Torres Toda, Maria (Date of defense: 2022-09-30)
La urbanització mundial de la població està incrementat ràpidament. Aquesta actual vida en àrees urbanes pot fomentar una major exposició a certs contaminats, als estils de vida sedentaris, a nivells ...
Traveset Martínez, Laia (Date of defense: 2020-10-30)
Maintenance of steady-state and stress-adapted hematopoiesis depends on the fitness of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs) in the bone marrow. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can adapt to ...
Chan, Jenny (Date of defense: 2019-12-03)
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in macroeconomics and information frictions. In the first chapter, I relax the complete information assumption in the standard New ...
Delli Ponti, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2019-01-16)
The secondary structure of an RNA molecule is fundamental for its function. However, structural conservation and the structure of RNA in vivo are still poorly understood. Data from recent high-throughput ...
Sarasúa Berodia, Álvaro (Date of defense: 2017-05-29)
Interface metaphors are often used in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to exploit knowledge that users already have from other domains. A commonly used one in Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) is the ...
Silva, Pedro Luis Barbosa da (Date of defense: 2021-04-13)
This dissertation addresses several normative questions about tax competition between the European Union Member States. My answers to these questions are part of a wider way of thinking about justice ...
Lombardi, María (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first chapter studies a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program in Peru, and shows that it had a precisely estimated null impact on ...
Williams, Tomás (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of international capital flows and how they affect financial markets and economic activity, with a focus on capital flows from benchmarked investors. ...
Isús Díaz, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)
Since the advent of the genomic era, vast amounts of data from heterogeneous biomedical sources have been generated, revealing an overwhelming complexity and creating a need for new computational tools. ...
Millanes Romero, Alba (Date of defense: 2014-01-21)
Although heterochromatin is enriched with repressive traits, it is actively transcribed, giving rise to large amounts of non-coding RNAs. These transcripts are responsible for the formation and ...