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    Crítica de la razón virtual: las ciencias humanas del castigo y las personas jurídicas: un debate contemporáneo 

    Ballerini, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2023-05-26)

    1. ¿Es correcto llamar al Derecho en general y al Derecho penal en particular bajo el rotulo de ciencia? 2. ¿Es posible todavía hablar de libre albedrío como fundamento último de la responsabilidad penal? 3. ¿Cómo es ...

    Towards stigmergic heterogenous symbiotic robot teams: enhancing RFID-based stigmergic robots for mapless environments 

    Alajami, Abdussalam A. (Date of defense: 2023-05-03)

    The study in this thesis presents new solutions for increasing the performance of RFID-based inventory robots. The first novel solution is the design of an RFID-based inventory aerial robot for the problem of stock-counting ...

    Estiba portuaria y libre mercado europeo: debates de derecho del trabajo en el marco del proceso de liberalización del sector en España 

    Güell Bargalló, Judit (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)

    El propósito liberalizador de la Unión Europea en el sector de la estiba portuaria español marcado por la STJUE de 11 de diciembre de 2014 (C-576/13), que llevó al ejecutivo a iniciar la reforma del sistema de gestión ...

    La contribución delictiva simulada 

    Gálvez Santibáñez, Jorge (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)

    El presente trabajo aborda el problema de la provocación a la comisión de delitos, el agente provocador y el delito provocado. Tras evidenciar las deficiencias terminológicas y conceptuales de la doctrina científica del ...

    Tracking lexical processing in bimodal bilingualism: evidence from Catalan sign language 

    Gimeno-Martínez, Marc (Date of defense: 2023-05-25)

    This dissertation focuses on the study of bimodal bilingual lexical processing in two different populations, deaf signers and hearing early sign language learners. We report evidence that iconicity influences sign retrieval ...

    Caracterización del papel de la ínsula en el control cardiovascular: estudio mediante estimulación eléctrica intracraneal 

    Sánchez Larsen, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)

    La ínsula es una región cerebral que participa en la regulación del sistema nervioso autonómico, pero su papel en el control cardiovascular central no está bien definido en la actualidad. Realizamos un estudio observacional ...

    Contributions to secure genomic human data sharing for precision medicine 

    Rambla, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-05-18)

    The advance of precision medicine depends on the availability of data that is continuously being generated in universities, research centres and hospitals world-wide. That data represents 1) the diversity of the human ...

    The nuclear pore complex in muscle stem cell function and aging 

    Cuenca Cortés, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-05-17)

    Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are necessary for stem cell maintenance, cell fate determination, and the aging process. The specific contribution of NPCs to the physiology of muscle stem cells (satellite cells, SCs) is ...

    Representation learning for hierarchical reinforcement learning 

    Steccanella, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)

    Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) has the potential to simplify the solution of environments with long horizons and sparse rewards. The idea behind HRL is to decompose a complex decision-making problem into ...

    Essays on behavioral economics 

    Puig Pomés, David (Date of defense: 2023-04-04)

    This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory, behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article (Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically well-documented driver ...

    Essays in industrial organisation 

    Ilango, Akhil (Date of defense: 2023-04-13)

    This thesis contains three chapters, each developing a theory and providing evidence on a unique and novel determinant of firms’ outcomes in the emerging and developed economies of 21st century. The first chapter examines ...

    Evolution of tissue-specific transcriptomes across bilaterian animals 

    Mantica, Federica (Date of defense: 2023-05-11)

    Regulated Gene Expression (rGE) and Alternative Splicing (rAS) are two of the main mechanisms contributing to tissue-phenotypic diversity within and between species. In this thesis, we aim at characterizing rGE and rAS ...

    Assessment of CRISPR-based genome editing tools for enhancing precision: a computational platform and novel factors for homology-directed repair 

    Sanvicente García, Marta (Date of defense: 2023-05-18)

    Precision and accuracy are paramount for the use of genome editing in clinic, environmental, and industrial applications. These fields require reliable and traceable results to ensure the safety and viability of the resulting ...

    Genomic signatures of conditional selection in different copy number states in human cancers 

    Besedina, Elizaveta (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)

    Determinar qué genes están bajo selección durante la evolución del cáncer puede explicar cómo se forman y progresan los tumores, y sugerir nuevos objetivos terapéuticos. Sin embargo, la detección de selección utilizando ...

    Essays on inequalities in economics of labor and education 

    Baertsch, Laurenz (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)

    This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public policies designed to reduce these inequalities. The first chapter studies whether part-time work options in paid parental ...

    Mirrors with unflattering reflections: moral rebels as fuel for social inertia or social change? 

    Brouwer, Claire (Date of defense: 2023-03-17)

    Individuals who deviate from majority practices based on moral objections can be crucial catalyzers of social change. However, according to prior work, these “moral rebels” are commonly met with defensiveness. Therefore, ...

    Using virtual reality to train public speaking skills in a secondary school setting 

    Valls-Ratés, Ïo (Date of defense: 2023-05-05)

    Training adolescent students to speak in public is crucial for the development of their oral competence but also beneficial for their social abilities, as it empowers them to engage in learning opportunities among their ...

    ¡Tiranos, temblad! Ejército y milicias de Montevideo en la crisis del Imperio (1750-1811) 

    Cherubini, María Belén (Date of defense: 2023-04-17)

    Este trabajo propone un análisis sobre la guarnición militar de Montevideo desde su creación hasta el estallido de la Revolución Oriental en 1811. Su objetivo es analizar la actuación del ejército y las milicias que allí ...

    Retrato de un perdedor: el último virrey de Nueva Granada Juan de Sámano 

    Montehermoso Jaramillo, María Isabel (Date of defense: 2023-04-24)

    A través de un seguimiento biográfico y cronológico, desde su nacimiento en 1753 en la Provincia de Selaya, Cantabria hasta la Ciudad de Panamá el 1 de agosto de 1821 fecha de su muerte, se construirá el retrato del último ...

    Los personajes femeninos creados por autoras latinoamericanas en la dècada de los 80: Una aproximación a la obra de Isabel Allende, Ángeles Mastretta y Gioconda Belli 

    López Escalante, Elena (Date of defense: 2023-04-19)

    Esta investigación explora los puntos comunes entre la realidad histórico-biográfica y la recreación literaria en tres novelas finiseculares publicadas por autoras hispanoamericanas: De amor y de sombra (1984), de Isabel ...