Salazar Degracia, Anna (Date of defense: 2019-04-15)
La caquexia afecta negativamente a los pacientes con enfermedades crónicas y sobre todo en el cáncer. Las estrategias terapéuticas son aún limitadas. Los beta2-agonistas (formoterol) y el soporte ...
Pitschner, Stefan (Date of defense: 2016-09-16)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in macroeconomics and finance. In the first chapter, I use texts from corporate filings of US companies to investigate if liquidity shortages that occurred ...
Sordo, Mohamed (Date of defense: 2012-02-27)
El consum de la música ha canviat dràsticament en els últims anys. Amb l’arribada de la música digital, el cost de producció s’ha reduït considerablement. L’expansió de la Web ha ajudat a promoure ...
Caro Consuegra, Rocío (Date of defense: 2023-02-15)
As a result of local selective pressures, genetic adaptation leaves distinct recognisable marks in the genomes of human populations. Several cases of positive natural selection have been described in ...
Fabbri, Francesco (Date of defense: 2022-10-25)
Recommender Systems represent a key instrument to convey consumption of contents available on the Web. They enhance the engagement among the users and the online platforms through algorithmic ...
Platikanova, Petya (Date of defense: 2010-03-03)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how capital markets interpret accounting disclosure. In three empirical studies, I evaluate the role that accounting disclosure plays in evaluating financial ...
Hans, Christina (Date of defense: 2017-09-26)
This thesis investigates various aspects of systemic risk in nancial networks. Chapter 1 explores the existence of a contagion channel to security returns given that banks are connected via overlapping ...
Xiao, Can (Date of defense: 2021-10-07)
The existence and progression of certain diseases are associated with the imbalances of different biomolecules. The multiplex sensing of hydrogen peroxide and pH can be potentially used for understanding ...
Leksawat, Animmarn (Date of defense: 2023-01-16)
This thesis investigates the complexities of the fansubbing of Thai TV series into Spanish as a representative case of two underexplored areas in Translation Studies: non-professional translation and ...
Accuosto, Pablo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Argument mining consists in the automatic identification of argumentative structures in natural language, a task that has been recognized as particularly challenging in the scientific domain. In this ...