Cañadas Salvador, Helena (Date of defense: 2017-09-25)
Partimos de la presentación de la obra de Mark Rothko y de un análisis que nos descubre los “riesgos de lo sublime” en ella, para tomar después un punto de vista estético. Dirigiendo la atención al ...
Vouloutsi, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2017-11-07)
Due to technological advancements, robots will soon become part of our daily lives and interact with us on a frequent basis. Robot acceptance is important, as it delineates whether users will potentially ...
Paun, Bruno (Date of defense: 2017-07-24)
The role of trabeculations and their normal morphological expression in the human heart is still unclear. Clinical studies have shown that excessive trabeculation can cause heart failure due to diastolic ...
Jhanwar, Shalu (Date of defense: 2017-01-11)
Epigenetics provides a plausible link between the environment and changes in gene expression that might contribute to disease phenotypes. The main goal of the thesis is to study epigenomic variability ...
Alcocer Povis, Eduardo Giancarlos (Date of defense: 2017-02-17)
La reincidencia, como agravante de la pena, es uno de los temas más polémicos en el campo académico. Su validez ha sido puesta en cuestionamiento desde diversas perspectivas, tanto desde la dogmática ...
Reina Castillón, Judith (Date of defense: 2017-10-24)
Somatic genetic mosaicism can be present both in healthy individuals but also in subjects with certain conditions as ageing or cancer. Its detection by SNP array in blood can be used as biomarker of ...
Tang, Haozhou (Date of defense: 2017-12-11)
This thesis aims to better understand the interplay between financial markets and firm dynamics. In the first chapter I study the firm-level implications of asset bubbles. I relax the no-Ponzi-game ...
Jan, Budour H. (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is usually characterized by histological lesions of glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis (TIF). The progressive TIF is mediated by multiple mediators such as ...
Repke, Lydia (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
This dissertation explores how multicultural individuals acculturate, and how their personality traits and cultural identifications relate to the content and the structure of their habitual personal ...
Lloret, Mariona (Date of defense: 2017-01-20)
During the 1920s and 1930s dire economic conditions in the Greater Caribbean facilitated the rise of political regimes led by peculiar strongmen. This dissertation offers a comparative analysis on the ...