Kent, Jonathan (Date of defense: 2023-11-27)
Urban design influences how we go about our lives and even how we feel about our neighbors. Using data from the Copernicus Urban Atlas, I find that residents of cities across Europe that have more ...
Kaiser, Kevin Richard (Date of defense: 2018-07-04)
This thesis examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions ...
Vali Pour Jamnani, Mischan (Date of defense: 2022-06-02)
Somatic mutations are an inevitable component of ageing and the most important cause of cancer. The rates and types of somatic mutation vary across individuals, but relatively few inherited influences ...
Loscos, Àlex (Date of defense: 2007-05-02)
Aquesta tesi doctoral versa sobre el processament digital de la veu cantada, més concretament, sobre l'anàlisi, transformació i síntesi d'aquets tipus de veu en el domini espectral, amb especial èmfasi ...
Huerga Encabo, Hector (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
Peralta Chiriboga, Alejandro Andrés (Date of defense: 2019-12-05)
The aim of this dissertation was to analyse social and geographical inequalities in mortality in Ecuador, correcting the potential deficiencies found in the mortality registry. For this purpose, four ...
Felfe, Andrea Christina (Date of defense: 2008-07-15)
Esta tesis evalúa el papel de las características no deseadas del trabajo - llamadas disamenities - en el contexto del balance entre trabajo y familia. Particularmente, se plantean las siguientes ...
Marte, Luis (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)
Proteostasis is the proper homeostasis of the concentration and the molecular structure of the proteins, which preserves the integrity of the proteome. Proteo-stasis is constantly challenged by intrinsic ...
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 ...
Rosolia, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2005-01-12)
A lo largo de los ultimos diez años los economistas hemos reconocido que en muchos casos las decisiones individuales se ven afectadas por las decisiones, los comportamientos las preferencias de otros ...