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Tesis doctorals llegides a la UPF en format digital en accés obert introduïdes a la plataforma TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa), on també es poden consultar tesis d'altres centres.
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(2022-05-27)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 ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)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 ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)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 ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)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 ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-09)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 ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)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, ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)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 ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-26)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 ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-28)L'aparició de la pluricel·lularitat (MC) va definir un esdeveniment evolutiu important en la història de la vida al nostre planeta. Ha tingut lloc diverses vegades dins de grups independents i diferents enfocaments han ...
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(2022-03-14)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, ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-02-06)The current dissertation deals with how attenuation of information works in relation to non-nativeness. It also deals with the nature of the attenuation of information phenomenon per se. Attenuation of information refers ...
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(2021-09-13)Despite decades of scientific effort, cancer remains a major cause of death worldwide. Through the accumulation of genome alterations, tumor populations evolve the capacity to circumvent the selective barriers of tissue ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-25)Precision and accuracy are paramount for the use of genome editing in clinic, environmental, and industrial applications. These fields require reliable and traceable results to ensure the safety and viability of the resulting ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-03-15)Millones de personas aprenden una lengua extranjera, y algunas de estas personas, como las que trabajan en organizaciones internacionales, la usan a diario como vehículo de comunicación, llevando a cabo juicios y decisiones ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-25)Regulated Gene Expression (rGE) and Alternative Splicing (rAS) are two of the main mechanisms contributing to tissue-phenotypic diversity within and between species. In this thesis, we aim at characterizing rGE and rAS ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-01-26)When people learn a second language, they typically speak with a foreign accent. Crucially, foreign-accented speech is more difficult to understand and requires more processing time than native speech. Nevertheless, native ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-04-17)How can bilinguals easily and flexibly switch between languages without errors? The aim of this thesis is to advance our knowledge about the control mechanisms involved in bilingual language production. I investigated this ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-06-06)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. Comparisons between ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-05-18)The object of study of this thesis is a special case of translation: the Anglophone literature of writers of Caribbean or Latin American origin in the United States translated into Spanish. This case is special because of ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2015-11-19)Ongoing efforts within synthetic biology have been directed towards the building of artificial computational devices using engineered biological units as basic building blocks. Such efforts, are limited by the wiring ...
