Ferreira Santos Luís, Rita (Date of defense: 2015-05-11)
The end of both Iberian Dictatorships, the New State in Portugal and Francoism is Spain, distanced more or less a year and a half. During this period, while Spain discussed a way out of Francoism, ...
Betella, Alberto (Date of defense: 2015-10-23)
Due to the complexity of the natural world, scientific studies on cognitive, behavioral and physiological phenomena are typically conducted under strict laboratory conditions. Nonetheless, recent ...
Martí Solano, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-02-10)
La caracterització de diversos fàrmacs capaços d’unir-se a receptors associats a proteïnes G (GPCR)s ha revelat que els seus mecanismes d’acció no eren tan simples com es creia. Primer, l’anàlisi de la ...
Alberdi Ibarzabal, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-07-24)
CD4+ T cells can adopt specific functional programs in response to changes in microenvironment variables, such as cytokine availability, cell-to-cell contacts and stress conditions. It has been described ...
Fouka, Vasiliki (Date of defense: 2015-06-20)
This thesis examines how culture | in the sense of identity and preferences | relates to economic decision-making. The rst chapter investigates how a prohibition of their native language in school a ...
Roth, Laura C. (Date of defense: 2015-01-08)
Justifying the use of criminal punishment is a difficult task in plural societies where people disagree about what is right and wrong. Nevertheless, they need to decide together. I argue that punishment ...
Herz, Benedikt (Date of defense: 2015-02-23)
This thesis consists of three essays. In the first essay, I empirically evaluate the importance of wait unemployment. Instead of taking the next best job, a displaced worker has an incentive to stay ...
Cavazza, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
To ensure faithful segregation of the genetic material, during mitosis the cell assembles the mitotic spindle, a macromolecular machine made of dynamic microtubules and associated proteins. Spindle ...
Ordeñana Rodríguez, Xavier (Date of defense: 2015-11-18)
This thesis presents three essays on emerging Markets, with a special emphasis in Ecuador. The thesis uses both individual level (Chapter 1) and firm level data (Chapter 2) from Ecuador. Using dynamic ...
Piñero González, Janet (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)
In the last two decades, the volume and variety of biomedical data has dramatically increased. The data is heterogeneous and scattered across many resources. This produces bottlenecks in the analysis ...