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Rodríguez Gómez, Francisco Diego (Date of defense: 2024-07-22)
Nanotechnology promises to revolutionize healthcare, but complex regulations slow its market introduction. This thesis examines the gap between nanomedicine research and its commercialization, addressing the 'valley of ...
Blanc, Matthias (Date of defense: 2024-07-19)
The process by which the diversity of neurons making up the brain are produced relies on precise adjustments across space and time. Proneural genes are main drivers of neurogenesis across the different areas of the brain ...
Muñoz-Puig, Marina (Date of defense: 2024-05-17)
This dissertation examines women's political representation and participation from an intersectional perspective in Catalonia. It encompasses three different, yet interconnected research articles. The first paper analyses ...
Karaoğlu, Iren Eylül (Date of defense: 2024-03-06)
This Ph.D. thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the intercultural policies by focusing on the perspectives of different actors about urban encounters and public ...
Masias Bruns, Mireia (Date of defense: 2024-07-08)
Psychotic disorders are characterized by poorly understood pathophysiological mechanisms, with a remarkable heterogeneity among patients, both cross-sectionally and longitudinally. This results in a lack of definitive ...
Baseer, Irum (Date of defense: 2024-07-04)
Medical visualization, commonly used in clinical routine for exploring cardiac data, is based on traditional techniques including multiplanar reformations, maximum intensity projection, and volume rendering that rely ...
Mozorov, Vladislav (Date of defense: 2024-05-27)
This thesis consists of three essays on identification, estimation, and inference on distributional features of heterogeneous parameters using panel data. In the first chapter, Christian Brownlees and I consider the ...
de la Presa, Lucia (Date of defense: 2024-03-05)
This dissertation is an exploration of discourses representing the political life, death, and continued presence of Marielle Franco following her assassination on 14 March 2018. Marielle Franco was a councilwoman in the ...
Salvador-Mata, Bertran (Date of defense: 2024-06-25)
Aquesta recerca analitza la producció científica en la disciplina acadèmica del periodisme a Espanya (1980-2022). Per fer-ho, utilitza l’eina de clusterització algorítmica citation topic (InCites Clarivate Analytics, Web ...
Mora Rodríguez, Michael (Date of defense: 2024-05-14)
This doctoral thesis examines police border checks organised in the Spain – France border area (La Jonquera – Le Perthus). The main objective of these police checks is to prevent illegal activities (i.e., crime control). ...
Zhang, Han (Date of defense: 2024-05-13)
Our language capacity emerges robustly and universally in development, it lies at the heart of our human experience from the beginning of a human life, and remains relatively stable across the lifespan. Yet its vulnerability ...
Akıncı, Müge (Date of defense: 2024-07-18)
This thesis explores early pathophysiological processes related to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and their associations with modifiable factors in cognitively unimpaired, middle-aged individuals at risk of AD. Through five ...
Ciocia, Annagiulia (Date of defense: 2024-07-18)
The RNA-binding protein CSDE1 is a key regulator of mRNA stability and translation, involved in a wide range of biological processes. Alterations of CSDE1 expression and/or genetic mutations have been found in neurode ...
Weber, Lucas (Date of defense: 2024-05-03)
Language models (LMs) have evolved to become remarkably capable yet similarly complex and intransparant systems. Our ability to understand how they achieve their outstanding traits – i.e. making them interpretable – can ...
Rovira Cisterna, Sergi (Date of defense: 2024-05-29)
In recent years, the field of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has become one of the main pilars for privacy-preserving technologies. However, many challenges still remain to be tackled before this technology can be ...
Velamazán Martínez, Mariano (Date of defense: 2024-05-16)
This thesis, a compendium of publications, aims at contributing knowledge to better design CSCL tools for promoting socioemotional interactions and regulation. We started with a field study in which we observed groups ...
Montañés Domínguez, José Carlos (Date of defense: 2024-07-11)
This thesis analyzes the generation of new genes created de novo and evaluates their evolution mainly in yeast but also in flies. First of all, we used next generation sequencing technology to analyze both new sequences ...
Guin Freire, Cindy Patricia (Date of defense: 2024-04-26)
La siguiente investigación ha tenido como objetivo conocer las percepciones que la aplicación del derecho a la rectificación, en torno a la Ley Orgánica de Comunicación, tuvo en Ecuador durante los gobiernos de Rafael ...
Li, Mingzhu (Date of defense: 2024-04-17)
Esta tesis se centra en el estudio de una de las aplicaciones más utilizadas por la ciudadanía en China para informarse, los agregadores de noticias. Tiene como objetivo general la identificación de las características que ...
Cámbara Ruiz, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2024-04-02)
This dissertation investigates three methods for improving speech recognition in challenging conditions, focusing on feature enhancement and extending beyond spectral features. First, it demonstrates that incorporating ...