• Origins of recursive phrase structure through cultural self-organisation and selection

  Garcia Casademont, Emília, 1987- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-09-17)

  Many human languages in the world exhibit phrase structure. Phrase structure combines words, phrases, and both, into phrases, and it may empower language systems to exploit recursion. This thesis pushes forward the hypothesis ...
• La Botánica de los PGM

  Ballesteros Catañeda, Blanca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-09-13)

  Esta Tesis tiene dos objetivos: en primer lugar, realizar una clasifica-ción de los nombres griegos de plantas que aparecen en las fórmulas de los Papiros Mágicos Griegos y proponer una identificación que responda a una ...
• El yo transontológico: La respuesta de Nishitani Keiji a la subjetividad cartesiana

  Fernándes Prazeres, Amanda Sayonara (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-02)

  La presente tesis se propone analizar la relevancia de la crítica de Nishitani Keiji (1900-1990) a la concepción de res cogitans defendida por René Descartes (1596-1650). Aunque en la historia de la filosofía diversos ...
• Quantification of the influence of detailed endocardial structures on human cardiac haemodynamics and electrophysiology using HPC

  Sacco, Federica (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-07)

  In the last decade, computational modelling has been playing an important role as a non-invasive technology that may significantly impact the diagnosis as well as the treatment of cardiac diseases. As an example, the Food ...
• The Economy of the Curatorial and the Fields of the Contemporary Art World: Curatorial instances and the market of contemporary art in and from (South) Africa

  Franzoni, Mariella (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-08)

  This dissertation analyzes the relationship between curating and the contemporary art market, inscribing its enquiry in the realm of curatorial theory. Contributing to epistemological discussions on the notion of the ...
• Essays on macroeconomic policy and business cycles

  Ou, Shengliang (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-03)

  This thesis consists of three chapters on macroeconomic policy and business cy-cles. In chapter 1, I estimate a time-varying structural VAR to study the effects of government spending shocks on a number of U.S. macroeconomic ...
• La representación de la naturaleza y la apropiación del espacio en las letras del primer siglo de las Repúblicas Latinoamericanas. Tres momentos clave: Los viajes de Humboldt, el Facundo de D.F. Sarmiento y La vorágine de J.E Rivera

  Fandiño Lizarraga, José Javier (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-09-26)

  Esta investigación tiene por objeto de estudio la representación de la naturaleza y la apropiación del espacio en el primer siglo de las Repúblicas latinoamericanas. Se trata de trazar las líneas generales de una genealogía ...
• Exploring the intercultural competences of High School students: A case study of traditional classroms in a minimal-cultural-gap context

  Awad, Hiltrud (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-07)

  Intercultural education is one way of responding to the current political and social realities resulting from globalization, migration, and political and economic crises. It puts emphasis on educating young people and ...
• Educational institutions and their effect on inequality: three papers on educational systems and inequality of achievement and opportunity

  Cimentada, Jorge (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-09-25)

  By placing particular attention to the socio-economic dimension, this thesis explores the role of three pillars of an educational system: decentralization, early education and curricular tracking. The first article focuses ...
• Learning mechanisms of uncertainty and neuromodulation

  Puigbò Llobet, Jordi-Ysard (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-01)

  Learning systems are, by default, adaptive. Experience shapes the parame- ters of artificial systems, as well as it changes the connectivity of biological brains. Nonetheless, our attempts to create artificial learning ...
• The Politics of discrimination: a comparative study of the situation of Christian Arab minorities in Egypt and Syria

  Anouti, Hani (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-04-16)

  This thesis investigates the puzzle of why the level of discrimination against religious minorities was higher in Egypt than in Syria, and therefore why the transition from "Arab" nationalism to "re-Islamization" of politics ...
• Neural mechanisms of abstract rule changes in speech : exploring phonologic and attentional constraints

  Monte Ordoño, Julia, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-04-13)

  L’extracció de regles de la parla és crucial per a l’adquisició del llenguatge. La present dissertació estudia el mecanisme d’aprenentatge de regles explorant com el cervell detecta regularitats rellevants dins del senyal ...
• How do infants represent others?: biases towards native language and rational agents

  Colomer Canyelles, Marc (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-10-02)

  Much of the information infants acquire they learn it by observing and interacting with others. However, not all individuals provide information that is functionally and/or culturally relevant. Infants’ capacity of identifying ...
• Error exponent analysis for the multiple access channel with correlated sources

  Rezazadeh, Arezou (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-09-13)

  Due to delay constraints of modern communication systems, studying reliable communication with finite-length codewords is much needed. Error exponents are one approach to study the finite-length regime from the ...
• Analysis of interaction design and evaluation methods in full-body interaction for special needs: collaborative virtual environments for improving socialization in children with autism

  Crowell, Ciera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-09-20)

  This thesis is focused on the specific properties and evaluation of full-body interaction design of multi-user mixed reality environments to aid in intervention strategies for children with autism, to improve their ...
• El Yo en serie: variaciones identitarias en el drama televisivo contemporáneo norteamericano

  Crisóstomo Gálvez, Raquel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-09-17)

  Esta investigación persigue aproximarse a las distintas formas, variantes, matices y consecuencias de la narración subjetiva, identitaria, en el drama norteamericano contemporáneo de la tercera edad de oro. El objetivo ...
• Dibújame internet: una exploración, desde el análisis de metáforas, de las definiciones de los maestros sobre internet

  Hafner Táboas, Amalia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-09-16)

  Esta tesis aborda las representaciones de los maestros sobre internet mediante la identificación y análisis de las metáforas construidas para definirlo. Prestamos especial atención a la presencia de emociones en las metáforas ...
• Llenguatge jurídic català: estat de la qüestió i propostes de futur : estudis sobre la variació terminològica, la història, els recursos, el model lingüístic i l'ús del LJC

  Arnall Duch, Anna (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-17)

  El llenguatge jurídic català (LJC) viu una etapa d’estancament a causa del poc ús que se’n fa, el retrocés en el marc jurídic i la perduració dels obstacles que n’impedeixen el desenvolupament. La finalitat que persegueix ...
• New insights into the role of the RNA binding proteins CPEBs in cancer

  Gibert Fernandez, Joan 1988- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-11-08)

  Cytoplasmic polyadenylation binding proteins (CPEB) are a family of RNA binding proteins which control the translation of its target mRNAs by modulating the length poly(A) mRNA tail. Cytoplasmic polyadenylation was originally ...
• Essays in economic forecasting

  Odendahl, Florens (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-10-08)

  This thesis consists of three chapters on forecasting techniques in economics. In chapter 1, I use copulas to estimate multivariate density forecasts based on univariate densities from survey data. Survey-based predictions ...

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