• 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 ...
• Unidades léxicas especializadas para la didáctica del chino: análisis de necesidades y propuesta

  Xu, Yingfeng (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-23)

  Esta tesis doctoral tiene como finalidad principal analizar la situación de la enseñanza de la lengua china en España, concretamente en Barcelona, y en toda su complejidad, para proponer la introducción de léxico especializado ...
• Entre profesionales y aficionados: relaciones y tensiones entre fans e industrias culturales, procesos y estrategias de trabajo y creación: estudios de caso de los fandoms castellanoparlantes de Doctor Who y El Ministerio del Tiempo

  Establés Heras, María Josefa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-12)

  La presente tesis doctoral pretende examinar los procesos de profesionalización de las personas que se consideran fans. En este sentido, este trabajo propone una nueva taxonomía sobre las características de distintos tipos ...
• Japan's foreign policy under the Abe Administration: a role theory analysis of Japan's foreign policy initiatives between 2006-2007 and 2012-2016

  Debroux, Tatsuro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-07-02)

  The thesis shows the result of the research on foreign policy during the first and second Abe administration. It focuses on the relations with the US, China, India, Australia, the Philippines, the New Komei Party and the ...
• Identification de facteurs d'intégration quantitatifs et qualitatifs des néologismes à la langue spécialisée médicale: une analyse sur corpus diachronique entre 2007 et 2015

  Schneider, Coralie (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-04-17)

  La evolución del lenguaje médico refleja los avances médicos y se caracteriza por la creación neológica destinada a nombrar nuevos descubrimientos e innovaciones. Por lo tanto, la creación neológica, la variación terminológica ...
• Preschoolers' pragmatic development: how prosody and gesture lend a helping hand

  Hübscher, Iris (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-06-27)

  While previous research on language development has highlighted the facilitating role of gesture (mainly deictic gesture) in children’s early access to meaning, little is known about the possible facilitating role of prosody ...
• Llibre de vuit senyals (15th century): an edition, legal and comparative study

  Ripoll Sastre, Pere (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-06-26)

  A partir del privilegiat i complert fons documental de la Diputació del General de Catalunya, s’estudia comparativament aquesta institució amb relació a corporacions similars existents durant l’època baixmedieval i moderna ...
• Exploring through prototyping embodied interaction design developing systems for mathematics learning for children with visual impairments and without

  Marichal Baráibar, Sebastián (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-06-09)

  In the last decades new interaction paradigms have emerged: Tangible User Interfaces, ubiquitous computing, wearable devices, mixed- reality among others. Such paradigms extended the user interface beyond the keyboard and ...
• Chromatin-bound DYRK1A : promoter occupancy and implications in the regulation of ribosomal protein gene expression

  Barba Moreno, Laura, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-06-22)

  DYRK1A (dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinase 1A) belongs to a conserved family of protein kinases present in all eukaryotes. DYRK1A is known to participate in cell proliferation and differentiation decisions and to ...
• Neurogenic bowel dysfunction in subjects with brain injury : prevalence, risk factors, clinical characterization and physiopathology

  Haya Hidalgo, Jenny Rosario, 1978- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-12-19)

  To date, there are scarce data on bowel dysfunction (BD) in patients after brain injury (BI). Until now, only fecal incontinence (FI) has received attention and it has been mainly associated to patients’ age or performance ...
• Television dialogue and subtitling: a corpus-driven study of police procedurals

  Arias Badia, Blanca (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-07-10)

  The specialised literature has suggested the intermediate position of television dialogue and subtitling along the continuum from spoken to written language (e.g. Díaz-Cintas 2003; Quaglio 2009; Forchini 2012). This ...
• Disorderly speech in audiovisual fiction and its translation : portrayals of characters under the influence of alcohol and drugs

  Parra López, Guillermo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-16)

  Much research has been conducted on language variation and marked speech in its various forms, such as dialects, registers, and styles. There is one variety, however, which seems to have been broadly overlooked in translation ...
• El Impacto del sistema interamericano de protección de derechos humanos en la justicia transicional: ¿existe un lugar legítimo para el perdón?

  Cervantes Valarezo, Andrés Armando (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-03-30)

  La investigación aborda un problema clásico dentro del ámbito de estudio de la justicia transicional relativo a la tensión entre justicia penal y reconciliación. Si bien existe abundante literatura sobre esta temática, el ...
• Image analysis and deep learning to support endovascular repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms

  López-Linares, Karen (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-06-11)

  An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a focal dilation of the aorta that may lead to its rupture. The most common treatment for AAAs is endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR). EVAR implies lifelong postoperative surveillance ...
• Study of the neurobiological mechanisms involved in the development of eating and addictive disorders

  Gutiérrez Martos, Miriam, 1989- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-06-08)

  Drug addiction and several eating disorders share striking similarities in their behavioural patterns triggered by the presence of neuronal alterations in the brain reward circuit. In this Thesis, we investigate the ...
• Visual identity of urban international destinations: typological analysis of the city logo and study of its value for city branding

  De Ferrari, Lorena (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-09)

  Several cities are not using the logo as an instrument for enhancing the city brand. They made a logo without working on their city brand; therefore, these cities do not have a positioning strategy. Conversely, some cities ...
• La Conquista cantada: Fuentes historiográficas de tres óperas del Siglo de las Luces sobre la Conquista de México

  Colorado, Alfonso (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-01-15)

  Esta tesis estudia tres óperas: Motezuma (1733) de Antonio Vivaldi; Montezuma (1755) de Carl Heinrich Graun y Fernand Cortez ou la conquête du Mexique (1809) de Gaspare Spontini. La finalidad es establecer la fuente exacta ...
• Alignment uncertainty, regressive alignment and large scale deployment

  Floden, Evan, 1985- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-11-30)

  A multiple sequence alignment (MSA) provides a description of the relationship between biological sequences where columns represent a shared ancestry through an implied set of evolutionary events. The majority of research ...

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