Mathbout, Shifa (Date of defense: 2016-02-17)
As precipitation is a very important parameter of climate and hydrology, exploring spatial and temporal distribution and variation of this variable can give an idea about climate conditions and water ...
Artieda Gutiérrez, Gemma (Date of defense: 2014-01-17)
In today’s globalised world it is becoming increasingly common that adults need to learn new languages at any age. And while the number of foreign language adult learners keeps growing, there is still ...
Jorba Grau, Marta (Date of defense: 2013-04-11)
The aim of this dissertation is to provide a non-reductive account of cognitive phenomenology and the experience of thinking. The nature of conscious thought is an issue that has occupied philosophers ...
Rosado-Méndez, Nadihuska Y. (Date of defense: 2017-07-20)
This work is part of a line of research focused on the zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of leporid remains (rabbits and hares) recovered in prehistoric sites in the Iberian Peninsula. To that ...
Grau Perejoan, Maria (Date of defense: 2015-05-15)
This study revolves around the figure of Caribbean writer Earl Lovelace. The thesis demonstrates that the emphasis on the deterritorialisation of the Caribbean region and the focus on transnationalism ...
Lytle, Cynthia (Date of defense: 2014-12-19)
This dissertation analyzes the fiction of South African author Zoë Wicomb (1948- ) through her two collections of short stories: You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town (1987) and The One that Got Away (2008) ...
Ortega, Dolors (Date of defense: 2013-01-30)
This thesis aims to problematise the hegemonic set of relations that has been aligned to gender and sex within the framework of binary thought when reading Woolf’s narrative of gender. Woolf’s elusive ...
Montero Micharet, Lidia (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)
The purpose of this dissertation is to contribute to the field of second language (L2) communication strategies (CS) and, particularly, to examine which factors or combinations of factors are involved ...
Milne, Joanne Leonie (Date of defense: 2016-01-14)
This thesis is an investigation into the visualization of cosmological propositions associated with string theory. Research into the work of contemporary theoretical physics led to the question, how ...
Limaverde Cabral Pinheiro, David (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
This present project is inserted in a transdisciplinary approach, focusing on paths of how Cultural Pedagogy is performed among artists of the city of Fortaleza, Brazil – in the context of socially ...