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Land revenue, inequality and development in colonial India (1880-1910)

Caum-Julio, Jordi (Date of defense: 2023-04-27)

[eng] The determinants of economic development have been largely studied in social sciences. Researchers have mostly pointed at geographic (Roy, 2014; Sachs and Warner, 2001) and institutional factors (Acemoglu et al., ...

Land-cover and land-use change and deforestation in Colombia: spatial dynamics, drivers and modelling

Rodríguez Eraso, Nelly (Date of defense: 2011-12-16)

Este estudio analiza el cambio en la cobertura y uso del suelo con énfasis en los procesos de deforestación en dos regiones contrastantes de Colombia: Andes y Guyana, entre 1985 y 2005. Se aplicó un enfoque espacial y ...

Land-use changes, cultural ecosystem services, and environmental conflicts: Evidence from rural Bulgaria

Hanaček, Ksenija (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)

Como resultado de sus interacciones e interdependencias con las personas, los agroecosistemas se obtienen servicios de ecosistemas culturales (SEC) como identidad rural, conocimiento tradicional y ceremonias relacionadas ...

Landscape Analyses for Mobility and Raw Materials Procurement Strategies:The Acheulean Site of Santa Ana Cave in Calerizo de Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain.

Akintayo, Akinbowale Mark (Date of defense: 2019-04-12)

Aquest treball presenta un estudi de la procedència dels materials lítics quartzítics procedents de la cova de Santa Ana a Calerizo de Càceres. Calerizo de Càceres és un sistema càrstic confinat entre pujols quartzítics ...

Landscape dynamics during the last 17,550 years in Cantabria, northern Iberian Peninsula. Approaches from palaeoecology

Sánchez Morales, Marc (Date of defense: 2022-02-28)

La regió cantàbrica (nord de la península Ibèrica) és una zona de gran interès paleoecològic. Es tracta d’una de les regions europees amb més jaciments arqueològics documentats, amb evidències de presència humana des del ...

Landscape fragmentation and resilience in seagrass meadows / Fragmentación del paisaje y resiliencia en praderas de fanerógamas marinas

Gera, Alessandro (Date of defense: 2013-06-21)

Overall, this thesis is an attempt at approaching seagrass ecosystems from a landscape perspective, with the aim of increasing knowledge about the processes generating patterns at large spatial scales, and understanding ...

Landslide and debris flow warning at regional scale. A real-time system using susceptibility mapping, radar rainfall and hydrometeorological thresholds

Palau Berastegui, Rosa Maria (Date of defense: 2021-09-23)

Rainfall triggered shallow slides and debris flows constitute a significant hazard that causes substantial economic losses and fatalities worldwide. Regional-scale risk mitigation for these processes is challenging. ...

Landslide motion assessment including thermal interaction : an MPM approach

Alvarado Bueno, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2018-04-23)

Risk associated with landslides of natural or man-made origin depends on the prediction of the post-failure behaviour of the mobilized mass. Numerical models capable of integrating the landslide geometry and its evolution, ...

Landslides in reservoirs: a coupled thermo-hydromechanical approach

Pinyol i Puigmartí, Núria Mercè (Date of defense: 2010-09-13)

La ocurrencia de deslizamientos es uno de los principales problemas presentes durante el diseño, construcción y explotación de presas y embalses. La inundación del pie de los taludes, así como el desembalse rápido, pueden ...

Language acquisition in bilingual infants : Early language discrimination in the auditory and visual domains

Nácar García, Loreto (Date of defense: 2016-10-28)

Learning language is a cornerstone in the cognitive development during the first year of life. A fundamental difference between infants growing up in monolingual versus bilingual environments is the necessity of the latter ...

Language and Access to Work: The Role of English in Recruiting

Klimava, Hanna (Date of defense: 2022-02-28)

La present tesi és un estudi etnogràfic que analitza el paper dels coneixements d’anglès a l’accés a llocs de treball de nivell júnior i sènior a Barcelona. Se centra en les operacions internes de les agències de contractació ...

Language Aptitude in Young Learners: The Elementary Modern Language Aptitude Test in Spanish and Catalan

Suárez Vilagran, María del Mar (Date of defense: 2010-11-26)

The present dissertation is concerned with language aptitude in young learners. The first aim of this dissertation is to validate the content of two new instruments: the adaptation to both Spanish (MLAT-ES) and Catalan ...

Language attitudes in a multilingual and multicultural context. The case of autochthonous and immigrant students in Catalonia

Ianos, Maria Adelina (Date of defense: 2014-03-13)

Considerant, d’una banda, la comprovada importància que adopten les actituds lingüístiques en l'adquisició de les llengües i, de l’altra, que esdevenen potenciadores de la integració social en contextos plurilingües, com ...

Language comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment: an Eye-Tracking study

Christou, Spyros (Date of defense: 2018-03-04)

[eng] Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) show considerable difficulties in the linguistic production of verbal morphology marks and function words. The present study analyzes the capacity of children with SLI ...

Language Factors Modulate Audiovisual Speech Perception. A Developmental Perspective

Birulés Muntané, Joan (Date of defense: 2020-01-17)

In most natural situations, adults look at the eyes of faces in seek of social information (Yarbus, 1967). However, when the auditory information becomes unclear (e.g. speech-in- noise) they switch their attention towards ...

Language learner engagement in asynchronous discussion forums: an exploratory study

Robbins, Jacqueline (Date of defense: 2020-12-22)

Aquesta tesi explora la implicació (engagement) d’estudiants d’idiomes en fòrums de discussió asíncrons que formen part d’un curs d’aprenentatge de l’anglès en línia per a adults a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. La ...

Language Learning from Subtitled TV Series in the Primary EFL Classroom

Casulleras Marquès, Montserrat (Date of defense: 2023-04-21)

[eng] Even if audiovisual materials have been shown to offer several advantages for L2 learning (Danan, 2004), in previous literature very little attention has been paid to L2 learning from multimodal input in young ...

Language Learning Motivation: The Palestinian Context. Attitudes, Motivation, and Orientations

Musleh, Rana Yaser (Date of defense: 2011-01-28)

Given that motivation is held to be a major affective variable influencing SLA, the present study examines L2 motivation among Palestinian students from the age of 12 to 18 years old. Considering the present situation in ...

Language learning tasks ans automatic analysis of learner language : connecting FLTL and NPL in the design of ICALL materials supporting effective use in real-life instruction

Quixal Martínez, Martí (Date of defense: 2012-12-20)

Esta investigación se encuentra en la encrucijada entre el Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural y el Aprendizaje y Enseñanza de Lenguas Extranjeras y, en concreto, dentro del área denominada Aprendizaje de Lenguas Asistido ...

Language learning through extensive TV viewing. A study with adolescent EFL learners

Pujadas Jorba, Geòrgia (Date of defense: 2019-11-22)

This doctoral dissertation explores the benefits of an extensive exposure to L2 television for content comprehension and vocabulary learning with beginner, adolescent EFL learners, through a longitudinal classroom-based ...