Gutiérrez Páez, Nicolás Felipe (Date of defense: 2022-06-22)
The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, ...
Montes Franceschini, Macarena (Date of defense: 2022-10-05)
The thesis defends the plausibility of nonhuman animal personhood from a legal and moral perspective. It offers an ecumenical defense as it argues that animals can be considered persons from very ...
Chiavari, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-01)
This thesis documents novel firm-level facts and shows their implication for aggregate phenomena. The first chapter documents an increase in returns to scale in production. It proposes a novel ...
Gutiérrez-Daza, Ángelo (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)
Empirical evidence suggests that consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other words, they learn by shopping. This dissertation studies the implications of ...
Balbastre Català, Borja (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)
Dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinases (DYRKs) are a conserved family of protein kinases present in all eukaryotes. In mammals, the association of DYRKs with a wide variety of putative substrates ...
Tudela Pi, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-10-27)
Although the use of volumetric conduction to power wireless implants has been experimentally validated in recent years, a theoretical framework to determine the power and efficiency obtained by minimally ...
Martínez Ara, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2022-09-19)
During embryonic development, cellular forces synchronize in space and time to generate functional tissue shapes. Apical constriction is a force-generating process necessary to provoke the folding of ...
Borao Arriazu, Sonia (Date of defense: 2022-07-22)
Schizosaccharomyces pombe initiates sexual development under nitrogen starvation, changing the transcription patterns of many genes to allow sexual differentiation. MBF transcription factor recognize ...
El-Samadoni, Shahinaz (Date of defense: 2022-11-12)
The relationship between humanitarian campaigns and celebrity industry is complex and debatable. The pervasiveness of celebrity led campaigns has recently become a prominent issue in the non-profit ...
Lopera Marmol, Marta (Date of defense: 2022-12-12)
Las representaciones de los trastornos mentales en las series de televisión han sido a menudo inexactas. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la representación y la recepción de los trastornos ...