• A Cross-linguistic comparison of the verbs of speaking with the component of non-standard speech and their translation (English-Russian)

  Pasenkova, Irina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-07-02)

  In this dissertation we examine the sphere of the English verbs of speaking (VoS) with 2 components: the manner of speaking component (MoSC) and the component of non-standard speech (CoNS), and their translations from ...
• Identity building and language learning opportunities in a brony fandom

  Shafirova, Liudmila (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-07-28)

  Second language use online has become a regular practice for many Internet users reflecting the emergence of new participatory cultures in the virtual world. However, little is yet known about the processes of language use ...
• The Appropriation of Māori identities in the nation branding and public diplomacy of Aotearoa New Zealand: an attempt to understand how cultural identities are self-constructed, planned and projected for specific communication purposes

  Séra, Jasmin (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-25)

  This interdisciplinary research investigated the construction of cultural identities in the Nation Branding and Public Diplomacy in Aotearoa New Zealand. On the example of New Zealand’s indigenous population, the Māori, ...
• El Grafè: comunicació i transferència de coneixement a través de la premsa online i de metodologies de disseny participatives

  Guasch Balcells, Blanca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-29)

  La rapidesa amb què dia a dia evoluciona la ciència fa que sigui gairebé impossible per a la societat estar ben informada sobre els darrers avenços; fet que dificulta la presa de decisions i la vinculació ciutadana en ...
• Deep learning for drug design : modeling molecular shapes

  Skalic, Miha, 1990- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-30)

  Designing novel drugs is a complex process which requires finding molecules in a vast chemical space that bind to a specific biomolecular target and have favorable physio-chemical properties. Machine learning methods can ...
• Non-referential beat gestures as a window onto the development of children’s narrative abilities

  Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-30)

  Co-speech gestures are children’s first path towards communication. Further in development, research has primarily focused on the role of iconic gestures in boosting children’s narrative abilities, while less is known about ...
• La Junta de la Província (1794-1795): Resistències contra l’absolutisme a la Catalunya del segle XVIII

  Jordi, Llimargas (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-31)

  En plena Guerra Gran (1793-1795), els mesos de desembre de 1794 i de gener de 1795, es va reunir una Junta de la Província a Barcelona i a Girona consecutivament. En van formar part una cinquantena de vocals en representació ...
• Dinámica del léxico en las Constituciones españolas

  Demol, Ségolène (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-31)

  El objetivo principal es realizar un estudio contrastivo del léxico de tres textos constitucionales de la historia de España: la Constitución liberal de 1812, la Constitución republicana de 1931 y la Constitución actual ...
• What do we owe parents?: distributing the costs of children

  Trifan, Isabella Ana-Maria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-26)

  The topic of this thesis is the just distribution of the costs of children. In particular, it asks whether an ideal liberal egalitarian society owes it to the parents to ensure that the costs of children are shared between ...
• LGBT/Queer media studies: aportaciones para su consolidación como campo de estudio

  Ventura, Rafael (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-25)

  Esta tesis doctoral está elaborada alrededor de un compendio de 4 publicaciones. El objetivo es abordar de una manera holística los LGBT/Queer Media Studies y contribuir a su desarrollo como campo académico. Se trata de ...
• Understanding danmu: interaction, learning and multimodality in fan video comments

  Zhang, Leticia Tian (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-29)

  When watching television, many people use social media to share real-time opinions and feelings. The mediated co-viewing is widely studied under the name of “second screen” or “social TV”. In Japan and China, a technology ...
• Social Media Live Streaming (SMLS) para medios digitales: características, análisis comparativo y estudios de casos

  Apablaza Campos, Alexis (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-22)

  La emisión de vídeos en directo a través de las redes sociales, entendida como Social Media Live Streaming (SMLS), permite a los medios digitales proponer diversas formas de interacción y de engagement a sus audiencias ...
• An Integrative approach to the systematics and evolution of some selected reptile groups from Arabia

  Simó Riudalbas , Marc, 1988- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-07-20)

  Until relatively recently, many groups of terrestrial reptiles were considered to contain only few species vastly distributed across the Arabian Peninsula. This was mostly the result of the apparent morphological uniformity ...
• Characterization of the human sperm centrosome and its role in (in)fertility

  Amargant i Riera, Farners, 1990- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-07-19)

  The centrosome is an essential organelle for the development of a new organism in animals. Upon fertilization the spermatozoon enters into the oocyte providing its basal body that converts into the first centrosome of the ...
• Affective disorders and neuropathic pain as mutually influential factors : contribution of the opioid system

  Martínez Navarro, Miriam, 1990- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-01-18)

  La alta variabilidad interindividual en las manifestaciones de dolor neuropático puede conducir a una respuesta diferencial de los pacientes a los tratamientos, y sugiere la idoneidad de terapias más personalizadas en lugar ...
• Novel tools in drug discovery : optimising the use of zebrafish for assessing drug safety and antitumoral efficacy

  Cornet Bartolomé, Carles, 1991- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-01-17)

  High drug attrition rate during clinical and post market phases is one of the major factors contributing to the pharmaceutical industry productivity crisis. This problem is especially worrisome in the cancer field, where ...
• Essays in network modelling

  Gudmundsson, Gudmundur Stefan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-07-11)

  This thesis consists of two chapters on time series modelling. The first chapter introduces a class of vector autoregressive (VAR) models with a community structure for large panels of time series. In the model, the series ...
• Health effects of traffic-related air pollution and physical activity: A real-world exposure experimental study

  Kubesch, Nadine Janet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2015-07-16)

  Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) has been associated with adverse health outcomes. Physical activity (PA) in polluted air may increase pollutant uptake and hence affect health. The main aim of this thesis ...
• Grounding body ownership and language in action: evidence from healthy and damaged brains

  Grechuta, Klaudia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-05)

  Contrary to the classical theory of mind, largely inspired by dualism, the theoretical framework of embodiment emphasizes the constitutive role of the body in the process of cognition. This view also referred to as the ...
• Variable kindness : Posthumanist ethics in the fiction of Georges Saunders

  Kaiser, Kevin Richard (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-07-04)

  This thesis examines the fiction of contemporary American author George Saunders in terms of how it presents situations applicable to the chief notions of posthumanist ethics and how these conceptions of ethics concern ...

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