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    "M'agenollo en el fons de la meva paraula". La religiositat de Màrius Torres: del llegat espiritista a l'elaboració d'una poesia i un pensament propi 

    Suades Juncadella, Laia (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)

    L’objectiu general d’aquesta tesi és contribuir a omplir el buit bibliogràfic que existeix al voltant de la religiositat de Màrius Torres (1910-1942). La primera part està dedicada als seus antecedents religiosos. Es ...

    MAC design and analysis for MU-MIMO and full-duplex enabled wireless networks 

    Liao, Ruizhi (Date of defense: 2014-10-06)

    IEEE 802.11 based wireless networks, especially the infrastructure based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) or Wi-Fi networks, are hugely successful, and have become an indispensable part of our life at homes and working ...

    Machine learning and deep neural networks approach to modelling musical gestures 

    Cabrera Dalmazzo, David (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)

    Gestures can be defined as a form of non-verbal communication associated with an intention or an emotional state articulation. They are not only intrinsically part of the human language, but also explain specific details ...

    A machine learning approach to computer modeling of musical expression for performance learning and practice 

    Muneratti Ortega, Fábio José (Date of defense: 2022-03-11)

    Aquesta tesi tracta sobre el disseny i la implementació de sistemes informàtics per a l'execució musical expressiva (CSEMP), explorant diferents mètodes de l'aprenentatge automàtic i reflexionant sobre el paper de l'estructura ...

    Machine learning approach to the study of chromatin 

    Cuscó Pons, Pol (Date of defense: 2017-12-13)

    Des de l’aparició de les tecnologies de seqüenciació d’alt rendiment, els conjunts de dades biològiques han esdevingut cada cop més grans i complexes, la qual cosa els fa pràcticament impossibles d’interpretar manualment. ...

    Machine learning in structural biology and chemoinformatics : Driving drug discovery one epoch at a time 

    Jiménez Luna, José (Date of defense: 2019-10-24)

    Deep learning approaches have become increasingly popular in the last years thanks to their state-of the-art performance in fields such as computer vision and natural language understanding. The first goal of this thesis ...

    Machine learning methods for understanding social media communication: modeling irony and emojis 

    Barbieri, Francesco (Date of defense: 2018-01-25)

    In this dissertation we propose algorithms for the analysis of social media texts, focusing on two particular aspects: irony and emojis. We propose novel automatic systems, based on machine learning methods, able to recognize ...

    Machine learning to support exploring and exploiting real-world clinical longitudinal data 

    Nogueira, Mariana (Date of defense: 2020-10-05)

    Following-up on patient evolution by reacquiring the same measurements over time (longitudinal data) is a crucial component in clinical care dynamics, as it creates opportunity for timely decision making in preventing ...

    Machine translation in a professional translation workflow: post-editing or computer aided translation 

    Cabello Sánchez, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2023-02-23)

    Localization is a fascinating field which has changed dramatically in the last years and it is still changing and adapting itself as society is. The use of machine translation has developed this field astonishingly. Many ...

    The Macroeconomic implications of learning by shopping 

    Gutiérrez-Daza, Ángelo (Date of defense: 2022-06-08)

    Empirical evidence suggests that consumers rely on their shopping experiences to form beliefs about inflation. In other words, they learn by shopping. This dissertation studies the implications of this information friction ...

    Mainstream music in the postmodern scenario: an analysis of sexuality, well-being, and racialization 

    Alvarez-Cueva, Priscila (Date of defense: 2022-12-19)

    This research uses mainstream music scenarios in Spain to explore its representations and problematize them from a critical gender perspective. Structured by four items, this work 1) situates mainstream music within the ...

    Maintaining regenerative competence of muscle stem cells: role of mitochondrial dynamics 

    Hong, Xiaotong (Date of defense: 2022-10-06)

    La regeneración del músculo esquelético depende de la expansión correcta de las células madre inactivas residentes (células satélite), un proceso que se vuelve menos eficiente con el envejecimiento, por razones en gran ...

    Making protein dynamics FAIR : Research platforms for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of molecular dynamics simulations 

    Torrens Fontanals, Mariona (Date of defense: 2022-02-11)

    Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a well-established technique to characterize the structural motions of biological systems at atomic resolution. However, accessing, viewing, and sharing MD trajectories is typically ...

    Making tabletops useful with applications, frameworks and multi-tasking 

    Fernandez Julià, Carles (Date of defense: 2015-01-22)

    The progressive appearance of affordable tabletop technology and devices urges humancomputer interaction researchers to provide the necessary methods to make this kind of devices the most useful to their users. Studies ...

    'Making the most of it': the emergence, maintenance, and legitimation of the contemporary Northern Irish republican armed struggle 

    Uležić, Sanjin (Date of defense: 2017-12-12)

    La tesi es centra en l'actual interació de la lluita armada republicana a Irlanda del Nord, activa des de l'època del procés de pau a finals dels anys noranta. Tot i caracteritzar-se per una intensitat menor que la del ...

    Male unpaid work and female employment trajectories : a dynamic analysis 

    Seiz Puyuelo, Marta (Date of defense: 2014-04-07)

    This thesis analyzes whether there is an interdependence, at the intra-couple level, between men’s housework and childcare participation and women’s employment and economic position. The first empirical paper examines ...

    Managerial opportunism, US conveyancing and blockchain 

    Antelo Muñiz, Fátima (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)

    This thesis is structured in three chapters. In chapter 1, I address managerial opportunism towards workers. I present a theoretical model and test it. Results suggest that outside opportunities are key to hinder or ...

    Managing algorithmic drivers in a blocked-lane scenario 

    Tikhonenko, Dmitrii (Date of defense: 2020-12-07)

    Due to the emergence of new technologies, algorithm-assisted drivers are close to becoming a reality. In this thesis, different aspects of managing such drivers in a blocked-lane scenario are discussed. The first chapter ...

    Managing compliance in a multi-level polity: the case of the European Union 

    Clinton, Peter (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)

    This thesis tackles the issue of non-compliance in the European Union (EU). This is an important issue because without Member State (MS) compliance with EU policy outputs, collective policy goals may not be achieved. ...

    Managing crises beyond the EU borders: a network-based analysis 

    Bravo Laguna, Carlos D. (Date of defense: 2022-07-14)

    This thesis discusses the role and weight of the European Union institutions and Member States in the responses to three crises whose epicenters are located beyond the EU borders. To do so, it examines the responses to the ...