Ribas Segura, Catalina (Date of defense: 2013-12-13)
This thesis presents original research: it examines the constructs of duty and obedience in post-World War II Greek-Australian and Chinese Australian literature and compares the strategies these first- ...
Speakman, Robert J. (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)
Mimbres-Mogollon people inhabited areas of southwestern New Mexico from approximately A.D. 200–1150, with settlements located primarily in the Gila, Mimbres, and Rio Grande Valleys and immediate adjacent ...
Rosich Pagès, Gerard (Date of defense: 2015-12-09)
This PhD has pursued three different and interconnected objectives, each corresponding to one of the three parts of the PhD. In Part I, a historical reconstruction is provided in order to present the ...
Marcos Alonso, Susana (Date of defense: 2017-06-20)
The nursing profession in Bangladesh has undergone substantial development over recent decades but still faces significant challenges. A remarkable gap has been described between the institutionally-accepted ...
Rierola Puigderajols, Ana Maria (Date of defense: 2001-11-30)
Since 1994, and for the first time in Spain, the Disney dealer Buenavista Pictures has been providing the videotapes Welcome to Disney Classics. They contain the original versions with subtitles in ...
Zhang, Qing (Date of defense: 2017-09-07)
Vocal learning, one of the subcomponents of language, is put at center stage in this dissertation. The overall hypothesis is that vocal learning lays the foundation for both language evolution (phylogeny) ...
Anta Pulido, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
The main objective of this dissertation is to philosophically assess how the use of informational concepts in the field of classical thermostatistical physics has historically evolved from the late 1940s ...
Tragant Mestres, Elsa (Date of defense: 1994-10-14)
One of the roles who teachers have is that of organizer of activity and in subject matters that are rather practical by nature, like the teaching of a foreign language is, this role as elicitor of ...
Ortega Montero, Óscar (Date of defense: 2022-03-18)
This Ph.D. dissertation explores the transformative potential of the HIV/AIDS experience in post-apartheid South Africa during the age of denialism under Thabo Mbeki’s mandate (1999-2008). To that end, ...
García-Granero Fos, Juan José (Date of defense: 2015-06-22)
Understanding how human societies adapted to past environmental and climatic variability is fundamental to face present and future climatic events, particularly in highly vulnerable arid and semi-arid ...