Lombardi, María (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
This thesis is composed of three independent articles. The first chapter studies a nationwide teacher pay-for-performance program in Peru, and shows that it had a precisely estimated null impact on ...
Williams, Tomás (Date of defense: 2017-05-26)
This thesis provides an empirical investigation of international capital flows and how they affect financial markets and economic activity, with a focus on capital flows from benchmarked investors. ...
Isús Díaz, Laura (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)
Since the advent of the genomic era, vast amounts of data from heterogeneous biomedical sources have been generated, revealing an overwhelming complexity and creating a need for new computational tools. ...
Millanes Romero, Alba (Date of defense: 2014-01-21)
Although heterochromatin is enriched with repressive traits, it is actively transcribed, giving rise to large amounts of non-coding RNAs. These transcripts are responsible for the formation and ...
Cid Samper, Fernando (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
Ribonucleoprotein granules (RNP granules) are liquid-liquid phase separated complexes composed mainly by proteins and RNA. They are responsible of many processes involved in RNA regulation. Alterations ...
Morales Muñoz, Araceli (Date of defense: 2022-03-16)
In this thesis, we address the problem of reconstructing the 3D facial geometry of babies from uncalibrated 2D images. This topic has many different applications, but it is especially relevant for the ...
José Segarra-Martínez, Anabel (Date of defense: 2011-12-13)
Els tractaments actuals pel càncer de pàncreas presenten un eficàcia limitada de manera que es necessari el desenvolupament de noves teràpies antitumorals. La teràpia gènica pel càncer de pàncreas basada ...
Pascual Cid, Victor (Date of defense: 2010-12-20)
El gran volumen de datos que las técnicas de minería Web generan sobre espacios Web puede llegar a ser muy difícil de entender, provocando la necesidad de desarrollar nuevas técnicas que permitan ...
Besedina, Elizaveta (Date of defense: 2023-05-12)
Determinar qué genes están bajo selección durante la evolución del cáncer puede explicar cómo se forman y progresan los tumores, y sugerir nuevos objetivos terapéuticos. Sin embargo, la detección de ...
Golez, Benjamin (Date of defense: 2011-05-11)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I show that information about dividends implied in derivative markets predicts future dividend growth and thereby improves the forecasts of ...