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 ...
Loedel Rois, Germán (Date of defense: 2013-01-31)
Esta tesis doctoral parte de la idea previa de que una parte importante de la reciente Historia de la traducción española (1939 - 1975) se escribió, por razones políticas, fuera del contexto peninsular, ...
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 ...
Izquierdo Sánchez, Cristóbal (Date of defense: 2017-01-27)
Esta investigación busca delimitar los criterios jurídico-penales conforme a los cuales debe ser afirmada, o en su caso rechazada, la relevancia típica del silencio en la configuración de una comisión ...
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 ...
Clemente Batalha Pardal, Diana (Date of defense: 2018-05-07)
Although universal and unavoidable, aging does not occur in a uniform way. In this dissertation, we assessed the effects of early life exposure to pro-inflammatory risk factors (air pollution and obesity) ...