• Bioarqueología de la necrópolis fenicia de Tiro al-Bass (S. IX-VI a.C.), Líbano

  Trelliso Carreño, Laura (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-04-28)

  El proyecto de investigación tiene como objetivo principal la reconstrucción de los parámetros bioarqueológicos de la sociedad fenicia de Tiro (Líbano) a partir del análisis osteoarqueológico de los restos humanos incinerados ...
• Extracting informative spatio-temporal features from fMRI dynamics : a model-based characterization of timescales

  De Santiago , Jessica (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-04-07)

  In neuropsychiatry, the development of brain imaging and dedicated data analysis for personalized medicine promises to predict both the evolution of diseases and responses of treatments. The ability to estimate the time ...
• Joan Pérez-Jorba: Cronista, passeur i poeta en les avantguardes catalana i francesa

  Garcia-Sedas, Pilar, 1956- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-23)

  The starting point of this research is a transnational vision of the avant-garde production of Joan Pérez-Jorba (Barcelona, 1878 − Paris, 1928), which includes both his journalism and poetry, from a receptive and creative ...
• La atmósfera de terror en la literatura de Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovercraft, Shirley Jackson y Thomas Ligotti

  Sola González, Josep (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-23)

  The objective of this investigation is to elucidate some of the narrative strategies authors employ to create an atmosphere of terror. To do so, we have resorted to four writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, ...
• Régimen jurídico de las regiones y los departamentos: análisis crítico de la descentralización territorial en Colombia

  Sanjuanelo Ortiz, José Rafael (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-02-19)

  Puesto que las realidades geográficas y socioculturales no tenían una regulación pertinente, la Asamblea Nacional Constituyente estableció en la Constitución de Colombia las bases para que nacieran a la vida jurídica las ...
• Using EEG-based BCI settings and brain-state dependent stimulation as research tools for hypothesis-testing in cognitive neuroscience: a test-bench for brain-behavioural

  Vigué-Guix, Irene (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-29)

  Spontaneous oscillations in the alpha band (α, 8–12 Hz) reflect ongoing fluctuations in cortical excitability. Several theoretical frameworks and empirical studies have supported the notion that distinct features of ...
• Polar interrogatives in Catalan Sign Language (LSC): a comprehensive grammatical analysis

  Cañas Peña, Sara (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-02-10)

  This thesis provides a morphosyntactic description of polar questions and a pragmatic analysis of biased questions in Catalan Sign Language (LSC). Polar questions in LSC are obligatorily marked with a specific combination of ...
• Incidència, mesures de prevenció i particularitats de la reparació de l'hèrnia incisional de l'orifici del tròcar laparoscòpic

  Ciscar Bellés, Ana (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-13)

  Es realitza estudi observacional que descriu una incidència d’ HIOT (Hèrnia incisional de l'orifici del tròcar) del 23,7%. L’edat>70 anys, el IMC ≥30 i la mida de la incisió són factors de risc per a HIOT. La incidència ...
• Engineering human pluripotent stem cells to understand kidney development and disease

  Selfa Aspiroz, Idoia Lucía, 1992- (2022-02-09)

  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 ...
• Clustering of somatic mutations across cancer genomes

  Arnedo Pac, Claudia Rosario (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-10)

  Sequencing of cancer genomes reveals the story of mutational events shaping the distribution of somatic mutations across the nucleotide sequence. A particular pattern of such distribution, mutational clustering, can inform ...
• DNA-based precision gene writing and viral-free in vivo delivery

  Pallarès-Masmitjà, Maria (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-12-22)

  The need for efficient targeted integration of large DNA fragments in mammalian genomes is indisputable, although several nuclease-based technologies have been lately developed for small allele genome editing. In this ...
• Improving mathematical abilities by training numerical representations in children : the relation between learning mathematics and numerical cognition

  Ferres Forga, Nuria, 1968- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-11-20)

  Improving mathematical abilities is important for educational systems and for society overall. We present two training regimes based on numerical representations. In Study 1, we show that a three-week computer-based ...
• The kitchen and the forum: nonhuman animals and their political representation

  Magaña Fernández, Pablo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-12-19)

  This thesis provides a systematic analysis and a defense of the claim that at least some nonhuman animals (i.e. mammals) ought to be granted political standing, understood here as a (pro tanto) duty of political institutions ...
• Cutibacterium acnes strain improvement and establishment of skin microbiome sequencing technologies

  Rozas Belmonte, Miquel (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2023-01-11)

  Certain skin disorders are associated with skin microbiome dysbiosis, highlighting the importance of the microbiome in the maintenance of the skin's healthy state. Modulating the microbiome to reestablish its healthy state ...
• A data driven framework for mental health states assessment in social platforms

  Ramírez Cifuentes, Diana (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2022-07-29)

  The link between mental disorders and social media usage has led researchers to work on the development of automated methods to detect mental health issues in social platforms. This thesis proposes a framework for mental ...
• Essays on inflation dynamics and monetary policy

  Höynck, Christian (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-02-18)

  This thesis consists of three essays that analyze the role of sectoral heterogeneity on inflation dynamics and optimal monetary policy. In the first chapter, I consider a framework where firms are connected through ...
• Essays in macro-finance and wealth inequality

  Xavier, Inés (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-10-08)

  This thesis investigates how asset markets affect macroeconomic outcomes and inequality. In the first chapter, I study the contribution of return heterogeneity for wealth inequality. First, I document that wealthier U.S. ...
• Template tracking of articulated objects using active contours

  Martinez Pujol, Oriol, (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-04-19)

  En aquesta dissertació es fusionen dos dels temes tradicionals de la Visió per Computador: la segmentació i el seguiment d'objectes. Per a la segmentació s'utilitzen mètodes basats en "Active Contours (AC)" i per al seguiment ...
• Publicidad comercial y libertad de expresión

  Rubí i Puig, Antoni (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2011-04-12)

  La tesi doctoral Publicidad comercial y libertad de expresión analitza les conseqüències jurídiques de la protecció de la publicitat i d'altres formes de comunicació comercial mitjançant la llibertat d'informació i d'expressió ...
• "A cada momento un mundo nace y muere" : elementos de la temporalidad en las video instalaciones de Bill Viola, con una coda de nuerociencias

  Vara Sánchez, Carlos (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-08-31)

  Esta tesis doctoral se propone explorar el rol de lo temporal en las video instalaciones más representativas de Bill Viola. Creemos que ahí es donde reside gran parte de la capacidad de estas obras de cuestionar profundos ...

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