Barbieri, Francesco (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
In this dissertation we propose algorithms for the analysis of social media texts, focusing on two particular aspects: irony and emojis. We propose novel automatic systems, based on machine learning ...
Lorenzo Moldero, Ivan (Date of defense: 2008-07-24)
La neteja del moc i dels patògens dels pulmons, i el transport de gàmets i embrions en els òrgans reproductius de les femelles són funcions clau en els epitelis ciliats, tals com aquells que es troben ...
Santoro, Sergio (Date of defense: 2007-07-05)
El tema de la tesis es el estudio de modelos de economía monetaria que departen del supuesto de expectativas racionales y modelan los agentes individuales como econometristas, que forman sus expectativas ...
Di Mauro, Gianmarco (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
Dsk2/UBQLN is a conserved extraproteasomal ubiquitin receptor that has been widely described as a protein involved in the ubiquitin proteasome pathway. In Drosophila, this protein has been recently ...
Malvestio, Irene (Date of defense: 2019-02-21)
An important problem in neuroscience is the assessment of the connectivity between neurons from their spike trains. One recent approach developed for the detection of directional couplings between ...
Rinaldi, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2016-10-17)
DNA methylation is an essential epigenetic mechanism that regulates gene expression. While DNA methylation dynamics during embryonic formation is fairly well understood, its role in adult tissues is ...
Iannone, Camilla (Date of defense: 2014-05-23)
Intron removal is a necessary step for expression of most genes in higher eukaryotes, and alternative splice selection is a highly regulated mechanism that endows a single gene with the possibility to ...
Giugliano, Marcello (Date of defense: 2012-06-28)
This doctoral thesis studies the recreation of spoken language in Robert Frost’s poetry and the translation of Frost’s poetry that has been carried out by Agustí Bartra and Miquel Declot into Catalan, ...
Platania, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2023-10-11)
The South Pacific is an intriguing region for studying evolutionary biology, presenting an exceptional diversity and complex geological and environmental characteristics. New Caledonia, in particular, ...
Galceran-Vercher, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The doctoral thesis City Networks in Global Governance: Practices, Discourses and Roles analyses the implications of the revamping international activism of cities for global governance. The central ...