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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2013-05-08)Desplazarse a pie es una actividad física moderada, rutinaria e integrada en la vida diaria que podría convertirse en una herramienta para disminuir la tendencia creciente del sedentarismo de la población. El objetivo de ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2015-07-09)Disinfection by-products (DBP) are complex mixtures of toxicants derived from drinking water treatment. Trihalomethanes (THM) and haloacetic acids (HAA) are the most prevalent DBP in chlorinated waters, which are used as ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-12-16)Ambisonics is a complete theory for spatial audio whose building blocks are the spherical harmonics. Some of the drawbacks of low order Ambisonics, like poor source directivity and small sweet-spot, are directly related ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2017-11-23)In this Thesis we focus on Automatic Facial Behavior Analysis, which attempts to develop autonomous systems able to recognize and understand human facial expressions. Given the amount of information expressed by facial ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-01-26)This dissertation offers a characterization and an analysis of wh-questions in Catalan Sign Language, which show the particularity of placing wh-expressions canonically in sentence final position. This feature, specific ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-26)The topic of this thesis is the just distribution of the costs of children. In particular, it asks whether an ideal liberal egalitarian society owes it to the parents to ensure that the costs of children are shared between ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-11-31)In this PHD thesis I answer the question: “What holds a multinational state together?” by analyzing the political developments in the Spanish “State of Autonomies”. The results show that among the individual factors a dual ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-07-06)This thesis analyzes 12 episodes from the dystopian science fiction anthology series, Black Mirror (2011-present). Episodes selected are those that, as argued in this text, depict the role of technology as replacing that ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2020-12-09)This dissertation aims to understand where, why and how scientific knowledge on health inequalities is produced, why and how some places have strong capacity to produce this, and what determines this capacity. It consists ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-02-21)This thesis aims to provide quantitative evidence on the flows of illegal immigrants in the U.S. and the E.U. After describing the flows in space and time (years 2000-2011), the actors involved, and the role of criminal ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-09-27)This PhD dissertation addresses how couples manage their money in intimate relationships. It is composed of 4 articles. The first one focuses on the individual and couple level dynamics behind money management systems in ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-09-15)How do differences in the informal capabilities of Member States impact their bargaining success at the EU level? Based on new datasets collected via 145 semi-structured interviews with national negotiators and EU officials ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-10-03)This dissertation examines two ideological clashes underlying contemporary political theories of linguistic justice (instrumentalism/constitutivism; monism/pluralism) with the aim to elucidate (a) why languages matter to ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-10-15)Optimal sequential decision making is a fundamental problem to many diverse fields. In recent years, Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods have experienced unprecedented success, largely enabled by the use of deep learning ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2013-12-03)The recent discovery that intestinal adenomas are built on a stem cell hierarchy has raised great interest in understanding the signals that maintain tumor stem cells. We unveiled the existence of a transcriptional circuit ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-05-30)Las células madre embrionarias (ESCs) derivan de la masa cellular interna de los blastocistos y son capaces de generar las tres capas germinales. Muchos factores controlan la pluripotencia incluyendo la ruta Wnt/β-catenina. ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2014-12-19)This thesis is focused on women in executive office. Whereas the literature on women's political representation in national parliaments is now well established, analyses of women in cabinets are rather limited. The ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2019-07-26)Word embeddings are a building block of many practical applications across NLP and related disciplines. In this thesis, we present theoretical analysis and algorithms to learn word embeddings. Moreover, we present applications ...
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(Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012-11-30)While study abroad at the university level has been shown to benefit many aspects of second language proficiency, little is known about how this affects participants’ writing skills. The present study explores writing development ...
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(2021-04-30)X chromosome reactivation in female mouse germ cells is essential for the transmission of one active X chromosome to the progeny. However, despite its key role in development, the mechanistic details and kinetics still ...
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