Mehdipanah, Roshanak (Date of defense: 2014-05-23)
Urban renewal interventions aim to improve physical infrastrucutres, promote social integration and increase economic gains. However, they also have the potential to improve the wellbeing of residents. The ...
Salamon, Justin J. (Date of defense: 2013-09-20)
Music was the first mass-market industry to be completely restructured by digital technology, and today we can have access to thousands of tracks stored locally on our smartphone and millions of tracks ...
Kemena, Carsten (Date of defense: 2012-12-12)
Sequence alignment is one of the basic methods to compare biological sequences and the cornerstone of a wide range of different analyses. Due to this privileged position at the beginning of many studies ...
Chapsal, Antoine (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate different topics in competition policy. The first chapter empirically analyzes the consequences of the subsidies that were granted to some coalfields during ...
Ricci, Maria Aurelia (Date of defense: 2015-06-05)
La arquitectura del genoma y la estructura de la cromatina, junto con los factores de transcripción son actores clave para la autorenovación, la pluripotencia y la diferenciación de las células madre ...
Bao, Lingxian (Date of defense: 2021-11-11)
Deep neural networks as an end-to-end approach lacks flexibility and robustness from an application point of view, as one cannot easily adjust the network to fix an obvious problem, especially when ...
Brasó-Vives, Marina (Date of defense: 2019-01-18)
La duplicació és el principal mecanisme de formació de nou material genètic i d'innovació funcional. Entendre com les duplicacions sorgeixen, evolucionen, co-evolucionen i engendren noves funcions és ...
Sala Robert, Èlia (Date of defense: 2016-11-07)
L’objectiu d’aquesta tesi és contribuir a la pràctica i la teoria de la subtitulació per a persones sordes (SPS), més concretament, per a nens i nenes sords. Després de l’anàlisi de les pràctiques de ...
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 ...
Ramos, Simona (Date of defense: 2024-03-18)
This thesis investigates the complex nature of the blockchain ecosystem, where technology, law, and economics intersect across layers and applications. By offering an interdisciplinary perspective on ...