Djourelova, Milena (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
This dissertation studies three questions on the political economy of mass media. The first chapter examines the effects of media slant on public policy views, exploiting an experiment created by a ...
Schena, Jucinara (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
Aware of the well-studied non-neutrality of media and the challenge that represents to have mechanisms to objectively identify the ideological bias, this thesis provides a methodological proposal to ...
Villegas Mirón, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
The evolutionary history of the human genome has been shaped by the selection of multiple elements in response to different environmental pressures. The analysis of regulatory adaptations and the ...
Tejero Cicuéndez, Héctor (Date of defense: 2021-12-10)
Biodiversity patterns result from the interplay of evolutionary, ecological, and environmental processes. Investigating the drivers of such patterns is central to evolutionary biology, and it is further ...
Vives, Marc-Lluís (Date of defense: 2020-01-15)
Foreign language processing is hard, sometimes the right words do not come out, sometimes phonemes are incompressible. Words also lose their emotional appeal in a foreign language. How does this affect ...
Aina, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
This thesis studies the information that an expression and its context contribute to ambiguity resolution, focusing on the syntactic, lexical, and referential levels, and on the English language. I ...
Pazo Pelegrí, Esther (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
At the end of G1 phase, cells have to decide between continue proliferation or remain in a quiescent state (G0). This decision point, known as “Start” in yeast and “Restriction Point” in metazoans, marks ...
Vigué-Guix, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)
Spontaneous oscillations in the alpha band (α, 8–12 Hz) reflect ongoing fluctuations in cortical excitability. Several theoretical frameworks and empirical studies have supported the notion that distinct ...
Boronat Rigol, Anna (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)
Hydroxytyrosol is a health-promoting dietary phenol mainly present in extra virgin olive oil. Wine and beer are sources of tyrosol, a related phenolic compound. We have demonstrated that in humans tyrosol ...
Pindado, Zaira (Date of defense: 2021-03-23)
Elliptic curves with a bilinear map, or pairing, have a rich algebraic structure that has been fundamental to develop practical Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge (NIZK) proofs. On the theoretical side, ...