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A corpus-based study of the phraseological behaviour of abstract nouns in medical English. A Needs Analysis of a Spanish medical community
It has been long acknowledged (Carter 1998, Williams 1998; Biber 2006; Hyland 2008) that writing a text not only entails the accurate selection of correct terms and grammatical constructions but also a good command of ...
A cotangent bundle Hamiltonian tube theorem and its applications in reduction theory
The Marle-Guillemin-Sternberg (MGS) model is an extremely important tool for the theory of Hamiltonian actions on symplectic manifolds. It has been extensively used to prove many local results both in symplectic geometry ...
A coupled CFD-DEM model for sand production in oil wells
During the oil recovery a hole is drilled, the sandstone is left unsupported next to the cavity and disloged sand grains can enter the oil recovery system. This process is called sand production and several problems may ...
A coupled Eulerian-PFEM model for the simulation of overtopping in rockfill dams
Rockfill dams are nowadays often preferred over concrete dams because of their economic advantages, their flexible design and thank to the great advance achieved in geosciences and geomechanics. Unfortunately their behavior ...
A coupling matrix vision for mobile filtering devices with micro-acoustic wave technologies. A systematic approach
Con el espectro radioeléctrico cada vez más saturado, los filtros y duplexores son elementos claves de la tecnología en el mercado de dispositivos discretos para la telefonía móvil. El segmento de usuario de los sistemas ...
A critical approach to the discursive construction of work and the self as an employee in present-day greece
Estudios en varias disciplinas de las ciencias sociales han señalado que se está desarrollando una despolitización estratégica del trabajo remunerado, junto con la constitución del sujeto como emprendedor autosuficiente y ...
A critical sociolinguistic study of diasporization among Hungarians in Catalonia
This thesis investigates how contemporary diasporas evolve, how diasporization takes place under the conditions of late modernity, and how language features in this process. By diasporization, I refer to the process(es) ...
A crítica jornalística de cinema na internet: um dispositivo em transformação
Essa tese tem como objetivo investigar em que medida as características do ecossistema midiático da internet influenciam a crítica jornalística de cinema presente na rede de modo a interferir no formato reconhecido pelo ...
A cross culture Study between Saudi Arabia and Spain on human change of perception to the Value attributes inserted in audiovisual Advertisements
Els anuncis s'han introduït gradualment a les nostres vides com a economia, tecnologia i social la cultura ha avançat. Segons estudis transculturals recents, existeix una base cultural evidència de la relació entre la ...
A cross-layer mechanism for QoS improvements in VoIP over multi-rate WLAN networks
In IEEE 802.11 WLANs, Link Adaptation mechanisms, which choose the transmission rate of each node, provoke unexpected and random variations on the effective channel capacity. When these changes are towards lower bitrates, ...
A Cross-linguistic comparison of the verbs of speaking with the component of non-standard speech and their translation (English-Russian)
In this dissertation we examine the sphere of the English verbs of speaking (VoS) with 2 components: the manner of speaking component (MoSC) and the component of non-standard speech (CoNS), and their translations from ...
A data-driven approach to prescribe web API evolution
(English) In the last two decades, the use of web Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has grown exponentially, providing both consumers (software developers) and providers (companies and institutions that expose their ...
A decision support framework for holistic forest management: bridging policy and practice
La gestió forestal en temps de canvi global requereix un enfoc holístic basat en els principis de la Gestió Forestal Sostenible (GFS). No obstant, aquests principis rarament es consideren en criteris operatius per al ...
A decision-making method for programming exhibitions in museums and art organizations
La present tesi doctoral estudia el procés de presa de decisions en la programació d'exposicions temporals als museus. S'analitza la literatura i es realitzen entrevistes a directors de museus a Espanya i als Estats Units, ...
A dependency-aware parallel programming model
Designing parallel codes is hard. One of the most important roadblocks to parallel programming is the presence of data dependencies. These restrict parallelism and, in general, to work them around requires complex analysis ...
A deterministic model for lake clarity; application to management of Lake Tahoe (California-Nevada), USA
This dissertation has as its goal the quantitative evaluation of the application of<br/>coupled hydrodynamic, ecological and clarity models, to address the deterministic prediction of water clarity in lakes and reservoirs. ...
A Distributed and Heuristic Policy-based Management Architecture for Large-Scale Grids
The aim of this thesis is to design and implement a new Grid Resource Management methodology, where non-massive resources owners would be able to share their resources and integrate human collaboration across multiple ...
A diversidade sociocultural no âmbito da formação de professores: O caso da Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB)
A proposta de pesquisa "A Diversidade sociocultural no âmbito da Formação de Formação de Professores: o caso da Universidade do Estado da Bahia (UNEB)" circula em torno do que entendo como uma lacuna existente entre o ...
A double full-stack architecture for multi-core quantum computers
(English) Despite its tremendous potential, it is still unclear how quantum computing will scale to satisfy the requirements of its most powerful applications. Continued progress in the fabrication and control of qubits ...
A double-porosity formulation for the THM behaviour of bentonite-based materials
The thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) behaviour of expansive clays has been extensively studied in the last decades due to the potential use of bentonites as components of engineered barrier systems (EBS) in deep geological ...
