Viñas Castells, Rosa (Date of defense: 2013-05-24)
Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a process by which epithelial cells acquire a mesenchymal phenotype. It is characterized by the down-regulation of the adherens junction protein E-cadherin, ...
Obućina, Ognjen (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)
The broad objective of this thesis is to study the patterns of objective and subjective well-being among the immigrants in Europe. The main part of the thesis consists of three single-authored empirical ...
Laureys, Lien (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
This thesis sheds light on several macroeconomic aspects of the labor market and economic policy. Chapter 1 analyzes whether the presence of human capital depreciation during unemployment calls for ...
Brückner, Markus (Date of defense: 2010-11-15)
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter examines empirically the relationship<br/>between foreign aid and economic growth in the Least Developed Countries. Instrumental<br/>variables ...
Cojuharenco, Irina (Date of defense: 2007-06-27)
La evaluación de las experiencias extendidas en el tiempo se puede hacer de muchas formas. El paradigma --hedometer' en economía sugiere que la evaluación global de la experiencia se puede explicar por ...
Kozyczkowska, Aleksandra (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)
To address one of the most fascinating questions in the history of life, the origin of animal multicellularity, we needed experimentally tractable representatives from each of the unicellular lineages, ...
De Filippi, Eleonora (Date of defense: 2022-11-23)
En las últimas décadas, un cambio de paradigma en el estudio y el tratamiento de los trastornos cerebrales ha hecho que se preste más atención a nuevas intervenciones terapéuticas. En esta línea, las ...
Zejcirovic, Dijana (Date of defense: 2018-07-13)
This thesis is composed of three articles. The first two chapters study the impact of pharmaceutical promotion of opioid analgesics in the US. In the first chapter, we find that counties, where sales ...
Sottile, Francesco (Date of defense: 2017-01-18)
Homotypic and heterotypic cell-cell fusion are key processes during development and tissue regeneration. On the other hand, aberrant heterotypic cell fusion between cancer and normal cells can contribute ...
Steccanella, Lorenzo (Date of defense: 2023-05-19)
Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL) has the potential to simplify the solution of environments with long horizons and sparse rewards. The idea behind HRL is to decompose a complex decision-making ...