Galceran-Vercher, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-01)
The doctoral thesis City Networks in Global Governance: Practices, Discourses and Roles analyses the implications of the revamping international activism of cities for global governance. The central ...
Lee, Adam (Date of defense: 2022-07-29)
This thesis consists of three chapters which relate to problems of statistical inference in (potentially) non-regular semiparametric models. Chapter 1 considers hypothesis testing problems in ...
Gignac, Florence (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)
The short-term effects of air pollution on brain health have come under investigation only recently. Since environmental health studies are often developed entirely by scientists, citizen science is a ...
Porcaro, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2022-12-16)
This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, ...
Picón Pagès, Pol (Date of defense: 2022-09-09)
Society increase in live expectancy will cause a rise in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) diagnosis, thus, there is a need to further understand how it works. One of the main culprits of this disease amyloid-β ...
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 ...
Ulysse, Laura (Date of defense: 2022-11-04)
The spatiotemporal properties of the cerebral and behavioral networks are key elements to understand normal brain functioning and their breakdowns. This dissertation focuses on the cerebral networks of ...
Paneque Martin, Andreu (Date of defense: 2022-11-04)
This thesis is focused on studying the causes and consequences of political professionalisation, by analyzing empirically the cross-country differences. Despite the literature claiming that political ...
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 ...
Santiago-Marrero, Carlos G. (Date of defense: 2022-12-09)
Çatalhöyük is a 9,000-year-old settlement located in the Konya Plain, Turkey. Thanks to the remarkable preservation of its material culture, Çatalhöyük expanded our understanding of the neolithic lifeways ...