Peng, Haitao (Date of defense: 2021-05-03)
The thesis aims to analyze the role of Septem Victoriis (Qike 七克), an moral philosophy book of the Spanish Jesuit Diego de Pantoja, in the process of the reconstruction of the moral authority in late ...
Chronopoulou, Eleni (Date of defense: 2017-11-30)
This thesis is an edition of the Greek Magical Papyri I and VI+II. The edition contains: a) an introduction with information about the corpus of the magical papyri; b) a physical and textual description of ...
Koduri, Gopala Krishna (Date of defense: 2017-02-22)
This thesis is a result of our research efforts in building a multi-modal knowledgebase for the specific case of Carnatic music. Besides making use of metadata and symbolic notations, we process natural ...
Baumgartner, Laura (Date of defense: 2021-11-22)
It is well known that injuries affect the tissue integrity. It might be less known that injury mechanisms could be initiated through a compromised cell response, which subsequently affects the tissue ...
Secchi, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2005-07-01)
The main objective of this thesis is to offer empirical evidence in support of the hypothesis that differences in firms' balance sheet structures may generate heterogeneous responses to monetary policy ...
Morcillo Suárez, Carlos (Date of defense: 2011-12-19)
New approaches are needed to manage and analyze the enormous quantity of biological data generated by modern technologies. Existing solutions are often fragmented and uncoordinated and, thus, they require ...
Roca-Umbert Würth, Ana (Date of defense: 2021-12-22)
Zinc is an essential micronutrient involved in many different biological processes. Zinc homeostasis is mainly regulated by 24 zinc transporters coded by the Zinc Transporter Genes (ZTGs). Notably, zinc ...
López Carral, Héctor (Date of defense: 2023-03-13)
Emotions are a fundamental part of human life. They play a critical role in how we think, behave, and implicitly understand each other. However, although computing devices are increasingly consequential ...
Gignac, Florence (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)
The short-term effects of air pollution on brain health have come under investigation only recently. Since environmental health studies are often developed entirely by scientists, citizen science is a ...
Martínez García, Antonio (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
I joined the lab of Dra. Pura Muñoz to study the capacity of self-repair of skeletal muscle after an acute injury. During this process many different cell types interact to coordinate and regulate muscle ...