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    Atención en la disfagia orofaríngea en la ancianidad y en pacientes con enfermedades neurológicas 

    Molina Raya, Lorena (Date of defense: 2017-12-15)

    Resumen de la Tesis DoctoralIntroducción: La disfagia orofaríngea (DO) es muy prevalente en ancianos y pacientes con enfermedades neurológicas. No existe tratamiento farmacológico.Metodología: Se ha realizado una revisión ...

    Atención y tratamiento jurídico-penal de la desobediencia civil en Puerto Rico: un análisis crítico de política criminal 

    Zambrana, Luis Alberto (Date of defense: 2019-12-19)

    La presente investigación tiene como propósito principal analizar la relación entre la Política Criminal y varios actos paradigmáticos de la desobediencia civil en el contexto de Puerto Rico. Más específicamente, se desea ...

    Atenuació de la crítica en llengua de signes catalana (LSC): l'opinió restringida com a estratègia mitigadora 

    Moya-Avilés, Berta (Date of defense: 2022-11-30)

    Aquesta tesi estudia la cortesia en llengua de signes catalana (LSC), concretament, l’atenuació de la crítica a través de l’estratègia discursiva de restringir l’opinió personal. Amb aquest propòsit, hem elaborat un corpus ...

    Atherosclerosis and air pollution: understanding traffic-related exposure and its effects. 

    Rivera, Marcela (Date of defense: 2012-03-16)

    This thesis contributes to the characterization of the spatial distribution of NO2, heavy metals and UFP in Girona, to the methodology in air pollution exposure assessment studying different markers of traffic-related air ...

    La atmósfera de terror en la literatura de Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovercraft, Shirley Jackson y Thomas Ligotti 

    Sola González, Josep (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)

    The objective of this investigation is to elucidate some of the narrative strategies authors employ to create an atmosphere of terror. To do so, we have resorted to four writers: Edgar Allan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, ...

    Atomicity and distributive reference 

    Wohlmuth, Kata (Date of defense: 2019-06-19)

    Mereological models are often used to account for distributive reference, which arises when the denotation of a linguistic expression holds of certain parts of the plurality to which it is applied. It is general praxis in ...

    Attenuation of information during native/non-native interactions 

    Rodríguez Cuadrado, Sara (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)

    The current dissertation deals with how attenuation of information works in relation to non-nativeness. It also deals with the nature of the attenuation of information phenomenon per se. Attenuation of information refers ...

    Audio content processing for automatic music genre classification : descriptors, databases, and classifiers 

    Guaus, Enric (Date of defense: 2009-09-21)

    Aquesta tesi versa sobre la classificació automàtica de gèneres musicals, basada en l'anàlisi del contingut del senyal d'àudio, plantejant-ne els problemes i proposant solucions. Es proposa un estudi de la ...

    Audio source separation for music in low-latency and high-latency scenarios 

    Marxer Piñón, Ricard (Date of defense: 2013-09-09)

    Aquesta tesi proposa mètodes per tractar les limitacions de les tècniques existents de separació de fonts musicals en condicions de baixa i alta latència. En primer lloc, ens centrem en els mètodes amb un baix cost ...

    Audio-visual deep learning methods for musical instrument classification and separation 

    Slizovskaia, Olga (Date of defense: 2020-10-21)

    In music perception, the information we receive from a visual system and audio system is often complementary. Moreover, visual perception plays an important role in the overall experience of being exposed to a music ...

    Audiovisual prosody and verbal irony 

    González Fuente, Santiago (Date of defense: 2017-07-10)

    This dissertation takes an integrated approach to the study of audiovisual cues to verbal irony. While pragmatic studies have mainly focused on the role of the discourse context in irony detection, little is known about ...

    Audiovisual speech processing: the role of attention and conflict 

    Morís Fernández, Luis (Date of defense: 2016-06-03)

    Events in our environment do rarely excite only one sensory pathway, but usually involve several modalities offering complimentary information. These different informations are usually integrated into a single percept ...

    Aurora A kinase function during anaphase 

    Lioutas, Antonio (Date of defense: 2012-11-09)

    Aurora A (AurA) is an important mitotic kinase mainly studied for its involvement in cell cycle progression, centrosome maturation, mitotic spindle pole organization and bipolar spindle formation. It localizes to ...

    Automated cardiac MR image analysis for population imaging 

    Albà, Xènia (Date of defense: 2017-04-21)

    La pràctica clínica i la investigació generen grans quantitats de registres mèdics, incloent-hi imatges. No obstant això, molta informació que podria millorar l'assistència sanitària continua sent inaccessible. Es necessiten ...

    Automated processes and intelligent tools in CG media production 

    Romeo, Marco (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)

    La producció moderna dels mitjans descansa de forma important sobre continguts generats per ordinador, tals com animacions 3D, i efectes visuals digitals. Aquests actius complexos poblen videojocs, pel•lícules, televisió, ...

    Automatic acquisition of lexical-semantic relations: gathering information in a dense representation 

    Necşulescu, Silvia (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

    Lexical-semantic relationships between words are key information for many NLP tasks, which require this knowledge in the form of lexical resources. This thesis addresses the acquisition of lexical-semantic relation instances. ...

    Automatic acquisition of semantic classes for adjectives 

    Boleda Torrent, Gemma (Date of defense: 2007-04-18)

    Aquesta tesi tracta l'adquisició automàtica de classes semàntiques per a adjectius. La tesi es basa en dues hipòtesis. La primera, que alguns aspectes de la semàntica dels adjectius no són totalment impredictibles, sinó ...

    Automatic and deliberate control of action: an embodied perspective of artificial and biological brains 

    Maffei, Giovanni (Date of defense: 2018-05-04)

    Animals evolved to survive in dynamic environments by developing multiple behavioral strategies to adapt and to learn from their interaction with the world. Associative mechanisms and internal representations are at the ...

    Automatic assessment of singing voice pronunciation: a case study with Jingju music 

    Gong, Rong (Date of defense: 2018-11-23)

    Online learning has altered music education remarkable in the last decade. Large and increasing amount of music performing learners participate in online music learning courses due to the easy-accessibility and boundless ...

    Automatic characterization and generation of music loops and instrument samples for electronic music production 

    Ramires, António (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)

    Repurposing audio material to create new music - also known as sampling - was a foundation of electronic music and is a fundamental component of this practice. Currently, large-scale databases of audio offer vast collections ...