Malicka, Aleksandra (Date of defense: 2014-10-24)
In the domain of task-based language teaching (TBLT), researchers have long been interested in exploring the impact of internal task features and conditions on a range of outcomes, such as the occurrence ...
Francos Quijorna, Marcos (Date of defense: 2019-03-27)
Forest fires are a common phenomenon in the Mediterranean ecosystem. These wildfires, post-fire weather conditions and forest management before and after the fire can cause irreversible damage to the ...
Lundsteen, Martin (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
The main aim of the thesis has been to scrutinise the relations between cultural diversity and social conflicts, and to consider why some social conflicts are said to be inherently cultural. I have ...
García Quiñones, Marta (Date of defense: 2016-01-27)
This thesis locates historical discourses about music listening within the field of sound studies. Thus, the first three chapters illuminate the contiguities between sound studies and the so-called ...
Ruthven, Andrea (Date of defense: 2015-06-26)
This thesis analyses heroic women in contemporary popular culture, specifically within dystopic texts. Relying on the use of feminist theory to interrogate the texts of the corpus, a clear distinction ...
Nobajas i Ganau, Alexandre (Date of defense: 2013-04-05)
Bottled mineral water has managed to become a commodity and can be found virtually anywhere in the world. However, even if it is a very common and well recognized product, little it is known about its ...
Moraschini, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2016-06-08)
This memoir is divided into two parts, devoted to two topics in (ab-stract) algebraic logic. In the first part we develop a hierarchy in which propositional logics “L” are classified according to the ...
Tsaprounis, Konstantinos (Date of defense: 2012-12-14)
In the current dissertation we work in set theory and we study both various large cardinal hierarchies and issues related to forcing axioms and generic absoluteness. The necessary preliminaries may be ...
Valero Alzaga, Iñigo (Date of defense: 2022-04-27)
This PhD Dissertation explores a variety of topics in relation with metaphysical naturalness and the assessment of our conceptual and classificatory practices. It is divided in three self-standing—albeit ...
Rivadulla Duró, Andrea (Date of defense: 2022-07-25)
The present dissertation explores the role of imagination in different philosophical domains of inquiry. The thesis set out as a collection of self- standing essays and can be divided into two parts: ...