Costa Coto, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-05-28)
Preterm birth is the leading cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Preterm newborns require special care for surviving and may develop severe diseases related to prematurity, especially ...
Chatzou, Maria (Date of defense: 2016-11-07)
One of the main and most recent challenges of modern biology is to keep-up with growing amount of biological data coming from next generation sequencing technologies. Keeping up with the growing volumes ...
Preller Bórquez, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)
This work examines the place that sustainable development has in the field of international policy and law. The thesis argues that a narrative of balance between different economic, social and environmental ...
Tarruell Pellegrin, Antonio (Date of defense: 2019-06-26)
In female mammals, one of the X chromosomes is epigenetically inactivated through X chromosome Inactivation (XCI) during the epiblast differentiation. However, XCI is later specifically reversed in ...
Xi, Xiatong (Date of defense: 2023-09-22)
In the realm of second language acquisition of pronunciation, perception-based phonetic training has been shown to be effective in improving L2 perception and production. By incorporating the visual ...
Stojić, Hrvoje (Date of defense: 2017-01-17)
This thesis consists of three studies investigating the strategy selection problem and the role of function learning in human decision making. Chapter 1 examines how people learn which decision strategy ...
Sánchez Arroyo, Alicia (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
One of the main evolutionary transitions is the origin of animal and fungal multicellularity from single-cell ancestors. To address this change, it is necessary to study the extant unicellular relatives ...
Pérez-Mayos, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-06-15)
Pretrained Transformer-based language models have quickly replaced traditional approaches to model NLP tasks, pushing the state of the art to new levels, and will certainly continue to be very influential ...
Bonet Porqueras, Eduard (Date of defense: 2014-09-19)
This thesis is a contribution to the empirical research on national identities, nationalism, and political participation, from an individual level perspective of analysis and using survey data. First, ...
Mitsi, Konstantina (Date of defense: 2021-05-28)
Los organismos eucariotas abarcan una diversidad inmensa de formas, tamaños y estilos de vida. Sin embargo, abordar la verdadera amplitud de esa diversidad es una tarea laboriosa. Durante las últimas ...