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    Shaping mammalian tissues with light : optogenetic control of apical constriction 

    Martínez Ara, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2022-09-19)

    During embryonic development, cellular forces synchronize in space and time to generate functional tissue shapes. Apical constriction is a force-generating process necessary to provoke the folding of multiple organ primordia ...

    Towards audio-visual deep learning methods for singing voice separation and lip synchronization 

    Shenoy Kadandale, Venkatesh (Date of defense: 2022-09-08)

    A typical music audio consists of different sounds spread across voices and musical instruments. We propose a low-cost deep learning (DL) method for simultaneously isolating multiple sound sources present in a music ...

    Decision-making during action 

    Ozbagci, Duygu (Date of defense: 2022-09-12)

    Decision making requires coordinating motor actions that are necessary to report the choices and sample relevant information from the environment. For instance, when riding a bike on a busy road, rider must both pedal while ...

    Computational image analysis methods for the study of perinatal brain development 

    Urru, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-28)

    Perinatal medicine has drawn increasing attention by the neuroscientific research community, as an early detection of most pathologies leads to more effective therapies and treatments. Monitoring fetal and neonatal brain ...

    Joan Fuster i la traducció: les actuacions i les idees en el seu context històric. La llengua literària i les solucions de traducció de La Pesta (1962) i L'estrany (1967) d'Albert Camus 

    Cerdà Mollà, Francesca (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)

    Joan Fuster és una de les personalitats que més han contribuït a la cultura catalana contemporània des del País Valencià. La traducció va ser una de les nombroses activitats literàries i culturals que va realitzar. Això ...

    The Role of leaders' characteristics on governments formation 

    Huidobro Torres, Alba (Date of defense: 2022-07-15)

    This Ph.D. dissertation examines the extent to which the personal characteristics of political leaders affect their political ambition and government formation processes. While the literature shows that government ...

    Managing crises beyond the EU borders: a network-based analysis 

    Bravo Laguna, Carlos D. (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)

    This thesis discusses the role and weight of the European Union institutions and Member States in the responses to three crises whose epicenters are located beyond the EU borders. To do so, it examines the responses to the ...

    Banco de datos terminológicos para el Mercosur: una propuesta de modelo 

    Amaro de Melo, Bianca (Date of defense: 2003-12-05)

    Presenta, a partir de las bases teóricas de la Teoría Comunicativa de la Terminología , una propuesta de modelo de construcción y gestión de un banco de datos terminológicos para el Mercado Común del Sur. Para llegar ...

    Algorithmic fairness in practice: data, models and interactions 

    Solans Noguero, David (Date of defense: 2022-09-14)

    The fast-growing adoption of technologies based on Machine Learning (ML), in addition to the large scale at which they operate, makes them a potential source of systematic discrimination against disadvantaged social ...

    Modeling timbre for neural singing synthesis: methods for data-efficient, reduced effort voice creation, and fast and stable inference 

    Blaauw, Merlijn (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)

    Singing synthesis has seen a notable surge in popularity in the last decade and a half. Music producers use this technology as an instrument, there is an audience for music with synthetic vocals, and an entire range of ...

    A data driven framework for mental health states assessment in social platforms 

    Ramírez Cifuentes, Diana (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)

    The link between mental disorders and social media usage has led researchers to work on the development of automated methods to detect mental health issues in social platforms. This thesis proposes a framework for mental ...

    Using EEG-based BCI settings and brain-state dependent stimulation as research tools for hypothesis-testing in cognitive neuroscience: a test-bench for brain-behavioural 

    Vigué-Guix, Irene (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)

    Spontaneous oscillations in the alpha band (α, 8–12 Hz) reflect ongoing fluctuations in cortical excitability. Several theoretical frameworks and empirical studies have supported the notion that distinct features of ...

    Modelling the dawn of simple multicellularity : Cooperation, physics and evolutionary branching 

    Bonforti, Adriano (Date of defense: 2022-07-27)

    L'aparició de la pluricel·lularitat (MC) va definir un esdeveniment evolutiu important en la història de la vida al nostre planeta. Ha tingut lloc diverses vegades dins de grups independents i diferents enfocaments han ...

    International animal law: the case of farm animal welfare 

    Prasličková, Aurélia (Date of defense: 2022-07-19)

    Animal welfare has emerged as a pervasive concern in modern international law. Although the question of animal welfare is one of the greatest social justice issues of our times, there is a surprising lack of legal ...

    La Producción periodística en contextos de alta complejidad: periodismo deportivo en Cuba durante los Juegos Olímpicos (1976-2016) y periodismo deportivo en la fase más aguda de una pandemia mundial (covid-19) 

    Hasbani, Víctor (Date of defense: 2022-07-06)

    Esta tesis estudia la producción periodística en contextos de alta complejidad: Periodismo deportivo en Cuba durante los Juegos Olímpicos (1976-2016) y periodismo deportivo en la fase más aguda de una pandemia mundial ...

    Exploration of music collections with audio embeddings 

    Tovstogan, Philip (Date of defense: 2022-07-12)

    Music recommendation systems (RecSys) are integral to modern music streaming services. While there is much research on many aspects of RecSys, there is not enough research on exploration and discovery that contributes to ...

    Social media analysis for situational awareness and impact assessment in flood risk management 

    Lorini, Valerio (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)

    The interactions among people on social media are a form of distributed intelligence, as they allow people to make sense of a developing event collectively. Social media users can contribute to creating a "sensor" for ...

    Cellular senescence in skeletal muscle regeneration, ageing and disease 

    Moiseeva, Victoria (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)

    Este proyecto se centra en el papel de las células senescentes durante la regeneración muscular desde varios ángulos. Para llevarlo a cabo, hemos desarrollado una técnica novedosa para poder aislar células senescentes ...

    Gene expression regulation in fission yeast : from splicing to MBF-dependent transcription 

    Borao Arriazu, Sonia (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)

    Schizosaccharomyces pombe initiates sexual development under nitrogen starvation, changing the transcription patterns of many genes to allow sexual differentiation. MBF transcription factor recognize specific sequences ...

    Role of brain-muscle circadian clock communication in skeletal muscle homeostasis and aging 

    Vaca Dempere, Mireia (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)

    Daily time-keeping of tissue functions promotes efficient organ function and systemic metabolic homeostasis, processes integral to life which are subject to decline with aging. To ensure the correct functional coordination ...