Biau, Emmanuel (Date of defense: 2015-11-13)
Speakers naturally accompany their speech with hand gestures and extend the auditory prosody to visual modality through rapid beat gestures that help them to structure their narrative and emphasize ...
Zhou, Siyu (Date of defense: 2022-12-14)
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 ...
Zumel Marne, María Ángela (Date of defense: 2019-12-10)
Risk factors and diagnosis in young people have been little explored, despite brain tumours (BT) is one of the most frequent tumour type in children and adolescents. The purpose of this doctoral thesis ...
Devalle, Federico (Date of defense: 2019-05-03)
A prominent feature of the dynamics of large neuronal networks are the synchrony-driven collective oscillations generated by the interplay between synaptic coupling and synaptic delays. This thesis ...
Luis, Nuno Miguel (Date of defense: 2011-11-07)
Human epidermis relies on a population of adult stem cells to maintain its homeostasis. Stem cells transit from a dormant to an active state and undergo a tightly regulated process of differentiation ...
Baltzis, Athanasios (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)
Recent advances in deep learning techniques have revolutionised protein structure modelling. Since AlphaFold2’s release, a set of tools have now become available to predict native-like structures at ...
Lehmann, Janette (Date of defense: 2015-02-26)
L’objetiu d’aquesta tesi és aprofundir en el concepte de participació i compromís dels usuaris en pàgines web i analitzar com mesurar aquesta interacció. Comencem estudiant les mètriques del comportament ...
Fabiani, Andrea (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)
Do financial intermediaries influence firms’ (real and financial) outcomes? Are there interactions with monetary and macroprudential policy? This thesis tackles those questions from multiple perspectives. ...
Guaus, Enric (Date of defense: 2009-09-21)
Aquesta tesi versa sobre la classificació automàtica de gèneres musicals, basada en l'anàlisi del contingut del senyal d'àudio, plantejant-ne els problemes i proposant solucions. Es proposa un ...
Cano López, Tomás (Date of defense: 2019-03-25)
Over the last decades, fathers are getting involved in their children’s lives. The “New Fathers” are not expected to act as breadwinners but also to engage in their family life and take a similar ...