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Zacharaki, Konstantina Eirini (Date of defense: 2022-02-24)
Infants start their lives with a universal ability to perceive speech and during the first months of life they attune to the language(s) they are exposed to in their environment, i.e. perceptual narrowing. Research has ...
Bravo Serrano, Àlex (Date of defense: 2016-11-28)
Current biomedical research needs to leverage the large amount of information reported in scientific publications. Automated text processing, commonly known as text mining, has become an indispensable tool to identify, ...
Pápai, Márta Szabina (Date of defense: 2017-10-26)
Diariamente recibimos mucha información que procede simultáneamente de distintos sentidos, que se combina en el cerebro para conseguir una respuesta rápida y precisa. Muchas veces, esto ocurre mediante la integración ...
Martín Salguero, Ana María (Date of defense: 2021-03-25)
The aim of the dissertation is to explore behavioral and neuropsychological correlates of elementary deductive processes in infants and adults. To this purpose, we introduce a novel non-verbal task presenting scenes ...
Kolev, Gueorgui I. (Date of defense: 2009-12-11)
Esta tesis consiste de tres ensayos. En el primero, documentamos la correlación imaginaria entre las decisiones de compensación de los ejecutivos (CEO) al demostrar que el hándicap de los ejecutivos que juegan al golf no ...
Weber, Wiebke (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)
The left-right concept is considered to facilitate communication and orientation in the political world. It has a long tradition in European politics due to its capacity to absorb different associations over time. ...
Grgić, Mladen (Date of defense: 2022-09-16)
La tesis doctoral analiza los principales proyectos de infraestructura desarrollados por la República Popular China en la región de los Balcanes. En particular, la tesis pone el foco en los aspectos políticos y económicos ...
Kominis, Filippos (Date of defense: 2017-12-01)
Classical planning is the problem of finding a sequence of actions that achieve a desired goal from an initial state, assuming deterministic actions. Dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) on the other hand, provides formal ...
Canudas Grabolosa, Irene (Date of defense: 2021-07-15)
In this thesis we focus on the relationship between language and logic, to try to find potential primitives of thought. We depart from a well-established linguistic theory (the theory of exhaustification), which claims ...
Figliulo, Roberto (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
The aim of this dissertation is to present a particular point of view on the contemporary Chinese photographic production. We will analyze the photographic works that deal directly or indirectly with the representation of ...
Ayneto Gimeno, Alba (Date of defense: 2016-10-18)
Infants can live in a monolingual or a bilingual environment from birth. While being exposed to one or two language does not influence when infants achieve the main language milestones it may require different adaptations ...
Cámbara Ruiz, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2024-04-02)
This dissertation investigates three methods for improving speech recognition in challenging conditions, focusing on feature enhancement and extending beyond spectral features. First, it demonstrates that incorporating ...
Graells-Garrido, Eduardo (Date of defense: 2015-05-25)
Las tendencias actuales en la Web apuntan hacia la personalización de contenido, lo que no sería un problema en un mundo uniforme y sin sesgos, pero nuestro mundo no es ni uniforme ni libre de sesgos. En esta tesis ...
Espinosa-Carrasco, José (Date of defense: 2016-11-08)
New high-throughput behavioral systems enable the recording of continuous behavioral sequences with an unprecedented richness of signals and a deep temporal resolution. Automated systems offer neuroscience the opportunity ...
Güell Cargol, Marc (Date of defense: 2010-04-16)
With only 689 genes Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pneumoniae) is among the simplest known organisms. Because of this simplicity, mycoplasma represents an attractive organism for systems-wide analyses. Such approaches aiming ...
Suárez Gonzalo, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
Esta tesis doctoral reflexiona sobre el impacto social y político de la explotación de datos masivos a nivel europeo. Cumple dos objetivos principales. En primer lugar, define el contexto general en el que se produce esta ...
García-Castro, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2024-03-11)
Bilingual infants acquire words at a similar rate as monolingual ones, despite navigating a more intricate linguistic environment. The mechanisms behind this phenomenon remain elusive. Our project addressed the potential ...
Cattaneo, Gabriele (Date of defense: 2017-01-23)
How can bilinguals easily and flexibly switch between languages without errors? The aim of this thesis is to advance our knowledge about the control mechanisms involved in bilingual language production. I investigated ...
Trelliso Carreño, Laura (Date of defense: 2016-02-03)
El proyecto de investigación tiene como objetivo principal la reconstrucción de los parámetros bioarqueológicos de la sociedad fenicia de Tiro (Líbano) a partir del análisis osteoarqueológico de los restos humanos incinerados ...
García Serna, Ricard (Date of defense: 2010-09-27)
The work on this thesis has focused on the development of integrated databases and visualization tools for three related areas of biomedical sciences involved in the drug discovery process. An annotated chemical library ...