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Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)
Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust multiple motion features ...
Román Cuesta, Rosa María (Date of defense: 2002-07-02)
La mayoría de los bosques del planeta, exceptuando, quizá, el cinturón más húmedo del trópico, han sufrido perturbaciones recurrentes por incendios, desde hace miles de años. Sin embargo, en el último siglo, la combinación ...
Lacuey Lecumberri, Nuria (Date of defense: 2018-09-14)
Los pacientes con epilepsia son bien conocidos por tener un mayor riesgo de muerte súbita inesperada. El riesgo de muerte súbita inesperada en pacientes con epilepsia (SUDEP) varía de 0,35 a 2,3 por cada 1000 personas por ...
Vicens Bennasar, Julian Antonio (Date of defense: 2018-05-18)
La cooperació és un dels trets del comportament que defineixen els éssers humans, però, encara estem tractant de comprendre per què els humans cooperem. Els experiments conductuals estan dissenyats per donar llum sobre els ...
Suau Cuadros, Xavier (Date of defense: 2013-12-04)
Human body analysis is one of the broadest areas within the computer vision field. Researchers have put a strong effort in the human body analysis area, specially over the last decade, due to the technological improvements ...
Sánchez Abril, Daniel (Date of defense: 2019-10-09)
La segmentació de persones en imatges RGB ha estat un problema central en el camp de la visió per computador. En aquesta tesi abordem el problema mitjançant hand-crafted features en un pipeline de dues etapes tant per ...
Amato, Roberta (Date of defense: 2018-04-13)
The topics dealt with in this thesis are all part of the general problem of social consensus, namely how a convention flourish and decay and what motivates people to conform to it. Examples range from driving on the right ...
Cruz Barreiro, Ivonne Cecilia (Date of defense: 2006-11-24)
Since the first Human Development Report (HDRs) was published in 1990, the Human Development (HD) paradigm has become a relevant conceptual framework as well as an intrinsic instrument to measure human progress. Yet, critics ...
Conejero Fuentes, Carles (Date of defense: 2022-12-13)
El fenomen del senglar urbà és una de les conseqüències més recents de l’augment generalitzat de les poblacions de senglar (Sus scrofa) que s’ha produït a tot el món durant les darreres dècades. L’habituació del senglar ...
Spataro, Nino (Date of defense: 2016-10-26)
From Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, many years elapsed before human diseases were considered in an evolutionary framework. Besides theoretical and empirical advances, we are far from the complete understanding of ...
Ferrer i Admetlla, Anna (Date of defense: 2009-01-07)
La tesi que teniu a les mans recull quatre treballs amb un objectiu comú; determinar si els patògens (virus, bacteris, paràsits.) han exercit pressions selectives sobre els genomes dels seus hostes (com per exemple els ...
Nadal Lomas, Martí (Date of defense: 2005-12-21)
Tesi: Human health risk assessment of exposure to environmental pollutants in the chemical/petrochemical industrial area of Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain).<br/><br/>Autor: Martí Nadal<br/><br/>Resum:<br/><br/>Un dels complexos ...
Ibáñez Lladó, Laura (Date of defense: 2014-04-07)
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was identified more than 30 years ago. The challenges for the clinicians and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-infected individuals have changed over the years. Nowadays, viral ...
Borroto Escuela, Dasiel Oscar (Date of defense: 2008-10-23)
Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mAChRs) have been shown to mediate various functions in the central and peripheral nervous systems. These include modulation of exocrine glandular secretion, vasodilatation and smooth ...
Mazzoli, Mattia (Date of defense: 2021-07-26)
[eng] Like Columbus mistook America for India, we stepped into the era of misinformation mistaking it for the era of big data. Since the digital revolution in the early ’90s we started producing such a huge amount of data ...
Samà Monsonís, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-10-03)
This thesis presents the original contributions of the author on the field of human movement analysis from signals captured by accelerometers. These sensors are capable of converting acceleration from some body parts into ...
Riba Serrano, Jordi (Date of defense: 2003-12-12)
La ayahuasca es una bebida psicotrópica obtenida de las plantas Banisteriopsis caapi y Psychotria viridis, que ha sido utilizada desde hace siglos en las cuencas de los ríos Amazonas y Orinoco con finalidades mágico-religiosas ...
Gallo, Maria (Date of defense: 2023-11-08)
[eng] Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) offer a significant advantage in recapitulating key features related to tissue differentiation, morphogenesis and, conversely, human diseases. Taking advantage of their inherent ...
Álvarez Álvarez, Miguel Martin (Date of defense: 2019-11-26)
The human populations of the Mediterranean region have been thoroughly studied. Nonetheless, there are numerous aspects of their demographic and epidemiological history that remain uncertain to date. The growing use of ...
Lucas-Sánchez, Marcel (Date of defense: 2023-09-18)
Since the origins of humankind, North Africa has been involved in many demographic events, leading to a heterogeneous cultural and genetic landscape. However, it is largely underrepresented in genetic studies, and many ...