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Repke, Lydia (Fecha de defensa: 2017-12-22)
This dissertation explores how multicultural individuals acculturate, and how their personality traits and cultural identifications relate to the content and the structure of their habitual personal social networks. I ...
Kennedy, Keith Endres (Fecha de defensa: 2023-05-30)
This thesis focuses on the multiscale nature of the biological process that underpin the function of all living systems. A first project centers on the disease known as multiple sclerosis, and utilizes various datasets at ...
García Cañadilla, Patricia (Fecha de defensa: 2015-07-02)
Cardiovascular diseases are nowadays one of the major causes of death in developed countries. Besides the already known risk factors such as lifestyle and genetics, there is a growing evidence that adverse remodelling ...
Braun, Andreas (Fecha de defensa: 2016-02-05)
Numerous studies have shown that a wide range of behaviors from sensory processing to motor control involve near-optimal probabilistic inference. Most of these studies have focused on vertebrates, suggesting that the ability ...
Rodríguez Sanz, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2016-12-15)
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 ...
Streich, Sebastian (Fecha de defensa: 2007-02-21)
Esta tesis propone un juego de algoritmos que puede emplearse para computar estimaciones de las distintas facetas de complejidad que ofrecen señales musicales auditivas. Están enfocados en los aspectos de acústica, ritmo, ...
Zhang, Yuan (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-27)
In the last decades, a growing number of studies have investigated the relationship between two unique abilities of humankind, music and language. Music and language share important structural similarities related to ...
Celma Herrada, Òscar (Fecha de defensa: 2009-02-16)
Avui en dia, la música està esbiaixada cap al consum d'alguns artistes molt populars. Per exemple, el 2007 només l'1% de totes les cançons en format digital va representar el 80% de les vendes. De la mateixa manera, només ...
Ferraro, Andrés (Fecha de defensa: 2021-09-30)
Music streaming platforms nowadays play an important role in music consumption and have a big influence on the musical taste of the listeners. Machine learning-based recommender systems are a fundamental part of such ...
Hazan, Amaury (Fecha de defensa: 2010-07-16)
We develop in this thesis a computational model of music expectation, which may be one of the most important aspects in music listening. Many phenomenons related to music listening such as preference, surprise or emo- tions ...
Sarasúa Berodia, Álvaro (Fecha de defensa: 2017-05-29)
Interface metaphors are often used in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) to exploit knowledge that users already have from other domains. A commonly used one in Digital Musical Instruments (DMIs) is the conductor metaphor. ...
Laurie, Steven (Fecha de defensa: 2013-07-25)
This thesis comprises comparative genomics analyses primarily focussing on the evolution of mammalian proteins. We concentrate on three species of direct relevance as model organisms, for which high quality genome sequences ...
Silveira dos Santos, Daniela (Fecha de defensa: 2015-01-22)
Esta tesis investiga los orígenes arquetípicos de la comedia a través del personaje Charlot y busca dibujar y estructurar el imaginario mítico del cine de Charles Chaplin alrededor del arquetipo del niño. El estudio ...
Kuzmicheva, Maria (Fecha de defensa: 2013-11-05)
The present piece of research is concerned with 12 Northern stories written by the American writer Jack London. Its goal is to apply discourse analysis as a framework to the study of narrative texts in order to find out ...
Puxan Oliva, Marta (Fecha de defensa: 2010-06-03)
Aquesta tesi vol demostrar que Joseph Conrad i William Faulkner, en les novel·les Lord Jim i Absalom, Absalom! respectivament, reflexionen sobre la credibilitat de la veu en la ficció i del discurs racial per mitjà de ...
Potapkina, Viktoria (Fecha de defensa: 2019-02-27)
This thesis provides an overview of current nation building processes in contested states. With a specific focus on the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, and Kosovo, original data is ...
Errasti Lopez, Ander (Fecha de defensa: 2017-07-27)
This thesis consists of a thorough analysis and subsequent critical review of Ulrich Beck's cosmopolitan proposal. I basically challenge his three main normative assumptions: national secularism, community of risk and ...
Mas Sandoval, Àlex (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-30)
Most of the Native American populations that lived in nowadays Eastern Brazil when the Europeans established in the area in the 16th century do not exist anymore. The colonization of Brazil implied huge migrations from ...
Mellado Blanes, Ester (Fecha de defensa: 2019-04-26)
This thesis analyses the interlanguage effect in the learning process of Spanish phraseology by native Italians. It is intended to investigate the interactions between native languages and the learning process of a foreign ...
Aparicio i Prat, Estel (Fecha de defensa: 2014-02-07)
Non-coding RNA functions are emerging in the recent years. In this thesis we describe a Natural Antisense Transcript (NAT) that controls the expression of LEF1 transcriptional factor. This LEF1 NAT is transcribed from a ...