Bosque Prous, Marina (Date of defense: 2016-10-07)
Hazardous drinking in the elderly has become an important public health problem due to the ageing of the population and the fact that alcohol-related consequences are magnified in this age group. However, ...
Carceles Poveda, Eva (Date of defense: 2001-10-23)
Uno de los problemas principales de la literature moderna de ciclos es la imposibilidad de replicar el comportamiento de los rendimientos de activos financieros. Varios autores han incorporado mercados ...
Arruda, Eliana (Date of defense: 2015-06-18)
In recent years, the academic literature on the well-being of immigrants has expanded far from the study of economic factors by including psychological elements. Subjective well-being and life satisfaction ...
Miron, Marius (Date of defense: 2018-02-08)
Humans are able to distinguish between various sound sources in their environment and selectively attend to specific ones. However, it is a difficult task to teach a computer to automatically separate ...
Solís Moruno, Manuel (Date of defense: 2021-09-14)
Autoinflammatory diseases are caused by an antigen independent hyperactivation of inflammatory pathways. The first genetic defect linked to an autoinflammatory disease was described almost 25 years ago ...
Ferres Forga, Nuria (Date of defense: 2018-01-11)
Improving mathematical abilities is important for educational systems and for society overall. We present two training regimes based on numerical representations. In Study 1, we show that a three-week ...
Igea Fernández, Ana (Date of defense: 2009-11-06)
In vertebrate oocytes, meiotic progression is driven by the sequential translational activation of maternal messenger RNAs stored in the cytoplasm. This activation is mainly induced by the cytoplasmic ...
Girardin, Fabien (Date of defense: 2009-07-14)
El uso creciente de dispositivos móviles, infraestructuras inalámbricas e Internet está cambiando nuestra vida diaria, no solo la manera en que nos comunicamos o compartimos información, sino también ...
Garvin, Nicholas (Date of defense: 2018-07-09)
This dissertation comprises three chapters on banking system liquidity. The first chapter models various policies for injecting liquidity into banks during a cri-sis. Liquidity injections through secured ...
Sousa, Rute Inês Silva e (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)
Drosophila telomere maintenance depends on the transposition of three specialized retrotransposons – HeT-A, TART and TAHRE (HTT). Controlling the activation and silencing of these elements is crucial ...