Low, Sock Ching (Date of defense: 2020-12-15)
Selective attention determines the sensory signals that are processed at higher levels at the expense of others and is biased by higher-order brain regions which anticipate task-relevant stimuli and ...
Rosales, Andrea (Date of defense: 2014-09-03)
De acuerdo a los estudios sociales, la vida cotidiana ha reducido las oportunidades de que los niños puedan disfrutar del juego libre, lo cual a largo plazo, puede perjudicar su desarrollo social y ...
Kersten, Stefan (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
Environmental texture sounds are an integral, though often overlooked, part of our daily life. They constitute those elements of our sounding environment that we tend to perceive subconsciously but which ...
Llorà Batlle, Oriol (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)
Transmission of malaria requires that some parasites abandon asexual replication and develop into sexual stages termed gametocytes. The discovery of the transcription factor PfAP2-G as the master regulator ...
Mularoni, Loris (Date of defense: 2009-07-28)
Tandem amino acid repeats, also known as homopolimeric tract or homopeptides, are very common features of eukaryotic genomes and are present in nearly one-fifth of human encoded proteins. These structures ...
Macías Ribela, Sara (Date of defense: 2008-06-13)
The mechanisms of pre-mRNA splicing regulation are poorly understood. Here we dissect how the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ribosomal L30 protein blocks splicing of its pre-mRNA upon binding a kink-turn ...
Sánchez García, Carolina (Date of defense: 2013-11-29)
El objetivo de esta tesis es investigar los mecanismos predictivos que operan de forma online durante la percepción audiovisual de una lengua. La idea de que existen mecanismos predictivos que actúan ...
Pacheco Estefan, Daniel (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
Human memory is fundamentally linked to experience. Traditionally, however, it has been studied in restricted tasks, under constrained experimental conditions. Understanding memory from a situated, ...
Khatri, Safia (Date of defense: 2009-03-23)
En els darrers anys s'ha produït un gran avenç en l'enteniment dels mecanismes implicats en la inducció de la placoda òtica. Tanmateix, poc es coneix encara de com s'estableix un domini amb competència ...
Teixeira Fortuna, Paula Cristina (Date of defense: 2023-03-06)
The detection of hate speech in online spaces is traditionally conceptualized as a classification task that uses Machine Learning (ML)-driven Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In accordance ...