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Aina, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-03-25)
This thesis studies the information that an expression and its context contribute to ambiguity resolution, focusing on the syntactic, lexical, and referential levels, and on the English language. I adopt computational ...
Muneratti Ortega, Fábio José (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)
Aquesta tesi tracta sobre el disseny i la implementació de sistemes informàtics per a l'execució musical expressiva (CSEMP), explorant diferents mètodes de l'aprenentatge automàtic i reflexionant sobre el paper de l'estructura ...
Milà Alomà, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-04-29)
La malaltia d’Alzheimer (MA) està precedida per una llarga etapa preclínica, en la qual es desenvolupa la patologia cerebral en absència de simptomatologia. La identificació acurada d’aquesta fase preclínica, i un millor ...
Falaguera Mata, Maria José (Date of defense: 2022-04-26)
Systems pharmacology is the discipline that studies the so-called ‘pharmacological space’ with a holistic and network-based perspective. Its challenge is to shed light on the astonishingly sophisticated biological processes ...
Figueras Puig, Cristina (Date of defense: 2022-04-08)
Metastasis is the major cause of death from Breast Cancer (BCa). During its progression, divergent opinions have arisen regarding the hormonal status of the BCa subtypes. The mammary gland is composed of different cell ...
Martin, Olivier M. F. (Date of defense: 2022-04-05)
Gràcies als amplis esforços d'investigació, la nostra comprensió dels mecanismes fisiològics de l'envelliment ha progressat enormement. Recentment, les tecnologies òmiques han permès l'estudi a tot el genoma dels canvis ...
Bajew, Simon (Date of defense: 2022-04-12)
Alternative splicing is a post-transcriptional process that allows the generation of multiple transcript and protein isoforms from a single gene by differential processing of exons and introns. This Thesis focuses on ...
Poliński, Patrik (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
Microexons are an unusual form of alternative splicing with high evolutionary conservation, however, their functions are still far from being understood. In this thesis, we focused on a neuronal-specific microexon that ...
López Contreras, Natalia (Date of defense: 2022-04-07)
The general objective of this thesis was to evaluate the effects of the Chilean urban regeneration program "Quiero mi Barrio" on the health and quality of life of people living in Chile, taking into account socioeconomic ...
Bradbury Lobato, Melissa (Date of defense: 2020-03-20)
High-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) is the most common and deadly subtype of ovarian cancer. It is characterised by presenting defects in the homologous recombination repair, most frequently associated to BRCA1 mutations. ...
Morales Muñoz, Araceli (Date of defense: 2022-03-16)
In this thesis, we address the problem of reconstructing the 3D facial geometry of babies from uncalibrated 2D images. This topic has many different applications, but it is especially relevant for the early diagnosis of ...
Comellas Bonsfills, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)
This PhD dissertation adds to the literature that studies affective polarisation in comparative perspective. Citizens of democracies around the globe express substantive levels of hostility towards opposing parties, their ...
Schöll, Nikolas Bahati (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)
This dissertation investigates how new technologies such as social media, digitalizing workplaces, and robotization change society and politics. The first chapter focuses on new technologies affecting the democratic ...
Lawrie, Sofía (Date of defense: 2022-03-28)
Neuronal networks are today hypothesized to the basis for the computing capabilities of biological nervous systems. In the same manner, artificial neuronal systems are intensively exploited for a diversity of industrial ...
García-Moreno, Aracelys (Date of defense: 2022-03-01)
Functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS) refers to the delivery of electrical stimuli to nerves or muscles to enhance, modify or restore motor functions. Despite their invasiveness, implantable systems for FNS offer ...
Padrosa Sayeras, Eva (Date of defense: 2022-03-30)
This dissertation aims to advance knowledge on the contours of precarious employment (PE) as a social determinant of health by developing, validating, and evaluating the association with mental health of a novel measure ...
Mocavini, Ivano (Date of defense: 2022-03-31)
Polycomb repressive complex (PRC)1 and 2 are major players in gene regulation, devoted to maintenance of the epigenetic memory of gene silencing. Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) have been extensively exploited as a model ...
Olkhovskaya, Julia (Date of defense: 2022-02-11)
La toma secuencial de decisiones con incertidumbre cubre una amplia clase de problemas. Las aplicaciones reales requieren que los algoritmos sean computacionalmente eficientes y escalables. Nosotros estudiamos un rango ...
Cuesta, Helena (Date of defense: 2022-03-21)
Ensemble singing is a well-established practice across cultures, found in a great diversity of forms, languages, and levels. However, it has not been widely studied in the field of Music Information Retrieval (MIR), ...
Larrea Izaguirre, Sara Lucía (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
In this thesis our aim was to understand social inequalities and quality of care in feminist initiatives supporting self-managed abortion in legally restrictive settings of Latin America and the Caribbean. The thesis ...