Morell i Tipper, Marc Andreu (Date of defense: 2015-12-17)
With his seminal proposal of a rent-gap theory, Neil Smith developed a consistent materialist explanation for gentrification that efficiently contended with individual consumer preference tenets by ...
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 ...
González Vázquez, Mateo (Date of defense: 2019-09-27)
The realization of extensive fieldwork projects during the last few decades in northeastern Spain has considerably enriched our knowledge of the rural landscape’s history and have spurred much debate ...
Andria, Maria (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the influence of first language (L1) patterns on the acquisition of Greek as a foreign language (L2) by Spanish/Catalan L1 learners, as well as to ...
Alamri, Saleh (Date of defense: 2017-09-18)
Humans display distinct unlimited capacity to produce expressions in language and use them flexibly in language processing. This characteristic of human language allows speakers to use novel, flexible, ...
Hindi, Nadine (Date of defense: 2015-09-16)
This research tackles the public spaces in the framework of Beirut’s mosaic history, whereby the Middle East constitutes the background and not the context. It will first identify the public spaces by ...
Esteban Alamá, Irene (Date of defense: 2016-12-15)
The importance of South Africa lies in the many caves and rock shelters containing well preserved evidence of human activity, cultural material complexity and a growing number of early modern human ...
Matos Silva Cabral, Maria (Date of defense: 2016-12-07)
The urban phenomenon of floods is recurrent and is expected to be aggravated in the near and distant future, not only in light of climate change projections, but also if flood management approaches ...
Oriola Folch, Marta (Date of defense: 2012-02-13)
El soporte de tela de los cuadros se compone mayoritariamente de celulosa. Una de las vias de degradación de la celulosa es la hidrólisis ácida, que implica que en un ambiente ácido (bajo pH), la ...
Briesen, Brendan J. Von (Date of defense: 2017-09-20)
This thesis examines the guilds comprising the sub-sector of maritime cargo handling in Barcelona from 1760-1840, a period defined in economic terms by the progressive advance of liberal reforms and ...