"Per soplir la fragilitat e dolència de la carn". Sexe i misogínia a la diòcesi de Barcelona (s. XIV-XV) 

    Conte Aguilar, Lucía (Fecha de defensa: 2012-09-21)

    L’Església catòlica baixmedieval, va aplicar la reforma que havia de regular la moral dels fidels centrant el seu control en les qüestions relatives a la moral sexual (segle XIV) a la diòcesi de Barcelona. Aquesta tesi ...

    Perceived consistency and coherence in collaborative story worlds 

    Tapscott, Alan (Fecha de defensa: 2017-09-20)

    Current information technologies allow users to interact and collaborate to create fictional realities. In this thesis, we explore the role of perceived consistency and coherence in the collaborative creation of fictional ...

    Perceived foreign accent and comprehensibility in the oral production of adolescent learners of English : study abroad vs. at home learning contexts 

    Río San Román, Carmen del (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-17)

    The aim of the present research study is to examine the contrasting effects of two learning contexts, study abroad (SA) vs. at home (AH), on the language development of Spanish adolescent learners of English. It focuses ...

    Perceptually-inspired gamut mapping for display and projection tecnologies 

    Zamir, Syed Waqas (Fecha de defensa: 2017-05-26)

    The cinema and television industries are continuously working in the development of image features that can provide a better visual experience to viewers; these image attributes include large spatial resolution, high ...

    Performance evaluation of safety critical ITS-G5 V2V communications for cooperative driving Applications 

    Lyamin, Nikita (Fecha de defensa: 2019-01-30)

    Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) are aiming to provide innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management, and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated ...

    Performance indicators in academic radiology departments in the United States 

    Ondategui Parra, Silvia (Fecha de defensa: 2008-04-21)

    PURPOSE: To determine the management performance indicators most frequently utilized in academic radiology departments in the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This investigation met the criteria for an exemption from ...

    Persistent organic pollutants, bisphenol A, phthalates and respiratory and immune health in childhood 

    Gascon Merlos, Mireia (Fecha de defensa: 2014-07-03)

    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs), bisphenol A (BPA) and pthalates may increase the risk of respiratory infections and allergic diseases in infants and the effects might last until, at least, adolescence. Cytokines and ...

    Person and number in Catalan Sign Language pronouns 

    Veiga Busto, Raquel (Fecha de defensa: 2022-01-14)

    Languages use different resources to specify the numerosity of the referents and to denote the speech act participants. This thesis describes the morphophonological strategies used in Catalan Sign Language (LSC) personal ...

    Perspectiva jurídico-financiera del medio ambiente 

    Ferrer Dupuy, Plàcida (Fecha de defensa: 2001-11-30)

    Este trabajo plantea el estudio del concepto del medio ambiente y de los principios que lo informan desde el gasto público. El marco teórico es el Derecho financiero constitucional y el Derecho de los gastos públicos. Se ...

    Pervivencia del modelo narrativo clásico en el cine independiente de Estados Unidos: una perspectiva neuropscicológica 

    Grau, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2016-01-26)

    A inicios del siglo XXI, se puede observar como se ha creado una codependencia entre el cine independiente americano y la industria de Hollywood, por lo que el objetivo de esta tesis ha sido investigar si siguen persistiendo ...

    PET in preclinical AD: image harmonization, characterization of the centiloid metric of Aβ load and associations with tau fluid biomarkers 

    Shekari, Mahnaz (Fecha de defensa: 2024-04-03)

    This thesis explores technical factors influencing brain PET quantification, developing brain PET harmonization framework, assessing Centiloid robustness as a clinical biomarker, and evaluating the associations between ...

    Pharmacogenomic study of oppioid addicts in methadone treatment / Francina Fonseca Casals 

    Fonseca Casals, Francina (Fecha de defensa: 2010-11-17)

    Although the well established efficacy of methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) in the opioid dependence disorder, there is a group of patients that are poor responders. The study of the influence of methadone pharmacodynamics ...

    Phase-based signal analysis measures applied to electroencephalographic recordings from epilepsy patients 

    Espinoso Palacín, Anaïs (Fecha de defensa: 2023-12-12)

    This thesis presents new phase-based signal analysis techniques to study brain dynamics from patients with pharmacoresistant focalonset epilepsy. We analyze electroencephalographic (EEG) recordings from seizure and ...

    Photography on Instagram: self-representation, identities and new ways of sociability: an analysis about the representations of self on photos posted by students from Pompeu Fabra University and from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro on Instagram 

    Musse, Mariana (Fecha de defensa: 2016-11-23)

    Les noves formes de sociabilitat i d'autorepresentació, a partir d'avenços tecnològics i Internet, i el paper central de la imatge en la contemporaneïtat són els principals temes que es tracten en aquesta investigació, que ...

    Phrase table expansion for statistical machine translation with reduced parallel corpora: the Chinese-Spanish case 

    Han, Jingyi (Fecha de defensa: 2017-12-13)

    Parallel data scarcity problem is a major challenge faced by Statistical Machine Translation (SMT). The aim of this thesis is to enrich a SMT system by adding more morphological variants and new translation lexicon ...

    A Phraseological multi-discipline approach to vocabulary selection for English for academic purposes 

    Rees, Geraint Paul (Fecha de defensa: 2018-04-16)

    This study is motivated by concerns about the adequacy of current corpus-based methods for the selection of vocabulary in studies of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) lexis. It is hypothesised that lists of general-academic ...

    Phylogenomic analysis and genomic structure of human RCAN genes : Effect on RCAN overexpression on lymphocyte development and function 

    Serrano Candelas, Eva (Fecha de defensa: 2012-12-20)

    The protein phosphatase calcineurin (Cn), together with its substrates, the transcription factors NFATc, play an essential role in several physiological processes of vertebrates, such as the immune response, angiogenes ...

    Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of subterranean Coleoptera 

    Balart i García, Pau (Fecha de defensa: 2023-02-24)

    Under very specific pressures, evolution turns extremely convergent, to the extent that distantly-related organisms show highly similar morphological, physiological and behavioral adaptations. Life into the perpetual ...

    Physical activity and neurodevelopment in children 

    López Vicente, Mònica (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-14)

    This thesis aims to study the determinants and trajectories of cognitive development, as well as the role of physical activity on cognitive and brain development in children aged 4 to 14 years old. We used data from two ...

    Physical activity as a crucial patient-reported outcome in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 

    Gimeno Santos, Elena (Fecha de defensa: 2014-12-22)

    Physical inactivity is a hallmark of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), which relates to outcomes relevant for patients and healthcare providers. Despite its importance, no patient reported outcome (PRO) instrument ...