Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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The success of an online community depends on the contributions and actions performed by the community members. This dissertation aims to understand the dynamics of participation in regulated, not-for-profit, open online ...
The main aim of this doctoral research was to explore the motivations of foreign language learners / users, and to offer insights into what a foreign language means to them in the here-and-now, and how they experience ...
El reguloma està constituït per un sistema complex de factors que controlen el fenotip molecular de la cèl·lula, que al seu torn està influenciada pel medi ambient. Qualsevol pertorbació pot desencadenar canvis que poden ...
Isogenic cells exhibit a large degree of cell-to-cell heterogeneity in proliferation, with a subpopulation of cells growing at a substantially lower rate. We conducted a high throughput microscopy screen to determine the ...
Esta tesis doctoral sostiene que las actividades de las mujeres africanas y afrodescendientes en la Guerra de los Diez Años o la primera guerra de independencia cubana contra el colonialismo español (1868–1878) transformaron ...
Dada la escasa información existente sobre el colectivo femenino libio, la presente tesis visibiliza el caso de las mujeres libias, analiza sus contribuciones e interpreta los cambios sociales recuperando sus actividades, ...
Nowadays, imaging of the human brain is vastly used in clinical settings and by the neuroscientific research community. There is an ever-increasing demand for novel biomedical image analysis approaches and tools to study ...
Una caracterización precisa y completa del tejido cardíaco es esencial para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de problemas cardíacos. Para caracterizar la función cardíaca desde diferentes perspectivas, en la práctica clínica, ...
Vaccination constitutes one of the most efficient and cost-effective methods of promoting global health. Nevertheless, few vaccines are fully effective, for manifold reasons ranging from intrinsic limitations to more ...
This thesis focuses on the development of machine learning tools to better characterize the cardiac anatomy and function in the context of heart failure, and in particular their extension to consider multiple parameters ...
Next generation applications will have strict network requirement, such as higher throughput and low latency. As Wi-Fi continues to grow, it needs to adapt to these new requirements. This thesis focuses on latency reduction ...
The human histone H1 family comprises up to seven somatic subtypes. Using an integrative multi-omics approach that incorporates ChIP-Seq, Hi-C, RNA-Seq, and ATAC-Seq data, this thesis explores the genome-wide distribution ...
High-throughput Chromosome Conformation Capture (3C) techniques have provided a comprehensive overview of the genome architecture. Hi-C, a derivative of 3C, has become a reference technique to study the 3D chromatin structure ...
Depression is a major public health problem, affecting 322 million people worldwide. Antidepressants are the basis for the treatment of major depression. Although increasingly safer, individual patient response variability ...
Reading is an essential skill that plays a crucial role in our daily lives. It allows us to access information, gain knowledge, expand our understanding of the world around us, and build the foundation for learning, ...
Recently, multiliteracy has received lots of attention. Due to increased migration, globalisation and intermarriage, as of 2017, there are 203 Hoshukos (Japanese school located outside of Japan) spread across 56 different ...
Social media is a valuable platform for sharing real-time perspectives and insights, particularly during dynamic events. Extracting relevant information from social media during emergencies can be challenging, especially ...
Neurosurgery is evolving towards the use of minimally invasive procedures. In this dissertation, we present several tools designed to fulfill the multimodal and multidisciplinary requirements of Stereoencephalography (SEEG) ...
In the realm of second language acquisition of pronunciation, perception-based phonetic training has been shown to be effective in improving L2 perception and production. By incorporating the visual modality of the speaker’s ...
This thesis tackles a series of phenomena across diverse fields from the point of view of optimization. The problems studied often bring together diverse conflicting constraints that cannot be fully satisfied. Out of ...
