due to physical disabilities, some people are unable to play ...
Lagerwaard, Hendrik Dirk (Date of defense: 2021-02-05)
Nowadays, we still witness many foreign language classrooms where traditional teaching methods do not enable students to further expand their communicative development. The aim of the sociocultural ...
Pasenkova, Irina (Date of defense: 2020-07-02)
In this dissertation we examine the sphere of the English verbs of speaking (VoS) with 2 components: the manner of speaking component (MoSC) and the component of non-standard speech (CoNS), and their ...
Sikora, Martin (Date of defense: 2010-06-04)
Una de les forces selectives més fortes que han afectat a les poblacions humanes en la història més recent és el paràsit de la malària: Plasmodium falciparum, que és la causa de varis exemples d'adaptació ...
Janich, Peggy (Date of defense: 2012-02-16)
The natural daily cycles of light and dark have played a fundamental role in shaping the development of an adaptive intrinsic clock mechanism which allows organisms to coord ...
Higueras-Esteban, Alfredo (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
Neurosurgery is evolving towards the use of minimally invasive procedures. In this dissertation, we present several tools designed to fulfill the multimodal and multidisciplinary requirements of ...
Claveria i Alias, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
This thesis is focused on women in executive office. Whereas the literature on women's political representation in national parliaments is now well established, analyses of women in cabinets are rather ...
Serrano Muñoz, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
This thesis delves into the relationship between literature and power in the construction and reproduction of discourses of national representation, also called national narratives. This project explores ...