Blair, David Sutherland (Date of defense: 2023-04-24)
The past decade has seen several attempts to employ the entropy of neuroimaging signals as a potential biomarker for cognitive decline or traumatic brain injury (C. Y. Liu et al. 2013; Adhikari et al. ...
Ghifrani, Erfan (Date of defense: 2022-10-26)
Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, ...
Vidal, María Sol (Date of defense: 2024-04-15)
Organisms need to integrate its previous experience with its current internal state in order to deliver a suitable response to dynamic changes in their environment. This thesis is devoted to analyze, ...
Kennedy, Keith Endres (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)
This thesis focuses on the multiscale nature of the biological process that underpin the function of all living systems. A first project centers on the disease known as multiple sclerosis, and utilizes ...
Toscano Ochoa, Carlos (Date of defense: 2021-04-19)
One of the branches of synthetic biology pursues the creation of a biological computer. Many have successfully implemented simple logic circuits rewiring cellular components. However, these circuits may ...
Aguilar Fernández, Sergio (Date of defense: 2024-04-24)
The intrinsic complexity and dynamic nature of B-lymphocytes make them ideal for in-depth analysis using single-cell technologies. Secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs) are central in B-lymphocyte activation ...
Pirla Lopez, Sergio (Date of defense: 2022-05-04)
This thesis consists of three chapters that improve our knowledge of how income shapes well-being. Chapter 1 (“Measuring Affect Dynamics: An Empirical Framework”) presents an empirically-derived ...
Dhandapani, Laasya (Date of defense: 2022-05-04)
En este proyecto, hemos desarrollado métodos que permiten la caracterización comparativa basada en imágenes en vivo de ovocitos primordiales de humano, ratón y Xenopus. Mostramos que los ovocitos ...
Martínez Sanromà, Oriol (Date of defense: 2022-05-06)
La presente tesis doctoral efectúa una aproximación a la motivación al delito desde una perspectiva dogmática. El objetivo es doble. Por un lado, establecer una base de incriminación materialmente ...
Piñero, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-05-08)
This thesis aims at establishing the basis for a statistical physics theory of major evolutionary transitions. Its structure is based on three major pillars: nonequilibrium thermodynamics and information ...