Mòdol Cano, Aitor (Date of defense: 2021-04-29)
El cilio primario es una estructura formada por microtúbulos que sobresale de la superficie celular durante G0 teniendo una función de orgánulo sensor. La importancia del cilio es patente por las ...
Henderson Mercader, Elisabet-Mae (Date of defense: 2021-11-25)
Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure causes death, disease, and disability among children and non-smoking adults. Total smoking bans have proven effective in preventing and reducing indoor SHS exposures. ...
Hoesch, Lukas (Date of defense: 2021-09-20)
This thesis consists of three chapters on topics in Macroeconometrics. Chapter 1 develops a hypothesis test to evaluate economic models and their forecasts robust to instabilities. The test is ...
Teixidó i Compañó, Ester (Date of defense: 2021-03-05)
El consum de substàncies psicoactives té importants conseqüències sanitàries, socials, econòmiques i laborals. Tot i així, el seu consum i les seves conseqüències no es distribueixen homogèniament en ...
Kantorovitch, Ilja (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
This dissertation consists of three chapters investigating the role of information and beliefs in financial markets and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, I develop a macroeconomic model in which ...
Gallo, María (Date of defense: 2021-07-22)
This thesis focuses on one of the biggest challenges facing drug discovery field: the efficient targeted delivery of therapeutic compounds, and how cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) acting as drug delivery ...
Fernández López, Adriana (Date of defense: 2021-03-04)
In the last decades, there has been an increased interest in decoding speech exclusively using visual cues, i.e. mimicking the human capability to perform lip-reading, leading to Automatic Lip-Reading ...
Ramírez López, Ángela (Date of defense: 2021-07-28)
The endocannabinoid system is a natural modulatory system that participates in multiple physiological processes, including nociceptive, emotional and rewarding responses. These central responses are ...
Janezic, Katharina A. (Date of defense: 2021-05-18)
This thesis contains three chapters studying questions of behavioural and experimental economics. Chapter 1, titled “Heterogeneity in lies and lying preferences”, develops a theoretical framework and ...
Ginovart Cid, Clara (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)
While (translation) technology and the language industry continue to evolve, varieties of professional profiles and nuances to the relevant skillsets emerge. The field of machine translation post-editing, ...