Vargas-Prada Figueroa, Sergio (Date of defense: 2014-01-24)
This PhD thesis is based on the Spanish sample of the International “Cultural and Psychosocial Influences on Disability” (CUPID) study. This multicentre study is coordinated by Professor David Coggon ...
Porras Pérez, Antonio Reyes (Date of defense: 2015-06-08)
Una caracterización precisa y completa del tejido cardíaco es esencial para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de problemas cardíacos. Para caracterizar la función cardíaca desde diferentes perspectivas, en ...
Souza, André B. M. (Date of defense: 2021-11-02)
This dissertation consists of two independent chapters on economic and financial forecasting. The first chapter introduces a nonlinear forecasting framework that combines forecasts of the sign and ...
Cajner, Tomaz (Date of defense: 2012-07-03)
This thesis investigates several macroeconomic aspects of labor markets. First chapter finds that in the US more educated individuals experience lower and less volatile unemployment due to a lower ...
Kamaid Toth, Andres (Date of defense: 2008-12-19)
Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are diffusible molecules involved in a variety of cellular interactions during development. In particular, Bmp4 expression accompanies the development of the ear sensory ...
Petriconi, Silvio (Date of defense: 2014-09-25)
This thesis investigates the relation between information and competition in two particular settings. In the first chapter, I ask which screening and lending choices banks make if their loan offers can ...
Tu, Xiaochuan (Date of defense: 2023-07-27)
Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) are derived from the inner cell mass of the pre-implantation embryo and can recapitulate early developmental stages of the embryo. ESCs have the ability to continuously ...
Marchini, Marco (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
Computational approaches for modeling expressive music performance have produced systems that emulate human expression, but few steps have been taken in the domain of ensemble performance. Polyphonic ...
Comajuncosas, Josep M. (Date of defense: 2016-01-22)
Over the last decade Laptop Orchestras and Mobile Ensembles have proliferated. As a result, a large body of research has arisen on infrastructure, evaluation, design principles and compositional ...
Mocavini, Ivano (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
Polycomb repressive complex (PRC)1 and 2 are major players in gene regulation, devoted to maintenance of the epigenetic memory of gene silencing. Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) have been extensively ...