Segarra-Queralt, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-11-22)
This doctoral thesis presents two different computational approaches to explore mechanistically chondrocyte dysregulation and identify biomarkers, to better understand patient stratification systems ...
Gimeno-Martínez, Marc (Date of defense: 2023-05-25)
This dissertation focuses on the study of bimodal bilingual lexical processing in two different populations, deaf signers and hearing early sign language learners. We report evidence that iconicity ...
Bota, Patricia Mirela (Date of defense: 2024-05-21)
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental in driving biological processes and maintaining life’s diverse functions. They play a key role in cellular regulation, facilitating our understanding ...
Morazzoni, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-06-02)
In my PhD thesis, I analyse different macro and policy-relevant heterogeneities across both firms and individuals. In the midst of vivid debate over the US college financial aid system, Chapter 1 shows ...
Sparavier, Aleksandra (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
Chromosomal translocation are large-scale genome rearrangements found in several cancers. They are formed when two (or more) non-homologous chromosomes interchange large parts as a result of erroneous ...
Bonet Giner, Jose (Date of defense: 2022-06-03)
Sequencing technologies have recently evolved and generated large amounts of data. These datasets have had significant impacts in the cancer field and the detection of damage and repair mechanisms. ...
Ok, Pelin (Date of defense: 2019-06-06)
La investigación examina cómo las marcas europeas de moda de lujo utilizan la nostalgia en su estrategia de publicidad y marketing, y en concreto, cómo el concepto de nostalgia utilizado en los anuncios ...
Gutiérrez-Daza, Ángelo (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)
Empirical evidence suggests that consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other words, they learn by shopping. This dissertation studies the implications of ...
Kaya, Sandra Sinem (Date of defense: 2023-12-15)
This dissertation sheds light on the impact of emotions on consumer behavior within culinary contexts. Comprising three chapters, the research presents a holistic exploration through lab experiments ...
Alonso, Florencia Evelin (Date of defense: 2024-06-04)
Currently, there are no antiviral strategies to rapidly respond to novel emerging viruses or to mosquito borne viruses. On this thesis we have developed an innovative artificial circular RNA (circRNA) ...