Serbu, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2019-12-13)
This study is aimed at exploring the meaning of literary thinking as revealed in J. M. Coetzee’s approach to fictional writing. Unlike other prominent figures in contemporary literature, Coetzee has ...
Errasti Lopez, Ander (Date of defense: 2017-07-27)
This thesis consists of a thorough analysis and subsequent critical review of Ulrich Beck's cosmopolitan proposal. I basically challenge his three main normative assumptions: national secularism, ...
Sessa, Luca (Date of defense: 2011-07-27)
This thesis tackles three different issues of relevance for economic policy, with an explicit reference to the Euro area. Does the inclusion of monetary targeting in a monetary policy strategy improve ...
Pina, Gonçalo (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)
This thesis investigates two economic policy dimensions in contemporary world economy. The first chapter focuses on the recent accumulation of international reserves by central banks in developing ...
Pogorelova, Iryna (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
The present dissertation investigates the impact of university study abroad (SA) programmes on intercultural adaptation and intercultural sensitivity of bilingual students from a multilingual and ...
López García de Lomana, Adrián (Date of defense: 2010-10-19)
Els mecanismes de regulaci o de les c el lules poden ser modelats per controlar i entendre la biologia cel lular. Diferents nivells d'abstracci o s'utilitzen per descriure els processos biol ogics. ...
Kanngiesser, Derrick (Date of defense: 2018-11-16)
This dissertation consists of three chapters related to questions in monetary economics and financial stability. In the first chapter I develop a simple model of financial crises in which the key ...
Gigli, Elena (Date of defense: 2011-06-20)
The evolutionary history of H. neanderthalensis, interwoven with that of H. sapiens, has always fascinated the scientific world. Recent adavncess in paleogenetics shedds new light on the phylogenetic ...
Martí Solano, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-02-10)
La caracterització de diversos fàrmacs capaços d’unir-se a receptors associats a proteïnes G (GPCR)s ha revelat que els seus mecanismes d’acció no eren tan simples com es creia. Primer, l’anàlisi de la ...
Calderón-Benavides, Liliana (Date of defense: 2011-09-27)
This doctoral work focuses on identifying and understanding the intents that motivate a user to perform a search on the Web. To this end, we apply machine learning models that do not require more ...