Cimentada, Jorge (Date of defense: 2019-09-25)
By placing particular attention to the socio-economic dimension, this thesis explores the role of three pillars of an educational system: decentralization, early education and curricular tracking. The ...
Wohlmuth, Kata (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)
Mereological models are often used to account for distributive reference, which arises when the denotation of a linguistic expression holds of certain parts of the plurality to which it is applied. It ...
Puigdevall Costa, Pau (Date of defense: 2019-01-17)
Understanding the molecular basis of human inherited disease is a challenging task due to the complexity of mapping the genotype to the phenotype. The study of diseases running in families has shown ...
Ou, Shengliang (Date of defense: 2019-07-03)
This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomic policy and business cy-cles. In chapter 1, I estimate a time-varying structural VAR to study the effects of government spending shocks on a number ...
Gil-Porquet, Fernando (Date of defense: 2019-03-08)
By examining the framing that political actors made of the upcoming landmark LOAPA, Rumasa and abortion decisions issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court between 1980 and 1983, its influence on public ...
Martínez Solanas, Èrica (Date of defense: 2019-02-28)
Exposure to ambient temperatures has been widely described as an important health hazard. The most studied effect of temperatures is an increase on mortality; however, there is less evidence on other ...
Sayols Baixeras, Sergi (Date of defense: 2019-02-18)
La malaltia cardiovascular, que és primera causa de mortalitat al món, com a fenotip complex depèn tant dels factors ambientals com dels genètics. Les variants genètiques comunes expliquen un 15-20% ...
Szabó, Viktória (Date of defense: 2019-03-13)
The demographic shift toward an aging population is increasing the burden of public health. On average, a person of 70 years can combine the intake of up to seven medications. The administration of ...
Trifan, Isabella Ana-Maria (Date of defense: 2019-07-26)
The topic of this thesis is the just distribution of the costs of children. In particular, it asks whether an ideal liberal egalitarian society owes it to the parents to ensure that the costs of children ...
Taberner Pérez, Laura (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
Cranial sensory ganglia are groups of neurons located in the head of chordates outside the central nervous system that allow individuals to sense and perceive information from the outer world. The ...