Signorini, Matteo (Date of defense: 2015-12-10)
La Internet de las Cosas está avanzando lentamente debido a la falta de confianza en dispositivos que puedan interactuar de manera autónoma. Además, se requieren nuevos enfoques para mitigar o al menos ...
Massoni Badosa, Ramon (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Specialization and plasticity are hallmarks of immune cells. Thus, charting their heterogeneity is crucial to understand their function and role in diseases. In this setting, single-cell RNA-sequencing ...
Pérez-Altable, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)
This thesis aims to bridge social movement studies with media and communication studies, taking the case study of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and combining quantitative and qualitative approach. ...
Todeschini, Federico A. (Date of defense: 2010-06-15)
Even though unhealthy habits, drinking, smoking and overeating, are among the most expensive burdens for the health system, much research is still needed to understand how individuals form them, how do ...
Floden, Evan (Date of defense: 2018-11-30)
A multiple sequence alignment (MSA) provides a description of the relationship between biological sequences where columns represent a shared ancestry through an implied set of evolutionary events. The ...
Rojas Rueda, David (Date of defense: 2013-05-24)
Introduction Interventions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change can involve co-benefits of health, with special active transportation policies (including walking, cycling ...
Ursino, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2009-10-28)
Esta tesis se compone de dos partes separadas y sin relación entre ellas. El primer capítulo, coautorado con el Profesor Greg Barron, es un experimento en toma de decisiones individuales. Este capítulo ...
Vidal Torre, Sergi (Date of defense: 2009-11-13)
Aquesta tesi doctoral es composa de tres linies de recerca en que s'analitza de forma dinàmica l'associació entre mobilitat residencial / migracions i les relacions social que es troben en el lloc de ...
Whissell, Gavin (Date of defense: 2013-12-03)
The recent discovery that intestinal adenomas are built on a stem cell hierarchy has raised great interest in understanding the signals that maintain tumor stem cells. We unveiled the existence of a ...
Heineken, Janko (Date of defense: 2021-10-15)
My dissertation consists of three essays with the common theme of analyzing economic models of financial assets markets featuring heterogeneous market participants and testing the predictions of these ...