Llop Gironés, Alba (Date of defense: 2018-11-21)
The present thesis aims to give a critical overview of the health care and health inequalities for the Mozambican case. The thesis is divided into four articles, two of them are quantitative articles ...
Figueroa Encina, Patricio (Date of defense: 2018-10-05)
El objeto de estudio de esta investigación es el ecosistema de noticias periodísticas de la web móvil, atendiendo a su distribución mediante aplicaciones para dispositivos móviles y agregadores de ...
Cao, Shuyuan (Date of defense: 2018-11-09)
As one of the essential elements for Natural Language Processing (NLP), discourse has called much attention during recent years. Many studies explore the role of how discourse elements affect in different ...
Passetti, Francesco (Date of defense: 2018-06-05)
This thesis investigates immigrant integration policies paying special attention to the Spanish and Italian citizenship regimes. It hinges upon a multi-method design and its results take the shape of a ...
Simó Riudalbas , Marc (Date of defense: 2018-07-20)
Until relatively recently, many groups of terrestrial reptiles were considered to contain only few species vastly distributed across the Arabian Peninsula. This was mostly the result of the apparent ...
Navarro Romero, Alba (Date of defense: 2018-11-27)
Intellectual disability encompasses several neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by impairments in cognitive and adaptive functioning with onset during the developmental period. Currently, treatment ...
Gallo López, Carolina (Date of defense: 2018-01-11)
Understanding how the growth rate is regulated in bacteria is an ongoing challenge in biology and its controlled regulation would have a great impact in the biotechnological industry. Growth rates may ...
Faraldo Pérez, Ángel (Date of defense: 2018-03-19)
This dissertation revolves around the task of computational key estimation in electronic dance music, upon which we perform three interrelated operations. First, we attempt to detect possible misconceptions ...
Pedragosa Marín, Mireia (Date of defense: 2018-03-21)
The processes and mechanisms of virus infection fate decisions that are the result of a dynamic virus - immune system interaction with either an efficient effector response and virus elimination or an ...
Parameswaran, Janani (Date of defense: 2018-03-09)
Lack of function of ALDP in mouse leads to a late onset disease, characterized by spastic paraparesis and degeneration of corticospinal tracts, without signs of inflammatory demyelization resembling AMN ...