Solé Morata, Neus (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)
The Y chromosome is the longest non-recombining DNA sequence of the human genome. This avoidance of recombination, together with its paternal inheritance, makes the Y chromosome a powerful tool with ...
Ibáñez Lillo, Alexandra (Date of defense: 2017-02-24)
In order to find the referents of words, infants rely on constrains that guide their interpretations. Currently, little is known about how language environment influences referent identification. ...
Errasti Lopez, Ander (Date of defense: 2017-07-27)
This thesis consists of a thorough analysis and subsequent critical review of Ulrich Beck's cosmopolitan proposal. I basically challenge his three main normative assumptions: national secularism, ...
Mirambell i Fargas, Miquel (Date of defense: 2017-07-18)
In principle, contracts are enforceable mutually beneficial agreements. In the event of a breach of contract, many national, supranational, and international legal systems—as well as recent European ...
Şentürk, Sertan (Date of defense: 2017-02-22)
This thesis addresses several shortcomings on the current state of the art methodologies in music information retrieval (MIR). In particular, it proposes several computational approaches to automatically ...
Castellví Fernández, Quim (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Most physical ablation modalities for cancer treatment are focal and are based on thermal damage. Despite their regular clinical use as an alternative to surgical resection, their thermal principle of ...
Sun, Yucheng (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
Based on high-frequency price data, this thesis focuses on estimating the realized covariance and the integrated volatility of asset prices, and applying volatility estimation to price jump detection. ...
Göksu, Fatih (Date of defense: 2017-01-20)
European education programs and European identity are acknowledged as inextricable concepts considering the fact that education programs such as Erasmus plays an important role on the construction of ...
Igualada Pérez, Alfonso (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
In everyday interactions, speakers integrate gestures and speech sounds at a temporal level. One of the linguistic functions of temporally synchronous gesture-speech combinations is to provide prominence ...
Maier, Michael (Date of defense: 2017-03-30)
Successful chromosome segregation is crucial for the survival of a cell and to avoid diseases such as cancer. Anaphase bridges are a type of segregation defect that can arises from structurally compromised ...