Pich Roselló, Oriol (Date of defense: 2021-03-24)
Cells of our body are constantly exposed to events that can create lesions in the DNA. If unremoved by the DNA repair mechanisms, the lesion may lead to a mutational event. Some of these events might ...
Pecoraro, Matteo (Date of defense: 2014-10-02)
La senescencia celular es una detención irreversible del ciclo celular que tiene lugar en respuesta a diversos estímulos de estrés, actuando como un mecanismo supresor de tumores para impedir la ...
Malinverni, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-07-27)
Full-Body interaction represents a branch of research in embodied interaction that addresses the use of the whole body to interact with the physical and digital environment. Several researchers have ...
Spalek, Alexandra Anna (Date of defense: 2014-05-20)
Even though it is an intuitive and perhaps obvious idea that composition leads to non-trivial semantic interactions between words, and these interactions affect the contents of predication, there has ...
Stein, Amelie (Date of defense: 2010-06-11)
Proteins and protein interactions are involved in virtually all processes of life. Here we study interactions between globular domains and short linear motifs, which form a small interface ideal for ...
García Gómez, Pilar (Date of defense: 2008-07-02)
Esta tesis contribuye a la literatura analizando los efectos causales que el estado de salud tiene sobre la participación laboral en la población en edad de trabajar. De este modo, analiza los efectos ...
Lerche, Adrian (Date of defense: 2019-10-08)
This thesis consists of three self-contained chapters that empirically evaluate the influence of capital costs and occupational regulation on labor demand. In the first chapter, I study the effects of ...
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 ...
Debortoli, Davide (Date of defense: 2008-07-01)
L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és analitzar com s'han de concebre les polítiques fiscals i monetàries en un context en què els polítics tenen problemes de credibilitat. Es desenvolupen metodologies i aplicacions ...
Xicota Vila, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-10-27)
Clinical trials seeking to improve cognitive performance are in dire need of biochemical biomarkers that reflect the processes taking place in the brain. In Down syndrome, this information is crucial ...