This thesis uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to explore the integration of Chinese minorities living in Spain – especially, of the second generation born or educated in the country – and the problems of discrimination. ...
Gene expression, epigenetic states and topological conformation are three fundamental
aspects of genome organization that are tightly regulated in space and time. Epigenetic states,
protein occupancy and chromatin modifications ...
The study in this thesis presents new solutions for increasing the performance of RFID-based inventory robots. The first novel solution is the design of an RFID-based inventory aerial robot for the problem of stock-counting ...
1. ¿Es correcto llamar al Derecho en general y al Derecho penal en
particular bajo el rotulo de ciencia? 2. ¿Es posible todavía hablar de
libre albedrío como fundamento último de la responsabilidad penal?
3. ¿Cómo es posible ...
Binge-eating disorder (BED) is a chronic eating disturbance that affects 1.6-2.0% of people worldwide.
It is characterised by recurrent episodes of consuming large amounts of food in a short period,
together with a sense ...
Hay personas que se pueden enfrentar, por unas razones u otras, a un tratamiento terapéutico en un idioma que no es su idioma nativo. Hasta la fecha, no hay apenas información de qué efecto tendría usar una lengua no nativa ...
El propósito liberalizador de la Unión Europea en el sector de la estiba portuaria español marcado por la STJUE de 11 de diciembre de 2014 (C-576/13), que llevó al ejecutivo a iniciar la reforma del sistema de gestión ...
El presente trabajo aborda el problema de la provocación a la comisión de delitos, el agente provocador y el delito provocado. Tras evidenciar las deficiencias terminológicas y conceptuales de la doctrina científica del ...
This dissertation focuses on the study of bimodal bilingual lexical processing in two different populations, deaf signers and hearing early sign language learners. We report evidence that iconicity influences sign retrieval ...
The aim of this thesis is to delve into sperm RNA dynamics during maturation and paternal inheritance. To obtain an integrative multi-omics view of sperm RNA during these processes, I turned to the new direct RNA sequencing ...
Esta Tesis Doctoral estudia la prevención de la hernia incisional en la cirugía urgente abdominal mediante el uso de malla profiláctica de refuerzo en la pared abdominal en posición suprafascial. Este aspecto está poco ...
Los organismos eucariotas abarcan una diversidad inmensa de formas, tamaños y estilos
de vida. Sin embargo, abordar la verdadera amplitud de esa diversidad es una tarea
laboriosa. Durante las últimas decadas, los estudios ...
This thesis contains three chapters, each developing a theory and providing evidence
on a unique and novel determinant of firms’ outcomes in the emerging and
developed economies of 21st century. The first chapter examines ...
The advance of precision medicine depends on the availability of data that is continuously being generated in universities, research centres and hospitals world-wide. That data represents 1) the diversity of the human ...
La ínsula es una región cerebral que participa en la regulación del sistema nervioso autonómico, pero su papel en el control cardiovascular central no está bien definido en la actualidad. Realizamos un estudio observacional ...
The generation of cell diversity in the embryonic brain relies on the balance
between cell proliferation and differentiation. The hindbrain boundary cells
specify at the interface between adjacent compartments. Boundary ...
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 problem into smaller, ...
Nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) are necessary for stem cell maintenance, cell fate determination, and the aging process. The specific contribution of NPCs to the physiology of muscle stem cells (satellite cells, SCs) is ...
This thesis consists of three independent essays on decision theory,
behavioral economics, and experimental economics. The first article
(Chapter 2) studies variety-seeking behavior, an empirically
well-documented driver ...
The idea of Terraformation comes from the science fiction literature,
where humans have the capability of changing a non-habitable planet to
an Earth-like one. Nowadays, Nature is changing rapidly, the poles are
melting, ...