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 ...
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 ...
Rezazadeh, Arezou (Date of defense: 2019-09-13)
Due to delay constraints of modern communication systems, studying reliable communication with finite-length codewords is much needed. Error exponents are one approach to study the finite-length regime ...
Tilgner, Hagen (Date of defense: 2011-06-02)
L’Splicing de les molècules d’ARN és el procés pel qual les seqüències interposades (“introns”) s’eliminen, i les seqüències restants es concatenen per a formar l’ARN madur. La investigació recent ...
Narberhaus Martínez, Marta (Date of defense: 2016-12-12)
Aquesta tesi doctoral analitza els informatius infantils de televisió a partir de l’estudi de les notícies de tres programes de referència de cadenes públiques: Newsround, de la British Broadcasting ...
Borsari, Beatrice (Date of defense: 2021-03-26)
We have monitored the transcriptome and the epigenome of human pre-B cells transdifferentiating into macrophages. Analysis of these data provides a general framework to understand the relationship between ...
Benisty, Hannah (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
The RAS oncogenes KRAS, NRAS and HRAS are mutated in one third of human cancers where they exhibit different mutation patterns. A potential factor contributing to this mutation bias is the variation ...
Nupia Martínez, Oscar (Date of defense: 2007-06-28)
Esta tesis trata tres temas diferentes: (1) El efecto de la distribución del ingreso sobre los niveles de conflicto; (2) el efecto de la descentralización sobre la corrupción; (3) el efecto del número ...
Mendonça, Maria Júlia Ildefonso (Date of defense: 2023-02-23)
According to the CJEU’s case law, the tax disadvantage suffered by taxpayers in a cross-border situation arising from international juridical double taxation does not constitute a forbidden obstacle to ...
Lee, Adam (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)
This thesis consists of three chapters which relate to problems of statistical inference in (potentially) non-regular semiparametric models. Chapter 1 considers hypothesis testing problems in ...