Aquesta tesi estudia la cortesia en llengua de signes catalana (LSC), concretament, l’atenuació de la crítica a través de l’estratègia discursiva de restringir l’opinió personal. Amb aquest propòsit, hem elaborat un corpus ...
El tabaquismo es la principal causa de muerte evitable en todo el mundo, responsable de más de 7 millones de muertes al año. La nicotina es el principal componente psicoactivo del tabaco y la responsable de sus propiedades ...
Zinc is an essential trace element with structural, catalytic and signaling roles in our body. At cellular level, zinc homeostasis participates in fundamental functions such as cell proliferation, migration, differentiation ...
The aim of this thesis is to apply Identity by Descent (IBD) methodology to identify ancestry connections among individuals from genetically similar populations. Recombination events diminish the likelihood to detect IBDs. ...
In recent decades, the development of digital technology has reshaped the way of social interaction as well as social relationships for international students. With the advent of the internet in recent decades, social ...
This thesis focuses in understanding the relationship between board of directors’ composition and firm outcomes. Chapter 1 investigates how US firms board of directors responded to a quasi-exogenous shift in the cyber risk ...
Pur nel vastissimo corpus di studi condotti in un trentennio di ricerca sull’intercomprensione
(IC), poca attenzione è stata ancora dedicata alla sua
apertura extra-familiare — nel nostro caso dalle lingue romanze (LR) ...
This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music
recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music
domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems
should preserve, because the world music ...
In this dissertation, first, I study the effects of broadband internet on individual and regional
outcomes. Second, I provide an overview of the political espionage activities of
the former East German secret service, the ...
This research uses mainstream music scenarios in Spain to explore its representations and problematize them from a critical gender perspective. Structured by four items, this work 1) situates mainstream music within the ...
This dissertation explores the structure and impacts of culturally diversifying experiences, on a series of intra- and interpersonal outcomes. It extends prior research by using diverse conceptualizations (experimentally ...
Las representaciones de los trastornos mentales en las series de televisión han sido a menudo inexactas. Esta investigación tiene como objetivo analizar la representación y la recepción de los trastornos mentales y ...
The following thesis aims to provide a general picture of to what extent different important sources – at the macro and the micro level – affect income inequality over time.
Indeed, given the natural interdependence between ...
The project consists in studying different aspects of the regulation of insect metamorphosis, using the cockroach Blattella germanica and the mayfly Cloeon dipterum, as laboratory models. In B. germanica the idea has been ...
We try to address some challenges in structured risk assessment tools in two application areas of recidivism risk in criminal justice and dropout risk in higher education domain.
Using Machine Learning (ML) methods, we ...
Prado Peralta, María Gabriela, 1991-(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-10-05)
Background: There is evidence suggesting that body weight is associated with lung function, but results are contradictory and suffer from important limitations. We aimed to assess the association of body weight and composition ...
This PhD dissertation deals with the analysis of the linguistic characteristics of terminological anglicisms in relation to the use of written texts in English as a means of preparation for oral and written communication ...
La reapertura de Japón y la transformación del período Meiji tuvieron implicaciones
regionales que llevaron al reforzamiento de los vínculos con las colonias asiáticas del
imperio español durante la segunda mitad del siglo ...
During the last years, the development of procedures to direct the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) towards different renal cell types has resulted in the establishment of approaches focused on the ...
Martínez Salom, Maria Àngels(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-02-10)
This doctoral thesis makes a critical review of the current descriptions of lexical collocations, since there is no
consensus on the differentiation between collocations and other combinations, nor on the types identified, ...