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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 (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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
