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Duchini, Emma (Fecha de defensa: 2016-10-05)
This thesis examines the role of public policies and institutions in fostering human capital formation and utilization. In the first chapter, I analyze the impact of college remedial courses on students’ ...
Riera Gil, Elvira (Fecha de defensa: 2016-10-03)
This dissertation examines two ideological clashes underlying contemporary political theories of linguistic justice (instrumentalism/constitutivism; monism/pluralism) with the aim to elucidate (a) why ...
Hartasánchez Frenk, Diego Andrés (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-22)
Les regions duplicades del genoma, com ara les duplicacions de segments (SDs), són una característica comuna dels genomes eucariotes i han estat associades a canvis fenotípics. Donada la seva rellevància ...
Carbonell Núñez, Caterina (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-19)
Cells have the ability to respond and adapt to environmental changes through activation of stress-activated protein kinases (SAPKs). Activation of the p38 SAPK is critical to elicit the early gene ...
Ayneto Gimeno, Alba (Fecha de defensa: 2016-10-18)
Infants can live in a monolingual or a bilingual environment from birth. While being exposed to one or two language does not influence when infants achieve the main language milestones it may require ...
Mora Guiard, Joan (Fecha de defensa: 2016-09-19)
This thesis focuses on the design, development and evaluation of a series of full-body interaction experiences as tools for intervention on motivation and social initiation for children with Autism. ...
Faria, Catia (Fecha de defensa: 2016-03-15)
In this thesis I claim that, on the assumption that we have reasons to assist other individuals in need, there are decisive reasons to intervene in nature to prevent or reduce the harms wild animals ...
Carbonell Ballestero, Max (Fecha de defensa: 2016-06-13)
Synthetic Biology is a relatively new and multi-faceted interdisciplinary emergent field of research that combines biology with technology in novel and exciting ways. One of its main branches aims to ...
Sanabria-Russo, Luis (Fecha de defensa: 2016-10-21)
Using a deterministic backoff after successful transmissions as a distributed contention mechanism for access to the channel can draw benefits from scheduled operation, like the elimination of simultaneous ...
Ferret Mas, Josep (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-20)
In the present dissertation I present a broad instrumental account of the legitimacy of independent central banks. I claim that if the right institutional design is chosen, and it protects democratic ...