Wang, Xinghua (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
The three chapters of this thesis investigate the external validity of social preference games. Chapter 1 reveals the context-dependent nature of human social behavior and shows that it is possible ...
Cash-Gibson, Lucinda (Date of defense: 2020-11-12)
This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this ...
Garriga Nogales, Edgar (Date of defense: 2022-02-15)
In these days of significant changes and the rapid evolution of technology, the amount of datascience has to deal with the growth incredibly fast, and the size of data could be prohibitive.Multiple ...
Rodríguez Galindo, Miguel (Date of defense: 2023-11-13)
Tumor progression is dominated by two evolutionary forces: first mutagenesis, which provides the heritable variability where, secondly, natural selection acts. The main challenge of cancer genomics is ...
Idesis, Sebastian Ariel (Date of defense: 2023-11-03)
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide and a major contributor to disability. However, our understanding of the consequences of stroke lesions remains limited, relying mainly on behavioral ...
Cepak, Roberta (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)
This study examines the opinions of the Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing and hearers of Spain with regards to the subtitling services currently offered by the Spanish Digital Television, with the aim of integrating ...
Jiménez Iglesias, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-12-13)
This doctoral thesis studies class-based social movements as a response to the collapse of the Spanish mode of capital accumulation, based on the financialization of housing and the extraction of rents. ...
Vicencio, Jeremy (Date of defense: 2021-09-03)
In this thesis, I present an alternative, cloning-free method for the generation of endogenous fluorescent reporters in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. I demonstrate that Nested CRISPR is an efficient ...
Stepniewski, Tomasz Maciej (Date of defense: 2020-01-09)
G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are the main acceptors of neurotransmitters, and thus play an important role in communication between neurons. Because of this they are an attractive drug target for ...
Moreno Lama, Lucía (Date of defense: 2020-01-16)
Los inhibidores de PARP han surgido como nuevas terapias basadas en el papel essencial de las Poly (ADP-ribosa) polimerasas PARP-1 y PARP-2 en la respuesta a daño en el DNA, explotando el efecto de las ...