Fernández Sanlés, Alba (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Cardiovascular diseases are a major challenge for public health. DNA methylation is a mechanism regulating gene expression, and it is linked to complex diseases and related traits. Therefore, it is a ...
Quevedo Díaz, Marcos (Date of defense: 2017-12-21)
Understanding the neural basis of conscious perception is still one of the central unsolved problems in neuroscience. Current theoretical models of conscious processing include the Global Workspace ...
Palomares, Roberto P. (Date of defense: 2017-04-06)
Motion estimation plays a key role in many of the image processing and computer vision problems. This thesis addresses the problem of recovering a dense motion field from a scene through the Calculus ...
Pluta, Radoslaw (Date of defense: 2014-11-28)
MobM relaxase from the promiscuous antibiotic resistance plasmid pMV158 is a prototype of the Mob_Pre/MOBV family of relaxases, the major family of relaxases found in Staphylococcus aureus. Staphylococcal ...
Diz, Sebastian (Date of defense: 2019-10-03)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays. The first chapter investigates the redistributive role minimum wages can play over the cycle and the implied effects on macroeconomic stability. To ...
Holthausen, Cornelia (Date of defense: 1999-12-02)
El primer capítulo de esta tesis trata de la legislación de los sistemas de pago internacionales de grna valor cuando la supervisión es efectuada por el banco central nacional. El modelo construido se ...
Ventos Alfonso, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-09-07)
The idea of this work has been to identify factors that determine the adult body plan in hemimetabolan embryogenesis, using the cockroach Blattella germanica as model. Comparative genomics studies pointed ...
Fabregat Rossell, Andreu (Date of defense: 2014-07-16)
The detection of endogenous anabolic androgenic steroids (EAAS) is one of the most difficult analytical challenges in the doping control field. The main problem for their detection is to distinguish ...
Valencia Caicedo, Felipe (Date of defense: 2015-06-30)
This dissertation investigates economic persistence in the Americas. The first chapter shows the positive long-term economic impact of the Guarani Jesuit Missions in South America. I find that ...
Varga, Cristina (Date of defense: 2011-03-09)
El desarrollo de las nuevas tecnologías y el uso del Internet como nueva plataforma para la enseñanza crean nuevas modalidades de interacción comunicativa entre los usuarios de Internet con el fin de ...