This thesis addresses on research accomplished and published during the last five years on the state-of-the-art about the development on Smart and Digital Cities.
The world population has been increasing and conglomerating ...
Previous research has demonstrated the difficulty of the grammatical gender category for L2 learners and bilingual speakers. The main goal of this study is to investigate the gender agreement by 30 young L1 heritage speakers ...
Aquesta tesi doctoral estudia la variació lingüística a Solitud (1905), de Víctor Català/Caterina Albert i Paradís, i el tractament que ha rebut a les traduccions al castellà i a l’alemany. Hi ha dues traduccions al castellà, ...
Cigarette smoking continues to be leading cause of preventable cause of death worldwide. Cognitive modulation by nicotine seems to be a key factor in nicotine addiction. Several studies indicate that initial nicotine intake ...
Los acuerdos de intenciones o cartas de intenciones vinculantes están presentes en las adquisiciones de empresas, sin embargo, subiste la controversia respecto de su naturaleza. La jurisprudencia estadounidense y española ...
Candida pathogenic yeasts represent a global healthcare problem. They comprise phylogenetically diverse species, including newly emerged pathogens. How human-Candida interactions vary across species, and what processes ...
This work explores the genetic landscape of the Western Mediterranean basin. Genome-wide data have been used in order to describe the genetics of the Island of Ibiza and France. In the first case, we found Ibiza being ...
The engineering of biology strives on the creation of biological devices concerning society-impact applications. In this PhD thesis, we developed mathematical and experimental tools for the standard and rational design of ...
Hernando Rodríguez, Julio César, 1988-(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-11-20)
Background: Previous studies have focused on analysing specific labour market
situations and their relationship with sickness absence (SA). However, little is known
about the relationship between mobility between different ...
Vargas Ovalle, María Alejandra(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-01-12)
El Código penal español reconoce desde 2010 la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas, aunque limitada a un catálogo cerrado de delitos. La configuración del sistema de numerus clausus -como sucede con la práctica ...
This thesis contributes to the understanding of systemic risk in the financial sector and its interrelation to the macroeconomy. The first chapter documents that misallocation of resources increased in the German manufacturing ...
Wild chimpanzee populations are considered to be under threat of extinction due to the damaging consequences of human impact into their natural habitat and illegal trade. Conservation genomics is an emerging field that has ...
De Bont, Jeroen, 1989-(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-11)
Understanding the determinants of childhood obesity has never been more urgent given the high levels across the world. It is increasingly recognized that the urban environment may affect childhood growth and obesity, and ...
La presente tesis doctoral analiza el comportamiento político de la prensa nacionalista catalana y vasca durante la Transición a la democracia y en especial, en relación a la aprobación de la Constitución, los Estatutos ...
En Discurso, Figura, el filósofo francés Jean-François Lyotard acuña un término: figural, que teóricos como Nicole Brenez, Philippe Dubois o Jean-Michel Durafour, entre otros, han llevado al terreno del análisis de la ...
Bou de Pieri, Francesc, 1992-(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-17)
Tot i que l’obesitat és clarament deguda a un desequilibri entre la ingesta d’energia i la despesa, i està molt associada a l’estil de vida, es considera una malaltia multifactorial amb una alta heretabilitat (50-75%), ...
Poch i Rodrigo, Chantal(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-11)
Aquesta tesi és una interpretació de l’obra dels cineastes Andrei Tarkovski, Terrence Malick i Werner Herzog des de la idea de la pèrdua d’un vincle entre home i món i la possibilitat de restaurar-lo a través del cinema.
This dissertation analyzes the representation of body image in television advertising and its mediating role in children’s body imaginaries. Based on a theoretical framework supported on the social theories of the body and ...
This thesis consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies the effects of an integration of local labor markets between France and Switzerland. It shows that removing barriers to worker mobility can improve the labor ...
Genome spatial organisation and transcriptional activity are tightly coordinated to ensure the correct function of the cell. Thus, proper understanding of the chromatin organisation is needed to deepen into the processes ...