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High reputation companies' social media performance in the context of Chinese digital market: based on Sina Weibo and WeChat platforms

He, Xia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-12-13)

This research aims to explore and evaluate thirty Chinese and thirty Occidental high reputation companies’ social media performance on two most popular Chinese social media platforms: Sina Weibo and WeChat. A synthetic ...
Content-dependent biases in social learning strategies : a multiscale approach

Carrignon, Simon, 1987- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-11-15)

In this thesis, we have quantified the influence of content-dependent biases in social learning strategies. Our theoretical framework combines agent-based models and Bayesian inference to measure content-dependent biases ...
Uncovering the interplay between call fate specification and progenitor dynamics during the development of the lower rhombic lip

Belzunce Guillermo, Ivan, 1992- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-11-08)

The Lower Rhombic Lip (LRL) is a transient neuroepithelial structure of dorsal hindbrain that gives rise to deep brainstem nuclei like the vestibular, auditory and precerebellar nuclei. In this work, we have followed the ...
The political economy of transportation investment

Glaeser, Edwar L.; Ponzetto, Giacomo A. M. (Elsevier, 2018)

Will politics lead to over-building or under-building of transportation projects? In this paper, we develop a model of infrastructure policy in which politicians overdo things that have hidden costs and underperform tasks ...
Adaptive features of natural killer cells in multiple sclerosis

Moreira Villanueva, Antía; Alari-Pahissa, Elisenda; Munteis Olivas, Elvira; Vera, Andrea; Zabalza, Ana; Llop, Mireia; Villarrubia, Noelia; Costa García, Marcel, 1989-; Álvarez-Lafuente, Roberto; Villar, Luisa Maria; López-Botet, M. (Miguel); Martínez-Rodriguez, José E. (Frontiers, 2019)

Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) has been recently related with a lower susceptibility to multiple sclerosis (MS). HCMV promotes an adaptive development of NK cells bearing the CD94/NKG2C receptor with a characteristic phenotypic ...