Nizzero, Maria (Date of defense: 2024-02-22)
In the twentieth century, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) have emerged as significant contenders to states. These entities thrive in areas of low (or non-existent) formal state control and engage in ...
Gabbianelli, Germano (Date of defense: 2024-03-07)
Reinforcement Learning (RL), a subfield of machine learning and artifical intelligence, is a learning paradigm where an artificial agent learns to reach a predefined goal by trying to maximize a reward ...
Ptashkina, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-06-27)
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying trade agreements. The first chapter estimates the effects of preferential trade agreements on bilateral trade between their signatories. A novel ...
Moreno Ruiz, Nerea (Date of defense: 2024-06-25)
Rare disorders have been presumed to be caused by monogenic variation for decades, hindering the diagnosis in some cases. With many rare disease patients still missing a molecular diagnosis after genetic ...
Costanzo, Maria (Date of defense: 2024-06-26)
Stem cell-based in vitro systems have recently been used to complement the study of developmental processes in the embryo. Somitogenesis, which segments a vertebrate body axis to establish its characteristic ...
Sabalic, Alda (Date of defense: 2024-06-21)
This thesis examines inflammation from the perspective of systems biology in two different situations: cellular senescence resulting from unresolved tissue damage and the acute immune response to the ...
Häkkinen, Hanna-Maria (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
Cellular errors can spontaneously occur during vertebrate embryo development and can lead to apoptosis. Recent work in our lab revealed a novel function of the embryonic epithelium as an efficient ...
Chiavari, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel ...
Delgado Ortiz, Laura (Date of defense: 2024-07-02)
Background: Walking is crucial for an active and healthy ageing. Aim: To understand walking in ageing populations, and, as a case study, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Methods: ...
Valenzuela Seba, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2024-07-02)
In the current genomics era, it is essential to understand how the existing genomics diversity across evolution is linked to the enormous diversity we observe at the phenotypic level. Until now, Genome-wide ...