Pina, Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)
This thesis investigates two economic policy dimensions in contemporary world economy. The first chapter focuses on the recent accumulation of international reserves by central banks in developing ...
Wang, Xinghua (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible ...
Pogorelova, Iryna (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
The present dissertation investigates the impact of university study abroad (SA) programmes on intercultural adaptation and intercultural sensitivity of bilingual students from a multilingual and ...
Calvo Vidal, Verónica Alejandra (Date of defense: 2009-07-17)
Germ-line mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA1 strongly increase the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer in women. Different hypothesis have been proposed to explain this ...
Cash-Gibson, Lucinda (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this ...
López García de Lomana, Adrián (Date of defense: 2010-10-19)
Els mecanismes de regulaci o de les c el lules poden ser modelats per controlar i entendre la biologia cel lular. Diferents nivells d'abstracci o s'utilitzen per descriure els processos biol ogics. ...
Kanngiesser, Derrick (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in monetary economics and financial stability. In the first chapter I develop a simple model of financial crises in which the key ...
Gigli, Elena (Date of defense: 2011-06-20)
The evolutionary history of H. neanderthalensis, interwoven with that of H. sapiens, has always fascinated the scientific world. Recent adavncess in paleogenetics shedds new light on the phylogenetic ...
Martí Solano, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-02-10)
La caracterització de diversos fàrmacs capaços d’unir-se a receptors associats a proteïnes G (GPCR)s ha revelat que els seus mecanismes d’acció no eren tan simples com es creia. Primer, l’anàlisi de la ...
Calderón-Benavides, Liliana (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
This doctoral work focuses on identifying and understanding the intents that motivate a user to perform a search on the Web. To this end, we apply machine learning models that do not require more ...