Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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The accelerating adoption of digital technologies creates a direct relationship between the status of individual and societal well-being on one hand, and the state of the digital technologies that underpin human life ...
There are overwhelming evidences that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) are part of a clinical, pathological and genetic continuum. The C9orf72 repeat expansion is the most common genetic ...
Background: Research on multimorbidity, the co-occurrence of two or more health-related conditions, has mainly focused on chronic and common diseases in patient and older populations. The prevalence of multimorbidity in ...
This thesis focuses on assessing the impact that music recommendation diversity may have on listeners. In the music domain, diversity is one of the values that recommender systems should preserve, because the world music ...
Proteins that bind to DNA or RNA are both known to influence alternative splicing. However, there has not been so far a systematic experimental exploration of the relationship between these factors in their effect on ...
Precision and accuracy are paramount for the use of genome editing in clinic, environmental, and industrial applications. These fields require reliable and traceable results to ensure the safety and viability of the resulting ...
This thesis provides evidence on the validity and diagnostic accuracy of generic and specific self-reported measures, developed from different psychometric approaches, to assess depression in the general population. ...
La present tesis doctoral desenvolupa una nova metodologia analítica antidopatge. Degut a que actualment la detecció de l'abús d'hormona del creixement recombinant està relativament resolt, es tem que els secretagogs de ...
Among older adults, there is limited evidence on the prospective associations of physical activity (PA) with cardiovascular risk factors and mortality. This thesis aimed to: i) Analyse the prospective associations of ...
During the last decade, several studies highlighted a higher risk of asthma among workers using cleaning products and, more specifically, among cleaning workers. A hypothesis on a causal role of irritant exposure has been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
