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    Household heterogeneity and Incomplete Financial Markets: Asset Return Implications in a Real Business Cycle Setup 

    Carceles Poveda, Eva (Date of defense: 2001-10-23)

    Uno de los problemas principales de la literature moderna de ciclos es la imposibilidad de replicar el comportamiento de los rendimientos de activos financieros. Varios autores han incorporado mercados financieros en el ...

    How do infants represent others?: biases towards native language and rational agents 

    Colomer Canyelles, Marc (Date of defense: 2019-10-02)

    Much of the information infants acquire they learn it by observing and interacting with others. However, not all individuals provide information that is functionally and/or culturally relevant. Infants’ capacity of identifying ...

    How new technologies change politics 

    Schöll, Nikolas Bahati (Date of defense: 2022-01-14)

    This dissertation investigates how new technologies such as social media, digitalizing workplaces, and robotization change society and politics. The first chapter focuses on new technologies affecting the democratic ...

    Hölderlin, Cernuda y Gebser: historia de una traducción 

    Gasó Gómez, Nuria (Date of defense: 2022-10-13)

    Aquesta tesi presenta una recerca entorn de les traduccions que de Friedrich Hölderlin van realitzar, a quatre mans, el poeta i editor alemany Hans Gebser i el poeta sevillà Luis Cernuda per a la revista Cruz y Raya de ...

    Human genetic disorders: Mendelian and complex diseases 

    Spataro, Nino (Date of defense: 2016-10-26)

    From Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, many years elapsed before human diseases were considered in an evolutionary framework. Besides theoretical and empirical advances, we are far from the complete understanding of ...

    Human genetic diversity in genes related to host-pathogen interactions 

    Ferrer i Admetlla, Anna (Date of defense: 2009-01-07)

    La tesi que teniu a les mans recull quatre treballs amb un objectiu comú; determinar si els patògens (virus, bacteris, paràsits.) han exercit pressions selectives sobre els genomes dels seus hostes (com per exemple els ...

    Human population genetics of North Africa: insights into demography and functional variation 

    Lucas-Sánchez, Marcel (Date of defense: 2023-09-18)

    Since the origins of humankind, North Africa has been involved in many demographic events, leading to a heterogeneous cultural and genetic landscape. However, it is largely underrepresented in genetic studies, and many ...

    Human population genomics of the Western Mediterranean 

    Biagini, Simone Andrea (Date of defense: 2019-07-17)

    This work explores the genetic landscape of the Western Mediterranean basin. Genome-wide data have been used in order to describe the genetics of the Island of Ibiza and France. In the first case, we found Ibiza being ...

    Human-centered learning design with technology 

    Garreta Domingo, Muriel (Date of defense: 2018-07-25)

    To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in all stages of the ...

    Human-centered machine learning for music emotion recognition 

    Gómez Cañón, Juan sebastián (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)

    This doctoral thesis is focused on music in terms of emotion -- such algorithms compose the computational task of music emotion recognition (MER). MER evaluates emotionally relevant features from music, correlates them ...

    Human-computer interaction with older people 

    Sayago Barrantes, Sergio (Date of defense: 2009-07-24)

    L'envelliment de la població i la importància de les TIC a la societat actual han motivat la necessitat d'integrar més a les persones grans en la interacció persona-ordinador. La investigació actual es centra en factors ...

    Humor y discurso político: el humor como recurso de opinión y crítica en la prensa contemporánea griega y española 

    Zavitsanou, Theofylakti (Date of defense: 2016-01-29)

    The present thesis analyses political humour as an opinion and critical discourse of political power. This kind of discourse is reviewed historically on one hand and placed in the context of political debate in contemporary ...

    Hybridization in Candida yeast pathogens 

    Mixão, Verónica de Pinho (Date of defense: 2020-10-20)

    Candida species are among the most important fungal pathogens. Although Candida albicans is the most common cause of Candida infections, many other Candida species have emerged as pathogens. How pathogenicity is evolutionary ...

    "I love my body!" : the representations of body image in television advertising and the child audience 

    Sánchez Reina, Jesús Roberto (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)

    This dissertation analyzes the representation of body image in television advertising and its mediating role in children’s body imaginaries. Based on a theoretical framework supported on the social theories of the body and ...

    ICAT: a novel Ptf 1A/P48 partner that modulates acinar expression 

    Campos, Maria Luisa Morais Sarmento de (Date of defense: 2010-04-09)

    Ptf1a/p48 is a pancreas specific bHLH transcription factor that is required at early stages of embryonic development for pancreas formation and, during adulthood, for the proper exocrine pancreatic function. P48 also exerts ...

    Iconografía del ojo: A partir del cine de autores afines a la estética surrealista (1926-1932) 

    Clariana Rodagut, Ainamar (Date of defense: 2017-10-04)

    The aim of this research is to analyze the apearance of theye's visual motif, interpreted in its corespondence betwen the iner eye and the outer eye. This corelation wil be studied in the films: Emak Bakia (1926), ...

    Iconología del Monte de Perfección. Para una teoría de la imagen en San Juan de la Cruz 

    Serra Zamora, Anna (Date of defense: 2010-12-14)

    Este trabajo pretende establecer una teoría de la imagen en San Juan de la Cruz a partir de los textos del autor y de la interpretación del dibujo del Monte de perfección o Monte Carmelo (ca.1580). Nuestro estudio parte ...

    Identidad del orden jurídico y régimen político 

    Vilajosana Rubio, Josep M. (Josep Maria) (Date of defense: 1993-12-20)

    A la primera part, l'autor tracta de demostrar que certs criteris formals d'identitat d'un ordre jurídic (com els defensats per Austin, Kelsen y Hart) no resulten satisfactoris, perquè ignoren la repercussió que sobre ...

    Identificació i compliment del dret en la societat de la informació: reflexions sobre la teoria del sistema jurídic 

    Rosell Llorens, Mariona (Date of defense: 2017-06-20)

    L’ús generalitzat de les tecnologies de la informació i comunicació (TIC) i la connectivitat ha comportant un canvi social determinant en el context actual, la Societat de la Informació. Aquest treball planteja un exercici ...

    Identification and characterization of a novel population of memory B cells in the human intestine 

    Comerma Blesa, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-07-12)

    We found that IgM+IgD- memory (ME-M) B cells formed a large reservoir of intestinal antigen-selected IgM+ lymphocytes distinct from antigen-naïve IgM+ lymphocytes. Human ME-M B cells colonized the intestine early in life, ...