• Human-centered learning design with technology

  Garreta Domingo, Muriel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-07-25)

  To improve and innovate education, a novel conception of the role of design in this realm is needed. Human-centered design (HCD), a problem-solving framework underpinned by the user perspective in all stages of the process, ...
• La Traducción de valores socioculturales del español al chino en textos económicos: el caso del envasado de productos alimentarios

  Chen, Zhengyang (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-04-29)

  Que un producto español pueda insertarse exitosamente en el contexto chino depende principalmente de que el destinatario chino comprenda y valore positivamente ese producto. Para ello, la traducción de textos económicos ...
• The Return to capital: new facts and interpretation

  Faltermeier, Julia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-05-02)

  This thesis presents new facts on the aggregate return to capital and shows their implications for underlying drivers of investment and the efficiency of the alloca-tion of capital. The first chapter analyzes aggregate ...
• Native Italians' comprehension of press information in Spanish: a phraseodidactic approximation from a cognitive linguistics approach

  Mellado Blanes, Ester (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-04-26)

  This thesis analyses the interlanguage effect in the learning process of Spanish phraseology by native Italians. It is intended to investigate the interactions between native languages and the learning process of a foreign ...
• Native American genetic history through admixed populations of Brazil

  Mas Sandoval, Àlex, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-11-30)

  Most of the Native American populations that lived in nowadays Eastern Brazil when the Europeans established in the area in the 16th century do not exist anymore. The colonization of Brazil implied huge migrations from ...
• An Object-oriented metamodel for digital signal processing with a focus on audio and music

  Amatriain, Xavier (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2005-01-27)

  Classical models for information transmission such as Shannon and Weaver's still tend to be looked at as the only possible scenarios where signal processing applications can be formally modeled. Meanwhile, other disciplines ...
• Nation building in contested states

  Potapkina, Viktoria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-02-27)

  This thesis provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, original data is ...
• Collective phenomena in networks of spiking neurons with synaptic delays

  Devalle, Federico (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-05-03)

  A prominent feature of the dynamics of large neuronal networks are the synchrony-driven collective oscillations generated by the interplay between synaptic coupling and synaptic delays. This thesis investigates the emergence ...
• Individual traits versus invariances of cognitive functions: a model-based study of brain connectivity

  Pallarés Picazo, Vicente (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-04-12)

  Es conocido en la literatura de neuroimagen que las redes cerebrales funcionales reflejan rasgos personales. Estas características individuales, podrían interferir al caracterizar la cognición entendida como la manera en ...
• Political parties' position and public opinion on immigration

  Vrânceanu, Alina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-11-14)

  This PhD dissertation is interested in the mass-elite linkages in the context of the immigration issue. It examines, on the one hand, factors likely to influence party responsiveness to public opinion (bottom-up connection) ...
• La vita degli oggetti: Walter Benjamin pioniere dei Material Studies

  Rezzonico, Sonia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-05-31)

  Questo lavoro di ricerca ha come obbiettivo dimostrare in che modo l’approccio critico di Walter Benjamin possa essere considerato pioneristico rispetto ai Material Studies, ampia categoria di indagini contemporanee che ...
• Journeys through our Inner Geographies, a GeoHumanities approach: Discovering the Interconnectedness of Awareness, Atmospheres, and Imagination in Barcelona

  Rambhoros, Mizan (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-04-02)

  As a psycho-spatial phenomenon, the inner geographies has seldom been investigated due to its abstract, intangible, and somewhat elusive nature, thereby evading definitive explanation. To derive a better understanding of ...
• Pedro de la Piñuela [石铎琭, Shi Duolu](1650-1704): acción misional y obra en lengua china

  Ye, Junyang (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-04-08)

  Entre los misioneros que evangelizaron en China (siglos XVI y XVII), destaca notablemente el franciscano Pedro de la Piñuela [石铎琭, Shi duolu] (1650-1704). Él era un criollo que nació en Nueva España y entró en China en el ...
• European-wide studies on pro-inflammatory risk factors in early life and molecular markers of aging

  Clemente Batalha Pardal, Diana, 1990- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-05-07)

  Although universal and unavoidable, aging does not occur in a uniform way. In this dissertation, we assessed the effects of early life exposure to pro-inflammatory risk factors (air pollution and obesity) on mitochondrial ...
• Control of redox homeostasis : environmental and genetic regulation of oxidative protein damage in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

  García Santamarina, Sarela, 1978- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2013-06-14)

  Oxidation of specific cysteines in proteins by hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is a cellular mechanism that triggers signalling pathways, such as the antioxidant responses in microbial systems. However, H2O2 can be transformed ...
• Association of physical activity with cardiovascular risk factors and all-cause mortality in older Spanish individuals

  Cárdenas Fuentes, Gabriela, 1985- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-04-24)

  Among older adults, there is limited evidence on the prospective associations of physical activity (PA) with cardiovascular risk factors and mortality. This thesis aimed to: i) Analyse the prospective associations of ...
• Striking the balance of powers: the Spanish Constitutional Court and the battle for public support

  Gil-Porquet, Fernando (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-03-08)

  By examining the framing that political actors made of the upcoming landmark LOAPA, Rumasa and abortion decisions issued by the Spanish Constitutional Court between 1980 and 1983, its influence on public debate and the ...
• MIRages: an account of music audio extractors, semantic description and context-awareness, in the three ages of MIR

  Herrera Boyer, Perfecto, 1964- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-12-12)

  This tesis reports on research carried out and published during the last twenty years on different problems of Music Information Retrieval (MIR). We organize the text as a personal account and critical reflection along ...
• 3D reconstruction for plastic surgery simulation based on statistical shape models

  Ruiz Fernández, Guillermo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-12-12)

  This thesis has been accomplished in Crisalix in collaboration with the Universitat Pompeu Fabra within the program of Doctorats Industrials. Crisalix has the mission of enhancing the communication between professionals ...
• Automatic and deliberate control of action: an embodied perspective of artificial and biological brains

  Maffei, Giovanni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-05-04)

  Animals evolved to survive in dynamic environments by developing multiple behavioral strategies to adapt and to learn from their interaction with the world. Associative mechanisms and internal representations are at the ...

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