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Lugano, Roberta (Date of defense: 2013-12-10)
High levels of circulating low-density lipoproteins (LDL) are one of the major cardiovascular risk factors. Hypercholesterolemia induces endothelial dysfunction and chronic intimal inflammatory cell accumulation, hallmarks ...
Radó i Trilla, Núria (Date of defense: 2013-05-03)
In this thesis we aimed to study evolutionary implications of low-complexity regions, protein sequences of very simple amino acid composition. Its uncontrolled expansion causes several human diseases, including ...
Eksi, Ozan (Date of defense: 2010-06-29)
This thesis is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, I identify and explore the fundamental relationship between income inequality and GDP volatility. I give theoretical insight of this relationship alongside ...
Recabarren Silva, Lorena (Date of defense: 2014-07-04)
Diversos trabajos académicos, estudios de opinión pública así como la cotidiana realidad de América Latina, ponen de relieve la importancia de continuar con los esfuerzos por ampliar y profundizar nuestro entendimiento ...
Tarrés Larrègola, Mònica (Date of defense: 2021-03-16)
Aquesta tesi estudia el coneixement i l’ús de les propietats morfosintàctiques i discursives dels pronoms clítics d’acusatiu (el, la, els, les) i de datiu (li, els) de tercera persona i dels clítics en argumental, en ...
Suades Juncadella, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
L’objectiu general d’aquesta tesi és contribuir a omplir el buit bibliogràfic que existeix al voltant de la religiositat de Màrius Torres (1910-1942). La primera part està dedicada als seus antecedents religiosos. Es ...
Liao, Ruizhi (Date of defense: 2014-10-06)
IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks, especially the infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or Wi-Fi networks, are hugely successful, and have become an indispensable part of our life at homes and working ...
Cabrera Dalmazzo, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)
Gestures can be defined as a form of non-verbal communication associated with an intention or an emotional state articulation. They are not only intrinsically part of the human language, but also explain specific details ...
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 ...
Cuscó Pons, Pol (Date of defense: 2017-12-13)
Des de l’aparició de les tecnologies de seqüenciació d’alt rendiment, els conjunts de dades biològiques han esdevingut cada cop més grans i complexes, la qual cosa els fa pràcticament impossibles d’interpretar manualment. ...
Jiménez Luna, José (Date of defense: 2019-10-24)
Deep learning approaches have become increasingly popular in the last years thanks to their state-of the-art performance in fields such as computer vision and natural language understanding. The first goal of this thesis ...
Barbieri, Francesco (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)
In this dissertation we propose algorithms for the analysis of social media texts, focusing on two particular aspects: irony and emojis. We propose novel automatic systems, based on machine learning methods, able to recognize ...
Nogueira, Mariana (Date of defense: 2020-10-05)
Following-up on patient evolution by reacquiring the same measurements over time (longitudinal data) is a crucial component in clinical care dynamics, as it creates opportunity for timely decision making in preventing ...
Cabello Sánchez, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2023-02-23)
Localization is a fascinating field which has changed dramatically in the last years and it is still changing and adapting itself as society is. The use of machine translation has developed this field astonishingly. Many ...
Gutiérrez-Daza, Ángelo (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)
Empirical evidence suggests that consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other words, they learn by shopping. This dissertation studies the implications of this information friction ...
Alvarez-Cueva, Priscila (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)
This research uses mainstream music scenarios in Spain to explore its representations and problematize them from a critical gender perspective. Structured by four items, this work 1) situates mainstream music within the ...
Hong, Xiaotong (Date of defense: 2022-10-06)
La regeneración del músculo esquelético depende de la expansión correcta de las células madre inactivas residentes (células satélite), un proceso que se vuelve menos eficiente con el envejecimiento, por razones en gran ...
Torrens Fontanals, Mariona (Date of defense: 2022-02-11)
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a well-established technique to characterize the structural motions of biological systems at atomic resolution. However, accessing, viewing, and sharing MD trajectories is typically ...
Fernandez Julià, Carles (Date of defense: 2015-01-22)
The progressive appearance of affordable tabletop technology and devices urges humancomputer interaction researchers to provide the necessary methods to make this kind of devices the most useful to their users. Studies ...
Uležić, Sanjin (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)
La tesi es centra en l'actual interació de la lluita armada republicana a Irlanda del Nord, activa des de l'època del procés de pau a finals dels anys noranta. Tot i caracteritzar-se per una intensitat menor que la del ...