Fonseca, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-01)
The automatic recognition of sound events has gained attention in the past few years, motivated by emerging applications in fields such as healthcare, smart homes, or urban planning. When the work for ...
Werner, Konstantin (Date of defense: 2023-01-13)
In this dissertation, first, I study the effects of broadband internet on individual and regional outcomes. Second, I provide an overview of the political espionage activities of the former East German ...
Kranas, Hanna (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)
Living cells are exposed to naturally occurring DNA-damaging agents that promote the loss of genome integrity, threatening the proper functioning of the cell. To counteract the toxic accumulation of DNA ...
Muševič, Sašo (Date of defense: 2013-09-10)
Muchos tipos de señales que encontramos a diario pertenecen a la categoría de sinusoides no estacionarias. Una gran parte de esas señales son sonidos que presentan una gran variedad de características: ...
Perez, Marcos Francisco (Date of defense: 2018-01-30)
For unknown reasons, genetically identical animals often differ substantially in their phenotypic traits, even in a controlled environment. Here I investigate the causes of inter-individual physiological ...
Romo Saladrigas, Neus (Date of defense: 2011-12-21)
We comparatively analyzed the natural killer (NK) cell response against HCMV-infected pro-inflammatory (M1) and anti-inflammatory (M2) M[Fi] derived from autologous monocytes. M1 M[Fi] were more resistant ...
Tripathy, Jagdish (Date of defense: 2016-11-22)
This dissertation includes three chapters on the macroeconomic effects of the financial system, particularly the credit market. In the first chapter, I show a causal link between household credit ...
Bassaganyas Bars, Laia (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)
Over the last ten years, improvements in molecular techniques and the arrival of the next-generation sequencing technologies have revealed a large amount of structural variation (SV) in the human genome. ...
Ritschka, Birgit (Date of defense: 2017-09-15)
Cellular senescence has mainly been associated with tumor suppression and aging, mediated through cell intrinsic cell-cycle inhibition and arrest. However, through secretion of specific proteins, termed ...
Domènech Guil, Alba (Date of defense: 2018-03-02)
Schizosaccharomyces pombe, com tots els organismes aeròbics, requereix l’oxigen per viure i té que lidiar amb la conseqüent toxicitat associada dels productes derivats de l’oxigen. Per mantenir l’ambient ...