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Bearing Witness to Atrocity: Racial Violence and the Limits of Representation in Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Works
[eng] Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) is nowadays considered one of the most detailed registers of the different forms that racial violence takes—from direct manifestations of physical assaults, including ...
Bearing-only slam methods
SLAM (Simulatenous Localization and Mapping) es quizá el problema más importante a solucionar en robótica para construir robots móviles verdaderamente autónomos. El SLAM es acerca de cómo un robot móvil opera en un entorno ...
Beat gestures and prosodic prominence: impact on learning
Previous research has shown that gestures are beneficial for language learning. This doctoral thesis centers on the effects of beat gestures– i.e., hand and arm gestures that are typically associated with prosodically ...
Beat gestures and speech processing: when prosody extends to the speaker's hands
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 relevant information. ...
Beating the drums! journalism, forum or platform: blogs in China and Cuba (2010) through the cases of Wang Keqin and Yoani Sánchez
Es diu que és impossible que els països autoritaris tinguin una opinió pública plenament desenvolupada. Jürgen Habermas criticava Internet per la dispersió dels continguts i la manca de mediadors. No obstant això, a països ...
Bedforms and associated sediment dynamics on the inner shelves at different spatio-temporal scales
This Thesis conducts the study of bedform development and dynamics in the inner shelf integrating observations at different spatial and temporal scales. An initial assumption is that different scales of sedimentary processes ...
Bedload transport of sand-gravel mixtures with antidunes: flume experiments
In this thesis, the interaction between flow and sediment in alluvial channels is studied from an empirical approach, for conditions close or pertaining to supercritical flow, and for four types of sediment: sand, gravel ...
Bee behavioural plasticity in a global change context
A pesar del declive generalizado de las abejas debido a la pérdida de sus hábitats y la transformación del paisaje, algunas especies de abejas pueden adaptarse para vivir en habitats modificados por el hombre. Aún así, no ...
Before phonemes : Infants start building the native phoneme repertoire
Infants start their lives with a universal ability to perceive speech and during the first months of life they attune to the language(s) they are exposed to in their environment, i.e. perceptual narrowing. Research has ...
BeFree : a text mining system for the extraction of biomedical information from literature
Current biomedical research needs to leverage the large amount of information reported in scientific publications. Automated text processing, commonly known as text mining, has become an indispensable tool to identify, ...
Behaving Sociably. Sharing and cooperation among contemporary punan tubu in north Kalimantan, Indonesia
El comportamiento prosocial, como compartir y cooperar, es una característica central del ser humano y también es considerada central en la estrategia adaptativa humana. Observaciones y estudios experimentales previos ...
Behavior and its role on reproductive performance under a life-history perspective
El comportament permet als animals afrontar condicions ambientals adverses, permetent als individus anticipar-se i respondre a una amplia varietat de riscos. Per tant, el rol de les decisions comportamentals per a la millora ...
Behavior understanding of vulnerable road users by 2D pose estimation
Anticipar les intencions dels usuaris vulnerables (VRU, per les sigles en anglès), com a vianants i ciclistes, pot ser crític per a una conducció segura i confortable. Aquest és el cas quan condueix una persona i, per ...
Behavioral and electrophysiological correlates of cross-modal enhancement for unaware visual events
Diariamente recibimos mucha información que procede simultáneamente de distintos sentidos, que se combina en el cerebro para conseguir una respuesta rápida y precisa. Muchas veces, esto ocurre mediante la integración ...
Behavioral and neural correlates of logical inferences
The aim of the dissertation is to explore behavioral and neuropsychological correlates of elementary deductive processes in infants and adults. To this purpose, we introduce a novel non-verbal task presenting scenes ...
Behavioral and neurochemical assessment of the role of ERK pathway in the psychopharmacological effects of ethanol, caffeine and of their interaction
The abundant expression of Extracellular signal-Regulated Kinase (ERK) in brain areas of addiction emphasizes the relevance of this kinase in modulating behavioral functions mediated by these circuits. Another biochemical ...
Behavioral changes, ecological niches and adaptive diversification in pigeons and doves
L'extraordinària diversitat de l'ecologia, morfologia, comportament, i la riquesa d'espècies en tot l'arbre de la vida ha interessat els investigadors des de fa molt de temps. No obstant, entendre com i per què els llinatges ...
Behavioral economics and environmental policy: Theory and experiments
La eficacia, la equidad y la eficiencia de las políticas ambientales orientadas a la sostenibilidad dependen en gran medida del modelo subyacente de comportamiento individual. Sólo un modelo fundado empíricamente en la ...
Behaviour of pathogenic gram negative bacteria inoculated in milk and model cheese treated with high hydrostatic pressure
Els efectes de les altes pressions hidrostàtiques i la capacitat per sobreviure, recuperar-se i créixer de tres microorganismes patògens (Yersinia enterocolitica, Escherichia coli Salmonella enterica) van ser investigats ...
Behavioural Biases and Chief Executive Officers Compensation
Esta tesis consiste de tres ensayos. En el primero, documentamos la correlación imaginaria entre las decisiones de compensación de los ejecutivos (CEO) al demostrar que el hándicap de los ejecutivos que juegan al golf no ...
