Janich, Peggy (Date of defense: 2012-02-16)
The natural daily cycles of light and dark have played a fundamental role in shaping the development of an adaptive intrinsic clock mechanism which allows organisms to coord ...
Higueras-Esteban, Alfredo (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
Neurosurgery is evolving towards the use of minimally invasive procedures. In this dissertation, we present several tools designed to fulfill the multimodal and multidisciplinary requirements of ...
Claveria i Alias, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
This thesis is focused on women in executive office. Whereas the literature on women's political representation in national parliaments is now well established, analyses of women in cabinets are rather ...
Serrano Muñoz, Jordi (Date of defense: 2019-06-28)
This thesis delves into the relationship between literature and power in the construction and reproduction of discourses of national representation, also called national narratives. This project explores ...
Peng, Haitao (Date of defense: 2021-05-03)
The thesis aims to analyze the role of Septem Victoriis (Qike 七克), an moral philosophy book of the Spanish Jesuit Diego de Pantoja, in the process of the reconstruction of the moral authority in late ...
Chronopoulou, Eleni (Date of defense: 2017-11-30)
This thesis is an edition of the Greek Magical Papyri I and VI+II. The edition contains: a) an introduction with information about the corpus of the magical papyri; b) a physical and textual description of ...
Koduri, Gopala Krishna (Date of defense: 2017-02-22)
This thesis is a result of our research efforts in building a multi-modal knowledgebase for the specific case of Carnatic music. Besides making use of metadata and symbolic notations, we process natural ...
Baumgartner, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
It is well known that injuries affect the tissue integrity. It might be less known that injury mechanisms could be initiated through a compromised cell response, which subsequently affects the tissue ...
Secchi, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2005-07-01)
The main objective of this thesis is to offer empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis that differences in firms' balance sheet structures may generate heterogeneous responses to monetary policy ...
Morcillo Suárez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2011-12-19)
New approaches are needed to manage and analyze the enormous quantity of biological data generated by modern technologies. Existing solutions are often fragmented and uncoordinated and, thus, they require ...