Mantica, Federica (Date of defense: 2023-05-11)
Regulated Gene Expression (rGE) and Alternative Splicing (rAS) are two of the main mechanisms contributing to tissue-phenotypic diversity within and between species. In this thesis, we aim at characterizing ...
Picón Pagès, Pol (Date of defense: 2022-09-09)
Society increase in live expectancy will cause a rise in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis, thus, there is a need to further understand how it works. One of the main culprits of this disease amyloid-β ...
Mansouri, Leila (Date of defense: 2023-03-27)
El continuo aumento de los proyectos de producción de datos genómicos a gran escala, como el "Earth BioGenome Project" (Lewin et al., 2018), pone los métodos de análisis de datos bajo una presión sin ...
García Blanco, Alejandra (Date of defense: 2023-07-06)
The easy access to hypercaloric and palatable foods is a major contributing factor for compulsive eating and food addiction development. The prevalence of food addiction measured with the validated ...
Flores, Jairo (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
This doctoral thesis develops new methods for time series analysis and applies these to prominent empirical problems in macroeconomics. It contains three chapters. Chapter one proposes a new non-parametric ...
Martí Castellote, Pablo-Miki (Date of defense: 2023-09-27)
This PhD thesis explores how data science can be leveraged to learn from diverse cohorts and fuse information from heterogeneous data, aiming to advance understanding and improve prediction in healthcare ...
Mana, Ludovica (Date of defense: 2023-10-27)
Psychotic disorders are highly heterogeneous, complicating diagnosis and treatment. The mechanisms underlying these disorders are still unclear, and bridging the gap between neural properties and ...
Cianferoni, Damiano (Date of defense: 2023-10-09)
Aquesta tesi presenta diversos avenços que inclouen: (i) noves funcionalitats afegides a la “suite” d'eines de disseny de proteïnes FoldX per permetre als usuaris treballar amb qualsevol tipus de molècula; ...
García-Moreno, Aracelys (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
Functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) refers to the delivery of electrical stimuli to nerves or muscles to enhance, modify or restore motor functions. Despite their invasiveness, implantable ...
Özdemir, Gülce Şafak (Date of defense: 2023-11-23)
This dissertation investigates the responses of European cities to irregular migrants. The first chapter uses a localist approach to understand variations in local policies and practices. A typology of ...