Martínez Corral, Rosa (Date of defense: 2018-09-28)
In this Thesis we have studied how dynamics and space modulate cellular behaviour, by means of mathematical modelling of particular biological examples. At the single cell level, we show how pulsatile ...
Gabaldà Sagarra, Marçal (Date of defense: 2017-01-23)
Living beings strive to survive and reproduce. To do so they need to monitor and adapt to a dynamic environment, taking advantage of the opportunities and dodging the threats that they may encounter. ...
Obradors Rial, Núria (Date of defense: 2015-12-05)
The current doctoral thesis aims to know which individual and contextual factors determine risky alcohol consumption among adolescents, and concretely, to study the differences of consumption between ...
Ibáñez Soria, David (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)
In the last decade recurrent neural networks have revolutionized the field of artificial intelligence. Their cyclic connections provide them with memory and thus with the capability of modeling processes ...
Galera Laporta, Letícia (Date of defense: 2019-02-08)
Bacterial proliferation has been studied for more than 100 years, but our knowledge of the mechanisms that control its dynamical aspects is still very limited. In this Thesis we have studied, at both ...
Manubens-Gil, Linus (Date of defense: 2018-01-18)
During the last century the nervous system has been mainly studied from a reductionistic approach, based on the hypothesis that understanding in depth single neurons or limited neuronal populations would ...